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Ascalam wrote:Run!!

It's an ork rokkit launcha....


Could be worse. If you really want WTF? WW2 equipment look up the british PIAT

I've fired one, and it was a tad underwhelming

How can a rocket launcher be underwhelming? It's a rocket launcher!

Ascalam wrote:Run!!

It's an ork rokkit launcha....


Could be worse. If you really want WTF? WW2 equipment look up the british PIAT

I've fired one, and it was a tad underwhelming

Great for urban warfare though, no backblast! Try shooting a Panzershrek out of a 2nd story window......suicide.

How can a rocket launcher be underwhelming? It's a rocket launcher!

Because it's not a rocket launcher, it's more of a bomb lobber, well there was propellant, but not much. It shoots from a loaded spring.

True...

Now if it could only REACH the tank you shot it at...

I'm getting nostalgic for my sharpened trench-shovel , grenadeapult and lee-enfield now :( I started wargaming with tiny little WW1 minis..

Andrew1975 wrote:

Because it's not a rocket launcher, it's more of a bomb lobber, well there was propellant, but not much. It shoots from a loaded spring.

Like a nerf gun? A nerf gun that kills?

SabrX wrote:

Andrew1975 wrote:

Because it's not a rocket launcher, it's more of a bomb lobber, well there was propellant, but not much. It shoots from a loaded spring.

Like a nerf gun? A nerf gun that kills?

A nerf gun that pops tanks!

Now there's the number one selling christmas toy of the future..

When you fire a bazooka if goes 'FWooosh--------Boom!'

When you fire a PIAT it goes "phut poing..........Pop!'

World of difference there..

As has been pointed out, the Exorcist missile launcher has a keyboard. When Exorcists are used, the Sister operating it does play a hymn. This is represented in the TT by the Exorcist firing between 1-6 missiled per turn - out of control of the player - because the launcher is only triggered when the Sister hits one of the keys associated with the "launch" function. And it is out of control because the Sister is playing by the notes, not as the player would want (meaning just facerolling over the whole thing ).

And to throw in a quote from Imperial Armour Apocalypse II:

"Sisters, let us raise our song to the Golden Throne! 11th Movement, 'We Bless the Sinner as He Burns' - All Exorcists target heretic Warhound on 17 by 12, commence Adagio and engage!"
- Palatine-Mistress Emilia Nihilus, The Battle of Saints Landing

I mean, come on, you can't say that isn't awesome. Imagine three Exorcists playing an epic hymn in perfect unison, and each time the notes hit the climax you see a volley of missiles taking to the air.

I think the sister playing it needs to look like Davey Jones.

Lictor/sister crossbreed


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or Ymgarl hybrid

Ascalam wrote:Lictor/sister crossbreed


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or Ymgarl hybrid

Ewwwww.

Double Eeeew. But it would be cool. Just yell, "RELEASE THE KRAKEN!"

I suspect the concept of the Exorcist as a organ/missle launcher was found in the 2000 AD comic 'Nemesis the Warlock'. In one issue the Terminators have a missle launching musical organ weapon called the Pandemonium.

As an aside, Nemesis features Xenophobic grimdark gothic religious fanatic Terrans, warriors in heavy armor called Terminators shouting "Cleanse and Purify", inquisitors, an undying emperor sustained by a baroque machine which requires sacrifices, hive cities, building sized humanoid war machines, the list goes on... sound familiar?

Nemesis first appeared around 1980 and is great inspiration for witchhunter players

Or it could be based on the Soviet WW2 Katyusha launcher:

Because they were marked with the letter K, for Voronezh Komintern Factory, Red Army troops adopted a nickname from Mikhail Isakovsky's popular wartime song, Katyusha, about a girl longing for her absent beloved, who is away performing military service. Katyusha is the Russian equivalent of Katie, an endearing diminutive form of the name Katherine: Yekaterina -> Katya -> Katyusha.

German troops coined the sobriquet Stalin's organ (German: Stalinorgel), after Soviet leader Joseph Stalin for its visual resemblance to a church musical organ and alluding to the sound of the weapon's rockets. They are known by the same name in Denmark, Finland (Finnish: Stalinin urut), France (French: Orgues de Staline), Norway, the Netherlands (Dutch: Stalins orgel), and in Sweden.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyusha_rocket_launcher#The_nickname

Just take it literally and you're there.

Or they are just missile firing organs.

I say the pipes just fire missles,but there is a musical note produced from the firing,and those notes can be music to some.

The sounds of war.

Why has The Exorcist got a pipe organ, shouldn't it be Tubular Bells?

coolyo294 wrote:So after staring at a picture of the Exorcist for a good ten minutes, a question popped into my head: When the Sister of Battle operating the Exorcist Cannon plays, does it make pipe organ music?

Yes. But it would be better if it was a rokkit-launcha or it would make this music:




Very 40k, aint it?

Even if it shouldn't be possible or necessary, I'm sure it does play the music, this is Warhammer 40,000 after all.

Dr Mathias wrote:
As an aside, Nemesis features Xenophobic grimdark gothic religious fanatic Terrans, warriors in heavy armor called Terminators shouting "Cleanse and Purify", inquisitors, an undying emperor sustained by a baroque machine which requires sacrifices, hive cities, building sized humanoid war machines, the list goes on... sound familiar?

There seem to be quite a few 2000AD references in 40K, apart from the Arbites being very Judge Dredd-like, the "Operate! Operate! Still time to operate!" quote for Grotsnik in the Ork codex is lifted directly from a Dredd comic where a medical robot went berserk and tore apart a gang member with its instruments (quite messy).

The original Land Raider design (with the long nose , some variant or another) looked just like the Judge vehicle.

Rogue trader 'borrowed' a lot of stuff. I find it ironic that they get so uptight about people borrowing from them

Once they attach a Hammond B3 and with a mega leslie to a Rhino and start blasting "Greent Onions", I'm gettin myself a SOB army. Everybody'd just get funky on the battlefield
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-7QSMyz5rg)

Fire_for_effect wrote:Once they attach a Hammond B3 and with a mega leslie to a Rhino and start blasting "Greent Onions", I'm gettin myself a SOB army. Everybody'd just get funky on the battlefield
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-7QSMyz5rg)

I could just imagine that now...

damn it... I've even got spare mp3 player I'm not using... put the speakers in the firing ports... only thing I'm missing is the speakers good enough to be heard, but crappy enough to use My wolves are gonna be gettin' funky methinks...

Dr Mathias wrote:I suspect the concept of the Exorcist as a organ/missle launcher was found in the 2000 AD comic 'Nemesis the Warlock'. In one issue the Terminators have a missle launching musical organ weapon called the Pandemonium.

As an aside, Nemesis features Xenophobic grimdark gothic religious fanatic Terrans, warriors in heavy armor called Terminators shouting "Cleanse and Purify", inquisitors, an undying emperor sustained by a baroque machine which requires sacrifices, hive cities, building sized humanoid war machines, the list goes on... sound familiar?

Nemesis first appeared around 1980 and is great inspiration for witchhunter players

Dr. Mathais almost certainly nailed that one on the head! Nemesis the Warlock was almost certainly an influence of sorts on GW. Heck, some of the original GW designers/writers have admitted that 2000AD Weekly was one of their sources. Wonder if Chapterhouse plans on pulling any of that stuff out in their case with GW under the context of "prior art"...

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Valete,

JohnS