Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-4851119-20140118095944/@comment-3258762-20140122161108

Neithan02 wrote: Legionnaire, read '"Pandorax" there a G Gm sits in Sus an hibernation next to a group of psykers, who are in a stasis field) and they keep their acitons going for more than 9 millenia. as for the rest quiotes ;9 we also have astartes killing custodes or astartes killing thunder warriors.

" Additionally, the Thunder Warriors were not like the Astartes who would follow them; they had been created solely for war and were not well-suited to any other activities."

"It was for this reason that He had moved to craft the genetically-engineered warriors who were truly superior in every way to average humans -- morally, spiritually and intellectually as well as physically." tactics win battles ;) Alright, Psykers in a Stasis Field for 9 millenia isn't the problem. The problem is entering and exiting a stasis field repeatedly, f*cking with your brain through the timejumps.

As for the "tactics win battles" nothing here says the Astartes are superior in terms of tactics, nor that Thunder Warriors are inferior in terms of strategic wit. You even quote that the Thunder Warriors were crafted solely for war, war includes battles, and if tactics win battles then a warrior made for war must be a good tactician. It says Astartes are morally, spiritually and intellectually superior to mortals, not that they are superior in terms of combat, which Thunder Warriors are. Further, you'd be surprised how many mortals are superior tacticians to Astartes, including but not limited too the 40k universes Alexander the Great; Lord Macharius Solar, and the man who has stopped Abaddon, one of the greatest Astartes alive in terms of martial and strategic skill and experience; Ursakar E. Creed. There is no Astartes in the universe that can match those two. A Primarch, sure, but not an Astartes.

We have it on record that an Astartes can kill a Custode, yes. It is unlikely to happen, but it's fully possible. We have no records, whatsoever, of an Astartes killing a Thunder Warrior. We can assume that, since there were no Astartes, the Custodes had to bring down the Thunder Warriors.