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I was thinking the other day, and thought; what kind of style (if any) would be used in the Graffiti in 40k?
I assume rebellious teens in hiveworlds would be throwing up stuff on the walls. What kind of stuff do you think they put up?

Also, has anybody included anything like this on their terrain?

Well, chaos cults would probably scrawl chaos symbols and rude slogans against the emperor on the walls. Most gangs would probably think of something rude to say either directed to the Arbiters, administratum, or other gangs.

I'm not actually sure though, if there's enough spraypaint, for graffiti, in the 41st millennium. (Seriously, nowhere in the fluff (that I read anyways, which isn't all that much) do they talk about spraypaint...)

In fluff there is definitely grafittti. Some of them is abuse against the imperium on unruly worlds. Others asking for details of loved ones. And the most obvious one being chaotic cult info.

You could always write mean things about the Emperor on the wall!

Or you know draw a penis.

I think orks would grafffiti on things saying that they're the best and that the 'oomies are pathetic. After all Ghaz was discovered after the Dark Angels found Ork graffiti on a Wrlord Titan Wreckage on Piscina IV.

y'know:

Im da hand of Gork and Mork.... etc. etc.

Yep, that one.

"Orlock was here.

Cawdor is a bunch of fagots."

Heres something i saw a while ago on the FOD, hope it helps

http://forum-of-doom.com/index.php?topic=10152.0

Chaos cults: chaos symbols
Orks: dakka symbols and other symbols
Imperials: imperial phrases
This is my opinion.

Graffiti in the 41st Millenium is the planets that they have destroyed. The imperiums firestorms are the next generations way of saying this is our territory or, "Kilroy was here".

But in truth, secret Chaos cults and combinations would be the ones to put up graffiti. The subject obviously being Chaos god worship and insults to the "false emperor."

It says in the Ork Codex that Ork Bikerz leave skid marks saying things along the lines of 'Zog Off.'

Pirate_joe_666 wrote:I was thinking the other day, and thought; what kind of style (if any) would be used in the Graffiti in 40k?
I assume rebellious teens in hiveworlds would be throwing up stuff on the walls. What kind of stuff do you think they put up?

Also, has anybody included anything like this on their terrain?

"DOWN WITH THE EMPEROR!"

You know how teens think...

I actually played on a cityfight table that had graffiti all over the place. I think only one piece of terrain didnt have it on. I think it was a nice touch that the graffiti ended suddenly and bits were missing where chunks of the wall had come off.

grafiti probably carries the death penalty on imperial worlds but there would still probably
be naive teens and cutists

Back in 2001 GW cardiff had some nice terrain with graffiti on it. May favourite was the cold war classic:

"Nuke 'em till they glow then shoot them in the dark!"

On a slightly different tack, there are some good images in the dakka galleries of imperial propaganda posters, which you can print out small size and stick them on terrain. - gotta try that.

that is briliant im quoting that

One day soon, the Great Father will rain down his blessing upon us. All shall transcend their current form and join the glory of the Great Fathers embrace. We shall be one and many and will ply the stars seeking to bring all into the fold of the Cult of the Great Father.

i still think that shadowbrands idea of a penis would be the most hilarious and widespread of graffitti types or if they were evil it could be a chaos penis with tentecles or something...


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I still think that shadowbrands idea of a penis would be the most hilarious and widespread of graffitti types. Or if they were evil it could be a chaos penis with tentacles or something...

Well, it would probably be heretics doing most of the graffiti which means it would probably be stuff bagging the Emperor.

cadian512 wrote:that is briliant im quoting that

It's only from "Starship troopers" (novel) so not like it's a famous one or suchlike.

Anti-establishment graffiti would more than likely be classed as a seditious activity (ie treason) and be treated as such.

Although I could see various imperial governors being derided in this fashion (and then the usual suspects being rounded up and shot).

"Marneus Calgar is a nancy boy"
"Tiggy does it with eldar"

Gang Tags have survived in the 41st Millenium!!!! my Tyranus Guardsmen's city has several buildings spray painted with tags like "Hellions" "5th street jokerz" and some redemptionist stuff like burn, purge etc

Orkeosaurus wrote:"Orlock was here.

Cawdor is a bunch of fagots."

This is what the graffiti would be like.

You got to remember the people writing graf in 40k are even more ignorant then the people who do it today.

I am sure there are references to glow in the dark and neon paint being sprawled on walls in variously crude and highly artistic designs and decals saying pretty much anything that grafiti says at the moment.

I think people tend to forget that the Imperium is not all the same, and even on worlds where the harshest punishments are used on a regular basis, people will be people and spray things in places where the authorities can't see, or even where they can, if they want to be bold

In hive worlds etc there are billions of people and thousands of years worth of crud built on top of each previous generations buildings... the underhive would be a mess of grafiti and the police would rarely venture down there.

I would even imagine that there are parts of hives where generations of people have just been lost, cut off from the rest of the hive by quakes, fire, flood, etc.

The Imperium is far from vanilla, and the same will go for what they write on walls and how they go about it. Just use your imagination

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lol