Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-7699236-20150618150629/@comment-28917471-20151220135943

86.171.87.114 wrote: Neithan you keep coming out with some right drivel. Strenght, speed, longevity are great, really useful in fact to a combat operator. That isn't really debatable.

Having said that, if you look at the majority of special forces, especially those that favour protracted, small unit tactics where the use of covert tactics/asymmetric warfare (as opposed to peer/near peer combat/shock&awe type) or smaller, elite units leading larger, less elite units (military/civil/civilian) then the operators tend to be older types, later 20's and 30's. Why you may ask? Life Experience and personal/intellectual maturity.

All of which help win a fight, you might know and appreciate such assets if you lived any life other than seemingly that inside a books, solely looking and black and white sources, not applying life experience and common sense.

Been a Space Marine is not about been able to snap a Tyranid in half, but prosectute the imperial justice and maintain the imperial peace where possible. If it were all about gene seed etc then those chapters who lost the use of some organs would be destroyed as sub par, as this doesn't happen, its clearly not just about gene seed.

Please, have some presepective and stop hiding behind a couple of potentially limited sources. Actually yes, being able to snap a Tyranid in half is what being Space Marine is all about (They do not call them The Angels of Death for nothing), they are the Emperor's sword, his arm against the foes of mankind. In other words, they are a speaciel weapon.

You are right about the Imperial Justice and peace, but as I said before, they are also a weapon. So when a battle starts, morality and other imperial ideoligy is less importent than defeating the enemy.

Real life soldiers are kind of irrelevent to his thread since we are talkng about fictuion, not real life. Also, the writers of the Black Library had admited that they know little about Speciel Forces, so they just write about how Space Marines just confront the enemies head on.

The Raven Guards and their successors are as close to the Speciel Forces as you can get.

About the gene-seeds, check out the Sons of Gorgax. They went extinct  because they could not collect the gene-seeds of their fallen.

And please, if you have an opinion, you are allowed to share it with us, but don't force others to accept your view and be respectful towards other people's opinions.