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Seriously i'm dying of laughter right now.

Also the only reason i like guard is the basilisk so i'm in ALL POWER TO THE NINJA BASIISKS!!!!!!!

 shrike wrote:

 Gutsnagga wrote:
SO SHUT THE **** UP ABOUT THE FLIPPIN' CRASSUS ARMOURED ASSAULT TRANSPORT, OR I'LL TURN ALL YOUR FACES INTO CRASSUS ****ING ARMOURED ****ING ASSAULT TRANSPORTS.

you act like being a CRASSUS ARMOURED ASSAULT TRANSPORT is a bad thing...

You can't be a CRASSUS ARMOURED ASSAULT TRANSPORT, therefore you would have to be it's machine spirit, a.k.a, backseat driver.
And that would be a bad thing.
Plus, that would mean you would make out with spiderman (yes, I went back and skimmed every single page of this thread).

I might just be being blind, but I cannot see the NinjaLisks at all...

ChiliPowderKeg wrote:A pack of ninja basilisk stalk their prey

Not sure if I can see 2 or 3, because I'm not sure if the camouflaged barrel is part of the shield front nearby or not...

 MetalOxide wrote:
This is the manliest tank:



Only a real man would drive in to the heart of the battle in a flame-thrower tank with a giant exposed fuel tank on the top of it.

I must disagree.

You have all overlooked the most obvious answer to this.

Machine spirit is not manly.

Man is Manly.

This man is very manly.



Look what this Manly, Man Drives....



MANLY!!

 phantommaster wrote:
I must disagree.

You have all overlooked the most obvious answer to this.

 shrike wrote:
- Malcador Infernus

ninja'd

Chaos is begin to die

 shrike wrote:

 phantommaster wrote:
I must disagree.

You have all overlooked the most obvious answer to this.

 shrike wrote:
- Malcador Infernus

ninja'd

Of course I didn't read 19 pages, I only looked at pictures

I seem to have showed up a little late to this party... but I still have a contender!

 Happygrunt wrote:
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!

Gun as big as your tank? Pffffft. The Deathstrike doesn't even need a gun to shoot you with hot explosive death. And the thing it shoots is bigger than your puny earthshaker cannon!

You have an ammo rack? Who needs to reload? Reloading is for people that cant kill everything they need to in one shot. And guess what. You can't destroy this weapon.

Yes. We could take this giant missile and launch it at you from the other side of the planet. But that wouldn't be any fun. So we are going to drive it up right into your face, so that we can see the whites of your eyes before we incinerate you and everything you love.
And do we kill you on turn one in a little pansy alpha strike? No. We show you this missile. And we sit there saying "Hey, see this missile? Yeah, it's big isn't it. And guess what, you get to see it close up a little later".
What's more manly than walking into the open and showing your opponent exactly how he's going to die, and then giving him time to cry before you blow up the world? You have a rebuttal? I'm sorry, I can't hear you over my COUNTDOWN CLOCK. Because it wanted a rule that says "You're screwed in 3...2..1"

Finally. This is a missile so powerful, it can't fit in the rules of the game! They weren't allowed to go past S10 and AP1 in standard 40k, so they had to set it to that. Then added that it doesn't care about template holes. Has a bigger blast than anything in the game (and can be bigger than whats in Apocalypse too), gets to roll 2 dice for armor pen, and ignores your silly little "cover".

And what's this mounted on you ask? A Basilisk without a gun shield.


P.S: This thread is hilarious

But then again, are you sure it isn't overcompensating for something?

Besides, Basilisks can fire at will. They aren't affected by bullets unless they explode. And Basilisks don't need any of that high-tech computer aiming tech.

Overcompensating for what exactly?

And if i recall correctly, basilisks can be stunned, shaken, or have their earthshaker cannons destroyed.

Deathstrike Missile launchers say "LOL, if I roll a six you die no matter what."
EDIT: Oh, and who needs a computer to aim when you are ramming your giant missile down their throats from 50 feet away.

basilisk's crew are more manly than a deathstrike's- who needs those pesky roofs and walls? That'd stop the enemy looking into our laughing faces as they die!

 DakkaHammer wrote:
Overcompensating for what exactly?

And if i recall correctly, basilisks can be stunned, shaken, or have their earthshaker cannons destroyed.

Deathstrike Missile launchers say "LOL, if I roll a six you die no matter what."
EDIT: Oh, and who needs a computer to aim when you are ramming your giant missile down their throats from 50 feet away.

Manticores, because otherwise the missile wouldn't be aimable.

And as shrike said, you've got roofs and walls. And, yes, they can, but unfortunately for you, the crew don't really care. Gun not working? Time for a bottle of Jack.

 BlapBlapBlap wrote:

Manticores, because otherwise the missile wouldn't be aimable.

Ah, but see. Manticores have twice the minimum range of the Deathstrike. So they aren't quite the same when it comes to point-blank death. And this isn't about manticores, their missiles are too small.

 BlapBlapBlap wrote:

And, yes, they can, but unfortunately for you, the crew don't really care. Gun not working? Time for a bottle of Jack.

And about that, can't the same be said for any sufficently manly tank crew?

However, I have to admit you got me with respect to the crew having to stay inside the tank. It is true that the crew of the basilisk have a wimpy enough gun that it is safe enough to stand around when you fire it. The Deathstrike crew are stuck inside that tiny paper-thin armored box or else they would be INCINERATED BY THE GIGANTIC PLUME OF FIRE BLASTING FORTH FROM THE BACK OF THE MISSILE AND WASHING OVER THE TANK AS THE MISSILE LIFTS OFF.

 DakkaHammer wrote:
And about that, can't the same be said for any sufficently manly tank crew?

However, I have to admit you got me with respect to the crew having to stay inside the tank. It is true that the crew of the basilisk have a wimpy enough gun that it is safe enough to stand around when you fire it. The Deathstrike crew are stuck inside that tiny paper-thin armored box or else they would be INCINERATED BY THE GIGANTIC PLUME OF FIRE BLASTING FORTH FROM THE BACK OF THE MISSILE AND WASHING OVER THE TANK AS THE MISSILE LIFTS OFF.

also conveniently shielding them from enemy fire. A basilisk would go for a bigger gun, but that'd mean they wouldn't be able go out in the open for a cigar or to punch heretics and xenos.

 DakkaHammer wrote:

 BlapBlapBlap wrote:

Manticores, because otherwise the missile wouldn't be aimable.

Ah, but see. Manticores have twice the minimum range of the Deathstrike. So they aren't quite the same when it comes to point-blank death. And this isn't about manticores, their missiles are too small.

 BlapBlapBlap wrote:

And, yes, they can, but unfortunately for you, the crew don't really care. Gun not working? Time for a bottle of Jack.

And about that, can't the same be said for any sufficently manly tank crew?

However, I have to admit you got me with respect to the crew having to stay inside the tank. It is true that the crew of the basilisk have a wimpy enough gun that it is safe enough to stand around when you fire it. The Deathstrike crew are stuck inside that tiny paper-thin armored box or else they would be INCINERATED BY THE GIGANTIC PLUME OF FIRE BLASTING FORTH FROM THE BACK OF THE MISSILE AND WASHING OVER THE TANK AS THE MISSILE LIFTS OFF.

Meh. Open topped.

Also, what about the fact that a larger gun on a Basilisk would make it topple over? A Deathstrike missile isn't that big... And the actual missile points AWAY from the Chimera.



Plus, Deathstrike's a far gimmickier name than Basilisk.

There is nothing Manly about sitting 10km away from the Enemy... So Artillery is all out.

 mwnciboo wrote:
There is nothing Manly about sitting 10km away from the Enemy... So Artillery is all out.

But the Basilisk doesn't. It'll just park 50 metres away from you and send a shell full of high explosives that ways as much as a grown man into your face.

 BlapBlapBlap wrote:

 mwnciboo wrote:
There is nothing Manly about sitting 10km away from the Enemy... So Artillery is all out.

But the Basilisk doesn't. It'll just park 50 metres away from you and send a shell full of high explosives that ways as much as a grown man into your face.

It still hides behind a building to lob shells onto you. Less manly!

 Imperial Monkey wrote:

 BlapBlapBlap wrote:

 mwnciboo wrote:
There is nothing Manly about sitting 10km away from the Enemy... So Artillery is all out.

But the Basilisk doesn't. It'll just park 50 metres away from you and send a shell full of high explosives that ways as much as a grown man into your face.

It still hides behind a building to lob shells onto you. Less manly!

Who said anything about buildings? It'll just travel through buildings without stopping.

 BlapBlapBlap wrote:

 Imperial Monkey wrote:

 BlapBlapBlap wrote:

 mwnciboo wrote:
There is nothing Manly about sitting 10km away from the Enemy... So Artillery is all out.

But the Basilisk doesn't. It'll just park 50 metres away from you and send a shell full of high explosives that ways as much as a grown man into your face.

It still hides behind a building to lob shells onto you. Less manly!

Who said anything about buildings? It'll just travel through buildings without stopping.

The indirect fire rule screams out "I like to fire upon the enemy from behind something big so that they cannot see me or shoot at me" real men don't need indirect fire, they just need fire with which they can cook steak and burn their enemies!!

Typhon. Heavy. Siege. Tank.

Imperial Guard tanks are alright and all that, but technically basilisks, manticores and so forth aren't actually tanks, so they dont count. And none of them (AFAIK) risk blowing themselves up when they fire!

The Terminus Ultra is the manliest tank, because when you dont care if you blow up as long as you kill them first, only 8 lascannons and a Multi melta will do!

madtankbloke wrote:
Imperial Guard tanks are alright and all that, but technically basilisks, manticores and so forth aren't actually tanks, so they dont count. And none of them (AFAIK) risk blowing themselves up when they fire!

The Terminus Ultra is the manliest tank, because when you dont care if you blow up as long as you kill them first, only 8 lascannons and a Multi melta will do!

"only 8 lascannons and a multi-melta will do", eh?


This thing has basically every square inch of spare interior space crammed with ammo to the extent that battle-brothers will get assigned as gunners as punishment. If this thing catches one stray round in the wrong place, this thing will create a crater so large it could destroy entire streets.

 shrike wrote:

madtankbloke wrote:
Imperial Guard tanks are alright and all that, but technically basilisks, manticores and so forth aren't actually tanks, so they dont count. And none of them (AFAIK) risk blowing themselves up when they fire!

The Terminus Ultra is the manliest tank, because when you dont care if you blow up as long as you kill them first, only 8 lascannons and a Multi melta will do!

"only 8 lascannons and a multi-melta will do", eh?

Spoiler:

This thing has basically every square inch of spare interior space crammed with ammo to the extent that battle-brothers will get assigned as gunners as punishment. If this thing catches one stray round in the wrong place, this thing will create a crater so large it could destroy entire streets.

Well, sure it has nice guns and all, but it only risks blowing up if the enemy fires at it. The Terminus Ultra blows up when it shoots the enemy! so its a mans tank!

 mwnciboo wrote:
There is nothing Manly about sitting 10km away from the Enemy... So Artillery is all out.

What about Commissar Dan's Basilisk Fluffy?

madtankbloke wrote:Well, sure it has nice guns and all, but it only risks blowing up if the enemy fires at it. The Terminus Ultra blows up when it shoots the enemy! so its a mans tank!

- macharius omega.
- stormblade
- leman russ executioner
- predator executioner
- land speeder vengeance
- this:


all of these risk blowing up. Plus, blowing up when you shoot someone isn't manly- it's pretty much the opposite- tank can't handle his weapon.

 shrike wrote:

madtankbloke wrote:Well, sure it has nice guns and all, but it only risks blowing up if the enemy fires at it. The Terminus Ultra blows up when it shoots the enemy! so its a mans tank!

[...]

- leman russ executioner

Only if it takes plasma cannon sponsons. The Executioner plasma cannon is not listed as a "Gets Hot" weapon. ^^

The Executioner Plasma Cannon is also a heavy weapon, not ordnance, so if you had an Executioner with plasma cannon sponsons, it could move its full 6" and still fire all 5 templates - assuming both sponsons were in LOS - as well as its hull-mounted weapon, thanks to being a heavy vehicle. : D

 MrMoustaffa wrote:

 Void__Dragon wrote:
How are you defining "tank"?

Anything with a gun and armor on it. Feel free to come up with whatever ridiculous reasons you wish to justify your "reasoning". Eldar tanks, ork tanks, space marine tanks, etc. etc. As long as it has a gun on it and can't get killed by a lasgun, we'll let it be called a tank for the purposes of this.

madtankbloke wrote:
Imperial Guard tanks are alright and all that, but technically basilisks, manticores and so forth aren't actually tanks, so they dont count. And none of them (AFAIK) risk blowing themselves up when they fire!

The Terminus Ultra is the manliest tank, because when you dont care if you blow up as long as you kill them first, only 8 lascannons and a Multi melta will do!

Deal.

Also, armour and blue. -25 metric manlies.