Space Marine Casualties vs Guardsmen Casualties

Thats loife in th' Guard, baby.

[justsomebodyontheinternet]

After the brutal battle, all of the remaining guardsmen were executed because they saw some random shiny space marine.

[Mysendell]

To be fair them taking that hill will make it easier for the space marines to swoop in and steal the glory at the end of combat

[MiketheMadness]

"10 Space Marines were lost, sir"
"That's horrible, our burning angels of vengeance must have foughts valiantly."
"Our Imperial Guard forces also lost a rough estimate of 30, 000 fatalities, bodies are still coming in..."
"When?"
"As we speak Genera-"
"No. When did I ask?"

[pancake_]

Astartes:
”Chapter master, 50 brothers have died at the hands of the xenos”
”That’s half a company. How will we recover?”
vs. militarum
”Sir, 4 million men have died ensuring the orks don’t advance”
”Only 4 million?!”

[montecarlowithdawningornam]

The best part is that the Marine at the end is a Grey knight and was too cowardly to kill him without a sneak attack

[twatmere]

Imagine being the last Guardsman who managed to survive the entire battle and standing your ground until more guardsmen show to assist you in securing the area then you see a ship coming down and you're about to greet them jokingly about being late only to see a shiny space marine.

[electricimpulse]

Cadian: "it's tragic, only one man lived!" Krieger: "it's tragic, one man lived!"

[locomotivefaox]

That hill is strategically important...
For this part of the left flank’s auxiliary division’s recon company to get a slightly better view.

[inquisitormaddox]

The grey knight was gonna say “this is the judgement of the righteous”
The guardsmen was not righteous enough

[Frost]

You know, a game depicting the plights of a guardsman would be pretty cool. Each time you die you get a character with a new name or something like that. It'd force you to be smart about how you approached things or even make a sacrifice to clear the way for the next guy. Seems like a solid idea, yeah?

*Edit* I'm talking about all of these lives overlapping. So after twenty lives or so you have a well oiled meat grinder. Each life would take a bullet or return one in kind, but eventually the enemy would falter under the wave if bodies piling up.

[AbhisarRawat]

Primarch dies: whole legions sad
Custodes dies: emperor himself is sad
Named Marine dies: Whole chapter is sad
Named human dies: whole regiment is sad
Marine dies: apothecary is sad
Gaurd dies: *"I guess its time for the new recruits to shine"*

[BobBobby-jinm]

Warhammer 40k :
10% Guardsmen Survive
90% Guardsmen Become Emperor's fertilizer

[secretbaguette]

A quarter million?!? That commander must be a tactical genius.

[cernos]

Some Grey Knight: You have seen me, you must die

Guardsman: I don't even know what you are

[MordredSimp]

During the Siege of Vraks there were 14 Million Guardsman Casualties over 150 Space Marine Casualties, 9 Titans, and 4 Inquistors. And it's considered a pyrrhic victory because they lost alot of Space Marines and 9 Titans

[AlphaOmegon]

Space marines: we have casualties.

Guard: We did it bois we took this position and it only costed us 90% of our forces. Glory to the God Empera.

[acevergel]

I like how Grey Knights appear in the End 🤣
Killing Every Last Guardsmen Survivors in Battle.

[anhduc]

5 Space Marines died fighting off an army: "Brothers, we have won the day, but can a battle this costly even count as a victory?"
25million Guardsmen died fighting off an army:
"We won. We stopped an invasion and saved this world. And it's only costed us 25 million man. This is a great success."
Edit: Don't you just love it when your comment about grim dark fantasy world became a politic discussion instead?

[reddherod]

Guardsman: I survived the assault!
Commissar: Then we did it wrong.
Krieger Guardsman: *Says nothing, having happily died in the assault*

[spaghettimkay]

You make utter art and I just know this is a hidden gem channel I will look back on and say "I was subbed before he even had 100 subs"