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So in a recent post I almost went on a rant about the severity of some of the creative ways in which there are to die in the 40k universe. Although I enjoy the occasional fluff read I don't have the memory to keep it all on hand. That being said I am curious as to what the people here would consider the least desirable way to become a casualty in the 40k realm?

Being a nid player I personally feel that the one model per 10 games that ripper might kill would have a gruesome death.

Being mistaken for a heretic by the Sisters of Battle is up there too. Pray for the bolt pistol, instead of the flamer. There are worse options than the flamer though, such as those weird things with high strength you can take in your Battle Conclaves - their name escapes me since I never take them.

Sat on by a Greater Unclean One.

Run over by an Ork Battlewagon. If the Deff Rolla doesn't turn you into hamburger, the rest of the wagon will crush you under it's tremendous weight. You'll also have to with the horrible stench of exhaust fumes and Ork body odour.

If somehow you're still alive, you'll be used a science experiment by a Mad Dok.

Being either killed by DE, a slow painful poison death.
Or being possesed by a daemon, as a daemonhost that is.

Anything that's happened to Commissar Yarrick.

Almost anything done by the Dark Eldar.

Raped to death by Noise Marines.

Hmmm torn between being studied by Illuminor Szeras or being one of Fabius Bile's sick experiments.... either way they would keep you alive for a millenia just to see what they could do with you.

At the hands of a Haemonculus.

I would have to agree with others who say Dark Eldar. A Tau being captured by the Prophets of Flesh Haemonculi Coven is in for a treat. Definatly the worst way to go out in 40k.

For my money, it would have to be either the Shokk-Attack Gun or the Harlequin's Kiss. Having a portal open up inside of you where terrified Snotlings suddenly appear, desperate to escape, sounds pretty horrific. Same with having your insides get liquified by a monofilament wire until all that's left is a hollow pile of skin. Either way, not a pleasant sounding death.

Zarry

Uggh, yeah I'd have to vote for Harlequin's Kiss as being the worst weapon-caused death.

Tyraniind Flesh borrer or beeing insertined in a Pentinet Engine

Parasite o f Mortrex. Ripper eggs growing in your marrow till the bone splinters sounds pretty bad to me.

Hmm...

Shokk Attack Gun. Because would it not hurt a tad having your body torn apart from the inside from a Snotling?

From lore, visually gruesome for me was that short story in the 3rd ed tau 'dex about a kroot killing eldar... Not pleasant haha.

Otherwise? Harliquin's kiss or death spinner.... not gonna be goo(d)!

Von Chogg

Kung Fu Hamster wrote:Almost anything done by the Dark Eldar.

This.

Seeing a Krak missle come straight for your face.