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Alright, I'm gonna say that the manliest tank is obviously the Doomsday Ark. Well, second manliest. You can put ur opinions here too.
Rules: I'm defining "tank" as a vehicle that is relatively tough and has a somewhat large weapon (eldar, SM, IG, Tau, etc). also, walkers do NOT count. legs (of any kind!) is an automatic disqualification of that vehicle.

I'd like to see your barge go Toe-toTrack with a Leman Russ , base model , lascannon w/ Plasma Sponsons - extremely flexible if it is a bit pricy ( 205 points ) I tend to run mine standard in that manner - what's the Barge ? Strength 9 AP 1 ? Strength 8 AP 3 Ordiance , lascannon ( meh good for light armour ) Plasma for plopin terminators , I think for overall tactical flexability , Survivability , And Raw firepower and cost effectiveness , not to mention the Balls-to-the-wall awesomeness of The Imperial Guard

Very nice, but its still infinitely less threatening as expanding gases, dont you think?

It's a true 'Merican tank with horrid Gas millage

Making it even more flammable lol

Oh man, this thread again...

Before this turns into another CRASSUS ARMOURED ASSAULT TRANSPORT circlejerk, I want to say that the Elysian Tauros Venator is pretty damn manly. I mean, in a world filled with row after row of heavily armored walls of steel, you need to have balls of steel to zip around with this little buggy thing, laden with weaponry. Plus, the Elysians in general are pretty manly to begin with. And to make matters worse/better, if you try to mess with the Tauros, there's a chance that he'll call in his bros and all of the sudden ELYSIAN DROP TROOPS RAINING FROM THE SKY!

alright, you have a point. wait, who are Elysians?

Some of the Manliest sumbitches FW ever made.
They lose heavy armor in favor of nearly every single unit being able to deepstrike, take a Valkyrie as a dedicated transport, or (in the case of Drop Sentinels(yes, DROP Sentinels)) be picked up by a Sky Talon. And, all the Elysian troops are volunteers, so they've got some pretty massive balls of steel.

OK, thx for the info lol and ur right. they DO sound pretty cool.

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Warhammer-40000/Imperial_Guard/Elysian_Drop_Troops?filter_reset=1

Guard regiment specializing in aerial drop troops.


EDIT: curses alpha legion, I'll get you and your little primarch too!

ya dude, i got it.

In terms of raw destructive ability?

Baneblade or its SM cousin the Fellblade

Varguard Erekh wrote:
Alright, I'm gonna say that the manliest tank is obviously the Doomsday Ark. Well, second manliest. You can put ur opinions here too.
Rules: I'm defining "tank" as a vehicle that is relatively tough and has a somewhat large weapon (eldar, SM, IG, Tau, etc). also, walkers do NOT count. legs (of any kind!) is an automatic disqualification of that vehicle.

What if it has legs spouting out of the roof? Some chaos vehicles might have those...
What about tentacles? Arms? Wings (on a ground vehicle)?

 Kasrkin229 wrote:
I'd like to see your barge go Toe-toTrack with a Leman Russ , base model , lascannon w/ Plasma Sponsons - extremely flexible if it is a bit pricy ( 205 points ) I tend to run mine standard in that manner - what's the Barge ? Strength 9 AP 1 ? Strength 8 AP 3 Ordiance , lascannon ( meh good for light armour ) Plasma for plopin terminators , I think for overall tactical flexability , Survivability , And Raw firepower and cost effectiveness , not to mention the Balls-to-the-wall awesomeness of The Imperial Guard

But with your load out it can only ever fire the plasma or the main battle cannon. I personally prefer running my Russ without the ordinance guns or if I do put one on never pay for sponsons since they just sit there and do nothing or have to snap fire now. For by bet on maniliest it would be the executioner with a full plasma lay out because the only thing it cannot kill is armor 14 and everything that isn't a tank just just dies as I laugh. Also a tank that can kill itself to kill the enemy has to be more manly then one that cannot.

Selym wrote:

Varguard Erekh wrote:
Alright, I'm gonna say that the manliest tank is obviously the Doomsday Ark. Well, second manliest. You can put ur opinions here too.
Rules: I'm defining "tank" as a vehicle that is relatively tough and has a somewhat large weapon (eldar, SM, IG, Tau, etc). also, walkers do NOT count. legs (of any kind!) is an automatic disqualification of that vehicle.

What if it has legs spouting out of the roof? Some chaos vehicles might have those...
What about tentacles? Arms? Wings (on a ground vehicle)?

Or a Defiler. It's definitely a tank to me.

The manliest tank hands down is the Maulerfiend. No long range weapons, just fists for punching in faces. It doesn't crawl around on the ground, it charges over everything just so it can run up and punch out a tank.

If your tanks solves it's problems by being half a table away, then you're out of this contest.

Elector wrote:

Selym wrote:

Varguard Erekh wrote:
Alright, I'm gonna say that the manliest tank is obviously the Doomsday Ark. Well, second manliest. You can put ur opinions here too.
Rules: I'm defining "tank" as a vehicle that is relatively tough and has a somewhat large weapon (eldar, SM, IG, Tau, etc). also, walkers do NOT count. legs (of any kind!) is an automatic disqualification of that vehicle.

What if it has legs spouting out of the roof? Some chaos vehicles might have those...
What about tentacles? Arms? Wings (on a ground vehicle)?

Or a Defiler. It's definitely a tank to me.

Tru dat! It has ordinance coming out of its chest goddammit!

Savageconvoy wrote:The manliest tank hands down is the Maulerfiend. No long range weapons, just fists for punching in faces. It doesn't crawl around on the ground, it charges over everything just so it can run up and punch out a tank.

If your tanks solves it's problems by being half a table away, then you're out of this contest.

It's like the vehicular equivalent of an actual rhino (not the transport).

Oh look, another entirely original thread...

Please can we stop this?

Anyway, Basilisk. Be all and end all. We've got nothing more to do here. Please?

I find this the manliest tank:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/498612.page

We've had two threads in the past month discussing tank manliness already.

It's no longer funny.