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[GiglameshDespair]

Regular humans in 40k include genetically/cybernetically modified labourers and guards, borderline abhumans and minor mutants. A marine couldn't stroll around a bunch of nobles incognito unless they pretended to be a guard of some kind, but one could meander among underhive gangers and similar with little issue. They're practically dwarfed by the things the Mechanicus creates to use as cyborg forklifts. They look odd and big, but odd and big can mean any of thousands of things in a Hive city.

They'd probably fit right in with nobles given how nobles can purchase all the implants which would make them HUUUUUUUUGE

Most likely a lot of them picked up some elements of the super-charisma shown by the Emperor and the Primarchs. Frankly, an Astartes could probably go undercover on our world without too much trouble. There aren't a lot of people who are seven feet tall, but it's also not unheard of. They certainly wouldn't get black-bagged just for walking down the street.

Not that you could successfully black-bag a Space Marine anyway.

I think the dead give away would be their skeletal structure, if not their prodigious size. Their fused ribcage and the solid black carapace armour directly under their skin would be noticeable to any prolonged observation, revealing that the individual was in all likelihood, a spehss mahrin or someone modified to standards similar to them

That said, how many people will actually know about the implants and skeletal structure of spacemarines? Less than you might initially think, perhaps. We have access to a lot more general information than most of those inside the setting,amd I imagine knowledge of creating space marines - and of their specific biological details - is likely to be more restricted.

[Kot]

Yeah, Astra Militarim, Adeptus Astartes. GWS has made a concerted effort the last few years to rid their universe of 80s sounding terms like “Space Marine.”

Adeptus Astrates, Mechanicus and Sororitas and many other names existed ever since Rogue Trader. The major push behind it is the copyright probably, but if anything it's just creating internal consistency in the lore by giving everyone proper names in both Low and High Gothic. Fake Latin is as 80s sounding as is Space Marine.

[LordBaal]

That said, how many people will actually know about the implants and skeletal structure of spacemarines? Less than you might initially think, perhaps. We have access to a lot more general information than most of those inside the setting,amd I imagine knowledge of creating space marines - and of their specific biological details - is likely to be more restricted.

Exactly. They most likely would be discarded as mechanicus helpers or ogryns even.

[MrRoboto75]

too smart to be ogryns tho

[Egan_BW]

Smart enough to play dumb, even?

[GiglameshDespair]

too smart to be ogryns tho

Can't ogyrns get brain implants to make them smarter? Bone'eads or something like that.

[Taricus]

There's only so much those implants can do though

[MrRoboto75]

Smart enough to play dumb, even?

The codex astartes does not support this maneuver

[Egan_BW]

Spess Mahrheens are proud enough warriors to set aside their pride when that would make them better at warrioring. ;P

[nenjin]

Fake Latin is as 80s sounding as is Space Marine.

We're just gonna have to agree to disagree about that. Because whenever I hear "Space Marine" this is what I think of and it doesn't get more 80s than that to me. Frankly it's always sounded cheesy to me. The whole choice of "Marine" has never sat well with me, for how little Astartes are defined by their ships.

[Kot]

That's 90s.
Astrates are defined by their ships. That's the whole thing. They're the one of few forces in Imperium that has access to both means of getting between planets and means to fuck shit up on foot. Everyone else usually has to beg Imperial Navy to give them a ride.

Blame Horus.

[Egan_BW]

DAMMIT HORUS
there, got that out of the way for this hour

[LordPorkins]

DAMMIT HORUS

basically 90% of 40k's backstory/lore

[Tack]

Once again dropping by for tablesalt corner.

They're firmed up the rules to once again be 'Characters can only be targeted if they're visible and the closest'.
Which means keeping a squad of chaff handy and out of LoS means your Herohammer Bricklord Tankfucker can't even be shot at.

[Rolan7]

Wow.  Surely they intended "the closest visible" there, but screwed up?

Edit:  Such that more may praise the glory of Slaanesh on this page, I will edit this to postemplively praise THEY WHO THIRST
By far the worst of chaos, and the worst.  Definitely the worst.  But at times, while being the worst, really attractively bad.