New fluff is up on warhammer community: https://www.warhamme

>its a big rift
>its bad

I saved you all from having to click that.

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>>53059172
what's the point in even writing something?

>>53059241
>>53059257
At the very least, old abby fucked up, because his crimson path is heading 90° away from terra. He destroys cadia, only to fuck up on getting it where he wants to go.

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>>53059241
>clicks anyway

>>53059241
GW are such morons. A cicatrix is a type of healed scar.

>>53059257
Padding

My guess is they wanted/needed more articles in the article per day until release.

I kind of figured this would be the most lack luster so far.

>>53059241
You can't stop me

>>53059290
>>53059413
Not him but, it's your time to use however you want. It's just kind of a waste to use it on reading that.

>>53059172
>galaxy wide temporal fluctuations
here we go with another aossification

don't expect events to have dates anymore

Fuck just show me the new marine models already.

>>53059618
What if Ynnead kills Slanesh, but then she elevates itself as a new Chaos god? Just like The Horned King in AoS. And it would be fitting for the always-doomked eldar.

>>53059756
>Slaanesh confirmed for dunk
I never asked for this.

>>53059756

While I'm not really on board with 'Kill Slannesh' I would really love to see other gods take them on as equals. Ynnead and an Ascended Emperor for example.

>>53059351
Calling the giant tear in the galaxy an Evil Scar is about right though.

>>53059849
its not though evil it is healed. It likes calling a field with flowers on it a dog field.

>>53059172
>Current Warzones of the 41st Millenium!
>All Human v Enemy
>NPC races get cucked.
>What's a 'beeltan'?

>>53059756
>What if Ynnead kills Slanesh, but then she elevates itself as a new Chaos god?
that's the plan, yes

even in AoS the horned has nothing to do with slaanesh, it's all about the elves that kidnapped it and are going to replace it

>>53059257
Clearly, you found a point in writing something, so you tell me?

>>53059849
Except its clearly an open wound.

>>53059172
That's the preview of 8e lore?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBoesEFWZnM

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I just want the Void Dragon to break free and split the Adeptus Mechanicus in half.

Half siding with the Void Dragon and possibl any "oldcrons" under it's command and the other half who believe Big E is the machine God.

Fingers crossed something like that happens for the next big shift in the story.

>>53059241
>its a big rift
For you

>>53060142
I dont think many of them actually, deeply believe in Emps as the machine God, I think its just a "maybe at best". It would be much more likely that any of those not in direct contact with the Void Dragon's works would likely think it was just high-tier tech heresy.

>>53059896
Just business as normal for Xenos. Don't matter, just the mooks killed by Chaos and Imperium or the plucky sidekicks dying to help them out.

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>>53059172
So this means that the Tau are going to be seeing a ton of Chaos soon. Seeing as the rift curls arond them.

In fact it pins them against Orks and Necrons. The interesting thing is that the "friendliest" nation nearby is the Ultramarine homeworld Macragge to the south. Maybe we'll see more teaming up between them?

And Tyranids are pressuring Macragge from the south right?

>>53060541
Blue Marines teaming up with Blue people.

Pottery.

>>53060541
Isn't Ultramar supposed to be in a huge fight with Chaos and particularly Nurgles forces right now? Think they'll be a bit busy to help.

Maybe Tau team up with Imotekh instead seeing as both Him and the Tau believe in keeping other races as vassals nations so they've got some common ground for negotiations.

>>53060541
You noticed how xenos were absent from girlyman's "beware the crusade is coming" comment right?

>>53060604
That was weird. Since today's fluff release said his Crusade is targeting Xenos too.

Maybe Xenos are just so unimportant now he didn't think they needed mention? I mean he probably looked at the Imperium, saw it'd been beating back all the Xenos for more than 9000 years with ease, and realized that Xenos aren't much of a threat really.

Chaos on the other hand just wiped out Cadia and tore the galaxy in half.

>>53060652
Very possible. Especially since an eldar helped bring him back.

I know I like in AoS I can bring a wide range of units from different races. Maybe we're moving towards that a little?

>>53060652
Considering how many planets get nommed by the nids every century, and that Ghazgkull is going to unite the orkoid race soon, I'd say they better keep their backs covered. Maybe they can make an alliance with the Ynnead, so they have to specify which xeno is legal to burn on the pyre now.

>>53059351
It's a scar, healed doesn't mean it's fixed, it's just that the scar comes after the wound is ripped open. Calling a big fucking mark of a torn up area a scar isn't anything new.

>>53059896
There better be a Sautekh Necrons vs Chaos warzone

The rift is right next to their territory

>>53060599
Tau and Necrons fighting Chaos. Necrons teach the Tau what exactly Chaos is, and they migrate in masse to the Farsight enclaves? Necrons discover how to possess Tau to become flesh again? Maybe to make a different army, with necron and tau technology fused together?

>>53060826
Eww no. Just no.

Necrons only interest in other species is subservience and a few interesting individuals. And why the hell would they be using shit tier tau bodies for getting bodies back when tau live like 40 years max.

>>53059756
You mean the Horned Rat?

he was ALWAYS a Chaos god, just a minor one.

>>53060857
Aren't there tons of individual necron factions out there? Weren't some of them looking for the way to become organic again (not resurrect the necrontyr race as it was due to them being utterly disseased)? Plus, both Tau and Necrontyr have almost no presence in the Warp, so it would ft.

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>>53059257
>>53059241
>>53059273
>>53059290
>>53059394
the one thing that is actually new there, is that time is fucked up in the worlds along the rift. this means that there are worlds with crazy different technologies, some far more advanced than the imperium.

there will be elite units with badass weapons from these time accerated worlds

>>53060890
They want bodies, but they also want to be immortal ubermensch. They'd want something more along the lines of an Eldar or a Custodes in biology.

Hell some of them just want to become energy beings like the c'tan

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>>53060541
>And Tyranids are pressuring Macragge from the south right?
tyranids got sucked into the rift and all died prolly

>>53060934
Wouln't that be funny? Tyrannids go for the Round 2 on Maccragge and just before they arrive they got sucked into the Warp. Poor bugs just can't catch a break against the blueberries.

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>>53060967
i honestly think thats what happened. thats what the sirens storm is.

god help me

>>53060895
>Worlds along the rift get torn into the warp
>still uphold firm belief in the Emperor
>Mechanicus is harsh on any possible tech heresy
>10,000 warp years later
>everything there is Ogryn-tier now

>>53061076
>>everything there is Ogryn-tier now
Some Space Marine chapters get stuck on a time bubble, and they devolve into ogryns, while still making space marines. Ogryn Space Marines!

>>53061127
>Some Space Marine chapters get stuck on a time bubble, and they devolve into ogryns, while still making space marines. Ogryn Space Marines!
>[your favourite chapter] happens to be in this particular time bubble
>nothing changes

Actually somewhat kind of interested to learn more about the Imperium Nihilus. Just a bunch of planets completely seperated from the seat of the Imperium left only with fringe and fanatical Inquisitorial and Space Marine elements to keep them in check. I hope to see a lot more Renegade armies now.

>>53060895
It can be the opposite as well, you never know. DAoT forgeworlds when?

I think they're going to use this time-fuckery to return some other primarchs, revive extinct races or create new ones.

>>53061478
Good. More xenos needed

>>53059172
when will GW realise that with all these changes they NEED new writers

>>53061503
No they don't. Competency is expensive and a frighteningly large portion of the 40k fanbase will buy and push whatever they put out regardless.

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>>53061431
>tfw Chaos still doesn't get shiny new DAoT-toys

´

>>53060541
Whats going on with the Astro telepathic duct, is that like the Beacon on Pharos

>>53061352
Now I have some proper justification to make whatever background fluff I want for my Imperial Truth renegades without asshats constantly telling me "the Ecclesiarchy would just wipe them out".

>To those unfortunates on the far side, it is far worse…

What does this mean? What's going on with the northern half of the Imperium?

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2017/04/30/warhammer-40000-watch-the-new-teaser-nowgw-homepage-post-1/

So does this mean we really are getting super space marines? the space mariniest of all space marines?

Why is Gryphonne IV on the map still?
I thought they didn't list dead worlds on the map, and that world got ate.
Unless they're retconning Tyranid victories now

>>53061658

It means they've been cut off from the rest of the Imperium, which happens to include holy terra and bobby g, so while the rest of the imperium gets to enjoy new hope with a primarch and a crusade coming up their half is isolated surrounded by chaos and probably fucked.

>>53061660
>So does this mean we really are getting super space marines?

Yep. The fluff is getting the Age of Sigmar treatment as well.

>After Chaos conquered the Galaxy/Mortal Realms, Roboute Guilliman/Sigmar forges the nuMarines/Stormcast Eternals and launches a new crusade to free the Galaxy/Mortal Realms from the clutches of the chaos gods.

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The first news about the state of the galaxy says that they will explore the Hadex Anomaly and the Sautekh Dynasty in the coming days. What do you think they are going reveal, and how will this reflect on the T'au?

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>>53061739
Blueberry genocide.

>>53060541

So the giant swirling death pool in the center. That's not another eye? Just the galactic core?

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>>53061739
>What do you think they are going reveal,
hadex anomoly is when the nids got slurpied into the warp and all died.

>>53061791
its both, it looks like

>>53060604
>Xenos helped to restore him
>Chaos fucking up the Ultras is the first thing he sees when he wakes up.
>He died by the hand of a demon primarch.

Hardly amazing.

>>53061791
When Abaddon destroyed the Cadian Pylons, the Eye of Terror surged forth. The resulting unleashing of long suppressed energies cracked the walls of reality resulting in a Path made from Warpstorms to form the Cadian Gate to the Eastern Fringes. The crack concentrates in the middle for some reason.

The remaining Necron Pylons are fighting a losing battle to keep the rest of the galaxy from suffering the same fate as the parts swallowed by the Warp. Worse yet that daemons and heretics are continuing targeting them. The galaxy is beyond fucked and those new marines are a futile effort unless Girlyman can stop the Eye and the Great Rift from expanding and wiping out existence.

>>53061780
N-no! We are natural allies! The Greater Good!

>>53061780
Do you really think a 60 million years old being, described as "hyperlogical strategist" who has the full power of 80 tomb worlds, inhabited by billions the technologically most advanced race the galaxy has ever seen, at his disposal, and who will stop at nothing to bring back the Necrontyrs former glory, can do anything against a blue fish-guy who gets anime-angry?

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>>53061972
What can anime-anger do against an Infinite Necron Fleet?

The Sautekh have unlocked the power of the Ymga Monolith.

>>53061992
I just wanted to point out that Tau plot-armour will somehow save the day, even if they get spitroasted between the mightiest Necron dynasty and the Hive Fleets of Kraken/Behemoth

>>53061780
But why?

Imotekh gets literally nothing from destroying the Tau and he isn't the type of dude to do it just for the shits and giggles since his whole dynasty has been set up as strategists with DEEP PLANS and shit

>>53062120
Easy.
There's nothing left to take from them

>>53062120
He wants to conquer the galaxy and wash it with the blood of the lesser races. He already subjugated or wiped out hundreds of races.

Prior to these events, the Sautek Necrons have been expanding into Tau space conquering a few worlds in the process.

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>>53062171
they'll pay dearly for that insult

Guys, listen.
Listen.
Hear me out now...
What if... what if...
The White Scars and the Tau allied?

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>>53062311

>Taufags actually believe they matter
>they actually believe they have a chance
>they aren't willing to admit they only survive due to blatant plot armor.

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>>53062311
Sure.

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>>53062422
>plot armour
that argument in a game whose background for all factions at all times is entirely 'plot' driven.

>>53062422
So...tau are space Batman? SWEET! Hear that guys? This guy says tau are space Batman! Who else wants to start tau now??!

>>53061992
is this monolith related to the ymgarl moons and its genestealers?

>>53059172
How do you divide the galaxy in half?

>>53062422
At this point the Tau are more HFY than the imperium most of the time

>>53062689

By pretending it's flat. Just like most fiction.

>>53062689
I guess by making the warp extend so far in all axis that it becomes functionally cut off. It doesnt span forever, but far enough that its just wayyyy to hard to go around it.

>>53062431
Reminder that Necrons have done planet killing tactics ranging from Dropping the moon on the planet to pulling all the magma out of the core and creating a sea of fire.

Tau have literally nothing to defend against or to survive that.

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>>53062311
Eat shit blueberry. Your end is nigh.

>>53059172
Can I have a quick rundown on the Great Rift?

>>53062689
A huge tear in reality all the way across, where warp travel is impossible anywhere near it.

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>all tyranid hive fleets eaten by warp
its a good day

>>53062868
chaos saves the day!

>>53062868
>Hive Fleets sucked into the warp
>Tyranids now come in Extra Mutated flavors
>Tzaanthropes, Nurglevores, Slaaveners, Khornfexes
>this was decided because 'they both have cults, right?'

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>>53061739

>T'au Empire not Tau Empire

What did GW mean by this?

>>53062311
>Stealth Suits
>Railguns
>Gravtanks
As a tech fetishist, this is my ideal faction.

>>53060604
Probably more that they're reassessing threats from a general stance on all 'Xenos' to a more tempered stance that allows them co-operation with Craftworld Eldar and Tau whilst vehemently opposing Tyrannids and Orks as much as ever.

>>53063147
Name change. Recent novels just use T'au now.

>>53063046
>Slaaveners
Now we have real tentacle porn monsters.

>>53063147
Please watch your spelling sir. It's correctly spelled, "T'au™"

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>>53060541

>warp rifts near every major IG world except Krieg

those chaos boys know not to fuck with the Death Korps

>>53063240
...so if Cadia went kablooey, does that mean they're going to make a new guard kit now with even less bodies! in the near future?

>>53063147
That was always their original homeworld's name, they just named it after that instead of the race now.

>>53062821
Nah, nah, this is just people being autistic and pretending that the galaxy isn't disc-shaped; since it's an object in 3-d space, it supposedly can't be represented by a 2-d map.
This is the same logical processes that cause people to start fistfights in store games over the rules required by a certain paint job on their minis.

>>53060826

The Etherals know about chaos, they just follow the same policy as BIG E of hiding its existence to the rest of the population.

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>>53063368

>the ethereals are making the same mistake the emperor made

So, it looks like the Blood Angels, the Mordians, and the Valhallas are getting boned. Don't know who else is in the nogo zone beyond those obvious ones.
Who else IS there that's getting fucked over by the giant rift?

>>53061553
Is anyone going to give me an answer?

>>53063421
I didnt because I dont know

>>53061822

Nothing alive can survive in the galactic core. There should be no chaos activity there.

>>53062848
>>53062422
>>53062431
>>53061992
I'm going to deploy three Riptides tomorrow, just to piss you.

>>53063046
I'll take six khomfyfexes please.
That sounds delighful.

>>53063517
I walked into a store yesterday and asked if they had 5 riptides in stock.

You should have seen the faces

>>53063446
This is GW we're talking about.

>>53062564
it's only plot armor when it benefits an army you don't like.

>>53063517
I would deploy three C'tan shards against them. Unfortunately, they are shit.

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>>53063517
Reminder

>>53063645
>Mars Attacks but with Necrons and Tau
Oh bby

>>53060748
>Considering how many planets get nommed by the nids every century
>every century
All the damage inflicted on the Imperium by Tyranids, other than the initial contact and Battle for Macragge, all the hundreds or thousands of planets they've lost - happened in the space of less than 10 years.

With how slowly they're dripping out information, I wouldn't be surprised if one of these weeks, they just showed us one component of the numarine model every day

>>53062868
>TAU ARE NOW SHIELDED FROM TYRANIDS FOR A TIME, MEANING THEY NEED TO GO ELSEWHERE FOR FOOD.


OH SHIT DAWG

Why haven't Tyranids been mentioned even once in the new fluff?

>>53063699
>they just go around the warpstorm

FUCK, B'UB'BA GET THE PULSE RIFLES

>>53063730

Because they aren't the big deal that delusional nidfags made them out to be.

>>53063757
Neither are Tau, but they keep getting acknowledged.

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>>53063677
Chaos destroyed thousands of worlds in a space of a few moments.

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>>53062868
>Tyranids are squatted

>>53063763
Because the Tau are protagonists (secondary).

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>>53063763

Tau actually are kinda a big deal.

>>53063735
But that'll take sooooo long.

>>53063830
Their leader and his court got murdered by a single imperial assassin lol

>>53063830
How? Even the Martians as a force by themselves are more important and powerful.

>>53062719
The galaxy isn't square or a sphere, it's a disc.

A significantly 'deep' rift could indeed cut one half off from the other. There's the option of going over the galactic plane to get around it, but that massively lengthens journeys and, IIRC, has inherent dangers in 40K.

>>53063830

Ascended Daemon God Emperor of the Tau when?

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To the dawn of war eternal my elegan/tg/entlemen. The Lord of Macragge calls will you answer with me?

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>>53063645
Laugh everytime.

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>>53063645

>>53063412
Everybody in the Gothic sector?

>>53063645
Wasn't there something with the Dark Eldar and the Tau that just a repeat of that?

>>53063645
how do you read the dates? is 079902.M41 the 79th earth-day in the year 902 of M41?

>>53064228
yup

>>53063898
i guess the assassin had plot armour lol

>>53064236
thanks

>>53063898
>Kill Aun'va, aka wheelchair pope
>Aun'shi is now the most powerful Ethereal in the Empire

Well done humans, well done.

>>53063830
>"Farsight, you can feel totally safe because we have the most advanced weapons in the galaxy available to us."
>"I've always believed that the mind is the best weapon."
>"Times change."
>"For some people."

The Dark Eldar one was different. Urien Rakarth approached some ethereals saying he'd help them fight off the nids and only had to be paid later. Then he offered to take in their injured to fix their wounds and they agreed.

Then after the nids were driven off he took the population of a few worlds as payment and used the injured soldiers that he turned into wracks and grotesques to do it.

>>53063898
>a single imperial assassin

They deployed an entire execution force and all but one of them got rekt without killing their target.

>>53064301
Meant for
>>53064180

>>53064180
Dark Eldar convinced the Tau to send some of their people to them for a """"cultural exchange""""".

>>53059273
>old abby fucked up, because his crimson path is heading 90° away from terra
Chaosfags will find some way to explain this as being all part of his master plan/

>>53063898
You mean the assassins did what they do best?

>>53064346
Divide and conquer.

Just as keikaku

>>53064346
Can you control warp tears?

I was under the impression that this was more of a warp flood rather than a directed crusade path

>>53064346
>>53059273
The Eye is still expanding towards Terra. Notice what's said in the site and look at the map. The explosion from the Eye towards all the way to the east follows in the wake of the conflicts and disasters that rocked the galaxy. From appearance of the planet of Sorcerers to the Imperials invasion of the Tau held space (Mont'ka and Kauyon). Where every great conflict has occurred the Warpstorms have manifested or on their way to manifesting.

I am glad about this. You know why? It proves how much of cunts the Imperials are. By attacking the Tau and trying to stop their progress they connected the dots that allowed the Great Rift to cut the galaxy in half and throw the northern Imperium beyond their reach.

>>53064448
Yes, you can. The Warpstorm and the Eye move towards where bloodshed is the greatest. Abaddon's plan is to have the Eye follow in the wake of his Black Crusade.

Due to there being great conflicts that are occurring or have occurred, the Eye and the Great Rift is being drawn to them as well.

>>53064465
Does that mean the Siren's Storm is the result of Kryptman's wonderful exterminatus congaline?

>>53065270
Possibly.

>>53064275
Unless they've changed things, the 079 would actually mean the 79th part of the year out of a total 1000 parts, with each part being slightly more than a third of a day.

So at what point does Civil War 2 happen because Row boat is using the Eldar to help him make these nu-marines. What happens to all the old guys and why in the hell havn't Wolf Daddy and Jagahti come back yet?

>>53068337
Just made the choice today to get into playing 40k again, as a result I've come here to /tg/

I've caught up to the point where Bobby Sillyman has been healed by the Eldar (I don't understand why)

What are these nu-marines you speak of?

>>53068429

Apparently Robot Girlyman is hard at work building new marines while also re-organizing the exiting Marine forces back into Legion strenght.

I have no way of backing this up as I've only heard this sporadically from various sources, namly people I know interested in Warhammer and on here.

>>53068530
Thank you Anon

I actually just found a good summary on

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/720192.page

I'll give that a read now.

>>53061739
>Hadex being relevant
That makes my FFG RPG heart happy even though they'll be making whole new lore for that region of the galaxy. Still nice to see it relevant

>>53062689
Daddy issues

>>53065657
so, each 001 in the first set is approximately 8 hours? fair enough

>>53068632
I actually have been super bummed it's a chaos thing at all ever since…they made it a chaos thing. From when it started out as just this little blip on that map that no one (in universe) could really explain.

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>>53059273
>Half of the galaxy is now cut off from reinforcements
Will the nids finally rek the Eastern Galaxy?

>>53060934
JUST FUCK MY ARMY UP

>>53062868
Please tell me you're making this up, if you aren't I'm going to burn GW HQ to the ground.

>>53059172
>THE GREAT RIFT
Zoggin' hell, that's like... Ork-tier simplistic naming.

>>53063446
>Nothing alive can survive in the galactic core
I believe that is the past the core was infested with Orcs to a certain extent, but the Imperial definitely steered clear.

>>53062564
It's more of the "establish a weakness/drawback for Tau then promptly ignore it/make them awesome at it and overcome a superior force effortlessly" that people refer to as plot armor. Not that they win but the ham fisted way the Tau win in many of the retconned major battles like Damocles.

>>53070013
Low Gothic. The High Gothic Imperial name is Cicatrix Maledictum.

>>53060160
Was it all part of Abaddon's master plan?

>>53069909
Only if more show up there. There's a few splinter fleets floating about, but Leviathan's the current Big Fleet and it's in Tempestus.
Of course, the fucking Tau are now safe from any Tyranids ever. Any Tau vs Tyranid game is now either set in the past or noncanon.

>>53070046
Fair 'nuff.
Actually, upon reading the article, the Orks are calling it "Gork’s Grin", which is much more fitting since it basically sets the east half of the galaxy up for a stomping by Orks/'nids.

>>53060541
what are those black spots?

>>53069909
The Bangles are extremely boned.

>>53060541

>tfw Baal plot armor is the only thing standing between Attilans/Valhallans and oblivion

Is it strong enough to cover an entire half of the galaxy?

>>53064228
The Administratum doesn't log by days as it is too unwieldy for a galactic empire. Official documentation uses Terran years that are then broken down in thousandths. So 079902.M41 is time period 79 of 1000 of the 902nd year of the 41st millenium. You can further break those periods down to get more precise times if you need to like 124.079902.M41

>>53070029
>Outadapt the Tyranids
>Outadapt the Tyranid hive fleet known for being extremely hyperadaptive
>Outadapt the Tyranid hive fleet known for being extremely hyperadaptive in the Tyranids' own book

>>53070103
Just showing the density of stars I think.

>>53070151
Exactly
>1/4 the FTL speed of the slowest imperial ships
>outmanouver them between systems by arriving before imperial ships can get there from the same location

Wait, Mordians are on the other side of the rift, too? Man, all the cool Guard factions are getting shafted.

>>53070199
There are what looks to be two safe passages across the rift though. One next to the Eye and another in the southeast. The northwest one is pretty close to Mordian.

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>>53063538
>buying 5 riptides a month before they get new rules

>>53070151
>>53070196

Gonna be good to see the Tau get deep-dicked by Chaos.

>>53070259
You're kidding yourself if you think GW would nerf them and stop people buying dozens of expensive models.

>>53063289
That would mean dropping the starship troopers/20th Century Analogs from the product line. Not gunna happen when so many people already have an army of them.

Besides, why in the age of fusion would you need a planet to live on? You can grow crops in hydroponics, your fuel is literally everywhere (hydrogen: Fusion's fuel and the most common element in the galaxy), and you have all the room in the universe to expand your house/fleet.

You could call Cadia the first "Spaceborne" Regiment, but instead of recruiting from other worlds they can recruit from the transports they inhabit.

>>53070259
It was a joke..........I was actually picking my kroot, which is a whole other thing

>>53070322
>That would mean dropping the starship troopers/20th Century Analogs from the product line.
That's exactly what they want to do though. It's why brets/empire were squatted.

>>53070295
You just don't get it, do you?
>had overpowered rules in 7th
>Tau players already bought a bunch
>now they make something else better so that blueberries are encouraged to buy more models

>>53070322
To make something that's more Distinctly Warhammer 40000, of course.
Which means ripping off something else and adding enough skulls that they can copyright it more easily.

>>53070295
Considering the thing that made them bonkers was a specific formation, Yeah, I expect them to be a lot weaker if on that being gone alone.

>>53063289
I'd love to see them do it, but the real tricky part is that Cadians are seeded throughout the vehicle kits.

>>53070439

wew thats true they'd have to redo those vehicle kits as well

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Am I the only one getting a strong Eastern roman empire feel from this new setting development?

Like, the rift and the loss of a bunch of territory is like the western portion collapsing while the East endures.

On top of that, Rowboat is working with a guy called BELISARIUS Cawl in order to reconquer the lost parts of the empire. Kind of like how Justinian tasked Belisarius to reconquer the western portion of the empire.

>>53070271
>The Tau
>Losing
*Unsheathes riptides*
Heh, nice try, kid.

>>53059273
Thinking Abby won't wait until the 16th black crusade to attack terra. Kid

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>>53070151
>Tyranids
>extremely hyperadaptive
>The biggest fleet can't seem to out-adapt a race of walking angry space mushrooms, which get bigger and stronger with each failed 'nid adaptation
Go home Hivemind, you're zoggin' drunk!

I've been looking at the new map posted earlier and it looks lime the white scars home world has been swallowed by the warp. Is this the case or have the white scars just been overlooked about again like normal

>>53059351
...

>>53071015
All the shitty old marines have been squatted. Now buy some superior Bigmarines.

>>53071080
Do I get less marines for double the cost?

>>53071080
proof

>>53071015
Who knows? They haven't addressed any individual planets aside from Armageddon.

>>53071206
He's just giving you shit.

>>53071232
What did they say about Armageddon?

>>53071400
Aside from the fact it'll likely still be intact after Gathering Storm ends given Shadow War: Armageddon is happening there... not much that I know of.

Do you guys think they're building up the Nids so they can job to a reborn Sanguinius+Sanguinor amalgam?

>>53071529
They're not building up the Tyranids at all, the only thing that's even been mentioned about them so far (as far as I can tell) is that hormagaunts are fast. Which at least tells us they haven't been squatted, yet.
It is apparently our sacred duty to be the arch-jobbers, so sure. New fleet comes out of the northeast and beelines Baal, or a Kraken splinter gets fat on Unnamed Planets and does the same.

>>53071529
Gonna lose in your codex to everything
Gonna go missing into warp storms in your codex

>>53071400
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2017/04/29/new-warhammer-40000-war-zone-armageddon/

Huge threeway between the traditional Armageddon opposing forces is happening.

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>>53071978

are you guys ready to Armagedd-it-on??

>>53063147

They couldn't copyright Tau as it is a greek letter (and a subatomic particle).

>>53062848

>Necrons invade.
>Suddenly, a "mysterious" Warpstorm engulf the whole Tau Empire.
>1 year passes outside, 1000 inside.
>The Tau are now Dark Age of Technology humans.

>>53073132
>1000 year of dumn blueberry outpaces 20k years of imperial geniuses on mars

kys

>>53071529
I think Tyranids are actually going to win on Baal.

HOL UP

WOT IF

SINCE TIME SPEEDS UP AROUND AND SLOWS DOWN AROUND THE RIFT

THE TYRANIDS WERE CUT OFF FROM FEATING ON TAU

BUT ACCELERATED TIME LET THEM FOLLOW THE EDGE OF THE MALEDICTUM INTO IMPERIUM NIHILUS AND MAYBE ALL THE WAY TO THE EYE OF TERROR

IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE

Cutting the galaxy in half might have potentially given the Nids a direct route to Terra. Sure, to them it'll still take centuries or even millennia, but to everyone else it might have been instantaneous.

>>53073196

>Implying humans invented anything during the Dark Age of Technology.
>Implying AI weren't the true masters of mankind.

Meatbags out.

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>>53071965
>tfw jobber faction

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>>53063954
You need not concern yourself with the horrors that dwell in the Outer Darkness beyond the galactic plane, mortal.

Know only that we stand ever vigilant against them.

>>53063954
Yeah such as encountering an unnavigable swarm of 'nids as the silent king found out.

>>53073196
In his defense the "Evolving and learning faster than anything ever" is the whole schtick of Tau.

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>>53070618

> Eastern roman empire feel from this new setting development

Yeah, I think this is the whole point. Sacking of Terra when?

>>53071529
Blood angels are getting fucked, their book is called "Devastation of Baal" and if that's any indicator, their world is getting nommed. The Prophecy in the very new Dante novel has the tyranids consuming Baal, then becoming a way bigger threat after that.

My biggest issue with this is that there was never any sign of the warp suddenly going fuckhuge
The original eye of terror needed the birth of slaanesh itself to be formed
And now it just explodes into a multitude of its size because cadia is gone? Because cadia had some necron artfiact that abaddon wanted to destroy all along?
The whole thing was obviously just pulled out of GW's asses to move the plot along
But because I've been kind of asking for this I can only react with a "yeah I guess"

>>53073801
It's because they were originally going to 100% AoS the setting, but everyone hates AoS so they had to dial it back to only 80% AoS.

>>53073801

The Crimson Path have been a thing for a while. This is pretty much FailAbaddon's plan.

>>53073801
Also Magnus ripping a scar across space by moving his planet. Plus there may be more stuff we just haven't heard about.

>>53059618
So?

>>53059618

>don't expect events to have dates anymore

I don't think they need warp fuckery for that. I don't remember any dates in the last codex and campaign books.

>>53061660
Please god no. Super duper speshul space marines are already cringey enough

>>53061721
>Yep. The fluff is getting the Age of Sigmar treatment as well.

Except not really though. It's not like the entire universe exploded and restarted and the emperor died.

I bet you were one of those dweebs who set fire to their WHFB armies.

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>>53063046
>Tzaanthropes, Nurglevores, Slaaveners, Khornfexes

As an estranged Tyranid player, I think chaos Tyranids would be the most metal thing to happen to 40k and I'd gobble that shit up like a thirsty whore

>>53073838
>but everyone hates AoS so

No that's just contrarian hipsters and grumpy oldfags on this board. AoS is actually really popular and well liked.

>>53074166
>>53073838

I don't think even fans of AoS like the setting. It's such an obviously rushed job. They may like the game, but I seriously doubt anyone takes the setting seriously.

>>53059351
A cicatrix can also be a scar on a tree's bark. If you think of Norse mythology, the thing which connects all of the different inhabitable worlds and is where all life can be found is Yggdrasil - a giant tree. Perhaps they were going more for that sort of thing than the other definition.
Modern-British made fantasy settings tend to lean quite heavily on Norse mythology.

>>53073317
Look on the bright side
The more you job in your codex, the less you'll job in other codices

>>53074166
people like AoS despite the fluff, not thanks to it

>>53074490
>imperial guard codex has the guard destroy a hive fleet without getting a single casualty

>>53060857
>Short life spans
>No warp presence
>High tech

Because the Tau are basically a pre fall Necrontyr?

>>53060934
oh no the tyranids are penetrating muh crack from below

>>53073362
>Sacking of Terra when?
Nah, the WRE is the one that didnt collapse in this case.

>>53073801
>My biggest issue with this is that there was never any sign of the warp suddenly going fuckhuge

I think you've just not been paying attention.

>>53074185

I do and I know of quite a few people that do. Feel free to mock me, meanwhile my setting still has like 20-30 more years of life unlike WHFB.

>>53074357
Or you know being British they could have looked back to the British past where Oaks and Yew trees were sacred. not everything is about your faggy vikings.

>>53070089
Or it's the Tau cleaning up Tyranid leftovers

>>53074166
I think he means how it replaced WHFB, nobody liked that. If it had been it's own thing or WHFB didn't end as unceremoniously as it did then the hate for AoS would be dialed down exponentially.

Didnt Girlyman just finish the Terran Crusade with a tiny handful of people left?

I'm sure he left some marines back on Macragge but the Ultramarines must be at 200-300 marines at best at this point no? Thats what 100 years of rebuilding at least under optimum situations?

>>53075607
>20-30 more years of life
Good luck getting five.

>>53076261
He has brand new marines.

so... why doesn't Yvraine simply revive Sangy? The Lion? or even the Emperor?

>>53076261
They have an entire chapter of spare marines they draw from

>>53076390
Because neither of them likes Eldar or has special suit build by their orders. Lion is alive but sleeps.

>>53060541
>calling a warp vortex thing Storm of The Emperor's Wrath

>>53076457
It's called that because when it first appeared it obliterated a large traitor fleet.

>>53064228
If you read the fluff part of the rulebook they break it down to you, iirc it's "the dark millenium" i believe

>>53070439
>>53070478
Easy, just ask british government for monetary help and hire refugees to snip out the cadians from the sprues and insert new mold vehicle crew into them.

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>>53074185

It may have been rushed but some part of me thinks it was planned that way. The rules and setting were so drab and barebones. The first half of AoS was Sigmarines go somewhere, find Khorne Blood Bloods and they fight. And the art for those books was the same shit. And GW thought people would be happy with that.

You can tell they 180'd from that fucking direction because they released the general's handbook which is x100 more popular than the narrative rules they tried to push that no one was swallowing.

I had a good laff when the last Warhammer Quest game was released. "Look guys, there are normal people here! We're going to give you stuff and people to empathize with and get attached to because Mount Blood Skull Doom isn't working!"

Same with the new 40k, "Look guys we aren't binning the setting or any armies! Believe us we learned our lesson!"

>>53059172
Well, a rift in the 40k community for sure

>>53076390
Girlyman aside, none of them are xenophiles.

>>53076390

Where is Sangy's body?

>>53078179

IIRC on Baal but hes fully dead

Everyone revived was near death, in statis or had some hand wavey but not really dead reason. But I guess GW can find any fluff reason if they wanted to.

>>53078153

The blood angels are a bit too friendly with necrons

>>53076390
Shit bitch you can revive the dead?

Let me just find Ferrus' head.

>>53064259
It was a Culexus.

Even without Warp connections, Tau were writhing in pain.

>>53078153
the Dark Angels have the Watchers in the Dark, the problem here is just that they'll get pissed

>>53073362
>Yeah, I think this is the whole point. Sacking of Terra when?
probably never since a sack of Terra would cause irreparable damage to the imperium unless those doing the sacking only focused on killing and destroying in the slums.

>>53074954
Difference being that Necrons are founded on rage and bitterness while Tau are founded on hope. If anything the Necrons would kill the Tau because they remind them of their old lives.

>>53078242
>Everyone revived was near death, in statis or had some hand wavey but not really dead reason.


Yriel was dead.
The Thousand Sons were super dead.