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Obviously they were human, but which suits/armor and tactics do you believe best represent the Starship Troopers from the novel? I ask just to see what others think.

For some reason when they described their battle suits I pictured Tau crisis suits. Although, their tactics sound much more like those used by SM and they use drop pods.

Space Marines.

I would say IG with Ad Mech support. Drop ships, mass waves of men, simple weapons and they are non-enhanced.

Chaos space marines

Azza007 wrote:I would say IG with Ad Mech support. Drop ships, mass waves of men, simple weapons and they are non-enhanced.

How is that anything like Starship Troopers, at all?


I'd go with Tau. They're closest to Space Marines with their deployment, but on the battlefield, they like to stay mobile and hop around; something Crisis suits do well.

Blood Angels. Drop Pods and Jump Pack Infantry.

Jon

I think I'm gonna have to go all Tau on this one. Out of the three suits used two were highly mobile. They were loaded up with a broad spectrum of weapons and one M.I. could do a good job of defending a point alone, so they were very versatile.

The only thing different would be their attitude.

Space marines, definitely. The movie version is Guard.

Nerivant wrote:

Azza007 wrote:I would say IG with Ad Mech support. Drop ships, mass waves of men, simple weapons and they are non-enhanced.

How is that anything like Starship Troopers, at all?

He obviously doesn't realise there's a difference between the novel and film film.

I thought the MI used personal drop pods and spread out there deployment. SMs all load up into one drop pod.

Using tau you have to think of what to do with fire warriors and there non battle suit stuff. Maybe skinny partisans?

Also we just had thread on this topic. Take a peek at the search and see what you can find.

ZombyJezuz wrote:Obviously they were human, but which suits/armor and tactics do you believe best represent the Starship Troopers from the novel? I ask just to see what others think.

For some reason when they described their battle suits I pictured Tau crisis suits. Although, their tactics sound much more like those used by SM and they use drop pods.

In all honesty, there isn't much the replicates the Starship Troopers novel infantry super well. Crisis suits would probably be the closest things, or if Terminator squads could take jump packs.

Space Marines lack the mobility and humongous array of weaponry that each Mobile Infantryman had, Tau lack the numbers, drop pod capacity and leadership, while IG just don't fit at all (they fit the movie, but not the book).

Very little in the 40k replicates Starship Troopers. I mean in the first 4 pages he casually launches 2 tactical nukes. SMs don't do that, tau are too sissy.
By description alone a SM is close with external muscle bundles and powered armor. If you could have an assault marine with EVERY weapon in the space marine inventory and they were all assault one that might approximate it.



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If you like SST you might want to read Armor by John Stackpole. That might be misspelled.

While the MI in Starship Troopers seemed to have an outlook more on par with Space Marines, there was something about all the various discussions Rico kept recalling from his History and Moral Philosophy classes (both in school and OCS) that were, in my opinion, closer to the Tau's secular and logical "greater good" as opposed than the blind religious faith of the Astartes.

I would say the Tau playstyle would match the described method of warfighting in the book. The only thing that Space Marines have is the fact they wear 'power armor'.