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demented_gamer wrote:the elysian drop troops are the best... their here when you need them

yet they've lost in EVERY single imperial armor about them... first tau then the nids ate them and then they lost to Orks.... they have such horrible luck.... (personally i'd have voted for the Armageddon Ork Hunters but they weren't on the list)

Conservationist wrote:Death Korps of Krieg! Something about thier suicidal mindset and fanaticism just appeals, plus they have badass looking uniforms.

Followed closely by the little Tanith boys, they are just so sad, a sad bunch of highly skilled guys. I reckon they could teach the space marines a thing or two about stealth.

I voted DKoK as well.... but stealth? They're specialty is bombarding the hell out of you for a few weeks then charging your lines while still bombarding you with artillery.

xXSir MontyXx wrote:

Conservationist wrote:Death Korps of Krieg! Something about thier suicidal mindset and fanaticism just appeals, plus they have badass looking uniforms.

Followed closely by the little Tanith boys, they are just so sad, a sad bunch of highly skilled guys. I reckon they could teach the space marines a thing or two about stealth.

I voted DKoK as well.... but stealth? They're specialty is bombarding the hell out of you for a few weeks then charging your lines while still bombarding you with artillery.

You probably should relax and read through the post again, but anyways to save you that time, I meant Tanith may give space marines a run for thier money, until the auspex start up.

Conservationist wrote:I meant Tanith may give space marines a run for thier money, until the auspex start up.

and the raven guard show up...
tanith -> scouts -> telion -> raven guard
that's how the stealth totem pole works.

shrike wrote:tanith -> scouts -> telion -> raven guard<night lords<alpha legion
that's how the stealth totem pole works.

fixed>

Death korps for sure.
"all my squad mates are dead,I'm bleeding out of every place possible and I'm almost out of ammo. LETS KEEP FIGHTING!"

Steel Legion all the way. They just look bad@ss

DKoK
best fluff IMHO.

Conservationist wrote:

xXSir MontyXx wrote:

Conservationist wrote:Death Korps of Krieg! Something about thier suicidal mindset and fanaticism just appeals, plus they have badass looking uniforms.

Followed closely by the little Tanith boys, they are just so sad, a sad bunch of highly skilled guys. I reckon they could teach the space marines a thing or two about stealth.

I voted DKoK as well.... but stealth? They're specialty is bombarding the hell out of you for a few weeks then charging your lines while still bombarding you with artillery.

You probably should relax and read through the post again, but anyways to save you that time, I meant Tanith may give space marines a run for thier money, until the auspex start up.

Yes, cuz you know im so mad about a post you put up..... lol
I'm just so worked up i could throw my PC across the room! WWWWAAAAAGGGGHHHH!!!!

ANYWAYS, I would say that the Cadian's are a close second for me. Constant planetary invasions by chaos has to get hard on your sanity after a while.

I'm gonna have to go with the Catachans on this one, though the Death Korps and the Tanith are both badass in their own way, the Catachans are just so hardcore they take the cake. The fact that a regiment spent year hunting tyranid lictors in a swamp is enough to win my vote.

Guardsman Marbo check out his stat line and his wargear and speical rules

Catachans for this simple reason:

Iron Hand Straken


Besides Catachan makes the planet Pandora look like a home depot green house

Cadians are weak? they live on a planet that is the last stop before the entance of hell and the first stop for every demonic horde! i think they win.

mrsmith wrote:Cadians are weak? they live on a planet that is the last stop before the entance of hell and the first stop for every demonic horde! i think they win.

Yes, but for Catachans and DKoK, they join the army to escape their home. That's pretty tough compared to Cadians and other imperial guard.

What about the ork hunters? Oh well, guss I will say death korps, catachans, then savlar chem-dogs in that order. Drop troops are cool to, I guss they are all cool, in there own way!

Jack42494 wrote:What about the ork hunters? Oh well, guss I will say death korps, catachans, then savlar chem-dogs in that order. Drop troops are cool to, I guss they are all cool, in there own way!

they're amazing? cus what other imperial guard army type STEALS ork weapons and uses them? what other imperial guard army has twin linked assault cannon sentinels with loud speaker on them? none other then the ork hunters

TyraelVladinhurst wrote:

Jack42494 wrote:What about the ork hunters? Oh well, guss I will say death korps, catachans, then savlar chem-dogs in that order. Drop troops are cool to, I guss they are all cool, in there own way!

they're amazing? cus what other imperial guard army type STEALS ork weapons and uses them? what other imperial guard army has twin linked assault cannon sentinels with loud speaker on them? none other then the ork hunters

I was asking why they are not on the poll. I was saying that they were the coolest, with the others coming after. Sorry about the miscommunication!

I voted Krieg, for the reason of fighting with a re-breather? Thats dangg difficult, just try to be efficiently fighting with a combat mask in front of you and youre not only worried about getting shot but youre worried your air supply runs out and you get killed by the toxic air or your gas tank gets shot in which case you also die.

mindfield wrote:I voted Krieg, for the reason of fighting with a re-breather? Thats dangg difficult, just try to be efficiently fighting with a combat mask in front of you and youre not only worried about getting shot but youre worried your air supply runs out and you get killed by the toxic air or your gas tank gets shot in which case you also die.

Well the DKoK arent ALWAYS on toxic dead world's. They are probably posted at them a lot but the mask is mainly for looks now. However you are right, imagine your mask slipping off for any amount of time on a world that is to toxic to breath regularly even at Imperium standards. Living on a forge world is probably like breathing inside of a smokestack nowadays

I have also heard they wear the masks as part of their shame and guilt. Noone see's their faces and none of them have names..... very grimdark.

xXSir MontyXx wrote:

mindfield wrote:I voted Krieg, for the reason of fighting with a re-breather? Thats dangg difficult, just try to be efficiently fighting with a combat mask in front of you and youre not only worried about getting shot but youre worried your air supply runs out and you get killed by the toxic air or your gas tank gets shot in which case you also die.

Well the DKoK arent ALWAYS on toxic dead world's. They are probably posted at them a lot but the mask is mainly for looks now. However you are right, imagine your mask slipping off for any amount of time on a world that is to toxic to breath regularly even at Imperium standards. Living on a forge world is probably like breathing inside of a smokestack nowadays

I have also heard they wear the masks as part of their shame and guilt. Noone see's their faces and none of them have names..... very grimdark.

It's out o habit; Krieg was decimated with nukes, so now everyone has to wear gas masks. The gas mask just becomes a second skin to them.

Rather uncomfortable second skin. Its like dealing with a pair of spectacles, except a pair that probably worsens yur eyesight.

Conservationist wrote:Rather uncomfortable second skin. Its like dealing with a pair of spectacles, except a pair that probably worsens yur eyesight.

having to qualify with a gas mask currently is no joke. However, i would probably suggest that the Kriegers, and other IG units that are "always" in rebreathers or other masks, have probably modified their sights on their weapons, or had optics developed to allow them to be more accurate.

Conservationist wrote:Rather uncomfortable second skin. Its like dealing with a pair of spectacles, except a pair that probably worsens yur eyesight.

But they've been wearing some form of gas mask since birth, they've become acclimatised to such discomforts.

Devastator wrote:

shrike wrote:tanith -> scouts -> telion -> raven guard<night lords<alpha legion ->Tanith Scout corp -> Mandrakes -> Oam Mkoll
that's how the stealth totem pole works.

fixed>

There ya go. NOW its fixed.

First.
And.
Only.

telion -> raven guard->night lords->alpha legion ->Tanith Scout corp -> Mandrakes -> Oan Mkoll -> Mkvenner
that's how the stealth totem pole works.

There ya go. NOW its fixed.

fething straight, but I beg to differ, NOW its fixed.

WARORK93 wrote:First.
And.
Only.

telion -> raven guard->night lords->alpha legion ->Tanith Scout corp -> Mandrakes -> Oan Mkoll -> Mkvenner
that's how the stealth totem pole works.

There ya go. NOW its fixed.

fething straight, but I beg to differ, NOW its fixed.

Looks good to me.

Commissar Gaunt and the Ghosts: His Armour Is Contempt

WARORK93 wrote:First.
And.
Only.

telion -> raven guard->night lords->alpha legion ->Tanith Scout corp -> Mandrakes -> Oan Mkoll -> Mkvenner
that's how the stealth totem pole works.

There ya go. NOW its fixed.

fething straight, but I beg to differ, NOW its fixed.

That's a tough one. Maybe on a good day Mkvenner could outsneak Mkoll but I still give the edge to Mkoll. Mkvenner could definately beat Mkoll in a Karate match though. Guys an actual fething ninja.

Anyways, Finishing of the Vraks trilogy and I feel I should mention some IG who are even more badass than the Death Korps of Kieg: The Death Korps of Krieg Engineers! By The Emperor, The DKoK are the grimmest, darkest IG of all but the Engineering Korps is to regular DKoK what DKoK are to normal Guard. Tunnel rat extraordinaires!

DKoK get my vote.

Shell a hive for 10 years, the hive surrendered after 2

Devastator wrote:

shrike wrote:tanith -> scouts -> telion -> raven guard<night lords<alpha legion
that's how the stealth totem pole works.

fixed>

I'm sorry, but I can't imagine night lords or alpha legion being more stealthy than raven guard.

KamikazeCanuck wrote:

That's a tough one. Maybe on a good day Mkvenner could outsneak Mkoll but I still give the edge to Mkoll. Mkvenner could definitely beat Mkoll in a Karate match though. Guys an actual fething ninja.

Mkoll admits that only one man had ever surpassed him in the art of stealth and scout and he was referring to Mkvenner at the time.

That and the fact that if you rip out your year 40,000 edition of the oxford gothic dictionary and look up the phrase "fething badass" it displays a picture of an inquisitor, his retinue, and a team of stormtroopers looking around and gaping at the ninja Houdini that they just had pulled on them.

DKoK get my vote.

Shell a hive for 10 years, the hive surrendered after 2

thats why the Dkok get my second place vote with the Catachans coming in at third