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A Brother-Sergeant is basically what his name implies; he's the Space Marine equivalent of a sergeant in the Imperial Guard (except with infinitely thicker plot armor, much bigger guns, higher statlines, and also pauldrons), an eldar Exarch (debatable, this point is), and the Shas'ui of the Tau. Basically, he's the guy in charge of a squad of SPESS MEHREENZ (we're never gonna let that meme die, are we?), a step above a Battle-Brother, a step below a Brother-Captain (if you haven't noticed the Space Monks in Space motif yet...get lasik). Typically, he's there by virtue of duration of service, or by virtue of the previous sergeant getting cut the fuck apart by tyranids, which seems to be the most popular way for them to die in canon. They're usually the guys who, if they don't get killed early in the story, have plot armor that is thicker than the armor on an Imperator titan. This typically manifests in the most cheesiest (and admittedly awesome) ways, one of the most popular of which is their ability to charge into thousands of enemies with guns who fire ineffectually or inaccurately at the literal giant adorned in less-than-tactically-intelligently-vividly-painted armor, and once in close quarters everything dies. ''EVERYTHING.'' Including Chaos Marines.
A Brother-Sergeant is basically what his name implies; he's the Space Marine equivalent of a sergeant in the Imperial Guard (except with infinitely thicker plot armor, much bigger guns, higher statlines, and also pauldrons), an eldar Exarch (debatable, this point is), and the Shas'ui of the Tau. Basically, he's the guy in charge of a squad of SPESS MEHREENZ (we're never gonna let that meme die, are we?), a step above a Battle-Brother, a step below a Brother-Captain (if you haven't noticed the Space Monks in Space motif yet...get lasik). Typically, he's there by virtue of duration of service, or by virtue of the previous sergeant getting cut the fuck apart by tyranids, which seems to be the most popular way for them to die in canon. They're usually the guys who, if they don't get killed early in the story, have plot armor that is thicker than the armor on an Imperator titan. This typically manifests in the most cheesiest (and admittedly awesome) ways, one of the most popular of which is their ability to charge into thousands of enemies with guns who fire ineffectually or inaccurately at the literal giant adorned in less-than-tactically-intelligently-vividly-painted armor, and once in close quarters everything dies. ''EVERYTHING.'' Including Chaos Marines.
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==Weaponry==
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==Weaponry
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Your average brosarge comes equipped with a bolt pistol and a chainsword because...I dunno, I guess GW thinks it's smart to give the guy with more experience and importance less weaponry to fight with at long range other than a fucking pistol (even if that pistol DOES shoot explosive rockets, it's still distressingly underpowered considering the setting...though at least it's not as bad as the laspistol they issue to the poor saps who serve as sergeants in the Imperial Guard...poor bastards). That would never backfire! After all, it's not like [[eldar|every]] [[tau|race]] [[tyranids|has]] [[Chaos Space Marines|ranged]] [[Ork|weaponry]], [[Imperial Guard|right??]]
Your average brosarge comes equipped with a bolt pistol and a chainsword because...I dunno, I guess GW thinks it's smart to give the guy with more experience and importance less weaponry to fight with at long range other than a fucking pistol (even if that pistol DOES shoot explosive rockets, it's still distressingly underpowered considering the setting...though at least it's not as bad as the laspistol they issue to the poor saps who serve as sergeants in the Imperial Guard...poor bastards). That would never backfire! After all, it's not like [[eldar|every]] [[tau|race]] [[tyranids|has]] [[Chaos Space Marines|ranged]] [[Ork|weaponry]], [[Imperial Guard|right??]]
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<strike>Yeah, they can be upgraded with a bunch of stuff of course, but this is still a strange thing to make the default, is all that's being said here.</strike> actually this is not strange at all. for hundreds of years after the invention of the musket all the way to world war one officers were issued pistols and swords sort of as a way of saying "I'm an officer! I lead, you guys shoot! See my big sword?! go where I'm pointing!" now admittedly they were the first guys to get revolvers when they were invented giving them much higher rate of fire then there musket troops they lead the point remains. given the Imperium's backwards Schizo Tech thing it make sense that the officers get the swords.
<strike>Yeah, they can be upgraded with a bunch of stuff of course, but this is still a strange thing to make the default, is all that's being said here.</strike> actually this is not strange at all. for hundreds of years after the invention of the musket all the way to world war one officers were issued pistols and swords sort of as a way of saying "I'm an officer! I lead, you guys shoot! See my big sword?! go where I'm pointing!" now admittedly they were the first guys to get revolvers when they were invented giving them much higher rate of fire then there musket troops they lead the point remains. given the Imperium's backwards Schizo Tech thing it make sense that the officers get the swords.
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A Sergeant's rank is represented on his [[power armor]] by the Iron Skull, which dates to the era of the Legiones Astartes. One piece of advice recommended by the [[Codex Astartes]] is to identify the Sergeant with a red helmet. This originally dates back to the [[Great Crusade]] where a red helmet was a mark of censure under the [[Ultramarines]] Legion, something they <s>stole</s> borrowed from the [[Night Lords]] Legion's use of sinners-red gauntlets to mark condemned Legionaries. However, during the Battle of Calth, Sergeant Aeonid Thiel of the 135th Company, who had been marked for censure for forming theoreticals against Space Marines, proved instrumental in leading the counter-assault on the [[Word Bearers]], so [[Roboute Guilliman]] ordered all Sergeants to repaint their helmets red, saying it would be a mark of honour.
==Variants==
==Variants==
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*Terminator Sergeant: A Sergeant in command of a Terminator Squad. Hard as an Imperial Guardsman's standard-issue adamantium balls but not quite as manly, Terminator Sergeants are still beastly as hell. Funny thing is, though, this beastliness doesn't actually tend to show up much in fluff. In fact, they largely serve as the faceless icons of unimaginable toughness who get cut apart like a [[Katanas are Underpowered in d20|katana through paper.]] Their place is that of the eldar Avatar, when Space Marines have to die instead of eldar in order to give the big-bad (or the protagonist) street cred for their bossomeness. No word on whether or not all Terminator Sergeants are Veteran Sergeants, or if they're greater or lesser in whatever objective ways GW wants to think up.
*Terminator Sergeant: A Sergeant in command of a Terminator Squad. Hard as an Imperial Guardsman's standard-issue adamantium balls but not quite as manly, Terminator Sergeants are still beastly as hell. Funny thing is, though, this beastliness doesn't actually tend to show up much in fluff. In fact, they largely serve as the faceless icons of unimaginable toughness who get cut apart like a [[Katanas are Underpowered in d20|katana through paper.]] Their place is that of the eldar Avatar, when Space Marines have to die instead of eldar in order to give the big-bad (or the protagonist) street cred for their bossomeness. No word on whether or not all Terminator Sergeants are Veteran Sergeants, or if they're greater or lesser in whatever objective ways GW wants to think up.
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==Wargear==
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Brother-Sergeants will be given a [[chainsword]] or [[power weapon]] as a symbol of rank (even the Devastator Sergeants will get one, even if they never moved out of the Devastator Squads). Chapter traditions will also dictate other unique features about a Sergeant's wargear. One piece of advice recommended by the [[Codex Astartes]] is to identify the Sergeant with a red helmet. This originally dates back to the [[Great Crusade]] where a red helmet was a mark of censure under the [[Ultramarines]] Legion, something they <s>stole</s> borrowed from the [[Night Lords]] Legion's use of sinners-red gauntlets to mark condemned Legionaries. However, during the Battle of Calth, Sergeant Aeonid Thiel of the 135th Company, who had been marked for censure for forming theoreticals against Space Marines, proved instrumental in leading the counter-assault on the [[Word Bearers]], so [[Roboute Guilliman]] ordered all Sergeants to repaint their helmets red, saying it would be a mark of honour.
==On the tabletop==
==On the tabletop==