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 Andersp90 wrote:

 JohnnyHell wrote:

 Andersp90 wrote:

 Argive wrote:


So an Imprial knight is 2.5 Ragnars tall ?

Knights are 9m+ tall, so that would be 3,6 in ragnites.

Or to the layman, two Tilted Ghazghkulls.

Almost three baby gullits.

Probably the best exchange I've ever witnessed on dakka.

Esper wrote:
I find this new dynamic between Ragnar and Ghaz pretty amusing as it actually looks like a nod to Highlander, with Blackmane "dying" and "being reborn" at the hands of the ork warlord just like MacLeod, and Ghaz mimicking the Kurgan with the stitches on his neck due to his own "almost death" .

Didn't see that, but yeah, it looks like gw is acknowledging the superiority of 80s culture once again. Can a Big Trouble in Little China homage be far behind?

Love both of these. Ghaz looks fething huge! Love the scarring on Ragnar's face.

And can we please stop trying to attribute human anatomy to a an ork please?

Gadzilla666 wrote:


And can we please stop trying to attribute human anatomy to a an ork please?

Sorry, I forgot that height only applies to the human anatomy.

 Andersp90 wrote:

Gadzilla666 wrote:


And can we please stop trying to attribute human anatomy to a an ork please?

Sorry, I forgot that height only applies to the human anatomy.

Was referring to comments on his legs/feet. Height isn't anatomy, it's a physical dimension.

Gadzilla666 wrote:
Height isn't anatomy, it's a physical dimension.

Yea, that was sort of the premise of the joke..

Gadzilla666 wrote:

Esper wrote:
I find this new dynamic between Ragnar and Ghaz pretty amusing as it actually looks like a nod to Highlander, with Blackmane "dying" and "being reborn" at the hands of the ork warlord just like MacLeod, and Ghaz mimicking the Kurgan with the stitches on his neck due to his own "almost death" .

Didn't see that, but yeah, it looks like gw is acknowledging the superiority of 80s culture once again. Can a Big Trouble in Little China homage be far behind?

Love both of these. Ghaz looks fething huge! Love the scarring on Ragnar's face.

And can we please stop trying to attribute human anatomy to a an ork please?

BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA (COMMORAGH) RIPOFF WITH VECT AS LO PAN WHEN!!???

New Bile confirmed at Gama.

 Eldarain wrote:
New Bile confirmed at Gama.

Lol, be great if Bile managed to get the primaris treatment.
Sneaks in wearing a hooded robe, convinces everyone he is a DA successor chapter, and bam, primaris Bile.

Lol, be great if Bile managed to get the primaris treatment.
Sneaks in wearing a hooded robe, convinces everyone he is a DA successor chapter, and bam, primaris Bile.

Fabulous Bile made the Primaris Marines. He just wore a Cawl suit to pass them off to Guilliman.

as an aside from all this wolfy wolf gorkitymork, I'm really interested in the story from earlier. I wonder if the Rad saturation described with the Alpha will get a boost or some such thing?

Hopefully more units will get the rule and make it really dangerous to be near them as a kind of anti-melee mechanism. The new mounted units (lorewise) could really benefit from being powered by giving them speed and power at the sacrifice of durability. itll be interesting to see what their statline looks like and what love they'll get from the rules pendulum.

Other than the whole jumping off a giant ruin, Ragnar looks pretty awesome-a great update. Would love to see SW primaris with a little wolf bling (less than the current standard) as the standard primaris look too clean.

As a Dark Angel fan, I am definitely a bit salty that the rest of the big 4 got rubiconed old school characters and the DA got Mr Generic.

Gadzilla666 wrote:

 Andersp90 wrote:

Gadzilla666 wrote:


And can we please stop trying to attribute human anatomy to a an ork please?

Sorry, I forgot that height only applies to the human anatomy.

Was referring to comments on his legs/feet. Height isn't anatomy, it's a physical dimension.

Shame there aren't any handy ork models to compare the Ghaz model to and use as a baseline of what their legs look like.
Oh, wait...

I really don't get Ghaz's armor this time around. On his previous model, there's actual pistons and struts and things to presumably help support the weight of the rig. I can't make out anything like that here. In fact, it hardly looks like any one piece is connected to any other.

New Bile huh?

Primaris Chaos Marines inbound I guess.

I'm beginning to suspect that GW didn't take the daylight savings changeover into account for the GAMA post.

Or they're just waiting 'til the seminar is over before posting everything.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
New Bile huh?

Primaris Chaos Marines inbound I guess.

They did establish (in the codex I think) that he's after Primaris Geneseed. Whether it is just a justification for his new body or they actually release his new creations is an interesting question.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Or they're just waiting 'til the seminar is over before posting everything.

If an ad tells me to 'check back' and gives me a time, I tend to assume they mean check back at that time. Not some unspecified time later.

Bob Lorgar wrote:
I really don't get Ghaz's armor this time around. On his previous model, there's actual pistons and struts and things to presumably help support the weight of the rig. I can't make out anything like that here. In fact, it hardly looks like any one piece is connected to any other.

I think that's just the photo angles. You can see a large piston on the back of the arm, and what looks like the tops of the hip struts in this pic -

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Or they're just waiting 'til the seminar is over before posting everything.

They did forget daylight savings time. 8 p.m. PDT would be 3 a.m. GMT, not the 4 a.m. in the banner on Warhammer Community.

So the most powerful ork in the modern age was killed off screen by a space marine captain and needed a grot to be brought back to life?

Really feeling the stakes here.

 insaniak wrote:

Bob Lorgar wrote:
I really don't get Ghaz's armor this time around. On his previous model, there's actual pistons and struts and things to presumably help support the weight of the rig. I can't make out anything like that here. In fact, it hardly looks like any one piece is connected to any other.

I think that's just the photo angles. You can see a large piston on the back of the arm, and what looks like the tops of the hip struts in this pic -

I was actually thinking more in terms of his legs.

 TheGenuineMetz wrote:
So the most powerful ork in the modern age was killed off screen by a space marine captain and needed a grot to be brought back to life?

So a Marine Captain full of hubris thought he could topple the mightiest Ork to ever live, got his gak kicked in for his troubles, and then even without a body the Ork still wasn't defeated.

It's easy to not see the immediate worst in this.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
So a Marine Captain full of hubris thought he could topple the mightiest Ork to ever live, got his gak kicked in for his troubles, and then even without a body the Ork still wasn't defeated.

It's easy to not see the immediate worst in this.

yeah Ragnar looks pretty sickly and weakened by the experience

 TheGenuineMetz wrote:
yeah Ragnar looks pretty sickly and weakened by the experience

And Ghaz looks like a head on a plate to you?

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 TheGenuineMetz wrote:
yeah Ragnar looks pretty sickly and weakened by the experience

And Ghaz looks like a head on a plate to you?

Right? So why even write it in that Ghaz got his head cut off and Ragnar "suffered mortal injuries".

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 TheGenuineMetz wrote:
yeah Ragnar looks pretty sickly and weakened by the experience

And Ghaz looks like a head on a plate to you?

Without stakes (and what lower stakes are there than dying not even ending the character), there's no real dramatic tension and the story becomes boring.

Also, Ghazghkull is supposed to be the biggest, baddest Ork in the galaxy, and he gets decapitated (on his own world, no less) by a company captain. He's supposed to be this big galactic threat, and he's wasted by a captain. That's underwhelming, and honestly seems like poor writing.

I'll eat my hat if The Saga of the Beast wraps up it's lore with anything other than "Space Wolves outsmart the Orks left and right, Blackmane beats Ghaz, but Big Green makes the escape at the last minute. Don't worry, unknown-before-this-story captain So-and-So will die, as well as a handful of battle-line warriors of the Wolves, so there's totally victories on both sides, guys."

 Larks wrote:
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Also, Ghazghkull is supposed to be the biggest, baddest Ork in the galaxy, and he gets decapitated (on his own world, no less) by a company captain. He's supposed to be this big galactic threat, and he's wasted by a captain. That's underwhelming, and honestly seems like poor writing.

The standard "TAH BEHEADANG!" trope. This time, literally. The canned result of every ork threat ever.

When in doubt, teleport Muhreenz in and kill the warboss, waaagh disintegrates.

Him having his head sewn back on was just a cheeky nod to the lore tidbit in 4th ed codex that orks can survive having their head cut off.
It's also being a convenient way for them to have an EPIC fight with no consequences whatsoever for either faction other than a brand new kewl model release.

Bad writing of this caliber has been par for the course for them for years.

So who is Bile's assistant?

I would've expected one of the gland-hounds from the novels, one of Igori's descendants, not a marine (with armor ports in the arms!) in a gimp mask.

Also that progenoid is huge. How did that primaris breathe?

This certainly makes War of the Spider interesting now that Bile is involved. Will we indeed see a Fulgrim at the end of this? Who will be taking on the Slaanesh force (harlequins)?

And yes, I don't think GW can resist bringing in Chaos Primaris.