Don't worry, ma'am, the Space Marines are here.

Do what now?

Yes... Take care...

If it comes to that, I'll do us both.

>>5036128
Do what now?

>>5036096
Oh yeah, those space marines did such a fucking GREAT job last time. TPK, as I recall....oh, no,
ONE survived, and she STILL saved herself, AND the little girl?

Goddamn space marine faggots.

>>5036426

I don't think we were watching the same movie here pal:

Going off of the movie recollection, my experience with WH40k Apoc, a smidgen of info on BFG, and the old Aliens Boardgame:
They were the equivalent of EIGHT stormtroopers, TWO pilots, ONE unmodified and highly advanced combat servitor, with TWO civilian hangers-on, with two heavy bolters (Drake and Vasquez) three flamers that I noted (Wierzbowski, Dietrich, Frost), three Tarantula sentry guns, and bolters with underslung grenade launchers all around, with some assorted stubber pistols. One civilian there in a strictly advisory capacity who had past experience with the foes they /might/ face, they were informed, and an Administratum drone with no combat experience. They found a single equivalent whiteshield that started out unarmed and unarmored. Fourteen humans. Eight suitably equipped and designated combatants.

They had little to no understanding of the tactical situation where they were deployed, and they didn't have so much as an internal map of the complex until they were inside the complex. They were lead by an incompetent commander, and they had two thunderhawk transports at their disposal, carrying only chimeras that could deploy the whole squad and only wielded a single twin-linked heavy bolter. Their only goal upon arrival was to ascertain the situation of the colonists who the company has lost contact with, and reestablish communications. They were unable to contact their single glorified Firestorm Frigate for any sort of lance battery aid and only got the second Thunderhawk down in the last third of the movie. They were to be restricted usage of their flamers and bolter weapons totally in their first engagement, in which most of the casualties were sustained in the entire operation. The leadership was so terrible, the civilian had to drive the chimera into the reactor complex and extract the stormtroopers, after knocking out the Lieutenant of the stormtroopers.

The enemy that they faced was an Apocalypse formation Genestealer Infestation down to the last letter from the Apocalypse Reloaded Codex (excluding the lictors). They face 156 genestealers who in every sense of the phrase, had the drop on the squad of EIGHT stormtroopers, who were again, out there basically unarmed for the beginning of the ambush. There is a Broodlord as well, incredibly powerful, which had at least an extended carapace. All opponents had Acid Blood from the third edition codex: Tyranids. All of them. And lord was it buffed.

By the time the genestealer infestation had been eradicated (along with the complex), the civilian, with the help of the whiteshield acting as an unwitting distraction and the wounded combat servitor as the first target for the broodlord (saving the two humans), the civiilian fought off the Broodlord to a standstill with only a sentinel power lifter. (Imperial Armor Volume One)

That these men managed to accomplish what they did, a job that a squad of terminator Space Marines would be hard-pressed to achieve, under the conditions they faced, is a testament to the endurance of Mankind and the power of the Imperial Guard.

(waves a little flag)

>>(Mon)02:09
>>(Mon)02:59

That really took rather longer to wiki, remember, type up, look at the GW BFG ships, and post than I expected...

>>5037044
>>5037040
... HOO-RA!

>>5037044
>>5037040
Wild thing I think I love you...

>>5037040
>>5037044

Their transport was really more of an upsized Valkyrie than a Thunderhawk.

>>5037116
BUT I WANNA KNOW FOR SURE!

>>5037116

Uh. Don't know quite what to say. Thanks?

>>5037120

Almost certainly right, but I just settled for the Imperial fliers I knew could deploy vehicles- and after looking at the Dropship from Aliens and the Valkyrie models, you KNOW that the thing would have to be fattened the hell up for deploying a vehicle scale-wise. Though the missile pods do look damned close to the dropship... GW, rip off Aliens? Surely not! Even though that's part of what drew me to the game, of course...

And after typing all that- I think I'll stay up a few more hours and download that movie. It's been too long, Mrs. Weaver. Much too long.

Stats wise, do you guys think the xenomorphs were closer to genestealers or Lictors? They definitely fit fluff wise with genestealers (lolintellectualpropertylol), but that first xenomorph under Ridley Scott was pretty damn sneaky- and all of them were pretty sneaky. And had some famously good cover saves when it was called for.

>>5037187
I'd say Genestealers. Genestealers can be sneaky when they want to be... WATCH OUT FOR THE AIR VENTS!

But they've got sonic electronic BALL BREAKERS

>>5037187
i now wish to start playing warhammer for the sole purpose of recreating this movie and alien 1 on the field of miniature combat.

>>5037257
I want stats for that.

>>5037040
>>5037044

This needs to be screencapped.

>>5037281
Your choice of image offends me, sir.

I liked that game too.

>>5037281

I find that my labor and staying up until 3:41am has not been in vain.

What caption would it have?

...

Does it need one?

>>5037297

Archive this thread

>>5037306

I think it speaks for itself.

>>5037040
> bolters

Pulse rifles are autoguns with explosive ammunition with underslung bolters.
Smartguns are bolters with auto-targeters and a massive magazine.

By all account, this just makes the actions of those Storm Troopers even MORE impressive.

>>5037340

Relatively sure that bolters are rocket propelled explosive ammunition, and the Codex: Ultramarines has underslung grenade launchers listed. In game effect, that matches with the Colonial Marines weaponry- except I don't believe they had any Krak rounds. And dear lord, the Colonial Marines don't need to be any more awesome- at some point, they'd collapse in on themselves from being just too good.

>>5037128
>>5037116

Oh lord, my memory finally clicked! Ha, good show!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8m10Ypl2pDA

>>5037375
i think he means the pulse rifles are too small to be bolters, and that the bolters themselves are so fuckhueg that they could be effective grenade launchers (more rpg, really) for current human-size wielders. remember the time worn information that bolters are used my genetically gigantified super angyfucks

>>5037340
Pulse rifles are autoguns (same statline as a lasgun), smartguns are heavy stubbers with +1 BS

>>5037399
Last I checked aren't there two types of bolters, Marine bolters and then normal people-sized bolters?

Youz gaiz am nurdz.

There are many more types of bolter than that; but the point stands, a bolter is simply a category of weapon, much like a rifle or shotgun.

>>5037311
Doesn't offend me

It just sucks

>>5037414

I think I'll go with this one: I remember seeing that Commissar Lords can use Boltguns- total full-level boltguns- in the new IG codex, so there's some humans that can wield them. And again, I have it for matching up to in-game terms. There aren't any autoguns which come with underslung possibilities, but bolters fit to a "T". Also: Exploding rounds, which are armor piercing. The stats of autoguns and stubbers have the weapons as not very armor piercing at all, though in the reactor scene, Gorman specifically mention how the Explosive ammunition shouldn't be used in the reactor (Whoops). It's not a perfect fit, but that's the closest I can match up between Imperial armament. Colonial Marines would be a bit of a midpoint thusly between standard Stormtroopers and Space Marines- though, they did a job I'd have an apocalypse formation of Terminators to do against 156+ genestealers and a blessed broodlord. So statistically they would be stormtroopers with space marine weaponry and ships, but not space marines.... but their rolls were made by the gods themselves.

You know what? Fuck it. I'm going to stat them. All of them. Fuck slumber, I've got /tg/. If I collapse and fall asleep, I'll post a new thread tomorrow- this afternoon, I mean.

...

They looked closer to regular flamers, but do you think they worked like heavy flamers?

Ripley definitely had a combi-bolter/flamer(or heavy flamer) with an underslung grenade launcher, however. No armor, crazily enough.

Boltguns are .75 cal.

Pulse rifles are not even close to that.

>>5037518
>So statistically they would be stormtroopers with space marine weaponry and ships, but not space marines.... but their rolls were made by the gods themselves.
>space marine weaponry
no, just no

>>5037549

An incredibly slight modicum of space marine weaponry, then. I'm not saying they were going out toting around Assault cannons each, but they did have bo-

>>5037544

Hm. There used to be a very, very old United Systems Colonial Marines manual about, but it's out of print now. It would list the specifics of the weapons- like bullet caliber for pulse rifles. To demonoid!

>>5037543

Xenomorphs = Genestealers
Alien Queen = either Broodlord or Tyranid Warrior. This is up for interpretation. In game terms, I think a Broodlord would be nigh impossible to defeat without a walker of some kind - which I suppose is the point?

Colonial Marines = Stormtroopers
Pulse Rifles are autoguns with AP5, to remove Xenomorph saves at range. They can otherwise be fired at S4 small template, heavy 1 (underslung grenade launcher).
Smartguns are S4 AP5 heavy 3/assault 1 with a re-roll to hit.
Flamers are flamers.

Jesus- four seeders, just one torrent. I'm lucky the book was even here. Considering the one-hour download, I think there'll be little on that front for a while. In the meantime, a rough sketch:


United Systems Colonial Marine

Colonial Marine WS3 BS4 S3 T3 W1 3 A1 Ld 7 Sv 4+
Colonial Marine Sergeant WS3 BS4 S3 T3 W1 I3 A2 Ld 8 Sv 4+

Squad Size: Seven
Weapons: Boltgun with Underslung Grenade Launcher (Frag only). Two marines must be equipped with heavy bolters, two must be equipped with flamers. Sergeant is equipped with Vox-caster. One marine may be equipped additionally with a shotgun at +5 points.

Special Characters
Colonial Marine Lieutenant Gorman WS3 BS4 S3 T3 W1 I3 A2 Ld7 Sv 4+

Special Rules: Incompetent Command, Redemption Equals Death, Tactical Training
Equipped with Master-Vox

Command Chimeras
Modified Valkyries

Points costs, points costs, points costs....

>>5037602

Fuck what I said before, I'm going partly with this. Was watching the torrent download bar creep eeever so slowly to the right of my screen.

>>5037602

Yeah, the Imperial Armor Vol 1 Sentinel Powerlifter is statted

WS3 BS3 S5 F10 S10 R10 I3 A2, but the powerlifter's close combat weapon counts as a power weapon, so no armor saves allowed for that broodlord.

ARCHIVED

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html

My internet was crapping out, but I have the manual. Don't know how useful this will be but here it is.

M41 Pulse Rifle fires a 10mm x 24 round with a 210 grain (13.6 gram) bullet with a muzzle velocity of 840 m/s and are explosive tipped, it holds 99 of these rounds in a magazine. It has an underslung 30mm grenade launcher with a multitude of grenade types.

The M56 Smart Gun fires a 10mm x 28 round with a 230 grain (14.9 gram) bullet which is also explosive tipped and can be set to either explode on impact for soft targets or upon penetration for armored targets by the gunner.

There's also the M42A Pulse action semi-automatic rifle that we see carried but not used in the movie. Basically a sniper rifle firing the same round as the smart gun.

Marines also carry what is essentially a 1911 in 9mm.

There was this campaign book with inquisitor and IG checking out a research station with stopped responding (lol researching tyranids).

IG had lasguns/hbolters/plasma with handles exactly like Colonial Marines and underslung grenade launchers.

Related?

>>5038257
GW rip the plot from some other source? Never.

FUCK YES THIS THREAD!

This is awesome and you should feel awesome.

I think we can all safely agree that Colonial Marines are win.

>>5039405
If wanting to take a shit after reading this is awesome, then ok.

>>5039425
So much win they couldn't handle it and died.

So much hotter in Galaxy Quest
and on top of it that was like 15-20 years later

>>5039508

"And then it exploded."
Funniest accent ever.

Fuck yes Galaxy Quest, you are one of the funniest movies of all time!

>>5039499
>>5039505
>>5039508
>>5039510
>>5039516
tits, always relevant

I say we take off and EXTERMINATUS the entire site from orbit.

It's the only way to be sure.

>>5039539
I remember having a rough 2 semesters at college and then a guy down the hall at the dorm practically shoved this movie into my arms and told me to go watch it.

I hadn't laughed so hard in almost two years.

>>5039562
Does nobody think of the children!?

I wake up and click on tg and this is my reward?

Awesome.

>>5039584
Aliens, Galaxy Quest or tits?

>>5039568
children do not exist, they are just parasitic hobbits

She almost looks like a teenager in this picture.

(fap fap fap)

I jerk it to Sigourney Weaver. She's old enough to be my mom, but that doesn't stop me.

>>5039562
hicks was the first member of The Holy Orders of the Emperor's Inquisition. lol

>>5039623
We all want to be Newt.

>>5039689
I want to be Apone or Hudson. They were clearly the two superior characters of the film.

>>5039698
Fuck it, watching Aliens again now.

>>5039698
Yeah, but do they get to ride around in Sigourney Weaver's cleavage?

>>5039704
Still on?

>>5039623
I know /tg/ usually doesn't stray much from its board so I will enlighten you on the term used to describe a woman like that. It is called a MILF.

>>5039719
Indeed.

Hey. Who would you rather pick, Sigourney Weaver or Linda Hamilton?

>>5039732
Today - Weaver

If I could choose a single point in time, it would be Hamilton during Terminator 2 time.

Which surprises me that pics of her don't get posted on -4 Str threads. Cause GODSDAMN SHE IS HAWT IN THIS PIC!!!

She would have made a great Lara Croft at that time.

>>5039732
Can the two of them get together while I watch?

>>5039732
Hamilton, especially if I could get her twin sister in bed too.

>>5039774
hell yeah. even in the pic you posted, all she really needed was the braid and the tits.

>>5039784
>>5039788
Fuck that, Weaver, both Hamiltons and me for an orgy of win!!

And only a fa/tg/uy reject wouldn't want to be in the middle of it.

>>5039790
I prefer ponytail Lara from Legends and Underworld.

And I could live with those tits, but most everybody else would complain.

>>5039803
Which Lara? The original "sounds like a thirty-year-old" Lara, the new younger-sounding Lara from Underworld, or Whatsherface McLongname from the movies?

>>5039771
>>5039774
Good god, yes she would.

I hilariously missed a chance to meet her in person at a convention a while ago.

>>5039840
Re-booted canon Laura (Legends, Anniversary and Underworld)

She had a ponytail (not braided) in Legends and Underworld. She had the braided ponytail in Anniversary because it was a remake+ of the first game.

>>5039852
On the one hand, Anniversary changed a LOT of things that didn't need changing. Such as Lara grappling nothing when NATLA pushes her off the ledge.

On the other hand, Jeanette Voerman as NATLA. Win.

You freely admit to detonating the engines of, and thereby destroying, an M-class starfreighter, a rather expensive piece of hardware.

Are there any species like this hostile organism on LV-426?

No, it's a rock. No indigenous life.

>>5039869
I loved Legend. The story was cool and having your buddies on the com was cool too.

Anniversary was fun for the puzzles but I missed having the guys.

Underworld looked pretty, but Lara got even darker was I felt her alignment shifting towards evil if you get my drift. And I RAGED HARD that they destroyed the mansion. Running around the mansion was one of my favorite parts of the previous two games. This time I wanted to see it with the new engine and NOT on fire.

>>5039499
thread ruined at this point

>>5039990

>>5039990
Captain, I detect a homosexual.

>>5037040
Thread got boring as shit here.

WHERE ARE THE COLONIAL MARINES, /tg/?

YOU SAID THERE WOULD BE STORMTROOPERS, YOU, YOU... DOUBLE XENO.

>>5040103

(Lafayette), I AM HERE!

Hello again /tg/, back from my slumber and a bump to the front page with you! How now brown cow?!

Ideas for Special Characters /tg/, who wants to be first to contribute? Lt. Gorman, Cpl. Hicks, Hudson... Fuck it, they're all named characters at this point, they're a single squad dropped into an apocalypse formation of genestealers and a Broodlord!

Information on the main characters:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_characters_in_the_Alien_series#Aliens

The movie for those who wish to see it again or have yet to be enlightened:

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4152900/Aliens_(_1986)_(Sigourney_Weaver__Michael_Biehn)

Fuck year, Michael Biehn!

>>5041849
I read this as 'fuck year Michael Bay' and raged. Then I realized that I'm just an illiterate fuck. Whoops.