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Yeah 11-12ft is ridiculous. 9' is just right to me. Neither too big nor too small.

That seems about right. Now it's time for me to get back to guessing how big crisis suits are.

I am going to assume they are a little bit bigger than SM (so that a Tau can fit in with all systems and mechanisms) but not extremely so.

You'll have to make a separate topic for that though!

 Ashiraya wrote:
Yeah 11-12ft is ridiculous. 9' is just right to me. Neither too big nor too small.

Obviously personal tastes vary. That 9' marine looks completely ridiculous to me.
7- 7.5" seems right to me.

 Ashiraya wrote:
Yeah 11-12ft is ridiculous. 9' is just right to me. Neither too big nor too small.

Spoiler:

The problem with this picture is that your reference is a human, but so are those:

So that does not tell us that much about how big the marine is.

I think it's assuming 6 foot human/

Co'tor Shas is correct. See the background - each box represents 1'.

Less than 9 feet then, considering the bold line stops at high than the marine head.

He is not standing straight. The DKoK is.

Also for using humans in books as a ruler for height, while we don't know the average height of humanity in M30 onwards, the average male in the modern day is 5'8. Standard should start around there for 40k humans.

^True.

But it is possible over generations that humans have decreased in height as they are in more warlike settings so their bodies will adjust over generations.

Just like to point out that Ashiraya made that picture and is only claiming that it fits the scale of her headcanon marines.

 Furyou Miko wrote:
Just like to point out that Ashiraya made that picture and is only claiming that it fits the scale of her headcanon marines.

What the height of marines has been between 8 to 9 feet tall. They have been described as taller but I think older marines past a few centuries continue to grow in size. Such as Terminators.

 Furyou Miko wrote:
Just like to point out that Ashiraya made that picture and is only claiming that it fits the scale of her headcanon marines.

I am not entirely sure of how fair it is to call it headcanon, in truth, given that there is material supporting it and 40k has its canonicity...

There is also canon that states that a space marines stands 7' tall. Your mileage and opinion may vary.

But the 7' canon is just as canon. Same level of canonicity.

All I meant was to point out that the image isn't usable as a source of anything other than what you believe, because there is no REAL scale similarity between the two pictures, only what you created when you made the image.

Oh yes, the picture is one I assembled from the data.

 Furyou Miko wrote:
All I meant was to point out that the image isn't usable as a source of anything other than what you believe, because there is no REAL scale similarity between the two pictures, only what you created when you made the image.

Stop using Peregrine's argument.

That is data from the codex and cannot be disputed.

Headcanon only happens if you involve your own fan fiction.

Asherian... You do know I assembled that picture, right?

The Space Marine is from Deathwatch and the DKoK from the FW books.

These space marine size threads never get old!

Lets ignore the fact that shorter marines are actually more impressive in terms of their performance as warriors since it means all that power is packed into a smaller package.

I believe they're described as being anywhere from 8-9 feet tall in the fluff, although i'm not sure where it's described.

 PhillyT wrote:
These space marine size threads never get old!

Lets ignore the fact that shorter marines are actually more impressive in terms of their performance as warriors since it means all that power is packed into a smaller package.

That would be a sound argument if having Marines as powerful as possible is something I would want.

I don't really know anyone who does.


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War Kitten wrote:
I believe they're described as being anywhere from 8-9 feet tall in the fluff, although i'm not sure where it's described.

We have everything between 6' ish (models) and almost 10' (some books).

I believe they're described as being anywhere from 8-9 feet tall in the fluff, although i'm not sure where it's described.

 Ashiraya wrote:
Asherian... You do know I assembled that picture, right?

The Space Marine is from Deathwatch and the DKoK from the FW books.

No I was attacking the statement headcanon, we know of the sizes there just never been an equal size measurement, you making a size comparison is technically not headcanon.

And yeah i know they are But it is not headcanon that a space marine is over 8 feet tall.

There are parts of HH novels that describe normal human women only coming up to just higher than an Astartes' waist.

Make of that what you will. Personally 9ft seems a little big. 7ft5 seems ok as they are often described as being head and shoulders above human. With Terminators being a head taller and their Primarchs being head and shoulders above those.

It's all about the head and shoulders.

Clean hair is a must in the 41st millennium.

Uh... Why would TDA add a head?

Anyone have any exact ratio on what the typical waist to true height is for a human male regarding the above information?

Also going by a generous fraction of 6/10 for waist height, and assuming female height is still just 5'4 on average in M30, that ends up with 2.6 Meter Marines.

 Ashiraya wrote:
Uh... Why would TDA add a head?

What do you mean?

See the post above mine. It was asserted that TDA adds a head in height. I dispute this claim. TDA is thick, yes, but it does not have 1' thick bootsoles.