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**Cryonicleech**

Sometimes, I get the occasional pew pew going on with my Space Marines.

Other times, they start having voices.

And, worst comes to worst, I start giving them names, voices, and sound effects.

**metallifan**

FITZZ wrote: My girlfriend will often pick up minis off my desk and make "pew pew" shooting noises.
I don't mind it to much as I give her gak concerning the OTT dialouge in the anime she watches.

Haha, QFT. Oh dinner-plate sized mouths and "Over 9000", what would we do without you?

**Henners91**

I recently made a Valkyrie, and I keep on picking it up and admiring it... then turning it around to look at it from behind... then fwooshing... then pushing it away and finally zooming around the room going NEEAAAAOW!

**HellsGuardian316**

I regulary act out a fight scene with the IC's when one of them dies in CC. For no other reason than it embarasses the hell out of my opponents

**leoaeris6789**

Cryonicleech wrote:And, worst comes to worst, I start giving them names, voices, and sound effects.

...naming your loyal warriors is odd?

**Aduro**

So far I've named three of my Beasts of Nurgle. Muffin, Biscuit, and Doug. My Great Unclean One is technically named Ah'Beese, but I generally just call him The Fat Man.

**Commander Endova**

I think naming them is a whole different kind of crazy. I mean, I do it. It's different, though.

**makr**

I write names on the bases of all my guys...

I don't really float them around and make gun sounds or anything. Though when I feel like having an opponent cringe in an otherwise serious game, I like to say "Vroom" when moving a chimera or something.

**ZacktheChaosChild**

I really don't, although I make plenty of those noises during games.

For example:

My orks shoot something.

I say "DAKKADAKKADAKKA" as they take it off the board.

**Darth Bob**

I made roaring noises when I assembled my first Bloodthirster...

Good times...good times.

**Death Gear**

Sometimes when my orks charge into close combat I will yell WAAAAGH!!!! and DAKKA DAKKA

at least in my mind

sometimes when my friend plays he makes too many sounds so I have to smack him on head and tell him to shut up so the other players don't get mad at him

**caspian500**

when im playing a game with my friends, i usually make a story while playing to describe the exact way of death. So if he got shot by a bolter. He was running away, back to the outpost, while the chaos marine was in preparation. It took a split second as the bolt penetrated the guardsmens back. It was with so much force, the guardsmen was thrown onto a barricade and impaled, before the round detonated. ^_^

**nintendoeats**

When me and my warhammer buds talk about my ork models, I will often take whichever one I am holding and say something like "The way he is holding that gun and swinging that Klaw, you can just picture him going WAAAAAAAAGH!!!" As I shake the model vigorously.

I want some spaceships...That is the one area where Orks are horribly defficient. I suppose a nice big Ork Rok model would be sufficient. This gives me ideas...

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caspian500 wrote:when im playing a game with my friends, i usually make a story while playing to describe the exact way of death. So if he got shot by a bolter. He was running away, back to the outpost, while the chaos marine was in preparation. It took a split second as the bolt penetrated the guardsmens back. It was with so much force, the guardsmen was thrown onto a barricade and impaled, before the round detonated. ^_^

Did you ever DM? thats the most fun part, making up insane ways that enemies got killed (Critical Hit: Your crossbow bolt went over his shoulder, bounced off of the statue in front of him and went straight back through his head, leaving a pointy stick where his eye used to be.)

**lordrevege**

My woman insits on calling them toys.
Meh!!!

**nintendoeats**

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**jbunny**

No I have not, but the GW officers from England refer to them as toy soldiers so there might be a reason you do it.

**theocd**

My Leman Russes are nothing without GRRRRRR......KABOOM!!!
All my Special Weapons are Grenade Launchers so there's KACHUNG!............BOOM! as well.
In fact, anything that can be NEOWED, ZOOMED, DAKKA DAKKA, KACHINGED, WHOOSHED will be in a game with me and chums.

The OC-D

**J'santai Khan**

I've caught my 6 year old daughter using my LandRaiders as transports for her Littlest Pet Shop animals more times than I can count. It's actually quite funny to watch her carefully put them inside of it, move it across the floor/table/whatever (while making VROOM-VROOM noises), and then carefully take them out again. She has yet to even 'scratch the paint' while monkeying around with them!

**rdlb**

All vehicles and jump troops get sound effects during a game. This is almost as important as the most important rule !!!!

**nintendoeats**

Are we the only people who have the house rule requiring a shout fo WAAAAAAGH!!! before the waaagh!!! can be begin?

**Platuan4th**

Aduro wrote:For awhile my friend's kid's favorite toy to "fly" around the house was one of his Devil Fishes.

On a related note, when I went in to UPS the other day to get a price quite on shipping a fig somewhere, she asked me what was in the box. I paused for a moment, and said toys. I figured it's close enough to the truth, and FAR easier to explain.

I keep expecting to see "Toys" on my Forgeworld orders on the Customs Declaration stickers, yet they constantly say "Reduced Scale Models".

Customs continues to disappoint me with their professionalism.

**Cpt Gate**

Dreadnaught. Everytime it moves I hear the "wrr chusss... wirr cusssh...." in my head

**vodo40k**

A valk always gets a good SWOOOOOSH from me. Drop pods are also great fun for SWOOOOOOH BOOM!

**Maxstreel**

J'santai Khan wrote:I've caught my 6 year old daughter using my LandRaiders as transports for her Littlest Pet Shop animals more times than I can count. It's actually quite funny to watch her carefully put them inside of it, move it across the floor/table/whatever (while making VROOM-VROOM noises), and then carefully take them out again. She has yet to even 'scratch the paint' while monkeying around with them!

My 8 year old daughter has done the same. However, the Space Marines do act well and attend tea quite often. No scratches on the paint. I'm sure they're probably thinking (if they could think a la Toy Story) it's beneath them all but oh well. I'm the commander therefore she's the daughter of the commander and they will play... ahem... guard the Emperor's Littlest Pet Shop animals and make sure there is no xeno threat.

**Lewismio**

alchemistfalling wrote:My fiancee will tell you it drives her crazy that I quote "we are sphes mehrens" every time I paint a blood raven.

Though as much as I try to explain against it she insists on giving a rooooooar-ing battle cry when she advances...her necrons.

And we both veroom veroom the land speeders.

FITZZ wrote: My girlfriend will often pick up minis off my desk and make "pew pew" shooting noises.
I don't mind it to much as I give her gak concerning the OTT dialouge in the anime she watches.

I WANT AN ANIME WATCHIN, NECRON PLAYIN NERDY GIRLFRIEND

**nintendoeats**

Lewismio wrote:
I WANT AN ANIME WATCHIN, NECRON PLAYIN NERDY GIRLFRIEND

SAME (well, not the anime, but in spirit.)