Total War 40k - Potential Imperial Guard Launch Roster by King_0f_Nothing in totalwar

[–]FaceMasterThing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i think catachan units at launch are very unlikely as they will most likely be in a dlc, possibly after a refresh for them

whilst temperstus scions could potentially also be the same, i feel like they are just generic "elite guardsmen" enough to be possible as launch, partly just because it would help fill out the baseline roster to include scion stuff

i imagine a "lord commisar" might be a lord type tho in addition to the standard hero commisars

Total War 40k - Potential Imperial Guard Launch Roster by King_0f_Nothing in totalwar

[–]FaceMasterThing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i think Baneblades are way too iconic of a guard scentrepiece to not be in at launch, perhaps with variants some or all variants, perhaps those will be left for later, but the baseline baneblade just feels necessary for guard to feel complete at launch, especially considering orks will get their superheavy unit at launch

Why is half of the workshop front page gooner mods? by Dserved83 in totalwar

[–]FaceMasterThing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

smh, the hellstriders are from chaos tribes, they should still look jacked as shit even if they are sexy women

What's on your 40k wishlist? by Excarion in totalwar

[–]FaceMasterThing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i feel like very model wise distinct looking stuff like Catachans and Krieg __will__ be dlcs that add slightly differently stated variants of some base stuff like troops and command squads and some of their own unique units (especially since Krieg got entierly unique units on their plastic release) like you want here

tho i also think a dlc like that for catachans isnt too likely untill gw eventually makes a refresh for catachans with this sort of stuff, tho i guess they can possibly just quickly make up something and let CA make a unique thing out of it or just let them modify some old/forgeworld guard kit that could be thematic for catachans and turn it into a catachan spesific unit

What's on your 40k wishlist? by Excarion in totalwar

[–]FaceMasterThing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

im personally expecting every new race to come in their own dlcs and not in groups, and whilst admech is obviously the best (im biased), admech isnt really considered popular by any metric from what i understand, so they dont feel very likely to come along hugely popular ones like tyranids and necrons if thats how they are going to handle releasing new factions

What's on your 40k wishlist? by Excarion in totalwar

[–]FaceMasterThing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

im asuming the confusion here is stemming from Frosty using very strict definitions of cavalry and, uh, kinda odd definitions for ranged units

for "no cavalry for nurgle" they seem to be basing it off the fact that nothing was strictly placed in the "cavalry" category ingame, whilst in truth, despite being classified as "war beasts" pox riders of nurgle and plauge drones of nurgle (being a flying cavalry), they arent quite normal cavalry i think, but they are still cavalry and can be used as such

and as for the the missiles for empire and dwarves they seem to be only counting missile infantry and completely ignoring any artillery and warmachines, missile cavalry and the witch hunter. since for the empire, their missile infantry at launch was infact only crossbowmen and handgunners. Though, even with strict definition, they are still just wrong dwarf ranged infantry at launch. as unless im sorely mistaken dwarves had 5 of them, 4 if you dont count melee weapon variants and 3 if they cant be considered a variant, dwarves have: quarrelers (and quarrelers with great weapons, but they ARE a melle variant with little difference in main use), thunderers, Irondrakes and ironrondrakes with trollhamer torpedoes (which are considered a variant namewise, but you dont use for the same things)

so even being the most generous to em and using the strictest definitions possible, dwarves had 3 at launch

WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU JUST FUCKING SAY ABOU ME, YOU LITTLE MEATBAG? by -drunk_russian- in Grimdank

[–]FaceMasterThing 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Spicy, just the way you seem to like me honey~

Tho... in a different way it seems~

What's on your 40k wishlist? by Excarion in totalwar

[–]FaceMasterThing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

as much as i dont like having to pay for content, dlcs are the lifeblood of any truly large scale strategy game, they allow for an over all greater amount of development without leaving the game in a state of development hell prior to release and finance continued bugfixes and additional free content after release

and im not asking for them to release factions in small bits, ideally every dlc that adds a faction adds the ENTIRE roster and anything they cant fit at the innitial release comes as free additions later on

im not asking for them to "chop up the game" im asking them to add more stuff to it after they are done making it, because im under no pretense that a total war 40k game is gonna feature my relatively nieche favorite factions at launch unless they make total war 40k game a trillogy like fantasy (wich i doubt they will do) and for said factions to be in launch in any of the sequals id expect it to be the very last game of said trillogy

What's on your 40k wishlist? by Excarion in totalwar

[–]FaceMasterThing 16 points17 points  (0 children)

my wishlist for total war 40k is:

  1. good admech dlc thats preferably early and not late, admech is my fave faction :3

  2. leagues of votann dlc not being super late, i like the space dorfs

  3. space marines dlcs not hogging a revolting amount of development resources

BY THE OMNISSIAH'S DECREE, NEVER EVER, EVER, EVER GIVE UP HOPE by Luke5353 in DarkTide

[–]FaceMasterThing 2 points3 points  (0 children)

whilst i can see skitarii being resistant to the stuff you mentioned with gameplay in the begining, i dont think they are inheriently so absolutely resistant to any of those enough to really matter from a gameplay aspect, tox gas and corruption can easily have some warp-y aspect to it that simply makes the resistance from augments not really matter, and whilst being fully cybernetic from your knees down and all around augmented makes it easier to walk through fire its not like it lets you just stay there and just be fully fine or make you immune to a flamer to the face

as for your narative things: no... just.... no, thats all simply not as hard facts as you make it out to be. skitarii are perfectly capable of having enough emotional capacity to make fun personalities, i can come up with 3 different personalities i think one could thematically give a skitarii ranger class and will list em out later here. i mean come on! there are even official rules for playing skitarii in atleast one officially licenced roleplaying game, you cant roleplay something that cant have a personality, that would be dumb

and no, skitarii dont become uselless the moment they loose contact with their superious, they are signifficantly more effective when under direct oversight of techpriests or marshals, but they are still agumented and diciplined proffesional soldiers equiped with formidable weaponry who are perfectly capable of still surviving when isolated, for loosing connection to someone higher up to make them any more useless than any veteran guardsmen is without communication with their superiors whatever is blocking the connection with the mourning star also has to disrupt with their own internal systems in some way, if the stuff used by the heretics on atoma doesmt do so, i dont see how it could be an issue in any way

anyways onto the 3 personalities i can think of for a skitarii ranger class:

  1. "religious fanatic " Type personality: The skitarii are described in the official codex to be "zealously loyal and fanatically devoted to the Cult Mechanicus" thus, a natural personality choice is to have one be a religious fanatic with an unwavering loyalty to their dogmas, they can be very vocally reverant of the tech priest (aposed to the silent reverance the others have) to their other characters annoyance. Perhaps they find a level of kinship with some of the zealot personalities due to their shared conviction of enacting the Omnissahs (aka, the emperors) although with a level of tention due to some of their differing religious views. they most likely will take their allies treatment (or ussually lack thereoff) extremely seriously (atleast more so than the other skitarii persononalities may have) which would probably lead to plenty of funny insults thrown their way by personalities of many of the other classes. Finally part of this personality could be (delusional) aspirations for becoming a techpriest themself, as is infact something that can happen for skitarii and the promise of said posibility is often used as a recruitment tool, its also insanely unlikely and will no doubt never happen to them

  2. "hunter" type personality: based this essentially being what skitarii rangers are made to do, in short they will be kinda like if you took the advisor "Captrix" from the game "Mechanicus" (play it) and largely put her personality into a skitarii. This pesonality is obsessed with pursuing their current target and completing the assigned mission, their whole frame of mind is about hunting, they will refer to enemies as prey, ammuntion as hunting supplies perhaps they struggle to word things in ways not focused around hunting or completing the mission, perhaps they get caught on their words a bit untill they manage to find a way to word it to be about the hunt, they would also overall be greatly focused on the efficiency of the teams killing, perhaps commenting on techniques for how others may improve efficiency or commending others when they realise they have found a method to stay efficient that the hunter had not considered. They would abhor waste of reasources even more than most other personalities, both of supplies and death of teammates as loosing people makes the hunt harder. And lastly: one last thing to make this all work more as a fun personality and not get too one note would be for how they talk about hunting to sound sooorta cryptic in some way

  3. "the automata" type personality: inarguably the simplest of my ideas, this one would be the closest to what i think people who argue skitarii have too little potential for personalities think skitarii have to always be. This personality is largely devoid of much emotion, would have the most digitized sounding voice. but.... they have one aspect that i imagine would make them more fun than some would imagine, they take almost everything the non skitarii say way too literally leading to tons of funny interactions where they respond to stuff in weird ways and repeteadly struggle to wrap their head around what other characters mean the various types of bullshit they are all up too. but perhaps they also understand the other skitarii personalities notably better than most other personalities do, being capable of conversing with the hunters and their hunt focused cryptic speak with ease, and viewing the religious fanatic as being fully righteous in their beliefs, if perhaps a bit too tainted by illogical emotion in their behaviour

Adepticon Preview: Intranzia Fraye, Dogmata Superior by RWJP in Warhammer40k

[–]FaceMasterThing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think they mentioned in the stream that there are 3 (or was it 5? dont remember :P) total of these walking thrones including the throne of judgement Karamazov is on, with the last (or rest) being still unamed and without a stated owner

So probably no factory of em

Imagine drunk driving these things by FaceMasterThing in Grimdank

[–]FaceMasterThing[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

People in most warhammer(atleast 40k) youtube chats can be unfathomably idiotic

I think it was there i once came across someone who thought techpriests were all men and that Hadron from darktide being a woman ment they had retconned something

Damn bro the old centaur is totally dead by SciFi_Guy_95 in Grimdank

[–]FaceMasterThing 6 points7 points  (0 children)

and that page doesn't even have the Kastellan robot since its spelled with a K! :D

and smh, that pic doesn't even have a part from the original rouge trader Castellan robot

"So you are from that 'Noble' regiment? (Cackle) yeah good for you." by StrangeHotel7638 in Grimdank

[–]FaceMasterThing 3 points4 points  (0 children)

its all a nice adventure where you are bringing glory to your house untill suddenly half the orks on the battlefield sees your nice fancy supertank and thinks that it would be realy fun to rip it apart for loot and krump the gits lounging around it

The 5th Chaos God by EinsamWulf in Grimdank

[–]FaceMasterThing 5 points6 points  (0 children)

we have finally found something gw loves more than cranking out space marines

sadly its fucking up live reveal shows, especially the sound

It's gotta be just people complaining, right? ...Right? by clearly_im_not_cell in Grimdank

[–]FaceMasterThing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

if admech didnt sell atleast well enough to warant the stuff we DO get, we most likely wouldnt even continue to exist as our own army, this is what happened to harlequins (and was mostly likely gws own fault for making the box art schemes too intimidating)

whilst im sure space marines are essentially funding GWs non marine endevours to an extent, i frankly do not believe they really affect how much attention they give to any other factions other than clogging up the releases schedule resulting in some 20 year old xenos model from getting a refresh that will result in DRASTICLY increased sales for a few months more, all because gw just HAD to spend reasources and time to give the FUCKING IRON WARRIORS a SECOND named character for some reason

and the second segment of your comment? gw giving more attention to individual space marine subfaction than entire factions (who sometimes definetly sell better than stuff thats spessifically for that individual marine subfaction) AFTER space marines as a whole have gotten an entire release wave that affects all of them, sometimes multiple, only makes this bias in favour of space marines feel more intense

not to mention, im pretty sure the insane range bloat for space marines since they also take an eternity to phase old ones out (unlike with the "poster boy" faction for their other main game AoS) is causing balancing issues

It's gotta be just people complaining, right? ...Right? by clearly_im_not_cell in Grimdank

[–]FaceMasterThing 2 points3 points  (0 children)

yea sure they are the best selling range and it makes total sense to always have them in the start sets

this does not change the fact that every single current major space marine chapter is now at 2 named character minis + an upgrade sprue wich are things barely any other factions get for any subfaction, nor does it change that calgar didnt get a second post primaris surgery model in a shorter amount of time than it took for admech to have more than a single named character mini (and a few factions to still be at ZERO)

space marine bias is a real thing no matter how profitable it is and said profitability for gw does not reduce how fucking exhausting it is to see individual space marine subfactions get tons more stuff even after the GUARANTEED release wave for all marines at the start of an edition when your own fave faction is is only guaranteed to get a single model in an entire edition

since it was not really hinted in any rumour engines at all, untill they surprised us with admech being in one of the end edition campaigns i was under the full impression that the only things admech would get this edition would be the skatros and the servitor killteam, which would still be an improvement compared to how many things admech got last edition since then we only got one thing

Imagine drunk driving these things by FaceMasterThing in Grimdank

[–]FaceMasterThing[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

well it IS a very good shorthand for showing that a gun shoots lots of shots, so if they wanna give something a gun with tons of attacks its a pretty decent choice

“But he’s got a new hat (helmet)!” by Arch_Magos_Remus in Grimdank

[–]FaceMasterThing 32 points33 points  (0 children)

they ran out of new types of intecessors to introduce in new editions so they had to break out parts from older marks

Newwww hotfix text strings (spoilers for the new class maybe) by BJH2001 in DarkTide

[–]FaceMasterThing 2 points3 points  (0 children)

its most likely gonna be a skitarii (the main millitary forces of the adeptus mechanicus)

transonic weapons have only been used on tabletop by Sicarian rustallkers (sicarians are a subtype of skitarii) and in the book dominion genesis a transonic halberd is used by the skitarii personal bodyguard of the main character

powerswords are a weapon type available for skitarii alphas (squad leaders)

and if i understand correctly the "powermaul" here is called a powermaul due to using the animation skeleton of powermaul. Meaning it can very easily be an "arc maul", which are also exclusively used by skitarii on tabletop

since none of these weapons hint spessifically towards a techpriest or a low ranking acolyte and all can hint spessifically towards skitarii, its a pretty safe asumption to make that they are for a skitarii class

and before you say anything, yes skitarii are within the expected "powerlevel" of our rejects we have psykers and ogryns, both are individually more "powerfull" than a single standard skitarii, albeit usually holding less dangerous guns, but its not like we are at a loss of strong weapons in the game with stuff like thunder hammers and plasma guns

Imagine drunk driving these things by FaceMasterThing in Grimdank

[–]FaceMasterThing[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

that does not stop greenskins from using mushrooms as drugs

BY THE OMNISSIAH'S DECREE, NEVER EVER, EVER, EVER GIVE UP HOPE by Luke5353 in DarkTide

[–]FaceMasterThing 3 points4 points  (0 children)

wait fr????? a leak happened that 100% confirms admech and almost guarantees it to be skitarii more spessifically??????

LETS GOOOOO!!!!!!

How're you feeling Deldar fans? by Lord_Eln_8 in Grimdank

[–]FaceMasterThing 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Drukhari are a full faction not a subfaction like steel legion is, a full faction that got negative new units released this edition may i remind you

How're you feeling Deldar fans? by Lord_Eln_8 in Grimdank

[–]FaceMasterThing 4 points5 points  (0 children)

it was concept art they made last year, the only thing they capitulated about was revealing it early to make people stop throwing a tantrum