Board Thread:Warhammer 40k Roleplay/@comment-67.141.249.249-20130713231947/@comment-25451195-20141006134649

Legionaire22 wrote: Apothecaries tend to wounds that can be tended too, but ruining their battle brothers power armor in the heat of battle is not prudent. If they are wounded so much that you have to remove their armor, they would not be on the battlefield. This goes for all kinds of field-medicin, which is the difference between a field-surgeon and a medic.

Its not mentioned much these days, but the astartes carry repair kits for minor damages (space wolves novel #1) additionnaly, when some one is on the edge of operational incapability, or the possibility of restoring some one to operations, you do it. Apoths carry some stuff that can turn a mildly non full operational Marine Back to operational.... And for removing a Space Marine From the battle field due to a portion of their armor being removed is different from a Human with out PPE, The Astartes in question is pushed by psycho conditioning beyond our understanding... lossing a limb to them, while it sucks, is not the end of their combat operations (Garro when he looses a leg, Vispus Nero hacked off his own damn hand in the first HH book)  Astartes can go beyond things that would kill a mortal man a few times over, take a normal Human's hand off, he is going to need med evac at the risk of his life... Nero was like..... "the hand was slowing me down" (in translation to modern words... I aint got time to bleed)