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As it says in the tin. A ROB takes Teddy and turns him into a space marine and sends him to the Warhammer 40K universe? How awesome would Teddy be if he were to join the Space Marines and fight the Orks, Tyranids, or Tau? How awesome would this be?

You might as well just throw in Godzilla vs a titan while your at it .

Theodore Roosevelt becoming a Space Marine?

Damn man talk about a fething downgrade.

Everyone knows Teddy couldn't be a Space Marine; he's not British. In the future, everyone's British. Science Fiction has told us this!

Actually, I'm pretty sure Teddy Roosevelt was a lost primarch and started the Space Bears chapter, who ride genetically modified grizzlies into battle and fight with their Bear Claws, which are like lightning claws but more delicious.

He'd be a cowboy marine.

Well, he was a politician, so not that awesome xD

If we're talking Roosevelts, Franklin Delano would make more sense since he was a wartime leader, but still, these guys were politicians, not fighters.

Uh...Rough Riders?
Teddy was more than just a politician.

Teddy Roosevelt Mogul Kamir counts-as, here we go.

Sorry, my Early 20th Century American history isn't the best :/ I'm much better with the 19th Century...

Enlighten me?

Lord_Vader wrote:
If we're talking Roosevelts, Franklin Delano would make more sense since he was a wartime leader, but still, these guys were politicians, not fighters.

Franklin Delano could be a dreadnought.

Lord_Vader wrote:Sorry, my Early 20th Century American history isn't the best :/ I'm much better with the 19th Century...

Enlighten me?

Teddy started, and headed, a Cavalry group called the "Rough Riders" before becoming a politician.
He and the Rough Riders became famous after charging up San Juan Hill, if I remember correctly.

Ah ok, thankyou

I have an unfortunate gap in my historical knowledge around the period of Post-Colonialism, it's quite tragic really :/

forruner_mercy wrote:

Lord_Vader wrote:Sorry, my Early 20th Century American history isn't the best :/ I'm much better with the 19th Century...

Enlighten me?

Teddy started, and headed, a Cavalry group called the "Rough Riders" before becoming a politician.
He and the Rough Riders became famous after charging up San Juan Hill, if I remember correctly.

It was the dual charge actually. They charged Kettle Hill and San Juan Hill the same day, and he earned the Medal of Honor for it (posthumously).

FDR could be an iron hands marine

Delano Roosevelt was a born and bred politician pure and simple. Teddy Roosevelt was a wannabe warrior turned politician who actually proved himself in the field to be more than the sum of his parts.

I personally think that Teddy would have been overlooked by Astartes 'scouts' as he had a serious childhood illness which made him the poster-child 90 lb weakling. However, he did overcome that illness and became the force we have come to know through history.

I think it's relevant that a quote from Dawn of War, "Walk softly, and carry a big gun" is based on Teddy's famous line, "Speak softly, and carry a big stick".

Void__Dragon wrote:Theodore Roosevelt becoming a Space Marine?

Damn man talk about a fething downgrade.

I can only exalt so many times. Great success.

So Teddy Roosevelt as a SM?

Then my mum gets to be St Celestine, my Da is the Emperor and I am Draigo! My little brother gets to be Mephiston!

Teddy was great but surely he would never have been picked as a marine, he was not very tall and had poor eyesight.

The roughriders were, of course, beaten to the top by an Africa-American unit but that hardly suited the press bias of the era...

Teddy was secretary of the navy under the McKinley administration and quit to form a military unit of cavalry made up of various cowpokes he met whilst on western ranches in his youth and dudes from his priveleged East Coast, Ivy League background. He pulled strings to get them deployed into combat in Cuba in the Spanish-American War. You absolutely cannot fault him for putting his money where his mouth was. He was an imperialist and jingoist, etc who believed that nations were engaged in a life-an-death struggle but rather than send off young, poor men to do the fighting he actually did some himself. Fair play. Not sure the rough-riders did a massive amount of actual fighting though!

He was an all-round top man, only president I know of to invite a world boxing champion to a bout at the white house and lose an eye doing it, or invite foreign ambassadors to go skinny dipping in the Potomac, or kiss a huge python on the lips for a photo-op, or pretend to be merciful to a baby bear cub, sparking a huge industry in cute toys, then quietly have it shot once the press had gone, etc, etc, etc. What a guy!

I think he would make a better commissar. He was a fanatical devotee of fin de siecle imperialism and social and national darwinism. He was brave enough to throw up his privelege and risk his own neck. He would certainly be happy to execute waverers and drill fanatical zeal into the men, utterly convinced by Alfred Thayer Mahan's philosophy of space power!


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Correction - Teddy Roosevelt was assistant secretary to the navy under McKinley, then became vice-president in McKinley's second term after his fame with the rough-riders and got the top job after mcKinley was assassinated.

When he was nominated for vice-president the chairman of his own Republican Party allegedly said "Don't any of you realise there is only one hearbeat between this madman and the White House!"

Orblivion wrote:I think it's relevant that a quote from Dawn of War, "Walk softly, and carry a big gun" is based on Teddy's famous line, "Speak softly, and carry a big stick".

Would be hard to believe that it wasn't.

Isengard wrote:

When he was nominated for vice-president the chairman of his own Republican Party allegedly said "Don't any of you realise there is only one hearbeat between this madman and the White House!"

At the time the position of vice-president had little real power, or duty, and giving Teddy the vp position pulled him out of New York politics where his primary campaign promise was to clean up the corruption. The political machine thought it was a form of damage control. No, Teddy would have gotten himself recruited by the inquisition. Someone should write the Eisenstick trilogy. Hmm unicorn ....bear....Beowulf....anyone know Latin for bear? Eisenursa trilogy? Maybe a story about his twin sister Icy Ursula......I am too tired. Need my Internet license revoked.

I imagine him more like a Marneus kind of marine more on the building up worlds and making them prosper. rather then a scrappy CC crazy guy.

I do however have a space marine scout who is painted and looks like George Bush. I think its freaking hilarious. I had an epic game where he ended up killing that Al'rahem SP? IG guy that outflanks. my opponent was trying to kill him so bad but America killed the terrorist in the end hahahah.

Calgar would be his biotch.


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Lord_Vader wrote:Well, he was a politician, so not that awesome xD

If we're talking Roosevelts, Franklin Delano would make more sense since he was a wartime leader, but still, these guys were politicians, not fighters.

Way to wave your ignorance around like a giant flag.

Teddy Roosevelt? Space Bears? I smell fan-dex.

GamzaTheChaos wrote:I imagine him more like a Marneus kind of marine more on the building up worlds and making them prosper. rather then a scrappy CC crazy guy.

I do however have a space marine scout who is painted and looks like George Bush. I think its freaking hilarious. I had an epic game where he ended up killing that Al'rahem SP? IG guy that outflanks. my opponent was trying to kill him so bad but America killed the terrorist in the end hahahah.

[youtube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=IhnUgAaea4M [/youtube]

GamzaTheChaos wrote:I do however have a space marine scout who is painted and looks like George Bush. I think its freaking hilarious. I had an epic game where he ended up killing that Al'rahem SP? IG guy that outflanks. my opponent was trying to kill him so bad but America killed the terrorist in the end hahahah.

That is a win on so many levels

Earth001 wrote:As it says in the tin. A ROB takes Teddy and turns him into a space marine and sends him to the Warhammer 40K universe? How awesome would Teddy be if he were to join the Space Marines and fight the Orks, Tyranids, or Tau? How awesome would this be?

I thought he was already one. Unless this historic photo is in fact lying to me.

Teddy Roosevelt was actually so tough, that he took a bullet during a press conference, stood up, finished his address, then went to the hospital.

Teddy Rooseveldt and many more Icons of manly Americana are in the same space marine chapter.
The Stars of Dorn.

http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/index.php?showtopic=186931

Take a look at this guys tongue in cheek work it is pretty awesome.

I can see it now, Chapter master T.Roosevelt's chaper of Astartes "Ursus arctos" And his fabled "big Stick of the Emperor" smiting , and shouting "BULLY!!"