Marines and Alien Tech

[HAL-9001]

Slightly on and off topic.

 

A marine is fighting a tau in melee, kills him, sees 100 kroot running towards him, his bolter is out of ammo, he sees the tau rifle lying on the ground.

 

What does he do?

He beats them to death with his bolter.

Funnily enough, I've read that, in the Inquisitor role-playing system, a Marine's strength score is so high that he can deal more damage by throwing his bolter than by shooting it.

[Heru]

The Marines Errant are suspected of utilizing xenos weaponry in Forge World's Imperial Armour 9: Badab War - Part 1

 

Owing to historical losses of certain advanced forms of equipment that have never been fully replaced, the Chapter has learned to carefully sheperd its resources in terms of equipment such as Terminator armour, and its Techmarines have become particularly expert not only in both maintaining and repairing such as they have, but in reclaiming and restoring weapons and gear they might come across in long crusades. This has led to some concern in the past over the use of non-Codex Approved arms by the Marines Errant, and even of the incorporation of xenos weaponry in their ranks, although such heretek practices have never been proved.

[Consul of Scorpions]

Slightly on and off topic.

 

A marine is fighting a tau in melee, kills him, sees 100 kroot running towards him, his bolter is out of ammo, he sees the tau rifle lying on the ground.

 

What does he do?

He beats them to death with his bolter.

Funnily enough, I've read that, in the Inquisitor role-playing system, a Marine's strength score is so high that he can deal more damage by throwing his bolter than by shooting it.

Now if only the tabletop mechanics reflected this :)

 

Deathwatch makes use of some xenos tech and even has one, maybe two, examples of reverse engineered xenotechnology (they can learn! *unabashed humanipride*)

 

Maybe some brothers carried the idea back to their chapter after serving dutifully, possibly with an example piece to boot.

 

Wraithbone is psychoactive (IIRC they call it psychoplastic and bonesingers are very good at manipulating and growing it, mon-keigh might have a virtually improbable chance at finding they have a similar knack) and the innumerable soulstones embedded in the craftworld (i.e. Infinity Circuit) lend it a general predisposition towards Eldarish wrath and arrogance (it's soo cute when it's angry~).

[ChaplainMathreyn]

Although... Giant Space Marines crammed into tiny Guardian, or Striking Scorpion armor suits would be Hilarious to see...

[Consul of Scorpions]

Eldar are actually quite tall, at least compared to normative humans, though relatively slim; a marine would likely have more trouble finding a suit that could fit his breadth than height.

 

I just imagined a Pretty Marine girl-angsting over not being able to fit into a pair of mesh-weave pants for the karaoke party. XD