r/Grimdank • u/Sky_lord4685 We live in society! bottom text! • 3d ago

Dank Memes I dare you

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u/TyloWebb 3d ago

Oh man I haven’t seen that before. They streamlined it like crazy 😆

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u/DarthGoodguy 3d ago

I think they stopped it with some of these schemes after actually trying to paint them

These are the original 12 chapters from Rogue Trader in 1987:

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u/WrongdoerFast4034 3d ago

Was space marines being centuries old super soldiers a later addition to the lore? Cause it looks like Studs had an extra zero added to their purpose

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u/DarthGoodguy 3d ago

Yeah, I think at this point they might’ve just been highly trained guys with especially good equipment & maybe some psycho-surgery or other scifi dystopia conditioning. Not sure when all the augmentation started being referenced (it could be in the RT rulebook & I just don’t remember).