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2010/05/28 20:26:57
Subject: Fauntleroy celebrates 1225 posts by ranking Space Marine legions.
lol i dont hate them i just think they would have more than the same old look, i know they are trying to steer clear of cliche's but lets get some skeletons and zombie looking mummy pumpers.
just a marine with a skeletal leg hanging out his armour or one with half his face missing
its the same with all chaos armies its very uniformed for CHAOS
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2010/05/28 23:11:31
Subject: Fauntleroy celebrates 1225 posts by ranking Space Marine legions.
lol i dont hate them i just think they would have more than the same old look, i know they are trying to steer clear of cliche's but lets get some skeletons and zombie looking mummy pumpers.
just a marine with a skeletal leg hanging out his armour or one with half his face missing
its the same with all chaos armies its very uniformed for CHAOS
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2010/05/28 23:18:22
Subject: Re:Fauntleroy celebrates 1225 posts by ranking Space Marine legions.
I personally bet Alpha Legion is in the top 5, It's easily my favorite legion. And I can't see the twins placing behind hardly any of the other primarchs.
I'm loving it so far. It is definitely bias. But that's the point right!!! It's his favorite legions from least to best.
I think the World Eaters are great. They mastered berzerker lobotomizing. They're stoic figures off the field. and uncontrollable killing machines on the field. harnessed by their emotions, power armor, and chain axe, all of them humming the fine tune of "KILL MAIN BURN"
The blood angels are just a chapter with a wimpy deformed gene-seed that lets them fall into "black rage" Sounds a little like stupid dog complex where they go crazyshit from their brain swelling inside the skull cavity.
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2010/05/29 17:15:29
Subject: Fauntleroy celebrates 1225 posts by ranking Space Marine legions.
Koski wrote:I personally bet Alpha Legion is in the top 5, It's easily my favorite legion. And I can't see the twins placing behind hardly any of the other primarchs.
I'm loving it so far. It is definitely bias. But that's the point right!!! It's his favorite legions from least to best.
I think the World Eaters are great. They mastered berzerker lobotomizing. They're stoic figures off the field. and uncontrollable killing machines on the field. harnessed by their emotions, power armor, and chain axe, all of them humming the fine tune of "KILL MAIN BURN"
The blood angels are just a chapter with a wimpy deformed gene-seed that lets them fall into "black rage" Sounds a little like stupid dog complex where they go crazyshit from their brain swelling inside the skull cavity.
lol hear hear fella i think they are a bunch of vampiric space emo's
"AAAAWAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!! DADDY WHY DID YOU HAVE TO DIE AAAAAWAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH Im so angry im gonna paint my armour black and self harm if anyone wants me ill be writing in my journal and brooding in my own self pity"
Captain Sarius Vamparius
1st company Blood Angels
p.s
"noone understands me!"
if i want my space marines punchy ill go see Khorne
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2010/05/29 17:42:56
Subject: Fauntleroy celebrates 1225 posts by ranking Space Marine legions.
I can't belive that word bearers haven been in the bottom 10 yet, lorgar must have been the single lamest entity in the entre galaxy. He basically caused the Horus heresy and the age of apostaty by himself, and was whiney abot the whole "BBBAAwwwww... Daddy dosent love me!" and instead of reasoning, or relenting, he found some gods that wanted to be worshiped.
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2010/05/30 07:04:21
Subject: Fauntleroy celebrates 1225 posts by ranking Space Marine legions.
sniperjolly wrote:I can't belive that word bearers haven been in the bottom 10 yet, lorgar must have been the single lamest entity in the entre galaxy. He basically caused the Horus heresy and the age of apostaty by himself, and was whiney abot the whole "BBBAAwwwww... Daddy dosent love me!" and instead of reasoning, or relenting, he found some gods that wanted to be worshiped.
Change and change until Change is our master, for nothing neither God nor mortal can hold that which has no form. Change is the constant that cannot be changed.
No game of chess can be won without pawns, and this may prove to be a very long game.
It was the only DoW game that managed to have a cool voice for an HQ model. He and the blood ravens Captain from DoW 1, captain Angelos. In DoW 2 Angelos wasnt half as cool. All the other Chaos units in the games sound like a bunch of nerds with a mean lisp. The Khorne beserkers had decent voices too.
If there is gonna be someone in the top of the list for best SM chapter...hmm. As long as it isn't DA really. First chapter doesn't garuntee first place.
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2010/05/30 11:59:12
Subject: Re:Fauntleroy celebrates 1225 posts by ranking Space Marine legions.
Sorry for the lack of an update yesterday. I ha a haircut n the morning, and went to the Warhammer world relaunch in the afternoon, so wasn't back till late. Anyway, lets move on.
11. Just popping out for a snack, be back later. I don't really have much to say on the World Eaters-I don't particularly love them, nor do I harbour any ill will towards them. They have always just been "that" legion, the one that I'm just not bothered about. Oh sure, I've been tempted, but I've been tempted by most armies and one more won't make a difference. Kharn is a cool enough guy I suppose (I'm still trying to find that humour picture of him in the libary), and a warband of lobotomised, frothing maniacs running around shouting "BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!" as loudly as their biology will allow is sweet,but...I dunno. They're thankfully more or less safe from my scrutiny. I will admit I like their FW dreadnaught hull a lot. There is one thing that bothers me: Angron. Seriously GW, you named the angry primarch Angron? By this logic, Mortarion's name should be "Smelly", Russ' "Hairy", Night Haunter's "Sneaky", Vulkan's "Fir"-well, you get the picture. These guys are the gods-damn sons of the Emperor, the almighty Primarchs, not Snow Whites 21 Dwarfs. Very very sloppy gee-dub *Smack on wrist*.
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2010/05/31 18:35:33
Subject: Re:Fauntleroy celebrates 1225 posts by ranking Space Marine legions.
10. Legion of luna so-What's our name again? Congratulations Luna Wolves/Sons of Horus/Black Legion, you win(?) the honour of being "Mr average"-slap bang in the middle of the Legion rankings. Remember earlier when I mentioned that there was one pretty boy Primarch I liked? Well, it's Horus. I don't care what anyone says, Horus is the man, he wasn't made Warmaster for nothing guys. He's amitous, he'll do anything to get what he wants, he inspires great loyalty, and he's not half bad in a fight. If I had to choose one primarch we know is dead to have survived, then it would be Horus. And as well as that, the Luna Wolves/Sons of Horus were actually an effective fighting force. They took the fight to the xenos, the traitor and the non-believer and illuminated them. With flamer and holy Boltgun . But (and it's a big but)...any chance of the XVI ever ranking higher was lost when it became the Black Legion. It holds a strong claim to the title of the single most useless organisation in any fictional work. Abbadon is the fail: 13 Black crusades and he has managed to only just gained a foothold on Cadia. Yes yes, I know, they've killed "Many important Imperials" and have "united many chaos warbands", but that is no excuse Abbadon. No excuse at all; even Aximand could have done better (okay, bad comparison, Aximand is the man).
Spoiler:
And Torgaddon! Why did you have to die! I'm not so bothered about Loken, he'd probably burst into tears if he found a Sparrow with a broken wing).
Well, we are now officialy in Fauntleroy's top ten! Now we're going from critiscm's into badly disguised marriage proposals . That means the following legions are stilll to place (in no particular order): Thousand sons, Word Bearers, Alpha Legion, Dark Angels, Imperial fists, Night Lords, Death Guard, Iron Hands, iron Warriors.
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2010/05/31 19:12:03
Subject: Fauntleroy celebrates 1225 posts by ranking Space Marine legions.
The Loyalist Legions have less personality by default because if you have personality in the Imperium you're probably a heretic.
Change and change until Change is our master, for nothing neither God nor mortal can hold that which has no form. Change is the constant that cannot be changed.
No game of chess can be won without pawns, and this may prove to be a very long game.
Automatically Appended Next Post: 9. Bananas, in power armour, they're running down the stairs... Up next are the Imperial fists, coming in at a very respectable ninth place. When all's said and done, I like the sons of Dorn. My first army was going to be Imperial fists 3rd company, but I was a little intimidated by all that yellow and so went for Thousand sons instead-I will do it one day though, when I have the time and money. And I think the reason I like them so much is that they are just awesome in general. They were there, on Terra, when the heretics stormed the walls. They never once lost ther faith in the Emperor. Dorn was aboard the Vengeful spirit alongside his father. To agree to face the chosen of all four chaos gods-that takes balls. And they haven't lost any of that coolnes since the end of the heresy. They've been out there fighting the bad men and keeping the people safe (which you already know my thoughts on, but there you go). If I had to pick a marine army to defend me, it would be the Fists-them or the Sallie's. Space Wolfs are to crazy, Dark Angels would probably just kill you if they looked at them funny, Blood Angels would try and turn you into a mini-Edward, and Ultramarines seem too glory hungry to rely on. But the sons of Terra are true heroes, commited to the Emprors vision of uniting Humanity. I'm not surprised Dorn didn't want to break his legion down, they were so effective already! So yeah Imperial Fists-I like you, and you'll get the attention you deserve one day. Just keep doing what you do until then. And also; in the above picture, they are fighting a two headed Dinosaur. This alone guarantee's them a place in the top 10.
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2010/06/02 00:37:08
Subject: Fauntleroy celebrates 1225 posts by ranking Space Marine legions.
IF are basically what the UMs were supposed to be, the upright, tough gerneralist exemplars with the coolest 2nd founding chapters.
Now the UMs are the cocky, arrogant, foolish posterboys instead, while the underapreaciated IF take their place from under their overgrown nose.
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2010/06/02 05:38:29
Subject: Re:Fauntleroy celebrates 1225 posts by ranking Space Marine legions.
Marrak wrote:I'd have put the IF's higher, but that is a badass picture.
I've always wondered why they got second billing to pretty much everyone... even their own successor chapters. I'm looking at you Crimson fists!
again true plus the templars,
they have Lysander though which is cool i dunno if id like to see more IF's i collect them and its nice having it at a fairly cult standing lol
I don't mind the cult standing either (although lately all codex marine players in my area seem to be switching to Fists... )
And I don't mind the Templars, since they're so vastly different in organization that they've become their own identity. Crimson fists are a 2nd founding codex chapter that gets more screentime then their founding, which has always left me with a WTF moment.
8. Holy Eight-foot tall superhuman lookalikes, Batman! Damn you Night Lords. I wanted to take the mick out of you. I wanted to rip you apart. I wanted to criticise you for your goofy bat ears, you're silly lightning armour, you're pantomime villain-esque fluff. And I can't...because I like you.
The best way I can explain it is as follows; have you ever liked someone that everyone else hates? Someone who has some bad quality that no-one else likes but you're too blinded to see? Well, it's the same with me and the Night Lords. Those ears for instance; I know a lot of people think they look ridiculous, but I actually kinda' like them. If the model's helmets looked more like the one in the picture above, then I think coupled with the ears they could be genuinly unnerving. Their fluff is decent, and I have to admit it always gives me a chuckle at how much they remind me of Doctor Claw from the old Inspector Gadget cartoons (next time Calgar, NEXT TIME *bat noise*!!!!!). Okay, the Lightning armour is a bit silly, especially for a legion that specialises in stealth attacks. But hey, can't have everything I suppose.
And Curze. Poor old Curze. I have to admit I feel a bit sorry for the guy, he's got a similar schizophrenia condition to myself. Granted it's a lot more severe than mine is, and he had to deal with it alone. The way Nostramo (Can I just say that's a really good name for a planet? I mean, Fenris for the Space Wolves? How inventive. Olympia for the Iron warriors? Yawn. But Nostramo?-Hell yeah, you know some gaks gonna go down their.) is described and handled by the man is nothing short of brilliant, and his little scrap against Dorn is memorable enough. As far as Primarchs go, he's up there with the best.
Also-go away now and listen to Iron maidens Fear of the Dark. Come back and tell me honestly that doesn't pump you up about the Night Lords.
2010/06/02 19:58:22
Subject: Fauntleroy celebrates 1225 posts by ranking Space Marine legions.
Great read, loved the critics/comments so far for each legion (specially the bashing of the smurfs!!!! Yeah, I don't like poster boys, specially those that sit on the far corner of the galaxy ruling over their simcity while the others are fighting in some forsaken hell hole) so yeah, thumbs up for you and your initiative, I'll be waiting to see the rest of the chart.
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I'm not so bothered about Loken, he'd probably burst into tears if he found a Sparrow with a broken wing).
. That means the following legions are stilll to place (in no particular order): Thousand sons, Word Bearers, Alpha Legion, Dark Angels, Imperial fists, Night Lords, Death Guard, Iron Hands, iron Warriors.
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