General Chat Thread

[Typhoid Libby 1,265]

Everything.

 

inb4 everyuser because I can.

[Starshine 16,334]

And it seems you lost your horn :­p

[Typhoid Libby 1,265]

Not editing that in.

TOO MUCH EFFORT INVOLVED.

 

OR MAYBE NOT BRB TRYING SHIT OUT.

 

I'M BACK SHIT WORKED OUT #HORNS

[Starshine 16,334]

You silly filly

 

At least you didn't suddenly get stallion's muzzle

[Typhoid Libby 1,265]

WEYLAND

DIS PLACE IS SO DEAD WITHOUT YOU.

 

YAY~ FOR CHAT

[Starshine 16,334]

I still have to work on a couple of daily production reports thingy before I can call it a day (´･ω･`)

 

Saturday is the busiest day

[Typhoid Libby 1,265]

Ur weird for having long saturdawg.

[Starshine 16,334]

What can I say

 

Saturday is the busiest

Sunday I still working my ass off

Monday there's hardly any work at all I could sleep during office hour

 

Such is life in South East Asia

[Typhoid Libby 1,265]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaainsane

 

I'm just wasting saturdawg away.

SC2 spring tournament yay.

[Starshine 16,334]

Isn't Starcraft ripped off their races from Warhammer?

 

Kinda funny reading some threads claiming that Warhammer's Space Marine is Starcraft's knock-off

[Typhoid Libby 1,265]

Starcraft WAS Warhammer 40K.

 

GamesWorkshop took back the rights during Alpha stages of development because it was realtime.

GW wanted it to be Turn-based.

[Starshine 16,334]

Starcraft WAS Warhammer 40K.

 

GamesWorkshop took back the rights during Alpha stages of development because it was realtime.

GW wanted it to be Turn-based.

 

 

Why the hell no one ever said that?

 

I guess I need to read more

[Typhoid Libby 1,265]

It's not "common" knowledge. It was all very hush-hush, neither wanted to make a big deal out of it.

 

In the end, it was just a difference in opinion about core concepts of what is a Warhammer game.

Blizzard was I/0 and GW was more of a pen and paper.

And Blizzard was full of GW fans and GW was full of Warcraft fans.

 

Mutual respect goes a long way of not making waves when you don't have to, especially since they had entirely different market pools.

Don't wanna hustle your friends girl or something.

 

Both were on the boom times too. Really not the time to make waves.

Edited June 9, 2012 by Enginseer Libertina

[Starshine 16,334]

I see ._.

 

That's some difficult politic stuff right there lol

 

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Just had an irresistible carving for chocolate. Now I got like two bars of it and a milkshake. There goes my money :x

[Typhoid Libby 1,265]

That's the reason they are so similar.

GW wasn't dick about it so some of the things stayed the same even after early Alpha.

It was after all pretty nasty thing to do, pull rights after there are working units in the game.

 

So they just agreed that that was the end of GW's involvement, nothing get's removed and no direct references to 40K.

I guess they should have left one or two clear refs to avoid this "newfaggery" about GW stealing Blizzard's content, when in fact it IS GW's IP that was already done when the rights got pulled.

 

Google "Tyranid Ravener" and you have your answer why SC Hydralisk has those huge claws even though it's a ranged unit.

Same bugger if you squint your eye's a bit.

 

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Chocolate will do bad things to humanity after it runs out. o:

Edited June 9, 2012 by Enginseer Libertina

[Starshine 16,334]

Man, they even got the same "digging underground for ambush" trait

 

I always thought those claws was for eyecandy lol

 

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We always got this yellow substitute named cheese

 

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Mmkay. I'm so stuffed I couldn't even drink anything without belching like a cow

[Typhoid Libby 1,265]

Zerg and Tyranids are remarkably similar. Even got that whole "Assimilate Genetic Material" thingy going on between them...

 

...Except that Tyranids are a metric fuckdisshit-ton scarier.

 

Zerg just rush you with a few thousand organisms.

Tyranids don't do rush, Tyranids do;

"Few billion genetically perfected killing machines that stab, shoot and surprise everything that is not a 'Nid, those are our first wave. If that does not kill you, we are going to let the smart ones out. If that does not work, we have the colossal monsters. Oh, and you are constantly breathing us in while you do the fighting, we are not limited to just multicellular life forms, oh no, we have environmentally immune bacterial forms of life that breaks you down into biomass. Oh, and we recycle the dead in to more of us. Yes, and we make the the planet inhospitable cesspool of biotoxins lethal to everyone else but us. Also, we are smarter than all of you put together. Did we mention; We can evolve to adapt everything in less than a day. We think as one, act as one."

 

They devour entire planets in matter of days once they fsk up everything that looks at them funny.

Devour. They even suck out the atmosphere and seas.

They leave dustballs in their wake.

 

Where they go, everything stops.

They emit "Shadow in the Warp" that hinder faster than light travel and makes communication impossible.

Only thing good about that is the fact that they are "slow".

But since they cannot be stopped, it's a ill reprieve.

 

That's scary? They have nommed up 1/15th of the galaxy by now. That was the first wave. And it has still not stopped.

Three more incoming.

 

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Mmmm... Cheese.

[Starshine 16,334]

>can evolve to suit themselves better at killing less than a day, while the brightest engineer from another race needs at least weeks

>few billions of them is only the first wave

>natural biological weapons that easily deployed

>can rebuild soldiers from useless carcasses

>once a planet is lost, it's lost forever

>can make a barrier that prevent any enemy reinforcement while sealing off the attacked colony

 

 

How the fuck those guys didn't conquer the entire galaxy by now

[Typhoid Libby 1,265]

How the fuck those guys didn't conquer the entire galaxy by now

 

Speish Marins by teh Empurarhs Will.

 

And that few billion is per one planet. And 'Nids don't care if who's dead or if it's even actually alive.

It has nutrient value? To the Spawning Vats with it.

Basically a insta-respawn.

 

Whole Empire of Man devoted nearly everything to stall them. Note; Stall.

They never beat 'Nids in one-on-one.

No-one but Necrons have ever done that.

 

Most they managed was to wail on one of the three Hive-fleet "Tentacles" long enough to actually halt it.

Seven Marine Chapters, sixty two army groups; twenty five million men, one million and a half tanks, assorted support troops up to 5 million men not including Naval Forces, supporting Holy Orders, Inquisitorial Troops or Drafted personel and spare change) and six armadas.

Only after all that was expended they managed to stop them in Ultramar by making every other option un-viable to the remains of the Devourer except to drop straight into a planetary trap that was designed to be perfect.

Even then the Devourer ripped Ultramarines chapter to it's bare bones of maybe 100 surviving members out of about a thousand.

And Ultramarines had 5 million men supporting them.

 

That was lauded as a huge victory.

 

Mostly Hunams just made fire-corridors with the liberal use of Exterminatus and burned entire systems dead to guide the 'Nids away from high value population centers and into other races. They are slow after all and need to feed regularly.

Turns out, 'Nids like Ork genes.

It's a bit sturdier stuff than humans.

 

All thy did was bought time.

 

And First wave was un-organized. It was un-aimed probing attacks to find out how the things taste in these parts of the wilds.

Second wave will completely override the defences in place by coming straight under the galactic plane instead of laterally.

[Starshine 16,334]

Damn

 

Those flimsy zerg got nothing on those thing

 

By the way, is there any site where I can actually read the lore of everything in Warhammer? I tried to search, but all I got was wiki sites and forums :­(

[Typhoid Libby 1,265]

Not as such, really.

 

Best bet is to get the Codex's and the rule books. All of them.

Those are good sources and are verified canon info.

That's not going to actually cut it tho, sadly, the canon is so freaking deep.

It's serious about being a hobby with all the paraphelia.

And GW has a hard line on infringing material and their E-Police are good at shutting down things.

 

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Main_Page

 

That's an very good reference source tho. I generally use it meself when I check something. But it is gravely lacking.

 

And the next thing you know, you own the Liber Chaotica.

 

Start with the 4th Edition rule book. It's deep wid fluff and looks nice. Acquire and go from there.

Piratebay:

" warhammer 40k - rulebook - 4th ed[ENG] "

[Starshine 16,334]

That's too bad ._.

 

I already devoured most of that wiki's page tho. What I really want is the main story about things and that. Is the novel still exist right now?

[Typhoid Libby 1,265]

Wud novel?

 

There really has never been any "compedium" of sorts for 40K lore.

Rulebook is the most central one and codex's expand on that.

 

All the different codex and rulebooks do have a lot of fluff tho. A LOT.

 

And every edition rule book does have the history of Empire of Man on dem. That's kinda the centre point on all 40k fluff.

 

Suppose I'm bored enough at some point, I could write some of the lore down too.

At least the main points.

Abridged, naturally, no-one can keep up with all that stuff without constant fact checking.

[Starshine 16,334]

Weird. I'm pretty sure I've read somewhere about this Horus' Heresy had a novel, or something like that ._.

 

Oh well. I guess I'll settle down with reading various wiki for now.

[Typhoid Libby 1,265]

Oh, that.

It's a novel series.

Lot of books.

9 in total I think.

 

Horus Heresy Opening Trilogy is the first trilogy.

 

Reason I don't suggest it, or even consider it to be valid in this case, is because it kills a lot of the mystique and atmosphere in it not knowing things about lore before hand.

At best, it's average writing, but taken as a fluff, it's awesome.

But to appreciate that series as fluff, you gotta know the fluff.

To a casual observer, it's just buncha OP doods taking a stroll across the galaxy.

It's because of that 40k fluff you don't get in those books that it makes it seem reasonable and a good read.

 

Honestly, normal Astartes is OP as fuck and the Primarchs even more so.

Never mind the Emperor himself.

It's not a very good setting for a book. Once you get the background info sorted, it's an okay series. Without it... Not so much.

 

That happened 10 thousand years ago in the sense of 40K. It's half-based myth, icons ultimate bad guises...

And in the books people have faults. So, it's not the best place to start if you wanna get the "right" feel for it.

 

Tho, that's not a bad idea, per say, just avoid the Horus Trilogies to start off your lore hunt.

Once you start to say "Emperor Protects" when something fsks up, then you can read the Horus Heresy. xP

 

I'm sure you can pick those books up for a pittance either in some E-Store or just torrent them. Failing that, Black Library does sell them directly too.