Warhammer Warhammer General discussion thread: Now with 100% more Space Marines

[Lord Sovereign]

Going to be honest, this is one of my most favourite pieces of warhammer fan art ever as it, I think, depicts the Adeptus Astartes as what they really are (most of the time).

Heroes.

Yes, yes, I know. Salamanders are "cheating", but my point still stands.

 

[Zachowon]

I mean, few would willingly help humans like that

 

[Lord Sovereign]

I mean, few would willingly help humans like that

If they can, the vast majority of space marine chapters will absolutely try to help civilians. It's just that, in warhammer 40k, those opportunities don't often arise. And because of their solitary, dutiful lives where they only speak to other space marines, they don't often know how to effectively interact with normal humans (even though I'd think they'd like to).

Granted, the Salamanders would say "fuck that, we help them anyway", which is why I like Vulkan's boys quite a bit. In their case, their regular interactions with other humans, their families no less back on Nocturne, equips them for dealing with the Imperium's citizenry.

On the flipside there's the Marines Malevolent and the Black Templars who are just bundles of rage and hatred that need to be pointed as far away from civilised space as possible.

 

[Tyzuris]

BTW is there a significant difference in how in the TT Ultramarines play out as opposed to Imperial Fists? What are the biggest differences between the two in terms of gameplay?

 

[Battlegrinder]

BTW is there a significant difference in how in the TT Ultramarines play out as opposed to Imperial Fists? What are the biggest differences between the two in terms of gameplay?

Ultramarines have a wider variant of special units with unique rules, and they generally play more....tactically, for lack of a better term. Lots of strats that focus on manipulating character auras and chapter doctrines, and the chapter ability to fall back out of melee and still shoot lets you do a lot of movement based stuff.

Fists are much more of a "sit in cover and shoot at people/break building and tanks" type chapter, with stuff let that lets them shoot better or do extra damage.

 

[Tyzuris]

Ultramarines have a wider variant of special units with unique rules, and they generally play more....tactically, for lack of a better term. Lots of strats that focus on manipulating character auras and chapter doctrines, and the chapter ability to fall back out of melee and still shoot lets you do a lot of movement based stuff.

Fists are much more of a "sit in cover and shoot at people/break building and tanks" type chapter, with stuff let that lets them shoot better or do extra damage.

So the Fists are the best shooty type army?

 

[Battlegrinder]

So the Fists are the best shooty type army?

I don't know if I'd go that far. They're good with bolters and at fighting tanks, but other weapons/other targets don't get the same bonuses.

 

[Zachowon]

I am just gonna go with my Guard

 

[PsihoKekec]

Which Guard? There are multiple regiments with different bonuses.

 

[Zachowon]

Cadian

 

[Bassoe]

It is the 41st Millennium and there have been eleven millennia of peace since the Great Crusade successfully unified Mankind, genocided the Xenos and starved the Chaos Gods into irreverence with the entire galactic population's belief in the secular Imperial Truth. After the sack of Commorragh, during which all eighteen Primarchs, the Custodes and the Emperor himself secured the last holdout against humanity's possession of the Webway, the Emperor abdicated, leaving the Imperium's rule in human hands and returned to his previous lifestyle of disguising himself amidst the rest of human civilization. The Primarchs, aside from Angron whose mind was completely devoured by the Nails and was marooned to live out the rest of eternity as the sole inhabitant of an otherwise-empty world and Leman Russ who, seeking new adventures, departed for Andromeda, likewise retired from conquering.

Then throughout the entirety of the Imperium, simultaneous revolts broke out, masterminded by the first mutants seen in millennia since prenatal screening and competent medicine did more to purge their kind than all the thousands of pogroms and witch hunts of canonical 40k. Bald, multilimbed monstrosities who for generations had been infiltrating everywhere reachable through the Webway, paving the way for the arrival of their master, a being known only as Fenrir the all-devouring wolf whose escape heralds the end of the world. Russ is back, corrupted by what he found and he brought friends. Lots of friends. Wolves covered in chitinous armor, with extra limbs tipped in biological blades and guns.

Now our protagonist, Bjorn the Fell-Handed, the last Space Wolf to remain loyal to the Imperium as he no longer possessed sufficient biological flesh for his Genes to be Stolen, who's totally channeling the fate of canon's Ancient Rylanor, must track down the Emperor and get him to fix everything.

Meanwhile, Szarekh returns to warn the galaxy of the encroaching swarm, only to discover he and his crew are the last Necrons after the Great Crusade dug up and dynamited every dormant tomb world they encountered. Words cannot adequately explain how pissed the Silent King is.

 

[PsihoKekec]

So instead of being called Tyranids, how would the bugs be called this time?

 

[Zachowon]

 

[Urabrask Revealed]

How did he die? On the field, fighting an enemy, or peacefully in his sleep? He was an old man, after all.

 

[Zachowon]

How did he die? On the field, fighting an enemy, or peacefully in his sleep? He was an old man, after all.

Unknown. All the leak shows is his skull.
There is word saying that it could be Angron and the World Eaters returning and he dies fighting a primearch, or he dies peacefully in his sleep not able to live much longer even with rejuvenate treatments

 

[Urabrask Revealed]

It's too early for Christmas songs you say? Why, the orks agree with you!

 

[Carrot of Truth]

Just now learned this exists

 

[Typhonis]

The Apocalypse continues, my brothers. The infection is getting worse.

 

[Tyzuris]

I don't know if I'd go that far. They're good with bolters and at fighting tanks, but other weapons/other targets don't get the same bonuses.

How would you rate the Ultima Founding Ultramarines successor Fulminators as a Chapter to play with?

Fulminators - Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum

wh40k.lexicanum.com

After researching the various Chapters, this is the one I'd like the most to start with in the TT. What's your take on starting with a Fulminators Army?

 

[Zyobot]