Current Events > Who here is into Warhammer 40k?

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Know of anygood youtubes to get into the lore and where to start?

Been playing some Last Stand again. Spent over 20 hours playing it in the last couple of days. Awesome lore.

But the Devs have really fucked it up with DoW3.
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I'm into it for the lore and the vidya games. I'll probably read some of the novels one day. I'm not into the tabletop stuff
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Arch Warhammer is a good start. He has a lot of videos though so it will take a while to catch up.

I also suggest watching If The Emperor had a Text-to-Speech Device.
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I still have no idea what the hell it is. Isnt there like.. 40,000 different games and things in the series? Is it tabletop/video games? Idk

OBCD posted...

I still have no idea what the hell it is.

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I have tried so many damn times to get into Warhammer, but I just can't. I think that it's just because it can't decide whether it's a parody or a serious fantasy/sci-fi series.

I've always wanted to get into it. I enjoyed the vermicidie game and I want that other one that came out this year that looks Diabloish yet I know next to nothing about Warhammer
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OBCD posted...

I still have no idea what the hell it is. Isnt there like.. 40,000 different games and things in the series? Is it tabletop/video games? Idk

It started as Warhammer, a fantasy themed miniatures tabletop wargame. It branched out into tabletop RPGs and a spinoff called Warhammer 40k that is the same setting, but transferred to a sci-fi future. It's branched out into a ton of spinoffs and video games, including Blood Bowl, which is an alternate reality where the fantasy setting developed their entire culture around their version of the NFL after someone found an NFL rulebook that accidentally fell into their dimension.

Warhammer 40,000 (often referred to as 40k) is a tabletop game and is the Sci-fi counterpart to Warhammer. (often referred to as Warhammer Fantasy)

Here is the basic intro for anything regarding the Imperium of Man:

It is the 41st Millennium. For more than a hundred centuries The Emperor has sat immobile on the Golden Throne of Earth. He is the Master of Mankind by the will of the gods, and master of a million worlds by the might of his inexhaustible armies. He is a rotting carcass writhing invisibly with power from the Dark Age of Technology. He is the Carrion Lord of the Imperium for whom a thousand souls are sacrificed every day, so that he may never truly die.

Yet even in his deathless state, the Emperor continues his eternal vigilance. Mighty battlefleets cross the daemon-infested miasma of the Warp, the only route between distant stars, their way lit by the Astronomican, the psychic manifestation of the Emperor's will. Vast armies give battle in his name on uncounted worlds. Greatest amongst his soldiers are the Adeptus Astartes, the Space Marines, bio-engineered super-warriors. Their comrades in arms are legion: the Imperial Guard and countless planetary defence forces, the ever vigilant Inquisition and the tech-priests of the Adeptus Mechanicus to name only a few. But for all their multitudes, they are barely enough to hold off the ever-present threat from aliens, heretics, mutants - and worse.

To be a man in such times is to be one amongst untold billions. It is to live in the cruelest and most bloody regime imaginable. These are the tales of those times. Forget the power of technology and science, for so much has been forgotten, never to be re-learned. Forget the promise of progress and understanding, for in the grim dark future there is only war. There is no peace amongst the stars, only an eternity of carnage and slaughter, and the laughter of thirsting gods.

-Vulkan, Primarch of the XVIII Legion
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Here's a good one on understanding how "FTL" works in 40k.

"Let me take you though the average Warp Travel procedure."

"The Captain calls down to prep the ship for warp expedition. At that time 12000 slaves who have never seen the outside of the work galley begins shoveling the dead bodies of the previous workers into massive furnaces along with whatever hard fuel sources they have in storage, like a brutal Mr. Fusion. A field of pure Psychic FUCK YOU is generated around the ship the blinded mentally traumatized man inside a metal egg begins screaming unendingly as he charts a course throughout the Warp, which is basically a giant ocean of pure emotion in which Unnamed Ones lounge around and fuck with humanity by the luxury of simply existing. The ship then ploughs into the miasma of what you could call Hell if you lacked imagination. Pray to the Holy Throne the Astropath doesnt accidentally get you lost, become possessed by a Daemon or just explode like a mushy human pinata from the mental stress of being around so much pure CANNOT BE. If the void shields even flicker on the 8000 years old vessel (which no one actually understands completely how to work) Daemons made of RAPE and LEMON JUICE will crawl into our reality and do things you literally cannot imagine to every soul aboard. I mean that. The very notion of understanding the completeness of the horror the human victims will be witness to would shatter your perception of reality and cause your head to explode."

"Mission clock says they were only in the Warp for 5 days. It was 17 months for everyone onboard. They also missed their destination by a couple of solar systems and 8/10th of the crew is dead."

"The Captain turns to his bride staff and pops the cork on a vintage stock of Jherrik Ale and salutes another successful Warp Jump."

"Welcome to 40K."
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glitteringfairy posted...

I want that other one that came out this year that looks Diabloish

Wait what's this?
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@ArchNemo
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eggcorn posted...

Wait what's this?

I think that's the Inquisitor Martyr game that recently came out.
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I listen to the Black Library audiobooks while I work. I'm currently on the 7th book, Legion, which focuses more on the Imperial Army rather than directly on a Space Marine Legion, which is a nice change of pace for the books. The Alpha Legion is a pretty fun group of dudes.
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Never actually played it but I always thought it looked pretty cool. Some of the artwork is amazing.

Plus, Bolt Thrower rules.
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Banana_Cyanide posted...

Inquisitor Martyr

Ah thank you.
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Seo Winters and table top tactics are my favorite

I have a 2000 point grey knight army and some random inqusition peoplem
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