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Published: 2012-11-26 18:44:13 +0000 UTC; Views: 16569; Favourites: 272; Downloads: 235
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An alternate version of this piece here - fav.me/d5m9g1s - trying to add a few more 40k elements and improve the design overall. The observant among you will notice the different forgeworld and serial number, however I think Sirona will be my go to forgeworld for medical stuff. (Sirona doesn't exist in canon, but look it up, I always like little references like this in my stuff).
A version of my original Caduceus medical symbol design is available to purchase on t-shirts, masks and more here:Β www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/6400β¦
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Hey man! 
I also put triage paper in the foreground. It's slightly visible. Your work is awesome!Β
I really hope you are ok with it, but if you have a problem with it I'll remove it. I did credit you though! and did put a tag too. Cheers!Β
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I love the details you put into this stuff !!!Β
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Would be interesting to see other things like civilian products and military ration packs or other supplies.Β
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Everybody prays in the Imperium, kind of integral to the settingΒ
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Still, I didn't think it was THAT ridiculous. At least you make the Imperial Gaurd look competent in the medical department.
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Haha I tried, wanted to make it slightly believable, without the prayers and gothic colour (think that's an oxymoron) it's all just WW1/WW2 triage really
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I mean, modern triage isn't too different from WW2 triage. There's just a few more steps and interventions, like aggressive hypothermia/shock treatment.
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Very true, in my other write ups I've put emphasis on following WWI medical practices (lots of debridement going on) so it felt essentially modern but paradoxically less advanced, it kind of felt right from my perspective of the setting at the time
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Heh. I hear 'ya. Sometimes, Warhammer becomes Grim Derp.
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Dear Ligh-Tricks,
after considerable examination of all your medicinal works on Warhammer 40k, I have come to conclude that you are a fragging connoisseur of both 40k and first aid
that is no mean feat and it is no mean feat either to combine them in such a fashion that is both (somewhat) sensible and grimdark
please continue your good work and may you have many commissions
(PS: if you simply looked it up, well, doing good research is an awesome skill too )
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Wow, thank you very much, really appreciate that. Haha it's a bit of both, have been playing 40k since 96 so it's thoroughly ingrained and have a bit of a medical/medical history background too - and I like to do good research 
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That's awesome! I love perfect little details like this on a well-done costume.
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Thanks very much, and apologies fro the (very) late response
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It's no problem at all, it gave me a chance to read it again! I still love the details.
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Not at the moment unfortunately, I lost all of my original files at the end of last year and haven't got round to doing this yet.Β
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Using the name of a celtic deity of good health and healing to name a forgeworld dedicated to medical advancement. Good idea.
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Lol thanks, I'm guessing it's something everyone does more or less. The fluff I wrote on my blog recently - [link] - is littered with daft references lol
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Well -actually, it could be improved a little bit: you could have applied the purity seal directly on the parcel
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I will do that, but that was the best overall (cheap) stock image I could find...
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I'm afraid so :/ there will be a real one and a template + instructions for making them too
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That's alright, I'm grateful for your suggestion
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great work
you know. this lay me a question: what are the medical equiment from other races? like the eldar for example
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Something very alieny and shamanastic, I imagine things like psychic healing crystals and arcane strangeness. I think there's even less fluff on this, so I could be wrong but I imagine they'd have healers rather than medics.
Tau would be the closest to having "realistic" human medical equipment and practices I imagine. Where I reign back the technology for Imperial stuff, hovering hovering WWI with some modern stuff thrown in, it's the Tau I'd give the really hi-tech stuff too, the "magic healing med-pack" some guard medics are suppose to have that I don't think suits them fluff-wise. I imagine their dressings and equivalents would be in hard plasticy cases rather than brown paper lol.
I don't think any other races would really do "battlefield medicine" in the same way... Orks have painboyz as a last resort, but other than that...
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The 'Magic Healing Med-Pack' is sort of at the high end of Imperial tech... and it's not so much 'instantly healed' as it is a kind of applicant that can keep the patient alive and in something like good condition long enough for something more permanent to be applied. Sorta like Halo bio-gel. And also like Halo, it's rendered as instant healing in the games because that's much more playable.
"with the sister and other church related armes it can be like that and also more like middle ages medince just because."
So the comparatively elite, expensively equipped and also higher-class army has *worse* medical equipment? What? They're the ones I'd give the magic healing medkits to, if anything. Space Marines I imagine have something similar built into their armor, where it seals any wound they receive - because of the healing abilities of their implants, they don't even need secondary treatment. Of course, the Space Marines also use chain-scalpels, but that's probably just to show how hardcore they are.
Chaos' tech-base is basically the Imperium's. The more devout might opt for supplicating the Dark Gods to regrow daemonic matter onto their bodies; graft it on themselves; or, if they're Nurglites, not really care because Nurgle. Daemons are daemons, they are merely visiting the Materium, and cannot be done permanent harm.
The Eldar, I can see using psychic powers to heal a lot... but for actual 'combat medicine', I'm imagining their equivalent to a wound dressing would be, basically, a self-expanding quasi-plastic paste that grows itself into the wound to create an optimal covering, things like that. Very much 'high tech'. Of course, they can also control their own metabolisms to a much greater degree than humans, and could probably stop bleeding just by thinking it. After that, you can go with the psychic crystals that meld together flesh and what not.
Dark Eldar are similar to Eldar, since they have the same basic tech base, just more horrifying. They probably do have some kind of *vampiric* psychic healing, since using their own powers is somewhat riskier... or at least rarer. They also use grafted organs/flesh/limbs from their victims, instead of bionics or (slow) regeneration.
Tau are likely to use a lot of high-tech, sophisticated stuff, with spray-on bandages, microbots for repairing damage and treating infection, automated medical kits (the Tau 'medic' is probably a drone). They've even got (semi-rare) automatic medical systems that use nanites and metabolic control to mitigate almost all injuries in their battlesuits. Their medical technology must necessarily be broader, and probably includes a large computer database, in order to accomodate all the various species in their empire. They're going to go to significantly greater lengths to save badly injured soldiers than the Imperium, who will probably 'euthanize' anyone who won't recover quickly enough not to slow them down (depending on regiment/grimdark level).
Orks don't really need 'battlefield medicine', they're so hardy that they can keep going with all but the most dramatically lethal of wounds. After the battle, crude bionics, or grafts from any other Ork, living or dead, can be used to replace what they can't walk off (which is an awful lot. Eventually they can regenerate almost any injury, even lost limbs.
Necrons are made of a self-repairing... metal thing. Even if a body is damaged beyond repair, its engrams can be download to the Tomb and the body reassembled, good as new (ish). That said, they actually have a kind of specialized 'medic' in the form of Ghost Arks and Tomb Spyders, both of which specialize in repairing, restoring, and reclaiming damaged Necrons, albeit in slightly different ways.
Tyranids are designed to be expendable. They feel little in the way of pain, and can operate almost regardless of wounds. Lesser forms will be driven until they stop moving, and then promptly recycled. Gaunts, Gargolyes, even Raveners to an extent - the hive mind considers the loss of these nothing more the expenditure of ammunition. Greater forms (if their own healing mechanisms cannot recover within a rapid time frame) will be evaluated, and, if it deemed that the recovery and re-purposing of its resources is more efficient than the continued use of the damaged form, immediately recycled. Those forms with a degree of individuality (Tyrants and Warriors mainly) will promptly be reincarnated into a new node (body). That node may or may not be within the same battlespace, as needs dictate. It may or may not be in the same Segmentum, for that matter.
Genestealers, lacking ready access to reclamation and production facilities, have a considerable ability to heal, and can be observed 'regurgitating' an amber-like bio-gel that protects injuries and aids in healing. Though they are as expendable as any other Tyranid form, their 'behind enemy lines' nature means that their loss represents a significant mid-term loss of resources.
I'm... pretty sure that's all the factions?
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Haha spot on, that's generally how I pereived it to be for all mentioned.
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well now that i think about it. about other race i imagine pretty much this
the eldar i can imagine like you say healing crystals,maybe runes and healing potions. the only thing don`t know and i ask is if the eldar use bionics, and if they don how they get way with that
the dark eldar for me use vampiric healing. that meants use pain from other to help themselves. for me suit perfect with the dark eldar way to do things
the sister of battle and other religius branch of the imperiun have sacred oils and other stuff.
and the chaos. well you have the caos apothecary or the local sorceres to do that. of course you will have another hand but well no everything if perfect
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Like the pain my in my cerebrum from trying to decipher your abysmal typing?
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Way to be a good sport!
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i have problem with english, so that explain the way i write
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Nothing to be ashamed of. English is quite possibly the worst put together language in the world.
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that happen because english is so widespred(is that the world?) in the world, people just talk in they ways
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