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Silverthorne wrote:All should be replaced with

"WE'RE GOING STREAKING! ACROSS THE QUAD!"

"Hey Marneus, you think KFC is still open?!"

Asherian Command wrote:The Imperial fists one you could just replace with "Let our Fists be Bloody!"

That should be the Crimson Fists' battlecry.

 WarbossDakka wrote:
The Imperial Fists is too long, the Ultramarines one makes me fall asleep and the Iron Hands and Salamanders are the only ones who actually sound intimidating.

So the Black Templars with their black armour, red lenses, tooled up for melee with weapons chained on like the World Eaters of old, chorusing "No Pity! No Remorse! No Fear!" Isn't frightening?

I got nothing witty to say, the end.

BrianDavion wrote:

 EmpNortonII wrote:
There are two battle-cries that are central to 40k. "Blood for the Blood God! Skulls for the Skull Throne!" and "WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!!"

Third place options are Salamanders and Black Templars. Everything else I would be ashamed to yell in my FLGS.

then clearly you've not had eneugh beer with your beer and pretzels wargame

On the other hand, Blood for the Blood God often gets yelled at games that have nothing to do with 40k.

Fists.

 EmpNortonII wrote:

BrianDavion wrote:

 EmpNortonII wrote:
There are two battle-cries that are central to 40k. "Blood for the Blood God! Skulls for the Skull Throne!" and "WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!!"

Third place options are Salamanders and Black Templars. Everything else I would be ashamed to yell in my FLGS.

then clearly you've not had eneugh beer with your beer and pretzels wargame

On the other hand, Blood for the Blood God often gets yelled at games that have nothing to do with 40k.

yeah, it has sucessfully become a 40k Meme. GW should really put out some lisenced shirts with that expression on em

Best quotes strung together and yet not yet bettered....

 sudojoe wrote:







Best quotes strung together and yet not yet bettered....

So much ham... It is unbearable!
Also, I like the Nurgle one better:


My sores weep with joy...

Also, for the record, the Iron Hands don't actually have a battle cry. They are completely silent (battle cries let out the emotions too much, and on Medusa shouting just gets you a mouthful of ash)

BrianDavion wrote:

 EmpNortonII wrote:

BrianDavion wrote:

 EmpNortonII wrote:
There are two battle-cries that are central to 40k. "Blood for the Blood God! Skulls for the Skull Throne!" and "WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!!"

Third place options are Salamanders and Black Templars. Everything else I would be ashamed to yell in my FLGS.

then clearly you've not had eneugh beer with your beer and pretzels wargame

On the other hand, Blood for the Blood God often gets yelled at games that have nothing to do with 40k.

yeah, it has sucessfully become a 40k Meme. GW should really put out some lisenced shirts with that expression on em

... well... I totally have a not-licensed shirt with it.

BrianDavion wrote:

 EmpNortonII wrote:

BrianDavion wrote:

 EmpNortonII wrote:
There are two battle-cries that are central to 40k. "Blood for the Blood God! Skulls for the Skull Throne!" and "WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!!"

Third place options are Salamanders and Black Templars. Everything else I would be ashamed to yell in my FLGS.

then clearly you've not had eneugh beer with your beer and pretzels wargame

On the other hand, Blood for the Blood God often gets yelled at games that have nothing to do with 40k.

yeah, it has sucessfully become a 40k Meme. GW should really put out some lisenced shirts with that expression on em

They won't. The last thing they want little Timmy's parents thinking is that the Hobby will make him a psychopath or into that demonic death metal school shooter music. Don't know about you but my local store had quite number of metal fans who also happened to be typical neckbeards with BO and bad attitude, wouldn't be out of place in some backalley gig where the lead singer drank goat blood.

If I was an ignorant parent and took my 8 year old son to a store full of WAR games and those type of people, selling shirts like. "BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD" and other quotes like "NO PITY! NO REMORSE! NO FEAR!" I'd turn and walk the other direction.

I don't like the DA one if that is the battle cry. I'd replace that one. I always thought DA would use something like "For the Lion" or something if yelled or that they chanted and prayed Gregorian style, which is unsettling. Space Wolves have a sweet rebel yell going. I like those.

 Asherian Command wrote:
The Imperial fists one you could just replace with "Let our Fists be Bloody!"

I can't get that image out of my head!!!!

The Fists one is ok if said before a battle begins, but while fighting it should be Captain: "For Dorn!" Response: "For the Emperor!"

I like the Fists's battle-cry. It has a Catholic space nazi feel to it, and it's the chorus for one of my favorite HMKids songs.

I want a Necron battle cry.

Then again that goes against their wall of death fluff.

Maybe they just state something calmly like Arnold in the Terminator.

" Please stand still while I gauss the skin from you bones."

Before my Dark Angels go into battle I always shout "Do I need to roll threes or fours?"

 Silverthorne wrote:
All should be replaced with

"WE'RE GOING STREAKING! ACROSS THE QUAD!"

The sheer WTF factor would give them a major tactical advantage.

This is what i believe the alpha legions battle cry, confusion is their keystone tactic.

 Asherian Command wrote:

 Anfauglir wrote:
I agree and really like you're replacement. "Never Forgive! Never Forget!" is very fitting from what I know of the Dark Angels, and much more snappy. The other one is kinda cringy. I also agree with others about the Fists. Clunky, awkward, kinda cringy. What about "For Dorn, Holy Terra and the Emperor!" or something?

OR a response warcry is always awesome.

I forget which chapter has that warcry.

But yeah that quote even when cut down is pretty hard to say.

Well you also have the Iron Warriors

"Iron Within!"

"Iron Without!"

Pretty cool battlecry, even though they are traitors.

 rabidaskal wrote:

 Asherian Command wrote:

 Anfauglir wrote:
I agree and really like you're replacement. "Never Forgive! Never Forget!" is very fitting from what I know of the Dark Angels, and much more snappy. The other one is kinda cringy. I also agree with others about the Fists. Clunky, awkward, kinda cringy. What about "For Dorn, Holy Terra and the Emperor!" or something?

OR a response warcry is always awesome.

I forget which chapter has that warcry.

But yeah that quote even when cut down is pretty hard to say.

Well you also have the Iron Warriors

"Iron Within!"

"Iron Without!"

Pretty cool battlecry, even though they are traitors.

Man, it stinks that the iron hands got such a weak, and non-threatening battle cry, and then the iron warriors get this awesome gem, stupid traitors

I quite like the pre heresy sons of Horus battlecry,
"Kill for living, Kill for the dead!"

I'm quite partial to the Salamanders alternate post-Istvaan battlecry: "VULKAN LIVES!"

Well I always thought a space marine shouting "NEUTRALISING!" before he shoots someone in the face with a boltgun always served as a pretty cool, cold battlecry.

WAAAGH! => LEEROOOOYYY MMJEENKIIIINSS

They're basically the same thing.

Necron battle crystal are the best. It's literally just the Lord making a long-winded speech while his soldiery start blankly at him, encouraging him to even greater highs of monotonous droning.

Yeah, the Fists battle-lecture doesn't exactly trip off the tongue.

Also not a big fan of the quoted Blood Ravens battle cry - makes them sound more like rather strict librarians than super-soldiers. It's hardly 'we're gonna cut yer tonkers off!'

Yes, the Imperial Fist battle cry of - "Primarch-Progenitor, to your glory and the glory of Him on Earth!" is a bit of a mouthful. Something like, "For the glory of Dorn and the Emperor!" would have sufficed. Having said that, that warcry is very much like Dorn, so even though it is a bit daft it matches Dorn's personality pretty well.

On the opposite side of the spectrum, I love the Dark Angels one - "Repent! For tomorrow you die!"

Although it would be a pretty situational warcry. Wouldn't necessarily work with shouting that at Tyranids or a blob of Gretchin.

 Slaphead wrote:
Yes, the Imperial Fist battle cry of - "Primarch-Progenitor, to your glory and the glory of Him on Earth!" is a bit of a mouthful. Something like, "For the glory of Dorn and the Emperor!" would have sufficed. Having said that, that warcry is very much like Dorn, so even though it is a bit daft it matches Dorn's personality pretty well.

On the opposite side of the spectrum, I love the Dark Angels one - "Repent! For tomorrow you die!"

Although it would be a pretty situational warcry. Wouldn't necessarily work with shouting that at Tyranids or a blob of Gretchin.

it would also work with the fanatical space Spanish-Inqusition feel of the Dark Angels. By that I mean they persecute you and kill you for being different. It would actually be really cool as part of a much larger chant, led by a Chaplain.


Line troopers
Chaplain

Repent!
For tomorrow you die!
Rejoice!
For today you will be cleansed!
Request your absolution!
For now we will show no mercy!

If that were the Dark Angel battle cry that'd be incredible. Also, I based that chant off Scripture, "Repent, Rejoice, Request (absolution)" which really makes sense with the DA.

I prefer the Night Lords' cry of "Ave Dominus Nox" or "We have come for you!". I dislike the Blood Angels, Dark Angels, and Imperial Fists' cries. But my favorite is the battle scream of the chaos raptors and warp talons.

Apparently the Crimson Fists' battle-cry is:

Chaplain: "There is only the Emperor"
Marines: "He is our shield and our protector!"

Which is... God awful! Sounds more like something they say during battle drills rather than when charging headlong into the enemy. I'd prefer something like "Hey esse, we coming for you mang!"

I would love the Crimson Fists battle cry to be - "Here comes the Fisting!"