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Space marine the game isn't accurate, it is fan based.
   
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Methinks this is how big a Space Marine is compared to a normal human.
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Lord of Baal wrote:Space marine the game isn't accurate, it is fan based.


Can you explain how it is not accurate?

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Well it's fan based, thats one thing for sure. And they really don't need to be exact how GW tells them too. Take a good look at some of the marine shots they took, they aren't really that exact or anything.
   
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nectarprime wrote:
Lord of Baal wrote:Space marine the game isn't accurate, it is fan based.


Can you explain how it is not accurate?


Funny... some people see the 40k universe as a cartoon. I see it filed with real folks in my minds eye. Probably one of the reasons I can't relate to the characters in the Space Marines game.

BTW, it is mentioned in one ot the Heresy novels that the Marines border on Acromegaly. The primarchs from whom they were created are proportionate as they were desgned from the beginning to be the size they are. Space Marines are genetically augmented normal humans.

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Lord of Baal wrote:Well it's fan based, thats one thing for sure. And they really don't need to be exact how GW tells them too. Take a good look at some of the marine shots they took, they aren't really that exact or anything.

Yes, clearly there's no reason for them to be exact. The licensing manager just tells them to be "closesies".


I'd suggest you reread your post, and realize just how uninformed you sound.
   
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I don't think so, your talking about imperial guard. I go to the Los Angeles Battle Bunker, the manager has read every novel and book since he has been in the hobby since a young boy and he says there about nine feet up.. Here take a good look at this life sized marine in the right corner. Sorry if you can't really see it but you can actually see its green shoulder pad. It's a dark angels marine in this photo. I am actually in this group photo lol. The Bunker had a hobby-pocolypse which was like a GW party that lasted through the night until the morning basically for 33 hours. Anyways I won a painting competition in the squad category and it was awesome. + 250000 point apoc game a side.
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I'm not seeing the picture.

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Coolyo294 wrote:I'm not seeing the picture.

Me neither.

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What are you even talking about?

You're ranting, and not forming any kind of coherent statement or logical argument.

Simply put: Space Marine is not a "fan" project. THQ works very closely with GW's IP manager, Alan Merrett.
If you don't know what IP is, it's "intellectual property". The entirety of Warhammer 40,000 is considered "IP". Merrett makes sure it goes within the realm of what GW wants and has published.
   
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arent SM 3 meters tall?


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We still don't have the proof that their 7ft. tall. And the pic is posted.

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flota wrote:arent SM 3 meters tall?

No, they are about 6.5 feet to 8 feet.

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flota wrote:arent SM 3 meters tall?


According to Blood Reaver they are.

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They can't be 6.5.
   
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Lord of Baal wrote:They can't be 6.5.

Yeah they can.
Admittedly that's taking the extreme case but marines at 6.5 is a possibility. Though they would still be built like a tank.

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Ya maybe but in a different chapter with a different gene seed. And no that's not Heresy if a girl is their. She's a great painter. Heres a link for more pics.
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.254860204524986.73106.213120288698978

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In a different chapter to Ultramarines i presume?
We are using them as a frame of reference correct?
BEcause in that video i posted they are described as 7 feet, so it's not without the realms of possibility that they are 6.5 feet.

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You can put in a different age to see it.

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Then lie and type in an older birth date...

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Monster Rain wrote:
flota wrote:arent SM 3 meters tall?


According to Blood Reaver they are.
Well, then apparently the author of that book has no idea what he is talking about, as has been evidenced multiple times from designer drawings and more credible references, marines IN ARMOR are much definitely around the 8 foot range. Not 9 feet, not 3 meters (10 feet???), 8 feet. Heck the scale drawing earlier in this thread pegs them as 7' tall.

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According to Blood Reaver, some of them are. You can't just throw out canon background because you don't like what it says.

The range of Space Marine height reaches at least 3 M on some occasions.

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Kanluwen wrote:
Lord of Baal wrote:Well it's fan based, thats one thing for sure. And they really don't need to be exact how GW tells them too. Take a good look at some of the marine shots they took, they aren't really that exact or anything.

Yes, clearly there's no reason for them to be exact. The licensing manager just tells them to be "closesies".


I'd suggest you reread your post, and realize just how uninformed you sound.


So then we should consider Space Marine, the DoW games, Fire Warrior, and Chaos Gate to be canon?


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ph34r wrote:
Monster Rain wrote:
flota wrote:arent SM 3 meters tall?


According to Blood Reaver they are.
Well, then apparently the author of that book has no idea what he is talking about, as has been evidenced multiple times from designer drawings and more credible references, marines IN ARMOR are much definitely around the 8 foot range. Not 9 feet, not 3 meters (10 feet???), 8 feet. Heck the scale drawing earlier in this thread pegs them as 7' tall.


But those are metric feet.

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Metric feet?

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Marines without power armor = 7' to 8'

Marines in power armor = 7'+ to 8'+

Of course there are some 'regular' marines that are taller than that, but they are the outliers in this discussion.

Primarchs = Almost shouldn't be included in the discussion as they vary in height greatly, but say the range is 9' to 12'?

So, once again, there you have it!

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