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Spetulhu wrote:
The Sisters might not bench press a ton, but they do carry and use weapons that most humans would only use on a tripod or vehicle pintle mount.

It's worthy to note that some Sister's Retributior models display additional 'geometry' on the armour around the gloves, and the same is true of some SM Devastators as well, so it is possible that PA can be made (or altered) in specific ways to enable carrying and shooting such weapons. So the capability may not be part of the baseline PA.

Then again, there are examples of un-augmented, un-power-armoured humans carrying and shooting such weapons as well, so, yeah.

 Ashiraya wrote:
SM are not 3m on average.

When Ashiraya thinks your marines are too big. They are probably too big.

IIRC, weren't the Minotaurs larger then the average Astartes? I would think that it might be possible that some Chapters would be larger then normal, whether it be intentional or not. Mutations can arise with some parts of the gene-seeds.

 gnoise wrote:
IIRC, weren't the Minotaurs larger then the average Astartes? I would think that it might be possible that some Chapters would be larger then normal, whether it be intentional or not. Mutations can arise with some parts of the gene-seeds.

Never heard anything about the Minotaurs being larger, that may just be due to how well stocked they are logistically. Minotaurs get the best of everything thanks to being the personal hitmen of the High Lords of Terra.

Too big for a normal human to wield, according to some sources, and not according to others . (Tau can wield them if the Fire Wariior game is anything to go by). In any case I wouldn't lose sleep over it -it doesn't add up like countless other things in 40k, and fiction in generel.

 thegreatchimp wrote:
Too big for a normal human to wield, according to some sources, and not according to others . (Tau can wield them if the Fire Wariior game is anything to go by). In any case I wouldn't lose sleep over it -it doesn't add up like countless other things in 40k, and fiction in generel.

The Fire Warrior game is best thrown out in favor of the book. Although most 40K are best thrown out anyway, be they the stupidity of DOW (Oops I accidentally lost a hundred god damn baneblades) or Titus somehow wiping out an entire Chaos Space Marine Warband- complete with Daemon Prince.

 Wyzilla wrote:

 gnoise wrote:
IIRC, weren't the Minotaurs larger then the average Astartes? I would think that it might be possible that some Chapters would be larger then normal, whether it be intentional or not. Mutations can arise with some parts of the gene-seeds.

Never heard anything about the Minotaurs being larger, that may just be due to how well stocked they are logistically. Minotaurs get the best of everything thanks to being the personal hitmen of the High Lords of Terra.

They're well-stocked on new things, not older things. The Minotaurs suffer high attrition even compared to other Marine Chapters.

 EmpNortonII wrote:

 Wyzilla wrote:

 gnoise wrote:
IIRC, weren't the Minotaurs larger then the average Astartes? I would think that it might be possible that some Chapters would be larger then normal, whether it be intentional or not. Mutations can arise with some parts of the gene-seeds.

Never heard anything about the Minotaurs being larger, that may just be due to how well stocked they are logistically. Minotaurs get the best of everything thanks to being the personal hitmen of the High Lords of Terra.

They're well-stocked on new things, not older things. The Minotaurs suffer high attrition even compared to other Marine Chapters.

Newer things are higher quality. There's no point to carry a larger amount of MK II or MK IV except to invoke a sense of historical awe. The only old armor really useful unless updated is MK III for usage in boarding action.

 Psienesis wrote:
Not really. Taking Sisters PA as an example, it provides a strength boost, but they're not suplexing Bloodthirsters or carrying Rhinos around.

Well, I know it is absolutely not supported by neither the lore nor the crunch, but I could never imagine something human being able to provide any kind of meaningful contribution to some actual hydraulic cylinder pushing something.

 Wyzilla wrote:
Newer things are higher quality.

What happened to my 40k ?

 Furyou Miko wrote:

 Kain wrote:
She wouldn't be able to beat you to death with a car because of leverage, but she could easily throw a man clear across a room with one arm and right through a window and to his death.

Yeah a SoB could probably crush a man's throat into pulp with her power armored fingers.


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 Wyzilla wrote:

 thegreatchimp wrote:
Too big for a normal human to wield, according to some sources, and not according to others . (Tau can wield them if the Fire Wariior game is anything to go by). In any case I wouldn't lose sleep over it -it doesn't add up like countless other things in 40k, and fiction in generel.

The Fire Warrior game is best thrown out in favor of the book. Although most 40K are best thrown out anyway, be they the stupidity of DOW (Oops I accidentally lost a hundred god damn baneblades) or Titus somehow wiping out an entire Chaos Space Marine Warband- complete with Daemon Prince.

Stubbs didn't misplace them, he thought he could count on them but found that the unit he thought he could depend on was actually deployed somewhere else. Also, nobody really took Soulstorm very seriously between Indrick Boreale's accent, Gorgutz's sudden accent change, Caerys having the most god damn annoying voice ever, O'res'ka's hilarious freak out over the Ethereal's death, and Carron's raging hateboner for Rhinos.

Also; any action video game where the player uses a single character is going to have them butcher enemies in massive amounts. The Chaos Space Marines and Orks were on the wrong side of the player character, and that's a losing proposition for anyone in an action game.

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