Poll: Would you join the Space Marines?

[theonecookie]

Am I the only one who thinks that training regime to be absurd?
I know it's supposed to be cool for people reading about it and all.
But consider the sheer stupidity of any organisation that requires specially selected recruits and then subjects them to a training regime with a mortality rate that (judging by these other comments) approaches 90%. those that survive that have to survive as scouts before they can become full space marines. (I'll go with a 50% chance of that happening. but I fear I'm optimistic)

Let me do the math. for one space marine there were two scouts for those two scouts were twenty recruits.
this may not look like much but consider that during battle you will have to factor in losses and those need to be replenished. Given that the space marines are in constant battle we are talking about the requirement for a continuous stream of hundreds of recruits.
Where do they keep coming from?

(I am no Warhammer fan)

from the worlds that the imperium owns duh. Where talking about an empire that owns millions of star systems where single planets have populations upwards of 6 trillion and to wipe one of these planets of the map isent worth the paper the order to destroy it was written on

Its all very grimdark is it not hell the losses a space marine chapter which is only a thousand guys are nothing persentage wise compared to the millions of guardsmen that get thrown in to the grinder on a daily basic

 

[Terminate421]

No, If I want to have power armor I at least want to look like I can move around in it. (I.E. MJOLNIR, Engineer/Advanced/Security, Nanosuit)

 

[MortarTeam]

No. But I would join Gue'vesa, for Greater Good.

 

[Outcast107]

No, If I want to have power armor I at least want to look like I can move around in it. (I.E. MJOLNIR, Engineer/Advanced/Security, Nanosuit)

To bad those things wouldn't last very long in the 40K world. I rather have something that very durable and protect me. Plus, if you haven't seen how space marine moves in the huge armor, they still move pretty good.

 

[Techno Squidgy]

I'd sign up for a real life Space Corps. However, if it was possible to join the 40k Space Marines, I'd pass. Brain Washing? No thanks, I already get enough of that from various media outlets, I don't need to sign up for more.

 

[Lord_Gremlin]

No... But I would join Tzeentch which would probably make me kill some Space Marines with sorcery.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

I'd want to join the Basilisk Corps for the Imperial Guard. You get to sit miles behind the frontline shooting people with artillery. Glorious.

 

[One of Many]

Hell no, I'm enlisting in the Guard. With brass balls as big as mine, all I need to defeat the enemies of Imperium, are a flashlight and some paper thin armnor, without pauldrons. Seriously, Guardsmen get shit done, Space Marines are just glory hounds.

 

[Rogthgar]

So I really don't know anything about Warhammer 40K although it seems hella bad ass but with all the trailers for the game I was wondering if Space Marines were real would you join?

Just for the record, Space Marines are primarily recruited amongst the best of the best any given world has to offer, quite often little more than barbarians. Once picked, off they go to some hard ass boot camp, ritualized surgery and indoctrination.

I wouldn't join this if I knew what I was getting into, as I hate religious nut cases, and the Space Marines (the good ones) are all religious fanatics and xenophobes. But then again, in WH 40K, every race is out to exterminate all the others...save the Tau (but they are young).

However Chaos Marines are more there for the hell and fun of it and their gods happen to fairly more present than the Emperor. Sure they are sadistic butchers, but at least they are honest about it.

 

[archvile93]

No, because their egos are bigger than they are, and their xenophobia, genocidal tendencies, and general assholishness are second to none. But then no one in the 40k verse comes even remotely close to being anywhere slightly close to likable.

 

[Warboss Robgutz]

Tau. they have the whole utopia tolerance and unity thing going on. so at least i might get fed if i joined thier auxiliries.

 

[Frankster]

People saying yes either don't know space marine background or they are completely mental.

Now first we are going to work with the generous assumption you've succesfully passed your initial trials (usually deadly games against your fellow prospective space marines) and went through the pain of each various augmentation where they open you up and rearrange your insides all without anaesthetic.

Now you will spend the rest of your time switched between the following:
Trainning, praying and fighting the very worst the 40k universe has to offer, with a gruesome death guaranteed.
If you're "lucky" you'll be put in a dred upon death where you spend the rest of your existence locked up in a mobile sarcophagus, even a peaceful death is denied to you (and there's a good chance your soul will end up going to the warp to be tortured for all eternity btw).

Seriously, only worst fate is to join the IG.

Am I the only one who thinks that training regime to be absurd?
I know it's supposed to be cool for people reading about it and all.
But consider the sheer stupidity of any organisation that requires specially selected recruits and then subjects them to a training regime with a mortality rate that (judging by these other comments) approaches 90%. those that survive that have to survive as scouts before they can become full space marines. (I'll go with a 50% chance of that happening. but I fear I'm optimistic)

Let me do the math. for one space marine there were two scouts for those two scouts were twenty recruits.
this may not look like much but consider that during battle you will have to factor in losses and those need to be replenished. Given that the space marines are in constant battle we are talking about the requirement for a continuous stream of hundreds of recruits.
Where do they keep coming from?

(I am no Warhammer fan)

You got your facts right, space marines in 40k are relatively rare and precious for a reason, every time one dies the bell of heroes (massive belltower on earth) rings 12 times so the whole of earth can lament.
I imagine it must be constantly ringing.

Manpower ain't a problem though, iom counts planets and populations of billions as if they were pennies.

 

[theonecookie]

No, If I want to have power armor I at least want to look like I can move around in it. (I.E. MJOLNIR, Engineer/Advanced/Security, Nanosuit)

Your joking right you would be better of with and imperial flak jacket than with both those armors and they can't even protect you from a laspistol* nevermind a bolter*

*read semi-automatic 50.cal sunlight powered gun of death

*read semi-automatic 75.cal armor piercing rocket launcher

 

[Outcast107]

People saying yes either don't know space marine background or they are completely mental.

Now first we are going to work with the generous assumption you've succesfully passed your initial trials (usually deadly games against your fellow prospective space marines) and went through the pain of each various augmentation where they open you up and rearrange your insides all without anaesthetic.

Now you will spend the rest of your time switched between the following:
Trainning, praying and fighting the very worst the 40k universe has to offer, with a gruesome death guaranteed.
If you're "lucky" you'll be put in a dred upon death where you spend the rest of your existence locked up in a mobile sarcophagus, even a peaceful death is denied to you (and there's a good chance your soul will end up going to the warp to be tortured for all eternity btw).

Seriously, only worst fate is to join the IG.

Actually the worst fate of all is getting capture by chaos or Dark eldar. Mostly DE since they are sadistic bastards.

 

[Frankster]

Actually the worst fate of all is getting capture by chaos or Dark eldar. Mostly DE since they are sadistic bastards.

Agreed, but I count that as being part of the suckiness of being an sm/ig as those are fates very much likely to happen to you.
Chaos or De would love captive sm for sure, though you might get lucky in the case of sm/de and be used as gladiator in the pits, then it becomes little different to what you were doing normally, bouts of torture inbetween not withstanding.

 

[Outcast107]

Actually the worst fate of all is getting capture by chaos or Dark eldar. Mostly DE since they are sadistic bastards.

Agreed, but I count that as being part of the suckiness of being an sm/ig as those are fates very much likely to happen to you.
Chaos or De would love captive sm for sure, though you might get lucky in the case of sm/de and be used as gladiator in the pits, then it becomes little different to what you were doing normally, bouts of torture inbetween not withstanding.

At least for SM they can be gladiator. For IG Oh my god. Worst fate then death. For those who don't know, image the worst kind of torture you can think of. And times it by a hundred. This race gets off of torture and are always thinking new ways to dish out pain to the maxim way. They will keep you alive even though you would be dead through the kind of torture you go through though, with their crude tech they make sure you stay alive until they get bored with you and toss you away.

 

[Texas Joker 52]

No I wouldn't, even if I could. I don't know much about Warhammer 40k, but what I have read due to my growing interest is that, at the point in time the series is at, Humans have become xenophobic assholes who think that you are either a Human, or inferior. Personally, I absolutely hate that view, though that might be due to my love of a good alien.

EDIT: Due to the quotes that I have been getting, I think its best simply to not side with any of the races, and keep away from Warhammer in general.

 

[Outcast107]

snip

Well the reason for the hating of xeno is due to humans getting attack at most of the time by them. Eldar (Space Elves), Orks, Tyranids, Necrons (Undead Robot zombies),Dark Eldar (Elf pirates), and even Tau.

Also after the huge betryal of their own kind, they sort of have huge trust issues and view everyone outside of being human and who don't follow the emperor fully as traitors or enemies.

So in a way, its not their fault fully. But they are being assholes about it still.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

You should add another option for 'I am a woman.'

Apprently women can't be Space Marines...

Sigh...we can't even have female characters in fps games set in the future -.-

 

[CommanderKirov]

Nope.

Member of Ordo Hereticus on the other hand...