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Only in 40K is an army called the Imperial Guard well known for having some of the worst individual soldiers.

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

Nom

Russia in either WW1 or WW2 would like to have a word with you.

True enough,

At least every guardsman GETS a gun, rathet than sharing one between 2, and picking it up when the one who has one dies..

Only in 40K can the color red make a vehicle go faster.

Only in 40k do highly trained soldier wear impractical clothing during an engagement (robes, cloaks, three foot tall hats and helmets)

Only in 40k does it takes more than a thousand lives a day to keep a single lighthouse running.

Only in 40k can your nightmares manifest and hit your ingestions and then eat your soul.

Only in 40k do visual communication systems has less resolution than the world first tv.

Only in 40K can a mighty god of war be killed by a group of army men waving bayonets and powered sticks at it.

Only in 40K do people despise Psykers, yet are quite happy to make a HUGE FRIGGIN' GROUP OF THEM IN POWER ARMOUR.

Only in 40k had everything been ripped from wfb then changed slightly over the years.

Only in 40k is an entire chapter of power armoured wolf riding, wolf bred alcoholics allowed to stamp on friend and foe

Only in 40k do marines sparkle 10000 year old deaths warp the minds of the living turning them into power armored cannibals and vampire

Nom

martin74 wrote:Only in 40K can the color red make a vehicle go faster.

that's only applies to Orks


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AL-PiXeL01 wrote:
Only in 40k does it takes more than a thousand lives a day to keep a single lighthouse running.

the Lighthouse is for Humanity's FTL Travel

Only in 40k can a battleship sized titan be taken down by small arms fire.

Only in 40k do giant green men with machetes run at you screaming nonsense.

Only in Warhammer 40K can space orangutans spontaneously build super-technological inventions, but with no actual intelligence or their own.

Masonicon wrote:

martin74 wrote:Only in 40K can the color red make a vehicle go faster.

that's only applies to Orks


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AL-PiXeL01 wrote:
Only in 40k does it takes more than a thousand lives a day to keep a single lighthouse running.

the Lighthouse is for Humanity's FTL Travel

And Blood Angels.

Red vehicles just go faster

The BA claim its because they tinker with the engines, but we all know that's BS

Only in 40k can giant super human men with automatic RPG's and super armor can lose combat with a 3 foot tall green object.

Only in 40K can a group of Power Armoured mini-tanks be taken down by laser pointers.

Only in 40K can a massive metal behemoth that can cleave through most enemies will strike last in combat because it walked through some trees.

Only in 40k is the god of laughter also the god of slaughter. (Cegorach is far from a pushover when it comes to combat)

Only in 40k are a race living on gigantic ships made of bones in the dark vastness of space considered treehuggers.

Only in 40k do races get randomly granted attributes from races in completely different universes.

Only in 40k is the best use of a beloved leader of an entire race to send him into the middle of battle to make him die as fast as possible.

Only in 40k is there an up and down in space and sudden arbitrary gravity if a spaceship or space station takes sufficient damage.

Not only in 40k are there pressure waves in space.

Brother Coa wrote:Only in 40k are the Humans most powerful force. That would be the Necron.

Only in 40k alien race name it's every ship/vessel/tank/transport after Earth sea animals. That would be the humans naming the alien race's ships, since they don't know they are really called CCT-X54 or TR-ZE34.

Only in 40k we have things that eat everything from tallest trees and biggest animals to smallest of bacteria. The Zerg called. So did the terraformers from Alastair Reynold's universe.

Only in 40k we have race that shoot by ejaculating it's ammo. This is actually quite common for all bioweapons in fiction. The most common form being simply puking any given substance all over the heroes.

Only in 40k do we have so bad-ass solders that noone in other Sci-Fi universe can even get close to them. If by soldiers we mean "roughly man size having all the benefits of human rights" then I present to you Golem from Neal Asher's universe. If instead we mean "making up a substantial portion of the armed forces" then I don't know if Space Marine qualify, but Polity war drones certainly do and it'd take roughly one space marine chapter to bring a single one of those down. Between the Polity and IOM, the competition is as one sided as a battle between an anthill and an Ork with a Burna. The antihill being IOM.

Sorry, that last one has had my brain itching for such a long time now, had to get it out of my system.

'Only in 40k is the god of laughter also the god of slaughter. (Cegorach is far from a pushover when it comes to combat)
'

You can't have a Slaughter without Laughter

Only in 40k, Being Materialistic can gives you tentacles

Only in 40k is marching men across a minefield to clear the mines considered a valid use of troops.

Only in 40k will people give their lives for a half a body in a chair. Maybe it's because the chair is golden.

TheCustomLime wrote:Only in 40k is marching men across a minefield to clear the mines considered a valid use of troops.

IIRC 1st and/or 2nd ww russia wants to have a little 'chat' with you...


Nom

nomsheep wrote:

TheCustomLime wrote:Only in 40k is marching men across a minefield to clear the mines considered a valid use of troops.

IIRC 1st and/or 2nd ww russia wants to have a little 'chat' with you...


Nom

I don't think they used Russian troops as mine cleaners but given the early treatment of their troops....

Only in Warhammer 40k can a army have so many different patterns of each and every item and yet never find issue with logistics.

TheCustomLime wrote:

nomsheep wrote:

TheCustomLime wrote:Only in 40k is marching men across a minefield to clear the mines considered a valid use of troops.

IIRC 1st and/or 2nd ww russia wants to have a little 'chat' with you...


Nom

I don't think they used Russian troops as mine cleaners but given the early treatment of their troops....

Only in Warhammer 40k can a army have so many different patterns of each and every item and yet never find issue with logistics.

Literally, Russian generals would send in the first wave specifically to provide cover for the second which would provide cover for the third. . . This applied to men and tanks.

Only in 40k can the 1st chapter of space marines, the DA have the worst codex.

AzureDeath wrote:Only in 40k can the 1st chapter of space marines, the DA have the worst codex.

I have three friends to introduce you to.

Deathwing, Ravenwing, and codex update for 6th edition.

Only in 40K can a general take a super special character and manage to take 6 "Elite bodyguards" alongside him.

BlapBlapBlap wrote:

AzureDeath wrote:Only in 40k can the 1st chapter of space marines, the DA have the worst codex.

I have three friends to introduce you to.

Deathwing, Ravenwing, and codex update for 6th edition.

Only in 40K can a general take a super special character and manage to take 6 "Elite bodyguards" alongside him.

Beliel gets killed just by flipping a buger on him.
Sammael doesn't have anyway to field him with his retinue and in the speeder no CC.
Ravenwing has no skilled rider.but yet they are the #1 bikers.
There is more but gotta go.

You never said anything about Codex update.

Belial isn't the point, it's the ability to take 21 Fearless TH/SS Terminators in a fully legal 1000pt list.

Sammael doesn't need a retinue. LS has F and S armour 14, and A TL Assault Cannon and Heavy Bolter. His Jetbike has a frikkin' Plasma Cannon strapped on it, and it's a Jetbike.

That's purely for balance. Fluff =/= Rules.

Never mentioned codex update.

Update is there yes but my BA and my buddies SW run circles around my DW, that's what I normally play is Deathwing. Anyhow I see it my way you, yours. I have played this army for some 18 years now and this is the worst I have seen it.. The ability to take other dread's and all the land raider variants will make up for it. The only thing I am really looking for is to upgrade our special characters to make them more in line with the other chapters.

Sorry didn't mean to start a debate just posting what my thoughts were and also it could be the next dex out according to some rumors. Here's hoping.

Oh yeah the TH/SS wall is nice but I would only ever use something like that to piss off a major pain gamer. The one that runs around saying my army is the best, no one can beat me mwa hahahah. Those ones, ya know.

Update. machine spirit BS-4 That was the nice thing as well as the storm shield being brought in line with the vanilla's.

Only in 40k do we have death zombie robots out to kill everyone thats not them and superhuman warriors out to destroy everything not human, team up.(sadly dang matt ward)

Only in 40K can the Avatar of the God of War fail to destroy an untrained Conscript after hitting him 6 times with the Wailing Doom.

Only in 40k, Clothes are can made from Human Skin