Warhammer/Tabletop gaming thread

[evilpoptart]

i play grey knights with imperial guard allies. not all the guard are painted, but they will tear shit down.

 

[irishdelinquent]

By all means show the conversions. hehehehe love the dead bodies for your custom 'nid, lovely touch

Interesting story for that one conversion.

I was working with the rules for a custom Nid monstrosity and decided to go with a winged super-ravener, and decided to put a skull in its open mouth. I picked through all the skeleton sprues I had on hand, and couldn't find a single skull, having used them all on my Chaos forces. Looking at the parts to built fourty mostly-complete headless skeleton I decided to call the thing "The Decapitator", and piled headless bodies about an inch high on his large baseplate. He sits atop his throne of bone, and awaits being painted.

*cries* That...is so beautiful. *sniff* I want a flying super-Ravener of doom too!

 

[irishdelinquent]

I play D&D, oh and sorry for sounding like a noob but what is 40k? me and my friend are absolute beasts in D&D, we both lvl 18 rangers and we usually fight dragons and celestial beings.

"40k" refers to Warhammer 40000. Tabletop miniatures strategy game (and setting for same) produced by Games Workshop. It's basically got all your standard fantasy races*, and a few Sci-Fi ones like giant bugs and anime robots, but a lot meaner, and in space.

*Except dwarves. They all got eaten by the giant bugs.

hehehehehe as a Tyranid player, I take full responsibility for the consuming of the space-dwarfs aka 'Squats'. mmmmmmm, squat stew.

 

[irishdelinquent]

Did you just call the necrons anime? Or were you talking about the tau, who really aren't robots even if they use very anime-like mechs?
If 1 please die a horrible death. If 2, fair enough.

methinks he was referring to the Tau as the anime robots. My friends and I always joke about how the Tau were invented to get the Gundam Fanboys into 40K. The battlesuits are basically the same bloody things as gundams, except on a smaller scale.

As for the necrons, they're more like something out of a James Cameron *coughcoughTerminatorcough* film

 

[Apone]

I always wondered how they got away with calling it "We'll be back". Such a cheesy one liner that wouldn't come out of a necrons mouth, seeing as they don't talk.
"They will return" or "Why the fuck are they getting up, I thought you said it was dead! Fucking shoot it!" would be much better.

 

[PurpleRain]

The Necrons are really tidy with their work. The fact that they'd wipe a planet clean of all life down to the very last bacteria shows how dedicated they are to their cause. By the way... is there any, at all, backstory to the Necrons other then some ancient race made them billions of years ago?

 

[GenHellspawn]

Not that I recall, although the only fluff I find interesting is of orks.

Although, i played the Soulstorm demo and I found the dark eldar quite interesting. Is there anything on them without getting the codex?

 

[Blayze]

By the way... is there any, at all, backstory to the Necrons other then some ancient race made them billions of years ago?

"The Eldar could have wiped out the Necrons forever, but they were too busy creating the God of Porn." - My friend Lewis.

That's pretty much all I know of them.

 

[GloatingSwine]

Did you just call the necrons anime? Or were you talking about the tau, who really aren't robots even if they use very anime-like mechs?
If 1 please die a horrible death. If 2, fair enough.

No, the Necrons are just your ordinary run of the mill Space Undead. Tau are clearly the logical interpolation of stuff like Gundam into 40k.

 

[irishdelinquent]

Not that I recall, although the only fluff I find interesting is of orks.

Although, i played the Soulstorm demo and I found the dark eldar quite interesting. Is there anything on them without getting the codex?

The dark eldar are emo eldar. When Slaanesh was born and all the eldar started dying, they went to their room in the webway. They hid from everybody else because 'nobody understands them'. they like to torture small animals and cut things. they have a tendency to dress in dark colours and lots of spikes. they like to hang out in groups at the intergalactic mall and talk loudly about how unfair life is. they experiment with drugs, and in general are a detriment to the advancement of society as we know it.

I'm sorry, but I just hate the dark eldar.

 

[irishdelinquent]

I like them. I don't like to USE them, but they do go CRUNCH under the treads, and that makes me all warm and fuzzy.

to be honest, what race DOESN'T make one feel warm and fuzzy when it crunches under tank treads...or Carnifex claws?

 

[Wolvaroo]

I prefer Tau

 

[GloatingSwine]

I like them. I don't like to USE them, but they do go CRUNCH under the treads, and that makes me all warm and fuzzy.

to be honest, what race DOESN'T make one feel warm and fuzzy when it crunches under tank treads...or Carnifex claws?

Imperial Guard. Too squishy to crunch properly. Also, their tanks are bigger.

 

[GenHellspawn]

They're more chewy then crunchy XD

 

[Jarhed]

Spacewolves in 40k and Empire/Brettonians in fantasy

 

[irishdelinquent]

They're more chewy then crunchy XD

meh, as a tyranid player, chewiness and cruchyness isn't a big factor for me. One time, I was playing a Chaos player, who was rambling at length about how proficient his Daemon Prince was with the nasty killy-squish-death-causing. In response, I simply told him "No matter how many points he is, he still tastes the same in the end". I then proceeded to charge him with my Broodlord and accompanying 'stealers, and rended the pants off him.

hehehehehehe oh, but how I love rending

 

[irishdelinquent]

Did you just call the necrons anime? Or were you talking about the tau, who really aren't robots even if they use very anime-like mechs?
If 1 please die a horrible death. If 2, fair enough.

No, the Necrons are just your ordinary run of the mill Space Undead. Tau are clearly the logical interpolation of stuff like Gundam into 40k.

The Necrons are slightly different from space undead, in that they are made of cheese*. Their weapons are made of cheese, and fire cheese string ammunition. Their special rules are written in cheddar ink on swiss paper. Their vehicles are powered by high-tech Havarti Reactors. And the C'tan have bodies made from a flowing Gouda-like substance.

* "Cheese" or "Cheesey" refers to rules being seen as unfair.

 

[Blayze]

And you can even use maths to make it cheesier. I think it was something along the lines of "Oh, you've given my Monolith -1 Attack, right? But look at this! It says you subtract -1 Attack from it! But subtracting a minus is adding a plus! Thanks for the extra Attack."

 

[irishdelinquent]

And you can even use maths to make it cheesier. I think it was something along the lines of "Oh, you've given my Monolith -1 Attack, right? But look at this! It says you subtract -1 Attack from it! But subtracting a minus is adding a plus! Thanks for the extra Attack."

The monolith is just pure wankerness. "Hey there, mister Eldar! Know that super-special-awesome brightlance rule you have...well, screw you and your brightlance rule!"

 

[Blayze]

As an Eldar player, I know what you mean. Luckily, I have backup in the form of my friend Lewis's Imperial Guard. It's ever-so-satisfying to team up with him against a Necron player and watch them protest the roll, reaching for their Codex, before we drop the true bombshell on them.

"Augur Shell. Look it up."