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Only in 40k does your gun have a 1 in 6 chance of blowing you up.

azazel the cat wrote:Only in 40k does your gun have a 1 in 6 chance of blowing you up.

that was only applies to Human-made Plasma firearms

DeadlySquirrel wrote:Only in 40k does everyone forget about tactics and just throw away countless men's lives rather than flank attack or just go around.

Haven't read a lot of WWI history have you?

Only in 40k Current Day Army are exist to be stomped by those that even other than being overpowered, uses outdated Military Tactics

Only in Warhammer 40k are genetically engineered and castrated semi-humans adored by fanboys the world over.

Only in Warhammer 40k is Abaddon's head evaporated by a sniper rifle in one shot.

Only in WH40k can a weapon able to blow off a limb or obliterate someone head is considered weak.

Only in 40k will you see a group of blue aliens with all their vehicles named after aquatic creatures.

Osbad wrote:Only in 40k can your enemy take down your tank with their bare hands!

Not quite true. There's a MAJOR vulnerability on the outside of an M1 Abrams that'll allow any infantryman that can read English and/or recognize caution stripes to kill the tank crew with relative ease (look at one up close some time. There's a reason some stuff on tanks is still classified). There's also sticky bombs (as shown in Saving Private Ryan), dropping a grenade down the main gun while it's loaded with a HEAT round, shooting 7.62mm rounds through the exhaust grill on the back of the tank, or hell... heavy duty wrenches stuffed between the drive sprocket and the tread.

Sorry. Spend a few years in the Army driving tanks, and you tend to ramble on about them somewhat

On-topic:

Only in 40k can you pray to a zombie while fighting the terminators.

Only in 40k can you be capable of interstellar hyperspace travel, yet still rely mainly on the sole train (left sole, right sole, left sole, right sole, etc...) for travel from place to place in your city.

Only in (tabletop) 40k would the human inquisition team up with wyches and demons to take down the emperor of mankind.

Only in 40k would space vessels capable of destroying entire planets still launch "boarding torpedoes" as a preferred means of attack.

Chesh wrote: Only in 40k would space vessels capable of destroying entire planets still launch "boarding torpedoes" as a preferred means of attack.

Not quite true.

They tend to aim for capturing a ship rather than out-right destroying it.

Similarly to our old age pirates.

What good is raided money if its at the bottom of the sea?

Only in 40k can you take out a flying gunshot with and PK in close combat...

I'm surprised that this thread is still going strong since september @_@

sudojoe wrote:I'm surprised that this thread is still going strong since september @_@

Well people love pointing out odd stuff and having a laugh about it. Makes sense

Only in Warhammer 40k does a man who can have more than a dozen children at once, and then somehow lose them all at once, become the center of religion, albeit unwillingly.

Masonicon wrote:Only in 40k Current Day Army are exist to be stomped by those that even other than being overpowered, uses outdated Military Tactics

Only on dakka..

Even still in Warhammer 40k do people rage out at "Communists" ( Tau ).

PS. That is a joke.

Only in 40K will an army that has access to tanks, bikes and drop pods choose to ride a giant, living wolf into battle. (TWC)

Only in 40K will an army distrust arcane magic, then use an arcane magician (Rune Priest) to lead them into battle.

Only in 40k will a crevasse be able to swallow units that can fly

Only in 40K could you headshot a god with a sniper rifle (sadly no longer so - darn newcrons and their shards)

Only in 40K would people argue that Orks only ever use frontal attacks

Only in 40K would green,smelly fungus have a better grasp of teleportation and force field technology than humanity

Only in 40K would Space Marine armour actually allow movement and be considered combatworthy

Only in 40K would a race consider boarding an ancient, warp-tainted and genestealer/daemon infested hulk to be a good way of getting anywhere and a good laugh

Only in 40K would anyone get as bent out of shape as they do about the idea of female marines


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Masonicon wrote:

azazel the cat wrote:Only in 40k does your gun have a 1 in 6 chance of blowing you up.

that was only applies to Human-made Plasma firearms

And Ork Snazzguns and KMB's

Only in 40k nightmares that can gives even Stephen King heart attacks are started with war that started with Posthuman versions of Harry Potter and Tarzan fighting each other

Belexar wrote:Only in 40k do Inquisitors have armies made of monkeys with lasers.

Psykers are bad, mmm-kay? But monkeys with lasers are cool...

Skriker


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Big Mek Dattrukk wrote:Only in 40K can you win when you only have 1 unit left on the board, and your opponent has only lost 3 units.

It is all about objectives; otherwise every fight comes down to massacring the opposing army. That gets boring after a while. A decimated force that achieves is necessary objectives in the battle should win against a barely bloodied force that didn't take the time to achieve its goals.

I've won many a game because an opponent got stuck on killing all of my forces and never even gave any thought to the objectives until it was too late to achieve any of them. Getting the *right* job done is often more important than just killing the enemy. Heck your mission could be to wipe out enemy forces in a town, but leave the town intact. You can drop all your artillery on the town and kill your enemies, but you failed at the most important part of the orders: leave the town intact.

Skriker

Skriker wrote:
Heck your mission could be to wipe out enemy forces in a town, but leave the town intact. You can drop all your artillery on the town and kill your enemies, but you failed at the most important part of the orders: leave the town intact.
Skriker

As a Death Korps of Krieg fan, I disagree

Only in 40k, some of the Gods are shards

and you know, making that Gods shards can makes you punished by a tiny Copepod from cartoon about yellow square sponge

Vendetta 476 wrote:

mattyrm wrote:

KilroyKiljoy wrote:Only in 40k can Marines not be women.

Not so brother.

The USMC might have chicks in it, but the crack commando's of the Royal Marines do not allow women in either.

And lets be honest, 30 mile marches with 90lbs of kit, 9 mile, half underwater assault courses, 200 meter fireman's carry in 90 seconds with both soldiers carrying full ammo loadout and support weapons? 30 foot vertical rope climbs with rifle and webbing?

Women couldn't get in even if they wanted to!

Sexist much?

He clearly hasn't seen GI Jane

Emerett wrote:

Vendetta 476 wrote:

mattyrm wrote:

KilroyKiljoy wrote:Only in 40k can Marines not be women.

Not so brother.

The USMC might have chicks in it, but the crack commando's of the Royal Marines do not allow women in either.

And lets be honest, 30 mile marches with 90lbs of kit, 9 mile, half underwater assault courses, 200 meter fireman's carry in 90 seconds with both soldiers carrying full ammo loadout and support weapons? 30 foot vertical rope climbs with rifle and webbing?

Women couldn't get in even if they wanted to!

Sexist much?

He clearly hasn't seen GI Jane

Imperial Space Marines are the only sexist marines

Only in 40k can a bullet not hit cover and then your armour falls off and does nothing.

Only in 40k do you not want to mess with the Librarian because he can punch through a wall and shoot mind bullets.

timetowaste85 wrote:Only in 40k do the bugs step on you.

I liked that one.

Only in 40k people can be killed by Flashlights/Laser Pointers that harmless against absolutely everything else(does this sounds like Happy Tree Friends?)

Only in 40k genetically-enhanced posthumans that not really human are the only members of Human species that (actively) uses Magic Powers(it referred as Psychic Powers in 40k) and Melee attacks in combat while the only non-MEQ human armies that (Actively) uses Magic Powers and Melee attacks in combat are cybernetically-enhanced Adeptus Mechanicus forces

Only in 40k Human Scientists are Cyborgs with Magic Powers(though their Magic powers are achieved with lost technologies from Dark Age of Technology instead of warp)

Only in 40K can Mephiston get out of a pile of rubble and turn out to be completely OP.

Only in 40K do people decide that it's completely logical to jump out of a Spaceship to punch people in the face (See: Battle for Calth)

Only in 40K do people fire Anti-Tank missiles at an enemy leader.

Only in 40k can the biggest threat to the IOM fail to keep his arms on for more than 10 seconds
Only in 40k can daddy issues lead to a galaxy wide war and obsessive amounts of GRIMDARK (FTW).

Only in 40k are a group of sado-masocitic piratical space-elves who live off your soul-stuff and dream of ways to torture you as a way of downtime whlist similtaniously slaughtering themselves and everyone else.

Only in 40k are the afore mentioned elves the least of your worries.

Only in 40k should you be far, far more afraid of your government than of the aforementioned elves, should you even know they exist.

Only in 40k does are the troops more prolific than the weaponry.

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