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2012/04/30 12:11:30
Subject: Dear Necrons: Get your own gorram look, stop stealing ours. Sincerely, the Tyranids.
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Raging Ravener
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The new stuff looks very much like mechanized Tyranids.
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"If you really want to know what it was like, to fight in the air in the great War, then go up to someone you have never met and who has never done you the slightest harm and pour a two-gallon tin of petrol over them. Then apply a match, and when they are nicely ablaze, push them from a fifteenth-floor window after first perhaps shooting them a few times in the back with a revolver. And be aware as you are doing these things that ten seconds later someone else will quite probably do them to you. This will exactly reproduce... the substance of First World War aerial combat and will cost your country nothing. It will also avoid the necessity of ten million other people to die in order for you to enjoy it."
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2012/04/30 12:14:20
Subject: Re:Dear Necrons: Get your own gorram look, stop stealing ours. Sincerely, the Tyranids.
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Guarding Guardian
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So glad I'm not the only one who feels the same way. I think the new wraiths and spyders look way too bug-like. I've been looking into alternatives. Puppetswar has some good ones.
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2012/04/30 12:27:44
Subject: Dear Necrons: Get your own gorram look, stop stealing ours. Sincerely, the Tyranids.
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Land Raider Pilot on Cruise Control
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I actually love the stuff. I do feel it looks a little insectoid, but I also think they've got a very techno-Egyptian look, especially with the Crypteks, Overlords, and Lychguard.
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2012/04/30 12:32:43
Subject: Re:Dear Necrons: Get your own gorram look, stop stealing ours. Sincerely, the Tyranids.
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Dakka Veteran
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margomoh wrote: spyders look way too bug-like.
Spiders are bugs: just saying.
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2012/04/30 12:34:08
Subject: Re:Dear Necrons: Get your own gorram look, stop stealing ours. Sincerely, the Tyranids.
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Land Raider Pilot on Cruise Control
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Veldrain wrote:margomoh wrote: spyders look way too bug-like.
Spiders are bugs: just saying.
Exalt for frankness. 
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2012/04/30 13:00:29
Subject: Re:Dear Necrons: Get your own gorram look, stop stealing ours. Sincerely, the Tyranids.
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Raging Ravener
Mid-Michigan
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Yeah, the wraiths look like mechanical raveners.
When the Necron codex came out much of it was stuff I'd love to have as a Tyranid player. Night fight, entire board dangerous terrain, etc. Who makes a planet dark with the choking spores and bodies of flying creatures? Who makes the terrain dangerous with terraforming? 
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2012/04/30 13:26:14
Subject: Re:Dear Necrons: Get your own gorram look, stop stealing ours. Sincerely, the Tyranids.
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Hellish Haemonculus
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I don't really see them as being that similar, but that's just me.
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2012/04/30 13:30:21
Subject: Re:Dear Necrons: Get your own gorram look, stop stealing ours. Sincerely, the Tyranids.
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Renegade Inquisitor de Marche
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mugginns wrote: Who makes a planet dark with the choking spores and bodies of flying creatures?:
Then we will fight in the shade...  Incidentally i like the look of the new Necron units... They look insect like but not that similar to Tyranids...
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This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2012/04/30 13:31:16
Dakka Bingo! By Ouze
"You are the best at flying things"-Kanluwen
"Further proof that Purple is a fething brilliant super villain " -KingCracker
"Purp.. Im pretty sure I have a gun than can reach you...."-Nicorex
"That's not really an apocalypse. That's just Europe."-Grakmar
"almost as good as winning free cake at the tea drinking contest for an Englishman." -Reds8n
Seal up your lips and give no words but mum.
Equip, Reload. Do violence.
Watch for Gerry. |
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2012/04/30 13:35:18
Subject: Re:Dear Necrons: Get your own gorram look, stop stealing ours. Sincerely, the Tyranids.
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Fixture of Dakka
On a boat, Trying not to die.
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What's this!?
A model made to look like bugs looks like an army that looks like bugs!?
For shame! FOR SHAME!
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Every Normal Man Must Be Tempted At Times To Spit On His Hands, Hoist That Black Flag, And Begin Slitting Throats. |
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2012/04/30 13:53:59
Subject: Re:Dear Necrons: Get your own gorram look, stop stealing ours. Sincerely, the Tyranids.
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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Veldrain wrote:margomoh wrote: spyders look way too bug-like.
Spiders are bugs: just saying.
Spiders are not even insects, just saying. Here is your grade E in science, wiseguy 
That said, I prefer the (old GW and new Puppet's War) bug design over the new GW spider-like design.
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2012/04/30 14:30:28
Subject: Dear Necrons: Get your own gorram look, stop stealing ours. Sincerely, the Tyranids.
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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The new necrons look great. Not sure what the problem is.
Dear Tyrranids,
Ghskldjf$# and FJER&^#$44#$.
Love to the family,
Kronk
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2012/04/30 14:45:41
Subject: Dear Necrons: Get your own gorram look, stop stealing ours. Sincerely, the Tyranids.
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Flashy Flashgitz
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In years to come, when the Nids get a new dex, I forsee something like: Dear Tyranids, stop looking like units from _________ codex.
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I'll show ye..... - Phillip J. Fry
Those are brave men knocking on our door! Let's go kill them! - Tyrion Lannister |
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2012/04/30 14:48:05
Subject: Re:Dear Necrons: Get your own gorram look, stop stealing ours. Sincerely, the Tyranids.
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Regular Dakkanaut
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Kroothawk wrote:Veldrain wrote:margomoh wrote: spyders look way too bug-like.
Spiders are bugs: just saying.
Spiders are not even insects, just saying. Here is your grade E in science, wiseguy
That said, I prefer the (old GW and new Puppet's War) bug design over the new GW spider-like design.
He said "bug" not "insect". Clearly a spider is a bug of the aracnid family, doesn't change that its a bug. All insects are bugs, not all bugs are insects. 
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2012/04/30 14:52:03
Subject: Dear Necrons: Get your own gorram look, stop stealing ours. Sincerely, the Tyranids.
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Raging Ravener
Mid-Michigan
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beigeknight wrote:In years to come, when the Nids get a new dex, I forsee something like: Dear Tyranids, stop looking like units from _________ codex.
I doubt it.
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2012/04/30 16:49:05
Subject: Dear Necrons: Get your own gorram look, stop stealing ours. Sincerely, the Tyranids.
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Powerful Chaos Warrior
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I to felt there was some similarity to the tyranids tyrgon/mowlac model but if you look at the old school wraith model it had a bit of that feel to begin with so you 'nid armies give us necrons our model back thank you....
with all that said I personally like the look of the spyder and the triarch stalker and tomb blades look extremely nice. The spyder has a look not much different then the old look but with a bit more updated mechanical look and a lot more intimidating imo.... i do like the upgrade options for the heavy destroyer/destroyer lord models....
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2012/04/30 17:08:54
Subject: Dear Necrons: Get your own gorram look, stop stealing ours. Sincerely, the Tyranids.
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Gore-Soaked Lunatic Witchhunter
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Dear Tyranids: Get your own look and stop stealing ours.
Sincerely, the Dark Eldar.
Talos/Cronos. Tervigon. Seeing the resemblance?
I'm not sure why this is even an issue in the first place. Why don't we all stop fighting each other and go beat on the Starcraft people for stealing 'Nids, Eldar, and Space Marines and changing all the names?
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2012/04/30 17:27:21
Subject: Dear Necrons: Get your own gorram look, stop stealing ours. Sincerely, the Tyranids.
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Raging Ravener
Mid-Michigan
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AnomanderRake wrote:Talos/Cronos. Tervigon. Seeing the resemblance?
None whatsoever - the tervigon / tyrannofex are modeled after the hierophant.
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2012/04/30 18:17:52
Subject: Dear Necrons: Get your own gorram look, stop stealing ours. Sincerely, the Tyranids.
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Stalwart Tribune
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TermiesInARaider wrote:I actually love the stuff. I do feel it looks a little insectoid, but I also think they've got a very techno-Egyptian look, especially with the Crypteks, Overlords, and Lychguard.
+1 but i think that was the idea that they looked insectoid (plus I like the new techo-Egyptian look bu that might just be cecause i like that period of history!)
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Praise be to Dark Sphere savior of cheapskates! |
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2012/05/02 11:36:21
Subject: Dear Necrons: Get your own gorram look, stop stealing ours. Sincerely, the Tyranids.
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Raging Ravener
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AnomanderRake wrote:
I'm not sure why this is even an issue in the first place. Why don't we all stop fighting each other and go beat on the Starcraft people for stealing 'Nids, Eldar, and Space Marines and changing all the names?
Because Blizzard has a fethload more money than GW?
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"If you really want to know what it was like, to fight in the air in the great War, then go up to someone you have never met and who has never done you the slightest harm and pour a two-gallon tin of petrol over them. Then apply a match, and when they are nicely ablaze, push them from a fifteenth-floor window after first perhaps shooting them a few times in the back with a revolver. And be aware as you are doing these things that ten seconds later someone else will quite probably do them to you. This will exactly reproduce... the substance of First World War aerial combat and will cost your country nothing. It will also avoid the necessity of ten million other people to die in order for you to enjoy it."
John Biggens The Two -Headed Eagle |
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2012/05/02 12:04:29
Subject: Dear Necrons: Get your own gorram look, stop stealing ours. Sincerely, the Tyranids.
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Ork Admiral Kroozin Da Kosmos on Da Hulk
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And the current nids were basically stolen from StarCraft. GW's old Tyranids looked very, very different from now.
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7 Ork facts people always get wrong:
Ragnar did not win against Thrakka, but suffered two crushing defeats within a few days of each other.
A lasgun is powerful enough to sever an ork's appendage or head in a single, well aimed shot.
Orks meks have a better understanding of electrics and mechanics than most Tech Priests.
Orks actually do not think that purple makes them harder to see. The joke was made canon by Alex Stewart's Caphias Cain books.
Gharkull Blackfang did not even come close to killing the emperor.
Orks can be corrupted by chaos, but few of them have any interest in what chaos offers.
Orks do not have the power of believe. |
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2012/05/02 14:55:55
Subject: Dear Necrons: Get your own gorram look, stop stealing ours. Sincerely, the Tyranids.
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Rampaging Khorne Dreadnought
Wollongong, Australia
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AnomanderRake wrote:Dear Tyranids: Get your own look and stop stealing ours.
Sincerely, the Dark Eldar.
Talos/Cronos. Tervigon. Seeing the resemblance?
I'm not sure why this is even an issue in the first place. Why don't we all stop fighting each other and go beat on the Starcraft people for stealing 'Nids, Eldar, and Space Marines and changing all the names?
Dear Dark Eldar,
Stop Stealing our Spikes
Sincerely, the Forces of Chaos.
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2012/05/02 14:57:36
Subject: Dear Necrons: Get your own gorram look, stop stealing ours. Sincerely, the Tyranids.
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Renegade Inquisitor de Marche
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rockerbikie wrote:AnomanderRake wrote:Dear Tyranids: Get your own look and stop stealing ours.
Sincerely, the Dark Eldar.
Talos/Cronos. Tervigon. Seeing the resemblance?
I'm not sure why this is even an issue in the first place. Why don't we all stop fighting each other and go beat on the Starcraft people for stealing 'Nids, Eldar, and Space Marines and changing all the names?
Dear Dark Eldar,
Stop Stealing our Spikes
Sincerely, the Forces of Chaos.
Dear Chaos,
Stop stealing us.
Sincerely, The Imperium.
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Dakka Bingo! By Ouze
"You are the best at flying things"-Kanluwen
"Further proof that Purple is a fething brilliant super villain " -KingCracker
"Purp.. Im pretty sure I have a gun than can reach you...."-Nicorex
"That's not really an apocalypse. That's just Europe."-Grakmar
"almost as good as winning free cake at the tea drinking contest for an Englishman." -Reds8n
Seal up your lips and give no words but mum.
Equip, Reload. Do violence.
Watch for Gerry. |
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2012/05/02 14:58:20
Subject: Re:Dear Necrons: Get your own gorram look, stop stealing ours. Sincerely, the Tyranids.
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Trazyn's Museum Curator
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Dear Forces of Chaos, Stop stealing my iconography and themes, Sincerely, Michael Moorcock Problem?  Dammit, got ninja'd, so my stab isn't effective. Hmmm lets see. Oh, I got it! Dear IoM, Stop stealing my suits of power armor, Sincerely, Robert Heinlein
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This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2012/05/02 14:59:37
What I have
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Westwood lives in death!
Peace through power!
A longbeard when it comes to Necrons and WHFB. Grumble Grumble
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2012/05/02 15:37:51
Subject: Dear Necrons: Get your own gorram look, stop stealing ours. Sincerely, the Tyranids.
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Ork Admiral Kroozin Da Kosmos on Da Hulk
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Dear ladz, stop stealin' our fings ta krump before us can krump dem, or us will krump you and steal yar stuff. Sincerely, da Orkz.
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This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2012/05/02 15:38:09
7 Ork facts people always get wrong:
Ragnar did not win against Thrakka, but suffered two crushing defeats within a few days of each other.
A lasgun is powerful enough to sever an ork's appendage or head in a single, well aimed shot.
Orks meks have a better understanding of electrics and mechanics than most Tech Priests.
Orks actually do not think that purple makes them harder to see. The joke was made canon by Alex Stewart's Caphias Cain books.
Gharkull Blackfang did not even come close to killing the emperor.
Orks can be corrupted by chaos, but few of them have any interest in what chaos offers.
Orks do not have the power of believe. |
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2012/05/02 15:51:55
Subject: Re:Dear Necrons: Get your own gorram look, stop stealing ours. Sincerely, the Tyranids.
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Fixture of Dakka
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Tyranids aren't insects. How many insects in your world have leathery wings?
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"'players must agree how they are going to select their armies, and if any restrictions apply to the number and type of models they can use."
This is an actual rule in the actual rulebook. Quit whining about how you can imagine someone's army touching you in a bad place and play by the actual rules.
Freelance Ontologist
When people ask, "What's the point in understanding everything?" they've just disqualified themselves from using questions and should disappear in a puff of paradox. But they don't understand and just continue existing, which are also their only two strategies for life. |
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2012/05/02 16:54:32
Subject: Re:Dear Necrons: Get your own gorram look, stop stealing ours. Sincerely, the Tyranids.
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Blood Angel Terminator with Lightning Claws
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The Wraiths and Spyders look nothing like Tyranids. They still look like mechanical insects not organic insects.
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2012/05/02 17:04:17
Subject: Dear Necrons: Get your own gorram look, stop stealing ours. Sincerely, the Tyranids.
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Wicked Canoptek Wraith
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i think some people are jealous Necrons have a better book right now. Dont worry in a year or so maybe Ward will help your book out too.
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Duct tape turns 'No! No! No!' into 'Mmm. Mmm. Mmm. 
 3000 pts - Iron Warriors. Shelfed.
 2000 pts - New Army
- 4000 pts - Better than 3rd Edition |
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2012/05/02 17:07:13
Subject: Dear Necrons: Get your own gorram look, stop stealing ours. Sincerely, the Tyranids.
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Rampaging Khorne Dreadnought
Wollongong, Australia
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Smolo82 wrote:
i think some people are jealous Necrons have a better book right now. Dont worry in a year or so maybe Ward will help your book out too.
I hope Ward does not touch the Nids.
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2012/05/02 17:12:29
Subject: Dear Necrons: Get your own gorram look, stop stealing ours. Sincerely, the Tyranids.
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Nihilistic Necron Lord
The best State-Texas
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rockerbikie wrote:Smolo82 wrote:
i think some people are jealous Necrons have a better book right now. Dont worry in a year or so maybe Ward will help your book out too.
I hope Ward does not touch the Nids.
I would take Ward over Cruddace No problem.
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2012/05/02 17:15:47
Subject: Dear Necrons: Get your own gorram look, stop stealing ours. Sincerely, the Tyranids.
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Rampaging Khorne Dreadnought
Wollongong, Australia
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Sasori wrote:rockerbikie wrote:Smolo82 wrote:
i think some people are jealous Necrons have a better book right now. Dont worry in a year or so maybe Ward will help your book out too.
I hope Ward does not touch the Nids.
I would take Ward over Cruddace No problem.
That's like saying I eat a skunk with a little salt over a skunk. Both are bad choices. They need to be fired.
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