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I would be some mindless servitor down in the depths of a massive ship, turning a wrench to stop some leak down in the darkness...oh wait.


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I would actually hope to be a Techmarine talking to and soothing the machine spirit, repairing vehicles and the such. I would strive to one day to be a Master of the Forge.

Cadian shock vet sarge with bolter and power maul.

Either a Hive ganger or some Commissar that's quick to shoot his own soldiers. So likely in a Penal Legion somewhere with expendable troops.

So dead within a week.

Some poor guy whos been endslaved by a Dark Eldar cabal destined for a a slow death.

Me?

Burned as a deviant, probably.

Either that or part of some crazy death cult. ^^;

Of course, where I'd want to be is AdMech...

I dont get why people want to be in the admech, they seem pretty nasty and selfish. Why cant they do stuff for the good of humanity. I also dont get people who want yo be civilians, at least if your in the guard when someone tries to kill you you have a chance as you at least have a "weapon", knife, cardboard box, bravery, and "training"

I want to be AdMech because cybernetics and knowledge are awesome. Its not about 'doing good'. Its about 'Best for me'.

I never claimed to be a good person. :p

Yeah, I don't think that people want to be in the AdMech to do good things but because of all the awesome things that they do with machines. Even I have been intrigued by them and all their cool mechanics and slowly melding themselves with machines to basically become immortal.

It seems like I am a rare breed to get so hung up on honor and discipline which is why the Grey Knights and Imperial Fists interest me so much and why I like Puritan Inquisitors of the Ordo Malleus in particularly as far as plain humans go.

Librarian on a craftworld would be nice. Of ourse, nice rarely applies in 40k.

Where would my place be?

Terra, as a guard to one of the High Lords. I'd see no combat (save what it took to get me here), I'd be pampered BEYOND understanding, and I'd be in charge of NOTHING.

If I'm honest though, I'd love to see myself as a tank commander of a sort. Nothing huge or world-shattering, just a Vanquisher Captain or something.

 Envihon wrote:
Yeah, I don't think that people want to be in the AdMech to do good things but because of all the awesome things that they do with machines. Even I have been intrigued by them and all their cool mechanics and slowly melding themselves with machines to basically become immortal.

It seems like I am a rare breed to get so hung up on honor and discipline which is why the Grey Knights and Imperial Fists interest me so much and why I like Puritan Inquisitors of the Ordo Malleus in particularly as far as plain humans go.

Grey Knights... are not honourable. They're ruthless bastards who do whatever it takes to get the job done, including human sacrifice, blood rituals, daemon binding and the rest. When I say Daemon Binding, I don't mean for battle (usually). I mean to contain them safely. But every daemon you bind like that requires the sacrifice of a human.

 Furyou Miko wrote:

 Envihon wrote:
Yeah, I don't think that people want to be in the AdMech to do good things but because of all the awesome things that they do with machines. Even I have been intrigued by them and all their cool mechanics and slowly melding themselves with machines to basically become immortal.

It seems like I am a rare breed to get so hung up on honor and discipline which is why the Grey Knights and Imperial Fists interest me so much and why I like Puritan Inquisitors of the Ordo Malleus in particularly as far as plain humans go.

Grey Knights... are not honourable. They're ruthless bastards who do whatever it takes to get the job done, including human sacrifice, blood rituals, daemon binding and the rest. When I say Daemon Binding, I don't mean for battle (usually). I mean to contain them safely. But every daemon you bind like that requires the sacrifice of a human.

That is not the impression of the Grey Knights I got both from Ben Counter's Grey Knight Omnibus and Aaron Demboski Bowden's The Emperor's Gift . If you are talking of the greater Inquisition that commands them, you are quite correct but the Grey Knights do nothing of the sort. They don't even endorse when the Inquisitor's want to do those kind of things but their hands are tied since the Inquisition is the greater authority. In The Emperor's Gift itself it even explains that the Grey Knights don't like that they have to kill the Imperial Guardsmen themselves and try to avoid it when possible, something Logan Grimnar is more than willing to comply with.

The Grey Knights despise daemon binding unless absolutely necessary, they would much rather kill a daemon outright then suffer it to live to the point they will refuse to work with an Inquisitor that partakes in such acts. The rules in game used to state that an Inquisitor that had a warband containing a Daemonhost could not be in the same army that the Grey Knights were. They unfortunately took that rule out.

What the Inquisition makes them do makes them grit their teeth but when come up against the Inquisition the Grey Knights have to choose between loyalty to the Imperium and their own moralty. From the perspectives given, the Grey Knights don't like what they have to do if a none Inquisitorial agent sees them and they see it as a regretful cost of their services.

And that gak in the GK codex is fething garbage as far as the Kornate Knights go. The fluff from the codex and that of the Black Library go against each other.

And the daemons bound in the orbital prisons around Titan mentioned in the first Ben Counter book?

The only Khornate Knight I recognise is Alaric, and he supposedly got better. The Bloodtide incident isn't the GK going made, slaughtering sisters and wearing them as hats like 4chan wants you to think.

The Bloodtide incident was the Grey Knights doing what Grey Knights do: Using the weapons available to them to prevent themselves being destroyed by Chaos. The Sisters would have gladly sacrificed their own lives to allow the GK to use their blood in a ritual to ensure that the daemon plague was destroyed.

Well, once the GK had convinced them that it was Emperor-sanctioned, not witchcraft, anyway. Which is why the GK didn't ask. Explaining would have taken too long.

Yes, I know, this is a Sisters player being 'apologist' about the Bloodtide murders. I just think that this is the best way to interpret that piece of writing in a way that makes the GK seem badass instead of badly written.

 Furyou Miko wrote:
And the daemons bound in the orbital prisons around Titan mentioned in the first Ben Counter book?

The only Khornate Knight I recognise is Alaric, and he supposedly got better. The Bloodtide incident isn't the GK going made, slaughtering sisters and wearing them as hats like 4chan wants you to think.

The Bloodtide incident was the Grey Knights doing what Grey Knights do: Using the weapons available to them to prevent themselves being destroyed by Chaos. The Sisters would have gladly sacrificed their own lives to allow the GK to use their blood in a ritual to ensure that the daemon plague was destroyed.

Well, once the GK had convinced them that it was Emperor-sanctioned, not witchcraft, anyway. Which is why the GK didn't ask. Explaining would have taken too long.

Yes, I know, this is a Sisters player being 'apologist' about the Bloodtide murders. I just think that this is the best way to interpret that piece of writing in a way that makes the GK seem badass instead of badly written.

If I remember correctly, those prisons are maintained by the Ordo Malleus and not the Grey Knights directly. Like most things, if someone had to capture a daemon, it is given to the GK to look after like Crowe looking after that daemon blade.

I still don't like the Bloodtide incident. And yeah, when I first read the whole I am a Grey Knight fighting in an arena devoted to Khorne I started to question that story but apparently its all better...some how because Alaric made it back to Titan.

 The Home Nuggeteer wrote:
I dont get why people want to be in the admech, they seem pretty nasty and selfish. Why cant they do stuff for the good of humanity. I also dont get people who want yo be civilians, at least if your in the guard when someone tries to kill you you have a chance as you at least have a "weapon", knife, cardboard box, bravery, and "training"

Everything the AdMech does is for the good of humanity.

Warhammer 40,000 wrote: Forget the power of technology and science, for so much has been forgotten, never to be re-learned.

As to where I would like to be in M41?

A human farmer on some Tau-held world, deep within the Tau Empire.

 Psienesis wrote:

 The Home Nuggeteer wrote:
I dont get why people want to be in the admech, they seem pretty nasty and selfish. Why cant they do stuff for the good of humanity. I also dont get people who want yo be civilians, at least if your in the guard when someone tries to kill you you have a chance as you at least have a "weapon", knife, cardboard box, bravery, and "training"

Everything the AdMech does is for the good of humanity.

Warhammer 40,000 wrote: Forget the power of technology and science, for so much has been forgotten, never to be re-learned.

As to where I would like to be in M41?

A human farmer on some Tau-held world, deep within the Tau Empire.

Why not an agri-world deep in the Imperium?

A water caste Tau with a desk job towards the core of the empire or an air caste tau mail man equivalent in the same place wouldn't be bad either.

Realism: Hive ganger, dead as a doornail by the age of 18.

Fantasy in spehss: A character I made up to explain/justify the use of Commissar Yarrick rules in a traitor IG army. Basically I'd be a non-IOM Commissar in a traitor guard regiment who is possessed by the daemon Be'lakor. Capable of tearing a SM limb from limb, and inspiring the lads to greater violence in the name of our freedom.

I see myself as an Imperial Guardsmen. But I would love to be a Primarch.

In some primitive world enslaved by other races or maybe in the middle of orks !! Who knows ?

At the front, with flak armour, torchlight and balls of hopefully metallic material. Defending humanity against Xenos.

 Furyou Miko wrote:
Me?

Burned as a deviant, probably.

Deviant? But are you not a Sororitas player? Why would you be deviant?

What would I be if I was 40K-ified? Likely Mechanicus, because I a doing a PhD in computer science. Heretek maybe, because I am an atheist.
What would I likely be, though? Well, numbers says a peon working his/her life away.
What would I like to be? I guess Imperial noble with no responsibility, living in some paradise garden planet. Far away from war, in a place where I can comfortably paint and play with friends this “Machinegun 2000” model wargame that re-enact the glorious battles that happened in Ancient Terra .

A Flashgit on a Killkruza, if I'm lucky. Or an ork choppa boy.

I'd love that simple sort of life. Nothing to worry about but fightin' and winnin'...and as we know, orks always win.

I'd be ever-hungry for immortality, and therefore would endeavour to become a Daemon Prince... preferably a Nurgle one.... but considering my inherent laziness, I probably wouldn't get very far

As much as I obsess over Astartes, I guess if I had the choice I would want to live the life of Gregor Eisenhorn. He answers to almost nobody, has a great pad, a loyal retinue, access to phenomenal weapons and wargear, and is a psyker. Yep, Eisenhorn it is. /nod

In the Alpha Legion, probably as Alpharius, or maybe I would be Alpharius. It's looking like a tough decision.

Dead in an alley somewhere, killed by the arbites for organising strikes for improved pay and conditions on a forgeworld.

Either that or an ice cream seller.

An Iron Warrior Warsmith on Medrengard, shooting all my neighbours of my yard.

Obviously.

my rank says Veteran Wolf Guard Squad Leader...
i'll go with that...
Terminator Armour would suit me just fine, and i have the beard and hair to fit right in...

for Russ!!!

cheers
jah

Probably an imperial citizen basically living out papers please


But more than likely a corpse for being some time traveling heretic.