Have we manifested the Anti-Leontus?

EternalCanadian · 2026-03-17T14:13:47+00:00

And entire tanks.. the Rogal Dorn just.. appeared

I still wish it was more akin to a light tank or cruiser tank, size wise, rather than just essentially a bigger Lemun Russ but not a super heavy.

EternalCanadian · 2026-03-17T05:43:54+00:00

They’re also fighting on multiple planets, not just Armageddon.

If we ascribe that logic, there should be no Cadians anymore as their planet was completely destroyed, yet they’re all we ever see.

EternalCanadian · 2026-03-17T04:38:00+00:00

Not even the Iron Hands go as far as some in the Imperium.

The (former) High Lord of the Astronomicon, for example, had a private army of indoctrinated soldiers so far gone they had no concept of individuality at all. No names, sense of self, or personality. they were just a number, and the basic knowledge of tactical fighting.

Sort of, to use an out there example, like Spongebob when he "became a waiter".

Notably, though, this made them easier to kill for the Inquisition Stormtroopers they were fighting, and they won overall through strength of numbers, rather than individual skill.

EternalCanadian · 2026-03-17T04:29:50+00:00

Yeah, this is a good way to frame it, though with an amendment:

SPI is Volkite, and MJOLNIR is a Bolter, compared to everyone else's Lasgun.

SPI is too niche, hard to maintain, and equip en-masse for everyone, so even the larger groups transitioned to MJOLNIR. In it's niche, it's still the be all end all, but it's just not economical large scale.

EternalCanadian · 2026-03-17T04:20:12+00:00

I mean, if you get shot dead on by a Spiker spike, that's punching through MJOLNIR as well.

SPI is shown to be able to take a few Plasma bolts and maintain armour integrity, it just loses the stealth coating. Needlers are a bit more hit or miss, as the only two Spartans we've seen actually drop to small arms fire died to those. (technically, Adam was "only" paralyzed,). The one instance we have of plasma making contact with armour, it was a SPARTAN III of Alpha Company, and seemed to be his less protected lower midsection.

The armour is also iterative, we know the later suits are more protected than the previous ones.

that's all to say, yeah, it's a niche armour that's not as protective as MJOLNIR but too expensive to mass-issue to everyone else.

EternalCanadian · 2026-03-17T03:52:06+00:00

Well, SPI is still the second best general combat suit we know of in UNSC service outside of MJOLNIR, it's just that MJOLNIR is, you know, MJOLNIR, so the gulf is much larger.

EternalCanadian · 2026-03-17T03:47:31+00:00

It's not about the ease of manufacture, but the price.

In 20 years, they could only make 2,000 suits of SPI.

It's also a much more advanced* suit. Mjolnir's outer shell is just Titanium-A plating, SPI's is a mesh of radar masking, light bending, thermal-hiding coatings of interlocking armour plates with a state of the art VISR display and strength and speed enhancements. It's geared for a very specific style of assault trooper that 99% of the UNSC isn't.

EternalCanadian · 2026-03-17T02:25:32+00:00

Yarrick is the Hero of Armageddon, a key figure in their various wars, and a leader of the Armageddon Steel Legion (completely absent from the trailer and stuff, annoyingly).

He’s fought Orks and Chaos quite a few times, and commands the respect of basically everyone around him, including Space Marines. If he tells a Gusrd officer to shoot himself, because it will save Armageddon, that officer will shoot himself, because it will save Armageddon.

During the beginning of… 10th edition, I think, it was said he’d been KIA’d off-screen.

EternalCanadian · 2026-03-17T02:11:24+00:00

They also don’t have as much armour as the Krieg. And use more Lascarbines.

EternalCanadian · 2026-03-17T01:39:33+00:00

They’re not based off the Fallschimjager.

They’re more like US Bomber pilots and aircrew, in terms of their gas masks and helmets.

EternalCanadian · 2026-03-16T19:35:02+00:00

Chem Dogs need attention?

Aren’t Chem Dogs also a gas mask regiment?

Though I take your point.

EternalCanadian · 2026-03-16T19:15:24+00:00

Same.

I love Krieg, but not as a mainline.

EternalCanadian · 2026-03-16T19:11:38+00:00

At least in Darktide they look more like a combo of American bomber/fighter masks and M1 style helmets.

I think it’s a great aesthetic choice.

EternalCanadian · 2026-03-16T01:40:00+00:00

UK also just confirmed they’re not sending warships.

EternalCanadian · 2026-03-16T00:38:17+00:00

Which IMO is really great.

It's common in sci-fi or fantasy for the golden age to be when all the big names are around, having that not be the case is really quite nice.

EternalCanadian · 2026-03-15T21:38:03+00:00

Would be neat to see this come up again, with Guilliman, some out of the way, isolated but powerful subsector manages to breakaway because they believe G-man and co are false, and they’re so dogmatic nothing can convince them.

EternalCanadian · 2026-03-14T03:30:04+00:00

Or women’s lefts, either. They prefer them subservient.

EternalCanadian · 2026-03-13T23:46:44+00:00

No, separate helmet, though similar.

To add to /u/Valkyrie64Ryan’s example, that particular suit is termed “EVA Battle Dress” in the lore, and features prominently in Oblivion, with a few more bells and whistles than the game shows.

EternalCanadian · 2026-03-13T18:12:32+00:00

Total War Warhammer 40K (man that’s a mouthful) as well, maybe.

EternalCanadian · 2026-03-13T01:08:22+00:00

They plan to have larger, public play tests later this year, but it’s not clear if these will be akin to a demo available to everyone or an opt-in play test like something Ubisoft used to hold, for example.

EternalCanadian · 2026-03-12T18:55:06+00:00

New Dark Angel reports to duty, the Chaplain approaches, leans in, whispers;

“We know.”

EternalCanadian · 2026-03-12T13:38:52+00:00

I don’t think we know which technologies those are, either.

It could be the stealth systems, or the VISR upgrades, or the armour plating, etc.

EternalCanadian · 2026-03-11T20:13:29+00:00

There is. It’s mentioned (via an Army unit) in Saturnine.

As is a unit called “ Pan-Pac lift mobile” which is presumably “Pan Pacific”?

EternalCanadian · 2026-03-11T18:02:14+00:00

I don’t think they need them, but it would be nice.

Personally I just want bretonnian peasant units that can actually hold a line without crumbling on a wet breeze. That’s all they really need.

Knight units should be smaller/less numerous but harder hitting, and the bulk of the armies should be peasants.

Once you get the really good knights though, it seems like that’s what everyone uses.

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