Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-203.134.114.240-20130721023526/@comment-13265279-20130725221427

Fucking hell, just had to say it. People here are too realistic to humans capabilities. Like if they never have played a FPS or TPS or any sci-fi game at all or even knows how the Imperial Guards Combat styles wary from and how some guardsmen units vary in fighting to distinguise themselves from the rest in combat. Ofcourse they can switch weapons on the move or in combat and they will have to take more bullets than realisticly being hit (depends on what their being hit by) like the Guardsmen in Space Marine.

And that they don't have a big weapon varierty is bullshit, it also depends on what you choose to go to battle as in "character class" in an Imperial Guard game.

Just look at some of the great war games that have been made like Medal of Honor, Call of Duty World at War, Company of Heroes, Gears of War, Red Orchestra, Sniper Elite, Star Wars Republic Commando, Star Wars Battlefront, Space Marine. All of those have their unique way of doing combat, even as a soldier with little equipment in some of them you can make a big difference, just as i see the character played as in an Imperial Guard game would be possible do in combat. Try to read about the Imperial Guard's honorable and inspiring characters who managed to change the tides of battle and the combat of the regiments and the origins and classes.

I think people are over underestimating the powers of a single guardsman amongst many. Which in the heat of the battle one or more can make a big difference in changing the ties of battle to the favor of the Imperium. The underestimation of them all just dying all the time is being spammed everywhere, mostly by people who haven't read much about the Imperial Guard.