The ratlings being good snipers is a reference to Tolkien. The Hobbits have 2 surprising combat attributes: the ability to move about with perfect stealth, and uncanny accuracy with slings and thrown stones.
Let me recontextualize the cat people. Imagine soldiers able to cram themselves through duct work, night ops without paying for goggles, innate insulation for colder battlefields, enhanced hearing on patrols, superior smell for search and destroy, better balance for the heights of hive cities, and feline sadism when laying traps/kill boxes.
I hope they remember that felinids are supposed to be covered in fur so they'd look like Captain Amelia from treasure planet or Cheetah from Wonder Woman, not japanese cat girls.
Fun fact about the Ogryn Rippa gun, it actually has a staggered rate of fire most of the time, aka doesn’t shoot as fast as it could. Reason why, Ogryn’s aren’t capable of understanding “Ammo preservation” so they make them shoot slower in hopes that they won’t waste all their Ammo in the first minute of a fight.
I'm surprised Briky didn't point out that Nork Deddog looks as if he has acne scarring all over his face, but they're actually BULLET SCARS, FROM BEING REPEATEDLY SHOT IN THE FACE
Apparently Beastmen happily served as Imperial Army auxiliaries to the Space Marine Legions during the Great Crusade, part of their thing is that when the Heresy began; a LOT of Beastmen sided with Horus's forces and so in the modern Imperium they're heavily ostracized to the point that joining Chaos is almost they're only option.
Strictly speaking there are limits on abhumans. Theres an entire organization devoted to determining if a strain is human, abhuman, or mutant with the last one being exterminated.
"You're a necron overlord who lived around 60 million years and used to conquer the galaxy and then five of these ogryns who can't count to three run up to you and rip all of your limbs off."
Imagine a Felinid Auxila being accidentally sent to reinforce a group of space wolves on the front of some war world... the space wolves just all abandon their posts to chase them around the landing pad while their captains are running around like soccer moms at the dog park trying to get them back on the leash
Bricky is despairing over anime catgirls but I don’t think the TTS cat people alternative where it’s basically reverse a mermaid situation with a real cat head attached to humanoid body is any better
the ogryn are big because of the cold, not the gravity. The square cube law means that if you double somethings size you cube (to the power of three) its volume. This makes it easier for an animal to stay warm in a cold enviroment, they have way more body to produce heat as compared to surface area for them to loose heat from. Its why polar bears, emperor penguins, blue whales (all whales actually), seals, walruses, wolly mammoths, etc. were/are so big, especially compared to their more tropical relatives.
The ratlings being good snipers is a reference to Tolkien. The Hobbits have 2 surprising combat attributes: the ability to move about with perfect stealth, and uncanny accuracy with slings and thrown stones.
Cute fact about ogryns is how protective and gentle they are about their fellow normal sized guardsmen likely due their parental instincts kicking in.
Let me recontextualize the cat people. Imagine soldiers able to cram themselves through duct work, night ops without paying for goggles, innate insulation for colder battlefields, enhanced hearing on patrols, superior smell for search and destroy, better balance for the heights of hive cities, and feline sadism when laying traps/kill boxes.
I hope they remember that felinids are supposed to be covered in fur so they'd look like Captain Amelia from treasure planet or Cheetah from Wonder Woman, not japanese cat girls.
Fun fact about the Ogryn Rippa gun, it actually has a staggered rate of fire most of the time, aka doesn’t shoot as fast as it could. Reason why, Ogryn’s aren’t capable of understanding “Ammo preservation” so they make them shoot slower in hopes that they won’t waste all their Ammo in the first minute of a fight.
I'm surprised Briky didn't point out that Nork Deddog looks as if he has acne scarring all over his face, but they're actually BULLET SCARS, FROM BEING REPEATEDLY SHOT IN THE FACE
Apparently Beastmen happily served as Imperial Army auxiliaries to the Space Marine Legions during the Great Crusade, part of their thing is that when the Heresy began; a LOT of Beastmen sided with Horus's forces and so in the modern Imperium they're heavily ostracized to the point that joining Chaos is almost they're only option.
I can see the commissars be like: "I'M TIRED OF THESE MF'ING CAT GIRLS IN MY MF'ING REGIMENT"
I love how they had to specify that catgirls are in this episode, just in case people might’ve freaked out.
Strictly speaking there are limits on abhumans. Theres an entire organization devoted to determining if a strain is human, abhuman, or mutant with the last one being exterminated.
"You're a necron overlord who lived around 60 million years and used to conquer the galaxy and then five of these ogryns who can't count to three run up to you and rip all of your limbs off."
Imagine a Felinid Auxila being accidentally sent to reinforce a group of space wolves on the front of some war world... the space wolves just all abandon their posts to chase them around the landing pad while their captains are running around like soccer moms at the dog park trying to get them back on the leash
Bricky is despairing over anime catgirls but I don’t think the TTS cat people alternative where it’s basically reverse a mermaid situation with a real cat head attached to humanoid body is any better
Fun facts about Navigators:
I’m just waiting for the inevitable “And then there‘s Ratlings. They like to eat lasgun power packs.”
Everyone here is talking about catgirls while I'm here hyped about how my boys The Skaven made a cameo in Adeptus Ridiculous!
Gonna drop an extra tidbit which if I am incorrect you're welcome to correct, internet!
the ogryn are big because of the cold, not the gravity. The square cube law means that if you double somethings size you cube (to the power of three) its volume. This makes it easier for an animal to stay warm in a cold enviroment, they have way more body to produce heat as compared to surface area for them to loose heat from. Its why polar bears, emperor penguins, blue whales (all whales actually), seals, walruses, wolly mammoths, etc. were/are so big, especially compared to their more tropical relatives.
Time for Bricky to hate himself while DK goes completely weeb.
DK better get this one right