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Every time you drag real physics into a setting with flying cathedral spaceships dropping beams of all-destroying light onto the battlefield, the Emperor kills a catgirl.

Please, think of the catgirls.

 Elemental wrote:
Every time you drag real physics into a setting with flying cathedral spaceships dropping beams of all-destroying light onto the battlefield, the Emperor kills a catgirl.

Please, think of the catgirls.

Right, I guess 40k is more science fantasy than science fiction...

Anyways... Even in a game without much randomness regarding spell/ability choices, you don't have to make everything equally powerful. You can have some spells/abilities being more powerful than others, but they have to come with stronger drawbacks to offset the benefits. You could make it so that the more powerful stuff requires you to pay extra points to select, maybe with the weaker stuff being free, or you could make it riskier to use. Maybe increase the odds of a Perils of the Warp using the standard Perils mechanism with a modifier that makes it easier to Perils, or increases the severity of a Perils if it does happen. Maybe make it so you can use the weaker stuff in every Psychic phase, but the more powerful stuff can only be used a limited number of times per game.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Voidwraith wrote:
Random tables aren't killing 40k. An overpowered shooting phase, GW's inability to correctly point cost units, and high volume grav being great against almost everything (especially immobilizing vehicles) is what's killing 40k.

I love how you point to "high volume grav being great against almost everything(especially immobilizing vehicles)" while ignoring that while yeah grav is a big deal, vehicles are trash this edition and grav is only available on certain platforms in its most effective iteration(Grav Cannons with Amps).

What is most perplexing is that the base Grav cannon does not exist anywhere without a simultaneous grav amp. Only the Heavy Grav cannon does, in a different codex.

And im going to be the one laughing when i kill the Watch Captain/Master With Krazypants' Orbital Bombardment

Seriously, stop crying, Krazypants gets a choice of 3 Orbital Bombardments (S6 AP4 Ordnance D3, Large Blast/S10 AP1 Blast, Lance/S6 AP4 Ordnance 1, Psy-Shock, Large Blast) and they ALL have Infinite Range, Orbital AND Infinite Shots

The only way i can see the Deathwatch one being more powerful is because it isnt a Blast and uses the Firers BS

Seriously, Its time to stop
(Question Regarding something someone posted earlier in the thread: Didnt someone Write a Fan-Fic where Boreale survived the events of Soulstorm and Joined the Deathwatch?)

There's a surprising number of Boreale fanfics where he survives and becomes apart of X

commander dante wrote:
And im going to be the one laughing when i kill the Watch Captain/Master With Krazypants' Orbital Bombardment

Seriously, stop crying, Krazypants gets a choice of 3 Orbital Bombardments (S6 AP4 Ordnance D3, Large Blast/S10 AP1 Blast, Lance/S6 AP4 Ordnance 1, Psy-Shock, Large Blast) and they ALL have Infinite Range, Orbital AND Infinite Shots

The only way i can see the Deathwatch one being more powerful is because it isnt a Blast and uses the Firers BS

Seriously, Its time to stop
(Question Regarding something someone posted earlier in the thread: Didnt someone Write a Fan-Fic where Boreale survived the events of Soulstorm and Joined the Deathwatch?)

His name isn't literally "Krazypants" is it? Like, that's just a funny nickname someone made up to make him seem ridiculous, right?

There's a surprising number of Boreale fanfics where he survives and becomes apart of X

I also read an enjoyable Metroid fanfic where Samus Aran survives and X becomes a part of her.

We're probably thinking of different Xes though.

And... probably different genres of fanfiction altogether.

His name isn't literally "Krazypants" is it? Like, that's just a funny nickname someone made up to make him seem ridiculous, right?

Inquisitor Fyodor Karamazov, typically spelled Krazypants because his name is often difficult to spell, and being a good example of a 'Puritan' inquisitor whose most famous quote is "There is no such thing as a plea of innocence in my court, a plea of innocence is guilty of wasting my time. Guilty."

He rides the giant white throne/dreadnought looking thing.

 ZebioLizard2 wrote:

His name isn't literally "Krazypants" is it? Like, that's just a funny nickname someone made up to make him seem ridiculous, right?

Inquisitor Fyodor Karamazov, typically spelled Krazypants because his name is often difficult to spell, and being a good example of a 'Puritan' inquisitor whose most famous quote is "There is no such thing as a plea of innocence in my court, a plea of innocence is guilty of wasting my time. Guilty."

He rides the giant white throne/dreadnought looking thing.

Yes, I remember him.

He was funny on the "If the Emperor had a Text-to-Speech Device" series on YouTube.

Kind of a loon.