Board Thread:Warhammer 40k Video Games/@comment-24045526-20131013064751/@comment-93.220.3.248-20140508141141

guardsmen have their use, however that does not mean that they suit the fps role

the guard wins because it throws tons of tanks,guardsmen and artillery at a problem

however: the single guardsman does mean nothing.

to quote from the siege of vraks: emphasis made by me

" Everything in the 88th Siege Army was to be an expendable resource. The campaign for Vraks would be the most impersonal kind of warfare. Within the Death Korps of Krieg Regiments that would make up the totality of the 88th Siege Army, the men were not named, just numbered, so that they could be quickly tallied-up and counted off lists, whether for supplies or burial. The regiments would be ordered into combat already essentially knowing how many of their number were expected to die to secure their objectives. The lives of the Krieg Guardsmen were no more important than the daily fuel consumption rates of their vehicles or the expenditure of artillery shells. They were also expected to win the campaign in exactly 12 standard Terran years."

". Of 32nd Company's nine platoons some 600 strong at the outset, 542 were killed or injured in the first wave. Every officer was killed. At roll-call that evening, the 58 survivors were not enough men to constitute a single full strength platoon."

so creed was lucky enough to survive, yet that does not really make him suitable for the purpose of and fps game (especially since he is a leader aka motivating others from his fortress of arrogance baneblade)

to quote from his article:

" in action after action he proved himself a nearly flawless tactician and strategist"

"owever, Creed's greatest weapon is his mind. He had a natural genius for commanding men and women, whether in a single platoon or as an entire army, and his tactical genius is of a kind not seen in the Imperium for generations, on par with the legendary leaders of history like Lord Solar Macharius and the ancient Primarchs. His masterful ability to organise and lead the often blunt weapon that is Imperial Guard have time and time again surprised and put to rout the enemies of Mankind."

please think a buit mroe before coming up with an argument for the imperial guard in an fps game, all you did was give us counter arguments.