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2025/07/15 01:13:44
Subject: If Warhammer 40,000 had achievements, what would they be?
Achievements are challenges players can unlock on Steam games or Xbox games or whatever. Unlocking an achievement is purely cosmetic. It is just to show other people you have accomplished this task in a game, and for Xbox, it increases your Gamerscore.
If Warhammer 40,000 was ever fully ported to a digital platform; what achievements would it make sense to have?
Here are some of my ideas.
Tarpit — 15G — force a non-Battleshocked enemy unit to take a Desperate Escape test.
Sentinel — 10G — Control the same objective marker for 5 Battle Rounds in a row.
Tabled — 40G — Destroy all units your opponent controls before Battle Round 5.
Dominated — 30G — Control all objective markers at the end of the round.
One Man Army — 25G — Have a Character unit destroy 4 or more enemy units in a single turn.
Unbreakable — 20G — Have a single unit take and pass 3 consecutive Battleshock tests in a single match.
Consolation Prize — 0G — Lose a match on Battle Round 5 without conceding.
Full Spectrum Warrior — 100G — Win a match with each 40k faction.
Veteran Commander — 75G — Use each stratagem in 40k at least once.
That's 40k Baby — 5G — Have a unit with 2+ Ballistic Skill or 2+ Weapon Skill miss all of their attacks (outside of Overwatch).
Herohammer — 20G — Build and play with a 40k army with 5 or more Epic Hero units in your roster.
Objective Player — 30G — Win a match while you had no units on the battlefield.
Sole Survivor — 15G — At the end of a turn, have only one model left in a multi-model unit.
2025/07/15 01:59:55
Subject: If Warhammer 40,000 had achievements, what would they be?
One Man Army — 25G — Have a Character unit destroy 4 or more enemy units in a single turn.
Outside of Knights, is this even possible?
Theoretically... But practically no, barring very particular characters.
My hardest-hitting model in my entire 2k army is my GUO.
He's got two guns and 6 Strike/12 Sweep melee attacks. So literally the only way to accomplish it is to wipe at LEAST two units with his melee attacks.
Clocks for the clockmaker! Cogs for the cog throne!
2025/07/15 03:42:26
Subject: If Warhammer 40,000 had achievements, what would they be?
Lathe Biosas wrote: Keeper of the Black Library 666G - Write a detailed and cohesive backstory for your army.
ChatGPT, write a detailed and cohesive backstory for a Space Marine Chapter called "Forum Warriors".
Spoiler:
Chapter Name: The Forum Warriors
Founding: Unknown (believed to be a late Founding, possibly 23rd or 26th)
Gene-Seed Origin: Ultramarines (suspected, unconfirmed)
Chapter Symbol: A stylized aquila clutching a scroll and quill, surrounded by a laurel wreath
Chapter Colors: Deep indigo armor with gold trim; scrollwork and text motifs adorn pauldrons and vambraces
Homeworld: Lexicanum — a data-world orbiting the gas giant Archivus IX in Segmentum Tempestus
Chapter Specialty: Strategic consultation, defensive warfare, and digital warfare; renowned for their doctrine debate chambers
Battle Cry: “Argue it well, or not at all!”
Origins and Founding
The Forum Warriors are an enigmatic Chapter whose origins are shrouded in conflicting data fragments and redacted Imperial records. While their gene-seed is suspected to descend from the Ultramarines, several inconsistencies in behavior and neurological augmentations have raised questions about whether they are in fact a hybridized strain of multiple Primogenitors — a rare but not unheard-of practice in the late Foundings.
Scholars within the Adeptus Administratum speculate the Chapter was formed during the tumultuous Nova Terran Schism or shortly after the Age of Apostasy, a time when record-keeping was suspect and many experimental Chapters were sanctioned and lost. Some even argue that the Forum Warriors were initially conceived as an experiment by the Adeptus Mechanicus to create a data-driven Space Marine force — one that could leverage thought as a weapon equal to the bolter.
Homeworld: Lexicanum
The Forum Warriors are based on the data-world Lexicanum, a former Mechanicus archive moon converted into a fortress-monastery. Unlike traditional recruitment worlds, Lexicanum has no natural population — only databanks, servitors, cogitators, and a network of interactive philosophical and martial simulations designed to test neophytes.
Aspirants are sourced from neighboring hive worlds and inducted through an intense scholastic and gladiatorial trial system. Only those who can argue logic while deflecting blows survive. The Chapter believes that strength without clarity leads to ruin, and clarity without strength is cowardice.
Lexicanum is a labyrinthine planet of parchment libraries, cogitator tombs, and mnemonic vaults. Within it lies the Scriptorum Bellum, a grand debate chamber where battle doctrines are argued by multiple Captains before being ratified into action. Disputes are settled not by rank, but by rhetorical skill and clarity of strategic vision.
Doctrine and Combat Philosophy
Forum Warriors are famous for engaging in prolonged strategic analysis before any campaign. While this has earned them mockery by more impulsive Chapters (notably the Space Wolves), their foresight and adaptability have led to victory in wars that others considered lost.
Combat Doctrine Highlights:
Strategic Layering: Rather than direct assault, they prefer multi-theater engagements, drawing enemies into traps devised during hours of debate.
Data Warfare: The Chapter uses servo-skulls, vox-ghosts, and corrupted scrapcode to confuse, demoralize, or distract enemy forces.
The Codex Reinterpreted: While technically Codex-compliant, the Forum Warriors reinterpret the Codex Astartes constantly — viewing it as a “living document.” They annotate their copies with marginalia, footnotes, and rebuttals.
A unique role exists within each company: the Redactor-Sergeant, whose duty is not just to lead squads but to continually revise battle doctrine mid-combat based on unfolding variables. They are trained in both warfare and dialectics, often updating strategy via encrypted battlefield treatises.
Beliefs and Culture
The Forum Warriors believe that the Emperor was not merely a god of war, but a philosopher-king whose design of the Imperium was meant to evolve. This heretical nuance has brought them scrutiny from the Inquisition, though no proof of corruption has ever been substantiated.
Their Chaplains, known as Lexipriests, deliver sermons in the form of logical proofs, parables, and philosophical riddles. Heresy, to them, is intellectual dishonesty as much as spiritual betrayal.
Cultural Traits:
Memory Tattoos: Veterans inscribe the conclusions of victorious debates onto their armor as oaths and lessons.
Scroll Duels: Disagreements among brothers can be formally addressed via duelorum scriptura, a public written contest adjudicated by the Chapter Master or senior Lexipriest.
Silence Protocols: Marines who fail in battle must take a vow of silence until they’ve composed a written treatise explaining their failure and proposed corrective action.
Notable Engagements
The Defense of Hadrian's Maw (844.M41): When Tyranid Hive Fleet Elga struck Segmentum Tempestus, the Forum Warriors developed a multi-tiered defense strategy that used disinformation, sacrificial outposts, and rotating kill-zones to thin the swarm. The campaign took four years but prevented the xenos from reaching key Agri-Worlds.
The Scroll Purge (370.M42): A war against a splinter cult of the Word Bearers, in which the Forum Warriors used doctrinal mimicry to infiltrate and destabilize the cult’s memetic structure, eventually turning half of their enemy’s thralls into passive dissidents mid-battle.
The Trial of Ten Doctrines (601.M42): An internal civil conflict within the Chapter where ten divergent interpretations of the Codex Astartes caused a near schism. After a year-long ritual of debate, physical trials, and a final simulation war, the Chapter codified the Lex Imperfectus, a living addendum to the Codex Astartes unique to the Forum Warriors.
Current Status
As of M42, the Forum Warriors remain at half-strength, recovering from extensive losses sustained during the War of Null Logics against the Necrons of the Szarekhan Dynasty. Their Chapter Master, Dominus Arguen, is rumored to be drafting a Treatise of the Dead, a work that will either unite new successors to their cause — or invite censure from the Inquisition for its rumored philosophical transgressions.
The Chapter’s continued existence is a testament to the power of debate, strategy, and the written word — even in an age where bolters roar louder than reason.
7 Ork facts people always get wrong: Ragnar did not win against Thrakka, but suffered two crushing defeats within a few days of each other. A lasgun is powerful enough to sever an ork's appendage or head in a single, well aimed shot. Orks meks have a better understanding of electrics and mechanics than most Tech Priests. Orks actually do not think that purple makes them harder to see. The joke was made canon by Alex Stewart's Caphias Cain books. Gharkull Blackfang did not even come close to killing the emperor. Orks can be corrupted by chaos, but few of them have any interest in what chaos offers. Orks do not have the power of believe.
