Necron fluff contradiction
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Post by halos on Feb 22, 2010 13:37:21 GMT
Gaunt did indeed once drive an Ork buggy in one book, I think it was Ghostmaker? He commented that the controls were extremely simple, just a steering bar, accelerator and a brake which dropped a metal spike into the floor as an anchor. But he also found it very difficult to steer or even depress the accelerator pedal because he wasn't strong enough.
On the subject of looting monoliths there was a WD a couple of years back which involved Ultramarines and Necrons battling over a disabled, deactivated monolith so presumedly it is feasible that a monolith can be prevented from dematerialising.
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Post by rainthezangoose on Feb 22, 2010 19:23:57 GMT
nok it on its side, strap wheels to it, here the thing tho your agueeing if orks could, they could but it would be hard and the fact is 99.99% it would just vanish in a puff of smoke and all that work would be wasted, even if it worked what would you get!!. nothin, ill stick to a loota leman russ
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Post by Geneva on Feb 22, 2010 20:44:00 GMT
Gaunt did indeed once drive an Ork buggy in one book, I think it was Ghostmaker? He commented that the controls were extremely simple, just a steering bar, accelerator and a brake which dropped a metal spike into the floor as an anchor. But he also found it very difficult to steer or even depress the accelerator pedal because he wasn't strong enough. Ragnar Blackmane does the same thing in one of the Space Wolf novels when he and his squad infiltrate a besieged Imperial city and end up getting stuck in a Trukk race.
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Post by halos on Feb 22, 2010 22:26:11 GMT
Ah yes 'Ragnar's Claw' I think? The one with the space hulk? Of course he had the advantage of being a super-human soldier. Come to think of it didn't he also note that there were very simple controls? Just a big pedal for go and some sort of steering wheel?
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Post by Fungus A on Feb 23, 2010 17:45:45 GMT
I'll put it this way. Orks can't loot monoliths, mainly because they are interfering with my precioous necrons' fluff, and they'd have to face me. My ego has been know to crush entire civilisations.
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Post by fnord on Feb 24, 2010 12:31:50 GMT
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Post by Geneva on Feb 24, 2010 12:38:16 GMT
Ah yes 'Ragnar's Claw' I think? The one with the space hulk? Of course he had the advantage of being a super-human soldier. Come to think of it didn't he also note that there were very simple controls? Just a big pedal for go and some sort of steering wheel? Yup. Good book. There's something very entertaining about the thought of an Imperial Space Marine of one of the Founding Chapters taking on some Orks in a high speed Trukk Race. Orks aren't the only ones good at looting it seems.
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Post by koyuki on Feb 24, 2010 17:16:40 GMT
Pink Necrons are STILL one of the scariest things I've seen from warhammer.
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Post by Fungus A on Feb 24, 2010 17:36:53 GMT
Some time soon, I fear I may tear your lungs out, Shush and leave my 'Crons alone. Besides, Monliths are too slow and zappy for Orks and they can't ride inside it, meaning they'd just build platforms for them to shoot on, but how do you build on living metal? A metal that would consume the platforms over time? It just wouldn't work, TYVM kind sir for giving me this opportunity to shut you up.
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Post by Devil's Advocate on Feb 24, 2010 18:15:13 GMT
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Post by fnord on Feb 24, 2010 18:51:19 GMT
That story is nothing short of proppa!
You know that I'll have to continue to argue for orks ability to loot anything, right? *grins* Anyway, I have not read anything about living metal being able to consume things over time, only that it adepts to it's environment in a way that ordinary metal does not. And what orks do is that they strap most of the things to the outside of the monolith, anchoring a large portion of the structure in the naturally irregular shape of the monolith. Anywhere where they can anchor something, they can add things to the exterior of the monolith. And even if parts of it would be consumed over time, orks thrive on the battlefield, and there would be no shortage of replacement parts.
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Post by halos on Feb 24, 2010 22:48:27 GMT
Does living metal still function if cut off from the tomb? Is it actually sentient or is it's malleability just an effect of being near necrons/having energy?
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Post by Fungus A on Feb 25, 2010 16:48:45 GMT
It's a seperate sentient metal, like the tomp spyders, they work alone from the main necron unit as a whole. Living metal would in fact adapt to destroy the alien metal that has been placed on it, or would simply explode, killing all of the orks that take residence on it, Orks cannot loot anything and anybody who thinks they can deserves to die a painful death. It's sacrelige! Sacrelige against all that is Games Workshop!
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Post by halos on Feb 25, 2010 17:01:09 GMT
Hmm, suppose a Mek constructed a magnetic/force field support cage around a monolith, the living metal wouldn't respond particularly negatively to that, then a Mek could devise some sort of crazy mechanism to absorb energy from the monolith, then it could be used to power the ususal Orky Know-Wats, like stompas...
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Post by Devil's Advocate on Feb 25, 2010 17:19:55 GMT
Out of all the races, the Orks could do it.
to all naysayers:
Remember that the Orks were made by the Old Ones to specifically combat the Necron threat.
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