MorhgorRB: Leting aside the part of how wasteful SM are from a resource point view, my main point was that SM are created to be tools of wars, not the next step of human evolution, like the other poster claimed.

As SolkaTruesilver said, I wouldn't mind a bit having SM as my frontline troops, but I certainly wouldn't want to have my family living near them, nor the SM taking control of anything that isn't a military operation in time of war.

And heck, if the IG had been sent to fight the Thousands suns, the probability of that primarch to convince the IG comander that he actually wasn't an heretic would be considerable superior to convincing battle thirsty Leman Russ.

After all, I've heard of guardsmen allying with the Tau. I've never heard of SM allying with the Tau however.

Z-Axis:Unfortenely you're right. Every product based on the tabletop game, from novels to DoW takes their own "liberties".