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I think all Black library writers and codexs writers should be made to watch at least 3 hours of discovery channel everyday...i mean come on...there are tons of programs which they could use to write up fluff and create all kinds of technology totally believeable, cool and epic...e.g. look at future weapons i would have expected all guardsman in the future to be wearing an advance versions of the "Dragon skin" armor which is so effective against all handguns, machine guns , assault rifles and even A GRENADE (though the blast will kill the wearer due to the force of it)...

In my mind guardsman should have armor effective against all kinds of autoguns barring large calibers, more advanced lasguns and more future weapons giving them the futuristic emperor soldiers feel, having tactics which does not involve throwing more men at it (though its damn cool) , having tanks that are more advanced by at least 40k times our own version of tanks...and if anyone says " Dark age of technology" then at least have the tanks much more advanced than any tanks we possesed now to give it a futuristic feeling...

Anything thing that anyone would like to add that will make the guardsman much more futuristic?...( no space marines please, that would make the thread tooooo long)

Tau. They've openly said that the Tau were designed to make an army that has a futuristic feel that people were asking for. They just made them aliens instead of humans.

Well the tau are technologically advance but i meant humanity on a whole...i meant this was suppose to be 40k...i know its grim dark and all...but if war is what the imperium is always at...it should be progressing in terms of weaponary at a rate that would even put the tau to shame...

But technology isn't just something that's open to every Tom, Dick and Harry to muddle with. It's kept locked up by a very closed-lipped (and closed-minded) cult that has made it as much a religion as a science. So much technology was lost that will never be returned as long as the Mechanicus is around. Think about how much religions have changed in the last 4000 years. So goes technology in the Imperium.

Well if they were advancing technology and all they would definitely find ways to annihilate their enemies, and the grimdark wouldn't be that grimdark anymore...

No no no, let the humans unable to advance technologically, make the things they have outdated by pissed off xenos, make them attacked by said xenos from all sides, and ta daaaaa! There's your grimdark recipe to success!

If 40k was trying to catch up with contemporary weapons advances then everything would have to be rewritten, redrawn and resculpted every 5-10 years as our ideas of the future are shaped by what we have today.

That's a bad strategy for miniatures game. Especially because the odds are future battles won't work anything like a grand 40k style universe of war but will be smaller, and smaller engagements with better equipped elite soldiers.

40K is self consciously anachronistic. The IG aren't in any way shape or form intended to represent the future of human warfare. They're cyberpunk parodies of various different historical earth armies, the allies in WW2, the russians in WW2, the nazis, the British colonial army, the turks/arab fighters, the american vietnam forces. Those aesthetics are put in a blender with gothic religion, cyberpunk and some future tech and voila, IG.

If you want an army that fights more like modern NATO forces then go for Tau. Markerlights, spotters, drones, VTOL insertion vehicles, railguns, targetlocks, multitrackers, etc are all either devices used by modern NATO forces or been developed by them at present. Mix that with aliens, some mecha and some samurai and you get Tau.

Cyberpunk knights? Space Marines
Road Warrior Post Apocalyptic raiders? Orks