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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2009/09/10 18:52:44
Subject: What do Marine Tank Crews wear?
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Focused Dark Angels Land Raider Pilot
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What do Marine Tank Crews wear? Anyone know if it says anywhere
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2009/09/10 18:54:40
Subject: What do Marine Tank Crews wear?
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Power Armor like all marines? The tank commander models that stick up from the hatches have it on, so I'd imagine the crew wears it as well.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2009/09/10 18:54:40
Subject: What do Marine Tank Crews wear?
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Leader of the Sept
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Power armour. All of the tank crew bits on Marine tanks are wearing power armour. Not sure how they ever actually fit through the hatches, but there you go
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2009/09/10 19:12:24
Subject: What do Marine Tank Crews wear?
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Focused Dark Angels Land Raider Pilot
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thats what i thought but that has to be a stupid hassle, i see the commander cause he exposes himself, but i would think that drivers and such would wear scout type armour
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2009/09/10 19:21:07
Subject: What do Marine Tank Crews wear?
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Fixture of Dakka
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I thought that marine tanks were generally "manned" by servitors, with just the commander telling them what to do? I could have sworn I read that somewhere...
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2009/09/10 19:27:26
Subject: What do Marine Tank Crews wear?
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Leader of the Sept
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Vehicle crews are supposedly drawn from the reserve companies. So the battle companies 2 through 5 are generally fielded as infantry with vehicle and bike crews coming from the reserve companies 6 through 9. The crews are fully fledged marines and I guess they need to be ready at a moments notice to fill a hole in an infantry squad somewhere.
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Please excuse any spelling errors. I use a tablet frequently and software keyboards are a pain!
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2009/09/10 19:31:26
Subject: What do Marine Tank Crews wear?
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Bounding Ultramarine Assault Trooper
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Actually, in the Imperial Armor books, it talks about how Marine drivers use their Power Armor systems to link with their vehicles. This enables them to control their vehicles better, as well as use existing implants and armor systems to process information.
Also, if the vehicle is destroyed, the driver can still function as a Space Marine.
One more thing...the models and the "actual" vehicles are in a different scale. Just look at the Rhino. In the Space Marine Codex where the Marine is standing next to the Rhino in order to show scale, the Rhino is HUGE. The model is not.
Hope this helps...
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2009/09/10 19:48:45
Subject: What do Marine Tank Crews wear?
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Rotting Sorcerer of Nurgle
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Flinty wrote:Power armour. All of the tank crew bits on Marine tanks are wearing power armour. Not sure how they ever actually fit through the hatches, but there you go 
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2009/09/10 22:54:20
Subject: What do Marine Tank Crews wear?
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Maddening Mutant Boss of Chaos
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I always wanted to model some Marine tanks with a tech-adept commanding some hard-wired firing servitors in the back. It makes more sense to me to have some Mechanicus meddling with the vehicle operation... the drivers would still be standard crew-marines, but it seems much more efficient to have some servitors driving the guns instead of battle-hardened needed-on-the-field Marines.
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