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So my gaming group likes to run narrative campaigns in a variety of game systems, but we've decided to do a 500pt + Character campaign so the couple guys who don't do 40k can join in on the cheap, as it were. Now, I normally play orks, but I thought I'd use this as a chance to buy and paint something other than orks for a bit, but my experience with most list is largely from the other side of the table, so I don't know all the cool characters out there. My personal plan is something Space Marine, maybe Chaos. Though Eldar have a ton of named dudes and I can draw units from my wife's army....but I wanted to ask the dakka hordes:


Excluding the Emperor and Primarchs; Who do you think is the coolest, most badass character in the 40K universe, purely based on fluff?

and/or

If you were building a small army around one character to play under the current rules, who would it be? (All Codexes, Forgeworld included)





I can start the thoughts off: I really love Cypher from a lore perspective, at least in so much as he pisses the DA off and there is nothing they can do about it. As for game play, I've kind of been leaning towards Tyberos the Red Wake, I've been really interested in making a small Carcharodons force. (though Forge World just told me they don't make the transfers anymore).

Feel free to throw your thoughts in here, cheers!

Ahriman. My inner BA fanboy wants to say Mephiston, and he is pretty badass, but Ahriman still takes it.

Marbo.

This is not up for debate.

 BlaxicanX wrote:
Marbo.

This is not up for debate.

I'd thought about imperial guard, but I am not familar with thier new book at all. Always loved Yarrick (Maybe because all orks love a good foe), but I never got a chance to play with Rambo before they "Squated" him out of the Codex.

dont remind me =(

It's okay though. Marbo wasn't squatted.

He's just waiting.

I'd have to say Mephiston. He beat the most debilitating and crippling flaw they have and is just a boss. Though Lemartes is up there also since hes all black ragey but can still think. Gaunt is badass also.

 BlaxicanX wrote:
Marbo.

This is not up for debate.

I second that.

Marbo will return.

The Two Unknown Primarchs because nothing is more badass than being unknown and mysterious.

 kinratha wrote:

 BlaxicanX wrote:
Marbo.

This is not up for debate.

I second that.

Marbo will return.

I can see it already. 'Sly Marbo - A Codex: Astra Militarum Supplement'

Allows you to field Sly Marbo as an ally or as an army onto himself.

According to the 5th edition Tyranid codex, there is a theory that the Tyranids are fleeing from a more fearsome race.

This is not true.

They are running from Marbo.

Logan Grimnar. He is one of the only Imperial leaders who fights for the good of Imperial citizens. He also has a habit of decapitating Inquisitors who argue with him.

I really like librarians, and I'm a BA fan as well, so I'm gonna have to go with Mephiston. Him leading a handful of his librarians accompanied by some honor guard is a pretty cool image imho.

 Mumblez wrote:
I can see it already. 'Sly Marbo - A Codex: Astra Militarum Supplement' Codex: Sly Marbo

FYP.

Mephiston sounds interesting, but no one in our group owns the BA codex. Damn you! I'll have to add him to the list as someone to investigate.

Yarrick when he was a child seemed pretty badass... never really read too much about his adult life ... but it sounds fierce.

 Orblivion wrote:
Ahriman. My inner BA fanboy wants to say Mephiston, and he is pretty badass, but Ahriman still takes it.

Yup, Ahriman for sure. With the gods against him, he takes arms against his fate. He bows to no power, and appeals to the teenage angst in all of us leftover from our teenage years, screaming feth YOU to the very cosmos!

Plus, magic is super cool

Confessor Dolan Chirosius wins, no contest. Then, Ciaphas Cain. Then, Sly Marbo.

Farsight.

Its a tau that comes at you with a sword, how much more "because I can" can you get?

Chapter Master on bike w/ artificer armour, shield eternal and thunderhammer!!!!

Arjac Rockfist

This guy is bad ass. Sadly there isn't that much fluff about him, but I like his one page blurb in the SW codex. I really like how he knows his place, he knows his job, and he does it all exceptionally well.

On the table top, he is beastly. Makes his unit of Wolfguard stubborn and that single unit can be kitted out to do pretty much anything you need it to.

Lufgt Huron/Huron Blackheart.

Dudes battlefield accomplishments as a Space Marine are up there with the best of them. As a Chapter Master, he stood up to the bureacracy and BS of the Imperium, and faced the music when it was time. As a Chaos Lord he lives in constant pain, and still kicks major ass wherever he goes.

Praetorian Captain Gliene of C Company.

Led the Praetorians in one of the best battles in GW history.

Unfortunately no rules and little fluff.

The only character I liked a little bit was Sergeant Bastone. But he is gone now. Now characters with rules left with rules anymore.

Vect

KHAAAAN!!!

Castus Grendel. Him, Straken, Yarrick and good old fashioned ollanius pious. Not being a 7 foot tall beast with power armor and fighting anyway despite this is AWESOME. Fighting through enough mortal injuries to get enough bionics to be as tough as the aforementioned 7 foot tall beast is even more awesome. The average guard veteran is twice as brave as a marine and half as attached to reality. That is AWESOME.

I want a straken build, sometimes if i am tired and delusional i will admit regret to not playing catachans.

Commander Dante is hands down for me the most badass. 1,100 years as Chapter Master of the BA, and probably more time served before hand. I love that he leads from the front and can be found where the battle is thickest and most brutal. I really like that he was never the best, nor the most powerful, but always up to the task to get the job done and come out alive. I love his back story and just think he is a general badass.

Close second for me is Imhotekh the Stormlord.

Duke Sliscus and his drugged-up Harem. He let's you roll twice on the drug table and pick your favorite of the two. Think of a pimp who calls himself the Duke and has all of his (b)wyches do the fighting.

But seriously this would be fun and pretty strong. wyches in venoms. All of the splintercannons will take down infantry and the haywire grenades on the wyches will take down vehicles. And Duke isn't awful in CC either. Although he probably won't be as powerful as some other named HQ choices out there. But hopefully your hail of poisoned shots will bring them down before he sullies his hands in close combat.

Kharn

 Orblivion wrote:
Ahriman. My inner BA fanboy wants to say Mephiston, and he is pretty badass, but Ahriman still takes it.

My inner BA says too bad, Mephy still takes the cake for me.

 Icculus wrote:
Duke Sliscus and his drugged-up Harem. He let's you roll twice on the drug table and pick your favorite of the two. Think of a pimp who calls himself the Duke and has all of his (b)wyches do the fighting.

That was a bit offensive. And is there really any link in the fluff between Sliscus and wyches? From what I read, he is a pirate in exile!