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** A more specific example being the [[WaveMotionGun Volcano Cannon]] on the Shadowsword super-heavy mech-hunter, capable of severing a [[HumongousMecha Titan's]] limbs in a single shot.
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* EntertaininglyWrong: The narrator discussing Literature/CiaphasCain, defending his reputation against the "rumors" of his cowardice and implying Amberley Vail might kill people over them.
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-->"Ha! Ha! Hahahaha! I'd drop this one if I were you, guys. His girlfriend is an Inquisitor."
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* BaitAndSwitchComment: Used multiple times, but at least one standout example is when the narrator unexpectedly steps in to stop a lynching, but only because:
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-->"They were using utterly shit rope, and I wasn't doing this twice."
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* WilliamTelling: Entry 3 is a variant, where the idiot of the entry attempts to shoot an unwitting officer's pipe. He gets his own head blown off for his trouble (while being forced to smoke the same pipe).
** Another entry involves some [[AlcoholInducedIdiocy drunk Guardsmen trying to shoot a bottle off of another's head,]] which ends with one of the Guardsmen getting shot in the head. They survived, albeit with severe brain damage.
** Another entry involves some [[AlcoholInducedIdiocy drunk Guardsmen trying to shoot a bottle off of another's head,]] which ends with one of the Guardsmen getting shot in the head. They survived, albeit with severe brain damage.
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** Entry 3 is a variant, where the idiot of the entry attempts to shoot an unwitting officer's pipe. He gets his own head blown off for his trouble (while being forced to smoke the same pipe).
** Another entry involves some [[AlcoholInducedIdiocy drunk Guardsmen trying to shoot a bottle off of another's head,]] which ends with one of the Guardsmen getting shot in the head. They survived, albeit with severe braindamage.damage.
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* HumanResorces: The practice of the Imperium converting the recently deceased into rations is often referenced, with fasting being recommended as a way of avoiding them.
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* DopeSlap: After the guy in 181 got a bayonet in his balls after trying to pull a GetAHoldOfYourselfMan on a grieving widow, the narrator attempts to do the same to the guy. The narrator wasn't expecting it to work, he just wanted to hit the guy.
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* AcceptableTargets: Imperial nobility are this in the narrator's opinion, and not without reason. Several entries involve nobles suffering the fatal consequences of their arrogance.
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* BerserkButton: The author's buttons include, but are not limited to: Threatening his family, implying his relationship with his sister is not so platonic, sexual slavery, and bad-mouthing the Lamenters.
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* BlingOfWar: Generally discouraged by the narrator because it makes you stand out on the battlefield, thus making you a more appealing target... plus, it's a real pain in the butt to remove those encrusted gems so no one would suspect the weapon was looted.
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* WeHaveToGetTheBulletOut: No. "Your attempts at heroics are probably going to kill the guy faster because your serrated combat knife tearing his chest apart isn't good for him. Who would've thought?" Though exceptions are made for poisoned yet-unexploded explosive rounds.
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* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: The narrator is a firm believer that all Eldar (with exceptions for the Harlequins) are this and that any alliance with them is doomed to fall apart the second interests no longer align. [[DownplayedTrope That said]] he also insists that just because any Eldar alliance is doomed to fail, that doesn't mean the guard should go ahead and be the ones to break it while a mutual threat is still out there.
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* ImpracticallyFancyOutfit: Heavily discouraged by the narrator, after an experience with a regiment with collars so high they managed to get outflanked by Orks. Orks that weren't Kommandos.
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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: A couple of the entries lean into this kind of humor, such as [[UnPerson the fate of the Squats]] and the stagnant timeline.
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* RedshirtArmy: The Imperial Guard often falls into this trope, much to the narrator's annoyance, but he also provides an unintentional example with his wife. Originally, his wife was part of an elite force put together by the Iron Hands with extensive augmentation meant to enhanced their combat abilities. But these forces all had zero combat experience, meaning they still suffered heavy casualties when they were first deployed. The narrator gripes about how it would've been more effective to give said augmentations to more seasoned veterans of the guard.
* SelfMadeOrphan: The protagonist and his sister, thanks to a Molotov cocktail his sister made. He's still of the opinion that their father had it coming.
* SelfMadeOrphan: The protagonist and his sister, thanks to a Molotov cocktail his sister made. He's still of the opinion that their father had it coming.
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* TooKinkyToTorture: Slannesh cultists. It's pointed out how trying to get violent revenge on them is both an exercise in futility, on top of being quite dangerous as the cultists can still cause harm.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: When recounting his childhood, the narrator makes several references that painted his sister as having pyromania as early as when she was a young child. Though she at least had enough sense to have her brother on standby with a bucket of water.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: When recounting his childhood, the narrator makes several references that painted his sister as having pyromania as early as when she was a young child. Though she at least had enough sense to have her brother on standby with a bucket of water.
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* WeHaveToGetTheBulletOut: No. "Your attempts at heroics are probably going to kill the guy faster because your serrated combat knife tearing his chest apart isn't good for him. Who would've thought?" Though exceptions are made for poisoned rounds.
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* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Several entries are a result of this.
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* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: This is often true in the 40k 'verse, and several entries admit as much, but entry 238 points out why it's important not to jump the gun to this.
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* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: This is often true in the 40k 'verse, with many factions and enemies all too willing and eager to inflict a FateWorseThanDeath on their victims - and several entries admit as much, but entry 238 points out why it's important not to jump the gun to this.
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* DeathBySex: Several entries state why having any form of sex with Slaaneshi cultists is a bad idea.
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* DeathBySex: Several entries state why having any form of sex with Slaaneshi cultists cultists[[note]](or near Chaos in general - Nurgle's known to get in on this too via [=STIs=] - or with the Eldar, Dark or otherwise)[[/note]] is a bad idea.idea. In short: This tends to be the typical result.
* DeathSeeker: The Death Korps of Krieg are repeatedly cited as examples of this by the narrator. They're known for marching fearlessly into battle, heedless of their own survival, (brainwashed into) seeking to "atone" for past rebellion and "heresy".
* DeathSeeker: The Death Korps of Krieg are repeatedly cited as examples of this by the narrator. They're known for marching fearlessly into battle, heedless of their own survival, (brainwashed into) seeking to "atone" for past rebellion and "heresy".
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* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Violently and painfully deconstructed in Entry 181 by both the narrator and the anecdote, as the idiot of the entry is the proud recipient of a [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice sharp]] GroinAttack for attempting this on a grieving widow. The narrator then gives the technique a second chance on them. It doesn't work any better for calming them down.
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* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Violently and painfully deconstructed in Entry 181 by both the narrator and the anecdote, as the idiot of the entry is the proud recipient of a [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice sharp]] GroinAttack for attempting this on a grieving widow. The narrator then gives the technique a second chance chance... on them.said GroinAttack victim. It doesn't work any better for calming them down.
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** 156: An aircraft's ordinance is also generally more effective than its use as a battering ram, especially when it's fully loaded - and even more so if you ''can't even get it on target''.
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** 156: An aircraft's ordinance is also generally more effective than its said aircraft's use as a battering ram, especially when it's fully loaded - and even more so if you ''can't even get it on target''.
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* HopeSpringsEternal: [[spoiler: In the form of the Indomitus Crusade as well as the Chaos Lord's death, and on a more personal level, the protagonist's daughter beginning to write a new in-universe book, explicitly named as a new beginning: "Surviving in the Hell of the 42nd Millenium".Millennium".]]
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* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Painfully averted.
* GeneralFailure: The narrator strongly believes [[WeHaveReserves Chenkov]] is one of these, calling him out by name multiple times and lamenting being unable to write his entry due to his continued survival, and calls out several more over the course of his list.
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* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Painfully averted.
Violently and painfully deconstructed in Entry 181 by both the narrator and the anecdote, as the idiot of the entry is the proud recipient of a [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice sharp]] GroinAttack for attempting this on a grieving widow. The narrator then gives the technique a second chance on them. It doesn't work any better for calming them down.
* GeneralFailure: The narratorstrongly believes is firmly of the opinion [[WeHaveReserves Chenkov]] is one of these, this, calling him out by name multiple times and lamenting being unable to write his entry due to his continued survival, and calls out several more over the course of his list.
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* IncrediblyObviousBomb: The explosive used in Entry 10 is apparently an example, at least enough so to beep loudly before detonation. One wonders why the [[ManipulativeBastard Eldar]] would use such a bomb, unless the narrator is embellishing here...
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* WhyAmITicking: Apparently the end result of a casual sexual encounter with an [[ManipulativeBastard Eldar]] in Entry 10.
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* WilliamTelling: Entry 3 is a variant, where the idiot of the entry attempts to shoot an unwitting officer's pipe. He gets his own head blown off for his trouble (while being forced to smoke the same pipe).
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* WilliamTelling: Entry 3 is a variant, where the idiot of the entry attempts to shoot an unwitting officer's pipe. He gets his own head blown off for his trouble (while being forced to smoke the same pipe).pipe).
** Another entry involves some [[AlcoholInducedIdiocy drunk Guardsmen trying to shoot a bottle off of another's head,]] which ends with one of the Guardsmen getting shot in the head. They survived, albeit with severe brain damage.
** Another entry involves some [[AlcoholInducedIdiocy drunk Guardsmen trying to shoot a bottle off of another's head,]] which ends with one of the Guardsmen getting shot in the head. They survived, albeit with severe brain damage.
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* AccidentalSuicide: Considering that the whole premise is about characters being TooDumbToLive, there's ''at least'' one example on every page, on average.
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: This is often true in the 40k 'verse, and several entries admit as much, but entry 238 points out why it's important not to jump the gun to this.
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* BlackComedyCreatorBreakdown: [[spoiler: Happens in-universe, over his fears of confronting the Chaos Lord again, leading to the later-redacted Entry 420, where he basically calls the whole universe a ShaggyDogStory. He recovers enough to go out in a blaze of glory.]]
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: How the narrator finally dies, and ends up writing his own entry as predicted, as entry 500 (though the actual ''stupid'' death is [[TakingYouWithMe the Chaos Lord]]).]] Aside from this climactic one, several other entries discuss how to do them right, and failed attempts at them, such as:
** 136: Using anti-plant grenades against Tyranids is... less than effective.
** 156: An aircraft's ordinance is also generally more effective than its use as a battering ram, especially when it's fully loaded - and even more so if you ''can't even get it on target''.
** 385: Blowing yourself up to end a Chaos Space Marine is the right way to do it. Misestimating your grenades' fuses and not making it to the enemy lines in the first place? Not so much.
** 136: Using anti-plant grenades against Tyranids is... less than effective.
** 156: An aircraft's ordinance is also generally more effective than its use as a battering ram, especially when it's fully loaded - and even more so if you ''can't even get it on target''.
** 385: Blowing yourself up to end a Chaos Space Marine is the right way to do it. Misestimating your grenades' fuses and not making it to the enemy lines in the first place? Not so much.
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* MercyKill: The narrator has given out several, especially where the [[TortureTechnician Dark Eldar]] and [[EldritchAbomination Chaos]] {{Cult}}s are concerned.
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* PyrrhicVictory: It's the 40k, they abound. If you end up an Entry, this is about the ''best'' you can hope for. Unless you ''caused'' the entry.
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* CombatPragmatist: The main character definitely counts, and many entries tacitly encourage this attitude, but it's the explicit theme of entry 402, Fuck Fighting Fair.
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* LastWords: Defied by the narrator refusing to allow this in Entry 304, then further deconstructed when another enemy in another location uses it as HoldingTheFloor to set off a powerful explosive charge and inflict seventeen casualties.
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* TalkingDownTheSuicidal: Encouraged in 403, especially as a much preferable option to "helping" them die. Since, among other things, survivors and loved ones don't tend to take kindly to the latter.
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* WilliamTelling: Entry 3 is a variant, made worse by it being aimed at an unwitting officer('s pipe). The offender gets his own head blown off for his trouble (while being forced to smoke the same pipe).
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* TheEnemyWeaponsAreBetter: Played straight with T'au and Eldar weapons, though getting caught with them will result in summary execution, and ammo is hard to find unless you're fighting those specific enemies. Averted with Chaos and Ork weaponry. The former due to usually being possessed by a daemon, which will then attempted to possess, corrupt, and/or kill the user. The latter because they're stupidly heavy, don't work as well in the hands of non-Orks, and make the user a more appealing target for Orks.
** Also averted with Necron weaponry. It is incredibly powerful, but good luck figuring out how to use it. One case the narrator mentions ends with the user's brains on the ceiling, their large intestine all over the floor, and their gallbladder in the narrator's good eye.
** Also averted with Necron weaponry. It is incredibly powerful, but good luck figuring out how to use it. One case the narrator mentions ends with the user's brains on the ceiling, their large intestine all over the floor, and their gallbladder in the narrator's good eye.
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* TheEnemyWeaponsAreBetter: Played straight with T'au and Eldar weapons, though getting caught with them will result in summary execution, and ammo is hard to find unless you're fighting those specific enemies. Averted with Chaos and Ork weaponry. The former due to usually being possessed by a daemon, which will then attempted to possess, corrupt, and/or kill the user. The latter because they're stupidly heavy, don't work as well in the hands of non-Orks, and make the user a more appealing target for Orks.
** Also averted wiht Necron weaponry. It is incredibly powerful, but good luck figuring out how to use it. One case the narrator mentions ends with the user's brains on the ceiling, their large intestine all over the floor, and their gallbladder in the narrator's good eye.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Inverted. The narrator is the only male in his family, which consists of himself, his wife, his sister, his daughter, and the daughter's girlfriend/wife.
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* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Inverted. The narrator is the only male in his family, which consists of himself, his wife, his sister, his daughter, and the daughter's girlfriend/wife.
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* TheEnemyWeaponsAreBetter: Played straight with T'au and Eldar weapons, though getting caught with them will result in summary execution, and ammo is hard to find unless you're fighting those specific enemies. Averted with Chaos and Ork weaponry. The former due to usually being possessed by a daemon, which will then attempted to possess, corrupt, and/or kill TooDumbToLive: Pretty much 90% of the user. The latter entries are because they're stupidly heavy, don't work as well in the hands of non-Orks, and make the user a more appealing target for Orks.
** Also averted wiht Necron weaponry. It is incredibly powerful, but good luck figuring out how to use it. One case the narrator mentions ends with the user's brains on the ceiling, their large intestine all over the floor, and their gallbladder in the narrator's good eye.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Inverted. The narrator is the only male in his family, which consists of himself, his wife, his sister, his daughter, and the daughter's girlfriend/wife.this.
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* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Inverted. The narrator is the only male in his family, which consists of himself, his wife, his sister, his daughter, and the daughter's girlfriend/wife.
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* WeHaveReserves: Several entries call out this attitude, and detail the ways it can fail and backfire, from getting [[UnfriendlyFire Fragged]] by your own men in response, to the higher-ups being unimpressed with the "strategy", to quite simply ''not having'' enough men for the strategy to work, or being up against something that pure numbers ''can't'' defeat.
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* WeHaveReserves: Several entries call out this attitude, and detail the ways it can fail and backfire, from getting [[UnfriendlyFire Fragged]] by your own men in response, to the higher-ups being unimpressed with the "strategy", to quite simply ''not having'' enough men for the strategy to work, or being up against something that pure numbers ''can't'' defeat.defeat.
* WilliamTelling: Entry 3 is a variant, made worse by it being aimed at an unwitting officer('s pipe). The offender gets his own head blown off for his trouble (while being forced to smoke the same pipe).
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: The protagonist takes out the Chaos Lord and a good chunk of her forces in an epic trap... with himself as the living bait, setting it off in person. He doesn't make it out, but he makes damn sure his family does.]]
* FlingALightIntoTheFuture: [[spoiler: The last chapter of the in-universe book ends up as this, as it's left in the keeping of his family, who are able to escape his [[StuffBlowingUp epic last act]].]]
* GeneralFailure: The narrator strongly believes [[WeHaveReserves Chenkov]] is one of these, calling him out by name multiple times and lamenting being unable to write his entry due to his continued survival, and calls out several more over the course of his list.
* HopeSpringsEternal: [[spoiler: In the form of the Indomitus Crusade as well as the Chaos Lord's death, and on a more personal level, the protagonist's daughter beginning to write a new in-universe book, explicitly named as a new beginning: "Surviving in the Hell of the 42nd Millenium".]]
* SergeantRock: The protagonist, though a little less caring about the lives of his men than most. Still, he has good reason to believe you can't save 'em all at this point.
* SexSlave: The protagonist explicitly isn't a fan of them, and includes multiple entries threatening those who would attempt to take such "prisoners".
* ShootTheShaggyDog: Yep, these entries definitely appear. In Entry 420, an InUniverse CreatorBreakdown leads to an entry about how the entire 40k galaxy is this. Thankfully, in-universe, that entry is redacted before it can be published and lead to suicide pacts if not mass suicides, and the protagonist's earlier and later experiences arguably disprove it, or at least provide counter-arguments.
* SexSlave: The protagonist explicitly isn't a fan of them, and includes multiple entries threatening those who would attempt to take such "prisoners".
* ShootTheShaggyDog: Yep, these entries definitely appear. In Entry 420, an InUniverse CreatorBreakdown leads to an entry about how the entire 40k galaxy is this. Thankfully, in-universe, that entry is redacted before it can be published and lead to suicide pacts if not mass suicides, and the protagonist's earlier and later experiences arguably disprove it, or at least provide counter-arguments.
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* WeHaveReserves: Several entries call out this attitude, and detail the ways it can fail and backfire, from getting [[UnfriendlyFire Fragged]] by your own men in response, to the higher-ups being unimpressed with the "strategy", to quite simply ''not having'' enough men for the strategy to work, or being up against something that pure numbers ''can't'' defeat.
* WeHaveReserves: Several entries call out this attitude, and detail the ways it can fail and backfire, from getting [[UnfriendlyFire Fragged]] by your own men in response, to the higher-ups being unimpressed with the "strategy", to quite simply ''not having'' enough men for the strategy to work, or being up against something that pure numbers ''can't'' defeat.
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** Necron weaponry also counts. It is incredibly powerful, but good luck figuring out how to use it. One case the narrator mentions ends with the user's brains on the ceiling, their large intestine all over the floor, and their gallbladder in the narrator's good eye.
** Necron weaponry also counts. It is incredibly powerful, but good luck figuring out how to use it. One case the narrator mentions ends with the user's brains on the ceiling, their large intestine all over the floor, and their gallbladder in the narrator's good eye.
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* TheEnemyWeaponsAreBetter: Played straight with T'au and Eldar weapons, though getting caught with them will result in summery execution, and ammo is hard to find unless you're fighting those specific enemies. Subverted Averted with Chaos and Ork weaponry. The former due to usually being possessed by a daemon, which will then attempted to possess, corrupt, and/or kill the user. The latter because they're stupidly heavy, don't work as well in the hands of non-Orks, and make the user a more appealing target for Orks.
** Also averted wiht Necronweaponry also counts.weaponry. It is incredibly powerful, but good luck figuring out how to use it. One case the narrator mentions ends with the user's brains on the ceiling, their large intestine all over the floor, and their gallbladder in the narrator's good eye.
** Also averted wiht Necron
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* BadassFamily: The narrator is a veteran in the Imperial Guard. His wife, an IG heavy weapons expert, has several cybernetic implants which, among other things, make her strong enough to break a human spine with only two fingers. His sister is a Sister of Battle. His daughter is a psyker. And his daughter-in-law is a gunslinger from Gunmetal City.
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** Necron weaponry also counts. It is incredibly powerful, but good luck figuring out how to use it. One case the narrator mentions ends with the user's brains on the ceiling, their large intestine all over the floor, and their gallbladder in the narrator's good eye.
