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Ork Shokk Gun gets my vote. Teleporting snotlings into the bodies of its targets and the panicking and defecating things tear they way out like the chest buster in the Alien movies is pretty scary.

I'm going to go with Lukas the Trickster's Stasis Bomb. Manage to beat him in combat? Have fun with him while he trolls you for eternity.

 Warptide wrote:
I'm going to go with Lukas the Trickster's Stasis Bomb. Manage to beat him in combat? Have fun with him while he trolls you for eternity.

Oof you'd have to look at his smug face for eternity.

worst gun to be hit by is anything that the Dark eldar use to incapacitate you in order to take you alive for their amusement. It does result in your death, but it may be centuries of agony first.

I'll toss in a vote for the monofilament gun from a Warp Spider. A cloud of invisible mesh that wraps you up and then dices you into a couple thousand pieces. Seems fun.

 Elbows wrote:
I'll toss in a vote for the monofilament gun from a Warp Spider. A cloud of invisible mesh that wraps you up and then dices you into a couple thousand pieces. Seems fun.

If it were a Drukhari weapon, they'd find a way to spray you with lime juice as well!

I'd rather be diced into a couple thousand pieces instantly than be disected a couple thousand ways a couple thousand different times, until my screams of pain are no longer satifsying...

Pretty much anything from the Dark Eldar Arsenal.

Let's go through some of the more gruesome of them

The Ossefactor: Causes uncontrollable bone growth that tears the victim apart with such force that they often explode and impale anyone in the immediate vicinity.

Spirit Vortex/Siphon/Whatever is on the Cronos: Causes you to rapidly age and decay into dust as your very soul is funneled away from you and used to empower your attackers.

And my personal favorite,

The Stinger Pod.
A gun that shoots literal pain. Victims are not killed by the weapon itself, but rather by themselves, as the agony it causes is enough to cause them to writhe in pain with such ferocity that they snap their own necks.

I don't think anything in 40k can quite compare to that.

Tau weapons are scary in a much more different way than the others listed. Odds are you will die quickly, cleanly and without much fuss. The thing is, the fear isn't in dying horribly. The fear is how hopeless you are.

It's that fear that no matter how good a soldier you are, how clever you are, smart missiles will hunt you down and blow you into bits. A rail rifle from a mile away could remove your chest and you couldnt even know that you got spotted. You will die before you ever see the enemy, you are always in danger. Every second of every day you are just one marker light blipping near you from being erased by some broadside that isnt even remotely close to you or even knew you existed. There is no skill in surviving that campaign, only luck.

Throw in invisible death squads doing deep operations meant to disorganized you, and the bird things that eat your comrades alive, and you have one hell of a PTSD flash back.

Your own plasma weapon. Frustrating and humiliating.

 DarkBlack wrote:
Your own plasma weapon. Frustrating and humiliating.

Laughs in tau.

Las weapons are pretty horrible. The point of impact will be effectively vaporized, exploding. Your own flesh explodes into the rest of your body, and the thermal load of that explosion will cook the surrounding flesh with varying degrees of painful burns. You better hope the shot outright kills you or the shock kills you very soon, because if you survive, all that burnt flesh has to be amputated and replaced, because it's just going to rot and putrefy your surviving flesh.

 amanita wrote:

 Elbows wrote:
I'll toss in a vote for the monofilament gun from a Warp Spider. A cloud of invisible mesh that wraps you up and then dices you into a couple thousand pieces. Seems fun.

If it were a Drukhari weapon, they'd find a way to spray you with lime juice as well!

Drukharri versions would just fire at half-strength....so it'd take 12 minutes for it to do its job....and yes, lemon juice.

 Elbows wrote:

 amanita wrote:

 Elbows wrote:
I'll toss in a vote for the monofilament gun from a Warp Spider. A cloud of invisible mesh that wraps you up and then dices you into a couple thousand pieces. Seems fun.

If it were a Drukhari weapon, they'd find a way to spray you with lime juice as well!

Drukharri versions would just fire at half-strength....so it'd take 12 minutes for it to do its job....and yes, lemon juice.

the Drukhari version is called the shredder. They added barbs and struggling.

The Shredder is a weapon used primarily by Dark Eldar Warriors. When the gun is fired at its target, it unleashes an expanding mesh of monofilaments with miniscule barbs along their lenght. The mesh entangles the victim in an invisible net that slices apart the target as it struggles.

I would say a Laspistol.

How embarrassing.

 Elbows wrote:
I'll toss in a vote for the monofilament gun from a Warp Spider. A cloud of invisible mesh that wraps you up and then dices you into a couple thousand pieces. Seems fun.

Absolutely this. I hate the idea of being wrapped in a net, upgrade that net to cut into your skin as you panick and squirm until you cause your own death.

Nope.

 Jjohnso11 wrote:

 Elbows wrote:
I'll toss in a vote for the monofilament gun from a Warp Spider. A cloud of invisible mesh that wraps you up and then dices you into a couple thousand pieces. Seems fun.

Absolutely this. I hate the idea of being wrapped in a net, upgrade that net to cut into your skin as you panick and squirm until you cause your own death.

Nope.

Well, you wouldn't be trapped for very long. . .

Punched to death by a tau etheral?

Game designer's keyboard. Written into irrelevance or perhaps even out of existence. You never even existed...

A daemon possessed weapon. One touch and the daemonic soul encased within the weapon consumes your soul ripping your very essence from your body to be tormented for unfathomable amounts of time only to ultimately be reduced to nothingness.

If you can count it as a "weapon", the Tyranid feeder tendrils that their fleet uses. Basically they inject Tyranids into your ship, which overwhelm all defenders and cause untold panic and devastation. Tyranid boarding actions were so horrific that they were the only instance in BFG where you could voluntarily self-destruct your ship. Not even daemons caused that level of fear.

Imagine hearing the noises through the hull, as the ship was slowly turned into a slaughter house. It may take days or weeks for them to find you in your tiny, unimportant section.

Dude... this is an easy one.... The Golden Throne, duh!

Slaaneshi Buttspike Railgun.

Shokk attack gun. You don't see anything coming. One minute you're fine, then suddenly you have dozens of insane snotlings teleported inside of your armor and even your body, frantically clawing their way out through your skin. Do not want.

Brainworm Devourers are horrific in all the worst ways, but I would hate to die of a gentle tap by Fabius Bile's Torment. He kneecapped a Keeper of Secrets with it. Imagine literally exploding from the pain.

Being burnt alive is one of the worst ways to go IRL. It's a long and painful way to die. Getting killed by the humble handflamer would be a horrible way to die.

Burning alive may be slow and painful, this is no doubt a poor end.

What's undoubtedly worse however is getting killed by a Malanthrope.

They paralyze a victim with their toxins (but they are still conscious and feel everything) before consuming them whole, at which point the bloated digestion sacs of the Malanthrope slowly consume their skin, flesh and bones, over an excruciating period of days, while their victim cannot even fight back. It's believed they do this to learn about their prey.

Also I'm barely even paraphrasing here, this is basically lifted directly from their entry in Tyranid dex in front of me.






Awesomely enough. this is actually represented in the tabletop too. While they are mostly known as the -1 to hit floaty bubble guy, they also have another rule that if they manage to get a kill in CC (or even be in base-to-base with a unit while it goes down in CC), any Tyranids you have that share their hive fleet get unconditional re-rolls to hit against that type of enemy for the rest of the game. Kinda cool!

Haruspex has to be worse one ever. It gulp you without kill you... digestive you alive till vomit you out into digestive pool that slowed kill you.... you might finally die while inside hive fleet years later.

 SHUPPET wrote:
Burning alive may be slow and painful, this is no doubt a poor end.

What's undoubtedly worse however is getting killed by a Malanthrope.

They paralyze a victim with their toxins (but they are still conscious and feel everything) before consuming them whole, at which point the bloated digestion sacs of the Malanthrope slowly consume their skin, flesh and bones, over an excruciating period of days, while their victim cannot even fight back. It's believed they do this to learn about their prey.

I would expect the victim would die of asphyxiation in a few minutes if paralysed and in a digestion sac - unless the Malanthrope specifically ensured it could breath in order to have more time to analyse the morsel.

All this talk about dying within 5-10min... shhh DE keep their victims alive and torturing them for years. If you are not tortured for 50+ years then it isnt that bad.