Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Sun, Apr 23, 2023 4:03 PM
[40k] a thought
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Sun, Apr 23, 2023 4:03 PM
Traditionally
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Sun, Apr 23, 2023 4:04 PM
When you mix up modern technology with the supernatural
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Sun, Apr 23, 2023 4:04 PM
If you have like an angel or Minotaur or whatever show up, you typically give it like a sword or axe or what
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Sun, Apr 23, 2023 4:04 PM
ever
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Sun, Apr 23, 2023 4:05 PM
Into show like “this creature is out of place in a modern world that has guns and cellphones and shit”
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Sun, Apr 23, 2023 4:05 PM
But the thing about wh40k
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Sun, Apr 23, 2023 4:06 PM
Is that in OUR world, the sword has a history of like 5000 years
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Sun, Apr 23, 2023 4:06 PM
But in the grim darkness of the 41st millennium
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Sun, Apr 23, 2023 4:06 PM
The GUN has a history 8 times longer than that
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Sun, Apr 23, 2023 4:07 PM
More. That’s just how long humans have had guns
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Sun, Apr 23, 2023 4:08 PM
Necrons had guns during the Paleocene era
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Sun, Apr 23, 2023 4:08 PM
So like
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Sun, Apr 23, 2023 4:08 PM
Monsters and magical creatures have had plenty of time to get the word
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Sun, Apr 23, 2023 4:09 PM
Anyway that’s what I thought of when Blighty linked this https://images.plurk.com/3NJ22XWcIDPZlNFC32UoT1.jpg
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Sun, Apr 23, 2023 4:09 PM
GUN ANGELS
Blighty
@Holsety
Sun, Apr 23, 2023 4:24 PM
GUN ANGELS
Blighty
@Holsety
Sun, Apr 23, 2023 4:25 PM
i truly love the gun angels in my game they're just a race of like flying snipers can't believe no one thought of this before
Quinneapolis
@quinn2win
Sun, Apr 23, 2023 4:27 PM
in Watership down, the humans in rabbit mythology already had guns, because rabbit cultural memory is short
Quinneapolis
@quinn2win
Sun, Apr 23, 2023 4:28 PM
as far as they know there have always been farmers with shotguns
Friendpatine
@SamuraiMarmoset
Sun, Apr 23, 2023 4:31 PM
real talk: the bolter is such a fucking badass weapon.
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Sun, Apr 23, 2023 4:31 PM
It is
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Sun, Apr 23, 2023 4:32 PM
"It's just a gun right?" It's a rapid fire precision armor piercing rocket propelled grenade launcher
Friendpatine
@SamuraiMarmoset
Sun, Apr 23, 2023 4:33 PM
and you have to be a transhuman not just to wielded it but so firing it once won't kill you from the recoil.
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Sun, Apr 23, 2023 4:33 PM
or have power armor but
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Sun, Apr 23, 2023 4:33 PM
yeah IG doesn't use bolters because they would tear their arms off
Friendpatine
@SamuraiMarmoset
Sun, Apr 23, 2023 4:33 PM
that too
Friendpatine
@SamuraiMarmoset
Sun, Apr 23, 2023 4:35 PM
and it is like the most basic weapon in the Space Marine arsenal, next to maybe the Chainsword. It starts with that and then goes up from there.
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Sun, Apr 23, 2023 4:35 PM
also real talk: The chainsword feels like it would be the most impractical weapon imaginable
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Sun, Apr 23, 2023 4:36 PM
like it would get caught on things at the slightly provocation
ShootingXC
@UltraDude
Sun, Apr 23, 2023 4:36 PM
that thing is getting jammed every five seconds
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Sun, Apr 23, 2023 4:36 PM
are they cool? yes
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Sun, Apr 23, 2023 4:36 PM
would they actually work in a combat setting? no
ArtIsArt
@ArtWildentanzen
Sun, Apr 23, 2023 10:31 PM
In other 40k thoughts:
ArtIsArt
@ArtWildentanzen
Sun, Apr 23, 2023 10:32 PM
Killin'em Shakespear is a valid ork name.
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