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What have you heard the various "trash talk names" you have heard/ given out to players of armies? For example. There's a Plague Marines player at my FLGS who calls IG and SM players "the Emperor's boot licking lapdogs".

I played against this one kid who wouldn't stop trashtalking using slang from the Gaunt's Ghosts books. It was infuriating.

If im playing CSM and fighting imperial forces I might use a few names, but for me Orks are much more fun to get into, "Letz get dem 'ummies boyz dakka dakka dakka!"

I knew this crazy English kid who regularly came to play in GW antwerp. He used to shout: "For The Chaos Gods!' everytime he rolled. In a high pitched voice.

The manager had him take a time out every other hour outside the shop.

Not really calling names but...

Isn't that nurgle player taking the game a tad too serious?

When playing SM or IG I like to mutter "The emperor protects" when I make a crucial armor save...

When rolling WBB I call out 'Rise my children, rise and murder!' which is oddly humorous when some fail and I tell them we aren't going to *insert fast food place* afterwords.

When the mood strikes while I'm playing Eldar I have acted IC and called other armies "Inferior Mongrels!" or the like.

I call Thousand Sons "Dust Buckets."

And also, I refuse to call Tyranid Termagants by their real name. To me they are the "Violent Scolding Women" or "The Girls" (Look up the word in the dictionary, you'll laugh).

On the rare occasions when my Kroot beat Marines in CC, I have a note scrawled in my off hand that I toss to my opponant: "Genengineered flesh tastes gud. Send moar Spess Mareens!"

Also when victory is obvious: "This is Shas'El Falshia Hana of the Tau Empire to the beligerant forces of [The Empire of Man, The Ancient and Noble Eldar race, the Orkish Horde, etc]. Your destruction is assured. We offer you this one chance to surrender and join the Tau Empire for the Greater Good of all species."

Usually though I talk trash in Fantasy, most often by my Longbeards who, though being cost inefficient, are the voice of Dwarven Pride. When engaging the enemy, I often taunt him with something that starts, "You call that an attack? I remember back in MY day..."

Quick prayers from the Uplifting Primer are often used when I'm making vital saves. Mentioning that the Emperor is with me when my Guardsmen preform far better in close combat than they have any right to be is about the extent of my trash talk. I try to keep games cheerful and friendly.

I usually call chaos marines "a**holes" when I play DE. I have no idea. "three a**holes die, take your morale". "a**holes deal two wounds. Incubi make their saves" etc...

I often refer to opponents forces as Xenos/Heretic scum. I played an Eldar player recently, one of the few times I ever have. In fact, it's been about two years since I played them. So I did comment something like, 'Let's see what your filthy heathen Xenos weapons can do'.

Turned out to be quite a lot, since it was Eldrad Parking Lot of Doom Eldar, but that's another matter.

Eldar will forever be the bathrobe-wearing panzees in mine eyes

With ig: "for the emperor!" when charging and "the emperor protects!" when rolling armoursaves are often heard when I play friends... Not really trash talk but there you are.

Scrazza wrote:

Isn't that nurgle player taking the game a tad too serious?

I put that out of context. I told him I was thinking about starting Space Marines, and he warned me against, calling them what I said earlier.

"Imperial swine" has come up once or twice form my end. Beyond that, I make fun of all of the fluff anyway as the game plays out or have humorous narration. After a failed morale check there might be a simple story along the lines of "and the guardsmen realize they're 15 minutes overdue for a break. The Commissar quietly curses unions under his breath." That's more the DM in me coming out than anything else.

When I play Orks I some time sprout some Orkish taunts either at the beginning or when I'm going good, but not much otherwise.

Nagashek wrote:On the rare occasions when my Kroot beat Marines in CC, I have a note scrawled in my off hand that I toss to my opponant: "Genengineered flesh tastes gud. Send moar Spess Mareens!

Reminds me of a short story I read in school about a couple who find a hole in the ground and send things to the creatures that live in it, where the husband goes in it and they send the letter back to send more chicken.

Whenever Banshees charge I say "SCREAMING BITCHES!"

It's not really a taunt but I make sure my Noise Marines are always playing appropriate music: Kei$ha for maximum damage, Linkin Park for Raven Guard (they have to stop fighting and cut their wrists, it's in the codex), and so on depending on who I'm facing. I guess it's a subtle commentary/insult against my opponent's army, all in good fun though.

I like to have ky chaplain run screaming at a squad of Grey Knight terminator about how he loves the Emperor and he will protect, only to be surprised when 20 nemesis force weapons cut him down.