Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-24037808-20150120110001

An interesting link between the long gone past and the present day and another "what if"?

Imangine Humankind raising again from the devastating Age of Strife without loosing (and banning) everything they know about the Man of Iron.

Scientist and researchers making a sort of reverse-engineering to still use the Men of Iron, without it's extremely dangerous chance to became sentient again and turn vs their creators. Maybe a less uber-technological robot, but still reliable and usable.

Now let's take a look at the actual enemies of the imperium and the benefit of deploying Iron-men in combat:

Tyranids: They suck everything organic in their path to evolve and boost their numbers. Robots have nothing organic, so they could be of great use in this scenario.

Orcs: Still "living" organic spores: Using robot allow use of chemicals/poisoning weapons without robots to suffer from this kind of warfare.

Chaos: Robots without soul would be of no use for the forces of Chaos: without a mind (more important: without a soul) forces of chaos could even defeat thousands of men of iron, but still not even a soul could be offered/sacrificed for the Chaos Gods. Khorne could be very upset if his minions starts to offer spare parts intead of blood...

Dunno if using robots will bring any kind of special benefits benefit vs Necrons or Tau, but still they could be of some use in almost every battlefield.

So it sound quite cruel and ironic: Humankind already had all they needed to live in prosperity and keep at bay any foes, but once more (as it will always be i'm afraid) they went too far, lose control, and get the worse from a good thing.

I know someone have prejudice versus my casual approach to Warhammer40k, but i still like to hear opinions about what kind of use a less eveolved but still working force of Men of Iron could bring great benefits for the Imperium (or bad things if you think different). 