u/Cultural_Estimate_90

If GW gave you the ability to choose which space marine chapter to get a new range of unique minatures (or even their own supplementary codex on top of it like the Black Templars did), which one would you choose?

Remember, this can be any chapter that has little or no presence in the 40k game right now (HH doesn't count). This could be a founding chapter like the Salamanders or Iron Hands, a successor chapter like the Crimson Fists or Carchadons, or something obscure like the White Consuls or Steel Confessors.

For me, I'd like to see Iron Hands, Salamanders, or the Carchadons myself, since they have loads of potential for unique minatures and rules. Iron Hands got their cyborg space marines and heavy tech support, Salamanders got their "Burn the impure" angle, and Carchadons are just plain bad-ass like their alpha, Tyberos the Red Wake.

On an additional note, if this included Chaos chapters, who'd you choose? For me, I'd love to see the modern presence of the Night Lords (became one of my favorite traitor chapters after reading their triology books), and the Iron Warriors (that one could happen since Perturabo is hinted to be coming to the 40k game at some point).

But anyway, I'd love to hear your thoughts.

We all know the 40k universe is grimdark as hell, and one of those major factors is that many of the big players are all on borrowed time. So I thought it would be interested to discuss what each faction is threatened with and what they're doing to buy themselves another day from complete extinction.

Now, before we start, it should be obvious said doomsday won't happen as it would affect the actual tabletop game. I mean, the Imperium has been dying for 10k years, but seems to be bitterly fighting tooth and nail on life support like their dreadnoughts.

1: Imperium. Clearly obvious. The Emperor is on life support on the Golden Throne, a mysterious device that barely anyone alive even knows how it works. And its failing. And once the Emperor dies, all sorts of apocalyptic things could happen that will affect the galaxy and not just the human race. Humanity will lose its ability to navigate the Warp, cutting much of the Imperium from itself. A major chaos gate will open, but Terra will be completely destroyed by Vulcan's doomday device he installed into the throne. And quite possibly the Emperor's death may turn him into the Dark King, a 5th Chaos God.

2: The Eldar. Their race is near extinction, with barely enough numbers to replenish their populations. And without their Soul Stones, they're doomed to be eaten by Slannesh the second they die.

3: The Necrons. They are under less danger than some of the other races, but they do have their own problem: the Flayer Virus. This was a curse put on the Necrons after they defeated the Flayer C'tan. It turns the Necrons into gore-obssessed monsters with little to no sanity, and they turn into followers of the Flayer. And the Necrons have no way to cure it atm, aside from one Necron keeping his sanity despite turning.

4: The Leagues of Votann. Their society is run by AI known as the Votann, or "Ancestor Cores". It basically runs their government, controls their cloning operations needed for their population, and is their way for FTL through the Warp. And when a Squat dies, their minds are uploaded into the Votann. Unfortunately, this has caused a super-charged BSOD from all the memory that has to occupy the Votann, which threatens to crash them. And if this happens, the Leagues society will crumble being incredibly depend on AI running it. So dangerous, the Squats have been forced to start deleting minds off the Votann and denying people their supposed reward for a life of service.

5: Tau. Concidentally, being a young race compared to the other civilizations, they're really not under the same doomsday factor the others...yet. Its been strongly suggested the Tau are on the same path the other factions were on and will inevitably suffer in the future. For example, the Tau are on the midst of their own Horus Heresy civil war between them and the Farsight Enclaves. And its been said the Tau's own AI is getting smarter and smarter, not to mention they're secretly having an AI pretend to be their supreme leader. Who's to say they're not on the path of their own AI rebellion like the Men of Iron from the DAOT?

6: Chaos. While Chaos itself will never fall, the Chaos Space Marines could be argued be under their own doomsday clock as they're always fighting each other and are just as much as wiping themselves out as their enemies have for them.

The orks and tryannids themselves don't seem to have any kind of danger that threatens their future. The Orks repopulate like crazy and are nearly impossible to get rid of. In fact, the only thing that may in the end destroy them is if they're the only race left and get bored of only fighting each other. As for the 'nids, their only danger is running out of biomass, so their numbers aren't limitless (and they have been known to lose major battles where they didn't get a sufficient enough return for all their loses. Even when they defeated the Deathguard one time, they still ended up going hungry since Nurgle's boys made the planet so toxic and diseased, it would have killed their fleet). There's also the "thing the Tyrannids are running from", but there's no major confirmed threat besides something not physical like running out of food (and one theory I read was their actions caused some kind of heat-loss/physics related universal death).

Now, I feel like while these doomsdays will never be supposedly completely averted, there could still "band-aids" that supposedly gives them more time. Like winning a major lore victory that gives them a chance to slowly bounce back or say a Loyalist Primarch coming back. (One thing I heard was saying Vulcan may return with some new knowledge and a combination of mechanicus and xeno tech wizardy, he may be able to do some maintance on the Golden Throne that will keep it from failing for some undetermined time, but not fix it completely)

So why do you guys think? What insight do you have into each of the ticking clocks for each faction?

so I just bought the new hastiri box and I was wondering, which is better between the fusiliers or the eliminators for the first build?

I was building a rad zones corps for my admech army but I’m willing to change if there’s any new info know about. I also have both kinds of Skittari, the tech priests manipulus, enginseer, and dominus, the Petraxi skystalkers, and the Castellans set to name a few I have if that info helps