My friends and I have a TTRPG Legion we play as: The Emperors Hounds. They only recruit men like this. They watch for the most desperate patches of fighting, and recruit the lucky men who's faith remains unbroken, and skills keep them alive long enough.
My favorite quote on how the guard are regarded is from Poorhammer: In a galaxy where there are man eating bugs, 8 feet tall geneticly enhanced super soldiers and fear enducing gods, you chose to play as Sergeant Johnson.
@@boog5812 Nobody will issue a power weapon to an ordinary guardsman. He will be desintegrated before he can get into melee range. So the only way IG can reliably deal with necrons is with long range artillery. This means, if they're already close, calling a strike on your location, then praying to the emperor. Maybe astartes will show. These have jet packs and portable teleports so they can deal with necrons.
Imperial Guardsmen getting respects from Astartes really shows how the Imperium is slightly. Bit by Bit. Repairing bits of Humanity since the great crusades.
It just really depends on the Chapter in question. The Ultramarines can be cold as fuck sometimes, but they are genuinely one of the most open Chapter's regarding their views on Mankind in general, and they tend to respect people that take a stand, even if they are "mortals" (always found the Astartes saying this funny given that they are very much mortal themselves). Others, like the Marines Malevolent or the Minotaur's just seem to really not give a fuck about anything but their own.
@@AveSicariusi guess that just make them more human? Like on one end you'll see someone who look down on you with very unhealthy amount of superiority complex then you got the other end of someone willing to do anything to keep you safe even if it costs their life
@@AveSicarius I mean, all of them die before they actually start showing any age and those that have somehow remained alive since the days of the Horus Heresy are in dreadnoughts.
@@kriegsmanjaeger5545 Adeptus Astartes I think could be classified as demi-immortal. They can live for hundreds, maybe thousands of years depending on the circumstances. Then you have the Primarchs, who are as near to immortal as you can get, they can live for tens of thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands of years. Now that I think about it, no one in 40K is truly immortal, as to be immortal means to be unkillable by anything. So that makes me think that it's kinda like a 'Fountain of Youth' situation, as most beings in 40K can be killed by various means, so they aren't truly immortal. Even the Chaos Gods can be killed, though it's a damn near impossible thing to do, but they can be killed.
Yarrick is not your average, basic-ass Guardsmen. His greatest enemy is the greatest Ork Warboss that currently exists in 40K, and that Ork respect him more than he respects any Space Marine or the Emperor's Legend. Kolpeck is a normal Guardsmen.
@@matteocdt5214 During the siege, Grimaldus became to begin more human and respect simple humans knowing that they were running to ther death but still figthing with fury and determination. They were taking them for crying meat bags but reveal to be simple mortals able to take head to head ank ork with a pipe. That's what chock him. LMAO imagine the Lord of the most xeno haters of all chapters watching simple humans that you don't even consider your own kind reduce to a pulp an ork with knife, pipe or bare hand cause they hate them as much you do.
This is why I will always prefer the stories where the Guard works together with The Astartes. Its always more satisfying seeing how these two different types of defenders of humanity can work side by side, rather than one having contempt or fear of the other. *In loud voice* Im talking to you two, Iron Hands and Dark Angels
Yh but situations like in this video are outliers, most cases where astartes fight with regular humans they treat them like garbage, they can use them as meat shields, expendables etc, even the ultramarine who are supposed to be all "honour and couraged" up or whatever don't often give two shits abt what happens to them
@@tomasmichaels642 yh I suppose, dont know much abt the wolves but aren't the salamanders nice to civilians not soldiers? It feels like every story where they seemed nice to people it was to civilians
"We are the Adeptus Astartes. The Emperor's Angels. His Sword. We stand and die together." "We are the Astra Militarum. The Emperor's Guard. His Hammer. So do we."
The pdf don't get enough respect. They often get leftover gear, but they stand the line for their homes. The balls necessary to shoot necrons with your kantreal-pattern flashlight is insane
This simple dialogue shows why it's so important to have a reason to fight. A purpose Anybody can take the lives of others, but few are able to prepare themselves to give up their own without having something to protect.
What do you mean by 'family unit'? The nuclear family that's less than half a century old and has an incredibly high failure rate? Get over yourself. @@Thalanox
@@oliviataylor3052 Let's start with one factor: a man and a woman who are married to each other, and living in the same home, irrespective of the presence or absence of others.
Still love the commisar that was getting some smack talk from space wolves and asked him if he was afraid of them. He responded "why would I be afraid of wolves who hunger for the death of my enemies, I will hunt with you and should I kill more then the honor shall be mine" the wolves had instant respect and welcomed him to their drinking table
As a normal human if space wolves invited me to drink with them I would would in fact actually NOT ACCEPT THAT INVITATION, they're better ways to die than by alcohol poisoning 😂
This is why i like the Space Wolves, they remember when they were "mere mortals" and do respect the Guardsmen even civillians, those who don't are often found to be quickly humbled by either their own or the "mere mortals" themselves.
The Wolves and Scars are also rather well known to give trinkets to Guardsmen or civilians they have personally witnessed doing something above and beyond. Wolves give them a rune off their armor, or a hand ax (most wolves carry 2 hand axes for throwing or just as a useful tool/backup). Scars will give them a purity seal, one of their backup knives (Scars all carry 2 minimum, 3 or 4 if they particularly like throwing them), or a small carving they have made. Scars like using a knife to carve things into wood or smll stones when they are waiting for the next push. Love both of those legions. They are also the only two legions that are still capable of having sex.
salamander, white scar and space wolves all tend to remain close to their families as all their recruits come from a single world If I remember well, helps them remember why and who they fight for. The Ultramarines do the same but I dont think to the same extent
My favorite part of the Damnos campaign is when the Astartes are overrun by the necron horde, losing a dreadnought and most of the soldiers save for Iulus and his immortals. Seeing this sight, the guardsmen, most notably Falka Kolpeck of what is at that point called “the one-hundred”, takes their ICE PICKS and CHARGE THE NECRON HORDE for no other purpose than to try and buy the marines time. Even cooler is that IT WORKS, and Falka survives the death-charge.
No, you dont. SM are built for extra ordinary tasks. That means there is nothing extra ordinary about them doign extra ordinary tasks.. It is expected of them to do so. To achieve anything less is to fail. it is the guardsman who deserve respect. Because among the aliens, terminators and chaos, he is just a man. To endure the horrors all is to succeed.
"You are a man willing to die for the honor of his home world. Of that there can be no greater duty to the emperor. Die well sergeant and may the emperor bless us to meet again."
Guardsmen when they truly have a purpose or reason to fight shows glimpses of what a well motivate regular human army can do. The Cadian regiments during their homeworld's fall and the Tanith First and Only thinking they are defending Tanith once again are such examples.
To even bother remembering a name is a feat for a space marine. It's nice to see. However, at the same time... it's clear that the humanity is still stripped from Lulus. He was trained to be that way. And he was trained well. This Space Marine knows what he is made for, lifting up mankind. It's just a shame that it's probably for the best that he cannot feel that deeper level of connection.
The Necron conflict in the Fall of Damnos and the related titles were great. The bonds between the marines and the humans were really well written. The lieutenant and his sidekick were great holding the wall to the city. He even let him call him "brother angel", then reflected on how he would make a great Ultramarine. So cheesy but so incredibly cool in the same breath lol.
Not only that. But the relationship between iulius fennion and kolpeck starts in fall of damnos and for the whole 2 books you see them gradually warm up to eachother,with kolpeck referring to iulius as "brother-angel",which first iulius resented but by the end he called him brother himself. It is really heartwarming and i really recomend the sicarius omnibus to anyone who enjoys space marines. It is better than the uriel ventris books imo
This is giving me Grimaldus vibes or that one Imperial Fist commending a depressed Solider to lose a loved one or sacrifice oneself instead of love is a both heartfelt and sad fate grimdark in full action
If the technology to turn adults into space marines hadn't been lost, I suspect the Marines may have looked at their little brothers more favorably in general.
There is a moment in one of the chaos books where a Gray Knight shares a very wholesome moment with a gaurdsmen during a demon invasion. They talked about fear and its relationship with bravery. The gray knight shows the man compassion and praises his will and courage. The guardsman considered himself a failure for freezing with fear when he first saw a demon. This gaurdsmen fought their way through demons and even a Korn Chaos Marine. The two talk about any the Grey Knight admits that he to is afraid. He tells the gaurdsmen that he was brave. The gardsmen was happy. Then the rest of the grey knights show up. The Grey knight then tells the gaurdsmen to check the ruble for anything useful. The man was happy to help and as he turned around the Grey Knight swiftly cut his head of with his energy sword. The Grey Knights Captain scolds him by saying "would a bolter shot not have sufficed?" To which the knight responded with "the blade was quicker......and more dignified.". The Knight then buries the gaurdsmen. He marks the grave with a large chunk of metal adorned with the man's helmet and rank. On the grave marker the gray Knight writes "here lies a man braver than I."
I love this. *"It is our duty!"* _"This is my home!"_ And then just the silent respect... Iulus didn't call Kolpek "brother", but we all know the sentiment was there.
My personal favorite moment is in the Knights of Caliban codex, where a PDF trooper that previously deserted the fight chose to charge alongside the Dark Angels, lost half his face, but ended up surviving. He had been inspired by what a Scout Sergeant had said to him a few days before (one that dies in a suicide charge to plant a teleport beacon for the Deathwing). in the hospital, a Dark Angel awarded him with a fragment of that sergeant's armor, recovered from the field.
Salamander marine would have pet his head and promise to remember her name. Blood Angel would probably have wrote a fan fiction where both soldiers retired from service and have a happy life
the space marine didn't argue because he know, this guard have massive balls and could have been a battle brother, and every hand is needed, so better get the most motivated ones.
You know, some times I am called boring from playong humans on ttrpgs when i can play a honorable dwarf or a ranger elf, but there is something noble about a simple human in a universe where other species have much more to them. The same goes to the guardsman, they are just a bunch of humans with their humble lassgun fight a whole universe of madness and death
We are the imperial guard. We are the first and last line of defense of this imperium and to each of us falls a task and that the emperor asks of us guardsmen we stand the line for fighting it's what we do best we die standing
Reading Angron the Red Angel, same vibes for colonel yarrer, she knows her planet is doomed but is proud that it can possibly aid the imperium as a whole.
I respect guards more than marines. Guards were to the same place as marines, fight the same enemies, but they are mere humans who may as well be naked in terms of armor, instead of superhumans with 2 tons of metal around them. I am a coward, I would rather be a marine than a guard.
There are two kinds of Adeptus Astarties. The ones who say I stay because I am a space marine and it is my duty and the ones that say I’m a space marine, i am leaving. My life is not worth being lost in a hopeless battle.
The men may be different, but the oaths remain the same. I, much like Iulis, respect Sergeant Kolpeck. It takes a certain degree of character to be respected by an Astartes, and Sergeant Kolpeck most certainly had that character.
Gaunt found Sar Af talking to Dorden. The old medicae looked especially fragile beside the vast Space Marine in his heavy boarding armour 'He is dying,' said Sar Af to Gaunt, as though this was news and come up in conversation. 'I know,' said Gaunt. 'But he is not afraid,' said Sar Af. 'I'm not,' said Dorden. The White Scar nodded sagely. He looked at Gaunt. "And they shall know no fear," he said.
You should have gave him the Kratos grunt of approval 😏👌🏾. Like how Grimaldis of the Black Templars had that short friendship with those two guardsmen during the Armageddon campaign
Both great points one for duty one for love Guard are dying even more and as or more important can’t blame the man for fighting with honor and courage I’d personally leave as one guardsmen isn’t gonna beat thousands of Necron reminds me of Gaunts ghost too
40k has being Warhammer Space Marine edition. People forget that the Astartes get the glory but the guard gets things done. The Astartes might show up with anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand if multiple chapters show. The Guard shows up with a few million at a minimum and often have the support of Titans.
I wonder if the space marine could have chosen to keep the guardsman and ask for him to go through the process to be turned into a fellow space marine , worth his salt
To be respected by an astartes as a regular human is rare, bro got balls of adamantium
If only his skin was adamantine as well…
Ye old auramite cojones
Hope he can deflect rays with them
Yeeeee But id raver not be respected by a Iron Hand.
My friends and I have a TTRPG Legion we play as: The Emperors Hounds.
They only recruit men like this.
They watch for the most desperate patches of fighting, and recruit the lucky men who's faith remains unbroken, and skills keep them alive long enough.
My favorite quote on how the guard are regarded is from Poorhammer: In a galaxy where there are man eating bugs, 8 feet tall geneticly enhanced super soldiers and fear enducing gods, you chose to play as Sergeant Johnson.
And his survival is classified intel
He knows what the ladies like
Mmhmm damn right I am. Now move it out, double time!
He knows what the ladies like tho😅
Nah, Johnson is a super soldier too, Spartan-I. Not like that super, but still above baseline Humans.
More like Chips Dubbo
"How many are out there"
"More than we have bullets for"
"Lucky the Emperor gave us swords then."
"🗿" "🗿"
Good luck cutting living metal, especially when it's armed with weaponry that can hit you from a mile away
@@user-pf8hs7nv6z Chainswords and Power swords in warhammer 40k are by lore more than capable of dealing serious damage to even ceramite armor
@@user-pf8hs7nv6z Power swords and power weapons in general can cut through Necrom living metal
Perfect reply.
@@boog5812 Nobody will issue a power weapon to an ordinary guardsman. He will be desintegrated before he can get into melee range. So the only way IG can reliably deal with necrons is with long range artillery.
This means, if they're already close, calling a strike on your location, then praying to the emperor.
Maybe astartes will show. These have jet packs and portable teleports so they can deal with necrons.
Imperial Guardsmen getting respects from Astartes really shows how the Imperium is slightly. Bit by Bit. Repairing bits of Humanity since the great crusades.
It just really depends on the Chapter in question. The Ultramarines can be cold as fuck sometimes, but they are genuinely one of the most open Chapter's regarding their views on Mankind in general, and they tend to respect people that take a stand, even if they are "mortals" (always found the Astartes saying this funny given that they are very much mortal themselves).
Others, like the Marines Malevolent or the Minotaur's just seem to really not give a fuck about anything but their own.
@@AveSicariusi guess that just make them more human? Like on one end you'll see someone who look down on you with very unhealthy amount of superiority complex then you got the other end of someone willing to do anything to keep you safe even if it costs their life
@@AveSicarius I mean, all of them die before they actually start showing any age and those that have somehow remained alive since the days of the Horus Heresy are in dreadnoughts.
@@kriegsmanjaeger5545 Adeptus Astartes I think could be classified as demi-immortal. They can live for hundreds, maybe thousands of years depending on the circumstances.
Then you have the Primarchs, who are as near to immortal as you can get, they can live for tens of thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands of years.
Now that I think about it, no one in 40K is truly immortal, as to be immortal means to be unkillable by anything. So that makes me think that it's kinda like a 'Fountain of Youth' situation, as most beings in 40K can be killed by various means, so they aren't truly immortal.
Even the Chaos Gods can be killed, though it's a damn near impossible thing to do, but they can be killed.
@@fenrirgaming37 you just said what I said with far more words.
Wait till you see Yarrick giving orders to Dozens Chapter masters during Armageddon wars.
Yarrick is not your average, basic-ass Guardsmen.
His greatest enemy is the greatest Ork Warboss that currently exists in 40K, and that Ork respect him more than he respects any Space Marine or the Emperor's Legend. Kolpeck is a normal Guardsmen.
i mean the guy is admired by grimaldus, of all people. if that's not a qualification, i dunno what is
@@matteocdt5214 During the siege, Grimaldus became to begin more human and respect simple humans knowing that they were running to ther death but still figthing with fury and determination. They were taking them for crying meat bags but reveal to be simple mortals able to take head to head ank ork with a pipe. That's what chock him. LMAO imagine the Lord of the most xeno haters of all chapters watching simple humans that you don't even consider your own kind reduce to a pulp an ork with knife, pipe or bare hand cause they hate them as much you do.
Yeah, about that, angron overpowered his plot armor + trillions of orc reverence and fear, so to sum it up in two words, he ded
And every one of those chapter masters accepting his orders without question
This is why I will always prefer the stories where the Guard works together with The Astartes. Its always more satisfying seeing how these two different types of defenders of humanity can work side by side, rather than one having contempt or fear of the other.
*In loud voice* Im talking to you two, Iron Hands and Dark Angels
Shhhh we arw over here being totally loyal.........psss azmodai.......make him repent
@@Banthisyoutube-zs6sx
*_REPENT, MOTHERFUCKER!_*
Yh but situations like in this video are outliers, most cases where astartes fight with regular humans they treat them like garbage, they can use them as meat shields, expendables etc, even the ultramarine who are supposed to be all "honour and couraged" up or whatever don't often give two shits abt what happens to them
@@ridgefrost at least we have Salamanders and Space Wolves
@@tomasmichaels642 yh I suppose, dont know much abt the wolves but aren't the salamanders nice to civilians not soldiers? It feels like every story where they seemed nice to people it was to civilians
"We are the Adeptus Astartes. The Emperor's Angels. His Sword. We stand and die together."
"We are the Astra Militarum. The Emperor's Guard. His Hammer. So do we."
Iulus: We are the adetus Astartes, it is our duty.
Kolpeck: I am a guardsman of planetary defense force, it is also my duty.
The pdf don't get enough respect. They often get leftover gear, but they stand the line for their homes. The balls necessary to shoot necrons with your kantreal-pattern flashlight is insane
@@Majestic_bob_12341 Some of them stand the line, anyway.
@@Majestic_bob_12341Perlian PDF are a notably good one
This simple dialogue shows why it's so important to have a reason to fight. A purpose
Anybody can take the lives of others, but few are able to prepare themselves to give up their own without having something to protect.
Which is exactly why the family unit, and all values related to it's preservation and maintenance, has been purged from most of western consciousness.
@@ThalanoxDon't start. That only works if everybody is willing to fight for each other when it usually just ends up being glorified babysitting.
What do you mean by 'family unit'? The nuclear family that's less than half a century old and has an incredibly high failure rate? Get over yourself. @@Thalanox
@@oliviataylor3052 Let's start with one factor: a man and a woman who are married to each other, and living in the same home, irrespective of the presence or absence of others.
@@oliviataylor3052 The nuclear family was NOT invented in the mid-1970s, or even in the past 1-20 centuries, are you high?
It's not spectacular, when Guardsman deserves respect.
It's spectacular, when Space Marine actually showing him respect.
Still love the commisar that was getting some smack talk from space wolves and asked him if he was afraid of them. He responded "why would I be afraid of wolves who hunger for the death of my enemies, I will hunt with you and should I kill more then the honor shall be mine" the wolves had instant respect and welcomed him to their drinking table
As a normal human if space wolves invited me to drink with them I would would in fact actually NOT ACCEPT THAT INVITATION, they're better ways to die than by alcohol poisoning 😂
@@atuokoye7748you will be welcome to valhalla though, not the worse way to go in this universe
This is why i like the Space Wolves, they remember when they were "mere mortals" and do respect the Guardsmen even civillians, those who don't are often found to be quickly humbled by either their own or the "mere mortals" themselves.
The Wolves and Scars are also rather well known to give trinkets to Guardsmen or civilians they have personally witnessed doing something above and beyond. Wolves give them a rune off their armor, or a hand ax (most wolves carry 2 hand axes for throwing or just as a useful tool/backup). Scars will give them a purity seal, one of their backup knives (Scars all carry 2 minimum, 3 or 4 if they particularly like throwing them), or a small carving they have made. Scars like using a knife to carve things into wood or smll stones when they are waiting for the next push.
Love both of those legions. They are also the only two legions that are still capable of having sex.
@@Nempo13 Wait what????
@@Nempo13Some Chaos Space Marines are known for graping, so definitely not the only two chapters.
@@Nempo13 I'm pretty sure Salamanders can still have sex too, I remember reading that quite a few of them have families of their own I think?
salamander, white scar and space wolves all tend to remain close to their families as all their recruits come from a single world If I remember well, helps them remember why and who they fight for. The Ultramarines do the same but I dont think to the same extent
Never thought I'd die fight side by side with a space marine.
What about side by side with a friend?
Aye, I could do that.
Yes 👌
I like the reference 👌
Head cannon, he actually got a happy ending in the grimdark, lives happily ever after on Macragge with Jynn.
And no one can debate that since he was actually on a ship going back to Macragge with Iulus
The guy made it? That's great
@@dodge007viper Good, I'm glad we know the truth. They likely had kids as well. :3 ❤
@@dodge007viperWOOOOOO!
He had that dawg in him, he survived so he can get that snu snu.
"I will die on *MY* planet if it so pleases me, Astartus."
🚶♂️
⚾️🥎
My favorite part of the Damnos campaign is when the Astartes are overrun by the necron horde, losing a dreadnought and most of the soldiers save for Iulus and his immortals. Seeing this sight, the guardsmen, most notably Falka Kolpeck of what is at that point called “the one-hundred”, takes their ICE PICKS and CHARGE THE NECRON HORDE for no other purpose than to try and buy the marines time. Even cooler is that IT WORKS, and Falka survives the death-charge.
In a world full of monsters and beasts
A man stands fearless, with a spear and shield, determined
Unwavering.
King Leonidas
If you manage to survive as long as a space marine, you do deserve respect
No, you dont.
SM are built for extra ordinary tasks. That means there is nothing extra ordinary about them doign extra ordinary tasks.. It is expected of them to do so. To achieve anything less is to fail.
it is the guardsman who deserve respect. Because among the aliens, terminators and chaos, he is just a man. To endure the horrors all is to succeed.
"You are a man willing to die for the honor of his home world. Of that there can be no greater duty to the emperor. Die well sergeant and may the emperor bless us to meet again."
Guardsmen when they truly have a purpose or reason to fight shows glimpses of what a well motivate regular human army can do. The Cadian regiments during their homeworld's fall and the Tanith First and Only thinking they are defending Tanith once again are such examples.
To even bother remembering a name is a feat for a space marine. It's nice to see. However, at the same time... it's clear that the humanity is still stripped from Lulus. He was trained to be that way. And he was trained well.
This Space Marine knows what he is made for, lifting up mankind. It's just a shame that it's probably for the best that he cannot feel that deeper level of connection.
Some are. Wolves, Scars, Salamanders, are known for having that connection.
Ultramarines and Blood Angels are a 50/50 shot.
The Necron conflict in the Fall of Damnos and the related titles were great. The bonds between the marines and the humans were really well written. The lieutenant and his sidekick were great holding the wall to the city. He even let him call him "brother angel", then reflected on how he would make a great Ultramarine. So cheesy but so incredibly cool in the same breath lol.
Not only that. But the relationship between iulius fennion and kolpeck starts in fall of damnos and for the whole 2 books you see them gradually warm up to eachother,with kolpeck referring to iulius as "brother-angel",which first iulius resented but by the end he called him brother himself. It is really heartwarming and i really recomend the sicarius omnibus to anyone who enjoys space marines. It is better than the uriel ventris books imo
i love how toby longworth started giving his guardsmen scottish accents and it has stuck with the community ever since
Balls so heavy. They didn't allow him to waver from his duty
We must protect this guardsmen at all cost
*Salamander* : "You didn't even have to ask."
Pretty sure he makes it off world with the ultramarines
Lamenters: "On it!"
A space marine considering anything for a few moments is a life time of thought for a regular human that is how much the space marine respected him
"I have no argument with that"
What an euphemism for "I was put in my place"
This is giving me Grimaldus vibes or that one Imperial Fist commending a depressed Solider to lose a loved one or sacrifice oneself instead of love is a both heartfelt and sad fate grimdark in full action
Chad-Guardsman protecting his lady. 😢
If the technology to turn adults into space marines hadn't been lost, I suspect the Marines may have looked at their little brothers more favorably in general.
"GIVE 'EM THE OLD CATACHAN ONE TWO!"
Me: "If you survive this, Imma make you space marine.''
Chad Ultramarine moments.
Oaths are oaths my nephew he a mortal warrior understand that,now fight for the planet for that is our duty and oaths as defenders of his imperium
For The Emprah!!
There is a moment in one of the chaos books where a Gray Knight shares a very wholesome moment with a gaurdsmen during a demon invasion. They talked about fear and its relationship with bravery. The gray knight shows the man compassion and praises his will and courage. The guardsman considered himself a failure for freezing with fear when he first saw a demon. This gaurdsmen fought their way through demons and even a Korn Chaos Marine. The two talk about any the Grey Knight admits that he to is afraid. He tells the gaurdsmen that he was brave. The gardsmen was happy. Then the rest of the grey knights show up. The Grey knight then tells the gaurdsmen to check the ruble for anything useful. The man was happy to help and as he turned around the Grey Knight swiftly cut his head of with his energy sword. The Grey Knights Captain scolds him by saying "would a bolter shot not have sufficed?" To which the knight responded with "the blade was quicker......and more dignified.". The Knight then buries the gaurdsmen. He marks the grave with a large chunk of metal adorned with the man's helmet and rank. On the grave marker the gray Knight writes "here lies a man braver than I."
I love this.
*"It is our duty!"*
_"This is my home!"_
And then just the silent respect... Iulus didn't call Kolpek "brother", but we all know the sentiment was there.
"And i Guardsmen, fight to protect the mankind "
My personal favorite moment is in the Knights of Caliban codex, where a PDF trooper that previously deserted the fight chose to charge alongside the Dark Angels, lost half his face, but ended up surviving. He had been inspired by what a Scout Sergeant had said to him a few days before (one that dies in a suicide charge to plant a teleport beacon for the Deathwing). in the hospital, a Dark Angel awarded him with a fragment of that sergeant's armor, recovered from the field.
body of a mortal but a soul of a spacemarine
"We are the Adeptus Astartes. It is our Duty..."
"...Imperial Guard-Ten Thousand Years"
"we are the guardsmen, we will hold the line"
A true staple of the guard, all should strive for the same conviction.
Sergeant Kolpeck must have balls of auramite to impress an Ultramarine.
This is my home. My fathers where born here. My sons will be born here. Nothing short of my death will change that.
He who fights with me this day shall be my brother.
Space marine really had "understandable, have a nice day" moment right there.
"We are Adeptus Astartes. It is our duty."
"I am Astra Militarum. And so it is mine."
I'd like to see a story where a guardsman impresses a Marine chapter so much that they take him in to make one of their own, and it is successful!
Courage isn't an absence of fear, it's fighting on in spite of fear.
If the Astartes knew what they had sacrificed they would understand
Guardsmen. It's right there in the name.
"I didn't join the imperial guard to live, I joined to bring death to the emperor's enemies, so that humanity may survive"
For the emperor
“ I am an imperial guardsman and it is my duty too “
War of Apocalypse is the OG goat book series.
Salamander marine would have pet his head and promise to remember her name. Blood Angel would probably have wrote a fan fiction where both soldiers retired from service and have a happy life
in the end the most powerfull thing humanity has is it's unyelding spirit
The Guard will always be the best.
As a salamander I can confirm that our entire Chapter respect the guardsmen for risking their lives for the Imperium.
the space marine didn't argue because he know, this guard have massive balls and could have been a battle brother, and every hand is needed, so better get the most motivated ones.
he probably wishes he could turn that guy into a battle brother but knows he wouldn't survive the process
"You could have left."
"Key word there big guy. COULD."
Word is bond
Would’ve been cool if he responded “and we are the imperial guard. It is OUR duty”
You know, some times I am called boring from playong humans on ttrpgs when i can play a honorable dwarf or a ranger elf, but there is something noble about a simple human in a universe where other species have much more to them. The same goes to the guardsman, they are just a bunch of humans with their humble lassgun fight a whole universe of madness and death
We are the imperial guard. We are the first and last line of defense of this imperium and to each of us falls a task and that the emperor asks of us guardsmen we stand the line for fighting it's what we do best we die standing
When a simple guardsman stands up to the horrus its so much more impressive than a marine.
The strongest hearts are often caged in fragile bones
It always reminds me of that nod of approval that Judge Dredd gives Judge Anderson in Dredd.
"I am a member of the Imperial Guard. It is my duty as well".
Nice to hear an Indian guardsman. Representation is important.
Dont get me wrong i looove necrons. But these guardsman are pretty dope. They blow post heresy spacemarines out of the water in coolness.
The planet broke before the Guard did.
“Know no fear” my ass
These men and women know fear and conquer it every battle more often than astartes conquer planets
Reading Angron the Red Angel, same vibes for colonel yarrer, she knows her planet is doomed but is proud that it can possibly aid the imperium as a whole.
I respect guards more than marines. Guards were to the same place as marines, fight the same enemies, but they are mere humans who may as well be naked in terms of armor, instead of superhumans with 2 tons of metal around them.
I am a coward, I would rather be a marine than a guard.
"This is my hole, i born in it, i die in it"
There are two kinds of Adeptus Astarties. The ones who say I stay because I am a space marine and it is my duty and the ones that say I’m a space marine, i am leaving. My life is not worth being lost in a hopeless battle.
Must be some solid ground bro’s standing on with those tungsten balls of his.
Can't argue with that.
I just can't wait till a Space Marine puts a hand on a Guardsman's shoulder and calls him "brother".
A real "understandable have a noce day" moment
« Well… Fair enough »
The men may be different, but the oaths remain the same. I, much like Iulis, respect Sergeant Kolpeck. It takes a certain degree of character to be respected by an Astartes, and Sergeant Kolpeck most certainly had that character.
He should have given him a high five at the end
“We are the Adeptus Astartes. It is our Duty.”
“With all do respect, my lord, and I am a member of the Imperial Legion. It is my duty to do the same.”
"but... But we're astartes. We're suppose to be the badass ones."
"Yeah, and I don't need to be cyberly augmented to do the same shit."
Leave it to a guardsman to leave a ultramarine speechless 😂😅
to a space marine I'm willing to bet there duty for this battle would have been hold the line
Gaunt found Sar Af talking to Dorden. The old medicae looked especially fragile beside the vast Space Marine in his heavy boarding armour
'He is dying,' said Sar Af to Gaunt, as though this was news and come up in conversation.
'I know,' said Gaunt.
'But he is not afraid,' said Sar Af.
'I'm not,' said Dorden.
The White Scar nodded sagely.
He looked at Gaunt.
"And they shall know no fear," he said.
The bro had just downed his iron brew and is ready to square to go like
You should have gave him the Kratos grunt of approval 😏👌🏾. Like how Grimaldis of the Black Templars had that short friendship with those two guardsmen during the Armageddon campaign
Brass so large he couldn’t flee even if he tried
One might consider him as a future asprint.
Both great points one for duty one for love Guard are dying even more and as or more important can’t blame the man for fighting with honor and courage I’d personally leave as one guardsmen isn’t gonna beat thousands of Necron reminds me of Gaunts ghost too
He would make a amazing astarties
"...It is our duty"
And is my duty just a joke to you?
40k has being Warhammer Space Marine edition. People forget that the Astartes get the glory but the guard gets things done. The Astartes might show up with anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand if multiple chapters show. The Guard shows up with a few million at a minimum and often have the support of Titans.
I wonder if the space marine could have chosen to keep the guardsman and ask for him to go through the process to be turned into a fellow space marine , worth his salt