What are you lads favorite space marine chapters and why? mine

>>51177497
Celestial Lions, their whole story as a chapter is pretty excellent.

>>51177573
never read anything on them, what are the strengths/characteristics you like?

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>>51177497
Exorcists. Every marine is willingly possessed then exorcised. They're all vaccinated against daemons.

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>>51177649
>Sons of Dorn
>Ferocious in battle
>Bitchin armor design

Also they've fought alongside the Black Templars funnily enough

http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Celestial_Lions

I'd read their history, really demonstrates the rift between the Marines and Inquisition. lots of treachery and sabotage on the Inquisitors' part.

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>>51177774

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The minotaurs are a really neat chapter, the way they are shrouded in mystery and Asterion Moloc being an intimidating figure stands out

>>51177833
>t. teamkilling fucktard

The marines malevolent. Lamenters can get fucked.

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>>51177497
Crimson Fists.

They're on the more heroic end of the spectrum of Chapters, but they don't get their shit pushed in like the Lamenters, and the Salamanders have never really clicked with me.

Plus I was born in Spain, so I like their mild Spanish theme.

>>51177497
None of them. Space Marines are boring.

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>>51177894

>>51177775

Its quite ironic that on one hand, the Black Templars are secretly helping the Celestial Lions rebuild - while on the other hand, the Black Templars deployed in massive numbers at the behest of the Inquisition on Cadia and are ultimately forced to kowtow to Celestine's authority.

>>51177881

Lamenters ask for their shit to get pushed in time and time again. Crimson Fists just do their best to do their job.

>>51177497
raven guard. love their simple colors, their primarch was most trusted by the emps, and jumps packs are my most favorite thing about 40k

>>51177928

Bros before hoes, man.

>>51177918
Says the canonized abhuman. True humans see straight through such filth.

>>51177928
>forced to kowtow to Celestine's authority.
I'm sure you meant "The Emperor's authority via proxy."

>>51177774
I thought that was an incredibly difficult and secretive act that brought one into the illuminati.

But I guess nothing special is allowed to happen unless the space marines do it.

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Space Wolves. I don't care about the furry memes, these guys are the best and one of the hardest to paint. Plus now that they're a doomed chapter (and unlike the Blood Angels and Imperial Fists, have no descendant chapters to rely on) made them a bit more interesting.

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>>51177774
fuck exorcists are cool
is there a reason they got rid of the gold?

>>51177894
who do you favor friend?

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>>51177497
probably black dragons

>fuckin wolverine esque bone/admantanium swords that grow out of their forearms

>big and strong as shit, 3+ meters tall

>poisonous fangs

>generally better than an average astarte in every way because tevh priests fucked with their gene seed

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>>51177497

Look beyond the Memes


I think The Blood Ravens are a great chapter

>>51179557
yea black dragons seem dank except, i take the same issue with them that i do with Carcharodons, theyre a little bit too edgy

>>51179581

>Blue Drop pods

anon the memes are to much for me

>>51177573
Second. I don't play Space Marines or even 40K but Celestial Lions have always been my favourite.

>>51179454
>now that they're a doomed chapter
I apparently missed some new lore...

>>51180017
Wrath of Magnus, they don't exactly say that they're doomed.

>>51177497
Night Lords, read some pretty great books about them.

>>51180749
chaos? thats heresy right there friend

>>51180017
>>51180090
Fenris got taken by the Warp, the Inquisition soft exterminatused the planet (killed all inhabitants due to warp taint) and the Wolves aren't powrrful enough to tell the Grey Knights to fuck off this time. Plus the surrounding planets are also irreversibly fucked (Dark Angels even blew up one planet). This shouldn't be a problem if the Space Wolves NEEDS the genes of native Fenrisians for their geneseed to work (or else the marines ends up horribly mutated, see Wolf Brothers). So no Fenris means no Fenrisians. No Fenrisians means no Space Wolves.

>>51180943
>(killed all inhabitants due to warp taint)
The Inquisition only killed some of the Fenrisians. There's still enough of them left to rebuild the population.

>>51177833
aren't they super assholes though?

>>51180943
>Fenris got taken by the warp
No it didn't? Midgard got fucked, Fenris is fine, albeit it with a lot less civilians now, but there is still a large population there. The spirit of fenris even kicked in and helped

>>51177497

Iron Hands, all the way. close second are White Scars.

Grey Knights here.
Aegis power armour is 2 rad, but fuck Matt Ward.

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>>51177497

For the Emperor

Executioners. Rip and tear Fists successors. Hawkish joyless fucks.

>>51178003

>their primarch was most trusted by the emps

Horus, Sanguinius, Guilliman, Dorn.

Hell, he even trusted Russ more.

Fire Hawks

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>>51182798
lmao actually exactly what i was thinking, but i dont know enough about him so didnt say

I've always been a fan of the Executioners. Just wish I had the skills to paint them properly.

>>51183156
How would you do it? Building some currently, gonna go fairly simple. Never been a decent painter.

>>51177928
>forced to kowtow
The Templars are one of the most religious chapters in the Imperium - I'll grant you that they deployed at the Inquisition's behest, but they're in no way forced to work with Celestine - she's a saint to them too

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>>51177497
Marines Errant. I always thought they had a neat backstory being pals with the Rogue Trader house and I have a huge hardon for space combat the way 40k does it (essentially Napoleonic naval warfare in spehss)

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>>51177497
Probably Doom Eagles. They possess a grim attitude/appearance to them but they still appear as noble in their quest to save the people of the imperium from suffering. They're like Lamenters but without the whole 50% casualty rate to save a orphanage thing.

>>51183897
true, i like the suspicion of their use of xeno tech, thats a cool trope

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>>51177497
mine was good old black templar
now i just don't know since i left 40K

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>>51177497
I feel a certain kinship with these fella's since i roll like garbage all the time.

Exorcists and Black templars are right behind em'. Pissed that the templars keep getting their fluff neutered, though.

>>51177497
White Scars!

>fucking space mongols!
>reasonable psychic marines who are respected and know their limits
>Go fast
>underestimated and no one knows much about them
>actually cultured and wished for truth and freedom.

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>>51177497
Black Templars, solely because of the holy, angry crusader motif. Deus Vult and all that. The Fall of Cadia stuff does look really, really out of character for the boys in black though.

>>51181824

Yes. Yes they are.

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>>51177881
BROTHER!
CRIMSON FISTBUMP!

>>51177881
Same here. I also like how they're descendants from the Imperial Fists. It's my favorite legion.