Comical Warhammer 40k - 40K Terra

TheKiller333 · 05-12-2007

Now, a couple of days ago me and a few friends were discussing comical names for the races of 40k. I want to see a few that you can come up with! =]
Not nessicarly names, but descriptions, model names, or even PEOPLE you've met in the shop!
I'll give you a crappy example my friend came up with, 'Eldar are just Elves in Spandex, pretending to be Superman'.
Get posting! =]

-Chris

hairyyahoo · 05-12-2007

courtesy of tsoalr, farseer kal's'thetics. and in a similar vein autarch che'kn'vac.

DeAd_cOmMaNdO · 05-17-2007

well, back in the day (15 years ago or so) i used to pronounce genestealers as general stealers (emperor knows why!)

there was once a guy in my local indie who was called cornelious nicodemus papadopolous (i swear on all my models!)

hairyyahoo · 05-17-2007

that guys parents must have hated him!

TheKiller333 · 05-19-2007

Hah, Orks = Retards on Speed xD

Steellegioncpt · 05-19-2007

oh man we have a whole bunch. Like my friend would pronounce Chimera with the CH sounding like in (Ch)imney chimney

Man its sort of hard to explain when you type it, but I hope you get the point.

TheKiller333 · 05-19-2007

Lol yeah ^^ Keep it up guys!

r4wr89 · 05-19-2007

this may not be as funny, but my brother seems to get a laugh out of mixing the tau with the protoss...and pronouncing terran as "terrain"

JoeGuardsman · 05-20-2007

The starcraft thing reminds me about the wierd sounding protoss language. Zealots would say "Cheese house!" and Archons would say "My pants itch." In 40k my friends have a few "colorful" expressions for a few armies and I'll spare you those.
Good ones, let me see...We have a goblin named "Gubbinz Crocket" complete with song which is pretty much at the peak of loserdome.
I mentioned in another post that Sly Marbo is "bear cub eater"
I imagine I'm not alone in knowing people not by name but by army "Blue Paladins Guy", "that White Consuls Guy" "Tom and his sidekick John" (you'll never see a man more crest fallen than when you tell him he is someone elses sidekick)
If you wanna talk about mispronounced name don't need to go any ****her than Tzeentch or Tizeentch or Zzentch or Zintch it took my group months when we were kids to come to an agreement. There is the Archaon Archon thing and countless others. I ussually don't get too worked up about it because they are not real words so there is no way to pronounce correctly. Not like you can look up Slaanesh in the OED.

masterofweirdness · 05-20-2007

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Originally Posted by JoeGuardsman

The starcraft thing reminds me about the wierd sounding protoss language. Zealots would say "Cheese house!" and Archons would say "My pants itch."
If you wanna talk about mispronounced name don't need to go any ****her than Tzeentch or Tizeentch or Zzentch or Zintch it took my group months when we were kids to come to an agreement. There is the Archaon Archon thing and countless others. I ussually don't get too worked up about it because they are not real words so there is no way to pronounce correctly. Not like you can look up Slaanesh in the OED.

Not sure about the archoans... but your right, zealots do sound like they say cheese house (technically its jee house!).

As for Tzeentch, I gave up trying to pronounce its right... right now I'm pronoucing it the way I do so, even if it is totally wrong (Terzec).

TheKiller333 · 05-20-2007

Heh, some starcraft fans, good =]
But if you click units a number of times, the same unit, USUALLY they will say something funny anyway. Eg, Archon: Burn Baby Burn ;_;

hairyyahoo · 05-20-2007

a friend of mine insists on pronouncing 'forge world' as forage world and 'purity seals' as putty seals. putty seals?!? what a muppet!

Lord_Tyrion · 05-20-2007

When we used to pronounce Tyranids as 'Tea-ran-ids'. No one told us it was 'Ty-ran-ids' until we went to GW....

TheKiller333 · 05-20-2007

I love the mispronuciations that often come up though, I once heard some posh person, who walked in say, "I've heard you have the Emporar modele!" And that is literally how he said it. I swear the staff were stifling laughs....
Meh, the complete opposite has happened aswell. 3 of the Chavvic Scum (No offence to any NICE chavs) walked in, and one of them instantly said "What the F***! This is games f****ng workshop! Where are the f****ng games!" Shows how idiotic some people are, don't it?

last of the bloodthirsty · 05-21-2007

we named 4 guys in a black templar army these little gems: general jesus srgt murtaugh sir smacks- it-alot and cronus

TheKiller333 · 05-21-2007

Lol Master. You edited my post!

Dan296 · 05-21-2007

the blood angels primarch is sag-ween-yus, of course, why do you ask?
champion of nurgle? typhrus...duh....

TheKiller333 · 05-22-2007

Heh, there are alot of things like this.. Mispellings are common 'Deathgaurd'

Jericho199 · 05-22-2007

Not sure if this is what you meant, but it always cracks my opponent up.

I haven't written any fluff for my guard yet. So, right now for names I tend to just name them after whatever equipment they have or what action they're performing. Here are some examples :

Sergeant Whitehair (he has white hair)
Private Chuck (he's chucking a grenade)
Commissar Gun (he has a gun...)
Commissar Swordfist (he has a sword and a power fist)
Sergeant Old (he has gray hair)
Sergeant Point (he has an arm from the HWT sprue that is pointing)
Colonel Crouch (he's crouching)
General D***fist (it just sounded funny)
Private Shoot (he's shooting his lasgun)

That's what I can remember. I also name my Dawn of War color schemes wierd stuff. I have a Tau scheme called "Tauriffic". Always seems to get a laugh.

masterofweirdness · 05-22-2007

oops!

I meant to quote.... must have missed that...

*fixing*.

masterofweirdness · 05-22-2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheKiller333

I love the mispronuciations that often come up though, I once heard some posh person, who walked in say, "I've heard you have the Emporar modele!" And that is literally how he said it. I swear the staff were stifling laughs....
Meh, the complete opposite has happened aswell. 3 of the Chavvic Scum (No offence to any NICE chavs) walked in, and one of them instantly said "What the F***! This is games f****ng workshop! Where are the f****ng games!" Shows how idiotic some people are, don't it?

Umm.... scary?

TheKiller333 · 05-23-2007

Not really, us geeks slowly surrounded and shunned them out using our Star Trekian powers (:P)

Admiral Marbles · 05-23-2007

with us its not so much the game thats funny its the players reactions.
For example we keep this one guy around mainly cause of his comic relief...he paints his armies terribly, is at least 50 points over on every list he makes, and has no idea what the rules are despite playing for like 15 years or so!
For example he has a Blood Angels force, yet he plays them so out of character...for example he has yet to ever initiate close combat fighting! No lie; he constantly stays in the back and snipes at enemies, and then in a very non marine fashion, when he knows he will lose, he retreats off the board...keep in mind this happens every time! Whats extra funny is in his mind its some cosmic coincidence everytime he loses, not so much any action of his own. We make it a requirement in our group that everyone gets the experience of playing him once at least.

Dragoon King · 08-09-2007

Ripper Swarms = Rapper Swarms? At least according to my cousin (please hold the inbred hillbilly jokes).

05-19-2007	#6 (permalink)
Steellegioncpt Each Shot Kills Spam (She never misses) Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Downers Grove IL Posts: 2,055 Rep Power: 4 Thanks: 55 Thanked 115 Times in 56 Posts	oh man we have a whole bunch. Like my friend would pronounce Chimera with the CH sounding like in (Ch)imney chimney Man its sort of hard to explain when you type it, but I hope you get the point. __________________ Steellegioncpt's Tale of X Gamers Not just a Tale but a Legend

05-20-2007	#9 (permalink)
JoeGuardsman Corporal Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Back in NYC Posts: 475 Rep Power: 2 Thanks: 3 Thanked 34 Times in 26 Posts	The starcraft thing reminds me about the wierd sounding protoss language. Zealots would say "Cheese house!" and Archons would say "My pants itch." In 40k my friends have a few "colorful" expressions for a few armies and I'll spare you those. Good ones, let me see...We have a goblin named "Gubbinz Crocket" complete with song which is pretty much at the peak of loserdome. I mentioned in another post that Sly Marbo is "bear cub eater" I imagine I'm not alone in knowing people not by name but by army "Blue Paladins Guy", "that White Consuls Guy" "Tom and his sidekick John" (you'll never see a man more crest fallen than when you tell him he is someone elses sidekick) If you wanna talk about mispronounced name don't need to go any ****her than Tzeentch or Tizeentch or Zzentch or Zintch it took my group months when we were kids to come to an agreement. There is the Archaon Archon thing and countless others. I ussually don't get too worked up about it because they are not real words so there is no way to pronounce correctly. Not like you can look up Slaanesh in the OED. __________________ "Only the insane have strength enough to prosper, only those that prosper may truly judge what is sane."

05-20-2007	#14 (permalink)
TheKiller333 Lieutenant Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Im not entirely sure. I think im stuck inside an alternate reality where im blue and the sky is me. Posts: 1,042 Rep Power: 2 Thanks: 53 Thanked 28 Times in 25 Posts Blog Entries: 1	I love the mispronuciations that often come up though, I once heard some posh person, who walked in say, "I've heard you have the Emporar modele!" And that is literally how he said it. I swear the staff were stifling laughs.... Meh, the complete opposite has happened aswell. 3 of the Chavvic Scum (No offence to any NICE chavs) walked in, and one of them instantly said "What the F*! This is games fng workshop! Where are the f*ng games!" Shows how idiotic some people are, don't it? Last edited by masterofweirdness; 05-22-2007 at 11:54 PM.*

05-21-2007	#15 (permalink)
last of the bloodthirsty Corporal Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: maryland carroll county Posts: 274 Rep Power: 2 Thanks: 2 Thanked 6 Times in 5 Posts	we named 4 guys in a black templar army these little gems: general jesus srgt murtaugh sir smacks- it-alot and cronus __________________ "ahh come on sarge" "oh i'm sorry, don't let me interrup all you fancy dying talk, NOW DIE!!" gaming record: wins/ties/losses Black Templars~ 8000 pts 65/10/12 Death world veterans~ 3000 pts 39/4/5 Cadians ~ 3000 pts 29/5/2 Deamon hunters~ 2000 pts 16/2/5 "wars come and go but my soliders are eternal" check out my death world veterans list http://www.40kterra.com/forums/showt...1537#post31537

08-09-2007	#24 (permalink)
Dragoon King Destruction Manifest Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Loyall, Kentucky Posts: 2,660 Rep Power: 3 Thanks: 70 Thanked 95 Times in 73 Posts Blog Entries: 1	Ripper Swarms = Rapper Swarms? At least according to my cousin (please hold the inbred hillbilly jokes). __________________ “Nothing you can lose by dying is half so precious as the readiness to die, which is a man’s charter of nobility.” George Santayana.

05-17-2007	#3 (permalink)
DeAd_cOmMaNdO Conscript Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 5 Rep Power: 0 Thanks: 88 Thanked 62 Times in 69 Posts Blog Entries: 5	well, back in the day (15 years ago or so) i used to pronounce genestealers as general stealers (emperor knows why!) there was once a guy in my local indie who was called cornelious nicodemus papadopolous (i swear on all my models!)

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Lord_Tyrion Trooper Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Holy Terra Posts: 126 Rep Power: 2 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	When we used to pronounce Tyranids as 'Tea-ran-ids'. No one told us it was 'Ty-ran-ids' until we went to GW....

05-21-2007	#17 (permalink)
Dan296 Adeptus Arbrites Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 1,691 Rep Power: 2 Thanks: 14 Thanked 67 Times in 36 Posts	the blood angels primarch is sag-ween-yus, of course, why do you ask? champion of nurgle? typhrus...duh....

05-22-2007	#19 (permalink)
Jericho199 Trooper Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Greeley, Co Posts: 197 Rep Power: 2 Thanks: 33 Thanked 17 Times in 12 Posts	Not sure if this is what you meant, but it always cracks my opponent up. I haven't written any fluff for my guard yet. So, right now for names I tend to just name them after whatever equipment they have or what action they're performing. Here are some examples : Sergeant Whitehair (he has white hair) Private Chuck (he's chucking a grenade) Commissar Gun (he has a gun...) Commissar Swordfist (he has a sword and a power fist) Sergeant Old (he has gray hair) Sergeant Point (he has an arm from the HWT sprue that is pointing) Colonel Crouch (he's crouching) General D***fist (it just sounded funny) Private Shoot (he's shooting his lasgun) That's what I can remember. I also name my Dawn of War color schemes wierd stuff. I have a Tau scheme called "Tauriffic". Always seems to get a laugh.

05-23-2007	#23 (permalink)
Admiral Marbles Conscript Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 6 Rep Power: 0 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	with us its not so much the game thats funny its the players reactions. For example we keep this one guy around mainly cause of his comic relief...he paints his armies terribly, is at least 50 points over on every list he makes, and has no idea what the rules are despite playing for like 15 years or so! For example he has a Blood Angels force, yet he plays them so out of character...for example he has yet to ever initiate close combat fighting! No lie; he constantly stays in the back and snipes at enemies, and then in a very non marine fashion, when he knows he will lose, he retreats off the board...keep in mind this happens every time! Whats extra funny is in his mind its some cosmic coincidence everytime he loses, not so much any action of his own. We make it a requirement in our group that everyone gets the experience of playing him once at least.