RIP Marbo.

Unless you do a Jesus and return from the grave, we will miss you.


In loving memory of Marbo I think we should all post pics of our Marbo conversions along with a cool Marbo story.


A few words in memory of Marbo:

Never before has so many people pronounced such a simple name incorrectly (so many people call him mabro its painful). Never before has so many people had conversions for just one unit. Never before has a unit that is not an ork been so comical to use.

He will be missed.



Here is Marbo Dundee No. 11,513 of the Praetorian XVII


(modeled after crocodile dundee, simply because I love the quote "that aint a knife, this is a knife.")

"Do a jesus"
Now that is a phrase!
Had a Marbo in my silly IG army I ran yonks ago.
Went by the name of naked Dave.
I don't have a picture of him unfortunately but he blew up more of my own troops than my opponents. We ended up making a houserule that let both sides target him as an enemy.
You know, 'cos friendly fire is fun!

How many Marbo Variants have not killed a handful of men on their own side!

Its sad to know the Marbo related stories are now a thing of the past indeed.

I'll be honest, friendly fire was a reasonably regular occurance in my army... armies...

I used to use a "Demolition man" for the last chancers in my Valhallan army, he will badly missed...i see him coming in a dataslate still...

RIP Marbo

 tau tse tung wrote:
I used to use a "Demolition man" for the last chancers in my Valhallan army, he will badly missed...i see him coming in a dataslate still...

A dataslate with just Marbo.
The other unit entries were hunted down and murdered.

Marbo's gone? I'm sad now. :(

My IG backstory is that they are the remains of two units, one from Armageddon in gas masks and trenchcoats, one Cadian in full camo gear, thrown together on an ice world where no one is properly adapted.

Except Marbo, who is the only model I've done in snow camo, looking totally at home in the environment. Because Marbo. I'm very sorry to lose him.

He'll be getting a dataslate. GW still has Marbo models in stock if for no other reason

I'm fully expecting a series of dataslates for different IG regiments with all the special characters that have been removed.

 purplefood wrote:

 tau tse tung wrote:
I used to use a "Demolition man" for the last chancers in my Valhallan army, he will badly missed...i see him coming in a dataslate still...

A dataslate with just Marbo.
The other unit entries were hunted down and murdered.

Have an exalt!

It wouldnt surprise me if he gets a data slate. But for now he is officially dead.

I've no doubt that GW will try to squeeze more money out of Imperial Guard players by releasing all the units that used to be in the Codex as dataslates.

I don't have an Imperial Guard army, but I do have a Marbo model.

One day I'll paint him.

Rip in Peace my friends Marbo, who tried not once or twice, but every game to demolition charge my defiler and failed, then always proceeded to get nommed on. You will be missed not for your insane heroism, but for the way your blood highlighted Deffys claws.

Marbo lives...he is just waiting...

It makes perfect sense to me that Marbo isn't in the Codex - after all, no other Codexes have Lords of War built in...

Marbo is still in the codex, he is just hiding and waiting for his chance to chuck a demo charge wherever he pleases. Have you checked inside your CRASSUS ARMOURED ASSAULT TRANSPORTS yet? He might be in one of those

Everyone just continue to play Marbo with the old entry until the eventual Catachan dataslate/suppliment arrives. I doubt people would refuse Marbo to continue his fight.

 n0t_u wrote:
Everyone just continue to play Marbo with the old entry until the eventual Catachan dataslate/suppliment arrives. I doubt people would refuse Marbo to continue his fight.

I was actually planning on telling my IG friend that he is allowed to use the IG entry for Marbo. He is just fun. Why would I not want fun in my games?

The fact that this thread is necessary makes me sad, he will be missed until a data slate is released.

I really really want to see him back. You'd just have to do a couple things to make him awesome:

1. make him immune to interceptor. It made me so sad the first time I played against him after my new codex came out.

2. Make the demo pack scatter 1d6 inches instead of 2d6. As amusing as it is for him to blow himself up, I feel like it's really not a great outcome.

I heard the inquisition once bought a box labelled "planet killer", when they opened it they found Marbo inside.

RIP Kroenen. Assassin of the Korsk Silent 5th.



many a times his briefcase full o'pain brought wails from the enemy. Sometimes from me...lol

I had a Nuggz-Marbo conversion. He / I've gone back into hiding.

I'm sure we will see a $58 Codex: Marbo.

Wait, what? Did they actually kill him off in the fluff or a BL novel?

UlrikDecado wrote:Marbo lives...he is just waiting...

He is actually hiding in the current codex. You need to lok really hard at the elites section, don't blink and don't turn around when you feel a knife press against your back.

A GumyBear wrote:Marbo is still in the codex, he is just hiding and waiting for his chance to chuck a demo charge wherever he pleases. Have you checked inside your CRASSUS ARMOURED ASSAULT TRANSPORTS yet? He might be in one of those

I think I love you. Exalted.

GorillaWarfare wrote:I'm sure we will see a $58 Codex: Marbo.

HQ: Marbo
Elites:Marbo, Marbo, Marbo
Troops: Marbo, Marbo, Marbo, Marbo (May take Marbo as a dedicated transport at the cost listed)
Fast Attack: Marbo
Heavy Support: Marbo

Allies Matrix
----------------------Marbo Everyone else
-----------Marbo: Marbo Bait
Everyone else: Bait


Warlord Traits.
1-6: Marbo

Pics, or it didn't happen.

 krazynadechukr wrote:
Pics, or it didn't happen.

Marbo spits on pics.

 krazynadechukr wrote:
Pics, or it didn't happen.

Marbo doesn't show up on cameras...

An army comprised entirely of Marbos (you could fit 23 of them at 1500 points with the current cost) would be the greatest thing ever created by GW. Tbh I'd go ahead and pay $58 to be able to field that. You'd just need a small disclaimer stating that a certain number come in on turn 1 like drop pods.

He also covers every single FOC requirement by himself:

HQ: Marbo is his own commander, he doesn't accept orders from anyone else.

Elites: He is the single most elite bad&%$ in the IG codex.

Troops: He's just a man!

Fast Attack: Fleet, general sneakiness.

Heavy Support: Briefcase of doom

The only thing he can't do (yet) is fly.

 sing your life wrote:
I heard the inquisition once bought a box labelled "planet killer", when they opened it they found Marbo inside.

I heard the Tyranid once perfected evolution, making the deadliest warrior in the galaxy. Marbo turned up on its doorstep a week later, humiliated it in an arm wrestling match and took its milk money.
... you thought I was going to say the Tyranid accidentally created Marbo, didn't you? No one creates Marbo. Marbo just is.

Marbo died years ago, Death just hasn't built up the courage to tell him yet.

Guess there's no need for me to build a knife wielding bush now... :(

Death once had a near-Marbo experience

Marbo should have been gone prior to the release of the last Codex, GW just didn't have the courage to tell him.

I think everyone should just cut out the page on Marbo from the previous IG codex and play it with the new AM book.

If anyone asks why you're playing an OOP unit just say "are YOU going to tell Marbo he can't be in this game? Yeah, I didn't think so"

Spoke to Marbo just now. He wanted me to relay his message to his fans.

"I could take the pitchfork from the devil. From the deep, blue sea to the dark blue sky. I’m the baddest man alive. I’d grab a croc and I’d bite his tail. Hack off the judge, and put a guy to jail. Make the meanest woman break down and cry. I’m the baddestman alive. I’m the baddest man alive. I take no measure, I take no jive. Take a gasoline bath and I walk through fire. Bear hug a grizzly. Take the commissar hat from his head and use it for a Frisbee. Spit in Horus' face, I drink honey straight from the beehive. Bungee jumping off the Fang buttaked. Promenade across the Golden Throne, butt-naked. I don’t plan to die. "

So, we're in agreement, Marbo is the Warhammer Universe's personal Chuck Norris, right?

 timetowaste85 wrote:
So, we're in agreement, Marbo is the Warhammer Universe's personal Chuck Norris, right?

No.
Chuck Norris is fictional.

When Marbo met Chuck Norris, Marbo graciously let Chuck live, and Chuck still had to fight for his life.

That's what I thought.

I think when I get home from work, I'll have to build myself a Marbo conversion. Actually, I need some parts. Can anybody spare a set of Catachan legs and a Catachan arm with a knife? PM me. I'm actually serious, I have a great idea.

Marbo was always the real tactical genius ...

I was about to finish painting him... I had just bought the right yellow to fix his hat the day before the news came... WHY???



From left to right, grenade launcher guy, Marbo, Bodyguard Chick - my first converted IG.



Pre crappy paint job.

 purplefood wrote:

 timetowaste85 wrote:
So, we're in agreement, Marbo is the Warhammer Universe's personal Chuck Norris, right?

No.
Chuck Norris is fictional.

Chuck Norris tells tall tales about Sly Marbo.



Only got to use him in two games

I wanted to aim for a Calixian Regiment (Dark Heresy setting sector) and deiced to make Marbo the Malfian, AKA Italian Renaissance Planet. Went about it with bits form the Catachan command squad and the Empire Greatsword kit. Only one in my Army with a feather in his cap; that's just how he rolls.

This thread needs more marbo pics.

Here's mine, about to flub his throw and kill himself, and one plague marine.

I will miss my Catachan/Cadian Marbo, Duke Nukem:

And Storm Shadowvich for my Valhallans:


I expect him to return in a dataslate. He's still available from the GW webstore, just as a metal model and direct only.

 tau tse tung wrote:
Marbo was always the real tactical genius ...

Dammit...

Nice Marbo Variants (what do we call a plural of Marbo) guys.

Imagine a guerrilla supplement for guard. A codex of hardened Marbos that all go by a different name and all have a specialty.

20 models in an army taking on whole other normal armies haha.

Just make a suitably large scenic base, perch your old fig on top, and field him as a Imperial Knight.

Rules should be pretty close, right?

Just put him on stilts. He will do fine.

 purplefood wrote:

 krazynadechukr wrote:
Pics, or it didn't happen.

Marbo doesn't show up on cameras...

Actually he chooses whever he wants to show up on cameras, or on any other image for that matter.

My Marbo was an Elysian with a Demo Charge ready to throw.

If he shows up as a Dataslate, that will be the end of it. That will be the pinnacle proof that we are just being squeezed for cash.

There was no reason to delete him.

Codex: Marbo would be hilarious, though.

 Swastakowey wrote:
Nice Marbo Variants (what do we call a plural of Marbo) guys.

An Exterminatus

Exterminatus is always considered more humane than sending Marbo... fact.

So many Exalt worthy posts...

 Purifier wrote:

 n0t_u wrote:
Everyone just continue to play Marbo with the old entry until the eventual Catachan dataslate/suppliment arrives. I doubt people would refuse Marbo to continue his fight.

I was actually planning on telling my IG friend that he is allowed to use the IG entry for Marbo. He is just fun. Why would I not want fun in my games?

He's... strange.

He is a lot of fun, very characterful, and I love his fluff and design ideals to pieces, but he's also quite potentially a game changer.

Of course, he's meant to be.

Sometimes he backfires and kills himself though, so it's all god.

They should bring him back with the following rules added

Statline should be:

WS5 BS5 S3 T3 W10 I5 A4 Ld7 Sv4+

Special Rules:
Keeps all his special rules, but gains one:
Plot Armour:
Marbo is even more important to this plot than any other character in your army. Marbo's saving throw is invulnerable.
Marbo also benefits from the "Eternal Warrior Special Rule", just for kicks.

I'd pay 11.99 for that dataslate.

Oh my god, Storm Shadovich is awesome!!!

This thread is great as it showcases so many cool Marbo conversions.




Here is my Praetorian Marbo.

I think he should be mounted on a pile of bodies.

 DarkTraveler777 wrote:
Oh my god, Storm Shadovich is awesome!!!

This thread is great as it showcases so many cool Marbo conversions.




Here is my Praetorian Marbo.

Is marbo the small purple guy in the corner?

Don't mind the purple guy. He just likes to watch.

You never showed me your Marbo John, hes fething great! As are plenty of them in this thread, I love that guy and he best make a return in a dataslate or towering shall be my rage.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/t1.0-9/1511912_10201457671224937_398522784_n.jpg

Marbo doesn't always charge into Tau gunlines, but when he does he likes to do it on top of a Mawloc.

 Panzer1944 wrote:
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/t1.0-9/1511912_10201457671224937_398522784_n.jpg

Marbo doesn't always charge into Tau gunlines, but when he does he likes to do it on top of a Mawloc.

You win the internets, as well as everyone in here who has contributed to Marbo's legacy.

I had that shirtless cyborg-dude with a massive chaostar scar tattoo on his right shoulder from the DV chaos cultists lot singled out as Marbo for my ever-WIP traitor guard army. At first I thought of converting him, but given he's not in the box of five Chaos Cultists, I took it was a limited edition mini we probably won't be seeing again, so I decided to leave it as is. Besides, he already looks appropiately Marbo-esque.

Heh, not anymore.

 rabidguineapig wrote:


The only thing he can't do (yet) is fly.

Thats just what he wants you to think...

Alas, poor Marbo, we knew him well...

I don't have any pics, but my Marbo was/is based on Mantic's Ranger models, so flak armoured and with a full-visor helmet. He's got a huge knife and a shortened Lasgun. His armour was done as a steath type scheme, black washed with green ink for a night-ops feel.

Best Marbo story: Dropping in an killing a Crisis Commander and full squad of suits. Kill the Warlord, First Blood, 2 KP and 400+ points dead. Return on investment? Hell yeah.

There was also a game where I was 2 down on KP when Marbo came in. He somehow survived shooting from the remnants of a Dark Reaper squad (3 6+ cover saves!) after lobbing his demo, and had I remembered he had meltabombs, could have scored me another KP. As it was, I charged the Farseer and got a shuiriken through the head for his trouble.

I hope he comes back as a formation. That'd let my Orks field one without the bother of an allied IG detachment - cuz Marbo is the only umie tough enough to hang with da boyz

 Nevelon wrote:
Just make a suitably large scenic base, perch your old fig on top, and field him as a Imperial Knight.

Rules should be pretty close, right?

Or on top of a pile of bodies as high as a knight.

 Swastakowey wrote:
Nice Marbo Variants (what do we call a plural of Marbo) guys.

Imagine a guerrilla supplement for guard. A codex of hardened Marbos that all go by a different name and all have a specialty.

20 models in an army taking on whole other normal armies haha.

I think they had that already. Last Chancers or some gak.

I'd add in a special rule, "any unit may split fire against this army, but a) must declare all shooting from a squad before rolling dice and b) fires snapshots if they wish to do this"

I don't recall seeing this thread for Our Doom of Malantai or Ymgral Stealers...

feth Marbo!


HAHAHAHAHA!

Doom of Malantai and the Ymgarl did not start a meme

I'm always interested in unusual and special characters for IG but I hadn't heard of Marbo,so...

http://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Imperial-Guard-Guardsman-Marbo

But at £8.20 I find myself asking, why so expensive? Is it made out of platinum? Or shareholders' frozen tears?

 Chrissy_J wrote:
I'm always interested in unusual and special characters for IG but I hadn't heard of Marbo,so...

http://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Imperial-Guard-Guardsman-Marbo

But at £8.20 I find myself asking, why so expensive? Is it made out of platinum? Or shareholders' frozen tears?

It's because GW sell it.
That said it's far more fun to make your own Marbo counts as...

 purplefood wrote:

 timetowaste85 wrote:
So, we're in agreement, Marbo is the Warhammer Universe's personal Chuck Norris, right?

No.
Chuck Norris is fictional.

Exalted!

Finally got around to updating my avatar to fit the new release.

 rabidguineapig wrote:
Finally got around to updating my avatar to fit the new release.

If you add "For now" underneath it'd seriously complete the picture.

 purplefood wrote:

 rabidguineapig wrote:
Finally got around to updating my avatar to fit the new release.

If you add "For now" underneath it'd seriously complete the picture.

Done haha

 rabidguineapig wrote:

 purplefood wrote:

 rabidguineapig wrote:
Finally got around to updating my avatar to fit the new release.

If you add "For now" underneath it'd seriously complete the picture.

Done haha

Beautiful!!
Have an exalt.

 timetowaste85 wrote:
That's what I thought.

I think when I get home from work, I'll have to build myself a Marbo conversion. Actually, I need some parts. Can anybody spare a set of Catachan legs and a Catachan arm with a knife? PM me. I'm actually serious, I have a great idea.

Dude! If you wanted to scratch build a Marbo model, You'll need a 350 big block engine, two sticks of dynamite, a Samurai sword, 27 bottles of hot sauce, and the essence of a nuclear explosion. Don't even ask what you need to paint what you just built!

At least I still have my Marbo... a Hades Breaching Drill dropping D-Charge Engineers will do, right?

I too will miss the "Marlboro Man" as my local players called him.

I have a custom Steel Legion variant of Marbo with a huge honkin knife and gun with a gas mask, and I will sincerely miss the hilarity of him popping up behind enemy lines to either kill himself, or survive 3 rounds of frustrated fire by going to ground in walled terrain.

RIP Marbo

Last night I finally got round to converting my own Marbo having meant to make him weeks ago. He may not be in the codex any more but what's to stop me using his rules from the old codex? I can't imagine any reasonable player would object to me fielding a model that more often that not will drop his demo charge on his foot.

Kanrail wrote:
or survive 3 rounds of frustrated fire by going to ground in walled terrain.

Marbo does not go to ground, the ground goes to Marbo.

(Also, Marbo is fearless and can not GTG.)

I don't play IG and this is my favorite post of all time. Wish I'd seen more pics.

PS, never calling them Astra whatever the feth they're called.
Always be IG to me

We haven't seen the last of him...

Heres mine :

http://www.dakkadakka.com/core/gallery-viewimage.jsp?i=31122&m=2&w=800

So many cool Marbo Models. A nice ending thread for him I think.

Marbo's just waiting in reserves, not just any reserves, but meta-reserves.

He's only waiting because he wants to see the Chaos gods' reaction to the Emperor's reserve dice roll, but they're stalling as long as possible. Because they know what happens.

If he is still on the GW web store, I am hoping this means a Catachan supplement codex. That would be so nice.

 Peregrine wrote:

Kanrail wrote:
or survive 3 rounds of frustrated fire by going to ground in walled terrain.

Marbo does not go to ground, the ground goes to Marbo.

(Also, Marbo is fearless and can not GTG.)

Exalted because you made me lol.

IT'S NOT OVER!!!!!

 Kaiserbudheim wrote:
IT'S NOT OVER!!!!!

very cool, although rambos face looks like he has been eating a bit too much donuts

I love the bow though.

Thanks! Haha that was the "thinnest" head I could work with (that also had that classic Stallone lip curl). About right on par with the 4th Rambo movie no? =D

 Kaiserbudheim wrote:
Thanks! Haha that was the "thinnest" head I could work with (that also had that classic Stallone lip curl). About right on par with the 4th Rambo movie no? =D

Haha im glad I didnt offend you

yea pretty much him though.

Ever thought about making explosive arrows or something for him?

Here is my retired marbo that will probably end up being a priest.

Three people asked so far, nobody has answered.

WHERE IS IT SAID THAT MARBO IS DEAD?

Now obviously there is a dead Marbo meme going on, but everyone is expecting everyone to know the source. However the IG (or whatever codex) is not out yet, or completely spoilered, so. where did this info come from and how is he 'officially' discontinued?

Its not that he is dead, its that he has been removed from the new IG codex. He may well return in a data slate, or he may not return until the next new IG codex.

 Orlanth wrote:
Three people asked so far, nobody has answered.

WHERE IS IT SAID THAT MARBO IS DEAD?

Now obviously there is a dead Marbo meme going on, but everyone is expecting everyone to know the source. However the IG (or whatever codex) is not out yet, or completely spoilered, so. where did this info come from and how is he 'officially' discontinued?

I dont know dude, I use a codex a few hours ago, looked pretty 6th edition to me

Its no longer a unit in the codex, we may see him some how soon. But currently he is as good as dead. (game wise).

No new model =dead.

 Orlanth wrote:
Three people asked so far, nobody has answered.

WHERE IS IT SAID THAT MARBO IS DEAD?

Now obviously there is a dead Marbo meme going on, but everyone is expecting everyone to know the source. However the IG (or whatever codex) is not out yet, or completely spoilered, so. where did this info come from and how is he 'officially' discontinued?

Are you that out of it? lol check GW. Its been out for a few days now....

I have faced off against Marbo countless times.

Hate that fether, but I respected him, too.

RIP, you fething bastard of bastards!