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My money is on the baneblade too, though the eldar nightspinner earns a lot of points for it's bales of monofilament wire as a more sauve, metropolitan, man.

 Fafnir wrote:

 Peregrine wrote:

 Fafnir wrote:

 Peregrine wrote:

 Greenizbest wrote:
Superior Ork engineering wins again.

Not bad, but it's severely hindered by the fact that it can't transport Marbo.

Apocalypse. Bam.

edit: it IS a transport. Huh.

I have no clue about that. But worst come to worse, just stuff him in the barrel, he should fit just fine. Best of all, it allows for HIGH SPEED ARMOUR PIERCING MARBO DELIVERY.

Yes, they have a transport capacity of 12.

The Kill Bursta get's my vote

Nope. Manliest tank in the game is an Imperial Leviathan (also known as the Capitol Imperialis). It's from Epic 40K and some variants have a landing pad on top and a standard transport bay that can carry a company of troops.

It's like someone decided that if a Baneblade is compared to a Leman Russ, something should be compared that way to a Baneblade.

Look at this thing. Look at this mother****ing thing. Everyone talks about amount of guns, so what do we do? We strap a gun bigger than the vehicle itself on top of it. People would say "That's too big" or "it would topple over!" or "Why are you stabbing me in the face?!", but we don't care, because that what we do. The vehicle might rattle itself appart because we cobbled it out of everyone else's scrap and held it together with spit and squig glue, but can you say you made something this awesome? Heck no. And you know what? we can strap 5 more guns to it, just because it amuses our tiny brains.

God I love Orks.

I gotta say, some of that ork stuff does look pretty good.

That said, the baneblade is, indeed, less manly. What kind of a pansy needs to hide behind all of that armor?

Real men don't.

I agree with the russ. Conspicuous too much firepower. Armored plating, but only just as much as it needs to give it a chance.

I just recently finished painting up my first russ, and this was my initial impression:



Although, I'd also have a lot of respect for hellhound pilots.

Anyways, to help quantify manliness a bit, I'd offer this up as a baseline:

Purplefood, that "fix" to my original post was one of the funniest things I've ever seen. I almost choked I was laughing so hard.

Also, apocalypse needs a Marbo formation. Something like you deploy 20 Marbos, and they all act like a real Marbo, to better represent Marbo's abilities on the table. Obviously, there is only one Marbo, but we put down 20 models to show that he is everywhere at once.

Screw it, marbo is the manliest tank in the universe /thread

 Ailaros wrote:
I gotta say, some of that ork stuff does look pretty good.

That said, the baneblade is, indeed, less manly. What kind of a pansy needs to hide behind all of that armor?

Real men don't.

The Baneblade has weaker side armor than the Russ IIRC. And a lot more guns. And it's a lot more conspicuous through size alone. Add the monstrous side arc, and I'd say it's just as manly as the Russ. I'd call it a tie.

Please! Manliest tank in the universe is the Squat Cyclops!...Go look it up...that thing strapped a Starship cannon to the main hull and blows Imperator titans off of the map! Nothing more manly than that!

Origionally designed with the chassis from a mining vehicle. A gun as long as a city block. Void shields surround it, The Iquisition wanted it so bad they engineered the fake destruction of the Squat race just so they could make sure no one else knew they existed because it's so manly!

 MrMoustaffa wrote:
Purplefood, that "fix" to my original post was one of the funniest things I've ever seen. I almost choked I was laughing so hard.

Also, apocalypse needs a Marbo formation. Something like you deploy 20 Marbos, and they all act like a real Marbo, to better represent Marbo's abilities on the table. Obviously, there is only one Marbo, but we put down 20 models to show that he is everywhere at once.

Screw it, marbo is the manliest tank in the universe /thread

I concur, but you can have 20 or so marbos to form MECHAMARBO! With his powers combined, the entire galaxy is doomed. Too bad he dosent follow orders.

Marbo only counts as a tank when he's in a tank.

Imagine a leman russ character upgrade like pask, but instead of pask, it's marbo.

The russ gets to benefit from all of marbo's rules (including he's right behind you), and marbo can still thrown his demo charge from the top hatch.

I think I'd actually take heavy flamer sponsons for the first time...

Oh hey sup?

Str10/AP1 Cannon? Sure. Oh, 7" blast? Awesome. Fires multiple-tonne shells that liquefy flesh, armor, and ignore cover? Nice.

Yeah, I guess the Typhon is pretty manl- Oh, there's more?

You say it's so heavy and reinforced, to withstand the recoil of its own massive gun, that it simply ignores all difficult and dangerous terrain? Just says "Honey (typhon) badger don't care 'bout lava, I'ma roll over it anyways." Oh, it always rams at Str10AP2? Why? Feth me, that's why?

Huh. I guess the Typhon is manly. Must be like, the second manlie-WHAT THERE'S MORE???

You bet there is. You can put not one, but two sponsons on it. One on EACH side. Heavy bolter OR lascannon, big guy. Because you shave against the grain, with a fireaxe.

Manliest tank ever; Legion Typhon, no question.

Anything with a gun and armour on it?

Anything?



A huge, deadly creature with a fortress on it's back, ridden by Orks, with a large cannon in front and rode like a horse?

Please.

Man man manman manmanmanman mannnnnnnnnnnn man mannnnnnnnn man man man mannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

 BlapBlapBlap wrote:
Anything with a gun and armour on it?

Anything?



A huge, deadly creature with a fortress on it's back, ridden by Orks, with a large cannon in front and rode like a horse?

Please.

I see pink. -100 manlies. (The metric unit for manliness)

 TheCaptain wrote:

 BlapBlapBlap wrote:
Anything with a gun and armour on it?

Anything?



A huge, deadly creature with a fortress on it's back, ridden by Orks, with a large cannon in front and rode like a horse?

Please.

I see pink. -100 manlies. (The metric unit for manliness)

Real men wear pink.

That pink is also from it's mouth, witch it uses to eat other tanks

Pink is excusable for slavering jaws, manlies restored

Leman Russ? Pfff. Manliest? HAHAHA! It's so manly to hide behind AV 14 like a poor, crying baby, afraid of the eeeeeeeeevil enemy.

Well, fits to the IG theme!

Manliest tank obviously is the CCB. Takes a lot of badassery to mount an open vehicle built for just ONE passenger, riding straight into your death (as you WILL die after the first attack).

The CCB is the corporeal iteration of YOLO.

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!

 Sigvatr wrote:

The CCB is the corporeal iteration of YOLO.

Do tell how YOLO is manly.

reductio ad absurdum, Cappy boy.

Armor? Guns? Dakkafex!! Its hide is living armor, and with the right upgrades it can regen, not get pummeled by a single lascannon, and it has a fething mace attached to it. It can barrel through walls, and eats other tanks. Truly a manly tank. Real tanks bleed acid.


I think I just liked saying 'tank' there.

I vote the Typhon, as manliest tank ever. Tyrannofex takes second.

 Sigvatr wrote:
Leman Russ? Pfff. Manliest? HAHAHA! It's so manly to hide behind AV 14 like a poor, crying baby, afraid of the eeeeeeeeevil enemy.

Well, fits to the IG theme!

Manliest tank obviously is the CCB. Takes a lot of badassery to mount an open vehicle built for just ONE passenger, riding straight into your death (as you WILL die after the first attack).

The CCB is the corporeal iteration of YOLO.

YOLO... for a necron unit? The irony!

I'm not sure which tank is the manliest, but thee are some pretty manly tanks out there.

Space Marines have both the Vindicator and the Land Raider Crusader/Redeemer. The Vindicator is basically a metal box with a snow plow and a BFG on the front that has one purpose, to get in close to the enemy and tear them a new one. The Crusader/Redeemer has a similar purpose, to drive a bunch of angry super soldiers up close so they can hit things with giant hammers.

Orks scream manliness in their vehicles. The Battlewagon is a lot like a Land Raider, but it carries green gorillas with guns, literally runs on blood and vinegar, and can have a gun that SHOOTS LIGHTNING mounted on it. A surprisingly underrated vehicle in terms of manliness is the basic Ork Trukk. No it doesn't have big guns or thick armor like some of the other contenders, but a real man doesn't need for his ride to prove his manliness, he does that on his own, by riding into battle at over 100km/h on a ramshackle sheet of corrugated iron with wheels.

Eldar have a pretty manly tank too, the Forge World Cobra Super Heavy Grav tank. It is litteraly just a platform for a giant cannon which tears a hole in reality each time its fired.

I think everyone is forgetting the Deathstrike missile launcher. THE DEATHSTRIKE! IT HAS DEATH IN THE NAME! It is an ICBM. Do you know what you do with ICBMs? You fire them from half a planet away. Not the Deathstrike. THEY FIRE IT STRAIGHT AT YOU! THEY FIRE A MISSILE LIKE A MAN FIRES A GUN! WHEN THEY CAN SEE YOU! WHEN THEY CAN SEE YOUR FEAR THAT, YES, YOU ARE PROBABLY GOING TO DIE IN A MASSIVE FIREBALL! ALL THE WHILE SMOKING CIGARS, BARE KNUCKLE BOXING AND PLANNING HOW TO USE THAT NEW FIREBALL TO MAKE SOME BBQ!

 AegisGrimm wrote:
Nope. Manliest tank in the game is an Imperial Leviathan (also known as the Capitol Imperialis). It's from Epic 40K and some variants have a landing pad on top and a standard transport bay that can carry a company of troops.

It's like someone decided that if a Baneblade is compared to a Leman Russ, something should be compared that way to a Baneblade.

I would like to point out that the Capitol Impetialis is not the same as a leviathan, and the cap sucks. I played a three on four where I had all 15,000 pts of my guard out yesterday and the cap with 8 structure points and 6 void shields died in one turn of shooting, not worth 1,600 pts ( and yes I made a cap).

 TheCaptain wrote:

 Sigvatr wrote:

The CCB is the corporeal iteration of YOLO.

Do tell how YOLO is manly.

I agree, a manly man dosent just do something stupid because he thinks it will kill him, the death part is of no consequence. If it is enough to impress hot babes, then the danger of the deed is merely a means to an end. YOLO is for people who want to pretend to be manly, YOLO is a personification of fear, because you are actively acknowledging it by saying it! manly men do not fear, they spit on fear and then use their own severed arm to beat it to death.

Creed dosent say YOLO, he simply puffs his cigar, laughs, then a Baneblade runs out of the clump of bushes behind you.

You calmly walk away from an explosion without looking back to be super manly. YOLOs will die in the explosion like a chump because they are a moron.

Manly = Smart, because you cant bang chicks when youre dead

YOLO= Moron, because being dead is sooooo cool

As such, id like to promote the CAESTUS ASSAULT RAM as the manliest of tanks, mostly because instead of a gun, it uses its face to destroy its foe, then cover it in a tasty Terminator sauce.

TheCustomLime wrote:

 Sigvatr wrote:
Leman Russ? Pfff. Manliest? HAHAHA! It's so manly to hide behind AV 14 like a poor, crying baby, afraid of the eeeeeeeeevil enemy.

Well, fits to the IG theme!

Manliest tank obviously is the CCB. Takes a lot of badassery to mount an open vehicle built for just ONE passenger, riding straight into your death (as you WILL die after the first attack).

The CCB is the corporeal iteration of YOLO.

YOLO... for a necron unit? The irony!

Finally someone who got the joke


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generalchaos34 wrote:


Manly = Smart, because you cant bang chicks when youre dead

...and as we all know, chicks love those safe basement dwellers!

The Leman Russ Punisher. Like a Russ only with a rotary cannon that makes the GAU-8 Avenger look like a spud gun.

For those of you who don't know what the avenger is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAU-8_Avenger

generalchaos34 wrote:


Manly = Smart, because you cant bang chicks when youre dead

...and as we all know, chicks love those safe basement dwellers!

Is that another necron joke?