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A slightly misleading title, because I don’t necessarily want to focus on the sheer brutality of His Finest. Though those are pretty cool.
Instead, we’re often told in 40K Background that “one of X is the equal to 10 of Y”. And wondering just what that might look like.
Now of course in movies, we rarely see the protagonist actually fighting 10 people at the same time, because for Very Important Plot Reasons, the baddies never just sort of gank the hero. It is what it is, don’t question it.
The inspiration for this comes from this specific scene for the brilliant Ip Man
In which we see a double hard bastard take on 10 highly trained martial artists at once. Mostly through sheer skill.
Now replace Donnie Yen, but not his skills, with an Astartes. How incredibly messy would it be, and how quickly would that fight be over? Very and indeed very at of course the correct answer. Every punch caves in a face. Every kick causes kidneys to be pooped out at best.
Hopefully I’ve suitably set the stage.
Basically, pick an awesome fight or war scene, and transpose just the hero for an Astartes, armoured and armed or just in their underoos. And tell us what you think might happen.
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Sauron from LOTR comes to mind. I walking tank that towers over of a mortal man. I always imagined space marines just wading into combat and crushing anything in arms reach. More of a lawnmower than true combat.
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Not a movie, but there was that one scene in Power Rangers where a talking dog... thing takes on 100 enemies.
The icing on the cake was the counter at the bottom left counting down how many enemies remained. Not sure what about it, but it makes the scene kind of cool. Would be awesome seeing a space marine taking on a few hundred Tyranids or Orks, while a counter counts down the number of ‘nids still standing.
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Robocop’s drugs bust in the first film. Granted Robo is far slower than any Astartes. But the whole “you’re shooting at me, and I don’t care, I’m barely even dented” thing is pretty much what Power Armour grants it’s wearer.
As is the targeting and trigger discipline we see.
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