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| Cadia |
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12% |
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| Catachan |
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7% |
[ 21 ] |
| Kreig |
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11% |
[ 33 ] |
| Eleysia |
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24% |
[ 71 ] |
| Mordia |
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3% |
[ 10 ] |
| Preatoria |
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5% |
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| Salvar |
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1% |
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| Armageddon |
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5% |
[ 15 ] |
| Tallarn |
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8% |
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| Tanith |
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7% |
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| Vostroya |
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9% |
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| Valhalla |
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6% |
[ 19 ] |
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2011/12/22 21:00:20
Subject: Re:Uh oh, you're a guardsman
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Hey what about Brimlock? I'd rather be a Dragoon any day.
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2011/12/22 08:22:20
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Praetoria Always! Spiffy hats, neat uniforms, and a damn fine mustache.
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2011/12/22 22:43:20
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Tanith probably had the nicest planet. That's why it had to be destroyed, Imperium can't have nice things.
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2011/12/22 22:50:15
Subject: Uh oh, you're a guardsman
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martin74 wrote:The Crusader wrote:I love how it hasn't occured to anyone that tallarn is a dustbowl and there is virtually no moisture whatsoever.
There are desserts all over the earth, yet, people live in them.
Not really. Oasis's only, and that means not much.
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2011/12/22 22:54:26
Subject: Uh oh, you're a guardsman
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martin74 wrote:The Crusader wrote:I love how it hasn't occured to anyone that tallarn is a dustbowl and there is virtually no moisture whatsoever.
There are desserts all over the earth, yet, people live in them.
Indeed, it is uncommon for me not to wish that I too lived in a cake or other suitable dessert.
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2011/12/22 23:13:32
Subject: Uh oh, you're a guardsman
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So,since Vostroya has to give up its firstborn sons, if a family only has daughters, they have no obligation to give any to the firstborn right?
I might switch my answer to Vostroyans, heh.
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2011/12/22 23:15:52
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Stone Bonkers Fabricator General
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I guess so...
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2011/12/22 23:27:24
Subject: Uh oh, you're a guardsman
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Melissia wrote:So,since Vostroya has to give up its firstborn sons, if a family only has daughters, they have no obligation to give any to the firstborn right?
I might switch my answer to Vostroyans, heh.
Maybe they are sending them to Sisterhood 
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2011/12/22 23:46:42
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Brother Coa wrote:Melissia wrote:So,since Vostroya has to give up its firstborn sons, if a family only has daughters, they have no obligation to give any to the firstborn right?
I might switch my answer to Vostroyans, heh.
Maybe they are sending them to Sisterhood
Or any other 'Imperial Career' other than Guardsman. Munitorum, Ecclesiarchy, Administratum, Arbites, or local world stuff. The Imperium's your oyster when you're vorostroyan! There should be way more Female IG regiments in fluff, I mean mankind's primary resource is people - Even if the imperium is as vastly chauvenistic as it already is, worship of the emperor means murdering aliens. More of the other 50% of the human population should be being fed into meat grinders, Starship Troopers style. @ purplefood I looked up Praetoria - the Backronymed planet - and it's apparently a hella squalid, heavily stratified hive world, where even air is rationed. Megadisciplined, not as nice as I thought. And I don't think they've been written out at all, it's just that there's only plastics for cadians and catachans, so they're the only ones that exist in the latest codex. Brimlock Dragoons are pretty awesome too! Rumour has it that was originally going to be a Praetorian novel, but there was no approval for such a concept from on high, so it became the Brimlock Dragoons instead. My best impulse buy this year by far. Tanith was definitely the nicest homeworld, thus it doesn't exist anymore. It failed the GrimDark test....
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2011/12/22 23:51:13
Subject: Uh oh, you're a guardsman
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Captain Roderick wrote:Brother Coa wrote:Melissia wrote:So,since Vostroya has to give up its firstborn sons, if a family only has daughters, they have no obligation to give any to the firstborn right?
I might switch my answer to Vostroyans, heh.
Maybe they are sending them to Sisterhood
Or any other 'Imperial Career' other than Guardsman. Munitorum, Ecclesiarchy, Administratum, Arbites, or local world stuff. The Imperium's your oyster when you're vorostroyan!
There should be way more Female IG regiments in fluff, I mean mankind's primary resource is people - Even if the imperium is as vastly chauvenistic as it already is, worship of the emperor means murdering aliens. More of the other 50% of the human population should be being fed into meat grinders, Starship Troopers style.
@ purplefood I looked up Praetoria - the Backronymed planet - and it's apparently a hella squalid, heavily stratified hive world, where even air is rationed. Megadisciplined, not as nice as I thought. And I don't think they've been written out at all, it's just that there's only plastics for cadians and catachans, so they're the only ones that exist in the latest codex.
Brimlock Dragoons are pretty awesome too! Rumour has it that was originally going to be a Praetorian novel, but there was no approval for such a concept from on high, so it became the Brimlock Dragoons instead. My best impulse buy this year by far.
Tanith was definitely the nicest homeworld, thus it doesn't exist anymore. It failed the GrimDark test....
It passed by dying...
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2011/12/23 00:27:12
Subject: Uh oh, you're a guardsman
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Jollydevil wrote:Vostroya, they look the best equiped and tech advanced, unlike the meatgrinders of cadia. Plus, their planet doesnt suck.
Cadian equipment is the imperial standard because it is good and efficient, not because it sucks. Automatically Appended Next Post: Captain Roderick wrote:Or any other 'Imperial Career' other than Guardsman. Munitorum, Ecclesiarchy, Administratum, Arbites, or local world stuff. The Imperium's your oyster when you're vorostroyan!
At least with this I wouldn't have to be on the front lines. Since Vostroya is unlikely to be invaded in canon and all that.
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The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.
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2011/12/23 00:31:25
Subject: Uh oh, you're a guardsman
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Man O' War
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No, might get conscripted or worse... into the PDF!
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and Cadians appear to be the only IG to wear plate armour instead of a coat/jacket/uniform
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I have dug my grave in this place and I will triumph or I will die!
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2011/12/23 00:44:16
Subject: Uh oh, you're a guardsman
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Consigned to the Grim Darkness
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The Crusader wrote:No, might get conscripted or worse... into the PDF!
Again, what's the problem there? Vostroya is just well known enough to matter, but not well known enough to be attacked. GW isn't gonna have them be attacked all the time
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The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.
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2011/12/23 00:48:52
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Man O' War
Nosey, ain't ya?
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Fair enough, t'was just thinking that being PDF as soon as you encounter resistance, generally killed to a man
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2011/12/23 01:15:22
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Stone Bonkers Fabricator General
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Administratum is a fate worse than death. I's rather be in the Guard.
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2011/12/23 01:44:53
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KamikazeCanuck wrote:Administratum is a fate worse than death. I's rather be in the Guard.
Care to elaborate? Seems like it'd be more like an average bureaucratic desk job to me.
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2011/12/23 01:58:39
Subject: Uh oh, you're a guardsman
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Stone Bonkers Fabricator General
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acekevin8412 wrote:KamikazeCanuck wrote:Administratum is a fate worse than death. I's rather be in the Guard.
Care to elaborate? Seems like it'd be more like an average bureaucratic desk job to me.
Exactly.
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2011/12/23 02:04:11
Subject: Uh oh, you're a guardsman
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KamikazeCanuck wrote:acekevin8412 wrote:KamikazeCanuck wrote:Administratum is a fate worse than death. I's rather be in the Guard.
Care to elaborate? Seems like it'd be more like an average bureaucratic desk job to me.
Exactly.
very, very, very true
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2011/12/23 02:10:27
Subject: Uh oh, you're a guardsman
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Sinewy Scourge
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Melissia wrote:Jollydevil wrote:Vostroya, they look the best equiped and tech advanced, unlike the meatgrinders of cadia. Plus, their planet doesnt suck.
Cadian equipment is the imperial standard because it is good and efficient, not because it sucks.
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Captain Roderick wrote:Or any other 'Imperial Career' other than Guardsman. Munitorum, Ecclesiarchy, Administratum, Arbites, or local world stuff. The Imperium's your oyster when you're vorostroyan!
At least with this I wouldn't have to be on the front lines. Since Vostroya is unlikely to be invaded in canon and all that.
I didnt say it sucks, its just obviously worse than The Vostroyans. Just by eye comparison you can see how much better equipped and more technoloigcally advanced the Vostroyen gaurd are.
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2011/12/23 02:23:55
Subject: Uh oh, you're a guardsman
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Squidmanlolz wrote:KamikazeCanuck wrote:acekevin8412 wrote:KamikazeCanuck wrote:Administratum is a fate worse than death. I's rather be in the Guard.
Care to elaborate? Seems like it'd be more like an average bureaucratic desk job to me.
Exactly.
very, very, very true
Compared to the other horrors in the galaxy, I think I'd rather tackle that 1000-page report on the Imperial Spending...
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2011/12/23 02:37:11
Subject: Uh oh, you're a guardsman
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acekevin8412 wrote:Squidmanlolz wrote:KamikazeCanuck wrote:acekevin8412 wrote:KamikazeCanuck wrote:Administratum is a fate worse than death. I's rather be in the Guard.
Care to elaborate? Seems like it'd be more like an average bureaucratic desk job to me.
Exactly.
very, very, very true
Compared to the other horrors in the galaxy, I think I'd rather tackle that 1000-page report on the Imperial Spending...
At least the horrors of the galaxy are (more or less) quick...
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"You are the best at flying things"-Kanluwen
"Further proof that Purple is a fething brilliant super villain " -KingCracker
"Purp.. Im pretty sure I have a gun than can reach you...."-Nicorex
"That's not really an apocalypse. That's just Europe."-Grakmar
"almost as good as winning free cake at the tea drinking contest for an Englishman." -Reds8n
Seal up your lips and give no words but mum.
Equip, Reload. Do violence.
Watch for Gerry. |
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2011/12/23 02:38:53
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Tunneling Trygon
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purplefood wrote:acekevin8412 wrote:Squidmanlolz wrote:KamikazeCanuck wrote:acekevin8412 wrote:KamikazeCanuck wrote:Administratum is a fate worse than death. I's rather be in the Guard.
Care to elaborate? Seems like it'd be more like an average bureaucratic desk job to me.
Exactly.
very, very, very true
Compared to the other horrors in the galaxy, I think I'd rather tackle that 1000-page report on the Imperial Spending...
At least the horrors of the galaxy are (more or less) quick...
And even the longest war of attrition won't be as tear-fully boring as the report
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2011/12/23 02:59:07
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All in a days work if you ask me.
I'm work as a Loan Clerk at my local bank, and I don't think its that bad...
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2011/12/23 03:10:30
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acekevin8412 wrote:All in a days work if you ask me.
I'm work as a Loan Clerk at my local bank, and I don't think its that bad...
You are brave.
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2011/12/23 03:15:05
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In a universe where to be a man is to be one among millions,
The Loan Clerk is a king.
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2011/12/23 04:20:23
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Stone Bonkers Fabricator General
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Indeed. I'd rather take my chances with the Carnifexes.
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2011/12/23 04:26:04
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On the administratum thing, I think I would rather have a job where at least my coworkers care (or notice) if I die, unlike the Admin.
As to the regiments, I think I would like to be an Elysian, though being surrounded by Rambo's is far from bad
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2011/12/23 05:02:22
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Death Korps all the way!
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2011/12/23 05:19:22
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Eleysia, they seem their troops in a more tactical fashion and fight small meaningful battles. Plus id love to be grav-chute trooper.
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2011/12/23 05:38:03
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Armageddon Steel Legions because at least I can fight from the safety of a Chimera most of the time.
Though I would rather be from my own IG regiment, the Shadowsreach Iron Corps, the low population and heavy industry/mining operations means the planet produces only armored regiment 
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