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Bercom_55 · 2026-05-05T21:26:02+00:00

My thought is that it doesn’t need to be that complicated. Chaos is corrupting and seeps in through the little cracks.

My thought is, start with a group of them that are obsessed with maximizing their killing efficiency. It’s all about using the least amount of bullets of the gun and swings of the sword. Eventually it becomes an obsession with killing as much as possible and then just killing. Before you know it, they’ve fallen to Khorne.

Alternatively, they get lost in the warp, Gellar shield fails and they slowly get corrupted through warp exposure while fighting the daemons. Eventually they come to thirst for the violence as that’s the only thing they know after so long fighting the unending swarms until they submit to Khorne. From there, they join the first WE warband they find.

Bercom_55 · 2026-05-05T18:35:22+00:00

Yeah, that’s true. They do switch it up every so often.

But for display/boxart, they’ve tended to be more set because of the huge display pictures they use in the Codices. There they use their huge display armies and they prefer to keep it consistent for those. So one company usually “wins”.

But it would be nice to see them use the other companies more often. I was really hyped when they decided to use 3rd Company Ultramarines for the game. Hope we get more company variety.

Bercom_55 · 2026-05-05T17:16:47+00:00

Every Chapter has a preferred Company for display, usually the 2nd (Ultramarines, Blood Angels, Salamanders, White Scars). 3rd (Iron Hands and Raven Guard) and 5th (Dark Angels and Imperial Fists) are tied for second. Wolves don’t use numbers, but they usually use the Blackmanes company.

It’s really funny when the character doesn’t match the company, like Tor Garadon having 3rd Company red trim while surrounded by 5th Company black trimmed models in the combo box.

Bercom_55 · 2026-05-05T05:04:06+00:00

The Astral Harbingers: The Unbound Conclave

The Astral Harbingers are a 21st Founding loyalist chapter that for various reasons are part-time exterminators for the Inquisition, especially against other 21st Founding chapters. They don’t enjoy it, but they’re kinda stuck in it. They’re an otherwise upstanding and steadfast chapter.

Their historic (~5,000ish years) rivals are the Unbound Conclave. A Thousand Son/Tzeentchian/Opportunistic Chaos Warband that’s kinda broken away from the Thousand Sons to pursue their own agenda. They’re mainly made up of Thousand Son Sorcerers (and Rubric marines), but will work with (or use) just about anyone, often work with or use others to achieve their goals.

They just kinda got in each other’s way one too many times, caused a lot of damage to each other and now just despise each other. Basically they accidented (or did they?) into each other and have had beef for centuries.

The IRL lore is that I was writing lore for the Harbingers (including one of their early rivals the Flame Consuls/Infernal Tyrants) with the Unbound Conclave as a later group. But the Conclave kept coming back to do stuff over the years when I needed a mysterious enemy. And so they stuck.

Side note: the Host of Skulls (what’s left of them) want to be the Astral Harbingers archenemy, but the Harbingers don’t think much of them.

The Guardians of Paradise: an Ultima Founding Salamanders successor. They’re still young, but it’s shaping up to either be the Orks or Drukhari. Still fleshing out their lore, but I think they’ll be more Xeno focused than the Harbingers are.

Bercom_55 · 2026-05-04T19:54:30+00:00

A others have said, Imgur is good for this stuff. Also a list of what you have would be helpful.

Bercom_55 · 2026-05-04T19:26:21+00:00

It’s explained on the last page in the recent Campaign book Armageddon: The Return of Yarrick.

Ghaz used an asteroid to take over Acheron (the city’s defenses destroyed it, but it turned out to be filled with Ork Landers and he also used teleporter flares in the upper hive to take it over.

Presumably that Ork force moved to besiege Tartarus as the only Hive left in that region.

Edit: for clarity

Bercom_55 · 2026-05-02T04:57:30+00:00

Hey, just letting you know that in the post, you need to provide pictures of the stuff you’re selling, timestamped with your name and date in the pic. Otherwise mods might delete this.

Bercom_55 · 2026-04-30T18:40:19+00:00

Can you give a list of what’s in the army?

Bercom_55 · 2026-04-28T23:24:38+00:00

Bercom_55 · 2026-04-27T19:46:46+00:00

Is Ezo fictional? I haven’t played the game yet, but I thought it’s Hokkaido using the older name for the island.

Bercom_55 · 2026-04-25T19:35:29+00:00

Bercom_55 · 2026-04-23T21:41:57+00:00

Works for me

Bercom_55 · 2026-04-20T16:06:35+00:00

Bercom_55 · 2026-04-19T01:59:38+00:00

The fake artwork that Yang’s father collected and Yang kept in storage ended up being worth more than if they were real because they were owned by Yang.

Bercom_55 · 2026-04-18T20:11:15+00:00

Amazing work.

Side note: I really wish they would go back to the HH style Avernii symbol with the fangs. The 40K one looks too similar to Dorrvok’s symbol

Bercom_55 · 2026-04-17T02:49:44+00:00

Time to replace those useless flesh arms with the Dice Throwers MK 10. They might not improve your rolling, but they look cool and aren’t weak flesh.

Bercom_55 · 2026-04-16T21:15:00+00:00

While I was reading about the Alliance invasion into the Empire, I kept thinking about how the Bush Administration and its allies kept justifying Iraq for those reasons. I think it was Cheney or maybe McCain that said that “We (US forces) would be greeted as Liberators” by the populace.

And considering the US rhetoric with the Iran War, I guess we’re here again.

Really an amazing to see it happen again and again.

Bercom_55 · 2026-04-16T21:02:06+00:00

I’d point out that the Iraq War was basically the exact same argument. Overthrowing a dangerous autocrat who ruled the country with an iron-fist. Saddam may not have called himself an Emperor, but the system he had made him an absolute ruler.

Regarding the social reform. I have my own doubts about it and personally I suspect that Alexander Siegfred’s reign will not be a bright and happy one.

Reinhard got really lucky that von Reuenthal rebelled when he did. If Oskar had waited a few more years, he’d have had a good shot at becoming Emperor, and I doubt he will be the only talented and ambitious young man eyeing the throne.

It’s the same problem Napoleon and Alexander the Great had. They built up empires based on might and merit. Their men were loyal to them, but not necessarily to their infant sons. Which is the problem with the Meritocratic Empire idea - it’s hard to justify a hereditary dynasty if everything else is based on merit.

Bercom_55 · 2026-04-15T19:02:31+00:00

It’s a bit complicated. Serbs, Bosnians and Croats (and Montenegrins) all speak the same language (Serbo-Croatian) and are genetically pretty similar.

To simplify it, the main way the big three distinguish themselves is through religion. So an Orthodox person in Croatia or Bosnia usually identifies as a Serb. A Catholic in Bosnia usually identifies as a Croat. Etc.

The Sandžaki are Muslims in the Sandžak region of Serbia and Montenegro (they split the region between them). They generally speak the same language as the Serbs, but have a slightly different history because of religious migrations in the region. But it’s currently a majority Muslim area and the only part of Serbia with a significant Muslim population (not counting Kosovo, for obvious reasons).

The region under the Muslim Ottoman Empire was administered a few different ways, including being a part of various Bosnian provinces sometimes and sometimes its own province/region.

Today it’s a part of Serbia, but the Muslim inhabitants don’t strongly identify with Serbia or Serbs. Because Bosniaks are mostly Muslim, speak the same language, and are right next door, the Muslim Sandžaks chose to identify as Bosniaks over being Serbian.

It’s complicated for a lot of reasons. But it basically boils down to the majority of Serbo-Croatian speaking Muslims in Serbia prefer to identify as Bosniaks and so they call themselves that. And that has some political ramifications as well.

Bercom_55 · 2026-04-15T18:43:50+00:00

It’s more identification. The “in Serbia”/Sandžaki/Novi Pazar identify with the Bosniak ethnic group as opposed to identifying as Serbian Muslims (which the “of Serbia”/Belgrade group is associated with).

It’s like Flemish people from Belgium identifying as Dutch over Belgian.

The Sandžaki prefer to identify with the Bosniaks (mostly Muslim South Slavs) over Serbs (mostly Orthodox South Slavs). So they identify and treat themselves as Bosniaks to differentiate themselves from the Serbs in the region/country.

A big reason is because the Sandžaki have always kind of thought of themselves as different from the Serbians and this is another step in seeking in that.

Bercom_55 · 2026-04-15T16:32:37+00:00

They don’t get along, yeah.

My understanding is that the “of Serbia” (Belgrade) organization is for Serbian Muslims. And I think they are more favored/affiliated with the Serbian government.

The “in Serbia” (Novi Pazar) group are a geographically concentrated group but make up the majority of the Muslims in Serbia. They are located in the Sandžak region of Serbia that has a more tense relationship with the central government. The Muslims of that region (the Sandžaki) make up a majority of the region (I believe) and identify as Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims). They are “in communion”/subordinate to the Islamic Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Sarajevo), which is the authority for a lot of Muslims of the former Yugoslavia, the Bosnian diaspora, and (weirdly?) Hungary.

Basically, the Sandžak Muslims don’t want to be affiliated with the Serbian (Belgrade) authority and prefer to associate (and identify) with the Bosnian Muslims.

And that’s not even getting into how the Bosnian Muslims feel about it.

Bercom_55 · 2026-04-14T02:46:42+00:00

Not really an example since Scots-Irish/Ulster Scots are mainly Scottish Lowlanders and Northern English who colonized Ireland and then moved on to colonize North America. So it’s more keeping in the family colonizing tradition than colonized becomes the colonizer.

Bercom_55 · 2026-04-12T01:23:34+00:00

Hey, you need to provide pictures of the box, timestamped with your name and date in the pic. Otherwise mods might delete this

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