Poll: Imperial Guard or Starship Trooper?

[Xan Krieger]

Imperial Guard without a doubt, in the movie there are no tanks so the bugs are free to chop Mobile Infantry to bits. In the guard at worst there's a chimera firing it's laser safely over my head, at best a titan walks infront of you and wins the battle.

Spoiler: squad morale restored

Also I might get to be a commissar, there is more honor in that position than in all of the mobile infantry.

 

[Da Orky Man]

I see your Shadowsword, and raise you the fish of furry.

Back on topic.

How are people voting for MI, the OP specified that it was the movie version. Compare the entire starship troopers movie, to the average IG army. Unless 40k has changed dramatically in the last few years, each guard army should still include several tanks, and occasionally a basilisk artillery piece. Lets see how long your redshirt MI can stand up to a barrage of HE artillery fire, and enough laser pointers aimed at them so that they all appear red.
I don't care how many MI they can throw in the field, the guard had untold billions at its disposal and will sacrifice as many of them as necessary to kill the enemy.

You must be confused. The question isnt who would win but instead which would you join. Given that the average lifespan of a MI grunt is about a million times higher than that of the "safest" IG grunt, I'd say I'm more surprised anyone would ever willinly choose to join the Guard. Then again...do people in the Guard even have a choice in the first place?

I see your Fish of Fury and raise you this guy:

Or this guy:

Imperial Guard all the way, unless you expand Mobile Infantry to include the ones from the book.[/quote]

 

[Da Orky Man]

Dang flabit! Double post, please ignore.

 

[Thaluikhain]

There is no "the Imperial Guard", the recruit from different nation and cultures all across the galaxy. You could sign up and never see any action, garrison some world not worth invading...most of the time you probably would, I think, stuff like the wars for Armageddon are described as 1, 2 and 3, and the 1st was more than 300 years before the 3rd. Armageddon has been inhabited for millenia, and been fought over thrice...yeah, pretty safe place to be for a soldier, most of the time.

On the other hand, the MI, did they fight much? They were utterly hopeless, maybe there wasn't a war for some time before the movie, so you could have lucked out and served then.

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In regards to IG vs MI (movie), way back when there was an article in WD about the similarities, and about playing stuff from the movie with guard and nids. It advised not taking IG heavy weapons and tanks, and any nid with a gun...yeah...

 

[thylasos]

The universe that the Mobile Infantry inhabit is entirely livable, whereas, as they say, in the Grim Darkness of the 41st Millenium There Is Only War.

And treachery, having your soul stolen, mind-numbing religious observances, utterly minimal education, and a lifetime of slavery for the vast majority of the human race; being in the IG just means you'll probably die by the swaord before you die of exhaustion and malnutrition.

 

[Kermi]

Guard. Guard is infinitely more awesome and for the record.

READ THE MOTHER FUCKING BOOK! YOu will come to loathe the movie after you do; and its a very good book all the same.

Plus actual MI is NOTHING like the flak armor wearing ninnies in the movie.

I won't rend the pleasure of enlightenment from you by describing the differences so for the love of the god-Emperor; GO GET THE BOOK!

Edit: This is me resisting the urge to explain why your knowledge of the mobile infantry is wrong.

Edit: Still resisting but since i posted i have an ad to join the Marine corp on my escapist ad box. Anyone else?

I actually equally enjoy the movie and the book. The movie is much easier to tolerate when you treat it like a parody, even though it mostly makes the same point.