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Just curious as to what are some slang terms for all the legions, chapters, armies and races in 40k.

One I do know is:
Ultramarines = smurfs

Looking forward to seeing these

Space Wolves = Space Pups

Blood angels=Team Edward
Space Wolves=Team Jacop
Them Allying=Team Twilight
atleast at my club they do

Space Wolves = Space Yiffs

Battle sisters = space nuns

We have slang terms for most armies. I'd probably get banned for saying them on dakka though

From the Ork perspective:

Orks - Ladz
SM (any flavour), and guard - 'oomies
Necrons - Tin 'eads
Tau - Fish 'eads
CSM - Spikeyz
Daemons - Warp Fings
Eldar - Panzies
Dark Eldar- See eldar..


From the DE perspective

Eldar- Brothers/SIsters (with contempt in tone..)
Daemons - best not mentioned...
Everyone else - Slaves.





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From the Nids point of view:

Necrons - Tin foil
Everyone else: Lunch!

Barnes and Noble B****s for thousand sons

hotsauceman1 wrote:Blood angels=Team Edward
Space Wolves=Team Jacop
Them Allying=Team Twilight
atleast at my club they do

They do that at my club too.

Also

Sisters of Battle:

Nuns with guns
Bitches with bolters
Female Marines

Imperial Guard:

Squishies
Armymen

Ultra Marines:

Smurfs
Blue berries

Sisters of Battle: Bolter Barbies

We have a habit of calling eldar "pointy ears". Why exactly I'm not sure, but it is fun to say. One day I was playing against an eldar army, and a veteran eldar player started to watch. When he was asked why he stopped what he was doing to watch the game, he replied "can't pass up a game with pointy ears in it."

As for other armies, we have a million, some of which are best not said here Others however are pretty tame. Most players refer to guardsmen as "scrubs" around here for example, with more important models being known as "important scrubs". Space marines of various flavours usually get this treatment as well.

My other favorite one I've seen was on 1d4 chan, where necrons seem to keep getting referred to as "space egyptians", which I find hilarious, because it's pretty spot on.

SOB are as followes
B*****s of battle
C***s of combat
S***s of slaying
W****s of homicide



Wolf

Tau= fish sticks. Tell them you brought ketchup or tartar sauce, scares 'em everytime.

Orks are mushrooms

SoB (sorry Bwolf, never heard those before but to each their own) nuns with guns or just sisters around here.

Space puppies, we tease about putting a water hydrant on the table as an objective.

DE or eldar, already been said, pointy ears. Also squishies

Necrons are lovingly referred to as f******g necrons.

IG- impotent guards or ignorant guys and even IG joes

Tyranids are Nids or bugs

Blood Angels and Grey Knights are just CHEESEY as well as necrons.

These are what is said around our gaming club but all meant with respect and love. ;}

The slang for each army depends on the person in the club.
The main ones around here seem to be:
Sisters - Bolter B****s
Space Wolves: Drunks or Pups
Blood Angels: (insert gay vampire jokes)
Any Marine painted blue: Smurfs
Eldar: Space Elves
Dark Eldar: More Space Elves

In our group:

Nids - bugs
Templars - angry marines
Dark Angels - chaos lite

MrMoustaffa wrote:Most players refer to guardsmen as "scrubs" around here for example, with more important models being known as "important scrubs".

I don't know why, but that really tickles my fancy.

Some repeats, I know

Necrons - Toasters (you knock them down, they pop back up), also Arnies (as in the Terminator movies)
Tau - fishface
Ultramarines - Smurfs
Black Templars - Shirley Templars
Space Wolves - puppies (in addition to fire hydrants, we joke about rolled up newspapers)
IG - Iggies
Eldar - Pointy eared panzees or those dandelion sniffing, spandex wearing, pastel suited, tree hugging etc etc etc
Nids - bugs
Orks - 'shrooms
Sisters - nuns with guns

Chaos Space marines - Spiky Marines.

Inquisitorial Army = The Fox News Team

At my local we call:

Tyranids: Teh 'Nids
Ultramarines: Smurfs
SoB: Bolter B*****s
Vanilla Marines: Ice Cream or SPEHHS MEHREENS
Blood Angels: Emos
Grey Knights: Them B*stards!
Eldar: Space Elves
Dark Eldar: The Twisters
Tau: The Blues
Daemons: None.
Chaos Marines: METAL BAWKSES.
Imperial Guard: The Guard
Inquisition: HERESY!

The slang depends much of the player, but we all call orks "the boyz" and 'nids "bugs".

Also a friend of mine refers all eldar and their dark brothers as "spandex elves"

Lets see... We don't use a lot of nicknames here. The ones we do use:

Battle Nuns for Sisters.
Recently started referring to vanilla marines as "SPESH MAREENS!". Also Smurfs.


Nids are well, nids. Some call them bugs too. Personally I call them friggin' adorable.

Nids: Zerg, or gribblies
SoB: Sista's of battle
Eldar:Space Elves
Orkz: Da boyz
IG: Flashlights

Rae Ruen wrote:Recently started referring to vanilla marines as "SPESH MAREENS!".

Meme of some sort?

We just use the abbreviations of the armies we use, plus a prefix of the structure ie foot, mech, gun etc.

My own force is usually Mechrons. There is also footdar, mechaos, bugs and puppies, although the pups are up for sale.

MrMoustaffa wrote:
My other favorite one I've seen was on 1d4 chan, where necrons seem to keep getting referred to as "space egyptians", which I find hilarious, because it's pretty spot on.

Ward Necrons = Nehekharons.

And on a related note, slang names for units, there's the Nehekharon Flying Toilet Seat:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/409974.page#3564444

Thanks for all the replies guys! Definitely keep them coming...

My favorite so far:

Necrons = Space Egyptians

Guard: dead bodies/fodder
DA: men in dresses

Purifier wrote:

Rae Ruen wrote:Recently started referring to vanilla marines as "SPESH MAREENS!".

Meme of some sort?

Look up Indrick Boreale of the Blood Ravens on youtube. It's from a speech he gives in dawn of war. Basically, he has a major lysp.

"BATTOL BRUTHERS! SPESS MEHREENS!" etc.

Smurfs is one of our most common.
BA = Bangels
GK = GKnigits
Puppies are also common