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"Lijah Fething Cuu" from the Gaunts Ghosts Series

 Exalted Pariah wrote:

 Spyro_Killer wrote:
"Horus"-Rogal Dorn, was just such an incredible scene where he saw the wrongness in his brother

What book is this from?

Flight of the Eisenstein i think

DoW 2 is amazing, simply for the ork quotes:

"I'VE SET ME GITFINDA TO PANZEE. DERE OVER DERE! (tracking eldar)"
"Dem Orkz got a Mek for a boss! Dat's just sad, dat is."
"OI, you lot! You'z part o' my krew now! Any problems with dat, ya talk to da complaints department! Dat's ME GUN by da way! "
"According to this, we'ze on some kind of hulkey thing....... In space."
"Dem Inquisition humies can't be trusted any farther dan dey can be thrown, which in dat one's case might be a bad example."

Bluddflagg: You shoulda had more o' ya skinny boyz dis mornin' if you were goin' ta shoot down MY Krooza. Now look at ya! Why, I'm gonna... gonna...
Nailbrain: Umm... Kap'n?
Bluddflagg: Not now, Mr. Nailbrain. I'm still sassing dis stomped up Eldar.

Nailbrain: Teleporta's up and runnin', boss!
Bludflagg: Is it, then? Tested it 'ave ya?
Nailbrain: Well Kap'n, we'z low on grots. I'm sure it's fine, dough. Mork says.
Bludflagg: After you den, Mr. Nailbrain. (Nailbrain teleports) ...I 'ave no idea if dat means it works. Oh well. 'Ere we go! WAAAGH!!!

(in regards to fighting (and then lootin') a custom battle wagon)
Driver: My only regret is ... explodin'! AAAAGH!
Nailbrain: Oh, you poor poor fing. Look wot wez gone an' done to ya. Kap'n! Kapn'! Can we's keep 'er?
Bludflagg: Okay Mr. Nailbrain, but it's yer charge. Keep it fueled and armed and take it out fer rukks.
Nailbrain: Hooray!

What's not to love?

Kaptain Bluddflag: "Ohhh, I like yer hat boi da way".

"Contact with alien races always renews one faith in Humainty" - Helem Boesch.

"You shoot at it an' you miss, it's one of ourz. You hit it an' you shoot in down, then it must be one of theirs. Dead simple see?"
--Uzgob

"Who's that flash git still flyin' without 'is wings?"
--Uzgob

"The best means of defense is attack, an' the best form of attack is a really big one, right, with lots of boys and dead big shooty things an' what have ya."
--Legendary Ork smartboy, Drek Zog

Gimzod: There goes Raznuts, boss.
Uzgob: 'E make it out in one piece?
Gimzod: Fraid so, boss.
Uzgob: Lucky git. Don't s'pose there's time to turn back and test out the wing kannons on 'im?

Uzgob: Killboy! Ain't you dead yet?
Killboy: Minor wounds, sir. Nuthin' the mediks and a few more bionik bitz can't fix. 'Avin' survived the destruction of my own bomma an' liberated this 'ere enemy aircraft I wuz just about to take off an' re-kommence attackin' the target when you blew it up, sir!

Killboy: Beg pardon, sir, but you couldn't 'elp me with the take-off? Lost one of me arms in the crash again, an' I'm 'avin trouble usin' all the controls...

 Bobthehero wrote:

 jabbakahut wrote:
"Give me a thousand Gaurdsmen, if all else fails give me 10 Space Marines"

Give me a hundred Space Marines. Or failing that give me a thousand other troops

That's the quote you're looking for

Thanks, I wasn't around the book and tried from memory.

"The road to salvation is paved with the skull of heretics."- The Protectorate of Menoth

 Brennonjw wrote:
(in regards to fighting (and then lootin') a custom battle wagon)
Driver: My only regret is ... explodin'! AAAAGH!

After running the Blitz Brigade a few times its funny just how much this resonates with trying to run battlewagons. A hulking 4 HP tank with shots bouncing off the AV14 front armor while loaded with 20 lads ready to jump out and krump something but a single shot gets through and it blows up because the inside of the vehicle is made of explodium.

 bocatt wrote:

Dragon_Cultist wrote:
Something along the lines of
"Fly to the last drop of fuel!
Fire to the last round of ammunition!
Fight to the last drop of blood!"
-Thunderbolt squadron leader

Also
"Enemy aircraft approching bearing 283,
Please watch for falling shrapnel"
-Hydra tank commander

Is this from Double Eagle? That was a great book, either way.

From the original appocalypse book,
could have been from Double Eagle. It was a great book bringing a new perspective on 40k conflict.

The Orks are the pinnacle of creation. For them, the great struggle is won. They have evolved a society which knows no stress or angst. Who are we to judge them? We Eldar who have failed, or the Humans, on the road to ruin in their turn? And why? Because we sought answers to questions that an Ork wouldn't even bother to ask! We see a culture that is strong and despise it as crude.

"I was there, the day Horus slew the Emperor"

'We are the masters of the shadowed sky. Not for us a grueling crawl through the mud and filth of battle. Leave that to the lesser races. We shall only set foot upon the soil these vermin call home in order to place our bladed heels upon their throats.'- Archon Vrasque, Kabal of the Flayed Skull

"What do you think you cam possibly do to us that the orks haven't already?"

"I can shoot you, for one thing,"

“I am Kul Gilad,’ he said. ‘Reclusiarch of the Black Templars, proud son of Sigismund and Dorn. I am a warrior of the Emperor and I know no fear.’

She leaned in close and whispered in his ear. ‘Know that everything you are and all you hold dear will die by my hand. I will slay your warriors and the dream of the future will live again. I will not let you kill my daughters before their birth, even if it means the extinction of the stars themselves.”

Final exchange between Reclusiarch Kul Gilad of the Black Templars and Bielanna of the Biel-tan Craftworld.

Priests of Mars by Graham McNeill

'There are those who raises their voices in anguish and sorrow for the plight of Mankind. Such faithless folk wail of an end to all days, of a final damnation for us all. I say to you, these fools are wrong! Liars, I name them, heretics and sayers of doom. Listen not to such heathens my brothers, for these are glorious days. Rejoice, for all may stand and fight for a truly righteous cause and any man- no matter how humble- can earn everlasting glory through martyrdom in the Emperor's sight.'

- Right out of the Guard codex

"All Orks is equal. Some Orks is just more equal den uvvas."

"Because the Wolves kill cleanly, and we do not. They also kill quickly, and we have never done that, either. They fight, they win, and they stalk back to their ships with their tails held high. If they were ever ordered to destroy another Legion, they would do it by hurling warrior against warrior, seeking to grind their enemies down with the admirable delusions of the 'noble savage'. If we were ever ordered to assault another Legion, we would virus bomb their recruitment worlds; slaughter their serfs and slaves; poison their gene-seed repositories and spend the next dozen decades watching them die slow, humiliating deaths. Night after night, raid after raid, we'd overwhelm stragglers from their fleets and bleach their skulls to hang from our armour, until none remained. But that isn't the quick execution the Emperor needs, is it?

The Wolves go for the throat. We go for the eyes. Then the tongue. Then the hands. Then the feet. Then we skin the crippled remains, and offer it up as an example to any still bearing witness. The wolves were warriors before they became soldiers. We were murderers first, last, and always."

-- First Captain Sevatar, when asked why the Night Lords aren't the Emperor's sanction force against other Legions.

I can't remember the quote exactly.... and I'm too lazy to go open the book and find it.

But it basically went as such.

"I am an Arch Magos of the Adeptus Mechanicus, I can do what I want".

It was part of the Gods of Mars series (or whatever the series was titled).

"Because we couldn’t be trusted. The Emperor needed a weapon that would never obey its own desires before those of the Imperium. He needed a weapon that would never bite the hand that feeds. The World Eaters were not that weapon. We’ve all drawn blades purely for the sake of shedding blood, and we’ve all felt the exultation of winning a war that never even needed to happen. We are not the tame, reliable pets that the Emperor wanted. The Wolves obey, when we would not. The Wolves can be trusted, when we never could. They have a discipline we lack, because their passions are not aflame with the Butcher’s Nails buzzing in the back of their skulls. The Wolves will always come to heel when called. In that regard, it is a mystery why they name themselves wolves. They are tame, collared by the Emperor, obeying his every whim. But a wolf doesn’t behave that way. Only a dog does. That is why we are the Eaters of Worlds, and the War Hounds no longer."
-8th Captain Kharn

If the path to salvation leads through the halls of Purgatory then so be it...
Azhek Ahriman, the Exiled One.

From the very first page of Codex: Inquisition.

You accuse me of being a mad man. What right have you to judge what is sane and what is not?I have fought with the shadows on the edge of your vision. I have seen the faces that laugh at you in your nightmares. I have smelt the fetid breath that issues from the mouth of hell itself. I have heard the silent voices that make your spine tingle with dread. I have entered the realms between worlds where there is no time or place. I have clashed with creatures the sight of which would sear your soul to the core. I have bested horrors that chill with a gaze and tempt unreasoning terror. I have faced death eye to eye and blade to blade. I have stared into the eyes of insanity and met their all-consuming stare. I have done all this for you; for your protection and the guarantee of a future for Mankind. And yet you accuse me of being a madman, you who have never had your sanity tested so sorely. What right have you to call me heretic and blasphemer, who have not heard the whisper of dark gods in your ear? You are weak. Vulnerable. Human in your frailty. I am strong, and yet still you judge me.

Fluff of that Codex was frigging glorious. Also:

Only the insane have strength enough to prosper; only those that prosper truly judge what is sane.

Basically, insanity = sanity

Think it dated back to the first edition of Space Marine, the battlecry of the assault marines was an odd one.

"Equipped with jump packs"

Written on the card where most others had some pithy saying


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Think there was also one from a marine commander facing some Eldar along the lines of:

"Lets see how these sophisticated degenerates handle some brute violence"

"I am not Lorgar's son, I am his father! You would do well not to forget it."
-Kor Phaeron

"It is my great regret that we live in an age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of people who try to"
Koriel Zeth-Mechanicum