Could a commisar choose to wear power armour?

[ryng_sting]

Highly improbable, but just about possible. Perhaps they might get one as a reward for service to an Inquisitor, or something.

[Bloodknight]

That's different, by the British Imperial military reasoning troops on the ground want their commander to be touched by grace and to be far removed from their everyday miseries.

Heh, a Sharpe quote.


Commissars might be able to get a set of power armour, but I agree that it would make them look weak. Heck, even the 5+ save they now have is kind of sad, Commissars used to run around without any armour in earlier incarnations of the game.

[canberraguy]

Also with the low life expectancy a waste of very valuable power armor

[Sai-Lauren]

Nah, get the hose pipe on it, wash the inside out, and pass it on to the next person.

[Lupe]

Nah, get the hose pipe on it, wash the inside out, and pass it on to the next person.

Not necessarily in that exact order, and not necessarily going through steps 1 and 2

[Gorbad Ironclaw]

Power armor is not hard to get if sisters of battle can wear it so can commissars and anyone else really, power armor can be bought and sold, its not hard to imagine a commissar (after training) choosing to get power armor if he wants, I doubt imperium will provide him one though...

Sure, he just pop down to the local power armour dealer and buy a suit in his size. It's not exactly a standard item you can just buy. The fact that the church can supply a limited number of power armour suits for their private elite troops, or that Inquisitors can get their hands on specialised suits doesn't mean that anyone can just phone up and order one. Of course you can buy it, but it seems rather unlikely that a commisar is going to have the connections, money or inclination to get his hands on a suit. It certainly won't be something he can get through Guard channels.

[Crazy Ivan]

Also with the low life expectancy a waste of very valuable power armor

This is the clincher, I think. There's never a shortage of fresh orphans in the Imperium to make into Commissars, but power armour is expensive, people!

I seem to remember the Munitorium Manual proscribing pretty harsh punishment for those frivolously requisitioning materiel they aren't entitled to... By Imperial logic, a commissar in power armour would be obliged to shoot himself in the head before battle so as to prevent the precious piece of equipment being lost on the battlefield.

[TheDungen]

Haha yeah and the more commissiars and other guardsmen that falls in battle the more orphans you'll have. That can only be considered a win-win situation right?