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davou wrote:

 MrMoustaffa wrote:
Alright, obviously the Leman Russ is the manliest tank in the Universe. A main gun that takes up almost the entire turret.

Bull; The vidicator wins hands down; It's a fething TankDozer. It's job is to basically crash through a wall, and then fire a cannon into the hole it made. A cannon whose explosion is big and strong enough to melt your own tank, but you dont care cause you're entire front side is covered with twelve inch thick plate of steel, and then armor behind that for good measure.

I'm fairly certain that instead of a steering wheel, you drive the vindicator with a cigar and a straight razor.

Well that's what the Leman Russ Demolisher is for!

Demolisher don't care about no walls. WALLS BOW BEFORE IT AND ITS DOZER BLADE.

And it has 3 other murder-happy guns to back up it's armor 14 slab of PURE MANLY.

Or the Punisher, like a Demolisher, but its job is replacing the air around you with BULLET. People become a red mist! Mist becomes finer, bullet-riddled mist!

Oh I'm sorry, I couldn't hear you over my CASTLE-TANK

 chris_valera wrote:


Uses Lego wheels, and the two exhaust vents turned sideways kills it. It's also not a good translation of the Adeptus Ordinatus.

This better then?

Ordinatus Armageddon

 thenoobbomb wrote:
Basilisks aren't manly.
LOOK AT THE HUGE FETHING ARMOR IN FRONT OF THE CREW.
That is entirely not manly, good sir.

They are sitting on a little metal balcony, that ISN'T EVEN ON THE TANK, and firing a fethhuge gun at essentially point-blank range.

And laughing while they do so. The shield isn't to protect them. The shield is just to brace the manliest of manly guns so it breaks the enemy instead of itself. That's how manly it is.

A Basilisk is what happens when two men look at their tank and say "feth the entire top-half of the thing, rip that out AND STICK THE BIGGEST GUN WE CAN FIND TO IT."

 Tod wrote:

 Elector wrote:

 thenoobbomb wrote:
Basilisks aren't manly.
LOOK AT THE HUGE FETHING ARMOR IN FRONT OF THE CREW.
That is entirely not manly, good sir.

They are sitting on a little metal balcony, that ISN'T EVEN ON THE TANK, and firing a fethhuge gun at essentially point-blank range.

And laughing while they do so. The shield isn't to protect them. The shield is just to brace the manliest of manly guns so it breaks the enemy instead of itself. That's how manly it is.

A Basilisk is what happens when two men look at their tank and say "feth the entire top-half of the thing, rip that out AND STICK THE BIGGEST GUN WE CAN FIND TO IT."

Point blank range????
It's min range is 36"

Considering that 36 inches is roughly 53 meters to scale (if I did the math right)

And considering that the Earthshaker cannon can (comfortably) hit things 15km away. Converted, that's 10,009.5 inches (brought down to 40k scale).

That's not shooting across the board, or even shooting at another table, no, that's shooting at a board across the street.

And despite all that range, they move their guns at least within the 204 down to scale inches. That my friend, given the alternatives, is point blank, and why they are the manliest. They could shoot at you that far away, but they move in close, to hear the barrage hitting home and watching the carnage themselves.