Guardsman Marbo, we hardly knew ye.

[tracksuit]

So since it seems pretty confirmed that Marbo will not be in the newest codex, I thought it would be fun to do a little story telling of your favorite moments using him in battle (somewhat of an obituary). I’ll start:

I was playing a friend who play Eldar and he play pretty cheesy lists (I’m not fond of playing with him). It was just one of those perfect games, my unit position was perfect and I had him pinned down in cover the whole game, and I was slowly chipping him away with my superior firepower. On turn three he decimated one of my heavy weapons teams keeping him pinned by deep striking a squad of swooping hawks (this was his opportunity to open my flank and advance on me giving him a chance). Well, next turn I rolled Marbo on and his nice little squad of hawks piled in a nice circle was wiped out from Marbo dropping a demo charge their heads. It was so demoralizing he conceded the game turn 4. I’ll really miss Marbo and I hope we see him again, RIP buddy.

[yvain]

I dropped him on top of a building once and proceed to demo charge a full sternguard squad that was kitted out to the max. He pistol sniped for the next few turns before weight of fire got him.

I would always try to get him into CC after his charge was dropped. He has fought a horde of guants, stood toe to toe with that Ultramarine Chaplin character, slayed numerous sgts and even a few space marine characters. He was my favorite unit and my first custom made one. I used him in my first game popping a trukk and a horde of boys then dueling, but losing to a warboss

[gamma016]

I once bought him against my tyranid friend. He did as he usually does, came in dropped josh charge on some warriors to try and get rid of back field synapse, and they ended up chargin him. This was standard in most of my games against him. However this time differed as Marbo bested the warriors in close combat only to become the target of his flying hive tyrant. The flyrant fly up so he could next turn kill Marbo. Marbo took a snap shot with his pistol, rolled a six to hit, and a six to wound, grounded him and killed him off. Marbo = Boss, you will be greatly missed

[glutebite]

Once I dropped the Demo charge on top of Marbo himself.. Needless to say -- I was devastated.

He's never done anything heroic for me. Typically it just scares the bejeus out of my opponent and he concentrates on him. More of a noise factor. When people see him in my list they do tend to be more cautious about their flanks and in that role he has done well. I stopped running him about a year or so ago.

[gamma016]

Haha yeah, I've had Marbo blow him self up countless times, he always reminded me of Wile E. Coyote in that way. He was a beloved cartoon character who will be greatly missed