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This is sort of like asking what flavor of suicide you prefer.

Seriously, this is the guard, the only special thing about it is the order in which you jump in the meat grinder.

Very very few i wager leave the guard retired, and they are probably latent pskers with an uncanny ability to avoid danger.

I'd go AWOL and also leave the imperium.

So basically choose a flogging, then firing squad?

 sierra 1247 wrote:
So basically choose a flogging, then firing squad?

I'd devise a way out and take my chances with what that entails - its a much better survival rate than staying/drafted in the guard. If this means the prospect of getting lashed/firing squad, then yes I'll accept that risk.

Ultimately its a matter of refusing to be used as the toilet paper of the imperium. If others see their life mean so little, that's fine but I dont. I would rather give my life to a worthy cause.

I think I'd be in one of my world's assault companies, especially the airborne ones. These guys are shock troopers clad in Carapace armors and heavy visors and are specialized in the destruction of hard targets. I'd like to see what it's like to jump from a Valkyrie and use a meltagun on something .

If I were to choose something more classical, I'd say an Inquisitorial Stormtrooper, or a Vutlure pilot.

 kveldulf wrote:

 sierra 1247 wrote:
So basically choose a flogging, then firing squad?

I'd devise a way out and take my chances with what that entails - its a much better survival rate than staying/drafted in the guard. If this means the prospect of getting lashed/firing squad, then yes I'll accept that risk.

Ultimately its a matter of refusing to be used as the toilet paper of the imperium. If others see their life mean so little, that's fine but I dont. I would rather give my life to a worthy cause.

Many of those who live and die in the Guard do believe they are giving their life for a worthy cause - especially those defending civilians during say a Ork or Tryanid invasion.

One of the "perks" of being a successful regiment is that you get to colonise your own planet and depending on your rank get to rule or at least be important on it - similar to how the Romans resettled their troops on captured lands and therefore had both a inbuilt militia and loyal subjects likely to be breeding future generations of loyal soliders..

My new choice would be that unit that always seems to get stuck in reserves.
You know those deep strikers who always seem to roll "Delayed" on their mishap table.

Avenger Ground Crew. Pretty close to what I did in real life. "Don't lose my aircraft, sir. It has the latest hardware updates."

Guard are not unlike the Roman legions. If you live long enough, they will have you retire and settle a world. Is that a guarantee, No. But there is a chance.

Personally, I'd like to be a scion in tanith, or if not then a kasrkin in cadian regiments. Those hellguns :-)

I can't think of any position in all of 40k that I would want to be, simply due to death = being tortured by Daemons for all of eternity

Regiment: Some sort of Engineers
MOS:
Combat Engineer
Architect
Vehicle commander

 Mr Morden wrote:

 kveldulf wrote:

 sierra 1247 wrote:
So basically choose a flogging, then firing squad?

I'd devise a way out and take my chances with what that entails - its a much better survival rate than staying/drafted in the guard. If this means the prospect of getting lashed/firing squad, then yes I'll accept that risk.

Ultimately its a matter of refusing to be used as the toilet paper of the imperium. If others see their life mean so little, that's fine but I dont. I would rather give my life to a worthy cause.

Many of those who live and die in the Guard do believe they are giving their life for a worthy cause - especially those defending civilians during say a Ork or Tryanid invasion.

One of the "perks" of being a successful regiment is that you get to colonise your own planet and depending on your rank get to rule or at least be important on it - similar to how the Romans resettled their troops on captured lands and therefore had both a inbuilt militia and loyal subjects likely to be breeding future generations of loyal soliders..

Those fighting on their own home planets are PDF, not the Guard.

Even then, you're talking about worlds with over oppressive edicts that are quite counter to the ideals of self-evident things, or self-government.

I say to hell with those oppressive worlds, their judgement is warranted. I could argue the matter of innovation over imperial might as the alternative they could have attempted - that's definitely worth fighting over.

I sure would not want to attempt fixing a tyranid invaded world. Chaos would be pretty bad too. As a matter of fact, just about any warzone in the Imperium would be worse than depictions of the worst scenes of WW1 + WW2 - bodies all over, mushroom/radioactive clouded skies (and all that's inferring), stinky, sticky, wet, burning, perpetual shelling at warhammer sized magnitude, uber random death all over. No sir, no matter what happy, successful regiment you happen to be in, that simply would suck. What the warhammer world is renown for, that glory, especially for guard, is not going to last long. Heck, that glory is for what ultimate purpose? The survival of humanity or the survival of tyranny?

If you happen to retire, then congrats, if you're an officer, you'll most likely die by 50 due to radioactive, biological, and/or chemical exposure. If you're enlisted, I wouldn't count on you retiring. It may happen somewhere in the galaxy, but I doubt any officer in the IG is going to let that level of saltiness ever leave.

If I had to choose an organization to be with - that was somewhat a military - it would be with a rogue trader. At least then you're getting actual adventure kicks in and decent treatment. There's also the advantage of being nomadic, which in 40k terms, is perhaps the more survivable route.

 dusara217 wrote:
I can't think of any position in all of 40k that I would want to be, simply due to death = being tortured by Daemons for all of eternity

Yep. It makes the very selfish people in warhammer the most sane perhaps. However, there is something I heard counter to that notion: that there is a belief that your soul resides with the Emperor after death, but I don't recall what book that person was referencing.

I'd like to be stationed in Ultramar. Preferably an Auxilia soldier that's assigned to tend to an important ultramarines captain.

 Guilliman's blade wrote:
Personally, I'd like to be a scion in tanith, or if not then a kasrkin in cadian regiments. Those hellguns :-)

The Tanith First-And-Only had no Scions, they are a Light Infantry Regiment, not part of the Stormtrooper Battalion. That said, several members (field officers, in the main) did wear carapace, but none of them carried hellguns.

Catachan preferably under the command of Straken.

The 34. rear echelon logistics company of the 64. planetary garrison regiment, permanently stationed on some gardenworld relatively close to Terra.
You just can't let some run of the mill PDF force protect the nubile dryads of Flora VII from harm. *cough*

Forgot I posted on here already!

One guarding a paradise world. Only thing I'd have to worry about are stupid nobles.

Valhallan artillery.

Safely behind the lines and the Valhallans have the 40k equivalent of tea.

I was enlisted in the Navy, it sucked. Really don't want to do it in a crap universe like 40K but if I had to I would learn from my real-world experience and go officer. Doctor or Dentist if I could. Does the Imperium have an ROTC program? lol

Cadian or Steel Legion, my 2 favorite Guard Armies
1) Baneblade Tank Commander
2) Leman Russ Punisher Tank Commander

Artillery Regiment - Basilisk or Deathstrike battery

For a Basilisk...

1. Commander

2. Gunner

3. Loader

For a Deathstrike I'd be rather pleased with any position among the crew, nothing like being able to say that you have ended worlds...

Mordian Iron Guard, cos every girl's crazy bout a sharp dressed man.

A baneblade driver near a sizable contingent of the Blood Pact Renegades. I would promptly defect, then join the Blood Pact where my vehicle would be worshiped as a gift from the gods and I could blast apart any fools who would dare defy me without major consequence (specifically those on my own side).

 MeanGreenStompa wrote:
Mordian Iron Guard, cos every girl's crazy bout a sharp dressed man.

I hope you're rocking an awesome beard with that

Probably some Cadian Regiment or similar.

1) Warmaster. Good pay no frontline action.
2) Baneblade (or any make super heavy tank) commander. Time to blow up everything.

3) Lastly I'd want to be a techpriest. The whole tech thing could be coo nit to mention they have those combat specialized tech adepts that seem really badass.

Pilot for the Elysian drop troops, any day of the week.

 Tactical_Spam wrote:

 Mr Morden wrote:
Valhallan 597th:

Good quality leadership
Imperial Hero
Inqusitorial patronage
Proven survival record

oh and Hot girls

I don;t think you can get any better in the guard

HQ staff

Cold girls, mate. Its Vahalla.

Cold girls looking to get warm

Valhallan 597th for me too. Just so long as I avoid Sulla's command.

Le "grand armée" de France !

Espace France !

(The "grand army" of France! Space France!)

So you die of cold and dysentery somewhere in the Galactic East?
Me, I think cook in a Catachan regiment. Nobody wants to see the cook get killed because no one knows how to make good tasty Carnosaur Stroganoff.