Is it normal for a Space Marine to fight without his helmet?

[Jiggy Von Liggy]

I was looking at the trailer and saw it. I dont know much about 40K but it seemed odd. Maybe someone can mansplain it to me.

[Iratus Machina]

Yes, especially if they are named protagonist Space Marines. Usually the plot armor protects them if they put their helmet aside for battle. Unnamed helmeted Space Marine mooks, though? Not as much, but it depends...

[Jiggy Von Liggy]

Originally posted by Iratus Machina:

Yes, especially if they are named protagonist Space Marines. Usually the plot armor protects them if they put their helmet aside for battle. Unnamed helmeted Space Marine mooks, though? Not as much, but it depends...

Thanks lol

[Warbreaker]

Originally posted by Iratus Machina:

Yes, especially if they are named protagonist Space Marines. Usually the plot armor protects them if they put their helmet aside for battle. Unnamed helmeted Space Marine mooks, though? Not as much, but it depends...

Their testosterone is their armor xD

[Jiggy Von Liggy]

Originally posted by Warbreaker:

Originally posted by Iratus Machina:

Yes, especially if they are named protagonist Space Marines. Usually the plot armor protects them if they put their helmet aside for battle. Unnamed helmeted Space Marine mooks, though? Not as much, but it depends...

Their testosterone is their armor xD

Im noticing a theme

[diji]

Originally posted by Warbreaker:

Originally posted by Iratus Machina:

Yes, especially if they are named protagonist Space Marines. Usually the plot armor protects them if they put their helmet aside for battle. Unnamed helmeted Space Marine mooks, though? Not as much, but it depends...

Their testosterone is their armor xD

Nah Space Marines are low testosterone and sterile

[Inquisitor Both]

Use the same logic that soldiers do irl- if your specific task requires more ease of visibility, you might wanna ditch it. If youre in territory full of snipers/unbreatheable air, etc, you might wanna keep your bucket on XD On top of that, add "rule of cool", and there you have it.

[Butcher]

Helmet would prevent sniffing nurglites, which would prevent formation of natural immunity.

[Jiggy Von Liggy]

Originally posted by Butcher:

Helmet would prevent sniffing nurglites, which would prevent formation of natural immunity.

What about xenofarts?

[Butcher]

Originally posted by GamerGirlKrisalee:

Originally posted by Butcher:

Helmet would prevent sniffing nurglites, which would prevent formation of natural immunity.

What about xenofarts?

Truth be told, it is one of the few pleasures affordable in Space Marine brotherhood

[DeusEstMachina]

Originally posted by GamerGirlKrisalee:

I was looking at the trailer and saw it. I dont know much about 40K but it seemed odd. Maybe someone can mansplain it to me.

Here's the lore based answer:
No, space marines keep their helmets on during combat.

This game is however based on the tabletop wargame Warhammer 40'000, where you fight out big battles with your hand-painted minis (basically plastic toy soldiers). The whole helmetless space marine thing came from the fact that each box of space marines came with a few options of helmetless heads you could use for your officers and unit leaders. When you have a hundred tiny figures on tne table, it is much easier to determine at a glance which of them are your heros and special characters.
The whole thing got so prevalent, that in the rulebooks space marine heroes often were depicted without helmets for dramatic effect, since a square-jawed hero yelling in the middle of the firefight looks much more badass than just another guy with the same helmet as all the others around him.

However in the novels, even the heroes wear their helmets like the rank-and-file space marines, and they only take it off when they have to interact with normal humans in a non-combat environment.

Nowadays, the newer model kits often feature extra helmet bits specifically designed to be glued to the model's belt, so you can have the option of your hero going bare-headed while also indicating that he in fact has a helmet, and he didn't just forgot it on the space ship before the mission.

As far as I know, in the campaign mode, there is a setting where you can choose to have the characters either:
- always have their helmets on
- always have their helmets off
- only have their helmets off during cut-scenes

[Banebladerunner]

You have an option to wear a helmet

[astgdzfgdsg]

Originally posted by diji:

Originally posted by Warbreaker:

Their testosterone is their armor xD

Nah Space Marines are low testosterone and sterile

From a bodybuilding perspective it's not plausible they would have low T with the size of them. They almost certainly have some insane T level that would make the worst steroid abusers look like nothing lol.