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[Grim Portent]

His face... by the Emperor...

In the instance of this head that's actually how it's supposed to look. 

It's the bare head from FWs Lord Zhufor, which has scars and a mangled jawline. It's only got 3 thin layers of paint and two washes on it, Zhufor just happens to be really ugly. 

EDIT: Next on the conversion block is the Iron Hand from Deathwatch, who's getting turned into Gahlan Surlak, the World Eater's equivalent of Chenkov. He's an apothecary who can turn your basic Tactical Marines into more killy close combatants but they lose the ability to score. They pretty much become horde tactics marines with S5, chainaxes and pistols.

[Radio Controlled]

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His face... by the Emperor...

God I love this video so much. Played it endlessly a couple months ago.

Anyways, there's a bit of Windows customization I've been meaning to do for a long time. With my grimdark computer case, I needed a grimdark login screen!



Unfortunately taking a screen cap of your own login screen is harder than you would think, so I just had to take a pic with my cellphone:

That's pretty cool. Can I ask how you did that? Did you have to make the login screen from scratch?

[nenjin]

Yeah, I just designed it in GIMP. Ripped the Imperial Aquila image, resized it, colored it green. Found a good digital-looking font. The hardest part was adding scanlines to all the images and text, which just involved using the selection tool to tediously select the lettering and applying a Distort effect to remove lines for the scan line effect.

The actual process of a custom login screen is detailed here: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/windows-and-office/change-and-customize-windows-7s-logon-screen-wallpaper/

I'd actually have made it a lot fancier-looking but the image can't be larger than 245KB or 256KB. And just that simple stuff came out to about 208KB at 1920x1080.

[Kot]

I belive that the laspistol used by Death Korps is just the regular one that you see every once in a while, but...
...what laspistol do you think would fit Death Korps? Back when I did Pixel Wars, I had an idea for Luger-esque Laspistol, though Mauser C96 (albeit that's what the regular one is similar to already) would certainly fit too.
I always had a raging hard-on for pre-WW1 Austro-Hungarian pistols, like Mannlicher M1901, Roth-Krnka M1907 or the most aesthetic pistol ever produced, Steyr-Hahn/Steyr M1911 (fucking great year for pistols) but they don't have that much of distinctive features to be easily recognizeable in Laspistol form.
Borchardt C-93 is easily recognizeable, Bergmann M1896 also has an interesting look. Maybe some other pistol though, not necessarily German/Austro-Hungarian? Maybe even not from WW1.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I'm not sure why I think this works, but there's the Gyrojet series, which were honest to god real life bolters in WWII.

[Andres]

Unrelated, spoiler from Pharos.

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Basically answers the question "WTF Tyranids." They're not fleeing some horror at the edge of the galaxy. They were possibly a bio-weapon created by an ancient Xenos race that were summoned when Dantioch "Feels Man Iron Warrior" overloaded the Pharos to stop the Night Lords, and got the Great Devourer's attention with its signal.

So, thanks for ruining Ultramar Dantioch. Seems like even when the Imperium "wins", they're still doing the work of Chaos.

Ugh.

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That was just an attempt by GW to connect everything in 40k to 30k. The old explanation of the enormously gigantic psychic beacon that is the Astronomican being the thing that attracts them is a better one.

[Digital Hellhound]

Unrelated, spoiler from Pharos.

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Basically answers the question "WTF Tyranids." They're not fleeing some horror at the edge of the galaxy. They were possibly a bio-weapon created by an ancient Xenos race that were summoned when Dantioch "Feels Man Iron Warrior" overloaded the Pharos to stop the Night Lords, and got the Great Devourer's attention with its signal.

So, thanks for ruining Ultramar Dantioch. Seems like even when the Imperium "wins", they're still doing the work of Chaos.

Ugh.

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That was just an attempt by GW to connect everything in 40k to 30k. The old explanation of the enormously gigantic psychic beacon that is the Astronomican being the thing that attracts them is a better one.

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It can be both, though? Perhaps the Pharos overload was 'bright' enough that the distant 'Nids were intrigued, homing in on the Astronomican when they got closer. The Astronomican's light doesn't reach beyond the edges of the galaxy, IIRC. Or maybe they were already coming, but the Pharos attracted them specifically to Ultramar (which is, after all, where they first attack).

We'll maybe just have to carry on with different headcanons, though. I really dig the Pharos explanation - a heroic sacrifice seems to save the day in 30k, only to have much worse consequences than those it averted ten thousand years later. It's fittingly grimdark.

[nenjin]

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It's a very short couple sentences right at the end of the book, but it strongly indicates that the Tyranids were not looking in the direction of Humanity's Galaxy until the Pharos went off full throttle. My instant gut reaction was "Ok, if not for Dantioch than the Tyranids might never have been a problem for the Imperium, or not a problem for another 50 Millennia or so." That's how strongly I feel it was written.

You're not wrong though. The Astronomican doesn't reach beyond the edge of known space, so, there's little chance the 'Nids would have found the Imperium w/o the Pharos. And once they did enter the reach of the Astronomican, it's basically a never-ending dinner bell ringing in the Hive Collective's mind. Whereas the the Pharos was an exceedingly loud but singular peal of the dinner bell.

[Loud Whispers]

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It's a very short couple sentences right at the end of the book, but it strongly indicates that the Tyranids were not looking in the direction of Humanity's Galaxy until the Pharos went off full throttle. My instant gut reaction was "Ok, if not for Dantioch than the Tyranids might never have been a problem for the Imperium, or not a problem for another 50 Millennia or so." That's how strongly I feel it was written.

You're not wrong though. The Astronomican doesn't reach beyond the edge of known space, so, there's little chance the 'Nids would have found the Imperium w/o the Pharos. And once they did enter the reach of the Astronomican, it's basically a never-ending dinner bell ringing in the Hive Collective's mind. Whereas the the Pharos was an exceedingly loud but singular peal of the dinner bell.

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I see it as the Pharos light goes beyond the milky way, the nids send some scout fleets (which are so massive by 40k standards that they look like world-ending swarms). The scout fleets find that the Pharos ping is onto something good (seeing the astronomicon) at which point the whole galactic swarm changes course for the milky way

[Andres]

What's the difference between a Magos Militant and a Myrmidon?

[Kot]

Magos Militant seems to be an general term for Magos that kills stuff, while Myrmidons are specialized "Magos Siegecraftus". So, every Myrmidon  is a Magos Militant, not every Magos Militant is a Myrmidon.

[Akura]

I'm not sure why I think this works, but there's the Gyrojet series, which were honest to god real life bolters in WWII.

Vietnam-era, not WWII. And they didn't even really work. Inaccurate, unreliable, and actually had a minimum effective range before the bullet accelerated to a damaging velocity.

[Kot]

I've seen a thread few years ago on /k/ where a guy that owned a Gyrojet was wondering why it was so innacurate actually, since in theory it should be great and what was more weird, every rocket was innacurate in the same way. He checked, and on every single (original) rocket, backplate slightly (as in, less than a mm) covered one of exhaust noozles, which caused the rocket to go off course.
He drilled a bit and the projectiles became very accurate all out of sudden. I'll try to find that thread.

There's a chance that Gyrojets never really took off simply because of one slight technical malfunction that could be easily fixed but nobody really noticed. Reliablity problems came from them being rushed, and minimum effective range could be fixed by initial kicker charge that doesn't even really have to be that big. In other words, maybe bolters aren't that stupid as they seem, you just need to get a person who actually do it properly.

[TempAcc]

Gyrojets were also notoriously... Oddly made? Like the quality between each pistol and the ammo varied a lot for some reason. That is one of the reasons it didn't take off, with the other reason being that they were rather underpowered in comparison to regular pistols and the ammo was rather expensive.

[LordBaal]

I think the GW dudes actually nailed it there, in that for working better a gyrojet would indeed need a firing case to shot out like a bullet and then igniter the rocket once is out of the chamber. Essentially a two stages rocket of sorts. That's however, kind of tricky to do on real life, a mini rocket that survives being propelled with the impact of a bullet first.