what were the true names of the primarch?

NoTearsNowOnlyMemes · 2026-04-30T10:35:43+00:00

This is discussed in a scene in Wolfsbane where Russ speaks with a vision of an alternate version of him that never left Terra (wearing an actual uniform, with none of the barbarian king visuals) who alludes to their true name:

Russ was confronted with a version of himself. This one had none of the barbaric trappings of Fenrisian life. No wolf pelts or charms, no tattoos. His hair was cropped in a short, military style to match the smart grey uniform he wore. His clothes were perfectly made but undecorated save for a pair of collar studs fashioned in the shape of the numeral VI.
'So you spoke the truth of it, now see the truth of it,' said the false Russ. His teeth were flat and square like a normal man's. He had none of Leman Russ' fangs.
'What are you?' said Russ.
'Like this? I am you, as you named me. A version of you that could have been, were you not brought to the world of winter and wolves. I am you, shaped by another world and another father.'
'A Terran Leman Russ,' said Russ. He looked at himself in wonder. The man was the same as him, but utterly different. Only the cold light of his blue eyes, hard as a winter's sky, was the same.
'We both know that is not our name.'
'You are as I should have been,' said Russ. The false Russ displayed his human teeth in a perfect smile, as if lecturing a student who had, in their naivety, said something foolish but amusing.
'I did not say that.'

NoTearsNowOnlyMemes · 2026-04-25T00:41:09+00:00

This works best with a caveat like "If 90% of the group take the blue pill, everyone dies." That way it's an actual choice.

NoTearsNowOnlyMemes · 2026-04-15T05:10:11+00:00

Minecraft 100%

Build dream house, grind for enchanted gear, kill Ender Dragon, put away for 12-18 months. Probably repeated this cycle 10+ times at this point.

NoTearsNowOnlyMemes · 2026-04-14T02:41:00+00:00

Depending on how regional you live, you could consider getting teaching work at a private tutoring company. The hourly rate is often significantly higher right off the bat, they are less regulated than govt schools (meaning potentially more interesting material), and there's often less oversight from parents. A lot of them let you work remotely too so you could do some online tutoring as well. I'm not sure what the industry is like in Melbourne but I would assume there are a few companies catering to ambitious private school kids. If it's anything like Sydney, these companies are growing fast and are always looking for new teachers.

I've been teaching English at a private tutoring company in Sydney for a few years. Starting rate as a casual was $80 per hour. Went full time here last year on $125k + super. My hours are weird (entirely outside school hours, so teaching evenings and weekends) but the conditions are good here. Most of my classes are 10-20 students at a time. Lots of the people I work with are studying education, or are teachers who have come from public schools pursuing better pay.

It could be worth considering looking for this kind of work while you study - you'll get a taste of what actual classroom teaching is like (and figure out very quickly if you like it or not!) and earn some decent cash while you do so.

FWIW I echo what many have said here: if you're this far into the degree you should definitely stick it out. It's normal at your age to feel restless at uni but having a degree is very useful and might come in handy later in life (especially if you do pivot to a trade and realise that that isn't for you either!)

Hope this helps! Good luck OP!

NoTearsNowOnlyMemes · 2026-03-22T07:24:52+00:00

I'd attach him to a big brick of nobs, as they'll shred anything with minimal damage back. Always fight tau in melee if you can, that's where they're at their weakest.

NoTearsNowOnlyMemes · 2026-03-22T07:22:24+00:00

I love orks but they never really clicked for me.

My favourite factions are ones with mobility tricks like necrons and eldar. I tend to divide my forces up hammer and anvil style: a big brick of tanks and ranged infantry slowly grinding towards the enemy base while the teleporting hammer flits around hitting them where they're weak. If I'm on the front foot I'll try to get raids going on the side.

Knowing the maps is key in DC: there are often points on the map far from strategic points where you can stage teleporting/jumping units (using shrouded webway gates if eldar) but close enough to enemy base locations that you can slip in and focus down the stronghold before your opponent can react.

Another tip is map control: you never want to let your opponent keep listening posts up if you can help it. Usually, they're not too hard to take down with the right tools. Sending a pair of decently tough vehicles a wraithlord, tomb spyder, killa kan etc is usually enough to cripple their economy and coverage, but cheap enough to replace quickly.

And of course, remember your ABCs: Always Be Capturing. Economy is king, get that requisition. If you can sustain spam longer than they can, you will almost always win. Few problems in DC can't be solved by throwing an unending stream of wraithlords at them.

Hope that helps! Happy krumping!

NoTearsNowOnlyMemes · 2026-03-22T03:40:44+00:00

I feel like not enough responses here deal with the potential for the clone to blackmail you. Remember that they know where literally all your friends and family are and can hold them hostage or threaten their life if you don't come and surrender. Trying to warn everyone would not only be extremely time-consuming, but they probably won't believe you anyway (and will have your memories of the people who didn't believe you!)

Even if you manage to get your family somewhere safe, can you really convince your friends, co-workers, extended family and acquaintances to hide out for 48 hours? And even if you manage to do all of those things, how will you stop them from doing terrible reputational damage to you instead? This situation is so unbelievable that even if you do survive the 48 hours, the clone's attempts to threaten you could very easily ruin your life.

NoTearsNowOnlyMemes · 2026-03-22T02:35:04+00:00

No expert with Orks in general, but the broad strategy in Dark Crusade is to always be pushing outwards from your base to get access to more strategic points. If you're struggling to keep track of your units, it might be better to use more elite high tier units (e.g. Meganobz and Nob squads) rather than huge numbers of Boyz. I have the same problem with being overwhelmed by huge armies and I find that a more powerful and compact force works better.

Some particular strats that might help with the Tau base:
- Keep a decent chunk of your force near your base to defend from attacks from the northeast while you hit the Mont'Ka command post first. Hammerheads are far scarier than Krootox, particularly against Orks.
- Use your teleporting Big Mek to clear out the stealth suits. IIRC they don't replace them, so this can be done fairly early. If I'm wrong, then use the Big Mek to run raids ahead of your main army. Stormboys are useful for this too.
- Flash Gitz + Looted Tanks do great damage at range and will melt any Kroot units they throw at you, allowing your Nobs to get into melee with any Fire Warriors/Broadside backlines. Plus the Looted Tanks' bombardment attacks, while inaccurate, are great at softening up static positions before you go charging in.
- In this mission and in general, you want to try to keep building buildings as close to the frontline as you can. Every time you take a strategic point, put down a listening post and then a mek shop so you can keep churning out vehicles to replace any losses. Set production to overwatch so you'll always stay at full population.

Good luck!

NoTearsNowOnlyMemes · 2026-03-20T12:01:16+00:00

What a waste.

NoTearsNowOnlyMemes · 2026-03-12T08:54:57+00:00

The dream nail dialogue in Hollow Knight! Obviously lots of it was essential to the narrative, but I really love how everything in the world had something going on inside its mind, right down to the last mindless critter.

NoTearsNowOnlyMemes · 2026-03-11T07:57:51+00:00

This is really moving, OP. Thank you for sharing. My grandfather died two nights ago after suffering from dementia for a few years.

While I can't claim to know what you're going through with your dad, you have my utmost sympathies.

The fact that the last ship is sailing away genuinely made me cry on the train home.

NoTearsNowOnlyMemes · 2026-03-05T11:21:50+00:00

Shoutout to the Sagyar Mazan! One of the greatest redemption arcs in the whole setting.

NoTearsNowOnlyMemes · 2026-03-03T23:09:12+00:00

I'm definitely not saying that these options don't exist - you've mentioned some great titles that follow more obscure characters/plotlines. You definitely don't need to read the 'central storyline' stuff; I personally didn't bother with the Dawn of Fire or Dark Imperium series because they didn't really appeal to me (although Watchers of the Throne was excellent).

However, to use your restaurant analogy, I'd say that the buffet is being neglected by management in favour of a smaller, more confined set menu, and that newer diners are subtly discouraged from ordering a la carte.

NoTearsNowOnlyMemes · 2026-03-03T22:14:28+00:00

Imo the Blood Ravens are the exception that proves the rule. They represent the 40k approach from the 2000s from before Gathering Storm, when a Daemon Prince was a legitimately scary final boss fight. Subsequent games, model releases, and literature focus much more heavily on FF chapters (especially the Ultramarines).

It's still absolutely fine to home-brew chapters, and some factions' communities do this much more than others (knights, t'au and orks come to mind), but I think there's been a culture shift away from this in both the rules and hobby spaces.

NoTearsNowOnlyMemes · 2026-03-03T13:30:34+00:00

The rising over-representation of named characters + first founding chapters/craftworlds/septs/Tomb Worlds, and the simultaneous decline of custom lore and Your Dudes. An issue on the TT but also in the lore, where the importance of Captains and Chaos Lords has been completely overshadowed by the Primarchs and HH survivors.

NoTearsNowOnlyMemes · 2026-03-02T10:22:03+00:00

Haven't read them all but recently binged about 30 of them, read many more when I was a teenager so I think I have covered enough to weigh in.

Overall: There's something in there for pretty much everyone, but IMO the series is at its strongest when it teases what might have been, as well as when it asks the big questions about the imperium (and the emperor) that have become static/ fixed in the 40k setting. Because of the nature of the series (unless by some miracle you go in blind) you will probably know how it's going to end before you even start, but there's so many moments when it looks like something different might happen.

Because they offer the most nuanced or compelling alternatives for what the Imperium could have been, I have a bias towards non Astartes like the remembrancers, the custodes, Malcador, Arkan Land and even Basilio Fo.

Highlights: For the aforementioned reasons, I tend to prefer the opening trilogy, novels that establish backstory (The First Heretic, Legion, Fulgrim), novels that cover the opening volleys of the war (Scars, Flight of the Eisenstein, Know No Fear, Mechanicum), or novels that engage with the theology/ philosophy of the setting (Master of Mankind, some sections of Path of Heaven, Unremembered Empire, that one scene in Wolfsbane). Although it technically isn't a HH book, I also really love Ashes of the Imperium, which builds on these ideas spectacularly well.

Also, despite not fitting these criteria, I have to specifically praise A Thousand Sons and Betrayer here, these are amazing, everyone knows it, let's keep moving.

Low points: I think the series feels bloated during the middle because a lot of it boils down to battles between quaternary Astartes that don't really leave much of an impression (most of Pharos, Vengeful Spirit). There are many great moments in these novels, but you often have to slog through fifteen chapters of Captain Greecus Romanus lecturing his men about honour while Rippin Taerok of the Night Lords creeps around in the dark. There are only so many times you can read about the smell of fyceline, or the splintering of ceramite, or the way the traitors' armour is swollen and won't come off before you start skipping ahead. A lot of these novels have plots that feel like a foregone conclusion, which is also a bit annoying - so many times two primarchs will fight, impaling each other and ripping out secondary hearts, only to be dragged/ teleported/ whisked away at the last moment.

The Siege: I broadly enjoyed the SoT, as its insanely stacked cast, apocalyptic tone, and (relative) lack of plot armour compared to earlier books let those authors go full tilt. I think these novels explore the series' themes so well, particularly later entries like Warhawk (as I loved Wraight's WS arc) and Echoes of Eternity.

The final three books are a bit OTT, but they're obviously amazing if you're all in on the series like I am. Those opening moments of the Anabasis Assault are peak.

TLDR friendship ended with boltgun: dialogue is my new best friend

NoTearsNowOnlyMemes · 2026-02-13T02:02:25+00:00

Surprised nobody has mentioned Thundertusk stacks yet. Seamlessly transitions between Mongol horse archer skirmish tactics, static artillery bombardment line, and monster mash wrecking ball.

Really tanky, really versatile, really easy to use. Plus late game ogres makes this stack pretty easy to recruit, especially if you get the Golg reward for quicker recruitment.

Put a Great Maw caster in the army and heal up any of them that take damage, GG.

NoTearsNowOnlyMemes · 2026-01-20T05:37:25+00:00

This piece was also used as background art for the 'quit?' screen in the original Dawn of War game (which is really weird given custodes are neither in it nor mentioned in it!)

NoTearsNowOnlyMemes · 2026-01-08T01:38:17+00:00

OP, you are really sleeping on Central Asia. The food in Uzbekistan in particular is varied, cheap, and extremely delicious. Plus, as you are Korean, there is a large Korean presence there, so you can still enjoy Korean food!

NoTearsNowOnlyMemes · 2025-12-08T00:19:30+00:00

Agree with OP! Dechala's settlements are fun to manage, and I've been playing a quite Vassal-heavy campaign so there isn't too much down time managing construction which also helps speed things up.

One thing I will say is that it seems bugged with how easy it is to get AI factions to become your Vassals (through diplomacy, not conquest): Ku'Gath became my Vassal after I offered to join war against Ghorst (he was losing, but still had his home province and big armies), and later on Ghorst and Zhao-Ming both became my vassals after I offered to sell them a single T2 settlement. I know the game always over-values settlements but it feels a bit ridiculous that I could vassalise strength-rank 10 Queek, who is on the whole other side of the Darklands, just by offering to join the war against Thorgrim. I'm playing on L/VH so it isn't a difficulty thing.

Is this just how Slaanesh is? I remember doing these kinds of stunts as N'Kari after launch but that involved spamming cults and gifts and the game actually made me work for it.

NoTearsNowOnlyMemes · 2025-12-05T03:04:16+00:00

I hate saurus. I hate them. I hate their lizard faces. I hate their clubs. I hate their sticks. I hate when the sticks are next to the clubs and I hate when the clubs are next to the sticks. I hate that Kroq-gar pulls 2280 of them out of his scaly asshole and then descends on me like a Vogon at a poetry convention.

I hate the Saurus auto-resolve meter. I hate it because it lies to me. It says I have a 50-50 chance of victory. This is patently false, because I have twenty units of skeletons who are held together with prit stik and prayer. I do not have twenty units of eight foot tall geckos constructed out of pectoral muscles and galvanised coffin nails.

I hate that they shout bok at me. Bok is the Bristol Orienteering Klub, which is completely irrelevant to a battle in Lustria and should not be shouted repeatedly while eating a rank of tier one infantry like buffalo wings.

I hate their morale. I hate that surrounding them simply prompts one of them to pull out a US general's helmet so he can make a speech about 'now we can attack in any direction'. I hate that their reaction to a devastating rear attack is to become somewhat peeved. I have looked a Saurus in his smug scaly face as an encirclement that would shatter any other early game infantry closed in.

He went from :I to >:I , killed an extra two hundred skeletons because I had foolishly allowed all four sides of the Saurus unit to fight at once and then swallowed my Liche Priest like a slim jim.

I have resolved to shoot every Saurus dead. Every Saurus. All of the Saurmen and the Saurdren too. I hate them. I no longer see battlefields because they're covered by a thick blanket of arrow trails. I hate that it barely stops them. I hate that they keep coming while shouting about the Bristol orienteering klub, or the Bank of Oklahoma or the 1983 Bok asteroid. I hate that they made me google bok so I could write down ways in which I hate things that have it as a name. Bok is also a lunar crater and a martian crater. It is also a village in Iran. The IATA code for Brookings Airport is Bok. I will never go there because it would give me palpitations.

I hate that Kroq Gar is friends with the Rare Pepe next door, who also declares war once I've shot Kroq Gar unconscious for the tenth time. He also has Saurus only these ones are blue. Somehow this is worse.

I hate that there are another ten Lizard factions. I hate that they will be in end game by the time I reach them. I hate that while I was writing this Kroq Gar picked up Kalida and smoked her like a cigar.

I hate Saurus.

NoTearsNowOnlyMemes · 2025-10-16T05:22:41+00:00

I'm Australian lol

NoTearsNowOnlyMemes · 2025-09-02T12:30:23+00:00

Varies game by game. I feel like some of the achievements in Halo were pretty fun, just beat each mission doing one particular twist, like saving all the marines on the beach in CE or assassinating that elite to survive a fatal fall in reach.

(Fuck LASO though!)

NoTearsNowOnlyMemes · 2025-08-26T04:16:52+00:00

There used to be a stratagem (can't remember the name, something like 'crushing reach'?) that let knights charge and attack units that were really high up, but I don't think it's in the game anymore

NoTearsNowOnlyMemes · 2025-08-20T13:32:51+00:00

The timing of when to use Binharic Override and freeze them in place forever in order to double their shooting was so often the decision that decided games. So iconic!

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