So maybe a small, rapidly deployable force could be stealthily inserted behind enemy lines to take out the target quickly, without tipping the enemy off to move or fortify it. Or you don't have time to assemble a major force before the target is out of reach. To reply i'd say maybe there are cases where you have a small, high value target that needs taking out, but getting a large force thru to it would alert the enemy. Though it would not seem unreasonable that a sufficiently high ranking Guard commander may be able to acquire and wear a suit of something resembling power armor, he's probably not one of the ones who'll be fighting on the front lines, so unlikely to ever appear on the table top. Kcalehc wrote: Why risk a very expensive suit of power armor, that might be hundreds of years old, when you can just throw more Guardsmen at the enemy, all of whom are easily replaceable? If the choice is between equipping a squad with power armor, or fielding a tank division, the Guard is going to choose the tank division. We have to remember, for each Space Marine, there are literally thousands of entire Regiments of Guardsmen. Yeah power armored Sisters and Marines are impressive, but the resources it takes to equip and support a handful of them are likewise astronomical. There's no lore forbidding it that I'm aware of, but it's just not really something the Munitorum feels the need to invest in. OTechpriest Engineseers have Power Armor.Īside from that however, not really. I don't recall ever seeing an IG unit with power armor, tho stormtroopers are well equipped. Matt Swain wrote: We know marines need to be physically altered to wear their armor effectively, but SoBs don't seem to need these extensive modifications. They'd feel less special if your guard opponent could splash in power armor of his own. Sisters as the only humans (other than inquisitors) in power armor on the tabletop makes them feel kind of special. And from a game design standpoint, putting power armored humans into the guard 'dex would risk watering down the differences between them and sisters/marines. There's room for them to exist, but they're exceptions rather than norms. I could totally see there being some guard regiments here and there that have sororitas-style armor in the same way that there are probably guard regiments that ride dinosaurs or go into battle alongside packs of cyber mastiffs. It seems like something about the creation process just makes it really inefficient to produce en masse. We have plenty of examples of marine chapters bending over backwards to fix up extensively damaged armor rather than tossing it out and requisitioning a new suit. There probably aren't many (any?) forgeworlds out there with power manufacturing facilities. I get the impression that when a batch of power is produced, it's as part of a special order. Picture a big daddy from Bioshock.Įdit: As for why they don't hand out power armor to guardsmen, I think power armor is simply considered too expensive to mass produce. They have a few squads of guys wearing powered armor that looks vaguely like an old-timey scuba diver suit. It's not really aesthetically the same as sororitas or astartes power armor, but there's a novel ("Fire Caste"?) featuring a guard regiment from a steampunk-ish planet. Like someone feared a common soldier, even a highly trained elite one, might be 'corrupted' by the power that he'd feel inn power armor, or some iggie unit with power armor defected during the heresy, or committed some heinous offense like singing off key during a ceremony? I'm just curious, oit seems that the imperium could make some sort of very basis unadorned PA for elite guard units but apparently decides not to. I don't play iggies so i'm not sure if there was ever a reason that elite iggies might not have some sort of power armor. I know that at one tie iggies had raiders. Is there some sort of official canon forbidding iggies power armor? I know there is a reason that only space marines have land raiders, the emperor ddecreed all LR production was to be dedicated to the marines during the horus heresy when words that could make them were in short supply and the availability was limited, and not in 10,00 years has anyone realized the reason for the emperor's order is no longer valid. We know marines need to be physically altered to wear their armor effectively, but SoBs don't seem to need these extensive modifications.
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