Except you did not answer what you thought was a better scenario for my 40K-ME Guard in ME-verse crossover.

I've actually got a 40K-non-crossover story that's on the back burner ATM; it's about an Ork kroozer that's being hunted down by the IN because of the unusually high disruption it's causing with convoys and trading.

I call, "Da 'Unt fer Red Orktoba". And there's spinoffs! Like, a "one-shot" that deals with the day-to-day life of the kaptin and krew of the ship, and then there's a sequel that might be a crossover, and a parody-style sequal wherein the epynomous "Red Orktoba" goes through different 'verses and thrashes them.

Like, blowing up the Death Star (because the krew of the Red Orktoba believe it can do anything, it can), taking out the Enterprise(s) of ST-fame.

Oh, yeah, and then there's one that's gonna be about an Angry Marine who rampages through 'verses. He'll wipe out the crew of the Voyager. From ST:Voyager.

It's not so much "Orks are all low-level psychic", so much as the Orks generate their own psychic field. And yes, if enough Orks believe something will be so, then it is so.

Note that it's a very variable thing; if two or three Orks believe that their Trukk will go faster because they've painted it red, then it will. If a lone Ork believes he can use his pistol to hop in the air, then he quite possibly could.

It's also worthwhile to note that Ork tech generally is only capable of functioning because the Orks think it can. As a more extreme example, if I gave an Ork a rock and told him it was a "speshul shoota", then it would indeed shoot something.

Generally, it depends. Astartes physiology is known to be incredibly resistant to the things that would kill a normal man ten times over.

Tank-shell wise, it's very variable. This is because of the rather fractured nature of the Imperium's technology level. However, there are multiple accounts of Marines taking multiple hits from autocannons in the fluff. Plasma gun wise, like several weapons (in particular las, plasma, and melta weapons), they have a variable yield setting. At full power, a plasma gun could easily vaporize a Marine. Note that that's not a "Marines are weak, hurr durr", so much as a "Plasma guns are uber, hurr durr".

Bolter-shell wise, it depends on the munition type, and somewhat the writer. For example, there are several examples of normal bolter rounds punching through power armor in Graham McNeill's Ultramarines novels, while in James Swallow's Nemesis, the Eversor assassin has a combination bolt/needle pistol, and multiple bolt rounds are unable to fully kill a renegade Astartes.

In general though, you need either a very powerful weapon, or a lot of relatively weak weapons. Like, massed lasgun fire, which will work primarily due to lucky hits on weak points, by virtue of volume of fire. Tau pulse rifle bursts are similar, though pulse rifles area bit better than lasguns.

So...

Possible ideas for my story that I haven't typed any of yet.

So, the squad of seven (by this point) guardsmen, one a Sergeant, head to this beacon thing, some kind of ancient artifact on the planet, as the security situation begins to breakdown, eg chaos worshippers and rogue PDF everywhere, with the majority of the PDF soon to turn on the Cadians present due to them alledgedly planning to call in an Exterminatus or something. Basically the Governor of the planet's under the influence of a Chaos Sorcerer. Oh, and Traitor Legionaries have turned up. Oh yes. Anyway, having got to this artifact, the only Cadians so far (bar one Stormtrooper who they met along the way) to do so, they activate the artifact accidentally, revealing that it is not, in fact, a beacon, but something which can dispel the interference (Not sure what to make it yet. It stops ships and anything else entering from outside the atmosphere from landing or troops being teleported to the surface, whatever it is) in a localised area. Cue the waiting ships rushing to land reinforcements, while an Inquisitor and Inquisitorial Stormtrooper escort rush to the surface to capture those responsible for doing... whatever the artifact did. My plan is that the Inquisitor 1) doesn't know what the Artifact is, but suspects Chaos (as per usual) 2) didn't kill the guardsmen in case they knew, 3) comes to the conclusion that the guardsmen aren't to be killed, for reasons I shall determine, though obviously a few guardsmen would be perfectly expendable if there was even the slightest worry that they were servants of Chaos.

So... Help? Ideas?

Good idea. I'll go with that.

BTW, is it me or are there nowhere near enough men in a Space Marines company? I mean, 100 men, even if they can each stand up to tanks in single combat, aren't enough for an inter-planetary scale of warfare.

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That's a good question.

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