so the rats ate my 40k

[The Yosemite Bear]

yes, all my eldar and space marines are currently knawed to death so what should I do?

strangely they left my undead, my goblins, but not my dwarves alone (must have been skaven pride)

[Lonestar]

This really warrants it's own thread?

[Zinegata]

That sucks. Are any parts salvageable?

[Axiomatic]

Pictures! Give us pictures of gnawed-upon space marines!

[Eleventh Century Remnant]

What you do is exploit it; kitbash what you can back together and call it practicality in the face of entropy ("ten thousand years wear and tear, man- you really expect pristine?") and for the irretrievables, build a giant diorama of a really beaten-up landscape with burnt out houses and craters and shattered vehicles everywhere, call it "In the Wake of the Horde", pose the gnawed- up models as casualties, add gore, and enter it in Golden Demon or something and try to win a big enough prize that lets you replace them. Or something like that.

[The Yosemite Bear]

well anything that is plastic they pretty well knawed through which means marines still on sprues, my dread, my three speeders, my small fleet of jet bikes, my wave rider, etc.

the squad that's still in one piece is my metal dragoons.

that being said a rats favorite food is wires, their second favorite is plastic, followed by nuts.

[Zor]

It seems that the even the Emperor's mightiest warriors are no match for the forces of the Great Horned Rat.

Awaits the Inevitable "HERESY" joke

Zor

[ShadowDragon8685]

I say you go with the "in the wake of the horde" option, pose all the rat-destroyed models on a landscape base, add gore and stuff. Then you kill a rat, taxidermy the son of a bitch in a fearsome pose holding up a space Marine and biting him in half! Better still, have a Space Marine who's already been torn in half holding up a bolter, trying to fire at the damn thing in the Emprah's name before it all goes dark.

[adam_grif]

Is there any way we can use this to quantify space marine durability?

[Ritterin Sophia]

Papa Nurgle was displeased with you, perhaps you should rethink your devotion to him.

[KlavoHunter]

N-thing the suggestion to make a diorama out of it.

Rats will gnaw on the most inexplicable things, like I remember the Star Trek 3D Chess Set I got, that they nibbled all the silver and gold off the pieces...