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 Nevelon wrote:
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If all the Terminator Suits in the Blood Angels Chapter were to take to the field, one of them would be in Ultramarines livery.

Really now? I want to know more about that.

The Crux Terminatus is said to hold a sliver of the Emperor's armor.


There is a short story about a squad of BA termies getting ready to teleport into battle. I know it's in the red RT WD compendium, not sure of the original publication. One of the suits of armor is was borrowed from the Ultras, and whenever they repainted it in BA colors, the wearer was killed. So it's badly weathered and beaten, but still blue. The techmarines have stopped trying to cover the Ultramarine colors.

The last known wearer was brother Levi, he uses a stormbolter.

Edit: Found the text:

"Levi." The bolter's magazine was tiny in comparison to Levi's power glove, but he had no trouble in sliding it home. There was a click and the bolter's catch held the magazine. Levi shook his head, working the helmet seals carefully into place. His suit was battered and scarred and badly in need of repainting. It wasn't even in the proper chapter colours, having come from the Ultramarines armory a generation before. Bare metal showed in several places. Levi, like many of the suits previous users, had refused to let the Techmarines repaint it. Every time it's Ultramarines colours had been hidden, the suits wearer had been killed. Levi maintained that the suit knew it was only borrowed, and even the techs had come to believe the same. They had given up trying to persuade him to have it repainted in the proper colours.

Oh that's neat.
   
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Other tidbits from that story:

Brother-Captain Mallen was too wounded to lead the assault. As he would be a captain leading terminators, we can assume that he was the 1st company captain at one point.

The squad was lead by Brother-Sergeant Kinner, who has a power glove, not a sword, and a SB

Brother Straus was on his last assault as a normal marine, he was going to be initiated in as a Novitiate chaplain after the mission.

Brother Felko was the new member of the squad, he volunteered to be on point, to prove himself and pull his weight.

Brother Levi has been discussed.

Brother Gorrias was recruited from a hive world 20 years before, and still has a thick accent. He’s packing the assault cannon

Chaplain Brehgen is not part of the squad, but is blessing them for the mission.

   
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Power Gloves showed up in the novel Space Marine. They seem to be strength enhancing (it's left unclear), but not exactly like a power fist.

Also service studs used to be decades, not centuries, of service.
   
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 ClockworkZion wrote:
Power Gloves showed up in the novel Space Marine. They seem to be strength enhancing (it's left unclear), but not exactly like a power fist.

Also service studs used to be decades, not centuries, of service.


Actually, I'm quite sure that they mention that many chapters have many variations of how many years studs represent. Something between 10, 20, 50 and 100 years, depending on chapter and the type of the stud.
   
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 Zewrath wrote:
 ClockworkZion wrote:
Power Gloves showed up in the novel Space Marine. They seem to be strength enhancing (it's left unclear), but not exactly like a power fist.

Also service studs used to be decades, not centuries, of service.


Actually, I'm quite sure that they mention that many chapters have many variations of how many years studs represent. Something between 10, 20, 50 and 100 years, depending on chapter and the type of the stud.

Fair enough. Imperial Fists ised do go by decades if Space Marine is to be believed, but Ithink it's been stretched out since then or else all the Marines would have MkV foreheads.
   
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The original Necron release in White Dwarf 216 came with a 'free Necron warrior'. This model was actually a Chaos Android.


Uhh... no it wasn't. It was Necron Warrior, one of 5-6 Necron Warriors they made when they were trialling the new Necron race. They have their basis in the Chaos Androids of old (Space Crusade, Space Marine), but the mini wasn't an Android.

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Power Glove and Power Fist are the same thing, the RT Battle Manual described the Power Glove thusly:
"The power glove or power fist is a heavy armoured gauntlet surrounded by an energy field which disrupts the surface of solid matter. In this form the energy field allows the glove to punch its way through walls and armour, and grip and tear away at solid objects."

Whilst the 2e Wargear book described the Power Fist:
"The power glove or power fist is a heavy armoured gauntlet surrounded by an energy field which disrupts the surface of solid matter. In this form the energy field allows the fist to punch its way through walls and armour, and grip and tear away at solid objects."

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However, Astartes are more receptive to the Imperial Creed than the average Guardsman.


They really aren't. Few Chapters see the Emperor as a God. The overwhelming majority see him as a great leader/teacher/father-figure. It is rare to come across a Chapter that sees the Emperor as the "God-Emperor of Mankind".


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The Cadian Gate was once part of a ring that Necrons were creating to try and fence in the Eldar. When Slaanesh was birthed some of the fence was lost, but what remains is what keeps the Eye in check and allows for the relatively smooth travel into and out of the Eye itself.


I love that one. The pylons and Cadia, and how they're slowly cracking.


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Yeah, the pylons thing is something I thought was interesting too.

IIRC, the Eldar botched the Warp twice. First they stopped the Necrons from sealing the Warp from Material space leading to stirring the Warp, leading to Warp Storms (and potentially even stirring up the Chaos Gods), and then when they birthed Slaanesh.

Thinking of the Eldar, they've only been dying for a little over 10,000 years as birthing Slaanesh happened right before M30, leading to the major warp storms, allowing the Emperor to launch his Crusade from Terra and reach far more of what became the Imperium.
   
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Commander Farsight doesn't have his natural legs anymore. He lost them when "Skitterlings" -they're like a swarm of spiders- entered his armor through a damaged portion and devourer his legs.

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NauticalKendall wrote:
Commander Farsight doesn't have his natural legs anymore. He lost them when "Skitterlings" -they're like a swarm of spiders- entered his armor through a damaged portion and devourer his legs.

Farsight's sword transfers the remainder of the natural life of anyone he kills with it. He doesn't know it, but he suspects the sword has something to do with his long lifespan.
   
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 ClockworkZion wrote:
NauticalKendall wrote:
Commander Farsight doesn't have his natural legs anymore. He lost them when "Skitterlings" -they're like a swarm of spiders- entered his armor through a damaged portion and devourer his legs.

Farsight's sword transfers the remainder of the natural life of anyone he kills with it. He doesn't know it, but he suspects the sword has something to do with his long lifespan.



Commander Farsight went into self imposed exile sometime after the events on Arthas Moloch. The Enclaves military was lead by various commanders wearing his armor making the Tau Empire believe he was still active for 200 years. When Farsight returned the Enclaves where lead by Commader Arra'kon. Presumably along side the armor he would have taken up the sword Farsight is seen with. At this point Arra'kon may live for hundreds of years as well.(assuming he used the sword as well.)

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NauticalKendall wrote:
 ClockworkZion wrote:
NauticalKendall wrote:
Commander Farsight doesn't have his natural legs anymore. He lost them when "Skitterlings" -they're like a swarm of spiders- entered his armor through a damaged portion and devourer his legs.

Farsight's sword transfers the remainder of the natural life of anyone he kills with it. He doesn't know it, but he suspects the sword has something to do with his long lifespan.



Commander Farsight went into self imposed exile sometime after the events on Arthas Moloch. The Enclaves military was lead by various commanders wearing his armor making the Tau Empire believe he was still active for 200 years. When Farsight returned the Enclaves where lead by Commader Arra'kon. Presumably along side the armor he would have taken up the sword Farsight is seen with. At this point Arra'kon may live for hundreds of years as well.(assuming he used the sword as well.)


I don't think anyone had been wearing Farsight's armor (if by 'armor' you mean his Battlesuit) while he was living his self-imposed hermit life. This is from the Farsight Supplement (well, actually pasted from 40k wiki, but I remember the fragment is from the Farsight book):


Amidst the terror and desperation that erupted across the enclaves, a note of joy rang out on Vior’los. An old dark-skinned warrior had walked into the Great Vior’los Museum claiming to be Farsight, the famous hero of old, and demanded his revered Battlesuit be returned to him, submitting to the required genetic tests with dignity and determination. Sure enough, O’Shovah had returned to them in the hour of their greatest need.


It seems to imply that they had put Farsight's battlesuit into a museum when he 'retired'
   
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There we go, another obscure 40k fact right there. The Squats were not wiped out by the Tyranids. Ghazkhull's Waaaagh! utterly wrecked their homeworld (Golgotha), which is now under Ork control.


the squats didn't just have one homeworld though, they occupied hundreds of worlds, so golgotha might have fallen but there were plenty of other squat worlds. sadly most of these were in the way of the tyranids.

though if you've got a citation for what you said i'd love to see it!

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Genestealers were called "soul suckers" in some early GW releases such as space crusade

An early incarnation of necrons also appeared in this game but were called "androids."

Carnifexes were originally called "Screamer-Killers"

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Chaos Androids are fluffwise different to Necrons, despite my glitchy memory.

Chaos Androids are what remains of the Iron Men.



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The Dark Angels chapter were named after the poem by the nineteenth century poet Lionel Johnson and is a reference to the Dark Angels secret conflict between his homosexuality and his desire to be a holy warrior.

The Dark Angels home planet was Delahon.


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Thanks lord blades! I must have missed that museum bit and took it as it had been used by someone else given the Enclaves passing down battlesuits

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 thegreatchimp wrote:
Genestealers were called "soul suckers" in some early GW releases such as space crusade


Not quite, Soul Suckers were two-limbed upright totally non-sex related Genestealer replacements that only appeared in the Space Crusade computer game, the boardgame itself (which was actually published by Milton Bradley not GW) used Genestealers.
http://stebloke.co.uk/games/blogpics/space-crusade-008.jpg

I don't recall there being any fluff being given for Chaos Androids in Space Crusade, but they did also turn up in Epic where they were stated to be produced by corrupt squat fabricators then daemonically possessed.

 
   
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Chaos Androids were daemon possessed engines created by chaos squats.
   
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Oh here's one I don't remember seeing in the thread (and forgive me if I'm wrong):

Ultramarines weren't originally a first founding chapter. They were a second founding chapter.
   
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 ClockworkZion wrote:
Oh here's one I don't remember seeing in the thread (and forgive me if I'm wrong):

Ultramarines weren't originally a first founding chapter. They were a second founding chapter.


Already mentioned on the second page of the thread. Originally they were a third founding chapter.

 
   
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 Gashrog wrote:
 ClockworkZion wrote:
Oh here's one I don't remember seeing in the thread (and forgive me if I'm wrong):

Ultramarines weren't originally a first founding chapter. They were a second founding chapter.


Already mentioned on the second page of the thread. Originally they were a third founding chapter.

Fair enough. My memory apparently couldn't keep up with finance/accounting lectures and remembering several pages of posts.


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So here's a couple from the Mars series:

There is a Mechanicus sect that worships those they think are "Machine touched" (basically people who seem to have a knack with machines and getting them to respond).

When you're made into a servitor, the first thing they cut from your brain is your memories.

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Hmm, I have a spare suit of TDA and a Termi-heavy BA force, I might just paint to paint up one in UM/shared and dinged up colours... Cool stuff!

 
   
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 Paradigm wrote:
Hmm, I have a spare suit of TDA and a Termi-heavy BA force, I might just paint to paint up one in UM/shared and dinged up colours... Cool stuff!


Careful, once you paint one Ultramarine it will snowball and next thing you know you’ll have 1,500 points of smurfs on the shelf.

Do it!

   
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 Nevelon wrote:
 Paradigm wrote:
Hmm, I have a spare suit of TDA and a Termi-heavy BA force, I might just paint to paint up one in UM/shared and dinged up colours... Cool stuff!


Careful, once you paint one Ultramarine it will snowball and next thing you know you’ll have 1,500 points of smurfs on the shelf.

Do it!


Hah, I already have about a third of the 2nd Co, accurate to the fluff down to each squad loadout, with a long-term goal to finish off the Company.

It's a little too late to save me!

 
   
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According to the Eisenhorn series, popular literature is mostly morality plays of the Great Crusade and the Heresy. Also, using funny voices for the major players is, while amusing, borderline heretical.

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Iron Hands marines that are disabled in combat can be brought back to life by Tau using Gun Drones as described in Sanctuary of Worms. Funnily enough, the Tau was let go by the newly awakes Iron Hand.

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No idea if this is a thing that has been mentioned before, but there is a branch of the Adeptus Mechanicus that believes each machine is imbued with some tiny portion of the Machine God's divine essence, but that part must be exceedingly small, so they specialize in building the smallest machines physically possible so that they can perhaps observe and study said divine essence. Basically it's an entire mechanicus order dedicated to mass producing nanobots.

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