Hi gals & guys

I do not know if anyone noticed it, but the 40K universe is slowly overrun with zombies. That is right, fellas, they are already everywhere.

Offspring of Sacrosan Wave Generators
Plague Zombies of Nurgle
Warpzombies in certain mining complexes
Warpzombies on derelict and forgotten space ships in the Maw
More plague zombies on certain worlds in the Expanse
Plant-born zombies in the form of brain-leaf-thrulls

From Iocanthus to Sinophia back to the Forbidden world of you-know-where.
Everyplace is something shambling about, raising it arms while moaning and reeking of decay.
I do not know how it is with you, but I would really-really-really like some "fresh ideas" instead.

Or is it to be re-written into

In the grim darkness of the 41st millenium, there are only zombies!

Really, I kinda fear it could be good ol´ Georg Romero incased in the GT.

I blame Necromunda.

Tyrant Star, my friends !

This is ridiculous ! How could there be too many zombies ?

Kyorou said:

I used to argue along the same lines, back in the days

Well, perhaps is just me growing old and start to be ranting old man.
..but perhaps I am just growing old and have seen to many of them and start to tire

That's preposterous. There can NEVER * be too many zombies.

*except if you run out of ammo and fuel for the chainsword.

Aye. I love a good zombie fest, but they really are terrible enemies. Horror? Zombies are camp as all hell. Small wonder the best zombie flick ever is Shaun of the Dead!

But aye, whilst a one off story is one thing, I'd be quite happy to see the end of them now. At this rate the Ministorum will be recalling the Imperial Infantryman's Uplifting Primer and replacing it with the Zombie Survival Guide ...

Yeah at the going rate I'll be coming up with "Ordo Mortis" just to take care of this bullsh*t as I dont think they'll be scarce for work.

Ah, it could be worse. It could be vampires . Sparkly ones, even.

Seraphael said:

my god man dont give them ideas!

Its too late, I'm afraid I can see it now...

Edward is a Khornate Daemonhost who, along with his family of daemonhosts, just wants to fit into society and find himself a nice girl. Having turned his back on the Throne of Skulls, he seeks to control his berzerker rage but fears anyone he ever gets close to will suffer due to his tragic nature...

Dammit, I feel dirty for even typing that! Still, in other news...

One of the minor Ordos, Ordo Sepulturum, is dedicated to handling plagues. One of these being the plague of unbelief which makes - zombies!

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Ordo_Sepulturum

It appears there is *officially* an increasing zombie threat in the Imperium at large.

On the other matter, sparkles are handy for pointing a target out to Daemonhunters.

Please, let us not turn to homophobe comments/pics.... thank you!

@Serpahel

NO, not aimed at you...but I fear who might come around the corner next once the can has been opened

Ah, sorry! I didn't really think of said photo as homophobic. Rather stupid really, I'd be miffed if someone compared me to Cullen

Rest assured, I am in no way homophobic. We were all created equal in the eyes of the Emperor of Man; lower than dirt, clearly, but still equal. Aside from the Astartes, obviously. And the saints. Probably the Sororitas too, come to think about it. And the Inquisition, clearly. And...

Oh, look. I promise that I meant no offence, and shall remove the picture should I have actually caused any.with my somewhat irreverent sense of humour. I likewise mean no offence to those of the Emo subculture, or zombies. I do, essentially, loves you all.

*edit*

Glad you didn't think I was, and a very good point at that. We'd be cleaning worms up all week.

Seraphael said:

Fun fact: fans of the Blood Angels Space Marines take it badly if you suggest that their favourite Astartes sparkle in sunlight...

Seraphael said:

Nah, not vampires. The Blood Angels already have that angle covered in the 40K canon. And they don´t take kindly to competition.

As to the question of zombies. Yes, there are already enough of them in various guises. I certainly hope that DW introduces some genuinely original aliens that are, you know... alien .

Well, we've got Vampires (blood angels), werewolves (space wolves), mummies (necrons), zombies (just about most other critters turning up it seems), cockroaches ('nids), quasimodo (good old mutants), Dr frankestein (fabius bile) and Dr Frankenfurter (just about any slaaneshi lord/lady/thing) but what about the Swamp Thing?

but what about the Swamp Thing?

When you think about it for a minute... Orks.

Ah but of course, why did i not see that in the first place!

We now have The Top Trumps collection of Horror Monsters in 40k complete!

Seraphael said:

I, for one, laughed my ass off. Then again, anything that pokes fun at Twilight gets high marks in my book.

We had a lot of Zombies at the start of our campaign. In fact, the last section of the second Act was the players stuck in the underhive of a Hive World waiting for an elevator to arrive whilst endless waves of Zombies came at them. As it turned out, the Zombies were the weird fusion of arcane Chaos warp effects and Adeptus Mechanicus technology - essentially some rogue AdMechs managed to replicate the warp energy needed to create hideous mutant zombies - and they were unleashing them on various worlds.

The last time they fought them I made a point of explaining that this would be the last time they fought any zombies in the campaign. They were happy to see the back of them. And now all they're fighting is mad-as-hell Skitarii, and that's proving to be more difficult.

BYE

Nihilius said:

Thank ye kindly. I don't normally go in for posting random pictures all over the net, but thought I'd make a special exception! Fortunately, Raptorgate seems to have been averted, however. And thank god for that!

Velvetears said:

Hmm. You could probably put together a Hammer Horror Kill Team in Deathwatch. Vampires and Werewolves are covered, as pointed out. I reckon the Iron Hands could make a good Frankenstein's Monster stand in. Any other Astartes fit the Halloween Special?

Legion of the Damned could step in as a Crow style reborn, do the mission, fade away type...

Aajav-Khan said:

I would already feel very good about unoriginal aliens. Of course, they do have orginal aliens with the Yuvath (RT), the Enoulian (RT) and the (unliked, by me) Slaught (DH). But the in DH, those established alien lines (Orks, Eldar, Tau, Kroot) had by now none to "token" appearance. Poor poop Ordo Xenos.

And know, please, excuse me, their is another zombie-subtype knocking at my door..

Gregorius21778 said:

Well, to defend the zombies (because with an avatar like that, you know I have to), most all aliens they introduce are just another un-original alien subtype ripped off from somewhere else. There's Cthulhu over on Spectorus (granted, no stats), the Alien Xenomorphs running around making cults to themselves, John Carpenter's The Thing doing it's damnedest to destroy int Imperium in several different guises, the silicon fore-headed Enoulian (they originated and were stated in DH ;-) ) from just about any number of sci-fi tv shows, and all the many space-fill-in-the-blanks running amok. Heck, I can remember seeing hideous worm-guys in Earth Dawn twenty-some-odd years before DH was a glimmer in BI's eyes. The spin the alien tropes get is what makes them "original" not the incredibly old and sometimes over-done trope it self.

With zombies, the same is true, though you must bear in mind, the zombie genre is handled a bit differently. With zombies, the "originality" doesn't come in the zombie but in how the zombie came to be. The zombies are rarely important in and of themselves, it's the event or thing that created them that's important and it is that creative force (whether it be daemonic incursions, magic rituals, bad drugs, strange viruses, alien intervention, bizarre radiation, biological warfare gone wrong, science doing what it never should have done, etc) that usually matters -the zombies are usually just a symptom of it. Just in the books, the zombies presented come from an incredible verity of sources each representing a different nature of threat to the Calaxis Sector while, again, in most all cases (barring the Vile Savants) the zombies are merely a symptom of those varied threats and not the core threat it self.

And now, please, excuse me, there is another silicon-forehead alien-subtype knocking at my door (we should switch doors)... ;-p