Despite this, the fandom really likes to make fun of just how self-serious the series is and this leads to a ton of amazing memes that will leave you crying. So we’ve put together 10 of our favorites to show you. Enjoy all the heresy that you are about to witness!
10 Tau Melee
The Tau are an “all or nothing” faction in terms of there combat abilities. The Tau work best at range, being able to pick off most other factions units before they are even able to get close. The flip side to that is the Tau are basically terrible at melee, aside from a few units that are usually other species that they basically force to fight for them. But if you are able to get close to them, even their massive mechs are the best at melee
9 Tau Melee Part 2
Continuing on the train of roasting Tau for their inability to do damage at melee range, with this little comic that basically perfectly shows us just how weak they are in hand-to-hand fighting, but from a lore perspective.
Basically, while the tau might be able to cut down a fair amount of the Emperor’s Space Marines from a distance, at least a few will make it to melee range. And at that point, considering how big the space marines are, it’s basically over.
8 Big Find
The Adeptus Mechanicus is one of the more interesting parts for the Imperium of Man, which is about as a depressing as you would imagine a fascistic empire based around endless intergalactic warfare would be. Aside from the whole being humans on Mars that worship technology like it’s a god thing the Adeptus Mechanicus love finding Standard Template Constructs (STCs) because it’s basically like finding a new toy, or a new toy that makes a better new toy.
7 Rage Marines
Not necessary an exact meme but just a great joke within the fandom in general. There are a bunch of chapters of space marines, and then inside those chapters there are divisions that themselves are very different from one another. Seriously, the amount of space marine chapters is crazy and each of them has its own color scheme. This leads to fans deciding to make their own chapter called the Rage Marines who simply just hate everything and everyone and won’t hesitate to say it.
6 Sleep Is For The Weak
Breaking the fourth wall a little bit for this one. If you’re big into the original tabletop version of the game and buy miniatures to make sure that you have the best army possible, one of your favorite things probably isn’t even actually playing the game.
Nope, a big part of the experience and a favorite for many is simply painting your knew toys, to the point where time will fly by and suddenly you find that right as you’re going to be the sun is rising.
5 No Such Thing As Too Much
War is a constant in the grim and dark future in the world of Warhammer 40k, hell, the series is the entity that first coined the term grimdark. This means that pretty much all of the technological research and advancements in the 40k universe are due to and made to help the war effort. Combine this with the already weird tech in the universe and you get things like tanks with hundreds of guns on them and huge tanks that mean that you are correct in an argument.
4 Bread For The Bread God!
Out of all the four gods of chaos, Khorne is probably the one that the members of the other factions hear the most about, because all of his followers can’t help but scream his name and his mantra about every 10 seconds. Blood For The Blood God is something that is said so much on the battlefield, probably as some sort of intimidation tactic, that at this point, other factions must just find it kind of annoying. But maybe if they offered some bread it would make them let down their guard.
3 Space Hulk
If you’ve ever played the Space Hulk game or its video game incarnation then you have probably had to decide the best formation for your troops to make sure that the ones who need to survive the game do. With how narrow hallways tend to be the games favorite design philosophy, this usually leads to you having a few sacrificial lamps at the front of your line of hulking mechs to protect your very important guy who decided to not wear a helmet despite telling his subordinates to.
2 Just Commissar Things
Commissars are, in theory, there to motivate their squad and to make sure that their squad has the best morale possible so that the squad can perform at optimal levels. What actually tends to happen is that commissars act like power-drunk jerks who shoot anyone who so much as has the gall to ask them where to put the extra ammunition. This also extends to commissaries shooting at their won squad when they try to run away but not being so sacrificial with their own lives.
1 Necrons Gonna Spook
Necrons are a fairly unsettling faction for those who are just getting into the world of Warhammer 40k and its surprisingly dense amount of lore but it seems the Egyptian robot skeleton scare factor drops after a while. most veteran fans and players seem to just kind of have a laugh at the Necrons and their overall design from being a bit much even for the 40k world. They seriously have a cannon that looks like a ribcage just because.
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