it must be so easy to fight against a space marine's in melee since like 180 degrees are prohibited from them lol

can't attack from above. can't defend against above

no wonder genestealers hard counter them

they're tall with long arms tho

prolly helps. against like, a normal sized human

still fucked against anything even near your height and arm length

space marine aggression probably a detriment here, they wanna charge in

but if you are taller/have longer reach you actually want to keep them at range (that's literally your advantage)

trying to wind up big attacks and wade in is literally playing into your smaller opponents' advantage

so 🤷🏼

is stuff like kendo big in the uk?

wonder what that conversation was like if it occurred xD

i just realized something even worse

space marines are really wide in lore right. like shoulder width

so their shoulder joints are even farther out than i was thinking

they REALLY can't fucking move in that shit lololol

"space nuns have overtly sexualized power armor"

me, after some thought: "the boob armor is geometrically not ideal, but it does seem like that can actually move in the armor so"

they have a similar problem where if their arms are at their sides they can't lift their arms up at their sides, same as space marines

but because gw decided BIG PAULDRONS ARE MANLY SMALL PAULDRONS ARE FEMININE it means they accidentally designed more functional armor lololol

there are some space nun designs (illustrations, not sure about minis/models) where some of them have some kinda of... maybe tube thing? running on either side of their necks. almost like a big collar

that would be a problem tho. probably. you might still be able to get your gun up but you might have to like, sort of splay your arms outward and then inside to loop your pauldron edge around it

would be very awkward. but at least physically possible without clipping through your brain

like this. the lady in the middle looks like she might have a problem

the two women lower in the foreground look like it'd be annoying but much more doable

yeah i dunno what those tubes are but they seem to be some sort of rank-correlated thing

more good == less functional armor xD

medieval knights do actually look cool you know

and even in the times when real knights did not use firearms, their pauldrons did not interfere much with moving your arms up in front of you, and sideways

you didn't need to make the pauldrons so ridiculous in front

space marines: *getting shanked in their armpits and other weak points*

me: "why don't you use rondels"

it's a little weird how they didn't use faulds for the sob

it looks modern/stereotypically feminine, like a skirt, but is also historically/aesthetically on point for functional knight armor

they also have those repentia or whatever but they don't even wear armor

so. yeah

lololol i saw some art of a space dwarf with a sword held above his head... but the perspective is literally done so his pauldron is hidden on that arm

looooooooooololol

just imagining that artist drawing that out and being like "wait, what?"

it's even worse because his torso is twisted slightly which would make his whatever on his back clip through his shoulder too

it's possible i like looking at how people paint, than actually painting

is this what it's like to watch streamers

my package has been out for delivery since 6am but nothing yet

please say you didn't lose my minis

"you can paint this!"

me, loudly: "YOU can paint this"

oh wait... maybe i shoulda primed all the minis first tho

ah fuck it, still feeling sick and eyes wonky xD

interesting

the feet have pegs on their feet to insert into holes in the bases... but i could also shave those off and totally rebase them

fuck this gorilla super glue is really thick

too thick

TOO THICC

i need to think this through a little more lol

also will priming them before assembly fuck up my tolerances for assembly