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Dragoon King · 02-15-2008

SM win, in my opinion. Sure the IG have tons of tanks and a powerful Navy, but here are my reasons they lose.

1. SM are usually much more experienced than any Guardsman. Not to metion the fact they have deeper bonds with their comrades.

2. SM are a scalpel, IG a hammer. Surgical strikes can defeat numbers. The SM would know they would not win a set-piece battle, and would avoid such events. There is more than one way to skin a cat.

3. Survivability. Umm, Power Armour?

4. Specialized anti-tank units. Sure Baneblades are cool, but the SM have a LOT of anti-armour weaponry and guys who know how to use it, which brings me to my last point.

5. IG are not as highly trained as SM. Sure, numbers count for something, but every single SM in the galaxy is a well honed, well armed and armoured, well disiplined killing machine. Just think of the line from 300, "You see, I brought more warriors than you"

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Dragoon King Destruction Manifest Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Loyall, Kentucky Posts: 2,653 Rep Power: 3 Thanks: 70 Thanked 95 Times in 73 Posts Blog Entries: 1	Re: Imperial Guard VS Space Marines SM win, in my opinion. Sure the IG have tons of tanks and a powerful Navy, but here are my reasons they lose. 1. SM are usually much more experienced than any Guardsman. Not to metion the fact they have deeper bonds with their comrades. 2. SM are a scalpel, IG a hammer. Surgical strikes can defeat numbers. The SM would know they would not win a set-piece battle, and would avoid such events. There is more than one way to skin a cat. 3. Survivability. Umm, Power Armour? 4. Specialized anti-tank units. Sure Baneblades are cool, but the SM have a LOT of anti-armour weaponry and guys who know how to use it, which brings me to my last point. 5. IG are not as highly trained as SM. Sure, numbers count for something, but every single SM in the galaxy is a well honed, well armed and armoured, well disiplined killing machine. Just think of the line from 300, "You see, I brought more warriors than you" __________________ “Nothing you can lose by dying is half so precious as the readiness to die, which is a man’s charter of nobility.” George Santayana.