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2011/11/21 05:48:22
Subject: What is your favourite weapon in Warhammer 40k?
Bolters aren't bad, but they're not the best you can equip someone with from the SM arsenal, and they are outshone by some non SM toys.
I would vote more for melta weapons , as a SM..
Available in all sized from pocket to shoulder-mount, and uniformly lethal. A little short ranged, true, but if you are standing far enough away that the melta weapon isn't in range you just need to drive closer
Blast weapons from the DE codex are another of my favourites
The Viletide: Daemons of Nurgle/Deathguard: 7400 pts
Disclples of the Dragon - Ad Mech - about 2000 pts GSC - about 2000 Pts
Rhulic Mercs - um...many...
Circle Oroboros - 300 Pts or so
Menoth - 300+ pts
2011/11/21 05:57:37
Subject: What is your favourite weapon in Warhammer 40k?
Melta Weapons are great anti-tank and anti-infantry weapons, but have short-range. Best to pair them with a lascannon or a missile launcher. As for the Imperium waning and Mankind failing: "We are weak flesh and fools. We are young and blind. Perhaps one day we will be gone, but we burn so bright, and the galaxy, which has forgotten so much, will remember us." Justicar Alaric to Raezazel the Cunning, Grey Knights: Hammer of Daemons
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I should have left him there. He had served his purpose. He owed me nothing - yet he gave himself to me willingly. Why? I know not. He is nothing more than a pathetic human. An inferior race. A mon-keigh. But still I broke off my wings so that I might carry him easier. I took him from that place, into the snowstorm where our tracks will not be found. He is heavy. And he is dying. And he is slowing me down. But I will save him. Why? I know not. He is still warm. I can feel his blood ebbing across me. For every beat of his heart, another, slight spill of heat. The heat blows away on the winter wind. His blood is still warm. But fading. And I have spilled scarlet myself. The snow laps greedily at our footsteps and our lifeblood, covering them without a trace as we fade away.
'She sat on the corner, gulping the soup down, uncaring of the heat of it. They had grown more watery as of late she noted, but she wasn't about to beggar food from the Imperials or the "Bearers of the Word." Tau, despite their faults at least didn't have a kill policy for her race.'
2011/11/21 06:03:23
Subject: Re:What is your favourite weapon in Warhammer 40k?
Exitus Rifle, Plasma Pistol, and Powerfists. Lightning claws are cool, but something about a giant soldier swinging a giant fist into someones face just makes me chuckle.
If in Terminator Armor, force weapon and storm shield. If in power armor, then Bolt Pistol, Lightning Claw, and Jump Pack.
I should have left him there. He had served his purpose. He owed me nothing - yet he gave himself to me willingly. Why? I know not. He is nothing more than a pathetic human. An inferior race. A mon-keigh. But still I broke off my wings so that I might carry him easier. I took him from that place, into the snowstorm where our tracks will not be found. He is heavy. And he is dying. And he is slowing me down. But I will save him. Why? I know not. He is still warm. I can feel his blood ebbing across me. For every beat of his heart, another, slight spill of heat. The heat blows away on the winter wind. His blood is still warm. But fading. And I have spilled scarlet myself. The snow laps greedily at our footsteps and our lifeblood, covering them without a trace as we fade away.
'She sat on the corner, gulping the soup down, uncaring of the heat of it. They had grown more watery as of late she noted, but she wasn't about to beggar food from the Imperials or the "Bearers of the Word." Tau, despite their faults at least didn't have a kill policy for her race.'
2011/11/21 06:09:42
Subject: What is your favourite weapon in Warhammer 40k?
I usually take a PK on my SAG mek, after a nasty incident involving a Carnifex, back when Fexes were good..
It was just brutal :(
The Viletide: Daemons of Nurgle/Deathguard: 7400 pts
Disclples of the Dragon - Ad Mech - about 2000 pts GSC - about 2000 Pts
Rhulic Mercs - um...many...
Circle Oroboros - 300 Pts or so
Menoth - 300+ pts
2011/11/21 07:44:35
Subject: What is your favourite weapon in Warhammer 40k?
and basically every other weapon in the 40k universe... I mean what isn't there to love?!?!? Rocket propelled bolts! Shuriken cannons! Rail guns! Gauss flayer thingies! Tyranid live ammunition!!! Orky Orkiness! Am i forgetting anything?
How bout the plethora of melee weapons?
Everything is awesome
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2011/11/21 07:53:41
Subject: What is your favourite weapon in Warhammer 40k?
Exitus rifle, or shuriken catapults/cannons for ranged. For melee... there's alot of choices. Off the top of my head, thunderhammer and lightning claws are pretty neat.
1500
2011/11/21 08:05:32
Subject: What is your favourite weapon in Warhammer 40k?
The Splinter Cannon. Able to mow down hordes of infantry in a single burst, and fluff-wise, it's pretty damned brutal. Spewing forth shards coated in horrible, agony-inducing toxins? Muwahahahahahahaha!
2011/11/21 08:24:30
Subject: What is your favourite weapon in Warhammer 40k?
Cyclonic torpedos, for example.. One isn't enough. You need a whole bunch of them.
Plus frankly, if you just used Exterminatus it means that you conceded the game for that world, because you got owned
The Viletide: Daemons of Nurgle/Deathguard: 7400 pts
Disclples of the Dragon - Ad Mech - about 2000 pts GSC - about 2000 Pts
Rhulic Mercs - um...many...
Circle Oroboros - 300 Pts or so
Menoth - 300+ pts
2011/11/22 01:27:56
Subject: What is your favourite weapon in Warhammer 40k?
Tadashi wrote:For anti-vehicle, I would prefer the ever-reliable missile launcher. And let's see those pulse rifles take that a full-strength Ork mob. With the slow firing rate, well now...Waaaaaghhh!
In game same fire rate and longer range so we start firing quicker.
In fluff, less shots needed to fell an ork (generally takes two bolts), and start firing sooner due to range. Plus, Markerlights.
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Corporal_Reznov wrote:
im2randomghgh wrote:
Corporal_Reznov wrote:So what? The speeder is not a tank or anything.
It means I don't have to waste my anti-tank units time firing on weak vehicles.
Still doesn't mean anything. After all AK-47s or whatever type of guns can punch through and kill the occupants doesn't mean a humvee or whatever is useless and weak.
Except you are not going to get a destroyed-explodes! Result with an ak-47. Yeah, my rifle can BLOW gak UP.
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Tadashi wrote:In any case pulse rifles (and most ranged weapons unless their assault) are useless in close combat. Assault Marines, Havoks, Sluggas and Flayed Ones would make short work of Fire Warriors unless the Kroot can get there in time.
Tadashi, sounds like you're getting desperate with your reply's , the Taru are wining this battle over you. I personally don't buy some of the stuff posted here by them cause its in-game stats and not fluff but I'm to lazy to bother myself into a debate .
Let's see, Pulse Weapons are like Imperial Plasma Weapons without the destructive back blast of heat, but I still swear by bolters. No matter what power the Tau may have, I'll concede defeat over Pulse Weaponry but I still believe Bolt Weapons to be the ultimate personnel weaponry in the Imperial Arsenal...The Emperor Protects...The Imperium Overcomes!
Spoken like a ture Space marine KILL THE MUTANT , BURN THE HERITIC, PURGE THE UNCLEAN
FOR THE EMPEROR!
FOR THE IMPERIUM!
2011/11/22 19:36:03
Subject: What is your favourite weapon in Warhammer 40k?
The Kasrkin were just men. It made their actions all the more astonishing. Six white blurs, they fell upon the cultists, lasguns barking at close range. They wasted no shots. One shot, one kill. - Eisenhorn: Malleus
2011/11/22 20:08:44
Subject: What is your favourite weapon in Warhammer 40k?
Relic Blades - A weapon that will turn people in mush is only one thing in my mind - Pure Awesome.
Plasma Guns - A gun that will almost definitely kill the used is only one thing. Pure Awesome.
Sqallum
Fact of the Day: Emperor's Children are believed to be selling strange substances to children.
Thought for the day: Fear the Emperor or at least fear his Inquisition.
Lonely hearts column: Tall, thin metallic gentlemen with deep deep green eyes (in curvy hollow sockets) seeks well-oiled stainless steel female, must be soulless.
Also Thudd Gun, Tarantula, Pulsa Rokkit, Traktor Kannon and Super Lifta Droppa
The Viletide: Daemons of Nurgle/Deathguard: 7400 pts
Disclples of the Dragon - Ad Mech - about 2000 pts GSC - about 2000 Pts
Rhulic Mercs - um...many...
Circle Oroboros - 300 Pts or so
Menoth - 300+ pts
2011/11/23 00:15:12
Subject: What is your favourite weapon in Warhammer 40k?
HumeyKillar wrote:looks like someones got faith in the emprah^^
Is that so wrong?
I should have left him there. He had served his purpose. He owed me nothing - yet he gave himself to me willingly. Why? I know not. He is nothing more than a pathetic human. An inferior race. A mon-keigh. But still I broke off my wings so that I might carry him easier. I took him from that place, into the snowstorm where our tracks will not be found. He is heavy. And he is dying. And he is slowing me down. But I will save him. Why? I know not. He is still warm. I can feel his blood ebbing across me. For every beat of his heart, another, slight spill of heat. The heat blows away on the winter wind. His blood is still warm. But fading. And I have spilled scarlet myself. The snow laps greedily at our footsteps and our lifeblood, covering them without a trace as we fade away.
'She sat on the corner, gulping the soup down, uncaring of the heat of it. They had grown more watery as of late she noted, but she wasn't about to beggar food from the Imperials or the "Bearers of the Word." Tau, despite their faults at least didn't have a kill policy for her race.'
Serpintine Heralds: CSM - 2500 points
Steel Cadre: Tau - 2000 Points
Blackpowder Legion: Crons - 2000 Points
Palanthine Purebloods: SM - 1000 Points
Hive Fleet Basilisk: Nids - 1000 Points
301st Dragonborn: IG - 500 Points 
1500 
Eldar 
-5000 points 
Spoken like a ture Space marine 
3rd Company (3000 points) 