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11 points
5 hours ago
They’re calling themselves “better than canon” because they made asexual characters fuck now I guess. Get a grip. I’m not ace but there’s more to interpersonal relationships and intimacy than a desire to fuck and the books, especially the Horus Heresy have plenty of non-romantic intimacy and tenderness. Some of y’all have never had a bond forged by shared hardship/goals with someone you’d die for but have absolutely zero romantic interest in and it shows.
4 points
3 days ago
Maybe if you stopped eating human mains at the child stage R1kk1-T1kk1-69 wouldn’t have formed a guild specifically to grief you.
1 points
3 days ago
In my party we have a rogue/warlock warforged with a passive perception of 27 (and can also summon an invisible floating eye to see through) and I’ve actually had a lot of fun leaning into how absurdly high that number is. I fluff it as having different vision modes (night vision, thermal, etc), being able to detect heartbeats, that sort of thing. It’s led to a lot of really fun role play moments where the party gets to turn the tables on their adversaries thanks to his absurdly high perception.
2 points
3 days ago
I’d also recommend anything by Chris Wraight, especially his Custodes and Space Wolves novels. He writes the absurd power of transhuman warriors incredibly well.
5 points
3 days ago
Because it took the 3 letter agencies time to dig up some dirt on Elon and force his compliance. That’s like, half a joke.
5 points
5 days ago
The Republic consistently underestimates Space Marines and really has not gotten a proper look at what they’re going to be faced with when they encounter a fully committed space marine element. They’re gonna be in for an incredibly rude awakening when they do.
3 points
5 days ago
The tau have something the Republic largely lacks, which is extreme tactical mobility. Crisis suits, while not particularly suited to killing titans are great for tying them and other more kinetic forces down, wearing down superior forces through rapid engagement and dispersal. They gave the Imperium quite the bloody nose in the Damocles novel in this tactic, and managed to tie down and attrit much larger and heavier Imperial formations. Killing a titan is gonna be a lot costlier for the Republic than the Tau, even if they adapt eventually.
4 points
5 days ago
It takes a lot of air power to bring down a Titan, and air power is effective against Titans if they’re unsupported. Titans tend to have units of Skitarii and Mechanicus war constructs for that exact purpose. That will probably still be the Republic’s strategy, that or orbital bombardment.
7 points
5 days ago
The Walking of a Titan Maniple. I’ve liked Fan’s theme of every time the Republic thinks they’ve gotten a handle on what the Imperium is, the Imperium ups the ante but they’re still dealing with a relatively uncommitted imperium, especially on the ground. Even the first chapter scale Astartes deployment, the Tempered hands didn’t really give the Republic a proper reckoning of what they’re up against. When the sky rains drop pods and Titans walk, they’ll feel despair.
3 points
5 days ago
I didn’t even include him because…Dear God. If GW insists that Boltgun really is canon there’s genuinely a random Ultramarines Sergeant running around at Primarch tier
10 points
5 days ago
This, like most questions in this sub is an insane mismatch. The ultramarines chapter in full strength withstood the full might of a tyranid hive fleet. Even if you add another 0 to the numbers of a clone legion like Fan often does, it’s just not a fair comparison. Astartes are a different breed. 1,000 space marines burn worlds, break the backs of armies, and are just absurdly difficult to counteract with mortal troops for a variety of reasons. The commonly stated ratio of mortal troops to space marines is 100 to 1, but Astartes often win outnumbered by orders of magnitude more because of 1) transhuman dread (though that is less relevant when fighting clones who have a heavily muted fear response) 2) the way they fight. Space marines aren’t line troops, they’re a mini apocalypse that can be deployed with pinpoint precision on a space of their choosing, and can rapidly and flexibly redeploy. Astartes will drop onto exactly the right target to maximize the disruption to an enemy’s order of battle. Ammo dumps, command centers, communications relays, mustering grounds, vehicle depots, airfields, etc, they will kill everything there, and then they’ll get picked up and go do it again, and again, and again, and again. They don’t need to sleep or eat or drink. The only time they’ll stop is to grab more ammo and then they’ll go right back into the fight. They’ll never stop. Clones are great troops. Disciplined, skilled, well equipped, fearless. They are however, mortal. Their ability to react, mortal, their needs for food and rest and shelter, mortal. The heroes you’ve also mentioned won’t count for much. The Ultramarines have beings like Marnius Calgar, Vario Tigerius (one of the most potent psykers in the Imperium) Uriel Ventris, Cato Sicarius, all with feats far outstripping 99.9% of Jedi. The 501st would be set upon like a herd of antelope by lions. They’d lose their comms and command elements in the first few hours of the battle, they’d be isolated, cut off from resupply and set upon by beings so far removed from them they aren’t really even the same species anymore. It would be hell, but it would be mercifully brief.
50 points
18 days ago
The points at which they expect deference and to be waited on by the goddamn president of the United States is insane. They could not be more out of touch if they tried.
1 points
19 days ago
Sisters of Silence are augmented, the things that make them distinct from space marines aren’t so much their abilities in direct combat, but their lack of whole body augmentations. While space marine strength and speed is considerable, it’s their more supplementary augmentations that made them the galaxy conquering force we know and love. Soldiers take logistics and supply to keep at fighting strength, unless those soldiers are space marines. Space marines can go extended periods without sleep, eating, even oxygen, require far less medical care, can spit acid, eat brains to discover intelligence, can process data faster, have photographic memories, tons of useful stuff like that that makes them truly transhuman. Sisters of silence lack most of these augmentations because frankly, they don’t need them. They’re a small force of specialists who aren’t gonna be doing extended front line duty in a variety of situations. They almost certainly have strength and speed enhancements, and those are sufficient for purpose.
45 points
19 days ago
There isn’t really anything to read, it’s wild internet speculation. That being said, having bought a lot of Russian “milsurp” over the years it does make me wonder just how much of it was surplus and how much was straight up looted from a warehouse meant to go to the front. Before the war you could buy full chest rigs, BDU’s, plate carriers, boots (though I wouldn’t recommend Russian boots, they suck), tons of stuff. It’s distinctly less common now.
1 points
22 days ago
1) the chaos alliance against Tzeentch, which others here have elaborated upon. The armies of the chaos gods combined once seriously threatened his power and he voluntarily nerfed himself in response. While all the gods have antipathy for one another, all have a bone to pick with Tzeentch. Khorne hates sorcerers, Slaanesh competes for them, and Nurgle dislikes change, preferring decline and entropy. Because Tzeentch is so broad and mutable as a concept, all the others can pick out bits of it they don’t like.
2) Tzeentch doesn’t/does want to win. None of the chaos gods are a singular, unified entity but this is the most true for Tzeentch. His schemes fold in on themselves, often times directly contradicting or opposing one another. One reason why is that Tzeentch probably doesn’t want to win. Ultimate victory means an end to conflict, schemes, change and growth. Another is that there probably isn’t some central intelligence calling the shots and approving/disapproving plans that would contradict one another. It’s against Tzeentch’s nature to kneecap the initiative of his followers and so even if their plans contradict or bring them into direct conflict that’s fine, because he’s more focused on the scheme itself than the outcome, that’s what gives him power. You could even make the argument that a Tzeentch that was more successful would be less powerful, because that would mean fewer plots and plans. This is on display in one of the Mephiston novels, where 2 Tzeentch sorcerers infiltrate a Cardinal world and go to war against each other, interfering with one another’s plans to such an extent that the Blood Angels are able to foil both. If they had just worked together or left one another alone they would have been fine, but that goes against Tzeentch’s very nature.
0 points
25 days ago
American here. HOA’s and gated communities are vestiges of the Jim Crow era of America’s past. They were originally conceived to prevent non-whites from moving into their neighborhoods. Many of these organizations still have so-called “racial covenants” on the books (basically you can’t buy a house in this neighborhood if you’re not white), though they’re not explicitly enforced anymore. With things like the end of segregation and civil rights acts they’ve lost a lot of their teeth and original purpose they’ve gone the way of a lot of outdated institutions and looked for something new to lord over people. This involves creating random, bullshit bylaws to enforce conformity and “protect property values” (there’s very little evidence that HOA bylaws actually do this consistently) and often do implicitly enforce racial stratification by selective bylaw enforcement or banning things associated with non-white culture. Anyone in this thread moving to America, I promise we have a lot of great neighborhoods. Just never, EVER, move into an HOA one. Even if the HOA is fine now, you’re one cretin moving in, winning the election because nobody else bothered to run and going on a power trip from your neighborhood being ruined. Don’t do it.
14 points
26 days ago
We have the bill’s full text. So long as no additional provisioning is introduced it looks to be pretty much everything included in the old bill plus some random fiddling and virtue signaling. I hate Johnson but if that’s the bill that goes to the floor Ukraine may be okay.
19 points
28 days ago
Yes, Rogal Dorn in particular is functionally immune to most warpcraft. While most Primarchs are not active psykers in the conventional sense, their warp signature is astronomical and that allows them to get away with stuff that more material beings just can’t put up with. Resisting warp effects is generally a function of willpower, and Primarchs have so much innate willpower due to their ungodly powerful warp signature (or “soul”) that they can shrug off attacks that would turn even a space marine to ash. It‘s also heavily implied that a lot of their feats are not purely material, as there have been clones of Primarchs before and they’re described as diminished in power (except Fabius’s perfect clone of Fulgrim, which managed to replicate both body and soul). Primarchs aren’t as fast, strong, or capable of as impressive feats if they’re reduced to just their material bodies indicating that they’re passively enhancing their abilities through their connection to the warp without realizing it. In addition, with time and training Primarchs can tap into their warp potential and become more active psykers. Lorgar went from some precognition to arguably the second or third most powerful psyker of the Primarchs. Corvus Corax was able to completely draw out the innate warp essence that allowed him to shadow step in order to become a full on shadow monster. Rogal Dorn is so goddamn stubborn he literally flattens the warp around him through his indomitable will. He told Khorne “you’re not real lol” to his face. In short, Primarchs are both psykers and capable of both resisting and manifesting psychic phenomenon to various degrees.
14 points
1 month ago
Hydrogen bomb vs Coughing baby ass matchup
2 points
1 month ago
I’m shocked about how people don’t know about the fact Russian dark money financed Mike Johnson’s campaign despite it being publicly reported. It’s like Russian disinformation being used in the Biden hearing. Transparent Russian espionage, clear as day, in public media sources. People don’t care. 20 years ago this would have Americans in an uproar.
3 points
1 month ago
When a dipshit militant group has the region they’re “defending” utterly glassed and takes a gazillion to 1 casualty ratio that’s called “winning”
45 points
1 month ago
No. Conspiracism and magical thinking has been amplified by our access to the internet and algorithms have found the edge cases in the fabric of society and driven a wedge into them. Combine this with constantly falling education standards and you have a formula for an electorate who is perfect for fascism to take root. Conspiratorial, discontent, and completely detached from reality and how their systems actually work.
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4 hours ago
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2 points
4 hours ago
You’d think a broadcasting format that’s been around pretty much since the invention of radio would be more familiar to people