I Mean, It's A Pretty Impressive Gun. It's Basically A Souped-up Meltagun, And While It's Pretty Much

Don't worry, Dante will be the best older brother any Astartes could ask for for a long time.

Well that sucks

So, what would you have had him do?

MF be like "Leandros should have gone to a chaplain or libarian and handled his suspicions of Titus in-house", and you know what? I get that. There's precedent for it. I remember reading about this big incident at the end of the Great Crusade where space marines handled suspicions of heresy in-house. I don't quite remember the name. Something starting with an "H", I think.

I mean, the really big war mechs have come in pretty handy, so...

i read on the wiki that the tau ethereals oversee the earth caste so that they actually invent useful stuff and this was the first thing that came to mind

So you're telling me that the unit designed to kill big models is good at killing big models?

Preposterous!

It’s killed both the Lion and Mortarion

Finally got around to painting the buttons I 3d printed and replacing my coat's old buttons.

"Dear diary, a creepy giant stared at me today. I didn't like it as much as I thought I would".

had a thought at how the npcs on the ship in space marine 2 are just going about their day yapping to the superior or inferior officers and then Titus just walks up beside them, and he just... stops. listens to your entire conversation, and then just continues like ??? how would one even react to that?

Sang/Fulgrim?

You have my attention.

me: 'okay lets work on that sang/fulgrim thing' my brain: 'no. we are going to think about the trazyn/clonegrim victorian vampire au' me: 'okay… so lets work on that?' my brain: 'NO! we are ONLY thinking about them having freaky vampire sex in trazyn's secluded manor'

Yes, this does count as an aerospace question. And yes, their aerodynamics are quite bad. They would not fly very well with modern technology.

That "with modern technology" part is the key word, there. Because according to the lore, a lot of them can canonically fly very well.

Most canon speeds for 40k aircraft are 2000 kph or more, at about a mile above sea level. The speed of sound at that altitude is a bit over 1200 kph, for reference. Having 20,000+ km of range (eg they could fly from anywhere on earth to anywhere else on earth) isn't uncommon, either.

Many are also single-stage-to-orbit spacecraft (meaning that when they go to space, they take the entire spacecraft with them, and don't have boosters that they drop partway up like real world rockets), and all of those are reusable (meaning they can make multiple flights to and from orbit) and able to withstand reentry without any heat shielding beyond whatever armor they might have (and they are armored, with larger craft like the Thunderhawk being similar in durability to heavier tanks like Land Raiders).

There are a few conclusions you can draw from that.

Any of these aircraft would experience immense drag when flying (or when reentering the atmosphere). Not only does this mean that their airframes would need to be able to withstand the stress from that drag, they also need engines powerful enough to push them against it.

The combination of their range and single-stage-to-orbit capacity (and payload) means that they are powered by something far more energy-dense than any real world fuel.

I have a feeling that a space marine (talking about in armour here btw) might actualy be more earodynamic than any of the space marine planes

You know what? Yeah