[QUOTE=RayvenQ;32092283]Techpriest worship the Machine God, Deus Ex Machina means "The god from the machine"
'cause she still has the required reproductive organs?[/QUOTE]
I didn't know Deus Ex Machina meant ''The god from the machine'', thanks for that.
And i thought said mechanicum chick was like an average techpriest, covered in technology?
To me, Cain sounds like the Duke Nukem of the Imperial Guard. :v:
She was a Techpriest Enginseer, with no major modification except for a mechanical prehensile tail. Later on she got Augmeticed up though.
pretty much the picture i posted earlier.
Excuse me for the noob questions, I'm just getting into warhammer because of space marine and am new to it all. The default backpack thing on the back of the marines, it looks like a jetpack/jump pack but it isn't. So what is it for/do? Also, do the orks come from different planets, or is it like a futuristic medieval game where the orks came from earth?
I always wondered that myself. I assumed it was a power supply, among other things. Orks come from a lot of different planets and are so old that no one can really pinpoint where they originally came from. They reproduce using spores that are released after they die which means even if you kill all the Orks on a planet, give it a matter of years and you have feral Ork tribes rising up again. Add upon this the amount of planets that get raided or become the targets of WAAAAGHS! and you have Orks on thousands if not hundreds of thousands of planets. If Orks have seeded a world generally the only way to cleanse it fully is to perform an Exterminatus.
Found this on the wiki
[quote]The armour's backpack contains the suit's main power source - a solar power converter and 100 solar cell batteries to store the absorbed solar energy, including a back-up microfusion array - as well as its environmental and life support systems and additional movement stabilizer thrusters for low and zero-gravity combat. [/quote]
The backpack is the Power Source and has Waste Recycling systems, Cooling and whatnot.
Apparently it also stores Ammo.
[QUOTE=RearAdmiral;32091260]Also, their power armour is far from invincible. I remember in reading in a sourcebook or a copy of White Dwarf once that a sniper not only shot and killed a marine in one shot, they aimed for (and destroyed) the geneseed, which was a hundred times worse than losing just the marine.[/QUOTE]
Isn't the Geneseed located both in the head and the chest? How the fuck does that work?
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[QUOTE=RayvenQ;32092401]She was a Techpriest Enginseer, with no major modification except for a mechanical prehensile tail. Later on she got Augmeticed up though.
pretty much the picture i posted earlier.[/QUOTE]
Don't Techpriests first get a sort of body harness that covers their abdomen?
[QUOTE=Garrot;32092786]The backpack is the Power Source and has Waste Recycling systems, Cooling and whatnot.
Apparently it also stores Ammo.[/QUOTE]
Marines with Heavy Bolters have huge bulky packs to carry the extra bullets. I suppose it would make sense for bolter ammunition to be stored there as well.
D:
I went to the THQ store and was debating on getting Chaos Rising or Retribution and meant to delete Chaos Rising but I deleted Ret instead. I can't get both so I'm stuck with Chaos. I'm sure it's good though.
[QUOTE=RearAdmiral;32092723]I always wondered that myself. I assumed it was a power supply, among other things. Orks come from a lot of different planets and are so old that no one can really pinpoint where they originally came from. They reproduce using spores that are released after they die which means even if you kill all the Orks on a planet, give it a matter of years and you have feral Ork tribes rising up again. Add upon this the amount of planets that get raided or become the targets of WAAAAGHS! and you have Orks on thousands if not hundreds of thousands of planets. If Orks have seeded a world generally the only way to cleanse it fully is to perform an Exterminatus.
Found this on the wiki[/QUOTE]
Holy fuck thats cool, thanks. Also, whats the whole joke with the "angry marines" guys?
[QUOTE=Hoboharry;32092129]Why does she have a Deus Ex Machina book?[/QUOTE]
is it odd that the question I would ask is where did she get a bike lock the size of a quarter
[QUOTE=Desert Rat;32092864]Holy fuck thats cool, thanks. Also, whats the whole joke with the "angry marines" guys?[/QUOTE]
They're a fan created Chapter made by the people that lurk in /tg/ and their whole thing is that they're really angry all the time, usually at the stuff that gets introduced to the game that they don't approve of (See: Slaaneshi Demons, Tau, stuff like that).
[QUOTE=RearAdmiral;32092972]They're a fan created Chapter made by the people that lurk in /tg/ and their whole thing is that they're really angry all the time, usually at the stuff that gets introduced to the game that they don't approve of (See: Slaaneshi Demons, Tau, stuff like that).[/QUOTE]
And Angry Marines also prefer ranged combat. And have Marine Launchers. And swear. Tons.
[highlight]BADGER CUNT DICKS[/highlight]
Don't they have a Battle Barge/Fortress Monastary called MAXIMUM FUCK? I know one of their special attacks is called The Litany of Litany's Litany and their Librarian has a warcry called FIGHT HARDER YOU FUCKS.
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I love the last image with the dinosaur so much
[QUOTE=Mr. Scorpio;32092845]Isn't the Geneseed located both in the head and the chest? How the fuck does that work?
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Don't Techpriests first get a sort of body harness that covers their abdomen?[/QUOTE]
Two implants (Progenoids) are implanted in the Thorax and Throat, which then develop into a single Geneseed each (and a single Geneseed produces 2 Progenoid organs eventually), the throat one is usually removed upon maturity, and the thorax one left in until the marine dies.
Theres a bit of a difference between Techpriest and Techpriest Enginseer, iirc she did get kicked out of the Mechanicum for being unusual.
[QUOTE=RearAdmiral;32092857]Marines with Heavy Bolters have huge bulky packs to carry the extra bullets. I suppose it would make sense for bolter ammunition to be stored there as well.[/QUOTE]
Bit old but:
[img]http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/mediawiki/images/6/63/Mk6corvuscompositiom.JPG[/img]
Logically, spare bolter ammunition would be strapped to the thighs, but this doesn't look cool so its generally not shown. Trying to reach around to get ammo from your backpack would be stupid and probably nearly impossible to do in power armour.
[QUOTE=gnisasas;32093070][IMG]http://1d4chan.org/images/5/5a/IMPATIENTMARINES.jpg[/IMG]
I love the last image with the dinosaur so much[/QUOTE]
Uhh. I think that's Tzeentch, not a dinosaur
[QUOTE=Scar;32093137]Uhh. I think that's Tzeentch, not a dinosaur[/QUOTE]
Holy emperor, I thought it was a dinosaur all this time talking from the past or something. Well, it's even funnier if it's Tzeentch
Looking at some pictures, a bolter should be around 3 feet long. Quite big.
what about a bolt pistol?
apparently normal humans can use those too, but I can't fathom how
it seems like it would go *BLAM*
/dislocated shoulder
Human Bolt Pistols =/= Astartes Bolt Pistols.
Bolt Pistols wielded by Humans (and SoB Bolter/Bolt Pistols) are significantly smaller and lighter. Also, technically, a bolter would have relatively little recoil.
I would think most imperial guard soldiers use laspistols instead of bolt pistols.
Most Imperial Guard Soldiers use Lasguns, it's mainly Officers and NCO's that use pistols or bolt weapons. Commissars too.
[QUOTE=larrylumpy;32093659]what about a bolt pistol?
apparently normal humans can use those too, but I can't fathom how
it seems like it would go *BLAM*
/dislocated shoulder[/QUOTE]
Might as well shoot a tank barrel from hip.
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The impression I'm getting from the Ciaphas Cain books is that in a straight fight, at least against either the tau or necron. The IG would get their asses handed to them. They just seem so crude in terms of their weapons and tech compared to say, a tau battlesuit.
[QUOTE=RainbowStalin;32094394]The impression I'm getting from the Ciaphas Cain books is that in a straight fight, at least against either the tau or necron. The IG would get their asses handed to them. They just seem so crude in terms of their weapons and tech compared to say, a tau battlesuit.[/QUOTE]
Well Necrons have advanced gauss weapons, they could possibly win against an Imperial Guard army.
However, i'm not sure about the Tau, they may have good weapons and good armor, but all the while Imperial guard are in numbers that are much more than those of the Tau.
so you can become an inquisitor, a roaming bringer of death and self righteous fury, who's job is to root out heresy and impurity, and still be okay with the idea of casual sex
Aren't there like, rules against that? I mean I get that there are inquisitors that don't follow the rules and all, but usually they're crazy maniacal assholes, right?
I don't know, I just don't get why 40K of all things has to fall into a nerdy sexual fantasy stereotype.
And for clarification, I wasn't talking about the enginseer's servo harness, I mean the machine interface thing. The cyber mantle, I think it's called.
So, wait, I'm doin' some reading, and it seems that basically everyone who's notable is a few centuries old. How the Hell does that work?
[QUOTE=Mr. Scorpio;32094471]so you can become an inquisitor, a roaming bringer of death and self righteous fury, who's job is to root out heresy and impurity, and still be okay with the idea of casual sex
Aren't there like, rules against that? I mean I get that there are inquisitors that don't follow the rules and all, but usually they're crazy maniacal assholes, right?
I don't know, I just don't get why 40K of all things has to fall into a nerdy sexual fantasy stereotype.
And for clarification, I wasn't talking about the enginseer's servo harness, I mean the machine interface thing. The cyber mantle, I think it's called.[/QUOTE]
Don't forget the Inquisition's mottos.
'Boys will be boys' and 'every holes a goal'
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