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2014/04/01 23:59:43
Subject: Caestus Assault Ram. What has been seen cannot be unseen!
So I was fortunate enough to be at the open day at forgeworld this past sunday, and I managed to have a chat with a few of the designers, which was pretty cool as they were really down to earth dudes who were happy to chat about their work. After a while I had a chat with one of the Painters, who had been working on a lot of the stuff that was displayed. We then got chatting about the Caestus Assault Ram, (as there was one on the large display board next to us) He told me the Guys at FW had a special nickname for it.
Here it is incase anyone is unsure what it looks like:
And it looks like..
Falcor, from the neverending story! Apparently its their affectionate name for it. Now every time I see it, I cant unsee it!
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2014/04/02 00:08:24
Subject: Caestus Assault Ram. What has been seen cannot be unseen!
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2014/04/02 02:25:00
Subject: Caestus Assault Ram. What has been seen cannot be unseen!
I love that model and your right about the "never ending story" reference. But nothing beats a good CRASSUS ARMOURED ASSAULT TRANSPORT.
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2014/04/02 09:53:45
Subject: Caestus Assault Ram. What has been seen cannot be unseen!
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2014/04/02 12:48:30
Subject: Re:Caestus Assault Ram. What has been seen cannot be unseen!
Oh, that is cute. And here I was assuming it'd be a dick joke, because, y'know, ramming.
BURN IT DOWN BURN IT DOWN BABY BURN IT DOWN
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Greebo had spent an irritating two minutes in that box. Technically, a cat locked in a box may be alive or it may be dead. You never know until you look. In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious.
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2014/04/02 19:41:53
Subject: Caestus Assault Ram. What has been seen cannot be unseen!
SisterSydney wrote: Oh, that is cute. And here I was assuming it'd be a dick joke, because, y'know, ramming.
Wouldn't it be two dick jokes because it has two *ahem* troop carrying containers? I'm sure you can get a double penetration joke out of it too when it rams into stuff...
Actually I've seen the innuendo game played with 40k rules, it basically never stops because almost all the rules can have a double innuendo pulled with them.
2014/04/04 02:25:47
Subject: Caestus Assault Ram. What has been seen cannot be unseen!
SisterSydney wrote: Oh, that is cute. And here I was assuming it'd be a dick joke, because, y'know, ramming.
Meh, going blue is too easy
One of my proudest moments in this mortal life was when the Sisters of Battle joke thread I started took six pages to get to its first dick joke....except that I was the one who made it.
BURN IT DOWN BURN IT DOWN BABY BURN IT DOWN
Psienesis wrote: Well, if you check out Sister Sydney's homebrew/expansion rules, you'll find all kinds of units the Sisters could have, that fit with the theme of the Sisters (as a tabletop army) perfectly well, and are damn-near-perfectly balanced.
I don't see it, frankly. So, I guess I at least can unsee it.
I really like the vehicle, a lot, but isn't it sort of... impractical? I don't mean the thing where it shoots hot melta and then kinds of rams into things, that part I'm OK with. My beef is the twin hull - why make it twice as wide, which needs twice as big a hole, when they can just make it longer? Or even make it look, you know, kind of like a spike - with a wider and taller body but a smaller entry penetrator?
Still like it though. Always have.
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2014/04/07 04:55:10
Subject: Re:Caestus Assault Ram. What has been seen cannot be unseen!
It is the terrible assembly that makes it look that way. The paint work makes it look like it has eyes and the storm shields glued to the side of the hull make it look like it has teeth. Super funny, tho. The pic in the opening post made me think of spike's face from the Gremilins when he is melting and CRRRRROOOOOOOOOW!
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I am The Fury. The flames of my rage will incinerate you. I came back from space. As I returned, I had one vision. The world set ablaze. And do you know what I saw there? (he aims his flamethrower upwards and incinerates a group of bats) Fury! A great and terrible Fury at being alive. Now you're going to feel the scorching heat of that horrible blackness.
2014/04/07 19:41:27
Subject: Caestus Assault Ram. What has been seen cannot be unseen!
chaos0xomega wrote: Guess I'm the only one who doesn't see it... I mean, I can see HOW you see it, I just don't see it myself.
No, I don't see it either.
Greebo had spent an irritating two minutes in that box. Technically, a cat locked in a box may be alive or it may be dead. You never know until you look. In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious.
Orks always ride in single file to hide their strength and numbers.
Gozer the Gozerian, Gozer the Destructor, Volguus Zildrohar, Gozer the Traveler, and Lord of the Sebouillia
2014/04/07 19:48:18
Subject: Re:Caestus Assault Ram. What has been seen cannot be unseen!
Get out of my head! Even my mind's eye cannot unsee this...
I am The Fury. The flames of my rage will incinerate you. I came back from space. As I returned, I had one vision. The world set ablaze. And do you know what I saw there? (he aims his flamethrower upwards and incinerates a group of bats) Fury! A great and terrible Fury at being alive. Now you're going to feel the scorching heat of that horrible blackness.
2014/04/08 02:20:11
Subject: Caestus Assault Ram. What has been seen cannot be unseen!
1400 (ish) - On the rebound!
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Blue DP Crusade 126-11-6 
Biel-Tan Aspect Waves 2-0-2 
Broadside/Shield Drone/Kroot blitz goodness 23-3-4 
Grey Hunters galore 17-5-5 
Khan Bikes Win 63-1-1 
Tanith with Pardus Armor 11-0-0 
Crimson Tide 59-4-0 
Green/Raven/Deathwing 18-0-0 
Jumping GK force with Inq. 4-0-0 
BTemplars w LRs 7-1-2 
IH Legion with Automata 8-0-0 
RG Legion w Adepticon medal 6-0-0 
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