[QUOTE=milkandcooki;32757122][img]http://images.wikia.com/warhammer40k/images/b/bd/Imperial_eagle.jpg[/img]
Also, I'm cutting this shit out on a scroll saw in my woodshop class. My teacher saw it, and went "is this some kind of nerd Nazi thing?"[/QUOTE]
Well Imperials are basically space Fascists. So your teacher is at least partially correct.
[QUOTE=milkandcooki;32757100]Think I might play more Dark Crusade. Should I play as another race? In my ~30 hours of playing I have never strayed away from spehss mareens.[/QUOTE]Play some Imperial Guard very fun
[QUOTE=gnisasas;32757292][img]http://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2010/5/10/104104_md-Guardsmen,%20Humor,%20Imperial%20Guard,%20Warhammer%2040,000,%20Warhammer%20Fantasy.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
In the Guard that is referred to as "acceptable losses". I.E you've lost almost all of your men but the enemy is completely dead.
Not sure why the guard get a bad press though, they are the main fighting force of the Imperium.
I think people are mixing up the guard with the nigh useless PDF and assuming the space marines are the standard imperial force, when for the most part space marines are only called in if shit REALLY hits the fan. Having Space marines as the only Fighting force in the Imperium would be like removing all the normal soldiers from a countries army and just leaving their special forces behind. Like S.A.S sure their awesome and well trained but there just isn't enough of them to be able to effectively defend a nation.
The Guard are a force to be reckoned with, able to field massive amounts of fire-power though sheer numbers and massive great tanks. People underestimate them but when a veritable sea of men all armed with at least one las-gun between them THEN you factor in their heavy weapons teams, plasma guns, bolters, tanks, artillery (they really do love their artillery) and all the rest, the guard are a pretty big threat.
Sure a single solider would be used as toilet paper by any other race in the galaxy but the point is each guardsman usually has twenty friends with him at any given moment.
I might as well be done with it and say why I like the guard over space marines. Each Space Marine basically gets a free pass into the Badass club's members area. Cos he's a space marine he's automatically Badass and nobody is disputing that. But a Guardsman has to earn his right to awesomeness and when he does it's all the more awesome for what he has done to earn it. A guardsman would have to beat up the doorman, fashion a weapon from a nearby stool,kill security, beat up another member and take his members only card and then proceed to make a cocktail out of the fuel from his flamer which he's neglected to use in favour of badassery.
TL;DR I like the guard because unlike the space marines they aren't romanticised and idolized, they much more "human" if you know what I mean.
Plus I'm a sucker for big tanks.
[b]SOON[/b]
[img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/photo91.JPG[/img]
[editline]13th October 2011[/editline]
The one of the left looks a bit iffy because it was my first. The shoulder guard symbol isn't very crisp and the top line is loopsided because at that point I had applied so many coats of paint to get it right that the groove was gone so I eyeballed it.
The others are A-Okay to me.
[quote] The Guard are a force to be reckoned with, able to field massive amounts of fire-power though sheer numbers[/quote]
[img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12875849/reactions/1632981.jpeg[/img]
[QUOTE=thisguy123;32757654]In the Guard that is referred to as "acceptable losses". I.E you've lost almost all of your men but the enemy is completely dead.
Not sure why the guard get a bad press though, they are the main fighting force of the Imperium.
I think people are mixing up the guard with the nigh useless PDF and assuming the space marines are the standard imperial force, when for the most part space marines are only called in if shit REALLY hits the fan. Having Space marines as the only Fighting force in the Imperium would be like removing all the normal soldiers from a countries army and just leaving their special forces behind. Like S.A.S sure their awesome and well trained but there just isn't enough of them to be able to effectively defend a nation.
The Guard are a force to be reckoned with, able to field massive amounts of fire-power though sheer numbers and massive great tanks. People underestimate them but when a veritable sea of men all armed with at least one las-gun between them THEN you factor in their heavy weapons teams, plasma guns, bolters, tanks, artillery (they really do love their artillery) and all the rest, the guard are a pretty big threat.
Sure a single solider would be used as toilet paper by any other race in the galaxy but the point is each guardsman usually has twenty friends with him at any given moment.
I might as well be done with it and say why I like the guard over space marines. Each Space Marine basically gets a free pass into the Badass club's members area. Cos he's a space marine he's automatically Badass and nobody is disputing that. But a Guardsman has to earn his right to awesomeness and when he does it's all the more awesome for what he has done to earn it. A guardsman would have to beat up the doorman, fashion a weapon from a nearby stool,kill security, beat up another member and take his members only card and then proceed to make a cocktail out of the fuel from his flamer which he's neglected to use in favour of badassery.
TL;DR I like the guard because unlike the space marines they aren't romanticised and idolized, they much more "human" if you know what I mean.
Plus I'm a sucker for big tanks.[/QUOTE]
At the end of the day, though he's been ferried through Space Hell on a ship that's four thousand years old to his destination, though he deployed from high orbit with a grav chute, though he is one of ten million men raised from his homeworld to fight a war he barely understands, though he has been given a weapon that fires miniature suns and might annihilate him when he fires it because no-one knows how it works anymore, though his company is supported by tractor-tanks that run on anything you can burn, though he wages war against a devouring hivemind, space demons or a group of space communists - a Guardsman is a man, just like you, though he grew up in another culture. He has no millennia-old genetic engineering, no prophetic leader, no miracles of faith. He has his lasgun, his orders, his fellow soldiers, and a set of admantanium balls.
Found another image on Relicnews forums, it's a weapon in Retribution that refers to Gregor Eisenhorn:
[img]http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/560902241204180262/943EB8809C1903E55FADE622436EE4A8BC30B8CA/[/img]
Basically, in the IG a pyrrhic victory is a tautology.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/eNTMP.png[/IMG]
Are there any better pictures of the chaos gods? I agree with how Nurgle and Tzeentch look, but Slaanesh and Khorne look off.
[QUOTE=Nikota;32751901]Then...the blood ravens have a machine spirit fetish?
[editline]12th October 2011[/editline]
Name one modern military that can beat a fucking IG sentinel. Yeah you fucking cant.[/QUOTE]
Any military with access to a decent length of rope.
[QUOTE=mercurius;32758460][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/eNTMP.png[/IMG]
Are there any better pictures of the chaos gods? I agree with how Nurgle and Tzeentch look, but Slaanesh and Khorne look off.[/QUOTE]
I recall good images somewhere, might have been on Lexicanum. If I remember I might have a look.
[editline]13th October 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=RayvenQ;32758472]Any military with access to a decent length of rope.[/QUOTE]
[B]IN THE GRIM DARKNESS OF THE FORTY-FIRST MILLENIUM, THERE IS NO HEMP.[/B]
[QUOTE=Cone;32758495]
[B]IN THE GRIM DARKNESS OF THE FORTY-FIRST MILLENIUM, THERE IS NO HEMP.[/B][/QUOTE]
IN THE GRIM DARKNESS OF THE FORTY-FIRST MILLENIUM, THERE IS ONLY SYNTHETIC ROPE.
SYNTHACORD!
[QUOTE=mercurius;32758460][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/eNTMP.png[/IMG]
Are there any better pictures of the chaos gods? I agree with how Nurgle and Tzeentch look, but Slaanesh and Khorne look off.[/QUOTE]
[img]http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/mediawiki/images/thumb/9/90/NurgleChaos.jpg/416px-NurgleChaos.jpg[/img]
[img]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_swuGXpFPfK4/SdW2EA5KVCI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/cteI91ndkIc/s1600-R/adrian_smith_khorne_marine.jpg%3Ft%3D1238742476[/img]
Can't find any more, also the Lexicanum recently changed Khorne's image to that new, shitty one.
One thing that consistently amazes me about WH40K is the fuckhueg scall of everything. Like, space ships the size of small planets, filled with people who are nine feet tall, mounted with guns that slap people's shit [B]hard.[/B]
There's something very interesting about super-sizing everything and seeing what happens when they fight.
[QUOTE=acds;32758565][IMG]http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/mediawiki/images/thumb/9/90/NurgleChaos.jpg/416px-NurgleChaos.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_swuGXpFPfK4/SdW2EA5KVCI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/cteI91ndkIc/s1600-R/adrian_smith_khorne_marine.jpg%3Ft%3D1238742476[/IMG]
Can't find any more, also the Lexicanum recently changed Khorne's image to that new, shitty one.[/QUOTE]
I do believe this is a Great Unclean One and a Khornate Berserker, but I agree they shouldn't have changed it.
[QUOTE=mercurius;32758612]I do believe this is a Great Unclean One and a Khornate Berserker, but I agree they shouldn't have changed it.[/QUOTE]
[quote=Lexicanum]Nurgle overlooking his army, as depicted on the cover of Realm of Chaos: The Lost and the Damned[/quote]
Nope, but that other picture is just a Khorne Bezerker, as you said.
[QUOTE=Maximo13;32758799][img]http://www.coolminiornot.com/pics/pics12/img46ef31e9448d6.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
I wasn't aware that Prince had became a model in the warhammer universe!
So, according to the Infantryman's Uplifting Primer, Tau are scared of fire, water, loud noises, have hallow bones, are shit at long range, and put their worst man into battle suits, and thus they often retreat.
Oh, also only sustained fire of their rifles will destroy an IG's flak armor
[b]SEEMS LEGIT[/b]
[QUOTE=Scar;32758942]So, according to the Infantryman's Uplifting Primer, Tau are scared of fire, water, loud noises, have hallow bones, are shit at long range, and put their worst man into battle suits, and thus they often retreat.
Oh, also only sustained fire of their rifles will destroy an IG's flak armor
[b]SEEMS LEGIT[/b][/QUOTE]
Most important part about the Tau:
mooooooooooooooooooooooooo
[QUOTE=Konigstiger96;32758960]Most important part about the Tau:
mooooooooooooooooooooooooo[/QUOTE]
Funny thing is, they are illustrated with three-toe-feet, not hooves
[QUOTE=Vasili;32745734][I]"The Leman Russ Battle Tank is a very basic and easily replicable design that stresses strength and versatility while sacrificing comfort and ease of use for efficiency. Some would go so far as to say that it is the most successful tank design in history, and it is safe to say that it is the most numerous battle tank by far in the Imperium. It has little in the way of advanced technology but can operate in any type of terrain and environment. It is also quite slow, but its engine will run on just about anything put in it, allowing it to work for extended periods away from supply depots, although it does have a reduced efficiency with poor fuel. Secondary systems, such as life support and electrical systems run from the internal generator. The tank is very robust with a reinforced cast plasteel hull and turret, likely to withstand most incoming fire, especially on the forward facing armour. The side armour is similarly heavy, but rear armour is much lighter. This allows the engines to move the chassis without overloading, overheating or overstraining. The common Mars Alpha pattern of chassis is used throughout Imperial vehicles but the design, however, is more for performance, not comfort and it is cramped, smelly and noisy within the vehicle."[/I]
[img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11648828/lemanruss.png[/img]
Looks superior to me.[/QUOTE]
Look at the armor
Modern day HEAT shells have the equivalent of over a 1000mm of penetration, I'm pretty sure that a modern MBT could penetrate one of those.
[QUOTE=mercurius;32758460][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/eNTMP.png[/IMG]
Are there any better pictures of the chaos gods? I agree with how Nurgle and Tzeentch look, but Slaanesh and Khorne look off.[/QUOTE]
I think those pictures are from Warhammer Fantasy anyway.
some sort of weird doublepost
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[QUOTE=Mastahamma;32759258]Modern day HEAT shells have the equivalent of over a 1000mm of penetration, I'm pretty sure that a modern MBT could penetrate one of those.[/QUOTE]
WW2 AP shells had an equivalent of over 200 mm of penetration. Atleast the late war tanks. Heck, some even had HE shells that could penetrate the Leman Russ.
[QUOTE=joost1120;32760134]WW2 AP shells had an equivalent of over 200 mm of penetration. Atleast the late war tanks. Heck, some even had HE shells that could penetrate the Leman Russ.[/QUOTE]
On regular modern day tanks. Leman Russes are made from Plasteel.
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