Why do Space Marines have beaks?

Why do Space Marines have beaks?

shitty 80s sculpting quality

>blood ravens
>raven guard
>fire hawks
You tell me.

Some publications label it as storage space for sensor equipment.

It's meant to imitate a style of medieval helmet

They were copying the stormtroopers from star wars

The real question is, why don't YOU have a beak?

Puts them at the top of the Imperial pecking order.

Because beaks are bae

>Why do Space Marines have beaks?

Because this and this . In that precise order.

Stormtroopers don't have beaks though.

I always thought it was some kind of extra breathing apparatus and/or the 40k equivalent of putting a shark face on a airplane

Xenos be like shit bird people what the fuck

Probs stolen idea from the Dorian Hawkmoon chronicles.

Why do Medieval knights have beaks?

I don't know what happened to brain to read "beaks" as "masks"

It was to stop the plague

increases the deflection angle thus causing spearpoints and the like to slide off more easily.

to stab cunts with

Because they have shrivelled dicks and have to compensate elsewhere.

A lot of loyalty, for a hired Astartes!

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