space marines not during battle.

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**garret**

i was reading about the rituals from lexicanum but i was wondering what are space marines like not in battle.
do they just pray and train most of the time. also what do thay eat i remeber hearing they have a feast by hman standards. what is it like.

**Luke_Prowler**

I believe the typical routine is wake up, catch breakfast, pray, training, lunch/dinner, pray, training, pray, 15 min free time, sleep

**Commander Endova**

There is an existing schedule out there, but I find it hard to believe. But its pretty much 4 hours of sleep, 2 hours of prayer, 2 hours 4 minutes of eating, 15 minutes of free time and everything else is different forms of training.

I think that Astartes would have to have pretty large meals. If you think about the size of one, plus all their extra organs and such, their caloric intake would have to be massive, compared to regular humans.

**Lupe**

The Space Wolf books are pretty good at showing what marines did when they weren't fighting. But those are SW, they're all mental and insane.

Spoiler:

**vodo40k**

This used to be on the GW website before it went all weird. Im sure the schedule changes from chapter to chapter, but the codex dictates basically what everybody else has said: get up, pray, breakfast, train, lunch, pray, train, dinner, pray, train 15 min free time then 4 hours sleep.

**Newt-Of-Death**

I'd rather be a Space wolf than a Marine I think.

Mental and Insane sounds better than Praying, tho the training feasting and eating parts sound good!

**starbomber109**

Space marines of most codex chapters probably spend their spare time training, polishing their gear, eating food, and catching up on the politics of the chapter/chapter-planet. It's pretty subtle, but it is mentioned in the codex, and it's expanded upon in most of the books, the captains all must rise to their position of honor somehow. Normally it's bassed on what they have done, and who their friends are.

If your black templars you are training all the time, and the only politics is "Who's the Emperor's Chump this week?"

If you are Space Wolves....well, it's exactly like being a Viking, only you have boltguns and chainswords, and thunderwolves instead of horses, otherwise the same.

If you are grey knights you DO actually pray all the time.

**eldarbgamer13**

on lexicanum they have a normal schedule for off duty marine (basically practice and food)

**Shaman**

starbomber109 wrote:If you are Space Wolves....well, it's exactly like being a Viking, only you have boltguns and chainswords, and thunderwolves instead of WOMEN, otherwise the same.

Fix that for ya.

I remember reading the space marine daily rituals list and thinking that I wouldn't be afraid of anything either if my life was so boring.

Chaos is the way to go.

**KOS**

the scheduled day for a Marine is so stupid that it's unbelivable. Those are what rules states, truth is that since they are human they do whatever they please.

Not even the monks were like that dammit. So it can't be. They have things to do.... if not they'd be like the Sororitas.

**Lupe**

KOS wrote:They have things to do.... if not they'd be like the Sororitas.

Surprisingly enough, the Sororitas don't have mandatory vows of celibacy, and some actually take advantage of that. Somehow, i think the marines drew the short straw here.

**KOS**

Marines should not even have the... thing. If you check the old armor in Rogue Trader you'll see there is not thing to allow ... well... you've understood me no ?

**Lupe**

Strangely enough, I did understand...

I'm trying to forget it, but my therapist says I have to talk about it now....

**crazykiwi**

whats this not during battle concept you speak of didn't you know in the 41st mellinium there is only war??

no break for you Mr marine you can rest when your dead and thats scheduled for next tuesday

**Lorgar's_Blessed**

See, to me, Space Wolves have it the best. An open dining/feast hall filled with beer that can get em drunk and meat and bread to fill the entire Fang. Regular marines have special meals every day and snack on protein paste when they don't have time. Oh, and Space Wolves do indeed meditate to keep their inner beast at bay, which is essentially praying for Russ's guidance.

**icn1982**

crazykiwi wrote:

no break for you Mr marine you can rest when your dead and thats scheduled for next tuesday

Unless you die gloriously, then we'll stick you in a dreadnaught so you can keep fighting

**ULTRAMARINE_DART**

Luke_Prowler wrote:I believe the typical routine is wake up, catch breakfast, pray, training, lunch/dinner, pray, training, pray, 15 min free time, sleep

All you have to do is look up the angry marines on wiki and they have a funny list of things to do

**WarOne**

So...what do Dreadnought marines do? Given they are hard-wired into a killing machine for eternity, where can we find them at any given portion of the day? (I.E. the Emprah Lube)

**Lorgar's_Blessed**

WarOne wrote:So...what do Dreadnought marines do? Given they are hard-wired into a killing machine for eternity, where can we find them at any given portion of the day? (I.E. the Emprah Lube)

They are put into cryogenic freeze to prevent themselves from decaying or anything of the sort and are then unfrozen and awoken before battle.

**crazykiwi**

Lorgar's_Blessed wrote:
WarOne wrote:So...what do Dreadnought marines do? Given they are hard-wired into a killing machine for eternity, where can we find them at any given portion of the day? (I.E. the Emprah Lube)

They are put into cryogenic freeze to prevent themselves from decaying or anything of the sort and are then unfrozen and awoken before battle.

I beat the Space wolf dreads get kranky doing that lol

**Lorgar's_Blessed**

Actually, there's a book with a dread in, one of from the Space Wolf Series.

He seems rather content in sleep but enjoys battle as well. Seems a dreadnought makes them as calm as a Long Fang.

**DerangdFlamingo**

well if your're half dead and pumped full of tranquilisers i can see how you'd mellow out a bit.

saying that they keep the chaos dreads sarcophagie chained up. i'd imagine they're like a washing machine on full spin when out of battle, imagine a iron warrior tech marine being chased round by a dreadies sarcophagie unattched to anything

**Dronze**

DerangdFlamingo wrote:well if your're half dead and pumped full of tranquilisers i can see how you'd mellow out a bit.

saying that they keep the chaos dreads sarcophagie chained up. i'd imagine they're like a washing machine on full spin when out of battle, imagine a iron warrior tech marine being chased round by a dreadies sarcophagie unattched to anything

Actually, they keep the Dreadnoughts chained up in case some trace of the pilot's personality residually remains in the machine AFTER the sarcophogas is removed....

**rabidaskal**

Space Wolves have it best, and I think Salamanders have the lousiest 'daily routine.' They pray as much if not more than other chapters, except when I said 'pray' I actually meant 'burn themselves with white hot coals.'

**makr**

Here's what I've found, not sure if it's official:

0400 - Morning Prayers
0500 - Morning Firing Rites
0700 - Battle Practice
1200 - Midday Prayer
1300 - Midday Meal
1315 - Tactical Indoctrination
1500 - Battle Practice
2000 - Evening Prayer
2100 - Evening Meal
2130 - Night Firing Exercises
2315 - Maintenance Rituals
2345 - Free Time
0000 - Rest Period

**WarOne**

That is if they follow that code of the Ultranerds.

Here is an abridged version of an imaginary Space Marines chapter that does it MY way...

0400 - Wake Up, Scratch, Pee, Wonder What's for Breakfast, and Find Breakfast. Maybe Shower or Something.
0500 - Insert Oneself Into the X-box 771843600 (by this time, the X-box is now the size of a thumbnail and one "eats" it in order to play. Emperor bless you Billicus Gatemanicus.
0700 - Halo
1200 - Halo
1300 - Download Lunch
1315 - Call of Duty
1500 - Halo
2000 - Halo
2100 - Mass Effect
2130 - Halo
2315 - Halo
2345 - Download Dinner
0000 - Porn Session before Sleep

Oh yeah, during the whole day your body is automatically trained by a giant machine that does all your daily activities and downloads all the tactical data you need to kill everything in the universe three times over while servitors do all the cleaning and menial tasks.

It's 39000 years into the future. The Kick Ass chapter of the Space Marines knows how to enjoy the future!
(PS, they all wear Captain N gear).

**Commander Endova**

Can I join your chapter?

**Shaman**

Endova its a trap..

Halo 1
mass effect 1
Call of duty1!

I rather do the fluff schedule then play those games all day.

**The Acolyte**

I know GK spend all there time praying and consecrating their armour (more praying and washing). They also plan battle tactics, but maybe they are just weird!

**spamandchips**

I would say re-stocking and preparing for battle again because in a lot of the fluff it make it sound like they are in battle most of the time.