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i want to know what is your favorite story for a model and why for ex.

my favorite is Wazzdakka Gutsmek beacuse he has killed a titan and still has the three skulls on fire on the back of his bike

Mephiston of the Blood Angels, he fell to the black rage and just worked his way through it!

Pfft, it is most clearly Ragnar Blackmane.

While performing the final test of a Space Wolves initiate, which is walking back to the Fang, naked, in Temperatures and Weather that makes Antarctica look like Death valley, he actually killed and Skinned a Damn Fenrisan Wolf with a flint Knife and his bare hands. For those who don't know, Fenrisian Wolves grow to about 6 or 7 Feet at the Shoulder. Fully Matured Space Wolves have a hard enough time killing them to prove their manliness, and yet Ragnar did it before he even had all the SPESS MAHIRNE Implants in him.

Oh, and then he Single Handedly Killed a Warboss (and Possibly his Bodyguard if the Sagas are to be believed) while still a Blood Claw, which won him a Place in the Wolf Guard, something that was practically Unheard of. To put it in silly Nilla terms, this is the Equivalent of a Scout being so BadAss they promote him to the Honour Guard.

Ragnar is Clearly the coolest, although Logan with his Balls-to-the-wall-flip-you-the-bird Attitude to 90% of the Inquisition is also Pretty BadAss.

DOOMRIDER

I would have to say Kharn the Betrayer he kills his enemies, his friends, your friends, and your family whats not to love

Inquisitor Coteaz

Why?

Because when he gets pissed off at you, he's not finished after you're incinerated and all thats left are ashes.

No.

He isnt satisfied until those ashes are fired into the heart of a star.

I'm waiting for pt.2 where he somehow destroys the star itself. (using nothing more than the power of his faith in the emperor of course!)

Old Zogwart, I love how that guy's been messed up even before he was properly born...

Doomrider. He does cocaine. His head is on fire. He has a bike with plasma guns on the handlebars. What more could you want?

I always liked Pedro Kantor's story.

My favorite however is the Blood Axes, best illustrated by Korporal Snagbrat of the Dreadblade Kommandos. Their philosophy is summed up in one qoute,

"Us Blood Axes have learnt a lot from da humies. How best to kill 'em fer example."

Knight Commander Pask, blowing up a Titan with one shot that is awsome

Kharn blew up a Titan with his axe. That is cool.

But the dude with the coolest story is Farsight. He gets all of his Ethereals killed for a flashy sword lmao.

I second the Mephiston for 'official' ICs. The only BA in existence to master the Red Thirst. Besides, I like the tragic heroes of the BA.

As for unofficial, I have my own captains that have done crazy things and deserve their own sagas, but that is for a different topic.

Master Llyons wrote:Knight Commander Pask, blowing up a Titan with one shot that is awsome

Nofasse 'Eadhunta wrote:Kharn blew up a Titan with his axe. That is cool.

But the dude with the coolest story is Farsight. He gets all of his Ethereals killed for a flashy sword lmao.

As pointed out in the OP, Wazdakka killed a titan with his BARE HANDS!

Mine has to be either Mad Doc Grotsnik, who does love a mad surgen who gets his 'ead caved in, revived by his orderly grots and blows the 'ead off most of the nobz in his camp

or

Lord Commander Solar Macharius, such a inspiring man, and for it all to end at the very edge of the galaxy and his men refusing o go on.

Gwar! wrote:
As pointed out in the OP, Wazdakka killed a titan with his BARE HANDS!

WRONG. Wazdakka drove his bike through the void shields into the cockpit and killed the crew. Hurr durr.

Also, Harker is awesome. He chews glass instead of tobacco, can put his hands in a fire without getting burned, and carries a heavy bolter like a rifle whilst Space Marines have to lug it around awkwardly.

He's like the Chuck Norris of 40K.

Gwar! wrote:Pfft, it is most clearly Ragnar Blackmane.

While performing the final test of a Space Wolves initiate, which is walking back to the Fang, naked, in Temperatures and Weather that makes Antarctica look like Death valley, he actually killed and Skinned a Damn Fenrisan Wolf with a flint Knife and his bare hands. For those who don't know, Fenrisian Wolves grow to about 6 or 7 Feet at the Shoulder. Fully Matured Space Wolves have a hard enough time killing them to prove their manliness, and yet Ragnar did it before he even had all the SPESS MAHIRNE Implants in him.

All SW have to do that though, right? They have to skin the wolf with only a knife so they can make a fur coat to stay alive in the cold.

The Thousand Sons backstory has always captured me, so Ill have to say Ahriman, turning your entire legion into dust with a spell so powerful daemons run in fear is badass.

Mephiston is up there, too.

Xenith wrote:

Gwar! wrote:Pfft, it is most clearly Ragnar Blackmane.

While performing the final test of a Space Wolves initiate, which is walking back to the Fang, naked, in Temperatures and Weather that makes Antarctica look like Death valley, he actually killed and Skinned a Damn Fenrisan Wolf with a flint Knife and his bare hands. For those who don't know, Fenrisian Wolves grow to about 6 or 7 Feet at the Shoulder. Fully Matured Space Wolves have a hard enough time killing them to prove their manliness, and yet Ragnar did it before he even had all the SPESS MAHIRNE Implants in him.

All SW have to do that though, right? They have to skin the wolf with only a knife so they can make a fur coat to stay alive in the cold.

No. Most use deer skins or such. Killing a Fenris Wolf is a really hard job even for a Fully Grown Experienced Space Wolf, so to have someone who is not even halfway there do it was extraordinary.

combat squads, i know not a single unit per say, but having used them so many times in 5th, they shine, the best example i have is my 5 man Scout squad armed with nothing but shot guns, killing a Tech Marine in Close combat, without losing a single wound in the exchange, so i don't know if this compares to the SW pup, but it was unexpected to say the least, and it was this(on turn 4, mind you it was the techmarine that charged not my scouts) that broke the the other players back, all game i had been frying his list, and all he had left where two techmarines and a 10 man scout squad(everything else was dead), and he had only immobilized my lone predator, he called it game after being beat down in CC by the scouts, which in my mind was fair enough

Honestly, there's something visionary about Wazdakka's goal of building a "supa 'eyeway" across the universe, just so you can get more crumpin' done.

Inpsirational.

the fluff about the super-rambo catachan guy named marbo. unlike most fluff for characters, alot of his fluff might actually be possible. btw marbo is just rambo spelled different lol

Colonel Schaeffer is awsome, he leads "suicide missions" and everyone but him and kage die, then he gets a new group of convicts and does it again! He is beast.

What about that Guard commissioner with the ork claw, didn't he rip that off of a warboss?

jabbakahut wrote:What about that Guard commissioner with the ork claw, didn't he rip that off of a warboss?

Yarrick. yeah. he's badass.

However, i think we all have to agree that the character with the best story is the Black and White Space Marine on the Black and - <Transmission interrupted due to execution by Commissar>

Well,even though I'm not aware of any official GW mini,IMO Mortarion has one of the coolest backstories,lost primarch,raised on a poison world by demonic overlords,escaping said overlords to help the populace stand against them and at the very moment of what should have been his victory,have his "father" arive to upstage him,followed by "initiation" into his pops great crusade,becomes a virtule master at troop based war in any and all enviorments,only real friend is a physcotic,watches his whole legion become bloated& diesesed and finaly accends to daemonhood.
It just dosn't get much cooler

Yarrik is real cool (for a 'oomie), but Snikrot is just plain awesome, Zagstruk is cool in its own way too.

Sly Marbo the One-Man Army
Of course how much of it is true and how much is myth is unknown.

SLY MARBO FACTS:

Marbo once beat Yarrick & his power claw in an arm wrestling competition, he had to help put the claw back on when he was done though.


On second thought, this should be it's own thread

Marbo FTW
he wiped out an entire command post, killed all of the guards and sneaked off back into the jungle
the bad guys were scared shitless after that
Marbo is the best guardsman ever to serve the Emperor
Marbo will beat ur Space Wolf dude anyday

People keep mentioning characters I'm not familiar with, we should post pics of the mini in question.

hey i like all your guys posts but i agree with jabbakahut you should post pictures too.. it gives people unfimiliar with the model know what they look like too

Well,I found this mini of Mortarion on a google search,it's not mine..but,since people were asking for images.