Human warriors who fight impressively against Astartes

[Triszin]

SLy MARBO! =D

[bluntblade]

Temba wasn't exactly still human at that point though, was he?

Certainly not.

[b1soul]

Temba was Chaos-buffed and armed with the magical Nurgle blade, so he's prob not a good example

 

Perpetuals, as far as I know, have normal human stats, so it's like an Imperial Army trooper gunning down Vulkan with a shuriken cannon he picked up

[Marshal Loss]

I only glanced briefly at the thread, so forgive me if this has already been mentioned, but in Storm of Iron there is a human character who holds his own against Honsou in combat - he may even have been winning, it has been a long time since I read it - and the Iron Warrior is eventually forced to lose his arm in order to win the duel.

[Slan Drakkos]

Off the top of my head:

 

In the first Ghosts book Ibram manages to stab a CSM before getting knocked off his feet and needing to be saved by another guardsman.

 

Ciaphas Cain briefly fought a world eater on swordplay before Jergen killed it. In that same book, Cain also stabbed another world eater who was admittedly so injured that his punches only managed to kill some of the guardsmen Cain was with. Keep in mind please that Cain has fought evenly with a genestealer Broodlord, a daemon princess of slaanesh, an Ork warboss, and multiple other daemons, mutants, and creatures.

 

In the war of the beast, hundreds of space Marines got butchered by imperial assassin's.

 

The sisters of silence also killed numerous thousand sons.

[bluntblade]

Eversor Assassins do not count as baseline mortal humans.

[Sandlemad]

 

The Warriors of the Olamic Quietude in Prospero burns appeared to put up quite the fight against astartes as well (they are debatably post human though)

 

I think we could pick a few DAoT-survivors here, even the less post-human ones. The Interex did pretty well against the Luna Wolves and Captain Wossname managed to resolutely hold his own in CC against Loken for a while, even with a broken spear. Similarly the mortal inhabitants of Dwell held out against Little Horus Aximand and his warriors from a distance, largely thanks to their decent personal shielding tech.

 

There was also the Katara, an abhuman civilisation wiped out during the great crusade. They were so skilled in hand-to-hand combat with their "leaf-bladed ceramic axes, plasma-tipped spears that burned like suns and swords of black glass that could cut ceramite with a delicate stroke" that they astonished even the Emperor's Children. Their champion nearly took down the finest EC swordsman in the expeditionary fleet.

Now it's not entirely clear how far they were from 'baseline' humanity, so this might not quite count. The fact that their compliance/extermination was called a 'xenocide' suggests they might have been pretty distinct.

[Triszin]

 

 

The Warriors of the Olamic Quietude in Prospero burns appeared to put up quite the fight against astartes as well (they are debatably post human though)

 

I think we could pick a few DAoT-survivors here, even the less post-human ones. The Interex did pretty well against the Luna Wolves and Captain Wossname managed to resolutely hold his own in CC against Loken for a while, even with a broken spear. Similarly the mortal inhabitants of Dwell held out against Little Horus Aximand and his warriors from a distance, largely thanks to their decent personal shielding tech.

 

There was also the Katara, an abhuman civilisation wiped out during the great crusade. They were so skilled in hand-to-hand combat with their "leaf-bladed ceramic axes, plasma-tipped spears that burned like suns and swords of black glass that could cut ceramite with a delicate stroke" that they astonished even the Emperor's Children. Their champion nearly took down the finest EC swordsman in the expeditionary fleet.

Now it's not entirely clear how far they were from 'baseline' humanity, so this might not quite count. The fact that their compliance/extermination was called a 'xenocide' suggests they might have been pretty distinct.

 

interex aren't baseline either.

 

they had enchanced exo skeletans that made them look like centaurs

[BLACK BLΠFLY]

Eisenhorn fights a CSM in Pariah - amazing scene! Also Cyphias (sp?) Cain takes out a CSM in another novel. Inquisitors can be tough cookies.

[Beren]

 

 

The Warriors of the Olamic Quietude in Prospero burns appeared to put up quite the fight against astartes as well (they are debatably post human though)

 

I think we could pick a few DAoT-survivors here, even the less post-human ones. The Interex did pretty well against the Luna Wolves and Captain Wossname managed to resolutely hold his own in CC against Loken for a while, even with a broken spear. Similarly the mortal inhabitants of Dwell held out against Little Horus Aximand and his warriors from a distance, largely thanks to their decent personal shielding tech.

 

There was also the Katara, an abhuman civilisation wiped out during the great crusade. They were so skilled in hand-to-hand combat with their "leaf-bladed ceramic axes, plasma-tipped spears that burned like suns and swords of black glass that could cut ceramite with a delicate stroke" that they astonished even the Emperor's Children. Their champion nearly took down the finest EC swordsman in the expeditionary fleet.

Now it's not entirely clear how far they were from 'baseline' humanity, so this might not quite count. The fact that their compliance/extermination was called a 'xenocide' suggests they might have been pretty distinct.

interex aren't baseline either.

 

they had enchanced exo skeletans that made them look like centaurs

That still makes them biologically baseline, and if you're not factoring in technology then that includes Power Armour.

[Sandlemad]

 

 

 

The Warriors of the Olamic Quietude in Prospero burns appeared to put up quite the fight against astartes as well (they are debatably post human though)

 

I think we could pick a few DAoT-survivors here, even the less post-human ones. The Interex did pretty well against the Luna Wolves and Captain Wossname managed to resolutely hold his own in CC against Loken for a while, even with a broken spear. Similarly the mortal inhabitants of Dwell held out against Little Horus Aximand and his warriors from a distance, largely thanks to their decent personal shielding tech.

 

There was also the Katara, an abhuman civilisation wiped out during the great crusade. They were so skilled in hand-to-hand combat with their "leaf-bladed ceramic axes, plasma-tipped spears that burned like suns and swords of black glass that could cut ceramite with a delicate stroke" that they astonished even the Emperor's Children. Their champion nearly took down the finest EC swordsman in the expeditionary fleet.

Now it's not entirely clear how far they were from 'baseline' humanity, so this might not quite count. The fact that their compliance/extermination was called a 'xenocide' suggests they might have been pretty distinct.

 

interex aren't baseline either.

 

they had enchanced exo skeletans that made them look like centaurs

 

 

Not all of them. The captain Loken fought was had some sort of lightweight armour that Loken thinks might have been powered but was on two legs, sans exoskeleton.

[b1soul]

I don't think SoS vs. TSons really belongs here. SoS vs. non-psyker SM or CSM does.