Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-108.20.6.110-20130808014317/@comment-6078851-20130819030948

fair enough.

while i've been a big fan of 40k fluff for many years (almost 2 decades!), it's only in the last year, when i discovered this wiki, that i've realised the length and breadth of the fluff, and as such i've only scratched the surface of said fluff.

unfortunately i have no experience with DoW (dawn of war?) despite being an avid gamer, my gaming is exclusively console based (why wont someone make DoW for console!?!).

the wiki contributor mentions in the 2nd post to "reason as you would in the tabletop game", hence why i mentioned genestealer toe to toe abilities. lictors are primarily solitary surprise attack specialists, unlike genestealer packs that rule in protracted close combat situations, and as such lictors should always lose against a squad of astartes (as should most things in terms of fluff).