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The title says it all.

Imperial Armour,most of them.

To quote Captain Orsai from SpaceBattles.com.

IA3: The hilariously out of character Raptors from IA3 are usually good for a laugh - Commander Orelius of the Raptors Chapter's decision to do nothing during the Taros Campaign. The dude has two companies of the finest soldiers in the galaxy and one of the most potent warships in the 40k-verse (the battlebarge War-Talon), complete freedom of action, and is from a Chapter well known for its independence and tendency to swift, impulsive (even reckless) actions.

So, what does our daring Astartes officer do - does he help the Imperial Guard kick the Tau's little blue arses off Taros? No he does not. Does he help the Imperial Navy smash the Tau fleet raiding the Taros Invasion Force's lines of supply? No he does not. Does he, in fact, show any of the normal Astartes autonomy and initiative? Fat chance. Orelius spends essentially the entire campaign sitting in orbit playing with his augmented dic* unless specifically asked to do something.

IA5-7-Aside from the unamusing stuff (like the stripping of any interesting traits from the Death Korps of Krieg that occurs in IA5-7, the ridiculously contrived scenarios, Forgeworld's slowed failures of research (forgetting Vindicares' shield-piercing rounds in IA5) and refusal to acknowledge that the Imperium can actually fight its way out of a wet paper bag (the Dark Angels in IA5 are victims of this)).

Also from Prospero Burns, where an excited conservator boasts that

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Also could anyone provide quote for that hilarious event.

Anything about the Angry Marines.

DickBandit wrote:Anything about the Angry Marines.

Official fluff please.

Pretty much all of the Commissar Cain series.
Hive Fleet Scarabus (Taken out without a single IG company lost)
Lukas the Trickster's background.
Iron Hand Straken strangling a Chaos Space Marine Lord with a vine during an invasion of catachan.

purplefood wrote:Pretty much all of the Commissar Cain series.
Hive Fleet Scarabus (Taken out without a single IG company lost)
Lukas the Trickster's background.
Iron Hand Straken strangling a Chaos Space Marine Lord with a vine during an invasion of catachan.

That last made me rage,I mean a Space Marine in power armor who is a veteran loses to a Cathachan.I mean Space Marines are resistant to almost all poisons(thanks Flight of the Eisenstein and Brothers of the Snake).
Also what do you think about Orsai's criticism of the IA?

He has a point. I read most of the IA fluff online and it was a massive contrast to the usual SM=win you get from GW but it was the other extreme as it was SM+IoM=Idiots and everyone else=Genius tactician.
Although i thought the catachan were always OTT (Marbo=Rambo and such) but Straken Strangling an CSM Lord to death was a bit to OTT.

purplefood wrote:He has a point. I read most of the IA fluff online and it was a massive contrast to the usual SM=win you get from GW but it was the other extreme as it was SM+IoM=Idiots and everyone else=Genius tactician.
Although i thought the catachan were always OTT (Marbo=Rambo and such) but Straken Strangling an CSM Lord to death was a bit to OTT.

The SM=win are the usual competent ones.
I also hate IA8(ships in the orbit anyone).
I haven't fully read IA9,but I hope that it will be better.
Also in the Brothers of the Snake 30 or so marines filled a field with the Ork bodies,6-7 bodies deep and the field was a couple acres(it's not funny).

Brothers of the Snake was an odd one...
A chapter that specialised in squad level operations.
Though they seemed to rip through most people it was shown that numbers took their toll.

Reading the Rainbow Warriors fluff.
Also another thing that I laughed at was the black templars holy grenade.

purplefood wrote:Brothers of the Snake was an odd one...
A chapter that specialised in squad level operations.
Though they seemed to rip through most people it was shown that numbers took their toll.

It was a fairly good book to me(at least it showed the capabilities of the Space Marine's candidates like running in subzero temperatures wearing only light robes and running 20 km with 30+ kg block of ice).
Also the moment when the World Eaters scream helmetless in vacuum(Eye of Terror book,not canon anymore,but to be fair they were probably protected by Khorne).

EDIT:New Rank and 2000th post!

I love the fact that in the first war for Armageddon the entire Sw chapter turned up whereas in the second one it was completly absent.

purplefood wrote:I love the fact that in the first war for Armageddon the entire Sw chapter turned up whereas in the second one it was completly absent.

To be fair SW weren't facing the same foe,original population was dead and they were probably assigned to some sector.

SW don't "get assigned" they do what they damn well please and the Imperium can deal with it. The entire chapter turned up in time to help on short notice. They could have helped in the 2nd one as well.

I liked this Tau background bit where the Tau thought they killed Slaanesh.

*I want to say i saw it on the GW website.

hushrong wrote:I liked this Tau background bit where the Tau thought they killed Slaanesh.

*I want to say i saw it on the GW website.

I think it is...
The first time the met Chaos ever. Chaos must be annoyed it was Slannesh that got there first.

In the anthology Dark Millenium(or was it Tales from the Dark Millenium) in one short story written by C.S Goto Eldar nobility from a Craftworld plots to sacrifice entire population of it to bring Slannesh into reallity.

A Carnifex surviving exterminatus of a planet. I know they were pushing Carnifexes as badass in 4th edition, but that's a little far.

-Loki- wrote:A Carnifex surviving exterminatus of a planet. I know they were pushing Carnifexes as badass in 4th edition, but that's a little far.

Yeah you remind of the Exterminatus of the Istvaan which was to be honest one of the weakest I've ever seen(a measly Imperator titan survives a thing which should melt continents).

Well you see there is this one particular chapter of space marines that drinks blood that makes them like blood A LOT so they get blood cups and drink blood from those and then they go to battle in their blood armor and put on their blood talons so they can go do a blood high five with crons and then wave them a blood goodbye and then they get way to much blood one for one day so they go into a blood rampage where all they can think of is blood...and theeeeen they................ think people will get the picture

Dark Apostle. It was like reading a normal BL book about the IoM saving a planet but from the perspective of the Word Bearers.


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Can we please not mention either the SW or BA codex.

purplefood wrote:\
Automatically Appended Next Post:
Can we please not mention either the SW or BA codex.

Apologies, I did think it was kind of necessary, being the most ridiculous of ridicuous, but fair enough

purplefood wrote:Automatically Appended Next Post:
Can we please not mention either the SW or BA codex.

Yeah. Who wants to hear about Edward and Jacob...I mean Space Marine Chapter Masters Edward and Jacob anyway?

In the Tyranid Codex, it mentions how the guardsmen became terrified of "The Parasite of Mortrex", so they only began to roll out in tanks from them on - only for the Parasite to just punch through the tank and turn them into Rippers anyway.

Any rumours about the BA codex.

That later turned out to be true.

Anyone remember how absurd "Flying Land Raider" used to sound?

Or assaulting after deep-striking?

GW be trolls.

I found the necron/BA alliance was very very funny!

also had to mention the multilazer SM haha

Anything by Goto is funny, until you realise he actually got paid for that.

Nork Deddog
commissar - Nork! I said bring the med kit, not the chimera!
Nork - But sir, da med kits IN da chimera

* Cain has, one more than one occasion, I believe, taken on a CSM in close-combat(even parrying blows from them with his chainsword).
* On that note, when in one novel he faces off against a Khorne berserker that shouts 'Blood for the Blood God!' and he retorts with '[scrummball team] for the Cup!'.
* [psuedo-official] The IG in Soulstorm having apparently shipped off 100 Baneblades right before their HQ is attacked

Don't know if it counts as official fluff but in deaf skwadron the Ork meks where going to cut their research into smart missiles short because they were running out of smart boyz to pilot them.
That or any fluff regarding ork weapon research.

The dance off between the masque of slaanesh and the harlequin solitaire. I just can't believe that there was a dance off that lasted six days. Everytime i see her on the field i just want to shout " You Got Served!"

I can not quote it verbatim. but there was an anecdote in the Ork Codex.

It was about the Ork warboss who ordered his waaaagh! to do a warp jump. Well when they did the warp sent them through time, back to the point just before they departed. The War Boss then tracked his doppleganger down and killed him because he wanted a second gun just like the one he had. This resulted in the warboss single handedly ending his own waaaagh!


I was also amused by the Ork warboss who staged a waaagh into the eye of terror. He ended up fighting a greater deamon(Or a prince) in a bloody and ruthless battle, which ended with the warboss ripping the demon's nuts off.(The Orks would then spend an eternity of fighting, dying and being resurrected to do the cycle once more.)

Now that I think of it the Ork fluff is not only very funny. It is actually quite awesome.