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Space Marines are (unarmoured):
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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.


I agree completely with vodo40k. It's not just the height you have to think of but the mass too. The human in vodo40k's picture is about 5'8" tall give or take a couple of inches. The Space Marine is around 7' tall but the mass makes him look even larger. A lot of people seem to have a bit of a problem accepting the 7' argument but trust me, if a 7' tall Space Marine was stood in front of you with that kind of bulk on him you would be seriously impressed with the mass of his frame. Now just look at vodo40k's picture above again and now add another 3' to the Marine, THREE FEET!!! That's the range of a heavy bolter and don't forget to factor in the increase of mass too.

10' tall is WAAY over the top, even for Terminator Armour. Anyone who honestly thinks that Space Marine's would be 10 feet tall haven't thought this through properly.

Dreadnoughts are about 15'-16' tall. Look at the picture in the back of the Space Marine codex (page 141) where they are stood on parade (or whatever they are doing) and you will notice that the Space Marine's are half as tall as the dreadnought. If the Space Marine's were around 10' then they would be stood as tall as the assault cannon which is clearly a ludicrous and woefully deranged prospect.

I know that some sources have stated that Terminators are 3m tall but at the most I would think that it adds anything up to 1' in height which would mean that a Space Marine in Power Armour would come up to a Terminator's chest and NOT his solar plexus region as would be the case otherwise. Authors are not infallible and the 3m Terminators, IMO, is simply an example of this.

So let it go, 7' is PLENTY and 10' is just plain daft.

This message was edited 2 times. Last update was at 2011/06/04 01:45:42


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