Warhammer 40k

[DiabeticSydePhil]

Is that part of the Ultramarines Omnibus? I have that book so I need to actually sit down and read it.

Second book, yeah.

They're dated and some of the lore is retconned but its still a very fun trilogy.

 

[Sunflower Samurai]

I preferred the idea of the Custodes being literally fucked by their conditioning and the whole doing fucking nothing for 10K years outside of letting the sister of battle perform a lap dance on Big E

doesnt sound like too bad of a fate as long as they're the 32DD fanon Sisters and not the manfaced minis ngl

The only person who was right during the Heresy about the fate of the Marines was Sigismund. They were never going to stop fighting. Even if the Crusade goes as planned and they conquer the galaxy, it then goes to fighting in the Webway with the Dark Eldar. Then it’s probably fighting the Necrons. The Tyranids who were likely always going to invade per how autistic the Silent King is about them.

There was no retirement plan or “retirement plan”.

To be fair, considering the eternal eating of the Nids, possible resurgances and cycles of the Beasts, endless Xeno races (probably not the Tau), and the necrons themselves they'd probably be occupied for some extra 20k years of pure slugfesting before they need to be old-yellered

 

[Judge Dredd]

the 32DD fanon Sisters

The what now?

 

[p1138]

The what now?

The idea that sisters of battle are all a bunch of 32DD supermodel dommy mommies in armor. When in reality they're all a bunch of scarred up beat to shit sycophantic battle wenches.

 

[Professor Donger]

The idea that sisters of battle are all a bunch of 32DD supermodel dommy mommies in armor. When in reality they're all a bunch of scarred up beat to shit sycophantic battle wenches.

They're not all that way but most of them are yeah. I forget what novel it was, it might have been Requiem Infernal, where the sister is described as beautiful.

I do think there are conventionality beautiful sisters of battle, but yeah most of them, especially the veterans are beat to shit veterans

 

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Oh.

Huh. Armageddon is out today. Guess it's time to go walk down to the FLGS. Hope they have a spare copy.

 

[Professor Donger]

Oh.

Huh. Armageddon is out today. Guess it's time to go walk down to the FLGS. Hope they have a spare copy.

I think I mentioned it a few pages ago but I think GW made a shit ton of them so most places should have spares

 

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I think I mentioned it a few pages ago but I think GW made a shit ton of them so most places should have spares

Oh? Hm. Do I want to risk waiting?

I don't think I've even opened the 10th edition launch box. Or maybe even the 9th, heh.

But then again, I do owe my FLGS cause I was one of the people who talked up 40k when he was looking into expanding out from card games. In my defense none of us expected GW to talk him into $15,000 worth of seed product.

 

[Inquisitor_BadAss]

Oh? Hm. Do I want to risk waiting?

I don't think I've even opened the 10th edition launch box. Or maybe even the 9th, heh.

But then again, I do owe my FLGS cause I was one of the people who talked up 40k when he was looking into expanding out from card games. In my defense none of us expected GW to talk him into $15,000 worth of seed product.

Yeah you definitely owe him for that one.

 

[Professor Donger]

Oh? Hm. Do I want to risk waiting?

I don't think I've even opened the 10th edition launch box. Or maybe even the 9th, heh.

But then again, I do owe my FLGS cause I was one of the people who talked up 40k when he was looking into expanding out from card games. In my defense none of us expected GW to talk him into $15,000 worth of seed product.

Gotta do him a solid

 

[HTTP Error 404]

So, funny story. After all but destroying his FLGS to invest in GW...

They cut him off for not ordering enough, regularly enough. He didn't get any of the 11th ed box in and hasn't been able to get orders from GW in almost a year.

I ended up buying some random Custodes / Eldar and an Assassin he had laying around to at least make the trip worth it. No Sqauts in stock or I would have cleaned him out of those. Think I'll go back and clean him out for his Custodes and put a dent in his marines/admech over the next few months. He wants out of GW cause over the year he moves ~$5k in GW product but he moves that in a single MTG or YGO release -- but GW insists he take up an entire 25% of his store to display GW stuff, mandates he buy the newest releases every month, etc. He has Bolt Action, I suggested Konflikt 47, and he's going all in on the new Gundam tabletop later this year.

 

[Professor Donger]

He has Bolt Action, I suggested Konflikt 47, and he's going all in on the new Gundam tabletop later this year.

Konflikt'47 is growing surprisingly fast as well.

 

[p1138]

They're not all that way but most of them are yeah. I forget what novel it was, it might have been Requiem Infernal, where the sister is described as beautiful.

I do think there are conventionality beautiful sisters of battle, but yeah most of them, especially the veterans are beat to shit veterans

Sure a sister described as beautiful in comparison to what? One of the siege of terra books has a guardsman asking a skitarii if she's hot underneath all of the admech crap, when she's so fucked up she has to communicate using the equivalent of a speak & spell(which eventually gets broken). And even if a sister is described as beautiful, would be it because they actually are, or is it just a civilian basking in the glory of someone dedicated to the emperor? The average woman in a hive is usually described as being the equivalent of a filthy street hobo that while I guess could clean up, still screws up the scale of things.

 

[Professor Donger]

Sure a sister described as beautiful in comparison to what? One of the siege of terra books has a guardsman asking a skitarii if she's hot underneath all of the admech crap, when she's so fucked up she has to communicate using the equivalent of a speak & spell(which eventually gets broken). And even if a sister is described as beautiful, would be it because they actually are, or is it just a civilian basking in the glory of someone dedicated to the emperor? The average woman in a hive is usually described as being the equivalent of a filthy street hobo that while I guess could clean up, still screws up the scale of things.

‘You look troubled, commissar. Does your wound still pain you?’
Covering his surprise with a smile, Lemarché turned to the woman standing beside his bunk. As always, her lightness of step impressed him. When had she entered the room?
‘My phantom will haunt me until a new leg puts it to rest, Sister,’ he answered, gesturing at the empty space below his left knee. ‘But I stopped paying attention long ago. It is the boot that went with it that aggrieves me. It was a fine boot.’
To his surprise she returned the smile. It was the first time he’d seen anything except a frown on that pale, serious face. Some men might be inclined to think it made her look younger, perhaps even attractive, but Lemarché felt it only accentuated her severity. Sharpened it.
It wasn’t that Sister Asenath’s face was ugly – too long, too hard and marked by one too many scars for conventional beauty perhaps, but her high cheekbones and dark eyes were undeniably striking. No, it was simply that smiles didn’t belong there.

Edit because I'm at work

Basically not all sisters are wrinkles and scars is kind of what I'm getting at and even the scarred ones can be beautiful in their own way. We already have peak sister in Rogue Trader as an example and the sister in Requiem infernal isn't bad looking either.

 

[p1138]

So yeah that's my point. She's still scarred up and beat to shit, and this is a guy that likely is comparing her to guardsmen he's been stuck babysitting for ages especially since he points out she isn't even conventionally attractive. One of the later Ciaphas Cain books when he's "retired" has a sister of battle who is described similarly fucking one of the administratum guys at the school Cain is teaching at.

 

[Professor Donger]

So yeah that's my point. She's still scarred up and beat to shit, and this is a guy that likely is comparing her to guardsmen he's been stuck babysitting for ages especially since he points out she isn't even conventionally attractive. One of the later Ciaphas Cain books when he's "retired" has a sister of battle who is described similarly fucking one of the administratum guys at the school Cain is teaching at.

I'm not really disagreeing with you. I do think that the sisters over all would look how veterans of any war would look, I just think that it's fine to portray young sisters or ones who haven't seen a lot of combat as attractive or beautiful.

I don't think sisters overall though would wear things like make-up that isn't related to their devotion to the emperor as an example.

Hell the sister in Pariah Nexus was pretty attractive too but that could have been because of the limits of 3d animation preventing them from giving her more scars or something, I don't know.



I think most sisters can safely be described as delightfully average. I do think them making Celestine average at all is kind of a weird choice though since she's quite literally an angel. But even then her depiction changes based on who's drawing her.

 

[Marian]

Not everyone in Warhammer is ugly i just read the first Word Bearers book, and Captain Laron of the Elysion drop troopers is described as a chiselled jawed giga chad (he acted like one also, dude clapped Space Marine cheeks.) Most people are just gonna be average like irl and scars don't automatically make someone ugly, only if they could be considered disfiguring ones.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Warriors of Ultramar a miner on an outlying world watches nids kill and eat his entire family including kids (and all his neighbors) because they chose to not obey the evacuation requests because 'they're just xenos we can defend our town just fine'.

Oh god that chapter was nightmarish. I don't remember they got the option of evacuation. Not that it would have helped since everything besides the hive city got eaten (and even that was mostly gone by the end).

The only person who was right during the Heresy about the fate of the Marines was Sigismund. They were never going to stop fighting. Even if the Crusade goes as planned and they conquer the galaxy, it then goes to fighting in the Webway with the Dark Eldar. Then it’s probably fighting the Necrons. The Tyranids who were likely always going to invade per how autistic the Silent King is about them.

There was no retirement plan or “retirement plan”.

Not really, there's just not a lot of threats remaining to justify Astartes over well equipped humans after they finish off every big xenos empire. The Emperor didn't know about the Tyranids. The Necron are also a maybe (and in their case it is better to just destroy the world than actual engagement). Dark Eldar probably weren't a power yet so close to Slannesh's birth.

It's mainly just killing Orks over and over when they pop up, and you don't need Astartes for that.

 

[DiabeticSydePhil]

They cut him off for not ordering enough, regularly enough

They do that to prevent anyone who claims to have a store buying shit cheap and passing it on to friends at cost to skirt MSRP lol.

IIRC its not 'that' much for a game store to order, but its also why the 40k section at ant given game store is heavily stocked.

 

[Professor Donger]

Got my armageddon orks, oh god i have to paint them