{"id":3575,"date":"2012-04-07T18:10:23","date_gmt":"2012-04-07T22:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=3575"},"modified":"2012-04-09T15:19:24","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T19:19:24","slug":"space-marines-surprisingly-cost-effective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/space-marines-surprisingly-cost-effective\/","title":{"rendered":"Space Marines: Surprisingly Cost-Effective"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

“Give me a hundred Space Marines. Or failing that give me a thousand other troops”<\/em> \u2013Rogal Dorn<\/a>, Primarch of the Imperial Fists<\/p>\n

In WarHammer 40,000 the main advantage of having a Space Marine on your side is that all of your enemies die a swift death. The main disadvantage is of course that no-one knows how much they cost in 2012.<\/p>\n

But we can try.<\/p>\n

One way to estimate the cost of a Space Marine would be to assume that one Marine = 10 contemporary troops and do the maths that way; we’d be interested to hear from people who have done this and how they have calculated the value of one soldier. We’re using the points approach.<\/p>\n

Warhammer uses ‘points’ as a means of creating balanced armies. The idea is that if every model in an army has an assigned points value proportional to its worth, then a battle where each opponent has say 1,000 points worth of models should be an even fight.<\/p>\n

Futuristic weapons like plasma pistols and shuriken cannons might be difficult to find a price for. But happily, we have the Imperial Guard. The footslogging, hard done by PBI’s of the 41st<\/sup> Millenium are really just 21st<\/sup> century troops trying to take on all the aliens in the universe.<\/p>\n

Centives compared Imperial Guard weapons and equipment with modern equivalents. The slides below show the Imperial version first, followed by the modern day counterpart, calculating the points to money ratio.\u00a0Click through the slideshow below to see them all:<\/p>\n