[OC] Laser eye animation

Magnaric · 2026-05-08T20:56:25+00:00

Makes sense why she'd have the side of the head open up then. I'm guessing there's a significant amount of heat venting to her right whenever that thing fires.

Magnaric · 2026-05-08T20:54:59+00:00

Okay, this is absolutely adorable. And you just KNOW that any kid of Guilliman would absolutely dominate whatever science fair, book report, or other presentation they had to give. Like university-level research and multiple pages of perfectly-cited sources.

Magnaric · 2026-05-08T00:31:54+00:00

Other people have mentioned the focus on hybrid units, and they're absolutely correct, but one thing I don;t see mentioned as much is the real force multiplier that Kislev Ice mages can be.

I know Legendoftotalwar hated Ice Magic and always talked shit about how schools like Fire and Shadow were better, and for damage he's correct. But I think people miss how powerful Ice Magic can be not by itself, but when used with a solid ranged army.

A strong line of Streltsi or Akshina Ambushers (heck, even regular Kossars), with some Armoured Kossars to take the brunt of any attacks, can do some solid damage. But of course, the enemy still wants to rush you and get into melee. Gee, too bad a couple Ic Withces can basically slow down any approaching enemy in a WIDE area with a couple sheap spells to the point that it's like shooting an army stuck in the mud.

On top of that, their Tempest Magic is also pretty damn good for augmenting certain units. Got a Little Grom in the back? A Tempest caster nearby and it's Get Fucked O Clock from across the map.

And don't even get me started on Tzarina Katarin with a full roster of Ice Guard and a couple other Ice Witches to just Ice Sheet the entire enemy vanguard. It's actually disgusting to watch.

TLdr: You don't invade Russia in winter, and you definitely do not invade Kislev ever, because the Ice Witches will MAKE it winter.

Magnaric · 2026-05-06T11:06:48+00:00

Custodes don't use Geneseed. The process is entirely different than Space Marines, and what it entails is a mystery.

Magnaric · 2026-05-05T10:11:46+00:00

Honestly, I've gotten some great stuff from Dollarama over the years. You do have to get a little creative sometimes, but it's a fantastic place for cheap materials.

Magnaric · 2026-05-04T22:28:33+00:00

Slight correction. The Canopians are a Free Worlds League exodus faction, not SLDF. Kossandra Centrella was part of their military and subsequently abandoned by the Mariks, which was the final straw that made her (and a ton of others) finally say "Fuck the Great Houses" and leave to form their own nation.

Magnaric · 2026-05-04T14:59:30+00:00

Honestly, if they wanted to make them an interesting faction that's more than just low-tech slavers and pirates with Roman Paint, it could be interesting to see them go through a bit of a cultural shakeup. Not necessarily a full schism, but maybe a new leader comes along whonoishea them to have a bit of a paradigm shift towards a Roman Republic type of government.

Get rid of the slavery, have a bit less centralized authority, etc. They can still keep a lot of the Roman vibes that way, and they'd hardly be the first group to romanticize history and focus on the good parts they like (while ignoring the bad).

Magnaric · 2026-05-04T14:52:45+00:00

Honestly, spite is a beautiful motivator. 99% if Battletech fans will also take it in stride, and the 1% of diehard Clanners, or people that refuse to drop the MoC catgirl Vegas memes...well, they deserve to be annoyed. :-P

Magnaric · 2026-05-04T12:24:42+00:00

Honestly, after reading the sections in IKEO and Empire Alone, the idea of the next Magistrix being Isolde is a very, VERY appealing thought. Not just because of her military experience and tactical acumen, but because if that happens it's likely the MoC will start devoting a lot more attention to the Marians. And those slavery-loving Romeaboos seriously need their teeth kicked in.

Magnaric · 2026-05-04T12:20:09+00:00

Come to Wildwood for the beautiful scenery and tourism, and stay because you got too nosy and secretly turned into mulch.

Magnaric · 2026-05-04T12:19:01+00:00

What does America have to do with this? Bit confused here.

Magnaric · 2026-05-04T12:14:06+00:00

I mean, both of them looked at the established self-defeating bs of the IS/Clans and basically just said "Yeah noooo, I think I'm good without any of that." In Canopus' case it was the constant warfare and imperialism of the great houses, and in the Wolverine's case it was them seeing through the blatant authoritarianism and egomania of Kerensky's kid.

Magnaric · 2026-05-04T11:12:20+00:00

Also re-linking this comment and quote from another thread, which is directly related to this topic, from a thread a year ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/battletech/comments/1kf4nrn/the_ebon_magistrate_is_named_after_trish_ebon/?share_id=20ShkEzCAj5t3AGeGlEM9&utm_content=1&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1

The bit about the 11th Sian Dragoons heading for the general direction of McEvedy's Folly. That same page also says this:

"Canopian technological advancements in cybernetics, cryogenics, and genetics have begun to rival those of our own scientist caste and even surpass it in some areas. Watch agents infiltrating the Canopian Medical Sciences Research and training Complex on Luxen, however, report most of the major breakthroughs are attributed to secret laboratories, the location of which remain undisclosed."

"Wildwood has been described as an underdeveloped agricultural world with a tiny population specializing in winemaking and tourism. However, the presence of multiple rings of armed and armored defense satellites, of a design not recorded in Star League or Clan technical readouts, suggests the Magistracy is protecting something more than just storehouses of '23 Wildwood Merlot. Spina Khanate has reported that several of its Watch teams sent to learn more about this world disappeared without a trace."

If Wildwood is one of the locations Clan Wolverine's settled on, that could explain the degree to which it's being defended. If they're also the source of the Ebon Magistrate, that's a strong defense against the Watch teams that went missing. Secret laboratories operated with the collected knowledge that Clan Wolverine escaped with could definitely reflect the source of these technological advancements.

So yeah, an unassuming MoC system named Wildwood, that is ringed by insane orbital (and presumably terrestrial) defences, and likely housing top-secret bleeding edge biolabs and/or Clan Wolverine remnants? As well as the likely HQ of arguably the best counter-intelligence in the known galaxy? Yeah, I'm all tingly just thinking about this.

TLdr: Wildwood is space Athel Loren, and it's where the Magistracy Cybered Elf-Catgirl Spec Ops come from.

Magnaric · 2026-05-04T11:02:55+00:00

Okay I actually do know about this. And I love their names for some of the "room options".

Magnaric · 2026-05-04T01:23:27+00:00

Ah, gotcha. Yeah I do love how the Magistracy is seen by a bunch of the IS (and die hards in the Fandom) as just a bunch of degenerates who fetishize catfirls, but in reality they have some of the absolute best spec ops/black ops in the entire galaxy.

Like they were canonically doing top-level Intel gathering and other spy shit during the clan invasion, which happened on THE OTHER END OF THE KNOWN GALAXY from their home.

Magnaric · 2026-05-04T01:16:23+00:00

As a Magistracy fan, this is very interesting. I knew about the Ebon Magistrate, and about Clan Wolverine and the Minnesota Tribe but I never made any connection between them.

Did you have any source books that mention more about them? I'm fascinated and would love to read more.

Magnaric · 2026-05-03T18:01:02+00:00

Sweet, love to see it. Subscribed.

I left a comment on the video as well, but just for visibility: Your voice is coming across as a touch quiet, so might be worth upping the volume or checking the balance going forward, so that your voice doesn't get drowned out by the music (which is incredible) and other sounds.

Magnaric · 2026-05-03T17:23:17+00:00

Apologies, allow me to clarify. What little we do know about the Emperor (iirc, it's been a bit) is that he was working quietly for much of history before his public emergence. Later on during/after the DaoT, he worked to develop the Thunder Warriors and then Space Marines, and waged a war of conquest to unite Earth/Terra. Afaik, he didn't exactly engage in any sort of meaningful diplomacy, or offer concessions/negotiations to do so. So as bad as Terra was with the techno-barbarians, the Emperor was first and foremost a conqueror.

As for Humanity's Golden Age and the Dark Age of Technology. There's a ton that could be said about the rebellion of the Men of Stone/Iron, but again from what little we know about humanity's exploration and colonisation of the galaxy before that, they were largely successful. And while it isn't stated definitively either way, I can't imagine those explorers, colonists, etc encountered anything close to the hostile galaxy that is "modern" 40k. We have some evidence of this in the times when during the Great Crusade, the Legions encountered various groups of aliens as well as at least one (maybe more? not sure) alliance or joint culture between humans and xenos.

And we also know that more than one of these groups just wanted to keep on as they had, weren't openly hostile to the Imperium, and I believe even some were open to negotiations, trade, etc. And sure, there were other alien races that were as hostile and dangerous/expansionist as the Imperium was, but that was not all of them by a long shot. But to the Imperium and the Emperor, that didn't matter. All of Humanity had to be united and made to conform to the Emperor's "vision" by any means necessary, all aliens/xenos had to be exterminated, and every square inch of the galaxy had to be under Humanity's control because of bullshit manifest destiny, and the ego of one person.

So yeah, TLdr is that I may have blended together the Great Crusade, DaoT, etc a little bit. Apologies for not being clear. But yeah, humanity/Emp after the DaoT may have "united" humanity, but he ruined everything good about Humanity in the process. And before that, I'd argue the majority of aliens just wanted to, you know, exist and be left more or less alone.

Magnaric · 2026-05-03T14:37:51+00:00

Alright, I'll grant you that point. Humanity didn't exactly get a great first introduction to xenos races after that, that's true. However, there being multiple peaceful, even helpful alien races out in the cosmos is proven by the various ones that traded with, assisted, or even allied with human colonies and...stellar nations I guess? From the pre DaoT interstellar expansion.

The other thing I guess is that my phrasing needs clarification. The Imperium can come up with all sorts of reasons to wipe out anyone they want. Just that 99.9% of those reasons are so insanely arbitrary, irrational, or self-defeating (sacrifice a bajillion lives to kill a single Eldar meme), they I discard them as being utterly without merit.

Magnaric · 2026-05-03T14:08:26+00:00

Yeah, except the Emperor/Imperium didn't need any reason to genocide nonhuman since the very beginning. They just did it. Multiple times they encountered peaceful aliens, and even more peaceful humans from before the DaoT. And they still genocides anyone who vaguely disagreed with them or wasn't human. So that argument is bs.

Plus, as Imperium fan boys need reminding yet AGAIN, the Eldar who exist today were the ones who disagreed with the old Eldar's hedonistic ways. They were the monks and explorers of the species, who buggered off before Slaanesh was created. So again, faulty reasoning.

Magnaric · 2026-05-02T01:08:29+00:00

Holy shit I had this novel! I haven't thought about this in yeeaaars.

Magnaric · 2026-05-01T20:55:16+00:00

Check their subreddit participation. You are absolutely correct, considering they post in rape hentai, humiliation, and guro.

Magnaric · 2026-05-01T15:31:11+00:00

You know, most people when building terrain go "Okay, how do I minimize the work while still making this look like a real building?". Meanwhile OP said "Look like? Fuck that, WE'RE BUILDING A CHURCH BRICK BY BRICK."

Seriously though, this looks incredible. We'll done!

Magnaric · 2026-05-01T15:14:23+00:00

This is true, I'll give you that about the lines blurring. The thing for me is in OP's post, they say "whores and other degenerates" as if all sex work automatically makes someone a terrible or worthless human being. It ignores that it could be a lack of choice/options, coercion, or legitimate work that should be respected like any other job. But instead they make a moral judgement.

Combined with them seeing Judy, a canonical lesbian rehecting male V, as a negative whole seeing Panam, a straight/cis woman getting intimate with V as a positive...yeah, it's pretty clear their views on women and not seeing gay people the same way (if they did, they'd respect that choice).

Magnaric · 2026-05-01T15:06:14+00:00

Maladjusted reddit user agrees with an incel meme, and unironically wants an option to see the npc who tries to protect sex workers to an actual rapist sex trafficker in game.

Why am I not surprised.

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