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Ok what do you think would be the worstweapon to be killed by in 40k?

I'll go with the tyranid devourer from 3e, it fired a stream of maggots that bored into a target, ate their way up the nerves and spine until they reached and devoured the brain. A unit hit with one had to pass a LD test due to the horrific effects of the weapon.

Your turn.

Yea, all the tyrannid ones that involve little bugs eating you would be the worst. Though the nurgle weapons that just spit poison would be bad too.

No contest in my mind, the worst way by far would be to catch Nurgle's Rot.

 Wibe wrote:
No contest in my mind, the worst way by far would be to catch Nurgle's Rot.

I was thinking more about a shooty weapon. But this is fair.

The Banewolf's chem-cannon. I imagine the effect is like the penultimate scene of "Robocop."

Eldar monofilament weapons are pretty nasty, but because they cut so cleanly it has a high variance. Maybe it slices you into a million little pieces, or maybe it severs your head in one go.

But the winner has to be Eldar d-weapons - they suck you into the Warp! Good luck with that.

Harlequin Caress, they remove your heart and show it to you.

I don't know the dark eldar all that well, but isn't most of their stuff supposed to be intentionally designed to kill the victim slowly and horribly?

Halrequin's kiss is definitely quite horrible.

Hmm, what about Phospex? Or perhaps Rad weaponry?

Plague weapons, also daemonweapons.

Basically anything from Dark Eldar arsenal, be it a gun or a blade. Maybe Dark Lance might not be that horrible, as it simply vaporizes you.

Next, not in any particular order: Phosphex, Rad Weaponry, Plague weapons, any Death Guard chemical and biological weapons, Life-eater virus, Tyranid bug-bullets, Vortex grenades/bombs/missiles, simple Flamer isn't anything comfortable too.

I think a plain old chainsword would be pretty horrible.

Volkite, rapid deflagration of ones atomic structure would sure suck.

Necron Gauss Flayer has to be up there, surely? Disassembling you one layer of cells at a time...

The most terrifying thing would be not to be killed, but captured instead by dark eldar and taken back for "study". Or be eaten alive by tyranid rippers. A million little gremlins just climbing all over you and just chewing you to death.

Having a Shokk Attack Gun warp a scratchy bitey snotling or two into your armour or part way into your body would be pretty horrible.

 Alex Kolodotschko wrote:
Having a Shokk Attack Gun warp a scratchy bitey snotling or two into your armour or part way into your body would be pretty horrible.

A friend of mine named Chris Osburn felt the exact same way a lng time ago.

So far 40k doesn't have one of these, and I'm surprised an ork or nurgle cultists hasn't developed one yet.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aD4k148YcDU

I'm going to put my money on the usual - anything nurgly, dark elder-y and so on.

New contender - Flamers of Tzeentch, it could actually heal you and give you super powers, it could cause you more pain then ever before witnessed in the universe even Slaanesh would wince.

Dark Eldar weapons are designed to inflict the most pain so I'll go for those.

Getting eaten by a plague drone to live forever in its gut

Life Eater virus used in Exterminatus, that can't be jolly.

A fatal wound from a Lasgun would probably kill you from shame and embarrassment!

There's plenty of horrible, excruciating ways to be killed in 40k but I think the Transdimensional Beamer deserves a special mention.

You're basically teleported to an empty dimension with no way out, the only other physical material being darbage and detritus from the Tomb World, doomed to suffocate or starve to death

Probably anything that doesn't kill you instantly

Arson Fire wrote:
I don't know the dark eldar all that well, but isn't most of their stuff supposed to be intentionally designed to kill the victim slowly and horribly?

It basically puts you in incredible agony but the Dark Eldar are more about capturing so technically I don't think they count.

pm713 wrote:

Arson Fire wrote:
I don't know the dark eldar all that well, but isn't most of their stuff supposed to be intentionally designed to kill the victim slowly and horribly?

It basically puts you in incredible agony but the Dark Eldar are more about capturing so technically I don't think they count.

All (or most) of their victims die in the end, so they do count. Once they've had their fun they chuck you.

 Tyranid Horde wrote:

pm713 wrote:

Arson Fire wrote:
I don't know the dark eldar all that well, but isn't most of their stuff supposed to be intentionally designed to kill the victim slowly and horribly?

It basically puts you in incredible agony but the Dark Eldar are more about capturing so technically I don't think they count.

All (or most) of their victims die in the end, so they do count. Once they've had their fun they chuck you.

That takes a very long time though.

I would like to throw in Death Jesters Shrieker Ammo - it is one of very few weapons that always had specific rules about how terrified are others around you when you die in such a gruesome manner.

pm713 wrote:

 Tyranid Horde wrote:

pm713 wrote:

Arson Fire wrote:
I don't know the dark eldar all that well, but isn't most of their stuff supposed to be intentionally designed to kill the victim slowly and horribly?

It basically puts you in incredible agony but the Dark Eldar are more about capturing so technically I don't think they count.

All (or most) of their victims die in the end, so they do count. Once they've had their fun they chuck you.

That takes a very long time though.

You're still getting killed though!

Tyranid brainleach worms seem like a distinctly horrible way to go. First, they bore into your flesh, then they crawl through your body attacking organs en route to the central nervous system.

Splinter weapons seem...horrifying. They hyperactive your nervous system to cause excruciating, debilitating pain and paralysis.