#ok sure they're astartes

[robot-roadtrip-rants]

Y'know, I once had a conversation with a veteran about paratrooper deployment. He emphasized over and over that you only deploy paratroopers after establishing air superiority. Sending them into still-contested skies is sending them to their death. The only real exception to the rule is when paratrooper infiltrators are deployed behind enemy lines (D-Day is a well-know example of this), and obviously that works very differently from your standard deployment. Imagine jumping out of a plane in the middle of an active dogfight. Yeah.

Anyways Blades of Damocles opens with Ultramarines airdropping into a combat zone with aircraft actively fighting all around them. I...I kinda feel like this says a lot about the Imperium.

#warhammer 40k #ultramarines #blades of damocles #ok sure they're astartes #sure they're in armor and jump packs #but the tau just shot a ship down #it's literally raining marines #(hallelujah) #c'mon guys! do better! #XD

[gauntsghostsfieldguide]

Anarch- Part 18

NINETEEN: WHOSE VOICE DROWNS OUT ALL OTHERS

"‘I acquired a disguise,’ said Kater Holofurnace." LOL. Good job, big guy.

And now they can get weapons!

"Thanks to the warp incident that had broken the Armaduke’s return voyage to Urdesh, Milo was ten years older, relative. That made him over thirty standard."

"He hoped Dalin was safe. He’d grown fond of him. A brave lad. Just like Milo had been." Ouch, Dan Abnett. Ouch.

Ok, they're going to use mines.

"As they came closer, Mkoll realised it was human bone. Thousands upon thousands of gleaming skull caps bonded together." D:

"The boy piper had truly long gone. Milo had become a warrior of the Throne, as sure and committed to his function as any Astartes." I swear, if he dies right after he comes back, because that's his destiny...

Oh boy, everything's made of bones.

"A skeletal giant, its skin a mummified and flaking brown stretched taut and paper-thin around its bones. A ragged robe, decayed from centuries in a tomb. A crown of iron spikes. No lower jaw, just a yawning void." Ok, yeah, scary, but not the worst Chaos has. He's a jawless skeleton. Who speaks, somehow.

"It was female in aspect, throat, shoulders and hunched back fledged in iridescent plumage. A carrion bird’s beak, big as a power-claw, snapped and yawned to reveal the blue, rasping dagger of its tongue. A spiked silver crown formed a band above its dozens of glittering eyes. Neon-yellow pupils flashed and shone. It spread its arms, its daemon wings. It possessed a terrible beauty that speared Holofurnace’s heart like a cold blade." Oh, ok, he looks like different things to different people.

"Just a man. Just a vile old man. Mkoll could kill that." I do like that the other three are horrified by what they see and Mkoll's just like "wow, he's gross. I can kill him."

#gaunt's ghosts #wh40k #warhammer40k #anarch

[luwupercal]

also @betterandbetterme i had this screenshotted for a second but couldnt respond earlier so here's some thoughts now

first of all, i think Konrad would be a servant of The Hunt, as would be Leman and probably Khan too but Khan experts roast me if I'm wrong. Maybe even Lion could share the hunt, idk! And we already have a cop who kills criminals in The Hunt in tma canon, so Konrad is just Daisy 2 Electric Boogaloo

for other obvious picks, Magnus being a servant of The Eye is duh, of course, as is Corvus Corax being a servant of The Dark, and Vulkan for The Desolation (immortal and fire-themed)

and Angron is Slaughter, of course, we've been over this

Fulgrim is 200% servant of The Stranger. he was literally taken over and possessed and when he returned nobody noticed because he'd changed to be so much like the demon possessing him. he'd also probably sympathize with Nikola's skincare routine thing (+ snakes shed their skins which is kind of a fun twist on the Stranger's preoccupation with skin)

Sanguinius could be of The Slaughter, but I actually think he'd be fun as a servant of The Flesh. He could even keep the wings!

Sanguinius could also be The End, but I think Ferrus is a better End than Sanguinius. I mean, Ferrus's whole thing is being fucking dead. I think The End is really fun for him

and I think Rogal Dorn is servant of The Buried. Which might be kind of a wacky choice, wouldn't Perturabo be more fitting haha he digs trenches, etc, but I think Perturabo is better characterized as a victim of The Buried. and he's specifically a victim because of how the Emperor treats him + his legion in contrast to Dorn + Dorn's. Dorn is also like, really fucking weird about his own image and emotions and I can't explain it but it's Buried. It's Buried shit. I also think Dorn deserves to dig in the snows of his homeworld and build himself a claustrophobic little hut there like a polar bear because, yeah, he is a white haired bear from a snowy region, you know

I think Perturabo could be a servant of The Vast, actually. funnily enough for him getting a little Buried over. This is because of two factors: (1) the Eye of Terror in his peripheral vision and (2) the *vast*ness of knowledge downloaded in his head when he woke up climbing that cliff as a child. but you know buried works too w/e

Lorgar could be great as a servant for the Web, I think. The whole cosmic greater plan and will of the gods situation would slap for him.

Mortarion I'll argue for being Lonely rather than Corruption; it feels more fitting to his character. He doesn't crave love like the Corruption's servants do. Actually, Nurgle is pitch-perfect Corruption, which is kind of fun

I think Guilliman could be a great servant of the Buried - he's buried (and buries others) under rules, under paperwork, under responsibility, under the fucking Codex Astartes, under the god damn state of the Imperium today, and he's even stuck in a set of armor that he cannot fucking Leave (ok, iirc he did leave it but y'know)

and Horus I'm not sure but I'm tempted to plunk him into The [SPOILER ENTITY]. because he's unexpected and also the Vibes are Just Right to me. but if you wanna make him, like, Desolation or something that's chill too idk

oh and alpharius omegon are either Spiral or Stranger. I'm leaning towards Spiral because they gaslight you but I figure they're equally Stranger lmao