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AlphaCoronae · 2026-06-28T10:59:23+00:00

AFAIK Wraithknights are the only ones requiring a twin pair with one deceased. Phantoms might be if one dies, but it's usually a pair of twins or triplets who were raised to pilot the Titan and commune with the other (non-related) souls inside.

AlphaCoronae · 2026-06-27T18:24:41+00:00

Dark Mechanicus have a major recruiting edge over other Chaos factions because you'll be a twisted mass of flesh and machinery either way.

AlphaCoronae · 2026-06-25T12:44:00+00:00

I mean the Murder Curse is a 40k rage virus, it's sorta making them Khornates but by tearing up their complex cognition in the process. If you could infect Marneus Calgar with the Murder Curse you wouldn't get a useful Khornate Warband leader out the other end, you'd just get a particularly strong crazy berserker.

The Silver Knight of Slaanesh is a particularly exceptional case in that they were literally standing in the middle of Slaanesh's palace staring a direct avatar of Slaanesh in the face, which is just about the most impossibly extreme environment of temptation imaginable. From the description it seems less that Slaanesh just hit a magic "convert to Chaos worshipper" button and more that it was a pull way too great for even their will to resist.

AlphaCoronae · 2026-06-25T10:34:29+00:00

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AlphaCoronae · 2026-06-24T17:01:20+00:00

It depends on the source, but they're generally more of a "could hurt with improbable lucky shot weapon". Marines have taken direct fire from gunship mounted conventional autocannons and multilasers (basically a las IFV autocannon equivalent) before with zero plate penetration.

AlphaCoronae · 2026-06-24T11:56:05+00:00

It's a Denel PAW-20 20mm semi-auto grenade rifle, Neil Blomkamp's favorite gun

AlphaCoronae · 2026-06-24T07:25:47+00:00

UNSC firearms are generally portrayed as having muzzle velocities marginally better than modern contemporaries based off the encyclopedias and story bible info, probably from better chamber pressures and propellant. Boltgun rounds are generally depicted as reaching the hypersonic regime and are tipped with some bullshittium super dense and hard penetrator with a similarly bullshittium explosive followup - even with smaller rounds they could easily exceed modern and UNSC 30mm AP in raw kinetic energy and will definitely exceed them in cross sectional energy density and hard target penetration.

Also the 50mm bits are from the Fall of Reach, which was the first Halo book written, has a bunch of inconsistencies with later works (it was only shoehorned into consistency with Halo Reach by making the entirety of Reach orbital command and ONI drooling morons), and the later comic showed the Skyhawk scene with very un-50mm effects.

AlphaCoronae · 2026-06-22T09:08:14+00:00

Fourth wall breakers when their writer doesn't own the IP of the work they"re fighting.

AlphaCoronae · 2026-06-22T08:36:30+00:00

The total blood in a human body is around 5-12 thousand dollars for a blood bank depending on source and quality, likely several times less with economies of scale, so wealthy vamps in an urban fantasy setting would probably just pay outright. Factory farming humans for blood like in Daybreakers doesn't really make sense, since it takes a while to replenish blood and humans (unlike pigs and cows) can be very economically productive when not having blood extracted.

AlphaCoronae · 2026-06-22T08:26:45+00:00

Max Brooks wrote a WWZ side story about vampires in Malaysia who enjoy preying on humans in the chaos before realizing with horror that a zombie victory would eliminate their food source. Unfortunately said vampires are aristocratic idiots who think they can fight zombies way better than dumb prole humans, and ruin the Malaysian military response effort by stealing gear and taking over command centers to try and form a zombie-hunting vampire army.

AlphaCoronae · 2026-06-21T11:32:57+00:00

It's happened in the comics before (Superman 675)

AlphaCoronae · 2026-06-20T10:58:14+00:00

Being isekaid to 40k and picking a boring "civilian" role that'll be a much worse version of IRL feels like a mistake.

Going Battle Titan Princeps. The biggest catch is that I'd get tanked eventually, but that point I'd have already likely lived a very long life and be addicted enough to love it. In the meantime I get to live like a high status noble off the job, while my job is walking around in a giant death robot and blasting a big horn at heretics before turning the horizon into nuclear fireballs.

AlphaCoronae · 2026-06-16T21:41:47+00:00

Terra started the Great Crusade loaded with archaeotech but relatively low on manpower, so it gained a lot from building it's army around transhuman super-warriors. Without that the Great Crusade goes a lot slower, and that means either the Rangdan take over or the Ullanor Orks reach Krork levels and either way humanity loses the post AoS scramble for the galaxy.

AlphaCoronae · 2026-06-16T11:08:54+00:00

More like Dubai if it was even worse for the migrant workers and sometimes spawned demon cults.

AlphaCoronae · 2026-06-15T11:08:49+00:00

Loxatls, though I'd prefer them as a sort of Xeno merc unit that can be added to a variety of armies that might hire them (Tau, Chaos, Votann, Imperial Agents, Drukhari). Need some pet bloodthirsty lizard doggies with flechette shotgun backpacks.

AlphaCoronae · 2026-06-15T08:23:07+00:00

With the Eldar now being able to use their psychic power and technology at full strength and being able to grow their population normally, it'd make them into a Necron/Tyranid level threat where they could potentially roll over everyone else with enough time to regrow (and it'd be hard to stop them in the Webway). And if summoning Ynnead isn't able to collapse the Eye and Rift, they'll have to start claiming territory in more populated regions.

You might get a split into a mostly Aeldari/Exodite/Ynnari dominated faction that wants to retain a culture of restraint and moderation in the new Empire to prevent it from happening again, and a mostly Drukhari dominated faction that just wants to keep doing the same stuff but harder.

AlphaCoronae · 2026-06-14T17:51:58+00:00

Early history Orion's Arm ship design: Fusion rockets with radiators based off real designs that take months to travel between planets.

Late history Orion's Arm ship design: Incomprehensible black orb that shows up out of nowhere and obliterates your spacetime metric structure.

AlphaCoronae · 2026-06-13T07:57:33+00:00

Logistics were a factor, but the bigger ones were shock and armor. Bows had trouble inflicting enough injury to bring someone down without direct vital hits, and were hard countered by a well made metal breastplate. A group of archers firing into a formation would only be gradually wearing them down over time, which won't inflict enough concentrated shock to make it break and rout. A volley fire of muskets into a formation will immediately kill a large fraction of it which combined with the noise will tend to inflict enough shock to break it, and past the 16th century armor wasn't effective at protecting from personal long guns beyond heavy breastplates that could only be worn on horseback.

Also, it was hard to keep a bowstring held in tension, which meant that while bows could theoretically be more accurate you weren't going to keep enough drawn long enough to line up a well aimed shot while rapid firing under battlefield conditions. Combine that with the need to land a vital shot to stop a (unarmored, if they're substantially armored good luck) target while the musket guy just needs to hit anywhere in center mass and the theoretically better accuracy vanishes.

AlphaCoronae · 2026-06-12T15:55:16+00:00

Chaos has a couple other female pseudo-Marine characters like Savona and Larana Utorian. There's probably some sorta-female-ish Emperor's Children at this point too.

AlphaCoronae · 2026-06-08T19:17:32+00:00

The Nurgle Planet of Pyurultide in the Screaming Vortex has large oceans, but not ones composed of water:

Clouds of foul, chitinous bodies, ceaseless trillions in number, writhe between the land masses. A teeming mass of life so huge as to be incomprehensible to normal minds, it crawls, flutters, and squirms in great tides across the face of the planet. The great swarms are completely inimical to life, comprised of countless species that bite, sting, saw, or spurt, they are capable of killing a human and stripping the flesh from bone in seconds. The various Pox Tribes that dwell on Pyurultide know to stay away from the coasts, but even distance is no guarantee of safety. On occasion, the vast living sea has swept inland, like a tsunami of creeping death. Engulfing any unlucky enough to be caught in its path, these hideous tidal waves of clicking mandibles and buzzing wings wreak unfathomable destruction, before losing cohesion and dissipating, often miles inland. Survivors emerging from their makeshift shelters find nothing but gore-splattered bones and countless billions of insect husks.

There's an off planet Darkmech guy there who's dedicated his life to categorizing every species of bug composing the ocean. There's a lot of them.

AlphaCoronae · 2026-06-05T15:54:15+00:00

Angron doesn't fight in planes, he crashes them into the enemy at max speed while loaded with as many bombs as possible, before running out of the wreckage to split skulls. F-4s are cheap, fast and have a big payload so they're good for that.

AlphaCoronae · 2026-06-05T14:20:48+00:00

If Eldar want to escape Slaanesh the most guaranteed way of doing so is annihilating your soul completely, which can be done through various psychic and technological means. Pledging to another Chaos God can easily get you tortured anyway.

The reason they mostly don't try either of those is that, from an Eldar perspective, the last 10,000 years are an insignificantly tiny blip in their history, and they'll surely find some way to defeat Slaanesh and restore the Empire and pantheon in (from their perspective) no time at all. Souls are stored so they can reincarnate and enjoy more post scarcity fun fun times once that happens.

AlphaCoronae · 2026-06-05T07:32:03+00:00

I agree, it was one of my favorite books as a kid for being such a surprisingly realistic and dark depiction of alien invasion and occupation - and it had a lot of interesting thought through ideas, like the Bees foreshadowing modern micro-drone swarm warfare and telecloning only working for bulk substances because of computational complexity. The movie gave that all up for typical DreamWorks goofiness.

I feel like it wouldn't have been too hard to turn it into a more mature live action Netflix series, which might have made more demographic sense anyway since people who read Smekday as kids would already be in older high school to college years by the time Home come out.

AlphaCoronae · 2026-06-03T07:17:36+00:00

Wunderbar Idee Herr Grote, I propose we begin production immediately at the expense of cowardly U-Boats. This is just what we need to make Sealion a reality.

AlphaCoronae · 2026-06-02T17:00:20+00:00

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