Thanks to you I spent 2 and a half hours on warhammer 40k wiki researching the lore. Had to stop at some point because it just doesn't end.
[QUOTE=Buck.;43113454]Thanks to you I spent 2 and a half hours on warhammer 40k wiki researching the lore. Had to stop at some point because it just doesn't end.[/QUOTE]
I started playing pen and paper and I could literally write a forty book series on the lore.
[QUOTE=Buck.;43113454]Thanks to you I spent 2 and a half hours on warhammer 40k wiki researching the lore. Had to stop at some point because it just doesn't end.[/QUOTE]
One day I'll just buy the books to properly understand this clusterfuck of info. The wiki just doesn't do the lore justice.
[QUOTE=ionuttzu;43116667]One day I'll just buy[B] the books to properly understand this clusterfuck of info.[/B] The wiki just doesn't do the lore justice.[/QUOTE]
i hope you have enough room to house the Library of Congress
[QUOTE=Joazzz;43116945]i hope you have enough room to house the Library of Congress[/QUOTE]
What the hell, that many?
[QUOTE=ionuttzu;43117155]What the hell, that many?[/QUOTE]
dan abnett
[QUOTE=ionuttzu;43117155]What the hell, that many?[/QUOTE]since Games Workshop themselves at some point declared that it's up to the players to decide what's canon (outside the base stuff like 41st millenium God Emperor heretics etc etc etc) you're going to be packing one hell of a collection even after you've filtered out all the stuff you personally find unfitting; the Horus Heresy book series alone has 25 doorstoppers (and counting) plus there are a ton of Codexes that contain both game rules and lore (crunch and fluff), expansions and their rulebooks (Necromunda, Dark Heresy and so on)
GW also LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVES retconning so if you want to keep track of what has been permanently and not-so-permanently exterminatused out of the Official Main Canon Veritas Imperialis that should be the cornerstone of all that exists, you should get every edition of everything or at least the basic info of the older stuff
oh and the whole thing of course dates back to the late 80's so good hunting
GWS has done an amazing job to properly copy the clusterfuck of misinformation and general volume of useless information that makes up the Imperium of Man, in their representation of the Imperium of Man
[QUOTE=kittykaty;43117418]GWS has done an amazing job to properly copy the clusterfuck of misinformation and general volume of useless information that makes up the Imperium of Man, in their representation of the Imperium of Man[/QUOTE]
That's so meta.
I really want to see more of this.
[QUOTE=Buck.;43113454]Thanks to you I spent 2 and a half hours on warhammer 40k wiki researching the lore. Had to stop at some point because it just doesn't end.[/QUOTE]
I'd advise against using the W40K wiki, they use fan-made pictures for everything even if it's something that has not even been officially described at all, the majority of the wiki is a huge unorganized wall of text with no formatting, they copy lots of their text directly from another site and many things that should have their own page have nothing or the information for it is on the page for something else.
This site is better: [url]http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Warhammer_40,000[/url]
Idk why but I was thinking the Emperor's New Groove :>
The dreadknight... If anything on this planet has needed a retconning, it's the dreadknight. Stupid armoured baby carrier
[QUOTE=carcarcargo;43128378]The dreadknight... If anything on this planet has needed a retconning, it's the dreadknight. Stupid armoured baby carrier[/QUOTE]
Wasn't there a massive retcon that swapped the Necron's inertialess ships into things that use a part of the Webway or something? That was pretty stupid, intertialess ships were awesome.
[QUOTE=Terminutter;43128576]Wasn't there a massive retcon that swapped the Necron's inertialess ships into things that use a part of the Webway or something? That was pretty stupid, intertialess ships were awesome.[/QUOTE]
I think he fucked with the entire necron back story. Some say it's better but I liked them being a faction of unstoppable terminators that do the will of the C'tan. Never mind them teaming up with the Blood Ravens.
[QUOTE=carcarcargo;43128753] Never mind them teaming up with the Blood Ravens.[/QUOTE]
What the fuck?
Was this Matt fucking Ward?
1d4chan's telling me it's the blood angels, but this is still terrible...
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Yep, it's Matt fucking Ward. He fucks everything up.
If only Creed would save us.
[QUOTE=carcarcargo;43128753]I think he fucked with the entire necron back story. Some say it's better but I liked them being a faction of unstoppable terminators that do the will of the C'tan. Never mind them teaming up with the Blood Ravens.[/QUOTE]
what, when did they team up with blood ravens?
I only knew of their retcon with having more gods that survived
It wasn't the Blood Ravens, but the Blood Angels. And it was against the Tyranids, and even the Necrons hate those shits :v:
I thought that it was either the necrons, or the tyranids that were the largest threat to everything. Like the necrons are unstoppable, and the tyranids are innumerable
if orks could somehow band together they would be able to beat anything
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on their own
If enough Orks genuinely believed the common cold caused humans heads to explode, they probably would. :v:
Seriously. Imagine a Wartrakk running out of fuel. One of the smaller Orks at the back goes and yells "OY U GUYZS DIDN'T TOP 'ER UP YA GROTS!". The Wartrakk grinds to a halt, screeching as its breaks comically bring it to a dead stop, flinging a Grot or two off the front.
The big Nob at the front looks back, punches the smaller Ork in the gob, and yells "NAH YA FILTHY SQUIG HERDER, I TOPPED 'ER UP WELL AND GOOD WHEN WE STARTED".
The other Orks look on. He is the biggest Ork, and he said he topped 'er up, so he probably did. The Nob crushes a Grot, opens the door, turns on the Wartrakk, and it starts again - the fuel meter was removed ages ago, but the tank seems full enough. The WAAAGGH party drives on, at full speed.
[QUOTE=carcarcargo;43129154]Sorry yeah Blood Angels. But it was just totally out of character for the Necrons, they're supposed to be mindless.[/QUOTE]
Not Newcrons they ain't. I mean, Warriors are, but Newcron Lords are TOMB KINGS IN SPEHS
what is this? warhammer 40k? is there an introduction to this or something it looks like super interesting lore.
Much as I would love to say "yes, there's a quickstart guide", there's really not. It's an impenetrable forest of law based on the tabletop game, several dozen guides for it, several hundred books, a few games, a few spinoff games, and websites. In addition to that, it's continually retconned and is over 30 years old IIRC. I really can't advise a way to get into it, all that I did was read a few of Dan Abnett's books and play Dawn of War, in addition to a bit of lexicanum reading, and I only really know the basics of the Imperial Guard, Chaos and Space Marines, let alone the other armies!
[QUOTE=Terminutter;43129122]If enough Orks genuinely believed the common cold caused humans heads to explode, they probably would. :v:
Seriously. Imagine a Wartrakk running out of fuel. One of the smaller Orks at the back goes and yells "OY U GUYZS DIDN'T TOP 'ER UP YA GROTS!". The Wartrakk grinds to a halt, screeching as its breaks comically bring it to a dead stop, flinging a Grot or two off the front.
The big Nob at the front looks back, punches the smaller Ork in the gob, and yells "NAH YA FILTHY SQUIG HERDER, I TOPPED 'ER UP WELL AND GOOD WHEN WE STARTED".
The other Orks look on. He is the biggest Ork, and he said he topped 'er up, so he probably did. The Nob crushes a Grot, opens the door, turns on the Wartrakk, and it starts again - the fuel meter was removed ages ago, but the tank seems full enough. The WAAAGGH party drives on, at full speed.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I believe there is a fan theory that basically states there is so much war in W40K because the Orks us the WAAAAGH to believe there is so much war.
I remember when I tried helping my friend get into Warhammer 40k and he had difficulty being interested in the lore enough to actually study it. Lexicanum and the books didn't help. But making him read the Warhammer 40k article on 1d4chan made him a fan.
[URL="http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Warhammer_40,000"]http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Warhammer_40,000[/URL]
It's very basic skin deep lore though but it was fun.
I just read that article from end to end.
How is something this fucking broken and hilariously illogical still existing?
[sp]and i got a boner from slaanesh[/sp]
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