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Tyranids were not always the mindless swarm they are now. Again another Rogue Trader reference. The had heroes you can make and choose weapons just like anyone else from an armoury.

Rick Preistly is the Emperor and the Golden Throne is located on GW's HQ in Notingham

The Sollex-pattern powersword has no physical blade, being nothing more than a meter-long matter-destroying energy field.

It is, indeed, a true "lightsaber" in 40K.

The timeline of the various Feast of Blades don't make mathematical sense. Occurring once every one hundred years, and the most recent known Feast being the 816th, this would mean the Feast of Blades have been occurring for 81,600 years, not 8,140 years.

 Storm Shadow wrote:
The timeline of the various Feast of Blades don't make mathematical sense. Occurring once every one hundred years, and the most recent known Feast being the 816th, this would mean the Feast of Blades have been occurring for 81,600 years, not 8,140 years.

yeah for that to work they'd need the feast to be every 10 or so years, or they'd need to hold multiple feasts.

which actually could make some sense, it could be a thing the Imperial fists host whenever multiple children of Dorn are in the same sector or something.

@Storm Shadow

illeteracy is only surpassed by one thing inumeracy. Nice of you to see the error though.

Alicia Dominica got shot and killed by a untrained cultist with a lasgun who made a miraculous shot in a weak spot of her damaged armor. I love the irony.

The feast of blades thing always bothered me math wise too.

My obscure fact I found fun was actually in the store:

Based on the Forge World manufacturing origin of your Las gun power pack, you may have a "magazine " of between 90ish and 150 shots.

** check out the side of the GW terrain Marker packs in the Las gun magazine. You'll see what I mean.

Consult your local Mechnicum representative with any questions.

FM Argos

When the imperial fists first appeared, they were a titan legion.

a mod was chatting about it here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/635560.page

The Imperial Navy doesn't have a lot of automation, so they have to manually load hundred-meter-long melta torpedoes with chains, pulleys, and a lot of serfs all pulling at once.

Sisters of Battle and the adeptus mechanicus do not get along and sometimes even think of ways they can have accidents happen to them (unknown if these thoughts are ever carried out)

Oberron wrote:
Sisters of Battle and the adeptus mechanicus do not get along and sometimes even think of ways they can have accidents happen to them (unknown if these thoughts are ever carried out)

There is actually a split inside the Mechanicus where about half of them think the Emperor is the Omnissiah and worship him as a deity while others believe the two are separate beings.

So personally I assume that how well the Mechanicus and the Sororitas get along comes down to which member of the Mechanicus they're dealing with.

Some Rogue Trader trivia:

- The oldest race in the galaxy used to be the Slann, who look like lizardmen. Their story is that they just eventually got bored and stopped participating in the goings-on of the restof the galaxy.

- Genestealers weren't part of the Tyranid faction. In combat they could choose to lay an egg in a victim, and on roll of a 6, a baby genestealer hatches the next round... kinda like in Alien.

- There were stats and rules for shape-changing vampires, mimics, zombies, and a giant orange cat.

- RT had amazing section with painting advice with such sage wisdom as highlighting White with White, and using Black as a dark shade, you guessed it, for Black.

There's a grimdark Santa Claws murderbot dwelling in the ruins of Necromundula. He punishes bad kids by mutilating them. And he thinks that everyone's bad kids.

The Alpha Legion have no actual name. Before Alpharius Omegon was found, there were prototype black ops units called "Alpha Units" that were made from his gene seed. After he was reunited with the Imperium, he didn't give his legion a name, so it became the "Alpha Legion"

epronovost wrote:@Storm Shadow

illeteracy is only surpassed by one thing inumeracy. Nice of you to see the error though.

Alicia Dominica got shot and killed by a untrained cultist with a lasgun who made a miraculous shot in a weak spot of her damaged armor. I love the irony.

I don't think that word means what you think it means.

Talys wrote:Some Rogue Trader trivia:
- Genestealers weren't part of the Tyranid faction. In combat they could choose to lay an egg in a victim, and on roll of a 6, a baby genestealer hatches the next round... kinda like in Alien.

Nope, but Zoats were Tyranid diplomats.

Here's one;

The original Necron release in White Dwarf 216 came with a 'free Necron warrior'. This model was actually a Chaos Android.

And another;

Before the White Dwarf (380 US) codex for Sisters of Battle, Saint Silvana was assassinated in her chambers and her corpse replaced by a perfect replica of her skeleton cast from solid silver. The White Dwarf codex replaced this with a 'trace of silver on her sheets'. Similarly, Saint Arabella disappeared mysteriously, which the White Dwarf codex changed to being murdered by cultists.

 Furyou Miko wrote:

epronovost wrote:@Storm Shadow

illeteracy is only surpassed by one thing inumeracy. Nice of you to see the error though.

Alicia Dominica got shot and killed by a untrained cultist with a lasgun who made a miraculous shot in a weak spot of her damaged armor. I love the irony.

I don't think that word means what you think it means.

Considering Sisters are known for their miracles, I'd say it's a little ironic that she was killed by a miraculous shot.

BrianDavion wrote:

 kronk wrote:
Alpharius, and not Guilliman, is encased in Guilliman's tomb.

this thread is titled [b]facts[/b,] that isn't.

Citation that I'm wrong? Didn't think so!

 kronk wrote:

BrianDavion wrote:

 kronk wrote:
Alpharius, and not Guilliman, is encased in Guilliman's tomb.

this thread is titled [b]facts[/b,] that isn't.

Citation that I'm wrong? Didn't think so!

Hanlon's Razor. You made the claim, so you need to provide the proof. No proof provided means no proof is needed to reject your claim.

 ClockworkZion wrote:

 kronk wrote:

BrianDavion wrote:

 kronk wrote:
Alpharius, and not Guilliman, is encased in Guilliman's tomb.

this thread is titled [b]facts[/b,] that isn't.

Citation that I'm wrong? Didn't think so!

Hanlon's Razor. You made the claim, so you need to provide the proof. No proof provided means no proof is needed to reject your claim.

SGTPozy's left shoe states that if you cannot disprove it then it is true; so earthism is correct as is the existence of a supreme being who lives in the clouds

SGTPozy wrote:

 ClockworkZion wrote:

 kronk wrote:

BrianDavion wrote:

 kronk wrote:
Alpharius, and not Guilliman, is encased in Guilliman's tomb.

this thread is titled [b]facts[/b,] that isn't.

Citation that I'm wrong? Didn't think so!

Hanlon's Razor. You made the claim, so you need to provide the proof. No proof provided means no proof is needed to reject your claim.

SGTPozy's left shoe states that if you cannot disprove it then it is true; so earthism is correct as is the existence of a supreme being who lives in the clouds

"SGTPozy's left shoe" isn't seen as a tool of logic or rational thinking. On the other hand Hitchens' Razor is.

Anyways, back to the actual thread topic rather than people engaging in fallacies for troll purposes, Rainbow Warriors were named after a Green Peace ship.

EDIT: Hitchens' Razor, not Hanlons. Early morning doesn't get my best posts.

Before their wargames really took off GW were the UK's main importer/distributor of RPGs, amongst their titles was the scifi RPG Traveller. The Rogue Trader rulebook included a full page diorama of Orks fighting Ultramarines in a hangar containing a Scout Courier ship from Traveller, whilst the first edition of Imperial Armour volume 2 showed a Tarrantula belonging to "Strike Force Naasirka", Naasirka is one of Traveller's Megacorporations.

GW has produced two plastic kits of the basic Land Raider, the first is the Mk1, the second is the Mk3 - the Mk2 was the Land Raider from Epic 40,000 which was never released in 40k scale (Though Forge World does a Mk2b conversion set, which is an intermediary design between the Mk2 & Mk3).

The Ultramarines started out as a third Founding chapter and were then retconned in the 3rd Chapter of the 1st Founding, before subsequently having their Chapter number swapped with the Emperor's Children. When the number was swapped GW updated the art of the Chapter Banner, but over a decade later when the chapter banner mini was sculpted the sculptor used the old number..

 ClockworkZion wrote:

SGTPozy wrote:

 ClockworkZion wrote:

 kronk wrote:

BrianDavion wrote:

 kronk wrote:
Alpharius, and not Guilliman, is encased in Guilliman's tomb.

this thread is titled [b]facts[/b,] that isn't.

Citation that I'm wrong? Didn't think so!

Hanlon's Razor. You made the claim, so you need to provide the proof. No proof provided means no proof is needed to reject your claim.

SGTPozy's left shoe states that if you cannot disprove it then it is true; so earthism is correct as is the existence of a supreme being who lives in the clouds

"SGTPozy's left shoe" isn't seen as a tool of logic or rational thinking. On the other hand Hitchens' Razor is.

Anyways, back to the actual thread topic rather than people engaging in fallacies for troll purposes, Rainbow Warriors were named after a Green Peace ship.

EDIT: Hitchens' Razor, not Hanlons. Early morning doesn't get my best posts.

Yeah... I know what Hitchen's Razor is, I was just making a funny.

Rogue Trader had a Grav Attack Vehicle made from a deodorant container:

 ClockworkZion wrote:
Rogue Trader had a Grav Attack Vehicle made from a deodorant container:

It had rules in 3rd. They used it as an example is the VDR.

 Nevelon wrote:

 ClockworkZion wrote:
Rogue Trader had a Grav Attack Vehicle made from a deodorant container:

It had rules in 3rd. They used it as an example is the VDR.

Oh nice, I didn't know it stayed around that long.

Thinking of stuff GW did....

GW once made a train for one of their battle report missions in 5th:


I wish we got more of this side of GW. I love seeing what they come up with when they're getting creative.

The 'grav attack' was later featured in the fan-game 'age of the emperor' with rules as a skimmer and then also mentioned in book one of HH as part of the lure for an ambush by crysos morturg, shabran zarr, calleb decima and their respective assets.


the custodes have a golden rhino called 'the emperors gift' which is a skimmer and has thrusters instead of tracks.

 SirDonlad wrote:

the custodes have a golden rhino called 'the emperors gift' which is a skimmer and has thrusters instead of tracks.

That's pretty interesting, actually. What book is that in?

I think they built the train for the Apoc demo table for the 4e release.


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There was one with a minelaying Ork dirigible too.

 Furyou Miko wrote:

Here's one;

The original Necron release in White Dwarf 216 came with a 'free Necron warrior'. This model was actually a Chaos Android.

Not with my copy. The old Necron warrior model was ALMOST a copy of the old Chaos Android, but the gun was different, and the head was a bit different. The pose was identical, so I'm thinking they just used the old Chaos Android and tweaked it a little bit, much like they used to do with alot of Rogue Trader era models.. I ended up giving it to my buddy when he started a Necron army using the old WD list in 2nd edition. He still uses it along with his other old warriors, immortals, and destroyers (which he's currently using as tomb blades).

 AnomanderRake wrote:
I think they built the train for the Apoc demo table for the 4e release.


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There was one with a minelaying Ork dirigible too.

Now that you mention it I do think I saw it in the old Apoc stuff.