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Darth Bob's avatar... O.o

Who?

A very angry chicken

Mr. T when he doesn't get his milk. He gets mad without his fresh, wholesome milk.

I reckon the knife missile out of a drone companion to a Special Circumstances agent of the Contact section of The Culture would be able to kill a Space Marine without anyone realising it had happened.

oggers wrote:Someone armed with the holy handgrenade of Antioch.

lol, was thinking the same thing.

op: Me.

J.Black wrote:Chuck Norris?

win

all other answers please refer to this

rule 1. chuck norris always wins
rule 2 if chuck looks like loosing refer to rule 1

simple

A Gelatinous Cube.
it goes OMN NOM NOM NOM.
In D&D anyways.


AND.... A SPACE MARINE *gasp* It's so obvious!

War Machine...not even a contest.


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Or me...

I have WS3 S3 lets say...

I have a 50% chance of hitting him. and the same chance of wounding him...

he has a 66.7 chance of surviving

Now let's say he attacked me while i am sitting at home...he charged through difficult terrain so I have higher initiative...

I have an 8.3% chance of killing him.

Booyah.

Kilkrazy wrote:I reckon the knife missile out of a drone companion to a Special Circumstances agent of the Contact section of The Culture would be able to kill a Space Marine without anyone realising it had happened.

What...?

ductvader wrote:War Machine...not even a contest.

What those lumbering slow piles of scrap? A cripple space marine could run circles around one.

ductvader wrote:War Machine...not even a contest.


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Or me...

I have WS3 S3 lets say...

I have a 50% chance of hitting him. and the same chance of wounding him...

he has a 66.7 chance of surviving

Now let's say he attacked me while i am sitting at home...he charged through difficult terrain so I have higher initiative...

I have an 8.3% chance of killing him.

Booyah.

you are aware s3 is around 3 times the strength of a normal human?

Soladrin wrote:

Kilkrazy wrote:I reckon the knife missile out of a drone companion to a Special Circumstances agent of the Contact section of The Culture would be able to kill a Space Marine without anyone realising it had happened.

What...?

ductvader wrote:War Machine...not even a contest.

What those lumbering slow piles of scrap? A cripple space marine could run circles around one.

I'm hoping he meant THIS warmachine

I remain by my point "throws nose up in the air"

Oh, and I'd say any one of us could fry their brains by telling them the truth of their existence

Soladrin wrote:I remain by my point "throws nose up in the air"

Oh, and I'd say any one of us could fry their brains by telling them the truth of their existence

Hey marneus! there is no spoon!

*marine head splosion*

a never ending swarm of Guardsmen or primitive warriors like in those Grey Knights books. the marine has every possible advantage out there but no one has unlimited ammo. Ok so say he gets drop pods full of ammo and he can almost never run out eventually the masses would close in. he would kill a gak load in cc but eventually the bayonets and knives, claymores and battle axes would break some seals at the joints. Armour is ripped off and the sofy fleashy parts are hacked to pieces. it doesnt matter if you can see in the dark and have thick bones if 30 something bayonetts smash your face in.

then of course GW and the rest of the marines start pouting that someone killed one of their poster boys and nuke the gak outtta the planet

The marines from starcraft

UppityGrot wrote:The marines from starcraft

Um, no. Zaelots however are another story they have shields and energy blades.

UppityGrot wrote:The marines from starcraft

A lot of things from Starcraft could kill your average 40k Space Marine.

Such as Hydralisks (they kill everything, and burrow, and, well, has 10-15 hundred zerglings around to use as meatshields (in an actual combat how the zerg are described to fight, i.e., give Tyranid swarms (again fluff-wise) a run for their money, body-count wise.)

Or Wraiths (clocking is fun) or ghosts (see earlier parentheses statement, also, nukes), siege tanks, Goliaths, science vessels (irradiate ability), Battlecruisers, packs of zerglings, zerg guardians, protoss zealots/dragoons/reavers/carriers/scouts/dark templars/archons so on and so forth

Not to mention all the killy new stuff in SC2


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also, RAYNOR.

Enough said.

I'm not sure if anyone's mentioned this before....but what about Dark Troopers from the Star Wars EU? They seem to be as heavily armored as a Marine, but also much slower. But that's countered by the fact that they are robots who can afford to lose an arm or so to a power/chain sword. plus, they have some models specialized for close combat!

additionally, what about Zone Troopers from Command and Conquer 3? Their jump packs give them similar mobility to an assault marine, and I have a feeling their rail guns would be able to pierce power armor.



Zone Trooper



Dark Troopers

@corpsesarefun

So Guard have 3 times the strength of a normal human? I thought they were normal humans?

YES...that War Machine...

my rabbit?

SMs don't have soft fleshy bits.

SM can afford to lose arms, and legs, and good portions of their entire lower body...and important organs like hearts and lungs...and swimming pools full of blood...

Lethal doses of radiation are just absorbed and neutralized...

Maybe if a nuke landed directly on top of an SM but...they could probably survive a close detonation

I don't think Star Wars or SC have the chops to deal with SM

steempunk wrote: Maybe if a nuke landed directly on top of an SM but...they could probably survive a close detonation

unless by 'close detonation' you mean at least a few hundred meters from the hypocenter of the blast. if they were standing close to a nuclear detonation, they would be completel vaporize, no matter how tough their armor was. sm could most likely survive the direct radiation as well as the fall out, and if they were far enough away could survive the heat and overpressure. but if they nuke were anywhere near them? they'd be toast (quite literally i might add)

ChrisWWII wrote:

steempunk wrote: Maybe if a nuke landed directly on top of an SM but...they could probably survive a close detonation

unless by 'close detonation' you mean at least a few hundred meters from the hypocenter of the blast. if they were standing close to a nuclear detonation, they would be completel vaporize, no matter how tough their armor was. sm could most likely survive the direct radiation as well as the fall out, and if they were far enough away could survive the heat and overpressure. but if they nuke were anywhere near them? they'd be toast (quite literally i might add)

I agree...being deatomized doesn't stop because you're hardcore

ductvader wrote:

ChrisWWII wrote:

steempunk wrote: Maybe if a nuke landed directly on top of an SM but...they could probably survive a close detonation

unless by 'close detonation' you mean at least a few hundred meters from the hypocenter of the blast. if they were standing close to a nuclear detonation, they would be completel vaporize, no matter how tough their armor was. sm could most likely survive the direct radiation as well as the fall out, and if they were far enough away could survive the heat and overpressure. but if they nuke were anywhere near them? they'd be toast (quite literally i might add)

I agree...being deatomized doesn't stop because you're hardcore

I beg to differ. An Ultramarine would survive because "Ultramarines always win, all the time. Hurr-durrka-durr."

Kilkrazy wrote:A guy with an RPG.
A guy with a sniper rifle.
A guy with a roadside bomb.
A guy with a bag of bricks on top of a tall building.
A guy with a faulty water heater which produces carbon monoxide fumes that suffocate the SM in his sleep.

The logical flaw with SMs is that while they are awesome at straight 1-2-1 combat, they aren't invulnerable or immortal and can be killed in a variety of fairly ordinary means.

Because they are so expensive, and relatively easy to kill, they will usually lose by attrition to ordinary troops.

One flaw... as pointed in DOW II the book.... SM dont sleep but for a hour every 3-4 days

Candle Jack would make quick work of any space mareeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...

metallifan wrote:
I beg to differ. An Ultramarine would survive because "Ultramarines always win, all the time. Hurr-durrka-durr."

No, the Ultramarine would survive because he was conveniently located on the other side of the galaxy. Like they always are.

Who or What could take DOWN a Space Marine!?

If a Space Wolf: A Pan-Galactic Gargleblaster.
If a Boy Blue: Half a shandy.