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I was bored so g started this discussion.
So does anyone have any funny nicknames for any 40k units?my fauourites are "chihuahua" for the chimera and "taxi" for thd rhino

Due to bad luck with Sergeant Telion, any scout squad featuring him is to be known as 'Telion's Fail Patrol'

No offense, but you should work on your spelling.

Back on topic my friends have had bad run ins with my wyches so they are called 'bs'

sorry about the spelling, im currently typing with my phone with a sorry excuse for a keypad.That and im too lazy to do a spell check

Hormagaunts -> Homos
Trygon -> Try-again-gon

Tyrant Guard- Guard Dogs

Hive Guard- Gun Dogs

Easy and Expensive Kills: Something whose face I'm going to feth over with a wrench

A FW whose head I did a bad job of gluing on: Ed

My dice from yet another day of bad rolling: *Warning the following link contains a profanity* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PcAQbhnGNs

I call my Sternguard my Stearnsguard (since my last name is Stearns)
'missle launchers'
'lazy cannons'

Tyranids- Cheater Marines

Grots- Salukis

Chimeras are call chimineyas, my friend plays guard and his dad called them that once. it stuck.

Power Swords, i tell my guard friend that his power blobs down slash through my power armor, they just shank through it enough times. Mus tbe my mexican side acting up.

Whenever we kill a model with a power fist its always considered power fisting

Tervigons are poopers

Termagaunts are pooplings

Genesteelers are B ds

And all my space marines are considered to be A-holes by my guard friend as never seems to kill them off.

Oh and my dice are leeches/black holes as whoever i play against seems to have terrible luck against them, as do i when i use them

chaos "furr" marines
black staplers
pORKS
Cow(tau)
Imperial Lard
Bch hunters
gay knights (note for mods: as in happy)
gaydar (note for mods: as in happy)
dark gaydar (note for mods: as in happy)
tyradcks
Velcrons
.... thats it

Cheater wolves and cheese wolves

Imperial Gourd (IG... I have no idea why)
Space Morons (vanilla Marines)
The Emo Vampires (Blood Angels)
The Gay Catholics (Dark Angels)
The Viking Werewolves (Space Wolves)
Dorks (Orks)
Bugs (Tyranids)
Chaos (pronounced "CHOWse" instead of "KAY-ohs")
Eldorks (Eldar)
Dork Eldar (Dark Eldar... and I don't call them "Dork Eldork" because that would be too many dorks, even for 40K)

imperial meatshield for my gaurd, my friends call my army the Failfardian 43rd, orks are green monkeys in my group and another friends DE are the Kabal of the mouldy chedder

In my IG Veteran squads, I call any of the normal guys (No special weapon/sarge models) chumps, but that's about it.

Stormraven becomes Chibihawk.

Dark Eldar becomes Bondage Elves in Space.

A friend of mine painted his Tau pink and purple, We call them the "Big Gay Tau" to this day, even though he has since repainted them black and silver. We all know the pink and purple is still under there........

joekaro weaponsmith is chewbaca?

Space puppies for Wolves

i call ghazghkull "ork jesus"

read the fluff on why i call him that.

One day I accidentally called Mephiston 'Mr. Phiston.' The name has stuck

I like to call Dante Pe-dante, but that's just me.

Otherwise I can't think of anything. Although, I have a scourge I named Tengu after the asian legend, but my friends calls him the offspring of Pingu, and Tengil (a bad guy from a swedish book by Astrid Lindgren). I found it annoying at first, now I just laugh about it.

Phototoxin wrote:Space puppies for Wolves

+1
we also run a competition every time someone plays guard.
First basic Guardsman to pass and armour save gets promoted to Junior Commissar for the day.

Blood angels are Cheese Marines

the Ultramarines player HQ is Marneus "Don't point that storm Bolter at me" Calgar

Imperial Fists tend to be "Sponge-Bob-Marines", "Tweety-Marines" or "Cheese-Marines" ("Banana-Marines" might also work, haven't heard it before though)

Everytime I play my mates space wolves, when I get a good kill on him, I go, 'Sit Oboo sit, good dog, arf!'

He doesn't get it yet, but I do...

I have some nicknames for rules.

"Rough going" for difficult terrain test.
"Panic test" for morale test by 25% casulties in a turn

Ultramarines: Ultrasmurfs

Orks have "T-Shirt saves"(6+ armor is flimsy)

Nigel Stormcaller, anyone with a big orange beard deserves to be called Nigel, you just know he likes train spotting and talking about cushions!

I call my carnifex a carny.

My brother calls his dreadnought Big Bertha as a joke after we played Toy Soldiers on the 360.

Termagaunts= Rowdy-Dowdies, was a synonym for the word Termagant in a thesaurus I was reading
Hormagaunts= Gibbly Gaunts/Gants, just kind of works like that
Genestealers= Denim Bandits, should be obvious

Necron Warriors= Phanny Bandits, not quite sure how they got this one
Monolith= 'Lith

Plague Marines= Plagg Marines, I tend to pronounce this word a little off so it stuck

Death Korps of Krieg= Krieggaurd, anything in the army gets called this regardless of what it actually may be. Get the Krieggaurdsmen by the Krieggaurd and move them by the other Krieggaurd
Imperial Guard= Iguard