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orkimedes is one of the worst

 Cothonian wrote:
Astra Militarum Tempestus Scions.

Tempestus Scions.

By the Emperor, that name makes me shiver. Storm Troopers was so much better. (Frankly, kind of preferred the old models too, would have been cool if they simply "updated" them with plastic sculpts)

I do like Kasrkin, Inquisitorial and Plastics, for different reasons. Is true that Kasrkin have a special vibe, dunno.
I am scouring Ebay for all three of them

I am looking forward anvil industry for more specialized troops, I want a veteran army.

Tempestus and Tempestor are awful, yes :(


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the_scotsman wrote:

I can't fault some random english dude 35 years ago figuring out the mythology for his silly game world on the fly for coming up with dumb names.

What I can fault is when a company has focus groups, marketing, creative teams, art teams, and a whole corporate structure and the best thing they can come up with is "Murderfang, with murderclaws, from Omnicide, with the special rule Murderlust."

Because GW is made of cheapstakes. When they can cut cost, they do.
I think that the current rules seems written by underpaid interns, because they probably are.

Now I am here, waiting for:
"b-but the cool video about hero bases"
"b-but muh Roundtree"

 Kaiyanwang wrote:

Because GW is made of cheapstakes. When they can cut cost, they do.
I think that the current rules seems written by underpaid interns, because they probably are.

Now I am here, waiting for:
"b-but the cool video about hero bases"
"b-but muh Roundtree"

It's Phil Kelly and his heavy medication that's at fault, combined with at one point, 40k allegedly had 2 playtesters. Total.

 oldzoggy wrote:
orkimedes is one of the worst

I think you misspelled best

95% of the Space Wolf Codex is a horrid mess of unoriginality and was best summed up in Big E's Text to Speech

Creepy Custodes #1 finishing up a long list of Space Wolf units, characters, and wargear.
Big E: "All I got out of that was wolf wolf wolf wolf wolf wolf wolf wolf wolf wolf wolf wolf wolf wolf wolf wolf wolf wolf and wolf"
Centurion : "The Space Wolves are incredibly uninspired"

Rogal Dorn means Imperial Fist, as befitting the primarch/legion naming convention.

LunarSol wrote:
Every once in a while I hope for the Space Wolves to fall to Chaos just to get some truly hilariously juvenile names.

How have you not heard of the traitor great company, the "Blood Hound Gang"?!

 ChazSexington wrote:

 Kaiyanwang wrote:

Because GW is made of cheapstakes. When they can cut cost, they do.
I think that the current rules seems written by underpaid interns, because they probably are.

Now I am here, waiting for:
"b-but the cool video about hero bases"
"b-but muh Roundtree"

It's Phil Kelly and his heavy medication that's at fault, combined with at one point, 40k allegedly had 2 playtesters. Total.

Oh, I totally agree. it was a jab at those who think things are changing. Is all cosmetic my dearest, you will realise it soon.

Kelly is criminally overestimated. His quality as a rules and fluff writer are way worse than most people think.

Do you think space wolves communicate explictly using one word "wolf"?

- wolf wolf wolf wolf - said brother Wolf
- wolf wolf - agreed Wolfwolf

Ferrus Manus
Which means "Iron Hands" in Latin (Which is odd as he didnt have his Necrodermis Covered Hands when he was named)

So "Iron Hands" (who has iron hands) is the Primarch of the Iron Hands who also have iron hands

 Kaiyanwang wrote:

 ChazSexington wrote:

 Kaiyanwang wrote:

Because GW is made of cheapstakes. When they can cut cost, they do.
I think that the current rules seems written by underpaid interns, because they probably are.

Now I am here, waiting for:
"b-but the cool video about hero bases"
"b-but muh Roundtree"

It's Phil Kelly and his heavy medication that's at fault, combined with at one point, 40k allegedly had 2 playtesters. Total.

Oh, I totally agree. it was a jab at those who think things are changing. Is all cosmetic my dearest, you will realise it soon.

Kelly is criminally overestimated. His quality as a rules and fluff writer are way worse than most people think.

Agreed. Upon re-reading my post, I didn't mean to disagree at all, but I see how that was totally what it conveyed - sorry about that!

orkimedes is one of the worst



I think you misspelled best

Agreed! Its brill

 Ratius wrote:

orkimedes is one of the worst



I think you misspelled best

Agreed! Its brill

Its a Bit Like Ghazzy's Full name...
Which Sounds Like Margeret Thatcher...

"Astra Militarum"
Because "Imperial Guard" did not sound pretentious enough.

 Lord Damocles wrote:
Inquisitor Obi-Wan Sherlock Cleuseau from Rogue Trader.

What a gem!

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the "Taurox".

Did a GW employee walk past the guy/gal responsible for naming that feth ugly box saying 'hey my Tau army rocks...'? Yoink, stolen and slapped on the box.

 NoiseMarine with Tinnitus wrote:
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the "Taurox".

Did a GW employee walk past the guy/gal responsible for naming that feth ugly box saying 'hey my Tau army rocks...'? Yoink, stolen and slapped on the box.

I assume its the usual garbage Latin that GW loves and its suppose to be named after a bull (Taurus). Considering its fragile, all terrain, and isn't really all that suited for ramming it would seem it would be better off being named after something like a goat.

The Hircumrox. Catchy.

 Vankraken wrote:

 NoiseMarine with Tinnitus wrote:
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the "Taurox".

Did a GW employee walk past the guy/gal responsible for naming that feth ugly box saying 'hey my Tau army rocks...'? Yoink, stolen and slapped on the box.

I assume its the usual garbage Latin that GW loves and its suppose to be named after a bull (Taurus). Considering its fragile, all terrain, and isn't really all that suited for ramming it would seem it would be better off being named after something like a goat.

Is actually a ripoff from forgeworld. FW has the tauros from the Elysian. They bulked up it, changed weapons, and exchanged an s with an x.

The Taurox/Tauros thing is, I suppose, a call to some mythological bull or minotaur, since guard vehicles are generally named after greek mythological monsters (barring the main battle tank, named after a furry).

 Elbows wrote:
This should be a throw down between ridiculous "blood" names from Khorne and equally absurd "wolf"names from the Space Wolves. They're almost all terrible without exception.

You take that back.


"Blood for the Blood God"

Why make it complicated? Collect skulls, spill blood. What does this unit do? It lets blood out, bloodletter. What does this unit do, it goes beserk for Khorne, Khorne Beserker. What does this thing do, it finds prey, fleshhound. Whats this guy do, he decapitates people, Skulltaker.

Khorne is literal because his followers are too nuts to understand complicated names. The space wolves have no excuse and border on heresy every chance they get.

 sfshilo wrote:

 Elbows wrote:
This should be a throw down between ridiculous "blood" names from Khorne and equally absurd "wolf"names from the Space Wolves. They're almost all terrible without exception.

You take that back.


"Blood for the Blood God"

Why make it complicated? Collect skulls, spill blood. What does this unit do? It lets blood out, bloodletter. What does this unit do, it goes beserk for Khorne, Khorne Beserker. What does this thing do, it finds prey, fleshhound. Whats this guy do, he decapitates people, Skulltaker.

Khorne is literal because his followers are too nuts to understand complicated names. The space wolves have no excuse and border on heresy every chance they get.

you know, there is a good difference between a cool battlecry "Blood for the Blood God", and placing "blood" on everything remotely khornate.

Even better, like probably in case of Astra Militarum and Militarum Tempestus, not because of poor vocabulary, education, creativity from the designers' part, but because the lawyers say so.

Think about how long, boring and humiliating those meeting were. Such a suffering for a creative person. Designers proposed a name cool in their minde, and lawyers said "no, we cannot claim that". It must be spirit-crushing.

The one that really bugs me is "bloodcrusher". How does one crush blood, anyway? I suppose you could crush someone until they bleed, but come on, couldn't they have gone with "skullcrusher"? It makes Khornate sense: this thing crushes skulls. Done.

 Lord Damocles wrote:
Inquisitor Obi-Wan Sherlock Cleuseau from Rogue Trader.

This one!

That name and character are the most amazing thing, and anyone who thinks otherwise is just a crazy person.

Rowboat Girlyman...

Mirael Sabathiel - who names their kid that, even in the 40k universe?

It is as if someone said 'how many vowels can we cram into one name'? And no, please leave Custodes names out of it as they are gargantuan.

zerosignal wrote:
Rowboat Girlyman...

One of the only primarchs whose name isn't an embarrassingly literal pun or a blatant ripoff of a historical figure, and you still don't like it because you can't figure out how to pronounce it.

No pleasing some people!

What is Rogal Dorn a rip-off of?

Honest question.

My friend named every single one of his tactical marines Billy, except for two. One was called Betty (IDK why) and the other was named Rambo in honour of his battlefield distinction.

 kronk wrote:
What is Rogal Dorn a rip-off of?

Honest question.

Roughly translates as 'Royal Fist'.

Tentaclid

 Vankraken wrote:

 oldzoggy wrote:
orkimedes is one of the worst

I think you misspelled best

95% of the Space Wolf Codex is a horrid mess of unoriginality and was best summed up in Big E's Text to Speech

Creepy Custodes #1 finishing up a long list of Space Wolf units, characters, and wargear.
Big E: "All I got out of that was wolf wolf wolf wolf wolf wolf wolf wolf wolf wolf wolf wolf wolf wolf wolf wolf wolf wolf and wolf"
Centurion : "The Space Wolves are incredibly uninspired"

That Centurion is ROGAL DORN himself xenos! PRIMARCH OF THE IMPERIAL FISTS. He finds the method of humans expressing praise funny. As smacking the floppy end parts of your arms together to make a noise is hilarious. (Ha). He is also the best Tree House builder in the galaxy!

Another that always has bugged me is the Baneblade hull line of tanks. While I find "Baneblade" as the name of a Tank is fine, its the way all the different variants are named that irriates me.



There couldn't possibly be another way to name them all? Or give a good reason they are categorized as such maybe.

Such as the "blade" line could be "Battle Tank-like" variants, with "Hammer" being turretless Siege/Assault Tanks and so on. But No. Its like tic-tac-toe name the tank!