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Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Warhammer 40k - The Back Story Behind the Emperor Every Player Should Know

The Warhammer 40K tabletop game has created a vast universe of its own. Its characters and machinery have been manufacture waves for many years now but not many population know about the back-story of Warhammer 40,000.

The back-story of Warhammer 40k is scattered all over its rule books, the White Dwarft magazine and the Imperial Armour novels from Black Library. Black Library is Games Workshop's publishing arm which provides the history of the singular units in the 40k tabletop game.

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The insights on the history of the Imperium of Man and its enemies prove to be lively for both new players and experts alike. Here is a quick 5 miniature introduction to the story behind the Warhammer 40K tabletop game:

The storyline begins when the Emperor liberated humanity from their suffering during the Dark Age of Technology, also known as the Age of Strife. The emperor reunited human colonies all over the Milky Way and created the greatest empire mankind has ever known: the Imperium of Man.

The Emperor is also an excellent psychic, and he uses his powers to guide the interstellar mutant navigators straight through their space travel. Other psychics who do not know how to use their powers are often sacrificed in order to empower the emperor's abilities.

However, the world of Warhammer 40k is never safe from the enemies of the emperor and humanity. Space travelers are often vulnerable to the demons of Chaos and, therefore, come to be possessed and in turn themselves wage wars on the Imperium.

To solve these problems, the emperor created Primarchs that would supposedly lead legions of Space Marines, the superhuman defenders of the human race, in the fight against the emperor's enemies. However, even before the Primarchs were "born", the demons of Chaos took them and scattered them all over the galaxy, and thus began the Great Crusade. during the Great Crusade, the Emperor himself, lead the Space Marines in their quest to liberate more worlds for humans and find the lost Primarchs.

One by one the Primarchs whom the Emperor found returned on the Imperium's side. One Primarch, however, by the name of Horus, got possessed by the demons of Chaos and lead 4 other Primarchs on a battle against the Imperium.

Fortunately, the Emperor and his best army fought and killed Horus. However, as a result, the emperor's mortal body was shattered. Now, the emperor's body resides inside the Golden Throne which protects it from adversaries while it guides the navigators straight through interstellar travels.

The 40K tabletop game is based on the idea that space battles are permanently drawn in the middle of the Empire and the alien invaders: the Orks, the Eldar, and the Chaotic demons to name a few. The 40k tabletop represents the battlefield in space where these alien armies wage war against the Space Marines and the Imperial Guard, the largest army in existence with billions of soldiers strong. The Warhammer 40K tabletop game allows you to build your own miniature army of whatever race you want and join this epic interstellar battle.

Warhammer 40k - The Back Story Behind the Emperor Every Player Should Know

Friday, February 25, 2011

Warhammer Online Gold Guide - Tips For a Casual Player

Is the money you get from PvP not good adequate to pay for potions and anyone dyes you may want? I think the respond is "Yes" since I have been having the same problems. You need a lot of health potions when PvPing because healers are hard to come by and when you do have one, he might be a newb or something and you still need potions to stay alive. How do you make money for potions then if you don't have a Warhammer Online gold guide?

In order to help with that problem, I put together some tips to help everybody get the amount of money they need in order to stay alive even if they don't have or don't use a Warhammer Online gold guide.

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- Seeds

Yep, you read right, seeds. There are a lot of seeds to be found in the Auction House as they are the prime material for potions. What you do is check the seed prices on the Ah, if you can afford to buy them all do it and then put them for sale again with a slightly higher price. They will sell because potions are constantly used and made;

- Scavenging

If your going to kill some mobs for gold, then kill humanoids. Make sure you have the scavenging skill as with that you can add to your loot by getting all sorts of stuff from the mobs you kill. It's fun in PvP too, who doesn't like pulling their enemies teeth out...;

- hunt for the right spot

When you go out for some gold, make sure you find a spot that has all the mobs humanoids and close together, don't even bother with beasts of any sorts. You don't want to be running nearby for mobs and waste your time;

- Backpack optimization

When your backpack gets filled up, destroy the grey items that don't stack. Only keep in your account the trash items that stack, as you get more money out of those. This is other way to save time because you don't have to run at the merchant too often;

- Dyes

Dyes are very sought after, you should hold on to each of them and sell them at the Ah. From what I say, people like to dye their equipment, to make them look more cute, or more aggressive or plainly to camouflage themselves.

Those are the tips that helped me keep my gold supplies at a decent level until I got a Warhammer Online gold guide myself.

Warhammer Online Gold Guide - Tips For a Casual Player