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It's possible what Gandalf is thinking of is that there were a small number of people who did get in a sense 'special consideration' because - as Dalton notes - its Mike's board and Mike's rules. It wasn't ASVS so much I believe as it was certain people in the SW vs ST circles he ran in (Brian Young...

if that's the non Lexicanum wiki I would be wary of citing their sources. I KNOW they have a tendency to make up unsourced shit. Most wikis do in fact. And even the 'reliable' ones (Lexicanum) will provide incomplete sourcing or source from different editions without people realizing it (which can c...

I'll note this doesn't mean doing such calcs are POINTLESS, mind. I'm just saying it doesn't pay to get too fixated on a particular outcome or a particular way of doing it. Starting on particular assumptions that 'it needs to be continent destroying' for a particular weapon (as opposed to an entire ...

I honestly don't worry that much about pinning down specific firepower numbers. For one thing it operates on a huge range of variables that literally vary by many orders of magnitude (a factor of millions LITERALLY between the high and low ends easily) and an even greater degree of context (ship to ...

Thank you very much Connor, so there's a huge variability in thickness, from ship to ship. So if you remember any other quote about the thickness in other ships? They'd probably be buried in all my analysis if there are. The only ones I remember offhand probably come from the FFG RPGs (I think ther...

It can range from a few meters thick (5 meters in the first Bation Wars novel Emperor's mercy) to tens of kilometers thick (Black Crusade RPG core rulebook by Fantasy Flight Games, and that was a Grand cruiser. Then you have really crazy shit like 'kilometres thick' armor plates (nevermind the hull)...

By licensing, but in the most absurdly restrictive and aggressive kind that would make the RIAA/MPAA and similar real life organizations look restrained and progressive. As Necron_Lord says the AdMech are very secretive/protective of their technology monopoly (so much they deceive, manipulate and ki...

Man I forgot abou tthis totally. Last update for Shield of Humanity. Been caught up with the SB stuff. Page 75 The most common customisations by far pertain to the stock, trigger assembly, and optics of the weapon. Such alterations may range from custom-carved stocks, to salvaged or refurbished part...

Another Only War update: Page 33 Super-heavy armoured regiments are rare in comparison to other types of armoured regiments, and tend to come only from worlds with close ties to the Adeptus Mechanicus. Since Forge Worlds only produce Superheavies (usually.) AdMech associated facilities like factory/...

Back with a new SDN update for only war.. in conjunction with my SB updating. This time, Shield of Humanity, which covers abhumans, associated organizations (Ecclesiarchy and AdMech types) and a few other fun things. And we also finally get speed values for the Tauros! figure several updates probabl...

Back with a new SDN update for only war.. in conjunction with my SB updating. This time, Shield of Humanity, which covers abhumans, associated organizations (Ecclesiarchy and AdMech types) and a few other fun things. And we also finally get speed values for the Tauros! figure several updates probabl...

Technically its always been possible to manifest outside of the warp, it just takes a Chaos God IIRC a huge expenditure of power to do so, and in most cases they would deem it a risk (leaving them weaker against the other Chaos Gods.) If true (this being 40K) it would be interesting to speculate why...

Back from almost a year ago with a new Black Crusade update. Yes it took them that long to release Tome of Decay, it seems. FFG got caught up in their acquisition of the Star Wars RPG license (as well as expanding the shit out of that) and a bunch of new things, as well as fleshing out only war. And...

I still can't really find words to express it myself. I knew and remembere talking to Nitram long ago during the early days of the board and the pre-SDN ASVS era. We sorta fell out of communication and I feel bad about that, honestly, but I still liked the guy. I took this long to come and speak bec...

Now, Twilight crusade: Page 7 As recently as two generations ago, the Modren Dynasty was a successful (if oft-overshadowed) house, with a veritable flotilla to its name and holdings on a hundred worlds. Like many Rogue Trader houses with ties to the Calixis Sector, the Koronus Expanse was the obviou...

Drat, tau character guide in two parts: Page 13 A Fire Warrior who has found himself amongst a Rogue Trader’s party likely will be experiencing a novel sense of freedom away from the constant training and battle that is life as a Fire Warrior. He will seek to tactically analyse a situation rather th...

Next: (and possibly my last on this board) update for 40K and perhaps Rogue Trader is the Twilight Crusade and Tau Character Guide. Obviously, they cetner on the Tau and a cooperativ venture between a Rogue Trader and the Tau Empire (and an Inquisitor) to topple a heretic Rogue Trader. Its pretty mu...

Okay I wanted to do an 'update' here. We've got a few adventures and stuff. TEchnically some of the updates are interlocked mini-adventures covering the same event but from different perspectives and game systems, but I'm posting it all here rahter than resurrect individual threads for a small updat...

And.. final update! Page 202 The multitudes of dark angles in the cracked plain surrounding the palace were filled with them: mandrakes, ur-ghuls, crawlers, creepers and other nameless things summoned from the depths of the shadow-realm. Creatures of the shadow-realm. Page 204 There was a kind of bl...

Last novel path of the Archon. It concludes the coup against Vect in truly spectacular fashion, and it shows us in vivid detail just why he's in charge of the place for thousands of years. WE get a good glimpse of not only Vect, but his court and the people who surround him, as well as yet more elem...

Part 2 Part 2 Page 219 If the Supreme Overlord received word that entire tiers of low Commorragh were lost he would activate certain ancient failsafes. These served to lock areas off from the rest of the city with impenetrable fields of energy. Vect had used them before when incursions from beyond t...

Next up: Path of the Incubus. This follows on events from PAth of the Rengade, where an Incubus (Morr, introduced int eh previous story) tries to rectify the aftermath of the coup attempt. The players in that coup are not totally done, and plots for a second attempt are prepared. This novel continue...

Part 2 Page 190-192 The webway was an extradimensional marvel engineered by entities that pre-dated even the eldar. Its lattice was formed out of the very stuff of the warp and it burrowed between the material and immaterial worlds, part of both and yet separated from either. The eldar had discovere...

Well I've returned... sort of. I've been busy with alot of other stuff IRL, and online I've gotten caught up in becoming a moderator on SB (which sucks up alot of free time) and there was heaps of drama there even before that (and a new spinoff forum, we've heard that story before...) Anyhow, the lo...

Part 3 PAge 270 "One final surprise was the discovery of a birthing tract," Kryptman noted with a mixture of technical enthusiasm and despair. A bionic appendage holding an open stasis casket rose to display a collection of fleshy, vein-threaded sphericles. "This means that the predat...