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My Lord Commissar Earned the name "Lord Fluffy" after he sat an entire 7000 Apocalypse game on his rock yelling at men to stop moving back and reading Godly locks and the three bears.

I called one of my Terminus ultra the Fail Tank. Because every game i play it in. It kills itself. -.-

Then my devastor squad kept shooting but they kept missing a bloody gretchin squad. how does that happen?

My friend had a Necron warrior he nicknamed Usain Bolt because the squad he was in walked all the way across the board and then finally failed it's leader ship when he was the last man left and then he ran all the way back across the board.
My Rune Priest is called Saturday because he is a voodoo shaman.

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My Rune Priest is called Saturday because he is a voodoo shaman.

One of my Sisters Superior is called Tuesday. I wonder if there are five others out there.

I used to have a Plague Marine Sorcerer Lord based on the Ahriman model, but holding a globe in one hand. I don't know who it was, but somebody at the store I gamed at at the time called him "The Disco King" and it stuck.

I have a marine with a missile launcher who in every game I have used him in has killed a friendly due to scatter.

Named him, "Three shots to the wind"

I named a heavy flamer guardsmen responsible for the death of 14 genestealers and saviour of the lives of a company command squad Duke Nukem.

This is Birdie, for obvious reasons

My first carnifex I ever built got named fluffy.

Ironic since it never died that edition. Exploded first game of 3rd ed. :(

I'm a fan of conversions on a whim of whatever meets my fancy, so I made a 2 headed Fire Warrior with a Photon Grenade for a left arm, called him THGAG (Two headed grenade arm guy, said TE-H-GOG) the Hobo. He was one of my first models and I made him for a laugh. I also have a squad of Crisis Suits that were missing one or both of their feet, so I cut apart some (first-third edition) Orks I had and glued the legs of the Crisis Suits into crevasses in the bottom halves. The go around using Orks as shoes so I now call them my Ork Stompas.

My newest models are all normal though, just some minor conversions to make them more dramatic or just for personalization.

I'm Loving the names some guys earn in battle!

My first Guardsman to dies name is Kenny.

I used to play guard, back in 4th edition. I had a veteran squad that was notorious throughout my gaming circle... leading them, was a beast of a man. He was awarded the honorifica imperialis, and packed a power fist and a bolter. His squad packed 3x grenade launchers, and they would often spearhead counter-assaults into battle.

That sergeant's name... was Brock Samson, the Swedish Murder Machine. I remember once, single handedly, he killed an entire 10 man tactical squad of marines after loosing everyone else in his squad.

However, NOTHING quite compares to his exploits while fighting my one friend's sisters of battle. He would sometimes kill as many as 25 of them with his squad in a single game, consolidating from combat to combat, punching down hags every turn. And let me tell you, saying, "Brock power fists your sister, she dies" NEVER gets old, and NEVER stopped being funny.

My chaplain is named Spunkmeyer.
Usually the first die because I play him like a cruise missile.

I love your chaplain's cookies.

Well, my wife calls Ghazghkull Thraka "Ghazziepoo." She calls Snikrot "Snikkie." She also claims that her battlewagons run on bubbles and clouds and can fly on butterfly wings, and that there are bunnehs in her army.

Oh, she says that she also calls Snikrot "Coke head" because she gave him a coke fingernail.


I'm sure she has other freaky names for some of the models.

I recently started playing grey knights, and on the first game they played I lost 4 of them and a justicar trying to cross a river thus earning them the nickname: the drowning knights

Names? Not really.

I do heap loads of profanity on them, though.

My friend's Imperial guard army has quite a few nicknames, but one of them is griff, he is a regular imp guard, idk much about them but he had them in an open topped bunker, first a devestator round from a vindi came in and wiped out the entire squad of men cept griff and the one other, they passed leadership tests, then a transport dropped a whole squad of units in and griff and the one other guardsmen took the whole unit out... he was fighting SM... it was ridiculous.

5 Rounds of CC and rolling nothing but 1's has earned my Dreadnought the nickname "Snake Eyes"

My metal VenDread who is stepping on a Fallen Angel is named Battle Brother Vin Diesel.

In my IG army, I have Sarge, leader of red team (thats his squads name), they all have red on them somewhere.
How he got the name was, me and a freind where waiting for his ally (i play games of 2v2) to finish assualting my ally so we where talking about Red vs Blue, namley the episodes where sarge is screaming "I LOVE BLOOD AND GUTS" and the other episode where he talks to Doc and says"I only drink the blood of my enemies"

well in the next turn red team charged my friends possesed squad and sarge kills several of the possesed and I screamed "I LOVE BLOOD AND GUTS" so we called him sarge.

I have "lucky" the vox caster who killed 2 chaos terminators with a lasgun, he then turned out ot be the only surviving guardsman in the game.

I want to get the armagedon commissar and name him "deaths head".

My friends named my DP 'The Daemon formerly known as Prince' because back in Chaos 3.5, he was decked out with a Berzerker Glaive, MoK, stature, strength and several other bonus'. Charged a Grey Knight Terminator squad, about 9 attacks if I recall, hit once and failed to wound. Was beaten down afterwords. A good 300pt or so unit put to pasture. After all these years he still has yet to redeem himself from that failure.

Philosopher-marine leads one of my CSM squads.

One of my carnifex's is called old bill

but i don't have a reson why

and i played a game with some one who called one of there ork nobs rick james

Sergeant Badassov Ubermesnschki leads one of my squads. He earned that title by having the rest of his Guardsman squad killed around him and refused to run. I still remember, my opponent was checking to see how many more scoring units I had, and he thought I only had one remaining vet squad who could hold objectives. I then had the joy of pointing out Sergeant Badass and pointing out he was still a troops choice. My opponent's response was simply to death glare the good sergeant and murmur threats to the man.....

My Chaos Dreadnought - one of them, the old metal one - is known as Triple-Corpse Hammer-Blow. Where the name comes from I'm not 100% sure (some Nordic Death-Metal that a friend of mine is into), but the reputation that got him that name is well earned.

Armed with a humble TL-Autocannon, he has shot down more Eldar skimmers than I can count, and with his Power Scourge, has scythed his way through more infantry than I can remember. He has survived Destroyer hits in Apoc games when everyone around him has been blasted to pieces. He has survived almost every game he's played in.

He is a walking death machine, and it's always fun to bring him to the table.



My first Cadian Flamer model (old metal Cadians) is named Billy Bob, and is in reference to him being the only survivor of some 20 Cadians that were attacked by an equal number of Khorne Berzerkers (this was in 2nd Ed 40K). Only the timely arrival of Inquisitor Lord Dennifus Zentor (and his S9 Nemesis Great Sword) saved the poor Guardsman from death.

And finally the sergeant of the 4th Tactical Squad in my Ultramarines army is Brother-Veteran Sergeant Harklem Ore-Eater, the Iron One, Berzerker's Bane. This Sergeant killed 20 Khorne Berzerkers in HTH, challenging each one after the other, and emerging victorious (hence 'Berzerker's Bane'). He also somehow survived - and again, this is in 2nd Ed, so this is very hard to do - direct hits from a Multi-Melta and a Lascannon, and thus he earned the name 'The Iron One'. And he's just a humble Veteran Sergeant w/Master Crafted Power Sword, Bolter & Aux Grenade Launcher. The model's WYSIWYG as well.

I love this Thread. Hearing stories of how we all got they one guy, You know him, that Always wins. Or the Guy that a blind grot with a tooth pick, is better than.

I dont name any of my own, a mate that I play regularly has loads of named models.
There is a dreadnought who lasted until turn 7 of the 1st game it ever played without killing anything. It was constantly rolling 1's when trying to wound with its lascannon and hardly ever mannaged to hit. He is now known as Juan (because its sounds a bit like 1 )

There is a AoBR space marine vetran that was "modified" by having one of the little owls from a wood elves kit put on his pointing hand. He is now affectinatly known as Captain Falcon

There is a tactical marine with missile launcher who happened to be the last model left on the board in a game against myself, I had a Khorne lord with deamon weapon, a couple of CSM's and an obliterator left. the model know known as Harvey (I have no idea why) killed the remainder of the CSM unit in 1 shot (4 men I think) next turn the oblit god krak missiled and died. the lord finally got into CC with him (only 2 models left on the board, turn 7) rolled a 1 for his deamon weapon and died. It was the most unlucky I've ever been

My Vulkan He'stan model is nicknamed 'Heston' after Heston Blumenthal, the famous chef. This is because he goes around the galaxy cooking potential gormet meals using his heavy flamer.

On his epic mission for the best ever meal he has sampled:
Genestealer rump steak
Deamon Prince Jerky
C'tan Stew
Fire Warrior in the hole
Necron Spare Rib
and many others...