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#LPW6

Started by Sadok, May 15, 2016, 04:10:13 PM

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Regorn

do note that doing the drugs might be cheeper than the miniature Warhammer game.
"Names does not matter, only who you are" - An old Friend from past, Thar'grash Thunderfury

Srelok

I do like the lookof the new death watch models, though.

"If you could pour pain into a mold of an orc and then cut off its foot to piss it off, you’d get Srelok." Gulrok Ragehowl

Nosh'marak

Quote from: Regorn on August 08, 2016, 10:23:16 PM
do note that doing the drugs might be cheeper than the miniature Warhammer game.
That's why I stopped after getting my Tau army. Too many monaaays
"Dogs obey and whimper, wolves carve their own path with a roar! Let the Alliance hear your cries for battle! Rrosh'ka Valokh! For the Blood!"

Srelok

Well, if you're collecting a lot of armies it get REALLY expensive real fast.
Be like me, stick to 1 army. ;)

"If you could pour pain into a mold of an orc and then cut off its foot to piss it off, you’d get Srelok." Gulrok Ragehowl

Rashka

So what exactly is our current topic
Rashka Facebreaker - Battlesworn of the Nag'Ogar

Azolg

HERESY. Obviously.

Srelok

Dien and me married five years ago today. There's your topic!

"If you could pour pain into a mold of an orc and then cut off its foot to piss it off, you’d get Srelok." Gulrok Ragehowl

Wornag (Kronnor)

Today also marks 22 years from the day when I was spawned into this world \o/

Sadok

#953
August 9th in history, credit Wikipedia:

Quote48 BC â€" Caesar's Civil War: Battle of Pharsalus: Julius Caesar decisively defeats Pompey at Pharsalus and Pompey flees to Egypt.
378 â€" Gothic War: Battle of Adrianople: A large Roman army led by Emperor Valens is defeated by the Visigoths. Valens is killed along with over half of his army.
1173 â€" Construction of the campanile of the Cathedral of Pisa (now known as the Leaning Tower of Pisa) begins; it will take two centuries to complete.
1329 â€" Quilon, the first Indian Christian Diocese, is erected by Pope John XXII; the French-born Jordanus is appointed the first Bishop.
1500 â€" Ottomanâ€"Venetian War (1499â€"1503): The Ottomans capture Methoni, Messenia.
1610 â€" The First Anglo-Powhatan War begins in colonial Virginia.
1810 â€" Napoleon annexes Westphalia as part of the First French Empire.
1814 â€" Indian Wars: the Creek sign the Treaty of Fort Jackson, giving up huge parts of Alabama and Georgia.
1842 â€" The Websterâ€"Ashburton Treaty is signed, establishing the United Statesâ€"Canada border east of the Rocky Mountains.
1854 â€" Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden.
1862 â€" American Civil War: Battle of Cedar Mountain: At Cedar Mountain, Virginia, Confederate General Stonewall Jackson narrowly defeats Union forces under General John Pope.
1877 â€" Indian Wars: Battle of the Big Hole: A small band of Nez Percé Indians clash with the United States Army
1892 â€" Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.
1902 â€" Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
1907 â€" The first Boy Scout encampment concludes at Brownsea Island in southern England.
1914 â€" Start of the Battle of Mulhouse, part of a French attempt to recover the province of Alsace and the first French offensive of World War I.
1925 â€" A train robbery takes place in Kakori, near Lucknow, India
1930 â€" Betty Boop makes her cartoon debut in Dizzy Dishes.
1936 â€" Summer Olympic Games: Games of the XI Olympiad: Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the games.
1942 â€" Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in Bombay by British forces, launching the Quit India Movement.
1942 â€" World War II: Battle of Savo Island: Allied naval forces protecting their amphibious forces during the initial stages of the Battle of Guadalcanal are surprised and defeated by an Imperial Japanese Navy cruiser force.
1944 â€" The United States Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council release posters featuring Smokey Bear for the first time.
1944 â€" Continuation War: The Vyborgâ€"Petrozavodsk Offensive, the largest offensive launched by Soviet Union against Finland during the Second World War, ends to a strategic stalemate. Both Finnish and Soviet troops at the Finnish front dug to defensive positions, and the front remains stable until the end of the war.
1945 â€" World War II: Nagasaki is devastated when an atomic bomb, Fat Man, is dropped by the United States B-29 Bockscar. 35,000 people are killed outright, including 23,200-28,200 Japanese war workers, 2,000 Korean forced workers, and 150 Japanese soldiers.
1945 â€" The Red Army invades Japanese-occupied Manchuria.
1956 â€" Twenty thousand women staged a march on the Union Buildings in Pretoria to protest against the proposed amendments to the Urban Areas Act in South Africa.
1965 â€" Singapore is expelled from Malaysia and becomes the only country to date to gain independence unwillingly.
1965 â€" A fire at a Titan missile base near Searcy, Arkansas kills 53 construction workers.
1969 â€" Followers led by Charles Manson murder pregnant actress Sharon Tate (wife of Roman Polanski), coffee heiress Abigail Folger, Polish actor Wojciech Frykowski, men's hairstylist Jay Sebring and recent high-school graduate Steven Parent.
1971 â€" The Troubles: The British Army in Northern Ireland launches Operation Demetrius. Hundreds of people are arrested and interned, thousands are displaced, and twenty are killed in the violence that followed.
1974 â€" As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office. His Vice President, Gerald Ford, becomes president.
1993 â€" The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan loses a 38-year hold on national leadership.
1999 â€" Russian President Boris Yeltsin fires his Prime Minister, Sergei Stepashin, and for the fourth time fires his entire cabinet.
2006 â€" At least 21 suspected terrorists were arrested in the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot that happened in the United Kingdom. The arrests were made in London, Birmingham, and High Wycombe in an overnight operation.
2013 â€" Gunmen open fire at a Sunni mosque in the city of Quetta killing at least 10 people and injuring 30.
2014 â€" Michael Brown, an 18-year-old African American male in Ferguson, Missouri, was shot and killed by a Ferguson police officer, sparking protests and unrest in the city.

TL;DR: A lot of battles and wars.

Regorn

Quote378 â€" Gothic War

Ah yes, the War in the Gothic Sector at M41.378
Many good Navy Imperial lost their life that war.
"Names does not matter, only who you are" - An old Friend from past, Thar'grash Thunderfury

Groshnok

Quote from: Sadok on August 09, 2016, 07:34:15 PM

TL;DR: A lot of battles and wars.

And that's the bottom line, because Stone Cold said so.

Rashka

So the DH starting area is very nice and lot of lore :D
Rashka Facebreaker - Battlesworn of the Nag'Ogar

Nosh'marak

Haven't got the chance to try em out yet sadly!
"Dogs obey and whimper, wolves carve their own path with a roar! Let the Alliance hear your cries for battle! Rrosh'ka Valokh! For the Blood!"

Rashka

Defo do it when you get the chance then!
Rashka Facebreaker - Battlesworn of the Nag'Ogar

Nosh'marak

I did when I got home from work, and they are honestly amazing! And the starting zone... OH MY GOD THE STARTING ZONE. <3
"Dogs obey and whimper, wolves carve their own path with a roar! Let the Alliance hear your cries for battle! Rrosh'ka Valokh! For the Blood!"