History Fanfic / AllGuardsmenParty

* ArcWords: "So no shit, there we were..." Considering the situations the party gets into, starting every chapter with a NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer is warranted.

* BornLucky: Bane Johns, the squad's fifth Interrogator: despite what seems like a surfeit of confidence and a lack of strategic planning or common sense, every event in his mission seems to go his way without fail. [[spoiler: Turns out he's a psyker with RealityWarper tendencies who can arrange probability to go in his favor.]]

* KillerGameMaster: The GM has his players roll up dozens upon dozens of PlayerCharacters in their first session, and kills off nearly all of them - only 37 survive. Not for nothing is he described as being "on the 'Hitler scale' of death measurement".

->[[CatchPhrase "So no shit, there we were..."]]

* AbhorrentAdmirer: Tink has an obsession with female Tech Priests that leads to what the fic straight-up calls sexual harassment.

* FiveManBand: Though members are occasionally exchanged.
** TheLeader: Sarge
** TheBigGuy: Heavy
** The DemolitionsExpert: Twitch
** The LoveableRogue: Nubby
** TheMedic: Doc
** TheBerserker: Cutter
** The PyroManiac: Crisp
** TheEngineer: Tink. Also Hannah and Jim, the NPC Cogbros.
** TeamPet: Spot, Tink's Tau stealth drone.

** There's also one unnamed Interrogator, later an Inquisitor, who's only known as the Rupert, and his batman, who is christened "Alfred" by the party.

* PaperThinDisguise: Tink sticks a bunch of grox skins and other assorted skulls on his tau drone, to disguise it as a servoskull.

** [[Franchise/JamesBond Bane Johns]].

* WrenchWench: In addition to few female Tech Priests, Twitch has a brief relationship with a Tau weapons tech that he seems convinced is a woman.

** TeamPet: Spot.

* ProperlyParanoid: The guardsmen's paranoia has saved them a great many times.

** There's also one unnamed Interrogator, later an Inquisitor, who's only known as the Rupert, and his batman, known only as Alfred.

->[[Catchphrase "So no shit, there we were..."]]
-->'''Shoggy''', whenever he sums up an improbable yet hilarious situation the party has found itself in

->"So no shit, there we were..."
-->Author '''Shoggy''', whenever he sums up an improbable yet hilarious situation the party has found itself in

* Badass: There's plenty of it to go around.
** BadassCrew: The Guardsmen as a whole.

* %%TheUntwist: The adventure in Tau space features a former Inquisitor who has gone native and adapted a number of Tau customs, and is heavily hinted to be the villain behind it all. He turns out to be completely loyal to the Imperium.

* BornLucky: Bane Johns, the squad's fifth Interrogator. Turns out he's a psyker with RealityWarper tendencies who can arrange probability to go in his favor.

* HypercompetentSidekick: The Guardsmen end up being this, due to usually being the only sane men, relatively speaking, to their Interrogators.

** There's also one unnamed Interrogator, later an Inquisitor, who's only known as the Rupert.
** And then the Inquisitor who's their boss, who's only referred to as Professor Oak.

** [[DiscWorld Nubby]], the Guardsman who doesn't quite look human and steals everything not nailed down.

** [[JamesBond Bane Johns]].

* TheUntwist: The adventure in Tau space features a former Inquisitor who has gone native and adapted a number of Tau customs, and is heavily hinted to be the villain behind it all. He turns out to be completely loyal to the Imperium.

* GenericName: The characters' former regiment was the Generian 99th Medium Infantry -- listed in Munitorum records as [[=GENER IC=]].

** TheEngineer: Tink

* TrainingFromHell: The party's backstory, played through in a marathon session as a series of bloody [[Dwindling Party Only War campaigns]] before they switched to DarkHeresy. Also applies to what they eventually put their Inquisitorial trainees through.

** [[Discworld Nubby]], the Guardsman who doesn't quite look human and steals everything not nailed down.

->So no shit, there we were...
-->Author '''Shoggy''', whenever he sums up an improbable yet hilarious situation

->So imagine you're a guardsman that's just been recruited, fought a brutal campaign that wore down your regiment, watched the remainder of that regiment get taken out by Tyranids, then found yourself in the hands of the Inquisition. Then the Inquisition purges a few of your buddies, gives you an offer you can't refuse, ships you through the warp, and dumps you into a really creepy bootcamp. Finally they split you and your remaining buddies up into squads, introduce your squad to some weird lookin guy who seems far too excited to see you, and tell you to do everything he says. Now you're hanging out in a bunch of passenger cabins on a navy ship going Emperor knows where with a few of your buddies, an Interrogator, three nerds (one of which is more metal than meat), a priest, and a psychotic blond bombshell wearing armor that's probably worth more than all of your squad's gear combined. We were just a little weirded out.

* FiveManBand: Though members are occasionally exchanged

** Nubby, the Guardsman who doesn't quite look human and steals everything not nailed down.

-> ...since we were guardsmen we felt sure that enough faith and firepower could solve anything...

* IdiotBall: Nubby take's firm possession of this during the Discount Spaceship chapter.

-> Our 'experiments' had established that las fire and grenades didn't do much to the shield, but since we were guardsmen we felt sure that enough faith and firepower could solve anything. We set up positions around the shield and started continuously plinking las fire into it, because when you have a fusion reactor to recharge your cells from you might as well lay down some indiscriminate suppressive fire.

* BadBoss: Most of the Interrogators qualify, some more than others.

* BornLucky: Bane Johns, the squad's fifth Interrogator.

** Alfred, the Rupert's batman. The Guardsmen instantly bond with him over this.

* Five-Man Band: Though members are occasionally exchanged

** DemolitionsExpert: Twitch
** LoveableRogue: Nubby

** PyroManiac: Crisp

The series is essentially the author's report on the Dark Heresy campaigns he runs with, and is filled with a great many awesome and funny moments.

* HypercompetantSidekick: The Guardsmen end up being this, due to usually being the only sane men, relatively speaking, to their Interrogators.

* MoarDakka: The usual answer to solve problems. The Guardsmen also had Heavy and his heavy stubber to provide this early on.