Bonus Starship Versus video on the second channel, including the Viscount vs Executor and others: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sKeAa5ygxpuqpZs.html

Dreadnoughts, because sending grandpa to the rest home wasn't hardcore enough.

*Laughs in high gothic*

Who are the best Space Marines? Trick question: It's the Space Marines

Drop, Drop, Drop your pod, inside defensive ring, Lock and Load in purging mode, Imperial Space Marines.

40k is the equivalent of a nuke in a stone throwing contest Edit: more like an exterminatus

*sees title* "Wow, is this even a contest?"

Here's a bit of lore for the Terran Marines - I remember in the original game manual for StarCraft: Brood War under the field medic it said something to the effect of "the addition of medics in Marine companies has extended the combat lifespan of the individual soldier by well over 8 seconds."

Addendum, concerning StarCraft: given the fact Jim Raynor can get in and out of the suit, it appears that you’re only sealed in the suit if you are conscripted from the prisons. If you’re a normal conscript/volunteer you can get in and out of the combat suit.

*sees Warhammer* “Welp, I know who’s gonna win”

A better title should have been “Which faction has the second best space marines?”

In Warhammer 40k, nothing is overpowered because everything is overpowered. That thing you just saw wipe out an entire squad of Space Marines just got it's head bit off by something else.

W40k Space Marines are not just superhuman soldiers, they're literally demigods with a chainsaw.

"Today we are looking at Space Marines" Wonder who is gonna win "We'll be ranking them based on deadlyne-" Ok it's 40k then.

Who will win this one? Inquisitorial Laughing

The moment 40k got involved everyone else was playing for second

When it came to Starcraft you missed some right off the bat. There is No problem for the Terran marines to exit their suit. As can be seen in the games and in most of the novels.

*[Laughs in High Gothic]*

As much as I enjoy these vids, what’s the point, it’s 40k. It will always be 40k, it’s a universe based on endless war.

In starcraft, only Tychus's armor was designed to never come off, as he was previously sentenced to a life in prison, the other marines could get out of their armour

I think it is more interesting to rate how powerful the space marines are in their respective universes. In 40k space marines are no where near the most scary things in existence, while in Starship Troopers nothing matches the mobile infantry.

Not true about the Starcraft marine armor being "life-long". You can get in and out of it at will more or less. The armor you see in the trailer was one specific version that was meant to be a prison for the person inside it. Hence, it's permanent.

40K is realistic. I mean, when you paint something in red, it's logical that thing move faster. IT'S SCIENCE ! lol

7:30 only Tychus got in for life. The armor does come off generally, you also forgot their shields.

Starship troopers: BRUTAL TRAINING 40k: your ded? Nope get up

EVEN IN DEATH I STILL SERVE - DREADNOUGHT, a walking badass coffin

The 40k marines have 3 lungs, 2 hearts, a gland in their mouth that makes acid, ribs are fused together, and their bones have ceramic or some shit, ability to eat basically anything for substance, and a bunch more stuff I'm forgetting. Their armor cant even be compared to a tank of today, and they can live for thousands of years.

40k Marines win because all of them have to scale to Sly Marbo.

As a W40k fan, I always apreciate seeing them in a video, but let's be honest, it's unfair. The Imperium is at war since 15k years and dedicated all his power, resources, and technologies to war. They count casualties in planets or solar system scales. Let's see what Halo can be in 10k years, and you'll be able to make a real comparison :)

Didn't need an 11 minute video on this, just needed to refer to the Codex Astartes: SPEHS MEHREENS

*Reads video title* Oh sweet, a contest for second place.

Spartans: out snipers are .50 caliber! Astartes (space marines): out rifles are .75 caliber Spartans: S**t

The Terran marine was incredibly underrepresented in this video. I will concede upfront that all of the other troops would defeat them in a 1 on 1 fight, and they are largely disposable, it’s unfair to leave out other details. Most marines are ex-convicts that are brain-panned upon being initiated into service. The Marine corps is made up of a vast array of soldiers, since different members were given different weapons based on their skills. Some had flamethrowers, Grenade launchers, sniper rifles, and some of them had jet packs in the early iterations of their combat armor. The most hardened criminals were sent into the Firebat Reaper Corps, where they used their aggression to their advantage, specializing in close-range combat. Firebats had tough armor and flamethrowers while reapers used dual-wield pistols and jump packs. The point of the marines is to act as one large cohesive unit, with specialized soldiers covering the weaknesses of the others. Marines are far more comparable to Clones than the space marines of the W40K universe. The combat armor IS removable for most marines, but not THIS marine. The marine depicted is Tychus Findlay. He is a good friend of Jim Raynor, who is the main character in the StarCraft lore. Tychus was a prisoner of the Terran Dominion, ruled by Arcturus Mengsk. Mengsk had it out for Raynor, as they used to work together but parted ways when Mengsk fed his second in command, Sarah Kerrigan, to the Zerg, a deadly alien species similar to xenomorphs. Kerrigan had been conspiring against Mengsk so he attempted to kill her. Instead of dying, Kerrigan was assimilated into the swarm and became an incredibly powerful Psionic being. Raynor had a love affair with Kerrigan before her transformation and wanted revenge against Mengsk. Tychus was sealed up in a permanently sealed armor suit by Mengsk, and the suit was also primed with a “kill switch” that would activate if Tychus defected. The deal was that if he killed Kerrigan, his record would be wiped and he’d be a free man. He was then sent to Raynor to act as a spy and to convince Raynor to kill Kerrigan. Raynor chooses to save Kerrigan instead. He uses an artifact to de-infest her and, when Tychus goes with him to collect her, he tries to kill Kerrigan. Raynor blocks the bullet with his armor and kills Tychus.

Starcraft Nerd here: Tycus was locked into his suit as a punishment after prison. Others like Raynor could go in and out at will. In one mission during the SC2: wings of liberty campaign Raynor specifically orders “No one outside without a suit. That won’t be a problem for you Tycus”

Terrans can enter and exit their marine armour. However, many Terran marines are criminal conscripts who are locked into their armour.

Short answer: Space Marines Long Answer: this video

You might want to read some canon starcraft books. They have some details on training and terran soldiers. The armor does come off. Just not in tychus' case

4:01 The Imperial Guard would like a word.

One misconceptions painted by the opening cinematic of StarCraft 2 wings of liberty is that marines are stuck in their suit until they die, that is simply not true. Only convicts were put in these kind of suits so that they function as their mobile prison cells and if they'd do something wrong they could be killed by their suit

You can hear Ladder voice change when 40k wins.... again... Feeling a little tired of the 40k winning anyone? I'm not! Lol

In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war.

No mention of the Astartes having acid spit, a third lung for breathing water, nearly unbreakable bones, the ability to take knowledge directly from an enemy by eating their brain, and their ability to stay awake for weeks by sleeping half of their brain at a time.

7:26 Starcraft armor DOES come off. It IS removable. The main character [Jim/James Raynor] is seen several times in all the games both in and out of armor.

Eck, you used images from SC2, and said they are pretty much stuck in that armor. But clearly, we see Jim Raynor in and out of that armor a lot

correction for SC marines: the armors CAN be taken off, and can allow the user to run up to ~40MPH The armor itself is mainly made to assist the user in using their primary weapon, the C-14. Reason being most standard weapons from that universe can easily wreck the armor (C-14 was seen overpenetrating the armor in one of WoL cutscenes)

It's WH40K. it's always WH40k.

i couldnt concentrate watching infinity war, i kept imagining the space marines from 40k orbital dropping and fighting thanos and his army

_" They shall be my finest warriors, these men who give of themselves to me. Like clay I shall mould them and in the furnace of war I shall forge them. They shall be of iron will and steely sinew. In great armour I shall clad them and with the mightiest weapons shall they be armed. They will be untouched by plague or disease; no sickness shall blight them. They shall have such tactics, strategies and machines that no foe will best them in battle. They are my bulwark against the Terror. They are the Defenders of Humanity. They are my Space Marines... _*_and they shall know no fear._*_ "_ - Emperor of Mankind

StarCraft Marines aren't permanently sealed into their suits. That was a punishment leveled against the worst convicts, like Tychus Findlay, where they were expected to die fighting. You can see the main character Jim Raynor in and out of marine armor

*I AM THE HAMMER* *I AM THE POINT OF HIS SPEAR* *I AM THE MAIL ABOUT HIS FIST* *I AM THE BANE OF HIS ENEMIES, AND THE WOES OF THE TREACHEROUS* *I AM THE END* Seriously though, just the Grey Knights alone could take on the entire Spartan Corps. And even assuming Space Marines and Spartans were equal, their mindset means the Marines would win. The spartans are devoted to protecting humanity, yes, but the Marines do so with religious fervor. To suffer defeat is the greatest heresy. Plus a space marine’s armor is made of such tough material none of the others would probably even have a chance of doing much more than scratching the paint short of a spartan laser.

Bullets slugs and even small explosives are incapable of someone wearing a power suit... *looks over at bolter* *laughs*

Doom Guy: *clenches shotgun*

The fact that the Holy Bolter wasn't even mentioned underscores just how incredible the Adeptus Astartes really are.

"Give me a hundred Space Marines. Or failing that give me a thousand other troops." - Rogal Dorn, Primarch of the Imperial Fists.

Greetings civilians how goes the.... (See Ekhart trying to argue against 40k) BY THE EMPEROR

Sitting sick watching these vids happy for them.

Starcraft C-14 Gauss Rifles are incredibly underrated. They fire 8mm DU spikes (not standard bullet rounds) at hypersonic speeds. Each spike is about 8 cm long, and weighs about 80-90 grams. In the end, a projectile flying that fast, and being that heavy is around the strength of a 25-30mm round. C-14 Gauss Rifles also have a fire rate of 30 rounds per second, but normally Marines fire in 10 round bursts unless they are using Stimpacks. It also standardly holds around 200 of these spikes before needing to be reloaded. That's still not all. The Terran Marine's armor also essentially gives them aim bot among many other sensors, including IFR. It also augments their strength and speed. I would easily rank a C-14 over a bolter firing only standard rounds, and I'd rank every weapon on this list above the MA5D rifles the Spartans have. I forgot to mention that C-14s also have underslung rocket/grenade launchers standardly equipped.

"let's be honest the Spartans are the best" Laughs in 75 caliber self-propelled armour penetrating Explosive Rounds

*Which Sci-Fi Faction Has the Best Space Marine?* *. . .* Orks, obviously Have you even seen the Mega Armor'd Nobz?

I would say on the starship troopers vs Spartans is a troopers engagement range with their weapons is in the miles. They also work in a platoon not a squad like Spartans. That's 20-25 troopers vs 5-6 Spartans. It would be still a tough fight.

The Starcraft C14's are basically fully automatic anti-tank guns.

Seriously, those contests are pointless. 40k ALWAYS wins. 40k is the tabletop version of that kid on the playground who always insisted to be everything-proof with a nuklear rocketlauncher.

"Space Marines just are here to look cool." "Let them be the last gift to the species I failed." I believe the Emperor made then to kill the overpowered enemies of Man who have weapons that turn you into screaming meat chunks.

the fact that this video opens with the Lord Inquisitor marching scene tells us everything about who won.

There are also variations of the Terran Marine with different suits such as the Marauder (Heavy Anti-Armor), Firebat (Flamethrower), Medic (Healer), Reaper (Jump-Jets), etc.

I saw the title and knew this was going to be a fight for second place.

SPOILERS Of course 40k wins, 40k is a ridiculous dangerous universe and its dwarfs most others in its scale

The thing I remember most about the "Starship Troopers" armor in the book is how far they could jump, it was strange how Heinlein described it.

Spartan II: “what was that?” M.I.: *nukes area, then jumps away*

This video has been approved by the God-Emperor of Mankind. May the light of the Emperor protect you honourable EckhartsLadder.

Starship troopers really had a rough training. Oh this is against 40k?

one thing i think you forget to mention about 40k space Marines is they are often hundreds of years old with alot of that life being real combat on top of any harsh training and indoctrination.

imagine if all 4 of these armies teamed up universe by universe, they wipe out their enemies side by side Arachnids gone, Tyranids gone, Flood gone, Zerg gone, and many more *Please someone make this*

You forgot that the emperor protects

*laughs in custodes*

Great video! And I’m not surprised that you ranked the Spartans and MI so close as I’m pretty sure that at some point while looking up the Halo story and lore someone in like a video or article that worked on Halo had said that the book specifically of starship troopers had inspired several elements of Halo including the covenant, Spartans, and the mjolnir armor

Could you perhaps produce updated lists to incorporate other examples such as the Sardaukar in Frank Herbert's DUNE, and the unnamed Space Marine from Doom?

You are my finest warriors. LIKE clay I shall mould you. And you be forge in the furnace of war. Whit the mightiest weapons shall you be arm. No sickness shall blight you. You are the bulwark against the terror, the defender of humanity. You are my Space Marines and you shall know no fear!!!

Some points of information about Terran marines and the StarCraft Universe in general: - Up till recently, Terran Marines were mostly convicts or dissidents rapidly converted into soldiers using a neural reprogramming method which makes them sufficiently obedient and skilled to be sent into battle. The idea is as close as you can get to "mass produced human infantry". Hence the label "cookie cutter soldiers". This also worked as a convenient lore explanation for why you can train and field soldiers so fast in the game. However, as of the most recent point in the StarCraft storyline, Neural Resocialization has been deemed unethical by the Terran Dominion government, and marines are now mostly volunteers who go through normal military training. - Terran Marines can get in or out of their armour (generally called CMC armour) wherever they want. When Tychus Findlay got locked into his armour, he had been a convict for many years, and the Terran government did this to him as part of a deal: "kill a certain person for us, Findlay, and we'll set you free!" - That said, the fact that you can live with the armour on for an entire campaign shows how complete the armour's life support is, including a built-in-latrine". It also says something about the armour's power source (a miniature cold fusion reactor). No matter how long a campaign takes, I've never heard of a CMC armour user having to "recharge" his armour. - CMC armour is also highly customisable. There's one instance in the comics of a mercenary firing mini-missiles from all over his CMC armour, gundam style. The added strength of the armour also allows the user to, by himself, lift a blast door, or wield heavy weapons that an unarmoured human cannot lift, like the Gauss Cannon. - Due to how ubiquitous CMC armour is (the user could be anyone from a redshirt to a general), there is no niche in StarCraft equivalent to the MI, Spartans or Astartes, whose status as elite warriors is in part expressed in their power armour and equipment. The closest, in terms of elite status, might be the Ghosts, being superhuman black ops. - Most of the Terran factions we see in StarCraft are the descendants of humans exiled far away from Earth. (Believe it or not, Earth has yet to appear in any StarCraft game or novel.) They now live in a part of the galactic fringe known as the Koprulu Sector. Their style reflects a "Wild Wild West"/"frontier colonist" theme. Their heroes (at least the story protagonists) are more like "space cowboys" than space marines". - There is a human faction centred on Earth, the UED. They're much more technologically advanced than the K Sector Terrans, but are still impressed by the latters' weapon designs and level of militarisation. When they sent an expedition to the K Sector, they mostly converted and used local assets, so we don'tknow what the full set of UED military equipment looks like.

As soon as you talked about Heinlein's MI you got a like. Cool! At 9:04 you have a picture of AT-43, a short lived tabletop game.

Fun Fact for Star Craft 2 Marines: The suits did come off, Raynor also had his own set of Marine armor that had no special modifications when being compared to another Marine set of armor, other than paint job, the suit did come off. The reason it might be confusing is that when we first see a marine suit put on a person, that person's name was Tychus and he was a war criminal who was responsible for vasts amount of destruction. As a punishment, he was allowed to go free, but for the price of that freedom he would always wear his prison, which was the Marine suit and to ensure he could never escaped his new prison, the people that put it on him had welded the different parts of the armor together so it could never be taken off.

"Can you 'gift' us with your equipment?"-BLood Raven

If Doomguy was a faction...

This video was one of the ones that turned my attention to 40k. Never heard of it until this channel. Now it’s my life.

Great video, I really had no idea the M.I. were so powerful. Just btw: it's "training regimen", not "regiment". Love your videos, keep it up!

Nah mate, stormtroopers are surely the most powerful, they feature ceramic armour, and can hit blast points far too accurate for sand people.

You got it right EckhartsLadder. Good analysis.

Wasn't expecting Heinlein's MI - nice !

Would be really a shame if large parts of the Warhammer 40k Space Marines just defected to a bunch of crazy, bloodthirsty gods.

The hardest thing about comparing Terran Space Marines to the others on this list is, these guys are the run of the mill regulars. So they are actually the equivalent of Imperial Guard from the 40k and those random Marines that roll into Covenant grenades from Halo. They are really not the "Elite of the Elite" like Spartans or 40k Marines that you're trying to compare them too. I've not read Starship Troopers in a long time so I don't actually have much of an input on them with the exception of the Personal Nukes they had. Those. Things. Were. Awesome.

Right off the bat, I can say that Warhammer’s Space Marines are, without a doubt, the most lethal of the bunch. Not only are they genetically modified to purge xenos and heretics, but due to those modifications, a typical veteran may be centuries old and taken part in hundreds, if not thousands of campaigns. It’s that overall experience that I think makes the Space Marine the deadliest on the list

In starcraft only tychus has the armor that doesn't remove cause mobius Corp won't take if off until the contracts finished in the campaign Jim has his own marine armor that can be taken off so its safe to assume that all armor can be removed. Just pointing it out

Finally starship troopers woah I thought I’d never see the day sees you talk about the book you crushed my dreams

The moment I heard him say witch one is deadliest I think we all know who won. Hint, it’s warhammer 40k

can we get a mention of Battletech Inner Sphere Battle Armor/Clan Elementals?

One thing I would love to see a compare to is the Spartans against the Clan Elementals from Battletech since they are both power armored, genetically enhanced soldiers

You forgot to mention the other version of power armor Adeptus Astartes use, such as Terminator armor and Centurion armor. These give them even MORE of an edge.

*"Tremble before the majesty of the Emperor! For we all walk in his immortal shadow."*

Terran marine armor comes off... Literally only tychus findlay had his serve as his prison cell

Doom guy: hold my beer