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2017/12/25 04:10:07
Subject: How do you explain the Horus Heresy to your friends?
So when I describe it to my mates who aren't in the hobby I describe it as follows...
It's about an emperor who unites mankind and creates an imperium with no religion, only science and reason and no gods.
He then creates the primarchs, demi gods who lead legions of super soldiers who he uses to conquer the galaxy.
As they reach out into the darker corners of the galaxy they discover there are in fact evil chaos gods who corrupt the greatest of the primarchs, Horus, who then persuades half the primarchs to join him prompting a galaxy wide civil war.
So long as they like a good sci fi that usually intrigues them whether they like plastic soldiers or not
"That's how a Luna Wolf fights."
"If you can't keep up, go and join the Death Guard"
"It had often been said that Space Marines knew no fear, but when Angron charged, he ran"
2017/12/26 15:44:02
Subject: How do you explain the Horus Heresy to your friends?
I also bring up the huge titanic clash amongst the demigods and heroes for control of the galaxy played out on a tiny valley on Istvaan with both sides together totaling less then a million. Very climactic. Their eyes glaze over long before I get to the part of how it's now chapters of 1000 going planet to planet to defeat trillions of enemies.
2017/12/26 23:08:44
Subject: How do you explain the Horus Heresy to your friends?
Just tell 'em it's 40 000 years into the future, aliens are real, psychic powers are real, higher dimensions are real, and everything's been corrupted to gak,and humanity feth YEAH - we kick the gak out of Cthulhu, but its hard to sleep with all these god damn daemons warping our consciousness.... our 'souls' if you will, our higher dimensional selves.
Not only have people forgotten how they got here, they've forgotten that they've forgotten how they got here. But no time for thinking! Grab your gun and sword and get to work. Massive WW1 style gritty ass warfare in space. In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war.
Destroy to create. Wreak havoc upon the infrastructure and bring life anew. Break through all barriers to realize there were no barriers. Realize there were only treacherous games. Learn the entirety of the game. Find the game makers; find the dick traitors/dictators.
Explode unto thy betrayers - ruin all their materials, dethrone and desecrate their persona, crush and manipulate their force, squeeze and torture their ideals to redirect their goals so as to dominate their souls, extract and perfect their fear so as to mitigate their strength and amplify their weakness.
Cut out the sickness, then imprison the wardens. Sing the song blood red and true. Create their destruction.
All for the hunt to dominate.
2018/01/06 11:57:06
Subject: How do you explain the Horus Heresy to your friends?
The burning pits of Hades, also known as Sweden in summer
ProwlerPC wrote: I also bring up the huge titanic clash amongst the demigods and heroes for control of the galaxy played out on a tiny valley on Istvaan with both sides together totaling less then a million. Very climactic. Their eyes glaze over long before I get to the part of how it's now chapters of 1000 going planet to planet to defeat trillions of enemies.
ITT Ork fan arguing Space Marines are unrealistic.
Kay then.
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I should think of a new signature... In the meantime, have a
2018/01/07 00:04:10
Subject: How do you explain the Horus Heresy to your friends?
tneva82 wrote: Or not. Would be nice for that tired old joke to die finally. Maybe then some NEW joke would come? Only couple decades too late.
Internet memes never die, they just keep being repeated over and over by someone who thinks that joke they discovered on a website dating back to 2003 is new.
Opinions are not facts please don't confuse the two
2018/01/08 08:59:56
Subject: How do you explain the Horus Heresy to your friends?
It's kinda not on topic, but I'd say it's Paradise Lost, but with superhumans taking on the role of the Angels and God being played by a wizard... all in space.
2018/01/08 09:37:59
Subject: How do you explain the Horus Heresy to your friends?
ProwlerPC wrote: I also bring up the huge titanic clash amongst the demigods and heroes for control of the galaxy played out on a tiny valley on Istvaan with both sides together totaling less then a million. Very climactic. Their eyes glaze over long before I get to the part of how it's now chapters of 1000 going planet to planet to defeat trillions of enemies.
ITT Ork fan arguing Space Marines are unrealistic.
Kay then.
That implies that I think orks are realistic which is stupid. In fact my post you quoted is not a stab at realism but a stab at poor writing skills of the authors. Ork fluff is no exception. I don't think there is any exception in any of the fluff for that matter. I have the same condenscending tone and smirk when I describe ork fluff as I do the HH and just as lewd as when I describe the Elder fall (particularly when I bring up my Warboss; Da Mighty Bulg.) Anyone who thinks any of this is real is suffering some terrible issues and should consult a doctor.
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tneva82 wrote: Or not. Would be nice for that tired old joke to die finally. Maybe then some NEW joke would come? Only couple decades too late.
It took 20+ Years for GeeDubs to advane the plot line. Our jokes were old because the fluff stayed old and unchanging. Now it has advanced. We have Girlymon and Adeptes Restartes. Oh and Abbadon finally did something right.
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2018/01/08 14:41:20
Subject: Re:How do you explain the Horus Heresy to your friends?
Backspacehacker wrote: "You know the bible?"
"Yeah."
"Pretty much that, but in space with guns."
This made me laugh...
I've never had to explain to anyone what 40k is. People usually find out on their own and try to sell me the idea of doing it with them, thats when I usher them to a dark room, with a 4x6 table with mini landscapes and say. "Welcome."
2018/01/27 00:16:06
Subject: How do you explain the Horus Heresy to your friends?
Racerguy180 wrote: I might try to explain to my wife and see what her reaction is.
Yeah, I tried that. Got as far as describing the Primarchs and she started laughing and said she couldn't take any genetically-crafted super generals seriously who were named after a chain of clothes shops.
So there's this dude called the Emperor, and he wants to take over space. So he makes 20 kids called Primarchs, they get chucked into space by space gods, so the Emperor picks them all back up and gives them all about 100,000 super powered soldiers each.
It's all going pretty well, loads of cool new planets for humans to live on. But about half of these kids go evil and rebel against their dad. All out civil war. The Emperor's favourite kid Horus was in charge of the rebels and challenges his dad 1v1, but gets disappeared forever.
Some of the Primarchs get turned into space daemons, their armies go super evil. The Emperor got super ruined and gets stuck in a life support chair. Humanity goes all weird and Orwellian.
2018/01/27 16:45:50
Subject: Re:How do you explain the Horus Heresy to your friends?
After the Fall, many of the Mon-Keigh were corrupted by the Ruinous Powers and started fighting amongst themselves even more than they did before. Now let's talk about more important things, like the profound nature of the rune for "pointy helmet".
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