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Had a little idea for a forum game after reading some of the posts over in the 'Fluff or Function' thread.

The idea is this: Warhammer 40K has plenty of background, though this doesn't necessarily fit with the tabletop experience.

Examples of this might involve Codex Space: Space Marines allied with Chaos Daemons, Tyranids allied with Orks and so on. It could be unit uses such as termicide (example below) where expensive 'elite' units are used as suicide squads, or maybe unit mixes (see my starting challenge).
Now, obviously you can come up with better examples where fluff and reality are at odds... better than I have given above!


In the example: Here is the 're-fluffing' of an in-game tactic

Someone earlier said they disapproved of Chaos Terminators as a suicide unit because fluff. WELL if Abbadon decided to make them them do that as punishment (seeing as he's not all that bright), it suddenly makes sense.

Rules of the game are simple:
1) Make up some legitimate fluff to excuse the strange tabletop reality posted by the person who posted before you!
2) Once you've forged the narrative, post your own challenge!
3) Remember, it must be legal in game terms
4) Bonus cookies if you forge something that's clever but not necessarily obvious
5) Obvious forum rules apply etc etc.


To start us off:
Chaos cultists with the mark of Slaanesh in a force allied to Sisters of Battle

It's quite simple really. The cultists are in love with those Sisters and hope to convert them over to Slaanesh! The poor, deluded fools.

Chaos Space Marines fighting alongside a Tyrannid Hive fleet.

 Wulfmar wrote:

To start us off:
Chaos cultists with the mark of Slaanesh in a force allied to Sisters of Battle

They're in a competition to see which "girls" can have the most fun. (can't think of an actual excuse fluff wise, chaos mind control maybe?)

My scenario: Tyranid flying circus, as many flyers in the sky that can be seen by the eye.

Its mating season and they're all showing off.

Necron Lychstar(With multi. Overlords, Orikan, Crypteks, Vargard, etc.)

The CSM are Thousand Sons, trying to use their psychic powers to hijack the Synapses and to put the gaunts under their mind control.

Dark Angels fighting alongside Chaos Marines. Correct me if this isn't allowed (haven't played 7ed 40k)

 sing your life wrote:
The CSM are Thousand Sons, trying to use their psychic powers to hijack the Synapses and to put the gaunts under their mind control.

Dark Angels fighting alongside Chaos Marines. Correct me if this isn't allowed (haven't played 7ed 40k)

Clearly it's to focus on purging a more significant enemy, xenos.

chaos land raider filled to the brim with chosen, equipped with as many flamers as they can carry

The chosen are from the Purge, and they are determined to cleanse an agri-world of all life.

Tau and Eldar fighting alongside each other

Tau and eldar.... Tau were fighting Slaanesh daemons and were losing. A passing craftworld saw this and, because of their hatred of Slaanesh, decided to help the Tau. The Tau let them help because of 1) Their losing really badly 2) They hope to convert them to the greater good. They defeat this band of daemons, but the Greater Daemon gets away. They both pursue it (the Tau because it is still in a Tau system and is a threat) and the Greater Daemon manipulates [whatever army you are playing on the tabletop] to get in the way. The makeshift alliance attacks the army to get to the Greater Daemon as quickly as possible.


Can someone please tell me the fluff of why GKs have so little options of units. If every daemon is different, and there is an infinite number of daemons, why do the GK have so little things to combat them? It would make sense, at least to me, that the GK (in the fluff) would have the variety of an entire normal space marine legion for EACH chaos god. Please could answer this.

They banded together on a crusade to kill anyone who doesn't like anime

An entire army of spore mines.

 The_Grey_Knight wrote:
Can someone please tell me the fluff of why GKs have so little options of units. If every daemon is different, and there is an infinite number of daemons, why do the GK have so little things to combat them? It would make sense, at least to me, that the GK (in the fluff) would have the variety of an entire normal space marine legion for EACH chaos god. Please could answer this.

Probably comes down to one thing, where are all chaos entities from? answer: the warp. What is the most potent tool to combat the warp? Psykers (I assume at least). Who are some of the most potent psykers in the galaxy? The grey knights.

Also it takes a LOT to train and outfit the grey knights with their signature equipment and capabilities, and I can't imagine psykers of their magnitude are in very large supply.

Also think of a similar question, why doesn't the imperium make even more space marines? Like a LOT more? Same issue with the greykights, the methods used to procure them are just not as plentiful as they would like.

 sing your life wrote:
They banded together on a crusade to kill anyone who doesn't like anime

An entire army of spore mines.

A norn queen thought "what if," and hatched a really, really bad idea.

My last one: The Adeptus Mechanicus (skitarii and cult mechanicus) fighting Imperial guard.

The AM wanted to explore a Necron tomb, which would wake up the Crons who would sterilise the whole planet. The planet's IG regiment attacked them to stop them doing it.

An army consisting of just SM ICs and their command squads/honour guard.

In the 41st millenium, a crack Astartes unit was ordered on a Crusade to repent by an Inquisitorial court for Heresy they didn't commit. These Marines promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Eye of Terror. Today, still wanted by the Inquisition, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire... The Astartes-Team.




My one:
Grey Knights allied to Daemons

Imagine the GK are in the warp pursuing and attacking a very dangerous Greater Daemon who could destroy entire galaxies and this is the only time they have a hope of sending it back into the warp is now. While assaulting the Greater Daemon and his host of lesser daemons, a rival host, of a lot less threat, who have a grudge against said Greater Daemon decide to attack at the same time as the GK. The GK, who need all the help they can get, decide to let the rival host help for the time being [for the tabletop game]. Afterwards they destroy the rival host. [If, on the tabletop, you are playing with a GK, daemon alliance, and are not going against daemons, your opponent's army is an illusion, they ARE the daemon host of the Greater Daemon, they are just using the warp around them to assume the shape of another army]

No challenge. You are shoved into a car and beaten with metal dreadnoughts by fluff-conscious players for making up silly scenarios.

A whole army of dreadknights.

Upset by the increasing use (and size) of Tau battlesuits, the Grey Knights decide to fight fire with fire by bringing their own along - little did they realise that the result would be an army of angry, bald babies in poor-mans Gundam suits


Tau allied with Imperial Knights

A bunch of Imperial Knights came to a world to fight against a Nid Hive fleet. Upon realizing that there were too many little gribblies to fight, they kindly asked the local Tau Meatshields *cough* I mean warriors to help out.

Orks summoning demons

The Imperial Knights decide that the Tau really do represent the Greater Good for the universe and join them, but don't really trust the Tau not to either 1) Use them as cannon fodder/make them run point/use them for a suicide mission, or 2) turn on them at some point. Hence why they are desperate allies.

Sternguard Veterans suicide squad in a drop pod (all with combimeltas). Why would you waste good veterans like this just to take out maybe one vehicle?

Edit: fething ninjas!

The vehicle was a super-heavy so dangerous it was worth sacrificing veterans to destroy it.

A devastator or long fang squad with no heavy weapons selected.

Due to a long campaign with little resupply, the heavy weapons are completely out of ammo. Batteries are being used to run tanks and armor, instead of lascannons.

Farsight Heavy Retribution Cadre.

Someone in the Tau Empire is a secret supporter of O'Shovah, and due to his position as a supply officer managed to "lose" a few Stormsurges and Ghostkeels, which ended up in the hands of the Farsight Enclaves. He just fixed the paperwork (or the Tau equivalent thereof) so no one would notice...

Tau force with Tyranid allies.

The Tau are so dedicated to the greater good they're willing to make friends with a group of omnicidal bugs.

A max sized squad of Death company all with twin thunder hammers.

The Blood Angel commander found the Age of Sigmar starter set while shopping online, and thought the Prosecutors were cool.

Tau Commanders with 4 guns only being able to fire 2 each turn.

The commander forgot to install his multi-gun targeted before going to battle.

Black Templars allied with Tau.

So... technically they're just goldfish from Terra and so it's totally not included as part of the whole 100% anti-Xeno thing the Templars have got going on



Dark Eldar allied with Slaaneshi Chaos Space Marines

Both sides realised they're both into kinky stuff, but halfway through the bondage session they were attacked. Closer than ever before (mabye even literally) they fight together!

Space marines being deployed to a densely populated Tau planet with only their power armour.

You can't have SM with no equipment other than their armour

No challenge. Farsight deepstrikes onto you from orbit.

Crisis Suits mishapping if they land on top of an enemy unit.

Have you seen how insubstantial those ankle joints are? Really they should mishap dropping anywhere, not just on an enemy!

Dark Angels Ravenwing fighting against Grey Knights (like a game in a tournament I played yesterday).

The Ravenwing want the Chaos alive, the GK don't. Also, they don't want to be mindwiped.

Astral Knights (IF descendant) fighting Raven Guard (and getting whooped!)