Why do Space Marines have beaks?

>>55082441
shitty 80s sculpting quality

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

>>55082441
Some publications label it as storage space for sensor equipment.

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It's meant to imitate a style of medieval helmet

They were copying the stormtroopers from star wars

>>55082441

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

>>55082441
Puts them at the top of the Imperial pecking order.

Because beaks are bae

>>55082441
>Why do Space Marines have beaks?

Because this >>55082556 and this >>55082475. In that precise order.

>>55082595

Stormtroopers don't have beaks though.

>>55082441
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.

>>55082556

Why do Medieval knights have beaks?

>>55083107
I don't know what happened to brain to read "beaks" as "masks"

>>55083360

It was to stop the plague

>>55083360
increases the deflection angle thus causing spearpoints and the like to slide off more easily.

>>55083360
to stab cunts with

>>55082441
Because they have shrivelled dicks and have to compensate elsewhere.

>>55082441
A lot of loyalty, for a hired Astartes!

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>>55084011
4U