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The astral Knight, Sacrificed their entire chapter, to stop the Necron menace.

Warsmith honsou who sacrificed his entire army just to annoy the hell outta the Ultrasmurfs and now the Imperium FEARS him

Ollanius Pius, the man who is the definition of man.

What about all the betrayed marines on istvaan, who even after being betrayed by their primarch and battle brothers decide to hold out as long as they can, tying up the warmaster's forces, to buy time for the Emperor to gather a defense for terra.

I throw my vote in for the Avatar of Khaine as well. He really knows how to take one for the team and be a good worf.

If 40K was the WWE, everyone would love the Avatar of Khaine behind the scenes.

Princeps Senioris Kurt Mannheim of the Legio Metalica during the second Battle for Armageddon.

At the time, Armageddon suffered beneath a foolish and erratic Overlord, Herman von Strab, who refused to believe warnings of invasion by the fiercest Ork Waaagh in centuries., Waaagh Ghazghkull!

Princeps Senioris Kurt Mannheim held temporary command of the Legion after the death (suspected to be assassination) of its Grand Master. By Imperial law it was his duty to obey the Overlord and Von Strab refused to hear Mannheim's advice.

Unable to betray his oath of loyalty to the Emperor, Mannheim put on his best dress uniform, said goodbye to his wife and children, and climbed into his titan Steel Hammer to lead his battle groups to certain destruction.

The Legio fought hard and it fought well, Steel Hammer accounted for three Ork Gargants before it was crippled and even then Mannheim took his machine right into the center of the Ork forces before its reactor melted down.

Mannheim was posthumously awarded the Emperor's Star for his bravery and loyalty to the Imperium.

So did you just copy his laxicanum article or something?

Garvy wrote:How did Angel boy sarcifice himself....I thought he was stomped by Horus in a duel ? If Dorn got to Horus before Sang, would he be a sacrifice ?
Ooo waiiiittt, dent in the armor theory, right ? Emperor ?
Anyway only sarcificies are those poor souls who go to psy fuel the meatbag emperor...and Pious ofc...

It's probable that Sanguinius knew the fate that awaited him (gift of foresight), but nonetheless confronted Horus and tried to sway him away from Chaos.

 Unit1126PLL wrote:
Ollanius Pius, the man who is the definition of man.

I may be a fluff noob, but who's this ? ôO

 Seb wrote:

 Unit1126PLL wrote:
Ollanius Pius, the man who is the definition of man.

I may be a fluff noob, but who's this ? ôO

Originally he was a guardsman that beamed up to Horus's ship with the big E. He stumbled across his duel with Horus and attacked Horus givng th eemp enough time to see how fallen his son had (By seeing him destroy Pius) and collect himself to wipe Horus from existence

Blessed be the lion-cloth/man-thong worn by the Bloodthirster; sacrificing itself to save his dignity and our sanity.


Blessed also be High Marshal Helbrecht: sacrificing his arm to make a new special character look really mean and spiteful.

BlaxicanX wrote:

If 40K was the WWE, everyone would love the Avatar of Khaine behind the scenes.

Lol - he really sells the bumps well doesn't he...




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 Just Dave wrote:
Blessed be the lion-cloth/man-thong worn by the Bloodthirster; sacrificing itself to save his dignity and our sanity.

The blood sporran.


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The eldar population - for exemplary service through sacrifice, providing the universe with an armada of tentacle rape jokes.

 Hlaine Larkin mk2 wrote:

 Seb wrote:

 Unit1126PLL wrote:
Ollanius Pius, the man who is the definition of man.

I may be a fluff noob, but who's this ? ôO

Originally he was a guardsman that beamed up to Horus's ship with the big E. He stumbled across his duel with Horus and attacked Horus givng th eemp enEough time to see how fallen his son had (By seeing him destroy Pius) and collect himself to wipe Horus from existence

Even more originally, when the fight between Horus & the Emperor took place in the Palace on Terra, he was a lone Imperial Army soldier who found himself in the same room as his Emperor & the renegade Warmaster, in time to see the Emperor struck down. He could have legged it, no-one would have blamed him, but instead he tried to defend his Emperor by standing in front of Horus and defying him despite him having no chance at all, not even the tiniest chance against Horus. Yet he stood his ground, setting a precedent, for what was to become the Imperial Guard, for 10,000 years. Horus, brutally, mashed him to a pulp and it was that action that convinced the Emperor that Horus had truly turned and, with the short respite granted by Pius, the Emperor struck Horus down. For his actions Pius became the patron Saint of the Imperial Guard.

Since then GW have retconned Pius to make the story make more sense as it changed to Horus's flagship. They turned him into an Imperial Fist Captain in Terminator armour, I think it was, and then into an Adeptus Custodes, but frankly the story involving the human Pius is a) more epic and b) has a nice underlying theme to it. That theme is that for thousands of years the Emperor had shaped humanity's destiny, guiding them, protecting them, building them an empire among the stars for a greater future. With Pius standing between Horus & the Emperor it's a nice reversal of that - when humanity had been in great danger the Emperor had protected them. When the Emperor was in danger humanity, in the form of an Imperial Army soldier, protected him.

M'kar, for sacrificing his dignity to make others look good. At least the Avatar of Khaine usually goes out in a badass way, with M'kar, it is "Draigo kicked his ass as a noob", or "Calgar and friends ripped him limb from limb", or "Mephiston literally choked him like a bitch". He even sacrificed himself for the sole purpose of keeping that annoying git Kaldor Draigo out of the Materium.

You forgot "Calgar glued him to a space station and chucked him into deep space"

 Void__Dragon wrote:
M'kar, for sacrificing his dignity to make others look good. At least the Avatar of Khaine usually goes out in a badass way, with M'kar, it is "Draigo kicked his ass as a noob", or "Calgar and friends ripped him limb from limb", or "Mephiston literally choked him like a bitch". He even sacrificed himself for the sole purpose of keeping that annoying git Kaldor Draigo out of the Materium.

Poor M'kar, the laughing stock of chaos and the living proof that princehood can be a much worse punishment than spawndom.

 Just Dave wrote:
Noble Ghazghkull, who sacrificed most of his life and efforts to attempt to free Armageddon from the tyranny of the Imperium.

That wasn't a sacrifice - that was a pub crawl with a few good ladz from work

Anyone read "Dead Men Walking"?
An entire Death Korps of Kreig regiment all form up in a huge block of just infantry, while a necron horde advances towards them. When one man falls, the next one steps up.
The tactic proves ridiculously effective, and ridiculously costly.

Since I've never heard anyone say anything nice about Nemesis (maybe rightfully so), I'll add this.

Lorgar. He gave up his very humanity, and humility to end the tyranny of the false emperor. He started a civil war that no other would. He was brave when others gave up. He stuck to his piety, and his only sin was loving his father too much. So much he drove his men ragged to find the truth. He found truth, and set his men free from the false emperors shackles. By the end of this questlorgar was dead inside. He gave up not his mortal body (not yet) but his mind, and his soul.
His sacrifice is the most noble. He was a kind, gentle primarch.
he hardened, and became bitter and spiritually dead, for the truth.

Ahriman, for almost losing his life to save his legion from mutation. Now condemmed to wander the galaxy forever in a quest to understand Tzeentch. He did what he thought was best considering the previous events of his legion. For this he was cast out of the legion by his father.

throwing in my 2c for Ollanius, and a link that explains him and his fluff-fate very well... http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Ollanius_Pius

It's been said may times already, but I'd say Ollanius.

Bar that, probably the ever loyal sacrificial chaos marines, who die horribly in a burst of blood and various important organs so that a greater daemon of his God can be given freedom to spread the liberating truth of chaos to all the people.

Xarl, taking down king ultrasmur.

Essentially every primarch ever..... minus the living ones
.

Wait....... the big E wasn't convinced enough that Horus already went darkside on him even after he massacred his brother legions and committed mass genocide on countless worlds but he gets convinced because horus mashed a guardsman to a pulp?

Bl authors - they sacrificed myth out of HH, so that every fluff nerd can hit you with a quote (if you have your opinion....)...


On topic - WE, they went to nails music just to be closer with Angron (which they didn't)...

 Viersche wrote:
Wait....... the big E wasn't convinced enough that Horus already went darkside on him even after he massacred his brother legions and committed mass genocide on countless worlds but he gets convinced because horus mashed a guardsman to a pulp?

It's not that Horus smashed one Guardsman, it's the contemptuous manner with which he did it, like using a 15lb sledgehammer to squash a house fly - Horus obliterated Pius utterly and it was that that showed the Emperor his favored son truly had turned, that he was beyond redemption and thus he had to be defeated or all hope would be lost for mankind.

Who knows how much of Horus's actions the Emperor knew about at the time of the Heresy*. In the 40k universe messages can take months, years, decades to be transmitted and received, so what if the Emperor had heard a few reports but brushed them to one side because his favored, trusted son would never turn on him like that, would he? Parents are often the last people to believe their children have performed some form of 'wrong doing'. The line 'Oh but my son/daughter would never do that!' springs to mind and what if the Emperor, as mighty a figure as he is, with his incredible abilities as a psyker, as a phenomenal leader, strategist, tactician and overall guiding hand for humanity, was blinded by the love & affection he had for the Primarch's, his children that he couldn't see Horus & other Primarch's, along with their Legions, betraying him?

*I don't care about the BL HH series - for me the HH is best served as remaining an era of story, myth & legend, distorted by telling, half-forgotten by time. The BL books are also just the authors interpretations of parts of the Heresy, their version, not a 'this -IS- what happened, this -IS- what was said".

I'll just leave this here

 Ribon Fox wrote:
I'll just leave this here

I love how the other marines are cowering under Sanguinius' left wing

EDIT: Left-side of the picture, right on Sanguinius...