Why is it every helmet that gets added to the game we either get a helmet with no gasmask or a gasmask with no flak helmet, Like if we really have to get these skins over 14k like the xbox players got could you at least put a bit of effort into it, Hell you could take the beta helmet and put it on the gasmask you already have and I bet a lot of people would like it just a tad bit more
For real, it’s honestly baffling how much Veterans have to pick between head protection, eye protection, or air filtration. It seems like we can only ever have 2 when 90% of guardsmen fans I know want to be faceless helmet gasmask man of varying colors and styles.
It shouldn’t even be this rare in the first place it’s not like it’s a rare thing for them to have in lore lol it’s full on standard equipment in the battle primer for them to have a full set of armor gasmask and all
Yeah, the iconic imperial guardsman is the Cadian with the flak helmet with gas mask and yellow visor. That’s John Guardsman.
Fr John Guardsman would be one dead Guardsman if a Commissar seen him with out all his standard equipment, During the fall of Cadia a war hero was shot by a Commissar for dropping their Lasgun to help the medics get the others out
God 40k writing is so bad at times its laughable
They want to either sell it at a premium or have realized that doing so would make the fanbase riot so they won’t do it at all.
I wouldn’t say that it was a good story just sounds like a joke when i sum it up in a short bit
Regrettably the commisar was the only victim of a chaos mortar strike that night. Shame.
In other news we work for the inquisition now. But i still want a helmet.
Should have been - that’s one of the problems I have with Justin D Hill’s writing. A commissar behaving like that one would definitly die in a tragic friendly fire accident. I much prefer Sandy Mitchel’s approach in the Ciaphas Caine books - he has a much better grasp of how the psychology of warriors works.
In the book they were about to frag him but a LT I think stopped them but later in the book he said they should have killed that commissar
Still waiting on the carapace helmet we have, to get a version with a visor.
Cover art and cutscenes cosmetics well, the game literally has a free cosmetics shop they haven’t updated in 6 months a update including them would be a good move.
Honestly I hate the Grim Derp approach GW and theor writers have taken with Comissars. While being a political officer is their role they are supposed to be a moral and martial inspiration. Going, “lol heresy bang bolt pistol” is stupid and the majority of time counter intuitive to their job. Yes the threat of violence is a powerful tool and will help get soldiers out of the trenches, but it should be a last resort thing. The Schola Progenium has to be one of the worst officer training programs in fiction if 40k writers are anything to go by.
To the commissar
That guardsman was abandoning his post because as helping the medics get the wounded out wasn’t his duty.
Nope it was them dropping their weapon the planet was falling apart at that point
This please. Sick of the wretched balaclava which clips on the face I use. I don’t want to be ‘tacticool’, just give my poor ex-Guardsman something that will keep Nurgle’s rot out of his respiratory system and protect his head at the same time. Why they do not have the Cadian helmet with the rebreather and visor I do not know and I was surprised it wasn’t what the cover art had. Everytime I open the forum that cover art is there, taunting me with the Guardsman’s cheeks exposed, smugly on the right hand side of the screen.
But that is the point of the Imperium as a whole. It isn’t meant to be adaptable, capable, efficient or innovative or to even care about its citizens and soldiers. Cram the workers into their manufactorums to work horrifyingly long and dangerous shifts, send people into battle with lasguns against foes who individually outmatch them physically, psychically, or technologically, or a combination of those, and so long as they abhor the witch, the mutant, and the heretic, and sing their praises fulsomely to the God-Emperor each day, into whose chair thousands of psykers are sacrificed daily, and if they work and fight without question then that is all that matters.
I would beg to say that the only place you will find efficiency, innovation, and any degree of compassion is on the Imperium’s frontlines, away from the crippling dogmatic obsession with protocol and procedure, that things are done this way because they are, because anything else errs towards change and there lies the threat of heresy; afterall, ‘Blessed is the mind too small for doubt’ so don’t think about it, just do.
Commissars are great because they are the representation of that thinking thrust into the ever-changing nature of a battlefield, where they either learn to be adaptable in their duties or get late-night explosive special deliveries in their tent, if they aren’t shot in the back on the battlefield. I wouldn’t have them any other way, just with uniforms like those they used to have before they were stripped of their braid and shiny uniforms and massive pointy hats.
Regrettably, many Black Library authors seem unaware of where “grimdark” becomes “grimderp.”
Aaron Dembski-Bowden’s novel Cadian Blood also shows what happens to Commissars who abuse their authority.
FS themselves aren’t exactly helping, either, with the recent Commissar cosmetics coming attached to a blurb describing how the owner executed a group of Guardsmen for wearing the wrong camouflage pattern. 
The Imperium is cruel because it cares; because it’s mired in a situation so grim that it’s often necessary to trade thousands or millions of lives to save trillions. That’s the reality that Commissars operate in: where you might have to field-execute one man to prevent his panic infecting the rest of the firing line because morale can be a fragile thing and you really need everyone concentrating on bringing down that alien behemoth screaming up the hill towards your position because if they don’t then you’re all going to die.
Very true - and an outstanding novel. Especially befitting if you want to get into the mood for darktide ^^
I really want my Cadian to utter “Ice in your vains” when going into executioner’s stance 
I was exciting seeing the zealot one, then realizing the one holding the plasma gun was the vet one. Feelsbad
