Editing Imperial Infantryman's Uplifting Primer (section)

==Severely Understated "Information"==

This Book basically tells the infantryman that his [[lasgun|weapons]] are the best in the [[41st millennium|universe]] and WILL kill most things with ONE shot (possible but unlikely). It also tells such helpful things like:

* ''[[Eldar]] technology is pathetically antiquated and inferior to standard-issue Imperial Guard equipment, and shuriken weapons are unable to penetrate flak armour. Eldar are decadent and physically frail and not meant for real combat.'' Shuriken weapons are one of the few "standard-issue" weapons in the setting that can reliably penetrate Astartes armour, and so will actually go through your flak armour like razor wire through warm cheese. That's not even getting into the more exotic stuff, like the Warp Spider Death Spinner, which is capable of ''liquifying'' a grown man with one shot; cover and armour does bugger-all to protect from it. Or the Dark Eldar Shardcarbine, which fires splinters filled with such potent poison a tiny scratch can mean agonizing death. And tell that second part to the Swordwind of Biel-tan, even the humblest of them may have literally centuries of combat experience over you. Any Wych or Howling Banshee worth her salt would kill you before you could even react the moment they got within blade's reach. Don't even get us started on [[Harlequins]]; one of them killed Custodes in personal combat and ''made it look easy''.

* ''[[Orks]] are smaller and weaker than humans with brittle bones and weak muscles, and they are painfully stupid''. True, the average Ork is a vegetable (in both senses), but the bigger ones like Warbosses and Kommandos are capable of an animalistic cunning that can often catch veteran Guardsmen off-guard, not to mention the built-in technical expertise that Mekboys have. But do you know what the average Ork can do? Rip a man limb from limb with his bare hands. They're also at least a head taller and twice as wide as the average human. And Orks have been known to continue fighting despite being dismembered beyond recognition - even decapitation can be fixed with surgery if it's timely enough, and undergo invasive medical procedures that make 19th Century meatgrinder surgery look comparatively advanced.

* ''[[Tau]] are herbivorous animals that are scared by loud noises and frightened by hairy people, and possibly incapable of mathematics and science.'' Erm, the Tau have a lovely thing called a Railgun, which uses electromagnetically induced force to accelerate a solid projectile at hypersonic speeds and hits with enough force to not only punch through the frontal armour of a Leman Russ tank but also actually ''suck the crew out through the exit hole'', leaving a 30ft streak of gore trailing behind the vehicle and issues a sonic boom loud enough to be a weapon. The standard-issue gear your Fire Caste opponents take into battle is much, much more advanced than anything you will realistically acquire, and you have to ascend quite high up the regimental hierarchy to find anything that quite compares. Next to a pulse rifle, your lasgun may as well for all the world be an actual Nerf gun. Though the Tau aren't bothered by hair and have some themselves, the thing about them being herbivores is actually true.

* ''[[Genestealers]] are slow, sluggish, and having blunt-tipped claws'' (sic). To which every [[Terminator]] Marine in the galaxy either promptly laughed his ass off or suffered a rage aneurysm from the sheer stupidity of that statement. They routinely get surprised and ripped to shreds by Genestealers inside [[space hulk]]s. Terminator armour offers no protection against their claws at all, and they can cut through reinforced ship bulkheads with alarming ease. They also outpace Space Marines and rival Eldar for speed. A Genestealer would lunge and rip an ordinary human soldier to shreds, flak armor and all, before he could even blink.