User blog comment:Plaguenumber3/Guard colab returns/@comment-8395098-20140511035806/@comment-5112067-20140514101806

Lolwat? How would they not know the terrain of the battlefield? Theirs a little thing called aerial (and orbital) observation, what your saying is that somehow the IG are going to somehow manage to land thousands of troops, vehicles and equipment without every bothering to look at the terrain their dropping them on? The warships their being carried on would have the entire world mapped down to the metre before a single troop ever sat foot on the planet.

As a member of the US Navy Seals, I can also safely say that I know my shit. I agree with Plague that we should draw a map of the battlefield. Also, the Aradian Storm Guard (of which I am contributing) work by using bulk formations of line infantry with support from cavalry and artillery, basically their a Napoleonic era army with las guns. Not sure how they would fight effectively in a jungle however, but I dont think the ENTIRE world would be jungle. I dont think it should be anyway, single biome worlds are way overdone in 40k, and science fiction in general really. Perhaps their should be some more grassy areas or even polar bits, a desert or two could even work. I say that 50% of the world should be thick jungle, leaving us another half to split between grasslands, forests, deserts, oceans, marijuana plantations and other biomes.