Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

I have read some of the fluff in codices (plural of codex) but none of it talks about chow time. What do SM eat? I'm guessing some kind of High-protein gruel enriched with vitamins and minerals. I bet they could go for days/weeks without food with no ill effects.

Apparently they can ingest dirt and basic plant/animal matter and subsist off that for a looong time if necessary. Or they can put themselves into a deep meditative sleep to prolong survival even further if needed. Under non combat/ survival circmstances I guess it would depend on the chapter and the traditions/tastes of the populations they recruit from. Some go on ritual fasts and others like space wolves I could see enjoying a banquet in honor of a successful campaign.

They can eat almost anything, if they have to. They can also gain another person's memories by eating his delicious brain. However, I think they do mostly eat neutrient-rich gruel laced with combat drugs and hormones needed by their implants. Except for the space puppies who eat roast boar and drink mead for reasons to pointless to explain.

I would imagine a lot of chapters get waited on by chapter serfs & eat in a communal eating area when theyre kicking back at the Fortess monastery. I imagine the formality of the setting varying with chapter, for example in the above case, for Black Templars, they would be commanded to eat in silence, while one brother read aloud from the Codex Astartes, or the Imperial Creed.

By contrast, I can see the Space Wolves being quite informal, in the SW Novels they have feasts & quaff ale.

I assume the food would be the usual food that is eaten on whichever planet the monastery is situated on.

Conversely, I can see them being issued with tubes of nutrient paste rations when in the field.


Of course, Im not actually basing this on anything, other than how it is in my mind's eye.

I think somecallmeJack nailed this one perfectly.

Although I would like to know what kind of foods are 'culturally normal' for the basic chapters (Salamanders, White Scars, Dark Angels, etc). Hmm...something to think on.

Black Templars are on crusade so often that they probably have to eat on the go, and rarely have the luxury of sitting around at tables.

Sons of Dorn describes mealtime for Imperial Fist aspirants. The food's served by servitors, is unrecognizable (to someone from a backwater Feudal World, at least), and "bland and all but tasteless," but "warm and filling," and the aspirants eat in near silence.

Azezel wrote:They can eat almost anything, if they have to. They can also gain another person's memories by eating his delicious brain. However, I think they do mostly eat neutrient-rich gruel laced with combat drugs and hormones needed by their implants. Except for the space puppies who eat roast boar and drink mead for reasons to pointless to explain.

I can explain the Space Puppies with a Common jewish answer to why they do many things that seem a bit off: Tradition!

Also I have heard Chaos Marines prefer to eat unbaptized Imperial Babies.

I was going to Answer with Space pups eating Mutton Joints and Tankards of Ale, but Azezel and Jack beat me to it.

I believe that Ultrasmurfs eat nothing but field rations of nutrient paste; They would eat better fare but when the administratum was allowing the chapters to choose what they wanted to eat the Ultras were on the other side of the galaxy .

Chili dogs.

You know, with the enhancements given through their genetic modifications, wouldn't Space Wolves drinking ale be pretty much pointless? Wouldn't their bodies break down the alcohol so fast that it wouldn't affect them at all?

Fafnir wrote:You know, with the enhancements given through their genetic modifications, wouldn't Space Wolves drinking ale be pretty much pointless? Wouldn't their bodies break down the alcohol so fast that it wouldn't affect them at all?

I think they're said either to have a superbrew that's too potent for even Space Marine physiology to handle without intoxication or simply to drink in such incredible quantities that even their enhanced bodies can't handle it. Maybe both.

So, basically even more SW bs.

Kittens.

Kommissar Kel wrote:Also I have heard Chaos Marines prefer to eat unbaptized Imperial Babies.

Actually it's the other way around. That's why they baptize them, it's so hard to find Chaos Marines these days to please the little bastards.

BABIES! And SW brew is much more potent than normal alcohol, they talk about it in Battle for the Abyss

Fafnir wrote:So, basically even more SW bs.

Pretty much. Space Wolves are a lot bigger on the being speshul than the making much sense.

Someone should attack the Spacewolves during a great feast. They'd all be drunk and more slowed than usual.

And somehow the brew will make them SUPER STRONG, and they will win.

From what i hear on normal days in the base they have a feast of what they killed.

Space Marines eat babies, Space Wolves eat their ENEMIES!

thegrav wrote:Space Marines eat babies, Space Wolves eat their ENEMIES!

Their enemies who are ALSO BABIES!

They use babysauce to de-age them.

Ye gods I've been reading too much Axe Cop.

I totally want to make my own SM chapter now... Inspired by Angry Marine...

They eat anything.

Fluff says they can survive on a diet of rocks and so on.

They can even eat wood.

They eat nails for breakfast and gak bolter rounds at lunch!


Automatically Appended Next Post:

Necanor wrote:They can even eat wood.

hehe... I thought only SoB ate wood... hehe... (I'm five mentally, get over it .)

Ilkhan wrote:

thegrav wrote:Space Marines eat babies, Space Wolves eat their ENEMIES!

Their enemies who are ALSO BABIES!

They use babysauce to de-age them.

Ye gods I've been reading too much Axe Cop.

To quote Heavy Weapons Guy:

"Why do they send BABIES to fight MEN?!?!?"

They eat fear and crap victory.

In all seriousness, while they could eat anything, I'm under the impression that they get the absolute best of what the imperium can offer, including food.

Ailaros wrote:They eat fear and crap victory.

In all seriousness, while they could eat anything, I'm under the impression that they get the absolute best of what the imperium can offer, including food.

They don't get the absolute best of everything. For example, they don't get Exorcists, Leman Russ tanks, Baneblades, or Titans. And they hardly get weapons suitable for long, drawn-out battles (bolter weapons are very inefficient for anything but short engagements).

Marines get what they need to perform their job.

Space marines can pretty much eat anything (after all, they can breathe underwater and do lots of other things that we cannot).