Julius Hawke. Survived to the complete annihilation of his bunker by a group of Iron Warrior Chosen, then proceeded to give intel to the IG garrison on Hydra Cordatus on the enemy's forces, location and operations, and then fired a planet-space torpedo right into the Iron Warriors trenches, effectively destroying all the fortifications and the machines used to make them. He also killed a a dozen renegade soldiers and 3 Iron Warriors on his way. Pretty impressive, considering the fact that it was his first encounter with an actual enemy since the beginning of his career

 

The Makari.

Seriously.

No, but really seriously, if the rumors are to be believed it would be that Grey Knight supreme Grand Master dude that walks in the warp takes on everything and carves peoples names into the hearts of mother fucking Daemon Primarchs.

 

Holy crap, Wazdakka gives me yet more reason to consider Orkz.

As for my own picks...

Ollanius Pius. Before GW retconned him out of existence, Pius was a lone Guardsman who witnessed the battle between Horus and the Emperor. When the Emperor was struck down and Horus prepared to finish him off, Pius stepped between him and the Emperor. He didn't do anything- he didn't shit himself in terror, didn't go mad or yield to Horus. Needless to say, after Horus finished hesitating he cut him down, but he had bought time for the Emperor to lay down a can of psychic whoopass on him. I've never been fond of the Imperium *maybe it was cool when the Emperor was alive and it wasn't a grimdark shitpit, I dunno*but this is just flat out incredible.


Otherwise, I'd have to say Shas'El Mash'Mad. It's obviously not canon, but I don't care. I was watching one of my friends play another friend's Ultrasmurfs with his Tau. I'll spare you all the details, but a group of Terminators assaulted a firewarrior squad and killed everyone except one Tau. He passed his morale check and fought on. He survived two rounds and then -killed- one of the Terminators. The Terminators then failed their morale check and fled. Further against all odds, this Tau overtook them in sweeping advance and killed them all.

There was a long paused of pure disbelief from everyone. Then my friend said "Gimme that." , he plucked up the Terminator sarge, ripped his powerfist arm off, tore the Tau's arm off and then glued the powerfist on to the Firewarrior, held above his head triumphantly.

He's come to be known as Shas'El Mash'Mad since then.

 

I nominte Cypher, the unofficial head fallen angel. He runs around with twin pistols, getting away with shooting members of Abaddons personal bodyguard. Avoided the attentions of the DA on numerous occasions and survived a one on one fight with the deceiver. Not bad for someone over 10K old.

 

Is that from a BL book? sounds interesting.

I'm a fan of Grimaldus personally, but thats probably because I like BT so much.

 

Caiphas Cain owns all.

 

Very true, anyone who accidentally becomes a Hero of the Imperium is quite the badass.

But still....

CREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDDD

 

Macharius, makes the emperor look like an amatuer.
or creed, makes anyone look like an idiot.

 

agreed it's easily Macharius.

 

 

Should of kept him in the new codex.
who cares if he's dead? I'm sure loads of characters are dead..isnt eldrad dead? and that dick is still there.
suppose guard have creed but Macharius is the most pimpin character the imperium has.

 

I say Macharius as well, but also a fan of Yarrick (at least fluff-wise, not in-game currently).

 

Mephiston who else is going to rip there way out of a trygons belly and then precede to open a can oh whoop ass on a carnifex bare handed.

 

Macharius wasn't a badass, he was a crazy cunt with an army.

My vote goes to the guardsman from warriors of the ultramar, Pavel I believe his name was, who went from utter pussy to extreme badass.

 

Draigo beats all. Stuck in the warp beating daemonic arse for millenia. He carved his predecessor's name into Mortarion's heart. The Daemons of khorne are all afraid of him- he killed a bloodthirster with his bare hands and forged a new sword out of his corpse. He went in and burned down all of Nurgle's jungle. M'Kachen, a lord of change, offered him a way out of the warp, which he promptly refused, and then proceeded to kill the daemon by reducing Tzeench's palace to rubble by himself. Not too mention his title is Supreme Grand Master.

Nuff said.

 

Yeah, because nothing says fanboy like ridiculous shit like that being written.

 

My bets are on Muagan Ra

 

It already ruined 40k for me.

 

Just do what I do, man! Plug your ears, look away and go "LALALALALALALA"

 

Cornel-Commissar Gaunt

 

Actually, I'm changing my answer to Colonel Schaeffer from the Last Chancers.

In case you haven't read the omnibus...

I mean, the guy starts out with thousands of convicts, personally goes with to death world after battlefield after (insert other high-risk situation here), weeds them down to the best of the best, and then goes and tackles insane missions with his new elite. And he's done this for, what, 300 years?

The dude's a badass.

 

Believe it or not I think the Darigo fluff was written by a certain Mr Mat Ward.

 

Who is Matt Ward?

 

Satan; if He was mentally challenged and had access to a typewriter, that is.


"He has become the iconic figure viewed as everything that is wrong about the 40k game these days. Overhyping a single faction, constantly blowing stories so far out of proportion that they lose all context, constantly trying to one up the last bullshit with an even less believable story, and not really giving a damn about what any of the other players think of what he does. Some say that Matt Ward is the true death of 40k, as if he were one of the horsemen of the apocalypse, riding ahead on an endless wave of Space Marine releases that alienate every Xenos player until there are none left."

 

Greatest baddass eh? Well, I'm going to say Nork Deddog.

He probably has the highest IQ out of any unit in the game. Well, that is if you take each race as a different sample group, with different averages and such. He could well have an IQ of 300, if he was three times as smart as the average ogryn. It is kind of a silly idea I suppose, now I want to fit Nork with a mortarboard.

I think that Nork is one of the few models whose rules state that he doesn't die when he loses all his wounds. He only "slumps to the floor asking his officer 'did we win?' before passing out". In a world of super death he is pretty weak I suppose, but that doesn't stop him trying. That is what makes him a badass.

 

It's Loken. he aint dead yet. What is even more kick @$$ is that he dose all his time the hard way. No time off like those wimps in the EoT.

 

Lucius why because he is Lucius The Eternal and he will fight everyone naked...

http://www.heresy-online.net/forums/showthread.php?p=891141#post891141

 

Asdrubael Vect. Arguably the oldest being in the 40k universe and undisputed master of the dark city. When you are the leader of an entire race of murdering con artists and have been so for 10 000 years, I think it's safe to assume you are a badass. Everyday Vect is thwarting some kind of attempt to take his place as supreme overlord. You have to be able to do so, in order to retain the highest position in such a bizarre and twisted society. Every day is an even greater struggle than most other races considering the fact that you have an entire race ready to kill you and usurp your power the moment you screw shit up. Yet somehow Vect already knew your plans....and is countering them as we speak...that's badass

 

Makari.

A little grot who carries a MASSIVE banner into battle, gets shot to shit, always lived to tell the tale, and to top it off he did it without weapons (need 2 hands for the banner).

Now THAT is badass.

 

Agreed, but did not Ghaz sit down on top of him and later feed his body to his pet squig or something? :laugh:

Thats definition of BADASS, lol.

And why all the Matt Ward hate, he is cool guy. And like me, he is a true servant of the Emperor. Just look at his Dreadnought tactica in this months white dwarf, fucking amazing, and he even said "Emperor be blessed" once or twice.

 

Asdrubael Vect. To rise from the level of slave to the most powerful Archon in Commoragh, bring in a new social system (the Kabalite System) and to be constantly thwarting every attempt to remove him from his position is truly badass. His plans for eliminating his enemies are pure brilliance and can be both subtle and over the top.

Honourable mentions have to go to both Grimaldus and Eldrad Ulthran. Grimaldus for Helsreach and Eldrad for causing the Second War of Armageddon.

 

Matt Ward goes too far, if he really wrote that into the grey knights codex, well, thats just ridiculous.

Space Marines are the greatest thing to happen to 40k, seeing as it would never have become such a big hobby without them. I love all the races for what they are though, and the different perspectives they bring to the 40k universe.