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Retrospective on Rogue Trader
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Kurgan the Lurker
, Sep 13 2012 11:16 AM
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Posted 13 September 2012 - 11:16 AM
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Duck Blind Miniatures - My painted stuff.
The Cult of Orange -- None can withstand our........color
The Universe is a very big place and no matter what happens....you will not be missed.
"And maybe the Traitor Legions would come to their senses, renounce the Ruinous Powers and return to the light of the Emperor." -- Ciaphis Cain on the likelihood of a Mawloc being scared off by a melta blast.
The Cult of Orange -- None can withstand our........color
The Universe is a very big place and no matter what happens....you will not be missed.
"And maybe the Traitor Legions would come to their senses, renounce the Ruinous Powers and return to the light of the Emperor." -- Ciaphis Cain on the likelihood of a Mawloc being scared off by a melta blast.
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Posted 13 September 2012 - 01:55 PM
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I think one of the great things I liked about RT (and it's immediate expansion books) was that it told a story, it wasn't about the 'mathhammer' and you could do almost anything you wanted. I appreciate why the sprawling nature of RT has been slimmed down, why it's moved in the direction it has, but it's also the reason why I stopped playing and just read the fluff and looked at the pretty miniatures people make (which are far far better than my cack-hands could ever produce!).
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Posted 13 September 2012 - 07:57 PM
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Chapter Name:Iron Snakes, Lamenters, Ultramarines, Star Phantoms
this made me go to my closet and cack open the ol' RT book. ah yes, the good old days! I remember when space marines where real badasses. no litanies on their armor, no bling, just the occasional grafitti (anyone else remember "kill kill kill") I remember when space marines cood take shuriken catapults, AND they actually had a mini for it! I remember mole mortars and polymorphine, and, a VERY cool anti-grav tank conversion made out of a deoderant dipenser, plastic spoons and GI Joe guns!
somewhere 40k lost it's grittiness, I personally blame 2nd edition, where special characters were the order of the day. I dream of a throwback edition, where its more freedom, more skirmish, and more grimdark!
I miss you Rogue Trader.
somewhere 40k lost it's grittiness, I personally blame 2nd edition, where special characters were the order of the day. I dream of a throwback edition, where its more freedom, more skirmish, and more grimdark!
I miss you Rogue Trader.
The Four Armies
LAMENTERS, IRON SNAKES, ULTRAMARINES, STAR PHANTOMS
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Posted 13 September 2012 - 11:20 PM
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...just the occasional grafitti (anyone else remember "kil kil kil")
Fixed that.
Oh yeah - ULTIMA THULE.
MR.
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Posted 13 September 2012 - 11:47 PM
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Yeah, I have autocorrect that obviously not as big of a fan as I am!
The Four Armies
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Posted 14 September 2012 - 12:44 AM
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...just the occasional grafitti (anyone else remember "kil kil kil")
Fixed that.
I completely remember "Kil Kil Kil" as my first RTB01 Marine, which was painted as a Blood Angel, with that slogan around the chapter badge.
"Into the fires of battle, unto the anvil of war!"
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Posted 14 September 2012 - 01:49 AM
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I remember when a carnifex had vehicle rules and marines where not afraid of using camouflage and hills where made of old White Dwarf magazines. I also remember a well placed Bolter round to my Rhino's ammo box blowing the whole thing up and anyone inside. Give and take. lol
Want to look at something of mine that you may think is really cool or maybe sucks completely? Click on the link! MordentHex's chaos workshop of Heresy
My lucky Bolter Dice will make your math-hammer cry and scream loaded dice.
If your not bleeding, your not converting hard enough. Blood for the resin god!
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For those squat lovers and haters:
My lucky Bolter Dice will make your math-hammer cry and scream loaded dice.
If your not bleeding, your not converting hard enough. Blood for the resin god!
My current army: 5th Ed. Heresy SM army: 5500+ pts. (WIP)
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Do not underestimate the Squats. They survived for millennia cut off from the Imperium and assailed from all sides. Their determination and resilience is an example to all.
– Meditations on Imperial Command, Book XVI
– Meditations on Imperial Command, Book XVI
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Posted 14 September 2012 - 11:41 AM
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I remember when space marines cood take shuriken catapults, AND they actually had a mini for it!
I still have that mini, and it's one of my favorites.
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Posted 14 September 2012 - 02:35 PM
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Those were Zoid guns not GI.Joe
'No...what you have are bullets, and the hope that when your guns are empty I am no longer standing. Because if I am you'll all be dead before you've reloaded'
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Posted 14 September 2012 - 03:55 PM
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I remember when space marines cood take shuriken catapults, AND they actually had a mini for it!
I still have that mini, and it's one of my favorites.
totally jealous!
The Four Armies
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Posted 14 September 2012 - 06:11 PM
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I remember when a carnifex had vehicle rules and marines where not afraid of using camouflage and hills where made of old White Dwarf magazines. I also remember a well placed Bolter round to my Rhino's ammo box blowing the whole thing up and anyone inside. Give and take. lol
And these young'uns now with their fancy jump pack rules - back in my day if you even so much as looked at a jump pack it would explode, hurtle your guy 2D6 in a random direction then blow a crater in the landscape.
I have members of a non-power armoured rock band and loads of RT era Chaplains! Bolter with an assault cannon on it Brother? Yes please!
I also have a Dreadnought called Eddie!
MR.
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Posted 14 September 2012 - 07:06 PM
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totally jealous!
The only problem with those old minis was that they were lead, not pewter, and I did a lot of conversions that involved sawing...and dust....that got all over one's hands....and...in the air....
Edited by Tiger Raja, 14 September 2012 - 07:07 PM.
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Posted 14 September 2012 - 08:34 PM
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totally jealous!
The only problem with those old minis was that they were lead, not pewter, and I did a lot of conversions that involved sawing...and dust....that got all over one's hands....and...in the air....
I love the smell of Sawn Noise Marine with Punk haircut and Fender in the morning.
MR.
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Posted 15 September 2012 - 04:17 AM
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Good article! Thanks KtL!
RT
The little things from all the kitsch and culture! 1911s(AutoGun! It survives into the dark future! >.<), Vincent Black Shadows, the homages to all the different sci-fi/space opera and other oddities. Sigh. Lots of good games with a juiced up 2w Inquisitor or RT with Marine retinue. Alfred you have pretty much summed me up. I play a campaign game with friends with 40k sometimes but we have moved over to the FFG section (we still Inquisitor it up big big tho) of the segmentum. It fights for time with pathfinder though 
My torn covered RT book from 92 or 93 has a place of honor. My first Codex Astartes ^.^ What colorful Marines they were when I look back 
Those darned Rainbows! I do admit, I kind of get a little twinge of sadness when I see people on the board say the RT fluff is no bueno when I think it is awesome and as relevant today as any of the lies we have been fed by Big Brother/GW over the past two decades (for me at least). Yikes, has it been that long!?!? The Emperor is still alive and he can get up. He is just 
crazy and the Lords dont want to wake up Papa Hemingway and usurp their own power. I kind of like Horus being on the ground in a bunker instead of being on the Vengeful Spirit or whatever. Like the baddest man in the Galaxy fuelled by 4-Power Awesome® is going to cower on a ship?! Horus?!?! Pffffft. I dont believe it! I like the 'cast out' by the Emperor aspects of the Retreat of the traitors into the Eye.
MR: Haha! Awesome I miss the old models! My super Inquisitor was rocking some foul gear like LasCannon Rings, Marine Launcher and other nonsense! If I recall the model I made to represent him was... lacking! Aieee! I was pretty young but it was fun stuff. I miss the Mister Peanut dreads and weird Heavy Metal'esque/Bakshi WWI feel, theme and nutter looking tanks. Like The Wall or Wizards or something in metal.
Still, Space Crusade was the game that impelled me to purchase to the RT book and my first Marine (Bolter with blade. looked cool) and Eldar jetbike and harlequin. Aieee what I wouldn't give for those miniatures!!!! >.< And that Crusade box
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The little things from all the kitsch and culture! 1911s(AutoGun! It survives into the dark future! >.<), Vincent Black Shadows, the homages to all the different sci-fi/space opera and other oddities. Sigh. Lots of good games with a juiced up 2w Inquisitor or RT with Marine retinue. Alfred you have pretty much summed me up. I play a campaign game with friends with 40k sometimes but we have moved over to the FFG section (we still Inquisitor it up big big tho) of the segmentum. It fights for time with pathfinder though My torn covered RT book from 92 or 93 has a place of honor. My first Codex Astartes ^.^ What colorful Marines they were when I look back Those darned Rainbows! I do admit, I kind of get a little twinge of sadness when I see people on the board say the RT fluff is no bueno when I think it is awesome and as relevant today as any of the lies we have been fed by Big Brother/GW over the past two decades (for me at least). Yikes, has it been that long!?!? The Emperor is still alive and he can get up. He is just crazy and the Lords dont want to wake up Papa Hemingway and usurp their own power. I kind of like Horus being on the ground in a bunker instead of being on the Vengeful Spirit or whatever. Like the baddest man in the Galaxy fuelled by 4-Power Awesome® is going to cower on a ship?! Horus?!?! Pffffft. I dont believe it! I like the 'cast out' by the Emperor aspects of the Retreat of the traitors into the Eye. MR: Haha! Awesome
I miss the old models! My super Inquisitor was rocking some foul gear like LasCannon Rings, Marine Launcher and other nonsense! If I recall the model I made to represent him was... lacking! Aieee! I was pretty young but it was fun stuff. I miss the Mister Peanut dreads and weird Heavy Metal'esque/Bakshi WWI feel, theme and nutter looking tanks. Like The Wall or Wizards or something in metal.Still, Space Crusade was the game that impelled me to purchase to the RT book and my first Marine (Bolter with blade. looked cool) and Eldar jetbike and harlequin. Aieee what I wouldn't give for those miniatures!!!! >.< And that Crusade box
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Posted 16 September 2012 - 01:52 AM
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I still like my jet bike marines and my kung fu marines rock. I want to get a few more. I wish they would redo him
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Posted 17 September 2012 - 03:30 AM
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I don't think I could have gotten into it were the models not plastic, and having only used 'modern' models and such the majority of them just don't suit my sense of aesthetic.
Attack is the only order worth remembering.
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