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Just one of those "what if you could" kinda questions, so if you could have any one piece of real Warhammer 40k tech, be it a Bolter, Familiar, Power Armor, what would it be and why?

My personal choice is for a Frost Axe, not any Frost Axe though, my alter-ego's Frost Axe, the Kraken Toothed Chain Axe Frosthowl, An axe passed down through the centuries, embodying the strength of every Space Wolf who ever held it and baring a particularly temperamental Machine Spirit that makes it choosy of whom can wield it, empowering the righteous and just (regardless if they are human or not), and barring the wicked and damned from wielding it, tripling in weight and even biting back should they persist.

So, what would you all choose? I think for the sake of this thread that all components of armor, including the helmet would be considered "one piece"...

I would enjoy giving all of my Guardsmen Terminator Armor, but I think it might create balance issues...

An imperator titan, of course.
I guess it doesn't come with the crew, though, does it?
In that case, a suit of terminator armor would be cool.
Then again... those drugs that let you change your appearance would be awesome.

Azrael's helmet bearer. It would be like an awesome little pet.

If it counts I would take a Niphlim because jets are cool and Niphlims are cooler. Say hello to the best we got, terrorists.

If I had to pick something in real life, it would probably be a jump pack. Imagine never having to sit in traffic ever again, glorious.

I'd pick a Leman Russ, even without a crew from the 41st Millenium, only because such a simple, reliable vehicle should be easy to learn how to operate.

Especially the Phaeton pattern.

i would probably take one of those fancy power armour suits like inquisitors can have..... it has built in powerfists too still counts as one piece though

Wraithknight and spirit stone. Now I would just need a really good estates lawyer... Humanity welcome your new overlord!

A suit of Space Marine power armour with a jump pack, power armour alone is cool, but this set can fly (usable by me of course )

 ansacs wrote:
Wraithknight and spirit stone. Now I would just need a really good estates lawyer... Humanity welcome your new overlord!

Now that's using your noggin.

Id like some flavor of eldar/dark jet bike so i can zoom around town.

otherwise a tesseract labyrinth. there are some people id like to get rid of

GIve me titan. Give me titan now.

i'll take a squig please. extra big teeth for munching on the annoying yappy dog next door.

joe_deman wrote:
i'll take a squig please. extra big teeth for munching on the annoying yappy dog next door.

"Spok'n liek a tru boy."

The Book of Lorgar. Nothing larger than that tome is required to seize the universe!

A Harlequin's Kiss. Such a nasty, nasty weapon.

A hellgun, with the old infinite or close to amount of shots.

A techmarine's armour with a full servo harness. Techy as feth, and I have a variety of ways to deal with annoying pests...

Phantom Titan - only requires a single crew. Of course, it requires a psychic Eldar crew, so, probably no good for me.

Which probably rules out all of the Eldar/Dark Eldar stuff...

Riptide Battlsuit, maybe? Although, even it's best weapons can only go, what, a couple of hundred metres at best? Hardly "Humanity's New Overlord" material... Even the Titans don't exactly have long range weaponry by modern standards. Annnnd we DO have a *lot* of nukes lying around.

Hmmm.

A Wraithlord actually, would be kinda neat. Especially if I could tell it what to do. However, the original question doesn't really state that I would have any sort of unusual control over the object, so probably something a little more handheld...

Illic's rifle? Go Postal and watch people get sucked into Chaos could be good for a few kicks...

Hmmm... Yeah the thing is... Any SM/CSM weapon is likely going to be impossible to actually wield, since it will be designed for use by a mega power armoured guy. Eldar/Dark Eldar would be psychically controlled so no good there. Tau is likely to be fairly usable (but good luck reading the manual) PLUS the controls are going to be set up for some pretty weirdly shaped hands. Necron, probably the highest tech you could actually use, but again, robot bodies means super strength so good luck lugging a gauss rifle around. Ork stuff would probably be OK but geezus, would you trust it not to just blow up in your face? Have fun with the crazy psychic demon weapons, or semi-sentient gooey Tyranid stuff... So we're basically left with Guard stuff, right? Which is not in any significant way better than current technology, really, in fact, significantly worse in terms of range than just about anything.

I guess a Baneblade would be fun.

I think I'd enjoy punching things with a power fist quite a lot!

I'd have to go with a Tau battlesuit. Flying around in one of those would be awesome.

Can i have a riptide?
No, A wraitknight, I doupt humans have anything that can kill that.
The world would fear me in that when i become its new ruler.

A good supply of polymorpine.

I would be all for a Riptide. Would make the commute a hell of a lot more fun. But I'd have to figure out how I'd get my 40k stuff/groceries/ect back and forth. And where I would park.

But then come the problem where people would freak out seeing you fly around in that thing. I remember it took my dad like 3 months to get his Concealed weapon permit. I'm not even sure what you'd have to go through to make that thing street legal. Then after all that, there's still the chance the military would gak themselves when I go by, considering I live pretty close to a few bases.

And I wouldn't even have the first clue on how to fix that thing if it ever got damaged. Anyone in a Riptide would probably be welcomed with open arms by the military, as long as they were an ally. So I would probably be using it in some sort of military combat before the year was over. Odds are someone would have developed some way to damage it by then, and that's only assuming it's immune to current weapon technology.

I'm not so sure I dig the idea of owning a Riptide now. Sounds like way too much work. I'll settle for a Tau Drone. That could be fun.

Good luck reading that tauaneese

A Lasgun. Simple to maintain, nigh infinite, powerful as hell (By our standards, looks too goofy to look like a real gun and easy to shoot straight. Perfect to go hunting with... or to take out a small army. Now if only I could get fully enclosed carapace too...

I'm gonna go right ahead and say that a Riptide or a Wraithknight would *not* be immune to current technology. How many times can you pass your invul when I just keep throwing nukes at you, eh?

 Desubot wrote:
Good luck reading that tauaneese

You could figure it out eventually with enough trial and error. Although this does bring up another reason I wish GW would go deeper into the Tau Language,

@majendie

two out of six times, possibly 4 out of 6 times if I Novacharge.

Assuming they'd work for me, Mek's Toolz. !

Build ANYTHING you want from anything you find.

A humble Arvus Lighter.

VTOL, not much larger than a van so you can park it just anywhere, you don't need to be an alien or a surgically enhanced transhuman to fly it and has plenty of room for friends and family inside.

It's kinda like a Cessna, if Cessnas were able to reach Low Earth Orbit. I'm definitely taking it.

It takes 6 nukes to put down a wraithknight not in cover and since your first nuke will create ruins I get a 4+ cover save. So let's say 11 nukes. Not counting the smoke possibly giving me stealth or shrouded.

Keep in mind though these jet troops move pretty fast by today's standards also nukes are S10 (they are in the guard codex btw)