N1SB

I just wanted to say this: the new Datasheet matches how Titus plays in the video games. Like remember how the the game mechanics in the video games with the Chainsword is it creates these temporary hitpoints that replenishes with each attack, so you just jump into a mob and start mashing that attack button come what may, and you're probably better off than any other tactic. That was my entire strat with the co-op horde mode until the final round. I remember at the time that Titus is like some kinda Khorne Berserker, and now he has 8 attacks like Eightbound. That cracks me up.

I always, always, ALWAYS lose my GW coins. I'm not a disorganised person. Sure, I leave some bitz in my workstation area, I don't organise my paints in alphabetical order because it shakes out the paints I use most just come to the front, but somehow those Flavour of the Month coins always disappear on me. ESPECIALLY the ones I really meant to safeguard and keep somewhere I'll never lose it. I think I have some sort of curse with these fake coins that have no legal tender. P.S. The pins stay with me. I keep them in this little velvet bag. Like I got these AoS badges. Those I can't seem to get rid of.

Did Horus decide Chaos was useful to stop the Imperium's fall rather than cause it. He thought HE, Horus alone, could use Chaos. You probably remember from literature classes the word hubris, pride, arrogance. Do you remember hamartia, the fatal flaw? If you're on False Gods, Horus Rising is probably still fresh in your memory. You remember the Mournival, Horus's 4 advisors? Horus's hamartia wasn't just hubris. Hamartia is translated as fatal flaw, but it's more like "to miss the mark," like missing a shot. Where did Horus miss the mark? I found I finally understood it in The End & the Death II, even before I read it, by just seeing the back cover art: 4 thrones. 4 main Chaos gods. The Mournival had Horus's 4 advisors. Horus conceptualised Chaos as advisors, in the end. I think in the earlier books Horus would be talking to Dorn, his brother, about how he had Abaddon on a long leash, but still on a leash. Fierce, capable Abaddon. The same with the rest of the Mournival, cunning little Horus Aximand, the jokester Torgaddon, straight-laced Loken. Throughout The End & the Death he was thinking of forming a new Mournival-like court with Dorn, Sanguinius, Constantine Valdor and even the Emperor as his new advisors, each tied with one of the Chaos powers. Horus that he had experience managing 4 adversarial advisors, and he did. He just mistook he could manage Chaos the same way. Horus thought he was their leader of the 4 powers instead of the 4 being his kings, totally misunderstood the nature of his relationship. He missed the mark...the Mark of Chaos, amirite?

Even in the lore of 40k, Knight Houses and the Techpriesthood are closer than the game suggests. You know how in 40k we don't really have allied detachments outside these exceptions like Inquisition or Rogue Trader forces anymore? They SHOULD be closer if the rules allowed. There's the novel Titanicus in 40k where Magos seconded to Knight Houses adopt their customs for diplomacy and pageantry and stuff. IIRC someone was trying to ingratiate themselves to a Knight Household and had to meet a Magos, and they did the Sign of the Cog, and the Techpriest politely showed them how to do it properly in a courtly manner, like a staff member at Buckingham Palace instructing someone how to bow to the King correctly. Like these Techpriests weren't just stuck in garage with the Titans, they did stuff. In 30k, the Knight Houses and the Mechanicum are even closer to that to my understanding. In Legiones Imperialis...Epic 30k...I remember my friend used the Mechanicum book to do what you're suggesting, because somehow the Mechanicum had a Force Org chart that more closely combine Knights than the other way around. He explained the details, I just didn't fully understand them, but perhaps our Legions players could fill you in. It's something to do with how Mechanicum Detachments work, which is meant to reflect the lore.

I remember Eugen Temba. I think you're right, so I'd like to separate the messenger from the message, just for the moment. Eugen Temba's corruption really personally offended Horus Lupercal. Horus considered him a friend, vouched for him to get his governorship, so saw his betrayal as against him as well as the Emperor and the Imperium. Thus, anything he said would be like fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, well... Eugen Temba, at that moment, was the wrong messenger for the right message. It totally foreshadows everything 10,000 years later. He basically said the tagline for Warhammer 40,000. But in-universe, the main crux of what you said is what did many, perhaps the majority, including prominent Traitors, think? Ezekyle Abaddon, Abaddon the Despoiler, Horus's number one son, the Warmaster of Chaos now, is a great example. Even in the very tail end of the Horus Heresy, when he rushed himself and everyone within reach headfirst towards their flagship the Vengeful Spirit to Horus's aid, he STILL shunned and avoided anything Chaos. Abaddon had Erebus kinda stalking him, nudging him towards accepting Chaos to aid him in this darkest hour. He was all "nope." There was even this scene in The End & the Death III where Abaddon directed his Justaerin Squad to look for clues on how to get to Horus. By this time, the Warp had so permeated the Vengeful Spirit that the whole ship was a magical maze, so you'd go through a door and you'd be like back down in the Imperial Palace suddenly. Abaddon's equerry found a clue! There were these Imperial Tarot cards, which were kinda relevant in this very psychic environment. You'd think Abaddon would welcome this news in this situation where every second counted. Instead, he was like, "DON'T TOUCH IT." Remember, this isn't some athame dagger. These were just cards. Abaddon's seen them before. The Imperial Tarot are psychically attuned in the same way that, say, a compass is attuned to Terra's magnetic field, that's how they tell you where North is. You're not going to become Magneto's mutant thrall by holding a compass. And that's why Abaddon's immediate reaction is so telling. He so distrusted Chaos that he'd shirk at something even vaguely mystical. And that's probably exactly how Abaddon ended up as Warmaster himself in Horus's stead, because 40k runs on irony. Horus had this mentality that he knew Chaos was bad, but he literally had a "I'm not addicted to it, I can give it up any time I like," to his detriment. How Abaddon took on that role, not despite knowing the dangers but because of it...it's something worth exploring as we go into the Scouring series.

This legit is such a good idea. As in, The Redeemed, and part of their redemption is to serve the Inquisition that hates them.

No, but year's not over yet!

“I, N1SB, pledge to keep track of 125% of my Hobby budget FROM 10th ed 40k FOR 11th ed 40k, from the dawn of January 1st 2026, through January 1st 2027. Whether I exceed that or turn that into savings / investments / emergency funds, I'll know where my money is." I'm very aware of my 40k spending for a simple reason: it was the same in 8th, 9th and 10th edition launches. It was pretty much all the same $ amount, each time for 1,000 point projects, whether it was a local Armies On Parade or local Crusade campaign. Super-predictable. Adding +25%, why? Because inflation's everywhere. (By the time there's a Psychic Awakening or some Campaign, I might do another purchase or 2, but that's always a different fiscal year.) I love your fiscal discipline like how I see my military veteran friends still instinctively go through the proper cautionary procedures when handling their weapons, even when they're unloaded. It's a good habit to have. I can tell, because if you consider 10 Gal Vorback splurging, then you have really good self-control. Our Warhammer Store manager is playing Word Bearers and he has 5. They're really good minis.

At the time of the reveal during the Game Awards, I was weirded out because there was just a flood of celebrities, like pro-wrestlers were there for the Street Fighter movie, Andrew Schultz seized the mic, Evanescence was performing...then David Harbour showed up. The last season of Stranger Things just started, all his co-stars from it were on the late night shows promoting it, for a second I thought there'd be a Stranger Things game being announced, then I noticed his shirt: He was moving, cameras were switching from full-stage to close-up, his jacket was shifting, but we all know the =][= when we see it. So he's in Total War:hammer 40k, but the plot thickens. Turns out about 2 years back, his wife Lily Allen had posted him. Implies he's a Black Templars player:

Sorry for late reply. Your Coven would have to capture enough of their own kind to give to the Slaanesh Night Lords in place of their own souls. And I think I literally ripped that off of Hellraiser, too. I think this was the deal Frank Cotton struck with Pinhead, to give him Kirsty Cotton. Why would the Night Lords entertain this? It's not just for the souls to Slaanesh, it's that they like the betrayal. Betrayal itself is a prize to them.

I was watching The Game Awards live and suddenly David Harbour (Stranger Things, Black Widow/Thunderbolts) came out and I was like "why is he wearing =][= on his shirt...wait a second..."

1st ed Rogue Trader. Remember how Rules As Written included a GM, even though they phased that out even within that era. So it was Marines vs Orks, then Genestealers (with minis from Space Hulk) came out of frigging nowhere and ate both our sides. To this day, I really hate Genestealers, more than Chaos...yet for some reason people tell me I'm really good at painting them.

Brother Taylor, you legit made me look. My account is 15 years old. I joined September 2010. I was clearly a very clever 1-year old from Australia at the time. (I still remember I came asking about Black Templars. I think I was asking about Objective Scoring LRCs.) I have read EULAs precisely zero times in my life, and I have no plans to ruin that perfect score, thank you very much.

I, too, find it utterly unbelievable that it's already been 10 years. The rest of the rumour, I have no reason to doubt. But has it been 10 years already? Unbelievable.