Ullr Direfang Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 Thanks for the informative and entertaining responses! entertaining..... :blink: but...but we are all being serious..... nah i am just messing with ya... questions like these make the pup in most of us come out. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/166229-why-no-helmets/page/2/#findComment-1958041 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragnarclaw Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 Wolf helmet is better ??? :D Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/166229-why-no-helmets/page/2/#findComment-1958110 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corpse. Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 No helmets for a marine: Flashes of light, the instant a shot fired from a distance is spotted a marine will flinch to avoid a deathblow within the milleseconds the shot reaches the marine/before the heat from the laser accumilates completely. Possible? Perhaps... If assassins with similar stats and perhaps younger age can dodge bullets, then maybe some more experienced marines could do so. Their armor moves almost as fast as they do, impulses from the black carapace. So its possible... Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/166229-why-no-helmets/page/2/#findComment-1958135 Share on other sites More sharing options...
VonDrakenstorm Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 Maybe we should ask an Iron Priest if he can add a straw on the helmet. The beer problem solved, only left the beard thing. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/166229-why-no-helmets/page/2/#findComment-1958140 Share on other sites More sharing options...
clanfield Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 mkvi beard helmets..just dosnt sound nice thou Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/166229-why-no-helmets/page/2/#findComment-1958163 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spacefrisian Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 Why do you need a helmet if those bullets come at you in Bullettime, we just dodge those aimed for our heads. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/166229-why-no-helmets/page/2/#findComment-1958196 Share on other sites More sharing options...
FenriScott Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 Ok i hate to be serious here. But once the marines test the atmosphere and find the air breathable they can remove their helmets. I'm sure they have small microphones or something like that for when they are helmetless. Because lets be honest, those helmets arent designed to stop a direct shot to the head. If you've looked at a lot of art work there are plenty of helms with holes blown clean through. Theres plenty of artwork with chestplates that have holes blown through them... and? And you have to assume the helmets don't have as thick of ceramite on them as the chest plate. Unless you know marines that have heads the size of torsos. :) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/166229-why-no-helmets/page/2/#findComment-1958622 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom O'Bedlam Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 Reading this thread, it has just occurred to me that when I ordered my new army last week, I should have ordered Space Wolves. I spend more time lurking here than I do anywhere else B) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/166229-why-no-helmets/page/2/#findComment-1958668 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdrianG Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 Reading this thread, it has just occurred to me that when I ordered my new army last week, I should have ordered Space Wolves. I spend more time lurking here than I do anywhere else :P And that, is a lesson learned :lol: Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/166229-why-no-helmets/page/2/#findComment-1958718 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JEFF4i Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 Reading this thread, it has just occurred to me that when I ordered my new army last week, I should have ordered Space Wolves. I spend more time lurking here than I do anywhere else ;) Pup's learning. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/166229-why-no-helmets/page/2/#findComment-1958800 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master Of Malfeasance X Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 actually, the address in the second HH novel why space marines, especially sergeants don't wear helmets: There's some huge creature they're fighing and the main character takes his helmet off. The remembrancer with them asks him why and he says something like this: "Well, this armor really isn't going to stop that thing's claws, and I'd rather see it with my own eyes and hear it with my own ears." Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/166229-why-no-helmets/page/2/#findComment-1958849 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom O'Bedlam Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 And that, is a lesson learned Pup's learning. I guess come the new codex and plastic kits I know what I'm getting :P Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/166229-why-no-helmets/page/2/#findComment-1959467 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beef Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 SW dont need helmets, Most of the time we fight up close and personnal so there is not much chance of being shot in the head from afar. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/166229-why-no-helmets/page/2/#findComment-1959472 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Durfast Spiritwolf Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 Helmets, even with all the gizmos, reduce sensitivity to the natural environment and especially, what has been referred too as, one's sixth sense. Have a friend move silently and slowly towards you from behind. There will be a point, normally a couple of metres out, where you will sense them approaching. Now try it with a empty, upturned waste paper basket on your head and see how close they can get! However, helmets can deflect things that would other wise smart a tadge :) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/166229-why-no-helmets/page/2/#findComment-1959890 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShinyRhino Posted April 24, 2009 Author Share Posted April 24, 2009 As I've reached nearly the end of the Omnibus now, I found a scene in which the usage of a helmet is described! Hurrah! It pretty much supports all of the info provided here regarding sensory deprivation and whatnot. It's almost like you Wolves have already read your own book! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/166229-why-no-helmets/page/2/#findComment-1966237 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gyson_Vore Posted April 24, 2009 Share Posted April 24, 2009 It's almost like you Wolves have already read your own book! Wait, we have books?! <_< When did that happen? I thought we still used Sagas. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/166229-why-no-helmets/page/2/#findComment-1966310 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ullr Direfang Posted April 24, 2009 Share Posted April 24, 2009 It's almost like you Wolves have already read your own book! Wait, we have books?! B) When did that happen? I thought we still used Sagas. They are Sagas, just this day in age, to many people get all upity about us just saying our stories. so they send some guy who they know we wont scare the pants off of to write them all down. only problem is that he usually gets lost i n translation and we have to slow down for him. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/166229-why-no-helmets/page/2/#findComment-1966402 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExuroinAbyssus Posted April 24, 2009 Share Posted April 24, 2009 Helmets cut off periferol vision and dull senses like smell and hearing. To see what I mean try wearing a closed face motorbike helmet with the visor down for the whole day and see how much better it is without the helmet. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/166229-why-no-helmets/page/2/#findComment-1966472 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearboy Posted April 25, 2009 Share Posted April 25, 2009 Turn signals on a land raider already answered this: So we can smell the Tyranids coming :D Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/166229-why-no-helmets/page/2/#findComment-1966690 Share on other sites More sharing options...
clanfield Posted April 25, 2009 Share Posted April 25, 2009 trust me you can smell nids with the helm on brothers,but you cannt truely apriciate the magnificents of our inderviduality behine grey ceramite Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/166229-why-no-helmets/page/2/#findComment-1966718 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warhorse47 Posted April 25, 2009 Share Posted April 25, 2009 Hmmm, let's see. Cooped up on a barge for weeks with a bunch of viking space marines and wolves. Yup, I want FRESH AIR when I hit planetside! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/166229-why-no-helmets/page/2/#findComment-1966921 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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