Which might be why so many marines fight with the helmets off.
Descriptions of Horus vs Images of him.
Maybe it is just me, but when reading HH books with the descriptions of Horus, I don't imagine him in the Terminator armour with no peripheral vision and huge quantities of plugs in his bald scalp.
I was just looking at the picture that is here : http://www.blacklibrary.com/Images/BL/blog/2010/07/Age2.jpg
And while it is a nice fearsome depiction, that is completely at odds with the charasmatic, standing on the bridge looking out into space, wounded unto death by the anethma character I have in my head.
Anyone else, or am I the only one ?
I was just looking at the picture that is here : http://www.blacklibrary.com/Images/BL/blog/2010/07/Age2.jpg
And while it is a nice fearsome depiction, that is completely at odds with the charasmatic, standing on the bridge looking out into space, wounded unto death by the anethma character I have in my head.
Anyone else, or am I the only one ?
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the visor of the power armour helmet is irrelevant they can still turn their heads to look around, something that is totally impossible to do wearing terminator armour, if your turn your head you simply stare at the inside of your armour, turn your head in power armour and you look over your shoulder. And i sincerly doubt that Primarchs armour is even comparable to Power armour, Jonsons armour was made by the Emperor himself, you can gurantee its better than terminator armour. And again if Terminator armour is the be all end all of armours, why wouldnt the Emperor and all the other Primarchs use it
exactly, some of the marines in the books iv read have taken their helmet of for exactly that reason
the visors arent irrelevent, they will still restrict peripheral vison somewhat. its like in 300 towards the end where the main dude(always forget hes name) takes of his helmet because it narrows his vision even tho he can perfectly see out of it and can turn his head, its the same kind of thing
and iv already mentioned that each primarchs armour would be vastly superior to reqular power armour
the visors arent irrelevent, they will still restrict peripheral vison somewhat. its like in 300 towards the end where the main dude(always forget hes name) takes of his helmet because it narrows his vision even tho he can perfectly see out of it and can turn his head, its the same kind of thing
and iv already mentioned that each primarchs armour would be vastly superior to reqular power armour
Maybe because it doesn't suit their fighting style- I agree that any armour made by the Emperor would be better than it's more mundane equivalent but I don't think Power Armour created by the Emperor would provide more protection than Terminator Armour, why would it?the visor of the power armour helmet is irrelevant they can still turn their heads to look around, something that is totally impossible to do wearing terminator armour, if your turn your head you simply stare at the inside of your armour, turn your head in power armour and you look over your shoulder. And i sincerly doubt that Primarchs armour is even comparable to Power armour, Jonsons armour was made by the Emperor himself, you can gurantee its better than terminator armour. And again if Terminator armour is the be all end all of armours, why wouldnt the Emperor and all the other Primarchs use it
Ok irrelevant was a bit much. And sure it probably does mess your peripheral up, point is you can still look left and right with a regular helmet on.
And i dunno, your probably right, originally my point was just the vision issue thing. I get that they all have this 6th sense and armour sensors, but ther still quite alot that goes on that this 6th sense and sensors wouldnt feasibly be able to pick up, and again i just always though Primarchs especially ones like Horus would personally want to know whats happening around them at all times without having to rely on sensors. But thats just my opinion, im not saying evryone else is wrong or even that im right, its just what i think.
End of the day aswell i think they put Horus in terminator armour purely for the look of it
And i dunno, your probably right, originally my point was just the vision issue thing. I get that they all have this 6th sense and armour sensors, but ther still quite alot that goes on that this 6th sense and sensors wouldnt feasibly be able to pick up, and again i just always though Primarchs especially ones like Horus would personally want to know whats happening around them at all times without having to rely on sensors. But thats just my opinion, im not saying evryone else is wrong or even that im right, its just what i think.
End of the day aswell i think they put Horus in terminator armour purely for the look of it
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