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Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 10:28:00 No.14782165 View View Reply Original Report

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Supposedly Nurgle in both 40k and fantasy has amazing plauges that cant be cured.

In which case, why not just hurp durp infect every target before attacking it?

It's not really hard, all it takes is the original source of infestation to get into contact with the populace and shit hits the fan.

Like, infect Cadia, suddenly a big part of the defenders are zombies, ???, profit!

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Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 10:29:00 No.14782183 Report

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Because that's not fun.

And everything Chaos does is for fun.

Pic related - The Chuck E. Cheese of Chaos fun.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 10:30:00 No.14782187 Report

Quoted By: >>14782282

Because multiple factions won't hesitate to nuke their own from orbit to further their end-goal.

And Nurgle Rot and other greater plagues already do this. The canon response is about what you'd expect: quarantine, annihilate.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 10:31:00 No.14782202 Report

Quoted By: >>14782252

They can't GET a plague-carrier to Cadia- It's one of the most secure locations in existence.\

When plague can be transmitted, it is. This is one of the many reasons the imperium is fucked, but are you seriously stating that the disease is a worse threat than Tyranids or a rogue psyker opening up a portal directly to the warp? They're all in the same category of 'everything is fucked now'.

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Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 10:31:00 No.14782203 Report

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Because Papa Nurgle knows imposing his love that way is abusive anon.

He truly loves everbody and wants to share eternal life and joy with them!

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 10:33:00 No.14782235 Report

Quoted By: >>14782338

you assume that the chaos gods are in it to "win".

Read legion, the chaos gods already won, the black crusades are really just trolling the imperium. I hypothesize that they don't even want the imperium to get worse than it is new because it's god a good saturation of misery.

Remember the matrix, yea I know the battery thing was dumb for technology but think about it for chaos, every human living a miserable life in the imperium gives them power. They run a crusade every now and then to let humanity think that they're fighting them off when really the imperium is just a big chaos battery.

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Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 10:34:00 No.14782248 Report

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Also papa is always trying out NEW plagues.

Sure he might have some really really nasty ones, but he already knows what those do so there's no point using them.

So he makes a new one, unleashes it via a small cult somewhere, and sadly all it does is cause a minor skin irritation due to an unexpected resistance the locals have from eating a native plant regularly.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 10:35:00 No.14782252 Report

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>>14782202
Its also one of the most well travelled planets in the universe with the amount of military and civilian traffic.

Anyway, you dont need a carrier. Im pretty sure nurgle can take an existing plague and mutate it to be a nurgle plague, so all you need is unhygienic conditions which are pretty much everywhere. Garbage dumps usually have rats for example.

And either way getting a plague carrier on planet isnt that hard. Escape pod crashes. Responding authorities/rescue workers get infected. Within 48 hours, hundreds of zombies. In a few weeks, daemons.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 10:37:00 No.14782282 Report

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>>14782187
Most black library books about ground conflict in 40k ignore all mention of air power for some reason.

Like, in those gaunt ghosts books. The imps usually have orbital supremacy. If there is a chaos horde beseiging an imperial fortress, all the ships in orbit can just hurp durp nuke the chaos hordes from orbit. But they never do that because it would remove the need for a story.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 10:41:00 No.14782338 Report

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>>14782235
Then what's the point? If the imperium already lost, then, why should I care about the lore?

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Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 10:42:00 No.14782352 Report

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>>14782282

This is exactly it. WH40k is a narrativist universe. The setting exists to tell stories. LOL INFECTION VECTOR, ULOSE is a boring story. As is LOL BASIC BIOTHREAT RESPONSE, NUKE FROM ORBIT. Nurgle Rot is a plot device, not an actual disease.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 10:47:00 No.14782424 Report

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Because such plagues are powerful curses wrought by warp magic.
A powerful sorcerer has enough time cursing a few victims as is.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 10:50:00 No.14782467 Report

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>>14782338
the lore has been getting worse since the heresy books started. I hate to say it but the fluff really peaked just before 5th edition started. Some of the writing is potentially tongue in cheek, but it's so subtle that it could just be bad writing. The marine codex is potentially a giant parody. The grey knight codex... is an abomination...

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 10:50:00 No.14782473 Report

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>>14782338

Are you serious?

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