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 BrotherHaraldus wrote:

 ZebioLizard2 wrote:

 BrotherHaraldus wrote:
Everything is proportional. We still die to a bullet, while most things in 40k doesn't.

Actually you can survive a bullet pretty well, depending where it hits.

I think there was someone who has survived being shot about two hundred times? Can't remember exactly.

Not a 40k bullet, you won't.

Considering people have been shot in the face by high explosives (even sitting atop a frag), they might survive that as well.

 Wyzilla wrote:

 BrotherHaraldus wrote:

 ZebioLizard2 wrote:

 BrotherHaraldus wrote:
Everything is proportional. We still die to a bullet, while most things in 40k doesn't.

Actually you can survive a bullet pretty well, depending where it hits.

I think there was someone who has survived being shot about two hundred times? Can't remember exactly.

Not a 40k bullet, you won't.

Considering people have been shot in the face by high explosives (even sitting atop a frag), they might survive that as well.

Look up Wensaslao Moguel, it's quite interesting. He was shot nine times during his execution including a point blank shot to the head and survived.

Plot armor is necessary for any war story because, in a real war, any chump with a big enough gun can kill a hardened badass. Batman wouldn't be an entertaining read if someone managed to get a bullet into his face mask the first time he faced guys with assault rifles. What I personally do not like is when the protagonists wipe out entire armies all by their lonesome without taking a scratch. One of the reasons I never got into DBZ but that's just me.

 TheCustomLime wrote:
Plot armor is necessary for any war story because, in a real war, any chump with a big enough gun can kill a hardened badass. Batman wouldn't be an entertaining read if someone managed to get a bullet into his face mask the first time he faced guys with assault rifles. What I personally do not like is when the protagonists wipe out entire armies all by their lonesome without taking a scratch. One of the reasons I never got into DBZ but that's just me.

At least in DBZ everyone died (at least once).

 Wyzilla wrote:

 BrotherHaraldus wrote:

 ZebioLizard2 wrote:

 BrotherHaraldus wrote:
Everything is proportional. We still die to a bullet, while most things in 40k doesn't.

Actually you can survive a bullet pretty well, depending where it hits.

I think there was someone who has survived being shot about two hundred times? Can't remember exactly.

Not a 40k bullet, you won't.

Considering people have been shot in the face by high explosives (even sitting atop a frag), they might survive that as well.

Might.
One in a million, nay even more than that they might. You might survive being hit by a 16 wheeler arctic truck coming at you at 120mph, doesn't mean you will.
As for the 'depending on where it hits', that depends on what we're talking about here. I assume a bolter round would be enough to rupture the internal organs of your average guardsman from the shock, though they'd probably survive a hit from a lasgun or an autogun, or any other such low-grade weapon.

Given the calibre of the weapon, there would arguably be noticeably less Guardsman left following a Bolter hit.

 BrotherHaraldus wrote:
Given the calibre of the weapon, there would arguably be noticeably less Guardsman left following a Bolter hit.

Considering it's a mass-reactive shell that explodes when inside the target... It's basically a tiny missile launcher.