Who would win?

[Wolfshade]

Biting force : 1,440 and 3,011 pounds of force [6.4 -13.4 kN ]

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[CoffeeGrunt]

Might scratch the blessed paintwork of the Chapter.

[Arkhan Land]

Thought for the day, Space Marine = 1 to 1.5 tons, T-rex = 7 to 9 tons.

At what point do reinforced greaves give out?

[Psychosplodge]

you should know , but haven't spacemarines survived being run over buy APCs/Tanks?

[Tyrendian]

later than Rexys teeth I'd imagine...

also, while we're at it... why not build Rexy some Power Armour and let that loose on the battlefields...

[Deadlift]

Salamanders have to single handedly slay a dragon before becoming a full blown marine.


Their training includes many of the same trials the Emperor and Vulkan competed in according to Nocturnan legend, finally culminating in the hunting and slaying of a massive salamander on Mount Deathfire.

I'm thinking T-Rex isn't going to be much more than a threat than one of those. I'm thinking a single marine could do it easily. Especially when you account for their healing abilities and the spitting of acid etc.

[Wolfshade]

Of course if teh 'rex is a mount then it has no stat line so can't be killed...

[ReveredChaplainDrake]

If you port the WHFB Carnosaur into 40k, you'll get a pretty good idea of what a T-Rex can do. And if you do... Oh. Oh dear. That critter goes down faster than the 3rd edition Avatar. Possibly worse, seeing as WHFB presumes that mere humans can achieve Str4 just by being burly and awesome, likely suggesting that 40k stats are more inflated than their Fantasy counterparts. To think how strong a Bolter would be in a setting where a mundane musket bullet weighs in at Str4...

That said, if you were to apply real-world logic, the T-Rex has a better shot than you'd think. Sure, a Bolter would tear the T-Rex apart in the real world, but the Marine would basically be immobilized by his own stupid armor in the real world. The Marine would literally have a better shot beating the T-Rex to death with his bare hands without his armor than trying to fight it in full Astartes war plate.

[Arkhan Land]

you should know , but haven't spacemarines survived being run over buy APCs/Tanks?

I think in the fluff it goes both ways, in the game if they get tank shocked thats that, I was thinking they might be able to generate some sort of stomp attack, but at around 20 feet tall they fall more into the monstrous and not gargantuan creature. So perhaps a marine would not survive some sort of informed T-Rex "Smash" Attack.
Informed T-rex's being as real as space marines.

[Andrew Thomas]

My money is on the Rex, because even with a full clip, it's going to be take a lot of mass-reactive shots to cause enough blood and tissue loss for the thing to lose consciousness. Now, if he were to pull a Hellboy, i.e.: chuck a bunch of kraks down the beast's gullet, he'd have a chance. But statistically speaking, that has very little chance of working. He'd need to kneecap the Rex first. This would be a very messy fight.

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I think in the fluff it goes both ways, in the game if they get tank shocked thats that, I was thinking they might be able to generate some sort of stomp attack, but at around 20 feet tall they fall more into the monstrous and not gargantuan creature. So perhaps a marine would not survive some sort of informed T-Rex "Smash" Attack.
Informed T-rex's being as real as space marines.

Dropped to 0 wounds doesn't necessarily mean dead.