Warhammer Meme thread

[NIGHTBRINGER]

The feeble skills of Kriegers are no match for the full Power of the Hive Mind!

 

[Lord Agragax of Lunaxoatl]

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Bonesabres >>>>>>>>>>>>> Shovels

 

[Lord Agragax of Lunaxoatl]

Let's stay on topic. this is a meme thread!
so, if we're talking about krieg and nids...

That's a better one. Amusing not just for the swearing and the sign language, but also because the poor bastard he was trying to warn would likely have been killed by the time he had finished his sign language

 

[NIGHTBRINGER]

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Bonesabres >>>>>>>>>>>>> Shovels

 

[Lord Agragax of Lunaxoatl]

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And Bonesabres would cut through the hull of a digger in an instant...

 

[NIGHTBRINGER]

And Bonesabres would cut through the hull of a digger in an instant...

You really seem to like these bonesabres. You can put your trust in bone, I'll place my trust in steel.

 

[Killer Angel]

That's a better one. Amusing not just for the swearing and the sign language, but also because the poor bastard he was trying to warn would likely have been killed by the time he had finished his sign language

"He's behind me, isn't it?"

 

[Y'ttar Scaletail]

So funny story...

I once ran an Only War rpg campaign and one of the PCs was a Krieg Grenadier...I secretly made his shovel a daemon weapon of Malal (the idea was the PCs would eventually be whittled down and have to face daemonic forces and probably die horribly, so giving them anti-daemon equipment might give them a slight chance (it didn't.)) However...mid-campaign he decided to fall to Chaos...Khorne to be precise. And declared it aloud whilst holding his shovel that hates all things Chaos. Cut to him being forced to hit himself in the face multiple times with an angry shovel and falling into a warp tear that the mini-boss psyker had just opened to flee through (He actually wanted to roll up a new character anyway...)

 

[Lord Agragax of Lunaxoatl]

You really seem to like these bonesabres. You can put your trust in bone, I'll place my trust in steel.

Bonesabres aren't just bone, they are fashioned from hardened and serrated Tyranid chitin and possess a sentience of their own that produces a psychic aura allowing them to cut through the power armour of a Space Marine with no issues at all. Something that can cut through power armour would slice through steel like a knife through butter - it isn't even close. Not to mention that it can drain the life force out of any living being it touches.

 

[NIGHTBRINGER]

 

[Lord Agragax of Lunaxoatl]

"He's behind me, isn't it?"

A classic, I posted that one a fair while back. Cedric died to Voldemort, imagine what suffering those Tyranids would inflict on him...


EDIT: Here's my original post:

 

[NIGHTBRINGER]

Bonesabres aren't just bone, they are fashioned from hardened and serrated Tyranid chitin and possess a sentience of their own that produces a psychic aura allowing them to cut through the power armour of a Space Marine with no issues at all. Something that can cut through power armour would slice through steel like a knife through butter - it isn't even close. Not to mention that it can drain the life force out of any living being it touches.

But if the shovel can kill a Bloodthirster, then your lowly Tyranids will pose little threat.

Besides, I think you are missing the joke.

 

[Lord Agragax of Lunaxoatl]

But if the shovel can kill a Bloodthirster, then your lowly Tyranids will pose little threat.

In your dreams, that's only what the memes say, memes aren't an accurate depiction of real 40K life or physics.

Besides, I think you are missing the joke.

On the contrary, I got the joke ages ago, I just don't think it's particularly funny, no amount of meme spamming will change that.

 

[NIGHTBRINGER]

In your dreams, that's only what the memes say, memes aren't an accurate depiction of real 40K life or physics.

Firstly (and I can't stress this enough)... THE SHOVEL MEMES AREN'T SUPPOSED TO BE AN ACCURATE DEPICTION!!! That's the whole joke. That's why I keep pointing out that you are missing the joke. You are trying to use a straight and narrow argument against something that is purposefully absurd and comical.

Second, there is no "real" 40k life or physics. It's all made up. In real life, steel is stronger than bone.

On the contrary, I got the joke ages ago, I just don't think it's particularly funny, no amount of meme spamming will change that.

When Jar Jar is your gold standard, I guess it shouldn't surprise me.

 

[NIGHTBRINGER]

 

[Killer Angel]

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A 2-handed shovel!
Now we can deal also with the traitor primarchs!

 

[Imrahil]

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That would be an interesting conversion

Grrr, Imrahil

 

[NIGHTBRINGER]

 

[NIGHTBRINGER]

 

[Padre]

i find them funny. Absurdly funny.
I'm gonna try to rationalize it.

as italian, i'm well aware that when italy entered WWII, Mussolini made a famous speech, exalting an army of "8 millions bayonets", putting an emphasis on courage over equipment. The courage would have compensated anything else. (the mentality "The bayonet is a hero and the bullet a coward").
We all know how it went.

SO, in a universe as deadly as 40k, to have memes about the imperial guards charging enemy's titan with bayonets, or Krieg infantry fighting a greater daemon with a shovel, are funnily absurd.
Because only in the foolishness of the 40th millenium lore, you could base the main tactic of your army into sacrificing millions of troops and get away with it.
It's the "quantity has a quality of its own" taken to the extreme and then pushed even further. It just cannot work.

[Pedantic Military Historian hat on] And, the Death Korps of Krieg, both in attitude and aesthetic, is based off World War 1 infantry, particularly British. WW1 was the war when the West was working out the final transition between the mass infantry tactics of the Napoleanic Wars and the modern combined arms tactics that have dominated the wars since. The Battle of the Somme, where the Allies traded 600,000 casualties for 6 miles of territory exemplifies that approach to warfare. Besides, this is 40k where taking an idea to the extreme is not absurd, but normal. The Krieg memes fit this attitude.