Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-5781149-20130130013422/@comment-3258762-20130318073820

They can be cowardly all they want in the Schola, BUT NOT AS COMMISSARS!

Commissars are not nice! They are not the paragons of the Imperium Guard that stand for everything the Imperium does good. They do exactly what the Commissars they were based on do: Maintain morale through fear. Not inspiration, not by being nice, they make sure you know that you can either probably die from going forward or you will absolutely die going backwards. Commissars never fall back, they do not feel fear, that has been "drilled" out of them, all the whole "morale cut in half" does not apply in the 41st millenia! In the 41st Millenia, you either do as you are told or you are killed. The commissars are expected to shoot their own men, and if you do not do what is expected of you in a galaxy spanning, facistic empire, then you are most certainly going to be the next one up for a dishonourable discharge. Cain is also, like I stated, way overpowered, taking on Chaos Space Marines with a chainsword in melee. A power weapon I could have accepted, but not a Chainsword.