How strong do you like your Space marines?

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Da Boss wrote:Talking Cadians and not conscripts of crappy PDF, 1 marine is about able to kill his way through 10 guys, but it is a challenge.

Conscripts or poorer troops, he's got a better advantage because he'll terrify the poor buggers.

A traitor marine should be MUCH scarier though, especially one worshipping the ruinous powers.

Marines are great because they are power at a point. You can deploy a small squad that can operate fairly independantly in insanely harsh terrain. They can fight in environments no Gaurdsman could survive.

A SoB is probably able to kill ten guardsmen, marines would kill many more.

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moarmoarmoar wrote:It takes an average of 57 Lasrifle shots to just WOUND a space marine in power armor, and that's not accounting for cover.
They'd have to shoot the eyeball, or the crotchpad from an angle to do anything.

A bolt from a boltgun has explosives and can penetrate flak jacket armor... that means if you get hit by one it will go either straight through you, or knock you down then explode you into a red mist.

Now... comparing the an entire Imperial Guard Regiment to a Space marine Chapter... Space Marines are f**kd. One word: Basilisks. More words: battle barges, baneblades, titans, etc.

In the book, a good analogy GW used was that the Imperial Guard is like a sledgehammer, unstoppable but slow, and the Space Marines is like a Surgical Knife, precise, effective, but can't deal with big things by itself.

Did you just say 1 regiment > 1 chapter? Really? Most regiments are around 1-2 thousand max, so unless you think marine and guardsmen are evenly matched...

and titans are NOT part of the guard in any sense whatsoever, baneblades are maybe 1 for every couple hundred regiments. And battle Barges are astartes vessels...