Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

Welcome to Dakka.

Unfortunately, the staple diet of 40k is Spesh Merehnz, enjoy it.

The whole Dawn of Awesome stupid space marine spelling is getting really irritating...

I know this is horribly hypocritical of me, but I'm starting to get sick of the Space Marine hate. All the cool kids hate Orkz now.

I thought they hated Tau.

Iur_tae_mont wrote:I know this is horribly hypocritical of me, but I'm starting to get sick of the Space Marine hate. All the cool kids hate Orkz now.

<rant>I hated Orks before it was cool. I never liked the way they look, or their play style. I never saw how they were supposed to be "comedic relief", because I never thought they were funny. Orks are easily my least favorite army in 40k. And while I still harbor a dislike of Space Marines, I would rather see lots of them than more Orks.</rant>

Sorry If I stepped on some toes there, I did not mean to offend. I have no problem with Ork players. If that army makes them happy, then they should by all means go for it. Play the army you like, even if other people hate it. (That goes for SM too!) All I was saying was that I don't like the army itself, and just because I don't enjoy them, doesn't mean other's shouldn't.

I play space wolves and yes i too think there are to many other marines and a lot are owned by by
10 year olds who are there just to try and win using an all out charge strategy wich gets very annoying
also there is some thing like 7 tau players who regularly get stomped (more 10 year olds)

Flaming_Spider wrote:I never saw how they were supposed to be "comedic relief"

Personally, I don't think of them this way. I thing of them as the brutal barbaric hordes that they are. They are the Mongols, the Vikings, the Timurids, and a bit of the villains from Mad Max all rolled into one brutal, unstoppable horde which will never stop coming no matter how many times you kill them. And then, just to be mean, they're more durable than a Marine, and just as skilled in close combat, all without any training or experience-- yeah, a common Ork boy can match an Astartes in swordplay, parrying, thrusting, and chopping with the best of them.

They're the ideal enemies of the grimdarkness of 40k. Their "humor" is a leftover from second edition that I'm glad is fading away

Melissia wrote:I thought they hated Tau.

Don't make me cry. it's doesn't take alot to do so. Tau feelings are very easliy hurt

-Loki- wrote:The whole Dawn of Awesome stupid space marine spelling is getting really irritating...

Apparently not for everyone... its been regularly posted across boards everytime something related (or unrelated) arises...

That's why it's getting irritating. It also sounds really childish, but whatever floats your boat.

Melissia wrote:They're the ideal enemies of the grimdarkness of 40k. Their "humor" is a leftover from second edition that I'm glad is fading away

They are not the ideal enemies. They are annoying, in my opinion. True dark adversaries are things like Tyranids, Chaos, and Necrons. Evil things beyond comprehension, not a bunch of green skinned monsters who are incapable of speaking properly. Something about them just doesn't sit right with me.

Melissia wrote:They're the ideal enemies of the grimdarkness of 40k. Their "humor" is a leftover from second edition that I'm glad is fading away

Their humor must be fading in reverse then. They were comic relief in 2nd, it was all but removed in 3rd, and gradually reintroduced.

-Loki- wrote:

Melissia wrote:They're the ideal enemies of the grimdarkness of 40k. Their "humor" is a leftover from second edition that I'm glad is fading away

Their humor must be fading in reverse then. They were comic relief in 2nd, it was all but removed in 3rd, and gradually reintroduced.

Yes, folks... Loki is the 'Humour Police'... please do not disagree with him or your 40k days are numbered.

They are the easiest to paint, the most simplistic as far as stats go, and they arent too hard to understand. We humans, we good! They xeno, they bad! Plus, the army can really go in any direction.

What I really don't get is why whenever these threads spring up someone claims Space Marine are "fat".

I don't know what body fat % you're rocking but feth me it must be impressive.

Or unhealthy (yes, having too little body fat is not healthy for a human).

SMs, the heroic, snot-nosed kids of the 41st millennium!



I like marines, but they are kinda' spammed.
I hate tau, they are spammed, the players just pwn everybody, there' overpowered and annoying.

to tau, once I let Squigspittle an is' flame cutter totin' burnas out da bag!

PYROMANIA!!!!!!!!!!

I guess fat here stands for ungraceful, unnecessarily rounded and wide, and clumsy looking. Which they are.

Blizzard ripped that concept of guy in mega armor and improved it with their terrans, while the originals stayed almost the same since the very beginning. Marines still look too 80´s and quite uncapable to do most of what they are supposed to do (like walk without bowing their legs to start with).

Bring on the Squats...

As for the manny Spaz Mureenze..

They are the heros and all that. You either take them or you get the faries wearing bootz. I Reminds me of that P!@#y speech from Cheech moran in Dusk till Dawn, except that you need to put marine in there...

All this Ork talk is getting me hot and bothered, so bring on the whipping faries wearing bootz AND gimp masks!!! Wait a few, you can get on the FOTM band wagon with whatever comes out with next, and marines will be getting ready for a "New and Improved" release of the same old... Space Marine.

If you find a cheaper marine somewhere else... Marine it!

I love space marines. I really do. I love the sound their Rhinos make as they explode from a autocannon made more accurate by a Company Commander screaming at the firer. I love the plead of the space marine player to let us count the area where the rhino was previously placed as area terrain even though we don't have any craters. I love the smell of blood and ichor released as their power armor crumples from a well placed earthshaker round.

If there is only complaint I have about Space Marines, it's almost that they're too easy to beat.

Space Marines are cool. So are Orks. Tau. Necrons etc. Doesn't matter and if you're tired of seeing people fielding one specific army you need to get out more.

Have a break from gaming.

There are more important things to get all heated up over other than what someone else likes to play. In a game.

I field what I like, when I like. So does my opponent. If you don't like it you have a problem which is starting to manifest itself into an irrational distraction. Go and get help.

I've warhammer for 2 years and have only fought something that wasn't space marines once. It's getting real old.

I was a SM player once (Iron Hands). Then i saw the extreme overuse of UM, BA, DA, and BT. Thats why now im concentrating on Tau and IG

Elmodiddly wrote:Space Marines are cool. So are Orks. Tau. Necrons etc. Doesn't matter and if you're tired of seeing people fielding one specific army you need to get out more.

Have a break from gaming.

There are more important things to get all heated up over other than what someone else likes to play. In a game.

I field what I like, when I like. So does my opponent. If you don't like it you have a problem which is starting to manifest itself into an irrational distraction. Go and get help.

Yes, field what you like, but this complaint is still valid:

Mr Nobody wrote:I've warhammer for 2 years and have only fought something that wasn't space marines once. It's getting real old.

If the game gets boring and monotonous because there's only Marines, it discourages people from playing and purchasing new models. Not that GW cares, they're more interested in getting caucasian male teenagers to purchase more Marines.

Melissia wrote:
If the game gets boring and monotonous because there's only Marines, it discourages people from playing and purchasing new models. Not that GW cares, they're more interested in getting caucasian male teenagers to purchase more Marines.

Must be local.

Our GW stores reduced 40k shelf space to put more fantasy in.
Never had any attempt to sell me marines, but xenos scum.....

I honestly have only played marines at a 40k in 40 minutes tourney.

At our club Tau and IG are being overused. Its why I'm putting the IG away and switching to BT.