So how come there isn't a guardsmen equivalent of the Legion

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>>46856239
Fuck, wrong picture. Pic unrelated, look at this one ,Op pic doesn't exist!

>>46856239

one of two things, either the cost benefit balance doesn't work out for normal guardsmen, or guardsmen lack the durability/willpower to survive the process.

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>>46856239
Not everything needs to have a counterpart OP. Sometimes it's just a bad idea.

>>46856239
Because Guardsmen don't need corporeal wraiths of their former selves to be badass and get shit done.

>>46856239
The warp is infinite, and so are its manifestations. It makes the same process repeating itself unlikely.
However, there are living saints coming back to life and appearing in various points of the galaxy in 40k.

Had one guardsman undead npc that appeared in a DH campaign. His role was to avenge faithful servants of the Imperium, and his curse was arriving just in time to exact revenge, too late to save the faithful ones from suffering an horrible death.
Made for pretty nice conversations too, being not tied to the realspace timeline, as soon as we realized that this decaying warp-ghost was a friendly one.

>>46857182
Just look at Ollanius Pius, he's all the Guard really need

>>46858734
That perpetual?

>>46856239
GW doesn't care about IG. They are mooks meant to die in droves.

>>46858817
>this is what space marines actually believe

>>46856239

This is actually a good question. DKoK are the closest thing they have, and they have the same locational limitations as normal IG regiments.

A regiment of ghostly, appearing-wherever-they're-needed IG makes perfect sense for 40k when GK and LotD exist.

>>46858779
Non-perpetual Ollanius Pius, perpetuals other than Vulkan can suck it. "I can't be permanently killed" kind of cheapens the whole "standing up the fucking Arch-traitor with nothing but a laser pointer and adamantine balls large enough to have their own gravitational field" thing.