Board Thread:Warhammer 40k Roleplay/@comment-28917471-20141208074850/@comment-2253300-20141212064338

If anything Guardsmen have less freedom of choice than Space Marines. The Marines are loyal by choice. They fight because it's what they have been conditioned for, but they are at least treated with respect, and their brothers would never treat them as expendable. As for the Guardsmen, yeah they can have their own opinions on things, but those opinions are largely in line with the lifetime of brainwashing that occurs living under the Imperium. Plus regardless of how they think or feel they have to follow order, or otherwise they are executed without mercy. INsubordination is a crime punishable by death int the Guard.