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Andykp wrote: If any faction is losing named character, it makes sense for guard, they have the shortest life span and the time in the setting has jumped forward a good bit.
Also, guard are the least sense to have named characters, they are supposed to be the nameless masses of humanity against a wave of horror. We certainly don’t need named characters for all the regiments they have, I would prefer a way to specialify your own characters and pay a price for that, which is something they have done in recent books, but I’d like it expanded with guard. Make your own hero’s.
Don’t tau have the shortest natural life span? Sure guard life expectancy in battle is lower, but tau only live thirty or forty years. Unless you use a magic sword
Andykp wrote: If any faction is losing named character, it makes sense for guard, they have the shortest life span and the time in the setting has jumped forward a good bit.
Also, guard are the least sense to have named characters, they are supposed to be the nameless masses of humanity against a wave of horror. We certainly don’t need named characters for all the regiments they have, I would prefer a way to specialify your own characters and pay a price for that, which is something they have done in recent books, but I’d like it expanded with guard. Make your own hero’s.
Actually, that honour goes to the Tau (excepting Ethereals it seems), with Farsight explictly only alive because of the Dawnblade. Unclear what is sustaining Shadowsun at this point.
That I did not know, don’t pay much attention to tau, still seem them as the upstart newcomers tot the setting!
Andykp wrote: If any faction is losing named character, it makes sense for guard, they have the shortest life span and the time in the setting has jumped forward a good bit.
Also, guard are the least sense to have named characters, they are supposed to be the nameless masses of humanity against a wave of horror. We certainly don’t need named characters for all the regiments they have, I would prefer a way to specialify your own characters and pay a price for that, which is something they have done in recent books, but I’d like it expanded with guard. Make your own hero’s.
Kid_Kyoto wrote: Someone on Facebook is reporting Yarrick is killed in a footnote in the new codex.
Sigh...
This actually kinda fits 40K...
"...But the universe is a big place and, whatever happens, you will not be missed..."
Cool.
Now kindly apply that to, say, Space Marine characters.
They'd never do that. It would be one to two books, a new model right before their death.
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Kid_Kyoto wrote: Someone on Facebook is reporting Yarrick is killed in a footnote in the new codex.
Sigh...
This actually kinda fits 40K...
"...But the universe is a big place and, whatever happens, you will not be missed..."
But I miss him
I'm sure Ghaz misses him too. Just imagine a huge cyborg ork in a suit messily sobbing about how Yarrick was "da best foight he'z eva 'ad" while all of the imperial nobles are just looking very scared and confused why the the Prophet of the Waagh is at an Imperial funeral*
*He was invited. As a final act of vengeance against Ghaz, Yarrick willed himself to die of old age, thereby robbing Ghaz of the opponent he craves. The invitation was written in advance to rub it in.
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CthuluIsSpy wrote: *He was invited. As a final act of vengeance against Ghaz, Yarrick willed himself to die of old age, thereby robbing Ghaz of the opponent he craves. The invitation was written in advance to rub it in.
I'm sure Ghaz misses him too.
Just imagine a huge cyborg ork in a suit messily sobbing about how Yarrick was "da best foight he'z eva 'ad" while all of the imperial nobles are just looking very scared and confused why the the Prophet of the Waagh is at an Imperial funeral*
*He was invited. As a final act of vengeance against Ghaz, Yarrick willed himself to die of old age, thereby robbing Ghaz of the opponent he craves. The invitation was written in advance to rub it in.
New head canon
There was an IG novel about Yarrick and Ghaz that actually made the relationship work. Yarrick is Ahab and Ghaz is Moby Dick. Yarrick cannot win against Ghaz, Yarrick will never win against Ghaz, but he doesn't know or care. He'll sacrifice as many body parts and as many men as it takes to get Ghaz, but it will never be enough.
In it Ghaz does not 'let him go' Yarrick arranges a massive escape from an Ork hulk, but we the readers realize Ghaz could have stopped him but didn't.
I'm sure Ghaz misses him too.
Just imagine a huge cyborg ork in a suit messily sobbing about how Yarrick was "da best foight he'z eva 'ad" while all of the imperial nobles are just looking very scared and confused why the the Prophet of the Waagh is at an Imperial funeral*
*He was invited. As a final act of vengeance against Ghaz, Yarrick willed himself to die of old age, thereby robbing Ghaz of the opponent he craves. The invitation was written in advance to rub it in.
New head canon
There was an IG novel about Yarrick and Ghaz that actually made the relationship work. Yarrick is Ahab and Ghaz is Moby Dick. Yarrick cannot win against Ghaz, Yarrick will never win against Ghaz, but he doesn't know or care. He'll sacrifice as many body parts and as many men as it takes to get Ghaz, but it will never be enough.
In it Ghaz does not 'let him go' Yarrick arranges a massive escape from an Ork hulk, but we the readers realize Ghaz could have stopped him but didn't.
I like to think that goes both ways. Though also that Yarrick can let it go and that's the biggest insult he can deliver, there are other people who can carry that torch onwards.
Just sending Ghaz a big marrow once a year, until you send one with a teleport homer in it.
Wait, I thought Ragnar Blackmane killed Ghazkull MagThrakka?
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Wait, I thought Ragnar Blackmane killed Ghazkull MagThrakka?
No, Ragnar only decapitated him, which is only fatal in about 30% of Orks. Poor battlefield hygiene there, not having a melta charge and aspen stake handy to seal the deal…
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Snrub wrote: I just want the ability for Rough Riders to take lasguns!!
I remember back with the 1st version of the Imperial Guard codex in 3rd edition. People would look at me like WTF when I had Rough riders with pistols, lasguns, CCW, and a hunting lance. One of the few units that could have more than 2 weapons back then. Then they'd look at me weird again when they saw a Commissar on a horse. I had to point out the blurb in the rules that stated any commissar attached to the squad got a free horse.
Automatically Appended Next Post: He's not even gone yet, but I already miss him too! 😭😭 I dip out for a couple years and this is what I get.
I once wrote a fanfic about how Col Straken got his bionic eye by engaging in a staring contest with Commissar Yarrik 🤣🤣
Orkimedes clones Yarrick from some blood from a mosquito-squig that bit the commissar in captivity. It didn't have the full DNA sequence, so they had to splice in some Grot DNA to make it work, and that's how Ghaz got his new Makari. Orks find a way.
I'm sure Ghaz misses him too.
Just imagine a huge cyborg ork in a suit messily sobbing about how Yarrick was "da best foight he'z eva 'ad" while all of the imperial nobles are just looking very scared and confused why the the Prophet of the Waagh is at an Imperial funeral*
*He was invited. As a final act of vengeance against Ghaz, Yarrick willed himself to die of old age, thereby robbing Ghaz of the opponent he craves. The invitation was written in advance to rub it in.
New head canon
There was an IG novel about Yarrick and Ghaz that actually made the relationship work. Yarrick is Ahab and Ghaz is Moby Dick. Yarrick cannot win against Ghaz, Yarrick will never win against Ghaz, but he doesn't know or care. He'll sacrifice as many body parts and as many men as it takes to get Ghaz, but it will never be enough.
In it Ghaz does not 'let him go' Yarrick arranges a massive escape from an Ork hulk, but we the readers realize Ghaz could have stopped him but didn't.
I'm sure Ghaz misses him too.
Just imagine a huge cyborg ork in a suit messily sobbing about how Yarrick was "da best foight he'z eva 'ad" while all of the imperial nobles are just looking very scared and confused why the the Prophet of the Waagh is at an Imperial funeral*
*He was invited. As a final act of vengeance against Ghaz, Yarrick willed himself to die of old age, thereby robbing Ghaz of the opponent he craves. The invitation was written in advance to rub it in.
New head canon
There was an IG novel about Yarrick and Ghaz that actually made the relationship work. Yarrick is Ahab and Ghaz is Moby Dick. Yarrick cannot win against Ghaz, Yarrick will never win against Ghaz, but he doesn't know or care. He'll sacrifice as many body parts and as many men as it takes to get Ghaz, but it will never be enough.
In it Ghaz does not 'let him go' Yarrick arranges a massive escape from an Ork hulk, but we the readers realize Ghaz could have stopped him but didn't.
Early 9th Edition, Late 8th, Yarrick was riding off into the sunset with the Black Templers.
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Grot 6 wrote: Early 9th Edition, Late 8th, Yarrick was riding off into the sunset with the Black Templers.
He's been doing that since 3rd ed's conclusion to Armageddon 3.
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What a great box! I don't play guard, but that box is very tempting even for someone like me. Will be GW's bestselling box for Q4 no doubt.
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