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Chaos Space Marines Terminators, and regular Marines. I don't like them because they are after all Space Marines, the detail in the Space Marines and Terminator armor on the plastic kits is amazing!! The Chaos Marines however... I wish they would update the kits!

Cowboy_Jerry wrote:
Well, both tyranids' and eldar guns look like sex toys.

All of a sudden I find myself gripped by terrified, morbid curiosity about your kinks if you think squirming, pulsing beetles covered in eyes and teeth look like sex toys.

5. Sobs of Battle: they really should take a page out of these power armoured ladies' books.

4. Dreadknights/Centurions for obvious reasons.

3. Eldar and their bulbous armour and garish/incoherent colour schemes.

2. Tyranid weapons.

1. DKOK and their everything.

 Blackhair Duckshape wrote:
5. Sobs of Battle: they really should take a page out of these power armoured ladies' books.

1. DKOK and their everything.

The hell is wrong with you... ?


Both the aesthetics of Sisters and the D men are entirely and perfectly suited to the 40k universe.

 Blackhair Duckshape wrote:
5. Sobs of Battle: they really should take a page out of these power armoured ladies' books.

... my boobs hurt just from watching that transformation sequence. No.

Just... no.

 Furyou Miko wrote:

 Blackhair Duckshape wrote:
5. Sobs of Battle: they really should take a page out of these power armoured ladies' books.

... my boobs hurt just from watching that transformation sequence. No.

Just... no.

Oh, you know you want it

5. Sobs of Battle: they really should take a page out of these power armoured ladies' books.

You're kidding right

Kill la Kill is pretty awesome, though.


But no. In 40k, that would be more appropriate for Chaos. Especially if you treat the kamui as a sort of daemonic armour.

 Blackhair Duckshape wrote:
5. Sobs of Battle: they really should take a page out of these power armoured ladies' books.

What the hell did I just watch? I had to break the link just to ensure I'd have no part in redsitributing that nonsense.

You anime kiddos are weird.

 Veteran Sergeant wrote:

 Blackhair Duckshape wrote:
5. Sobs of Battle: they really should take a page out of these power armoured ladies' books.

What the hell did I just watch? I had to break the link just to ensure I'd have no part in redsitributing that nonsense.

You anime kiddos are weird.

You just watched a bit of a show that delves into the theme of how clothing can shape an identity. This show also has gratuitous amounts of fan service, for both men and women.
No really, that's what Kill La Kill is about. Look it up.

 Furyou Miko wrote:

 Blackhair Duckshape wrote:
5. Sobs of Battle: they really should take a page out of these power armoured ladies' books.

... my boobs hurt just from watching that transformation sequence. No.

Just... no.

My boobs hurt as well.

And I don't even have boobs :-/

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:

 Veteran Sergeant wrote:

 Blackhair Duckshape wrote:
5. Sobs of Battle: they really should take a page out of these power armoured ladies' books.

What the hell did I just watch? I had to break the link just to ensure I'd have no part in redsitributing that nonsense.

You anime kiddos are weird.

You just watched a bit of a show that delves into the theme of how clothing can shape an identity. This show also has gratuitous amounts of fan service, for both men and women.
No really, that's what Kill La Kill is about. Look it up.

Yeah, no. I'll take your word for it. I'm sure it might be more rewarding to try to discern patterns on my ceiling.

It's actually a pretty fun show. It does follow it's own sort of logic though, like most anime shows.


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 Agent_Tremolo wrote:

 Furyou Miko wrote:

 Blackhair Duckshape wrote:
5. Sobs of Battle: they really should take a page out of these power armoured ladies' books.

... my boobs hurt just from watching that transformation sequence. No.

Just... no.

My boobs hurt as well.

And I don't even have boobs :-/

Nevermind the boobs...that poor crotch.
If she were a man she'd be instantly incapacitated...and it should already be quite uncomfortable.

 Veteran Sergeant wrote:

 Blackhair Duckshape wrote:
5. Sobs of Battle: they really should take a page out of these power armoured ladies' books.

What the hell did I just watch? I had to break the link just to ensure I'd have no part in redsitributing that nonsense.

You anime kiddos are weird.

Don't lump me in with them...

1. People saying Tyranids in this very thread.
2. Everything Eldar
3. Newcrons riding robots
4. Tau and Kroot except the new broadside and firewarriors
5. Single models like helldrake taurox GK walker etc

Btw people saying tyranids, my advice would be not to look at ones painted by GW as they have an incredible talent to ruin anything through a paintjob and their nids look very bad, I'd never have started them if it didn't see some guys nids in the shop.

Tydil wrote:
Also, I won't even get into the "StarCraft Zerg are better" because I know that will cause a huge argument...But I do think GW and Blizzard conspired to make this debate of who came first just to hide the fact that they are both ripping off Heinlein's Starship Troopers.

Well the debate is easy to settle - you can find every piece of zerg in 2nd edition tyranid codex or on other 40k models ie chaos snake, for 3rd edition GW just returned the favor ripping some unifided elements back except that, unlike crapy looking Americanish comicbooky zerg, they improved on the look.

1. How does the Valkyrie hover? it has two very small jets at the wing tips, that in no way could boost the whole thing up. At least the stormtalon, ugly as it is, seems to have engines on pivots.

2. Centurions. Just.....Centurions

3. The general tendency for GW to make the treads on tanks follow the "over the hull" design like ww1 tanks.It's stupid and impractical.

4. The Taurox. Weapons that shoot the occupants as they disembark, and treads that have an impossibly vertical incline.

5. The generally disproportional gun barrel sizes. The Leman Russ is the worst example.

The Valkyrie, I believe, is actually a vectored thrust aircraft like the Harrier. When entering hover mode, the entire output of those two massive engines on the top is redirected to the four wingtip fans. The narrow aperture on the wingtips increases the effective downthrust relative to the engine output.

It's still a stupid way to run a transport plane though. There's a reason the Osprey has props.

Seconding the disgust at the White Dwarf painting scheme, and I don't know where their photographer trained, but gods, man, I take better photos than you do and I was just the note-taker!

Furyou Miko wrote: Don't lump me in with them...

Ah, come on. By current societal standards, we're all weird just based on this hobby alone.

pax_imperialis wrote:The general tendency for GW to make the treads on tanks follow the "over the hull" design like ww1 tanks.It's stupid and impractical.

I dunno, in a setting that has several armies whose main method of anti-tank warfare consists of climbing on top of them, I could see treads as being a somewhat effective countermeasure.
Not that I believe they actually considered such pros and cons when they were designing those IG tanks, though.

Furyou Miko wrote:It's still a stupid way to run a transport plane though. There's a reason the Osprey has props.

Isn't that just a question of technological innovation? The reason this was cancelled was just because the engines were considered too heavy for the lift they generated, making it a bad choice for a transport plane. Technology moves on, though, and lightweight materials, miniaturisation, and improved lift may easily render such engines a better choice in the future. The NASA approved of the Do 31, after all, and I figure they know their stuff.
We still use metal bullets propelled by gunpowder because right now there is no proper alternative, but already we can see how this will be replaced by lasers and railguns which are already on the horizon and whose basic principles are arguably sound.

I suppose so, but there's also the fact that in terms of fuel efficiency, a straight-up VTOL is never going to be superior to a V/STOVL. The Valkyrie would be a much more reasonable aircraft (if you assume, as I do, that the wings on the 'real thing' have aerofoils), if it had wheels instead of skids.

In no particular order...

5) Dreadknights, for the obvious, already stated, reasons. If they're going to keep with that, then at least give it a rule where I can shoot the f**k that's driving and hijack it after a he's dead.

4) The complete re-writing of the Necrons fluff.

3) The Rhino STC. I like fluff-wise ideology, but I think that GW just got lazy when designing models. I mean, come on, up until the Stalker/Hunter (which aren't that far off...) all SM tanks (except Land Raiders, of course) looked exactly the f***ing same save a turret. Hell, all the models are just Rhino models with an extra sprue.

2) Over-emphasis on Imperium, specially Space Marines. I like Marines, I play Marines, but goddamn, there's too much of them. How about some Xenos love, GW? Or are all of them there just so Space Marines can kill them in the fluff?

1) The Taurox. Absolutely hideous and an engineering blunder. Were the Techmarines/whomever on Mars that designed that thing high? Or were they too distracted by Toaster Sex Tuesday? The IG/AM player in my gaming group has one, and he's so horrified by it that he never uses it and is planning to take a hack saw, cut off those stupid tracks and glue the wheels from an Ork Trukk kit to it.

Dreadknights...they look ridiculous. Like an action figure. They just don't fit with the other models. Another thing I kind of see wierd is Space Marine to Imperial Guard size. I feel as if the SM need to be larger. Terminators should be even larger too, in relation to regular IG humans.

The Guardsmen models have long been criticised as being too large.

 Furyou Miko wrote:
The Guardsmen models have long been criticised as being too large.

Also, to judge by their faces, they're a race of angry potatoes.

 vipoid wrote:

 Furyou Miko wrote:
The Guardsmen models have long been criticised as being too large.

Also, to judge by their faces, they're a race of angry potatoes.

Who will destroy you, for the glory of the Sontaran Empire.

Terminator Helmets.

they just look kinda stupid. when I put together some CSM termies I replaced all their helmets with standard power armor ones, they looked WAAAAY better

The general proportions of Terminators and the ridiculously thin thighs that marines must have in order to fit in them. Regular power armour isn't that great but Terminator armour just looks horrible to me which is why I could only ever buy Tartaros or Cataphractii termies.

 Furyou Miko wrote:

 Veteran Sergeant wrote:

 Blackhair Duckshape wrote:
5. Sobs of Battle: they really should take a page out of these power armoured ladies' books.

What the hell did I just watch? I had to break the link just to ensure I'd have no part in redsitributing that nonsense.

You anime kiddos are weird.

Don't lump me in with them...

I have to agree about that hurting the women's crotches. Dear lord that must feel like the biggest wedgie of all time. I can only imagine how much it might dig into their erm crotch area and fall in O_O.

I also agree about otakus being the biggest closet perverts in the world. I mean i'm a huge pervert but i'm into regular stuff and not the weird BDSM or super closet pervert stuff of otakus. You guys make me blush and out-perv me and that's a f**king accomplishment right there.

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Mostly aesthetically stupid things of 40k hmm. Well in more normal senses the centurion of course. I would say the assault centurion is pretty dumb but chest guns sound dumb even if boob guns are absolutely hilarious as well as stuff like 'c**k' rockets.

It makes sense but aesthetically i think rhinos look like shoe boxes mounted on treads.

Just gonna go out and say most of the space marines (and all the space marine factions including grey knights, chaos marines and all the sub-factions but not sisters because they're not marines and they haven't seen a release in forever because they're dead as an army and we all know it ;P and take that lynata and furyou miko) toys in general suck with the exception of maybe some of the older stuff.

The new tau stuff in general looks stupid (though their battlesuits were always too clunky to me) with the exception of the railgun broadside which looks interesting with the 8 bit guitar design of the railgun.

Some of the necron stuff from their older codex was also dumb (the ward dex). I liked the arks but the rest i dunno.

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For me i just find what i like tends to be imperial guard, sisters of battle, any elf aesthetic (but not their attitude or mindset which is horrible and annoying respectively) so eldar and dark eldar, orks as well as the fantasy versions (or at least the goblin half) and the storm trooper army. For whatever reason GW are really, really good at making elves which would probably have given Tolkien the biggest fan b*ner ever.

One reason why i prefer warhammer fantasy is with the exception of some of the weird nagash models fantasy has a better production quality for their models. Models are either ok or great whereas with 40k they're horrible or great.

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@lynata: How do you hate the taurox or at least aesthetically? Granted the new stormtrooper army took some getting used to (if you can consider 3 different types of models an army) but i think both the stormtroopers and the taurox were absolutely fantastic looking. It wasn't love at first sight but eventually i liked it just like the storm talons for space marines (still a bit iffy how they have wings, a helicopter shape and then jets as it just looks a little weird but it's also cool surprisingly).

flamingkillamajig wrote:@lynata: How do you hate the taurox or at least aesthetically? Granted the new stormtrooper army took some getting used to (if you can consider 3 different types of models an army) but i think both the stormtroopers and the taurox were absolutely fantastic looking. It wasn't love at first sight but eventually i liked it just like the storm talons for space marines (still a bit iffy how they have wings, a helicopter shape and then jets as it just looks a little weird but it's also cool surprisingly).

Well, if you'd like to hear my opinion, I don't "hate" it (that'd be a very strong emotion to have about it) - but I do think it looks bad. There are some cool ideas in this vehicle, but they are completely negated by the silly decision to give it those ridiculous "mini-tracks". It might have actually looked better if they had given those tracks a triangle shape (like with those snow-mobiles) or just made them longer, but the way they look now they ruin the whole design, as far as I'm concerned.

Better approach:
This wheeled conversion doesn't look bad either:
It's a shame, really, for as I said there is a cool idea behind it all (I'm biased towards the boxy Sundy-like look ), it was just dreadfully executed. Although it is in line with the recent releases (Dreadknights, DEldar, Space Wolf Santa...), which only makes me even more sceptical of a potential rework of the SoB than I was before.
Thankfully, GW apparently doesn't touch SoB with a 10 foot pole, so the original look remains preserved.

As for the Storm Troopers, I do not like them either. Although here it is just the change (meaning, the old ones just look better; the new ones are an obvious technological step back), and my opinion that their uberheavy and rigid kit doesn't suit their task (there's a reason WW1 Storm Troopers threw off their armour when they were storming a trench). The design by itself looks great! I just wish they'd have them as a normal IG regiment from some steampunk planet instead, because that's how they look like to me. A bit like with the DKoK, just a little more serious, so to say.

1. The fans.

@lynata: Well it turns out i read who said they hated tauroxes and being you when it wasn't. That said i think you dislike them and stormtroopers anyway. As i said it wasn't love at first sight but i grew to like them esp. given different colors. I also love the 'death camp' feel of the taurox. Very nice looking stuff indeed.

I wouldn't mind seeing bullgryns mounted in tauroxes myself.