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K we know every starter set comes with 2 red sticks . How often do you see
yourself or others using it for everything else but measuring distance? ( Hit, poke , wack, whip , slap,prod )

Or see them go on a sword duel with it....

*edit i also noticed if you dont seperate the plastic between the 2 pieces,

it makes a good chopstick.

Pointless, unless your so poor you cant afford a $2 measuring tape.

erm, chopsticks are 2 parts aswell, its cheating to keep the divider in it

im allways using them as a weapon, i thought thats what they were for since they are gak for measuring distance

new pic again!?

I stick 3 of them under my wristwatch and pretend I'm Wolverine.

I deposit them straight into the trash where they belong.

Absolutely. Perfect absolute precision doesn't matter that much, and a red whippy stick cut down to 6" is a lot less ungainly than a tape measure for doing your basic movement.

they make vicious weapons, if i were a guardsman and someone ran at me with red sticks I'd drop me gun and peg it quick!

thats because a flash light doesent protect you against the red stick of death.....

now... I haven't checked out the measurements on the red sticks... but the blue ones from BFG are not marked correctly...

possibly because they're in centimeters?

I know the last red sticks I checked were not even .9 of an inch per marked inch. That's kind of embarrassing.

Ever since I saw that kids neck skin splt after a whipping....straight in the bin.

IIRC, GW banned them for instore use at one point?

They did?

Boy thats funny.

Well, They are useful for big battles with multiple players, so they can have one each.

They make for good emergency super-happy-softly-sadistic-bedroom-fun-fun-bottom-treatment implements.

BrookM wrote:They make for good emergency super-happy-softly-sadistic-bedroom-fun-fun-bottom-treatment implements.

QFT....


Nothing like a homemade Cat o' Nine for the slaaneshi cultist in all of us.

I used to chop them up into 8", 6", and 4" segments for figuring WHFB movement.

Use them as Whipping Sticks FTW

My Red Whippy Stick is Fight!

Some redshirts use them to keep the kiddies in line on beginner Sundays. They also slap the kids who borrow one for a game and return them bent.

I always thought they were in there so submissives could beat themselves. So they're for measuring? I was way off. LOL.

I use them to ring my buddies neck when he gets all in my face about rules,and then I beat him until he agrees that my one guardsmen just killed his whole squad of marines!!!

Cut them down to 6 inches. Then when the inevitable "no, you're not in assault range" arguement starts, put it down. If it touches both bases, you're in assault range. If it doesn't, you're not. Check if the 6-inch mark is actually 6 inches - with a ruler or tape measure.

I guess thats a good way to measure : )

The whole stick for the blue ones is supposed to be 45cm... which it is... but the 45cm mark is a cm away from the end.... weird?!

Death By Monkeys wrote:I used to chop them up into 8", 6", and 4" segments for figuring WHFB movement.

I do that too. I have 4", 6", 8", 12", and 18" lengths handy. I have dozens of them, so it's hard to mind cutting them up to be useful.

They tend to get held onto and waved around when one of us is pacing and ranting or brainstorming about something. Never actually is them in game unless it's to push Necromunda models around under big pieces of terrain or retrieve hard-to-reach D6's.

I smack people on the hand when I catch them trying to cheat. At the State championships, you can usually see at least a dozen people nursing sore hands and arses after a game of Apocalypse.

We need to change the poll as I don't play 40k with them, but we do play stick fighting with them. So we need a Yes I play Warhammer with them, Yes I hit people with them, and a No I throw them away.

Ghost in the Darkness wrote:We need to change the poll as I don't play 40k with them, but we do play stick fighting with them. So we need a Yes I play Warhammer with them, Yes I hit people with them, and a No I throw them away.

Just click yes ^^ anything other than in garbage can is a yes i think xD

LunaHound wrote:Starter Set Red sticks... fight O_o?

Why yes, I would love to duel!

En garde!

and @ chopsticks...

My brother received a dastardly whipping after I had read rules more thoroughly after some time of him in college. We were playing a little 1,000 point game and he used his movement phase as his first measure for distance to shoot. Thank god no models broke, he was a little ticked when I smacked his arm with it. "Can I see that? thanks......fwwwt!"