Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-9047822-20130909041833/@comment-7123746-20130909081226

First of all, welcome! Always glad to see new faces! Now to answer your question:

Incredibly powerful. They're able to put someone(and withstand being put through) a cement wall. Every sense they possess is many times more keen than any normal man. They're actually giants, their hands are too large to use normal, non-oversized human weapons. Normal humans have a hard time even lifting their weapons. They're able to easily outrun a man with little to no effort and can lift many, many times the weight that even the strongest normal man could.

They have an amazing ability to heal and survive even the most grievous of wounds, even losing limbs is of little consequence to them, because of their blood's ability to clot and protect the wound. They can drink poisons that would be almost instantly fatal to a regular human and only suffer slight moments of dizziness or lightheadedness as their superhuman bodies neutralize the toxins. They can survive without food and water for extremely long periods of time and require almost no sleep. It is almost impossible to physically exhaust one through normal means.

They can even survive without their power armor in the vacuum of space for very short periods of time. They can spit actual venom at their foes and can consume the brain of an enemy to gain an impression of their memories and thoughts. They have the strategic and tactical acumen of a great leader and can fight effectively in nearly any condition.

And so you put them in their power armor and give them weapons custom made for their size and specialized for their ability and they become even more powerful. They spend their entire lives training and meditating on war and duty. The time not training or meditating is spent at war. There are only 1000 of them in each Chapter, but an entire Chapter can easily conquer a world, with little outside assistance.

They are literally the most perfect killing machines the Imperium could mass-produce.

Hope that helps give you an idea of just how insanely powerful even your most basic Space Marine is!