I'm sorry but:
[quote]This is off-topic but do you need permission from a mod to set up a megathread?[/quote]
[QUOTE=Konigstiger96;30241096]I'm sorry but:[/QUOTE]
I thought a megathread was just a thread which had more then one thing/game. E.g the Mass Effect megathread is for all the Mass Effect stuff instead of just one game.
[QUOTE=Konigstiger96;30241096]I'm sorry but:[/QUOTE]
yes and no
if you are completely sure that it's megathread material (multiple games, sufficient amount of stuff about them etc.) then it's pretty much megathread material. If it's just about one game, it's often better to just get a confirm on megathread status from a mod.
Not like it matters much though, it's just the thread name.
Added the RP stuff to the first post. Will now make a few changes to the games (more detail and screenshots) and add a Fantasy section including Mark of Chaos and Warhammer online.
Lets get some Fantasy going on in this thread. Soon I'm going to be in a Fantasy team tournament and I'm pairing with wood elves (Yes I know they suck currently but when we did a Marine-Eldar Combo last month we were 1 point short of placing third.) Currently I have this in my list.
Sorcerer; Level 2, Mark of Tzeentch, Third Eye of Tzeentch, Spell Familiar, Enchanted Shield, Talisman of Protection - 200
Warriors X12; Shields, Mark of Tzeentch, Full Command, Banner of Wrath - 287
Marauder horsemen X6; Mark of Tzeentch, Light armor, Javelins, Full Command - 140
Chosen X12; Mark of Tzeentch, Shields, Full Command, Banner of Rage, Book of Secrets - 358
This leaves me with 15 points left over, So I could get a Dragon Helm and a Biting blade for the Sorcerer or give him a Channeling Staff. I could also give 5 guys in the front row of my chosen Halberds.
I wish i had actually played a game of W40K at some point while i was active with it. I was never confident enough to find anyone to play, and i still wouldn't be able to. Closest store to me is Warhammer World.
You could try playing on Vassal.
[QUOTE=Zeroarmorclo;30241709]You could try playing on Vassal.[/QUOTE]
That kinda defeats the point of buying all the stuff in the first place.
[QUOTE=RayvenQ;30239525]Interestingly Ahriman was also a member of the Cult of Corvidae, iirc.
They were in Index Astartes, White Dwarf and one or two other things it memory serves[/QUOTE]
Ahriman was only effective in the magic of Corvidae, he was weak in all other magic, why is it interesting that he was part of the Cult of Corvidae?
[QUOTE=Zeroarmorclo;30241709]You could try playing on Vassal.[/QUOTE]
I only wish i knew how to play on vassal, and the game its self, i could never understand the table top game its self.. :(
[QUOTE=Hoboharry;30242032]Ahriman was only effective in the magic of Corvidae, he was weak in all other magic, why is it interesting that he was part of the Cult of Corvidae?[/QUOTE]
Corvidae...(aka Raven) hinting at a possible ancestor to the Blood Ravens, also with Blood Ravens being strongly tied to librarians.
A small group that got trapped or simply delayed in the warp, could possibly emerge after the heresy and one way or another found a chapter themselves, or effectively make one up, claiming to be a lost chapter, after seeing what Russ had done and remained loyal in spite of it.
Since Blood Ravens only surfaced around M37, and supposedly haivng no records before that due to the chapter being reduced to a few members in a supposed decimation, it would make sense that the whole thing was a cover, in order to stay loyal, but at the same time still be able to fight.
[QUOTE=thrawn2787;30240011]How can they be from the Thousand Suns if they weren't other foundings weren't until after the heresy? I wouldn't imagine that Russ would leave any alive even if they surrendered.[/QUOTE]
See above.
They could also easily have been manufactured from leftover stasis locked gene seed. Didn't the inquisition actually sanction the splicing of loyalist and pure traitor chapter geneseed in some cases?
I'm getting Space Marine (most likely preordering, in my country it costs only 33$) and Dark Millennium.
Dark Heresy looks fun. Never played DnD or anything like it though.
[QUOTE=wraithcat;30245217]They could also easily have been manufactured from leftover stasis locked gene seed. Didn't the inquisition actually sanction the splicing of loyalist and pure traitor chapter geneseed in some cases?[/QUOTE]
No. Geneseed generally isn't spliced anyway.
Yeah, fucking with the geneseed is pretty much instant incineration behavior. It's in the same vein as the ad mech STC ops, everything is done by the book or they call in the culexis to core out your head.
In Chaos Rising, you can notice your squadmates talking about some 'dark secret' of the chapter.
Could it be that they're referencing the fact that the Thousand Sons are their ancestors?
Also, in what way are the Thousand sons ancestors to Blood ravens?
Through gene-seed?
Cloning?
Pretty likely, though thousand sons may not be the obvious suspect. If you go through the history there's a couple of CSM chapters that have been deliberately avoided by the BR chapter master when Marines are called to muster, even over the objection of the company leaders.
[QUOTE=27X;30247466]Yeah, fucking with the geneseed is pretty much instant incineration behavior. It's in the same vein as the ad mech STC ops, everything is done by the book or they call in the culexis to core out your head.[/QUOTE]
It's also highly inadvisable because it's very easy to fuck the geneseed up, resulting in it not working.
[editline]4th June 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=27X;30247675]Pretty likely, though thousand sons may not be the obvious suspect. If you go through the history there's a couple of CSM chapters that have been deliberately avoided by the BR chapter master when Marines are called to muster, even over the objection of the company leaders.[/QUOTE]
That even may just be a blind so that if the Chapter Master is discovered to be a traitor, they'd think he was a traitor for the Black Legion or someone other than TS.
'course, obvious explanation is that it's Alpha Legion, using stolen TS geneseed that created the Ravens.
I don't suppose anybody would be able to explain why the primarch Sanguinius wasn't killed as a mutant, he did have gigantic wings after all
I loved this game I played a while back. First Fantasy game, it was the Hard Boyz first round. Only 2 people showed, me and my opponent. Lost, got second place in store, and a $40 dollar GW box.
[QUOTE=A Glitch;30248734]I don't suppose anybody would be able to explain why the primarch Sanguinius wasn't killed as a mutant, he did have gigantic wings after all[/QUOTE]
The Emperor made him that way.
You can't really expect someone to go and kill a Primarch just because it was 'mutated', you'd lose even if you tried, Sanguinus could kill a Greater Daemon with one swipe.
However, if you did manage to kill him, the Emperor would send The Lion to drive his sword up your ass for treason.
It's only really post Imperium foundation that humanity as a whole started really purging mutants and Baal Secundus was a wasteland where mutation occured quite often, so it's not beyond the realms of possibility.
[QUOTE=RayvenQ;30246357]No. Geneseed generally isn't spliced anyway.[/QUOTE]
Might have been merely a misunderstand of words. When I said splice I meant splice different geneseeds together.
In the IA:Rougue Sons, it says
'Though the particulars of a new Founding are shrouded in secrecy and arcane ritual it is known that all of a new Chapter's genetic make-up is not always drawn from the seed of one 'donor' Chapter. Instead a new Chapter may represent a genetic cocktail of the geneseed of others...'
It goes on to say that noone is really sure wether this mixing is harmful in the long-term, possibly sowing the seeds for later generations of thses particular Astartes to mutate or turn on the Imperium.
Funny enough some early parts don't even state relationships with Xeno's are forbidden (Remember this was when Eldar didn't have a shitload of Genetic impossibility and a Eldar/human was part of the UltraMarines)
Unless it counts as siding with the enemy
[QUOTE=Sirdrone536;30252919]Funny enough some early parts don't even state relationships with Xeno's are forbidden (Remember this was when Eldar didn't have a shitload of Genetic impossibility and a Eldar/human was part of the UltraMarines)
Unless it counts as siding with the enemy[/QUOTE]
Well, when Warhammer Fantasy first took a jounrey into space (rogue Trader era etc etc) Eldar Human hybrids weren't unheard of.
Some art goodness now
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[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRNCzH2um4A[/media]
[QUOTE=wraithcat;30251443]Might have been merely a misunderstand of words. When I said splice I meant splice different geneseeds together.
In the IA:Rougue Sons, it says
'Though the particulars of a new Founding are shrouded in secrecy and arcane ritual it is known that all of a new Chapter's genetic make-up is not always drawn from the seed of one 'donor' Chapter. Instead a new Chapter may represent a genetic cocktail of the geneseed of others...'
It goes on to say that noone is really sure wether this mixing is harmful in the long-term, possibly sowing the seeds for later generations of thses particular Astartes to mutate or turn on the Imperium.[/QUOTE]
It's been done before but usually results in failure or waaaaay worse results than space wolf "peculiarities" or blood angel crabbiness. (ie, "purge" this corridor, brothers)
Hardly Space Wolves Fault, as Fenrisian colonists were genetically engineered prior to landing on Fenris. Besides, neither Space Wolves nor Blood Angel Geneseed has been tampered with.
I always thought the song O Fortuna suited the WH40K setting, that is until i watched this version of it.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2NlKBySA9Y[/media]
thanks for ruining that song for me :v:
Wait, so there's both Psykers and "Mages" in the W40K Universe? Because it seems a bit fucking stupid for the Emperor to ban sorcery yet train psykers if there wasn't normal magic too.
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