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A discussion sprung up a while ago about space marines and their opening movie in DOW. People were musing about how a good sized Ork mob cut a full squad of marines apart. I quickly came the the orks defence and showed how there was no reason the marines should done as well as they did but the whole thing left me feeling like they might have a point. These marines, towering above their enemies with devestatingly powerful bolters, die by the droves. It seems like butchering whole companies of space marines is a perfectly normal occurance in 40k. While I understand why the game is balanced the way it is and why movie marines are a set of special rules and why all the other races can rain death down on marines... does anyone else feel that they've somehow lost that mystique about them being Gods among men?
Perhaps it is simply to do with the number of people that play them. Perhaps we've all played one too many battles with or against them. Perhaps they've become so run of the mill that our imaginations are failing to grasp the fact that these are towering warriors capable of laying waste to thousands of tyranids, whole mobs of orks and entire worlds of traitorous guard. When I first started 40k, I began with Crimson Fists. Reading the Space Marine fluff made me love playing them. Now, these several years later, I just feel like people are looking across the table at yet another marine player. It's disheartening.
Perhaps it is simply to do with the number of people that play them. Perhaps we've all played one too many battles with or against them. Perhaps they've become so run of the mill that our imaginations are failing to grasp the fact that these are towering warriors capable of laying waste to thousands of tyranids, whole mobs of orks and entire worlds of traitorous guard. When I first started 40k, I began with Crimson Fists. Reading the Space Marine fluff made me love playing them. Now, these several years later, I just feel like people are looking across the table at yet another marine player. It's disheartening.