Who is the Greatest Space Marine?

[rossatdi]

Allow me to break this down.

ultimate badasses.

You see, circumstance doesn't change the fact that the Space Marines are the Ultimate Princes of the Universe.

True enough, and as a Dark Angels and Burnished Angels (my own chapter) player I heartily agree. But we're picking the great single 'space marine' and I think based on comparative accomplishments Ripley's a damn fine choice.

After all, who is more awesome. The Terminator squad that butchers some genestealers or the Imperial Guard Lt who knocks out a Hive Tyrant?

Of course the entire 1st Company of the Ultramarines might deserve a joint award for fending of an entire Hive fleet with something like a 1,000 men. (Or is it 10,000? I can't remember my marine chapter size breakdowns. Is it 10 companies of 1,000 or 10 companies of 10,000?)

 

[Wargamer]

The whole problem with Ripley is she isn't a Space Marine. The MINIMUM criteria for a Space Marine is "You must be a Marine (a soldier that fights on board, or deploys from, a ship) and your Ship must travel through Space".

Hudsen, Hicks, Bishop, Apoc, Vasquez et al are all Space Marines. Riply is not; she is not part of the Colonial Marine Corps, and ergo not a Space Marine.

DOOMGuy was not Super-Human in any way, so by simple level of accomplishment he knocks Ripley for six.

 

[rossatdi]

The whole problem with Ripley is she isn't a Space Marine. The MINIMUM criteria for a Space Marine is "You must be a Marine (a soldier that fights on board, or deploys from, a ship) and your Ship must travel through Space".

Hudsen, Hicks, Bishop, Apoc, Vasquez et al are all Space Marines. Riply is not; she is not part of the Colonial Marine Corps, and ergo not a Space Marine.

DOOMGuy was not Super-Human in any way, so by simple level of accomplishment he knocks Ripley for six.

She's more marine in spirit than many of the marines on here. Plus, she's awesome.

 

[doffmann]

pretty much any marine from The Adeptus Astra

 

[Ultrajoe]

Of course the entire 1st Company of the Ultramarines might deserve a joint award for fending of an entire Hive fleet with something like a 1,000 men. (Or is it 10,000? I can't remember my marine chapter size breakdowns. Is it 10 companies of 1,000 or 10 companies of 10,000?)

10 companies of 100, Ross.

100 space marines. Held back a hive fleet. A chapter, a force that can end or defend a planet, is 1000 men.

Where is your god now?

 

[rossatdi]

Of course the entire 1st Company of the Ultramarines might deserve a joint award for fending of an entire Hive fleet with something like a 1,000 men. (Or is it 10,000? I can't remember my marine chapter size breakdowns. Is it 10 companies of 1,000 or 10 companies of 10,000?)

10 companies of 100, Ross.

100 space marines. Held back a hive fleet. A chapter, a force that can end or defend a planet, is 1000 men.

Where is your god now?

Sorry, flunked Modern Imperial Military Organisation 101. I always loved the division between fluff marines: one man armies, and gameplay marines: about equivalent to 4 guardsmen.

I started with Dark Angels, moved onto Guardsmen and came back to marines through a traitor chapter that don't realise they're doomed ... yet. Now of course I'm lapsed-GW. Cost, time and social disorders associated with the hobby drove me out.

 

[DeusFps]

Gordon Freeman eats marines.

 

[benwins]

if you have to ask, then probably not.

and i say Quake-guy. he had more awesome weapons than any of them

 

[benwins]

*

ME

Nah, j/k.

Does Samus Aran count?

if you have to ask then probably not

 

[TheTemby]

TUROK

*hides*

 

[WeedWorm]

Id say the Primarchs would give any of these guys (Doom Guy, Freeman, Master Chief) a run for theyre money.

 

[TheTemby]

Duke Nukeum

/thread.

duke wasn't really a marine, he was just a muscle bound trigger happy psycho

 

[AnotherFineMess]

I was going for Jim Raynor... but... every freaking Space Marine from 40k those guys are just zealously awesome.

 

[Ishnuvalok]

Ragnar Blackmane of the Space Wolves deserves a mention, for many reasons. Chief among them a piece of fiction from the 2nd edition Space Wolves Codex where he runs up to a Tyranid Carnifex with a frag grenade in his hand, shoves his whole fist into the things' mouth leaving the grenade in there, kicks off from the things' chest and does a backflip away from it while it has its' lungs blown out of its' back by the blast.

Ragnar Blackmane without a doubt. I'm a 'nids player myself, and anyone who's played against Tyranids should know what a single Carnifex can do....what Ragnar did is just insane. Another argument for the Space Marines. Battle of Macragge. The entire 1st Company Ultramarines held back an entire fucking hive fleet from the polar outposts, sadly. They had all perished in doing so.

 

[Straitjacketeering]

Those two from Armorines project swarm for the N64 Not to mention that they have pimp gold and blue armor but they take on friggan giant bugs with no complaint.

 

[scnj]

Rasczak. Starship Troopers. End of.

 

[Wargamer]

pretty much any marine from The Adeptus Astra

Who do not have any. The Adeptus 'Astra' would be the Adeptus Astra Telepathica; the Psykers that maintain the Astronomicon, and provide the Imperium its Astropaths.

You mean the Adeptus Astartes. However, even amongst this organisation there is no equality; Marneus Calgar alone is leaps and bounds beyond a 'generic' Space Marine!

Although, I do acknowledge a post made earlier about Imperial Stormtroopers (the 40K ones). The Schola Progenium's Stormtrooper Corps are indeed "Space Marines" in the technical sense, in that they operate as a ship-based strike team to the extent they have exclusive Naval support elements (the Valkyrie and Vulture were originally a 'Stormtrooper' vehicle, though their use has been extended). To do everything the Astartes do, and to do it as a regular Human, requires balls the size of Luna.