True Size of a Space Marine Chapter [999.M41] (Part 1) 3D Documentary
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In this Warhammer 40k video we bring to life a Space Marine Chapter by using the Ultramarines as our model for the army. We begin with the general history of the Space Marines from the Horus Heresy to the Second Founding and how the Codex Astartes came to be. The documentary then discusses Space Marine creation from the recruit to the aspirant and the neophyte with a Marine's transformative implantation of the Gene Seed organs. We then trace the elevation of a new Space Marine Battle Brother through the ranks of the Ultramarines starting from the 10th Scout Company and up through the ranks of the 9th through 6th Reserve Companies. In part 2 we will continue this journey of ascendance within the Ultramarine Chapter by looking at the 5th through 2nd Battle Companies, the Veteran Company, and the Command Staff of a Space Marine Chapter.
Let us know what you think of this format and what documentaries in the Warhammer 40,000 universe you would like to see us cover next.
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
02:38 Background
04:58 General Organization
08:10 Recruitment
10:07 10th Company (Scout)
13:03 9th Company (Devastator)
16:09 8th Company (Assault)
18:46 7th Company (Tactical)
21:21 6th Company (Tactical)
22:32 Outro
Music from Epidemic Sounds:
Sciophobia by Jo Wandrini
Collisions by Bonnie Grace
Breaker of Chains by Jon Bjork
Beneath the Church by Jo Wandrini
Byzantine Chant by R Hive
Credits:
Research = Eric Ten Wolde
Script = Eric Ten Wolde
Narration = Guy Michaels
Art = Penta Limited
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Hey, can you make a video about Elites from Halo?
6th Company is actually a reserve company. Two Tactical Reserve Companies, One Assault Reserve Company, One Devastator Reserve Company.
you made a mistake by not including the different colour shoulder trim for each company and battle role markings
Why not cover primaris units
@@blakemtg47 Primaris were introduced by Guilliman himself after he was resurrected early into M42
This is set in 999.M41 (the year before M42 started) meaning Guilliman was still in stasis
Oh boy you’ve really opened Pandora’s box on this one
*Smiles in Tyranid
@@InvictaHistoryJEAN STEALERS
@@InvictaHistoryHERETIC
@@InvictaHistory Filthy Xenos!
@@InvictaHistory How did a Tyranid make it in?! Guards!!!
The fact that invicta makes 40k videos now is such a joy.
They did make one video about Ogryns a year ago and they've done fantasy a lot. Honestly I prefer they keep this channel historical and move the fantasy stuff to a new channel like what Kings & Generals did for Wizards & Warriors if they plan to do even more down the line.
Btw just kinda think coverage on 40k and stuff is already at a high and historical units and forgotten wars are more interesting is all, plus these true army scale videos too.
@@magniwalterbutnotwaltermag1479meh
its...ecstatic
So many space marine fans are collectively correcting the video that it has spawned the new chaos god 'Ackchyually'
Loved working on this one and Part 2 is on its way!
The man, the myth, the legend. I've heard your voice many times, thank you for your work!
@@johnnylrthank you!
Fantastic work as always!
Ahh, the man, behind the voice in so many videos!! 👍
...Looking forward to it!
MWAHAHAHA I finally got to build my Ultramarine Chapter without staining all my fingers and burning all my cash. I'm truly excited for this format and the potential it holds for showing the truly insane scales of the Warhammer 40k universe! But this kind of content is still a colossal undertaking which is only made possible thanks to you all! To keep funding these projects, please consider joining our Patreon (www.patreon.com/InvictaHistory ) where we actually make all this art available for download! What topics should we cover next?
"and burning all my cash"?... Ah, I see you are an actual 40K player and fan 😅
you accidentally included the close bracket in the link so it doesnt work properly unless the viewer changes it in the search bar
I’m waiting on the truth of the phalanx videos. I know you’ll get to them when you get to them, but I can’t help being impatient.
the codex chapter is the dumbest thing 40k did no way you could capture a world with 1000 person or less ... what would happen if one fall you would need thousand of reserve neophyte plus the logistic of moving them to warzone .... even if it worked why did it take E hundred thousand of sm but gulliman only need 1/100th plus why make phsyker illegal but librairian ok
Oh boy… you’ll be covering all of them now trust me lol 😂
Invicta making 40k content is something I didn’t know I desperately wanted and need until now
Innit, can't wait for part 2. And maybe some xenos episodes - Eldar would be interesting
Just a small correction at 3:50, but the 2nd founding saw the legions split into roughly 200 chapters. Further foundings got the number up to the around a thousand.
Really 200? I thought the ultramarine legion itself was around 200,0000 marines in strength. I know the shattered legions didn't have many marines left but the 6 others surley had more right?
@@Awoken-seeker920 if it makes more sense than what lore GW put out, then it probably is true, also 1000k marines tops is way too low, i round it up to around 100k per chapter, much better to accomodate the gigantic scale of the universe without making them any weaker
@@Awoken-seeker920 The Ultramarines had the most Astartes by the end of the heresy. However over the coming Millennia numbers have swelled again leading to more chapters being created while others have been lost in their entirety.
Officially the Imperium operates 1,000 chapters however most agree this is a low balled number. Often due to the Administratum’s oversight and the insane tyranny of distance of the galaxy information can some times take centuries to reach holy terra, if at all.
This is all a round about way of saying GW wrote the lore in such a way that you can always claim your own custom chapter canonically exists.
Actually, it was probably closer to around 70 to 80 chapters, since according to the apocrypha of skaros, the ultramarines created the most chapters at 23, with a 24th being the orginal ultramarines We know the salamanders did not split their legion, and the spacewolves were only able to split into two chapters. Most of the legions at the siege created 4 chapters whereas the blood angels created 6 new chapters, however it's possible they might have been smaller than a codex chapter as the flesh tearers were only given a single battle barge so they may have been around 600 astartes. The dark angels created 5 new chapters, iron hands created 2 new chapters, raven guard created 3 new chapters and then of the known chapters 4 have unknown progenitors giving us around 52 known new second founding chapters, with 9 first founding "chapters" giving a total of 61 or 62 counting the grey knights, with leeway for players to create their own so around 70 to 80 would be a good estimate.
@@colinbielat8558 is this for the second founding or for the creation of chapters on the entirety. Just looking out for everyone to stop arguments before it happens.
You know how ravenous wh40k fans are about lore.
I find it funny how all the Dreadnoughts shown in this video have Blood Angels iconography on them. Especially the chapter symbol, the winged blood drop, can be seen quite clearly.
noticed this straight away haha
There's a lot of stuff in here that's mislabelled and some that's just plain wrong
Yeah I'll have to admit I wasn't 100% on top of the art team for all the stuff they produced. I'm sure there's lots of small things like this which made it in unintentionally or were left in because we couldn't afford to make all the required changes to emblems and trim colors. A bit of the nature of the production process.
Blood Ravens you say? Oh wait mb Blood _Angels_
@@CHRF-55457 To be honest, maybe it isn't the Ultramarines chapter shown at all, but the Blood Ravens, disguised as Ultramarines. All the while they show off their "donated" gear. ;)
Guilliman didn't die.
He was merely in stasis, albeit with his throat slit, but still alive all the same
*Inquisitor raises boltpistol to Invicta's head
Actually he DID die, moments before his resurrection. It was a requirement for him to come back that he be allowed to die, the Eldar God of Death was directly involved in his resurrection.
He did actually die. Power from the Eldar god Ynnead was required to bring him back.
smells like heresy here. What xenos cun....heretic god are you mumbling about? *prepin' exterminatus*
Lore around it is garbage af. They should have left the primarchs to die in peace and move forward. Not to mention gayliman is the most boring.
Fun Fact: The 3rd Edition Space Marines codex had the entire Ultramarines chapter modeled and arrayed on tabletop in a colour photo in the inside front cover, framing the photo was a breakdown of all the units listed and included the names of every Company Captain at that time. It was not a small amount of models and included at least a dozen old RT/2nd Ed Land Raiders and the crown jewel was one of the old white metal Thunderhawks.
Yes, as I saw ur comment I searched for the codex ,what a nostalgia trip that was.
And on the fifth day Loremaster Luetin declared that no 40k video shall be made without Sciophobia!
*FOR THE EMPEROOOOR!*
That song is such a gem!
Laughs in Black Templar
Joins the laughter of 6147 fellow templars
Howls in Space Wolf
Laughs in unforgivin
NO LITTLE GERMAN BOY, DON’T JOIN THE BLACK TEMPLARS!
I hoped for a video like this for so many years, thank you for bring to life
Thank you for finally covering this military in true historical detail. Its so hard on hab worlds to find unbiased sources like this that isnt just stories from the Ecclesiarcy (not that I question the god emperor of course) or even worse propaganda from the worshippers of the nine devils of the outer hells (not that we have any here of course). I feel so much safer knowing the emperors angels are so well organised and able to protect us. Its enough to relax me about the strange whispering I hear whenever I try to study what i can about the galaxy in the hopes to better educate my fellow citizens and do my little bit to change the galaxy.
*definitely not an inquisitor* has entered the chat
Perhaps you've gained an interest in learning. We should report to the local inquisitor to ensure they can support your decision.
you do know that the Ecclesiarcy is heresy right? "Calling him the God Emporer is what started this whole war"
A video on a generic Guard regiment would be amazing.
Guardsmen are like flies in the wind..
@@flonkplonk1649 And yet they hold the line. :)
The problem is that there is not a generic Imperial Guard regiment. Even the number of soldiers in a regiment can go between 3 or 4 thounsand at full strength to 20.000 at full strength. For GW a Imperial Guard Regiment is more a collection of soldiers that a standar formation like a space marine chapter.
So Invicta can´t do the same as this video or the composition of the Roman Legion o a Spatan force.
Due to diverse recruitment systems there are like dozens of variations of "standard" IG regiments.
This is the content we never asked for, but it was exactly what we needed all along.
Wow! The animation, the storytelling, the detail! This was so wonderfully made. This is the exact video to show people just getting into wh40k! There is so much junk out there and rough explanations that this is basically a textbook of information!
Glad you enjoyed! Any other 40k topics you suggest would be good primers in this True Size format?
@@InvictaHistory Perhaps a Mechanicus Battle Congregation? Magos Dominus, Cybernetica Cohorts, etc.
Perhaps as a supplement to this video, you could go over the various types of squads and vehicles fielded by the Primaris Marines?
@@InvictaHistoryTrue size of various Hive Fleets? True size of the Imperium of Man? True Size of Eldar Craft Worlds?
@@InvictaHistoryOh I’m still a novice in the information of warhammer 40k. Maybe a video explaining the size and role of the inquisition? Or the imperium of man and all its branches laid out and what each does?
It is a wonderful time to live in where people have such beautifully animated scriptures of my favorite niche sci-fi universe which I can watch for free.
Hats off to you Sir
40k isn’t niche, sure ain’t mainstream but it’s popular enough
This is for sure one of the best warhammer video I've ever seen. The lore of this universe is so good and detailed and you elevated it even more. Thanks for that video.
Okay, this genuinely has been very helpful, especially for homebrew non-codex compliant, you can see ways of organization and ways to work in rank, great work, lovely stuff, PLEASE MAKE MOREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Love the mix of a little bit of fantasy and historical videos keep up the hard work
Amazing stuff, thanks a lot Invicta
First got into Warhammer 40K so long ago studying the chapters of the Ultra Marines so glad you made video on this level of detail and presentation was fantastic. Thank you!
This wasn't something I expected, but I definitely needed it; I've been able to understand much better the functioning of the companies, their formation and their equipment, thanks to this video. I'm a fan of the Space Wolves, but without a doubt the Ultramarines are the easiest example to understand the Codex Astartes (in any case, if you make a video for each of the loyal chapters of the first foundation, I would be happy, since they all have their peculiarities).
WHOA! This was awesome! Instantly subbed and cannot wait for part two!
Absolutely outstanding work. I look forward to you next video.
This was absolutely amazing, well done! I can't wait for part 2 and would love to see videos like this for all the chapters. Especially the more unique ones!👍👍👍
This is incredible! I play Ultras, and love the tactical doctrines of the codex astartes~
This really helps me visualize how massive running a full chapter would look like if I had the time and money to paint one
kudos to Invicta who deliver a very detailed video, there is still several rough surface like quoting Guilliman saying Heretic, but overall, a pretty solid piece of lore
The quality of this video is just next level. I love learning about the Space Marines.
Hands down one of the most interesting wh40k videos I’ve watched this year
As a fan of both your channel and of Warhammer 40k, this video was a treat to watch. Thank you for making it ^^
lez gooo more 40k please!!
Cant wait for the Guard at some point (hopefully)
My word good sir. What a show. This is my first video of yours and boy am I impressed. Well done my friend.
Welcome aboard! Any suggestions on new topics in this format?
something to do with HALO pls
@@InvictaHistory
@@InvictaHistory you could dig into NON Astartes complaint chapters, like Blood Angels, Space Wolves, or Black Crusaders. You Could also do a deep dive into the Successor Chapters of the 9 Loyalist Legions. (Like how the Imperial Fists have a protocol that says all of their successors fall back into a Mega Chapter, a la the Heresy era, should the order be given)
This was awesome! Please keep them coming
Lore accurate smurf village
Invica, new 40k TH-cam channel
I know that’s something I would want
Absolutely LOVE THIS VIDEO! It would be wonderful to see non compliant chapters like Blood Angels or Black Templars as well. This was great to show the true scale of a chapter.
The quality of this video is impressive, looking forward to Part 2!
I’d love to find out how the post Cadia chapters are organised and how the Primaris marines fit in with the existing organisations
This is a cool concept and I’m watching this 10s after release so let’s see how this goes.
I am REAAALY excited for how far we can push this thing. Doing episodes on the Tyranid and the Orks would be super fun and not something I think 40K fans have ever seen at scale outside of the stylized artbook illustrations.
@@InvictaHistory oww yea
@@InvictaHistoryYes!! Just more Yes!!!
@@InvictaHistory absolutely hyped to see Orks and Nids, they are amongst my favorite lads in 40k
Wow huge props for this video great work.
This is what I need more of.
Nice work!
The Astartes' chapters are based on the late Roman empire's legions, once formidable legions, now small forces of 1000 soldiers.
The composition of a chapter have more in comon of a British´s batallion in the napoleonic era (1000 men divided in 10 companies the first was the veteran granadier and the 10th was ligth infantry) than the late Roman empire´s legions.
This is something I actually really wanted to see. So thanks for that. Maybe post-Guilliman reawakening changes for part 3?
I absolutely love that all the history channels I’ve watched over the years and loved now turn to warhammer 40K my second love. Great job man!
This video is pure gold, can't wait for part II.
I don't know why, but the best history content creators I usually watch suddenly all uploading 40k content...
Match made in heaven.
FOR THE EMPEROR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I've been watching since the THFE days in 2016 with the massive battles series. Your Total War Warhammer videos were actually what got me into warhammer in general, so it's very nice to see the channel come full circle back to its roots. This is awesome
This is amazing. Big fan of your channel and can't wait for part 2. This is so awesome!!!!!
Absolutely beautiful. Narrator fits perfectly
This video was such a nice surprise! Love your style and I feel it's a great fit for 40k.
What really surprised me was I consider myself new to Warhammer I'm more into the lore than anything else but as I watched the video I asked, "Do they not deploy with imperial guardsmen?" While I imagine this can happen on occasion I just think it would be an extremely weird idea that they don't supplement their forces with regular guardsmen
They definitely get mixed in with other forces. We talk about that in part 2 for the Battle Companies.
They usually arrive at different times and since the space Marines travel separately it takes a big battle where many forces meet up on one world for a campaign to get them working together.
Space Marines tend to do their own inscrutable goals the Guard is involved everywhere but does not often know what the Marines know so they are playing catch up a lot.
After millions of Guardsmen have laid down their lived for a cause, then the Space Marines show up to clean up what is left over and take all the glory...
Space Marines get sent when millions of guardsmen cant get the job done. 99.99% of battles are the trusty old guard. A 1000 chapters with ~1000 each is around a million marines for the whole galaxy, while theres trillions and trillions of regular human soldiers holding the line.
You sort of have it in reverse. The Imperial Guard _ARE_ the standing Army of the Imperium. They are the generic force that protects ALL Imperial worlds.
Space Marine are the Mega Elite mobile strike force (i.e just like the Marines of the US army, hence the name) that moves around the Galaxy meeting the MOST urgent threats the Imperium faces.
Love all Invicta content but gotta say...would love more 40k and AOS stuff
This was awesome, can't wait for the next part
Brilliant guide. Well made and implemented 👍
Honestly an amazing job done, whilst it’s easy to pull random numbers out of a hat or have little diagrams, it’s far far more impressed when you see the actual scale of just how large a single space marine chapter and even then, many people might never see a space marine in their entire lives, and again people fail to understand or even respect or even fear at just how powerful a space marine truly is, considering that an entire hive city on Armageddon was held by one command squad and two other squads of black templars who whilst yes were all cut down to a man and were supported by titans, the fact remains that only thirty or so marines were able to fend off an ork invasion all on their own and again that’s not to diminish the heroisms of the titan pilots as well as the countless men and women in the guard and militia forces who gave their lives to defend their homes and city, but the fact of the matter remains, hellsreach wasn’t even considered a proper hive city, it was large yes, but most of its infrastructure was geared towards shipping and refining materials, not a full on invasion like a dedicated hive city ie hades hive and even then its walls were not even walls but a concrete fence to keep the elements out and a few anti aircraft guns to keep some of the larger pests away and yet despite the fact that over half of the hive was completely destroyed, the imperials still won the battle no less and again people forget that before the Horus heresy the space marines were considered the standard form of infantry, imagine an entire army of halo Spartans or Terran marines, all of them fully armed and equipped, along side entire legions of titans and knights In support as well as having access to far more powerful and devastating weapons compared to what the imperium already possess 😂
Love the fact you’re doing 40K! Wish you focused on some other legion/chapter than the constantly in the spotlight poster-boy Ultrasmurfs, but great video regardless.
Its a good baseline for the Codex Compliant Chapter. In the future we can cover other chapters or legions depending on interest
@@InvictaHistoryOf course! I was only half joking. The Ultramarines made the most sense for an introduction. Hopefully in the future you guys could cover some of the more unique chapters/legions like the Blood Angels (w/ their death company, sanguinary priests, and unique recruitment process), the Space Wolves, or Black Templars.
Great video regardless!
Absolutely amazing! Thanks
Brilliant video looking forward to part 2 👍
Am i seeing this right....
Its amazing how many videos is being created about 40k lore recently and its amazing🎉🎉
40k will have its time in the sun! Once the T.V. show is in full swing with Henry C.
@@jamesmunn576 I hope henry C. Don't fail us with his show🙏🙏
You stirred up a hornet's nest now Invicta, a steady stream of 40k content is now in order 👀
Love the 40k lore content, it's just such a fascinating universe equally as compelling as our own.
Really nice Invicta. Top quality.
Excellent work.
One small quibble is that when showing off the weapons of the marines you used the primaris cawl pattern bolt rifles, where as the firstborn marines, especially the ultramarines would be using the shorter Godwyn pattern which also has no scope
Bolters don't really need scopes, they got integrated sensors that connect to the power armour.
@@balazsvarga1823 Yeah I dont really like the scopes on the primaris bolters. The only real quibble I had with the old bolters was a lack of a rear sight post
Visual aim aids, scopes or iron sights, would be only needed if the marine's autosenses got damaged, as a backup. Otherwise they got machine spirit assisted targeting.
Assuming they are wearing their helmet. Cause there are the times when they decide not to. And even if it barely ever gets used an iron sight is still helpful in those times when normal means fail@@balazsvarga1823
Yes!! Finally another 40k video!
Simply Magnificent video!!!
Dear Invicta,
ive been a long time viewer of your channel and ive always loved the historical documentaries. youre one of my favorite military history channels out there.
Im also a long time 40k fanatic. So you making a 40k Video is like a dream come true.
id love to see more of those!!
Glad to hear you're a fam of both genres. I've always been interested in both and it's nice to see the community is receptive to us mixing it up. Any suggested True Size topics?
@@InvictaHistory true size of an ork waaagh, true size of a hive fleet, true size of any imperial guard regiment, true size of titans maybe? i dont know if those fit very well but id love to see more!
Such fun
This is just a video I needed. Thanks very much, man!
May The Emperor protect you!
Oh, boy! I am literally salivating at this! Thank you!
I love that you did it pre-primaris. I just love seeing predator tanks and the like, they're just so much more iconic than the floating grav tanks that they've got now. Awesome video dude, can't wait for more like this.
For him on Terra. Glory to Mankind and The Emperor, beloved by all.
This is awesome! I NEED more!
YES! What an awesome surprise for a video!
Space Marine squads are 10 men strong by default, regardless of company or role until you reach heavily specialized units like Eliminators or Centurions. They can break into 5 man units, but that’s only temporary and not part of the formal organization structure.
Lieutenants are part of the Captain’s command structure, and his command squad has an *assigned* Apothecary and Chaplain. They’re not there by default, because within a chapter, the Apothecaries, Chaplains, and Librarians are a different internal entity. And that command squad is usually (at least in compliant chapters) made up of the 1st Squad of the company. 1st Squads are veteran squads, that sergeant is next in line for leadership of the company, be it as a Lt or as the future Captain himself.
Lieutenants were not a thing in M41
what about the games ? where they have squads of 3 ?
@@Luynux primaris are retarded, which is probably why this video is set in M41.
But even then, the 3 man squads are just a deployment thing, not an organisation thing. So the squad is still 10 men but they are split up during deployment.
Thank you for introducing new comers to this chaotic universe designed to sell overpriced miniatures
I was looking for a video on this. Thank you.
Great video. Best presentation of the chapter organisation that I've seen.
Love it! Will we be getting an update for M42 explaining Primaris Marines and how their squads are integrated into structure?
No tbe 42nd millennium and everything post guilliman's arrival on terra doesn't count since it's basically a soft reboot of the lore
@@alexs_toy_barn No it isn't?
@@ThatDragonGuy the less primaris marines, and more chad firstborn marines i see, the better, kudos for the guy to use the best and most iconic marines
@@ThatDragonGuy Primaris only exist. Because GW can't copyright "Tactical, Assault, and Devastator" Squad but they can try and copyright "Intercessor, Inceptor and whatever" since those aren't commonly used descriptor terms.
"GW wanted to increase sales from space marine players who already had armies purchased. And so the primaris was born"
Dont be GW simped into believing Primaris marines are anything but a marketing campaign to remove standard marines.
Excellent work! A bit outdated lore-wise, but a really good format nonetheless. Subscribed!
Amazing, keep up a great work.
do people notice that the most succesive armies are the ones that use combined arms in one way our another,
Yeah, but ironically, roughly half of the companies of an Codex-complaint chapter does use combined arms. Just not at the squad level
@@armchairgeneral7363 actualy i was refering to the real world but ok still nice info.
Well the other half are reserve companies not intended for combat but to suppliment the battle companies tbf, so it makes sense that they're not combined arms since they're not intended for combat.
@@CornishMoose so get to the point
Basically, Scouts and certain Devastors get seconded to another company for either recon or heavy fire support.
Well, I enjoyed watching stuff about the Romans, so Space Romans are naturally the next course. When do we get to Space Crusaders, i.e. Black Templars?
Thanks you so much for awnsering all my questions
Just made my day!! Can’t wait for more!
A minor correction:
You mentioned at 4:35 that Robot Girlyman is dead but he very much is alive in the setting.
This is only a small mistake though and you guys did an awesome job.
For the Emperor!!!
Loved this! One thing I would say, is sergeants in reserve and scout companies are typically veterans of the chapter as well, who may not be 1st company or have been and have chose to take the daunting task of leading the chapters newer Astartes!
Omg, not what I expected but definitely what I needed
These numbers are so ridiculously small for an empire spanning the entire galaxy.
That’s why you have the imperial guard
I mean, one chapter can turn the tide of a war, and the imperial military isnt just the chapters, but also the Astra Militarum.
Space Marines are special forces, used for surgical strikes, special missions and objectives. The vast majority of the Imperium's army is made up by the Imperial Guard, who are standard-issue humies.
Having said that, unofficially, there are Chapters of Space Marines that circumvent these limited unit sizes. Black Templars and Space Wolves do this. Unit limitations were imposed after a galaxy-spanning civil war, brought about by huge legions of Space Marines fighting each other.
The Imperium spans roughly a million worlds. There are about 1000 chapters with about 1000 marines each, some more, some less. So there's about 1 space marine per planet in the Imperium. Most of the Imperium is not expected to be defended by Space Marines, they are expected to be defended by local Planetary Defense Forces and the Astra Militarum. Space Marines are elite shock troops that are deployed specifically to the most extreme warzones. Additionally, there are many other elite forces such as the Adepta Sororitas, Mechanicus forces from Skitarii to Titans, Imperial Knights, etc... that help fill in the gaps that can't be covered by the Space Marines.
The numbers make sense when you consider that it's a single chapter, with 1000 chapters existing, and the fact that space marines are merely a single cog in the vast imperial war machine
The Ultramarines are known for being non compliant to the codex in terms of their size. It's also nearly impossible to know the true size of a chapter because they tend to be spread out under different Captains.
If anyone would comply with the Codex Astartes, written by Roboute Guilliman, Primarch of the Ultramarines, it would be the Ultramarines. They are about as codex-compliant as any chapter can get. They do call upon their successor chapters often so function more like a large chapter, but the chapter itself is not by any means non-compliant.
I'm a big fan of Warhammer 40,000 and I've always been fascinated by the Space Marines. This video was really informative and it helped me to better understand how Space Marine chapters are structured. I also learned a lot about the Ultramarines, which is one of my favorite chapters.
Fantastic!! Please make more
*laughs in black Templar*
It’s a 100% quality work for this video!
Aw, this would’ve been perfect when I was starting out with my space marines. Good overview of codex compliant chapters.
Judging from the comments I take it this is his first 40k content? lol this was just recommended to me and this is actually really helpful! You got yourself a sub.
Thank You, great illustrator for this respectful documentary to the Emperor's Angels.