#warhammer meme

[literallyzombie]

I'M DOING MY PART!

[departmentoloretorum]

This Kind Of Smart, Walkable, Mixed-use Urbanism Is Illegal To Build In Most American Cities

[ladymirdan]

[artistapreguissosa]

⚽Hold on, gramps is being unwhimsical and only technically correct again. It matter naught, for we can root for Whoever We Want To and identify with.

Just a lazy more cartoony one for today.

" Ha? HAH? WHAT DID I SAY??? " — Laughs in heavy Jamaican Australian Irish Accent.

" No Fucking Way— " Perplexed bird noises

" IS THE JUDGE IS FUCKING BLIND? IF HE ISN'T HE IS ABOUT TO BE— "

" Oh he is falling again— and rolling— again. "

" WOOOOOOOAH that was so fast— "

" ... is that spiky-fruit apple pinecone pizza? Disgusting. Even for you. "

It is all of your best guesses as to WHY each boeh Is rooting for who they are and what game They watching. Okay bye~

OH YEAH these are AAAAAA 5250x3500 but cut into nice 2625 chonks for Instagram, digital drawings made on Ibis Paint as Always.

[kumratart]

The Emperor of Mankind dying in a gluetrap

[hypotheticalprose]

The lancer memes inspired by @vexwerewolf became instantly iconic in part thanks to the wide variety of fonts and keywords used in the original RPG rulebook. When you look at this image:

It’s immediately clear what the creator has done, and it’s hilarious. Turning rules text into personality-filled commentary is inherently funny. It also lends itself to creativity, because you’re working with relatively small fraction of the english language and sometimes have to use unusual syntax, which is also funny.

This format has become so ubiquitous among Lancer players that for many people the style has become synonymous with the game system itself. Most people these days probably have first heard of lancer through one of these memes.

What I find especially interesting is what other community this meme format has found its way into. “Lancer-style memes” were in vogue for a while on the subreddit for the Warhammer 40K skirmish game Kill Team, which features a similarly keyword-heavy, variable-font rulebook.

Here’s an example by u/DrokonFlameborn:

(I love this because he’s right, it’s extremely funny playing imperial navy breachers and having your 19-year old grenadier toss a breaching charge that casually obliterates two 1000-year old space elves while your friend can only watch in horror. Fuck you and your Power-Ranger-ass elves Goose.)

Ahem. Anyways. It’s like seeing someone speak the same language in a different accent.

The thing is, as much as I love this format, it will probably remain terminally niche because it requires a kind of rulebook design that is pretty rare. This makes me sad, because I love these memes with all my heart. That being said, if anyone has examples of other communities using this format in their own way, please let me know.

[diabolicalevil]

[moociao-after-dark]

This is how it feels to write lore for your Warhammer 40k OCs sometimes: