So my gaming group likes to run narrative campaigns in a variety of game systems, but we've decided to do a 500pt + Character campaign so the couple guys who don't do 40k can join in on the cheap, as it were. Now, I normally play orks, but I thought I'd use this as a chance to buy and paint something other than orks for a bit, but my experience with most list is largely from the other side of the table, so I don't know all the cool characters out there. My personal plan is something Space Marine, maybe Chaos. Though Eldar have a ton of named dudes and I can draw units from my wife's army....but I wanted to ask the dakka hordes:


Excluding the Emperor and Primarchs; Who do you think is the coolest, most badass character in the 40K universe, purely based on fluff?

and/or

If you were building a small army around one character to play under the current rules, who would it be? (All Codexes, Forgeworld included)





I can start the thoughts off: I really love Cypher from a lore perspective, at least in so much as he pisses the DA off and there is nothing they can do about it. As for game play, I've kind of been leaning towards Tyberos the Red Wake, I've been really interested in making a small Carcharodons force. (though Forge World just told me they don't make the transfers anymore).

Feel free to throw your thoughts in here, cheers!

Ahriman. My inner BA fanboy wants to say Mephiston, and he is pretty badass, but Ahriman still takes it.

Marbo.

This is not up for debate.

 BlaxicanX wrote:
Marbo.

This is not up for debate.

I'd thought about imperial guard, but I am not familar with thier new book at all. Always loved Yarrick (Maybe because all orks love a good foe), but I never got a chance to play with Rambo before they "Squated" him out of the Codex.

dont remind me =(

It's okay though. Marbo wasn't squatted.

He's just waiting.

I'd have to say Mephiston. He beat the most debilitating and crippling flaw they have and is just a boss. Though Lemartes is up there also since hes all black ragey but can still think. Gaunt is badass also.

 BlaxicanX wrote:
Marbo.

This is not up for debate.

I second that.

Marbo will return.

The Two Unknown Primarchs because nothing is more badass than being unknown and mysterious.

 kinratha wrote:

 BlaxicanX wrote:
Marbo.

This is not up for debate.

I second that.

Marbo will return.

I can see it already. 'Sly Marbo - A Codex: Astra Militarum Supplement'

Allows you to field Sly Marbo as an ally or as an army onto himself.

According to the 5th edition Tyranid codex, there is a theory that the Tyranids are fleeing from a more fearsome race.

This is not true.

They are running from Marbo.

Logan Grimnar. He is one of the only Imperial leaders who fights for the good of Imperial citizens. He also has a habit of decapitating Inquisitors who argue with him.

I really like librarians, and I'm a BA fan as well, so I'm gonna have to go with Mephiston. Him leading a handful of his librarians accompanied by some honor guard is a pretty cool image imho.

 Mumblez wrote:
I can see it already. 'Sly Marbo - A Codex: Astra Militarum Supplement' Codex: Sly Marbo

FYP.

Mephiston sounds interesting, but no one in our group owns the BA codex. Damn you! I'll have to add him to the list as someone to investigate.

Yarrick when he was a child seemed pretty badass... never really read too much about his adult life ... but it sounds fierce.

 Orblivion wrote:
Ahriman. My inner BA fanboy wants to say Mephiston, and he is pretty badass, but Ahriman still takes it.

Yup, Ahriman for sure. With the gods against him, he takes arms against his fate. He bows to no power, and appeals to the teenage angst in all of us leftover from our teenage years, screaming feth YOU to the very cosmos!

Plus, magic is super cool

Confessor Dolan Chirosius wins, no contest. Then, Ciaphas Cain. Then, Sly Marbo.

Farsight.

Its a tau that comes at you with a sword, how much more "because I can" can you get?

Chapter Master on bike w/ artificer armour, shield eternal and thunderhammer!!!!

Arjac Rockfist

This guy is bad ass. Sadly there isn't that much fluff about him, but I like his one page blurb in the SW codex. I really like how he knows his place, he knows his job, and he does it all exceptionally well.

On the table top, he is beastly. Makes his unit of Wolfguard stubborn and that single unit can be kitted out to do pretty much anything you need it to.

Lufgt Huron/Huron Blackheart.

Dudes battlefield accomplishments as a Space Marine are up there with the best of them. As a Chapter Master, he stood up to the bureacracy and BS of the Imperium, and faced the music when it was time. As a Chaos Lord he lives in constant pain, and still kicks major ass wherever he goes.

Praetorian Captain Gliene of C Company.

Led the Praetorians in one of the best battles in GW history.

Unfortunately no rules and little fluff.

The only character I liked a little bit was Sergeant Bastone. But he is gone now. Now characters with rules left with rules anymore.

Vect

KHAAAAN!!!

Castus Grendel. Him, Straken, Yarrick and good old fashioned ollanius pious. Not being a 7 foot tall beast with power armor and fighting anyway despite this is AWESOME. Fighting through enough mortal injuries to get enough bionics to be as tough as the aforementioned 7 foot tall beast is even more awesome. The average guard veteran is twice as brave as a marine and half as attached to reality. That is AWESOME.

I want a straken build, sometimes if i am tired and delusional i will admit regret to not playing catachans.

Commander Dante is hands down for me the most badass. 1,100 years as Chapter Master of the BA, and probably more time served before hand. I love that he leads from the front and can be found where the battle is thickest and most brutal. I really like that he was never the best, nor the most powerful, but always up to the task to get the job done and come out alive. I love his back story and just think he is a general badass.

Close second for me is Imhotekh the Stormlord.

Duke Sliscus and his drugged-up Harem. He let's you roll twice on the drug table and pick your favorite of the two. Think of a pimp who calls himself the Duke and has all of his (b)wyches do the fighting.

But seriously this would be fun and pretty strong. wyches in venoms. All of the splintercannons will take down infantry and the haywire grenades on the wyches will take down vehicles. And Duke isn't awful in CC either. Although he probably won't be as powerful as some other named HQ choices out there. But hopefully your hail of poisoned shots will bring them down before he sullies his hands in close combat.

Kharn

 Orblivion wrote:
Ahriman. My inner BA fanboy wants to say Mephiston, and he is pretty badass, but Ahriman still takes it.

My inner BA says too bad, Mephy still takes the cake for me.

 Icculus wrote:
Duke Sliscus and his drugged-up Harem. He let's you roll twice on the drug table and pick your favorite of the two. Think of a pimp who calls himself the Duke and has all of his (b)wyches do the fighting.

That was a bit offensive. And is there really any link in the fluff between Sliscus and wyches? From what I read, he is a pirate in exile!

Matt Ward would like to know why Kaldor Dragio is not topping this list. don't you know he beat a deamon primarch single handed! don't you know he's too tough for the deamons to beat even in the warp? the man is totally badass, so sayth matt ward!

Ahriman, of course.

Typhus is pretty badass, too.

Mephiston is also quite the pro.

BrianDavion wrote:
Matt Ward would like to know why Kaldor Dragio is not topping this list. don't you know he beat a deamon primarch single handed! don't you know he's too tough for the deamons to beat even in the warp? the man is totally badass, so sayth matt ward!

Im gonna say a Gretchin character of any sort.

Everyone underestimates the Gretchin!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wex1Bn2Xodk

 GoliothOnline wrote:
Im gonna say a Gretchin character of any sort.

Everyone underestimates the Gretchin!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wex1Bn2Xodk

Da Red Gobbo?

Anyways, I'll go with Maugan Ra. There is no greater badass.

Sigismund and Dominica

 Murdius Maximus wrote:
Commander Dante is hands down for me the most badass. 1,100 years as Chapter Master of the BA, and probably more time served before hand. I love that he leads from the front and can be found where the battle is thickest and most brutal. I really like that he was never the best, nor the most powerful, but always up to the task to get the job done and come out alive. I love his back story and just think he is a general badass.

Close second for me is Imhotekh the Stormlord.

I agree with this, though 2nd would be Mephiston. And in the fluff Dante is around 1400 years old =)

If you read the warriors of the dark millennium on Dante you get a really good idea of how awesome he is. I wont spoil it, but its one of the best pieces of 40k fluff ive ever read.

Yarrick all the way. Nothing like using your enemies superstition and truly using it to full advantage.

Fluff wise? The Doom of Malan'tai - it killed AN ENTIRE eldar craftworld by itself.

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

 Icculus wrote:
Duke Sliscus and his drugged-up Harem. He let's you roll twice on the drug table and pick your favorite of the two. Think of a pimp who calls himself the Duke and has all of his (b)wyches do the fighting.

That was a bit offensive. And is there really any link in the fluff between Sliscus and wyches? From what I read, he is a pirate in exile!

I'm offensive? Have you read what the Dark Eldar do?! they are in the slave trade, slaves of all sorts. They use crazy drugs for sado-masochistic blood orgies and then go and kill whoever they can find just to harvest some more souls so they can do this for years to come.

As far as Sliscus and wyches being connected in the fluff, I am sure he has a few wyches with him, anyone can be a pirate! So he has whoever wants to come along, and whoever has the best drugs, and the best toxins. And Wyches are known for their combat drugs.

Hard to say.

The Deceiver made the other C'tan eat their fellow brotheren.

The Outsider made an entire Tyranid Hivefleet run away in fear.

The Nightbringer is Death incarnate.

I just go with "C'tan" ;D

How is Khârn not here yet? First off, he's a pretty nice guy to be around. Second, one of the Cyrillic languages is his native as per the audiodrama (lol... Khârn is a Cossak.... cant believe I just realized this... ]
Third: there was only one person on terra he really didn't want to fight, and that was his crazy cross-wearing oath-brother from the VIIth. Plus he's awesome on the tabletop. Will shred through most characters 2x his cost. His only "downside" is that he is 3+ 4++.

I already have built one but I love the fluff of Belial and his Deathwing Company. That's quite fun.

Also I have also wanted to make a Catachan character army with Straken, Marbo and Harker.

The Pimp King of Commorragh, obviously.

 Icculus wrote:
As far as Sliscus and wyches being connected in the fluff, I am sure he has a few wyches with him, anyone can be a pirate! So he has whoever wants to come along, and whoever has the best drugs, and the best toxins. And Wyches are known for their combat drugs.

So, basically, the only reason you think he has a “harem” of “byches” is because drugs? Should I remind you that there are tons of male wyches, by the way?

Honsou the Half Breed, naturally.

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

 Icculus wrote:
As far as Sliscus and wyches being connected in the fluff, I am sure he has a few wyches with him, anyone can be a pirate! So he has whoever wants to come along, and whoever has the best drugs, and the best toxins. And Wyches are known for their combat drugs.

So, basically, the only reason you think he has a “harem” of “byches” is because drugs? Should I remind you that there are tons of male wyches, by the way?

I doubt many dark eldar care, a hole is a hole after all.

OT, I would have to nominate Trazyn, the infinite. Not only is the guy hard to kill even by necron standards, but hes essentially the grim dark version of a war gamer. But rather than collecting pieces of plastic crack he collects real armies.

Shrike is a pretty bad SOB

Chaplain Cassius. Grizzled old man full of hate. Thinks papa smurf is just some punk kid. Hates the 'nids so much he steps outside the codex to deal with them, and the rest of the Ultramarines are OK with this!

Plus he’s a T6 marine with FNP. Hardcore. Makes for fun “average toughness” scenarios when it’s just him and one other guy left alive in a squad. Or just pair him up with another IC for an awesome buddy comedy.

Field him with some Tyrannic War Vets (use sternguard rules) for a fluffy and fun good time.

I'm with OP, Cypher wins for me.
Rulewise his dataslate is not too bad and I'm currently turning my Space Marine chapter into his unknowing lackys.

Skarbrand. He took off a chink of KHORNE's armour.

Ahriman comes second because TS > all

Tigurius is pretty great. Can tap into the Tyranid Hive Mind and predict the movements of the Orks, which not even Imotekh can manage.

Sly Marbo is clearly #1, though. Inquisitorial rumors state that he's the Emperor reborn into the shell of a mortal man.

Sigismund by leaps and bounds, his back story is one of the best, the first emperors champion who defeated a dozen champions of chaos during the attack on the imperial palace including Kharn the betrayer, first high marshal of the BT.

His rules are amazing: WS7 BS4 S4 T4 W4 I5 A4 Ld10 Sv2+ 230 pts. Eternal Warrior, Templar Brethren squads as Troops, Instant Death and force re-roll of invulnerable saves in challanges, and Black Sword being +2S and AP2.

Abaddon the armless wrote:
Sigismund by leaps and bounds, his back story is one of the best, the first emperors champion who defeated a dozen champions of chaos during the attack on the imperial palace including Kharn the betrayer, first high marshal of the BT.

His rules are amazing: WS7 BS4 S4 T4 W4 I5 A4 Ld10 Sv2+ 230 pts. Eternal Warrior, Templar Brethren squads as Troops, Instant Death and force re-roll of invulnerable saves in challanges, and Black Sword being +2S and AP2.

I change my previous answer. I am now voting for Sigismund.

Going with Mephiston, though Ahriman was straight awesome

I'm going with Vargard Obyron, Never seen him on the table but anyone who can capture Kor'sarro Khan and Illic Nightspear, then when they escape beat both of them and a load of other prisoners at the same time deserves the title of badass.

Lysander? I say Lysander. Guy is over 1000 years old. He disappears into the warp, pops out a thousand years later, gets tortured for about a hundred years, escapes, goes back and kills everyone who tortured him, goes home, becomes the Captain of the First Company, then gets busted to Captain of the Third Company when he nearly gets them all killed because he won't take help from the smurfs and twilights, marches the Third Company all over the galaxy kicking ass and taking names, gets offered Chapter Master and refuses because he is too much of a hot head and knows it, and goes back to Captain of the First Company again.

Actually, after re-reading the OP, look into the Sentinels of Terra and read about Tor Garadon. He was one of the Sergeants in the Third Company when Lysander nearly got them all killed. He was the only one who stood up to the Imperial Fists living legend and basically said "What the hell is wrong with you?" When they busted Lysander down to Captain of the Third Company, they made Garadon Sergeant of the First Tac. Squad, and he ends up being the ying to Lysander's yang. The Murtaugh to Lysander's Riggs. At present, Garadon is Captain of the Third Company, and they are seriously in the you-know-what. When you play him, his Tactical Squad counts as an HQ unit, and he gets a captain statline (and a cool black helmet with a white stripe, instead of a red one.).

The common guardsman.

The special characters have plot armor and uberbadass special snowflake weapons and armor, and faces the most terrible foes of the galaxy with the skills of a thousand battles and trainers from around the galaxy.

The common guardsman has flak armor and a lasgun, and basic training if they're lucky-- and faces those same foes.

 Melissia wrote:
The common guardsman.

The special characters have plot armor and uberbadass special snowflake weapons and armor, and faces the most terrible foes of the galaxy with the skills of a thousand battles and trainers from around the galaxy.

The common guardsman has flak armor and a lasgun, and basic training if they're lucky-- and faces those same foes.

"The common guardsman" Very eloquent.

Dark Gods? Khorne? Anyone?

 ChocletEyeOfTerror wrote:
Dark Gods? Khorne? Anyone?

I think the OP meant characters that can be used in actual games.

Horus, of course.
Darnath Lysander is pretty cool. Even though he isn't a chapter master, he's really the epitome of the Imperial Fists. He's tough as nails, and a real close combat monster. Master Crafted S10 Ap1 with 4 wounds and 2+/3++ can pretty much take any non-primarch special characters.
The Swarmlord is extremely bad***. Even though hes not a character per se, he really stands out. Rules wise, a WS9 instakilling Monsterous Creature with 5 Wounds? and a 4++ in close combat, nothing can really stop him that's not EW.

Garran Crowe- Who wields the demon blade of basically unlimited power. And only uses it as a beat stick to beat people down with.

That must take some freaking guts to use.

But Kayvaan Shrike comes to mind also.

Ahriman is in my opinion by far the most badass character in 40K.

The man has so much character to him. There is more to him than "I'm chaos, I'm bad" (he's not the only one, I know), in fact I'd say he is a good guy and the only reason he is on the bad side is because the imperium didn't leave him a choice.. He wanted to protect his whole legion from the taint of the warp but ended up almost destroying it. He got banished from his legion for what he did and instead of holding a grudge against his legion he dedicated his life to saving his brothers.
+ He's a badass psycker.

The Sanguinor of the Blood Angels. He is so badass most of his army doesn't even know he exists!

Plus if you go on battle with a pose like that its the very definition of badass in my book.


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 Murdius Maximus wrote:
Commander Dante is hands down for me the most badass. 1,100 years as Chapter Master of the BA, and probably more time served before hand. I love that he leads from the front and can be found where the battle is thickest and most brutal. I really like that he was never the best, nor the most powerful, but always up to the task to get the job done and come out alive. I love his back story and just think he is a general badass.

Close second for me is Imhotekh the Stormlord.

I agree with this, though 2nd would be Mephiston. And in the fluff Dante is around 1400 years old =)

If you read the warriors of the dark millennium on Dante you get a really good idea of how awesome he is. I wont spoil it, but its one of the best pieces of 40k fluff ive ever read.

LOL Dante is a badass too, only character in 40K that's so badass he choose 1 guy in the opponit's army to takes -1 wound, WS,I and Attack before the game even starts.

Morbo.

He's so badass that he singlehandedly assaulted himself right out of the latest Astra Militarum codex, because Astra is for sissies and he's still with the Imperial Guard.

Well there's Kaldor Draigo but he's a Mary Sue
There's also Sly, Kharn, Doombreed, and Doomrider.
I would like to mention SIIIIIINNNNNDDDDRRRRIIII as well

Lord Solar Macharius. Most successful imperial leader since the emperor. Brought something like 1000 worlds back into imperial hands in 7 years. Possesses space marine like quickness & combat prowess yet is only human. Not a genetically engineered powerhouse. His greatest downfall is his success. Those under him eventually began to lose the will to fight because they had known nothing but the horrors of war for decades on end & were only human. Planetary governors & his generals were jealous of his power/success & conspired against him.

Gotta reach waaaay back to 2nd ed for my one true champion.

Wolf Guard Ranulf, who stood even bigger and stronger than his primarch, Ranulf met his end along side his back facing down a hoard of orks. And when the orks had finally killed him they were so terrified of him they believed him to be a tiny god and was only sleeping. So when his fellow wolves eventually found him, the orks had built a shrine for Ranulf and his guard to sit upon, and placed at this shrine was all da best dakka, choppa, an' gubbinz the orks could muster in offering in hopes that Ranulf would not be angry when he awoke.

Fething seriously, I'm not even making any of this up. This is freaking GW written fluff! Terrifying thing is that the old fluff still holds kinda true, in 30k most primarchs are strength 6 unless their auged by their armor like horus, or are totally roided out like angron. Ranulf was strength 7 even before you applied his power fist!

Trazyn the Infinite, because he plays in-universe 40k with life size miniatures.

(He also plays 30k, if the rumours of his primarch collection are to be believed. (which they are))

garvial loken.
dude got stomped by a titan and then lived to change his name to CERBEROUS, ain't no one gonna beat that.

Anval Thawn, the last perpetual.

The guy has been alive for most likely tens of thousands of years. He's seen the Imperium from before its infancy. He's seen it rise... and fall; looking at it he realizes that the grimdark universe is becoming more and more grim and dark. And he hates it, but keeps trying to save it.

 Melissia wrote:
The common guardsman.

The special characters have plot armor and uberbadass special snowflake weapons and armor, and faces the most terrible foes of the galaxy with the skills of a thousand battles and trainers from around the galaxy.

The common guardsman has flak armor and a lasgun, and basic training if they're lucky-- and faces those same foes.

I stand by confessor Dolan Chirosius as the most badass character of 40k. That guy got no special snowflake weapon or armor that we know of, and so much plot armor that he died as soon as someone tried to kill him, yet still managed to be incredibly influential in this specific episode of the Imperium's history .

Thinking about it, none of the badass I listed had any snowflake special wargear, but the other two (Ciaphas Cain and Sly Marbo) have ton of plot armor, and therefore the skills of a thousand battle too .

Quickjager wrote:
Anval Thawn, the last perpetual.

The guy has been alive for most likely tens of thousands of years. He's seen the Imperium from before its infancy. He's seen it rise... and fall; looking at it he realizes that the grimdark universe is becoming more and more grim and dark. And he hates it, but keeps trying to save it.

except to be made a GK he can't have been alive that long. a perpetual he may be, but he is a young perpetual if that is the case

 BlaxicanX wrote:
Marbo.

This is not up for debate.

Yarrick, Creed.

Ollanius Pius, before he was immortal.

 Blackhair Duckshape wrote:
Ollanius Pius, before he was immortal.

"I am the harbinger!" - The man himself.

Well OP said no Emps or primarchs, so I'm guessing that excludes Marbo as well...

I think I'm going to have to re-iterate what others have been saying and go with Ollanius. Just a regular dude who stood up to one of the most destructive forces the galaxy has ever known. And if he is a perpetual, well that just means he's going on to more badassery, and thats fine by me.

 Toastaster wrote:
Well OP said no Emps or primarchs, so I'm guessing that excludes Marbo as well...

I think I'm going to have to re-iterate what others have been saying and go with Ollanius. Just a regular dude who stood up to one of the most destructive forces the galaxy has ever known. And if he is a perpetual, well that just means he's going on to more badassery, and thats fine by me.

Well if I cannot vote for Marbo, change my answer to Kharn (what a guy).

Stumper Muckstart.

He once shot four spinning coins out of the air while blindfolded. He can strike you down from across the battlefield and there isn't gak you can do about it. You're a multi-wound model? Stumper don't care. He adds +D3 to the number of wounds he inflicts. You have a 2+ save? Stumper doesn't give a gak. Feel free to subtract -D3 from your save, sucker.

Oh, you say you killed Stumper? Guess what? He costs less than 50 points and therefore awards no VPs for his death. Merry Christmas.

Yarrick, who else has a power klaw, rides in a baneblade painted black and gold while having the semi title of nemasis to greatest ork warboss in history

So being a GK player, I would have to go with Anval Thawn or Garran Crowe. If only Mortarion's Heart was the thing we knew about Kaldor Draigo instead of the ridiculous entry Matt Ward wrote him, I would be throwing Draigo's name up there but alas, it is not so. Anyway, Thawn kicks arse and is not a jerk to xenos and Crowe holds a daemon blade and doesn't use it's power. Both awesome in my book.

The Imperial Fist player in me though, have to go with Lysander, he is one tough fething dude to have been through the amount of crap he has been through and survived let alone rise from the ashes to become what he has become.

Swarmlord for me. Only sent to action when it gets tough. If killed is regrown with knowledge of how he list, therefore always getting stronger and stronger. And can never truely be killed Without completely wiping every last trace of the tyranids

For me it's Asdrubael vect by far, although Lelith is certainly up there demanding some respect.

Lelith literally dances around in a bikini, going toe to toe with Space marines, Tyranids and all the other craziness of 40k with knives... knives! That's just completely badass.
And Vect is so ridiculously cunning he makes the characters of Revenge look like monkeys by comparison. Why send flowers to taunt your foe when a black hole in a box is so much more amusing.
Anything which can survive in Commorragh is badass, these two thrive there!

Marbo is not in danger. He is the danger.

Cypher. Ingame he has an absurdly good statline, effectively shoots his pistols in melee, and well, he dual wields pistols. With a bit of luck he can blam his way through entire squads, and/or Hit and Run to escape. What isn't awesome about that.

Fluffwise, he's one of the surprisingly few untouched big mysteries. Noone knows his intentions except himself, is he loyalist, or traitor? Is he long-living, or just a figurehead position? Why does he carry the sword around and generally do things for inexplicable reasons?

 Mr.Omega wrote:
Cypher. Ingame he has an absurdly good statline, effectively shoots his pistols in melee, and well, he dual wields pistols. With a bit of luck he can blam his way through entire squads, and/or Hit and Run to escape. What isn't awesome about that.

Fluffwise, he's one of the surprisingly few untouched big mysteries. Noone knows his intentions except himself, is he loyalist, or traitor? Is he long-living, or just a figurehead position? Why does he carry the sword around and generally do things for inexplicable reasons?

'cause Rule of Cool, that's why!

Eldrad. Reasoning is very, very simple: every other character listed, plus any that will be listed after, is doing what Eldrad wants them to...

...just as planned.

Seriously, it is easy to get swept away with the 'roid infested Superman clones in this fiction, but Eldrad? He is the person who makes those people do what he wants, then THANK HIM for it.

Dante. Out-strategizing time manipulation, being chapter master for the last millenium and a half, always having a mask on like a Char-clone from gundam, causing a wound before the game starts.

Now if only he was a little better for his points on the table. EW and a not-unwieldy waste of his initiative 6 would be a great start.

Kharn the betrayer! He is the most brutal cqc fighter ever plus he is a brutal anti psyker.

KillerWabbit wrote:
Eldrad. Reasoning is very, very simple: every other character listed, plus any that will be listed after, is doing what Eldrad wants them to...

Did you manage to misspell Tzeentch into Eldard ?

KillerWabbit wrote:
Seriously, it is easy to get swept away with the 'roid infested Superman clones in this fiction

Or confessor Dolan Chirosius . He does not get the popularity he rightly deserve.

Abaddon, but only the 2nd edition version.

Doomrider.

'Nuff said.

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

KillerWabbit wrote:
Eldrad. Reasoning is very, very simple: every other character listed, plus any that will be listed after, is doing what Eldrad wants them to...

Did you manage to misspell Tzeentch into Eldard ?

The lord of change goes by many names and guises

The beast is pretty cool. United tons of Orks and almost took over the galaxy. It was said he was only stopped with a devastatin loss of space marines in the end, and his wagghhhh was larger than the one Horus defeated which made him war master. Pretty cool I think, any Ork who can actually organize his boys to almost conquer the galaxy is pretty intense.

Chapter master Tu'Shan

Tu'shan beat the piss out of a marines malevolent captain cause he bombarded some innocent civilians (oh and marines malevolent are all donkey-cave space pirates)
He has accumulated so many honor brands that there is very little room left on his body and face for more, so he started inside his armor.

 Midnightdeathblade wrote:
Chapter master Tu'Shan

Tu'shan beat the piss out of a marines malevolent captain cause he bombarded some innocent civilians (oh and marines malevolent are all donkey-cave space pirates)
He has accumulated so many honor brands that there is very little room left on his body and face for more, so he started inside his armor.

Eh, Tu'Shan is outdone by He'Stan if anything.

Man. Tons of cool characters out there. Makes it hard trying to think of a small fluffy-esque force to play because suddenly I want them all.

Grimaldus! EOD.

Sly Marbo!

Why has no one said anything about Pedro Kantor? His chapter's homeworld was being renovated into a fortress monastery when an Ork Waaagh hit, and then they blew the entire planet up. If Mccrage were blown up, Marneus Calgar would fall to his knees and cry. Not Pedro, he took it like a man and went with the remnants of his chapter to do what they do. Pedro Kantor, people.

Marbo

still not up for debate

 Powerfisting wrote:
Why has no one said anything about Pedro Kantor? His chapter's homeworld was being renovated into a fortress monastery when an Ork Waaagh hit, and then they blew the entire planet up. If Mccrage were blown up, Marneus Calgar would fall to his knees and cry. Not Pedro, he took it like a man and went with the remnants of his chapter to do what they do. Pedro Kantor, people.

QFT. Marneus would definitely cry if Maccrage was blown up.

Pedro Kantor is cool.

 Ashiraya wrote:
Pedro Kantor is cool.

If you've read the book Rynn's World, I think you'll agree that the second company captain is way cooler. Isn't he named Cortez?

Alessio Cortez.

He had one OK punchline with the arm but Kantor ruled the book. I am not convinced that Cortez would be able to compete with Kantor in badassity.

The most badass character in 40k is Guardsmen Fred the Rough Rider. He didn't come from some awesome planet known for its warriors like Cadia or Catachan or Mordia. He came from Beepus IV, which isn't known for anything except lots of grass and some mining.

Guardsmen Fred's world sent him along with about five hundred other hastily trained cavalry scouts as part of its tithe to a rapidly expanding war going on light years away. Fred doesn't know who they're fighting, or why, or where. He's crammed in a tiny compartment along with the rest of his brigade, and all their horses.

In a few hours he's going to be herded into a landing craft, and dumped onto an unknown world. He's been given a breathing mask because apparently the battlefield has been bombed and saturated with various horrible poisons, but no one thought to provide one for his horse as well. So in a few hours his horse is going to die a horrible death. He just found this out.

Guardsmen Fred has just rushed out of the landing craft. His horse died a few moments ago, but he's holding onto his lance anyway. The landing craft just flew away, half his unit still inside. No one has a living horse. Some of the men had faulty masks and died as well. There's a horde of shimmering monsters rushing at them at a terrifying speed. They appear to be on fire, and their sibilant whispers just made his commanding officer take out his gun and shoot himself.

Guardsmen Fred the ex-Rough Rider is the most badass person in 40k because he's a speck of dust in the cogs of war with no superpowers or special training or great destiny, just a pathetic human being from an insignificant planet with a crappy laser gun and a useless power lance. And he's going to rally the rest of his men and charge those immortal daemonic creatures for the glory of the Emperor and the survival of the Imperium.

 Ashiraya wrote:
Alessio Cortez.

He had one OK punchline with the arm but Kantor ruled the book. I am not convinced that Cortez would be able to compete with Kantor in badassity.

Yea, Kantor had moments of badassery thruought the entire book, Cortez was closer to being a sidekick than an actual badass.

That part where Kantor gets so pissed off he rips off the Dok's limbs and beats him to death...

 Desubot wrote:
Marbo

still not up for debate

This. I really don't understand why this thread is still going.

Tuberous the Red Wake is hard as fook, but I'd have to go with my favourite ForgeWorld mini, terminator lord Zhufor. I don't know what his rules are like, and frankly I don't care. I'd theme a Khornate terminator force around him.

Umm... Sly Marbo? No challenge whatsoever? Possibly more badass (dare I say it!) is Ollanius Pius, however due to not having his name as "Rambo" spelt backwards, takes second place for me.

Honourable mention to Darnath Lysander and I thoroughly encourage you all (if you haven't already) to read this page:
http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Darnath_Lysander

Gabriel "Kick you in the balls" Seth.

Got made Chapter Master, only to be told that at the current rate of attrition the Flesh Tearers will be gone in a few decades. Because he's a boss, he sucks it up and decides to go out in a blaze of glory. He begins diving his chapter into fights before other Imperial forces arrive, so collateral damage is reduced, thereby helping to restore the chapters reputation.

In game, he wields a chainsword bigger than himself, can attack everyone in base contact at once, and if you miss your attack against him he kicks you in the balls. Or headbutts you.

 Peregrine wrote:

 Desubot wrote:
Marbo

still not up for debate

This. I really don't understand why this thread is still going.

Why? He does cool stuff but it's like saying Curze is badass for falling through the crust of Nocturne as an infant and being washed up again on the lava streams. It's in his nature, he only does what is expected of him.

 Badablack wrote:
The most badass character in 40k is Guardsmen Fred the Rough Rider. He didn't come from some awesome planet known for its warriors like Cadia or Catachan or Mordia. He came from Beepus IV, which isn't known for anything except lots of grass and some mining.

Guardsmen Fred's world sent him along with about five hundred other hastily trained cavalry scouts as part of its tithe to a rapidly expanding war going on light years away. Fred doesn't know who they're fighting, or why, or where. He's crammed in a tiny compartment along with the rest of his brigade, and all their horses.

In a few hours he's going to be herded into a landing craft, and dumped onto an unknown world. He's been given a breathing mask because apparently the battlefield has been bombed and saturated with various horrible poisons, but no one thought to provide one for his horse as well. So in a few hours his horse is going to die a horrible death. He just found this out.

Guardsmen Fred has just rushed out of the landing craft. His horse died a few moments ago, but he's holding onto his lance anyway. The landing craft just flew away, half his unit still inside. No one has a living horse. Some of the men had faulty masks and died as well. There's a horde of shimmering monsters rushing at them at a terrifying speed. They appear to be on fire, and their sibilant whispers just made his commanding officer take out his gun and shoot himself.

Guardsmen Fred the ex-Rough Rider is the most badass person in 40k because he's a speck of dust in the cogs of war with no superpowers or special training or great destiny, just a pathetic human being from an insignificant planet with a crappy laser gun and a useless power lance. And he's going to rally the rest of his men and charge those immortal daemonic creatures for the glory of the Emperor and the survival of the Imperium.

The feels. EXALTED!

its got to be dante and mephy

dante for being an old boy and most likely the oldest of all SM in the present day means man has to be carrying a super pair of rocks to still be here with us.

same goes for mephy - man is old - lived 2 lives and stands unique as a human to have survived the madness of the BA curse and still be able to control it for the good of the chapter.

age + refusing to die + still kicking ass = badass in my book

 Badablack wrote:
Guardsmen Fred the ex-Rough Rider is the most badass person in 40k because he's a speck of dust in the cogs of war with no superpowers or special training or great destiny, just a pathetic human being from an insignificant planet with a crappy laser gun and a useless power lance. And he's going to rally the rest of his men and charge those immortal daemonic creatures for the glory of the Emperor and the survival of the Imperium.

And Confessor Dolan Chirosius is one man that is going to turn basically everyone into Guardsmen Fred until there is so much dust into the cogs of war that they break.

Ah, so many to choose from!! D:
Really, I can't decide just one.

Marbo?
Yeah, he's cool but this stupid fanboyism has taken all the fun away. Seriously, there are about 134 characters more badass than him. Chill...

Dante?
The oldest living non-Dreadnought non-Chaos Space Marine. Seriously, whoever said that Logan Grimnar is the best because he's "the only one who fights for the people" doesn't know what he's talking about.
He fights for the people, most of who hate or fear him for the reputation of Blood Angels.

Sanguinior?
One of my favourite options here. Like a ghost, only arrives when most needed, gets the gak done and disappears.
Fights like none other and is the unknown legend, hero of the Blood Angels and Imperium. I only wish he was as good on tabletop...

Creed?
I'm astonished that no-one has mentioned him yet. Genius tactican, the grand nemesis of Chaos Warlord and he wins every single time, keeping the mankind safe.

Shrike?
Once again, one of my favourites. Good ol' Beakie McAwesome fights for the people!

Also, leading the Imperium, Prince Yriel has a cool story.
Becomes the general of his people, starts agressive fighting and in result his own craft-world gets omnomnomned by nids.
Arrives just in time to save his people and then, feeling guilty leaves and goes rogue.

I think that my personal favourite is Shrike. My Inner BA fanboy will scream, but Raven Guard is just too awesome!


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Special mention to Davian Thule.

Captain with Heavy Bolter.

This isn't going to popular, but come on guys. I know ya'll hate Ultramarines for some reason, but Calgar is pretty badass. I say this not only for his unparalleled combat prowess, but you have to give him credit for ruling the most prosperous and stable region of the imperium at the same time as leading the most renowned chapter. Plus those dual fisted bolters look pretty cool. Oh, and I should add that I am a Crimson Fist player, so I don't have a bias there.

We are getting together this Weekend to play some games and talk about this new campaign, and I may be relegated to "Generic Warlord#858748676575" yet again. (Thanks for not giving Grukk an invuln GW, he would have been really OP a hell if he had something everyone else in the game gets)

Kharn is a mega badass who falls over when sneezed on. His lack of "get into combat options" is what really borks him though, even though I've always secretly wanted an excuse to make a Khorne warband.

Cypher is cool, but also falls over when sneezed on. He can infiltrate and stuffs, so he'll at least be able to get into cover and make use of shrouded and charge and things......I also expect him to be drafted pretty high by another player, so while I am kinda leaning his way, I can't count on him.

Tyberos is cool, mainly because I love his model. That would be a lot of fun to paint, but as much as I favor melee, dropping him in behind an enemy unit so he can get chewed up for a round because he can't assault....<sigh> Just let pure assault models assault out of reserves GW. For the love of....suppose I could put him in with some TH/SS termies and pray they all survive the incoming rain. (main annoyance: FW stopped selling his chapters transfers, who does that?!)

Marbo. Yeah, so remember that time they squatted him out of the codex until they release a catchatans supplement ($49.99) and a $35 model?

I thought about going towards a pysker as I never run them anymore (Psychic phase for me in 7th is...yeah no I failed to use those 2 warp charge to block that)

I don't know much about Inquisitor Coteaz (sp?), but he does have a huge hammer and an eagle. That is pretty ballin'

Blood angels would almost be cool to me, because they seem to have some great characters, but god that book is awful. I know we always go for fluff first in a campaign, but I'd like to win at least some battles this time. The Necron Campaign went poorly for my orks last month. I Dunno...my big hesitation here is I know they are due for a new book and buying that book now, only to throw it away in a couple month seems like a waste.

Necrons are out. A worse race there is not. So you made poor life choices and now you want to kill everything. Cool. NEXT!

Eldar have a metric butt-ton of characters, but my wife is our only Eldar player, so I am going to avoid stepping on her lane, just because I'd have to use her models and let me explain how the draft goes for the women involved. They get their armies, or we all lose. (So Eldar and SoB are out!)

Imperial Guard is a pretty new book and I do love me some Yarrick. Excuse to paint an ork powerkalw on a smelly 'umie.
I wonder if I could pair him with Nork and have the coolest unit by character weight ever?


Anyway...just rambling. You guys have given us a ton of characters to add to the draft pool. Lots of good thoughts.

 Jayden63 wrote:
Arjac Rockfist

This guy is bad ass. Sadly there isn't that much fluff about him, but I like his one page blurb in the SW codex. I really like how he knows his place, he knows his job, and he does it all exceptionally well.

On the table top, he is beastly. Makes his unit of Wolfguard stubborn and that single unit can be kitted out to do pretty much anything you need it to.

+1 arjac wins hands down he looks epic the little fluff on him is epic he could easily wipe out any off gw or fw model in 1 turn

 Brother Payne wrote:
Umm... Sly Marbo? No challenge whatsoever? Possibly more badass (dare I say it!) is Ollanius Pius, however due to not having his name as "Rambo" spelt backwards, takes second place for me.

Honourable mention to Darnath Lysander and I thoroughly encourage you all (if you haven't already) to read this page:
http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Darnath_Lysander

That was a great read lol.

luftsb wrote:

 Jayden63 wrote:
Arjac Rockfist

This guy is bad ass. Sadly there isn't that much fluff about him, but I like his one page blurb in the SW codex. I really like how he knows his place, he knows his job, and he does it all exceptionally well.

On the table top, he is beastly. Makes his unit of Wolfguard stubborn and that single unit can be kitted out to do pretty much anything you need it to.

+1 arjac wins hands down he looks epic the little fluff on him is epic he could easily wipe out any off gw or fw model in 1 turn

I think Sigismund would have something to say about that little 1 turn claim.
Arjac does have epic fluff though.

 urbanevil wrote:

 Brother Payne wrote:
Umm... Sly Marbo? No challenge whatsoever? Possibly more badass (dare I say it!) is Ollanius Pius, however due to not having his name as "Rambo" spelt backwards, takes second place for me.

Honourable mention to Darnath Lysander and I thoroughly encourage you all (if you haven't already) to read this page:
http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Darnath_Lysander

That was a great read lol.

ikr. I should also add Arjac to the list of Honourable mentions - throwable thunder hammer? Yes please

starhawks wrote:
Oh, and I should add that I am a Crimson Fist player, so I don't have a bias there.

A Crimson Fist player not having a bias for the only special character that wields two HUGE powerfists? Come on .

Fluff wise, I don't think there is any one character. Too many have insane feats of strength that are awesome for them. From being a mortal man killing an ork warboss, to being a super dude strutting through the warp.

Personally my favorite is Bjorn the Fell handed. Fought alongside Leman Russ, was a huge influence for space wolves being what they are today. Super badass when he was flesh, super badass when he is a dreadnought.
Biggest feat? He beat up Magnus the Red.

If I was to build an army around a single character, it would be Be'Lakor. He is (IMO) the best toolbox in the game, as well as being one of the best all around face pucnhers in the game.

Sevatar - "We were murderers first, last, and always!"

Alessio Cortez - "I haven't lost my arm, brother! It's right over there! I'm still in this! I'm fine!"

Da Red Gobbo - "Viva la Revolushun!!!"

Ghazghkull - "I'm da prophet of da WAAAGH! an' whole worlds burn in my boot prints."

Doomrider - "*snorts warp dust off a daemonettes tits*"

Cypher - "I'M GONNA TATTLE ON YOU!!!"

 Envihon wrote:
If only Mortarion's Heart was the thing we knew about Kaldor Draigo instead of the ridiculous entry Matt Ward wrote him, I would be throwing Draigo's name up there but alas, it is not so.

Wait, what?

D4Chan wrote:Kaldor Draigo is famous for [...] banishing Daemon Primarch Mortarion back to the warp, somehow carving the name of the previous supreme grand master Geronitan (a fething long name) into the heart of said Daemon Primarch without contracting space daemon AIDS in the process (to put this insanity in perspective, try cursive writing with a Chainsaw)

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

starhawks wrote:
Oh, and I should add that I am a Crimson Fist player, so I don't have a bias there.

A Crimson Fist player not having a bias for the only special character that wields two HUGE powerfists? Come on .

Don't forget about Calgar

 Macharius. wrote:

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

starhawks wrote:
Oh, and I should add that I am a Crimson Fist player, so I don't have a bias there.

A Crimson Fist player not having a bias for the only special character that wields two HUGE powerfists? Come on .

Don't forget about Calgar

Or the biggest and bestest of all space marines evar, Calgar

Throwing my hat in either the Memphy or Kantor groups. Memphy suffered the rage and went to war for his final battle. He had a tower collapse on him, and was abandoned as dead. A week later in hostile ork territory with next to no armor left he woke up, slaughtered his way to the imperials, and rejoined the fight. He has also reportedly ripped apart a 'fex barehanded (not an avatar). Plus hes dead 'ard and can solo entire units (of 3+ saves) by himself with ease. His statline looks more like a monstrous creature than anything on a 25mm base should ever have.

As for good 'ol Pedro, dude had his home monastery destroyed, and held the line against an ork invasion with 14 warriors and WON. Hell yeah.

Honorable mention to Seth. Fuckhuge chainsword, crazy chapter thats on the verge of dying out or being excomunicate tratoris and keeps eating their allies, and the guy is so good at fighting he kicks his opponents in the balls/ovaries if they miss him in melee. Plus, i run him and Corbulo and call them team brofist rending chainsword. So much fun to have the two of them cost less than a super character from another codex yet do twice as much damage.

That would be Khorne, Lord of Skulls.

lliu wrote:
That would be Khorne, Lord of Skulls.

please - Tzeentch, Lord of Change

 Brother Payne wrote:

lliu wrote:
That would be Khorne, Lord of Skulls.

please - Tzeentch, Lord of Change

Pretty sure even the other Chaos gods admit Khorne could just thundercleave whole worlds apart, except he's too busy chillin' on his throne.


Of course, neither is a playable character, soooooooo.......

This guy...Orpheus Doofy.

 Murdius Maximus wrote:
This guy...Orpheus Doofy.

I can't open the file.

I did not even try when Firefox did not propose to use an image viewer. Dubious file is dubious.

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:
I did not even try when Firefox did not propose to use an image viewer. Dubious file is dubious.

It's possible that it's only compatible with an OS I don't have, but the program was not recognized at all.

No love for An'ggrath?

http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/An'ggrath_the_Unbound

What does badass mean other than kill everything in the name of a dark God?

Notice how many times the word terrible is used in that article. No one else gets that many terribles. This is not up for debate.

 techsoldaten wrote:
No love for An'ggrath?

http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/An'ggrath_the_Unbound

What does badass mean other than kill everything in the name of a dark God?

Notice how many times the word terrible is used in that article. No one else gets that many terribles. This is not up for debate.

Three times.

Gotz to say, Wazdakka Gutzmek. An angry Ork biker - don't get much more nasty than that. The dude rides the Bike of the Aporkalypz. He's so-o-o bad they
didn't give him his own page in the Ork codex 'cause they didn't want to scare the little kiddies. The guy leveled his own kamp when he was accused of cheating.
Rumor has it he's putting together his own Waaggh just to screw with the galaxy. Reason? He don't got to have no stinkin' reason.

 ciaotym wrote:
Gotz to say, Wazdakka Gutzmek. An angry Ork biker - don't get much more nasty than that. The dude rides the Bike of the Aporkalypz. He's so-o-o bad they
didn't give him his own page in the Ork codex 'cause they didn't want to scare the little kiddies. The guy leveled his own kamp when he was accused of cheating.
Rumor has it he's putting together his own Waaggh just to screw with the galaxy. Reason? He don't got to have no stinkin' reason.

Reason: he's trying to create a planet-to-planet motorbike highway.

Eiserhorn the badass character , more because of his actions than his skill (compared thith other characters )

 Brother Payne wrote:

lliu wrote:
That would be Khorne, Lord of Skulls.

please - Tzeentch, Lord of Change

Yup, only reason Khorne is in power is because all the other gods ganged up on poor old blue because they couldn't stand his constant card tricks and hat rabbits. And now there is only war.

Big Blue will be back though soon as the blue scribes collect his shards.

Obiwan Sherlock Clousseau is pretty high up there on the list of most badass original GW characters. He's an Inquisitor that wears skin tight power armor that looks like jeans and a t-shirt, disdains helmets for fedoras, and thinks trenchcoats are the height of fashion.

St. Celestine. All other answers are heresy.

Honorable mention to John Grammaticus who defeated armies with the super psyker power of being able to speak any language. Oh and that whole resurrection trick.

It was Logan until they turned him into santa. I'm going to build that model with a red nose on one of the wolves and a big bag of presents in the sleigh. Maybe I can green stuff a red hat for Logan to complete the look...

Aside from the no-duh people like The Emperor, primarchs, and marbo etc. Would be Ephrael Stern IMO.

Her feats for a normal sister of battle aside from her physic power are as followed.

Ephrael managed to defeat a fellow sister that was poessed by a demon of slaanesh with her bare hands.

killed a Culexus Assassin by herself with her powers.

Able to access and use the eldar webways.


PRetty impressive for a Sister.

Typhus. Of all the ICs, he is by far my favorite both fluffwise and rule wise.

Mephiston and the Saint both came back from the dead.

Oberron wrote:
Aside from the no-duh people like The Emperor, primarchs, and marbo etc. Would be Ephrael Stern IMO.

Her feats for a normal sister of battle aside from her physic power are as followed.

Ephrael managed to defeat a fellow sister that was poessed by a demon of slaanesh with her bare hands.

killed a Culexus Assassin by herself with her powers.

Able to access and use the eldar webways.


PRetty impressive for a Sister.

Ah yea, forgot about Ephrael. I'd vote for her. Any living saint, really lol

Logan

"You are not touching this refugees because i say so, bitch"

Mephiston, Lord of Death. His name/title says it all.

Marshal Karis Vener, because its the only DKoK special character.

I quite liked Bastonne back then, too, but he's gone :(

Outside the TT, Trooper Andrej, Ollanius Pius, Warden-Colonel Parmenion Thade and Master Sargeant Ban Jevrian.

Colonel Miles Quaritch, O wait, wrong universe.

All hail the god emperor of mankind.

Fireraven wrote:
Mephiston and the Saint both came back from the dead.

Mephiston never actually came back from death, everyone just thought he was dead.

Hmmm still not a whole lot of Marbo

Kids these days with there bad influences and all.

 Desubot wrote:
Hmmm still not a whole lot of Marbo

Kids these days with there bad influences and all.

Yes, shame on them for thinking a mindless killing machine to be less impressive than:

A man who takes a licking and keeps on ticking, rallies his men in even the darkest times, and never, ever gives up.

Yarrick!

Wait a sec, can I nominate the girls from the very well-written (IMO) fanfics starting with Bolter B-Word Privileges?

 Happyjew wrote:
Wait a sec, can I nominate the girls from the very well-written (IMO) fanfics starting with Bolter B-Word Privileges?

I second happy on this one, really fun bunch of Sisters.

 rryannn wrote:
Chapter Master on bike w/ artificer armour, shield eternal and thunderhammer!!!!

correction : IRON HANDS CM with TH/LC Artificer armor gorgon's chain and bike, riding with other HQ and commsquad and apothecary on bikes


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Jokes aside: Grimaldus (temple crashes on his head, and he is like: no rosarius needed, i am outta here)
Sigismund: Most crazy and zealous Imperial fist during the heresy, right after Big D. Gets the title of first emperors champion, at the siege of terra roflstomps 20+ traitor champions, before that, in the novel betrayer, it is mentioned that during great crusade he beated up kharn (!!) In seven (!!!!!!!!!!!) Seconds in the world eater gladiator pits and also once dueled 20 hours with Kharn, and since neither could get the upper hand, headbutted him and won the duel
Ollanious Pious: stood in front of the HORUS HIMSELF WITHOUT SOILING HIS PANTS or running away in terror and taking away his life and sacrificed his life for Emperor to realize that Horus is beyond redemption, and provided the emperor time to ZAP Horus with mind bullets
Lemartes Like Mephy, but WAAAAAAAY cooler
Sly Marbo: nuff said

Blood for the blood god! Skulls for the skull throne! Khorne, lord of skulls, obviously.

Mr. Nailbrain (DoW2)

You can be whatever cool, but you can't be "Ork witn Tesla coil on his head, chewing a screw and running around with deffgun on his shoulder" cool.

Hogger.