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2013/12/15 16:40:51
Subject: GW's digital advent releases : day 13 :St. He'ston's day
Bull0 wrote: If you skim over the angry fanboy rant sections of this review, which is about 80% of it ("Draigod" etc) there are some very vague allusions to plot details. It doesn't sound like anything terribly interesting, just narrative of Draigo "wandering" in the warp and apparently fighting powerful champions of chaos one at a time. Yeah...
The lack of murdered/mutilated/witness protection programmed Chaos Gods and/or Daemon Primarchs makes me very sad. Draigo should be making cat's cradles with their divine intestinal tracks by this point rather than fighting their sodden minions.
Truly GW has no sense of scale of what Draigo should be capable of.
Yep, Draigo as a thing is a real misstep for WH40k. I prefer to just pretend he doesn't exist.
Dead account, no takesy-backsies
2013/12/15 16:50:20
Subject: Re:GW's digital advent releases : day 13 :St. He'ston's day
Kanluwen wrote: It should not be that infuriating when put into the context of the armies "needing content" are older ones slated for revision within the near future.
Sisters are a few month old. They need content.
I think this just emphasize the huge, horrible flaws in GW's release strategy.
"Our fantasy settings are grim and dark, but that is not a reflection of who we are or how we feel the real world should be. [...] We will continue to diversify the cast of characters we portray [...] so everyone can find representation and heroes they can relate to. [...] If [you don't feel the same way], you will not be missed"
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2013/12/16 08:42:20
Subject: Re:GW's digital advent releases : day 13 :St. He'ston's day
Today's offerings are a Seth/Flesh Tearer short and a collection of champion of chaos fluff pieces.
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
2013/12/16 08:57:41
Subject: GW's digital advent releases : day 16 : Chaos All stars/Seth short story
Tell me that's a joke and not someone just picking up an image of a staff and being told they have to make up a backstory for each bit of bling on it before lunch...
They didn't actually write fluff for... that, did they?
Fafnir wrote: Oh, I certainly vote with my dollar, but the problem is that that is not enough. The problem with the 'vote with your dollar' response is that it doesn't take into account why we're not buying the product. I want to enjoy 40k enough to buy back in. It was my introduction to traditional games, and there was a time when I enjoyed it very much. I want to buy 40k, but Gamesworkshop is doing their very best to push me away, and simply not buying their product won't tell them that.
2013/12/16 09:37:06
Subject: GW's digital advent releases : day 16 : Chaos All stars/Seth short story
Tell me that's a joke and not someone just picking up an image of a staff and being told they have to make up a backstory for each bit of bling on it before lunch...
They didn't actually write fluff for... that, did they?
If there is people in this world paid to do Nascar, then it is a possibility to have poeple being paid to make fluff about Wargear pieces.
Tell me that's a joke and not someone just picking up an image of a staff and being told they have to make up a backstory for each bit of bling on it before lunch...
They didn't actually write fluff for... that, did they?
If there is people in this world paid to do Nascar, then it is a possibility to have poeple being paid to make fluff about Wargear pieces.
Haha priceless!
2013/12/16 10:41:46
Subject: Re:GW's digital advent releases : day 16 : Chaos All stars/Seth short story
I'm a wee bit confused over the bit that the staff is " imperceptible to mortal eyes" ....
... so... no one sees the staff normally then ...?!? Not sure that's right..
Although I quite like the idea then that for 10K odd years people have thought Ahriman just had a really odd way of walking then or was some sort of mime artist.
That will henceforth be known as the skull of the last Chlamydia prophet too one fears.
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
2013/12/16 11:03:37
Subject: Re:GW's digital advent releases : day 16 : Chaos All stars/Seth short story
reds8n wrote: I'm a wee bit confused over the bit that the staff is " imperceptible to mortal eyes" ....
... so... no one sees the staff normally then ...?!? Not sure that's right..
Although I quite like the idea then that for 10K odd years people have thought Ahriman just had a really odd way of walking then or was some sort of mime artist.
That will henceforth be known as the skull of the last Chlamydia prophet too one fears.
And the source of that uncomfortable burning in the warp.....
2013/12/16 11:07:13
Subject: Re:GW's digital advent releases : day 16 : Chaos All stars/Seth short story
reds8n wrote: I'm a wee bit confused over the bit that the staff is " imperceptible to mortal eyes" ....
... so... no one sees the staff normally then ...?!? Not sure that's right..
Although I quite like the idea then that for 10K odd years people have thought Ahriman just had a really odd way of walking then or was some sort of mime artist.
That will henceforth be known as the skull of the last Chlamydia prophet too one fears.
It's clumsily written but I definitely interpreted it as the "blazing black absence in the warp" aspect of it being imperceptible to mortal eyes, rather than the entire staff.
Dead account, no takesy-backsies
2013/12/16 11:32:48
Subject: GW's digital advent releases : day 16 : Chaos All stars/Seth short story
.. but even then I'm not really too sure that the fact they can't see a stick is especially noteworthy...?
I'd always hoped/ the supersecretcoolbitoffluffIlladdtothecanononneday that his staff was going to be revealed as originally having belonged to Othere Wyrdmake, and Ahriman had taken it and etc etc
Instead it appears to be his version of the stick that vagabonds and the like carry over their shoulder, with their worldly goods tied in a cloth.
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
2013/12/16 11:36:58
Subject: Re:GW's digital advent releases : day 16 : Chaos All stars/Seth short story
I knew there had to be a term for that, just didn't know what it was.
And people say that wargaming isn't educational.
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
2013/12/16 12:26:22
Subject: GW's digital advent releases : day 16 : Chaos All stars/Seth short story
I like how this History and Background of the Chaos Warlords has "Kharn, available for the first time."
For those interested in what it contains, here it is*:
Spoiler:
High above the world of Peacarius (soon to be renamed SLAUGHTERBLOODDEATH), the World Eaters and Emperor's Children stood waiting aboard Angron's flagship "BLOOD AND MURDER YOU NAME THE BLOODY THING" as their primarchs held a conference for war. The people of Peacarius were a timid lot, not well informed in the ways of war, and had made the fatal error of suing for peace the very second Angron's ships had entered orbit. When Fulgrim arrived it was to find the World Eaters primarch trying to tape a nuclear warhead to his fists, but lacking the ability to do it one handed had meant that instead he'd been kicking drop-ships at the Peacarius capital and screaming into space.
The equerry of the World Eaters regarded the perfect array of troops resplendent in the golden aquila, and then his own men as they stood twitching and idly swinging their deactivated chain-axes at one another so they harmlessly bounced off each other's helmets. It was no secret that neither Legion got along, but the orders of their Emperor and their Warmaster were to be obeyed. Khârn let out a sigh, as he heard his Primarch storming down the hallways towards them.
"DAMNATION AND SKULLS" Angron cried out, kicking a bulkhead door open as he forced two screaming Remembrancers into his mouth and ate them, "WHY HAVE WE NOT LEFT YET EQUERRY?!"
"My lord. You destroyed all our landing craft trying to weld them together into a bigger landing craft" Khârn the Equerry answered. In response Angron began to headbutt the floor. Roused from their non-killing stupor, the other World Eaters began to do so as well. Again Khârn sighed. He wasn't sure he had enough yarn in stock to calm them all down.
"WELL UNTIL WE GET THE THRICE BLOOD DAMNED THINGS I'M GOING TO BE REARRANGING THE SKULL TROPHIES IN MY DAMNED TEN TIMES BLOOD MURDER BEDROOM" Angron screamed, before storming out. Seconds later there was an almighty crash, and the section of the ship that housed Angron could be seen making entry into the planet's atmosphere.
"Do not worry, equerry" Fulgrim spoke softly as he appeared inexplicably behind Khârn, "We will assist your primarch as best we can..."
Khârn was going to respond, but became distinctly aware of Fulgrim's tongue caressing his ear.
The Traitor Guardsmen eyed each other nervously. They had asked Khârn to tell them another story about his time before the Horus Heresy, but after agreeing to do so, he had begun to sit there staring at the campfire. After a minute froth began to build up around his helmet's mouthpiece, and he crushed the skull he had been drinking from. Everyone was too terrified to move or say a word, each hoping for someone else to make the first move.
They were trapped there for weeks.
*Okay, I got this from 1d4chan instead. But I would say it is much better written than whatever GW has in store for us.
Kaldor Draigo gunned his hog through the gap in enemy lines, popping a wheelie as he decapitated the Chaos lord with his bitchin' axe. The axe was sixty million years old, and incorporated technology from both the C'Tan and the Old Ones. It was the only one there was, and Draigo had won it in an arm-wrestle with Qah.
"Great work, Draigo!" shouted Pamases, one of his Necron allies. "Now that we've finished off all the Chaos people I don't really feel like fighting you!"
"Me too, Pamases," Draigo intoned, putting on his sunglasses. The sunglasses had once belonged to Magnus the Red before he lost his eye, and Draigo had stolen them from the Planet of Sorcerers. "Now I've fought alongside you it seems kind of dishonourable to kill you."
Pamases and Draigo bumped fists. Pamases's eyes widened. "Look out!" he yelled, leaping forward.
Mortarion appeared out of nowhere and swung his scythe at Draigo, but Pamases jumped in the way, being carved in two. His Gauss blade flew out of his hands and hit Master Gerontinan in the face, killing him.
"Noooooooooo!" cried Draigo, falling to his knees and ripping open his armour so that the rain could fall on him in a dramatic fashion. Mortarion waited for him to get up.
"You know you cannot win," Mortarion said, readying his scythe.
"You can't prove a negative," Draigo quipped, playing a kickass guitar solo on his original M2.952 Gisbon Les Paul.
"Damn, you've got me there," said Mortarion.
"Now you die!" yelled Draigo, leaping into the air and executing a quadruple backflip before cutting open Mortarion's chest. The Primarch fell backwards, and Draigo flourished his weapon to carve his initials onto Mortarion's heart.
"Alas, I am defeated!" spake Mortarion.
"Wow, sir, that was awesome!" said little Timmy, a boy who Draigo had cured of simultaneous cancer, leukemia and AIDS using a revolutionary remedy he'd invented and who now followed him around.
"No, Timmy," said Draigo sadly, a single tear coursing down his face. "Too many good people have died today for that to be awesome."
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
2013/12/16 13:37:22
Subject: GW's digital advent releases : day 16 : Chaos All stars/Seth short story
That's priceless. Except to GW I suppose, who would have charged $5 for it.
Kirasu: Have we fallen so far that we are excited that GW is giving us the opportunity to spend 58$ for JUST the rules? Surprised it's not "Dataslate: Assault Phase"
AlexHolker: "The power loader is a forklift. The public doesn't complain about a forklift not having frontal armour protecting the crew compartment because the only enemy it is designed to face is the OHSA violation."
AlexHolker: "Allow me to put it this way: Paramount is Skynet, reboots are termination attempts, and your childhood is John Connor."
2013/12/16 15:49:48
Subject: GW's digital advent releases : day 16 : Chaos All stars/Seth short story
H.B.M.C. wrote: It's more realistic than the one in the Codex.
So you expected a short story about a genetically modified psychic super warrior monk in power armor who worships a corpse 38,000 years into the future to be realistic? I agree that the story of him ROFLstomping through the warp is bad but I'd be very hesitant to call any story in the 40k universe "realistic".
2013/12/16 17:21:56
Subject: GW's digital advent releases : day 16 : Chaos All stars/Seth short story
H.B.M.C. wrote: It's more realistic than the one in the Codex.
So you expected a short story about a genetically modified psychic super warrior monk in power armor who worships a corpse 38,000 years into the future to be realistic? I agree that the story of him ROFLstomping through the warp is bad but I'd be very hesitant to call any story in the 40k universe "realistic".
Concurrently, the price for said fiction piece should warrant a better effort.
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So why did Ahriman have to desecrate the remains of the Farseer's spear? Wasn't it enough just to have broken it and be using it without the evil-sounding adjective? It makes it sound like he's urinated on it.
And I take it the Chamylidrith were a race of tiny mouse-people?
Kaldor Draigo gunned his hog through the gap in enemy lines, popping a wheelie as he decapitated the Chaos lord with his bitchin' axe. The axe was sixty million years old, and incorporated technology from both the C'Tan and the Old Ones. It was the only one there was, and Draigo had won it in an arm-wrestle with Qah.
"Great work, Draigo!" shouted Pamases, one of his Necron allies. "Now that we've finished off all the Chaos people I don't really feel like fighting you!"
"Me too, Pamases," Draigo intoned, putting on his sunglasses. The sunglasses had once belonged to Magnus the Red before he lost his eye, and Draigo had stolen them from the Planet of Sorcerers. "Now I've fought alongside you it seems kind of dishonourable to kill you."
Pamases and Draigo bumped fists. Pamases's eyes widened. "Look out!" he yelled, leaping forward.
Mortarion appeared out of nowhere and swung his scythe at Draigo, but Pamases jumped in the way, being carved in two. His Gauss blade flew out of his hands and hit Master Gerontinan in the face, killing him.
"Noooooooooo!" cried Draigo, falling to his knees and ripping open his armour so that the rain could fall on him in a dramatic fashion. Mortarion waited for him to get up.
"You know you cannot win," Mortarion said, readying his scythe.
"You can't prove a negative," Draigo quipped, playing a kickass guitar solo on his original M2.952 Gisbon Les Paul.
"Damn, you've got me there," said Mortarion.
"Now you die!" yelled Draigo, leaping into the air and executing a quadruple backflip before cutting open Mortarion's chest. The Primarch fell backwards, and Draigo flourished his weapon to carve his initials onto Mortarion's heart.
"Alas, I am defeated!" spake Mortarion.
"Wow, sir, that was awesome!" said little Timmy, a boy who Draigo had cured of simultaneous cancer, leukemia and AIDS using a revolutionary remedy he'd invented and who now followed him around.
"No, Timmy," said Draigo sadly, a single tear coursing down his face. "Too many good people have died today for that to be awesome."
reds8n wrote: I'm a wee bit confused over the bit that the staff is " imperceptible to mortal eyes" ....
... so... no one sees the staff normally then ...?!? Not sure that's right..
That means that its pronouns can travel through the warp and have referents that follow them instead of proceed them; and warp grammar to suit themselves.
After all, a staff wielded by sorcerer of chaos is it.
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2013/12/16 20:57:11
Subject: Re:GW's digital advent releases : day 16 : Chaos All stars/Seth short story
reds8n wrote: I'm a wee bit confused over the bit that the staff is " imperceptible to mortal eyes" ....
... so... no one sees the staff normally then ...?!? Not sure that's right..
That means that its pronouns can travel through the warp and have referents that follow them instead of proceed them; and warp grammar to suit themselves.
After all, a staff wielded by sorcerer of chaos is it.
Yoda is a daemon of chaos. This explains everything.
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I agree that the story of him ROFLstomping through the warp is bad but I'd be very hesitant to call any story in the 
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