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    Reading through the background of 6th edition and one thing is clear, there are no major changes in the story. The Golden Throne is still failing (lol@corpsegod), the Imperium is still going along the same etc. There are lots of new details added too, I'll summarise a few below, mostly Eldar related as I'm not familiar enough with the minutiae of IoM background to be sure which are new.

    -750,M41 The Great Exodus. Six craftworlds turn up to some big swirly space thing in Imperium controlled territory, when the Imperial fleet arrives with little gtfo placards the Eldar are gone, as is the swirly thing and all the 'prime' suns within sixty lightyears have been extinguished. IoM launches a mass evacuation and manages to wave 12% of the population (and 32% of the heavy industry)

    -783.M41 Eldar destroy an AdMech explorator fleet, when Blood Angels turn up to ask 'wtf' they find the Eldar and Necrons fighting it out on the surface.

    -822M41 Abaddon attacks a Maiden World and gets repulsed.

    -920.M41 Eldar pirates attack the escort of a a fleet of Black Ships, capturing one troop transport and destroying some frigates. The rest of the fleet is picked off by subsequent raids.

    -999.M41 13th Crusade happens as expected, predictions of it being retconned like Storm of Chaos in WFB proven to be bollocks.

    -p196 The single time the IoM has managed to attack a Craftworld directly resulted in the loss of an entire sector fleet so they just don't bother anymore. /eldar fistbump

    This last one raises an interesting question, is it referring to the attack on Idharae or the attack on Alaitoc? If Alaitoc, then what happened to Idharae? Had Idharae been retconned? If referring to Idharae (made much more palatable by the loss of a sector fleet in the process) what about the attack on Alaitoc in the Path series?


    Feel free to post anymore titbits of new background you find as you read through the BRB. That is, when most of you get your copies over the next week or so.
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    I will have mine.....in 47 hours.

    Not that i'm counting or anything
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    -822M41 Abaddon attacks a Maiden World and gets repulsed.
    Abaddon: "Ewww, look at this place with its verdant hills and butter cups! Let's go"
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    Quote Originally Posted by Wolfshade View Post
    Abaddon: "Ewww, look at this place with its verdant hills and butter cups! Let's go"
    Sounds like, this one planet with loads of defenses gets in his way all the time, lets attack a population with no defenses. Still gets beat like a little girl.

    Really how is he the chosen of chaos.
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    Well, Alaitoc are the ones which defend it against him so it wasn't like the world was empty.
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    So the Emperor is still on the throne, darn. When will Cypher kill him so all the Prmiarchs can return and the emperor can be reborn? It amazes me how much excretement people make up, just to feel good about lying to people.
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    It'll never happen.

    The fluff will never advance really, people need to understand that.

    They MIGHT go into in Black Librairy, but I doubt it. For the same reasonw e'll never know about the missing legions. Mysteries help the fluff, defining them might ruin the universe (in game, not real)
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    Quote Originally Posted by DrLove42 View Post
    It'll never happen.

    The fluff will never advance really, people need to understand that.

    They MIGHT go into in Black Librairy, but I doubt it. For the same reasonw e'll never know about the missing legions. Mysteries help the fluff, defining them might ruin the universe (in game, not real)
    Yeah, fundamental advancements/changes in the fluff forces major changes to the background for most of the armies in the game.

    Which runs the risk of harming the player-base for those armies. Lots of people play them for the background. If the Imperium goes into full-blown disintegration, or the 'nids dominate half the galaxy, or the Eldar finally die out, etc. etc...people would not be happy.

    There's a huge galaxy to work with, and a calendar that goes back 10,000 years. They can add tons of crap to the fluff (like the easy introduction of Stormravens, Dreadknights, Shadow Spectres) without actually having to advance past year 999.M41.
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    Another option, one that I favour in preference to story changes, is advancing the timeline but not the story. So things go on as usual, but into 001.M42. GW gets time up their sleeve, no players get cranky.
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