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IvanTih wrote:

shrike wrote:I agree SW fluff is stupidly funny at times, but space battles are fought over thousands of kilometers- 100 kilometers is considered point-blank.
And marines can survive in space.

Tens of thousands kilometres,15cm(1cm=1000km) is considered point blank range in BFG.

whoops, I meant to add an extra 0.

shrike wrote:

IvanTih wrote:

shrike wrote:I agree SW fluff is stupidly funny at times, but space battles are fought over thousands of kilometers- 100 kilometers is considered point-blank.
And marines can survive in space.

Tens of thousands kilometres,15cm(1cm=1000km) is considered point blank range in BFG.

whoops, I meant to add an extra 0.

Remind me not to put you in charge of anything involving weaponry if I ever captain a Retribution Class Battleship.

"Fire the cannon!"
...
"Oops."
"WHAT?!"
"I forgot to remove the beer kegs that barry put in there last night."
"SO WE'RE FIRING BEER KEGS?!"
"...Yeah."
"You're fired."
"So are the kegs if you don't keep me here"
...
"uhh...HERETIC!"
*Bolt pistol*
"heh heh heh."

Or even worse....

"FIRE THE CYCLONIC TORPEDOES!"
"...oops."
"What is it?"
"We, er...I...it missed."
"You missed...a planet?"

Emperors Faithful wrote:Or even worse....

"FIRE THE CYCLONIC TORPEDOES!"
"...oops."
"What is it?"
"We, er...I...it missed."
"You missed...a planet?"

Reminds me of the bit in ME2 with the gunnery officer yelling at his troopers.

"You DO NOT EYEBALL IT!"

"You Fire one of these and someone, somewhere is gonna have his day ruined."

"You fire that shot in space and Sir Isaac Newton becomes the meanest son of a bitch you will ever know!"

So many great lines from that game.

The Callidus assassin M'shen always makes me laugh.

"It evaded me Captain! This planet is a devious and worthy adversary, never fear I shall take it down this time!'

*silence*

"You missed again didn't you?"

"Truly this planet is a military genius! It seems to be able to read our every move, and conveniently move out of the way of the torpedoes!"

*longer silence*

*sighs*

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The fact that C.S Goto gets paid to write novels that exhibit less 'fluff' knowledge than my grandmother has amuses me.

But, using more specific actual fluff, the fluff in the Ork codex, the irony that the Emperor is now worshipped as a God when he spent centuries attempting to abolish religion, and various snippets in reference to the Space Wolves/Russ:

'Are we going to scrap it out now? Argue which Legion is toughest?'
'The answer, always, is the Wolves of Fenris,' Torgaddon put in, 'because they are clinically insane'.

Or Russ attempting to hurl his spear from a planet to a moon while drunk.

Where is this quote from?! Leman russ getting drunk and lobbing his spear?

In one of the CS Goto eldar books, an eldar wearing some robes breaks a stick in half and throws it at a Falcon in flight, destroying it.

How the feth could he do that? Impale the driver through bulletproof glass while it hovers at 100mph?!

shrike wrote:How the feth could he do that? Impale the driver through bulletproof glass while it hovers at 100mph?!

Just look at what birdstrikes can do to airplanes today. Suppose that it was some kind of petrified wood, and that it hit some vital engine part, and there you go, crashed Falcon!














Or it's just C.S. Goto being silly again.

99.999% the latter.

shrike wrote:100% the latter.

Fixed your post.

It's kind of a shame though. He intended to sort of branch out the universe by making the races try to not seem so rigid. To try to add some humanity into stuff like Eldar and the Space Marines in order to make them less dull in a story. It ended up just a bunch of Multilazors on a Land Razor.

He has the general idea, but not the talent.
And no-one at the BL realise.

Apparently somebody caught Wailing Doom in his hands and killed Avatar with it. If that isn't hilarious I don't know what is.

Calgar beating an avatar in hand to hand combat

Calgar getting whooped by every SC going, and having his honour guard drag his sorry a** back to ultramar every time, where he sends in Cato to kill whoever whooped him.


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While not technically fluff, the fact that in C:SM, It shows a picture of the master of the watch, and on the same page shows sicarius.

The old fluff in the Cities of DAETH (and SKULLZ) about an average imperial citizens day always made me laugh, and roll my eyes.

So much grim and dark!

Oh, and the rudimentary Grot sign language. Legend.

shrike wrote:Where is this quote from?! Leman russ getting drunk and lobbing his spear?

It's from the final book of the Space Wolves series, Wolf's Honour. Talks about how Russ never liked the spear at all, and used to lose it all the time, on the battlefield, in conference rooms, etc.

One night, they got really drunk, and he tried to throw it to the moon. It took them two days to find it .

I'll find the exact quote later when I can find my copy of the book.

This is the number one reason why I like the Space Wolves. They have so much humor.

And the best fluff part is when Toraggoden of the Luna Wolves makes jokes half the time in the book. My favorite luna wolf ever.

shrike wrote:Where is this quote from?! Leman russ getting drunk and lobbing his spear?

I believe its in SW omnibus number one, dun quote me on that though, its been a while.......hehe quote pun.

Agreed SW are funniest marine faction just because they are so OTT

I just remembered another part in Blood Pact where Rawne and his collaborators are thrown in prison, there's a drunk guy already there and he starts to shout at them and call em names and such (you know the usual thing drunk people slur at anyone in particular). Rawne is in the next cell over and beckons the drunk to come over, Rawne whispers something in the belligerent's ear which makes the guy cringe and crawl into a corner. He doesn't say another word for the rest of the book.

Major Rawne cracks me up.

fluff that makes me laugh.

open up the tau codex to a page, any page, and you have it.

no just every marine battle seems to end in .... and that one man prevailed or ... and we flew in the battle barge

nomsheep wrote:fluff that makes me laugh.

open up the tau codex to a page, any page, and you have it.

no just every marine battle seems to end in .... and that one man prevailed or ... and we flew in the battle barge

Thats the angry marines buddy.

or the ultrasmurf codex, theres one in the nid dex as well, then the world something (the necron thing)

nomsheep wrote:or the ultrasmurf codex

Thats very true, the ultramarines are just blah.
I wish someone could rewrite what was written.
But considering GW's luck and writing that is a definite no.

I find it really boring. and it will be rewritten in two years roughly anywho, with the advent of sixth.

In describing the vastness of the Imperium, the 5th ed. rulebook says that it can take centuries for orders to make its way through the administrative process and reach the right officer or bureaucrat. How could any organization function with that kind of delay? Made me lol

I wonder why no one has mentioned the Uplifting Primer,always good for a laugh.

IvanTih wrote:I wonder why no one has mentioned the Uplifting Primer,always good for a laugh.

Mind explainging yourself, Guardsman? I see nothing humourous to be find in the most vital piece of equipment a soldier of the Imperium can carry.