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"Oomans are pink and soft, not tough and green like da Boyz. They'z all the same size too, so they'z always arguing about who's in charge, 'cos no way of telling 'cept fer badges an' ooniforms and fings. When one of them wants to lord it over the uvvers, 'e says "I'm very speshul so'z you gotta worship me", or "I know summink wot you lot don't know so yer better lissen good". Da funny fing is, arf of 'em believe it and da over arf don't, so 'e 'as to hit 'em all anyway or run fer it. Wot a lot of mukkin' about if yer asks me. An' while they'z all arguing wiv each other over who's da boss, da Orks can clobber da lot"

Codex: Orks on Big Gun Krews

"Should the miserable Grot crews survive for long they will soon become deafened and have to resort to a rudimentary form of sign language. This is rarely successful as there are only so many signs a Grot can carry around with him"

"If all else fails, duck, as a defensive stratagem it is unreliable, but incredibly reassuring for a moment or or two."

- Lord Corvis of Petrax


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Statistically, you will almost certainly die when assaulting a well-maintained fortress with a competent commander. You must strive to make your death useful.

When they march to war, they are accompanied by the same Meks, who ensure the Burna Boyz do not get carried away and set light to the other Orks merely so they will 'do the burny dance

Orkses never lose a battle. If we win we win, if we die we die fightin so it don't count. If we runs for it we don't die neither, cos we can come back for annuver go, see

Honourable runners up..

Psienesis wrote:

I just googled them, apparently Elder, the language of one of the oldest races in the universe, is a cheap gaeilge knock off.

T'was ever thus. The names of Eldar Craftworlds and character names and all examples of Eldar speech have been Gaelic-inspired, sometimes directly taken, text.

Too true. Sam Hann and Beil Tan are translations of Wiccan holidays-Bel Tain and Saim Hann. I learned this from my ex, who is a Wiccan, and she was talking about her holidays and I responded "hey, I know that word-it's a craftworld in one of my games!" She thought I was nuts...I know I got the spelling wrong in the names, but you guys know what I mean.

On topic...ugh, now I have to find a favorite quote for later. It'll involve Slaanesh and the despoiling of virgins, somehow. Lol. Least favorite has to be "blood for the blood god." It's old. It's also disturbing to see somebody scream "sprues for the sprue god" at Gamesday-I don't know who he was, but a god, he was not.

Lord Magnus wrote:"If all else fails, duck, as a defensive stratagem it is unreliable, but incredibly reassuring for a moment or or two."

- Lord Corvis of Petrax


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Statistically, you will almost certainly die when assaulting a well-maintained fortress with a competent commander. You must strive to make your death useful.

When they march to war, they are accompanied by the same Meks, who ensure the Burna Boyz do not get carried away and set light to the other Orks merely so they will 'do the burny dance

Orkses never lose a battle. If we win we win, if we die we die fightin so it don't count. If we runs for it we don't die neither, cos we can come back for annuver go, see

Honourable runners up..

That first one always makes me crack up

Obvious winner has to be the one in my signature, or the old one from RT - 'Every man is a spark in the darkness. By the time he is noticed he is gone forever, a retinal after-image that fades and is obscured by newer, brighter lights.'

Come, SHOW ME WHAT PASSES FOR FURY AMONGST YOUR MISBEGOTTEN KIND!!! I cant remember the excat source, but it came from a Space Marine

Force Commander from DoW or DoW2, iirc.

There is a track on the official soundtrack album that is titled "Show Me What Passes for Music Amongst Your Misbegotten Kind"... I believe it is the ending credits track.

“What I cannot crush with words I will crush with the tanks of the Imperial Guard!”-Lord Solar Macharius

“Infantry win firefights. Tanks win battles. Artillery wins wars.”- Old saying amonst Imperial Guard artillery officers

“Your foe is well equipped, well-trained, and battle-hardened. He believes his gods are on his side. Let him believe what he will. We have the tanks on ours.”- Colonel Joachim Pfeiff, Krieg 14th Armoured Regiment

“We've run into scorpions the size of battle tanks, three men died from Eyerot last week. I've sweat enough to fill a lake, my boots got sucked into a sink-swamp and the trees are so thick in places, you can't squeeze between them. Emperor help me, I love this place! It's just like home!”- Captain Rock of the Catachan III 'Green Devils'

“When in deadly danger,
When beset by doubt,
Run in little circles,
Wave your arms and shout.”
-Parody of the Litany of Command, popular among Commissar Cadets

Psienesis wrote:Force Commander from DoW or DoW2, iirc.

There is a track on the official soundtrack album that is titled "Show Me What Passes for Music Amongst Your Misbegotten Kind"... I believe it is the ending credits track.

That's were it's from! Thanks! I always loved the challenging tone that came with that quote, and I had no idea about the "What passes for music" bit

You have ruled this galaxy for ten thousand years
Yet have little of account to show for your efforts
Order. Unity. Obedience.
We taught the galaxy these things

And we shall do so again.

'Oomies are pink and oft, not green an tough like da boyz. And deyz all de same size, so derez no tellin'n whoz in charge exept fer ooniformz and medalz and fingz."

or when the ork dex tells you about the lost race (like a kind of creature wich has ceased to exist), theres an ork quote in the middle of the text saying "Da only lost race I eva heard of woz when Hef chrashed hi trike in da final stretchof da Cross-desert rally. Cost me a few teef, dat!

Least favourite

somwhere in the rulebook "take care of your equippment" WHOA! AMAZING QUOTE! (might have gotten it wrong though, because, unlike the ork dex, i only have the rulebook in german)


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The Mad Tanker wrote:

“We've run into scorpions the size of battle tanks, three men died from Eyerot last week. I've sweat enough to fill a lake, my boots got sucked into a sink-swamp and the trees are so thick in places, you can't squeeze between them. Emperor help me, I love this place! It's just like home!”- Captain Rock of the Catachan III 'Green Devils'

Hey, thats been shortened for the german dex! AARGH!, I hate that thing!

Toastedandy wrote:

n0t_u wrote:
"Da gceilfi an fhirinne, b'flieidir go neosfai breag" (If the truth were hidden, perhaps a lie would be told.)
and
"Nil ann ach cleasai, agus tá an iomad measa aige air féin." (The trickster thinks too much of himself.)

Whats with the Irish?

First one is : "Depriving him of the truth, blah blah blah"
The second one is more like : "He's a mere acrobat, and he has too much respect for himself"

I just googled them, apparently Elder, the language of one of the oldest races in the universe, is a cheap gaeilge knock off.

Irish is the oldest surviving language in the world. So there. They probably wanted a language few people would recognise. Or one of the authors has an Irish cousin.

iproxtaco wrote:You have ruled this galaxy for ten thousand years
Yet have little of account to show for your efforts
Order. Unity. Obedience.
We taught the galaxy these things

And we shall do so again.

Who said that? Sounds like an Eldar quote


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The Mad Tanker wrote:“What I cannot crush with words I will crush with the tanks of the Imperial Guard!”-Lord Solar Macharius

That quote is awesome in so many ways

Durza wrote:
Irish is the oldest surviving language in the world.

Source?. As far as I know, Korean is older, same with Arabic and Hebrew

Toastedandy wrote:

Durza wrote:
Irish is the oldest surviving language in the world.

Source?. As far as I know, Korean is older, same with Arabic and Hebrew

Sorry, technically Old Irish is older than them, but Slightly Younger Irish is slightly younger than them. My source would have to be... the official history of Ireland used for state examinations that decide the futures of those who do them.

Durza wrote:
Sorry, technically Old Irish is older than them,

Old Irish as in Ogham?



from 300 odd BC? Hebrew is from as far back as 950BC. Got any dates from your history book?

I will after a two hour drive this Friday. But no, not Ogham. That came in centuries after the spoken tongue.

Google can't help? I've been looking, but the oldest date I've found was the first century BC, but that's for Ogham.

BTW not trying to flame or anything, Im actually interested

bombboy1252 wrote:

iproxtaco wrote:You have ruled this galaxy for ten thousand years
Yet have little of account to show for your efforts
Order. Unity. Obedience.
We taught the galaxy these things

And we shall do so again.

Who said that? Sounds like an Eldar quote

That's from the Necron video teaser GW put up a couple days ago, it's also in my sig, and as of right now, is my go-to quintessential Necron quote.

Anyway my favourite quote is the Dark Eldar quote in my sig. I like how it takes the cliche villain boast "I'm your worst nightmare! BLAARGH!!" and makes it even more sinister.

I like: My sword is at the Emperor's command. I answer to no other man, living or dead!.

I hate:

WAAGGHHH!!!

Fav: Learn what? Chaos does not teach, is misleads and it betrays.

Least: ChitterchitterclackchitterchitterslashslashROoooOOOooOAAAaaAARRRRtrample!!! ( Tyranids...)

Toastedandy wrote:Google can't help? I've been looking, but the oldest date I've found was the first century BC, but that's for Ogham.

BTW not trying to flame or anything, Im actually interested

I haven't trusted Google for a while now. They've taken the history of Irish off the syllabus, so it's not even on the website that I can see. I'll try find some dates though.

Well, according to J.P.Mallory, Irish in its earliest form began with the Celts around 1200BC, which is pretty good. Though the fact that it took almost nine hundred years to invent writing is a bit worrying...

Durza wrote:I haven't trusted Google for a while now.

That's a very strange statement. What exactly don't you trust about google? The fact that they are a company? Or are you implying that google is wrong?

Durza wrote:Well, according to J.P.Mallory, Irish in its earliest form began with the Celts around 1200BC, which is pretty good.

Celtic and Irish are two different languages as far as I know. Celtic is a Gaulish language originating in Europe. While Irish is a Gaelic Language brought to Ireland by the Gaelic Scots. (This is all from memory from LC about 4 years ago, so it could be wrong) Unless you mean Irish culture, which was brought in by the Celts.

Any quotes? If we are going by earliest form, I'm going with Sumerian @2900BC. or Greek @ 1425 - 1375 BC. But I'm almost sure the oldest surviving language is Hebrew

Easy E wrote:

Least Favorite:
Big guns never tire.

I thought the original quote, from the Rogue Trader book was pretty intriguing:

"Though my guards may sleep and ships may lay at anchor, our foes know full well that big guns never tire. - The Tyrant of Badab

Remember that this line of text wasn't expanded upon in the background for some time (maybe White Dwarf 110 or thereabouts?) so it was really enigmatic and mysterious sounding, as so much of the first rulebook was. Who was this Tyrant of Badab, and what were his big guns?

I had a chaos fleet in BFG and the flagship (a battleship) had the name 'Tyrant of Badab', always thought it had a nice ring to it

Here is my favorite quote

"The heraldic cross stands proud on my chest, where Astartes of lesser Chapters wear the Emperor’s aquila. We do not wear His symbol. We are His symbol."
Grimaldus from Helsreach

Least favorite would have to be anything from the cultists on dawn of war for the pc, its not so much what they say, is more their voice i just can't stand.

My favourite at the moment is from the first Ragnar Omnibus. When they are sneaking into the ork stronghold
'Their guards bellowed something back. The noise was so loud it was almost deafening. It appeared ork was a language to be shouted at all times.'

AT. ALL. TIMES.

Read it and had to post

"Let no good deed go unpunished. Let no evil deed go unrewarded"
Yeah, ancient, bitter veterans of a thousand battles now sound like cheap, saturday morning cartoon villains.
Thanks Gav.

Celtic and Irish are two different languages as far as I know. Celtic is a Gaulish language originating in Europe. While Irish is a Gaelic Language brought to Ireland by the Gaelic Scots.

My understanding is that Celtic is the parent root (under the Indo-Europen branch) of a group of languges which include Irish, Scots gaelic, Welsh etc.
You're right about Irish being a Gaelic language.
So its basically Celtic -> Gaelic -> Irish

Dont think Irish is the oldest language in the world tbh. Even in its early forms (and by this I mean raw root form) you're looking at maybe a max of 1000BC.

Best quote:
Contact with Alien races always renews one faith in Humanity - Hellem Bosch.

Favorite:
Only The Insane Have Strength Enough To Prosper: Only Those That Prosper Truly Judge What Is Sane. - RT book