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Awe heck, mine just does not roll off the tongue well....

No Fear! No Pity! NO REMORSE!
(blood for the throne god??)

Sounds good to me. The guys I play with don't generally do much in the way of battle cries (don't have armies that lend themselves to it, except one guy has Blood Angels).

As a Tau player I tend to be more calm in my exclamations, but I did get to go crazy last game. A guy drops the doom in a spore and it ends up landing perfectly in the middle of my gunline. It was at that point I did something incredibly stupid and intercepted with my riptide's strength 8 pie plate. Right before I roll the scatter dice I just yell "on my coordinates, for the greater good!". I killed it...and half a squad of fire warriors. Fair trade if you ask me.

I have a pair of friends who both enjoy chaos...if someone says one of their trigger words one of them will yell "blood for the blood god!" And the other will follow it up with a criminally mundane "skulls for the skull throne"


Every. Single. Time.

On the subject of tau the only thing i have ever declared as any form of warcall would be with the gauntlet bearing commander.


FAAAALLLLCOOONNNN .... PUUUUUUUUUUUUNCH!!!

*misses*

.....damn

 ductvader wrote:

 PrinceRaven wrote:
I wish I had something to say with my Tyranids, they're not exactly the talkable type.

Just yell SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEE, or get a whistle.

I have an MP3 player loaded with ripped DOW 2 Tyranid noises and just play them out loud if my opponent wants it.


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Relic nids seem to be fond of the SSSSHHEEEEEEEEEWOOONNN noise. Pratically every nid unit makes some variation of it.

Ahh, the waaagh, one of the core reasons I really want to play orks (plus with codex creep, orks should be beatsticks in their 6th edition).
when i play an ork opponent who just says "and i'm declaring a waaagh". I just look at them and say "declaring what?" until they use their big boy voices. It's not right and proppa!
Jokes aside, I love to give thematic voice to the imperial guard orders.

When i play my imperial guard i like to read the blessings and benedictions from the Imperial Guard Uplifting Primer, it really sets the mood before i let 20-30 valiant soldiers draw fire from my more valuable artillery pieces.

Now if i recall, wasnt it waaaaay back when if you played Orks the rules actually required you to shout Waaaagh and 'ere we go!?

I like to do artillery calls personally, but not with my mates. FIRE FOR EFFECT! Oops...


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I mean, only with my mates!

my benedictions to the emperor are usually inspired by the "turn signals on a land raider" comic

"Emperors great overbite!"

I thought bellowing a WAAAGH!!! was was a no compromise rule.

it used to be, now its kinda withered down a bit so the few that still do it freak everyone out lol

I used to yell the Waaagh! at the top of my lounge as well, but once it made a kid dive under the gaming table, hurting himself in the process and almost knocking the table down, so I kind of let that habit go

When playing the War of Armageddon campaign though, we had four orks players declaring their Waagh! during the battle of Hive Hades in the old-fashioned manner. It's awesome when a GW store full of people suddenly becomes absolutely silent for a few seconds

Omg 4 people declaring their waaagh at the top of their lungs? Thats just scary lol

Most of the players that I know that don't do it.. are all new'ish to 40k like myself. It was a long time Vet that screamed it out. I wonder if time played has anything to do with it.


Diving under a table.. that must have been impressive.

God forbid some one have fun playing a game...

no idea why people would dive under a table though. youre screaming, not charging or flailing your arms lol.

I would love it in local more friendly tournaments, but not in any sort of serious tournament. It would be cool for like the championship game, not for every single game though because it would get old

I admit to being slightly embarrassed by people that do this. If I wanted to be in cosplay I would be LARPING outside the hall with the other vampires.

We had a LARPer that played an Orc that would Waaaaagh! as he charged into battle. Believe me, it's more impressive if you are running full tilt with a weapon in 35 pounds of armor, rather than sitting at a table. But then we are a full contact LARP, too, not a group of vamps, and he even had the big toothed lower jaw plate on his armor.

 Kain wrote:
When you shout yer WAAAGH!!! Do it properly

Have at least twenty nine other people join you in it, firing and waving around weapons also adds to the oomph.

I would advise not firing weapons. Blowing a hole in the roof does not endear yourself to anyone. Especially not the person who pays for it.

Shoot nerf darts then?

We had a LARPer that played an Orc that would Waaaaagh! as he charged into battle. Believe me, it's more impressive if you are running full tilt with a weapon in 35 pounds of armor, rather than sitting at a table. But then we are a full contact LARP, too, not a group of vamps, and he even had the big toothed lower jaw plate on his armor.

Makes me think of the SCA, which is a group of larpers that play medieval wearing legit armor n such. It gets kinda brutal even though theyre well protected and only use heavy sticks not metal blades.
Almost got involved but im in the Airforce so doing something like that isnt easy due to the "risk" since they view skateboarding dangerous.

Anybody who pops their monocle over a right proppa WAAAGH needs to lighten up. That said, I don't usually do *top* of my lungs if I'm in a public space. I find it more polite to cup my hands around my mouth so that it amplifies forward and my opponent gets the most of it.

I used to play Legend of the Five Rings CCG tournies, and for the regional championships every round would be commenced with everyone in the hall doing a banzai yell. Now that was something.

The GW that used to be at the mall near my house once did a massive WAAAAGH!!! yell with everyone in the store, they got complaints from the other end of the mall.

I feel it's tradition to yell Waagh when declaring it. Me and my friends have been doing this for 15 years and it always brings a smile to our lips. Not that it's funny but it just feels right

I think you should just roll with it and have fun, I play Tau, but I refer to my squads by their designations and some times actually issue orders, I've even done the occasional
"for tau'va".

However, if your orky friend is too close and loud, just gently ask him if he could be a little less close and maybe give you warning or do it a little less often.

Waaaaghs from gamers are silly. Real men shout "FOR SIGMAR!" at tournaments.

Nerd for the nerd hobby.

Let's be realistic here. This isn't an afternoon at a DJed rooftop pool party. It's a bunch of guys with painted toy soldiers.

Have fun with it.

 daedalus wrote:

 kronk wrote:

 daedalus wrote:


Generally we play in my game room amidst snifters of scotch, pipe smoke, and classical music.

This is my preferred method, but without the smoke. Also, I prefer bourbon. But your heart is in the right place.

To each their own.

I'm actually finally getting over my fear of bourbon, and easing back into it via Maker's Mark, but that actually IS the usual setup while playing 40k.

Rowan's Creek, my friend. On the rocks. My hands down favorite, and it's similarly priced to Maker's Mark (about $25-30 per 750mL)

 PrinceRaven wrote:
I wish I had something to say with my Tyranids, they're not exactly the talkable type.

'Nids talk all the time...though the only thing they say is: nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom....

Skriker

I hate this when I hear it. I play 40k, and i don't want to hear a sudden and loud yell of any of the games tag lines - Waaaagh, For the Greater Good, Blood for the BLood god, etc.

Other mini gamers don't either that are playing other games. Neither do the card players. Neither do the RPG / Board gamers.

It's one thing if you're in your own house or apartment (god help your poor fething neighbors, by the by), but in the game store, it's one of those breaches of normal etiquette that gets gamers stereotyped into what they get stereotyped.

While we're at it, let's hit a common refrain from those that do this - "well sports fans can yell at sports games".

Next time you have 65,000 40k players in one place, feel free. Until then, inside voices only please.

Haight wrote:
I hate this when I hear it. I play 40k, and i don't want to hear a sudden and loud yell of any of the games tag lines - Waaaagh, For the Greater Good, Blood for the BLood god, etc.

Other mini gamers don't either that are playing other games. Neither do the card players. Neither do the RPG / Board gamers.

It's one thing if you're in your own house or apartment (god help your poor fething neighbors, by the by), but in the game store, it's one of those breaches of normal etiquette that gets gamers stereotyped into what they get stereotyped.

While we're at it, let's hit a common refrain from those that do this - "well sports fans can yell at sports games".

Next time you have 65,000 40k players in one place, feel free. Until then, inside voices only please.

For those of us who used to play in a store called DAKKA DAKKA it was almost mandatory.

It was certainly, for the group photo. I looked through the gallery to see if I could find one of the old pictures of us all but it looks like they're gone now.