Space marine height.

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**Monster Rain**

I could still be wrong. I'll have to take a gander at the codex to be sure, but I do recall them being pretty enormous.

**Ulver**

Gorskar.da.Lost wrote:Well, if we take 1.6 metres as the average height of a man:

Maybe should have done the research: average male height is approx 1.75m

Gorskar.da.Lost wrote:10ft: 2 and a bit metres.

Hey, you're right. Fair enough then. Probably should have done the maths beforehand.

Should have done the right maths; as said before, 10' is over 3m:

Ulver wrote:
Samus_aran115 wrote:3 metres= roughly nine feet

3 metres ≈ 10 feet

1" = 0.0254m
1' = 12"
10' = 120"
120*0.0254 = 3.048m

**Gorskar.da.Lost**

Ulver wrote:
Gorskar.da.Lost wrote:Well, if we take 1.6 metres as the average height of a man:

Maybe should have done the research: average male height is approx 1.75m

Gorskar.da.Lost wrote:10ft: 2 and a bit metres.

Hey, you're right. Fair enough then. Probably should have done the maths beforehand.

Should have done the right maths; as said before, 10' is over 3m.

Fine, whatever. I never claimed to be good at maths. In that case, avreage SM is about 3/4 of the height of a Dreadnought by those figures.
Also, given I had no idea what the average male height is, I think I can be forgiven for being about 15cm out.

**Monster Rain**

No!

This is serious business! 15 CM off? We ain't lobbin hand grenades here!

**Gorskar.da.Lost**

Damn it! Why must everyone bring up my issues with hand grenades? WHY?

**Ulver**

Gorskar.da.Lost wrote:Fine, whatever. I never claimed to be good at maths. In that case, avreage SM is about 3/4 of the height of a Dreadnought by those figures.
Also, given I had no idea what the average male height is, I think I can be forgiven for being about 15cm out.

It's under 10%, so yeah I can forgive you that

**Gorskar.da.Lost**

Well, now, if we take the combined stats of a Dreadnought being about 5 metres tall, and the theoretical height of a 10ft marine being about 3 metres and a bit tall, then that would make a marine just a bit over half the height of a Dread.

Now, let us look at a picture of a Space Marine and a Guardsman for size comparison:

Here, we have a SM in full power armour, an average Guardsman and some other guy. Ignore the other guy for the purposes of this comparison.
Now, the general consensus on this thread seems to be that Power Armour adds about a foot of height onto the marine. In this case, then, that puts the marine at anywhere between 7ft and 8ft without armour according to this scale.
Course, this is a fan's comparison, and may not be true, but it certainly rings true with a lot of the fluff I've read.

**SmackCakes**

Why are we back to 10 feet tall? Æscholt already posted a summery of quoted cannon heights, which pointed to Space Marines being 7-8 feet tall. Jess Goodwin even said Space Marines are 7' to 7'6", the only person who ever stated anything close to 3 meters was Ben Counter who's name is frequently mentioned along with such literary geniuses as C. S. Goto. Here is is again...

Æscholt wrote:Here's a summary of the various 'canon' heights Marines have been given from time to time. If anyone has an example I've missed, then please don't hesitate to mention it.
    • Deathwatch says that "whilst wearing their power armour, an unarmed Space Marine typically stands slightly over 2.1 metres tall".
    • The current Codex: Chaos Space Marines says Marines "stand seven feet tall".
    • 2nd edition's Codex: Angels of Death describes a Marine as "seven foot tall".
    • Jes Goodwin has said that Marines are "seven to seven foot six", and his "life size" drawing of an armour Space Marine was 7′ tall.
    • James Swallow's Blood Angels series features Marines who stand "well over two metres" tall.
    • Dan Abnett's books usually place a Marine as being about a metre taller than a human, and in Horus Rising describes Loken as being "a giant, two and a half metres tall".
    • Anthony Reynolds's Word Bearers are shorter than three metres, with an "almost three metres" tall staff being "taller even than" the Marine carrying it, and a three metre tall Ogryn "dwarfed even the Terminators".
    • And lastly, Ben Counter describes Marines as being "three metres tall" in his Soul Drinkers novels.

This gives Space Marines an average cannon hight of around 7.6 foot tall. But the median and mode heights are still 7 foot.

**KamikazeCanuck**

Can't believe Deathwatch says armoured marines are 2.1 metres tall. Many Guardsmen are taller than that.

**SmackCakes**

KamikazeCanuck wrote:Can't believe Deathwatch says armoured marines are 2.1 metres tall. Many Guardsmen are taller than that.

And what is wrong with that? Why does every marine have to be taller than every human ever? What is wrong with them just being tall? 2.1 meters is insane tall, I'm not sure I've ever met anyone that tall its so rare.

**Gorskar.da.Lost**

I think the wealth of information that states that SM average about 7ft something kinda lends the general " poll scale is wrong" argument a lot of credibility, given that they're all well-known fluff sources. Two of these are even codexes, although one is no longer in use.

**blazinpsycho&typhooni**

Because SPHEZ MARINES are the bestest!!! RAWR!!!

And that is the subconscious thinking of many people voting for taller marines. Don't get me wrong, I think they should be taller too. It's just that with all the fluff talking about how big marines are, we've come to the conclusion that they must be huge and dwarf everyone. A marine that is smaller than a guardsman? HERESY!

It's the way they've been cemented into people's minds from reading BL books

**cadbren**

Bigger doesn't always mean taller. Space marines are much broader than normal humans as well as being muscular.

**blazinpsycho&typhooni**

I've found this picture off the internet, I don't think it's canon most likely fan art, but this is how I picture the size difference. If the spacemarine was 7-8 feet tall and this is what it looks like, than I am more inclined to agree.

Other wise, I stand by a taller height

**VictorVonTzeentch**

Thats what most Marines look like in Canon pictures I've seen. Clearly not 10 feet in Power armor, so he wouldn't be 10 out of it.

**Ed_Bodger**

Never seen one shorter than 9 ft not in armour

**blazinpsycho&typhooni**

BrotherStynier wrote:Thats what most Marines look like in Canon pictures I've seen. Clearly not 10 feet in Power armor, so he wouldn't be 10 out of it.

I'm sorry, I'm used to metric, but even then, my estimation of measurements is terrible.

What size would you say he is?

**VictorVonTzeentch**

blazinpsycho&typhooni wrote:
BrotherStynier wrote:Thats what most Marines look like in Canon pictures I've seen. Clearly not 10 feet in Power armor, so he wouldn't be 10 out of it.

I'm sorry, I'm used to metric, but even then, my estimation of measurements is terrible.

What size would you say he is?

I would say he's 8 foot something in his armor, 7 foot something out.

**Panic**

yeah,
Stephen Merchant is 8' tall. the big lanky goggle-eyed freak. And that's with without his prognoid glands

Space marines are 10' tall FACT.
Scientific Fact.
and you can't argue with the facts!

Panic...

**sourclams**

blazinpsycho&typhooni wrote:I've found this picture off the internet, I don't think it's canon most likely fan art, but this is how I picture the size difference. If the spacemarine was 7-8 feet tall and this is what it looks like, than I am more inclined to agree.

Other wise, I stand by a taller height

Assuming that woman is 5.5 feet tall, and assuming their poses knock off the same number of overall inches in straight-standing height, then the Marine is 7.6 feet tall at the head and 8.1 feet tall at the backpack.

If she's 6 feet tall, the Marine is a little over 8 feet in armor.

In short, unless that chick is 7 feet tall, the Marine is nowhere close to 10 feet in armor.

**KamikazeCanuck**

OP needs to update poll options. We need some 7 and 8 foot tall marines in here!

**Ulver**

Panic wrote:yeah,
Stephen Merchant is 8' tall. the big lanky goggle-eyed freak. And that's with without his prognoid glands

Space marines are 10' tall FACT.
Scientific Fact.
and you can't argue with the facts!

Panic...

I haven't been here long enough to work out if that's humour or not but assuming you're being serious sooooo... you're kidding me right?!?! 8 foot?! You telling me Ricky Gervais (and all those blokes standing around) is 7'?! The top of that road sign is about 8' off the ground.

Stephen Merchant's wiki page claims he's 6'7"; I know it's not the be all and end all of fact, but I doubt they're out by 20%.

**cadbren**

Ulver wrote:
Panic wrote:yeah,
Stephen Merchant is 8' tall. the big lanky goggle-eyed freak. And that's with without his prognoid glands

Space marines are 10' tall FACT.
Scientific Fact.
and you can't argue with the facts!

Panic...

I haven't been here long enough to work out if that's humour or not but assuming you're being serious sooooo... you're kidding me right?!?! 8 foot?! You telling me Ricky Gervais (and all those blokes standing around) is 7'?! The top of that road sign is about 8' off the ground.

Stephen Merchant's wiki page claims he's 6'7"; I know it's not the be all and end all of fact, but I doubt they're out by 20%.

Agreed, that road sign in the background is probably 8' up that pole, that man on the right certainly isn't 8'.

**vodo40k**

Not sure this has come up yet but the marine in this pic looks pretty massive (if a little OTT imo) I still stick with the fact marines are around 8ft as my true scale marines seem to be about that hight compared with guardsmen. I say if a guardsman is staring a space marine in the chest you've got the height right.

**VictorVonTzeentch**

vodo40k wrote:Not sure this has come up yet but the marine in this pic looks pretty massive (if a little OTT imo) I still stick with the fact marines are around 8ft as my true scale marines seem to be about that hight compared with guardsmen. I say if a guardsman is staring a space marine in the chest you've got the height right.

He's not too large, the Imperial Rep is a hunched old man.

**Ed_Bodger**

I was having a chat with Sicarius the other day, you know the sort of thing: he thinks he is a tactical genius I pointed out that last week he got his head pulled off by a Tau battle suit and then his entire company got wiped out by the new DE codex anyway long story short when we had finished our caramel machiato I whipped out my trusty tape measure and damn me if he wasn't nine and a half feet tall to the inch without his cute little blue booties on.

**vodo40k**

BrotherStynier wrote:
vodo40k wrote:Not sure this has come up yet but the marine in this pic looks pretty massive (if a little OTT imo) I still stick with the fact marines are around 8ft as my true scale marines seem to be about that hight compared with guardsmen. I say if a guardsman is staring a space marine in the chest you've got the height right.

He's not too large, the Imperial Rep is a hunched old man.

Yea I noticed that, he's probably around 5-5.5 ft tall. Tau are pretty short anway so that marine probably looks to be high 8ft.

**Isaac Corbett**

If I am right, considering how in most of the books i have read they are stated as being "Well over 2 and a half meters tall" out of armour. And they are supposed to be about 3 meters(ten feet) in termi, I'd say they are about '8 "7 1/2

**cadbren**

Isaac Corbett wrote:If I am right, considering how in most of the books i have read they are stated as being "Well over 2 and a half meters tall" out of armour. And they are supposed to be about 3 meters(ten feet) in termi, I'd say they are about '8 "7 1/2

Where does it say that. I want the name of the book and the page number, not some half remembered fact.

**KamikazeCanuck**

Necromancy of poll that had bad options to begin with!