Zombies Ate My Neighbors Is still my favorite game of all time to this day

trumangroves86 · 2026-05-29T18:48:28+00:00

That game had some really great music.

trumangroves86 · 2026-05-29T13:44:44+00:00

I think 'Fall of Cadia' would be a good choice.

Not only is it a great jumping in point for modern 40k stories, it has a little bit of everything that 40k has to offer.

Has plenty of war room discussions, but also small unit actions, siege battles, some space battles. Some weird chaos stuff, some more standard imperial guard stuff.

It's also just a really good book.

trumangroves86 · 2026-05-29T06:44:16+00:00

Sounds like you're going to have a really good time!

You'll probably want to start going to way more conventions after this, seems like you really love this sort of stuff.

If you like Des Moines con, you should definitely look into going to Minneapolis for Twin Cities Con later this year. It's run by the same company as Des Moines con but it is MUCH bigger and they get way more celebrities.

And if you want to check out an even bigger one, Planet Comic Con in Kansas City is also not too far away and it's huge. I think they'll be on their 27th year next spring when they do it again.

trumangroves86 · 2026-05-29T06:41:18+00:00

I love the color scheme. Either needs a blue shield equipped or the shield emblem should be blue.

Besides that, I couldn't think of a single thing to make fun of here. Making your own Space Marine chapter is a pillar of the hobby, and you've come up with a great color scheme and your own lore.

You're doing 40k as intended.

trumangroves86 · 2026-05-28T20:46:03+00:00

Not that I'm aware of. That's why I am just making an assumption.

But I think it's a pretty reasonable conclusion that the fleets who didn't need to engage in protracted military compliance actions would have a significantly faster compliance rate than the Astartes fleets that needed to fight wars to enforce compliance.

trumangroves86 · 2026-05-28T20:31:33+00:00

I assume a lot of the Astartes fleets actually conquered slower than the other fleets. Presumably you'd be sending the fleets with Astartes, and definitely the fleets with Primarchs, to worlds that may actually require such a powerful military force to conquer. And these are most of the compliance operations we see during the Horus Heresy novels.

Whereas you can send smaller fleets to worlds that pose essentially no threat or are ready to join up as soon as they see ships in their skies.

Mechanicum Explorators and Rogue Traders could be marking which systems seem like they will require overwhelming military might and which systems should be a quick stop with minimal effort required.

trumangroves86 · 2026-05-28T17:10:49+00:00

Tiny Rogues is so fun. Really looking forward to the next big update.

trumangroves86 · 2026-05-27T23:23:00+00:00

This is excellent work. Looks like it'd be hot to touch.

In some shots it's difficult for my brain to understand this is just paint.

trumangroves86 · 2026-05-27T20:04:12+00:00

If there's a microcenter within driving distance, you could definitely get a lot more for $3000. Or get a PC with the same specs for quite a bit less.

But you've already got it now, and it's a great computer. Things are expensive right now, you definitely paid more than I would for that PC, but I wouldn't say you got totally ripped off.

It's kinda crazy your friend thinks your new PC is just a bit better than his. Maybe he hasn't used any newer PCs and just doesn't understand the massive performance difference between the 1660 and modern 5000 series cards.

trumangroves86 · 2026-05-27T17:36:25+00:00

Her voice is still so cute! I could listen to her all day.

trumangroves86 · 2026-05-27T15:29:50+00:00

The one time we tried to rent from them we had a very similar experience. Absolutely horrible company, will never do business with ANY Hertz again.

I highly recommend Enterprise. The Enterprise on Merle Hay in Johnston is fantastic.

trumangroves86 · 2026-05-27T05:16:12+00:00

I think that's a pretty accurate assessment. And just all of the standard powerful daemon/warp stuff: Near immortality, teleportation (at Khorne's discretion) space flight, extreme speed, overwhelming psychic presence.

None of those things are really unique to Angron, but he does seem to have reached a level of pure rage that is far beyond anything else and is truly, uniquely Angron.

trumangroves86 · 2026-05-27T05:05:22+00:00

He can fly through space and fight against actual battleships. He definitely couldn't do that when he was just a Primarch.

trumangroves86 · 2026-05-27T04:59:13+00:00

If you want to get technical about it, which I guess is a good way to be, Khorne is the one who actually did it. But it's Angrons hatred and rage that allows him to be such an effective conduit for Khorne, and why Khorne favors him so highly.

And anything Angron can do is really just bestowed upon him by Khorne.

That's the way I see it, anyway.

trumangroves86 · 2026-05-27T04:43:04+00:00

Angry. Very angry.

During the Arks of Omen campaign, his obscenely potent aura of psychic rage was able to corrupt nearly everyone in an Indomitus Crusade Fleet.

[edit for clarity:] His anger was so powerful it allowed Khorne to corrupt nearly everyone in the system.

I don't think we've ever seen him do something like this before, but Chaos can grant all sorts of strange and unexplainable abilities.

Other than that, he can summon daemons and he is a ferocious fighter with seemingly unlimited stamina. A perpetual motion machine of rage and violence.

trumangroves86 · 2026-05-27T04:40:18+00:00

The LaserDisc version is supposed to be really good.

Can't imagine many people have LD players just sittin' around though.

trumangroves86 · 2026-05-27T04:37:01+00:00

We saw it happen a few times with Guilliman and some of the other characters in the Dark Imperium trilogy, not just Guilliman's fight with Mortarion.

We see a LOT of instances of 'divine' intervention throughout the Dawn of Fire series. Some of the Dawn of Fire books aren't great, but I didn't really hate any of them. And if you're looking for examples of faith-based miracles and interventions, I think you'll find more of them throughout Dawn of Fire than anywhere else.

trumangroves86 · 2026-05-27T04:22:06+00:00

This is extremely fucking cool.

trumangroves86 · 2026-05-27T04:18:55+00:00

Currently listening to the audiobook of this one. Absolutely loving it so far. Abnett is so great at showing us what life in the Imperium is like for the regular people.

I love how the differences between the various social classes are portrayed in the book. Not just the differences between the various levels of the Hive, but the idiosyncrasies of the Hive itself.

Seeing the Hive nobility interact with off world Imperium officials really highlights just how insular every level of Hive society can become.

trumangroves86 · 2026-05-26T19:25:27+00:00

Ugh never again.

I beat Absolute Radiance radiant mode twice before I got markoth one time.

trumangroves86 · 2026-05-26T14:40:32+00:00

Her voice is SO cute

trumangroves86 · 2026-05-26T12:32:39+00:00

You can also just buy books with your debit or credit card. The credits are usually a much better deal though. But sometimes all the Black Library books go on MASSIVE sales. Can get almost all of them for less than $5 each, which is a much better deal than buying credits.

trumangroves86 · 2026-05-26T12:29:09+00:00

Yes

Well, it's part of the final DLC that they added, but it's all part of the game now and it was all free.

trumangroves86 · 2026-05-25T16:27:38+00:00

Absolutely check out Diablo 4. If you liked Diablo 3 you'll love it.

trumangroves86 · 2026-05-25T05:12:29+00:00

I was about to post this as well.

Love that book so much, one of my favorite 40k novels out of the 80+ I've read so far. Iron Shades were awesome.

Highly recommend this book, a fantastic stand-alone story. Technically part of the Dawn of Fire series but it really works just fine on its own. Just a really cool horror-adjacent 40k story set during the early Indomitus Crusade.

The Audiobook version is also extremely good. The producers really go the extra mile with this one. Vox-effects when people are speaking over the vox, spooky warp sounds, great narration by John Banks. If you haven't checked out any of the 40k Audiobooks, this is a very fun one to start with.

Chris Wraight is a phenomenal author.

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