any nicknames for units/armies/characters?

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**shakey787**

hi all just wondering if any of you have nicknames in store or with friends for units ie Marneus Calgar -= papa smurf

we have

Dark Angels:

Dangles
Dress wearing traitors

Space Wolves:

Ikea Marines
Space puppies

Crimson Fists:

The Red Hand Gang

Blood Angels:

Bangles

Raven Guard:

Sneaky Beaky's.

Captain Lysander:

Beltsander
Bystander.

Imperial Guard:

op Meat shield
bullet catchers

please post some of yours

**Brother SRM**

Marneus Calgar is Pimp Daddy Macragge, or Pimp Daddy Calgar depending who's talking. Nids are bugs. Catachans are just men from Planet Rambo.

**alexwars1**

Tyranids are Spehss Locusts.

**Skragfist**

Disposable Heroes for Ultramarines.

**Mortified Penguin**

Roboute Gulliman = Rowboat Girlyman.

**Altanis**

Imperial Guard: Imperial Meat Shields

Any tyranid hive fleet: Hive Fleet OMNOMNOM

**Ultra mortalitas**

Mephiston: Godd ol' Mephisty (I usually say this when he kills an HQ)

Tycho: Blanket (or Prince Michael Jackson II)

Thats all I can come up with so far.

**Scott-S6**

Back in 2nd ed one of the guys at my club referred to his space wolf characters as:

Roger Blackmane
Bjork the smelly handed
Ulrika the Slayer
Nigel Stormcaller

One of the other guys had carnifexes called Gary, Maureen and Mabel (and their names were tatooed onto the sides of their heads).

**Altanis**

I also have a dreadnought named phil.
He was the first marine I ever lost

**Tyranid Horde**

Spud Marines is what I call Space Marines.
I have a Hive Tyrant called Jim, A Termagant called Bob and a Carnifex called Bill.

**CT GAMER**

Sukz Da' Nob.

He was the leader of my Gorka Morka crew back in the day, and has had an incarnation in every ork force I have built/owned, including my current 40K ork army...

**Space_Potato**

I used to have a fearsome remnant squad (not the newest Guard codex, the one before) that were the bane of more foes than I can remember.

They were called Kevin's Killers. The grenade launcher and missile launcher in that squad have so many kill markers, each one represents 10 kills (so III represents 30 kills).

Kevin and his lads won me so many games.

S_P

**shakey787**

genius

i lol'd a bjork

**Honersstodnt**

crimson fists... i'm sure there's a feminine hyigene / sexual deviancy joke in there, but i'm too tired to make it.

blood angels are "sparkly nipple vampires"

knew a guy who had a daemon prince... he was SO PROUD of his paint job on it (it wasn't primed, paints weren't thinned, metal was showing through, it was the worst paint job you can imagine, literally)... I dubbed it "fire marshal bill", after a customer who always came into verizon (when I worked there) and demanded a new cell phone because his wouldn't work. He came in like every 2-3 weeks. We always just gave him a new phone, because he slipped us a $20. Ahhh, the good old days.

**Necanor**

Logan Grimnar = Santa Grimnar

**Melissia**

Brother SRM wrote:Marneus Calgar is Pimp Daddy Macragge, or Pimp Daddy Calgar depending who's talking. Nids are bugs. Catachans are just men from Planet Rambo.

I call him papa smurf.

**Zarake**

My friend has a Chaos Rhino named Spiky...it hurts to pick it up the wrong way.

**Wyvern**

When I was a kid playing Marines, I named each of my Sergeants Larry, Terry, Phil, Ted, Dave or something similar.

**Radikus**

I have a Lone Wolf me and my group have nicknamed Captain Soakfire. It is widely accepted that shooting at Captain Soakfire is a waste of firepower.

**ssREV**

I believe the universal nickname for Aun'va is the Space Pope.

**Wyvern**

ssREV wrote:I believe the universal nickname for Aun'va is the Space Pope.

He really is haha!

**Melissia**

There was a nickname for Karamazov's big chair but I forgot what it was...

**Crazy_Carnifex**

My 'nids tend to pick up some rather odd names...

Onesie, the Tyranid Prime

Gribbles, the Tyrant Gaurd

Shulky, the Broodlord

Mr. T, the Trygon Prime (I pity the food!)

Murdoch, the second Trygon Prime

**DEUS VULT**

Mentors: The Freshmakers
Space Wolves: Space Furries

**Night Lords**

I have a 2x Devourer Carnifex who's name is George. He was named that when he sniped a fully wounded Keeper of Secrets to death from some jungle terrain (George of the Jungle).

Oh wait, I turned him into a Tervigon. He's now George the Tervigon.

**Lord_Astaroth**

Well, back in 3rd Edition, my Imperial Guard army had Cypher in it (yes that was legal). For whatever reason, he called him "Kitty". It took me a couple times of him saying that, when it finally dawned on me what he was saying. I explained how his name was CYPHER, and he says, "I know how it is spelled, but KITTY is how it is pronounced. I can ALMOST understand KIPPY, but KITTY?

**Melissia**

DEUS VULT wrote:Mentors: The Freshmakers

*bursts into laughter*

Ohohoh, that made my day.

**Luke_Prowler**

i occasional call Old Zogwort the Squiginator, and actually plan on making several squig markers for certain special characters.

**Inquisitor_Syphonious**

Eldar

Eldrad- Big E

Eldrad & Avatar (Meh) Eldratar

Those are the common ones I hear...

**Luke_Prowler**

Inquisitor_Syphonious wrote:Eldrad.

What a dick.