Best special rule names

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**SBG**

GW must have a sense of humour; after reading their rule books it becomes apparent - though not necessarily for reasons you might expect. Anyone have any special rules, weapons, or other miscellaneous items within their books that just jump out at you as comedic?

For example, the Rising Leviathan book one has a brood of lictors that one can take as a formation. Useful and neat, and they come with their own special deployment rule ... Called 'Deadly Fruit'.

Deadly Fruit.

**AnomanderRake**

Hard to top the time a writer let his four year old nephew name a Space Wolf Dreadnaught.

"Murderfang"

**portugus**

"He's Behind You!" from the late Sly Marbo.

**Ailaros**

SEND IN THE NEXT WAVE!!!

Grimdark as all get-out.

**Drasius**

The Hour Is Nigh/T Minus 5 and Counting from the Deathstrike. Always gives me a smile.

**Sidstyler**

Personally I think it's kinda hard to top "We'll Be Back".

**Jimsolo**

Any rule you can yell in triumph or say ominously before using.

"Send in the next wave!"

"I've been expecting you..."

**Portugal Jones**

"Creeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"

Wait, that's not the rule name?

**bertmac**

I like the old nid one "Jones is acting strangely"

**Ailaros**

Jimsolo wrote:"I've been expecting you..."

I think we made more jokes at this one than any other. It's easy to insert "Well, he wasn't expecting THAT" or "Pssshh... I've been expecting that" after pretty much any die roll or hilarious encounter.

**Kid_Kyoto**

"Look out sir-ARRRG!" always makes me smile.

But yeah, a lot of the rule names are just nonsense (Hammer of Wrath? True Grit? Gung-Ho?) that tell us nothing about what they mean or what they do. But every so often they get a winner.

I'll second "I'll be back" or as I like to call it "O'll be bock"

**Torquar**

"Excellent! Another piece for the collection." Trazyn the Infinite.

**SicSemperTyrannis**

One of my buddies always screams "IT WIIIIIL NOT DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEE" from the top of his lungs while rolling for it.

**bibotot**

WAAAAAARGH!

**Mallich**

From memory:

2nd edition troops weren't supposed to hang around after placing demolition charges on vehicles. To represent this, any model in combat with a vehicle when it blows up would take a D6'' move directly away, resolved immediately before the effects of the explosion.
The name of the rule?
It's gonna blow!

Battlefleet Gothic's* Abaddon did not like underlings that failed him - he would lock weapons on their ship and blast big pieces out of it. The rule was called (read it in Darth Vader's voice) "You have failed me for the last time..."

*Not 40k, but close enough.

**Ailaros**

Kid_Kyoto wrote:
"Look out sir-ARRRG!" always makes me smile.

My only beef is that it wasn't called "Look out - NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

If there's anything I've learned it's you "nooo!" that gets you your next job.

**Icculus**

"Don't Press Dat"

When this rule comes in to play, it means an Ork couldn't resist the temptation to press a big shiny red button.

**Bookwrack**

"Jones is acting funny," I think was the original name from the 2nd edition rule.

**SharkoutofWata**

The Parasite of Mont'rex had 'The Sarge is acting funny' in... 5th? Not sure when this codex is from. The Red Terror had 'Gulp!' in 3rd.

And the Deathleaper I think had the best consecutive rules. 'What was that? Where is it? Where'd it go? It's after me!' All separate rules too.

**kodi**

I liked the callidus' old "A word in your ear.."

**KaptinBadrukk**

I really like the 'It will not die' Rule because the voice makes it sound scary. Imagine a raging, rampaging carnifex and it had the rule 'It will not die'. That means you would never be able to kill it, or you would have a very hard time killing it.

**TheAvengingKnee**

The Doomsday Device: At the start of his Shooting phase, the Chaos player can announce that he is attempting to activate the Doomsday Device. This is done in the following sequence:
• Announce activation
• Make demands (for instance, state claim to world domination or order construction of impressive monument in your honour).
• Disregard any enemy replies and hope your Doomsday Device works. Roll to activate as per below:

**SharkoutofWata**

That can't be real, is it?

**TheAvengingKnee**

It is old and from apocalypse but yes it is real. just search: rules for firing doomsday weapon 40k on google it should come up.

**jreilly89**

They changed it to Precision Strikes in the FAQ, but Deathwing Knights had "You Cannot Hide."

**Valkyrie**

Deathmarks' "Hunters from Hyperspace" does it for me.

**Kid_Kyoto**

SharkoutofWata wrote:
That can't be real, is it?

Oh yeah it was. A chaos Armageddon datasheet IIRC.

**TheAvengingKnee**

Kid_Kyoto wrote:
SharkoutofWata wrote:
That can't be real, is it?

Oh yeah it was. A chaos Armageddon datasheet IIRC.

My favorite part is it's not fluff it is actually part of the sequence to fire the weapon that you have to make demands and must ignore them, not optional, this leads to great hilarity.

**SBG**

That Chaos one is amazing. It's the disregard for the response that makes it perfect.

**TheCustomLime**

It will not die. It makes me think of a giant monster rampaging through the Guard's lines despite everything they throw at it. An officer yells, "IT WILL NOT DIE!".

And they shall know no fear. I don't know, I just like it. Maybe because I'm a Marine fanboy at heart.