WH40k game Imperial Guard Rogal Dorn Battle Tank

[Slave to Darkness]

15 minutes ago, Closet Skeleton said:

Ferrus Manus.

Turetles laying in a ditch?

[Marshall Bretton]

Calling the new tank the Praetorian would be completely against the existing naming convention and make no sense:

 

Leman Russ - not wolf king

Malcador - not sigilite

Macharius - not lord solar

Valdor - not captain general

 

 

That being said who actually cares what it's called? Does it matter?

[Lay]

Having a Rogal Dorn tank in 40k might be an indicator that GW doesn't plan to bring the actual Rogal Dorn back.

[Marshal Reinhard]

42 minutes ago, Captain Idaho said:

Well real world tank naming convention aren't relevant to the writers of a fictional universe. Whereas naming something pragmatically in real military is expected, a writer for a science fiction setting should have a bit of flair and nuance.

 

It's fine if you don't want flair and nuance. Enjoy it named how you want it. 

Id almost let you pretend this was a valid point if it werent for the fact that presecedent exists in universe too. Or have you championed this cause against the leman russ too for the past 3 decades?

 

EDIT: honestly, several other things wrong with that as well

Edited October 26, 2022 by Marshal Reinhard

[Scribe]

7 minutes ago, Lay said:

Having a Rogal Dorn tank in 40k might be an indicator that GW doesn't plan to bring the actual Rogal Dorn back.

 

Considering he went down with a bunch of knives in the dark, hopefully hes one that stay's dead.

[Emperor Ming]

Well from the psychic awakening we know that even if their bodies are gone the souls endure in the warp in some form

[Captain Idaho]

18 minutes ago, Marshal Reinhard said:

Id almost let you pretend this was a valid point if it werent for the fact that presecedent exists in universe too. Or have you championed this cause against the leman russ too for the past 3 decades?

 

I'm not particularly impressed about the Leman Russ tank being called such and I wouldn't have chosen it either, but like you said, it's 30 years old.

 

Unless you think I need to go out and criticise everything existing that isn't to my taste, despite this being a new release in a news and rumours section that is relevant to talk about the new name of this said new something?

 

It doesn't really matter to you that I dared to state I didn't like the name, felt it was hacky and clumsy. Don't agree? Cool. But it's taking things away from the news and rumours to pursue me for not agreeing with you. So I'll leave the conversation now.

Edited October 26, 2022 by Captain Idaho

[Dark Shepherd]

1 hour ago, Slave to Darkness said:

The vision ports are probably for the guys to look out of instead of taking a stubber round to the back of the head. 

I meant the three Vents  near the back of the threads, not the vision blocks. Chimera has them too, now that Ive looked, but lower down and much further forward

 

That belly could easily accomodate a ramp in design or on its sprue for a future transport variant

 

 

[ImperialWarrior]

16 minutes ago, Dark Shepherd said:

I meant the three Vents  near the back of the threads, not the vision blocks. Chimera has them too, now that Ive looked, but lower down and much further forward

 

That belly could easily accomodate a ramp in design or on its sprue for a future transport variant

 

 

Yeah those are firing points or vision ports. They’re features that help prevent dirt and what not from clogging up the tracks

[FarvegNugan]

They look like exhausts too me. The chimeras got 6 las guns sticking out of the gun ports. Those are exhausts too 

[sairence]

4 hours ago, Closet Skeleton said:

Yes, obviously.

 

Sherman is a General from Hamburgers and Fries land while Praetorian is a random latin word with no connection to anything and therefore classy and sophisticated.

 

 

That's not how informal names work, they tend to be fewer words than the official one.

 

It kind of had to be the Rogal Dorn. Couldn't have been the Johnson or worse, the Corvus Corax or Ferrus Manus.

 

Can you imagine? :D

 

"Yes, General Sir, this here is is our brand new delivery of heavy tanks, the magnificient Johnson! You can be sure that we'll get our big Johnson's right into the enemy faces just as soon as we can!"

4 hours ago, Closet Skeleton said:

Yes, obviously.

 

Sherman is a General from Hamburgers and Fries land while Praetorian is a random latin word with no connection to anything and therefore classy and sophisticated.

 

 

That's not how informal names work, they tend to be fewer words than the official one.

 

It kind of had to be the Rogal Dorn. Couldn't have been the Johnson or worse, the Corvus Corax or Ferrus Manus.

 

Can you imagine? :D

 

"Yes, General Sir, this here is is our brand new delivery of heavy tanks, the magnificient Johnson! You can be sure that we'll get our big Johnson's right into the enemy faces just as soon as we can!"

4 hours ago, Closet Skeleton said:

Yes, obviously.

 

Sherman is a General from Hamburgers and Fries land while Praetorian is a random latin word with no connection to anything and therefore classy and sophisticated.

 

 

That's not how informal names work, they tend to be fewer words than the official one.

 

It kind of had to be the Rogal Dorn. Couldn't have been the Johnson or worse, the Corvus Corax or Ferrus Manus.

 

Can you imagine? :D

 

"Yes, General Sir, this here is is our brand new delivery of heavy tanks, the magnificient Johnson! You can be sure that we'll get our big Johnson's right into the enemy faces just as soon as we can!"

Edited October 26, 2022 by sairence
Could an admin clean up the tripple post? Kinda struggling on mobile.

[Slave to Darkness]

Either way I like tanks, and my simple monkey brain is telling me I want one. Loosing the nipple guns though, I think I still have a Krieg tank guy kicking about somewhere to make it look perfect.

[Evil Eye]

I'm thinking it'll look very good in Vostroyan colours but they are one of my favourite regiments, so I am biased...

[FormelyKnownAsSmashyPants]

9 hours ago, Slave to Darkness said:

Either way I like tanks, and my simple monkey brain is telling me I want one. Loosing the nipple guns though, I think I still have a Krieg tank guy kicking about somewhere to make it look perfect.

Yeah I’m going to buy some Krieg tank crew from Forgeworld. I think this tank would look great in the colour scheme Duncan Rhodes uses to paint his Baneblade in for the tutorial on his YouTube channel, and think the tank commander would make a great additional feature.

[Fire Golem]

5 hours ago, Evil Eye said:

I'm thinking it'll look very good in Vostroyan colours but they are one of my favourite regiments, so I am biased...

Someone on Facebook has done loads of photoshops of different regiments:

[FormelyKnownAsSmashyPants]

4 hours ago, fire golem said:

Someone on Facebook has done loads of photoshops of different regiments:

 

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These look great, I’m always amazed bey what people can do with photoshop. Good to see what different legions look like. Having seen the chaos versions, I totally wish geedub would release a full traitor guard codex.

[Gorgoff]

That thing looks so ridiculous. One if the worst tanks in 40k so far. The main gun is so close to the gunner, that it couldn't work at all, this gunner can't have legs, one of the dudes stands on the back of the turret and the tank itself had thousands of weapons. What a joke. 

But what would you think you get if you have the name of one of the biggest Loosers in 40k history. 

[FormelyKnownAsSmashyPants]

Well I like it. And to be fair, surely the moniker of worst 40k tank belongs to either the Repulssor or Impulsor, with the which ever of the two isn’t actually the worst, coming in a very close second.

[Slave to Darkness]

The fact they have shown it in Chaos colours is interesting. Fingers crossed for actual rules to use it in Chaos armies.

 

Loving the pink desert version as well. 

[Iron Lord]

37 minutes ago, Slave to Darkness said:

The fact they have shown it in Chaos colours is interesting. Fingers crossed for actual rules to use it in Chaos armies.

 

Loving the pink desert version as well. 

The ones In colours other than Cadian are all photoshops - I assumed not by GW.

[Slave to Darkness]

2 hours ago, Iron Lord said:

The ones In colours other than Cadian are all photoshops - I assumed not by GW.

Ahh bugger... 

[MithrilForge]

@Gorgoff- why the hate brother?!, you’re normally a level headed and straight talking frater… why this ?!?… 

 

I really like the alternate colours … especially the praetorians desert coloured one , if only GW made plastic pith helmet heads to fit the new cadians 

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[ImperialWarrior]

On 10/27/2022 at 7:44 AM, Gorgoff said:

That thing looks so ridiculous. One if the worst tanks in 40k so far. The main gun is so close to the gunner, that it couldn't work at all, this gunner can't have legs, one of the dudes stands on the back of the turret and the tank itself had thousands of weapons. What a joke. 

But what would you think you get if you have the name of one of the biggest Loosers in 40k history. 

Everyone is entitled to their own opinions but all 40K particularly guard tanks are extremely ridiculous, so what’s if matter if this one is ridiculous?

[Gorgoff]

4 hours ago, ImperialWarrior said:

Everyone is entitled to their own opinions but all 40K particularly guard tanks are extremely ridiculous, so what’s if matter if this one is ridiculous?

She sets the bar of ridiculousness way higher. That's my point. 

[FarvegNugan]

It looks like an upsized Churchill black prince or french ARL 44 bothbts built out of very good infantry tanks. I mean it's got the nose and tracks of the Churchill and Churchill's were a very good tank that acquitted themselves very well. The guard doesn't need maneuver tanks to win wars in fields. They need a tank that can climb any hill and fight anywhere and take a hit from anything but the biggest guns. An upsized modernised ton41st millenium standard,  churchill black prince would fit that bill

Edited October 30, 2022 by FarvegNugan