Which 40K race do you side with?
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Let's not forget that they updated the Tyranids twice as well. GW seems to have some serious problems when it comes to making sure armies are up to date. They release two thirds of the Inquisition and then ignore it for the next 2 editions. The Necron's have been needing an update since they came out. As I recall, even in their first ever battle report they've only ever managed to achieve a draw. They really need a complete over hall. No offense to any Necron players out there, I'm just calling it as I see it.Irony said:
Well just men :3 Not a huge number of female guardmen models that I've seen ... That being said a friend way back when created an 600 pt IG army (old rules, more with tanks) using the old Escher models from Necromunda, background lore was that the system these female troopers were from was 'Lura' ...Eclectic Dreck said:
'Lura III' being a female penal planet, and when the system was invaded the toughest of the system's defenders were women on the planet, so they were drafted.
As I said though, they're just Humans ... none of this genetics business ... Humans with torches ... and tanks if Segmentum Command had the forethought to give them any.
Sometimes entire crusades, fought with millions of IG, can be whittled down to almost nothing and dispersed across the galaxy ... forgotten for centuries just because some buttwipe in Segmentum command, or on Terra itself, forgot to write it down.
Truly, they are greatest Heroes of the Imperium... average life expectancy ... 10 seconds upon contact with the enemy ... any longer and they've been captured, their transport got lost in the warp, or they haven't been fightin' enough.
Nothing like a summary execution to help fix that last part :3
Who do I side with? Well at a basic level I'd say the Eldar, because as elven as they are, they seem to want to AVERT crises more than anything else. At least from the little I know.
But personally, I'm with Iwata on this one: Blood Angels. Why? Because they were my first and favourite team in Space Crusade (laugh or troll all you want, there's no denying that's what got me interested).
But personally, I'm with Iwata on this one: Blood Angels. Why? Because they were my first and favourite team in Space Crusade (laugh or troll all you want, there's no denying that's what got me interested).
I'd like to hear what they have to say about it. This is definitely the most interesting piece of 40K fluff for me right now.Death_Korps_Kommissar said:
That's how it started for me as well. I still have the game (and the Eldar Attack expansion) and we play it regularly at my games store. From Space Crusade I moved to 40K.ExileNZ said:
But yeah, Blood Angels in Space Crusade rule. Everyone else takes heavy weapons, I just take my team with bolters, bolt pistols, bayonets and melta bombs. Takes care of anything.
Harlequins.
- They're the keepers of the Black Library
- They're servants of Cegorach (The Laughing God), one of the more mysterious characters in 40k
- They themselves are mysterious, and intimidate all the other eldar.
- Solitaires are soulless, people who hear their voice are cursed and anyone near them feel they're in the presence of something that shouldn't exist. How's that not interesting?
- The harlequin's kiss weapon is simply brilliant.
Just some of the reasons the harlequins are my favourite 40k "race".
- They're the keepers of the Black Library
- They're servants of Cegorach (The Laughing God), one of the more mysterious characters in 40k
- They themselves are mysterious, and intimidate all the other eldar.
- Solitaires are soulless, people who hear their voice are cursed and anyone near them feel they're in the presence of something that shouldn't exist. How's that not interesting?
- The harlequin's kiss weapon is simply brilliant.
Just some of the reasons the harlequins are my favourite 40k "race".
That and I'm curious to know what happened to the two unkown space marine legions.Undead Dragon King said:
Not thet we need any more god-damn space marines -__-
Chances are, we'll never know. The only mentions so far in the Horus Heresy series of those two chapters are:Death_Korps_Kommissar said:
- When Horus is comatose, he has a vision of the two damaged capsules where the unknown primarchs were held, and he laments that their potential will never be explored, and;
- Some other time, I can't recall when or who mentions it, someone explores the possibility of those two chapters siding with the loyalists against Horus, to which the reply is that it should never be considered, as they were "lost to us", and;
- In the Hall of Heroes, where the statues of the primarchs are kept, there are two spaces left vacant, belonging to the primarchs of the lost legions.
It has also been stated by GW in the past that they left those two legions ambiguous on purpose, so that players could have some freedom when creating the fluff of their own chapters. That being true, like I said, chances are that we'll never know for sure.
Tau don't have warp travel, imperium does.Payne121 said:
As for the overheating thing... tau caure about their soldiers, so their plasma guns don't overheat blow up. How? because they are less powerful and so produce less heat. The Imperium doesn't care as much about the individual soldier, so their plasma guns can overheat and blow up, but they provide more power.
Quote the 40k wiki:
"In addition to their skill with pulse weapons, the Tau have developed plasma rifles that do not suffer from the fatal overheating problems of plasma-based weaponry used by other races (save for the Eldar Starcannon). The only drawback is reduced weapon power level."
Edit: Apparently master-crafted imperial plasma weaponry doesn't overheat at all. So they do have the tech.
Edit 2: Apparently also the tau pulse rifle isn't a 'true' plasma weapon, but the imperium infantry plasma gun is.
So, it's not a case of better tech, it's just that the Imperium prefers more dakka and who cares if another guardsmen gets fried? There are plenty more.
The jetpack thing, I'm pretty sure the space marines use the high jumping packs because the ability to land on your enemy's head at high speed in full power armour is very cool (and deadly). The imperial guard do have a pack that increases mobility (not found in the tabletop game, but in novels). So it's not a case of better tech there either.
One of:
1) Space Marines for the sheer coolness of their awesome.
2) Eldar for being cool.
3) Orks for being angry and cool.
4) Tyranids for being monstrous eating machine.
I reckon, out of those four, I side with the Space Marines. Especially the Ultramarines and the Space Wolves.
1) Space Marines for the sheer coolness of their awesome.
2) Eldar for being cool.
3) Orks for being angry and cool.
4) Tyranids for being monstrous eating machine.
I reckon, out of those four, I side with the Space Marines. Especially the Ultramarines and the Space Wolves.
Holyshit, a 40K MMO, between that and the MMO Bioware is making, I'm not sure which to try first. That does sound epic, and if given the choice of any of the factions here are my top 3 in order: 3: Imperial Gaurdsmen, simply because they have lasguns as their primary weapons and have the mother fucking BANEBLADE. 2: Space Marines, every Space Marines becomes biologically enhanced and given very powerful armor, they're probably the strongest of the factions, that and they have a nice variety of weaponry. 1: Tau, They advanced in technology at such an amazing rate I respect them for it, also their basic combat unit is basically a high powered sniper unit, they're just awesome (Tau Commander, cmooooooooooooon).Iwata said:
