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My brother and I had this conversation, and I thought it would be an interesting poll.Personally, I would pick to be a librarian every day of the week. Mind- bullets FTW.

Mind bullets and the daily chore of fighting off the daemons that want to eat your soul and use your body for a sock puppet. Sounds... lovely.

I'm gonna say other. The kind of Marine I would like to be is


retired. Living in peace, tending a garden and playing scaled mock battles from the past, such as the time when various Legions turned traitor.

Champion or Honour Guard I think. They get the best toys

Chaplain, because he's pretty much just a big commissar.

Definitely Chaplain, ain't nothing like screaming liturgy while bashing someone's brains in and being in charge of the chapter's "purity".

Techmarine,knowing that the weapons and armor you create (and improve) will be used for Millenia seems nice.

Preferably one of the SW's Iron Priests,they seem to have more fun tasks than the techs of other chapters,if that isn't possible,one of the iron hands for obvious reasons.

For me, a 1st company veteran.

Worked hard from a scout, through a battle company and then be elevated into the 1st. I use a couple of squads of SGV in most of my lists, so that would be me as a marine, lots of shooty death to choose from to kill the enemies of the Imperium.

Sternguard, elite of the elite without being a walking tank in terminator armour.

Space Wolves Lone Wolf - sure I just lost my entire pack, I'm probably carry nothing more than a Frost Axe, a bolt pistol, and me PA because my wolf lord mishandle 1,000 suits of TDAs, and I'm sent to kill one of the most fukhuge, nastiest, and toughest things in the universe. But hey, at least it's all about to end and I wouldn't give my opponent a kill point.

No option for an Apothecary? For shame OP.


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 Happyjew wrote:
I'm gonna say other. The kind of Marine I would like to be is


retired. Living in peace, tending a garden and playing scaled mock battles from the past, such as the time when various Legions turned traitor.

Only in death does duty end.

Either a librarian or the master of the fleet. I feel like that have the most autonomy.

Deathwatch Tactical Marine Sergeant! (Except Librarians, can't stand them!) The expertise of a 1st Company Vet of any other Chapter, special issue goodies and ammo, perilous missions, and pretty much absolute autonomy is awesome!! Preferably with a sweet power sword and combi-melta.

Tech marine because you get all the best relic gear, old weapons from the olden times when man was advanced.

And able to tweak other weapons to be powerful as they can.

 Happyjew wrote:
I'm gonna say other. The kind of Marine I would like to be is


retired. Living in peace, tending a garden and playing scaled mock battles from the past, such as the time when various Legions turned traitor.

I agree with this. Sitting as a massive demigod of war in your rocking chair and watching kids run past your knees seems enjoyable.

A female one.

Avery long lived one

The kind that looks into a mirror at his meaty ugliness and contemplates suicide.

Honestly being a Marine is like a horror both physically and mentally in my opinion. Imagine having urges to run towards machine guns, or struggling to do anything delicate with your giant sausage fingers, or not being able to mingle with the populace because youre so large and different you would struggle to do anything with them. Buying a car would be hard with your weight and size. Playing paintball would make you at a huge disadvantage due to size. You would need a butler/maid to do a lot of ordinary tasks that your meaty hands could not do on their own.

Thats just some the physical problems.

Being a Space Marine would suck.

I would like to be a dead Marine...

I'd rather be a Chaos Space Marine. No limits and no rules.

Being a Space Marine isn't especially gakky for the same reason being an Ork isn't especially gakky.

Space Marines, like Orks, instinctively love their jobs. If you were an Astartes, you wouldn't have the self-awareness to realize how crap your life is. Dying horribly in the midst of battle is in fact your greatest dream.

 Swastakowey wrote:
The kind that looks into a mirror at his meaty ugliness and contemplates suicide.

Honestly being a Marine is like a horror both physically and mentally in my opinion. Imagine having urges to run towards machine guns, or struggling to do anything delicate with your giant sausage fingers, or not being able to mingle with the populace because youre so large and different you would struggle to do anything with them. Buying a car would be hard with your weight and size. Playing paintball would make you at a huge disadvantage due to size. You would need a butler/maid to do a lot of ordinary tasks that your meaty hands could not do on their own.

Thats just some the physical problems.

Being a Space Marine would suck.

I would like to be a dead Marine...

You seemed to have missed the entire point of being posthuman and indoctrination.

Well, that would depend. Are you talking about being one in the 40k universe or being one here in ours?
40k- trainer- Help mould other space marines and serve safely while helping create bad arses.
Here- Librarian (safe from warp/daemons but with all the benefits.

 EVIL INC wrote:
Well, that would depend. Are you talking about being one in the 40k universe or being one here in ours?
40k- trainer- Help mould other space marines and serve safely while helping create bad arses.
Here- Librarian (safe from warp/daemons but with all the benefits.

FYI, Scout Sergeants/10th Company Captains still serve on the front lines. There is not such thing as a space marine that leads from the back. I go with Apothecary, as while you're still serving on the front lines when outside of the front line, but dammit, if I die I'll do so saving somebody rather than random act of pointless bravado number 7364626.

I'd like to work up from a scout and see where I end up.

This might be a matter of older fluff. I was under the assumption that the fluff still had scouts and neophytes recieving least some sort of basic training before being sent out. These training bases being housed at home fortresses behind the lines.Of course, the trainers were usually the has beens who were too beat up to cut the mustard on the front lines. When was this part of the fluff changed?
Of course, you might be thinking of the scout squads and so forth AFTER this basic training has been given to them. As these trainers are usually older and wounded beyond being as effective as newer and younger marines, the capters make use of their minds and talents to pass what they know on tonew marines so they are not sent out totally ignorant of what is going on. For example, look at the wolves, they dont even know what a bolter is and have to be taught to use it.
For front line duty... I think the chaplains are pretty dern cool and if I'm gonna be up front on the lines, might as well look snazzy while there. Encouraging the rest of "the boys" would be right up my ally anyway.

Vanguard Veteran. The candle that burns twice as fast lasts half as long.

Librarian. So much to learn!

Wolf priest hands down its chaplain and apothecary wrap in cool wolf shapes.

I said other -

Apothecary. I like playing as a healer in many games and so I'd like helping other Space Marines in battle and ensuring the continuation of the chapter by collecting gene-seed.

Also, as a VIP (in SM terms), I'd be more protected and not generally thrown into suicide missions

I would want to be a Captain, but Librarian also sounds fun.