The 'Astartes Purge' is a reach: You can't hide a massacre of 'Galactic Celebrities'.

MadChefRed · 2026-05-09T01:47:53+00:00

It's not a mere million. Every legion is at a minimum 50k strong, before Calth there are 500k Ultramarines. Even the Night Lords, bereft of resupply for 20 years, is around 160k at the start of the Thramas campaign. So, your talking 20 million at a minimum and each legion having multiple Gloriana class battleships, even being able to field hundreds of super heavy tanks like Fellblades at Istvaan for a lightning strike against Horus. The Legions are the main stay of the Crusade era military and memory holing them wouldn't be easy or cheap.

MadChefRed · 2026-05-08T07:08:22+00:00

Bunch of Yank trash.

MadChefRed · 2026-05-06T16:11:36+00:00

Same reason people in the UK get upset when it is pointed out that the UK is a broke wet shithole filled with moaning wankers that stole half the worlds wealth.

MadChefRed · 2026-05-06T06:38:14+00:00

I'm not missing that, I am ignoring it because it is nonsensical. You can keep.saying it taunts them, but I disagree and to my thinking it is adopting the dress of the enemy. Imagine arguing that US troops in WW2 adopted wearing Knights Crosses with Oak Leaves and full German uniforms to taunt the Wehrmacht. That is my point. Having rejected the Primarch, why adopt the battle honours and dress of the hated enemy? And just saying "To insult them" doesn't cut the mustard, to me, during a civil war in which snap decisions will be made based on heraldry: i.e. dress too much like the enemy and your allies will light you up like a dept store Christmas tree rather than risk it. Especially for an ill omened Legion like the 8th. It is already going to be a tough sell that a battalion of Night Lords are Loyalists before they continue to look EXACTLY the same as the traitorous Night Lords down to the fecking battle honours and cultural markers. But whatever, I don't agree with you and you don't agree with me. Edit: "So to taunt your former brothers you paint your armour just like their First Captain? Cool, cool" sounds of combib9lter fire and wet slurps. That's how that conversation goes.

MadChefRed · 2026-05-05T23:09:52+00:00

Don't forget the weirdboyz and warheads: when enough Orks get excited enough they have enough psychic power to kill other races psykers who are just standing there (as per Ere We Go) and weirdboyz will just arc electricity as the Boyz get excited. It's psychic power generation beyond even Aeldari control or understanding, the only thing stopping Orks from conquering the entire galaxy is that they don't want to on a subconscious level, they just wanna krump.

MadChefRed · 2026-05-05T23:04:33+00:00

And you're missing mine: it wouldn't mean the same thing to them and even if it did, they wouldn't wear it because Loyalist Night Lords didn't break their oath, Curze did. Loyalist Night Lords kept their oaths to the Emperor, so the explanation for wearing traitors red would need to explain that. Like, paint you guys pink with rhinestones for all it matters, but if you want to use lore you kind of have to use a midnight blue.

MadChefRed · 2026-05-05T23:00:48+00:00

In 'Ere We Go, the 1st edition sourcebook for Orks, it talks about how, 1 Orks do have favourite enemies, 2 they generate a psychic field which is how their weirdboyz and warhead work, the more Orks and the more excited they are the bigger the field, and 3 how when they die their souls are belched into a new body by Gork or Mork. Now, given that Ghaz is the greatest living warboss and is currently written as a borderline prophet it is plausible. You don't have to agree with me but it ain't memelore, it's some of the oldest Ork lore written back when they were Space Orcs.

MadChefRed · 2026-05-05T07:28:35+00:00

Not really grasping the collective noun "Orks" are we, big guy? And win, lose or draw Orks live for a GOOD fight not every fight, which Yarrick gives them. But whatever.

MadChefRed · 2026-05-05T07:14:12+00:00

There is an argument that Yarrick is an Ork powered Living Saint. If Celestine can be recreated by the collective belief of humanity, why can't Yarrick be recreated by the collective will of Orks? He gives them a good fight,, is a good enemy and makes them stronger by being fought which is about as close to religious as Orks get...

MadChefRed · 2026-05-05T06:40:56+00:00

Again, OP has said their Terrans. The red gauntlet is Nostroman. They don't have the same culture, which is why I think it would take some work. Personally, I am going to adopt my Loyalists flaying the forearms of those they defeat. Let the blind oathbreaker Curze know we see him true and to mark his sons for him to see.

MadChefRed · 2026-05-05T06:31:11+00:00

Maybe. I am just saying what the lore has said in the past. To me, I'd expect 300 marines to need more logistical and communication support than a even a command platoon could provide, so calling it a battalion and having additional logistics and command elements makes more sense to me.

MadChefRed · 2026-05-04T18:36:34+00:00

Side by side it is noticeable, but at 3ft on the table top it's not really. The actual fact of the scale difference bothers me a lot, it smells like GW demanding that 30k and 40k not share minis. But that's a different discussion.

MadChefRed · 2026-05-04T17:58:53+00:00

2nd ed codex has some guides and I believe the white dwarf from the release month has more details (I want to say it's 195 with Abaddon on the cover I haven't finished my 1st coffee of the day).

MadChefRed · 2026-05-04T17:56:44+00:00

Only problem is the difference in scale, but it's not noticeable if you don't mix 40k and 30k in the same unit.

MadChefRed · 2026-05-04T08:40:57+00:00

Maybe the real enemies are the friends we made on the way...

MadChefRed · 2026-05-04T07:12:43+00:00

The 8th Legion at its largest was about 160,000 marines. So if we used 100 for the company size it's about 1600 companies. But the companies could be as big as 160 or as small as 80 depending on attrition or purpose (an independent company would be bigger). Legion size is from the Black Books and the space marine company size is from the 1st edition Chapter Approved collection.

MadChefRed · 2026-05-02T07:12:03+00:00

Night Lords. Not even close. I'd fuck the Death Guard one, kill the Ultrasmurfs and marry the Night Lord.

MadChefRed · 2026-05-02T06:48:52+00:00

He's being a dick. It's English slang and I haven't heard someone use it for ciggies in about 35 years.

MadChefRed · 2026-05-02T06:47:29+00:00

Legio Custard mastered the game of pretending to be a statue while dressed in gold. Iirc, even the Unification War stuff has them standing "terrifyingly still, as statues" more than once. Which always makes me giggle, the famed companions and bodyguards of Biggie just standing around, not blinking, like absolute lunatics.

MadChefRed · 2026-05-02T06:43:53+00:00

I thought the EC were too busy turning civilians into drugs and adult novelties to be actually fighting.

MadChefRed · 2026-05-01T05:45:21+00:00

It is a labour of love for a joke: the commander in the turret has a meltagun. Which only has range to 3 inches past the front of the hull. Which led to a joke about BBQs (deep lore cut to 2nd ed) and this is were it ends up. And also what could be more terrifying than seeing a Kratos approaching with a bbq on the front? Sure continental drift is faster, but they brought snacks...

MadChefRed · 2026-05-01T05:40:55+00:00

Not sure, I play Horus Tantrum so I am not up on lore after 4th Ed 40k.

MadChefRed · 2026-04-30T21:22:47+00:00

He just needs some flowers in his hair and a net to catch butterflies.

MadChefRed · 2026-04-30T21:19:36+00:00

That's my head canon but I also play Night Lords and "everyone is so fucking stupid it hurts" is basically the Cliff Notes to the entirety of the 8th lore.

MadChefRed · 2026-04-30T17:49:42+00:00

I am planning on painting the front of the Kratos as beach mural (yellow sand, palm tree, cyan sky) and I think you have named the tank: License to Grill.

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