What's your favourite Space Marine armour mark?

[YorkNecromancer]

Pre-Imperium

mark 1
http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/mediawiki/images/5/5e/Mk1power_armor.JPG

Pre-heresy

mark 2
http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Images/Product/DefaultFW/xlarge/mkIIrevised1.jpg
mark 3
http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Images/Product/AlternativeFW/xlarge/mk3-2.jpg
mark 4
http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Images/Product/DefaultFW/xlarge/mkivrevised.jpg

[YorkNecromancer]

Heresy-Era

mark 5
http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Images/Product/AlternativeFW/xlarge/mkv-9.jpg

mark 6
http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Images/Product/DefaultFW/xlarge/mkVI-2.jpg

Post-Heresy

mark 7
http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/mediawiki/images/b/b2/Salamanders_marine.JPG

mark 8
http://images.wikia.com/warhammer40k/images/1/1f/Mark_VIII_%27Errant%27.jpg

[Popsical]

Mk3 for me. Brutal and imposing. No nancy's in 3's.

[Deadlift]

Mk 4 for me, it's the helmet. I just really like the design.

[Cap'nSmurfs]

Mark seven, with a more than passing fondness for six.

[Renegade]

You're missing the BTs Crusader Pattern :P

[YorkNecromancer]

I deliberately left out artificer armours/chapter specific variants (no Sanguinary Guard either), or we'd be here forever. :)

On-topic, mine is Mk 5, the T-34 of the Astartes. Cheap as chips, pressed from sheet steel, hastily thrown together, but IT DOES THE DAMN JOB. Plus all those molecular bonding studs look awesome.

[ChacoStylez]

Mk IV Maximus Power Armor. If I could just afford all the variants from Forgeworld!

[Arkhan Land]

Beakies Forever!

[DrBored]

Mark 5. The era where they had to just bolt on extra plates of armor with giant rivets to make it battle worthy. That just resonates bad-@** to me.

Followed closely by Mark 4, because it was, and still is, the most advanced suit of armor.

[Patrick Boyle]

Mk IV, mostly just down to the helmet and the legs, relative to other marks. The chest plate on the normal Mk IV is a bit meh to me, but on fancy Mk IVs like say, Sevrin Loth's...

[eldargal]

Beakies!

[Gotthammer]

Give me Womble Marines or give me death.

[Cap'nSmurfs]

Am I really the only one who picked Mark 7? But... but that's what Space Marines look like! :P

[ElectricPaladin]

Mk6, man. Beakies all the way.

[Gotthammer]

But... but that's what Space Marines look like! :P

I tell ya, kids today... no sense of history :rolleyes:

:p

[Kirsten]

mk4 for me, closely followed by mk 6.

[Wolfshade]

mk4 for me, closely followed by mk 6.

Once again Kirsten is right.

Beakies totes amaze balls

[Cpt Codpiece]

despite my fondness for the 'dog face' of mk IV (i do really like it) i just LOVE mk VI.

the very first production model. the very first plastic kit. the sadly forgotten plastic kit until this recent update...... but why only one set of MK VI pads and NO BACKPACK!

[Pullo]

I prefer the MKIII armor but the MKV or MKIV helmet

[Dalleron]

MK 7. It is what I know as a space marine, having only gotten into the game in the last 6 years. Not that the others aren't awesome, but I have an irrational dislike of the beakies, for an unknown reason.

[Hexx2019]

MK4 is my number one MK7 and 8 being second so I like to mix those up in models a lot.

[ElectricPaladin]

Sometimes I feel like the "post-Heresy mix-and-match" should be considered its own "mark" of armor. You know what I mean: Mk6 helmets, Mk7 shoulder pads, Mk8 legs... the stuff that chapters are forced to cobble together in the modern setting. I think it's neat and adds a lot of variety to what would otherwise be an extremely straightforward army

[Denzark]

Mk VI - Corvus... Its the fondness you have for your first something - trying to work out if I mean girlfriend or car, but as yet undecided...

[archimbald]

mkV for the shear brutality of it, although mkVIII and mkIV are close followers

curse you FW for not enough mkV stuff, not even a bundle

[Bigred]

Mk.IV for style! I've always loved the helmet and clean lines.

Funny how Mk.VII isn't very popular.

[Kirsten]

I suspect most people are just too used to mark seven and like to see alternatives.

[YorkNecromancer]

Funny how Mk.VII isn't very popular.

Not really. Everyone wants to be a special and unique snowflake; the mk VII loses something due to its ubiquity. It suffers the same ways Ultramarines do - "Everyone else is doing it, so I'm going to be different."

I'm personally surprised Mk IV is so popular. It never really stood out from mk VI for me, and the beaky helmet is a thing of beauty.

[Truculent Sheep]

Mark VI: Because...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIxkqoNi8I4

[Thaldin]

For me, Mark 6 was the first marine armor I saw... beaky mask, studded shoulder.. You always remember your first Doct... er Mark armor

[biffster666]

Deadlift and BigRed nailed it with the helmet on Mark IV. VI will always be special because of the cream marines box from RT and Deliverance Lost. 30 Marines for $35 or so. It was back in 87', cut me some slack, some of you weren't even born yet :D. The old combat blades/'saws' were awesome, those and the old metal 'bubble' turret's and metal sponsons on the Predators! Does anyone else still have their original 'Proteus' and 'Achilles' Land Raider(s)? I've seen a couple of other original Proteus versions, but I haven't seen another original Achilles.

[nicromancer]

looks like im the only one with any love for mk1 :D ahh well ,i stand by the techno viking style :0

[Pullo]

looks like im the only one with any love for mk1 :D ahh well ,i stand by the techno viking style :0

I would say if there was an available model range, not just one the single pose "Armor Through the Ages" model there would be more. Anvil Industries had bits which would let you make the helmets with plume.

[YorkNecromancer]

30 Marines for $35 or so.

36 marines for £11.99 over here. :( Beautiful, beautiful kit, still to this day!

Of course, the best boxed set GW ever released was:

http://grailslair.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/terminators_and_tyranids.jpg

All that for £11.99! :( Yeah, the models were wonky (especially the Terminators!) but the Tyranids have never looked more awesome, and the Terminator Librarians, though a bit... off, had a certain charm. I have a squad of them painted up as Grey Knights.

[ElectricPaladin]

36 marines for £11.99 over here. :( Beautiful, beautiful kit, still to this day!...

Yet more evidence that I got into this game way too late. Man, I would have loved to be into this game in the 80s! I would have been seven years old, but I was precocious! I could have hacked it!

[biffster666]

That's awesome York, back when there were GS Cults (Mafia style!), the DA were 'Native American's" (The Death Wing at least, can't remember if the whole chapter was), the Sansei(sp?), Star Child, Zoats, Squats (an actual Army!!!), Assault Cannons wrecked everything! and on and on. I've still got ten of the original pewter Grey Knights when the Nemesis force weapons were the Custodian Gun/Glaive or Gun/Sword. They were considered so detailed back in the day.

[wrath2612]

It has to be Mark's 4,5 & 6 for me soz I can't just pick one

[Katharon]

I hate the beakies. I never understand how anyone could like the Corvus helm. Makes them look like Big Bird.

[ElectricPaladin]

I hate the beakies. I never understand how anyone could like the Corvus helm. Makes them look like Big Bird.

Big Bird of death!

[wrath2612]

Don't you just miss them old scouts... n IIRC w asn't it so ****** hard
you just didn't win a single game lol

[Wolfshade]

I have those scouts. They look meh.

Mk7 is unpopular as it is seen as the bland this is what they should look like and the others are wahay! let us have some variation!

[Mr Mystery]

MkIII for me.

I love it's total lack of aesthetic consideration. It's there to protect the wearer, and nothing more.

Plus, it's the Power Armour Mk that has won the 'Power Armour Mk Likely to Look Most Impressive Crashing Through A Wall' aware 10,000 years running!

[Horncastle]

I have to agree with Mr.Mystery. I love the brutal aspect of MKIII. That being said I like to use MKVI helmets for conversions. I started playing during 3rd edition and I think the limited number of beakie helmets in the tactical box made them feel special.

[Brakkart]

I'm an Imperial Fists player so it's gotta be Mk III for me. It actually looks like it's built to take a battering and then dish one out! That said I do have a sneaky fondness for the Mk VI helm's so my 10 man Assault Squad all have beakie heads.

[Cactus]

I like MK6 - with a special fondness for Thunder Armor.

[deinol]

I hate the beakies. I never understand how anyone could like the Corvus helm. Makes them look like Big Bird.

You clearly don't play a bird themed chapter.

Raptor Legion, represent!

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[Truculent Sheep]

Mark VII is the standard and the most distinctive Marine armour; no one votes for it because its success is taken as a given. The Mark VIII has nothing further to add except a faintly superfluous collar. Sentimentalist that I am, my favourite will always be the Mark VI, though the Mark IV has a certain 'Greatest Hits' quality, in that it combines the best of what went before and aptly previewed what followed.

[madlants]

Mark V for me. Gotta love those metal studs (I meant on the armor, weirdos!:mad:). The fact that I'm a die hard Chaos boy has nothing to do with it! Okay, maybe it does... Heresy FTW!

[Rich_B]

Mk IV has to be winning by virtue of having the greatest number of Forgeworld kits available for it?

Mk III for me, the brutal functionality of it wins out. Closely followed by Mk VI and Mk VIII.

I never particularly liked Mk IV, the legs always looked too weedy and I don't love the helmets. For some reason the helmets always put me in mind of Eighties/early Nineties BMX and Motocross styling, don't know why. Either way, they're the ones that tend to get weeded out...

[DrLove42]

Mark 4. Dat Helmet...

[BrotherAlpharius]

I voted Mark IV but Marks VI and III were very close behind. Mark IV has been my favourite since long before ForgeWorld started making models. I started the game in the run up to the release of 2nd Edition so remember well when beakies were more common and I think for me 4 combines a bit of the 6 snout and the 7 stormtrooper look nicely.

I do think they have different character and would choose them accordingly for projects. For Raven Guard the Corvus pattern is great. For an army like Imperial Fists I'd go with a mix of 2 and 3 for the uncompromisingly brutal functionality.

I agree 7 suffers from being the norm.

[KingCronan]

The mk. IV definitely have the coolest helmets but man i love me some Mk. VIII armor! ever since i started 40k in 3rd I always loved the Sgt. with the high Mk8 high collar before it was called mk8 it was just the cool sgt chest piece. Then when the first Sternguard models came out and that Sgt with the mk8 with power fist I was just sold. Definitely one of my favorite Marine models ever.

I mean damn that's some good looking Armor!

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[themacdiesel]

Mk III all the way... it's the stuff that won the far flung planets of the now burning galaxy. How can you go wrong with that?!?

[Psychosplodge]

The mk. IV definitely have the coolest helmets but man i love me some Mk. VIII armor! ever since i started 40k in 3rd I always loved the Sgt. with the high Mk8 high collar before it was called mk8 it was just the cool sgt chest piece. Then when the first Sternguard models came out and that Sgt with the mk8 with power fist I was just sold. Definitely one of my favorite Marine models ever.

I mean damn that's some good looking Armor!

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It was called mkVIII in 2nd, I distinctly remember mail ordering the metal model that became part of the armour through the ages kit back in 2nd...

[Haighus]

Seems to be very little love for the Mk II armour. Personally I love the "romans in space" feel of Mk II. Particularly the awesome helmet- I really dislike the longer snouted helmets myself, Mk IV and VI are my least favourites!

[KingCronan]

It was called mkVIII in 2nd, I distinctly remember mail ordering the metal model that became part of the armor through the ages kit back in 2nd...

Well you learn something every day! lol I just remember not seeing any mentions of it being MK8 till way later. No matter when it was invented the MK8 is my favorite with the mk4 a close 2nd.

[Tynskel]

Mark 1. Nothing like having a good pair of shades to protect you!

[Tynskel]

36 marines for £11.99 over here. :( Beautiful, beautiful kit, still to this day!

Of course, the best boxed set GW ever released was:

http://grailslair.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/terminators_and_tyranids.jpg

All that for £11.99! :( Yeah, the models were wonky (especially the Terminators!) but the Tyranids have never looked more awesome, and the Terminator Librarians, though a bit... off, had a certain charm. I have a squad of them painted up as Grey Knights.

Those are still my favorite Tyranid Warrior Models.
I have 6.

[Kaptain Badrukk]

Yeah, totally disagree.
But I suppose the joy is that the only models in that box that ain't 6th edition game legal in some way are the genestealer cultists.
But all the marines are still game legal I think. Or did one of the termies have a plasma weapon?
I'm getting old and my memory is going.

[Cpt Codpiece]

the collar of the mk VIII is not just a detail addition, its a 'bullet catcher' as the other mks have soft armour at the neck which allows stray and ricochets to get a quick kill.

mk VIII is supposed to have a fancy reactor that can go silent, all should have mini powerfists and in built storm bolters (based on the old termi ones) if you go from the jes goodwin artwork/designs from the early 90's.

catalogue from 93/94. showing armour mks

http://www.solegends.com/citcat1993/c93475-01.jpg

[iheartgrimdark]

I voted IV. Love how aggressive the helmet looks. 2nd fave is MKII, not as bulky as III but still brutal looking. Hope the Rout get a special unit in at least one of these variants.

[BrningHalo]

Mark 5 Armor for me. The reactive studs and the plating just scream imposing bad-@$$ to me. Mark 4 seems too "polished" to be on a gritty, front line space marine. Mark 6 has a nostalgic feel because it was the armor that I started with playing Rogue Trader.

Thanks,
Tom

[rabscutle]

I love my Mark V marines. It, along with Mark III is some of the most unique looking armour on the detail level. Sure it is the first normal shaped helmet, but the studs make that different. Also the armour straps and no bevel shoulder pads add tiny details that make this armour my favorite.

Mark III is second, if only because I love the Mohawk command helmet.

[knas ser]

Mark I just looks way tool faaaabulous for my tastes.

II and III and IV are just a bit primitive.

V (the Dalek marine), looks like they've got Space Measles.

VI is actually my era. The Womble Marines were my first Space Marines, but that doesn't mean I don't find them silly. Though I suppose they must do a wicked-fierce headbutt.

VII and VIII are my favourites. I guess I go with VIII because the collar makes armour sense and chaplains can paint it black with a little white bit at the front.

[Mud Duck]

I have a soft spot for the Mk 6. It's the helmet combined with the first memories of 40k.

The thing that I wonder about; isn't the helmet on the Mk 3 supposed to be fixed forward, leaving the wearers head free to rotate inside? Base model for the Terminator helmet, or has that all been reconed like case-less bolter rounds?

[Archon]

MARK III

IRON ARMOUR for IRON WARRIORS

...and it looks like heresy too... ;-)

[Mr Mystery]

I have a soft spot for the Mk 6. It's the helmet combined with the first memories of 40k.

The thing that I wonder about; isn't the helmet on the Mk 3 supposed to be fixed forward, leaving the wearers head free to rotate inside? Base model for the Terminator helmet, or has that all been reconed like case-less bolter rounds?

Original MKII and MKIII had fixed helms, but later patterns rectified this.

[Renegade]

From an aesthetics point of view, Mk II or Mk III.

[The Sovereign]

Modern Mk VII for me! Iconic, clean, and easy to acquire (most prevalent in all the kits)!

[warpaladin285]

Mk II followed by Mk III for me because they look so grim, badass, and brutal to me