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What's their life expectancy? The Imperial Gurad must be enormous across the galaxy, surely there are plenty who never see battle? They mostly end up serving for crowd control and ceremonial duties.

But others end up having to fight a war on their own world and some must be drafted to the front line if there is fighting in a near by star system. That's the point at which the Imperium seem to throw their lives away like candy. Or do they? Some battles take huge casualties but some troops are probably posted in areas that don't see much fighting.

So if you're lucky and don't up in many battles you'll probably live quite a long time, but if you're stuck in conflicts all the time you probably should bother with a pension plan. So does life expectancy vary between certain units, cadian, catchan, steel legion etc?

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"I think we'd all be intrigued to know why you're called the Twenty Minuters"

15 hours, duh...

Frazzled wrote:15 hours, duh...

More serious I may add : Imperial guardsmen could survive about 2 weeks or a month. PDF could survive 15 minutes or 15 years.
Its those "theatres of war" where your pension plan gets ruined.

Not long.

2 rounds of gameplay.

Depends:

Who's writing your story?

Do you have a name?

Do you have a first name?

Do you have a rank higher than corporal?

What are you fighting?

2 rounds of gameplay.

is that:

turn 1: thier transport gets blown up
turn 2: they get blown up?

JD21290 wrote:

2 rounds of gameplay.

is that:

turn 1: their transport gets blown up
turn 2: they get blown up?

If they're in range of your big guns, the other way around.

Against Chaos: 15-20 mins
Against Eldar: 15-20 days
Against Dark Eldar: Well, they get tortured so until they die: 10 mins
Against Necrons: 10 mins approx.
Against Tau: about 10 seconds before their army goes up in flames
Against Orks: 15-18 mins
Against Tyranids: 12-15 seconds
Against Trator quard: 15-20 mins
So yeah, I may have forgotten some, but meh.

Krusha123 wrote:Against Chaos: 15-20 mins
Against Eldar: 15-20 days
Against Dark Eldar: Well, they get tortured so until they die: 10 mins
Against Necrons: 10 mins approx.
Against Tau: about 10 seconds before their army goes up in flames
Against Orks: 15-18 mins
Against Tyranids: 12-15 seconds
Against Trator quard: 15-20 mins
So yeah, I may have forgotten some, but meh.

SO MUCH HERESY!!!

The warriors of the Immortal Emperor can face any foe without such pitiful figures, your lack of faith is both disturbing and heretical.

Please report to your nearest ecclesarchial branch for re-schooling.

Gazzdag wrote:Please report to your nearest ecclesarchial branch for re-schooling.

Ooh matron!!

Foolish loyalist, your false emperor cannot save you from the powers of Chaos!

I'd say it depends on your regiment and gear...

Savlar chem-dogs? I give them three minutes.
Valhallans? A whole different ballgame...

Until they recieve the order to die and not a second sooner.

Hopefully not long, I only paint the ones that survive.

Like...imagine Cadian conscripts ordered to charge at a Tau battleline...I'd be like: Oh craaaaap....

Which MRE are they getting? Those will kill them faster than battle!

Krusha123 wrote:Like...imagine Cadian conscripts ordered to charge at a Tau battleline...I'd be like: Oh craaaaap....

Better then being used as a speed bump against bezerkers..


Guardsmen do alright, as long as your in the last wave you have a chance.. Till snikrot..

Well, I would suppose that it depends on training, speed, agility, and intelligence for each individual soldier. Well... Not so much intelligence sinc eth COs do that work...

The other factors come in whn the soldier is faced with something nasty, like an Ork.

But for average: I say two hours if the opponent has no artilery, but if he does... 1 minute at max.

You also have to take in when the commissar decides to shot one to improve the morale of the squad.

In my experience if the trooper gets an armour save they live, but otherwise they die faster than my wife spends money.

A six to save, but a one to hit, huh....

depends really.
i'd say 2-3 snazzgun shots (one needs to hit)
or, about 2 mins max if they are made to do da burny dance!

According to Einstien's theory of relativity, guardsmen have a life expectancy equal to the square root of the amount of milk they have drunk divided by the number of hours they were yelled at by a comisar with a yellow hat with a propeller, to the fourth power

2/3 of 4/5 of SFA - in seconds.

Perhaps the phrase "gone in 60 seconds"is very appropriate here?

A guarsman's lifespan is about 2 seconds longer than that of the tree he's hiding behind ;D

I would say if there in battle, 1 day[conscript] to 2years[comissar]
if used fo crowd control or ect. i would say 2-3 years.

15 second!

well if your some crazy lucky basterd that NEVER gets into battle or anything and has a super cushy post...... id say i dunno like 120-150 years?(figuring its the future they should live longer due to certain medical advancements) but if not that... yea a few mins lol

Depends on what they are in too, a guard in the open, or a guard in a leman russ. Or a guard in a baneblade!

In that order: 15 seconds, 15 minutes, 15 years

If their in cover: 15-30 mins...
If out in the open: 1/2 second lol