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Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/15 00:08:43


Post by: Ogryn


Hi, Dakka. Now, what is the strangest proxying you have ever seen? I would have to say the time when an 8-year old tried to convince me to let him use a sprue for a Space Marine Commander.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/15 00:12:41


Post by: Worglock


Old school Proxying rule: "Any painted and based Skeleton is an acceptable proxy for any non-vehicle model."

We called it "Jack Skellington".


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/15 00:25:09


Post by: Grimtuff


That would've been a kid using invisible Mycetic Spores. When I told him he had to have a model to represent them as they had a statline, were worth KPs etc. His response: "Well there's no model for them so I don't have to use one until it comes out."

Can't argue with that logic...


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/15 00:26:39


Post by: warboss


I'd have to say the strangest proxies I've ever seen (at least virtually in this case) were in this thread...

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/409236.page



Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/15 00:27:40


Post by: Surfboard66


Pieces of paper cut outs to represent Night Scythes...


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/15 00:30:34


Post by: Xeriapt


I played against a guy who was using tyranids, most models consisted of a few components of the models on bases with some old school de warriors chucked in for something.

Couldn't remember what any of the damn units were I was fighting lol.

Heard of someone using coke cans and such for drops pods also.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/15 00:44:31


Post by: Ogryn


Lol. I guess I cannot complain too much about weird proxying. I once proxied a Servo skull as a naked Chaos Lord.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/15 00:44:54


Post by: Luco


Strangest I've seen would be Dark Angels representing daemons. Azrael is a greater daemon of Khorne? Oh... crap. Says a lot about what was thought of the fluff though, heh.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/15 00:54:27


Post by: Ogryn


Was it an all Khorne-army?


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/15 01:03:37


Post by: Ascalam


3 3-packs of day-glo condoms, stuffed with cotton wool and with the ends snapped around spare 25mm bases, to represent Flamers of Tzeentch...

More a slaanesh thing imho..


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/15 01:06:47


Post by: Ogryn


LOL! Mind if I put that in my sig?


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/15 01:07:55


Post by: DX3


I've seen someone play with legos at GW to represent a Master of the Forge with Conversion Beamer.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/15 01:07:58


Post by: Ascalam


Feel free

One of my more surreal games..

Nerd-gasm anyone


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/15 01:13:27


Post by: Brother SRM


I played against a guy who tried to pass off a bunch of Yu-Gi-Oh cards taped together in a vague pyramid shape as a Monolith. It was our first game. I also used to run a plastic cup with a stormbolter glued on it and DROP POD written on the side as, you guessed it, a drop pod.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/15 01:18:10


Post by: The Grundel


Small bong as monolith but that was in a friendly game.


I know i've seen tons, I mean TONS, of neon dollar store toys with a few guns glued on trying to pass as ork vehicles.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/15 01:20:59


Post by: Jihadnik


I once proxied a plastic toy reindeer for a Trygon, that managed to destroy two Leman Russ tanks in one game! My friend refused to play against that model ever again after that!

On a side note, the plastic reindeer could poop out little black jelly beans...


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/15 01:21:49


Post by: Brother SRM


Jihadnik wrote:
On a side note, the plastic reindeer could poop out little black jelly beans...

Then it should have been a Tervigon!


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/15 01:30:16


Post by: -Loki-


Jihadnik wrote:I once proxied a plastic toy reindeer for a Trygon, that managed to destroy two Leman Russ tanks in one game! My friend refused to play against that model ever again after that!

On a side note, the plastic reindeer could poop out little black jelly beans...


I actually have one of those...


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/15 01:46:11


Post by: warpcrafter


You mean aside from all the Tyranid players who were spamming carnifexes one day and the next they were all

"Oh, the ones with heads are Tervigons, and the ones without heads are mycetic spores."

"What?"

Oh well, I can't say anything, most of my battlewagons are WWII half-tracks.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/15 01:59:41


Post by: Papaskittels


Uhmmm From a game today....
Sorry for akward angle

Chicken= Carnifex
Axe = Drop pod
warriors = genestealers



Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/15 02:17:32


Post by: Jihadnik


-Loki- wrote:
Jihadnik wrote:I once proxied a plastic toy reindeer for a Trygon, that managed to destroy two Leman Russ tanks in one game! My friend refused to play against that model ever again after that!

On a side note, the plastic reindeer could poop out little black jelly beans...


I actually have one of those...


Ba ha ha! I thought I was the only one, was it a wacky christmas present?!


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/15 02:43:07


Post by: -Loki-


Jihadnik wrote:
-Loki- wrote:
Jihadnik wrote:I once proxied a plastic toy reindeer for a Trygon, that managed to destroy two Leman Russ tanks in one game! My friend refused to play against that model ever again after that!

On a side note, the plastic reindeer could poop out little black jelly beans...


I actually have one of those...


Ba ha ha! I thought I was the only one, was it a wacky christmas present?!


Is there any other way to get one?


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/15 03:38:21


Post by: Aerethan


The worst I've seen were pieces of expanded polystyrene(styrofoam) that were cut into "proper" base sizes and used as warriors of chaos. Just blank white foam bases.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/15 04:04:49


Post by: Ogryn


Lol! Did you allow it?


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/15 04:16:26


Post by: Aerethan


It was a friendly game with people who didn't own any fantasy armies so yeah. I was teaching them how to play to see if I could garner interest in it locally.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/15 04:36:27


Post by: Acardia


Before I bought my bloodthirster I used a can of Tough Actin Tinactin as one. I thought it was appropriate as I was facing orks.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/15 04:37:27


Post by: Aerethan


Acardia wrote:Before I bought my bloodthirster I used a can of Tough Actin Tinactin as one. I thought it was appropriate as I was facing orks.


lol fungus


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/15 05:55:04


Post by: Luco


Ogryn wrote:Was it an all Khorne-army?

I believe it was


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/15 06:46:34


Post by: LumenPraebeo


-Loki- wrote:
Jihadnik wrote:I once proxied a plastic toy reindeer for a Trygon, that managed to destroy two Leman Russ tanks in one game! My friend refused to play against that model ever again after that!

On a side note, the plastic reindeer could poop out little black jelly beans...


I actually have one of those...


I have one of those too And I still use it.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/15 09:23:38


Post by: Leigen_Zero


I once used a remote control VW camper van as a proxy for a Looted wagon with boomgun...

Made for an, interesting, battle, until my friend took the remote control off me...


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/15 09:35:25


Post by: Gorechild


warboss wrote:I'd have to say the strangest proxies I've ever seen (at least virtually in this case) were in this thread...

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/409236.page

I was going to say that too

The amazing thing is that the proxy's aren't the biggest problem in that report


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/15 09:40:02


Post by: snurl


My Abyssal Terror is an old Happy Meal toy that looks like the boss ghost from Super Mario Brothers.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/15 10:00:41


Post by: Scarey Nerd


Saw someone cut a piece of paper so that it was an oval roughly the same size as a Dark Eldar Raider, wrote that on it and said it was fine.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/15 11:09:54


Post by: Cerebrium


Ye Olde 500ml Coke bottle as a drop pod.

Seems to be one of the most common proxies.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/15 11:31:55


Post by: Waaagh_Gonads


Bloodletters




I once played against a unit of 100 spider riders back in 5th ed WHFB which were empty bases.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/15 12:48:28


Post by: Leigen_Zero


Waaagh_Gonads wrote:Bloodletters




I once played against a unit of 100 spider riders back in 5th ed WHFB which were empty bases.


This one is a classic, a true classic. What I love most about this army is the face that it comes with what appears to be a tickle-me-elmo daemon prince


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/15 13:06:50


Post by: ArbitorIan


Waaagh_Gonads wrote:Bloodletters




I once played against a unit of 100 spider riders back in 5th ed WHFB which were empty bases.


This isn't a terrible proxy - it's MODELLING GENIUS.

I've been threatening to build an army like this for ages. There was a guy on here recently who was building a Tzeentch daemon army of 'gelatinous cubes' out of melted polystyrene - they actually looked amazing...

These aren'y proxies in my book - they're a fantastic, characterful counts-as army which someone has obviously put time and effort into...


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/15 14:30:39


Post by: yakface



I saw a game being played with a guy who was using the clear plastic GW 'blister pack' covers, ripped off the cardboard backing that the blisters come on, and using them on the table as Eldar War Walkers.

I was quite amazed that someone would choose to play against that.




Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/15 14:55:53


Post by: sarpedons-right-hand


The press out cardboard Ork Dreadnought from the 2nd Ed box set ranks up there....


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/15 15:01:21


Post by: Ascalam


At least that was officially bad and GW sanctioned

Another one that came to mind from the same game as the condom-flamers...

coughdrops as horrors of tzeentch, with unwrapped ones having icons, and Halls extra stength (the square ones) having bolt of tzeentch...

and best not ask what the DP was

The game took place across the road from an adult store and a gas station, and the other player had left an army case at home, so he went shopping


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/15 15:17:16


Post by: sarpedons-right-hand


Sorry, I have to ask......DP?


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/15 16:44:45


Post by: kirsanth


Proxy of an entire Kroot army as a Tyranid army.

That army apparently also had a proxy of the Tyranid codex being used as the butchery of rules I was overhearing was painful. The player really did not have a Tyranid codex and did not want to check the store's copy as he "remembered it all well enough."

I actually had to stop my game and stare a few times in disbelief, but I did well and said nothing. At least during the game. Afterward I asked his opponent if he understood that Tyranids do not actually work like that. (He didn't - it was his first time playing against them and trusted the other guy was being true.)

Some of it was egregious, like assault grenades and Eternal Warrior, some of it was just silly like insisting on TLOS and complex wound distribution for his Krootox "Carnifex". Most of it I have blocked out in my memory.

Maybe it's just me.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/15 17:55:00


Post by: Ascalam


sarpedons-right-hand wrote:Sorry, I have to ask......DP?


DP = Both daemon prince and another meaning.. Sadly gamers tend to think 'Daemon Prince' when this abbreviation comes up

This proxy covered them both, and was the only thing he could find with the right 'base size' ...

My mind still feels a bit raw from the vigourous scrubbing it received in the aftermath of that game.

I can plead inebriation as an excuse for temporary insanity, right?


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/15 18:03:38


Post by: Howard A Treesong


sarpedons-right-hand wrote:Sorry, I have to ask......DP?


File under slaanesh.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/15 18:04:58


Post by: Ascalam


That's what i did

S/HE was spiritually present that night, even though s/he was the only chaos god not present in the force


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/15 18:09:35


Post by: sarpedons-right-hand


Edited for foot in mouth syndrome....

I know what DP means guys, give me some credit....although this could be heading in a totally nasty direction, so time to stop I feel!


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/15 18:09:50


Post by: Orlanth


PERMENANT PROXIES.

Hi, lets introduce you all to the idea of permanent proxies. Those are prepared terrain bits on bases used as a stand in for anything.
I have 20 and 25mm square bases for Warhammer with rocks and other scenery on them.

They are a permanent stand in for anything. Got 20 spearmen and want to rep 30, then they get a force multiplier by being in rubble.

It even looks ok, even improves visuals up til about 1 terrain base per four miniatures and is passable at one base per two. I wouldnt go beyond that.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/15 19:30:31


Post by: templarsandorks?


This kid tried to proxy a valkyrie base as a leman russ punisher to me once


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/15 19:51:26


Post by: Zedrenael


i think that the strangest proxy that I have ever seen was in a game of war machine and the opponent was using a Compact Disc for a wraith engine.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/15 19:55:44


Post by: insaniak


Fear the wrath of Monolith-E:




Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/15 19:57:41


Post by: Ascalam


As long as he doesn't bring his girlfriend along for Orbital Strike with Extreme Prejudice ...

That's awesome


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/15 20:07:24


Post by: madman12367






OMG! I WANT THiS SO MUCH!


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/15 20:25:19


Post by: KingCracker


warboss wrote:I'd have to say the strangest proxies I've ever seen (at least virtually in this case) were in this thread...

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/409236.page





Those are mighty fine lookin proxies if you ask me


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/15 21:51:33


Post by: Sarge


I've had several that were memorable. I played a fellow with a vanilla SM army. He had two dreads in the list. One was a pair of centigors mounted on a big base with a bunch of hight altering scenery. The other was a portal on a base. I will say that was pretty neat, it was just strange. His land speeder was some sort of wearwolf model with a burstcannon on top of it's head. In the more upsetting and less interesting I've seen a kanwall list where almost all the kans and dreads were flying bases. An index car representing a predator tank. And the, apparently, ubiquitous plastic cup drop pods.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/15 22:16:37


Post by: DarknessEternal


warboss wrote:

I'd play against it.

I'll never understand people who refuse to play when playing is an option.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/15 22:25:50


Post by: ChiliPowderKeg


I once put a gun drone sprue on a floating base and used it a marker drone. Unforunately the darn peg broke off and is still stuck in the drone part.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/15 22:29:43


Post by: LazzurusMan


Surfboard66 wrote:Pieces of paper cut outs to represent Night Scythes...



I suppose that would work actualy...if you blew hard enough they'd even "float" towards the enemy...or at least accross the table.


I think the strangest i've seen is a small badger doorstop used as a Landraider...yup...


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/15 22:31:12


Post by: Valkyrie


I once counted a Jabba the Hut model as Ku'gath...


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/15 23:29:58


Post by: ChorusLucia


Wait, you mean to tell me Elmo ISN'T a Demon Prince??


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/15 23:38:34


Post by: RatBot


Nothing too extreme. Almost every proxy I've encountered has been at least in the same ballpark as the models they were intended to represent, IE, they were still miniatures that were roughly the appropriate size and shape.

The worst I saw are Coke can drop pods, and ages ago in 3rd Edition 40K, when the experimental Harlequin Codex came out, I used some kind of little figure from an anime as a Solitaire.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/15 23:54:45


Post by: Battle Brother Lucifer


A friend and I were playing warhams for the first time, using both my armies. We didnt play with objectives and we only had two meganobz, so we proxied a pile of guns, nades, clips, and landmines on a termy base as a maganob


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/16 00:12:17


Post by: Tronzor


I used this Timmy bobblehead as a Defiler once. He screamed TIMMAAAYYY as he reigned death from his wheelchair of DOOOOM!

http://www.entertainmentearth.com/images/%5CAUTOIMAGES%5CFU8374lg.jpg


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/16 20:03:54


Post by: Pacific


DarknessEternal wrote:
I'll never understand people who refuse to play when playing is an option.


Yes but perhaps just against a close mate, in any other circumstance I'm sure most people would ask if you were serious before calling for the men in white coats if you tried to field an army like that


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/16 20:15:13


Post by: Cannerus_The_Unbearable


I played Fantasy with mostly squares I printed off in the proper formation with dice as counters for how many extra guys were left. I had painted front ranks, but saw no damn point in building, painting and buying more guys just so they could die to fill out the ranks. No one ever complained, not that I cared about tourneys or anything.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/19 01:59:38


Post by: Ogryn


Lol, seen some other people do that.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/19 17:43:44


Post by: CuddlySquig


After seeing what Waaagh_Gonads posted, suddenly someone using two Gaunts Ghosts books as Raiders doesn't seem very outlandish.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/19 18:00:47


Post by: Ogryn


What did he proxy?


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/19 19:20:21


Post by: CuddlySquig


Just go to page two and scroll down some. You'll see what I mean.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/19 20:06:12


Post by: woodbok


Played against an army made of paper.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/19 21:27:15


Post by: jy2


I once saw in a thread some kid make a Hierophant Bio-titan out of tin-foil and use it in an Apoc battle.

I recently played a count-as-Necron army with my tyranids. Used genestealers as warriors, raveners as wraiths, ripper swarms as scarabs and my carnifexes as spyders. I was just trying out the new necrons to see how they play, but now it looks like I may have to build up an army myself.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/19 22:26:37


Post by: Ascalam


woodbok wrote:Played against an army made of paper.


So, Dark Eldar then

How were they proxied (just kidding..)


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/20 02:15:49


Post by: mattyboy22


Waaagh_Gonads wrote:Bloodletters




I once played against a unit of 100 spider riders back in 5th ed WHFB which were empty bases.


Well, you have to give the person credit for collecting 100 appropriately sized bases, that's about $100 bucks right there!


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/20 02:34:45


Post by: Ascalam


And the googly eyes aren't easy to stick on either


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/20 02:42:56


Post by: inquisitorlewis


Isn't there an army built completely from sprues. I think I remember pictures in the gallery???


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/20 02:55:51


Post by: Skits


You mean the good old Sprue Necrons?



Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/20 02:58:24


Post by: CuddlySquig


I don't know if that's being artistic or being cheap.

I hope he painted them.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/20 03:21:04


Post by: inquisitorlewis


Personally I find artistic value in that. Thanks for finding the picture Skits.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/20 03:25:39


Post by: Skits


Hehe, no worries. Can't believe I didn't think to post it in here earlier. Then again, does that really count as proxying? I like to think the guy that made 'em is being artistically cheap. I dunno if he ever painted them though. I hope so too!

Best bit is, if they're made of GW sprues, they're technically Tournament Legal 'cause they're 100% GW parts.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/20 04:00:30


Post by: inquisitorlewis


Skits wrote:

Best bit is, if they're made of GW sprues, they're technically Tournament Legal 'cause they're 100% GW parts.


I would be fine playing against him in a tourny (if painted). I think the army is laughably awesome.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/20 04:14:09


Post by: insaniak


Skits wrote:Best bit is, if they're made of GW sprues, they're technically Tournament Legal 'cause they're 100% GW parts.

They're tournament legal as an army built from Codex: Bits of Sprue. Anything else is relying on the TO having a sense of humour.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/20 04:17:40


Post by: jdjamesdean@mail.com


insaniak wrote:
Skits wrote:Best bit is, if they're made of GW sprues, they're technically Tournament Legal 'cause they're 100% GW parts.

They're tournament legal as an army built from Codex: Bits of Sprue. Anything else is relying on the TO having a sense of humour.


They're 100% Ardboyz legal though, as the req was at least 50% GW


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/20 04:37:15


Post by: insaniak


jdjamesdean@mail.com wrote:They're 100% Ardboyz legal though, as the req was at least 50% GW


Ardboyz Rules wrote:Any conversions must begin as Citadel models
and contain a majority of Citadel components.



They fit the second part, but not the first. And no amount of rules lawyering the tournament conversion rules is going to get you past a TO who decides that you're just trying to be obnoxious.


Just to be clear, I have no problem with these. I think they're awesome. But trying to pass them off as 'tournament legal' on account of being built from GW sprue is a stretch.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/20 04:47:35


Post by: Ogryn


LOL! Who made the Necron Sprue army?


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/20 05:00:17


Post by: jdjamesdean@mail.com


insaniak wrote:
jdjamesdean@mail.com wrote:They're 100% Ardboyz legal though, as the req was at least 50% GW


Ardboyz Rules wrote:Any conversions must begin as Citadel models
and contain a majority of Citadel components.



They fit the second part, but not the first. And no amount of rules lawyering the tournament conversion rules is going to get you past a TO who decides that you're just trying to be obnoxious.


Just to be clear, I have no problem with these. I think they're awesome. But trying to pass them off as 'tournament legal' on account of being built from GW sprue is a stretch.


That's fine, wasn't trying to imply otherwise. We were told at both prelims and Semis that the only req was they had to be at least 50% GW. Note that's why I only brought up ArdBoyz, because normal tourneys run differently


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/20 05:35:48


Post by: Ogryn


So, it would still count, wouldn't it?


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/20 05:51:40


Post by: forruner_mercy


Waaagh_Gonads wrote:Bloodletters




I once played against a unit of 100 spider riders back in 5th ed WHFB which were empty bases.

Yeah, that is not a fail.
That is a stroke of genius, my friends, and it is very clever.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/20 06:20:58


Post by: Ogryn


Did you make those, Gonads? Epic win.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/20 06:41:18


Post by: Beer_&_Bolters


Im rather fond of using cigarette packs as proxy... Tanks, chariots, monsters, small units, its all good


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/20 06:56:20


Post by: Ogryn


Do your opponents allow that?


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/20 07:04:24


Post by: JohnnoM


I saw a game where someone used Modular Movement Trays as an army.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/20 13:02:33


Post by: forruner_mercy


JohnnoM wrote:I saw a game where someone used Modular Movement Trays as an army.

That would get annoying pretty fast


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/20 16:42:57


Post by: Pacific


forruner_mercy wrote:
JohnnoM wrote:I saw a game where someone used Modular Movement Trays as an army.

That would get annoying pretty fast


I've faced an Ork 40k army and had a Kult of Speed represented by those (the same army featured un-armed orks, and by that I mean orks with actually no arms, not no weapons)


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/20 17:49:52


Post by: Foid



Empty Flying bases= Wave Serpents
Small Empty Flying bases = Jet Bikes
Ork Deff coptas = Fire Prisms
Black painted flying base = Falcon

The joke was that the eldar were using new technology that made them invisible

And also were trying to disguise the fire prism as not as scary deff coptas

It was a scary army of bases (i won too lol)


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/20 18:09:11


Post by: Ogryn


Ork Deffcoptas to Wave Serpents? May I ask why the guy did this?


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/20 18:30:28


Post by: Foid


didnt have the models yet


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/24 00:57:25


Post by: Ogryn


lol. I mean, Eldar could do that, though...


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/24 05:22:44


Post by: paulson games


Mr PotatoHead used as an ork Stompa, and a stack of solo cups used as a Monolith.





Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/25 11:31:52


Post by: Paul


paulson games wrote:Mr PotatoHead used as an ork Stompa, and a stack of solo cups used as a Monolith.





Your forgetting, there is no such thing as an ork proxy. Is a looted potato!


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/25 12:01:45


Post by: master of ordinance


Ascalam wrote:
sarpedons-right-hand wrote:Sorry, I have to ask......DP?


DP = Both daemon prince and another meaning.. Sadly gamers tend to think 'Daemon Prince' when this abbreviation comes up

This proxy covered them both, and was the only thing he could find with the right 'base size' ...

My mind still feels a bit raw from the vigourous scrubbing it received in the aftermath of that game.

I can plead inebriation as an excuse for temporary insanity, right?


sorry but i have to ask....is it an article of the contraceptive nature?

can you please just say?

PM me if you must


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/25 12:23:20


Post by: Ventusgermany


This:



You have got to love the Dreadknight!


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/25 12:29:18


Post by: Brother-Captain Scotti


Used a chocolate orange tin as a predator and funnily enough it performed like a chocolate orange tin and killed nothing


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/25 16:41:08


Post by: Mad4Minis


Skits wrote:You mean the good old Sprue Necrons?



That is epically awesome...and actually some pretty good work too.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/25 16:48:58


Post by: nkelsch


Sprue necrons are pretty good considering...

I have seen some amazing tater stomPas.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/25 17:38:37


Post by: Shredder


Mad4Minis wrote:
Skits wrote:You mean the good old Sprue Necrons?



That seems like a pretty good way of representing scarabs actually.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/27 15:21:38


Post by: blood lance


Fear the bricks. they is coming for you!


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/28 05:09:00


Post by: Ogryn


I actually considered making a Sprue army. Does anyone know who made that army?


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/28 18:49:25


Post by: Cyrax


paulson games wrote:Mr PotatoHead used as an ork Stompa, and a stack of solo cups used as a Monolith.





Actually, it has a potential:
http://www.irondogstudios.com/images/tater/mek_tater.html


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/11/28 19:41:47


Post by: Saphos


That is actually the coolest orkmodel I have ever seen! Thanks for sharing the link.

Our strangest proxy probably were those roundabout 450 choclate dimes (caramel choclate wrapped in foil about the size of a base) that stood in as Genestealers in the big 20000 pts. game we did back in 2nd edition 40k when we were young. ^^
Tasty casualties for sure.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/12/03 18:05:47


Post by: Ogryn


That is one mean lookin' Stompa!


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/12/04 10:41:38


Post by: Norn King


Probably using books as a sentinal.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/12/04 18:47:12


Post by: Ogryn


Paperback, or Hardcover?


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/12/04 20:00:12


Post by: MrMerlin


paulson games wrote:Mr PotatoHead used as an ork Stompa, and a stack of solo cups used as a Monolith.





thats only the first stage....

but the result is EPIC!

Edit

I looked at the wip-blog on irondog studios again.... I think now ill get a potato-head myself. WAAAGH!!

edit #2

the link again:

http://www.irondogstudios.com/images/tater/mek_tater.html


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/12/05 02:11:43


Post by: Murdock129


My friend tried to use his pet turtle as a Squiggoth in one game


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/12/05 02:43:22


Post by: Commander Cain


Only thing I can think of are the common bottle drop pods and a couple of paperback books as land raiders( they kept being forgotten about and spent a couple of turns sitting in the middle of the field before the player remembered about them!)

I have seen some sprue'nids on Dakka before, can't find pics though...


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/12/05 03:12:40


Post by: Avatar 720


Empty bases as Stealth Suits.

I know, right? Who in their right mind uses Stealth Suits?


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/12/05 03:17:31


Post by: Johnny-Crass


First 40k game against drop pods I ever played the guy was using soda cans (one of which he was still drinking out of), middle of the game his girlfriend comes in takes a swig and walks away with the can. We did not notice until the end of the game.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/12/05 04:00:12


Post by: Absolutionis


Oh I've done that. I'm one of two 40k players in the world that doesn't play Space Marines, so I have no Drop Pods. I use Soda Cans as a Spore Pod often assuring my opponent that GW will eventually release a model. I oftentimes forget that the Spore Pod is even on the table and forget the *mandatory* shooting it has.

I have, since gotten to making makeshift tentacles out of excess greenstuff I have from modeling in hopes that I can stick them on a soda can until GW finally releases a Spore Pod in 2017.

Strangest Substitution I've ever seen from other people is several Space Wolves Space Marines consisting of Warmachine models. Their excuse? GW models are too expensive. Wut.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/12/05 04:42:14


Post by: Draigo


I have seen many odd ones. The two that come to mind was during an apoc game for one of the apoc daemons they used a giant spawn statue and the other was a game aginst a de plaer using baoxes of staples as ravagers lol


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/12/05 07:23:55


Post by: curran12


I've had to do some odd proxying in my gaming days.

When I arrived for an Apocalypse game, and realized I had to fill 1500 more points, my SW drop pods got double duty as Raiders, and Thunderwolves became flying, furry, laser-barking Ravagers. :p

Also in the same game, Terminators as Grotesques.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/12/05 10:10:13


Post by: Mechanicum Jon


Juice carton as dreadnought. Although I think I still prefer that over empty bases. At least it's the right size for LOS!


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/12/05 18:49:53


Post by: Buttlerthepug


The worst I've seen was a person running a bret army composed entirely of Goblin Spiders. There were no riders either mind you...just those damn spiders!!

Even the characters were just spiders, and his peg knights were spiders in trees.

It was a well painted army but when there's nothing other than spiders and you have no idea what unit is what and where the characters are let alone what characters they are its quite terrible.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/12/09 01:00:01


Post by: fidel


Buttlerthepug wrote:The worst I've seen was a person running a bret army composed entirely of Goblin Spiders. There were no riders either mind you...just those damn spiders!!

Even the characters were just spiders, and his peg knights were spiders in trees.

It was a well painted army but when there's nothing other than spiders and you have no idea what unit is what and where the characters are let alone what characters they are its quite terrible.




YO DAWG... I HEARD YOU LIKED SPIDERS... SO I PUT SPIDERS ON YOUR SPIDERS, IN YOUR SPIDERS, SO YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT SPIDER IS A SPIDER!!!


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2011/12/09 19:40:05


Post by: aosol


I've seen a friend of mind who plays Blood angels with a completely painted set of Blood letters and Chaos. He even played it for the 'Ard boyz tournament. no one gave a solid care about it. He's a solid gamer. Here is a blog
http://thewarmastersrevenge.blogspot.com/


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/15 04:06:38


Post by: Ogryn


Not that strange. I've seen worse.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/15 04:27:41


Post by: Eeps


In my most recent game I deployed some cocktail shaker drop pods.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/15 04:32:33


Post by: Ogryn


I loled out loud! that's some pretty strange proxying there!


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/15 05:03:57


Post by: Dave-c


How about this...

Pieces of cardboard cut out to the correct size of the base, proxied as thunder cavalry, in an apocalypse game, with a battle report posted on youtube.


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ArbitorIan wrote:
Waaagh_Gonads wrote:Bloodletters




I once played against a unit of 100 spider riders back in 5th ed WHFB which were empty bases.


This isn't a terrible proxy - it's MODELLING GENIUS.

I've been threatening to build an army like this for ages. There was a guy on here recently who was building a Tzeentch daemon army of 'gelatinous cubes' out of melted polystyrene - they actually looked amazing...

These aren'y proxies in my book - they're a fantastic, characterful counts-as army which someone has obviously put time and effort into...


I personally came face to face with this army in vegas, a guy tried to enter a tournament with them and got told off by the TO. We hung out with him after the regular games.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/15 06:10:07


Post by: Murdock129


Anyone else wanna see the blood army above fight the spruecrons?

My worst was probably when my opponent tried to use a picture of his ex girlfriend as a nurgle greater daemon, I think they had a bad break up lol


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/15 20:00:01


Post by: Llamahead


Has anybody plans to update the Sprue crons for 5th Ed yet?


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/15 21:50:03


Post by: biccat


Buttlerthepug wrote:The worst I've seen was a person running a bret army composed entirely of Goblin Spiders. There were no riders either mind you...just those damn spiders!!

Even the characters were just spiders, and his peg knights were spiders in trees.

It was a well painted army but when there's nothing other than spiders and you have no idea what unit is what and where the characters are let alone what characters they are its quite terrible.

Isn't the Brettonian army mostly composed of X knights, Y knights, Z knights, and flying knights; with knight characters?

I can't see how this would be much more complicated than a standard Brettonian army.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/15 22:16:55


Post by: Etna's Vassal


At one of my FLGSs I once saw a guy with a piece of graph paper with the word "elves" written on it. I had to walk away to keep from laughing!

I'm usually okay with proxies (to a point), but this was taking the concept a bit far...


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/16 18:44:16


Post by: Ogryn


Lol. I only proxy if I must.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/16 19:01:23


Post by: zilegil


Llamahead wrote:Has anybody plans to update the Sprue crons for 5th Ed yet?


Now there is an idea.

I have sculted blu tac miniatures to represent unassembled stitch thralls. I might show pics if I get round to it.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/16 19:01:53


Post by: Portugal Jones


I once used decks of Magic cards to proxy land speeders, with heroclix minis standing in for terminator squads in a space marine army, but that was because it was only after the hour and a half train ride did I realize that I'd left one of my foam trays at home...


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/16 19:43:56


Post by: Pumpkin


sarpedons-right-hand wrote:The press out cardboard Ork Dreadnought from the 2nd Ed box set ranks up there....


Ah, I've still got one of those somewhere! The thing I love about that one is that a cardboard cut-out is about as lazy and inappropriate as you can get, and yet it was officially sanctioned, while cans of deodorant and yoghurt pots weren't! Man, that would have been awesome if my 2nd Ed box came with free toiletries, but, nope, it came with cardboard and a little clippy base. This is the "best" pic I could find of it - you can see the Ork "Dread" right in the middle. Anyone got a clearer pic?



Actually, now that I think about it... Is this "model" still legal? Older models are still allowed, so long as they're WYSIWYG. Somebody needs to roll up to a tournament with one of these bad boys (or maybe a whole bunch of them!) and find out.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/16 20:12:40


Post by: zman111


Someone at my FLGS tried to convince me (back in my early days) that d6s were acctual GW sm drop pods- i fell for it and was owned by miniature drop pods with nothing in them, exept for whirlwind launchers (YAY FW)


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/18 10:46:45


Post by: master of ordinance


a rhino as a chimera
eventualy my FLGS GW staff got wind and halted it. said rhino is now undergoing conversion to a COLOSSUS SEIGE MORTAR. tremble all you MEQ and cover loving players for i shall squash you like the maggots you are .


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/18 11:49:29


Post by: deejaybainbridge


Lego Police van as an Ork Trukk.
To be fair, size wise it was similar, and we allow proxy's in our gaming group as there is only four of us and this hobby is expensive.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/18 13:26:47


Post by: Fralethepalewhale


My friend used a Ken Griffey Junior bobblehead as a proxy for the Master of the Forge.

...He also used a pringle can that had a space marine scribbled on it and he taped a extra space marine head on it...

I never laughed so hard. When he did a deepstrike with it, I lost it.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/18 22:25:31


Post by: spyguyyoda


I proxied my skaven for a Chaos Dwarves army out of Tamurkhan. Warp Lightning cannons for Deathshriekers, a rhino chassis (with a minotaur ogre loader) for the mortar, a doomwheel for a Skullcracker, and a bunch of rats as dwarves.

I was kind of embarrassed about the rhino...


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/19 20:23:34


Post by: Baalirock


I used to use a full squad of old-school Striking Scorpions as a squad of lootas. I would inform my opponents that they were REALLY good at looting. At least they were green...


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/19 20:41:24


Post by: automatonsleuth


The oddest I've witnessed was a squadron of vendettas represented by a paperback 40k book, a shoe and 3 warjacks of some description standing end-to-end to come to approximately the right length. I try not to play Proxyhammer myself, it can get confusing and is I think a little unfair for your opponent. At most I've had one variety of Marine stand in for another i.e. this Devestator is in fact a Sternguard, the Sanguinor is actually just an Assault Sergeant etc.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/19 21:27:19


Post by: DPBellathrom


This is my 1000pts "proxy" SM biker army ^.^ (there will be two more landspeeders soon)

Cav base ponies count as bikes, big base ponies count as attack bikes, rainbow dash is my commander on a bike and the landspeeder is a landspeeder



Here’s a WIP of dash, I'm yet to add detail to the armour (all the ponies will be in power armour ^_^)






Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/19 21:39:55


Post by: redkeyboard


10 warriors in a night sycthe. The night sycthe was porxied by the warriors that were in it. he couldn't disembark till the night sycthe blew up. Which it never did.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/19 21:54:58


Post by: Anvildude


@Bellathrom: That is amazing! Those the blind-bag ponies, or something else?

Though I'm not so sure a Pegasus would use a forehead blade- I'd imagine something more like wing edges. And you missed a golden opportunity there- you could have put Dash in her 20% Cooler outfit!


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/19 22:01:44


Post by: DPBellathrom


@Bellathrom: That is amazing! Those the blind-bag ponies, or something else?

Though I'm not so sure a Pegasus would use a forehead blade- I'd imagine something more like wing edges. And you missed a golden opportunity there- you could have put Dash in her 20% Cooler outfit!


thanks man ^_^ yeah their the BB ones (though I got them through the gift and collection set seeing as I cant find them in the UK -_-)
and damn, why didn't I think of wing blades :3 I'll have to see what I can do


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/19 23:02:48


Post by: A Town Called Malus


DPBellathrom wrote:This is my 1000pts "proxy" SM biker army ^.^ (there will be two more landspeeders soon)

Cav base ponies count as bikes, big base ponies count as attack bikes, rainbow dash is my commander on a bike and the landspeeder is a landspeeder

Spoiler:


Here’s a WIP of dash, I'm yet to add detail to the armour (all the ponies will be in power armour ^_^)






I approve of this army.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/19 23:03:10


Post by: Pumpkin


DPBellathrom wrote:


SO JELLY.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/19 23:16:06


Post by: col. krazy kenny


How is this..Bloodletters kinda....oops double post.

[Thumb - blood.jpg]


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/19 23:17:33


Post by: Battle Brother Lucifer


DPBellathrom wrote:This is my 1000pts "proxy" SM biker army ^.^ (there will be two more landspeeders soon)

Cav base ponies count as bikes, big base ponies count as attack bikes, rainbow dash is my commander on a bike and the landspeeder is a landspeeder



Here’s a WIP of dash, I'm yet to add detail to the armour (all the ponies will be in power armour ^_^)






I hate you

MLP is the new rule 34. Nothing is sacred and its ridiculous and I hate it
Inb4 haters gonna hate


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/20 00:45:34


Post by: blood_ravens_marine


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Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/20 00:51:41


Post by: CT GAMER


DPBellathrom wrote:This is my 1000pts "proxy" SM biker army ^.^ (there will be two more landspeeders soon)

Cav base ponies count as bikes, big base ponies count as attack bikes, rainbow dash is my commander on a bike and the landspeeder is a landspeeder



Here’s a WIP of dash, I'm yet to add detail to the armour (all the ponies will be in power armour ^_^)






If ponis are your thing fine, but this should be a tyranid or daemon army, not marines...


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/20 01:01:52


Post by: DPBellathrom


but....daemons and nids dont have power armour or ride bikes ^_^


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/20 01:04:33


Post by: CT GAMER


I'm not sure that the effort of putting armor on ponies to say they are "motorcycle riding space marines" computes with me, but again it's you army.

I would find daemons or tyranids a better fit, but in the end it is your army of pony toys, so enjoy I guess...


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/20 01:05:53


Post by: DPBellathrom


one of them does ^_^ and the others will soon

edit: oh, and their ponys, which move like bikes ^.^


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/20 03:08:44


Post by: Anvildude


Well, to be perfectly honest, they'd probably fit better as a Rough Rider-heavy IG force, since I'm betting they move like Cavalry.

But yeah, Spess Mahrine Ponies FTW!


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/20 10:28:32


Post by: Talliostro


DPBellathrom wrote:This is my 1000pts "proxy" SM biker army ^.^ (there will be two more landspeeders soon)

Cav base ponies count as bikes, big base ponies count as attack bikes, rainbow dash is my commander on a bike and the landspeeder is a landspeeder



Here’s a WIP of dash, I'm yet to add detail to the armour (all the ponies will be in power armour ^_^)






Dear God, this made my day.
My colleagues at the office are now looking kinda funny at me, laughing my a** off.
Thanks man, brilliant army


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/20 12:41:33


Post by: DPBellathrom


Dear God, this made my day.
My colleagues at the office are now looking kinda funny at me, laughing my a** off.
Thanks man, brilliant army


glad you like them ^_^


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/20 12:55:19


Post by: Mordiggian


Excellent. Very creative, and well-sculpted. I can't wait to see the finished army.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/20 14:24:44


Post by: DPBellathrom


thanks alot man ^_^


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/20 14:41:09


Post by: Miraclefish


"What are you doing!?"
"Using these dice...?"
"They're my Brettonian bowmen!"

Also one lazy painting friend who just stood an unopened blister pack of an Eldar Avatar up on its base and used that.

Epic.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/20 15:56:49


Post by: Swara


@DPBellathrom - You're amazing. I would love to someday play your MLP army.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/20 16:27:00


Post by: DPBellathrom


XD thanks ^_^


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/20 16:47:53


Post by: bloodaxegit


Rainbow Dash's power armour is a great sculpt! This army is one of the best Ideas I have ever seen. You should use Twilight as a Librarian.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/20 16:54:12


Post by: DPBellathrom


Rainbow Dash's power armour is a great sculpt! This army is one of the best Ideas I have ever seen. You should use Twilight as a Librarian


thanks ^_^ when I go up to 1500pts I'll be doing just that


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/20 19:27:54


Post by: A Town Called Malus


DPBellathrom, maybe next you should do a pre-heresy Luna Wolves army

After all, we all love Luna.
Spoiler:


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/20 20:03:32


Post by: Anvildude


Perhaps there should be a dedicated Warhammer Brony thread? There's certainly enough of us around...


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/20 20:05:21


Post by: Swara


Anvildude wrote:Perhaps there should be a dedicated Warhammer Brony thread? There's certainly enough of us around...


>.> Agreed. : P


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/20 20:32:37


Post by: bloodaxegit


That would be the perfect place to upload my WiP Lore of friendship!


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/20 20:50:07


Post by: Pumpkin


Anvildude wrote:Perhaps there should be a dedicated Warhammer Brony thread? There's certainly enough of us around...


There actually is one, right over here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/384670.page

This thread might be getting a bit too equine for the tastes of some (not me, I loves me some FiM), but feel free to go horse around in that thread to your heart's content!


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/20 20:54:49


Post by: Swara


Pumpkin wrote:
Anvildude wrote:Perhaps there should be a dedicated Warhammer Brony thread? There's certainly enough of us around...


There actually is one, right over here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/384670.page

This thread might be getting a bit too equine for the tastes of some (not me, I loves me some FiM), but feel free to go horse around in that thread to your heart's content!


I just read the first 2 pages.. is it all a bunch of trolls not comfy with their masculinity or does it get better : P


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/20 20:59:46


Post by: Pumpkin


Swara wrote:
Pumpkin wrote:
Anvildude wrote:Perhaps there should be a dedicated Warhammer Brony thread? There's certainly enough of us around...


There actually is one, right over here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/384670.page

This thread might be getting a bit too equine for the tastes of some (not me, I loves me some FiM), but feel free to go horse around in that thread to your heart's content!


I just read the first 2 pages.. is it all a bunch of trolls not comfy with their masculinity or does it get better : P


I haven't actually posted in there yet, but from my cursory browsings, yes. It gets much better. Within about four pages or so, the trolling and flaming reduces drastically and then it just gets ponier and ponier. With giganto threads like that, I usually start from the back, anyways. Might as well just jump in at the deep end!


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/20 21:03:19


Post by: Swara


Pumpkin wrote:

the trolling and flaming reduces drastically and then it just gets ponier and ponier.




Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/20 21:06:21


Post by: DPBellathrom


bronies, bronies, its all safe over in that thread now so dont worry ^_^ any trolls have been bannished using kindness XD

I agree this topic is getting a bit too pony related....sorry non-bronies

(BTW that pic of luna's so cute/awesome /)^3^(\)


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/20 21:12:09


Post by: Bloodhorror


i hate you all...

Damn ponies....


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/20 21:24:38


Post by: Warpseer


Friend of mine used a tree as a Chaos Dreadnought (actually same base size and rough volume shape as a dread). Needless to say, despite our confidence in our memory, it was forgotten about for 3 turns.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/20 21:43:12


Post by: Anvildude


Bloodhorror wrote:i hate you all...

Damn ponies....


Says the person with a mule for their image...


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/20 21:44:16


Post by: DPBellathrom


i hate you all...

Damn ponies....


says the man with a horse for his profile pic now...hold still while I tolerate you to death

edit: damn ninjas


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/20 21:57:14


Post by: martin74


Coke/Pepsi bottles used as drop pods, he actualy glued doors from vehicles. I bet I might get in trouble for saying that, oh, SOPA hasn't gone into effect yet.


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Ventusgermany wrote:This:



You have got to love the Dreadknight!




Is that a kilt in the background?


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Waaagh_Gonads wrote:Bloodletters




I once played against a unit of 100 spider riders back in 5th ed WHFB which were empty bases.




FLICKIN' EPIC!!!!


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/20 22:06:19


Post by: Bloodhorror


i shall have you know!

Its a Horse...

AMAZING HORSE!!!



EDIT: What a post to start a new page with...


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/20 22:08:53


Post by: DPBellathrom


I hear it also tastes like raisins and can become a plane


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/20 22:09:33


Post by: Swara


I wonder how it changes back again?


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/20 22:10:54


Post by: Bloodhorror


When you Tug on its...

huh... i forgot...


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/20 22:13:03


Post by: KingmanHighborn


I see that MLP army and all my brain thinks is by god that'd be epic Thunderwolf Cavalry.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/20 22:16:13


Post by: DPBellathrom


I see that MLP army and all my brain thinks is by god that'd be epic Thunderwolf Cavalry.


they were going to be but were a little too small :( so I made them bikers instead ^.^

When you Tug on its...

huh... i forgot...


isnt it the same place you get sweet sweet lemonade from :?


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/20 22:16:32


Post by: kowbasher


For the last few months I've been using a rebel Trooper riding a tauntaun from Star Wars Miniatures as a stand-in for my Necron C'tan. Finally bought the offical model, but I was kinda connected to my brave tauntaun warrior! He killed many a space marine and ork!


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/25 23:06:17


Post by: IHateNids


My mate has a Thunderpig Lord. (yes its on a fat pig).

Grots as Lootas (different mate)


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/26 02:44:34


Post by: prime12357


I had to use three rubber duckies as DE raiders a while back. The game was (unsuprisingly) silly.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/27 22:51:44


Post by: Llamahead


Are the ponies the deathly enemies of the Hello Kitty army?


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/27 22:59:18


Post by: IHateNids


No, they are the preffered enemy of the "puppy in my pocket" horde


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/28 16:15:01


Post by: Hawk


Ascalam wrote:3 3-packs of day-glo condoms, stuffed with cotton wool and with the ends snapped around spare 25mm bases, to represent Flamers of Tzeentch...

More a slaanesh thing imho..



Would you mind if I put this in my sig?


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/01/28 16:19:14


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Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/02/04 09:56:25


Post by: Dheneb


There is a story at my FLGS about one guy who put on some gumboots and proxied himself as a Warlord titan.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/02/04 10:02:23


Post by: Hologram


Not sure if this has been mentioned, but I once saw a player with an entire Ork list that he ran as Blood Angels. On the plus side, it was completely heavily converted and had everything fielded properly, it was just odd to see Orks being played as Blood Angels.

In the realm of non-tournament acceptable proxying, I've played with bricks as Land Raiders before, it really makes them more menacing IMO.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/02/04 10:05:13


Post by: Korpral Killytoof


Dheneb wrote:There is a story at my FLGS about one guy who put on some gumboots and proxied himself as a Warlord titan.


What type of titan?

The worst proxying i've seen is ye olde soda can drop pod. Well, 3 of them...


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/02/04 11:47:14


Post by: Doctadeth


One of my friends proxied a coke can duct taped to a brick as an ork battlewagon with deathrolla.

However, the same one also proxied a watering can as a basilisk.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/02/04 12:19:35


Post by: TheRobotLol


I saw one dude make his hands count as dreadnoughts. He used da fingers as legs.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/02/04 12:23:41


Post by: RetroAssassin


My friend played with pieces of paper...


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/02/04 14:28:49


Post by: Rampage


I used pennies as guardsmen once. It took ages to find so many .


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/02/07 04:26:39


Post by: Ogryn


TheRobotLol wrote:I saw one dude make his hands count as dreadnoughts. He used da fingers as legs.


Wonder what happened when his weapon was destroyed...


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/02/07 19:41:29


Post by: Surtur


Step on a finger and break it off?


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/02/07 19:54:02


Post by: TheRobotLol


Ogryn wrote:
TheRobotLol wrote:I saw one dude make his hands count as dreadnoughts. He used da fingers as legs.


Wonder what happened when his weapon was destroyed...


He tucked the appropiate fingers in
was a fist when immobilised and weapon destroyed. lol


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/02/08 06:12:44


Post by: Locclo


My friend (who is only just now getting his army together) has been playing an amalgam of models from different armies, since he hasn't had any models and I have three armies. I think the best one was when he made a unit of scarab swarms using crisis suits, wolf guard terminators, and Ork HQs.

Although probably the strangest one was one we made up on the spot. One buddy of mine was playing an Eldar list with 6 wave serpents, but only had 3. So we let him put two killa kans next to each other to represent the model. Boy, facing got confusing after a while.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/02/08 22:32:24


Post by: angelshade00


Worglock wrote:Old school Proxying rule: "Any painted and based Skeleton is an acceptable proxy for any non-vehicle model."

We called it "Jack Skellington".


Indeed. I have faced Brettonian skeletons, Skaven skeletons, Chaos Marauder skeletons, Goblin skeletons and Empire skeletons. Funny thing is, all from the same player.
As for me, I have used pieces of paper for Mangler Squigs, before the models came out and because I didn't have big enough bases.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/02/09 00:00:02


Post by: Lord Scythican


DPBellathrom wrote:
they were going to be but were a little too small :( so I made them bikers instead ^.^



I think they make good bikers. They move too fast in the show to be cavalry.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/02/15 22:28:40


Post by: Bounty


I'm newer to the hobby, and I wanted to try out a Screaming Bell for my Skaven, because everyone who talks Skaven lists raves about them. So I found a picture online, made an appropriate sized box in photoshop, pasted in the picture. I even added "DOOM BELL PROXY!" in this cool drippy blood font.

Then I sent it to the printer in the upstairs office (from the Mac in the livingroom) and deleted the file without saving.

I forgot to check the DPI, stupid thing printed out full page instead of 100mmx60mm.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/02/15 22:43:42


Post by: CthuluIsSpy


Grimtuff wrote:That would've been a kid using invisible Mycetic Spores. When I told him he had to have a model to represent them as they had a statline, were worth KPs etc. His response: "Well there's no model for them so I don't have to use one until it comes out."

Can't argue with that logic...


I can do one better
Invisible Grave Guard.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/02/15 22:48:39


Post by: TheRobotLol


CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Grimtuff wrote:That would've been a kid using invisible Mycetic Spores. When I told him he had to have a model to represent them as they had a statline, were worth KPs etc. His response: "Well there's no model for them so I don't have to use one until it comes out."

Can't argue with that logic...


I can do one better
Invisible Grave Guard.


Invisible mortis engine.

Win.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/02/15 22:50:26


Post by: CthuluIsSpy


TheRobotLol wrote:
CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Grimtuff wrote:That would've been a kid using invisible Mycetic Spores. When I told him he had to have a model to represent them as they had a statline, were worth KPs etc. His response: "Well there's no model for them so I don't have to use one until it comes out."

Can't argue with that logic...


I can do one better
Invisible Grave Guard.


Invisible mortis engine.

Win.


Nah, trust me.
Its a hell lot harder to keep up with 20 invisible GG than an invisible Mortis Engine


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/02/15 22:50:55


Post by: IHateNids


just 'Invisible'.

Win


Automatically Appended Next Post:
what a page-starter that was...


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/02/15 22:55:04


Post by: Bounty


IHateNids wrote:just 'Invisible'.

Win


Automatically Appended Next Post:
what a page-starter that was...

You're not the page starter, there's an invisible post before yours...


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/02/15 23:00:24


Post by: CthuluIsSpy


Ninja posters. They're everywhere.


I might make an army of ninjas actually.
They will use the rules for DE wyches, and they will all be invisible.




Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/02/15 23:16:50


Post by: IHateNids


**Shoots himself in the knee with an arrow**


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/02/15 23:20:28


Post by: tantan628


Here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/355017.page

I still can't believe that this actually exists...


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/02/15 23:27:47


Post by: TheRobotLol


tantan628 wrote:Here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/355017.page

I still can't believe that this actually exists...


Win personified.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/02/16 02:37:41


Post by: warhawkstriker


Idk why but that army reminds me of this

[Thumb - starship-troopers-1997--00-630-75.jpg]


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/02/16 06:02:58


Post by: remilia_scarlet


a friend of mine uses cold ones from WHFB as proxies for fiends of slaanesh.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/02/16 06:48:48


Post by: whrextheimpaler


My wife used an unused tampon to proxy the masque for daemons....


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/02/16 23:06:22


Post by: TheChaoticJournalist


whrextheimpaler wrote:My wife used an unused tampon to proxy the masque for daemons....


Well......I can't beat that Best I've managed is using a Relentless can as a Dreadclaw assault pod...


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/02/16 23:08:30


Post by: TheRobotLol


I once saw a bin used as a mawloc. He put dem eaten models in it.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/02/16 23:22:03


Post by: tantan628


TheRobotLol wrote:I once saw a bin used as a mawloc. He put dem eaten models in it.


This may be strange, but it's also pure WIN!


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/02/16 23:25:32


Post by: TheRobotLol


tantan628 wrote:
TheRobotLol wrote:I once saw a bin used as a mawloc. He put dem eaten models in it.


This may be strange, but it's also pure WIN!


Indeededly so..


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/02/16 23:38:30


Post by: Sasa0mg


I once used a hundred or so of these easter chicks as zombies, stuck them to square bases and everything back when I used a full necro VC army about 5-6 years ago, was incredibly awesome. Needless to say eventually I was made to stop but by then I had gathered up enough zombies to use xD




Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/02/17 00:33:29


Post by: IHateNids


Sasa0mg wrote:I once used a hundred or so of these easter chicks as zombies, stuck them to square bases and everything back when I used a full necro VC army about 5-6 years ago, was incredibly awesome. Needless to say eventually I was made to stop but by then I had gathered up enough zombies to use xD



they dont quite have the BRAIIIINZZZ!!! factor though do they


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/02/17 01:14:27


Post by: A Town Called Malus


IHateNids wrote:
Sasa0mg wrote:I once used a hundred or so of these easter chicks as zombies, stuck them to square bases and everything back when I used a full necro VC army about 5-6 years ago, was incredibly awesome. Needless to say eventually I was made to stop but by then I had gathered up enough zombies to use xD



they dont quite have the BRAIIIINZZZ!!! factor though do they


Are you kidding? Look at their lifeless eyes. They hunger...


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/02/17 08:09:47


Post by: Sasa0mg


They're definitely not to be messed with really, they never lost a battle for the duration that I had them in place of zombies. Now I miss them, the good old days where they outnumbered won combat res and automatically caused people to flee for there lives and get chased down by a bunch of giant easter chicks.

Ironically I actually got away or allowed to do this proxying in the GW store for a couple of weekends back then.

Looking back at it, its kind of funny albeit Im unsure how I would react to playing stuff like that myself xD all I can say is at least I based them?


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/02/17 08:35:52


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Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/02/17 20:38:42


Post by: Serder


my friend wanted to try DE, so he bought the codex and Lillith. Since he didnt ahd any model, he used his SMs as proxies (i had agreed b4 hand, I wanted to see what I could do vs a de army!)

So tac marines were normal warriors (frogot their names), his DCs were wyches, rhinos were skimmer, his LR was the big DE skimmer ( I really forgot all the names), mephiston was an archon, dreadnoughts were talos pain machines etc!

With that I proxied my BigShoota boys for lootas (he could not really argue, lol).

We had plenty of fun, it was just hard remembering the stats of all his proxies (and what the proxies were) but still fun.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/02/17 21:04:39


Post by: captain collius


recently played a game where a rubber duck with bits on it was proxying a doomsday device. We affectionately named him Commisar Ducky.



Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/02/17 21:05:44


Post by: Grot 6


paper folded over for troops and a couple of small cardboard squares for the rhinos and predator

Was quite a conversation piece.


( and no, it wasn't mine.)


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/02/20 11:40:38


Post by: dadde


i got one:big apocalypse in the passed year. 48k points in a single table...something really really mind blasting to see... well ,what i see there were:
1)something around 20 pieces of foam tray covers (those rectangulars that nearly everyone throw when you buy a bag)with weapons pushed in.i repeat,not glued..Pushed-in. they were a group of ork little dreadnoughts (i dont remember the name)

2)an eldar flying unit of FW (that one with 2 D weapons) made by Legos.

mind blasting after 8h of gameplay


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/02/20 17:38:44


Post by: Halmyr


Not really as creative as other people on this thread, but I used my iPhone as both a land raider and a vindicator. Surprisingly the iPhone with the protective case I have Takes up the same area as a rhino

And luckily for me my phone did not ring


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/02/20 17:42:02


Post by: IHateNids


Halmyr wrote:And luckily for me my phone did not ring

you could have used that as the storm bolter firing if your phone was on vibrate


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/02/20 23:25:26


Post by: Locclo


One of my favorites was back before any of us had armies. We wanted to try things out with proxies before we did anything, and so various odds and ends usually wound up becoming armies. Two of them were absolutely great - one of them was me, playing Eldar, and my teammate, playing Necrons, against an army of tanks (using Armored Company rules). IIRC, both me and the Necron player were using d6s for our troops, and tanks wound up being Magic: the Gathering card boxes.

The second one was me, trying Chaos, against Necrons. Same setup as before, with tanks being card boxes and troops essentially being dice. About halfway through the game, we realize something odd - an entire unit of Necron warriors has vanished off the table. There was about a three-second pause, and the Necron player, who was about to roll shooting, just cried out, "I'm rolling them!"

Ahh, to be young again.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/02/21 21:24:10


Post by: Poppabear


warboss wrote:I'd have to say the strangest proxies I've ever seen (at least virtually in this case) were in this thread...

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/409236.page



I remember reading that post ages ago, I thought it was a very funny/good post .


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/02/21 22:12:01


Post by: The Dwarf Wolf


tantan628 wrote:Here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/355017.page

I still can't believe that this actually exists...


This is just genial... That army should get a golden daemon for its greatness...


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/02/22 09:37:39


Post by: evildrspock




I once played a Chaos Marines player, proxying an entire dual lash/demon prince army, that featured magic card deck boxes as rhinos.

And then there was an A-Wing Star Wars mini as ... a Tau Hammerhead!


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/02/22 20:11:56


Post by: IHateNids


On the subject of Star Wars, I used a Naboo Starfighter, and several Dreadraughts as a squad of piranhas in a game last june.

They killed a Daemon Prince in Assault with the flechette launchers


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/02/22 22:11:24


Post by: Serder


IHateNids wrote:
They killed a Daemon Prince in Assault with the flechette launchers


that thing, I hate it!


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/02/22 22:27:28


Post by: IHateNids


I just stood and trolled him


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/03/02 02:45:07


Post by: General_Marshall


An someone used Creed as a Lychguard... I PLAY CADIANS...COME ON!!!

And the worst part was he stood in a corner...and hid.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/03/02 03:17:56


Post by: DarkWind


Brother SRM wrote:I played against a guy who tried to pass off a bunch of Yu-Gi-Oh cards taped together in a vague pyramid shape as a Monolith. It was our first game. I also used to run a plastic cup with a stormbolter glued on it and DROP POD written on the side as, you guessed it, a drop pod.


That sir is what we call the East Saint Louis Drop pod!!! Rep. it proud!!!

I let my friend use some fire warriors to sub in as genestealers

I've seen black templars used as Thousand Sons LOL if know know the BT fluff


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/03/02 19:33:00


Post by: FacelessMage


Alot of these are pretty bad.

When I first wanted to play 40K and couldn't afford it I bought a Epic Imperial Gard box and used all the minis there to play games of 40k. Mind you in my defence I painted all of the minis and glued them to cardboard bases of the right size.

And then I got money and bought real figures. The funny thing is tha tI am still randomly finding those little figures in my bitz box to this day.


Strangest proxying ever seen @ 2012/03/02 20:58:31


Post by: Stormrider


Played against a guy a couple of years ago (my FLGS really shouldn't have accepted his army to play in 'Ard Boyz) who had Chaos Space Marines as his Ork nobz, an Eldar Viper as a looted wagon and a large piece of foam with bits stuck in it as a battle wagon. The dude cheated too only because I didn't know all of the Ork rules. I haven't seen him at my FLGS since, so maybe he's been banned.