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My Imperial Guard army are the 45th Carpathian Rangers and are known as Stanescu's Slayers, so named after their commander Colonel Alexander Stanescu.

My 4 Marine Armies do not have nicknames as such. Jusst being generic Black Templars; Minotaurs; Crimson Fists and Crimson Lions.

My Orks are just Gobsmak Defftoof's Waagh.

Freiwehrkrieg 403 "Heinrich Kernish" after Inquisition Grandmaster Heinrich Kernish.

I wrote a trilogy (loosely) on mine, unless somebody has done more than that for their armies, I take the geek award in this category.

Yes. A full length 3 novel series on my people.

Waaagh! Targamoh.

I'm slowly sculpting a fluff for my Tau, as of right now the basework is that they are the "Damocles Eclipse Hunter Cadre", they got their name from specializing in fighting in the darkness.

Ragnarokian 134th heavy mechanized assault regiment for my IG

Sons Of Vanaheim for my DA successor chapter

The Death Hands for my Iron Hands successor chapter

The Kabal of The Virgin for my Dark Eldar

The SPHEES MEHREENS. No really, i have a big sign on the box saying "Blood raven sphees mehreens" .

Hive Fleet Typhoon

Blood Angels: "Redmarines"

Evil suns orks: Da WAAAGGH ON WEELZ

Chaos space marins (one modle so far, no codex yet they alreay have a coulor scheme, full backstory and reason for fighting):Burning Angels.

Ol' Krugg's Dakkaladz. Ol' Krugg is the Mekboss.

Necrons;

The Hourglass Heralds, with their leader, Aktrophi, The Jackal King, Lord of Rust

Chaos;

The Children of No One, led by Renegade Lord Carcin the Black
The Eyes of Sanctuary, led by Radical Inquisitor Idhiel Irielta, also known as the Sorcerer Lord Ahramayav

Grey Knights;

Death Choir 404, led by Inquisitor Lord Demian Irielta and Brother-Captain Tomias Dunn


Fluff has always been a big part of what attracts me to 40k. Although I don't collect Grey Knights anymore (and my Chaos army is exclusively painted for the Children), I still love their background. Back in the day, me and my friends used to run long story-driven campaigns and write pages of fluff background for each one, leading to this whole web of factions and connections, hatreds and loyalties, that I still adore.

Flesh Tearer strikeforce - The Fear Campaign

Chaos - Knights of Ecstasy, bringers of liberation. Lead by Lord Macbeth the "Harvester of Sorrow"

Tzeentch Daemons: The Azure Astromagi of Arcane Annihilation.

(All my Horrors are blue)

XT-1984 wrote:Tzeentch Daemons: The Azure Astromagi of Arcane Annihilation.

(All my Horrors are blue)

Ah! Alliteration! Always amusing and alarmingly arousing.

Hive Fleet Korigam
In-universe, probably the name of the first imperial planet they ate after showing up in the galaxy.
In real life, it's the korean name of the Pokémon Donphan who was the original basis of my colour scheme (they were grey with black carapace, have become a bit more blue with some orange weapon bits, more like it's lower form, as time went on). I used the korean because it sounded a bit cooler and less obvious than Hive Fleet Donphan.

Pointy Eared Bastards. The serious name has changed and been forgotten a bit too many times, but that one sticks.

The better than yours army.

In all seriousness, they're the Mordian...something-or-other...dammit, now I need to come up with a cool name.

It depends upon how well the dice are rolling for me:

If well, then they are "the best"

If poorly - aka: how I usually roll - then they are called every foul word I can think of at that moment....

Blood angels are "Knights of Classic Lore." A lost founding of the BA gene seed. More fluff on my blog.

Eldar are currently called "Craftworld f***ing Eldar" because thats the only word I use when trying to assemble the arms on the dire avengers and guardians...

I was very new when I started painting so I just copied the box for the marines. Since shortly finding out everyone hates the smurfs my army has been named the Ultra-grrs.
They look just like ultramarines but they shout grr.

grr wrote:I was very new when I started painting so I just copied the box for the marines. Since shortly finding out everyone hates the smurfs my army has been named the Ultra-grrs.
They look just like ultramarines but they shout grr.

Haha class the only time I've played the smurfs I shouted GRR and they ran away.

My Necrons are the Forces of Nemesor Amenehat, and his Vizier ...wait for it... Sparky Sparky No Arms.

TheCaptain wrote:Elysian 105th Skylance

Fast, efficient, airborne, and precise.

Neat another Elysian player.
My planned 1500pt army list is the 778th Elysian Airborne D-Company "Diving Dragons"

My IG army , "Dan's Guard" by the people I play against.
"Mortis Extrimus" is what I call them. Weather its my guys dying a lot or the enemy, that has yet to be determined.

Well, officially my regiment is either the 7th or 1st (haven't decided) Hope Regiment, but their nickname is "The Remnants".

Guardsman76 wrote:

grr wrote:I was very new when I started painting so I just copied the box for the marines. Since shortly finding out everyone hates the smurfs my army has been named the Ultra-grrs.
They look just like ultramarines but they shout grr.

Haha class the only time I've played the smurfs I shouted GRR and they ran away.

Not the Ultra-grrs, That will only encourage them!
For longer than can be remembered they have been angered by the the Ultramarines for copying their colours and having the cheek to claim the design as their own.
Although still loyal to the emperor they will never be seen allied with any Ultramarine unit.

I have no nicknames for my own forces. However, I've had my all-jumppack BA's called the "Jumping Beans" before.