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[zuniger]

Ask your questions here and me and others will try and answer your questions to the best of our knowledge.

[Mander]

Messaggio originale di Rachet:

Messaggio originale di Mander:

Quick question: how powerful are the galvanic caster rifles of the Secutarii Peltast (Titans' infantry honour guard) when compared with Space Marines Bolters?
Hard parameters from the tabletop are welcome too.

Rules wise they're similar. Shorter range, 1 more shot, unless they load an anti-armour ammo, then they shoot less, but harder.
Fluff wise no clue.

Neato! Thank you.

[RB]

Why won't Dante die? Is Matt Ward just being a ♥♥♥♥? The man is tired, let him sleep.

[Nemo]

Messaggio originale di Tordehole:

Messaggio originale di Ork:

Ask your questions here and me and others will try and answer your questions to the best of our knowledge.

Ill stick with Majorkill thanks.

o agree i already know most of 40k lore already, majorkill pretty much takes the 4chan old trad 40k madness and meshes it with his own degeneracy to make absolutely hilarious takes. he is also fairly accurate with official lore as well

[Baron]

Messaggio originale di Mander:

Quick question: how powerful are the galvanic caster rifles of the Secutarii Peltast (Titans' infantry honour guard) when compared with Space Marines Bolters?
Hard parameters from the tabletop are welcome too.

Gunnar is probably the man for this if he is around

[linas.warrior]

Why send some random inefficient idiots to deal with the chaos uprising? Why not just send in a squad of godly space marines and be done with it? They are far more efficient and well trained for these kind of situations.

What if a conscripted citizen DON'T want to go to war? What if he DOESN'T have any faith in the emperor of mankind?

[Baron]

Messaggio originale di linas.warrior:

Why send some random inefficient idiots to deal with the chaos uprising? Why not just send in a squad of godly space marines and be done with it? They are far more efficient and well trained for these kind of situations.

What if a conscripted citizen DON'T want to go to war? What if he DOESN'T have any faith in the emperor of mankind?

Basically, this problem is nowhere near the level of strategic importance required to call in one of the Chapters. It's one hive among billions, on millions of worlds - and cults like this are common on pretty much all of them, the Space Marines relatively few and far between, committed to more dire threats.

The Inquisitor is throwing completely worthless cannon fodder at the problem until either it goes away or it escalates. She will have already called the cavalry, but that'll likely be a guard regiment, not marines. Whether they are coming or not, whether they even make it through the warp - unknown, so it's us.

As to the last, you certainly do not have a choice. If you say no, you get shot. If you do not believe in the Emperor, you better be extremely good at hiding it, because that's heresy - death too, or even worse, an inquisitioning.

*Actually, some of the kit we are given is worth something, certainly more than us in many cases

[RB]

Messaggio originale di linas.warrior:

Why send some random inefficient idiots to deal with the chaos uprising? Why not just send in a squad of godly space marines and be done with it? They are far more efficient and well trained for these kind of situations.

What if a conscripted citizen DON'T want to go to war? What if he DOESN'T have any faith in the emperor of mankind?

Because there's millions of planets and the Inquisition doesn't always use the Emperor's Angels of death for everything. There's plenty of huge system sized battles fought by the Imp gaurd alone. Better to waste millions of humans than a potential Astartes squad.

[mdcpaladin]

Messaggio originale di RB:

Messaggio originale di linas.warrior:

Why send some random inefficient idiots to deal with the chaos uprising? Why not just send in a squad of godly space marines and be done with it? They are far more efficient and well trained for these kind of situations.

What if a conscripted citizen DON'T want to go to war? What if he DOESN'T have any faith in the emperor of mankind?

Because there's millions of planets and the Inquisition doesn't always use the Emperor's Angels of death for everything. There's plenty of huge system sized battles fought by the Imp gaurd alone. Better to waste millions of humans than a potential Astartes squad.

truth

[State Line Crosser]

Messaggio originale di Toonen1988:

I don't know much about the Warhammer 40k lore, but what I do know is that not many developers put any effort or time in Adepta Sororitas.

There is only one game I know that focus on the faction Adepta Sororitas, named Warhammer 4k Sisters of Battle VR game. In other games they are basically non-existing.

Are they literally unpopulair? I mean, they aren't augmented like Space Marines, but they are chicks that do wield the same firepower as Space marines.

I didn't see anyone directly answer this so i'll take a shot at it. Sisters are not very popular no. They don't sell miniatures and thus don't get stuff made for them. They are also, until recently I guess, minor players in the grand scheme of things.

You need GW's approval to make games and they chase money almost exclusively so that's probably why you never see them.

[JackPhoenix]

Messaggio originale di linas.warrior:

Why send some random inefficient idiots to deal with the chaos uprising? Why not just send in a squad of godly space marines and be done with it? They are far more efficient and well trained for these kind of situations.

You go to the war with the army you have, not the army you want, especially in 40k.

Communication and travel are unreliable, Indomitus Crusade is in full swing, and the Imperium has plenty of other problems to worry about. And chapters of the Adeptus Astartes are one of the very few organizations that can get away with telling an Inquisitor they are busy and don't have time to deal with whatever he's asking them about.

What if a conscripted citizen DON'T want to go to war? What if he DOESN'T have any faith in the emperor of mankind?

Nobody cares about his opinion. Either he'll keep it to himself, publically praise the Emperor and do as he's told, or he's a traitor and a heretic, and will be dealt with accordingly

[Baron]

Messaggio originale di State Line Crosser:

Messaggio originale di Toonen1988:

I don't know much about the Warhammer 40k lore, but what I do know is that not many developers put any effort or time in Adepta Sororitas.

There is only one game I know that focus on the faction Adepta Sororitas, named Warhammer 4k Sisters of Battle VR game. In other games they are basically non-existing.

Are they literally unpopulair? I mean, they aren't augmented like Space Marines, but they are chicks that do wield the same firepower as Space marines.

I didn't see anyone directly answer this so i'll take a shot at it. Sisters are not very popular no. They don't sell miniatures and thus don't get stuff made for them. They are also, until recently I guess, minor players in the grand scheme of things.

You need GW's approval to make games and they chase money almost exclusively so that's probably why you never see them.

It's actually an annoying thing, because they are pretty cool - but every time they get included it's sort of secondary and it's cheating them. They were handled okay with Dawn of War because that was very close to their release and that's probably still the best take on em. But lots of the overarching lore has gone south, with saints and angels and nonsense about force ghosts....
Havent played the new Inquisitor Sister class in Martyr tho, so can't speak to that.

[JackPhoenix]

Messaggio originale di Baron:

Havent played the new Inquisitor Sister class in Martyr tho, so can't speak to that.

Considering it'll be released in 3 days, that's not surprising.

[Baron]

Messaggio originale di JackPhoenix:

Messaggio originale di Baron:

Havent played the new Inquisitor Sister class in Martyr tho, so can't speak to that.

Considering it'll be released in 3 days, that's not surprising.

Lol whoops

[State Line Crosser]

Messaggio originale di Baron:

It's actually an annoying thing, because they are pretty cool - but every time they get included it's sort of secondary and it's cheating them. They were handled okay with Dawn of War because that was very close to their release and that's probably still the best take on em. But lots of the overarching lore has gone south, with saints and angels and nonsense about force ghosts....
Havent played the new Inquisitor Sister class in Martyr tho, so can't speak to that.

I like their lore as well. They exist to be "waifu" bait but they did a good job making them interesting. I wonder how many of their fans are comfortable with the whole "harem gone wrong" origin story.

[Baron]

Messaggio originale di State Line Crosser:

Messaggio originale di Baron:

It's actually an annoying thing, because they are pretty cool - but every time they get included it's sort of secondary and it's cheating them. They were handled okay with Dawn of War because that was very close to their release and that's probably still the best take on em. But lots of the overarching lore has gone south, with saints and angels and nonsense about force ghosts....
Havent played the new Inquisitor Sister class in Martyr tho, so can't speak to that.

I like their lore as well. They exist to be "waifu" bait but they did a good job making them interesting. I wonder how many of their fans are comfortable with the whole "harem gone wrong" origin story.

It's a shame, because ironically, retconning them out of the harems just to turn them into slavering geek bait is exactly what we are supposed to look on the Imperium poorly for doing in the whole parody, creating a parody of ourselves....The point was to look upon the Imperium and despair at what we are, what we could be in 40000 years. The joke of the universe sort of became the honourable canon, or it seems to be tilting that way.

I digress with my heresy