Superstition
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Meta joke (I still do not know what those things in her ears are)
I thought this rule was only for space marines, well, actually she may be onto something.
Amazing work!
Her fire warrior friend better alerts his name and throw away that helmet before he dies to a random guard
She's not wrong
She's dangerously close to achieving CHIM
There is a lot of things that the Guard get wrong, though I think she is right in this case.
Is this a joke on how helmetless and/or named characters tend to live longer because it gives them plot armor?
Yep
This is fine meta joke.
She's such a fucking idiot (affectionate).
I once knew a guardsman who carved his own name onto a las-cell. When I asked him why, he said, "You know how they say that somewhere there's a las-round with your name on it? Well I thought that if I owned the las-round with my name on it, I'll never get hit by it." Odd fellow, he.
"Did you know that when they introduced Helmets, the rate of head injuries went up?!"
that actually a real thing. contact sport that allow protective gear have higher rates of head trauma, and very likely other injuries, than comparable contact spots that don't. football has more head trauma than rugby, bare knuckle fighters tend to get fewer concussions than gloved fighters. part of it is that wearing a helmet makes people more willing to put their head in danger, part of it is golves make punching the head easier.
She is indeed correct. In Warhammer, the last model pulled from a squad is usually the one not wearing a helmet.
I was just going to say this. Any character who I'm taking time to paint the face gets killed last. Same for anyone with a special weapon or cool paint job I'm proud of.
This is the plane fallacy all over again.
She's right though.
I mean she is correct… unless you wear a peculiar helmet that denotes your status as an important character, in that case your chances of survival augment significantly