opinions on HH legends rules in 40k

[Marshal Rohr]

On 3/16/2024 at 2:35 PM, Beta galactosidase said:

If you use a spartan in particular for a 40k Chapter, then you dont like Space Marines.  Space Marines are air mobile, their tanks get delivered by thunderhawk.  In Epic scale 40k, a pure marine army is a school of minnows against other armies' superheavies, because theyre a paratrooper army and theyre supposed to be undergunned.  If you bring a spartan in 40k, you like mil-fic space knights and not marines.

 

What about Imperial Fists and Iron Hands, and Aurorans?  Imperial Fists are siege paratroopers and they bring their airmobile siege guns, the vindicator and Achilles.  They're all paratroopers, every chapter. These are characters, they can't be blank screens to project any old aesthetic onto.

 

There is no meaningful distinction in solving the problem of getting a normal land raider down from orbit and a Spartan. If you can do one and it is part of the space marines character then the other is also part of the space character. 
 

As for people liking mil-fic space knights, welcome to Warhammer40K and the worlds of Games Workshop, you can find all the info you need in printed books.