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2012/12/11 21:06:23
Subject: Favourite 40k Characters
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Speedy Swiftclaw Biker
Bourne (somewhere in Lincolnshire)
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I quite like Vulkan. He and Kantor are the only Chapter Masters who have decent ranged weaponry.
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2012/12/11 22:38:18
Subject: Re:Favourite 40k Characters
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Willing Inquisitorial Excruciator
Croatia
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BJORN
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ADB: I showed the Wolves revealing the key weakness at the heart of the World Eaters; showing Angron that his Legion was broken and worthless compared to the others; that he was the one primarch who couldn't trust his own warriors, and that they didn't care if he lived or died; showing that loyalty to brothers and sons is the heart of success for the Legiones Astartes, to the point even Lorgar makes a big deal out of saying the World Eaters and their primarch were massively outclassed by Russ, and Angron was too stupid to see the lesson Russ had sacrificed time, sweat, and blood, to teach. We're talking about a battle the Wolves won, by isolating the enemy general through pack tactics, and threatening to kill him, without a hope of defending himself. It was a balance, 50/50 - Angron overpowered Russ, and the Wolves were losing ground to the World Eaters; but Russ and his warriors had Angron by the balls, and barely broke a sweat. They won, no question. Lorgar even says: "The Wolves won, meathead."
Dorn won’t help you either. He’s too busy being the Emperor’s groundskeeper, hiding behind the palace walls. The Wolf is too busy cutting off heads as our father’s executioner, while the Lion holds on to his secrets, and has no special fondness for you. Who else will come? Not Ferrus, certainly. Nor Corax either. Even as we speak, I suspect he flees for Deliverance. Sanguinius?’ Curze laughed cruelly. ‘The angel is more cursed than I. The Khan? He does not wish to be found. So who is left? No one, Vulkan. None of them will come. You are simply not that important. You are alone.’ Konrad Curze to Vulkan
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2012/12/11 23:02:53
Subject: Re:Favourite 40k Characters
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Banelord Titan Princeps of Khorne
Noctis Labyrinthus
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I'll list my favorite character separated by each codex/army.
Space Marines: Torias Telion
Blood Angels: Gabriel Seth
Space Wolves: Bjorn the Fell-Handed
Dark Angels: Belial
Black Templars: High Martial Helbrecht
Imperial Guard: More or less between Straken, Yarrick, and Chenkov
Sisters of Battle: Eh. In 3e Witchhunters it would have been Karamazov, but him getting the boot has made this choice nigh-impossible for me. I know relatively little of Sisters fluff.
Grey Knights: Excluding Karamazov, probably Stern I guess.
Orks: Kaptin melon-fething Badrukk.
Eldar: Maugan Ra
Dark Eldar: Drazhar
Necrons: Imhotek the Stormlord and the Deceiver
Tau: Commander "Farsight" O'Shavah (As if it could be anyone else)
Tyranids: Deathleaper
Chaos Daemons: Aetaos'rau'keres
Chaos Marines: Ahriman
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2012/12/11 23:11:55
Subject: Re:Favourite 40k Characters
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Guard Heavy Weapon Crewman
Norfolk, VA
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Tankred endures!
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 "Some people did not like this ceremonious style. But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite." - Winston Churchill
 "My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world." - George Bernard Shaw |
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2012/12/11 23:50:40
Subject: Favourite 40k Characters
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Grey Knight Psionic Stormraven Pilot
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Kharn : no remorse, no regret, just live and kill for the skull throne.
Swarmlord : he has destroy civilizations and maybe entire galaxies
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Abyssus abyssum invocat
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2012/12/12 06:54:05
Subject: Favourite 40k Characters
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Roaring Reaver Rider
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Straken. Because of his fluff (I do not own the model). The man has been dragged back home from the battlefield to be fixed up again and again aand he always goes back and is pretty much "one of the guys".
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I shall rule the world someday utilizing my cuteness. And I already have one minion to help me do it!
Hollowman wrote:
Of course it makes sense. When there are a bunch of BDSM clowns doing Olympic gymnast routines throughout your unit, while also cutting off heads, you tend to get a bit distracted.
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2012/12/12 07:07:04
Subject: Favourite 40k Characters
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Regular Dakkanaut
Ork and Catachan Training Center, Australia
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And he has 2+ armor save and 3+invuln. And twin-linked flamers and metlas, and master crafted thunder hammers. And he is a Salamander.
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By bolter and honour, by blood and fire, we shall cleanse this galaxy. By Vulkan, and by the Emperor, CHARGE!
Yo Dawgs, I heard you like grimdark, so I put grimdark in yo grimdark in yo grimdark in yo universe that is obviously grimdark.
"On the Anvil of War are the strong tempered and the weak made to perish, thus are men's souls tested as metal in the forge's fire." — Primarch Vulkan |
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2012/12/12 10:33:49
Subject: Favourite 40k Characters
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Drone without a Controller
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Aun'shi, definetly. Unlike most other SC he transcends the cliche of "rargh, must kill, slaughter, I have great stats and cost very little" :p
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2012/12/12 15:57:03
Subject: Favourite 40k Characters
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Growlin' Guntrukk Driver with Killacannon
Denmark
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For me it's a toss up between either Straken or Harker from Codex: Imperial Guard.
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2012/12/12 20:44:03
Subject: Favourite 40k Characters
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Fireknife Shas'el
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Ezekial Chief Librarian of the Dark Angels
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8000 Dark Angels  (No primaris)
10000 Lizardmen  (Fantasy I miss you)
3000 High Elves 
4000 Kel'shan Ta'u 
"He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which." -Douglas Adams |
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2012/12/12 20:56:36
Subject: Favourite 40k Characters
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Infiltrating Broodlord
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And yet they made him a level 1 psyker 
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I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member. -Groucho Marx
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2012/12/12 21:11:41
Subject: Favourite 40k Characters
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Fireknife Shas'el
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8000 Dark Angels (No primaris)
10000 Lizardmen (Fantasy I miss you)
3000 High Elves
4000 Kel'shan Ta'u
"He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which." -Douglas Adams |
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2012/12/13 12:40:46
Subject: Favourite 40k Characters
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Beast of Nurgle
scotland
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Personaly I realy like typhus for his fluff and in-game performance. I also quite like the doom of ma'lenti (I know that's the wrong spelling) and col.straken.
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2012/12/13 14:34:41
Subject: Favourite 40k Characters
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Executing Exarch
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For me and my armies
Chaos - Lucius
Wolves - Ragnar
Eldar - Fuegan.
Although I do sincerely wish there was a warp spider phoenix lord.
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 Blacksails wrote:
Its because ordinance is still a word.
However, firing ordinance at someone isn't nearly as threatening as firing ordnance at someone.
Ordinance is a local law, or bill, or other form of legislation.
Ordnance is high caliber explosives.
No 'I' in ordnance.
Don't drown the enemy in legislation, drown them in explosives.
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2012/12/13 17:05:49
Subject: Favourite 40k Characters
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Sneaky Lictor
Wherever they tell me
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Though definitely not the best out there, I'm a sucker for Kayvaan Shrike.
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Tyranids 10000 points
Orks 3500 points
Raven Guard 3000 points
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2012/12/13 18:12:25
Subject: Favourite 40k Characters
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Roaring Reaver Rider
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I already said that Straken was my favorite but why not go for the favorites from all the three of my armies. So...
Marines: Kantor. I like his fluff but especially his rules as he has not been made into a one man army as almost every marine special character but instead a good leader type character and actually has a decent gun.
Dark Eldar: Lady Malys. The fluff makes her sound so awesome.
And just for the record Kantor is the only one of these three that I actually use in my lists.
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I shall rule the world someday utilizing my cuteness. And I already have one minion to help me do it!
Hollowman wrote:
Of course it makes sense. When there are a bunch of BDSM clowns doing Olympic gymnast routines throughout your unit, while also cutting off heads, you tend to get a bit distracted.
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2012/12/13 18:56:48
Subject: Re:Favourite 40k Characters
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Battleship Captain
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Well, my choices are incredibly obvious.
Imperial Guard: General Vance Stubbs
Grey Knights: Assassin LIIVI
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2012/12/13 19:07:46
Subject: Favourite 40k Characters
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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 The Wolf Of Fenria wrote: cvtuttle wrote:Typhus has always been one of my favorites. Now I call myself a hipster Typhus player because I was using him last edition too 
I really do love his background and such. A truly tragic figure who has become a monster!
Could you tell me his background? It sounds interesting.
It's covered in the Forge World Horus Heresy Betrayal book.
Also, you can hear cvtuttle tell you Typhus' background right here. 
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2012/12/13 21:12:55
Subject: Re:Favourite 40k Characters
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Water-Caste Negotiator
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Commander Dante,
Cypher,
Drazhar,
Eldrad Ulthran,
Maugan Ra,
Ibram Gaunt,
Celestine,
Vulkan He'Stan,
Xavier,
Kayvaan Shrike,
Ulrik,
Aun Shi,
Shovah,
Shadowsun,
Old One-Eye.
That's My Favourites
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My Tau P&M Blog: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/488519.page
40,000:
Tash'Var Kauyon Kau'Ui Raatol - 3000pts - 6ed = W: 6 / D: 3 / L: 7 .......... Dinoguard Strikeforce - 3000pts - WIP .......... Inquisition Warband - 1000pts - WIP
Fantasy:
Syntharsil (Asrai) - 2500pts - WIP .......... Clan Bador - 2500pts - WIP .......... Children of Sotek - 2500pts - WIP .......... Undead - Special Warband - WIP |
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2012/12/13 21:22:23
Subject: Favourite 40k Characters
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Sneaky Sniper Drone
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Typhus...such a sexy beast.
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2012/12/13 23:17:02
Subject: Favourite 40k Characters
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Bloodthirsty Chaos Knight
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Ollanius Pius.
HOLD. THE. LINE.
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2012/12/13 23:41:59
Subject: Favourite 40k Characters
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Ghastly Grave Guard
Uk
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Mine personally is either Phosis T'Kar of the thousand sons or The Primarch Sanguinius. Both amazingly powerful, cool and tragic figures. P.S everybody knows if he had given into the warps power Phosis was going to kill Leman Russ 
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2012/12/14 01:42:35
Subject: Favourite 40k Characters
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Sinister Chaos Marine
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Honsou. He is such a bastard but can't help but love the bastard. I liked him from the Ultramarine books and even more from the Iron Warrior Omnibus. He is just all that I think a Iron Warrior should be. If I ever do another Chaos army it is going to be the Iron warriors just so I can have him in it. Automatically Appended Next Post: Wolfsblood wrote:Pasanius and the other sidekick guy whos name I can never remember from the Salamanders books. I like that they are even bigger than normal marines and are both super cool.
Ba'ken was the Salamander. Pasanius was super cool
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2012/12/14 02:40:31
Subject: Favourite 40k Characters
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Been Around the Block
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 rabid1903 wrote:Though definitely not the best out there, I'm a sucker for Kayvaan Shrike.
Fluff-wise, he's a great character. Cunning tactician, master of guerrilla warfare, and a sucker for hopeless causes. I like how there's a few marines out there that took their vows to defend humanity to include all innocent humans, even those abandoned by the Imperium.
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2012/12/14 02:59:50
Subject: Favourite 40k Characters
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Shunting Grey Knight Interceptor
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Kantor. He is just a pure B.O.S.S
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Grey Knight Phoenix Company 3000
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"*Sparten stabs marine through heart "Finally you're dead!" "Nu-uh beetch" *Rips sparten's head
off"- Grey Templar
"so manly, it has a fething banner saying how huge it's balls used to be before they left to settle down in a tropical island with a loving wife and kids."-Shrike
"I wouldn't murder her. Just cripple her for life."- Angel of Ecstacy
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2012/12/14 04:20:19
Subject: Re:Favourite 40k Characters
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Land Raider Pilot on Cruise Control
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Ooh wow, it's been a while. Anyways, ooh, characters. Eisenhorn is a boss. I like Kantor, but Cortez is absolutely insane, and I love it.
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2012/12/14 05:56:44
Subject: Re:Favourite 40k Characters
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Paladin of the Wall
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From codices:
Marines-Shrike
Blood Angels-Dante(With him being chapter master for 1000 ish years, I need to do a conversion of him yelling at scouts on his lawn)
Space Wolves-Don't know enough to decide
Grey Knights-None
Dark Angels-none really, sammael because he has either an AV14 land speeder or a jetbike
Black Templars-Grimaldus
IG-Creed
Chaos Marines-Ahriman-Typhus is cool and Kharn is a great guy, but Ahriman appeals to me (Egyptian+Socreror+Space Marine+Mind Lasers=Awesome)
Chaos Daemons-None
Tyranids-None
Tau-Maybe once they have a broadside special character
Eldar/Dark Eldar-none
From BL/fluff
Garro
Sigismund
Tankred
Olianus Pius
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2012/12/14 07:07:54
Subject: Favourite 40k Characters
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Shas'la with Pulse Carbine
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Though you'll probably never see him in a game ever again(as if you did in his prime really), my favorite character will ALWAYS be Aun'Shi of the Tau original Codex. A total Tau badass
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Tyranids will consume the universe!!! There is no chance for survival!!
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2012/12/14 07:21:04
Subject: Favourite 40k Characters
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Wing Commander
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In game: Huron, as I thoroughly like his background, of becoming the thing he fought to stop, and proving that the smart man isn't always the right man for the Imperium.
After him, the delightfully confused Zahndrek, though Trazyn the Infinite is also interesting. I've actually liked the backstories to the new Necron characters, though Imhotek is somewhat bland.
In the wider universe, likely between Cain and Eisenhorn. However, that's heavily influenced by the writing style of the books they're involved in; very personal, the way Cain views the world is incredibly amusing; everyone and everything is potential cover or something which may kill him. And Eisenhorn, well that man needs no introduction.
The Gaunt's Ghosts characters are, on the whole, quite good, but they're often just a little too heroic for me to really love them. There's a few flawed but noble characters, and some really messed up ones; they're well written, but feel just a little too artificial at times.
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Therefore, I conclude, Valve should announce Half Life 2: Episode 3.
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2012/12/14 07:42:01
Subject: Re:Favourite 40k Characters
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Mutilatin' Mad Dok
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Please don't try to avoid our word filter. Thanks! ~Manchu
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Da Blitza Boyz! (Orks) 70% painted.
