Commander Kubrik Chenkov

There are commanders that actually are careful when sending their forces into combat. There are commanders that aren't that careful and throw larger groups into the meatgrinder. Then there are those who don't care so much and throw in a lot of people. And then there is Chenkov.

Of all the Imperial Guard Commanders, Commander Kubrik Chenkov of the 18th Valhallan Tundra Wolves actually embodies everything bad with the Imperial Guard (or to be more precise, everything in that the Guard embodied before 4th Edition). The guy is stubborn, short-tempered, brutal, single-minded, doesn't acknowledge defeat nor surrender, and he's pretty damn merciless to both his subordinates and his enemies.

Now, the job of a Commanding Officer of the Imperial Guard is to send people to their deaths, which is this being the Guard is logical. But most commanders utilize tactics to minimize the casualties. Some of course will simply throw people into the meatgrinder. Chenkov belongs to the latter, but even these types of Commanders would actually give their men heavy support in the form of a Leman Russ Tank Platoon or spam a sufficiently large number of Chimeras. Not with Chenkov.

Even among the Astra Militarium Generals known for their extreme methods, Chenkov is a rarely seen extremity. He simply points his men where to go, and kill and get killed. His favored tactic is to send a shitload of Conscripts close enough to the enemy lines so that they wouldn't disengage. He'll send wave after wave of Conscripts to take a objective. His solution if there is not enough men? Send in more of them. Not enough? SEND IN MOAR! His solution on clearing minefields for Leman Russes to go through? SEND IN THE CONSCRIPTS!!! His solution to Hive Fleet Jormungand invading? SEND IN ALL THE CONSCRIPTS!!! Seriously, even other asshats would be disturbed by this guy.

He's not a Commander that one wants to fight under. If you won't fight, he'll execute you. Not fighting hard enough? More executions. You aren't trying hard enough at anything? He'll execute you HARDER! He's even worse than the more zealous Commissars. How much? That he actually scares them out. How much? He is known to include Commissars to be executed. And people who can inspire fear in a Commissar are really something.

The only (read:ONLY) redeeming quality in this human equivalent to a Marine Malevolent is that he's a frontline commander that fights in the first line, just to bring in his own brand of "motivation" to his men.

To rub insult into the wounds of every single Guardsman in the universe, this guy constantly survives. What's even worse...HE GET'S A LOT OF SHINY MEDALS FOR WHAT HE DOES!! Seriously, that must be some sick joke made by Tzeentch that he gets away with it.

At least he doesn't appear in the Codex: Astra Militarium (THANK THE EMPEROR).