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https://www.goonhammer.com/starcraft-the-miniatures-game-beta-rules-first-impressions/

Some mostly positive impressions.

 Ashiraya wrote:
Huh. Considering how Terran Marine armour is set up (it extends your limbs significantly, with your actual hand being in the suit's wrist, and your feet being in its ankle - ie, what some people misunderstand Terminators to be), does that mean that the Terran in that suit would be regular 40k scale?

Interesting.

Yeah, if Archon keep to the proper scale then Defenders of Man/Dominion Troopers, Reapers, and Ghosts should all be roughly Imperial Guard sized.

This isn't the greatest comparison shot, but you can see Tychus in his armor relative to everyone else standing around him.

Tchus's armour is bigger than normal - just that bit more chunky since he's not allowed out of it at all. He's sort of between a Marine and a Marauder

But yeah Marines are similar to Space Marines in that its a huge powersuit that bulks them up a lot.

 Overread wrote:
Tchus's armour is bigger than normal - just that bit more chunky since he's not allowed out of it at all. He's sort of between a Marine and a Marauder

I've literally never heard that before. What's the source for that?

 Jack Flask wrote:


A Terran Marine is scaled to the same height as a Primaris Marine.

Oh neat, thank you.

 Jack Flask wrote:

 Overread wrote:
Tchus's armour is bigger than normal - just that bit more chunky since he's not allowed out of it at all. He's sort of between a Marine and a Marauder

I've literally never heard that before. What's the source for that?

This is interesting to me also. I haven’t played it for ages, but I thought the heroes were sometimes portrayed as bigger in the screen to help identify them. Also Tychus is a big boy all round, so his armour would naturally have to be bigger anyway.

 Flinty wrote:

 Jack Flask wrote:

 Overread wrote:
Tchus's armour is bigger than normal - just that bit more chunky since he's not allowed out of it at all. He's sort of between a Marine and a Marauder

I've literally never heard that before. What's the source for that?

This is interesting to me also. I haven’t played it for ages, but I thought the heroes were sometimes portrayed as bigger in the screen to help identify them. Also Tychus is a big boy all round, so his armour would naturally have to be bigger anyway.

It's covered in the in-game dialogue I think. He's a convict locked into the armour to serve his sentence iirc.

I think he's more secured in than normal - In the spoiler launch video you see him being welded into the suite. Carrying his prison with him and basically his only way out is to betray Raynor.

That's why you never see him out of it through the series whilst Raynor takes his off.


And yes if you look at him in game he looks bigger than all the other marines in almost all proportions - it could be them highlighting a leader but could just be that his suit is indeed bulkier/bigger

To be honest, I assumed that the difference was just his suit being sealed, but that it's otherwise as big as any other.

The hero models are all scaled up in gameplay, Raynor included.

Dudeface wrote:

 Flinty wrote:

 Jack Flask wrote:

 Overread wrote:
Tchus's armour is bigger than normal - just that bit more chunky since he's not allowed out of it at all. He's sort of between a Marine and a Marauder

I've literally never heard that before. What's the source for that?

This is interesting to me also. I haven’t played it for ages, but I thought the heroes were sometimes portrayed as bigger in the screen to help identify them. Also Tychus is a big boy all round, so his armour would naturally have to be bigger anyway.

It's covered in the in-game dialogue I think. He's a convict locked into the armour to serve his sentence iirc.

I know that... I didn't think it needed to be specified but I'm specifically talking about the "Tychus' armor is bigger than normal bit"

Overread wrote:I think he's more secured in than normal - In the spoiler launch video you see him being welded into the suite. Carrying his prison with him and basically his only way out is to betray Raynor.

That's why you never see him out of it through the series whilst Raynor takes his off.


And yes if you look at him in game he looks bigger than all the other marines in almost all proportions - it could be them highlighting a leader but could just be that his suit is indeed bulkier/bigger

Him being "more secured" is irrelevant to his size. There nothing on the wiki about that and his armor looks relatively close in size to when we see Raynor wearing CMC in cutscenes. Tychus does have a bigger physique, but only slightly.


You can't use the game sizes outside of cutscenes to mean anything, everything is out of scale and Blizzard scaled up heroes relative to similar units (since WC3) so they are easily identifiable by the player.

Ashiraya wrote:To be honest, I assumed that the difference was just his suit being sealed, but that it's otherwise as big as any other.

The hero models are all scaled up in gameplay, Raynor included.

Yeah, exactly this.