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I've been basing all of my Marines on 32mm bases. Anything with Power Armour goes great on 32. I'd be thrilled if this was standard with their boxes.

Doesn't mean they're making bigger marines though - that would be incredibly expensive.

I think it's simply a response to more elaborate models. Most of my marines are in dynamic poses, with heavy weapons and flailing arms; 25mm is 'orrible. 15 years ago when I originally played 40k I remember most of my marines were upright, bolt gun across their chest. All very static and uniform. 25mm felt fine then, not now.

32 seems more appropriate for how they're designing the current-scale marines and characters.

 Ashiraya wrote:

 Gashrog wrote:

 Hanskrampf wrote:
There is no definite answer how tall a SM is.

Andy Hoare posted this in a Warhammer Facebook group a couple of months back. Pretty much a slamdunk case-closed statement.

6.5? Wow. They're shrinking.

Disappointing.

Not really disappointing at all. It's kind of nice to see, it injects a tiny bit of realism into the space marine hyperbole. If certain Black Library authors had their way, the easiest method to defeat a space marine boarding action would be building ships with normal sized corridors and hatches (because an 8+ ft tall space marine physically wouldn't fit anywhere). The easiest way to keep from getting killed by a space marine in close combat would be to go up a flight of wooden stairs (because mass scales roughly with height cubed, all other proportions equal, and a space marine's proportions are certainly bulkier; an armored 8+ ft tall space marine would crash right through the floor).

People just like reading big numbers, but people also have little concept of what those numbers really mean. Andre the Giant was 6' 11" and weighed around 500 lbs. That's freaking huge, it's already pushing the limits of practical. A shock troop army of Andres with greatly increased speed and stamina and muscle mass and damage tolerance and advanced weapons and bulletproof armor is terrifying, and makes much more sense than an army that couldn't even assault a bunker because they didn't fit through the door.

Edit: Amusingly enough, in researching this I noticed there's some debate over Andre the Giant's true height. He was consistently billed at 7'4" tall when promoting his matches but in reality was probably between 6'11" and 7'0". So BL aren't the only ones inflating heights to make a buck.