Mr Mystery
08-29-2015, 08:43 AM
Yep.
I'm gonna go there.
So, it's the dawning of the 31st Millennium.
And there you, pootling about in your little Xenos enclave. The Boyz are having a great time krumpin' stuff, your brother Eldar are recovering from the disaster of The Fall. Your custom-designed Organisms are, so far as anyone knows light years away. The majority of your Tomb Worlds have once again managed to hit the snooze button. Your Sept? Well, let's be honest, you're probably still frolicking in the primordial soup, so you can sit this one out.
But oh noes! What's this?
IT'S THE SODDING IMPERIUM COME TO KICK ALL YOUR TEETH OUT IN THE NAME OF THE EMPEROR!
Goodness gracious there's a lot of them. Look at them. Swarming like a....like a swarmy stain type thing. They're organise, they've got more dakka than you shake a Squig at and they're a-comin' for you and yours.
Whatcha gonna do eh?
Well, when your stuck against a rock and a xenocidal force there's only one thing to do....
Get the toy's aht Ernie....we're goin' the full tickle.
Yep. It's a thread about what sort of filth might the Xenos of old have had when the Great Crusade turned out to have an inaccurate prefix if you weren't a weedy humie.
Spinning off from the 30k/40k thread, because I had a thought (I know, I've had a lie down already and now I'm feeling chipper). There's only about four xenos species that we know were, or could realistically have been, encountered by the Great Crusade - Craftworld Eldar, Dark Eldar, Orks (there's always Orkses!) and Necrons (albeit likely without the Imperium knowing just whose metallic teeth they were kicking out).
And none of those species have really change over the years - they're either already locked into a spiral of ennui (Eldars), never going to advance beyond Know-Wots (Orks) or a (not quite) living embodiment of cultural inertia.
So for the most part, the 40k ranges can be happily ported straight on over, though perhaps with point tweaks and squad cap enlargements.
Yet....that's not the whole picture.
For Orks? Well you're average Orky Empire would likely have been a lot larger, meaning biggerer, meanerer Warbosses wot make Ghaz look like a Weedy Grot. Remember, it took Horus and The Emperor to take down the biggest example known to the Imperium.
Eldar? Fall had just happened. For Craftworld Eldar, they might have had snackier toys eventually lost to the ages because of the Great Crusade following hot on the heels of their biggest tragedy. Craftworlds themselves might have made use of now-forbidden tech, on account it was absolutely 100% 'do it or we all die'. Dark Eldar? Well, the Haemonculi hadn't had a chance to get bored yet. Who knows what horrors they could make before that became boring?
Necrons? Well.....we already know they can chuck a Black Hole at you just because they can....
So, suggestions people. What sort of 'Heresy Era' tech (based on known background thank you) would you like to see?
I'm gonna go there.
So, it's the dawning of the 31st Millennium.
And there you, pootling about in your little Xenos enclave. The Boyz are having a great time krumpin' stuff, your brother Eldar are recovering from the disaster of The Fall. Your custom-designed Organisms are, so far as anyone knows light years away. The majority of your Tomb Worlds have once again managed to hit the snooze button. Your Sept? Well, let's be honest, you're probably still frolicking in the primordial soup, so you can sit this one out.
But oh noes! What's this?
IT'S THE SODDING IMPERIUM COME TO KICK ALL YOUR TEETH OUT IN THE NAME OF THE EMPEROR!
Goodness gracious there's a lot of them. Look at them. Swarming like a....like a swarmy stain type thing. They're organise, they've got more dakka than you shake a Squig at and they're a-comin' for you and yours.
Whatcha gonna do eh?
Well, when your stuck against a rock and a xenocidal force there's only one thing to do....
Get the toy's aht Ernie....we're goin' the full tickle.
Yep. It's a thread about what sort of filth might the Xenos of old have had when the Great Crusade turned out to have an inaccurate prefix if you weren't a weedy humie.
Spinning off from the 30k/40k thread, because I had a thought (I know, I've had a lie down already and now I'm feeling chipper). There's only about four xenos species that we know were, or could realistically have been, encountered by the Great Crusade - Craftworld Eldar, Dark Eldar, Orks (there's always Orkses!) and Necrons (albeit likely without the Imperium knowing just whose metallic teeth they were kicking out).
And none of those species have really change over the years - they're either already locked into a spiral of ennui (Eldars), never going to advance beyond Know-Wots (Orks) or a (not quite) living embodiment of cultural inertia.
So for the most part, the 40k ranges can be happily ported straight on over, though perhaps with point tweaks and squad cap enlargements.
Yet....that's not the whole picture.
For Orks? Well you're average Orky Empire would likely have been a lot larger, meaning biggerer, meanerer Warbosses wot make Ghaz look like a Weedy Grot. Remember, it took Horus and The Emperor to take down the biggest example known to the Imperium.
Eldar? Fall had just happened. For Craftworld Eldar, they might have had snackier toys eventually lost to the ages because of the Great Crusade following hot on the heels of their biggest tragedy. Craftworlds themselves might have made use of now-forbidden tech, on account it was absolutely 100% 'do it or we all die'. Dark Eldar? Well, the Haemonculi hadn't had a chance to get bored yet. Who knows what horrors they could make before that became boring?
Necrons? Well.....we already know they can chuck a Black Hole at you just because they can....
So, suggestions people. What sort of 'Heresy Era' tech (based on known background thank you) would you like to see?