What is your favorite character in 40k

Not so much a character in any fluff, but my favourite in rules is the Wraithseer.

Why? Because when my opponent asks me what he is, I can describe him as;

A Zombie-Space-Elf-Warrior-Robot-Wizard and be entirely accurate.

Extremely hard question to answer. There are so many interesting and cool character in 40K.

Probably Fulgrim.

Vulkan. Immortal, almost invincible demigod of war... Who does not really want to fight and just wants a happy life with his friends.

Vulkan is awesome.

My votes goes towards either Abbadon The Despoiler, Kharn The Betrayer or Lognar Grimnar alongside Ragnar Blackmane for obvious reasons

Vect, he's been pimping in the Dark City since before a Fething God! Also, since he likes you he got you a Birthday Present. Open it, go on, the card reads ''Happy Birthday ___ Hope you have a lovely day'', aren't you so happy? Go on, open it. *WHOOOSH!* He got you a Black Hole in a box! It's what you always wanted!

Prince Yriel, hes always been an interesting character, but with the Valedor novel expanding on his character I find myself enjoying him even more

Top five in no particular order (can't decide)

Captain Vandred, the Exalted - Survived for centuries on nothing but spite, and in the end one-upped a major daemon to go out doing what he loved.
Bjorn, the Fell Handed - Steals the show in a novel he is ostensibly the antagonist in.
Hound - He's a pathetic, hunched, blind slave. But that doesn't stop him from threatening a Space Marine at gunpoint.
Ciaphas Cain - Injects some much needed humor into an otherwise dry setting.
Delphian - So sinister. So cold. I always thought the Ad Mech (and Dark Mech) were some REALLY stupid fluff until him.

The Silent King. He has the expereience and knowledge of 60 million years and out dates any other being in the galaxy. The stories he could tell about the war in heaven, great sleep and all the way up to now would be amazing. he is a god in my eyes

Fuegan.

Any ork character really. Just feel the spirit with a single sentence from Kaptin Badrukk's story in 4 ed ork dex:
"Badly wounded and out of cigars, the Kaptin was forced to retreat."

Ciaphas Cain
Bjorn
Amberly Vail

In that order.

SANGUINIUS!

Gotta be either Sammuel (Ravenwing was a surprisingly good book imo) because of the whole Knight templar on a JETBIKE! thing he's got going.

Or Trazyn, purely for his old, cootish and entertaining personality.Trazyn is basically the Statler and Waldorf of 40k.

The main character from The Emperor's Gift (I forgot their names) are my favorite, since they're grey knights that are flawed and realistic, yet they still still awesome things.

Vulkan He'stan because he's a man with a specific mission despite knowing he's unlikely to live to see it through.

Gideon Ravenor because who doesn't like a powerful cripple?

Ahriman is getting pretty high on my list the more I learn about him. A more recent addition to the fluff that I really like is the Solitaire Motley, really got me interested in Harlequins in general. Of course, my selected chapter and avatar should indicate that Sanguinius is up there too.

Makari, the luckiest grot the ever lived (until, in a disappointing little snippet from the current white dwarf, ghazzy revealed that he sat on him).

Guardsman Julius Hawke, Hero of Hydra Cordatus. I just love that a disgraced burnout like him could become one of the most important soldiers on the Imperial side of the campaign by dint of luck and perseverance

Marbo as he is the chuck norris of the 40k universe
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Motley
Bjorn
Karandras

Mad Larkin, Roboute Sancrouf, Gunnery Sergeant Harker

Talos Valcoran, a night lord who basically tells abbaddon his crusades failed and then refuses the blessings of the ruinous powers to their faces. He also gives abbaddon a word or two about his crappy legion.

Alpharius/Omegon, Konrad Curze, pre-Heresy Fulgrim, Jago Sevatarion, Luther, Merir Astellan, Saul Tarvitz, Cypher, Nassir Amit, Janus.

Kharn. I heard he's a really swell guy. All seriousness, Kharn and Nathaniel Garro. Garro played an influential part in starting the Inquisition, and he fought the first plague marines aboard the Eisenstein, so gotta give the guy some recognition. And I dont know if you could count it as a character, but the bloodtide appeared to be sentient, and didn't like the destruction it caused, it was such a hero.

Captain ----> Colonel Tyborc

Pretty nice Kriegsman (!) responsible for the first breakthrough of the Imperial forces on Vraks.

Gets wounded a lot, then promoted, then pulls the same trick again at the end of the Siege.

 Coolyo294 wrote:
Guardsman Julius Hawke, Hero of Hydra Cordatus. I just love that a disgraced burnout like him could become one of the most important soldiers on the Imperial side of the campaign by dint of luck and perseverance

Total in discrace, semi exiled in a respect, turns out to be vital to impirial defence having gained them a lot more time with the torpedo strike

Logan "badass" Grimnar!!!
Bjorn is pretty awesome, too, but he sleeps too much...

cheers
jah

Magnus and Ahriman, but mainly Ahriman for his roll in murdering the Chaos Gods. >D

Garviel Loken
Alpharius
Ahriman
The warsmith from storm of iron
Most space marine characters

Nathaniel garro as well

Commisar Yarrick
Not only is he a certified manly man (loses an arm so he takes a warboss' claw? Sure why not.) but he is a tactical genius and inspires such loyalty and vigor in his troops that he, rules wise, doesn't need to execute his soldiers to motivate them. Though I'm sure he has no qualms about ousting corrupt officers like that one Hivemaster. And the icing on the cake, after getting captured by Thraka he is realeased becasue Thraka knows he's the only 'uman who can give him a god and propa scrap.

Ignatius Grulgor because that's my name too. We Ignatius' gotta stick together.

Zahndrekh is an honorable mention for me. As a related side note, I also love how put-upon Obyron's model looks.

 Jimsolo wrote:
Zahndrekh is an honorable mention for me. As a related side note, I also love how put-upon Obyron's model looks.

Seconded. Zandrekh is my favourite too. Together with his ever-faithful Obyron.

Favourite primarch so far is vulkan dudes badass, but nothing had been written about dorn,sanguinis and gulliman yet atleast nothing extensive

Then it's
Sigismund- dudes a beast and pretty much everyone likes him even though there is so little fluff
Polux
Garro
Loken
Lysander
Any dkok guardsman

Magnus the Red primarily, below him cool people like Ahriman, Angron, Perturabo, Kaptin Badrukk, Ghazghkuull, Farsight, Shadowsun (I'm not sure why), probably some other people I forget.

I know it's two people technically but meh. Grifen and Magot.

I still remember actually laughing out loud when they ran over a lictor and then were instantly identified by Cain for it.

For me it is Loken. The first 2 books of the Horus Heresy were the best immersion into the feel of the universe. Loken felt like the Everyman who could do epic things when one knows they have right on their side! Also Vulkan and Fulgrim. Both intriguing in their own ways.

 oddworx wrote:
For me it is Loken. The first 2 books of the Horus Heresy were the best immersion into the feel of the universe. Loken felt like the Everyman who could do epic things when one knows they have right on their side! Also Vulkan and Fulgrim. Both intriguing in their own ways.

I started off really liking Loken, and Torgaddon as well, but I was so frustrated with him as the series went on it was unbelievable. Obviously we know the ending before hand, but how many times did he notice something was wrong and do nothing, tell no one?

Tyberos, the Red Wake.

If you are going to be a bad-ass killing machine, wear a helmet and eschew anything that screams, "Snipers, please shoot me!"

Seriously, looking at most of the IC models in 40k, it is amazing how any of them avoided a death by sniper fire.

 EmpNortonII wrote:
Tyberos, the Red Wake.

If you are going to be a bad-ass killing machine, wear a helmet and eschew anything that screams, "Snipers, please shoot me!"

Seriously, looking at most of the IC models in 40k, it is amazing how any of them avoided a death by sniper fire.

Force fields?

As we know, snipers aren't really all that lethal in 40k (unless the narrative requires them to be)

Gaunt (a lot of the ghosts are awesome too)
Loken and Garro
Ahriman

 Melissia wrote:
As we know, snipers aren't really all that lethal in 40k (unless the narrative requires them to be)

I've got a squadron of sniper drones that beg to differ. 48" rapid fire and jetpacks, oh my!

I agree with Tyberos being great, he's kinda what most chapter masters should look like, with no daft or movement-hindering bling and everything looking sleek and sexy.

Bjorn the Fell handed.

This guy was one of the primarchs chosen, left behind only to tell the tales and lead the space wolves to glory. His time as the great wolf was a golden area for the space wolves. Under his lead the great hunts began. Each great hunt explored and conquered worlds that the imperium did not even know about.

Bjorn is a mighty hero, plus he is a dreadnought, and I think dreadnoughts are freaking AWESOME.

Kharn is my favorite, followed by Ahriman. Kharn was always my favorite but Betrayer did an awesome job of fleshing him out. He could've easily led the World Eaters during the HH (and would've done a better job than Angron).
These two guys are probably two of the most intelligent space marines out there.

Honsou is pretty damn awesome, as are Ahriman and Argel Tal, among others.

 RileyJessup wrote:
Garviel Loken
Alpharius
Ahriman
The warsmith from storm of iron
Most space marine characters

Nathaniel garro as well

I had forgotten about Garvi and Nathan! Good men, the both of them. In addition to those two, I'd also like to nominate Istvan Fallen Huron Fal and Sergeant Temeter of the Emperor's Children. Without Temeter, the Loyalists on Istvan would've surely been wiped out without Angron and Lucius there to bleed them from within and without.

Let's not also forget about poor Torgaddon who, in the most amazingly sad piece of writing ever, was beheaded by Abbadon... um....spoiler? That was almost as sad as little Aximand lamenting under Abbadons rule for his roll in killing Torgaddon and (attempt on) Garviel.


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 herpguy wrote:
Kharn is my favorite, followed by Ahriman. Kharn was always my favorite but Betrayer did an awesome job of fleshing him out. He could've easily led the World Eaters during the HH (and would've done a better job than Angron).
These two guys are probably two of the most intelligent space marines out there.

I love what Abbadon has to say about Kharn.

"Only a fool would estimate Kharn to be nothing less than a savage, mindless butcher. In fact, there is a sinister intelligence behind his helm." <-- Pretty much says it all. Blood for the Blood God!...but without the obtuse insanity. XD

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 herpguy wrote:
Kharn is my favorite, followed by Ahriman. Kharn was always my favorite but Betrayer did an awesome job of fleshing him out. He could've easily led the World Eaters during the HH (and would've done a better job than Angron).
These two guys are probably two of the most intelligent space marines out there.

I love what Abbadon has to say about Kharn.

"Only a fool would estimate Kharn to be nothing less than a savage, mindless butcher. In fact, there is a sinister intelligence behind his helm." <-- Pretty much says it all. Blood for the Blood God!...but without the obtuse insanity. XD

I love that quote too! Unfortunately non-Chaos fanboys think Kharn is just a slavering berserker.

Can't really choose one, but if I had to it'd be Talos, the Soul Hunter. This guys knows how far fallen his legion is, he knows how bad his brothers are, and most of all knows how what he's become. His sacrifice to save is serfs sorta follows what Curze has been saying all along: "Death is nothing compared to vindication." He did 1 good thing in his life, and (quite literally) ended it with a bang.

SPOILER:
Good thing we have Decimus, though

Lucarikx

Kharn. Its hilarious in Betrayer how he is the most sane person in the whole book. End of story.

The more I read BL stories about him, the more I like Ahriman.

Farsight, he has some of the best quotes and is still a (almost) non-magic guy. I quite like vect as well. I do like the IG characters quite a bit, but I have never liked the SM characters very much.

Honsou is good, not just a 2d hate guy, but got a real chatecter, the under dog half blood who rose to rank of warsmith.

Serg Rush wrote:Kharn. Its hilarious in Betrayer how he is the most sane person in the whole book. End of story.

Not just in Betrayer but through out the entire Horus Heresy. You get the distinct impression if Angron wasn't a Primarch, that Kharn would've taken his post long ago. It also says something that it seems after the Battle of the Imperial Palace, that Khorne saw a dead Kharn and grew a heart small enough to bring his wretched existence back to life. While everyone else is screaming "Blood for the Blood God!" Kharn sits quietly in the back of the room going "Yes, but how?"

shade1313 wrote:The more I read BL stories about him, the more I like Ahriman.

Ahriman is the baddest man ever to don power armor. So awesome is he and his Rubricae that he essentially IS the Thousand Sons now, and that's no exaggeration. Read Ahriman : Exile for more insight on that and how he got his armor in the first place.

Dude went from exile to Warlord with the flick of his wrist, and then went from Warlord to Tyrant with a breath to Amon, then goes from Tyrant to Demi-God in his pursuit to free the Thousand Sons and undo the Great Conspiracies of Tzeentch.

Yeah, the Imperium is scared of Chaos and fights them with sticks and stones. The Chaos Space Marines are rebelling as effectively as spoiled children. And here is Ahriman literally taming the cosmos with a whisper and telling the Gods "Feth off! This is mans work now!"

Like a boss. XD

"Should the path to Salvation lead through the halls of Purgatory, then so be it."

 TheRedWingArmada wrote:

Serg Rush wrote:Kharn. Its hilarious in Betrayer how he is the most sane person in the whole book. End of story.

Not just in Betrayer but through out the entire Horus Heresy. You get the distinct impression if Angron wasn't a Primarch, that Kharn would've taken his post long ago. It also says something that it seems after the Battle of the Imperial Palace, that Khorne saw a dead Kharn and grew a heart small enough to bring his wretched existence back to life. While everyone else is screaming "Blood for the Blood God!" Kharn sits quietly in the back of the room going "Yes, but how?"

shade1313 wrote:The more I read BL stories about him, the more I like Ahriman.

Ahriman is the baddest man ever to don power armor. So awesome is he and his Rubricae that he essentially IS the Thousand Sons now, and that's no exaggeration. Read Ahriman : Exile for more insight on that and how he got his armor in the first place.

Dude went from exile to Warlord with the flick of his wrist, and then went from Warlord to Tyrant with a breath to Amon, then goes from Tyrant to Demi-God in his pursuit to free the Thousand Sons and undo the Great Conspiracies of Tzeentch.

Yeah, the Imperium is scared of Chaos and fights them with sticks and stones. The Chaos Space Marines are rebelling as effectively as spoiled children. And here is Ahriman literally taming the cosmos with a whisper and telling the Gods "Feth off! This is mans work now!"

Like a boss. XD

"Should the path to Salvation lead through the halls of Purgatory, then so be it."

Just finished reading Ahriman: Exile last week, and I was very impressed. Not only is he an absolute badass, and I give credit to the author for his excellent descriptions of the sorcerous powers at Ahriman's disposal, but he is also the most relatable Chaos character I have read yet. Most of them just want to kick puppies all day from what I've seen in other BL novels.

Kaptin Badrukk.
Or maybe Ghazzy

I can't say I know much about the fluff in 40k in general, but a few of my favourites would have to be Grimaldus, after reading the book about Armageddon (not sure what it's called, potentially Armageddon) Typhus, simply because he's a walking disease, and Cypher, due to the slight mystery!!

NathanD298 wrote:
I can't say I know much about the fluff in 40k in general, but a few of my favourites would have to be Grimaldus, after reading the book about Armageddon (not sure what it's called, potentially Armageddon) Typhus, simply because he's a walking disease, and Cypher, due to the slight mystery!!

The thing with Typhus though is he is the most butt-hurt of the Chaos Scions. Even when he was just Typhon, he was always seemed to have this enormous chip on his shoulder.

If I had to classify him, I'd call him the emo kid of the cult leaders. And he was originally one of my favorites, as was the Terminus Est. After reading the first couple books in the Horus Heresy though, especially Flight of the Eisenstein and the back and forth between Grulghor and Typhon/Typhus, I was going "Ok kids! Turn that frown, upside down now!" And then Grulghor turned into a giggly Plague Marine and I thought, "Well that's one of them! Now it's Typhus' turn." lol

 TheRedWingArmada wrote:

NathanD298 wrote:
I can't say I know much about the fluff in 40k in general, but a few of my favourites would have to be Grimaldus, after reading the book about Armageddon (not sure what it's called, potentially Armageddon) Typhus, simply because he's a walking disease, and Cypher, due to the slight mystery!!

The thing with Typhus though is he is the most butt-hurt of the Chaos Scions. Even when he was just Typhon, he was always seemed to have this enormous chip on his shoulder.

If I had to classify him, I'd call him the emo kid of the cult leaders. And he was originally one of my favorites, as was the Terminus Est. After reading the first couple books in the Horus Heresy though, especially Flight of the Eisenstein and the back and forth between Grulghor and Typhon/Typhus, I was going "Ok kids! Turn that frown, upside down now!" And then Grulghor turned into a giggly Plague Marine and I thought, "Well that's one of them! Now it's Typhus' turn." lol

Like I said, I don't know much of the fluff - I should probably start paying more attention to these things

Werd. Always good to get new info wherever found.

Argel Tal

Magnus The Red
Abaddon
Ahriman
Vect
Trayzn

Kaldor draigo (joking)
My top 5 characters reason and, in no particular order
Grimaldus (dude crawled out of ruined temple that fell on his head)
Belial (when he was 16 he dueled with DA chaplain for 7 minutes before losing)
Sigismund(beated Kharn in a duel in 7 seconds)
Kardan Stronos (teaching the iron hands not to suppress but master their emotions.. interesting since he doesn't have a good record of emotion mastering)
And Tyberos the red wake (because, hunger and slake, blowing up badab and tearing a new one to the seccecionists so hard that loyalist astartes were horrified, and also the most awesome honor guard ever)

1. Bluddflagg and friends collectively claim this spot because they're god damn hilarious.

2. The Swarmlord because it looks incredibly cool. Old One Eye and the Deathleaper are also pretty boss.

3. Gorgutz because he makes me laugh myself silly.

4. Thomas god damn MacAbee because he was just the coolest damn Necron.

5. Kutlakh the Worldkiller because he is the most badass newcron to walk the earth. He's also tied with Trazyn for the lulz that thief inspires.

6. Gabriel Angelos. An unambiguously good and heroic character that still manages to be grimdark is something quite refreshing.

7. Farseer Taldeer. God damn that snark of hers, I can't stop myself from snerking.

8. Araghast/DoW I Eliphas. Both excellent Chaos Lords, 'nuff said.

9. Sergeant Mira/Warboss Grimskull. Mira for being such a great female character, Grimskull for being an amazing Ork who should have been the final villain of Space Marine.

10. Spiritseer Iyanna. Someone in the setting with actual hope and optimism is just so...refreshing. And I loved her interactions in Valedor.

Off the top of my head?

He'stan, Elysius, Dak'ir, Fulgis, Ba'ken, Tsu'gan (Kyme writes some seriously good characters), Parmenion Thade, Taan Darrick, Octavia, Septimus, Talos, Variel, Xarl, Uzas, Torgaddon, Lucius the Eternal, Solomon Demeter, Saul Tarvitz, Garro, Luther, Zachariah Kersh, Caedis, and the Novamarines in Death Integrity, although I can't remember their names.

Oh, I almost forgot Thirianna from Path of the Seer, probably the most believable and best written characters in 40K and 30k.

I would probably like Trazyn a little more if he didn't seem so much like a moustachio-twirling villain. I can't imagine him doing anything other than gifting a d***-in-a-box to any other important 40K character he meets.

 herpguy wrote:
I would probably like Trazyn a little more if he didn't seem so much like a moustachio-twirling villain. I can't imagine him doing anything other than gifting a d***-in-a-box to any other important 40K character he meets.

He may be an donkey-cave, but he's a classy donkey-cave.

While I like Eliphas in all of his incarnations (though his first is definitely the best) this "repact" with Abbadon gave him all the qualities I hate about the "standard" chaos lord.

Sniveling, conniving, backstabbing weiner who is afraid of the real boss when he shows his face. Obviously Eliphas isn't destined for Daemonhood anytime soon. Hell, he can't even keep his Black Legion sorcerers from talking shiza to him.

Eliphas: "Do not question me worms! I have the right to lead!!"
Sorcerer Nero: "Oh really? HEY BOSS! GET IN HERE!! ELIPHAS FORGOT YOU BOUGHT HIS SOUL ON FIRE!!!"

-facepalm-

 TheRedWingArmada wrote:
While I like Eliphas in all of his incarnations (though his first is definitely the best) this "repact" with Abbadon gave him all the qualities I hate about the "standard" chaos lord.

Sniveling, conniving, backstabbing weiner who is afraid of the real boss when he shows his face. Obviously Eliphas isn't destined for Daemonhood anytime soon. Hell, he can't even keep his Black Legion sorcerers from talking shiza to him.

Eliphas: "Do not question me worms! I have the right to lead!!"
Sorcerer Nero: "Oh really? HEY BOSS! GET IN HERE!! ELIPHAS FORGOT YOU BOUGHT HIS SOUL ON FIRE!!!"

-facepalm-

To be fair, a fairly large chunk of characters from DOW are incompetent fuckwits who survive purely by the grace of the author and should have died a long time ago. The only characters that seemed to have a lick of sense to them was Davian Thule. Even the Eldar were a bunch of idiots for tasking their Warlock with the job of prophecy when he isn't even an actual Farseer, just a student of the path likely to leave it later, when they have an actual Farseer in their warhost.

 Wyzilla wrote:

 TheRedWingArmada wrote:
While I like Eliphas in all of his incarnations (though his first is definitely the best) this "repact" with Abbadon gave him all the qualities I hate about the "standard" chaos lord.

Sniveling, conniving, backstabbing weiner who is afraid of the real boss when he shows his face. Obviously Eliphas isn't destined for Daemonhood anytime soon. Hell, he can't even keep his Black Legion sorcerers from talking shiza to him.

Eliphas: "Do not question me worms! I have the right to lead!!"
Sorcerer Nero: "Oh really? HEY BOSS! GET IN HERE!! ELIPHAS FORGOT YOU BOUGHT HIS SOUL ON FIRE!!!"

-facepalm-

To be fair, a fairly large chunk of characters from DOW are incompetent fuckwits who survive purely by the grace of the author and should have died a long time ago. The only characters that seemed to have a lick of sense to them was Davian Thule. Even the Eldar were a bunch of idiots for tasking their Warlock with the job of prophecy when he isn't even an actual Farseer, just a student of the path likely to leave it later, when they have an actual Farseer in their warhost.

Veldoran was tasked with interpreting Farseer Neverspeak's visions.

Presumably because they couldn't get her VA or something.

Also Castor and co were pretty bright.

But Gorgutz and Bluddflagg?

Awesomeness incarnate.

 Kain wrote:

 Wyzilla wrote:

 TheRedWingArmada wrote:
While I like Eliphas in all of his incarnations (though his first is definitely the best) this "repact" with Abbadon gave him all the qualities I hate about the "standard" chaos lord.

Sniveling, conniving, backstabbing weiner who is afraid of the real boss when he shows his face. Obviously Eliphas isn't destined for Daemonhood anytime soon. Hell, he can't even keep his Black Legion sorcerers from talking shiza to him.

Eliphas: "Do not question me worms! I have the right to lead!!"
Sorcerer Nero: "Oh really? HEY BOSS! GET IN HERE!! ELIPHAS FORGOT YOU BOUGHT HIS SOUL ON FIRE!!!"

-facepalm-

To be fair, a fairly large chunk of characters from DOW are incompetent fuckwits who survive purely by the grace of the author and should have died a long time ago. The only characters that seemed to have a lick of sense to them was Davian Thule. Even the Eldar were a bunch of idiots for tasking their Warlock with the job of prophecy when he isn't even an actual Farseer, just a student of the path likely to leave it later, when they have an actual Farseer in their warhost.

Veldoran was tasked with interpreting Farseer Neverspeak's visions.

Presumably because they couldn't get her VA or something.

Also Castor and co were pretty bright.

But Gorgutz and Bluddflagg?

Awesomeness incarnate.

And then there's the entire Blood Ravens Chapter, a bloody miracle it is they haven't all been declared heretics and excuted for causing all of the destruction in the DOW games.

 Wyzilla wrote:

 Kain wrote:

 Wyzilla wrote:

 TheRedWingArmada wrote:
While I like Eliphas in all of his incarnations (though his first is definitely the best) this "repact" with Abbadon gave him all the qualities I hate about the "standard" chaos lord.

Sniveling, conniving, backstabbing weiner who is afraid of the real boss when he shows his face. Obviously Eliphas isn't destined for Daemonhood anytime soon. Hell, he can't even keep his Black Legion sorcerers from talking shiza to him.

Eliphas: "Do not question me worms! I have the right to lead!!"
Sorcerer Nero: "Oh really? HEY BOSS! GET IN HERE!! ELIPHAS FORGOT YOU BOUGHT HIS SOUL ON FIRE!!!"

-facepalm-

To be fair, a fairly large chunk of characters from DOW are incompetent fuckwits who survive purely by the grace of the author and should have died a long time ago. The only characters that seemed to have a lick of sense to them was Davian Thule. Even the Eldar were a bunch of idiots for tasking their Warlock with the job of prophecy when he isn't even an actual Farseer, just a student of the path likely to leave it later, when they have an actual Farseer in their warhost.

Veldoran was tasked with interpreting Farseer Neverspeak's visions.

Presumably because they couldn't get her VA or something.

Also Castor and co were pretty bright.

But Gorgutz and Bluddflagg?

Awesomeness incarnate.

And then there's the entire Blood Ravens Chapter, a bloody miracle it is they haven't all been declared heretics and excuted for causing all of the destruction in the DOW games.

Given Adrastia's reaction to Kyras pile driving Gabriel I'd say Angelos is asking her all the right "questions" to get in good graces with the inquisition if you know what I mean.

Wonk.

Oh, Trooper Andrej, too.

 Kain wrote:

 Wyzilla wrote:

 Kain wrote:

 Wyzilla wrote:

 TheRedWingArmada wrote:
While I like Eliphas in all of his incarnations (though his first is definitely the best) this "repact" with Abbadon gave him all the qualities I hate about the "standard" chaos lord.

Sniveling, conniving, backstabbing weiner who is afraid of the real boss when he shows his face. Obviously Eliphas isn't destined for Daemonhood anytime soon. Hell, he can't even keep his Black Legion sorcerers from talking shiza to him.

Eliphas: "Do not question me worms! I have the right to lead!!"
Sorcerer Nero: "Oh really? HEY BOSS! GET IN HERE!! ELIPHAS FORGOT YOU BOUGHT HIS SOUL ON FIRE!!!"

-facepalm-

To be fair, a fairly large chunk of characters from DOW are incompetent fuckwits who survive purely by the grace of the author and should have died a long time ago. The only characters that seemed to have a lick of sense to them was Davian Thule. Even the Eldar were a bunch of idiots for tasking their Warlock with the job of prophecy when he isn't even an actual Farseer, just a student of the path likely to leave it later, when they have an actual Farseer in their warhost.

Veldoran was tasked with interpreting Farseer Neverspeak's visions.

Presumably because they couldn't get her VA or something.

Also Castor and co were pretty bright.

But Gorgutz and Bluddflagg?

Awesomeness incarnate.

And then there's the entire Blood Ravens Chapter, a bloody miracle it is they haven't all been declared heretics and excuted for causing all of the destruction in the DOW games.

Given Adrastia's reaction to Kyras pile driving Gabriel I'd say Angelos is asking her all the right "questions" to get in good graces with the inquisition if you know what I mean.

Wonk.

SHHHHHHH!

I'd like to go at least another week before a space marine "you know what" thread appears again.

hey guys i wonder if marines have dicks

 Ashiraya wrote:
hey guys i wonder if marines have dicks

Well thanks for jinxing us.

 Ashiraya wrote:
hey guys i wonder if marines have dicks

considering they are still men yes, but since the chemicals they use in creation of space marine makes modern day steroids look like powdered milk... they don't work.. now can you please go back to 4chan???

ThatSwellFella wrote:

 Ashiraya wrote:
hey guys i wonder if marines have dicks

considering they are still men yes, but since the chemicals they use in creation of space marine makes modern day steroids look like powdered milk... they don't work.. now can you please go back to 4chan???

It's a joke. About every two weeks Dakka Dakka can't help it and breaks its rehab instructions to delve into its space marine genital fetish. It's as bad if not worse than female space marine threads.

ThatSwellFella wrote:

 Ashiraya wrote:
hey guys i wonder if marines have dicks

considering they are still men yes, but since the chemicals they use in creation of space marine makes modern day steroids look like powdered milk... they don't work.. now can you please go back to 4chan???

When it is intentional, posting all in lowercase without punctuation is used to make a post seem humorous/passiveaggressive/sarcastic.

OK, sorry if i offended you, not my intenton. But if i would want to know more about sisters of battle sexual oeientation and female space marines/ space marine sterility i would simply post a thread on /tg/(i visit it as
Well from time to time) what i am trying to say is keep that stuff inside 4chan because "moralfags" will rage, flame, cleanse, purge, kill, maim and burn the thread and you will get banished from dakka by a blow from ban hammer

ThatSwellFella wrote:
OK, sorry if i offended you, not my intenton. But if i would want to know more about sisters of battle sexual oeientation and female space marines/ space marine sterility i would simply post a thread on /tg/(i visit it as
Well from time to time) what i am trying to say is keep that stuff inside 4chan because "moralfags" will rage, flame, cleanse, purge, kill, maim and burn the thread and you will get banished from dakka by a blow from ban hammer

I? Offended by this? Pah! That you would think that offends me. >xD

Hehe, glad you didn't took it personally. It was just that i couldn't understand what you meant by first response .. anyways my favourite non imperium characters would probably be:
Kharn, Swell guy from what i heard
Trollzyn... just look his story if you don't know about him
Fabius Bile: excommunicated from the legion of sick psychopaths for being a sick psychopath, which is telling something...
Skarbrand, our favourite emo bloodthirster
Vect, probably the greatest douchebag in 40k
Kranon the relentless, would be way better warmaster than certain armless failure....

Captain Alessio Cortez of the Crimson Fists...dude never quits...

-STS

30K: Kyril Sinderman, Garviel Loken, Tarik Torgaddon

40K: Gaunt, Col. "Iron Hand" Strahken, Da'Kir, Fugis and Pyriel

Kaldor Draigo, if GW had written him this way. Gotta love that fine ass warp dust.

Korlandril, because he reminds me a lot of my experience with women. Not Eldar women, human women. Try to pick up a woman and get friend zoned.

Sigh...

I have only read, not finished, so I guess, reading, the first HH book, but so far I like Garviel Loken, Tarik Torgaddon and Saul Tarvitz.

Oh, do you mean favourite 40K character as in out of the WH40K universe not WH Fantasy/LotR/Hobbit or character from WH40K - in the year 40 000? 'Cause as you know my favs are from the year 30K... do you know what mean?

 thenoobbomb wrote:
Honsou is pretty damn awesome,

I agree, its a crying shame gw never produced a mini or rules for him.


However.............. I did.

Ciaphas Cain - The dude dates an Inquisitor. That wins the galaxy. Forever.

Ragnar Blackmane - Big fan of him and his story, don't think we'll see any more of him but I loved every book. Now I just want a miniature that doesn't look stupid.

Grimaldus - 'nuff said.

Chaplain Grimaldus

Logan Grimnar

Stumper Muckstart. Because Ratling snipers need SC love, too.

On a serious note, I kinda like Sanguinius. The guy was a mutant, serving a government that did not like mutants (he would, in all honesty, probably have been purged at some point, even if the Heresy hadn't happened) but stayed loyal to the Empire and died to protect it. In a universe where mutants are almost always associated with Chaos, Sanguinius stands as an example that mutants can be loyal to humanity, which is a slap in the face to the Ecclesiarchy and the Inquisition. His sacrifice and his fame is a giant middle finger to the establishment, and I love him for it.

Also, Ollanius Pius. Not the derpy space Highlander retcon version. I mean the real version. The normal guy who stood in Horus' way and got pulped for it. The guy who was the template for the Imperial Guard (stand in it's way and get pulped so the Space Marines can take the credit). Him. I like him.

squidhills wrote:
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Also, Ollanius Pius. Not the derpy space Highlander retcon version. I mean the real version. The normal guy who stood in Horus' way and got pulped for it. The guy who was the template for the Imperial Guard (stand in it's way and get pulped so the Space Marines can take the credit). Him. I like him.

Probably some of my most favorite original fluff right there.
"Strike me down and ten more will take my place, and a thousand their's! I am the harbinger!"
Truly the stuff of legends, a guardsman doing what all guard are supposed to do; die standing.

I've read so much of the fluff now that is has destroyed all of the ambiguity I used to like so much.

As such, Its pretty easy to say who you like, and who you dislike.

I like Gulliman, Sanguinius, Straight Arrow Garro, Loken, any any number of other noble, stoic, heroic individuals.

I despise all of the truly evil bastards. Curze was a cool character until they turned him into a Hollywood villain, but I can hardly like him now can I?!

I'm surprised no one has mentioned John Grammaticus...

 Thunderjaw wrote:
I'm surprised no one has mentioned John Grammaticus...

One of my least favorite characters. Not so much for his character, but for the trend he started.

 sing your life wrote:
The main character from The Emperor's Gift (I forgot their names) are my favorite, since they're grey knights that are flawed and realistic, yet they still still awesome things.

His Grey Knight name is Hyperion but his birth name is Zael Effernetti. His first appearance was in the Ravenor books where he was a Chaos addicted Psyker to become a badass Grey Knight, yup, I will throw my vote for one of my favorite characters.

In addition to that is:
Nathaniel Garro, he is the first of what would become of the Grey Knights and just knows how to persuade people to throw themselves in with Malcador.
Garviel Loken, from the beginning of the Horus Heresy until he shows up to be recruited by Garro, he has always been an awesome and loyal character.
Konrad Curze, despite his run in with Dorn, he is an awesomely complex character. Besides the Thousand Sons, I have never had more respect for a Traitor Legion.
Magnus, he just has an amazing story and I wish more stuff in 40k revolved around him instead of Ahriman.
Rogal Dorn, I know people think he is a pompous ass but honestly, I like his devotion to duty. To me he is the only one that seems to know what the Imperium should be like and he instills that discipline into his chapter. They fight for a united humanity despite the odds. I guess it's because out of the Primarchs, I identify with him the most. The Last Remembrancer is what really made me favor Dorn to show more of his complexity.

Honorable mentions:
Ahriman, I identified with him a lot in Thousand Sons but his fall didn't make any sense to me and I blame him for the fall of his Legion.
Sigismund, I want to like him and Templar really helped me to like him more but he almost sabotaged his Legion like Ahriman did so it leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

Ferrus Manus. Because I guy in Terminator armor with an amped up servo harness and a Thunder Hammer that strikes at intiative is awesome and fluffy as hell for iron hands. Plus he practically invented terminator armor. It's too bad the horus heresy makes him out to be a loser. On a side note I wish iron hands had an hq that made them a little more interesting and exciting. Maybe something along the lines of a guy trying to be like ferrus as much as possible with rules letting sergeants/veteran sergeants to be upgraded to termie armor and termie wargear options and honour guard able to do the same. Allow termie sarges to enter dedicated transports of the unit they belong too and that vehicles capacity can be exceeded by 1 (allowing a 10 man tac squad with said termie sarge to board a rhino.)

My would be between Ragnar blackmane or Commander Farsight.

3 way tie - Sevatar / Garro / Zahariel(Cypher)

I like Ahriman yarick and





DRAIGO

I've always liked Pedro Kantor, simple weapon choices but effective leadership. All his fluff just screams digging in and riding out the tough fight. That and he's bloody huge!

Nobody quoted my personal favorite, which may or may not be related to the fact it is a quite obscure character that has almost not been mentioned since Codex: Sisters of Battle for Warhammer 2nd edition. But really, Dolan Chirosius. That guys win.
Ciaphas Cain is likely second.
Sadly, there are no interesting Sororitas characters :(.