Blam
- – Gabriel Angelos, Dawn of War
The BLAM Technique is an onomatopoeia for a gunshot, and is what /tg/ calls the ability of an Imperial Guard Commissar to execute anyone he (or she) finds guilty of HERESY (and GW had to specifically say in errata that he will not execute himself). It is most often used by editors who search Imperium-related pages for "heretical" edits, cross them out, and edit in BLAM!!. It is also used as shorthand for said executions (as a verb), or for similar executions in a non-40k context. Also acceptable is FWIP, the onomatopoeia for firing an arrow for settings without guns, or where they are a rarity. Occasionally, you will see Orks perform a BLAM with green text afterwards explaining why they did so, all such blams should be assumed to have actually been multiple blams, in the spirit of Dakka (or they'll KRUMP instead), and on rarer occasions, Kroot will as well. T'au pages sometimes utilize it as well, but with substantially lower amounts of blam, and a case of Eldar blam exists on the 8th edition Eldar tactics page.
Example:
PAULDRONS ARE STUPID *BLAM* Heresy!
MUSTACHES ARE FOR PUSSIES *FWIP* Heresy!
DAKKA IS DUMB *BLAM**BLAM**BLAM**BLAM**BLAM* OI! I DON'T KNOW WOT YA GITZ ARE ON ABOUT BUT YA HATE THE DAKKA YA GET THE DAKKA!!!
CHOPPAS ARE ALSO DUMB *KRUMP* ZOGGIN' AGAIN? YA GITZ OUGHTA SHADDUP!
The Kroot will clean this mess! *Snarl* *BLAM*Alright, who let the damn Kroot fanboys in here!?
Stupid Mon'keigh. You wonder why we think so little of you *BLAM* What the hell is this, 7th edition?! Fuck you xenos!
The Greater Good is a Chaos God *BLAM* That thing is a mockery of the Greater Good. I order all auxiliaries to commit Seppuku!
HERESY IS SHIT! *BLAM* Here- Oh shit. Probably shouldn't have shot him. *BLAM* Excecuting loyal commissars is HERESY! *BLAM* Executing even traitor Commissars is HERESY! *BLAM* What did we just say about excecuting Commissars!*BLAM* -ad infinitum