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Warhammer 40K Psychic Awakening: Brilliant or Blunder?

Zrayz10

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So the final book in the psychic awakening has, at last, dropped and quite frankly...

I feel that the whole thing was a mistake, at least from a narrative perspective given it takes place during the Indomitus Crusade. I mean yeah it introduced some interesting plot threads (like the possible return of the squats although that might be GW cockteasing us) but ultimately none of it really matters in the grand scheme of the 40k narrative given we know the outcome of the Indomitus Crusade: Guilliman returns to Terra after declaring the crusade a victory and then the whole Plague Wars thing happens followed by the Vengeance Crusades. So what was the point? I mean with 9ed just around the corner why should people waste money on the books given we know the outcome already? You can just grab the relevant lore from the reddit posts and wait for the new codex edition to drop.

At least that's my take on things. Opinions?
 
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Oh I think Primaris are completely unnecessary and while they're pretty they were basically hammered into the lore. I dislike how Cawl had legions of Marines in stasis just in case, making the War of the Beast seem superfluous in retrospect.

Like if you really need them, have a go at how the geneseeds are becoming degraded over time and Cawl came out and had ways to "revive" the geneseeds. You can even have the new units and Guilliman has updated the Codex.

I still however dislike how specialist Primaris are. The Chapters are very versatile owing to their small size. The Primaris are Legion born again, in an age where tactically they're not right for the job.
 
Yeah, if you're going to have the Imperium pull a new superweapon out of their asses, at least have it be something more original than 'Space Marines, but moar'.
 
boo600 said:
So, Smurfs but more, then?
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Basically yeah. According to one of the Siege of Terra books Cawl found some bullcrap called the Magna Matter that had been made by one Luna's Selenite Cults before they were wiped out. It was apparently filled with a super purified version of the genetic material that made up the Primarch essence. Apparently the Cult had created it before the Great Crusade and then hidden it from the Emperor both out of spite for him conquering them after negotiations broke down with Luna and also out of fear of what he could do with it. They also mind-wiped themselves except for a single group of guardians so that Emps wouldn't find out about it. During the HH some space marine found it and took it from the last guardian but then the dude got badly injured and trapped with it on some asteroid for 10k years after the traitors attacked. He went into stasis to survive and millenia later Cawl stumbled on his ass and after telling his story to Cawl he finally died. Cawl then took the Mcguffin and used it to tweak and finally finish his Primary Sue marines.

Total BS retroactively justified by an afterthought book and just an excuse to make us shell out more money, just like everything related to this Psychic Awakening nonsense.
 
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𝕄ч ᗴ𝕐𝔢𝔰 ᵃя𝐞 𝕓ĻＥєＤί𝓝ق. 𝔴𝒽𝐘 Ď𝕆ⒺⓈ ⓖ𝐖 𝔱ђⓘŇＫ Ť卄𝐚Ⓣ ⓣђίᔕ ᗯเl𝓁 ＭᗩҜᵉ Ⓣ𝓗є𝓜 ᵖㄖ𝓅𝕦𝕃ⓐя 卂Ňᗪ ｈ𝔞vє𝐌๏яέ Ⓜᵒᑎ-𝐄𝒆Ｅ???

𝕴𝖓 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖌𝖗𝖎𝖒 𝖉𝖆𝖗𝖐𝖓𝖊𝖘𝖘 𝖔𝖋 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖋𝖆𝖗 𝖋𝖚𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖊, 𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖗𝖊 𝖎𝖘 𝖔𝖓𝖑𝖞 𝖈𝖆𝖘𝖍𝖌𝖗𝖆𝖇𝖘 𝖉𝖊𝖘𝖙𝖗𝖔𝖞𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖘𝖎𝖒𝖕𝖑𝖊 𝕬𝖇𝖘𝖔𝖑𝖚𝖙𝖊 𝕳𝖊𝖑𝖑𝖘𝖈𝖆𝖕𝖊 𝖞𝖔𝖚 𝖋𝖊𝖑𝖑 𝖎𝖓 𝖑𝖔𝖛𝖊 𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖍. 𝕵𝖚𝖘𝖙 𝖑𝖎𝖐𝖊 𝕯𝖎𝖘𝖓𝖊𝖞.
 
This might be a good place to ask but did the Ephrael Stern stuff come out yet? I haven't been paying the closest of attention to track it.
 
Delirium said:
This might be a good place to ask but did the Ephrael Stern stuff come out yet? I haven't been paying the closest of attention to track it.
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Yeah all that stuff was released and she has a big role in Pariah. Apparently she shows up with her Harlequin friend to the crusade in the Nephilim sector which is where the Necrons are building their anti-psychic Pariah Nexus. At first everyone wants to shoot her since she was declared a heretic and she's traveling with a Xeno but the Inquisitor due to her own dealings with the Eldar vouches for the Harlequin and then Stern shows off her abilities despite the massively anti-psychic nature of the Nexus making them realize her power is faith-based since only the faithful like the Sister of battle are unaffected by the Nexus and so they are cool with her then. Stern later helps play a big role in the battle for the Necron transport hub world by helping the Sororitas and Knights destroy some of the Dolman gates at the center of the world and later helping lead the defense against the Necron counterattack (Stern's Harlequin friend also helps out a bit but not as much as they had hoped as his Eldar brethren fail to appear like he had thought they would). In a surprising twist she and her allies are rescued from certain doom when the Inquisitor after retrieving some info containing crystals goes and smashes the Necron device imprisoning a C'tan who then apparently teleports them to safety out of gratitude before going apeshit on the Necron forces.
 
Zrayz10 said:
Yeah all that stuff was released and she has a big role in Pariah. Apparently she shows up with her Harlequin friend to the crusade in the Nephilim sector which is where the Necrons are building their anti-psychic Pariah Nexus. At first everyone wants to shoot her since she was declared a heretic and she's traveling with a Xeno but the Inquisitor due to her own dealings with the Eldar vouches for the Harlequin and then Stern shows off her abilities despite the massively anti-psychic nature of the Nexus making them realize her power is faith-based since only the faithful like the Sister of battle are unaffected by the Nexus and so they are cool with her then. Stern later helps play a big role in the battle for the Necron transport hub world by helping the Sororitas and Knights destroy some of the Dolman gates at the center of the world and later helping lead the defense against the Necron counterattack (Stern's Harlequin friend also helps out a bit but not as much as they had hoped as his Eldar brethren fail to appear like he had thought they would). In a surprising twist she and her allies are rescued from certain doom when the Inquisitor after retrieving some info containing crystals goes and smashes the Necron device imprisoning a C'tan who then apparently teleports them to safety out of gratitude before going apeshit on the Necron forces.
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Neat. Will try and get a hold of it.
 
Delirium said:
Neat. Will try and get a hold of it.
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stratigo said:
PA has been Mixed for sure
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What I find interesting is the fact the Nexus didn't work on faith given the pylons on Cadia short-circuited a living Saint. It implies Living Saints are not in fact being powered by faith but rather the warp or that they have in fact been remade into something that is essentially a greater daemon albeit one that follows the Emperor.
 
XD as someone actively playing the game, the last PA and the bullshit promises GW made surrounding it are not a great look. Remember that each of these books run about fourty bucks. Some have added a lot to the factions they're about, some only a little, And the last pretty much nothing at all
 
stratigo said:
XD as someone actively playing the game, the last PA and the bullshit promises GW made surrounding it are not a great look. Remember that each of these books run about fourty bucks. Some have added a lot to the factions they're about, some only a little, And the last pretty much nothing at all
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Yeah, the last book was kind of a disappointment in some ways especially given a lot of the stuff like Deathwatch and Harlequin rules were shoved into issues of White Dwarf instead of the main book. At least it added interesting plot threads like Stern being not a heretic anymore, the Silent King's return, the possible return of the Squats, and the fact there is a Tyranid hive or splinter fleet at the edge of the FREAKING SOL SYSTEM.

Would not be surprised if the return of the Squats was heralded by them appearing to save Terra from the Tyranids, partially to help their old human allies and partially out of revenge for the bugs eating the Squat homeworlds.
 
This whole series of release really killed my motivation to play 40K. After I've built and painted my Ad Mech I'm going to be playing AoS instead. It also helps that my local store is 80% AoS rather than 40K
 
To be fair, they've just announced that Indominus is now going on their Made to Order list. While they warned that production may take a while but the general response from (Reddit ones at least) fans is "screw scalpers"
 
I got a preorder in from my local game store, fortunately. I'm excited to have some bladeguard veterans stabbing heretics for Sanguinius.

Also, I bought Sanguinius even though he has no rules in any game I play. I might have a problem.
 
So besides myself and searcher8 how many other people hear would be interested in setting a Space Battles/ Sufficient Velocity discord group for playing Warhammer 40,000 on Tabletop simulator? It's not perfect, but it seems to be a safe way of getting in games with Nurgle's rot running rampant hear in the US.
 
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