Oh, Great Maker, please do not ...
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Adeon Hawkwood,
Posted on: 2012-08-28 24:42 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
Wot?
Andy Belford
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Don't worry, we're just talking about giving Nemesis a mullet.
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
Wot?
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
Wot?
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Combine the Space Orks with the Borg, and you get the true face of the Batallion: The Grox.
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Shut up! I know that's *you* posting, Silos!!|
Originally Posted by Kitsune Knight
Of course, it being Nemesis, the Battalion is probably Nemesis as well... but from when? Did Nemesis first wipe out all reality leading the Battalion... and then grow bored, so came back to stop himself... and then go back again to simply terrorize Earth?
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Mot's brother Wot and his army of evil Kok'nee warriors make up the Battalion, you say... interesting.
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
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Goodbye may seem forever
Farewell is like the end
But in my heart's the memory
And there you'll always be
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Originally Posted by Planster
I think they are The Furlings....
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The plastic tips at the end of shoelaces are called aglets. Their true purpose is sinister.
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Originally Posted by Organica
"The problem," said Silos, "was that I could never find a chess player good enough to face off against me. Oh, not the board game... I mean the game of life and conquest that's fought across space and time. I'm just too good at it, don't you see? So I became my own worst enemy, in a very literal sense. And now I'm afraid I went too far, and I may not be able stop myself. Isn't it grand?"
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Based on the description of them devouring wells and worlds, and the Shivans being the amorphous remnants of their Battalion-consumed homeworld, I kind of picture the Battalion like the Phantoms in "Final Fantasy: Spirits Within": a whole ghostly ecosystem based on every useful creature they've ever absorbed, from alien dragons and sandworms to more conventional troops and humanoid legions, perhaps all led/summoned by a Rularuu-like incarnation of the conglomerate wells who has to be killed to dispel the whole thing.
Although...
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Originally Posted by Agent White
Actually that would be pretty hilarious, Ouroboros and Prometheus never talk about the Battalion not because they're frightening and beyond imagining but because they're something horridly embarrassing and no one believes them when they say it.
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oooo... great song by Captain Sensible.
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
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Oh heavens: conscripted Incarnate chavs, too?
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Originally Posted by Tenzhi
Mot's brother Wot and his army of evil Kok'nee warriors make up the Battalion, you say... interesting.
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Though nothing will drive them away
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No carrot life form would be safe in this planet as long as my Rabbits, Hares and Chinchillas are around. Well, at least in Defiant they wouldn't.
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Originally Posted by Lord_Nightblade
Obviously the Battalion are space carrots, bent on revenge against the meat sacks who have perpetrated genocide on the universe's vegetables.
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Maybe The Battalion is a Nemesis Army created in the future, sent to the past, meeting up with the present.
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.... son of a *****.
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Originally Posted by VoodooGirl
Maybe The Battalion is a Nemesis Army created in the future, sent to the past, meeting up with the present.
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The Battalion are already among us! They are completely invulnerable, and can push even the strongest hero aside with ease.
I really should do something about this signature.
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From what I've seen, the Cosmic Corsair set has some very Space Marine looking pieces, particularly the shoulder pads. |
Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood
I've repeatedly considered rolling up either an Empath/AR Defender or an AR/Pain Corruptor as a Space Marine Apothecary. Needless to say he'd refuse to team with any Magic Origin, Mutant Origin or non-human heroes
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Still considering a Lightning Claws or Thunder Hammer + Storm Shield Terminator suited Tanker or Brute.
Or maybe an Assault marine as a Scrapper.
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Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison See, it's gems like these that make me check Claws' post history every once in a while to make sure I haven't missed anything good lately. |
i hope the battalion has a new rig/model making it really alien and unusual. and yet, at the same time i want them to have really nice new costume pieces that we get in a special pack ^_^. but probs not both, huh.
or they could just be wolves and catgirls.
or maybe they're like, uber decepticons.
or maybe they're amoeboid, or maybe they look like faries. or maybe they're space dinosaurs.
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That's right after traveling to the end of the universe the crew is affected by radiation and transformed from peace loving explorers into pure evil intent on ruling all of the known universe!
Don't stand there .. RUN FOR YOUR LIVES YOU FOOLS.. Miss Piggy is coming!
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Don't we have enough of that in Skyway City and the Hollows, just to name two zones?
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Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man
Of course, now that you said that, I'm sure some will be green with horns and underbites.
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The Valkyrie set also has a set of shoulder pads that are just like the ones that Space Marines use.
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Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect
From what I've seen, the Cosmic Corsair set has some very Space Marine looking pieces, particularly the shoulder pads.
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I'm pretty sure whatever the Battalion actually is, we're going to see necro'd heroes in I25/26.
Edit : In before it's cool. If Statesman died due to having his powers drained... why can his zombie use his powers?
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Originally Posted by Jack_NoMind
I'm pretty sure whatever the Battalion actually is, we're going to see necro'd heroes in I25/26.
Edit : In before it's cool. If Statesman died due to having his powers drained... why can his zombie use his powers? |
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I've assumed ever since its first mention that the Battalion will be either faceless alien hordes with weird sort-of-biotech gadgetry and telepathy or militaristic, fascist-like humans in armor. Either of those is fine in the abstract, but the first seems awfully similar to the Rikti, and the second has been featured in the game many times in a zillion guises. If the devs come up with something else for the Battalion, I'll be really, really impressed!
Oh, and I predict right now that no matter what the Battalion is, exactly, people will call it "overdone" and "cliche" and "terrible writing." Maybe the Battalion will be copy editors.
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