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Is there any fluff of space marines doing anything besides fighting, praying, etc?

Do they ever go back and see their families from before they were space marines?

Do they even remember their prior lives or do they get brainwiped when they "enlist?"

these are important questions for me.

ermmm.....ok, I'm worried by your last statement.....it indicates a seriously lazy grip on reality or you are in fact a renegade Space Marine looking for meaning in your new life outside the Chapter.....either way...I'm officially scared.

Now in answer to your question. It depends on the Chapter.

Space Wolves like to drink, and if they have man batons, they maybe use those on good old viking girls.

Imperial Fists like to scrimshaw on the bones of their fallen brother.

Blood Angels like to embroider battle standards, write poetry and paint (taken from the Blood Angels books, Dues Encarmane, etc)

Salamanders probably like to build a better mouse trap....that fires plasma bolts.

Dark Angels.....well, they just whisper and giggle like girls.

Ultramarines.....are always on duty.

Black Templars usually can be found burning a witch or heretic.

Raven Gaurd.....the Imperiums best peeping toms....they like the shadows....so your guess is as good as mine.

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Space Wolves booze hard, and like to wrestle Ultramarines.

Blood Angels drink Clamato juice and wish that they could have the Black Rage.

Dark Angels write poetry too - but they keep it locked up in their diary, which is Inquisition-proof.

Salamanders build a better mouse trap... which utilizes a twin linked flamer and meltagun, as well as being treated as mastercrafted.

Ultramarines write treatices on courage and honour (with a u).

Black templars choke down some roids and dare Guardsmen to make them take a leadership check.

What a lovely picture.... There should be a contest for you guys for something like 'best 40k parody'

The Wolves Templar get it on with the ladies of the Sister of Battle! WOOT!!!

Wow what a great model.

Delephont wrote:Ultramarines.....are always on duty.

Hey! We have fifteen minutes of free time per day! Or was is five?

I think I read somewhere that some Marines are remembered by their families, and are looked up to with awe.

They play 40k.

NO WAIT...They ARE 40k.

I always assumed they just hopped back in their cryotubes (shaped like small pews in which they kneel and put both hands together) and waited for the next battle. Can I get an Amen!

I don't know about Loyalists

Butt the EYE is one great Festival of carnage, orgy, drinking, eating cotest, bar fights and all other fun things in life.

Ooooh yeah and picking on mankind

greetz typhoon

I'd imagine that they place chess and go hunting. Maybe they pose while mere mortals make statues of them too. And they probably spend a lot of time in their spaceships too.

Its a hard life being elite.

Dark Angels and Space Wolves duel and then drink in rememberance of the great fight between The Lion and Russ.

Some play 80K, or take vacation on Necromunda, to release frustration.

Some pick on the new recruits, or play DoW video games.

But mostly they dream about Battle Sisters.

Pariah press, It is indeed 5 minutes of freetime a day, just before lights out.

aww man I really want to see a modeled eating contest in the eye of terror. . . huge bloated chaos marines with guts bursting out of their power armor. . .

I still don't know, do space marines remember back to before they were 7 ft tall?




Which 40k army do you think has soldiers who have the most "personal lives" outside of war?

Eldar? I think I heard they spend their lives rotating through disciplines (warriors, poets, artists, etc.) like kindergarteners rotating through fingerpainting, art, music, numbers, house, etc.

The thing that got me hooked on tau was actually that passage in the codex where an earth caste tau living with the kroot wrote this affectionate letter back to his sister on the homeworld - I always assumed that meant most of the castes have real lives.

Families? Their battlebrothers are their only family.
Free time? Ow yeah the famous 5 minutes? And that's only when they're back at the chapter's monastery and it's usually spent in prayer, because 5 minutes isn't enough for proper fighting.
Personal time? personal doesn't exist after you've been brainwashed with 'for the emperor/empire', 'duty-duty-duty' and 'battlebrothers in arms'.

That being said there is an account somewhere in the Draco trilogy/novels about a space marine that inscribes the name of a fallen battle brother on the bones of his own left hand after dissolving the flesh with acid. Doesn't exactly fit into the arts, craft & hobby category ...

Orks have the most free time of all the 40k forces. It's just that they like to spend all their freetime drinking, fighting, eating, racing, (or if a mek) building a bigger and louder gun (or something like a stompa to carry the bigger and louder gun).

cerberez wrote:
Which 40k army do you think has soldiers who have the most "personal lives" outside of war?

The thing that got me hooked on tau was actually that passage in the codex where an earth caste tau living with the kroot wrote this affectionate letter back to his sister on the homeworld - I always assumed that meant most of the castes have real lives.

Seriously? Well, that would be easy....Imperial Guard would qualify for some kind of "social life" in and out of service to the Imperium.

Eldar certainly have free time, and Chaos Marines are constantly doing what they want to do, when they want to do it....which can't be bad.

Orks...see Chaos way of life.

It would be easier to talk about those that enslave themsleves to an ideal (Marines & Sisters of Battle)

Dude, you need to invest some pennies and time in the Black Library....all of this stuff is covered in the fluff.

Tyranids have the least free time of any race. When they're not fighting they're either devouring biomass or being sucked into a feeder tube on a hive ship where their recently eaten biomass is analyzed. I bet norn queens play chess though. They play telepathic chess with librarians inside the warp when there's a slow millenia.

I wonder do IG get to send letters home?

or is it like the Tsar's army, where you get conscripted and then you probably never see anyone you knew again. . .

Yeah, this stuff is probably covered in the books, but I'd rather hear peoples' opinions about it. And the books look a little silly to me.

There was a full page in the second guard codex( the first 3rd edition guard codex) devouted to a guardsmans letter home, complete with cencors. Fun read, that was.

I believe also that Guardsmen who serve long enough get to settle down on a nearby planet. And start a new life, but they never get to see their family again.

cerberez wrote:I wonder do IG get to send letters home?

The only letters that go home are the ones saying they've died

The 3rd ed IG codex has a letter in it that a guardsman has been sent home and has been scanned and had sensitive material taken out of it.

If I was a space marine I'd spend all my time on getting two wounds instead of one. If a chaplain can do it, so can I!!

I can provide a definite answer to this question.

NO

In the Grim/Dark future of the 41st millennium there is ONLY war!

Hope that clears up any misunderstandings.

how could I forget??!?

Chaos/Renegades: party, listen to metal, sacrifice inoccents to their gods, eat guardsmen and Eldar, punt Grots and Ratlings, kick ass, attend Gorgoroth concerts, smoke/inject/snort/drink ilicit substances, torture, murder, pillage, ascend to daemonhood, think of catchy Emperor bashing catch phrases and maybe some other things.

Loyalists: stand there and look imposing.

cerberez wrote:And the books look a little silly to me.

A report has been filed and sent to your units Commissar.



I suspect by tomorrow you will receive the Emperor's Wisdom.

Ghost in the Darkness wrote:I believe also that Guardsmen who serve long enough get to settle down on a nearby planet. And start a new life, but they never get to see their family again.

That's only for Very VERY VERY Important Guardsmen (i.e. those who Live long enough to actually have a higher up give a )

Most Guardsmen, once they sign up, die on their first campaign. If they don't, they get shipped off with whatever is left of their Regiment to another war.

Then if they don't die... You get the drill