[@Eisenhorn]

An all weirdboy Ork army...now THAT is something to see! A fellow guardsman, I see. Luckily for the Imperium, while making this RP, we used logic to ensure some of the finer points of the Imperium actually..make sense for once. But man, all weirdboyz would make for such an insane (literally) encounter. Ah GeeDubs logic... I both love and hate it, and its the main reason why a lot of the stuff I do in 40K revolves somewhat around head cannon so stuff actually makes more sense instead of their grimderp logic. - So the guard are actually competent, as are PDF, no longer just moronic lemmings with flashlights. 

Oh jesus, that thing. One of the GM's I had, had an assassin try to use one against us - it was hilarious...until one of our Chaos SPESS MAHREENS started to dissolve from the inside out. Though yeah, snipers can be scary as all hell in this game due to the fact that they actually hit most of the shots they fire - little like heavies. Yeah... average lifespan is probably a case of: "Until you join the guard/be called a heretic/are otherwise imploded and murdered.