Limits still don't make up for the complete contradiction with the fluff, in the tabletop a squad of guardsmen can kill a squad of SM which is IMPOSSIBLE in the lore. The BL fluff is the official stuff, the Tabletop rules are not lore they are rules.
I for one seriously hope they do NOT get locked down into the lore too far, this is a video game not TT, the two cannot be compared realisticaly and the game would suffer terribly, imagine an ork player, not part of a group starts to play a little after release and ends up facing Space marines, i think he'd be taking the game back for exchange the next day... Source things from lore by all means but do not become fixcated with too many details on how combat is decided ect.
If mechanics are balanced to accommodate gameplay on the TT, why should they not be balanced for gameplay in a video game?
Nope. Try reading the Horus heresy. A SEASONED word bearer chaplain is slain by a FLINT spear to the neck. (The First Heretic) If you are going to quote the entirety of the 40k literature franchise, please be more specific. Edit: In response to Tornadiums comment
A group of crazy proto-cadians attack the word bearers with spears. The chaplain got stabbed in the neck. What more do you want?
IIRC the event was never even shown, only Argel Tal talked about it much later as some crazily ironic event. Doesn't happen a lot, if ever. Exception rather than the norm.
There is a difference between TT and Video Games, that is Immersion. Not a single 40k fan wants to see a god damn Terminator being killed by a single bolt shot to the chest, it's dumb. It works in the table top precisely because it's tabletop.
Pretty sure he was utterly overconfident and wasn't in Terminator Armor. The standard warplace has weaknesses around the neck joint.
