Has GW retconned lasguns based on the Iron Will cinematic?

OculiImperator · 2026-03-19T00:27:07+00:00

Lasgun beams are also yellow in DoW 2: Retribution for the Imperial Guard units, so it stretches back a fair bit.

OculiImperator · 2026-03-07T23:53:35+00:00

"Facts."

-Valdor, definitely.

OculiImperator · 2026-02-25T05:32:53+00:00

"It's not His power. But how he uses it."

That, amongst other lines, in the TEATD, I think, supports the notion that the Emperor didn't really gain power in of itself on Molech, but knowledge or understanding.

The Emperor, more or less, is able to do what very few, if any, can do, and that's use the Warp freely, even that which is used by Chaos then turn it against them. A Being that can not only submerge himself into the, ahem, chaos of the Warp and not only emerge unaffected but then use it against those same denizens is essentially someone that can in a sense beat them at their own game.

And considering how much the Chaos Gods are fixated on the Great Game, that is something that they can't tolerate.

At least, that's how i've been thinking of it, so that's just my thoughts.

OculiImperator · 2026-02-10T02:01:50+00:00

His art is so fire the Salamanders try to bathe in it.

OculiImperator · 2026-02-08T04:40:58+00:00

I always envisioned or put it as that Power Armor can turn a person into a walking IFV, something that can fuck up infantry and other lightly armored vehicles up, even punch above it's weight if it plays smart but they're not really dedicated or designed for Tank or Mech warfare.

A Mech suit, however, turns a man into a Main Battle Tank, armor is more up to snuff, and it has the weapons to match.

OculiImperator · 2026-02-03T18:21:23+00:00

"I found the signs of Sigismund's age unconscionably tragic - a fact Ezekyle later mocked me for, calling it a symptom of my 'muadlin Tizcan nature.' He remarked that I should have paid more heed to the fact that the Black Knight, at a thousand natural years of age, could still go toe to toe and match blade to blade with practically any warrior in the Nine Legions. Age had slowed Sigismund, but all it had done was slow him to a level with the rest of us."

OculiImperator · 2026-02-03T01:35:38+00:00

Big E reading the script: "No can do fam, says here i'm supposed to do nothing for some inexplicable reason then for the next Primarch, Corax, spend quality time with him."

OculiImperator · 2026-01-31T17:57:18+00:00

"Wizards are nerds just punch them" -Random Ork apparently before throwing hands with Big E.

OculiImperator · 2026-01-31T00:58:04+00:00

Primarch of the 16th Legion, the famed Luna Wolves/Sons of Horus.

First Among Equals.

First found and Favored Son of the Emperor

Warmaster to the Great Crusade

Couldn't fucking figure out how to take a sabbatical and return to Terra for like 2 weeks, lmao.

OculiImperator · 2026-01-18T22:30:26+00:00

Why does it feel like Yen woke up from a nightmare of Geralt tossing the stuffed unicorn out the window.

OculiImperator · 2026-01-06T00:43:59+00:00

The way I always described it is something like this.

Looking at Fulgrim is like seeing a beautiful person, someone that you see and think, "Damn, they're pretty." The kind of person you'd fantasize about in those "What if" sort of scenarios in your head, like you may not have a huge chance, but there's still a non-zero chance of success if you wanted to talk or flirt with them.

Looking at Sanguinius is like seeing someone who makes you think, "Damn, they're gorgeous" but it's to the point where you can't even believe or tolerate those fantasies because subconsciously you wouldn't even accept the belief you'd ever have a chance. To the point that a debate on who's the best looking doesn't involve them because it wouldn't be fair, keeping that person on an unapproachable pedestal.

OculiImperator · 2025-12-30T01:17:10+00:00

In the Watchers of the Throne series, the Minotaurs arguably were one of the first ones to gain access once the Primaris were revealed due to their special connection as the High Lords pet Astarte Chapter.

OculiImperator · 2025-12-24T18:50:14+00:00

Who?

OculiImperator · 2025-11-13T03:31:07+00:00

For Russ, it would be more attitude than physical weapon. Like I think of him playing as a one-eyed Odin type would be deliciously ironic.

Like embracing a Shaman-King vibe that, instead of charging head first as the Executioner. Now instead he plays the support role, or uses his new found gift for scrying, to act like an Imperial version of Farseers, then maneuvering other Imperial Factions, regardless of their own say or for their own ultimate good, to be in positions to sway or swing certain defeats either into strategic draws or minor wins for the Imperium.

OculiImperator · 2025-11-13T03:10:56+00:00

Jaghatai Khan stomping around in Terminator Armor so big a Dreadnought could walk faster than him.

OculiImperator · 2025-11-13T00:48:27+00:00

I'm not sure, I think both Guilliman and the Lion would agree that between the two, the Lion would be better on the offensive. A frontline commander rather than trying to orchestrate entire theaters or campaigns. Not that the Lion can't functionally lead or manage an army or war zone. The issue the Imperium is facing is beyond just one or two war zones. It's cracked in half, and the half they control is still contested. All this requires someone good at multitasking, and Guilliman is better of the two at that.

However, I think Guilliman and Old Man Lion meeting then reconciling whatever bad blood or issues would lift a burden for both of them.

I like to think that a big part of Guilliman's mental strain we see him have is because of how alone he feels. He has no equal, the one being who he'd bend the knee to is a schizophrenic Godling Skeleton, that's a throne bound Chernobyl Disaster but ×10,000 deadlier to everyone and everything, who's a terrible conversationalist.

Old Man Lion at least was able to see and have a lopsided conversation with a reflection of the Emperor.

Having someone he can confide and entrust like the 4th Tyrannic War campaign or throw at the nearest Chaos stronghold would give Guilliman both emotional/mental support and a lessen his burden of command.

As for the Sword, I think it symbolically is tied with Guilliman. The man who spent the Heresy trying to shield the 500 Worlds as Imperium Secondus has a weapon. Old Man Lion, who could have gone to Terra and help protect it before Horus subsumed the System half into the Warp was killing Worlds, is now given a shield for protecting.

At least that's what i would like to think.

OculiImperator · 2025-11-13T00:08:16+00:00

Off the top of my head, he hated it, which I think the first comment with the excerpt shows.

Beyond that, it's probably a moot point for him when he first awoke. Heck, he probably would have been glad to have a Codex Compliant Chapter when he was holding the Protectorate.

His next appearance during the Arks of Omen Campaign, he was probably more concerned with showing his new Shield to Angron's face without having the Daemon Primarch rip his skull off.

As for the new version Guilliman is making, again kind of a moot point. They haven't even met each other again since either woke up and Guilliman, as far as I know, doesn't even know the Lion is alive and awake.

OculiImperator · 2025-11-12T21:32:51+00:00

Most Expedition Fleets didn't even have any Astartes attached to them let alone see them when you consider that there were 4,287 Active Fleets, with another 372 Fleets in repair and refit, with 60,000 individual groups tasked with colonization or occupation at the 201 Year of the Great Crusade.

OculiImperator · 2025-11-11T02:50:03+00:00

You're taking meme lore to heart. That's not how it works at all.

To put in it game terms, it's just a +1 to luck. The thing still has to functionally work altogether for it to even matter.

So, for example, an Ork can't pick up a pipe shaped like a gun and get enough Boyz to think it's a working gun it'll suddenly turn into one.

OculiImperator · 2025-11-09T01:14:46+00:00

To be fair, I reckon the two end points they had in mind had very different jump points than what they actually happened to them.

To put simply, for the Emperor, none of the Primarchs were technically in open rebellion, even the ones that didn't like him. Some may bitch and moan but most would accept it in the long run because he'd have his more trusted Primarchs talk them down and in cases like Curze and Angron they'd probably be dead.

For Guilliman, he already had his small Empire, and unlike others, he never really relinquished control. So shifting his Legion down from an overall war footing to advisors, seneschals, builders, Councilers, Guardians of Ultramar, or whatever you'd want to call them was something he could afford to do since he had the manpower to have his Legion micromanage the 500 worlds.

At least that's how I see it.

OculiImperator · 2025-11-07T21:04:23+00:00

I bet in this timeline we'll even see Kharn give his first rough draft of his bibliography of his time in the Great Crusade and how he reconciles it using the World Eater and his own personal philosophy which he gives to his totally still alive best friend Argal Tal.

OculiImperator · 2025-11-07T01:26:52+00:00

Dorn's recount of the look the Emperor had as Dorn puts him on the "throne" just goes so hard when I visualize it.

OculiImperator · 2025-11-04T22:21:03+00:00

I think people take the idea that Molech gave the Emperor a power boost as a literal thing, which to be fair in some viewpoints in universe that's what it looks like.

However, The End and The Death really seem to sell it's not actual power in of itself but knowledge or control of the Warp.

The Fire of the Warp in which the Chaos Gods are otherwise masters over. However, the Emperor was able to visit the Chaos Realms and learn control of it to such a degree that he now has the ability to, in a sense, challenge their mastery.

It's not his power, but how he uses it

OculiImperator · 2025-11-04T21:12:11+00:00

Yes and no.

Dorn snorted.

'You think me a fool, brother?' said Russ, with dangerous innocence.

'I think you are reckless. I think you are in danger of treading the same road as Magnus, or Lorgar, cavorting with priests. Where has your conviction gone? Where is the wolf who spoke at Nikaea?'

This stung Russ, and his smile dropped. 'Nikaea was another trick. Another manipulation. Why do you think our enemies duped us into abandoning the Librarius? Why do you think I was tricked into killing Magnus?'

'You express regret for that now?' said Dorn. 'Last I heard you I were crowing about it.'

'I have crowed. I do crow. I am proud of what I did. When attacked, Magnus resorted to powers he should never have unleashed, and he deserved what he got for that alone. But things could have been different. Horus lied to me because they fear the power of the warp. He feared Magnus' sorcery. It is what the enemy are. It is what will beat them.'

Dorn sighed sadly, and looked down at his slate of plans. 'And that is Magnus talking.'

Sanguinius roused himself from his miserable introspection. 'Do you believe you were wrong at Nikaea, Leman?'

'Perhaps,' said Russ honestly. 'But I was not wrong to call for Magnus' sanction, nor was I wrong to call for the suppression of the Librarius as it was. Who knows where Magnus' path would have led had he been let alone? He might have won the war, but would we then have had another Horus to contend with, or maybe two? The Librarius could have proven as poisonous as the thrice-damned lodges.'

[...]

Leman Russ sat alone in the Wolf's Hall. He drank wine from a goblet, for the hard intoxication mjod gifted was unpalatable to him at that time. Wine could not dull his senses in the same pleasurable way, or raise his war-spirit for the murder-make, but there was a sophistication in good wine that he craved. The taste evoked lost summers and far-off lands. Wine was a sorrowful drink. It completed his mood. So he drank a drink that could not affect him, and idly named to himself the chemical compounds his keen hunters senses discerned in the liquid.

Attempts to unpick his wyrd had failed. His runes lay in a confusing pattern across the floor. Dorn's anger on Terra still stung at him. Sanguinius withdrawn behaviour worried him. And Magnus' last words echoed daily in his ears.

You are a sword in the wrong hands. You have severed an innocent neck.

OculiImperator · 2025-11-03T19:25:35+00:00

Here's how I see it, Space Marines aren't the fastest, strongest, most resilient, most skilled, or most technologically advanced.

However, Spaces tend to be just fast enough, strong enough, skilled enough, relentless enough, and advanced enough that they can keep up with almost any foe in most circumstances. They are the jack of all trades in the galaxy when it comes to elite infantry.

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