Someone explain Warhammer 40K to me

andrewgpaul · Post by **andrewgpaul** » 2004-03-28 07:40pm

Well, I don't know that much about 1st edition 40K - but Squat tanks IIRC were variants of the Imperial ones, and all named after Mesopotamian deities. (eg. their Rhino version was called the Ishkur, and they also had something called a Tiamat which was based upon a Land Raider)

Don't remember that. 1st edition Squats were basically Imperial Guard, with almost identical equipment, battledress and vehicles. The exceptions were, bikers (but even then, it was a difference in style and organisation, you could field IG bikers, too), hearthguard (who seemed to basically be short Space Marines), and a slightly higher proportion of special and heavy weapons.

Of course, in Epic, they fielded scads of super-heavy war engines, and no regular armoured vehicles. They went from Hearthguard trikes to Leviathan command vehicles.

andrewgpaul · Post by **andrewgpaul** » 2004-03-28 07:41pm

gah. The first paragraph ("Well, I don't ... Land Raider)") should be a quote.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2004-03-28 08:57pm

Of course the fielded lots of heavy weapons, when you don't suffer any additional movement penalty for carrying them...

Skelron · Post by **Skelron** » 2004-03-30 04:30pm

How could I resist a conervastion that included the nature of the Eldar.

The Eldar are supperior to the Mon-keigh and the Mon-ke... wait no sorry I'm not playing TY at the moment. Ehem.

yes on the whole Necronlord is correct about the Eldar, this is a race that if it could would happily wipe Humanity out. The only two reasons they have not is, lack of numbers, and humanity forms a nice shield against all the other creatures out there. Need someone to hold back Chaos and the eye of Terror... well the humans have built an entire fortress network. Need to direct the Orks at a target other than your craftworld, well there is this nice human planet, and with the right deaths of the right Orks... bingo new target.

Sure the humans cause problems of their own, they keep digging up things that have written on them 'Do not open on pain of Ultimate destruction.' But hay thats an easy problem to solve, simply burn another world.

Only two Eldar god's still live, and one of those is God of War and MURDER, that should tell you all you need to know about the Eldar.

wautd · Post by **wautd** » 2004-03-30 04:39pm

seems like a nice gallery with 40k units

wautd · Post by **wautd** » 2004-03-30 04:56pm

wautd wrote:seems like a nice gallery with 40k units

some more

and more

I like them WW1 designs of the Imperial Guard tanks