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Quote from: IronyOwl on April 09, 2013, 04:28:15 am

Quote from: Guardian G.I. on April 08, 2013, 05:42:48 am

Quote from: Xantalos on April 08, 2013, 04:00:16 am

Quote from: Lagslayer on April 07, 2013, 04:22:31 pm

There's no need to be afraid. It's not like he's Putin or anything.

We need an Adventures of Putin series now.

Fun fact: it exists (in webcomic form).

There's also one about the Japanese Prime Minister. Putin shows up as well, naturally.

I've been reading it. I'm currently at the part with the pope.

It gets crazier. MUCH crazier.

The airship looks more like it'd be used for traveling, not going to work for a daily commute.

Not knowing anything about "exhalting", I can't comment

And that argument goes down the tubes when you realize that past a certain distance, things would have to be moving faster than the speed of light to revolve around Earth at the rate it does...

Uh, we don't know that they'd be immune to Warp-based phenomena. Sure, they don't use the Warp for their abilities so they don't have to worry about daemons as much, but if a psyker decided to pop their heads or shoot lightning at them they'd probably still die.

Quote from: Sirus on April 09, 2013, 02:51:23 am

Quote from: Vgray on April 09, 2013, 02:45:35 am

X-COM. In the Warhammer 40k universe.

A tiny branch of an insignificant planet's PDF, until they start carting around plasma guns are walking around in flying armor. Then they might qualify for the Stormtroopers.

Eh, I don't know. the Stormtroopers are actually pretty hardcore when they aren't being dumbed down by the Force plot devices.

That's why I said they might qualify. It takes some big brass ones to march into a Necron tomb when you know that the things are starting to wake up, and quite a few X-COM operatives might not be able to handle it.

That's why they wouldn't be sending teenagers. They'd be sending in kill teams of veteran hunters, armed to the teeth and operating on stealth. It isn't really apparent until you think about it, but not ONE of the races in 40k uses stealth tech, except maybe psykers. But back to the point, veteran hunters would not make the mistakes the young bloods make, they'd be more cautious and would use more advanced tactics and probably more advanced weapons.

Actually, all the races (except possibly the Orks) use stealth technology to some degree. The Eldar have various holofields and teleportation techs, the Tau have mastered it to the point that they use stealthed units as basic scouts, Necron Wraiths can turn intangible, and while it doesn't come up in the tabletop very much the Imperium does have access to a few bits of archeotech.

But I digress. They likely would send teenagers at first, until they realized just how dangerous this new universe was. If they don't learn that lesson quickly, it could lead to disaster (as in, Inquisitorial taskforce disaster).