Discussing the Taurox on a Google+ hangout with the GW design team

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**Accolade**

KK, I thank you for giving me an audible chortle as I stand in a line at Harry Potter World.

You brought up my hopes and dashed them quite thoroughly! Taurox be praised!

**Pacific**

BrookM wrote:
Agreed, the previous jokes were of a better quality.

Perhaps, but I'm glad someone made the effort!

**baritowned**

I got a good chuckle out of this, I don't think it's worth getting butthurt over...

**Flashman**

Made me laugh. Can't see why anyone would get in a grump over it. The fact that KK posted it alerted me to the fact it would be a spoof of some sort or other.

Chill out good people

**redstripe**

azreal13 wrote:
Kanluwen wrote:Dakka, where I learned the truth about wargaming, as will you. There's a reason why this forum is the worst hell on earth... Hope. Every man who has ventured here over the years has looked up to the light and imagined other users having a sense of humour. So easy... So simple... And like shipwrecked men turning to sea water from uncontrollable thirst, many have got banned trying. I learned here that there can be no true despair without hope. So, as I terrorize News and Rumours, I will feed its users hope to poison their souls. I will let them believe they can survive so that you can watch them clamoring over each other to "post things that are lighthearted and a little off topic." You can watch me torture an entire userbase and when you have truly understood the depth of your failure, I will fulfill my destiny... I will destroy Dakka and then, when it is done and Dakka is ashes, then you have my permission to post.

I did it! I baned Kan!!

I came for the KK, I laughed for the bane.

**scarletsquig**

Never mind the content of the post, the concept of GW communicating with its customers is hilarious enough in itself.

**ironicsilence**

scarletsquig wrote:
Never mind the content of the post, the concept of GW communicating with its customers is hilarious enough in itself.

ummm GW communicates with its customers twice a year in the form of a price increase

**Buzzsaw**

azreal13 wrote:
Kanluwen wrote:Dakka, where I learned the truth about wargaming, as will you. There's a reason why this forum is the worst hell on earth... Hope. Every man who has ventured here over the years has looked up to the light and imagined other users having a sense of humour. So easy... So simple... And like shipwrecked men turning to sea water from uncontrollable thirst, many have got banned trying. I learned here that there can be no true despair without hope. So, as I terrorize News and Rumours, I will feed its users hope to poison their souls. I will let them believe they can survive so that you can watch them clamoring over each other to "post things that are lighthearted and a little off topic." You can watch me torture an entire userbase and when you have truly understood the depth of your failure, I will fulfill my destiny... I will destroy Dakka and then, when it is done and Dakka is ashes, then you have my permission to post.

I did it! I baned Kan!!

This, this is good.

As is the original post. I am satisfied.

**Alex Kolodotschko**

Well played KK.
I got a smirk out of it.

**RandyMcStab**

I did too, loved 'Rob from Fulchester', great question, well asked.

Nice to see SOME people with a sense of humour.

**RiTides**

scarletsquig wrote:
Never mind the content of the post, the concept of GW communicating with its customers is hilarious enough in itself.

Heh. Well played

**Jehan-reznor**

azreal13 wrote:
Kanluwen wrote:Dakka, where I learned the truth about wargaming, as will you. There's a reason why this forum is the worst hell on earth... Hope. Every man who has ventured here over the years has looked up to the light and imagined other users having a sense of humour. So easy... So simple... And like shipwrecked men turning to sea water from uncontrollable thirst, many have got banned trying. I learned here that there can be no true despair without hope. So, as I terrorize News and Rumours, I will feed its users hope to poison their souls. I will let them believe they can survive so that you can watch them clamoring over each other to "post things that are lighthearted and a little off topic." You can watch me torture an entire userbase and when you have truly understood the depth of your failure, I will fulfill my destiny... I will destroy Dakka and then, when it is done and Dakka is ashes, then you have my permission to post.

I did it! I baned Kan!!

Like this?

Spoiler:

And yes we need more moding!

Spoiler:

Why so serious!

**Ruberu**

I liked it, made me smile, but I knew it was false when it said they used Google+

**Symbio Joe**

Guess it took more effort then : OMG X got bought by facebook for X amounts of money!

**SlaveToDorkness**

Kanluwen wrote:
Just to be clear:

This is an April Fool's joke. Which shouldn't be in News and Rumors.

Henceforth I will read Kan's posts in Sam the Eagle's voice.

**Manchu**

Da Boss wrote:
It's a good thing that the fun police are here to control things. It could get out of hand otherwise.

We're always at the ready! Oh you meant, oh well ... nevermind ...

**pongo50**

Cheese it, The thought Police are here.
No fun allowed, there is only WAR..........Heritics all!

**H.B.M.C.**

Kanluwen wrote:
Just to be clear:

This is an April Fool's joke. Which shouldn't be in News and Rumors.

Yes. How dare anyone have any fun ever! Grrr!!!

**Ahtman**

I had fun once. It was awful.

**Johnnytorrance**

I knew it was a joke just by the post title. And I've only played and known of GWs nonsense since Nov

**Dreadclaw69**

Hilarious

Thank you for sharing

Kanluwen wrote:
Maybe a mod shouldn't be posting jokes in News and Rumors.

How's the view from the back seat?

**Lobokai**

Good post KK, enjoyed.

**Swastakowey**

I was reading that seriously. I thought, awesome we may get to see what was going through this guys mind etc. Always cool to hear from the guys that make it.

But!

As I read on I couldn't stop thinking about how slowed this designer was. The "Wats Tallarn" bit annoyed me greatly. Then I reached the bottom and saw April Fools. I am very not annoyed now haha.

Sure fooled me. Im thankful it wasnt official.

**Kid_Kyoto**

Thanks all, yeah it could have used another draft or two and 5 miinutes after posting I thought of another slew of jokes I might have done but oh well.

If it made a few folks smile that's all I wanted.

**krazynadechukr**

Wow, my April Fools thread was deleted by mods in minutes just after 50 views..... Hm.

Automatically Appended Next Post:
Ooohhhhhhh....... It was a MOD that posted THIS one..... That explains it.

**Pacific**

If you managed to get your thread deleted, as opposed to just locked, guessing it was in bad taste in some form?

There are usually several April Fool threads posted every year, think usually they are allowed to persist..

**TheAuldGrump**

Flashman wrote:
Made me laugh. Can't see why anyone would get in a grump over it. The fact that KK posted it alerted me to the fact it would be a spoof of some sort or other.

Chill out good people

Hey!

Some of us come by being Grumps naturally!

As an aside... I can see modifying the Taurox for a steampunk game. Steampunk vehicles are supposed to be kludgy as heck.

But... for WH40K? I don't think so. (Then again, I have not played any 40K except 3rd in... three years now? Longer? They lost me a while back now.)

The Auld Grump, who may steampunk a Dreadknight some day, as well....

**Bishop F Gantry**

Kanluwen wrote:
Just to be clear:

This is an April Fool's joke. Which shouldn't be in News and Rumors.

But it seemed so genuine

**Padre**

SlaveToDorkness wrote:
Kanluwen wrote:
Just to be clear:

This is an April Fool's joke. Which shouldn't be in News and Rumors.

Henceforth I will read Kan's posts in Sam the Eagle's voice.

Just laughed out loud! Sooooo appropriate...

Re the OP - KK, love your work....

Thought the entire thing hilarious (and I actually at first thought Kan's response was tongue-in-cheek...until I realised...

)

**Maddermax**

MajorWesJanson wrote:
As an April Fools Joke, this was not particularly funny, nor particularly evil.

A great April Fools would have been to mock up some new FAQs with crazy rulings to look like official GW documents.

Ha, I did this a few years back - made a very good version of the 'Nids 5th ed FAQ, back when debating how Doom of Malantai worked. Happy days

Oh hey, it's still exists online, though it seems the formatting has gone weird at the bottom. A while ago now, but a lot of it was designed to send the rules buffs of the day into conniptions

My favorite of course:

Q: The rules for Devourers state that enemies that are required
to take a Moral check at the end of the phase, it suffers a -1
penalty to it’s Leadership. How does this work?

A: The -1 Leadership lasts for the entire game. More specifically,
the model or models affected should then be marked, and
forevermore receive -1 to their leadership. You may buy new
models to overcome this.