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Post by StyxD on Jun 10, 2015 22:01:48 GMT
You know, this "Emperor and the Speech Device" series is really quite good. It keeps the fun things and laughs at the stupid ones. I also suddenly want this as my theme music and it's a little embarrassing.  I don't know if the Karrack count as having female warrior formations after having been turned into Nameless. Do nameless even have physical sex? |
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Post by Horsie on Jun 10, 2015 22:06:25 GMT
I doubt it, the KitW seems to ruin everything for everyone. It could even be that Nameless don't actually have genders.
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Post by Harkovast on Jun 10, 2015 22:28:16 GMT
Canuovea have her send me a private message on here if she needs help with some cheaper alternatives.
The KITW does indeed ruin everything for everyone.
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Post by Harkovast on Jun 10, 2015 22:38:05 GMT
I am thinking the lead Milshok warrior is called a Justicar and the actual warriors are called blade wardens.
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Post by Canuovea on Jun 11, 2015 5:49:46 GMT
Justicar? Like the Grey Knights? Or the Thalmor from Skyrim?
Guess which of those two are bad guys.
And yes, the If The Emperor Had A Text To Speech Device series is quite good. I actually like that there seems to be some kind of greater arc going on, for which I'm horribly out of my fluff depth.
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Post by wordweaver3 on Jun 11, 2015 6:42:23 GMT
You bunch of assholes!
Reading through these comments prompted me to look up lunar lights and I just wasted 2 hours watching Apollo landing hoax and round Earth hoax videos!
Stop wasting my fucking time!!!
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Post by Horsie on Jun 11, 2015 21:02:06 GMT
That song just screams "StyxD". Go for it.
@word; I can't believe there's people out there who think the world is flat.
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Post by wordweaver3 on Jun 12, 2015 3:45:25 GMT
Sure, Renard, it's been proven in sci-fi movies.
If you have the time, check out the comments.
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Post by Harkovast on Jun 12, 2015 21:31:52 GMT
Since no one asked, I'll tell you how I would improve sisters of battle.
Firstly the background story is embarassing. I would make them the main focus of their own army book at the very least!
I would make them more evil and brutal.
Because they are women, GW keep making them get killed or cry a lot and other lame behaviour.
Sisters of Battle are the militant wing of the most violent, extremist religion that has ever existed!
They should be played up on how scary they are.
I actually like StyxD's suggestion that would all have their wombs and overies removed. I would also give them all brain surgery in order to make them have less empathy and more dogmatic thinking.
These ladies should just up and murder people without a second thought if someone goes against their religious beliefs.
I would also make them rivals to the space marines.
Individually they are not as powerful, but as an organisation there are more of them and they have the entire state religion behind them.
I think they should look down on space marines as inferior to themselves. After all, large numbers of space marines have turned to chaos in the past and even today they deviate dangerously from established church teachings.
The two groups would often clash and sometimes even get into shooting fights, usually because the sisters see some transgression they refuse to over look.
Imagine a Sister Superior talking to a Chapter Master and he makes reference to how his chapter does not consider the Emperor a divine being...and she immediately shoots him in the head.
The imperial guard would see the sisters as being semi divine figures that personify the holy power of the church, but then if they ever meet them they would find them wierd and cold, repeating articles of faith in response to questions and seemingly all with very similar personalities, sometimes speaking their dogma in unison.
I would make it more like that...
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Post by Horsie on Jun 13, 2015 0:12:26 GMT
Wait, they're are the militant wing? I thought the whole religion was militant, with maybe some of the clergy not going about with weapons, but the overwhelming majority being all too keen to shoot people in the head with oversized pistols.
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Post by Canuovea on Jun 13, 2015 2:43:43 GMT
The Sisters of Battle are a way around the prohibition of the Church having men under arms. They're literally the military of the Church, even though the Church is normally militant.
And I like Hark's version. You could still keep the Custodes convincing them to turn on Vandire, but most of that reign of terror should have been about how Vandire and the Head of the Sisters used the SoB to crush absolutely all resistance. The one convinced by the Custodes should be some kind of second in command who in turn eliminates both her superior and Vandire.
That would also make the Soulstorm campaign more understandable as the Sisters and Imperial Guard have it out almost immediately.
I was going to say that shooting a Space Marine in the face, even with a Bolt Pistol, is unlikely to have any effect. But then I remembered that the more important a Space Marine is, the less likely they are to wear a helmet.
Then again, I don't think that should be the totality of the Sisters. They have several different orders. Give them some actual flavour and variety. Some cut out their wombs (probably due to some kind of misguided idea that it makes them weak due to estrogen production) and field a larger number of vicious close combat types but lack hospitallers. This could be because they figure Vandire and their former leader were fucking each other and that led to their downfall, so "naturally" they would remove their ovaries and such. Others would have their own gimmick.
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Post by Horsie on Jun 13, 2015 3:26:47 GMT
What I read says bolt pistols fire a .75cal 1234grain bullet; at point black that would go through. Of course, most of the art I've seen on Space Marines doesn't show them wearing helmets, it's like no one wears fucking helmets in battle ever.
And everyone screams while firing their weapons. Some real guns have what's called a grip safety, which is usually a lever or button that keeps the weapon from working unless it's depressed by holding the weapon as you would when ready to fire. I think 40K weapons have something like that, but instead of holding down a button you have to scream a manly scream at the top of your lungs.
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Post by Canuovea on Jun 13, 2015 3:41:40 GMT
Bolts are actually mini, explosive, rockets. They're terrible.
Most Space Marine helmets are rounded and pretty decent for deflecting most weapons. And for some reason bolt guns have an armour piercing of "shit". At least in the Tabletop Game.
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Post by Horsie on Jun 13, 2015 3:43:19 GMT
But clearly the rules of the tabletop game don't apply to the backstory of the universe, otherwise these Sisters of Battle wouldn't get stomped by everyone and their dog.
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Post by Canuovea on Jun 13, 2015 3:53:31 GMT
Actually... the Sisters of Battle aren't... uh... considered very good on the Tabletop either. They're discount Space Marines who are more numerous... but they're still too expensive to actually field in large numbers. But it seems they're thinking of releasing an update, which might fix that.
Also, Eldar projectiles are little shards or shurikens sped up to insane speeds and they don't often penetrate Space Marine armour. In fact, they hit about as hard as a bolt (just with less expolsive effect).
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