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as a follow on from my primarch and chess board poll, i now ask this "What leader of a race would be most likely to flip the board"


Would Eldrad flip a board, would the hive-mind take kindly to loosing or would Aun'Va finally do something



YOU DECIDE

Ghazgull would flip the board, beat you to death with it and walk out.

Gazzgull will flip the board before the games even begun

Draigo would flip it for being too tzneech-like.

Pretty sure Ghazghkull would flip it before the game even began, then rip out your spine for having the nerve to even suggest that he play chess with you in the first place.

St Celestine (Women), I don't know why but I am LOLing for some reason

Ghazskull would flip the board, win or lose. He might even flip the board half way through, just for fun.

You forgot folk from your list

Ghazghkull definitely.

Who would flip the board?
Eldrad (Eldar)
Wouldn't flip the board. It'd turn out you were playing the wrong game. And you don't know half the rules. And you haven't got all the pieces.
Dark Eldar Archon(dark Eldar)
Wouldn't flip the board. There'd be a pit under your chair though. Full of very sharp pointy things.
Commisar Yarick(Imperium)
Hasn't got time to be playing games - he's playing 'catch the greenskin' with Ghaz
Logan Grimnar (Astartes)
You'd expect him to. Then he wouldn't as he doesn't conform to stereotypes.
Ghazghkull(orks).
Would be bored and might smash the feeble little 'umie whos trying to make him play dis stoopid game.
Hive mind (Tyranids)
Can't eat a chess board, so it wouldn't care.
Aun'va (Tau)
Woudn't flip the board - you'd be sat there wondering why he could put the pieces of the game anywhere and you just found yourself agreeing with him while you lost.
St Celestine (Women)
Would flip the board. But, once flipped you'd notice the board was somehow magically reset to the point before she lost.
Abbadon (Chaos)
Wouldn't flip the board. The guy is used to failure... He'd also be wondering if his dungeon under your chair was pointier than the dark eldar dungeon.
Imotekh (Necrons)
Would just lightning the board. You can't win if all the pieces and both your hands are toast.
Faitweaver(Deamons)
Wouldn't be playing you. He'd be playing against himself. You be waiting for a game indefinately. Then a you'd find out you lost while you weren't looking. Ineffable plans and all that...
Draigo(Grey Knight's)
Would flip the board. The guy can't ever lose, so if he lost he'd be angrier than a teenage waac player with a GK army finding out about ROW for the first time.

 Ribon Fox wrote:
You forgot folk from your list

Spoiler:

Exactly what I thought.

Eldrad wouldn't flip the board.
He would just make you believe that the game was never played, and that he was not there.
Dark Eldar wouldn't deign to play such a pedestrian game of machinations.

Any of the others might be capable of it though - as it's an immature act (board flipping), and all of the other races are as but children, anyway.

Ghazskull no contest., he probably wouldn't know how move the pieces without moving the board anyway

Ghazzy wouldn't even flip the board as much as he would use it to bludgeon you to death

Ork chess - with headnod to Sir Pratchett

Run all the pawns up the board at once, and set fire to the castles.

Orks will flip the table, Tyranids will then eat it.

Dark Eldar wouldn't flip the board, they would congratulate you for a game well played, then kidnap you and your family while you slept and turn you into human chess pieces and replay you with your family members dying in horrible ways when their piece gets taken!

Abbadon would flip the board.

"Faitweaver(Deamons)
Wouldn't be playing you. He'd be playing against himself. You be waiting for a game indefinately. Then a you'd find out you lost while you weren't looking. Ineffable plans and all that... "

This.
Is.
Genius.

In all honesty, this poll NEEDS Creed.

I mean, he wouldn't flip the board but you might suddenly realize that somehow he has gotten his pieces on your side of the board before the game started.

It can't be Abaddon...he hasn't got any arms!

Also, I agree that this poll needs Creed. Outflanking squadron of Queens, anybody?

Why is Logan Grimnar the representative of the Astartes? He stepped down in favour of Dante at Armageddon round 2.

Only because he was just too pretty to argue with

there is no hard and fast representative of the Astartes that everyone would agree with.

And now all I want to do is build a 40k chess set.

Go, then!

Do this thing!

(post pics!)

Ghazghkull - he wants to fight not play chess. you knw the ork saying '' make waaaaaaaagh not chess

Chess is not even a real game in 40k is it?

Plus, Flip a chess board? is that a euphemism, because I do not see why any of the characters would flip a chess board.

Maybe if there was an ancient SVT under it then maybe an imperial would flip the chessboard over to get at the design.