Some 40k firepower estimates

Post by **NecronLord** » 2002-10-22 02:35pm

Well the D-cannon has the power to open a warp rift (you just wait 'till our secret project is finsihed... Damm shouldn't have said that..) The strength of the target is irrelevent, If warp tech were dependant on things such as that the Necrontyr would have eliminated the old ones without needing the C'tan..

DocHorror · Post by **DocHorror** » 2002-10-23 11:37am

Lets get down to brass tacks here...

HDS it is very difficult to pin down a lot of 40k statistics because, by its very nature, 40k is vague & open to interperation.

40k is not like Star Wars or Star Trek, as they (essentially) have a consistent past, present & future covered in books & films etc...

40k on the other hand is a game. As such it is designed in such a way that there is a set out background (which appears almost mythical) with vast tracks of space inbetween for the players to make up their own campaigns & stories. That is not to say that 40k doesnt have a comprehensive background, it is IMO a richer & more enjoyable background universe than either SW or ST...IMHO...

The point Im trying to make is that while the stories of SW & ST, and also the technologies, can move forward & progress. 40k cannot move forward and progress. For example the Emperor can never be reborn, Chaos can never overthrow the Imperium, the Tyranids can never devower anything important etc...

DocHorror · Post by **DocHorror** » 2002-10-23 11:54am

...but that doesnt really have anything to do with anything. Since 40k is very subjective & open to interperetation, il give you my two cents regarding 40k tech...

As we all know the Adeptus Mechanicus on Mars regard machines as holy. They believe machines have a spirit & if the machine breaks down then the spirit must be angry or whatever. Now if we take this as being literal then the Imperium would never get anything done. My take on it is that while the Tech Priests pray to machines & worship them, they also have a good understanding of the vast majority of the tech in use.

Some of the understanding is lost ie: Teleportation. Therefore these machines can only be maintained & when they go kaboom then they are lost forever.

The Imperium is fairly technologicaly stagnant, but the majority of the tech is understood & able to be replicated...it just has a layer of religion on top.

Post by **NecronLord** » 2002-10-23 03:05pm

They can built teleporters and things. they just don't know why it works..

white_rabbit · Post by **white_rabbit** » 2002-10-23 04:57pm

NecronLord wrote:They can built teleporters and things. they just don't know why it works..

the more estoric tehnologies are usually not very well understood.

And 40k as a universe is well able to progress.

Special characters can die..

Captain Tycho being the primary example of this, he was recently killed off in the Armageddon campaign.

In the new Chaos campaign, Abaddon is going to crush the pacificus sector, and plunge it into war.

They have constantly moved the timeline forward

And the nids certainly do devour important things...the Lamenters, the Scythes of the Emperor, the Ultras 1st company...

The squats...who according to most sources within GW have been eaten by the Tyranids.

starfury · Post by **starfury** » 2002-10-23 04:59pm

so that is where the dwarf of Warhammar 40k, I meant squats went.

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2002-10-23 06:40pm

What i want to know is where the 'Nid Zoats went? Also, if the Tyranid side had won the Ichar 4 campaign then i think Ichar 4 would be gone by now. That's one of the best things about GW games. They have these big campaigns where you the player will help decide what happens.

white_rabbit · Post by **white_rabbit** » 2002-10-25 08:22am

2000AD wrote:What i want to know is where the 'Nid Zoats went? Also, if the Tyranid side had won the Ichar 4 campaign then i think Ichar 4 would be gone by now. That's one of the best things about GW games. They have these big campaigns where you the player will help decide what happens.

the Zoats were from the period when the Tyranids werent exactly pinned down as what the Games Developers wanted them to be IIRC they were a race enslaved by the Tyranids..

*shrug* assume they got eaten and absorbed..god knows, but TBH they didnt really fit.

Ichar 4 is directly referred to in later codexs etc as the event that shattered the main attacking tendril of Hivefleet Kraken, the remainder split up into splinter fleets that spread throughout the galaxy.

Leviathan, the current fleet is mainly munching the Eastern Rim, but its tendrils extend deep into the galactic core as well.