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I was just wondering if weather or not a space marine termi could get up after its fallen down becuase it cant run after fleeing adversaries?

I like to imagine a dreadnought falling over..

They obviously have a scrimech. If comprehensive school robot designers can think of it surely it would be included on a suit of advanced fighting armour.

Thinking of how it would work though... they may not be fast but they are built for strength. I assume they could just bend at the hip with ease when on their back, then just push themselves up with shear strength.

I think this:

http://tsoalr.com/?p=193

explains everything

Heh, if only cow tipping wasn't a myth. Cows can easily get up and are quite hard to push over or sneak up on.

Absolutely everything!

Guess it would depend on how far the Termi fell!
Not herd about cows being unable to get up.
Sounds like bull to me anyway.

Eh, I imagine it would probably just roll onto it's front..push-up, lift the knees and get back up
like you would after you finish doing pushups.

If you wanna get just plain silly, they use their back vents and "fart so hard they're blown back onto their feet"

I could see falling on his back being a problem, but I assume falling forward is a simple (but slow) task.

I'm sure that if they can back-flip then they can get back up.

Who said that they could back flip? Never saw that in the Marine Armory 10pts + for back flip special abilaty

I can see Goto writing a story and including a terminator back-flipping off of the land raider he was surfing while firing his multilazor into a group of Chaos-worshiping Eldar.

Or using the firing power of his multilazors to push himself up.

Maybe his kasrkin friends helped him up?

Maybe they have space hoppers that inflate like airbags, thus bouncing the Termi back upright with no effort involved.

Self righting spacehopper +5pts each
They could also ride into battle on them if no TW's are to be had

Terminators can teleport, right? They'll just teleport themselves back up.

There is a BIG differance between running after enemies and getting up after falling down. To my knowledge there are 2 examples of a Terminator falling in books 1 was in one of the HH books and the Terminator got up with the help of his squad mates, the other was one of the DoW books where a Terminator Seargent was fighting a Dark Reaper Exarch. I forget how but they ended up on the ground and the Seargent got up by rolling over, pushing up with his arms, bringing one leg forward and pushing him self up (like a push up mentioned earlier).

Getting up as described I can imagine, given their super strength.
The rolling over to do so if on their back is another thing.
It isn't some much a weight/strength issue as the limitations of articulation the armour and weapons would present.

Am trying to imagine how the armour would work if the Termie tried to roll and at the monment he is getting up.
But my head is still a bit groggy and struggling to picture Termie armour in detail. I still reckon they would be okay.

Warboss, so Termies fall in books but do the fall in love?

More to the point, if nobody is around does it make a noise........

Turtles

I imagine it would be no different than a normal human getting up. This suits are hardwired to their nervous system. I'm sure they articulate just as well as normal bodies do.

PraetorDave wrote:I imagine it would be no different than a normal human getting up.

This guy's right. If you only saw photos of humans, you might not suspect they could get themselves up either. We don't see Terminators actually moving, just snapshots.

Not convinced that SM's armour is well articulated Dave.
Doesn't count that the suit is wired to the body.
So is a tortoises's. (Turtles to you! and that isn't meant to sound rude! )

How would a human look like it couldn't get up, especially knowing how the joints articulate?
It is a matter of conjecture with SM's because we don't have the knowledge of how the armour articulates.
As drawn and modelled I have doubts whether fiull human articulation is possible.

The design is based on the rule of cool, not ergonomics!

The difficulty with terminator amror is that it looks like their isn't alot of movement in the torso and back. This means getting up is dependant on only the arms and legs. This might sound easy, but articulation of the core is more important than it seems.

That is the thing, Mr.N
If you roll over, the rotation of the shoulder and twist of the chest and stomach are very important.

Even not very supple old me can twist my shoulder into my chin
don't think this fellow will be able to perform such a lateral movement with the upper arm.

I think we can just file this one under the same catagory as "how the hell do they fit in the armour with their shoulders above their head" and call it a day.

That I completely agree with.

Now let us ask, could an Eldar lick his elbow?

... Well, you see, that Power Fist slams into the ground, generating enough force to propel the Terminator...

I'm not sure. However, I do agree with filing this under Farnir's aforementioned topic.

In conclusion, they could get up, but not quickly or effortlessly.

...and depending on how much space mead has been consumed should the Termie in question happen to be a SW.