Board Thread:Warhammer 40k Video Games/@comment-24045526-20131013064751/@comment-213.205.252.40-20150328152956

I think its a good idea, just not the way the OP described. First of all, although not impossible, its not standard to have a weird mishmash of varying personaity guardsmen from different regiments in one squad, and its going to be even less standard for them to sruvive long. At the same time I think the innate lack of survivability and odds stacked againt you makes the guard a great choise for a playbale unit, as even an ork boy becomes a massive threat, and taking down a nob or, with a squad, a carnifex or one chaos space marine is a giant achievmetn worth of a medal. Thus instead I petition a few simpler ideas with gameplay prospects.

You play as a death korps of krieg number and thus every time you die you actually die but then get to play as the next trooper. You can then continue from a checkpoint and have it make sense fluff wise and gameplay wise and you might even see your "old body" (aka the corpse of the guy you were playing as) when you arrive at the same point. You can make the game different by that and also by saying you have 20 guys (aka: 20 lives) and lets say four of them have plasmas, four have meltas and the rest have lasguns (customizable later on as you updrage your squad to veterans, then grenadiers, etc). So you can start by playing as a guy with a lazgun and get murdered by a nob or big tyranid and decide "fuck it, time for some firepower" and go in with a plasma and then you get killed later by a swarm and decide "time for a flamer". That way you get strategy and the concept of guard being inherantly replacable. And its not like other FPS games really give the main "characters" any personality, its the enviroment and your commanders that really have the drive and character.

Through the game you can also just use vehicles later in different stages (centaur, leman russ, sentinal, etc) and mow through bigger, badder enemies or play single player with a squad of guys or multiplayer with other people (like left 4 dead) and take down giant foes like a single chaos space marine (the cultists, the ork hordes, the tyranids, etc would be the standard fare but the bosses or mini bosses are the bigger things)

Also multiplayer is simple. Have all the different types (the death korp, the valhallans, the cadians, the catachan, etc) for customisation and have one side be chaos cultists and the other be imperial. And then you just have standard deathmatches on different worlds (ice, desert, jungle, etc)