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ive been reading through these forums and ive noticed these guys/this guy alot. what ARE they/ what was it?

sorry if im just being realy blonde and wasting your time

The Pan Fo have not been reviled to you?

Back in the day, when Andy Chambers still worked at GW (this was around 2003-2004, I reckon), some kid came on Dakka (and a few other sites, as I recall) to promote the codex he was sending to GW called Codex: Pan Fo.

Aside from the typical typos found in internet fanfic ('reviled'), it was a pretty silly concept (as I recall, their technology was powered by flatulence, or something).

The kid showed back up a couple of years later basically saying it had been childhood enthusiasm, but that kind of took the joy out of bashing the idea out. Wait, no it didn't.

syr8766 wrote:Back in the day, when Andy Chambers still worked at GW (this was around 2003-2004, I reckon), some kid came on Dakka (and a few other sites, as I recall) to promote the codex he was sending to GW called Codex: Pan Fo.

Actually, he just posted it on the GW boards, and it spread around from there, due to the combination of the silliness of the list and the sheer desperation of the kid trying to get in touch with GW because one of the Devs (I think it was actually Phil Kelly) had told him at a GD that his home-brewed codex sounded interesting and that he should 'send it in'...


Essentially, aliens evolved from reptiles on a world with no orbital rotation, who had been in 'status' (probably supposed to be 'stasis, but nobody could convince him to change it) for thousands of years beforer reappearing to invade the Imperium... for some reason. They floated around on clouds of gas expelled from their posteriors, and carried some ridiculously heavy equipment. From memory, the basic trooper had what was essentially a twin-linked autocannon.

Some interesting ideas in there, but buried under waves of silliness, odd physics, and nasty, nasty spelling... they became a standing gag whenever prospective new armies were discussed.

To his credit, when he popped up on Dakka a while back, he did seem to take it in good humour that people had been poking fun at his idea for years...

No! Don't tell him! We're all swan to secrecy!!!

BYE

Revile the Pan Fo, for they will surely revile you!

Edit: Didn't Blackmoor or Centurian99 write a Pan Fo army list?

I posted this one. It's not based on the official codex, though.

A....a "Wattleblaster?!?!?"

WTF??

Ps, i think your list was powerful Iorek, especially as you had so mant "SkitlleyBarbs"...

WTF?!?!??

I think you need more Skittlybarbs in 5th ed. Especially with the new cover rules.

i wish i had been there to see that thanks guys

Remember all your secrets are belong to us!

pan fo is a Chinese dish that is well known for causing flatulence.

G

insaniak wrote:

syr8766 wrote:Back in the day, when Andy Chambers still worked at GW (this was around 2003-2004, I reckon), some kid came on Dakka (and a few other sites, as I recall) to promote the codex he was sending to GW called Codex: Pan Fo.

Actually, he just posted it on the GW boards, and it spread around from there, due to the combination of the silliness of the list and the sheer desperation of the kid trying to get in touch with GW because one of the Devs (I think it was actually Phil Kelly) had told him at a GD that his home-brewed codex sounded interesting and that he should 'send it in'...


Essentially, aliens evolved from reptiles on a world with no orbital rotation, who had been in 'status' (probably supposed to be 'stasis, but nobody could convince him to change it) for thousands of years beforer reappearing to invade the Imperium... for some reason. They floated around on clouds of gas expelled from their posteriors, and carried some ridiculously heavy equipment. From memory, the basic trooper had what was essentially a twin-linked autocannon.

Some interesting ideas in there, but buried under waves of silliness, odd physics, and nasty, nasty spelling... they became a standing gag whenever prospective new armies were discussed.

To his credit, when he popped up on Dakka a while back, he did seem to take it in good humour that people had been poking fun at his idea for years...

Thanks Insaniak. I figured someone would remember the details better.

You can find the revised pan fo codex attached to this post: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/206376.page#223205
4E though, so someone should go ahead and update it for 5E

No lego, no they shouldn't. This way we can revile their status.

Ah yes, perhaps you are right. Avert your gaze mere mortals!

Speaking of homebrew codexes, where is the section to post them in?

Although, I'm not too sure if it's worth working further on the one I'm involved in, since homebrewed ones generally don't get taken seriously even if the developers do manage to make it the most balanced thing ever in 40K. That's because if you see something you don't like in an official 40K army, you either just accept it or moan in vain at GW. But with unofficial codexes, it's so easy to point something out as cheese and presume that it's all just 'Codex: Fanboy Empire' that unofficial codexes almost have to be grossly underpowered for anyone to accept them. Alot of official codexes would probably be immediately branded as overpowered and fanboyish if they entered a club as an unofficial codex.

And isn't Pan Fo that antagonist with the huge pin through his hat in 'Big Trouble in Little China'?

sadly thats very true :(

The Pan-Fo is all of us. All of us who ever sat up with friend designing our own codex/RPG/wargame, drawing hideous art and convincing each other that an evil army called D.E.A.T.H. would be like, ultimate cool.

We revile the Pan-Fo for we know something just as hideous lies in all of our hearts.

D.E.A.T.H. is coming....for you, led by doctor UBER COOL badguy. He's so cool, he even has a girlfriend.

SDFarsight wrote:Speaking of homebrew codexes, where is the section to post them in?

Although, I'm not too sure if it's worth working further on the one I'm involved in, since homebrewed ones generally don't get taken seriously even if the developers do manage to make it the most balanced thing ever in 40K. That's because if you see something you don't like in an official 40K army, you either just accept it or moan in vain at GW. But with unofficial codexes, it's so easy to point something out as cheese and presume that it's all just 'Codex: Fanboy Empire' that unofficial codexes almost have to be grossly underpowered for anyone to accept them. Alot of official codexes would probably be immediately branded as overpowered and fanboyish if they entered a club as an unofficial codex.

And isn't Pan Fo that antagonist with the huge pin through his hat in 'Big Trouble in Little China'?

The proposed rules forum is the place for a homebrew codex, although if it is in the finishing stages, I'd suggest making an article out of it as was done with the LatD revision.

SDFarsight wrote:Speaking of homebrew codexes, where is the section to post them in?

Although, I'm not too sure if it's worth working further on the one I'm involved in, since homebrewed ones generally don't get taken seriously even if the developers do manage to make it the most balanced thing ever in 40K. That's because if you see something you don't like in an official 40K army, you either just accept it or moan in vain at GW. But with unofficial codexes, it's so easy to point something out as cheese and presume that it's all just 'Codex: Fanboy Empire' that unofficial codexes almost have to be grossly underpowered for anyone to accept them. Alot of official codexes would probably be immediately branded as overpowered and fanboyish if they entered a club as an unofficial codex.

And isn't Pan Fo that antagonist with the huge pin through his hat in 'Big Trouble in Little China'?

That's Lo Pan, the most badass villain ever.

Fearspect wrote:

SDFarsight wrote:Speaking of homebrew codexes, where is the section to post them in?

Although, I'm not too sure if it's worth working further on the one I'm involved in, since homebrewed ones generally don't get taken seriously even if the developers do manage to make it the most balanced thing ever in 40K. That's because if you see something you don't like in an official 40K army, you either just accept it or moan in vain at GW. But with unofficial codexes, it's so easy to point something out as cheese and presume that it's all just 'Codex: Fanboy Empire' that unofficial codexes almost have to be grossly underpowered for anyone to accept them. Alot of official codexes would probably be immediately branded as overpowered and fanboyish if they entered a club as an unofficial codex.

And isn't Pan Fo that antagonist with the huge pin through his hat in 'Big Trouble in Little China'?

That's Lo Pan, the most badass villain ever.

Necromancy isnt cool dude, reporting my own thread.

Oh wow, didn't even realize I was in the second one after following a link in the first...

I don't know...

On the one hand, this was some Level Four Threadnomancy.

On the other, the Pan Fo should never be forgotten!

They should be reviled for Eternity!

Alpharius wrote:I don't know...

On the one hand, this was some Level Four Threadnomancy.

On the other, the Pan Fo should never be forgotten!

They should be reviled for Eternity!

there is a new pan fo thread in the 40k gen to be reviled!
as the OP could you lock this please

Yes, yes I can...