Cryptek of Awesome wrote:

BlaxicanX wrote:

That said, some thugs in Atlanta wouldn't have a damn chance. Take 100 gang bangers, give 'em AK-47's and frag grenades and give them half an hour to set up a defensive position inside a warehouse. A Space Marine would kill every single one of them who was too slow or dumb to run for their lives.

This right here is why I laugh when people say that the 40k universe has good background & stories!

DoMiNaNt_HuNtEr wrote:
Well thats true the modern military forces of the whole of the USA could stamp out 50 space marines. It would be the weirdest fight they'd ever have, and pretty horrific.

TheCustomLime wrote:
@Frozen Ocean

A lot of what Chaos does is pointless and stupid. Same for the Imperium really like their Titans.

 TheCustomLime wrote:
It depends on the intent of the writer. If his intent was to show that Chaos is cruel and dark then yes, it does come across as GrimDerp. If the intent was to show that the people behind it are completely and utterly insane to the point where they would do things like this it does sort of work.

Still silly, though, like something Dr. Weird would do rather than the most evil beings out there. "Gentlemen, behold! A Fortress... made out of people!".

 DoMiNaNt_HuNtEr wrote:

 Insane Smile wrote:
But what no one has made the point of, is there is a lot of military bases in the surrounding area. Soldiers would flock to help the civilian population. They would bring more powerful guns, training, and probably most importantly (imo) explosives. When battles begins to head down hill (as undoubted some will), I'd wager suicide bombers or other methods that would remove both parties would appear. As no one would wants to be taken alive and wants revenge as chances are they've lost friends and family alike to this menace there would be no shortage of volunteers as well as those who've already lost too much and just wish for death. "Corner a dog in a dead-end street and it will turn and bite" . It would still be a slaughter of unheard of proportions but would that has the potential to be a victory.

Actually i pointed out Atlanta's military bases. I added militia too.

Even with the support of the local armed forces and military, the potential for victory is way too slim for atlanta.

No offense to atlanta, but... god damn. You guys really believe in yourselves, don't yah?

 TheCustomLime wrote:
If a Lasgun can hurt a Space Marine then a Bradley's Autocannon certainly can do the job and a Abrams will splatter a marine.

 angelofvengeance wrote:
No matter how you dress it up, half a company of Night Lords would kill every last one of the local military assets. If I remember right they have a few Vindicator siege tanks, some Terminator suits and a Dreadnought (for the sake of argument, assume he's awake)

 Flinty wrote:

 angelofvengeance wrote:
No matter how you dress it up, half a company of Night Lords would kill every last one of the local military assets. If I remember right they have a few Vindicator siege tanks, some Terminator suits and a Dreadnought (for the sake of argument, assume he's awake)

And the US army has Apaches that can engage the buggers from beyond line of sight with AT weapons. Something the Marine armoury is singularly lacking in.

LordSolar wrote:
IMHO 50 Night Lords would decimate Atlanta.

Spoiler:

The actual 'invasion' would happen about Friday or Saturday at about 0300. The week leading up to that, would see a large rise in murders both single and serial, hospitals reporting vastly increased number's of people falling ill and occasionally dying - to a new disease, and military bases would also reported multiple cases of break ins and sabotage (the instances they notice that is).

Friday night comes round and people go out dancing and drinking, including a large number of service men/women. Overall less people are out due to the recent deaths and sickness, but people continue to go out none the less.

0200. The time when most people are intoxicated/tired from dancing. The Night Lords reveal themselves. Slaughtering thousands in the streets and the explosives hidden during the last week detonate, leveling buildings, bridges and destroying armories and vehicle depots. All of this takes place over the next half hour, maybe forty-five minutes.

Local law enforcement arrive first. Then the state troops arrive and split into combat columns. They find the grisly remains of the police and SWAT teams hanging from lamp posts and nailed to cars. Only the aren't remains, they are screaming, not from the pain of being flayed or have their legs torn off and their eyes pealed open, but from the mental images they can't get out of their heads of what they have seen.

The state troops are getting nervous and tight on their trigger fingers, when all of the communication devices in the city start screaming and wailing. From every cellphone to each radio in the remaining armored units still functioning, they all emit this horrific and utterly terrifying scream. A moment of mass confusion occurs, when the state troops have no idea what to do.

That's when the Night Lords attack them. Not from the front, or the sides, or the rear. From about. They leap from buildings into the midst of the columns of state troopers. Only three Nights Lords for each column. They don't use bolt guns, no that would be to easy and waste ammunition. They rip into the state troopers with combat blade, chain swords nearly the size of a normal man and flaying knives. Many are dead before the terrified state troopers react, many flee - right into the second wave of individual Night Lords hidden around routes where the troopers run mindlessly. Most are cut down or wounded and left to lie there screaming and whimpering.

Those that stand and fight manage to lay down some coherent fire patterns, and possibly manage to bring down a couple of Night Lords. The armored state units are systematically destroyed by melta fire, missile launchers or satchel charges wielded by the third lot of Night Lords appearing on the roofs and the rear. Infantry units are carved apart piecemeal, and the final pockets of resistance are neutralized. Hundreds if not thousands die.

Its now 0330

The first units from Army arrives at around 0400 but decide to wait for reinforcements, which arrive over the next hour. Air recon reports nothing. Just the empty city, and some odd shapes on the ground level. Close Air Support is on station.

0500. Silence. Complete silence, as the professional military units move through the first few blocks of the city. Much of the residential zones are burned or leveled. Blood coats the side walks and the streets, no bodies are anywhere to be seen. what sounds like a brief fire fight echoes through the city. All units respond except command, or the units stationed as reserve. Forward recon units report that they found the shapes. Hundreds of flayed bodies, arranged in patterns around the city.

The Night Lords are never seen again. The entire population of Atlanta is eradicated, and the city is left a ghost town. No one enters the city again, and napalm is used to destroy the symbols and to try and kill any remaining Night Lords.


In London, officials see a large rise in murders both single and serial, hospitals reporting vastly increased number's of people falling ill. . .

LordSolar wrote:
IMHO 50 Night Lords would decimate Atlanta.

Spoiler:

The actual 'invasion' would happen about Friday or Saturday at about 0300. The week leading up to that, would see a large rise in murders both single and serial, hospitals reporting vastly increased number's of people falling ill and occasionally dying - to a new disease, and military bases would also reported multiple cases of break ins and sabotage (the instances they notice that is).

Friday night comes round and people go out dancing and drinking, including a large number of service men/women. Overall less people are out due to the recent deaths and sickness, but people continue to go out none the less.

0200. The time when most people are intoxicated/tired from dancing. The Night Lords reveal themselves. Slaughtering thousands in the streets and the explosives hidden during the last week detonate, leveling buildings, bridges and destroying armories and vehicle depots. All of this takes place over the next half hour, maybe forty-five minutes.

Local law enforcement arrive first. Then the state troops arrive and split into combat columns. They find the grisly remains of the police and SWAT teams hanging from lamp posts and nailed to cars. Only the aren't remains, they are screaming, not from the pain of being flayed or have their legs torn off and their eyes pealed open, but from the mental images they can't get out of their heads of what they have seen.

The state troops are getting nervous and tight on their trigger fingers, when all of the communication devices in the city start screaming and wailing. From every cellphone to each radio in the remaining armored units still functioning, they all emit this horrific and utterly terrifying scream. A moment of mass confusion occurs, when the state troops have no idea what to do.

That's when the Night Lords attack them. Not from the front, or the sides, or the rear. From about. They leap from buildings into the midst of the columns of state troopers. Only three Nights Lords for each column. They don't use bolt guns, no that would be to easy and waste ammunition. They rip into the state troopers with combat blade, chain swords nearly the size of a normal man and flaying knives. Many are dead before the terrified state troopers react, many flee - right into the second wave of individual Night Lords hidden around routes where the troopers run mindlessly. Most are cut down or wounded and left to lie there screaming and whimpering.

Those that stand and fight manage to lay down some coherent fire patterns, and possibly manage to bring down a couple of Night Lords. The armored state units are systematically destroyed by melta fire, missile launchers or satchel charges wielded by the third lot of Night Lords appearing on the roofs and the rear. Infantry units are carved apart piecemeal, and the final pockets of resistance are neutralized. Hundreds if not thousands die.

Its now 0330

The first units from Army arrives at around 0400 but decide to wait for reinforcements, which arrive over the next hour. Air recon reports nothing. Just the empty city, and some odd shapes on the ground level. Close Air Support is on station.

0500. Silence. Complete silence, as the professional military units move through the first few blocks of the city. Much of the residential zones are burned or leveled. Blood coats the side walks and the streets, no bodies are anywhere to be seen. what sounds like a brief fire fight echoes through the city. All units respond except command, or the units stationed as reserve. Forward recon units report that they found the shapes. Hundreds of flayed bodies, arranged in patterns around the city.

The Night Lords are never seen again. The entire population of Atlanta is eradicated, and the city is left a ghost town. No one enters the city again, and napalm is used to destroy the symbols and to try and kill any remaining Night Lords.


In London, officials see a large rise in murders both single and serial, hospitals reporting vastly increased number's of people falling ill. . .

 Insane Smile wrote:

LordSolar wrote:
IMHO 50 Night Lords would decimate Atlanta.

Spoiler:

The actual 'invasion' would happen about Friday or Saturday at about 0300. The week leading up to that, would see a large rise in murders both single and serial, hospitals reporting vastly increased number's of people falling ill and occasionally dying - to a new disease, and military bases would also reported multiple cases of break ins and sabotage (the instances they notice that is).

Friday night comes round and people go out dancing and drinking, including a large number of service men/women. Overall less people are out due to the recent deaths and sickness, but people continue to go out none the less.

0200. The time when most people are intoxicated/tired from dancing. The Night Lords reveal themselves. Slaughtering thousands in the streets and the explosives hidden during the last week detonate, leveling buildings, bridges and destroying armories and vehicle depots. All of this takes place over the next half hour, maybe forty-five minutes.

Local law enforcement arrive first. Then the state troops arrive and split into combat columns. They find the grisly remains of the police and SWAT teams hanging from lamp posts and nailed to cars. Only the aren't remains, they are screaming, not from the pain of being flayed or have their legs torn off and their eyes pealed open, but from the mental images they can't get out of their heads of what they have seen.

The state troops are getting nervous and tight on their trigger fingers, when all of the communication devices in the city start screaming and wailing. From every cellphone to each radio in the remaining armored units still functioning, they all emit this horrific and utterly terrifying scream. A moment of mass confusion occurs, when the state troops have no idea what to do.

That's when the Night Lords attack them. Not from the front, or the sides, or the rear. From about. They leap from buildings into the midst of the columns of state troopers. Only three Nights Lords for each column. They don't use bolt guns, no that would be to easy and waste ammunition. They rip into the state troopers with combat blade, chain swords nearly the size of a normal man and flaying knives. Many are dead before the terrified state troopers react, many flee - right into the second wave of individual Night Lords hidden around routes where the troopers run mindlessly. Most are cut down or wounded and left to lie there screaming and whimpering.

Those that stand and fight manage to lay down some coherent fire patterns, and possibly manage to bring down a couple of Night Lords. The armored state units are systematically destroyed by melta fire, missile launchers or satchel charges wielded by the third lot of Night Lords appearing on the roofs and the rear. Infantry units are carved apart piecemeal, and the final pockets of resistance are neutralized. Hundreds if not thousands die.

Its now 0330

The first units from Army arrives at around 0400 but decide to wait for reinforcements, which arrive over the next hour. Air recon reports nothing. Just the empty city, and some odd shapes on the ground level. Close Air Support is on station.

0500. Silence. Complete silence, as the professional military units move through the first few blocks of the city. Much of the residential zones are burned or leveled. Blood coats the side walks and the streets, no bodies are anywhere to be seen. what sounds like a brief fire fight echoes through the city. All units respond except command, or the units stationed as reserve. Forward recon units report that they found the shapes. Hundreds of flayed bodies, arranged in patterns around the city.

The Night Lords are never seen again. The entire population of Atlanta is eradicated, and the city is left a ghost town. No one enters the city again, and napalm is used to destroy the symbols and to try and kill any remaining Night Lords.


In London, officials see a large rise in murders both single and serial, hospitals reporting vastly increased number's of people falling ill. . .

You definitely are getting points for this. Points for thinking about the delay for military forces, but there would be three bases that would be there almost the second it hits the fan. Robins is an air force base which means they can quickly mobilize, McPherson lies inside the perimeter, and Gillem just outside it. They would be able to hold out longer and get the reinforcement from the other bases. But seriously, exalt, because you've made the best argument so far.

Ironclad Warlord wrote:
I checked the book Void Stalker and it was actually 25 million on the planet. So each space marine is the equivalent to several nuclear bombs?

LordSolar wrote:

 Insane Smile wrote:

LordSolar wrote:
IMHO 50 Night Lords would decimate Atlanta.

Spoiler:

The actual 'invasion' would happen about Friday or Saturday at about 0300. The week leading up to that, would see a large rise in murders both single and serial, hospitals reporting vastly increased number's of people falling ill and occasionally dying - to a new disease, and military bases would also reported multiple cases of break ins and sabotage (the instances they notice that is).

Friday night comes round and people go out dancing and drinking, including a large number of service men/women. Overall less people are out due to the recent deaths and sickness, but people continue to go out none the less.

0200. The time when most people are intoxicated/tired from dancing. The Night Lords reveal themselves. Slaughtering thousands in the streets and the explosives hidden during the last week detonate, leveling buildings, bridges and destroying armories and vehicle depots. All of this takes place over the next half hour, maybe forty-five minutes.

Local law enforcement arrive first. Then the state troops arrive and split into combat columns. They find the grisly remains of the police and SWAT teams hanging from lamp posts and nailed to cars. Only the aren't remains, they are screaming, not from the pain of being flayed or have their legs torn off and their eyes pealed open, but from the mental images they can't get out of their heads of what they have seen.

The state troops are getting nervous and tight on their trigger fingers, when all of the communication devices in the city start screaming and wailing. From every cellphone to each radio in the remaining armored units still functioning, they all emit this horrific and utterly terrifying scream. A moment of mass confusion occurs, when the state troops have no idea what to do.

That's when the Night Lords attack them. Not from the front, or the sides, or the rear. From about. They leap from buildings into the midst of the columns of state troopers. Only three Nights Lords for each column. They don't use bolt guns, no that would be to easy and waste ammunition. They rip into the state troopers with combat blade, chain swords nearly the size of a normal man and flaying knives. Many are dead before the terrified state troopers react, many flee - right into the second wave of individual Night Lords hidden around routes where the troopers run mindlessly. Most are cut down or wounded and left to lie there screaming and whimpering.

Those that stand and fight manage to lay down some coherent fire patterns, and possibly manage to bring down a couple of Night Lords. The armored state units are systematically destroyed by melta fire, missile launchers or satchel charges wielded by the third lot of Night Lords appearing on the roofs and the rear. Infantry units are carved apart piecemeal, and the final pockets of resistance are neutralized. Hundreds if not thousands die.

Its now 0330

The first units from Army arrives at around 0400 but decide to wait for reinforcements, which arrive over the next hour. Air recon reports nothing. Just the empty city, and some odd shapes on the ground level. Close Air Support is on station.

0500. Silence. Complete silence, as the professional military units move through the first few blocks of the city. Much of the residential zones are burned or leveled. Blood coats the side walks and the streets, no bodies are anywhere to be seen. what sounds like a brief fire fight echoes through the city. All units respond except command, or the units stationed as reserve. Forward recon units report that they found the shapes. Hundreds of flayed bodies, arranged in patterns around the city.

The Night Lords are never seen again. The entire population of Atlanta is eradicated, and the city is left a ghost town. No one enters the city again, and napalm is used to destroy the symbols and to try and kill any remaining Night Lords.


In London, officials see a large rise in murders both single and serial, hospitals reporting vastly increased number's of people falling ill. . .

You definitely are getting points for this. Points for thinking about the delay for military forces, but there would be three bases that would be there almost the second it hits the fan. Robins is an air force base which means they can quickly mobilize, McPherson lies inside the perimeter, and Gillem just outside it. They would be able to hold out longer and get the reinforcement from the other bases. But seriously, exalt, because you've made the best argument so far.

I apologise, I have no idea on Atlanta geography, but it would take about half an hour to get reports of whats happened, rally, kit up, get there and brief the officers. I was a little on the lenient side of things, but hey I enjoyed writing it.

 Medium of Death wrote:
I don't think it's ten million I think it's ten thousand as epronovost pointed out.

So if 50 land then they only need to kill 200 people each to achieve that kind of number.

I think yourself and the rest of your brave friends would end up skinned and displayed from a very prominent building in Atlanta. Not to dampen your spirits or anything...

 TheSilo wrote:

 Medium of Death wrote:
I don't think it's ten million I think it's ten thousand as epronovost pointed out.

So if 50 land then they only need to kill 200 people each to achieve that kind of number.

I think yourself and the rest of your brave friends would end up skinned and displayed from a very prominent building in Atlanta. Not to dampen your spirits or anything...

I'm pretty sure the Mongols did that kind of thing on a regular basis. Capture a major city of a hundred thousand, line up the civilians and execute them by going down the line.

 Wyzilla wrote:

 TheSilo wrote:

 Medium of Death wrote:
I don't think it's ten million I think it's ten thousand as epronovost pointed out.

So if 50 land then they only need to kill 200 people each to achieve that kind of number.

I think yourself and the rest of your brave friends would end up skinned and displayed from a very prominent building in Atlanta. Not to dampen your spirits or anything...

I'm pretty sure the Mongols did that kind of thing on a regular basis. Capture a major city of a hundred thousand, line up the civilians and execute them by going down the line.

Hell that was how the Mongols completely erased a nation and it's culture before, just obliterated it. Ever heard of Khwarezmia? Of course you haven't, because Genghis Khan killed every single person living in the capital and made of a pyramid of their skulls.

 BlaxicanX wrote:
I wonder how people who live in Atlanta feel about this thread.

 amanita wrote:

 BlaxicanX wrote:
I wonder how people who live in Atlanta feel about this thread.

They might be wondering why people would think even space marines outnumbered 100,000 to 1 by a populace with access to thousands of hunting rifles and military hardware would be defeated by such a paltry force?

 Cryptek of Awesome wrote:

BlaxicanX wrote:

That said, some thugs in Atlanta wouldn't have a damn chance. Take 100 gang bangers, give 'em AK-47's and frag grenades and give them half an hour to set up a defensive position inside a warehouse. A Space Marine would kill every single one of them who was too slow or dumb to run for their lives.

This right here is why I laugh when people say that the 40k universe has good background & stories!