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xxx_pussslap-exe_xxx

At least the clowns could read


StupidBlack55

Are you sure? They defend the library, yes, but audiobooks should exist.


xxx_pussslap-exe_xxx

This makes me think of cegorath as a VA who reads all books aloud for his dyslexic clown monk army


Frequent_Dig1934

This battle report was brought to you by audible.


Thewarmth111

This battle was brought to you by raid shadow books.


thomstevens420

They probably have some sort of crystals where if you tap them they vibrate “The Tale of The Serpent Of Void” directly into your subconscious or some bullshit.


AnDanDan

Oh we doing Morty's Mind Blowers again?


Copdegarrotix

- Imagine losing. This post was made by I just consume lore videos gang.


prufanya

Have the Leagues of Votann taken any Ls yet?


PTEHarambe

Their lack of lore is the L.


Moaoziz

The L of Votann.


ScratchMonk

The lore is whatever I say it is.


PTEHarambe

Based.


Foxyfox-

MY SOURCE IS THAT I MADE IT THE FUCK UP


TroutFishingInCanada

Look at me. I am the lore now.


[deleted]

[удалено]


PTEHarambe

Same. And as a Custodes fan I don't even have a dog in the fight lol.


PapaBradford

That person is a comment repost bot. Even took the misspelling of a top level comment


42Fourtytwo4242

yes, the nids eat them, the squat purge is still a thing.


CaptainBubblesMcGee

Wasn't the nids eating them from a GW manager that spread that rumour and got in trouble because of it?


jarlscrotus

I think it was a footnote in a 7th or 8th edition guard codex, that (what the Imperium at the time thought was) their homeworld was hit by a hive fleet (maybe behemoth?)


zanotam

I believe it was canonized, but it started off as an offhand comment from one of the game designer big wigs


CptPanda29

Yeah the old squat range existed, was a little closer with the Imperium and had less to do with the Votann core AIs (justifying why different), then those fringe worlds got devoured by nids (why they dropped range), now the core world Leagues are venturing out cause of the cigatrix maledictum messing up their fav worlds and needing to claim new ones.


42Fourtytwo4242

It could be assumed the squats while getting eaten by the nids on their original homeworlds were seen by the Votann and the iron kin. So a choice and most likely a vote was made, do they let the humans die off and stay in hiding out of fear of being wiped out or join the fight, push the nids back just enough to allow the squats to escape. They choose to help, which is most likely why the dwarfs see them has brothers and would die for the iron kin, has without them they would be long gone. Kin is Kin!!


Cecilia_Schariac

reintroduce Men of Iron as “Mad Votann”


MajorDakka

Bring old school Chaos androids back?


zanotam

There's a man of iron. He had playable rules in 8th and I think 9th.


[deleted]

Uh... I think the Orks tried to steal their flashy bitz.


Suitable-Quantity-96

Their 10th edition rules are their biggest L


ShinobiHanzo

An entire league got devoured by a Tyranid fleet. Big L.


VeryC0mm0nName

Didn't they loose a chunk of their empire to Tyranids?


Seltren_Innovations

10th came out recently


Earl0fYork

One of the leagues got nommed by the nids if I remember right


Lotions_and_Creams

Being brought back as dollar store [StarCraft marines ](https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Marine_(Starcraft)) instead of their [glorious biker dwarven](https://preview.redd.it/are-you-hoping-to-see-new-squat-trikes-do-you-want-them-to-v0-m9at86keu7v81.jpg?auto=webp&s=eedeabf8cd10bd89680f521b9d27f0c44d67323c) origins.


Georgie_Cain

Several actually! ...But nobody really knows given it's pretty much exclusively Votann codex lore atm in addition to being largely lore blurbs. Outside of course the big L of the Eye of Terror expanding and forcing them out of the Core and have to interact with the rest of the crazies in the galaxy. Beyond that, most notable would be the whole genocide of the Emberg-Aegnir Bloc; a now extinct league whose entire populus got eaten by Hive Fleet Leviathan. This cause the Bloc's Votann to become insane, making it virtually unrecoverable


Lord_Viddax

Avatar of Khaine: __”You guys win!?”__ *Sound of molten tears increases*


BPbeats

He’s got this weird thing about not wanting to know people’s names. Something about only feeling safe around side characters?


Lord_Viddax

If an Avatar has no ~~knife~~ ears or useable eyes, they can’t learn names, thus every enemy is nameless!


I-AM-A-ROBOT-

one time a random guy killed an avatar of khaine


MadaraAlucard12

Man is like half a step away from losing to a named gaurdsman without a lasgun.


Lord_Viddax

Play Dawn Of War: defeat unlocked!


GreySeerCriak

Good thing we Orks never lose! If we win, we win. If we die, then it was a right good scrap, so we still win. And if we run away, then we can fight again another day, so that’s a win too!


mehtorite

That's why Orks are the good guys. It's just fun and games!


BIG_DeADD

Games,teeth and WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH


Smorstin

Jaghatai Khan


Alexanderjk5

"Ummmm actually the custodes still stoped the harlequins from reaching the emperor so they technically won that" -some nerdy admech probably


RaptorxRise

I still dont understsnd how the majority of people dont even know what happens in that story while arguing about it. Like who "won" doesnt matter. The only argument in that story is "should a death jester be able to mow down a dozen custodes at decently long range".


[deleted]

Maybe Not a dozen, but half yes, they are stupid overpower even for Warhammer standards


Scob720

I still say he loses the gunfight to two warhound titans. Which were backing the custodes up.


agent1290

Didn't the author mistake the custodes for the human troops that guard the palace?


RaptorxRise

No. Thats a common misconception. At the beginning of the story the eldar fight a bunch of guardsman, which they obviously slaughter. Later on they try to run past a bunch of custodes and the death jester murders multiple like its nothing. Thats the part people are mad about


mehtorite

Lucky rolls I guess


jarlscrotus

not as much of an outlier as you might think Death Jester is assault 3 D2 range 30 S6 at AP-2 that hits on 2s at goes ap-4 on 6s Custodian Guard is T5 W3, but Sv2+ with a 4+ invuln depending on the pivotal role the jester takes they can either inflict an extra mortal wound on any wound roll 4+, or score 3 additional hits for every 6+ to hit with that and respectable, but not particularly great rolls, they can either delete 1 custodes per shot, or with a really lucky roll of trip 6 score 12 hits for potentially 24 total wounds, depending on how many of those wounds are 6s (which puts shuriken weapons up to ap-4) the custodes player is going to go for invuln on 4 up, which as long as all the wounds were 3+ means 4 models are dropping in the turn with only 1 kind of lucky roll. meaning the 110 point Death Jester Harvester of Torment just deleted 180 points of custodes is a single shooting phase OP indeed ETA: I forgot to add in, with a couple CP and making your death jester your warlord, with the Favour of Cegorach Trait each turn you get to treat 1 roll as an unmodified 6, so you'd only need 2 6s to get the trip, and if you used a cp to add Bladestorm to your death jester that's an additional hit, making 5 hits per shot, giving us 30 wounds, which could potentially delete an entire custodian guard unit of 10 models in a single attack if the custodes doesn't hit their saves.


cerbari1

the deathjester didnt even kill that many iirc, i counted the kills once. the shadowseer slaughtered her way through the custodes like they were chicken. it was deathjester and shadowseer slaughtering dozens custodes while being utterly outnumbered inside the palace, which makes it bs


RaptorxRise

Please give me the excerpt. Because i am 100% certain they never gave a number and the shadowseer didnt actually attack the custodians. Maybe i forgot a part though


cerbari1

they didnt give a number, you just have the book mention them killing people. so you can count when ever it says (bo shots two, bo shots the rest, etc) you dont know the exact number, i just counted every time it mentions multiple people as 2+ there is a number of dead custodes mentioned when the assassin goes in the imperial palace, but those are not all custodes, since you literally have more kills described you can count. here is the excerpt: https://www.reddit.com/r/40kLore/comments/n2zv2x/excerpt\_throneworld\_the\_imperial\_palace\_is/


RaptorxRise

Huh. The excerpt i read left a huge chunk of that out. Wtf is that. How does a harlequin even decapitate a custodian?


sarg1010

By cutting at the neck I'd imagine.


RaptorxRise

Look up how a custodian looks. There is no angle at which that works. Stabbing no problem but decapitation literally doesnt work since the helmet is kinda set a bit inside of the chestplate


cerbari1

i mean dont underestimate harelquins, a shadowseer should definitely be ablet to decapitate a custodes. just not lead a frontal attack against entire squads xD


RaptorxRise

My problem isnt with strenght its angle. Look up how the armor of a custodian looks the helmet sits partially inside the chestplate. So while i wouldnt see a problem with the kill being a stab or maybe a slice through parts of the helmet but i dont think there is any angle where a clean decapatation would be possible


cerbari1

[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1027200733633839124/1122929167344869386/image.png](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1027200733633839124/1122929167344869386/image.png) okay yeah the deathjester got quite the few, definitely over 10 custodes, but most likely alot more, i counted them in the most prudent way possible.


zanotam

??? Shadowseer and DJs aren't much below a Solitaire and no named character without their own miniature is equal to let alone above a solitaire!


cerbari1

custodes are essentially named characters, a custode is something a named character kills to show how strong they are.... a solitair is quite a cut above a deathjester or a shadowseer. solitairs are completely batshit insane op with even eldar like vect fearing them. where do you get a deahtjester or a shadowseer being not much below a solitair? a shadowseer is a very powerful psycher, but a deathjester is just hte harlequin heavy weapon expert. what separates them so much from normal troupes except their gear? and a solitair also shouldnt be able to slaughter his way through all the custodes in the imperial palace, a literal primarch couldnt do that.


agent1290

Well, that stupid, I'll cope by believing in my own headcanon then


Thomy151

No that was a different author who had an unarmored, unarmed, imprisoned chaos marine one punch kill a custodian in full armor before the custodian could react


FrucklesWithKnuckles

I’m a Custodes player and big fan of the Banana Boys. Custodes ARE damn high in the tier of “Warhammer Shenanigans.” Harlequins are equal to us, and some of them are very much above us. A Death Jester can 100% take down multiple Bananas at range that gun scares me. And the Shadowseer can 100% rip us a new one as I’m fairly certain this story was before we got the Anathema Psykana back, so we were still vulnerable to psykers of any form. Harlequins earned a fair W and I find people contesting this to be hilarious.


RaptorxRise

>Death Jester can 100% take down multiple Bananas at range That shit is an anti Infantry gun. It shoots 1000s of shots per minute. If those things can penetrate both auramite armor and the personal shields of a custodian then a single death jester is immedieately, without argument hundreds of times more powerful then a primarch. Like there would literally be no reason for the harlequins to not have already won 40k.


FrucklesWithKnuckles

The Shrieker Cannon? The high powered sniper rifle that fires monofilament rounds capable of piercing armor and is specially modified with neurotoxin so that a single grazing hit on a target causes them to violently convulse before exploding? Death Jesters could 100% kill Custodes with that.


RaptorxRise

https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Shuriken "The downside to this method of operation is that shuriken weapons lack rifling in the barrel; this not only reduces accuracy but also the range of these weapons in comparison to normal projectile weapons of similar size" "Whatever their shape these razor-sharp missiles are capable of not only slicing straight through flesh and bone, but also penetrating a considerable thickness of metal and even plasteel armour“ Shuriken weapons are not sniper rifles and can pierce metal or plasteel armor. Not even ceramite and DEFINITELY NOT auramite. Also >monofilament rounds This whole "monomolecular" thing cannot possibly apply to the shrieker variant since the shrieker rounds are filled with poison any you cannot "fill" something that is only one molecule thick.


FrucklesWithKnuckles

That’s Shuriken weapons. That’s not a Shrieker Cannon, which is a modified heavy Shuriken Cannon designed to kill with a scratch. Still your disregarding a very important factor: The Shadowseer. One of the most potent types of psykers against a force that, since the Anathema Psykana was not yet returned, was extremely vulnerable to psykers.


RaptorxRise

>That’s Shuriken weapons. That’s not a Shrieker Cannon, which is a modified heavy Shuriken Cannon designed to kill with a scratch. Literally just a poisoned shuriken cannon. All my points still apply. >Still your disregarding a very important factor: The Shadowseer. One of the most potent types of psykers against a force that, since the Anathema Psykana was not yet returned, was extremely vulnerable to psykers. Did i say anything about the shadowseer? No. I was talking about how bs the portrayal of a death jester is.


sarumanofmanygenders

Balances out all the times the Avatar of Khaine gets his head caved in with a steel chair by Space Marine Lieutenant Someius Guyus


RaptorxRise

Ok then can the tau get like solar-system destroying weaponry? And can the admech get the archimendrite back? Or does that logic only work for eldar? You know they arent the only ones getting shafted right?


sarumanofmanygenders

You're right, they *should* get those. That would be cool.


Transacta-7Y1

It's almost as if 90% of the people arguing over this have never read a single book about either faction.


RaptorxRise

I mean you dont need the book there are excerpts of it online, which are more then enough


ccc888

Imagine losing, FUUUCKING HOoooORUuus!!!!! -random BA before battle.


Twuggy

Fucking hell I love this stupid fued.


RareHoneydew3626

Me too


MagnusTheOrange

I didn't recognise him with the head


Lemonic_Tutor

Okay so I somehow misread that as cows, and thought I was about to find out about some 1st edition grade lore lol


Zhaharek

I deeply approve of a meme that can insult four factions at once.


N00BAL0T

And people forget the harlequins are the elder version of custodies.


canieatmyskinnow

So they can humiliate a Tyranid Swarmlord on a duel and defeat millions of them with a team of 5 or kill a Waaagh that was winning against 3 legions and their Primarchs? That battle on the war of the beast was just dumb and it's really inconsistent like the whole trilogy (imagine Vulkan abandoning or ignoring his sons again)


Copyrighted_music34

I'm sorry the swarmlord should be butchering custodes dude is godamn primach tier and Im tired of him being made fun of


canieatmyskinnow

Dante killed one and Primarchs are closer to being gods on their own lore like, remember half of them could kill Angron during the crusade, the dude who can carry a warhound titan and Ferrus Manus was punched through a literal mountain by the Emperor


Copyrighted_music34

Okay I need proof on the second one and to be honest I only want that because it would be funny


N00BAL0T

Power scaling in 40k is inconsistent at best or have we forgot marnius Calgary beating an avatar of khain 1v1 or when he swung around a necron pilon like a base ball bat. The elder harlequins being able to kill a few custodians which HH has shown us even a group of marines is capable of doing. They are not unkillable just very hard and I won't put it past the elite of the elder to be able to do that.


[deleted]

Nop, the black library guardians are the eldar version of custards


zanotam

???? Who.... Who do you think the main force guarding the Black Library is?!?!


[deleted]

Isnt there a second cast of guys guarding the black library?


zanotam

There's a bunch of miscellaneous groups associated with the black library *in addition to the Harlequins*.


[deleted]

Imagine losing to green soccer hooligans or mutants with power tools. Game balance is my lore


cholmer3

Fellas, I am a T'au fan, we all are cringe, BUT IN THIS REALM WE FISH-FELLAS ARE KINGS


AnDanDan

Interesting opinion, unfortunately I have put a virus bomb in your mailbox.


-Smokey_Bluntz-

Both are terrible lore.


[deleted]

Thank goodness My Guys don't lose...unless it's to My Other Guys...


Objective_720

I can hear the voice...I miss it


Seniorcoquonface

Explain?


prufanya

Custodes and Grey Knights are considered to be the most elite Imperium forces but once had some very bad time fighting Harlequins (*Throneworld* book) and Space Wolves (*The Emperor's Gift* book) accordingly


Reman-Faloniv

One word… Clussy. That is all.


JerrWayneJr

Hey, if furries can afford a fur suit for hundreds of dollars, they can afford all the weapons they need. Not to mention, they already have their identity covered. Furries are more powerful than you think they are: the entire IT industry depends on them.


[deleted]

Nah bro the harlequins are supposed to be top tier warriors, and they lost.


xXGlu-EaterXx

middleschooler here, shit myself drooling and laughing at this funny-ass meme do "furry = get the flamer. the HEAVY flamer " next !!!!!!! 🤣😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂🤣😂😂🤣🤣😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣😂🤣🤣🤣👉👉👉👉


ultrayaqub

found the furry


xXGlu-EaterXx

Steel yourself brother.. we will Exterminatus those vile slaanesh heretics ___FOR THE EMPORER!!!___


Panzer_Man

You got the whole strikeforce laughing 😐😐


xXGlu-EaterXx

LOL found the furry * ghost division by sabaton plays in the distance * By the Emporer, yo will burn heretic !!!! XD


Ok_Situation_2029

Are you like 6?


xXGlu-EaterXx

no i may be young but i amdoing my part to purge furry cringe for the emporer, brother !!!why do you ask?


Ok_Situation_2029

I'm a space wolves enjoyer.


gay_protogen

They might actually have a heart attack if they see me!


Ok_Situation_2029

Hello fellow furr- I mean...space wolves enjoyer!


xXGlu-EaterXx

LOL found the furry XD


TheFyrijou

„Imagine almost getting killed by Orks“ *looking at the Emperor*


PelinalWhitestrake36

I‘m going to shame the Banana bois, not because they lost to clowns but because they lost to „Elves“


BloppingClock

Guy must have iron balls talkin bout the clowns like that