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MagickalMemories wrote:Space Sharks is craptacular.

There's a guy locally (Whitedragon knows him I think) who plays at the GW store.
His army is pink... not "Emperor's Children" pink. No.
I'm talking more like, "Is your armor made out of cotton candy?" pink.

I do know who you are talking about, and it's more disturbing if you know more about the guy...

Also, at Adepticon last year, I played against the Cold Steel Merc's (Mannahin's Team) and one of their players had the Strawberry Shortcake Marines, which made my soul die a little bit inside. Although, I got quite a perplexed look from the gentlemen when I informed him that the template from my basilisk would be placed directly on one of the Butterflies on his predator. I would have thought that you have to already have an attitude that this isn't all that serious if you paint your marines in bright pink, but apparently he didn't think it was funny that I was individually targetting butterflies.

Wehrkind wrote:One thing I always sort of was amused by is how many chapter names are based on obscure or uncommon Terran animals. In other words, animals from a planet that had been one giant city for what, 15 millenia? I have to wonder just how many of those things could possibly be extant by the time the chapters were named.
I mean, ok lions, dragons, those sorts of things are pretty engrained into the human story. But where are the scary, non-terrestrial critters? Catachan Devils.... and what? Where are the Astral Jugonu'Pa or something.

"In the grimdarkfuture, horrifying monsters lurk in the wilderness of the stars. But people still think wolves are scary."

wtf?

You won't find any... Because "Blood Marmosets, ""Death Ferrets," and "Iron Hamsters" don't scare anyone.
LOL


Eric

there need to be two brother chapters the "Crouching Tigers" and the "Hidden Dragons" just because!

but as far as cool marine chapter names go, i like "Archangels"

Doctor Optimal wrote:I think he means in RT they were big but they kind of got GRIMDARK-ed out of the story. Also, Gay Marines, LOL... (Rolls eyes)

Given the time frame, I'd always thought that the Rainbow Warriors were a reference to this.

AlexCage wrote:

I like this one better, especially since Kharn's got the Commissar hat on.


Real swell guy, that Kharn.
(big version here)

I once ran into one chapter called The Cutting Swords. Not outright bad, but really kind of The B&C name generator once gave me a chapter called the Thunder Hippos.

My own marines are called the Ouroboros Razors, while my SoB belong to the Order of the Ouroboros Ascendant (what can I say, I like infinity).

I do think Angel is a very overused word with space marines. Though I still like the Dark Angels :p But I didn't really like allot of the GW names so I made up my own.
My Company as known as the Hunters of Chaos. They are hunted by the inquisition because they stopped believing in the emperor.

I'm pretty sure that "Dark Angel" was at the very top of Jello Biafra's long list of really bad band names...

Pariah Press wrote:I'm pretty sure that "Dark Angel" was at the very top of Jello Biafra's long list of really bad band names...

But it made for a quite good TV series.

Nooooooo. Jessica Alba made for a quite good TV series.

KiMonarrez wrote:Nooooooo. Jessica Alba made for a quite good TV series.

There are few things she doesn't make for a quite good something.

Name 1.

I always thought "The World Eaters" was a nice name for a Space Marine Chapter. Same with the "The Blood Drinkers", "The Flesh Tearers", and "The Rampagers". "The Thunder Hippos" isn't so bad when you think about it: hippotamus' are incredibly dangerous and violent animals.

Also, that "Angry Marines vs Kharn" picture is awesome.

MagikalMemories-You won't find any... Because "Blood Marmosets, ""Death Ferrets," and "Iron Hamsters" don't scare anyone

That actually made me cry a bit because I was laughing so hard.

EXALT-FTW.


Iron Hampsters.chuckle.....

I went for the "Kriegmarines" because of my fluff combined with it's historical basis. I left the 's' off Kriegs to distance them a little from the actually WWII navy of Germany, but it fits. Being one word it escapes the track of the "X of Y" marine names, but is still in a similar vein.

Nurglitch wrote:Also, that "Angry Marines vs Kharn" picture is awesome.

I agree. So much so in fact....

Bastirous666 wrote:there need to be two brother chapters the "Crouching Tigers" and the "Hidden Dragons" just because!

Well, in that case "just because", here they are:

Crouching Tigers:

Hidden Dragons:




Viperion

love it, great colors.

now how about Brokeback Marines!

Bahahahaha. No.



Well, OK then.


(Watch out for the power fist )

Viperion

*cackling madly*

Stop it you guys, y'all killing me here.

And I didn't miss the knee-pads either!

My marine chapter is the Desert Wolves

i love it. all of it. now i have to go out and make all three of these armies.

"Brokeback" Is that local slang for "Gay"?

Brokeback, in reference to the brokeback mountain movie. all this tom foolery should not be taken serious in any way, it is intended to insult a movie.

anyway...i lost my train of thought

Oh, well then, so long as all the bigots are telling jokes like that it's okay. After all, it's okay to offend people if you don't mean to, right?

Not too local actually. Quite widely used, actually. It WAS a movie about 2 gay cowboys after all. And really, what's it going to be remembered for in 30 years? That it was about 2 guys and their experiences as cowboys in the 60's? Or that it was about 2 gay guys?

Seriously.

Doctor Optimal wrote:I think he means in RT they were big but they kind of got GRIMDARK-ed out of the story. Also, Gay Marines, LOL... (Rolls eyes)

Nothing says gay marines like Lion'el Johnson and his Dark Angels.

(Look it up, it's a conspiracy I tells ya!)

Given that "Brokeback Mountain" isn't unique in involving two gay protagonists (even two gay protagonists that are cowboys), one would hope that it was remembered for its beautiful photography, meticulous composition, and story about the effects of the closet on the protagonists and their families.

I get why people that haven't seen the movie think it's about two gay dudes, rather than emotional intimacy or lack thereof, but I don't get why some people are stupid enough to confuse it for "Black Daddies on White Twinks Ass-Banging Rodeo IV".

KiMonarrez wrote:Not too local actually. Quite widely used, actually. It WAS a movie about 2 gay cowboys after all. And really, what's it going to be remembered for in 30 years? That it was about 2 guys and their experiences as cowboys in the 60's? Or that it was about 2 gay guys?

Seriously.

It'll be remembered for being the movie made by the guy who directed both
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon AND the Hulk.

Natch.

It's a good film.

malfred wrote:
It'll be remembered for being the movie made by the guy who directed both
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon AND the Hulk.

Natch.

It's a good film.

No one wants to be remembered as the guy who made The Hulk. Well, until we see the next Hulk movie(hopefully).

malfred wrote:
It'll be remembered for being the movie made by the guy who directed both
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon AND the Hulk.

Natch.

It's a good film.

That's where my joke came from...i already said do crouching tiger, and the hidden dragon marines, so then i said do the brokeback mountain marines. and yes brokeback mountain was a good movie, i saw it myself, and thought it was a great love story.

Crouching Tigers: They're Grrrreat!

Anyways, Rainbow Warriors were from RT, and from what I've heard their insipiration was actually the Greenpeace ship "Rainbow Warrior" which was sunk by French intelligence agents for it's role in protesting Nuclear Weapons testing in the Pacific. Background wise I don't believe they actually went to Chaos, but they've not often seen eye to eye with the Administratum and have had numerous run-ins with the inquisition. (The main RT era picture of them was of one being toasted by a Sororitas with a flamer) The Greenpeace Rainbow Warrior was actually inspired by a mythological Native American warrior, and the Original Rainbow Warriors chapter also had numerous Native American elements to them, I believe.

For the other names on the OP's list, they're all good names, with powerful or frightful animals (lions, Sharks, and snakes) linked to words indicating either strength or honour (Celestial, Iron), or indicative of what they do (Space, as the Space Sharks, background wise specialize in Naval Boarding actions) The Black Wings aren't a great name, but for an orbital insertion strike force in invokes the appropriate mental imagery in the reader.

Alot of the names don't sound terribly terrifying or anything when your first hear them, but they make alot more sense when you look into the background of the chapter. (when such background exists) For example: The White Scars. Doesn't sound that impressive, or really make that much sense, until you go back into the background and find that the warriors of the white scars artually ritually scar their faces to celebrate major victories or campaigns, as their forfathers on Mundus Planus/Chogori have done for millenia.

My DiY chapter is the Imperial Hammers, being successors to the Salamanders and following in their legacy of craftsmen and artisans.