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2011/09/07 23:20:36
Subject: Official Height and Weight of Space Marines.
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Shunting Grey Knight Interceptor
Newcastle
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I recently picked up a copy of a promotional magazine for the upcoming game, 'warhammer 40000: Space Marine' at my local games workshop and on the center pages there is a breakdown of the physiology of a space marine.
Height: 7"2
Weight: 700lbs or 50 stone in power armour.
Along with those it also had descriptions of the other modifications space marines undergo such as the insertion of the progenoud glands and the catalepsean node in the brain.
Several other modifications are also detailed and if anybody would like to know more of them then I would be happy to put the details up.
I thought I would share thise with the Dakka community.
Bede.
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2011/09/07 23:24:00
Subject: Official Height and Weight of Space Marines.
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Renegade Inquisitor de Marche
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They made him too big...
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2011/09/07 23:25:58
Subject: Official Height and Weight of Space Marines.
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Stone Bonkers Fabricator General
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Sounds right to me.
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2011/09/07 23:26:13
Subject: Official Height and Weight of Space Marines.
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Fixture of Dakka
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Yep. Space Marines are 6-7 feet.
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2011/09/07 23:29:44
Subject: Official Height and Weight of Space Marines.
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Hallowed Canoness
Ireland
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bedeporter wrote:Height: 7"2
Weight: 700lbs or 50 stone in power armour.
A perfectly average Space Marine then, given that he falls almost exactly in the middle of the numbers given by Jes.
As power armour was mentioned being about 250 lbs heavy, I suppose this means he'd be ~450 lbs (about 205 kg) naked?
Thanks for sharing! Nice to see that the designers were sticking to studio material in that regard.
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2011/09/07 23:31:37
Subject: Official Height and Weight of Space Marines.
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Old Sourpuss
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UGH! Not this argument again... Next thing we know, grey knights are going to be falling to Chaos. Space Marines are measured in the height of plot. If THQ can only afford the budget for a 7ft tall marine, then the plot demands it, if Jes only has the clay to scale one to 7 or 8 feet, then its that tall...
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2011/09/07 23:33:54
Subject: Official Height and Weight of Space Marines.
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Shunting Grey Knight Interceptor
Newcastle
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It's not an argument...
I'm sure this magazing will be making it's way around the world soon.
It's new material which is why I thought I should share it, since I saw the last thread about it.
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2011/09/07 23:37:59
Subject: Official Height and Weight of Space Marines.
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Banelord Titan Princeps of Khorne
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bedeporter wrote:Weight: 700lbs or 50 stone in power armour.
That's absurdly light.
I will choose to ignore it.
I don't think people realise how heavy a man with bones and muscles as large and dense as a Marine's at his height would be.
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2011/09/07 23:39:24
Subject: Official Height and Weight of Space Marines.
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Stone Bonkers Fabricator General
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Space marine is spot on in terms of adherence to 40k background. Automatically Appended Next Post: Alfndrate wrote:UGH! Not this argument again... Next thing we know, grey knights are going to be falling to Chaos.
Space Marines are measured in the height of plot. If THQ can only afford the budget for a 7ft tall marine, then the plot demands it, if Jes only has the clay to scale one to 7 or 8 feet, then its that tall...
You sound mad, that your incorrect viewpoint about space marine height is once again evidenced to be wrong
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2011/09/08 00:57:22
Subject: Official Height and Weight of Space Marines.
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Potent Possessed Daemonvessel
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Chowderhead wrote:Yep. Space Marines are 6-7 feet.
They are over seven feet. Anything under would be a runt.
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2011/09/08 01:23:06
Subject: Re:Official Height and Weight of Space Marines.
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Road-Raging Blood Angel Biker
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Lulz, can you imagine walking up to a 6'9 space marine and informing him that he's a runt?
I wonder just how many ways he'd think of to explain the severity of your insubordination to you.
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2011/09/08 01:25:34
Subject: Official Height and Weight of Space Marines.
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Consigned to the Grim Darkness
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You poke the Marine: "You're a runt."
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You cry and run home to your mommy.
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2011/09/08 01:46:03
Subject: Official Height and Weight of Space Marines.
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Potent Possessed Daemonvessel
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The other marines would all make fun of him, saying they had to borrow armor from the Sororitas to find one that fit him.
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2011/09/08 02:24:04
Subject: Official Height and Weight of Space Marines.
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Consigned to the Grim Darkness
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Hm, chapter based off of Napoleon?
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2011/09/08 02:44:08
Subject: Official Height and Weight of Space Marines.
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Stone Bonkers Fabricator General
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Napoleon? Yeesh. Though I like the idea of a space marine who's nick name is shorty.
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2011/09/08 03:43:36
Subject: Official Height and Weight of Space Marines.
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Sounds OK here too!
As always...
Marine = 7' to 8'
Marine in armor = 7'6" to 8'6"
Some especially tall/big marines do show up, but I don't recall any 'short' ones being mentioned... ever!
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2011/09/08 04:06:16
Subject: Official Height and Weight of Space Marines.
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Fixture of Dakka
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Melissia wrote:Hm, chapter based off of Napoleon?
Napolean was of average height for his time and place. He just surrounded himself with people that had a height requirement.
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"'players must agree how they are going to select their armies, and if any restrictions apply to the number and type of models they can use."
This is an actual rule in the actual rulebook. Quit whining about how you can imagine someone's army touching you in a bad place and play by the actual rules.
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2011/09/08 04:10:41
Subject: Re:Official Height and Weight of Space Marines.
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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Noah Steere is a pro bodybuilder, 6'6 350 lbs. Dalip Singh is about 385 at 7'1 but not nearly as big or lean. At 7' you're looking at around 450 lbs realistically for someone of absurd musculature who is very lean.
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2011/09/08 05:20:59
Subject: Official Height and Weight of Space Marines.
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Old Sourpuss
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ph34r wrote:Space marine is spot on in terms of adherence to 40k background. Automatically Appended Next Post: Alfndrate wrote:UGH! Not this argument again... Next thing we know, grey knights are going to be falling to Chaos. Space Marines are measured in the height of plot. If THQ can only afford the budget for a 7ft tall marine, then the plot demands it, if Jes only has the clay to scale one to 7 or 8 feet, then its that tall...
You sound mad, that your incorrect viewpoint about space marine height is once again evidenced to be wrong Angry? Nah, just tired. Did you not read the part where I said they're measured in height of plot Who is to say that my viewpoint is less correct than the design team at THQ? Everyone is human, and who's to say that in 6th edition Marines won't be 6 feet tall, or 10+ feet tall.
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2011/09/08 05:21:11
Subject: Re:Official Height and Weight of Space Marines.
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Winged Kroot Vulture
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NuggzTheNinja wrote:Noah Steere is a pro bodybuilder, 6'6 350 lbs. Dalip Singh is about 385 at 7'1 but not nearly as big or lean. At 7' you're looking at around 450 lbs realistically for someone of absurd musculature who is very lean.
Still too shy. Dalip Singh and Noah Steere don't have auxillary organs, reinforced skin, fused cartilidge and augmented skulls. We're looking at 600+ unarmored. Armored? Forget about it. We're probably pushing into "rediculous to consider" territory.
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2011/09/08 05:55:38
Subject: Official Height and Weight of Space Marines.
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Stone Bonkers Fabricator General
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Alpharius wrote:Sounds OK here too!
As always...
Marine = 7' to 8'
Marine in armor = 7'6" to 8'6"
Some especially tall/big marines do show up, but I don't recall any 'short' ones being mentioned... ever!
Nope, but I do remember a fat one in the space wolf books. Final proof that beer makes you fat.
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2011/09/08 09:14:12
Subject: Official Height and Weight of Space Marines.
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Jovial Plaguebearer of Nurgle
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Space Marines can be between 6 and 7 foot? Well in that case call me Brother Connorius because im a Space Marine :3
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2011/09/08 10:14:16
Subject: Official Height and Weight of Space Marines.
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Waaagh! Warbiker
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Alpharius wrote:Sounds OK here too!
As always...
Marine = 7' to 8'
Marine in armor = 7'6" to 8'6"
Some especially tall/big marines do show up, but I don't recall any 'short' ones being mentioned... ever!
What about "Little Horus" Aximan (spl?) from the Horus Heresey books, you know, the guy they mentioned a lot, part of the mournival. He was short compared to the others right?
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2011/09/08 10:24:57
Subject: Official Height and Weight of Space Marines.
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Shunting Grey Knight Interceptor
Newcastle
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He was nicknamed little horus because of his resemlbance to horus himself, rather than being short
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2011/09/08 12:23:24
Subject: Official Height and Weight of Space Marines.
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Hallowed Canoness
Ireland
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Alpharius wrote:As always...
Marine = 7' to 8'
Marine in armor = 7'6" to 8'6"
Some especially tall/big marines do show up, but I don't recall any 'short' ones being mentioned... ever!
Well, if you think armour adds 6" to a Marine, Jes Goodwin's lifesize Astartes would be 6'4".
As always, I see no reason to go beyond the 7'0"-7'6" range (in armour) mentioned by the designer. As Jes said, "it's not the height"!
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2011/09/08 12:31:01
Subject: Official Height and Weight of Space Marines.
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Tzeentch Veteran Marine with Psychic Potential
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One of these threads pops up every other week, & people always give one measurement for marines & another, vastly different one for them in armour.
People claim the armour adds anything from 6 inches to two feet.
eh!?
Where is this extra height coming from? Are power armour boots platforms or something?
I find it hard to believe that the armour adds any more than the sole of the boot & that little vent thing on the crown of the helmet.
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2011/09/08 13:20:44
Subject: Re:Official Height and Weight of Space Marines.
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Fixture of Dakka
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NuggzTheNinja wrote: At 7' you're looking at around 450 lbs realistically for someone of absurd musculature who is very lean.
Space Marines are ~700 pounds outside their armor. That's where their unbelievable size comes from, not their height.
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"'players must agree how they are going to select their armies, and if any restrictions apply to the number and type of models they can use."
This is an actual rule in the actual rulebook. Quit whining about how you can imagine someone's army touching you in a bad place and play by the actual rules.
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2011/09/08 13:22:41
Subject: Official Height and Weight of Space Marines.
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Dispassionate Imperial Judge
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TEN FEET TALL
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2011/09/08 13:34:52
Subject: Official Height and Weight of Space Marines.
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Speedy Swiftclaw Biker
Inside my body
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ArbitorIan wrote:TEN FEET TALL
And here we go...
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2011/09/08 14:08:29
Subject: Official Height and Weight of Space Marines.
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Mutated Chosen Chaos Marine
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If they were ten feet tall, falling over would kill them by whiplash.
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