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warboss wrote:I'd have to say the strangest proxies I've ever seen (at least virtually in this case) were in this thread...

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/409236.page

I was going to say that too

The amazing thing is that the proxy's aren't the biggest problem in that report

My Abyssal Terror is an old Happy Meal toy that looks like the boss ghost from Super Mario Brothers.

Saw someone cut a piece of paper so that it was an oval roughly the same size as a Dark Eldar Raider, wrote that on it and said it was fine.

Ye Olde 500ml Coke bottle as a drop pod.

Seems to be one of the most common proxies.

Bloodletters




I once played against a unit of 100 spider riders back in 5th ed WHFB which were empty bases.

Waaagh_Gonads wrote:Bloodletters




I once played against a unit of 100 spider riders back in 5th ed WHFB which were empty bases.

This one is a classic, a true classic. What I love most about this army is the face that it comes with what appears to be a tickle-me-elmo daemon prince

Waaagh_Gonads wrote:Bloodletters




I once played against a unit of 100 spider riders back in 5th ed WHFB which were empty bases.

This isn't a terrible proxy - it's MODELLING GENIUS.

I've been threatening to build an army like this for ages. There was a guy on here recently who was building a Tzeentch daemon army of 'gelatinous cubes' out of melted polystyrene - they actually looked amazing...

These aren'y proxies in my book - they're a fantastic, characterful counts-as army which someone has obviously put time and effort into...

I saw a game being played with a guy who was using the clear plastic GW 'blister pack' covers, ripped off the cardboard backing that the blisters come on, and using them on the table as Eldar War Walkers.

I was quite amazed that someone would choose to play against that.

The press out cardboard Ork Dreadnought from the 2nd Ed box set ranks up there....

At least that was officially bad and GW sanctioned

Another one that came to mind from the same game as the condom-flamers...

coughdrops as horrors of tzeentch, with unwrapped ones having icons, and Halls extra stength (the square ones) having bolt of tzeentch...

and best not ask what the DP was

The game took place across the road from an adult store and a gas station, and the other player had left an army case at home, so he went shopping

Sorry, I have to ask......DP?

Proxy of an entire Kroot army as a Tyranid army.

That army apparently also had a proxy of the Tyranid codex being used as the butchery of rules I was overhearing was painful. The player really did not have a Tyranid codex and did not want to check the store's copy as he "remembered it all well enough."

I actually had to stop my game and stare a few times in disbelief, but I did well and said nothing. At least during the game. Afterward I asked his opponent if he understood that Tyranids do not actually work like that. (He didn't - it was his first time playing against them and trusted the other guy was being true.)

Some of it was egregious, like assault grenades and Eternal Warrior, some of it was just silly like insisting on TLOS and complex wound distribution for his Krootox "Carnifex". Most of it I have blocked out in my memory.

Maybe it's just me.

sarpedons-right-hand wrote:Sorry, I have to ask......DP?

DP = Both daemon prince and another meaning.. Sadly gamers tend to think 'Daemon Prince' when this abbreviation comes up

This proxy covered them both, and was the only thing he could find with the right 'base size' ...

My mind still feels a bit raw from the vigourous scrubbing it received in the aftermath of that game.

I can plead inebriation as an excuse for temporary insanity, right?

sarpedons-right-hand wrote:Sorry, I have to ask......DP?

File under slaanesh.

That's what i did

S/HE was spiritually present that night, even though s/he was the only chaos god not present in the force

Edited for foot in mouth syndrome....

I know what DP means guys, give me some credit....although this could be heading in a totally nasty direction, so time to stop I feel!

PERMENANT PROXIES.

Hi, lets introduce you all to the idea of permanent proxies. Those are prepared terrain bits on bases used as a stand in for anything.
I have 20 and 25mm square bases for Warhammer with rocks and other scenery on them.

They are a permanent stand in for anything. Got 20 spearmen and want to rep 30, then they get a force multiplier by being in rubble.

It even looks ok, even improves visuals up til about 1 terrain base per four miniatures and is passable at one base per two. I wouldnt go beyond that.

This kid tried to proxy a valkyrie base as a leman russ punisher to me once

i think that the strangest proxy that I have ever seen was in a game of war machine and the opponent was using a Compact Disc for a wraith engine.

Fear the wrath of Monolith-E:

As long as he doesn't bring his girlfriend along for Orbital Strike with Extreme Prejudice ...

That's awesome

OMG! I WANT THiS SO MUCH!

warboss wrote:I'd have to say the strangest proxies I've ever seen (at least virtually in this case) were in this thread...

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/409236.page

Those are mighty fine lookin proxies if you ask me

I've had several that were memorable. I played a fellow with a vanilla SM army. He had two dreads in the list. One was a pair of centigors mounted on a big base with a bunch of hight altering scenery. The other was a portal on a base. I will say that was pretty neat, it was just strange. His land speeder was some sort of wearwolf model with a burstcannon on top of it's head. In the more upsetting and less interesting I've seen a kanwall list where almost all the kans and dreads were flying bases. An index car representing a predator tank. And the, apparently, ubiquitous plastic cup drop pods.

warboss wrote:

I'd play against it.

I'll never understand people who refuse to play when playing is an option.

I once put a gun drone sprue on a floating base and used it a marker drone. Unforunately the darn peg broke off and is still stuck in the drone part.

Surfboard66 wrote:Pieces of paper cut outs to represent Night Scythes...

I suppose that would work actualy...if you blew hard enough they'd even "float" towards the enemy...or at least accross the table.


I think the strangest i've seen is a small badger doorstop used as a Landraider...yup...

I once counted a Jabba the Hut model as Ku'gath...

Wait, you mean to tell me Elmo ISN'T a Demon Prince??

Nothing too extreme. Almost every proxy I've encountered has been at least in the same ballpark as the models they were intended to represent, IE, they were still miniatures that were roughly the appropriate size and shape.

The worst I saw are Coke can drop pods, and ages ago in 3rd Edition 40K, when the experimental Harlequin Codex came out, I used some kind of little figure from an anime as a Solitaire.