Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-25618639-20141206200938/@comment-86.190.171.84-20150104032945

I agree, this is how people make choices and trust me when I say that stress (most relevant but passion is the same) strips away peoples pretences and frankly often thinly hidden alternative motives/feels and reveals a truer self.

The psycho indoctrination of each legion gives them their mental clarity, focus and resilience etc, it may very well support strategies as a result but the actual MO's of a fight are codified in the Codex. This is referred to in several canon sources too.

No professional military will blindly do what they like to do, regardless of what they know to be the best option, just because it's 'how we always do it'. Your second quote shows clearly that the RG motived to more standard combat formats when required. So you defeated your own point there nicely.

I can tell you're a child, I didn't need to have a overlly complicated example, sloppily inserted into the mix. A simple exam would be to fold your arms...just do it...now looks at how it works (right over left blah blah)...think how it feels....now swap it around...think how it feels. It will feel alittle different and a very high percentage of the population will want to revert. Another is someone shocks you, a real, honest fright from close to you, as in within your arm span. The human condition responce is a foetal position flinch...if further away, then it looks more like a 'push away' flinch. Now to operational matters. For the 1st 3 years of my life I said one thing when arriving at a emergency incident, for the last 1.5 years, we have changed to a new phase. But i still slip out the old phase (like many) at times. Conditioning is nature and nurture.

Your last paragraph of text supports mine and several other contributors opinions that the Ultramarines COULD have been suppliment by reinforcements from the purged chapters, so I can only imagine that your actually know you are argumentive, ignorant, arrogant, wrong on SOME (not all) points and basically showing your childish ways. Thanks for contributing but as you've basically tried to snake about to the point where strawman arguments don't work for you or dogying debate points where you know you've been soundly beated means you now seemed to have resorted to actually swapping sides in the hope the other side does out of blind argument to you, so you can try to win.