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[Fniff]

Other than the fact that I suck at Dark Souls, I'd play that game.

Tzeentch is a good idea too, basically ends up (possibly) changing your character in a radical way whenever you die. Although those mechanics are kind of at odds: if you're going to be a new $name $number every time you die, why would your next life be blessed by Tzeentch as a result of the previous death? One mechanic or the other would work better on its own.

It could be both. The player could switch between the tragic hero who unwittingly advances Tzeentch's plans and the hordes of Imperial Guardsmen trying to take them down.

Their Dark Souls-esque degradation could be chalked up to the Imperial Guard regiment running out of resources as more die; you start out with a Heavy Stubber and then end up with a trench knife. I know it's unlikely that the Imperial Guard would ever run out of men to throw at a problem, but perhaps the particular Imperial Guard regiment that the game is focused on is pinned down and cut off by a warp storm or something. Hell, their version of restoring Humanity could be finding supply caches or inspiring the local populace to join.

Nah, you're stuck bodyjacking the next poor sod to come along.
In fact, that would be a...Rather gory but impressive hook.

I could just imagine the first time you die. Pitch black screen for a beat, then. . .  "Haha. You think I'd let you go that easily? Back you go. . . " and suddenly you're another Imperial Guard.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

A roguelike set in 40K universe. Where you play as a Guardsman. Maybe first person?

I'd really love this.

*Chaos Guardsman fires at you!
*You have been struck 72 times in the chest by autogun.

[MrWiggles]

But you had a 2 up, so you're chill dude.

[RAM]

It could be a multi-part campaign...

You start as a space marine who gets abandoned in a battle against chaos. You are newly-minted, left to die with no legacy, and witness imperial iconography being destroyed by space marines and find your will weakened, and a chaos sorcerer comes along and offers a new life in a new place...

After some friendly encouragement you find yourself joining the rebellion and on the run from the empire. With your pursuers seeming quite determined your new friends decide to try their chances on some unusual disturbances in the warp signatures that may belie powerful artefacts. Queue your arrival at a new world populated by delightful robots with a lovely green aesthetic who had slept in and are thrilled that you came along to wake them. thus begins another brief campaign as you escort the sorcerer to a temple to find exciting new treasures but, alas, things happen, and eventually it is only you and the artefact. You touch it, and, oh my, your body and soul get a divorce and you get a cutscene of the temple exploding and the locals being sent to meet their gods, in person...

Queue a time in the distant future where the world is part of The Imperium and a guardsman happens upon a certain artefact and the campaign begins. You possess a steady stream of guards over one or more long campaigns and slowly build up various arcane resources while being inclined to maintain the appearance of loyal guards.

After a while you have enough booty to open a portal to the super-fun-happy-warp-land and manifest as a chaos lord/demon/whatever and start a campaign of your own design...

[Sirus]

A roguelike set in 40K universe. Where you play as a Guardsman. Maybe first person?

I'd really love this.

*Chaos Guardsman fires at you!
*You have been struck 72 times in the chest by autogun.

*You fire your common-quality lascarbine+1 at the Chaos Sorcerer!*
*The Chaos Sorcerer's best-quality power armor deflects your attacks.*
*The Chaos Sorcerer gestures at you!*
*Your head explodes messily!*
You have died...
Would you like your possessions identified? y/n

[KingofstarrySkies]

Switch to a new guardsman? y/n

[Mech#4]

Each hit point represents an individual guardsmen.

GP: 100/100.

Grenade deals 30 damage.

GP: 70/100.

[Lossmar]

As for rougelike with Imperial Guards, there was a Warp Rouge - shame its nowhere to be found anymore because developer stopped working on it

[Sirus]

Each hit point represents an individual guardsmen.

GP: 100/100.

Grenade deals 30 damage.

GP: 70/100.

That's not a grenade, that's a freaking bomb.

[Emma]

It could just be an extremely effective grenade.

[Mech#4]

I imagine either the guardsmen are all packed really tightly together or they are so easily killed that they actually increase the effectiveness of all weapons fired at them.

A pistol does 1d6 damage worth of guardsmen. That's per shot.

[KingofstarrySkies]

It could just be an extremely effective grenade.

meltas

[Tawa]

Reminds me of the Death Note fanfic where the guy killed 1,000,000 stormtroopers using a gun with 100,000 bullets in it, meaning every bullet went through, on average, 10 stormtroopers, assuming he never missed.

Not counting, of course, the one time he did miss and then punched a guy, killing 100 more guys.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

I think the biggest problem in a 40k roguelike it simulating the sheer number of people on the battlefield. Also simulating deployments and how you follow orders and stuff. It would be really cool if you could work your way up to becoming a colonel if you got lucky enough.

[itisnotlogical]

Yeah, and 40k isn't really about individual characters; there's very few individuals that could survive adventuring in the 40k universe on their own, and the majority of them are Space Marines or Chaos demons.