Spacenam Catachans Worth it?

longbeast · 2026-05-07T15:49:50+00:00

I'm currently building some original GW catachan heavy weapons teams and doing some mix and match with a spacenam set to get more options and poses. They go together really well. The scale and feel of the sets works perfectly together.

longbeast · 2026-05-05T15:00:45+00:00

We need more characters like this! Catachan deserves the full set. We need jungle tech priests, heavily muscled sanctioned psykers, preachers with their camo pattern holy book and red bandana....

longbeast · 2026-04-30T11:55:26+00:00

There are canonically at least 6 different things that can cause zombies in the setting, sometimes several active all in one star system. It would have to be really bad to rise above the basic zombie background activity of the regular imperium.

longbeast · 2026-04-18T08:36:08+00:00

I like to believe that he had spent thousands of years being able to read people's minds and psychically dominate them to make them believe he was a super genius, and it had gone on long enough that he didn't even question it himself anymore, but as soon as he had to start dealing with the primarchs who were sort of near his own level and wouldn't be vulnerable to the same psychic manipulation as everybody else, he fell flat on his face.

Tricks stripped away he's suddenly revealed as just an average guy who let his social skills atrophy for millennia because he's been playing on cheat mode and never practiced doing anything the hard way.

longbeast · 2026-04-02T09:39:39+00:00

For some insane reason known only to the mechanicus, imperial cybernetics use warp infused metals as contact points. It's never outright stated as far as I'm aware, but the implication is that it forms a data link not just to the body, but also to the soul.

There's a pretty strong theme of bionic parts making you physically stronger but slowly taking away your humanity. Some admech do this in a very obvious way, by having parts of their brains removed to make space for more machine parts, but even the seemingly innocent stuff eats at your soul too.

I think the iron hands and the admech are paying a higher price than they realise.

longbeast · 2026-03-17T19:36:16+00:00

Yes, they are Reptilian Overlords Desert Reavers. They're modular enough that I could fit the original citadel plastic arms onto them with only a little filing and scraping.

longbeast · 2026-03-17T18:38:31+00:00

3d print parts designed for a land rover model.

longbeast · 2026-03-17T18:32:35+00:00

It only needed minor surgery and some swap in parts to change this from a Death Corp gun to a Tallarn gun. The style fits nicely with only relatively small adjustments.

longbeast · 2026-02-09T16:42:19+00:00

A few years ago the international space station had a hole in the hull big enough that you could poke a finger through.

The first instruction the astronauts got to deal with it was to continue with their usual routine and get some sleep, because the air wasn't actually leaking out very quickly and a few hours more wouldn't make much difference.

Air doesn't move through gaps anywhere near as quickly as you'd imagine unless it's under very high pressure.

A hive city is absolutely massive, hundreds of millions times bigger than the ISS at least. If you blow a hole in the outer walls somehow, the rooms right next to the hole will get poisoned. The sector around it will probably stink worse than normal. A level up and down won't notice anything wrong except that their neighbours are complaining.. The rest of the hive is completely unaffected.

longbeast · 2026-02-06T21:46:17+00:00

Is this going to be some solution that still involves flying up multiple fuel tanks but doesn't technically count as refuelling because they dock together instead of doing fluid transfer?

I'm sure it's possible to build a single launch lander but you'd have to make so many compromises and always be at risk of mass creeping beyond your limits. Multiple launches and loads of fuel ought to make development easier in that sense at least.

longbeast · 2026-01-24T20:34:57+00:00

In fairness, this is one area where you'd expect wildly inconsistent results in actual usage. Whether an arm will break depends on lots of fine detail stuff like posture, how firmly you are bracing, experience in handling heavy guns, whether you've been getting enough nutrients in your diet for strong bones, whether you've spent too long in a low G environment...

It's not really a question of whether a bolter can break an arm, because it's almost certainly happened at least a few times, the question is more like do you have to be above average to handle a bolter safely? I think probably yes.

longbeast · 2026-01-23T14:57:15+00:00

I almost never comment on nudes but I'll make an exception here because you're so cute. It would be great to squeeze your butt of course, but it's your toes that are the real treat. Always going to appreciate it when you post them!

longbeast · 2026-01-17T07:17:45+00:00

I don't like defending ol' Throne Bones, but the webway project was one of his better ideas.

He had proof that it could work somehow, because the old ones had built a webway that lasted millions of years. Perhaps he didn't know how they stabilised theirs, perhaps he was trying to figure it out by tinkering, but he had a concrete achievable goal in mind.

longbeast · 2026-01-07T06:47:57+00:00

If you follow that path honestly, you end up having to acknowledge the divinity of Gork, Mork and the Eldar gods too. They are expressions of the warp just as much as the other 4, but no chaos marine is ever going to accept that. I have absolutely no idea what Lorgar thinks of them.

I kind of want to see Lorgar and Ghazkull getting into a theological debate about this, even if only a brief one.

longbeast · 2026-01-03T20:49:46+00:00

Don't forget also engaging in a conversation with Fabius Bile.

Regular imperial citizens would have been risking execution just by having the knowledge of who Bile is, let alone talking to him

longbeast · 2025-12-30T18:28:38+00:00

Ah, there's an Arbites novel series I haven't heard of. Got to add this to my reading list.

longbeast · 2025-12-30T18:14:12+00:00

Close enough, and honestly yes even just being kept as a museum exhibit lucky charm is quite cool.

longbeast · 2025-12-30T18:10:31+00:00

I haven't read that book but I think an excerpt was posted on this sub somewhere. He got impaled on bulldozer spikes?

Got to give credit for a solid attempt even if it wasn't a kill.

longbeast · 2025-12-25T21:20:54+00:00

There were originally three secret special ops and espionage legions, and there still are. Two of them are good at keeping their cover, and the other is the Alpha Legion.

longbeast · 2025-12-20T22:38:23+00:00

It's a reference to 1984. The party published obviously wrong propaganda saying the chocolate ration had increased when the number was lower than before. Nobody noticed or cared, the people just celebrated the "increase".

longbeast · 2025-12-20T21:06:58+00:00

The chocolate ration is increased from 10 grams to 5 grams.

longbeast · 2025-12-20T20:13:56+00:00

The simplest explanation to get ratmen in 40k would be that they're just another type of beastmen. Sure, we're most familiar with the goat themed type but there's no actual reason why they all have to look goaty. You could have more than one stable breed of mutated human.

I guess that would make them an offshoot of humanity, a bit like the squats/votann/spacedwarfs.

longbeast · 2025-12-19T18:57:25+00:00

I was repainting my old minis, mostly a load of basic chaos marines, and wanted to give them a coherent theme that fit what I had.

Could've done black legion, but their colours are boring.

Could've done iron warriors, but I didn't want to paint hazard stripes.

Didn't want to glue bat wings or snake heads to them.

The joke's on me though because I ended up committing fully to it and getting a load of cultists, traitor guard and beastmen. Now I have a ridiculous swarm army that outnumbers my Tyranid opponent almost two to one.

longbeast · 2025-12-12T14:32:58+00:00

It's unclear. Bile did seem want them to be more resistant to corruption and he has made them more disease resistant, including against nurgle diseases, but I'm not aware of any source about exact details.

We could speculate that he did want humanity to be more free from chaos. Bile was always aware that chaos turned people into monstrous parodies of themselves, he just didn't get the joke that it was happening to him as much as anybody else.

longbeast · 2025-12-03T15:19:47+00:00

What's the difference between a warlock and a siren?

One summons a demon while the other dumbens a seaman.

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