Poll: Would you join the Space Marines?

[Sovvolf]

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Basically imagine the infamous Spartan training in space and then taken up to 11. They literally do just live to fight. Nothing else but that. You don't get to feel cool as well, you don't really know or care about it... Pretty much a slave in big armour and weapons.

 

[Sprinal]

Basically imagine the infamous Spartan training in space and then taken up to 11. They literally do just live to fight. Nothing else but that. You don't get to feel cool as well, you don't really know or care about it... Pretty much a slave in big armour and weapons.

Damn I should of used those exact words because that just about sums it up

 

[KnowYourOnion]

come on pussys im joining the army(the isreali one) next year(partroopes)at list you could join a fake one

Oh wow you're so hardcore joining a force that attacks Aid flotillas.........oh and learn to spell

OT: Hell to the no would I join them though the Inquisition sounds like a lot more interesting and slightly less lethal

 

[Davesdepository]

Me? I'm going to be a Commissar [http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Commissar]. Though I could be nowhere near as awesome as The Ghost [http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Ibram_Gaunt] or CIAPHAS CAIN, HERO OF THE IMPERIUM! [http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Ciaphas_Cain]

Hell yeah, definitely gotta get me assigned to an artillery battery. Oh no the enemy is 20 miles away Retreat!

 

[PunkRex]

You do not "join" the Space Marines. You are recruited out of populations of several trillions if you happen to possess the right characteristics, namely a near omnicidal lust for combat and the rough shape of a rather muscular flatbed truck. You also have to possess these characteristics as a child, becase adults tend to go completely insane from the transformation as opposed to only mostly insane. After being "recruited", you're put through several years of training in which you will, more often than not, die. If you don't, you're outfitted with several superfluous organs, genetically modified to make you an even more absurd specimen of manliness, and brainwashed into fanatically supporting the empire and its various conflicting ideologies. If you somehow manage to survive that, congratulations, you're a scout.

I used some scouts once... they all died, DERP!!!

 

[Sovvolf]

Basically imagine the infamous Spartan training in space and then taken up to 11. They literally do just live to fight. Nothing else but that. You don't get to feel cool as well, you don't really know or care about it... Pretty much a slave in big armour and weapons.

Damn I should of used those exact words because that just about sums it up

And to add to it, your a preachy religious zealot to the point that the WBC look subtle. Only your armed to the teeth, pretty much just armour and you feel no fear. Also, you don't have a choice in this...

No going home to your mates and showing off at how bad arse you are. No going to a bar and picking up chicks (no point either as your dick is pretty much useless. I don't think they're even allowed to get drunk.

So that's what you become and armoured religious zealot that's received training that Spartans would even cringe at. Enjoy your life... ho and you don't get a choice in this.

 

[Rayne870]

I strongly doubt i would meet the requirements at 5'6" and getting a bit pudgy...But hey the religion is one of the few I could buy into and makes more sense to me than most of the present religions. Killing Orks and other nastiest would be psychotic good fun. So yeah if I was picked and made it through the conversion process I'd be pretty damn happy about it, whats 20 years of pain for hundreds of years living like a god?

 

[Talshere]

well the Imperium IS going down the drain, with more and more rampant psychers, and the Golden Throne not being what it once was, IMO the end will be a galaxy in which only the necrons and the tyranids continue to battle.
So I guess I would join (become?) the Orkz, they have the most fun even when losing battles.

The orks will be there at the end I imagine. They don't birth they spore and can do so on the most baron worlds making them virtually impossible to wipe out. Combined with there mass low level physic powers... *shrug*

I strongly doubt i would meet the requirements at 5'6" and getting a bit pudgy...But hey the religion is one of the few I could buy into and makes more sense to me than most of the present religions. Killing Orks and other nastiest would be psychotic good fun. So yeah if I was picked and made it through the conversion process I'd be pretty damn happy about it, whats 20 years of pain for hundreds of years living like a god?

Hundreds....Dude they are functionally immortal. The oldest oldest most skill members of the spacemarine orders are several thousand years old. Supposedly some of they can remember the heresy.

 

[Xooiid]

Me? I'm going to be a Commissar [http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Commissar]. Though I could be nowhere near as awesome as The Ghost [http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Ibram_Gaunt] or CIAPHAS CAIN, HERO OF THE IMPERIUM! [http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Ciaphas_Cain]

Hell yeah, definitely gotta get me assigned to an artillery battery. Oh no the enemy is 20 miles away Retreat!

I still remember reading that part from the first story, and imagining this scene in my head.

*Battlefield scene, men on the lines firing their lasguns as hard as they can against the horde. Suddenly, from behind them, a man is running as fast as he can, screaming like a little girl as he heads to the motor pool to get a ride out.*

Commissar: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Troops: AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH *Start fighting harder.*

That's basically what he did...well, aside from cutting open a genestealer to save his driver, luring the horde into the heavy gun firing lanes and therefor becoming known as a hero.

Yeah, That hero bit ended up biting him on the ass far too many times.

 

[ChupathingyX]

No, I would be a Commissar!

Because ruling through fear is fun, and they have awesome uniforms.

 

[Talshere]

Basically imagine the infamous Spartan training in space and then taken up to 11. They literally do just live to fight. Nothing else but that. You don't get to feel cool as well, you don't really know or care about it... Pretty much a slave in big armour and weapons.

Damn I should of used those exact words because that just about sums it up

And to add to it, your a preachy religious zealot to the point that the WBC look subtle. Only your armed to the teeth, pretty much just armour and you feel no fear. Also, you don't have a choice in this...

No going home to your mates and showing off at how bad arse you are. No going to a bar and picking up chicks (no point either as your dick is pretty much useless. I don't think they're even allowed to get drunk.

So that's what you become and armoured religious zealot that's received training that Spartans would even cringe at. Enjoy your life... ho and you don't get a choice in this.

To be fair their xenophobia is well founded. Before the fall there were races that they didnt kill that were part xeno and they were looking to be more open minded. The manipulation of the chaos and resulting fall of of Horus is what killed that which is technically the falt of chaos not of the Imperium itself. As it is in 40k as apose to the fall which is 36k(?) literally everything in the universe is killing on sight so its not really xenophobia so much as proactive self defence

 

[theonecookie]

Join the space marines I don't think so not one of us in this thread would be fit for the imperial guard seeing as you have to join your planetary defence force and then being the top ranks of that to even get in the guard who then go and die a horrible death granted you keep your balls so that's a plus

would I want to be a space marine? still no rouge trader on the other hand hell yeah best place to be in 40k you get your own ship can come and go as you please get to explore uncharted space get your crew to do all the hard work make tones of cash and genraly be a badass

links are nice :http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Rogue_Traders

 

[Fidelias]

Nah, it seems like one of the primary characteristics of the Space Marines is complete and total loyalty to their emperor or whatever. I don't like the idea of being a mindless drone, even if I get a chainsaw and can kickass. I kick ass my own way.

 

[Okysho]

No, I'm going to go be reconfigured into a Necron, really. Mine is the joy of spreading a wave of terror and destruction without end.

Gotta love them robot zombies.

OT:

HELL NO!! This is one of the reasons I made a custom tabletop chapter in the first place. Traditional space marines are brutal!!

After reading TWO Space Marine codex' (Factory marines and the Blood Angels, who are significantly more awesome) Becoming a space Marine SUCKS!! decades of training, surgery, more decades of training. If you're still alive by then then you get to be A SCOUT!! With armour that light (in DoW 2 anyways) How does ANYONE get promoted to 3 and 4th company? The get picked off like after 8 mints!! Tabletop wise, you hide in a building with a sniper rifle!

Assuming your new organs are still in place after what amounts to approximately 1-2 centuries (yes centuries) THEN you get to put on the helmet and become a space marine.

Oh and you don't "sign up at the nearest recruitment office" that's how you get into the guard.

You're "discovered" kinda like today's movie and music industry, except designed for mass genocide and war.

 

[Sovvolf]

Basically imagine the infamous Spartan training in space and then taken up to 11. They literally do just live to fight. Nothing else but that. You don't get to feel cool as well, you don't really know or care about it... Pretty much a slave in big armour and weapons.

Damn I should of used those exact words because that just about sums it up

And to add to it, your a preachy religious zealot to the point that the WBC look subtle. Only your armed to the teeth, pretty much just armour and you feel no fear. Also, you don't have a choice in this...

No going home to your mates and showing off at how bad arse you are. No going to a bar and picking up chicks (no point either as your dick is pretty much useless. I don't think they're even allowed to get drunk.

So that's what you become and armoured religious zealot that's received training that Spartans would even cringe at. Enjoy your life... ho and you don't get a choice in this.

To be fair their xenophobia is well founded. Before the fall there were races that they didnt kill that were part xeno and they were looking to be more open minded. The manipulation of the chaos and resulting fall of of Horus is what killed that which is technically the falt of chaos not of the Imperium itself. As it is in 40k as apose to the fall which is 36k(?) literally everything in the universe is killing on sight so its not really xenophobia so much as proactive self defence

True, but it doesn't change the fact that you are a mindless zealot .

Blimey... all this talk of space marines and warhammer makes me want to have a game of 40K, but out the'old ultramarines. Ba'h no one to play against here and not got a big enough table to make it count.

Though Space Marines are pretty badass... The only reason they can drop like flies (if your not careful) in the game is because of balancing issues.

 

[varulfic]

Fuck the imperium. Slaanesh is where it's at.

 

[Talshere]

Basically imagine the infamous Spartan training in space and then taken up to 11. They literally do just live to fight. Nothing else but that. You don't get to feel cool as well, you don't really know or care about it... Pretty much a slave in big armour and weapons.

Damn I should of used those exact words because that just about sums it up

And to add to it, your a preachy religious zealot to the point that the WBC look subtle. Only your armed to the teeth, pretty much just armour and you feel no fear. Also, you don't have a choice in this...

No going home to your mates and showing off at how bad arse you are. No going to a bar and picking up chicks (no point either as your dick is pretty much useless. I don't think they're even allowed to get drunk.

So that's what you become and armoured religious zealot that's received training that Spartans would even cringe at. Enjoy your life... ho and you don't get a choice in this.

To be fair their xenophobia is well founded. Before the fall there were races that they didnt kill that were part xeno and they were looking to be more open minded. The manipulation of the chaos and resulting fall of of Horus is what killed that which is technically the falt of chaos not of the Imperium itself. As it is in 40k as apose to the fall which is 36k(?) literally everything in the universe is killing on sight so its not really xenophobia so much as proactive self defence

True, but it doesn't change the fact that you are a mindless zealot .

Blimey... all this talk of space marines and warhammer makes me want to have a game of 40K, but out the'old ultramarines. Ba'h no one to play against here and not got a big enough table to make it count.

Though Space Marines are pretty badass... The only reason they can drop like flies (if your not careful) in the game is because of balancing issues.

You seens the "new" honor guard for Blood angles? Most beautiful models ever, but useless as a unit. And they die so easy because its virtually free for most armies to get power weapon equivalent to wound on 3's or 4's . Combined with the realitve size of squads the Space marines get to other armies they are very meh considering that in most of the fluff a 12 man kill team is the grand total of marines it takes to cleanse the vast majority of planets

 

[Sovvolf]

You seens the "new" honor guard for Blood angles? Most beautiful models ever, but useless as a unit. And they die so easy because its virtually free for most armies to get power weapon equivalent to wound on 3's or 4's . Combined with the realitve size of squads the Space marines get to other armies they are very meh considering that in most of the fluff a 12 man kill team is the grand total of marines it takes to cleanse the vast majority of planets

Sadly no, as said, not many around here to play against and not even close to the table size to have a decent game. So haven't really added to my ranks or armies in a long while. My space marines and ork army are pretty much just ornaments at this point.

And yeah the Marines are servery nerfed when compared to how they are portrayed in other mediums and the codex tales.

 

[Circusfreak]

HAL said it best. i would not want to go through that. plus im routing for the necrons.

 

[Sam Warrior]

Personally I'd rather join the Tau less brain washing and more shiny guns