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Post by cadian95th on Apr 16, 2014 12:59:47 GMT -5
Just to clear something up here, the "Astra Militarum" has obviously upset many a fan, but i can assume everyone will refer to them as IG?
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Post by howscat on Apr 16, 2014 13:17:29 GMT -5
I refer to mine as cannon fodder.
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Post by cheminhaler on Apr 16, 2014 13:27:14 GMT -5
The bearers of the Flashlight!
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Post by RedsandRoyals on Apr 16, 2014 14:54:33 GMT -5
Considering I still refuse to call "Hot-Shot Lasguns" anything but Hellguns? Yeah, I'm sticking with IG.
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Post by emptyhat on Apr 16, 2014 18:28:38 GMT -5
A rose by any other name is still crushed, callously underfoot on the battlefield.
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Post by Gunny O'Grady on Apr 16, 2014 18:38:17 GMT -5
I'll always play Guard, regardless of any stupid name. Because we all know what Stalin said -- "Quantity has a Qualitus Allus it's Ownum"
-Gunny
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Post by Rolling Thunder on Apr 16, 2014 20:00:56 GMT -5
They were mercs then and they're mercs now.
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Post by Trickstick on Apr 17, 2014 6:30:00 GMT -5
It depends where I am. Having drinks with the Lord General? Astra Militarum. In the trenches kicking Orks in the teeth? Imperial Guard.
I don't get invited for drinks very often...
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Post by cadian95th on Apr 17, 2014 14:30:42 GMT -5
Considering I still refuse to call "Hot-Shot Lasguns" anything but Hellguns? Yeah, I'm sticking with IG. I totally agree there aha i came into guard just as the whole hot shot thing came in but gaunts ghosts taught me better! |
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Post by littlemac on Apr 17, 2014 17:35:26 GMT -5
It's so much easier just to say "Guard". I can barely pronounce "Militarum"
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Post by emptyhat on Apr 17, 2014 21:41:52 GMT -5
Do you go for Mili-tear-um, or Mili-tar-UM? If you do the second one do a *da dum tish* drum motion with your hands when you say it.
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Post by Trickstick on Apr 17, 2014 22:05:14 GMT -5
Militarum, like a millipede covered in tar.
Um...
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Post by joemamasan on Apr 20, 2014 9:51:21 GMT -5
I walked into my local shop Friday and Asked the guy at the counter if they had the new Imperial Guard Codex in. His smug response was "you mean the Astra Militarum?!?" I was like whatever  ...and like Reds said they are called Hellguns. |
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Post by yvain on Apr 20, 2014 11:05:20 GMT -5
They are referred to as the Imperial Guard on the first page of the book, I don't think the name really changed its like calling the space marines the Adeptus Astartes. Like the technical name.
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Post by Julian Sharps on Apr 20, 2014 17:30:38 GMT -5
Actually, I'm convinced that the name change was literally a last-minute decision made by the Games Workshop Design Studio when they wanted to trademark the name, but couldn't come up with anything better than "Space Army" run through Google Translate into Latin.
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...and like Reds said they are called Hellguns.