@Background Pony #249B  
Eh

@Terrans117  
Lel

@Iron_Ore  
Well, I’m the one who technically commissioned it so :D

@Iron_Ore  
Oh I don’t know, there’s still plenty of love and friendship there. It just happens to be very exclusive to those within factions/species, while everyone else deserves to get shot in the face.

John, If there were two things you should never mix, It would be Warhammer and MLP. They are like toothpaste and Orange juice. One is love and friendship, the other is War and bitter rivalries.

no way they are even in combat, i don’t care how long the princesses have been alive, it is nothing compared to the violent endless war in WK40, that grey knight is definitely going to win, the warp defends him from them simply floating him away and he is skilled enough in combat to fuck up there shit, last i recall they haven’t had world ending war at all, so he outclasses them without a thought of doubt, if i ever went to that universe i’d rather die then have to adapt to such viscous war

@Starswirl  
In fairness, more than a few GW writers have been performing damage control since he left, focusing at least upon the worst of it. While Draigod might still be charging about the warp, they re-wrote the whole primarch incident until it actually made some sense, and it involved the grey knights only beating him via a hail mary pass rather than just steamrolling him. Still doesn’t make up for what they did to the Iron Hands though.

@Xhydralisk  
I believe this is the aforementioned story.

@Xhydralisk  
yes

@Terrans117  
What was it? A fic?

@ElMachine  
No prob ^^

@Terrans117  
THAT WAS YOU?! YOU WROTE THAT! DUDE !I AM SUCH A FAN OF THAT!  
Sorry for that moment of Fanboying but… Ahem.  
Yeah, I liked that.

Exterminatus is the only option when dealing with a xeno planet filled with witches.
 

@Terrans117  
You do have a point, in that some of the tech is just ridiculous.  
For instance, those handheld Plasma Pistols you can hand out to any average Joe and tell him to go fight for the Emperor?  
Those hit with the energy of a solar flare, which if not condensed into such a small area of effect, could wipe a continent off the map. So those things go through almost anything…except a ton of the armour made to withstand stuff like that.

@Terrans117  
I prefer to go off marines as they are portrayed in the Horus Heresy books. They’re not ridiculously overpowered in that setting, although still far better than an unaugmented human.  
They can still be put out of action like normal man. It just takes a lot more to do it.  
(That crossover story of mine sees Lyra KO a marine by cracking him over the head with the hilt of his own sword, although it takes 2 hits to do it. The first just dazes the marine for a moment).
 
I also like the way the Heresy novels hint that marines are still very human underneath that armour and genetic engineering.
 
Why do crossover stories with 40k and MLP work?  
Probably because the settings are virtually polar opposites.  
The other reason I believe is because the pony characters are so human in the way they act. Makes it easier to write stories.

If these two siblings, both of the female gender, are engaged in combat, does that make them SISTERS OF BATTLE???  
 
Celestia and Luna are screwed.

@Terrans117  
Again, it’s a personal thing. Some lore is contradictory, too, though. For example, what I’ve read of the Horus Heresy series was more even-handed overall.
 
While the Grey Knights Codex has one guy defy the entire Warp for, well, forever, up to and including overpowering a Deamon Primarch and carving a name into his heart. That’s just… no.
 
I know many folks think it’s cool. By all means. Me, I think it actually makes things less interesting.
 
But that’s just me. Warhammer Fantasy died of dwindling sales, after all, to make way for the Sigmarines. Maybe I’m just one old, grumpy sourpuss.

@Starswirl  
Well, the thing is that the lore and codex lore are meant to be how they “really” are. The Space Marine game does the best at showing this. On the other hand, the game is meant to be balanced out.

@Terrans117  
Pfft. If you go by some lore, Leman Russ managed to topple an emperor-class Titan by jumping at it real hard.
 
Personally, I ignore most of that stuff as unreliable narrators. Just my take, though. Makes the game and stories resemble each other a bit more. Makes it more interesting to have non-marines on the field, too.

@Starswirl  
Maybe you have an argument for fantasy 40k. But 40 thousand years down the line, the gap is waaaaaay to big (weapons and armor are meant to withstand magic and technology far beyond our’s and certainly MLP’s time). There is also a massive disconnect between how powerful space marines are in the lore and in game.

@Terrans117  
actually, Imperium are servants of a CORPSE-GOD.
 
REMOVE CORPSE-GOD.

@Terrans117  
An Ursa Major is big enough to count as a biotitan.

@DarthRevanFTW  
IDK. I wrote a fanfic where a Death Korps soldier destroyes Equestria by digging a trench and made it as funny and over the top as possible. 40k is so grim dark, that it’s perfect for parody, especially in a crossover where servants of the Imperium are weird yet dedicated to crushing the ponies.

@DeusB3llum  
How so? Either is big enough to be monstrous creatures. Torch can fly and has a breath weapon. He doesn’t even need to get into Close range where the force weapon could become iffy.

@Starswirl  
Pfft, an Ursa has nothing on the Daemons from hell this dweeb must have faced.
 
 
@DeusB3llum  
I wanna agree, but plox keep “cuck” to /pol/ unless you meant to type “kick’.
 
 
@Nataniel  
Nah, I’d think the Grey Knight would see them as pawns of Tzeentch.