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Full Horus Heresy Series Timeline Interactive Chart (0 replies)
Kharn: The Read Path (0 replies)
Carcharadon Astra: Red Tithe (0 replies)
R&D: Chimerro, Chimerax and the Chimedon Imperial Vehicles (0 replies)
Primaris Blood Ravens! How is this possible? (7 replies)
Horus Heresy: The Emperor of Mankind - War in the Webway (0 replies)
Ruminations on post-Fall of Cadia/Gathering Storm and Primaris Marines 40K (1 replies)
Horus Heresy: The Seventh Serpent, by Graham McNeil (2 replies)
Black Legion: The Talon of Horus, by Aaron Dembski-Bowden (0 replies)
Why Have Orks Lost Their Seriousness? (7 replies)
What do people think about the daemoneculaba concept? (0 replies)
How do people feel about the daemoneculaba concept? (0 replies)
What's up with Fulgrim? (0 replies)
Jago "Sevatar" Savatarion lore (6 replies)
My 40k Lore youtube channel (2 replies)
*SPOILERS* Trazyn the infinite question **FALL OF CADIA SPOILERS** (1 replies)
Choas Space Marines - how many there should be? (0 replies)
Historical/Literary/Conceptual Sources For Space Chapters/Legions - HELP NEEDED (7 replies)
how old is the Stormwolf / Storfang design (1 replies)
Custodes and Sisters of Silence. (4 replies)
Eldar Mythology inspiration (2 replies)
Mercenaries for Dark Eldar (3 replies)
Angel's Blade sourcebook curiosities (6 replies)
*Spoilers* Praetorian of Dorn (7 replies)
Black Crusade - hopes and expectations (8 replies)
Enslavers - Backround, art, speculation (1 replies)
Kharn: Eater of Worlds novel (3 replies)
40k's silliest units (26 replies)
Emerald Fists - The Siege of Bruj - Illustrated Narrative Book (10 replies)
Angels of Caliban (10 replies)
Space Wolf Great Company (10 replies)
Scenarios, missions, etc. (1 replies)
HH Dark Angels colour: (2 replies)
new Sslyth tidbits (9 replies)
The much Maligned Lasgun (50 replies)
Abaddon is going to Win (and it's all Guilliman's fault) (52 replies)
Illithids in 40k (5 replies)
Which Primarch sounded like Rodney Dangerfield? (2 replies)
Custom Chapter/Craftworld/Regiment etc. Fluff Contest (1 replies)
The Rubric of Ahriman, and loyalist Thousand Sons (10 replies)
Chaos and the universality of four (5 replies)
Just when did Horus lose? (36 replies)
Legacy of Caliban trilogy (2 replies)
Posting Fluff (3 replies)
Interesting 40K Easter Eggs in other media (10 replies)
Wolf King (1 replies)
Gods of Mars - Book 3 of The Mars Trilogy by Graham McNeil (4 replies)
Lunch Time Ponderings - How do the Traitor Legions recruit? (9 replies)
D-Cannons: Dragged into Warp Space (12 replies)
Eldar Theorizing (14 replies)
Word Bearers and Cult marines (5 replies)
Could Eldar go further with their spirit stones? (8 replies)
How Big Are Imperial Knight Houses (3 replies)
Horus Heresy Chapters - a matter of choice? (17 replies)
So...do White Scars have devastator squads now or what? (15 replies)
40k Space Marine equipment in 30k (Horus Heresy). (0 replies)
Tau Crisis suits are just too small. (3 replies)
Horus Heresy: Deathfire (1 replies)
Would harlequins ever team up with grey knights? (16 replies)
40k Novel help (6 replies)
Why time travelers haven't fixed the 40K universe. (32 replies)
Loss of your Imperial Knight (5 replies)
Tau Vs Chaos Space Marines and Tyranid - Custom Mission (1 replies)
Fluff for your non-traditional allies. (5 replies)
Space Marine battles: Pandorax (22 replies)
A Question of Etymology (7 replies)
Pick 'n' Mix Background - what's your flavour? (5 replies)
Help! Which God? (4 replies)
Interested in a Warhammer 20K? and an alternate 40k universe? (29 replies)
SM Chapters: Distribution/Demography (23 replies)
Eldar - No Path of innovation/invention? (13 replies)
Imperium Smash! Relieving a single pressure point = victory? (17 replies)
Imperium or Traitors - Who is in worse shape? (9 replies)
The Thousand Sons look (5 replies)
Daemon Prince Appearance? (12 replies)
The weapons of Tarik Torgaddon. (4 replies)
Does the Eldar race have a hopeful future again? (14 replies)
Could the Legions be reconstituted? (54 replies)
Newbe Lore Questions: Eldar (2 replies)
Need help with Epic Warhammer 40k (4 replies)
Where in the 40K galaxy, could the Warhammer World be? (15 replies)
Best Novels for SMs (15 replies)
Short story to justify a desperate alliance (0 replies)
horus heresy fleets (3 replies)
Help Wanted: Looking for ideas for a Titan-oriented narrative campaign :) (1 replies)
Tempestus or Deathstorm: Which to read first? (3 replies)
Ahriman: Exile (0 replies)
Daemons and Enslavers (7 replies)
Spacemarine pilots - all techmarines? (15 replies)
Play by Post RPG - Imperial Guard Story, Sign Up! (4 replies)
Space Wolf Storm Wolf colour scheme - help wanted. (4 replies)
Top 10 Scariest Monsters in the 40k Universe (Halloween Video) (6 replies)
Great Crusade Markings For Space Marines (0 replies)
500~ Word Story - Imperial Guard (0 replies)
Harlequin Anti-Air (4 replies)
How many souls in a wraithguard? (10 replies)
Terran Recruitment (11 replies)
Fluff question: Space Marine Chaplain of the Omnissiah? (7 replies)
Yarrick Formation (0 replies)
Astartes: First contact (12 replies)
The Talon of Horus by Aaron Dembski-Bowden - Review & Discussion (2 replies)
Size of Inquisition? (7 replies)
Forgotten Lore... (33 replies)
Priests of Mars (adeptus Machnicus trilogy book 1) (3 replies)
Is this timing even possible? (4 replies)
Scars: Horus Heresy book 28 (12 replies)
Stormbird Transport (15 replies)
The Purge. A mini review and plot clues..... (1 replies)
Are Navigators psykers? (31 replies)
Who or what are the man at arms that the Imperial Knights take to war with them? (15 replies)
Damnation of Pythos. (6 replies)
New ork fluff!!! Development (0 replies)
Legio Crucious (2 replies)
there are no wolves on fenris (15 replies)
Craftworld Eldar Aspect Colours (18 replies)
Were female Primarchs the next step in the Emperor's plan? (78 replies)
Unforgiven Successors - A Theory & Army Fluff (2 replies)
my diy Space Marine chapter (3 replies)
Space Marine Chapter Confusion (8 replies)
Help finding a post (2 replies)
I think this is a hoax/forgery. (23 replies)
Are the Eldar actually good guys? (72 replies)
Understanding the setting. (19 replies)
Where Do Orks Get Paint? (31 replies)
Battle of the Primarchs (12 replies)
O'shovah & The Tau are the Reason for the Collapse of Warhammer 40,000!!! (27 replies)
Primarchs' fall to Chaos (37 replies)
The Testament of Inquisitor Alisabet Aronide, Ordo Malleus (1 replies)
Chapters potentially founded from Traitor geneseed? (33 replies)
What Color is Alpha Legion???? (13 replies)
Machine Spirit Personalities for Various Vehicles and Gear (17 replies)
Unremembered Empire (27 replies)
Help tracking down an old short story (1 replies)
Kabal of the Falling Moon (0 replies)
The recall of the Fists (11 replies)
Horus Heresy - the series: who would play each Primarch? (23 replies)
Vulkan Lives (14 replies)
Another debate on female space marines but humor me for a second (256 replies)
Bonds of Ta'lissera [40K Fan Story] (2 replies)
Freeblade Knights (4 replies)
Imperial Logistics, Imperial Guard (41 replies)
What is a typical SM Command Squad payload? (13 replies)
Making your games matter in the fluff. (1 replies)
Know Your (Imperial) Knights (6 replies)
Chaos V Loyalist, Supply V Demand, and a discussion thereof. (121 replies)
Superheavy Tank ID Chart/Naming Tool (26 replies)
Betrayer and Mark of Calth (9 replies)
A Cure for the Post-Ravenor Blues (21 replies)
Let's Play a Game... (14 replies)
Artefacts of Vulkan (3 replies)
Inquisitor Background Brainstorm (3 replies)
Bloodfather- Lion Warriors Space Marine Fan Fiction (0 replies)
Wolf Hunt/Magnus: SPOILERS (8 replies)
Design question for Imperium terrain (5 replies)
Latet Verum; The Truth Beyond the Page: Kaldor Draigo (34 replies)
The 5th Demon (6 replies)
[Horus Heresy Review] Unremembered Empire (9 replies)
What is the correct placing of shoulder pad iconography? (6 replies)
Are the Mysterious Carcharodons Actually War Hounds Returning from Deep Space? (41 replies)
Hammer and Bolter V2 (5 replies)
Imperium Technological Decline? (19 replies)
Pandorax & Draigo. (12 replies)
Could Mephiston be a perpetual? Who else.... (35 replies)
My yet to be named Craftworld Ideas (7 replies)
Astarte?????? (11 replies)
Info on Red Templers (3 replies)
Discrepencies in Scale: Battlesuits (9 replies)
Pandorax and its info: MASSIVE SPOILERS! (21 replies)
Will we see a IH centric book in Horus Heresy? (6 replies)
Where does the Heresy have to go from here? (8 replies)
Is Fulgrim Fulgrim? or has the daemon bound with in the Lear sword taken him over? (12 replies)
Warhammer 40k Fan Fiction: Xenobane (0 replies)
Does Lion El'Jonsson have Asperger's Syndrome? (41 replies)
DA books and short stories. (5 replies)
Sources on Craftworld Alaitoc (8 replies)
Unremembered Empire (4 replies)
Sisters Repentia (2 replies)
The Outcast Dead ++[SPOILERS WITHIN]++ (14 replies)
What is the entity living inside Lady Malys? (7 replies)
Tarot (11 replies)
Grav & Graviton Weaponry (2 replies)
Wraith "counts as" Aspect Warriors. (16 replies)
Please please please don't deconstruct the emperor! (33 replies)
The Fanaris Signal (3 replies)
So what happened to the rest of Eisenhorn vs Ravenor (9 replies)
Khaine = Khorne (20 replies)
Occurences of Tengwar use in Rogue Trader (8 replies)
Are painboys a type of nob? (9 replies)
Space Marine painting vehicle crews (9 replies)
The Church of Progression-Fluff for my Daemon/IG army (3 replies)
Existing SM Chapter Name Check (1 replies)
My Own Created Fluff For The Moltovan Guard (Imperial Guard Regiment) (11 replies)
This color scheme match any Space Marine Chapters? (11 replies)
suns of ultramar: any of them named? (2 replies)
The 41st Millenium - The Second Age of Strife? (22 replies)
The methodology of Khorne... (15 replies)
Grey Knight Origins and CSM Parallels (36 replies)
Guilliman and the time-locked stasis seal... (21 replies)
Most powerful/influential Chapter (106 replies)
Codex: Space Marines 6.0 - DIY successor chapters (6 replies)
Centurions' Heraldry (8 replies)
Aaron Dembski-Bowden on Abbadon (2 replies)
Help with Imperial Fists - Fluff, Iconography, Organisation etc (12 replies)
Abaddon the Despoiler: Fun ADB Blogpost (25 replies)
"Beyond The Call of Duty" | WH40K FanFiction (2 replies)
"The Devil's Wall" | Fan Fiction (6 replies)
Perturabo - A Mary-Sue? (16 replies)
"The Sacrifice of Valor" | WH40K FanFiction (12 replies)
Terran Legions (6 replies)
Betrayer (12 replies)
The Mechanics of the Leman Russ (20 replies)
Path Series Omnibus cover art (3 replies)
Let me introduce you Ambrose; you can call him Colonel Karter though! (3 replies)
Berserker titles (13 replies)
Astartes weight and height (17 replies)
Soul Trap/Tesseract Labyrinth question. (5 replies)
BL limited hardbacks (0 replies)
Squat Weaponry (4 replies)
How would you write this? (9 replies)
Background/inspiration for an event (1 replies)
It's cold outside.... (1 replies)
Iyanna Arienal (13 replies)
Of Backpacks and Powerarmor (15 replies)
Chaos Space Marine Creation and training (11 replies)
Dark angels and the fallen (14 replies)
A Thin Line: A Warhammer 40,000 Short Story (1 replies)
Pendana IV, Part III (0 replies)
Terran Origins of the Death guard - HELP!!! (40 replies)
Nikea Question (13 replies)
The Carnac Campaign - Eldargal Reviews Nightspear, Sky Hunter & Spirit War (12 replies)
Pendana IV, Part II (0 replies)
Why no camouflage? (35 replies)
Of Phoenix Lords and Aspects (18 replies)
Pandora IV, Part I (0 replies)
Tau: frogs, fish, or camels? (31 replies)
Quick question regarding DA Deathwing Interrogator-Chaplains (5 replies)
Drop Pod recovery (20 replies)
An old book that may have inspired 40k. (9 replies)
Iyanden Supplement Bckground (33 replies)
Horus Heresy: which book to go for next? (6 replies)
The Machine Spirit of Humanism: A Mythology of The Future (2 replies)
Alpha Legion, just who's side at they on really ? (4 replies)
40k Story: The Taint of the Brony (humorous 40k story) (1 replies)
Magnus and Agathon: Short 40k Story (0 replies)
How are Riptides transported? (8 replies)
On second thought this seemed more appropriate under background:Astartes Sexuality (36 replies)
The admin. Lady said I should post it on here... So I did. (0 replies)
The purging of kadillus: Epic fail? (35 replies)
Crafting a credible "Fallen angels" strikeforce (6 replies)
plot V setting (4 replies)