Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-5781149-20130130013422/@comment-3258762-20130131161554

I personally despise both Cain and Gaunt. Cain is as much of a fluff-breaker as Guilliman being the "spiritual liege" of everything else. He has nothing that characterises a Commissar, no fanatic devotion, no belief that hard work is good, I mean hell it's like someone saw him on the field of battle and said "You are a commissar!"

I mean, what the hell did he do at the Schola Progenium to become a Commissar?

Gaunt is way to nice to be Commissar. He doesn't shoot his own men, which I can deal with, but he saves the life of the ones that kill him?! He also has copious amounts of plot armor.

Now Yarrick. There's a man worthy of respect! So damned inspiring that no men ever flee under his command, and thus he needs not kill them (Unlike Gaunt) he goes toe-to-toe with an Ork Warboss, gets his arm ripped off, and then kills the ork. The only one who's done that to date was Alessio Cortez, a Space Marine of the Crimson Fists who was dubbed The Immortal for the things he could endure, and he was knocked out cold for an hour and was saved because a Devastator distracted the boss, and an hour later he managed to kill the boss by showing a grenade down it's throat when it was distracted. He also talks down to a Space Marine commander and he has a huge tank. Yarrick is the only commissar here, and even if you had some better examples, they would not trumph Yarrick.