How should the Space Marines compete for dominance?

[Sonicron]

Drinking competitions..obviously!

Best idea yet.
This would also prove the absolute superiority of the 40k marines, since those guys can't get drunk due to one of their surgical modifications (unless they ingest a certain highly toxic root which temporarily makes them susceptible to the effects of alcohol).

 

[Hazardlife]

Chess tournament. That way only a space marine with a functioning brain and a concept of tactics is going to win.

 

[Tiny116]

Please people these are Macho guys, Arm wrestle obviously (40k powerfists win)

 

[Xpwn3ntial]

How about just send them off to war, watch the slaughter and see who wants to mess with them after they've finished.

And they set aside their differences so that we may live in peace? I think not.

 

[Cuacuani]

Rap battle.

Edit: Apologies in advance.


Yo yo yo
My name is Master Chief and I'm a space marine
My gun's automatic and my armour is camo green
You say I not a space marine? Man, don't be a hater
Hey, Blood Ravens, I'm teabagging your Primarch later.

 

[Flour]

The one who can stand on a chicken an egg without breaking it wins.

 

[TheLastCylon]

A modeling "walk-off" judged by David Bowie.

 

[Zacharine]

Not a slaughterfest, but a Survivors kind of competition. With real survival instead of ploticing as the goal.

Drop a team of ten from each representative 'type' of Space Marines down to the surface...say... Europa. No team may attempt to contact the other team or even come within 500 km of them. No equipment beyond what they carry in their standard kit + a radio is allowed with them. At any moment, a team can call for evac, but that removes them from the competition. Once half have been eliminated, move them to a new environment, like the surface of Mercury. Last team with at least one living member capable of movement on planetside wins.

Note: cannibalization of own teammates is allowed.

And if it looks like no winner can be found in a reasonable amount of time (a few months/a year), drop the remaining teams on the orbit of Neptune. Again, wait for calls of evac, last team on-site with at least one member still alive wins.

 

[Xpwn3ntial]

Not a slaughterfest, but a Survivors kind of competition. With real survival instead of ploticing as the goal.

Drop a team of ten from each representative 'type' of Space Marines down to the surface...say... Europa. No team may attempt to contact the other team or even come within 500 km of them. No equipment beyond what they carry in their standard kit + a radio is allowed with them. At any moment, a team can call for evac, but that removes them from the competition. Once half have been eliminated, move them to a new environment, like the surface of Mercury. Last team with at least one living member capable of movement on planetside wins.

Note: cannibalization of own teammates is allowed.

And if it looks like no winner can be found in a reasonable amount of time (a few months/a year), drop the remaining teams on the orbit of Pluto. Again, wait for calls of evac, last team on-site with at least one member still alive wins.

You've thought of that before, haven't you?

 

[Redweevil]

A modeling "walk-off" judged by David Bowie.

Haha that would be awesome just seeing Master Cheif trying to remove his underwear would be hilarious

 

[Zacharine]

You've thought of that before, haven't you?

Something like that, but only as a reality-tv concept of a 'The Real Arctic Survivor' kind of thing: last team standing on Siberian tundra or an Alaskan ice-field are the Survivors. When one team quits, the other teams aren't told. And the competitors could 'cannibalize' a rivalling team by stealing a flag/treasure chest etc from their camp (which might be mobile) and return it to a judges camp where they'd be give a few dozen pounds of raw cow/pig meat. The team that lost the flag would be out of the competition as they just got 'eaten'.

As an added twist, since the remaining teams don't know how many rivals have already been eliminated/quit, the last team would have no way of knowing they have won. Not until they can't stand it all anymore and report in that they've had enough. Thus taking the chance of getting eliminated, since they can't know how many other teams are still in.

EDIT: as for the OP... I fail to see what advantages any alternate version of a Space Marine has over the Wh40k Marine. Thanks Pyro Paul for pointing this out in such a hilarious manner.

 

[Pyro Paul]

throw them into the black of space completely nude. whom ever survives the longest wins...
wait, that is bias to wh40k space marines whom can survive in exposure in zero atmosphere for near hours...

Um... Make them change exposed Nuclear fuel rods with their bare hands!
wait, wh40k again, they are largely immune to radiation.


Drinking contest!
wh40k again? the space marines can drink Sulfuric Acid?

Spitting contest!
what? the wh40k space marines SPIT Sulfuric Acid?



in that case...
lets just say wh40k is better simply because they are.

 

[Ben Jamin]

A 200km obstacle course. The group with the best times wins.

 

[Katherine Kerensky]

Drinking competitions..obviously!

That'll never work... W40K Space Marines would win every time.
Kinda cheating when they cannot be intoxicated...

Meh. I think a writing contest is in order.
Whichever group of Space Marines writes the best poetry AND Haiku are to be the best Space Marines ever!
Ha!

 

[Pyro Paul]

Not a slaughterfest, but a Survivors kind of competition. With real survival instead of ploticing as the goal.

Drop a team of ten from each representative 'type' of Space Marines down to the surface...say... Europa. No team may attempt to contact the other team or even come within 500 km of them. No equipment beyond what they carry in their standard kit + a radio is allowed with them. At any moment, a team can call for evac, but that removes them from the competition. Once half have been eliminated, move them to a new environment, like the surface of Mercury. Last team with at least one living member capable of movement on planetside wins.

Note: cannibalization of own teammates is allowed.

And if it looks like no winner can be found in a reasonable amount of time (a few months/a year), drop the remaining teams on the orbit of Neptune. Again, wait for calls of evac, last team on-site with at least one member still alive wins.

so 400 years later when the wh40k space marines are getting bored from just sitting around what happens?

 

[flaming_squirrel]

I cant think of any contest other then 'least mangled body' which 40k marines would ever lose.

 

[fix-the-spade]

So, how do the Space Marines compete for dominance aside from the obvious slaughterfest?

They all go and ask James Cameron for permission to exist. Anyone without the prefix USCM attached to their unit will be answered no.

 

[Pyro Paul]

Drinking competitions..obviously!

That'll never work... W40K Space Marines would win every time.
Kinda cheating when they cannot be intoxicated...

Meh. I think a writing contest is in order.
Whichever group of Space Marines writes the best poetry AND Haiku are to be the best Space Marines ever!
Ha!

still WH40k.
emperors children...


he just said 'Space marine' so we are not restricted to just 'good guy space marines'

 

[Kaboose the Moose]

Drinking competitions..obviously!

That'll never work... W40K Space Marines would win every time.
Kinda cheating when they cannot be intoxicated...

Meh. I think a writing contest is in order.
Whichever group of Space Marines writes the best poetry AND Haiku are to be the best Space Marines ever!
Ha!

Damn. Stupid W40K canon!.

 

[KrakFoxx]

Warhammer 40,000?

That would be interesting