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I'm not sure if this thread is too stupid to exist, but I really enjoyed the sillyness that occured in another thread in YMDC where people started acting as if fluff was rules. What would happen if fluff was rules? I'm sure there are many examples of stupidity to be found here. I can provide a few Ork ones.

The deffguns that lootas have says that they "spell a violent death to anyone in its crosshairs". So I roll to hit and if it's a hit, whatever I'm shooting at dies.

Warbosses have this line in their fluff: "When the battle is raging, these monstrous and all-powerful Orks give full rein to their battlelust, charging into the ranks of the enemy and slaughtering everything in their path." So any model that comes in base contact with the Warboss is instantly killed.

Again, sorry if this is too stupid to exist.

All armies would become ridiculous.
IG would be fun.
Tyranids would be fun.
Actually a lot of armies would be fun since the other army has ridiculous rules as well.
Marines would be interesting. Land Raiders would be untouchabe.
Apocalypse... not even worth playing if fluff was rules.

purplefood wrote:All armies would become ridiculous.
IG would be fun.
Tyranids would be fun.
Actually a lot of armies would be fun since the other army has ridiculous rules as well.
Marines would be interesting. Land Raiders would be untouchabe.
Apocalypse... not even worth playing if fluff was rules.

I realize that =) Maybe I was unclear but I was more looking for particular examples ^^

Pariah's would be good

Calgar can just go around punching avatars in the face

and if you have Dante you could take necrons as allies

Necrons would be used for target practice...

Like from codex fluff?
If so sorry for my first post and i'll grab something to put in this thread.

If such were to happen youd have a cap on so many space marine armies.

Play Eldrad, Blackstone Fortress immediately descends and eats him.

Play Farseer, enemy turn to clay.

Orks would be closer to BS1.

Guardsmen would do more damage, but die (even) faster.

Commissars would have 2+ invulnerable saves.

Explosions either from ordnance or exploding vehichles would hurt more.

Doom of Malan'tai would be unstoppable

Gibbsey wrote:Doom of Malan'tai would be unstoppable

As would just about any Special Character...

Footsloggin wrote:

Gibbsey wrote:Doom of Malan'tai would be unstoppable

As would just about any Special Character...

i was going by since Doom gains the power of anything it kills and since its already single handidly wiped out an eldar craftworld (called Malan'tai i beleive), you have an incredibly powerful psyker running around getting stronger every day

Gibbsey wrote:

Footsloggin wrote:

Gibbsey wrote:Doom of Malan'tai would be unstoppable

As would just about any Special Character...

i was going by since Doom gains the power of anything it kills and since its already single handidly wiped out an eldar craftworld (called Malan'tai i beleive), you have an incredibly powerful psyker running around getting stronger every day

True, true, the only reason it did get stronger however, was the fact that it slipped past all eldar forces, gaining access. To their life force area??? I don't quite know, but it then used the power it gained to wreck all of the craftworld, leaving a hollow shell. It, never to be seen... SPOOOKY!!!

Footsloggin wrote:

Gibbsey wrote:

Footsloggin wrote:

Gibbsey wrote:Doom of Malan'tai would be unstoppable

As would just about any Special Character...

i was going by since Doom gains the power of anything it kills and since its already single handidly wiped out an eldar craftworld (called Malan'tai i beleive), you have an incredibly powerful psyker running around getting stronger every day

True, true, the only reason it did get stronger however, was the fact that it slipped past all eldar forces, gaining access. To their life force area??? I don't quite know, but it then used the power it gained to wreck all of the craftworld, leaving a hollow shell. It, never to be seen... SPOOOKY!!!

lol i guess after eating an entire eldar infiinity circuit it just wants to chillax, screw the hive mind

(it gets stronger with each soul it consumes, getting to the infinity circuit allowed it to consume every soul there)

Gibbsey wrote:
Calgar can just go around punching avatars in the face

That happens with actual rules.

Eldar 1: Y'know, seeing that the infinity circuit is so important, housing our souls and whatnot, don't you think we should put a...I don't know, some sort of guard over it?

Eldar 2: Meh, seeing as whatever threatens the infinity circuit needs to get through half the Craftworld first I don't think it's really a problem.

Eldar 1: What if a single, untracable mycetic spore housing the Doom of Us All with enournmous growing psychic power somehow manages to sneak in there?

Eldar 2: ...that's the stupidest thing I have ever heard.

Eldar 1: All I'm saying is we should at least put some kind of saftey strap or child lock over the damn thing.

Eldar 2: We'll look into it...

Emperors Faithful wrote:Eldar 1: Y'know, seeing that the infinity circuit is so important, housing our souls and whatnot, don't you think we should put a...I don't know, some sort of guard over it?

Eldar 2: Meh, seeing as whatever threatens the infinity circuit needs to get through half the Craftworld first I don't think it's really a problem.

Eldar 1: What if a single, untracable mycetic spore housing the Doom of Us All with enournmous growing psychic power somehow manages to sneak in there?

Eldar 2: ...that's the stupidest thing I have ever heard.

Eldar 1: All I'm saying is we should at least put some kind of saftey strap or child lock over the damn thing.

Eldar 2: We'll look into it...

Hmmmmm those Eldar are no way near arrogant enough

No one would ever play a game of 40k

Space marines always win, so everyone would collect space marines. Space marines never fight each other, so no one would be able to play a game with their space marines.

The only games would be between a space marine player and someone else who is thinking to themself "how can I spectacularly lose today?"

Gibbsey wrote:

Emperors Faithful wrote:Eldar 1: Y'know, seeing that the infinity circuit is so important, housing our souls and whatnot, don't you think we should put a...I don't know, some sort of guard over it?

Eldar 2: Meh, seeing as whatever threatens the infinity circuit needs to get through half the Craftworld first I don't think it's really a problem.

Eldar 1: What if a single, untracable mycetic spore housing the Doom of Us All with enournmous growing psychic power somehow manages to sneak in there?

Eldar 2: ...that's the stupidest thing I have ever heard.

Eldar 1: All I'm saying is we should at least put some kind of saftey strap or child lock over the damn thing.

Eldar 2: We'll look into it...

Hmmmmm those Eldar are no way near arrogant enough

Ye Gods! These critics!

D-Cannons would one hit entire squads
Farseers would brings moons smashing into planets
Death Jesters would one hit mostly everything

Hive tyrants w/ Guard would be the only thing on the table required. one genestealer would kill a squad of terminators.

Ailaros wrote:No one would ever play a game of 40k

Space marines always win, so everyone would collect space marines. Space marines never fight each other, so no one would be able to play a game with their space marines.

The only games would be between a space marine player and someone else who is thinking to themself "how can I spectacularly lose today?"

Well...Orks never lose

"Orkses never lose a battle. If we win we win, if we die we die fightin so it don't count. If we runs for it we don't die neither, cos we can come back for annuver go, see!"

Avatars would always die.
Marines would go around walking into artillery fire for fun
You'd make your warboss as big as possible and he'd insta kill everything
Dark Eldar wouldn't be allowed in apoc games because they're strictly raiders
Kharn would be even more insane.

Victimized Tyrant wrote:Hive tyrants w/ Guard would be the only thing on the table required. one genestealer would kill a squad of terminators.

It says fluff not just over powered stuff.
Genestealers, although 1 had never taken down an entire squad of terminators, have an alarming propensity for killing them

Dark Eldar would always, always beat you because they can destroy your defenses from a mile away.
Wyches can carve through whole squads of Spess Merhrens.
Calgar, Abaddon, and generally all Monstrous Creatures are nearly invincible.

Ixias wrote:"Orkses never lose a battle. If we win we win, if we die we die fightin so it don't count.

Actaully, they still lose, it just doesn't count.

They still lose though, regardless of how they choose to view it.

Otherwise a space marine player and an ork player would sit down at a table and the entire world would get instantly sucked into a black hole shortly before the whole universe disappeared in a puff of logic.

JazzyJ wrote:Avatars would always die.
Marines would go around walking into artillery fire for fun
You'd make your warboss as big as possible and he'd insta kill everything
Dark Eldar wouldn't be allowed in apoc games because they're strictly raiders
Kharn would be even more insane.

Kharn would kill everything on both sides. Then he'd kill you and your opponent then everyone you know.

purplefood wrote:Kharn would kill everything on both sides. Then he'd kill you and your opponent then everyone you know.

heh, yeah. You'd put the model down on the table and the evening news would show the gory scene of thousands of people getting slaughtered by a tiny pewter miniature on the rampage. It would only finally be brought down when someone arrived with a tiny pewter miniature of Marenus Calgar.

... more on how this effects your weekend at 7.

IG artillery companies... no point fighting.
Also GK armies would be insane and also almost any army could just call down constant orbital barrages.

purplefood wrote:IG artillery companies... no point fighting.

space marines are actually immune to artillery, though.