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Asherian Command wrote:One of the Astrates in the wanderers threw a grenade it bounced back and killed him.

Also a few astrates deaths were when a marine tripped and landed on a land mine.

Also one of my chapters one time dropped the life eater virus inside one of their ships it destroyed half the chapter....

Is your chapter by any chance called, The failmarines?

Jape wrote:

Fifty wrote:Crimson Fists, especially in the original Rogue Trader version of 40k.

Entire chapter blown up by a stray missile.

Crimson Fist chapter master left a bit red-in-the-face.

Damn you beat me. Arguably a tragedy of war but one also a reason only have 1,000 men is very good motivator to not put all your eggs in one basket. Space Castle or no, the Astartes have it coming. Hell a particularly bad bout of flu has probably cripple more than a few Chapters.

you forget the worst part of it, it was a missile from the planetary defense installation, there own effing missile! Really GW? that's the best you could come up with is on of their own missiles blowing up all but 16 of the members? worthless piece of writing there

DeffDred wrote:Like the Great Gatsby.

I actually enjoyed that book

Anytime a marine fails a dangerous terrain test, I like to think they trip and fall.

See, I think its kind of creative. "Hey, lets have the CF get destroyed almost to the man by a super powerful epic a$$ force" "Nah, lets have something unexpected happen"

And it was during a massive WAAAGH!
Wouldnt/couldnt the Ork psych have something to do with it?

darkcloud92 wrote:

Jape wrote:

Fifty wrote:Crimson Fists, especially in the original Rogue Trader version of 40k.

Entire chapter blown up by a stray missile.

Crimson Fist chapter master left a bit red-in-the-face.

Damn you beat me. Arguably a tragedy of war but one also a reason only have 1,000 men is very good motivator to not put all your eggs in one basket. Space Castle or no, the Astartes have it coming. Hell a particularly bad bout of flu has probably cripple more than a few Chapters.

you forget the worst part of it, it was a missile from the planetary defense installation, there own effing missile! Really GW? that's the best you could come up with is on of their own missiles blowing up all but 16 of the members? worthless piece of writing there

How is a critical malfunction in a giant nuke bad writing? Because it shows that the SM's stuff can fail too?

Battle Brother Lucifer wrote:

DeffDred wrote:Like the Great Gatsby.

I actually enjoyed that book

It's a really good book...

Soladrin wrote:If a game of Deathwatch counts...

A Space Wolf got nudged of a cliff by a grot...

HA! Who says grots are useless.

That poor World Eater Cain dueled in The Traitor's Hand. To quote the commissar, "I thought the acolytes of Khorne were supposed to be warriors, not a bunch of pansies."

Molten Butter wrote:That poor World Eater Cain dueled in The Traitor's Hand. To quote the commissar, "I thought the acolytes of Khorne were supposed to be warriors, not a bunch of pansies."

Actually, His statement earlier was also sad for the [i]Khorne Bezerker[/i]

'insert generic Khornite battlecry'
"Harriers for the cup"
Made all the more sad because the Harriers lost in the semi-finals.

Void__Dragon wrote:Apparently in the Grey Knights Omnibus, some Grey Knights fight some humans with medieval weaponry.

One of the Grey Knights is killed by a normal sword.

Apparently. Haven't read it myself.

IIRC we don't get told how he dies, only that he does. For reference it's around 25 Grey Knights versus an entire medieval army whose cavalry consists of men riding giant lizards called Tharr. They get out of the army by having their Terminators use the Holocaust.

That scene totally is where they got Cleansing Flame from BTW.

Soladrin wrote:
Show us proof then.

Get out your Rogue Trader book and look at the diagram.

I don't have that.

And besides, that's old, and numerous sources have named it as lenses.

The eyepieces are certainly armored, but they are lenses for sure. They have a heads-up display of sorts on them, displaying the auto-senses information and all, but if the auto-senses fail, you still need to be able to see. Hence transparent armor lenses. RT might say one thing, but many sources since have said another.

well this wasn't a slowed death, more of a very horrible one. In the ultramarine omnibus some assault marines are captured by the night lords who precede to gouging out there eyes, cutting off their tongues, cutting their chests open and to top it all off they impale them on rhino's. oh and did i mention they were killed by other ultramarines?

Please don't use the word "slowed" prejoratively. Thanks! ~Manchu

When the Ultramarines killed them, it was an act of mercy.

yes, yes i knew that

I dunno about worst death, but C.S Goto wrote some howlers over the years. I remember one with the Mantis Warriors versus 'nids, I don't know about Astartes deaths but I was ready to self harm after the 1st two chapters, never even finished the book. I think the Marine/ Olius Pius/ custode/IF or BA that charged HORUS infront of the Emperor was pretty epic fail, what part of the Emperor saying "I got this one..." didn't he understand, plus if the Devil and God were having a fist fight I for one would not wade in shouting "Break it up". Lucky he did mind, or else the Emperor would have let his eldest run around forever without chastising him.

mwnciboo wrote:I dunno about worst death, but C.S Goto wrote some howlers over the years. I remember one with the Mantis Warriors versus 'nids, I don't know about Astartes deaths but I was ready to self harm after the 1st two chapters, never even finished the book. I think the Marine/ Olius Pius/ custode/IF or BA that charged HORUS infront of the Emperor was pretty epic fail, what part of the Emperor saying "I got this one..." didn't he understand, plus if the Devil and God were having a fist fight I for one would not wade in shouting "Break it up". Lucky he did mind, or else the Emperor would have let his eldest run around forever without chastising him.

However, didn't that guy finally show that Horus was evil and then the Emperor stopped holding back?

Yup, i did acknowledge that in the very last sentence above.

This isn't in any actual fluff, but it did happen to me in a game, single BA terminator killed by a single fire warrior in combat, on the charge :( bad times.

I think its in the dark angels codex, where a dark angel marine teleported into a huge rock... Awkward.

What happens when you teleport into a rock?

Squish.

You get seriously stoned.

Would you just sorta dissipate on a molecular level?
As, opposed to squish, which kinda implies movements of sorts...

CpatTom wrote:Would you just sorta dissipate on a molecular level?
As, opposed to squish, which kinda implies movements of sorts...

If one goes by Quake slipgate logic, then the rock should have exploded in a shower of dust and pebblegibs, leaving the teleportee unharmed. While it takes the grimdanger away from the teleportee and gives it to anything or anyone near the target, I prefer this interpretation.

Instant fossilization?


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Ixion wrote:

CpatTom wrote:Would you just sorta dissipate on a molecular level?
As, opposed to squish, which kinda implies movements of sorts...

If one goes by Quake slipgate logic, then the rock should have exploded in a shower of dust and pebblegibs, leaving the teleportee unharmed. While it takes the grimdanger away from the teleportee and gives it to anything or anyone near the target, I prefer this interpretation.

Which has already been disproved in novels. Can't remember which book, but I remeber a guy teleporting in with a steel girder through his tummy. And it's often been stated that teleportation is very dangerous, especialy without proper coördinates.

All the poor Thousand Sons who were turned into Rubricae by Ahriman--who did it by accident.

Crimson Fists have to take the cake. Awesome colour scheme, awesome chapter. Killed by a faulty missile.