Bonus tip! If you're feeling overwhelmed about making *a whole Chapter* from scratch, try starting with the lore for a Kill Team or a Boarding Patrol ^^
I just started my own chapter a few months ago, after nearly 30 years of being into 40k. They're called The Emerald Knights and they began as Dark Angels Successors. But their Chapter Master was one of Luther's pupils, and the lead Interrogator did not trust any of them. They were deployed on the edge of the galaxy to watch for traitors, then essentially abandoned. They had no help from the DA whatsoever. Later, their geneseed degraded and they could barely make new space marines. Then a Warsmith of the Iron Warriors besieged them for several years and tried to turn them, exploiting how the Knights were betrayed by their Legion. But eventually the Knights defeated their attackers. And when only one in four neophytes survived implantation, they had a choice to make. They cut open the chest of the dead Warsmith and found that his geneseed was pristine. So over several decades, they implanted neophytes, replenished their ranks, deleted the ruined portions of the Lion's geneseed and spliced in the corresponding portion of Perturabo's. By this time, THREE escaped warbands of traitors took up residence in their territory. Not having the numbers to purge them, the Knights sent out an astropathic call to the Dark Angels. They did not answer. The Knights used their very last astropath, pleading for anyone to come and help them destroy these enemy forces. And they were answered by a Black Templars crusade fleet, who brought the remains of their chapter on a mission lasting several decades. Today, The Emerald Knights possess a Deathwing, a Templar Wing, and are about 65/35 percentage Lion to Perturabo genetically. Their returned Primarch knows this and has no problem with it. Because the Lion fondly remembers Barabas Dantioch and how the Warsmith saved his life and died for The Imperium. Now The Emerald Knights travel towards Sotha, fighting for the Imperium and hoping to recover whatever relics remain of Warsmith Dantioch, a forbear they can now finally be proud of.
@@Leavemealoneplz-wu2ms thank you very much! I'm glad you like it. I have nearly finished painting the army, just trying to find the time to photograph them and post them.
I’ve always been a fan of Carcharadons. I’ve been making different divisions based on shark names, Assault Intercessors are Makos, Dreadnoughts are Threshers, infiltration units are cookie-cutters, and my flamer Marines are tigers.
That's incredibly cool, but why is it that whenever I see/think of the word "Mako," I IMMEDIATELY think of that godawful pseudo-tank from the first Mass Effect?
I've been working for the past three years on a Blood Angels successor chapter that is heavily inspired by ancient Irish and Celtic culture alot of the chapter's naming conventions are done through Gaelic which is the ancient language of the Irish people. Despite their heavy Irish influence they still possess all of the same genetic flaws as the Blood Angels and still follow Blood Angel combat doctrine.
I’m working on a second founding Dark angels successor with around 2.5k marines with most of which are Primaris due to the Chapter almost dying out on their home world in a 4 way war between the Eldar, Emporers children, and a tyranid splinter fleet. (Note the Chapter had around 100 battle brothers by the time Rowboat and his new marines arrived to save them)
I'm working on a ? Founding (they don't know) iron hands? (Also kinds mystery) with 100% primaris due to the chapter losing 70% of its marines on Cadia, then losing 95% of that running through the great rift to get back to their homeworld. They received primarily but thr final 5% all died when they were ambushed by emperors children.
Here with a 35th Founding Dark Angels successor. During that time Segmentum Pacificus decided breaking off from the Imperium was a brilliant idea and Cypher may have been involved. Had a brief civil war that was broken up by the Great Rift, fought between Inner Circle members about their spiritual purity, with the Chapter Master nursing the largest migraine trying to keep both radical sides from killing each other. Ultima founding resulted in the reformist parts breaking off into a new Chapter with the Primaris while the original Chapter stayed mostly Firstborn. I have yet to think about how the hell they will react with the return of Johnson.
Working on a chapter founded during the Ultima founding, so all primaris. They are, as far as they know, an Imperial Fist successor chapter. In reality however, Cawl used Death Guard geneseed. The chapter is sort of an experiment. They are closely watched by my sisters of battle order, some inquisitors, and a knight house for any signs of being chaos tainted. Also they are somewhere on the farthest frontiers and have very limited access to a fleet, using mostly the sister's fleet for transport. That is, that in the case of them turning traitor, they can't cause too much damage.
I made the Chapter called the Gray Hussars, an Imperial Fist Successor Chapter but the Officers were drawn from the Black Templars, with the First Chapter Master being a former Castellan of the Black Templars. My Chapter are essentially Space German Knights like if you took the Teutonic Order and made them Space Marines. They were made in the 26th Founding to Garrison and Secure the Saras Sector, close to Ultramar and rarely leave the borders of that sector of Space. They have no home world but the First planet, Totenburg, they made a recruitment world was a lost world with a Germanic Culture that was technologically stuck in the 1910s. It was a world in competition between Liberal Democracies, Socialist Nations and the more Traditional Absolute Monarchies. They were in the middle of a world war the mirrored our First World War when the Gray Hussars arrived and negotiated with the Monarchs of the world to join the Imperium as a united world under the rule of the most powerful King of the World (Planetary Governor) King Wilhelm XII of Prussland. The Chapter crushed the Democracies and Socialist Nations and appointed hereditary aristocratic families to rule over them while setting up a Chapter Fortress. From the Planet came the bulk of the early recruits of the Chapters and the Chapter adopted the naming conventions of the world as well their history dating back to the Ancient Terran Germanic Kingdoms. They worship the Emperor as the God of Humanity and don't have a librarious like the Black Templars. They also always claim to be on Crusade so they don't have to abide by the Codex Astartes. For more google Gray Hussars and the wiki should come up.
I’m working on one currently - Sons of the Phoenix, Salamander Successor. Dismembered or otherwise physically compromised salamanders are sent to specialist forgers taken from the most elite blacksmiths on Nocturn who provide bionic limb and organ replacements. Astartes who were “reborn” in this way eventually found a common ground with each other and would go on to form the Chapter taking a well known symbol of rebirth as their sigil, the Phoenix. As the chapter grew in both size and recognition from their parent legion, Vulkan He’stan himself put to work personally chosen machine workers and smiths to create a host of dreadnoughts for the Sons of the Phoenix, as the chapter was already deeply connected to rebirth The Forgefather saw the potential of a heavily armored dreadnaught centric deployment force. As every Son of the Phoenix was once a Salamander, the chapter continues many of the Salamanders traditions whilst adding a number of their own. They employ tactics much alike their Salamander brothers with many flame weapons on the battlefield however it is also common to see multiple dreadnoughts when the Sons engage a battlefield due to the nature of their “recruitment”. In a word the chapter symbolizes “Rebirth”. Their chapter words (commonly heard at induction ceremonies involving ceremonial ashes of fallen brothers), “Baptized in flame, reborn in ash”.
I've been working on an imperial fists successor that specifies on breachers squads and close combat but also un heavy artillery and dreadnought due to a genetic flaw that takes their mobility over time and only the veterans who don't die in battle due to becoming slower and heavier physically get the honour of being the dreadnought as a second chance , due to them being short lived they are seeing as a stubborn and never wanting to retreat but they are all loyal to their chapter master that is inside a relic leviathan dreadnought and has served the imperium for 1500 years , they don't use librarians because burn the witch but they have an unusual number of apothecaries and techmarines, even though they take their liberties they mostly follow the codex Astartes to not bring any unnecessary attention to them.
@@KillerOrca yeah I was thinking on running it with very heavy units like dreadnoughts and terminators , but I'm waiting for the new terminators and a rework of the assault terminators to be sold separately
I'm currently working on a chapter called "Keepers Of The Garden" ultramarine/salamanders successor chapter formed to deal with tyranids, who have a lot of dreadnaughts and are closely tied with my custom knight house "house Ironwood", the short story is they guard ironwood oasis forests on their home world and have grey knight inspired recruitment processes without the psychic stuff, they have dirtied white armor with blue accents and silver trims.
Creating your own chapter is a fun experiance, had an idea since I got into the setting around 2007, as I went got into the lore it helped me wedge them in the setting. Got me one of them "Ultramarines" successors with a name of what they are about SO on the nose, no one would actually guess it. (And yes, I did forget who the bad guys in Harry potter were) The Death Eaters, a mix of surviving loyalist Death Guard and World Eaters who use their combined specialities for a classical Hammer and Anvil style tactics, who pick from the nearby hive world gangers and shape them into something more. These guys got started simply from coming up with special characters like the Chapter Champion and Chapter Master and whatnot.
I ended up founding a loyalist subsect of Thousand Sons who remained loyal to the Imperium during/after the heresy. They firmly believe that the Space Wolves attacked Prospero due to the influence of Chaos and Horus, and that they are traitors who have fooled the Imperium into believing they're loyal. The Lions of Prospero know better, and have vowed that someday, they will have vengeance for their actions on Prospero. They also believe that Magnus was entirely unfit to lead them any longer, having let his legion be slaughtered on the planet's surface, and believe that no singular man should have full control over them. They have taken residence upon a small knight homeworld and formed a symbiotic relationship with them. The chapter has little in the way of armored support of any kind, so the knights fill in for them where they can. Each sergeant and above is the ruler of a plot of land on their new homeworld, and they are organized in a medieval heirarchy, ruled over by 3 high ranking officers that form a council. Each councilor leads a specific sect of the chapter, and they make up for each others shortcomings. The chapter is thus split into 3 distinct sections, each autonomous but part of a greater whole: the psychic branch of the chapter, focused on training all battle brothers in the use of their powers, no matter how small, and the support of the other 2 sects. There is the combat branch of the chapter, focused on all things war and battle, taking the front while supported by their more powerful psyker brothers. Then there is the loremaster sect, where the chaplains (loremasters) and techmarines reside, recording data and sagas from battle brothers during and after combat to fill their chapter libraries with the deeds of their greatest heroes, and where they entomb those deemed worthy within a dreadnought chassis to forever lead their brothers in the field. roughly 600 strong, VERY MUCH codex noncompliant.
In canon [three thousands] of Sons under leadership of Sul Kontep escaped Prospero straight under nose of Leman, made a deal with Malcador, fought during Heresy in seige of Chtnoia. Some survived this brutal fighting. So you can theoretically link your chapter with that canon event.
I’ve been working on an Imperial Fists Ultima Founding successor called the Storm Chorus. Their chapter master, Grand Conductor Melodius Trenth, got inspiration from the Sisters of the Sacred Rose during a battle where they fought alongside one another. So, basically, Space Marines who sing
@@dpinoy5642 thanks! I was toying with Composer, Conductor, and other titles, but I landed on Grand Conductor because, come on, once you know it’s there, your can’t not use it
@@frogwithhumanteeth7808 im honestly glad you chose Grand Conductor, because it definitely is the best out of the two you mentioned. Like i'm visualizing the Grand Conductor using a conducting baton (the sticks you see composters/conductors use in orchestras) but it's super ornate/40k-ized so it has golden trim, skulls, etc, and he's using it to make battle formations, rate of fire, and even singing. So when the baton is low/center, it's precise and relatively low rates of fire, but at the (no pun intended) crescendo of the battle, he raises the baton up the sky: and it just becomes a hail of roaring bolter fire, thunderous artillery, and booming singing, kind of like a 40k version of 1812 Overture. (sorry if this is alot, it was just really cool thinking about it)
I was making a custom chapter for a couple of years now. It begins when i ran a couple of d&d games with some sort of OC, that was once a knight. Sudenly after those games i decided, that he had to be coming from a knights order, while at the same time 40k dropped primaris marines. So i started trying to kitbash something that would fit this very raw idea, since i want sure what they were about. In that period of time just for this sake of creating them i read alot of books and wiki, constantly changing them to fit not only my liking, but the universe they are about to be merged into. I repainted and reassembled my models couple of times, but that was worth it. Now they have have both desine i can enjoy and a back story fitting in the 40k world.
@@arcahmwinters70 agree. I made two Sisters of Battle orders and a Eldar Craftworld. Said Eldar Cradtworld is unique in that it’s suffering overpopulation
I should definitely get back to the Chapter I was writing! Ahem The Fireblades appear to be an Iron Hands Successor Chapter, but this is a well kept facade, as they are Emperor's Children successors. They know full well how the legion fell and what could lead to Slaaneshi corruption. As such, they've abandoned the flashy, artistic pursuits of the Legion of old in favor of pious, monasticism. They are very few, numbering around 150-300, due to their constant deployments against their hated, but powerful foe. They are the few who remember the friendship between Ferrus and Fulgrim, so to honor him, they forge Fireblades, power weapons in the style Ferrus's original Fireblade and use them to strike down the forces of Slaanesh. Their swordsmanship is the equal of any Demon or traitor, and their righteous fury can match that of any Blood Angel or Black Templar. They paint their wargear in simple greys, their symbol is an outline of the Aquila, a reminder of what they once had and strive to one day regain. Their Battle Barge, the Prodigal Son, is actually from the crusade era and is equipped with a rather large teleportarum, which the chapters terminator squad uses to great effect. The Fireblades favor Droppod and Terminator assaults, dealing devastating hammerblows to enemy weak points or slicing the head of the snake in one fell sweep. As there are so few of them, each battle brother is a valuable resource and is to be trained and utilized to the highest degree. As such, they are humble enough to know when they must withdraw and take care not to be drawn into wars of attrition; as usual, most chapters see this as cowardice, the Fireblades understand amd ignore such accusations as each marine is a courageous fighter even amongst Astartes. Similar to the Iron Hands, the Fireblades do not have a Chapter Master proper, but have a council, elected from amongst the many Chaplains, who serve the dual purpose of Chaplain and Captains within the chapter. Only those warriors who have proven themselves to be utterly unshakable and skilled are chosen by the council to undergo a Trial in which the marine will display his prowess as a swordsman and must best a Fireblade wielder in combat. Then a new Fireblade will be forged or an older one gifted to them, should the weapon suit them. Fireblades come in different forms depending on the wielder, they are encouraged to pursue and master their own unique styles of combat so that no enemy can exploit any potential similarities; this is their art and their pursuit of perfection. They also prefer very simple names, which are paired with their title, an example being their Head Chaplain/ closest man to a Chapter Master, Paul. Their most recent and greatest feat was their purging of a powerful Slaaneshi cult, who managed to summon forth the Keeper of Secrets, Fuwalafuwaloo. The chapter sweeped through the heretics, allowing Head Chaplain Paul and Councilman Chaplain Lucas to face the Greater Demon. The fight was a blur of violet and fire, but together, the chaplains banished the demon and in their fervour, permanently MAIMED the Keeper with holy fire, severing its lower right arm, for which it vowed revenge. However, Chaplain Paul nearly succumbed to his wounds, but was interred to a dreadnought. Chaplain Lucas's left leg was torn to shreds and his left eye was put out, though at the very least he now had the Iron Hands aesthetic. With Paul's blessing and that of the Council, Lucas was elevated to Head Chaplain and continues to serve as such in the Era Indomitus. The Fireblades long for the day that they no longer have to hide their heritage, where they can where the Aquila with pride once more and show everyone they are not sons of the traitor Fulgrim, they are The Emperor's Children! 🗡️ 🔥
I started working on my chapter a few weeks ago. They are called the Black Fyrd (Based it off the Old Kingdom of Wessex, basically an English inspired Chapter) They were founded after many of the Imperial Worlds had been consumed by the Tyranid scourge. They are made up of recruits that have miraculously survived the Tyranids, so they have a particular dislike for the spidey boys. For this reason they were mostly sent to combat the Tyranids on worlds that can or cannot be salvaged. So their fighting style is more on defense and speed at the exact same time. So I would think they used heavily modified Javelin Attack Speeders or something. I'm still working out some details but that's what I have for the moment.
I am a Tax Accountant (yes I love Ultramarines), so I am working on a chapter called The Auditors who go around the Imperium auditing the Imperial Tithe of each world making sure they are in compliance with what the Imperium asks of them. They have green shoulder pauldrons with the Excel logo as their heraldry and white armor with little black vertical and horizontal lines to make it look like a spreadsheet. Their words are “Death and Taxes”, people call them the Pencil Butchers (instead of Pencil Pushers), their flagship is called The Quickbook, and their fortress monastery is the current IRS Headquarters Building in Washington DC floating around space on a giant rock.
I've been working, since my beginning during 4th edition, on a chapter from an unknown founding, from an unknown geneseed, called the Doom Knights. Initially posted to protect an ancient relic, they are now a ship based chapter, having had to exterminatus their own homeworld, and in the urgency about it, lost not only most of their archives, but also of their librarius as a whole, and nearly all their veterans. The nearly twenty years of play had them paying a heavy tribute to the protection of the imperial citizens, earning them the respect of some well known chapters, such as the Salamanders and the Blood Angels, but they still harbour a deep resentment against the Dark Angels, whose interference looking for some fallen that weren't even there pushed their home defense from possible to needing an exterminatus. For a time, they had so much heavy wounded marines that they put dreadnought sarcophagus into every kind of vehicle present in their armory, as they simply had no more Dreadnought chassis When the primaris reinforcements came along, the chapter was at around half a complete strength, with a mere three experienced captains, and a specialisation again Marines and equivalents...
I'm working on a salamanders successor chapter called the Phoenix Talons. Like the salamanders, they are very fire based and have a close relationship to civilians. They are specialized in retaking lost ground and lost planets, as well as extracting and evacuating civilians in the middle of war zones
I'm currently writing up the backstory on my Chapter Master, Sariel, as he is lost in the warp following the destruction of caliban. He lands on an unknown world in the Eye and slowly finds more and more of his lost brothers and vowing to protect a population of humans on that world. They face mainly demons and orks. It's my headcannon that Zahariel survived and was lost in the warp. He and Sariel found the Blades of Caliban, I'm mostly going off the armies my friends are building since we eventually will play a narrative campaign that would be perfect.
@DABOSSEMPRAH pretty similar not gonna lie. Main difference is they end up getting back to the Imperium proper by amassing a small fleet and ping ponging between planets, searching for human life. Kinda going for a "continuation of the great crusade" since my 2 friends that recently started 40k along with me are playing orks and either Tyranids, Chaos Demons or Plauge Marines and we wanna start a crusade campaign and I thought being in the Eye would lend to that pretty well
I’ve pretty much created my custom chapter. All I need to do is write some books about them. The Uniters are an Iron Warriors successor chapter that rebelled against Perturabo during the Horus Heresy, and were rewarded by Guilliman with the ability to rebrand themselves and create their own chapter. They are still stern and unrelenting like their Iron Warrior kin, but they are different from their traitor kin because they have a heart under their hard exterior. Where the 4th Legion are Iron Within and Iron Without, the Uniters have a bronze exterior, and a burning heart underneath. They lead their own civilization in a giant rock made of the largest piece of their blown up homeworld. And in this station, the marines lead their human population with hard, yet fair work. And unlike most Imperial worlds, the work is bearable, and the workers are allowed rest and meals after a limited amount of work hours. The Uniters’ training is the most painful training regiment in the Imperium, even more so than the Imperial Fists, but thanks to it, their bodies are naturally tougher, and they can shrug off pain that would even make an Ultramarine scream. The Uniters also have human soldiers fighting alongside them. Guardsmen who’s commanders were inept or overzealous, and deserved to be left to the enemy. Or people who want to help defend the home that freed them from the slavery of Imperial religion. The Uniters HATE the Imperial Creed, and are actively hunted by the Inquisition and Imperial church for it. They have partnerships with other chapters such as the Salamanders, Blood Angels, Lamenters, Crimson Fists, and a few Ultramarines. But are known foes against the Flesh Tearers, Marines Malevolent, Black Templars, Minotaurs, Iron Hands, Dark Angels, and more. They excel at fighting most xenos, and certain Chaos forces, but struggle against Harlequins, Craftworld Eldar, major Tyranid hive fleets, and Necrons. For Chaos, they have trouble against the Iron Warriors, Thousand Sons, Word Bearers, and many daemons. They survived this long without Imperial wargear or Mechanicus assistance because they have a stable trading relationship with the Tau. For civilians, soldiers, and Imperial intelligence, the Tau provided the Uniters with food, weapons, and advanced technology to keep their station up and running, and their soldiers/marines well armed.
I've already had been working on an army of space marines called the Blood Thorns. Their armor color is mainly white to signify purity, blood red for their head, hands and wrists, and feet so as to give tribute to the founder (wink wink), some violet on their pauldrons, knee guards, booster packs, and hips to signify royalty, and gold signants across the breastplate. The Blood Thorns are an off-shoot of loyalist Word Bearers who managed to elude being slain, but had stranded themselves on a remote death world. A regiment of disgraced Word Bearers were in the middle of fending off extremely hostile fauna before a pillar of fire abruptly struck the ground and a man wrapped in light commanded the attacking fauna to become pacified. Then another man, wrapped in light greater than the former, soon both addressed the 2,000 space marines. Several days were spent listening to these two divine beings who imparted fellowship, companionship, and much more. Taking the chance to redeem their disgraced chapter and be a vanguard loyal to humanity, the 2,000 astartes reformed into the Blood Thorns, primarily consisting of chaplains, priests, and exorcists. Asmokim was the first to go through ordinances shared by and performed by the two divine personages, becoming the chapter-master of the Blood Thorns. Sigoth was the second to have partook of these ordinances and was made into Asmokim's 2nd in command. Both were noble hearts and had extreme ferver, but Sigoth's ferver was more tempered which allowed Asmokim to remain grounded close to reason. Many within their ranks are focused on redeeming the Word Bearers, while the other part wishes to defend humanity. Since all 2,000 astartes had received these blessing and ordinances, each member has become extremely resistant to the corruptions of the Ruinous Powers, and even the Destroyer greater than even them. They've also tamed the death world, and called it Antipus Prime, with the capitol called Zarahem being founded where the meeting took place. Through the next thousands of years, The Blood Thorns had been seeking out particular artifacts they were instructed through revelations, currently having possession several items, weapons, and artifacts of biblical importance. ;)
that close up of Angron smiling is really terrifying man edit here is a "chapter" idea: what if imperium had multiple loyalist Fabius Bile that expermients with genetics? imagine a chapter consisting of all chapter geneseed including the traitor geneseed before they turned traitor where they keep it as a secret and the only ones that dont have mixed geneseed are apothecaries and chaplains that usually take business face to face with imperial agents in order to avoid some "missunderstandings". Officially they will have a half chapter of pure singular geneseed but in reality they are more than a thousand. As we know the black dragons have their skin made out of adamantium and blood angels have red thirst, now add also some butcher nails to a marine and you got the angriest bloodthirsty hardened warrior humanity has ever had but of course with such experiments things dont always go correct which is why they always try to have 1 or 2 companies made out of pure geneseed to avoid further investigations from mechanicus and inquisition. I imagine their armour grey with their shoulderpad colours representing their speciallity such as red for the cocktail mix i mentioned above, blue for ambush (night lords, space sharks, blood ravens and white scars mix), green/camo for stealth (raven guard, blood ravens and raptors mix), purple for techmarines/vehicle secialists (iron hands, iron warriors, slamanders and alpha legion mix) and so on but the commanders have grey shoulders because they have reached the perfect balance of each geneseed within their bodies and is very rare to reach. The flaw with the chapter is not that they think they are perfect but they are above their other brothers and think they are pathetic along with chaos so they are cocky and stubborn so wont accept help from others nor will they offer none. Besides they will always make sure nobody will witness what they truly are. BTW they steal chapter geneseed however they can and stay hidden when it happens so they really dont wanna be noticed among others. Since they think of themselves above astartes they hunt everything including imperials if they stand in the way. there are chapter records of who the founding primarch is but with this much geneseed basically every primarch is involved, but some within the chapter believe that one of the missing primarchs are their original creator.
I've had a home brew chapter that has lasted me for years. I present "The Stillborn" They are sons of horus successors that have been part of the cursed founding. Payne's grey with silver and gold accents. They gained their name from the high failure rate of implantation. Their chapter lord "Xatesh" at the time of the 42nd millennium is newly raised after the death of their last chapter master. Following the death of his master Xatesh collected his skull and cast it in gold, taking a tradition that was long forgotten by the legions. Brothers of the chapter do not take pride in the slaying of enemies of the imperium but the preservation of their brothers. Each skull cast hold a friend departed, a brother lost. In this instance, they highly value dreadnoughts as a way to preserve life but in fighting in the chapter has caused them to both honour and forsake them. Due to this, the chapter held the rank of mortifactor which has not seen the light of day since the marines of old. The Lord Xatesh lives his second life in an ancient suit of contemptor dreadnoughts armour. Because of this, a renegade chaplain who saw the elevation as an affront to the preservation of their brothers, took a company of still-born to find spiritual guidance. Instead they ancient xenos tech which corrupted their minds. They saw the preservation of life as a sign of a futile battle. Instead they sought to explore death. This company followed on the steps of the renegade marines. Finding out how to control the passing on of their brothers. Xatesh and his brothers sought to convince them but still the company of the dead was seen as an insult. Not because it was to preserve life but because they would not die. Chapter tactics include: dreadnoughts, heavy support and use of mortifactors (tech marines in game).
My successor Chapter is named The Sons of the Void Beast. They don't come from a founding but from the initiative of a single Astral Claws apothecary. Aran Kareq was an apothecary for the Astral Claws Chapter since even before Lufgt Huron because a full fledged battle brother. So seeing the horrendous experiments that were carried out in secret with the Holy Geneseed, he boarded and stole one of many small pirate vessels with an stach of what he believed to be Salamanders geneseeds, trusting that tge noble chapter would protect him in gratitude for taking it back. However, the ship would become lost in the warp and be spat out on top of a feral planet. On this planet, a psycker with the gift of foresight would help the apothecary to turn the feral population into an army with at least an sliver of a chance of stopping the onslaught of the strange xenos slowly taking over the the planet. It would only be after the death of his mortal friend that the apothecary would accept his pleadings, finally using the geneseeds he had stored. Only to find out that they belonged to the Carcharodons. Enraged, he decided to try and build a warband out of the savages he was left alone with, only to be stopped by one of the neophytes who could convince his brothers to turn against their master. Now, led by that Neophyte, by the bastard son of that same Psyker that started it all; they have grown to a chapter of no less than 200 battle brothers, attempting to grow powerful enough to survive a meeting with their genesires.
I've been working on a small army I named The Bastards of Ultramar, not exactly a successor chapter or army but rather a gaggle of Ultramarine chapters that I thought would consolidate their forces together due to being separated from Gulliman during the indomitus Crusade after the Primarch's resurrection. Iron Hounds, Praetors of Orpheus, and a few others that lost many of their brothers that dot the army. Tactics are vast between them and the commanders often argue with the right approach to the many situations before them. Damocles, captain of Iron hounds, believes in taking the board and knocking the enemy down fast and hard. Marius, captain of the Praetors of Orpheus, believes in a more tactical approach and defending key points of interest. Dalton, the Recently promoted captain of the Patriarchs of Ulixis, is one to use strong points and holdouts to draw the enemies in to eat a hail of bolter fire. All round there is room for hilarity, and for me is a fun way to play a table top army.
I have been working on an ultramarines chapter. I base them on the brotherhood of steel from the fallout universe, where their mission is to retrieve and preserve technology and knowledge, which generates a certain rivalry with the machanicus and suspicion with the inquisition. whether by gene or the culture they cultivate, they are more curious and inquisitive than most space marines.
I'm thinking of making a white scars successor chapter who's geneseed has given them higher than average (for astartes even) resistance to G forces, which they use to fly their combat aircraft as fiercely as they can. their flaw is that they do not take well to downtime, growing dangerously restless, leading them to pursue prolonged tours of action, without taking the time to take care of themselves or their wargear.
Alright this will be quite a tad scattershot. The Shattered Ravens are a 2nd Founding chapter that hail from the 19th. They’re initial marines are those who worked within the Shattered Legions and thus picked up traits from their cousin legions. They maintain the Raven Guards typical guerrilla warfare tactics, but with many specialized units. These units are lead by sergeants that have served tours with other chapters such as the Raven Guard, Salamanders, and Iron Hands. This is to honor those that fought at Istvan. Such examples of traits they take from their cousin chapters are that they tend to prioritize civilian life highly though not quite to the same extent as the Salamanders. They also tend to have most if not all their tech Marines serve extended tours with the Iron Hands to ensure their skills are trained to their highest standards. A notable relationships they have in the wider Imperium include a friendship with the Adeptas Sororitas of the Shrine World Fury 16, the Order of the Iron Eagle. The Captain of the 2nd Company, Captain Delgore in fact even knew their Patron Saint and fought alongside them against invading Orks of the Bad Moons. Ever since they’d always have an agreement to come to the Sisters aid if ever they needed. Even though they were a 2nd founding chapter there are still rumors that they’re gene seed may not be 100% Raven Guard as the mechanicist who monitor the Shattered Ravens’ gene seed from time to time find discrepancies. Their outward appearances do indeed match with typical Raven Guard traits such as pale skin and pitch black eyes, but an odd occurrence pops up occasionally where some marines retain an ability to spit acid. Though this may not be too irregular for other chapters the Raven Guard and their successors typically lack this ability, and with the arrival of their Primaris reinforcements this suspicion has grown even more so as the inquisition has now started to notice that in particular the 8th company of the Shattered Ravens, which is comprised of only Primaris acted more like that of the Night Lords of old. Preferring to terrorize and maim their opponents with chain weapons. There is even a higher percentage of Reiver squads and Assault Intercessors among the 8th Company to the point they have been dubbed the Night Raptors. The 2nd Company on the other hand is much more typical of an Astartes force comprising of usual Tactical, Assault, and Devastators. Captain Delgore himself tends to lead with his Tactical squads luring the enemy in and his Devastator and Assault squads wiping out the foe.
I’m working on my homebrew chapter over the past 3 years: the Knights of Reoentance. Their chapter culture i based off pre Colonial Philippines. There’s many more lore but there’s still much more I want to smooth out after watching this video
I’m working on a he chapter of unknown origin called the 11th Sons (take a wild guess why) loosely based off the Viet Cong and also kind of the Luna Wolves. They like grav tanks, bikes, and jet packs.
I’m working on a blood angels successor chapter which takes inspiration from Vlad the Impaler ( Real life Dracula ). They are extremely ferocious and imaple their greatest foe at the end of each battle, yet very noble. They usually use shock assault jump pack units, and their flaw is that their gene seed mutated to make them require more blood to drink, and they fall to the black rage more easily. Their sanguinary priests bless the spears with which they impale their enemies. They were created as a response to a giant ork waaagh on a key imperial world. They only take the most ferocious warriors into their chapter.
So more recently I’ve just basically been making loyalist traitor marines, with almost the same color scheme and slightly different emblem, but one idea I’ve been working on for a while now is the idea of a Black Templar crusader fleet that has been doing its own thing for so long that they have significant differences with the main chapter. For one this Crusader fleet still identify as Black Templars, but they also accept the name the citizens of the sector they inhabit call them, the “Teutonic Templars”. They are also more lenient on psykers and mutants, but to be clear, this is in part because due to some warp shenanigans they have a higher chance of awakening psyker powers then other sons of Dorn. Obviously they still don’t believe in using psychic powers, so they instead focus on meditation and prayer to keep them in check, and after that worked they began to teach budding psykers they found this as well, so that they can better keep their powers in check. The only ones allowed to use psychic powers are the Lord Marshal (chapter master in effect but technically Helbrecht is still their chapter master) and the High Chaplain, and even then only in very specific situations. Speaking of Chaplains, normally a Judicar is a Chaplain in training, but the Teutonic Templars have a path where one can be a Judicar as a full time role. These Judicar are allowed to speak but only in the language of the “His People” which generally only the crusading fleet speak. The language is actually Hebrew, and that gets into probably the most heretical part of them. They still worship the Emperor, but not as a god, but as a prophet, who would bring about a new age where humanity could rejoice in the light of the one true god, The Holy Trinity. That’s right, they found a book that could harm daemons just from touching it, so they saw it as holy. Lo and behold, it was a Bible, and they adopted it as their own faith. Now they don’t have any specific denomination they follow, but I’d say they are closest to being Protestant, as they don’t really like the bombastity of the eclesiarchy and believe them to be nothing but cowards and hypocrites. There’s a bit more but I think I typed enough for today lol, sorry about all that, but if you are anyone else is reading this, thank you for reading!
I'm a sucker for the spartan aesthetic so I obviously swerved into minotaurs for my space marine KT. The fact you have so many different options for 3rd party bits you can buy probably helped. As for their lore, at first it kinda got me by surprise as I didn't expect them to be so hated by the community, but now I love their position as that one chapter that just executes the worst and most unpleasant orders without questioning it for a second, it fits what they paint the imperium to be, I feel like too many morally good chapters around would make the imperium feel too righteous.
Got into 40K around a year ago after rewatching the Astartes animation, this video honestly covers a lot of the stuff I needed to know about, hope this video helps other people getting into Warhammer
I'm currently working on improving my chapter called The Techno Hounds. With the information that I can provide, they are an Iron Hands successor chapter hailing from the Curse Founding and their gene curse, the flesh madness, causing them to kill anyone, even themselves, that bears flesh in a combination of anger and fear. Due to this, it takes longer for the chapter to go back to full strength after each battle. However, an odd solution that worked out for them was the combination of receiving additional implants and taking the worship of the Machine God. Because of this, they have a strong relationship with the Mechanicus. During the Ultima Founding, the Techno Hounds are effectively cured of their gene curse, though they still go through their creditors to replace their flesh with implants to appease the Machine God and are currently on a crusade to recover lost STCs.
I have an Ultima founding successor of Russ, the Blood Howlers. They specialize in assault tactics, and love the use of Wulfen, making them focus a lot on having more Wolf Priests in the chain of command. They see the Wulfen Curse as a test from the Emperor and Leman Russ to utilize their flaw to best serve the Imperium, and coincidentally, a good chunk of the chapter happens to struggle with it, with one of the companies being made almost entirely out of Wulfen. Due to their liking of Wulfen, they're usually sent out to battles expected to be slaughters for both sides, practically used like attack dogs. This usually leads to the chapter having a lower number of men, and regularly being looked over in regards to being supplied with wargear like vehicles. Chapter Master Balgruuf Dragonbane is an older marine, and has been giving into the Wulfen pretty often during battles. His Captains/Jarls aren't exactly fond of it, and are trying to convince him to pass the mantle to someone with a more sound mind.
Best I've seen was the Emperor's Nightmare: Raven guard descendants who thanks to a mutation in the Catalepsean Node, either stay awake(like fully awake no half sleep like they normally do) for months or years at a time, or fall asleep and cannot be woken for just as long. Sounds mundane until you realize what sleep deprivation does to you. Imagine that in a space marine.
Starting the build on my second chapter this weekend after over two months of writing about them. The Ever Implacable Rougarous, Ultraboys successors, trying to match their armor to the color of palmetto leaves and wisteria blossoms. Cajun cowpunks with A&M degrees. Their chapter master was my way of decompressing from my first construction season with seniority, feels too young and too poorly equipped but takes an absolute beating while exceeding all expectations. They were rushed into combat early when the Tyranids attacked the galactic east, in the first battle the guard broke and their chapter command and most of their veterans were eaten. This left them under the leadership of a lieutenant who had just transferred in from another ultramarine successor as the chapter master to about two dozen hardened survivors and another hundred soon to be ready for combat. Currently they're assisting in the evacuation of an unpopular Mechanicus cult from a world ravaged by Drukhari raiders. Eventually both are going to claim a world and it's moon in a system close enough to my 9th edition homebrew that their stories intersect, they're very different and that's fun.
Did the same with Steel Legion at the time of the GW 3rd war for Armageddon Campaign. Instead of being raised on Armageddon my regiment was from Voss, a forgeworld nearby te Armageddon subsector. After almost 20 years I'm still adding vehicles and miniatures with second hand metal miniatures bought on ebay, vinted etc. some russian recast for kit bashing since GW never made therms, flamers or autocannon as heavy guns, it was heavily insipired by the Wehrmacht and sepcifically the 21st panzer division stationed in Normandy in '44, the "Rommel Circus" made up of converted looted vehicles and with a lot of field modifications. Mine was made of rhinos converted to be used as Chimera, leman russ with 1/32 tank turrets, used the whole imperial armour line of vehicles (salamander scout&command, trojans, tank hunter, conqueror turrets for Leman Russ even a Hyena wheeled vehicle from white dwarf of the late '80s as command vehicle" . I wrote pages of background charged on a myspace page along with pictures, changed a couple of times the color scheme of both vehicles and uniforms. Used a NATO style joint military symbols to create the regimental structure. More hobbist than gamer I loved the "pure" lore of early and mid WH40K. Right now I feel no shame in switching to recast, proxy STL and so on since GW doesn't give a shit about coherent lore and came out with primaris and forgetting armies that where pillars of the game and universe. Cadians and Krieg are great, Catachans really need to be hauled because are really '90s, but you can't just cut out regiment from Valhalla, Tallarn, Steel Legion even Elysian and the weird/strange looking Mordians. I understand the difficulties and costs of producing lines of miniatures that are a niche. But at least update rules and let older players to use decade old armies that give flavor to the game.
I have a UM successor chapter that started as the Silver Templars at the beginning of 9th edition but i felt like they lacked personality a little so i came to change them into Space Wolves Successors and renamed them the Silver Fangs. Their color scheme was a darkish gunmetal silver with Yellow and black shoulder and gold accent with red eyes. Like their parent chapter, they love getting into melee and shredding everything in their path although they used heavier equipment. They are a big fan of mixing units with lightning claws, Mastercrafted Power Swords and Thunder Hammers making them able to destroy light and heavy infantry as needed. They also like storm shields a lot, they often depart with them to combat no matter the situation. Most of the army is heavy infantry with Wolf Guard terminators, BladeGuards, Wolf Guard with jetpacks supported by melta rifles and long fangs with lascannons and Thunderwolves cavalry flanking. They started they story as a full Primaris chapter and after fighting some orks and losing badly due to their lack of training and experience against the savage greenskins, they were rescued by a company of Space Wolves. Seeing how poorly equipped the Silver Fangs were at the beginning and how much more training they needed, a part of the Space Wolves Company veterans and Wolf Guards took them under their wings and made them true sons of Russ. After 2 millennia and the blessing of the Grimnar himself, the Silver Fangs, accompanied by their veteran detachment, set for the stars towards Iritsium III, an imperial planet under siege by Chaos Space Marines warband. One of the SF, who showed great promise and leadership during the siege, managed to kill, in duel, the self proclaimed king of the sector of Iritsium, the Chaos Space Marine Lord "Avraks" of the Burning Skulls traitor Chapter warband, and led his fellow BladeGuards against the what was left of the leadership of the traitors. The Wolf Guard veterans nicknamed him Elric "Kingslayer" and eventually became the Chapter Master of the Silver Fangs. After fighting Chaos around and even some Harleyquinns (of which, he barely made it out alive), A new crusade by Lord Guilliman (10th edition) was called and he switched his BladeGuard armor for a new Terminator armor and a Frost Thunder Hammer but decided to keep his Relic Bladeguard shield and Helmet as they saved his life multiple times. All of this happen during many many 9th edition tabletop games and I write more and more of the Silver Fang's stories as I play more and more of 10th. It's my way to see how my successor chapter lives and fight for me on the tabletop.
Only just started the hobby last year but immedietly decided to go with my own style paintjob. And from there kinda came up with stuff on the fly for my newly dubbed Renegade Chapter. The Cockatrices! General gist was head librarian and discovered (and thusly got corrupted by) a chaos artifact. Lost his legs, earned the title "The Legless" after my cat shattered his bottom half. He now has ghostly looking forgefiend tentacles as limbs! From there he murdered the chapter master, took his place at the head yadda yadda. Their shtick is petrifcatiion. All members have stone skin and they turn all their cultists into living statues to use as cannon fodder. And their weapons of course, petrify. Had all kinds of stories formed from my local store thanks to just playing, my favorite being the single cultist who destroyed an Eldar Titan.
Im working on a Night Lords successor chapter that flaw is that they can feel fear, unlike other space marine chapters. They were created to deal with a space rat infestation on some planet and dress up for the most part like Ultramarines (working closely with them and claiming they are a successor to them instead of the Night Lords) with the exception of their shoulder pads which are a darker Night Lords blue.
At first my custom chapter was ultramarines colour, with purple shoulderpads and lower right leg. They were really dark and nothing stood out. So i made the shoulderpads a very light grey. Much better. Making some testmodels really helps!
My successor chapter are going to combine both the black templars and Imperial Fists, heavily leaning into the Holy Roman Empire and tuetonic knights theme, while making use of librarians. I think I want them to be based on a fortress world guarding the eye of terror, now cicatrix maledictum, with a homeworld but also fleet based, the main chapter staying homebound whereas the rest are crusading.
I’m working on a 19th founding with a mix of iron warriors and blood angels gene seed. They both work in chaos and unity together, they are more aggressive when it comes to combat and when the black rage is active it gets worse, but when normal the tactician comes out from the iron warriors side.
My own personal chapter is some loyalist World Eaters/ Luna wolves that managed to escape the istvan 3 massacre. They have been keeping an extremely low profile since the end of the scouring. They are a fleet based chapter thats semi flexible, but perfers ambush tactics. They have 3 strike cruisers and some smaller escorts. They use the old world eater paint scheme but with a cresent moon. They are currently in imperium secundus. And that's what I got.
i'm quite a newcomer to the hobby proper, but i've been engaged with the setting for a long while i've got a whole star system in the imperium nihilus with a bunch of homebrewed armies (a cohort of the farsight enclaves searching for a piece of archeotech, an ork warband hurled at the system through a warp portal that are obsessed with 'da big one' which is a planet sized orbital railgun dreamed up by their insane warboss, et cetera), but the centerpiece is my chapter the covenant (the name parallel to that organization on colchis is intentional), white scars successors who have diverged from their other brother chapters, inheriting a fierce loyalty to their own homeworld rather than chogoris, fracturing their relationship with their primogenitors skipping a lot of details that are irrelevant here, the main story beat is that almost all of the chapter's firstborn were lost in the warp, and the chapter was only saved by the reinforcements from the indomitus crusade. their new and current chapter master was a captain of the greyshields, and when he and his ~400 greyshield brothers were sent to the covenant's homeworld, they found the chapter was missing its entire command cadre and barely had any forces left, so he was thrust into the role of chapter master and tasked with rebuilding the chapter the firstborn that were lost, which included basically the entire command structure, would become my renegade warband, cursed by warp entities to be remade in the warp each time they die, slowly losing their minds as they kill and die over and over, most of their soldiers utterly broken psychologically and so the renewed covenant search for their lost, not knowing the fate of those who were lost there's a lot of narrative juiciness i love in this chapter
I have been working on a chapter called the 'Umbral Coyotes', a 19th Founding chapter belonging to the Vostok Sector. Adept at Urban and Tactical warfare, they are comfortable leading and fighting alongside guardsmen and having been fighting primarily Chaos and Drukhari forces on their borders. Some members have done a stint on the Deathwatch, and others have been tasked to fight other forces across the galaxy, but primarily their specialty is Chaos and Renegades. Currently have them as White Scars stock, but I'm undecided on that, as they are more friendly and caring about the humans and even sanctioned abhumans in the galaxy. By the time of the Ultima Founding their forces were dwindling low due to the proximity of their home sector and neighboring sectors to the Cicitrix Maleditcum, and are slowly recovering thanks to the Primaris Marines. Kinda working out the kinks though just dunno where to post the whole bit when done!
I currently have a loyalist Sons of Horus Successor Chapter. The idea was during the GC a company of SoH went out on compliance only to, on the way to the muster as Istvann-3, they get lost in the Warp. The reason they’re lost is because of the Ruinstorm which causes them to lose the Astronomicon and get lost in the Warp. Only for, after a year later, to finally find the Light of the Astronomicon again. Emerging in the 42 millennium.
Ive had an idea of a successor chapter of the Luna Wolves. The Devil Dogs. While out on assignment, they receive word of Horus' wounding on Davin. In their desperation to reunite with their brothers, they are lost in the Warp, only re-emerging in Realspace around 100 years ago. Learning of their father's betrayal and death, they pledge themselves to wiping out as many traitor marines as they can, in hopes of finding redemption before their inevitable end.
Another tip is what is there home world like? You can tell a lot about a chapter based on where they get their recruits Example: my chapter the Night cobras control the world of Doisagg a former planet wide junkyard now overgrown into a dense jungle of monsters. The planet has an effect that hampers technology from working. This means that the planet has lots of technology buried under deep jungles. The marines often use local monsters for mounts to hunt for tech. Outriders riding dinosaurs and most of the chapter preferring lighter armor. However the tech when it does work allows them to build superior dreadnoughts from scrap.Thus the planet combines both their dual natures of recon forces and melee dreadnoughts.
I’m working on a Night Lord successor called the Oblivion Heralds, founded in M38 by defectors from multiple chaos legions who through the bloated bureaucracy of the imperium managed to get recognized as Dark Angels successors and submitted their founder’s geneseed to be replicated by the Adeptus Mechanicus. All the living battle brothers are therefore from diluted Night Lord stock, but they have 2 dreadnoughts, one was once a World Eater, the other was a Thousand Son. They are entirely fleet based, they never deploy in surface wars and have no vehicles other than their dreadnoughts
Ive been workinng on a Space shark variation called the "iron tide" They garrison the ocean forge world of Abyssius (my main army is Admech). In exchange for protecting the forgeworld and deepsea mines from frequent tyranid and chaos attacks. the mechanicus and Cawl reinforce the Iron tide with primaris marines and new ships and vehicles from the orbital dockyards. The will specialize in ariel assault, stealth and close combat.
Black watch. Dark angels second founding who were originally stationed as a defensive force near caliban to ward the eye of terror. They racked up a reputation for being unbreakable and became known as the lions demon hunters. When the Horus heresy started they attempted to rejoin the dark angels fleet and respond to Tera but were interrupted en route, getting trapped in a space hulk. After several thousand years trapped and constantly fighting against xenos and chaos demons. They were freed. A blood angels chapter freed them in 37500 days at that time they had dropped to only 4 companies, although those four companies are veterans all and incredibly adept at close combat and boarding action, graduating to veteran companies and deathwing as the chapters core, they continue to serve under the command of watch master xandriel lorn, slowly rebuiling their numbers through the addition of the new primaris. They suffer at longer ranges and vehicle warfare having been off the larger scale fields for so long. But they continue to be devoted followers of the lion and the god emperor.
I started working on the grozny devils a few days ago. I based them on the chechen separatist due to the fact that I like reading about stuff that happened in the 90s
I’ve been putting together a Cursed Founding chapter: Astrogatorinae or Space Crocs. They are a hybrid of Night Lords and Sallies. Some crazy tech priest thought he could make the perfect balance
I have an idea for an Iron Hands successor chapter. Unlike the Iron Hands who despise the flesh, they really love their flesh. Even their Techmarines refuse to turn their bodies into machines. They specialise in Psychological warfare and heavy assaults. The mechanicus also have a love hate relationship with this chapter, you know because "The flesh is weak" and these guys love their flesh so much. However i dont have an idea for the chapters name and the color scheme for it.
I've got to admit. It's way easier for me to make up a Guardsmen regiment than a Space Marine chapter. With the Guard you can start from the scratch, but with the Space Marines I'm already struggling with the legion of origin (and I don't want it stemming from an unknown legion)
I've got my own little Salamanders successors called the Platinum Dragons. In the 35th Millenium, the Platinum Dragons were founded on the second planet in a system dubbed Fafnir, chosen for its similar environment to Nocturne. A century or two after establishing their chapter monastery, the system was obscured in a warp storm that put them in a temporal stasis for around six millennia. Closely monitored, they were welcomed back into the Imperium Sanctis upon the storm's dissipation in the 41st millenium. Thanks to the system's relatively close proximity to Holy Terra, they were chosen among the first to cross the Rubicon Primaris once the tests were complete, with all but their 7th company making the conversion. The chapter's centurion squads were dispersed through the other 6 companies, with the 7th becoming a Scout Company for trainees.
My Homemade Chapter is actually a fan made Legion known as the 20th Legion, the Inheritors Of Thunder. Cancer ridden Giants, even amongst Their own Astartes brethren, dying in mass droves they were on the brink of being deatroyed until the Thunder Warriors stepped in. The 20 Thunder Warrior Primarchs Bestowing them with their great idealsz forces and culture. With this aid they were attached to the 2nd Legion and became powerhouses of raw unbridled Front Line shock tactics, with an additional high support value. Having immense respect and honor for their older, and venerate their Entomed brother's. The Venerable Elders, Dreadnoughts.
Currently I'm working on a Ravenguard- space wolf chineric chapter that deploy and act only to hunt and seek out the biggest foes and most valuable of prey. Their chapter master was a wolfguard who was preserved in ice by a tzeench daemon in 32k and only thawing out during the Current millennium. On the battlefield they utilise terror and steath tactics in tandem, a perfect example of this was when they fought an army of traitor guard and instead of fighting them head on, entire regiments would disappear in the jungles of Ceruli IV. Their main weakness is tunnel vision, if they have a target they will throw hyper focus that target on the battlefield, only killing what gets in their way. The issue is that they're often so hard to detect that it requires a lot of coordination to set a trap Their design is based upon trophies and ghillie armour, their chief librarian has his power armour entirely covered by skulls and ghillie. Their geneseed is chimeric, which results in a lot of instability within the chapter, normal astarties can push off the affects with the help of an apothecary (usually resulting in some minor transformation such as gaining black feathers or howling). But, if the victim of the decay is a psyker, then the decay feeds off of the latent energy and uses it to "perfect" the victim. Unfortunately in these instances, the decay turns the victim silent and makes them incredibly volatile, librarians that get decayed often succumb to anger and attack everthing in sight, while phasing between visibility.
My custom chapter is a small, obscure chapter called the Black Sappers from the 26th founding. Their chapter homeworld is Terranova Borealis, and they are a Dark Angels successor. The culture of Terranova Borealis is based on my homeland, Newfoundland and Labrador, and the Black Sappers are loosely based on the miners and blue-collar industrial folk of my hometown in western Labrador. Their chapter master was in the Deathwing company, so they primarily use terminator armor. While not training for combat, the Black Sappers are known to aid in the massive open-pit mines in the subarctic mountains of Terranova Borealis. Their name comes from the thick layers of black ore dust that cakes their armor. They are painted in the white, blue and green of the Labrador flag, but they are covered in the dirt and grime of outdoor industrial equipment. Their chapter symbol is an evergreen branch growing out of a skull, representing the neverending cycle of life and death. They have two prominent gene seed mutations. The firs is inherrited from their parent legion, as they are extremely secretive like the Dark Angels. The second one is strange. For some reason, the captains of this chapter grow to a massive size, 25% larger than the average space marine. (Note: This comes from a goof on my part that I've decided to incorporate into the chapter lore. I'm new to 40K, and I 3d printed my army. When I found out that the terminator captain was on a larger base than other terminators, I scaled up the model to fit. Now I have one *absolute unit* of a captain in my army, but I think that's kinda cool.) As for how the larger Imperium sees them, the Black Sappers would rather that they don't. The chapter has taken great pains to make themselves and the planet of Terranova Borealis seem as unremarkable and forgetable as possible within the Imperial beureaucracy. This chapter and the people of their homeworld hold many secrets that would make them pariahs to the Imperium, bringing down the wrath of the Inquisition, the Mechanicus, and nearly every other faction of the Imperium on them if these things were known. Terranova Borealis only has a population of less than 50 million, and the Black Sappers are far from standard codex chapter strength. If the Imperium knew what they were hiding, Terranova Borealis wouldn't stand a chance, and the Black Sappers know it. For them, "Secrecy is Survival."
My successor chapter the Haast Eagles would take heart on an extinct bird from New Zealand. The Haast Eagle, I've still got to work on them but I have a lot of Ideas for them
My homebrew was based on the legion of the dammed color wise but are a salamanders successor but use a mos of salamander and black Templar tactics, and are named the Drake Templars.
I'm working on dark angel successors, the crimson lions. Because all the memes that mad the lion look like tyrian lannister made me want a da chapter that had red and black with gold highlights theme.
I’ve been considering getting into 40k since the tabletop i used to play isn’t supported where I live now. I like the idea of Sergeant Chronus becoming chapter master of his own successor chapter of the ultramarines based around his title of Spear of Macragge. Maybe he was given a chapter to hunt down hive fleets and stop them from devouring worlds using his superior tactics with vehicles and blast weaponry.
Would it be possible for him to be put in charge of an existing chapter that is already assigned to that task that is rebuilding like the Scythes of the Emporer whose battle barge is named after him?
been working on a chimeric 3rd founding chapter descended from a large warband of blackshields from the heresy called The Forgotten Sons, with around 60-65% of the initial geneseed population and much of the root culture traceable to Horus and his legion within their own histories but the story given to the majority of the imperium is them being yet another Ultramarine successor. could write for an age and a half on the lore and whatnot but sharing basic ideas is fun too
Abyssal Wolves: They have a large portion of redeemed chaos and renegade marines and many have scars from when ritual scars and tattoos were removed and thrown into the flames. They have a large portion of exorcists and tend to wear old armor. The helmets and hands of former traitors are painted red and the armor of those not taken from rogue forces are jet black, while traitors use old paint schemes with helmets and gauntlets painted red. Most dreadnaughts are crewed by traitors, and often mortals are often quickly turned into space marines to crew them, if only for a few hours. These men are never given beyond what is strictly necessary to control these, and none, first born included, are allowed to be in suspended animation in them. While culturally they prefer fast moving blitzes they tend to fight defensively to defend Imperial forces and cities.
My current army is a renegade iron hands successor from the 21st founding. Some ad mech basically tried to make a chapter that was specially designed to hunt the dark mechanicus but they got too over zealous and started killing anything in their way after trying to chase a dark mechanicus magos and his army including some sisters of battle and other loyalist space marines. They got declared traitors after that and the iron hands got sent to kill them but the combined chapter fleet killed the iron hands force as they said "fuck it we ball" into the eye of terror to chase the dark mechanicus magos. They basically ran around in circles in the eye of terror until they got into a trap by the magos who gave them chaos covid 19 scrap code virus which made a bunch of the chapter turn to chaos and the rest lobotomized slaves. Now they go around stirring shit for the magos having heavy dark mechanicus support with legions of dreadnoughts and helbrutes
I'm working on a Blood Angels successor chapter named the Sanguinariae Sancti that blends Carthagenian culture and early Jewish mythologies. The Chapter Master is Azrael Hannibal, the Chief Librarian is Hasdrubal Refaeli, and the Chief Apothecary is Maharbal Tsoriel. They tend to use high-speed, high intensity hit and run guerilla warfare with Assault Intercessors supported by psykers to position their prey for the Terminators of First Company to teleport in and smash them. They're based out of New Carthage in Imperium Nihilus right near the edge of the Eye of Terror.
The successor chapters has always been my favorite side of the lore. 1,000 man fleets spread out just fighting off everything they come across. I’ve created my own. The Absolvers. They are MASTERS of Ambush and they’re practically unknown in origin as they barely speak. They’re founding is considered a toss up between Rogal Dorn and Corvus Corax in geneseed. A Primaris exclusively chapter that just showed up one day. Gulliman himself doesn’t seem to know where they come as chaos machinations caused Cawl to lose a few reinforcement ships. Very stoic and Calm. The Absolvers have a seige and stealth style of combat. Heavy ordinance coupled with ambush and stealth tactics using long and medium ranges to cut down the foe when they’re least expecting it. They are fleet based and are constantly setting up ambushes when the imperium is losing. Known for having a whole company of veteran pistol gunslingers that ambush enemy leadership and kill them on the spot with precision. Always jumping in at the last moment to turn things around. Never being seen or heard until they appear. Using lots of tanks and missiles to cause mass damage as they assassinate key targets to completely wipe out the enemy. They have a HUGE affinity for the human race. Guard, sisters, doesn’t matter the Absolvers will jump through hell to save people. Making them akin to Salamanders as well. They are known for using the people they save as replenishment for their ranks. Sisters becoming naval officers and ranked among their chapter. The Absolvers have NO ego nor do they care for listening to the high lords of Terra or the inquisition. Getting into conflicts with them. Given The Absolvers don’t say much. So the Absolvers were infamous for battling the Minotaurs to a stand still as they’ve been sent out to cause damage to the Absolvers per the high lords of Terra not liking the fact that nobody can ever seemingly find the Absolvers each time they do something the high lords don’t like.
This video kinda helped me a bit with what I wanted my chapter to be. I’m currently working on a Ultramarine successor chapter based on the french Grande Armée, with each company being Corp (inside of which are “regiments” of about 30 marines) and ranks inspired by ranks from the French of that time. They, of course, have an affinity for Line battle and Artillery, with regimental XO relaying orders via pre-recorded Fire and Drums that they play from speakers. I still gotta flesh it out a lot and barely started on characters but I think this could be a pretty fun chapter😊. Edit: forgot to mention but they also have regimental and Corp Standarts with golden Eagles on them and it’s a huge deal when one is lost, which also plays into what the chapter is up to right now.
I want to dedicate a chapter to the kids in the Residential Schools in Kamloops here in Canada. Their predecessors will be the White Scars and they will be called "Reconciliators". The Chapter Master will be distinguished by the headdress Today (Sept 30, 2023) is National Reconciliation Day.
My Chapter I have been working on is B. ANGEL successor chapter Created shortly after the Devestation. Consuls Encarmine, or Crimson Consuls.(haven't really finalized the name.) One of the many new chapters organized by Dante and Guilliman after the Devestation of Baal. The Consuls Encarmine are a fleet based chapter that have been ordered by Dante to aid in recovering the disparate and isolated systems of Nihilus. Currently the chapter is separated by a warp storm, the larger part embattled with Traitors from the Word Bearer legion. The war is being led by 2nd Company Captain Carolus, and Guard Colonel Kaspian Leonid of the 44th Jouran Dragoons.
My successor chapter are called the Shadow Dragons and their gene seed are derived from both the Salamander and Raven Guard gene stock. They specialize in covet missions, particularly rescue missions usually of people of great importance.
My Successor is named after my favorite boss from Dark Souls 3: the Abyss Watchers, and the best fight (at the time) from Dark Souls. Actually, most of their lore is 40k meets Dark Souls. Their chapter masters are literally all named Artorias. Every Chapter of the Unforgiven (the order each and every Dark Angel successor belongs to) has a defined role; mine are the executioners. Specifically in regards to heretics and demons. In Dark Souls, the appearance of the Abyss Watchers signaled the demise of a kingdom, for it was deemed corrupted by the Abyss. If the fleet of the Abyss Watchers convenes, your planet will become the next Cadia. Their astropaths have heard the psychic cries from the warp and led the Chapter to your world to proceed with its immediate destruction, for it has been corrupted and tainted by Chaos. If the strategic value is absolute, and the planet can’t be destroyed, 6 way oversized companies (*cough* wings *cough*) of highly specialized Astartes are going to personally oversee the delivery of a swift execution. Much like the Minotaurs, the entire chapter deploys to war. Fashioned in the culture of their (former) homeworld, a dreadful medieval world, the Chapter is *heavily* non compliant with regards to the Codex Astartes: a major break compared to the Dark Angels and the Unforgiven, who are divergent. Their vaults are filled with scavenged relics from the time of the original Dark Angels legion, not to mention the relics and wargear from a watch fortress of the Deathwatch. Oh yeah. Their fortress monastery is a former watch fortress. So many hours of scouring the wiki, reading the books, building, painting, and playing this wargame have led me to 20,000 points of these absolute chads in narrative games, at least as of 9th edition. All the captains and the chapter master have nameplates, all their veterans have earned their way to names over years of narrative gaming, and the models I’ve used for games of kill team have, you guessed it, have names. And I’m still expanding it. One day, I’ll have a complete *physical* space marine chapter: tanks, dreadnoughts, aircraft, and of course marines. My father in law got me into this hobby, and he’s been collecting since the Dark Angels were introduced.
Storm paladins, a celtic fleet based chapter that has a few worlds near the ghoul stars for recruitment, created for indomitus era by cawl rumour has it they're a mix of two gene seeds, one being a lost primarch! Lol
I've been working on an Iron Hand successor with a centurion as chapter master who's basically just a brain in a tube inside a bulking armor, no fleet only single battle barge operated by 100 battle brothers and 500 human servants, and 1 magos mechanicus tech priest with around 700-1000 skitarii in his disposal. the twist is they also a rouge trader. how a space marine become a rouge trader? long story... 😅 they'd be working under the authority of the forge world ryza so there might be a lot of plasma shooting going on and lots of accidental suicide explosion, which is why most of their human crews are also highly augmented but not necessarily a servitor and it cause a huge problem sometimes in the compliance department but nevertheless they could work it out under the chapter master guidance. their speciality is in void war, rarely make planet fall and never engaged when the odds are too slim. I'm still working on the battle barge specification, trying to not overkill... 😅
Have been chipping away at a chapter placed under an ancient geass by the Eldar. They are struggling to remain loyal while hiding the curse from the Inquisition. Calling them the Hounds of Doom.
I have an idea of making a Salamander Successor Chapter called the Golden Dragons. I want them to prioritize plasma weapons as refined holy fire. They are strictly hierarchical, putting emphasis on refining themselves and their skills and these skills through ritual endurance tests and battle. They have very similar coloration to base salamander but LOTS more gold infused. Still baking the idea but I like it so far
Bonus tip!
If you're feeling overwhelmed about making *a whole Chapter* from scratch, try starting with the lore for a Kill Team or a Boarding Patrol ^^
That's a good one!
I just started my own chapter a few months ago, after nearly 30 years of being into 40k. They're called The Emerald Knights and they began as Dark Angels Successors. But their Chapter Master was one of Luther's pupils, and the lead Interrogator did not trust any of them. They were deployed on the edge of the galaxy to watch for traitors, then essentially abandoned. They had no help from the DA whatsoever. Later, their geneseed degraded and they could barely make new space marines. Then a Warsmith of the Iron Warriors besieged them for several years and tried to turn them, exploiting how the Knights were betrayed by their Legion. But eventually the Knights defeated their attackers. And when only one in four neophytes survived implantation, they had a choice to make. They cut open the chest of the dead Warsmith and found that his geneseed was pristine. So over several decades, they implanted neophytes, replenished their ranks, deleted the ruined portions of the Lion's geneseed and spliced in the corresponding portion of Perturabo's. By this time, THREE escaped warbands of traitors took up residence in their territory. Not having the numbers to purge them, the Knights sent out an astropathic call to the Dark Angels. They did not answer. The Knights used their very last astropath, pleading for anyone to come and help them destroy these enemy forces. And they were answered by a Black Templars crusade fleet, who brought the remains of their chapter on a mission lasting several decades.
Today, The Emerald Knights possess a Deathwing, a Templar Wing, and are about 65/35 percentage Lion to Perturabo genetically. Their returned Primarch knows this and has no problem with it. Because the Lion fondly remembers Barabas Dantioch and how the Warsmith saved his life and died for The Imperium. Now The Emerald Knights travel towards Sotha, fighting for the Imperium and hoping to recover whatever relics remain of Warsmith Dantioch, a forbear they can now finally be proud of.
That is one of the greatest fan made 40k lore I have ever seen
@@Leavemealoneplz-wu2ms thank you very much! I'm glad you like it. I have nearly finished painting the army, just trying to find the time to photograph them and post them.
I’ve always been a fan of Carcharadons.
I’ve been making different divisions based on shark names, Assault Intercessors are Makos, Dreadnoughts are Threshers, infiltration units are cookie-cutters, and my flamer Marines are tigers.
that is really cool dude love the Idea
I love that idea!
That's incredibly cool, but why is it that whenever I see/think of the word "Mako," I IMMEDIATELY think of that godawful pseudo-tank from the first Mass Effect?
I hope you guys enjoy, this was a lot of fun to make! More chonky vids coming soon!
een klus die zeer goed is uitgevoerd 👍🏾😃
_(I hope google didn't failed me)_ 😅
You should do a video about making horus heresy black shields. I'm doing a chapter that started out as loyalist iorn hands black shield.
“We’re the Flying Elveses, Utah Chapter!” 😂
I've been working for the past three years on a Blood Angels successor chapter that is heavily inspired by ancient Irish and Celtic culture alot of the chapter's naming conventions are done through Gaelic which is the ancient language of the Irish people. Despite their heavy Irish influence they still possess all of the same genetic flaws as the Blood Angels and still follow Blood Angel combat doctrine.
I smell the epic air of Cú Chulainn in this chapter!
I wanna know more
I’m working on a second founding Dark angels successor with around 2.5k marines with most of which are Primaris due to the Chapter almost dying out on their home world in a 4 way war between the Eldar, Emporers children, and a tyranid splinter fleet. (Note the Chapter had around 100 battle brothers by the time Rowboat and his new marines arrived to save them)
I'm working on a ? Founding (they don't know) iron hands? (Also kinds mystery) with 100% primaris due to the chapter losing 70% of its marines on Cadia, then losing 95% of that running through the great rift to get back to their homeworld. They received primarily but thr final 5% all died when they were ambushed by emperors children.
@@geraintdearnley4464 A Good Heritage to Honor
Here with a 35th Founding Dark Angels successor. During that time Segmentum Pacificus decided breaking off from the Imperium was a brilliant idea and Cypher may have been involved.
Had a brief civil war that was broken up by the Great Rift, fought between Inner Circle members about their spiritual purity, with the Chapter Master nursing the largest migraine trying to keep both radical sides from killing each other. Ultima founding resulted in the reformist parts breaking off into a new Chapter with the Primaris while the original Chapter stayed mostly Firstborn.
I have yet to think about how the hell they will react with the return of Johnson.
Reminds me of the Crimson Fists, though even they didnt fight a 4 way war(Unlucky)
Working on a chapter founded during the Ultima founding, so all primaris. They are, as far as they know, an Imperial Fist successor chapter. In reality however, Cawl used Death Guard geneseed. The chapter is sort of an experiment. They are closely watched by my sisters of battle order, some inquisitors, and a knight house for any signs of being chaos tainted. Also they are somewhere on the farthest frontiers and have very limited access to a fleet, using mostly the sister's fleet for transport. That is, that in the case of them turning traitor, they can't cause too much damage.
I made the Chapter called the Gray Hussars, an Imperial Fist Successor Chapter but the Officers were drawn from the Black Templars, with the First Chapter Master being a former Castellan of the Black Templars. My Chapter are essentially Space German Knights like if you took the Teutonic Order and made them Space Marines. They were made in the 26th Founding to Garrison and Secure the Saras Sector, close to Ultramar and rarely leave the borders of that sector of Space. They have no home world but the First planet, Totenburg, they made a recruitment world was a lost world with a Germanic Culture that was technologically stuck in the 1910s. It was a world in competition between Liberal Democracies, Socialist Nations and the more Traditional Absolute Monarchies. They were in the middle of a world war the mirrored our First World War when the Gray Hussars arrived and negotiated with the Monarchs of the world to join the Imperium as a united world under the rule of the most powerful King of the World (Planetary Governor) King Wilhelm XII of Prussland. The Chapter crushed the Democracies and Socialist Nations and appointed hereditary aristocratic families to rule over them while setting up a Chapter Fortress. From the Planet came the bulk of the early recruits of the Chapters and the Chapter adopted the naming conventions of the world as well their history dating back to the Ancient Terran Germanic Kingdoms. They worship the Emperor as the God of Humanity and don't have a librarious like the Black Templars. They also always claim to be on Crusade so they don't have to abide by the Codex Astartes.
For more google Gray Hussars and the wiki should come up.
Actually sounds cool af, will Google
Color scheme looks dope AF!
I’m working on one currently - Sons of the Phoenix, Salamander Successor. Dismembered or otherwise physically compromised salamanders are sent to specialist forgers taken from the most elite blacksmiths on Nocturn who provide bionic limb and organ replacements. Astartes who were “reborn” in this way eventually found a common ground with each other and would go on to form the Chapter taking a well known symbol of rebirth as their sigil, the Phoenix. As the chapter grew in both size and recognition from their parent legion, Vulkan He’stan himself put to work personally chosen machine workers and smiths to create a host of dreadnoughts for the Sons of the Phoenix, as the chapter was already deeply connected to rebirth The Forgefather saw the potential of a heavily armored dreadnaught centric deployment force. As every Son of the Phoenix was once a Salamander, the chapter continues many of the Salamanders traditions whilst adding a number of their own. They employ tactics much alike their Salamander brothers with many flame weapons on the battlefield however it is also common to see multiple dreadnoughts when the Sons engage a battlefield due to the nature of their “recruitment”. In a word the chapter symbolizes “Rebirth”. Their chapter words (commonly heard at induction ceremonies involving ceremonial ashes of fallen brothers), “Baptized in flame, reborn in ash”.
isn’t there an imperial fists chapter already named that?
@@christophersalinas2722 lol yeh I did some more research, guess I'm going to need a new name.
@@alexandersakellarakis9803 something like the Flaming Phoenixes? lol idk
I've been working on an imperial fists successor that specifies on breachers squads and close combat but also un heavy artillery and dreadnought due to a genetic flaw that takes their mobility over time and only the veterans who don't die in battle due to becoming slower and heavier physically get the honour of being the dreadnought as a second chance , due to them being short lived they are seeing as a stubborn and never wanting to retreat but they are all loyal to their chapter master that is inside a relic leviathan dreadnought and has served the imperium for 1500 years , they don't use librarians because burn the witch but they have an unusual number of apothecaries and techmarines, even though they take their liberties they mostly follow the codex Astartes to not bring any unnecessary attention to them.
Thicc bois.
HUMUNGUS TERMINATOR DADDIES even
@@KillerOrca yeah I was thinking on running it with very heavy units like dreadnoughts and terminators , but I'm waiting for the new terminators and a rework of the assault terminators to be sold separately
I'm currently working on a chapter called "Keepers Of The Garden" ultramarine/salamanders successor chapter formed to deal with tyranids, who have a lot of dreadnaughts and are closely tied with my custom knight house "house Ironwood", the short story is they guard ironwood oasis forests on their home world and have grey knight inspired recruitment processes without the psychic stuff, they have dirtied white armor with blue accents and silver trims.
Creating your own chapter is a fun experiance, had an idea since I got into the setting around 2007, as I went got into the lore it helped me wedge them in the setting. Got me one of them "Ultramarines" successors with a name of what they are about SO on the nose, no one would actually guess it. (And yes, I did forget who the bad guys in Harry potter were) The Death Eaters, a mix of surviving loyalist Death Guard and World Eaters who use their combined specialities for a classical Hammer and Anvil style tactics, who pick from the nearby hive world gangers and shape them into something more. These guys got started simply from coming up with special characters like the Chapter Champion and Chapter Master and whatnot.
Excellent job, brother!
Thank you good sir!
I ended up founding a loyalist subsect of Thousand Sons who remained loyal to the Imperium during/after the heresy. They firmly believe that the Space Wolves attacked Prospero due to the influence of Chaos and Horus, and that they are traitors who have fooled the Imperium into believing they're loyal. The Lions of Prospero know better, and have vowed that someday, they will have vengeance for their actions on Prospero. They also believe that Magnus was entirely unfit to lead them any longer, having let his legion be slaughtered on the planet's surface, and believe that no singular man should have full control over them. They have taken residence upon a small knight homeworld and formed a symbiotic relationship with them. The chapter has little in the way of armored support of any kind, so the knights fill in for them where they can. Each sergeant and above is the ruler of a plot of land on their new homeworld, and they are organized in a medieval heirarchy, ruled over by 3 high ranking officers that form a council. Each councilor leads a specific sect of the chapter, and they make up for each others shortcomings. The chapter is thus split into 3 distinct sections, each autonomous but part of a greater whole: the psychic branch of the chapter, focused on training all battle brothers in the use of their powers, no matter how small, and the support of the other 2 sects. There is the combat branch of the chapter, focused on all things war and battle, taking the front while supported by their more powerful psyker brothers. Then there is the loremaster sect, where the chaplains (loremasters) and techmarines reside, recording data and sagas from battle brothers during and after combat to fill their chapter libraries with the deeds of their greatest heroes, and where they entomb those deemed worthy within a dreadnought chassis to forever lead their brothers in the field. roughly 600 strong, VERY MUCH codex noncompliant.
In canon [three thousands] of Sons under leadership of Sul Kontep escaped Prospero straight under nose of Leman, made a deal with Malcador, fought during Heresy in seige of Chtnoia. Some survived this brutal fighting. So you can theoretically link your chapter with that canon event.
I’ve been working on an Imperial Fists Ultima Founding successor called the Storm Chorus. Their chapter master, Grand Conductor Melodius Trenth, got inspiration from the Sisters of the Sacred Rose during a battle where they fought alongside one another. So, basically, Space Marines who sing
"Grand Conductor" that's honestly SUCH a wicked title, it has such a Victorian/Fantastical feel to it
@@dpinoy5642 thanks! I was toying with Composer, Conductor, and other titles, but I landed on Grand Conductor because, come on, once you know it’s there, your can’t not use it
@@frogwithhumanteeth7808 im honestly glad you chose Grand Conductor, because it definitely is the best out of the two you mentioned.
Like i'm visualizing the Grand Conductor using a conducting baton (the sticks you see composters/conductors use in orchestras) but it's super ornate/40k-ized so it has golden trim, skulls, etc, and he's using it to make battle formations, rate of fire, and even singing. So when the baton is low/center, it's precise and relatively low rates of fire, but at the (no pun intended) crescendo of the battle, he raises the baton up the sky: and it just becomes a hail of roaring bolter fire, thunderous artillery, and booming singing, kind of like a 40k version of 1812 Overture.
(sorry if this is alot, it was just really cool thinking about it)
@@dpinoy5642 it’s all good dude, that’s actually sick as hell. I’m really glad that just a name has invoked such vivid images and ideas
@@frogwithhumanteeth7808 thanks. well, it mixes theatre and combat, which is awesome
I was making a custom chapter for a couple of years now. It begins when i ran a couple of d&d games with some sort of OC, that was once a knight. Sudenly after those games i decided, that he had to be coming from a knights order, while at the same time 40k dropped primaris marines. So i started trying to kitbash something that would fit this very raw idea, since i want sure what they were about. In that period of time just for this sake of creating them i read alot of books and wiki, constantly changing them to fit not only my liking, but the universe they are about to be merged into. I repainted and reassembled my models couple of times, but that was worth it. Now they have have both desine i can enjoy and a back story fitting in the 40k world.
I love homebrew chapters, they're so awesome 😁👍
Yes they are!
@@arcahmwinters70 agree. I made two Sisters of Battle orders and a Eldar Craftworld. Said Eldar Cradtworld is unique in that it’s suffering overpopulation
Bout Bloody Time!
I should definitely get back to the Chapter I was writing!
Ahem
The Fireblades appear to be an Iron Hands Successor Chapter, but this is a well kept facade, as they are Emperor's Children successors. They know full well how the legion fell and what could lead to Slaaneshi corruption. As such, they've abandoned the flashy, artistic pursuits of the Legion of old in favor of pious, monasticism.
They are very few, numbering around 150-300, due to their constant deployments against their hated, but powerful foe.
They are the few who remember the friendship between Ferrus and Fulgrim, so to honor him, they forge Fireblades, power weapons in the style Ferrus's original Fireblade and use them to strike down the forces of Slaanesh. Their swordsmanship is the equal of any Demon or traitor, and their righteous fury can match that of any Blood Angel or Black Templar.
They paint their wargear in simple greys, their symbol is an outline of the Aquila, a reminder of what they once had and strive to one day regain. Their Battle Barge, the Prodigal Son, is actually from the crusade era and is equipped with a rather large teleportarum, which the chapters terminator squad uses to great effect.
The Fireblades favor Droppod and Terminator assaults, dealing devastating hammerblows to enemy weak points or slicing the head of the snake in one fell sweep. As there are so few of them, each battle brother is a valuable resource and is to be trained and utilized to the highest degree. As such, they are humble enough to know when they must withdraw and take care not to be drawn into wars of attrition; as usual, most chapters see this as cowardice, the Fireblades understand amd ignore such accusations as each marine is a courageous fighter even amongst Astartes.
Similar to the Iron Hands, the Fireblades do not have a Chapter Master proper, but have a council, elected from amongst the many Chaplains, who serve the dual purpose of Chaplain and Captains within the chapter. Only those warriors who have proven themselves to be utterly unshakable and skilled are chosen by the council to undergo a Trial in which the marine will display his prowess as a swordsman and must best a Fireblade wielder in combat. Then a new Fireblade will be forged or an older one gifted to them, should the weapon suit them.
Fireblades come in different forms depending on the wielder, they are encouraged to pursue and master their own unique styles of combat so that no enemy can exploit any potential similarities; this is their art and their pursuit of perfection.
They also prefer very simple names, which are paired with their title, an example being their Head Chaplain/ closest man to a Chapter Master, Paul.
Their most recent and greatest feat was their purging of a powerful Slaaneshi cult, who managed to summon forth the Keeper of Secrets, Fuwalafuwaloo. The chapter sweeped through the heretics, allowing Head Chaplain Paul and Councilman Chaplain Lucas to face the Greater Demon. The fight was a blur of violet and fire, but together, the chaplains banished the demon and in their fervour, permanently MAIMED the Keeper with holy fire, severing its lower right arm, for which it vowed revenge. However, Chaplain Paul nearly succumbed to his wounds, but was interred to a dreadnought. Chaplain Lucas's left leg was torn to shreds and his left eye was put out, though at the very least he now had the Iron Hands aesthetic. With Paul's blessing and that of the Council, Lucas was elevated to Head Chaplain and continues to serve as such in the Era Indomitus.
The Fireblades long for the day that they no longer have to hide their heritage, where they can where the Aquila with pride once more and show everyone they are not sons of the traitor Fulgrim, they are The Emperor's Children! 🗡️ 🔥
I started working on my chapter a few weeks ago. They are called the Black Fyrd (Based it off the Old Kingdom of Wessex, basically an English inspired Chapter) They were founded after many of the Imperial Worlds had been consumed by the Tyranid scourge. They are made up of recruits that have miraculously survived the Tyranids, so they have a particular dislike for the spidey boys. For this reason they were mostly sent to combat the Tyranids on worlds that can or cannot be salvaged. So their fighting style is more on defense and speed at the exact same time. So I would think they used heavily modified Javelin Attack Speeders or something. I'm still working out some details but that's what I have for the moment.
I am a Tax Accountant (yes I love Ultramarines), so I am working on a chapter called The Auditors who go around the Imperium auditing the Imperial Tithe of each world making sure they are in compliance with what the Imperium asks of them. They have green shoulder pauldrons with the Excel logo as their heraldry and white armor with little black vertical and horizontal lines to make it look like a spreadsheet. Their words are “Death and Taxes”, people call them the Pencil Butchers (instead of Pencil Pushers), their flagship is called The Quickbook, and their fortress monastery is the current IRS Headquarters Building in Washington DC floating around space on a giant rock.
I've been working, since my beginning during 4th edition, on a chapter from an unknown founding, from an unknown geneseed, called the Doom Knights. Initially posted to protect an ancient relic, they are now a ship based chapter, having had to exterminatus their own homeworld, and in the urgency about it, lost not only most of their archives, but also of their librarius as a whole, and nearly all their veterans. The nearly twenty years of play had them paying a heavy tribute to the protection of the imperial citizens, earning them the respect of some well known chapters, such as the Salamanders and the Blood Angels, but they still harbour a deep resentment against the Dark Angels, whose interference looking for some fallen that weren't even there pushed their home defense from possible to needing an exterminatus.
For a time, they had so much heavy wounded marines that they put dreadnought sarcophagus into every kind of vehicle present in their armory, as they simply had no more Dreadnought chassis
When the primaris reinforcements came along, the chapter was at around half a complete strength, with a mere three experienced captains, and a specialisation again Marines and equivalents...
I'm working on a salamanders successor chapter called the Phoenix Talons. Like the salamanders, they are very fire based and have a close relationship to civilians. They are specialized in retaking lost ground and lost planets, as well as extracting and evacuating civilians in the middle of war zones
I'm currently writing up the backstory on my Chapter Master, Sariel, as he is lost in the warp following the destruction of caliban. He lands on an unknown world in the Eye and slowly finds more and more of his lost brothers and vowing to protect a population of humans on that world. They face mainly demons and orks. It's my headcannon that Zahariel survived and was lost in the warp. He and Sariel found the Blades of Caliban, I'm mostly going off the armies my friends are building since we eventually will play a narrative campaign that would be perfect.
looks about the same as the fallen...
@DABOSSEMPRAH pretty similar not gonna lie. Main difference is they end up getting back to the Imperium proper by amassing a small fleet and ping ponging between planets, searching for human life. Kinda going for a "continuation of the great crusade" since my 2 friends that recently started 40k along with me are playing orks and either Tyranids, Chaos Demons or Plauge Marines and we wanna start a crusade campaign and I thought being in the Eye would lend to that pretty well
I’ve pretty much created my custom chapter. All I need to do is write some books about them.
The Uniters are an Iron Warriors successor chapter that rebelled against Perturabo during the Horus Heresy, and were rewarded by Guilliman with the ability to rebrand themselves and create their own chapter.
They are still stern and unrelenting like their Iron Warrior kin, but they are different from their traitor kin because they have a heart under their hard exterior.
Where the 4th Legion are Iron Within and Iron Without, the Uniters have a bronze exterior, and a burning heart underneath.
They lead their own civilization in a giant rock made of the largest piece of their blown up homeworld. And in this station, the marines lead their human population with hard, yet fair work. And unlike most Imperial worlds, the work is bearable, and the workers are allowed rest and meals after a limited amount of work hours.
The Uniters’ training is the most painful training regiment in the Imperium, even more so than the Imperial Fists, but thanks to it, their bodies are naturally tougher, and they can shrug off pain that would even make an Ultramarine scream.
The Uniters also have human soldiers fighting alongside them. Guardsmen who’s commanders were inept or overzealous, and deserved to be left to the enemy. Or people who want to help defend the home that freed them from the slavery of Imperial religion.
The Uniters HATE the Imperial Creed, and are actively hunted by the Inquisition and Imperial church for it.
They have partnerships with other chapters such as the Salamanders, Blood Angels, Lamenters, Crimson Fists, and a few Ultramarines. But are known foes against the Flesh Tearers, Marines Malevolent, Black Templars, Minotaurs, Iron Hands, Dark Angels, and more.
They excel at fighting most xenos, and certain Chaos forces, but struggle against Harlequins, Craftworld Eldar, major Tyranid hive fleets, and Necrons. For Chaos, they have trouble against the Iron Warriors, Thousand Sons, Word Bearers, and many daemons.
They survived this long without Imperial wargear or Mechanicus assistance because they have a stable trading relationship with the Tau. For civilians, soldiers, and Imperial intelligence, the Tau provided the Uniters with food, weapons, and advanced technology to keep their station up and running, and their soldiers/marines well armed.
I've already had been working on an army of space marines called the Blood Thorns. Their armor color is mainly white to signify purity, blood red for their head, hands and wrists, and feet so as to give tribute to the founder (wink wink), some violet on their pauldrons, knee guards, booster packs, and hips to signify royalty, and gold signants across the breastplate.
The Blood Thorns are an off-shoot of loyalist Word Bearers who managed to elude being slain, but had stranded themselves on a remote death world. A regiment of disgraced Word Bearers were in the middle of fending off extremely hostile fauna before a pillar of fire abruptly struck the ground and a man wrapped in light commanded the attacking fauna to become pacified. Then another man, wrapped in light greater than the former, soon both addressed the 2,000 space marines. Several days were spent listening to these two divine beings who imparted fellowship, companionship, and much more.
Taking the chance to redeem their disgraced chapter and be a vanguard loyal to humanity, the 2,000 astartes reformed into the Blood Thorns, primarily consisting of chaplains, priests, and exorcists. Asmokim was the first to go through ordinances shared by and performed by the two divine personages, becoming the chapter-master of the Blood Thorns. Sigoth was the second to have partook of these ordinances and was made into Asmokim's 2nd in command. Both were noble hearts and had extreme ferver, but Sigoth's ferver was more tempered which allowed Asmokim to remain grounded close to reason. Many within their ranks are focused on redeeming the Word Bearers, while the other part wishes to defend humanity.
Since all 2,000 astartes had received these blessing and ordinances, each member has become extremely resistant to the corruptions of the Ruinous Powers, and even the Destroyer greater than even them. They've also tamed the death world, and called it Antipus Prime, with the capitol called Zarahem being founded where the meeting took place.
Through the next thousands of years, The Blood Thorns had been seeking out particular artifacts they were instructed through revelations, currently having possession several items, weapons, and artifacts of biblical importance. ;)
that close up of Angron smiling is really terrifying man
edit here is a "chapter" idea:
what if imperium had multiple loyalist Fabius Bile that expermients with genetics? imagine a chapter consisting of all chapter geneseed including the traitor geneseed before they turned traitor where they keep it as a secret and the only ones that dont have mixed geneseed are apothecaries and chaplains that usually take business face to face with imperial agents in order to avoid some "missunderstandings". Officially they will have a half chapter of pure singular geneseed but in reality they are more than a thousand. As we know the black dragons have their skin made out of adamantium and blood angels have red thirst, now add also some butcher nails to a marine and you got the angriest bloodthirsty hardened warrior humanity has ever had but of course with such experiments things dont always go correct which is why they always try to have 1 or 2 companies made out of pure geneseed to avoid further investigations from mechanicus and inquisition. I imagine their armour grey with their shoulderpad colours representing their speciallity such as red for the cocktail mix i mentioned above, blue for ambush (night lords, space sharks, blood ravens and white scars mix), green/camo for stealth (raven guard, blood ravens and raptors mix), purple for techmarines/vehicle secialists (iron hands, iron warriors, slamanders and alpha legion mix) and so on but the commanders have grey shoulders because they have reached the perfect balance of each geneseed within their bodies and is very rare to reach. The flaw with the chapter is not that they think they are perfect but they are above their other brothers and think they are pathetic along with chaos so they are cocky and stubborn so wont accept help from others nor will they offer none. Besides they will always make sure nobody will witness what they truly are. BTW they steal chapter geneseed however they can and stay hidden when it happens so they really dont wanna be noticed among others. Since they think of themselves above astartes they hunt everything including imperials if they stand in the way. there are chapter records of who the founding primarch is but with this much geneseed basically every primarch is involved, but some within the chapter believe that one of the missing primarchs are their original creator.
I've had a home brew chapter that has lasted me for years.
I present "The Stillborn"
They are sons of horus successors that have been part of the cursed founding.
Payne's grey with silver and gold accents.
They gained their name from the high failure rate of implantation.
Their chapter lord "Xatesh" at the time of the 42nd millennium is newly raised after the death of their last chapter master. Following the death of his master Xatesh collected his skull and cast it in gold, taking a tradition that was long forgotten by the legions. Brothers of the chapter do not take pride in the slaying of enemies of the imperium but the preservation of their brothers. Each skull cast hold a friend departed, a brother lost. In this instance, they highly value dreadnoughts as a way to preserve life but in fighting in the chapter has caused them to both honour and forsake them. Due to this, the chapter held the rank of mortifactor which has not seen the light of day since the marines of old.
The Lord Xatesh lives his second life in an ancient suit of contemptor dreadnoughts armour. Because of this, a renegade chaplain who saw the elevation as an affront to the preservation of their brothers, took a company of still-born to find spiritual guidance.
Instead they ancient xenos tech which corrupted their minds. They saw the preservation of life as a sign of a futile battle. Instead they sought to explore death. This company followed on the steps of the renegade marines. Finding out how to control the passing on of their brothers.
Xatesh and his brothers sought to convince them but still the company of the dead was seen as an insult. Not because it was to preserve life but because they would not die.
Chapter tactics include: dreadnoughts, heavy support and use of mortifactors (tech marines in game).
My successor Chapter is named The Sons of the Void Beast. They don't come from a founding but from the initiative of a single Astral Claws apothecary. Aran Kareq was an apothecary for the Astral Claws Chapter since even before Lufgt Huron because a full fledged battle brother. So seeing the horrendous experiments that were carried out in secret with the Holy Geneseed, he boarded and stole one of many small pirate vessels with an stach of what he believed to be Salamanders geneseeds, trusting that tge noble chapter would protect him in gratitude for taking it back. However, the ship would become lost in the warp and be spat out on top of a feral planet. On this planet, a psycker with the gift of foresight would help the apothecary to turn the feral population into an army with at least an sliver of a chance of stopping the onslaught of the strange xenos slowly taking over the the planet. It would only be after the death of his mortal friend that the apothecary would accept his pleadings, finally using the geneseeds he had stored. Only to find out that they belonged to the Carcharodons. Enraged, he decided to try and build a warband out of the savages he was left alone with, only to be stopped by one of the neophytes who could convince his brothers to turn against their master. Now, led by that Neophyte, by the bastard son of that same Psyker that started it all; they have grown to a chapter of no less than 200 battle brothers, attempting to grow powerful enough to survive a meeting with their genesires.
I've been working on a small army I named The Bastards of Ultramar, not exactly a successor chapter or army but rather a gaggle of Ultramarine chapters that I thought would consolidate their forces together due to being separated from Gulliman during the indomitus Crusade after the Primarch's resurrection. Iron Hounds, Praetors of Orpheus, and a few others that lost many of their brothers that dot the army. Tactics are vast between them and the commanders often argue with the right approach to the many situations before them. Damocles, captain of Iron hounds, believes in taking the board and knocking the enemy down fast and hard. Marius, captain of the Praetors of Orpheus, believes in a more tactical approach and defending key points of interest. Dalton, the Recently promoted captain of the Patriarchs of Ulixis, is one to use strong points and holdouts to draw the enemies in to eat a hail of bolter fire. All round there is room for hilarity, and for me is a fun way to play a table top army.
Demons, listening in to the characters argue: "Do-do we jump in?"
Bigger demon: "no no, im enjoying the free entertainment"
I have been working on an ultramarines chapter. I base them on the brotherhood of steel from the fallout universe, where their mission is to retrieve and preserve technology and knowledge, which generates a certain rivalry with the machanicus and suspicion with the inquisition. whether by gene or the culture they cultivate, they are more curious and inquisitive than most space marines.
I'm thinking of making a white scars successor chapter who's geneseed has given them higher than average (for astartes even) resistance to G forces, which they use to fly their combat aircraft as fiercely as they can. their flaw is that they do not take well to downtime, growing dangerously restless, leading them to pursue prolonged tours of action, without taking the time to take care of themselves or their wargear.
Alright this will be quite a tad scattershot.
The Shattered Ravens are a 2nd Founding chapter that hail from the 19th. They’re initial marines are those who worked within the Shattered Legions and thus picked up traits from their cousin legions. They maintain the Raven Guards typical guerrilla warfare tactics, but with many specialized units. These units are lead by sergeants that have served tours with other chapters such as the Raven Guard, Salamanders, and Iron Hands. This is to honor those that fought at Istvan. Such examples of traits they take from their cousin chapters are that they tend to prioritize civilian life highly though not quite to the same extent as the Salamanders. They also tend to have most if not all their tech Marines serve extended tours with the Iron Hands to ensure their skills are trained to their highest standards.
A notable relationships they have in the wider Imperium include a friendship with the Adeptas Sororitas of the Shrine World Fury 16, the Order of the Iron Eagle. The Captain of the 2nd Company, Captain Delgore in fact even knew their Patron Saint and fought alongside them against invading Orks of the Bad Moons. Ever since they’d always have an agreement to come to the Sisters aid if ever they needed.
Even though they were a 2nd founding chapter there are still rumors that they’re gene seed may not be 100% Raven Guard as the mechanicist who monitor the Shattered Ravens’ gene seed from time to time find discrepancies. Their outward appearances do indeed match with typical Raven Guard traits such as pale skin and pitch black eyes, but an odd occurrence pops up occasionally where some marines retain an ability to spit acid. Though this may not be too irregular for other chapters the Raven Guard and their successors typically lack this ability, and with the arrival of their Primaris reinforcements this suspicion has grown even more so as the inquisition has now started to notice that in particular the 8th company of the Shattered Ravens, which is comprised of only Primaris acted more like that of the Night Lords of old. Preferring to terrorize and maim their opponents with chain weapons. There is even a higher percentage of Reiver squads and Assault Intercessors among the 8th Company to the point they have been dubbed the Night Raptors.
The 2nd Company on the other hand is much more typical of an Astartes force comprising of usual Tactical, Assault, and Devastators. Captain Delgore himself tends to lead with his Tactical squads luring the enemy in and his Devastator and Assault squads wiping out the foe.
I’ll for sure be using this method. One thing I’d like to see as a followup to this is: How to make your own Imperial Guard Regiment.
I’m working on my homebrew chapter over the past 3 years: the Knights of Reoentance. Their chapter culture i based off pre Colonial Philippines. There’s many more lore but there’s still much more I want to smooth out after watching this video
I’m working on a he chapter of unknown origin called the 11th Sons (take a wild guess why) loosely based off the Viet Cong and also kind of the Luna Wolves. They like grav tanks, bikes, and jet packs.
I’m working on a blood angels successor chapter which takes inspiration from Vlad the Impaler ( Real life Dracula ). They are extremely ferocious and imaple their greatest foe at the end of each battle, yet very noble. They usually use shock assault jump pack units, and their flaw is that their gene seed mutated to make them require more blood to drink, and they fall to the black rage more easily. Their sanguinary priests bless the spears with which they impale their enemies. They were created as a response to a giant ork waaagh on a key imperial world. They only take the most ferocious warriors into their chapter.
So more recently I’ve just basically been making loyalist traitor marines, with almost the same color scheme and slightly different emblem, but one idea I’ve been working on for a while now is the idea of a Black Templar crusader fleet that has been doing its own thing for so long that they have significant differences with the main chapter.
For one this Crusader fleet still identify as Black Templars, but they also accept the name the citizens of the sector they inhabit call them, the “Teutonic Templars”. They are also more lenient on psykers and mutants, but to be clear, this is in part because due to some warp shenanigans they have a higher chance of awakening psyker powers then other sons of Dorn. Obviously they still don’t believe in using psychic powers, so they instead focus on meditation and prayer to keep them in check, and after that worked they began to teach budding psykers they found this as well, so that they can better keep their powers in check.
The only ones allowed to use psychic powers are the Lord Marshal (chapter master in effect but technically Helbrecht is still their chapter master) and the High Chaplain, and even then only in very specific situations. Speaking of Chaplains, normally a Judicar is a Chaplain in training, but the Teutonic Templars have a path where one can be a Judicar as a full time role. These Judicar are allowed to speak but only in the language of the “His People” which generally only the crusading fleet speak. The language is actually Hebrew, and that gets into probably the most heretical part of them.
They still worship the Emperor, but not as a god, but as a prophet, who would bring about a new age where humanity could rejoice in the light of the one true god, The Holy Trinity. That’s right, they found a book that could harm daemons just from touching it, so they saw it as holy. Lo and behold, it was a Bible, and they adopted it as their own faith. Now they don’t have any specific denomination they follow, but I’d say they are closest to being Protestant, as they don’t really like the bombastity of the eclesiarchy and believe them to be nothing but cowards and hypocrites.
There’s a bit more but I think I typed enough for today lol, sorry about all that, but if you are anyone else is reading this, thank you for reading!
I'm a sucker for the spartan aesthetic so I obviously swerved into minotaurs for my space marine KT. The fact you have so many different options for 3rd party bits you can buy probably helped. As for their lore, at first it kinda got me by surprise as I didn't expect them to be so hated by the community, but now I love their position as that one chapter that just executes the worst and most unpleasant orders without questioning it for a second, it fits what they paint the imperium to be, I feel like too many morally good chapters around would make the imperium feel too righteous.
You know, I don't really play or paint figures, I came here for THE LORE!!
Got into 40K around a year ago after rewatching the Astartes animation, this video honestly covers a lot of the stuff I needed to know about, hope this video helps other people getting into Warhammer
Glad it helped brother!
I'm currently working on improving my chapter called The Techno Hounds. With the information that I can provide, they are an Iron Hands successor chapter hailing from the Curse Founding and their gene curse, the flesh madness, causing them to kill anyone, even themselves, that bears flesh in a combination of anger and fear. Due to this, it takes longer for the chapter to go back to full strength after each battle. However, an odd solution that worked out for them was the combination of receiving additional implants and taking the worship of the Machine God. Because of this, they have a strong relationship with the Mechanicus. During the Ultima Founding, the Techno Hounds are effectively cured of their gene curse, though they still go through their creditors to replace their flesh with implants to appease the Machine God and are currently on a crusade to recover lost STCs.
This video remembers me "Deathwatch - Rites of Battle" handbook, where's a part of creating a new one Chapter on your own in several steps.
I have an Ultima founding successor of Russ, the Blood Howlers. They specialize in assault tactics, and love the use of Wulfen, making them focus a lot on having more Wolf Priests in the chain of command.
They see the Wulfen Curse as a test from the Emperor and Leman Russ to utilize their flaw to best serve the Imperium, and coincidentally, a good chunk of the chapter happens to struggle with it, with one of the companies being made almost entirely out of Wulfen.
Due to their liking of Wulfen, they're usually sent out to battles expected to be slaughters for both sides, practically used like attack dogs.
This usually leads to the chapter having a lower number of men, and regularly being looked over in regards to being supplied with wargear like vehicles.
Chapter Master Balgruuf Dragonbane is an older marine, and has been giving into the Wulfen pretty often during battles. His Captains/Jarls aren't exactly fond of it, and are trying to convince him to pass the mantle to someone with a more sound mind.
Best I've seen was the Emperor's Nightmare: Raven guard descendants who thanks to a mutation in the Catalepsean Node, either stay awake(like fully awake no half sleep like they normally do) for months or years at a time, or fall asleep and cannot be woken for just as long. Sounds mundane until you realize what sleep deprivation does to you. Imagine that in a space marine.
Starting the build on my second chapter this weekend after over two months of writing about them.
The Ever Implacable Rougarous, Ultraboys successors, trying to match their armor to the color of palmetto leaves and wisteria blossoms. Cajun cowpunks with A&M degrees. Their chapter master was my way of decompressing from my first construction season with seniority, feels too young and too poorly equipped but takes an absolute beating while exceeding all expectations.
They were rushed into combat early when the Tyranids attacked the galactic east, in the first battle the guard broke and their chapter command and most of their veterans were eaten. This left them under the leadership of a lieutenant who had just transferred in from another ultramarine successor as the chapter master to about two dozen hardened survivors and another hundred soon to be ready for combat. Currently they're assisting in the evacuation of an unpopular Mechanicus cult from a world ravaged by Drukhari raiders. Eventually both are going to claim a world and it's moon in a system close enough to my 9th edition homebrew that their stories intersect, they're very different and that's fun.
Congrats on the 10k brother!
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Did the same with Steel Legion at the time of the GW 3rd war for Armageddon Campaign. Instead of being raised on Armageddon my regiment was from Voss, a forgeworld nearby te Armageddon subsector. After almost 20 years I'm still adding vehicles and miniatures with second hand metal miniatures bought on ebay, vinted etc. some russian recast for kit bashing since GW never made therms, flamers or autocannon as heavy guns, it was heavily insipired by the Wehrmacht and sepcifically the 21st panzer division stationed in Normandy in '44, the "Rommel Circus" made up of converted looted vehicles and with a lot of field modifications. Mine was made of rhinos converted to be used as Chimera, leman russ with 1/32 tank turrets, used the whole imperial armour line of vehicles (salamander scout&command, trojans, tank hunter, conqueror turrets for Leman Russ even a Hyena wheeled vehicle from white dwarf of the late '80s as command vehicle" . I wrote pages of background charged on a myspace page along with pictures, changed a couple of times the color scheme of both vehicles and uniforms. Used a NATO style joint military symbols to create the regimental structure.
More hobbist than gamer I loved the "pure" lore of early and mid WH40K. Right now I feel no shame in switching to recast, proxy STL and so on since GW doesn't give a shit about coherent lore and came out with primaris and forgetting armies that where pillars of the game and universe.
Cadians and Krieg are great, Catachans really need to be hauled because are really '90s, but you can't just cut out regiment from Valhalla, Tallarn, Steel Legion even Elysian and the weird/strange looking Mordians. I understand the difficulties and costs of producing lines of miniatures that are a niche. But at least update rules and let older players to use decade old armies that give flavor to the game.
Eyy congrats! And nice to do this thumbnail for you
Thank you brother!
I have been working on my custom chapter for a year now and this video just refreshes what I had to do I am glad to see channels who do this stuff
I'm glad you could use it!!
I have a UM successor chapter that started as the Silver Templars at the beginning of 9th edition but i felt like they lacked personality a little so i came to change them into Space Wolves Successors and renamed them the Silver Fangs. Their color scheme was a darkish gunmetal silver with Yellow and black shoulder and gold accent with red eyes. Like their parent chapter, they love getting into melee and shredding everything in their path although they used heavier equipment. They are a big fan of mixing units with lightning claws, Mastercrafted Power Swords and Thunder Hammers making them able to destroy light and heavy infantry as needed. They also like storm shields a lot, they often depart with them to combat no matter the situation. Most of the army is heavy infantry with Wolf Guard terminators, BladeGuards, Wolf Guard with jetpacks supported by melta rifles and long fangs with lascannons and Thunderwolves cavalry flanking. They started they story as a full Primaris chapter and after fighting some orks and losing badly due to their lack of training and experience against the savage greenskins, they were rescued by a company of Space Wolves. Seeing how poorly equipped the Silver Fangs were at the beginning and how much more training they needed, a part of the Space Wolves Company veterans and Wolf Guards took them under their wings and made them true sons of Russ. After 2 millennia and the blessing of the Grimnar himself, the Silver Fangs, accompanied by their veteran detachment, set for the stars towards Iritsium III, an imperial planet under siege by Chaos Space Marines warband. One of the SF, who showed great promise and leadership during the siege, managed to kill, in duel, the self proclaimed king of the sector of Iritsium, the Chaos Space Marine Lord "Avraks" of the Burning Skulls traitor Chapter warband, and led his fellow BladeGuards against the what was left of the leadership of the traitors. The Wolf Guard veterans nicknamed him Elric "Kingslayer" and eventually became the Chapter Master of the Silver Fangs. After fighting Chaos around and even some Harleyquinns (of which, he barely made it out alive), A new crusade by Lord Guilliman (10th edition) was called and he switched his BladeGuard armor for a new Terminator armor and a Frost Thunder Hammer but decided to keep his Relic Bladeguard shield and Helmet as they saved his life multiple times.
All of this happen during many many 9th edition tabletop games and I write more and more of the Silver Fang's stories as I play more and more of 10th. It's my way to see how my successor chapter lives and fight for me on the tabletop.
Only just started the hobby last year but immedietly decided to go with my own style paintjob. And from there kinda came up with stuff on the fly for my newly dubbed Renegade Chapter.
The Cockatrices! General gist was head librarian and discovered (and thusly got corrupted by) a chaos artifact. Lost his legs, earned the title "The Legless" after my cat shattered his bottom half. He now has ghostly looking forgefiend tentacles as limbs! From there he murdered the chapter master, took his place at the head yadda yadda.
Their shtick is petrifcatiion. All members have stone skin and they turn all their cultists into living statues to use as cannon fodder. And their weapons of course, petrify. Had all kinds of stories formed from my local store thanks to just playing, my favorite being the single cultist who destroyed an Eldar Titan.
Your brothers must be pure and your brotherhood strong
Im working on a Night Lords successor chapter that flaw is that they can feel fear, unlike other space marine chapters. They were created to deal with a space rat infestation on some planet and dress up for the most part like Ultramarines (working closely with them and claiming they are a successor to them instead of the Night Lords) with the exception of their shoulder pads which are a darker Night Lords blue.
this will help alot of people out I know it but the Guard will always be my poster boys as they got me into the Hobby
At first my custom chapter was ultramarines colour, with purple shoulderpads and lower right leg. They were really dark and nothing stood out. So i made the shoulderpads a very light grey. Much better.
Making some testmodels really helps!
My successor chapter are going to combine both the black templars and Imperial Fists, heavily leaning into the Holy Roman Empire and tuetonic knights theme, while making use of librarians. I think I want them to be based on a fortress world guarding the eye of terror, now cicatrix maledictum, with a homeworld but also fleet based, the main chapter staying homebound whereas the rest are crusading.
I’m working on a 19th founding with a mix of iron warriors and blood angels gene seed. They both work in chaos and unity together, they are more aggressive when it comes to combat and when the black rage is active it gets worse, but when normal the tactician comes out from the iron warriors side.
My own personal chapter is some loyalist World Eaters/ Luna wolves that managed to escape the istvan 3 massacre. They have been keeping an extremely low profile since the end of the scouring. They are a fleet based chapter thats semi flexible, but perfers ambush tactics. They have 3 strike cruisers and some smaller escorts. They use the old world eater paint scheme but with a cresent moon. They are currently in imperium secundus. And that's what I got.
i'm quite a newcomer to the hobby proper, but i've been engaged with the setting for a long while
i've got a whole star system in the imperium nihilus with a bunch of homebrewed armies (a cohort of the farsight enclaves searching for a piece of archeotech, an ork warband hurled at the system through a warp portal that are obsessed with 'da big one' which is a planet sized orbital railgun dreamed up by their insane warboss, et cetera), but the centerpiece is my chapter
the covenant (the name parallel to that organization on colchis is intentional), white scars successors who have diverged from their other brother chapters, inheriting a fierce loyalty to their own homeworld rather than chogoris, fracturing their relationship with their primogenitors
skipping a lot of details that are irrelevant here, the main story beat is that almost all of the chapter's firstborn were lost in the warp, and the chapter was only saved by the reinforcements from the indomitus crusade. their new and current chapter master was a captain of the greyshields, and when he and his ~400 greyshield brothers were sent to the covenant's homeworld, they found the chapter was missing its entire command cadre and barely had any forces left, so he was thrust into the role of chapter master and tasked with rebuilding the chapter
the firstborn that were lost, which included basically the entire command structure, would become my renegade warband, cursed by warp entities to be remade in the warp each time they die, slowly losing their minds as they kill and die over and over, most of their soldiers utterly broken psychologically
and so the renewed covenant search for their lost, not knowing the fate of those who were lost
there's a lot of narrative juiciness i love in this chapter
I have been working on a chapter called the 'Umbral Coyotes', a 19th Founding chapter belonging to the Vostok Sector. Adept at Urban and Tactical warfare, they are comfortable leading and fighting alongside guardsmen and having been fighting primarily Chaos and Drukhari forces on their borders. Some members have done a stint on the Deathwatch, and others have been tasked to fight other forces across the galaxy, but primarily their specialty is Chaos and Renegades. Currently have them as White Scars stock, but I'm undecided on that, as they are more friendly and caring about the humans and even sanctioned abhumans in the galaxy. By the time of the Ultima Founding their forces were dwindling low due to the proximity of their home sector and neighboring sectors to the Cicitrix Maleditcum, and are slowly recovering thanks to the Primaris Marines. Kinda working out the kinks though just dunno where to post the whole bit when done!
I currently have a loyalist Sons of Horus Successor Chapter. The idea was during the GC a company of SoH went out on compliance only to, on the way to the muster as Istvann-3, they get lost in the Warp. The reason they’re lost is because of the Ruinstorm which causes them to lose the Astronomicon and get lost in the Warp. Only for, after a year later, to finally find the Light of the Astronomicon again. Emerging in the 42 millennium.
Ive had an idea of a successor chapter of the Luna Wolves.
The Devil Dogs.
While out on assignment, they receive word of Horus' wounding on Davin. In their desperation to reunite with their brothers, they are lost in the Warp, only re-emerging in Realspace around 100 years ago. Learning of their father's betrayal and death, they pledge themselves to wiping out as many traitor marines as they can, in hopes of finding redemption before their inevitable end.
Another tip is what is there home world like? You can tell a lot about a chapter based on where they get their recruits
Example: my chapter the Night cobras control the world of Doisagg a former planet wide junkyard now overgrown into a dense jungle of monsters. The planet has an effect that hampers technology from working. This means that the planet has lots of technology buried under deep jungles. The marines often use local monsters for mounts to hunt for tech. Outriders riding dinosaurs and most of the chapter preferring lighter armor. However the tech when it does work allows them to build superior dreadnoughts from scrap.Thus the planet combines both their dual natures of recon forces and melee dreadnoughts.
I’m working on a Night Lord successor called the Oblivion Heralds, founded in M38 by defectors from multiple chaos legions who through the bloated bureaucracy of the imperium managed to get recognized as Dark Angels successors and submitted their founder’s geneseed to be replicated by the Adeptus Mechanicus. All the living battle brothers are therefore from diluted Night Lord stock, but they have 2 dreadnoughts, one was once a World Eater, the other was a Thousand Son. They are entirely fleet based, they never deploy in surface wars and have no vehicles other than their dreadnoughts
A successor chapter that is full of confused Alpha Legionnaires. Who are disguised as a successor chapter of the Ultramarines.
Ive been workinng on a Space shark variation called the "iron tide" They garrison the ocean forge world of Abyssius (my main army is Admech). In exchange for protecting the forgeworld and deepsea mines from frequent tyranid and chaos attacks. the mechanicus and Cawl reinforce the Iron tide with primaris marines and new ships and vehicles from the orbital dockyards. The will specialize in ariel assault, stealth and close combat.
Bro I've been rewatching your videos lately and you are incredibly underrated
You have no clue how much I appreciate that, thank you brother!
Aztec marines would go SO FUCKING HARD THO
You know, out of all the videos I've seen for making successor chapters, this one has helped the most. Thanks!
Glad it helped good sir!
Black watch. Dark angels second founding who were originally stationed as a defensive force near caliban to ward the eye of terror. They racked up a reputation for being unbreakable and became known as the lions demon hunters. When the Horus heresy started they attempted to rejoin the dark angels fleet and respond to Tera but were interrupted en route, getting trapped in a space hulk. After several thousand years trapped and constantly fighting against xenos and chaos demons. They were freed. A blood angels chapter freed them in 37500 days at that time they had dropped to only 4 companies, although those four companies are veterans all and incredibly adept at close combat and boarding action, graduating to veteran companies and deathwing as the chapters core, they continue to serve under the command of watch master xandriel lorn, slowly rebuiling their numbers through the addition of the new primaris. They suffer at longer ranges and vehicle warfare having been off the larger scale fields for so long. But they continue to be devoted followers of the lion and the god emperor.
I started working on the grozny devils a few days ago. I based them on the chechen separatist due to the fact that I like reading about stuff that happened in the 90s
I’ve been putting together a Cursed Founding chapter: Astrogatorinae or Space Crocs.
They are a hybrid of Night Lords and Sallies.
Some crazy tech priest thought he could make the perfect balance
I have an idea for an Iron Hands successor chapter. Unlike the Iron Hands who despise the flesh, they really love their flesh. Even their Techmarines refuse to turn their bodies into machines. They specialise in Psychological warfare and heavy assaults. The mechanicus also have a love hate relationship with this chapter, you know because "The flesh is weak" and these guys love their flesh so much. However i dont have an idea for the chapters name and the color scheme for it.
I've got to admit. It's way easier for me to make up a Guardsmen regiment than a Space Marine chapter.
With the Guard you can start from the scratch, but with the Space Marines I'm already struggling with the legion of origin (and I don't want it stemming from an unknown legion)
I've got my own little Salamanders successors called the Platinum Dragons.
In the 35th Millenium, the Platinum Dragons were founded on the second planet in a system dubbed Fafnir, chosen for its similar environment to Nocturne. A century or two after establishing their chapter monastery, the system was obscured in a warp storm that put them in a temporal stasis for around six millennia. Closely monitored, they were welcomed back into the Imperium Sanctis upon the storm's dissipation in the 41st millenium.
Thanks to the system's relatively close proximity to Holy Terra, they were chosen among the first to cross the Rubicon Primaris once the tests were complete, with all but their 7th company making the conversion. The chapter's centurion squads were dispersed through the other 6 companies, with the 7th becoming a Scout Company for trainees.
so useful for someone even with a chapter.
Congrats and thanks man👍!
Thank you brother!
My Homemade Chapter is actually a fan made Legion known as the 20th Legion, the Inheritors Of Thunder. Cancer ridden Giants, even amongst Their own Astartes brethren, dying in mass droves they were on the brink of being deatroyed until the Thunder Warriors stepped in. The 20 Thunder Warrior Primarchs Bestowing them with their great idealsz forces and culture. With this aid they were attached to the 2nd Legion and became powerhouses of raw unbridled Front Line shock tactics, with an additional high support value. Having immense respect and honor for their older, and venerate their Entomed brother's. The Venerable Elders, Dreadnoughts.
Currently I'm working on a Ravenguard- space wolf chineric chapter that deploy and act only to hunt and seek out the biggest foes and most valuable of prey.
Their chapter master was a wolfguard who was preserved in ice by a tzeench daemon in 32k and only thawing out during the Current millennium.
On the battlefield they utilise terror and steath tactics in tandem, a perfect example of this was when they fought an army of traitor guard and instead of fighting them head on, entire regiments would disappear in the jungles of Ceruli IV.
Their main weakness is tunnel vision, if they have a target they will throw hyper focus that target on the battlefield, only killing what gets in their way. The issue is that they're often so hard to detect that it requires a lot of coordination to set a trap
Their design is based upon trophies and ghillie armour, their chief librarian has his power armour entirely covered by skulls and ghillie.
Their geneseed is chimeric, which results in a lot of instability within the chapter, normal astarties can push off the affects with the help of an apothecary (usually resulting in some minor transformation such as gaining black feathers or howling). But, if the victim of the decay is a psyker, then the decay feeds off of the latent energy and uses it to "perfect" the victim.
Unfortunately in these instances, the decay turns the victim silent and makes them incredibly volatile, librarians that get decayed often succumb to anger and attack everthing in sight, while phasing between visibility.
My custom chapter is a small, obscure chapter called the Black Sappers from the 26th founding. Their chapter homeworld is Terranova Borealis, and they are a Dark Angels successor. The culture of Terranova Borealis is based on my homeland, Newfoundland and Labrador, and the Black Sappers are loosely based on the miners and blue-collar industrial folk of my hometown in western Labrador. Their chapter master was in the Deathwing company, so they primarily use terminator armor. While not training for combat, the Black Sappers are known to aid in the massive open-pit mines in the subarctic mountains of Terranova Borealis. Their name comes from the thick layers of black ore dust that cakes their armor. They are painted in the white, blue and green of the Labrador flag, but they are covered in the dirt and grime of outdoor industrial equipment. Their chapter symbol is an evergreen branch growing out of a skull, representing the neverending cycle of life and death.
They have two prominent gene seed mutations. The firs is inherrited from their parent legion, as they are extremely secretive like the Dark Angels. The second one is strange. For some reason, the captains of this chapter grow to a massive size, 25% larger than the average space marine. (Note: This comes from a goof on my part that I've decided to incorporate into the chapter lore. I'm new to 40K, and I 3d printed my army. When I found out that the terminator captain was on a larger base than other terminators, I scaled up the model to fit. Now I have one *absolute unit* of a captain in my army, but I think that's kinda cool.)
As for how the larger Imperium sees them, the Black Sappers would rather that they don't. The chapter has taken great pains to make themselves and the planet of Terranova Borealis seem as unremarkable and forgetable as possible within the Imperial beureaucracy. This chapter and the people of their homeworld hold many secrets that would make them pariahs to the Imperium, bringing down the wrath of the Inquisition, the Mechanicus, and nearly every other faction of the Imperium on them if these things were known. Terranova Borealis only has a population of less than 50 million, and the Black Sappers are far from standard codex chapter strength. If the Imperium knew what they were hiding, Terranova Borealis wouldn't stand a chance, and the Black Sappers know it. For them, "Secrecy is Survival."
My successor chapter the Haast Eagles would take heart on an extinct bird from New Zealand. The Haast Eagle, I've still got to work on them but I have a lot of Ideas for them
My homebrew was based on the legion of the dammed color wise but are a salamanders successor but use a mos of salamander and black Templar tactics, and are named the Drake Templars.
oh this will be fun!
I'm working on dark angel successors, the crimson lions. Because all the memes that mad the lion look like tyrian lannister made me want a da chapter that had red and black with gold highlights theme.
I’ve been considering getting into 40k since the tabletop i used to play isn’t supported where I live now. I like the idea of Sergeant Chronus becoming chapter master of his own successor chapter of the ultramarines based around his title of Spear of Macragge. Maybe he was given a chapter to hunt down hive fleets and stop them from devouring worlds using his superior tactics with vehicles and blast weaponry.
Would it be possible for him to be put in charge of an existing chapter that is already assigned to that task that is rebuilding like the Scythes of the Emporer whose battle barge is named after him?
Absolutely!
been working on a chimeric 3rd founding chapter descended from a large warband of blackshields from the heresy called The Forgotten Sons, with around 60-65% of the initial geneseed population and much of the root culture traceable to Horus and his legion within their own histories but the story given to the majority of the imperium is them being yet another Ultramarine successor. could write for an age and a half on the lore and whatnot but sharing basic ideas is fun too
Abyssal Wolves: They have a large portion of redeemed chaos and renegade marines and many have scars from when ritual scars and tattoos were removed and thrown into the flames. They have a large portion of exorcists and tend to wear old armor. The helmets and hands of former traitors are painted red and the armor of those not taken from rogue forces are jet black, while traitors use old paint schemes with helmets and gauntlets painted red. Most dreadnaughts are crewed by traitors, and often mortals are often quickly turned into space marines to crew them, if only for a few hours. These men are never given beyond what is strictly necessary to control these, and none, first born included, are allowed to be in suspended animation in them.
While culturally they prefer fast moving blitzes they tend to fight defensively to defend Imperial forces and cities.
My current army is a renegade iron hands successor from the 21st founding. Some ad mech basically tried to make a chapter that was specially designed to hunt the dark mechanicus but they got too over zealous and started killing anything in their way after trying to chase a dark mechanicus magos and his army including some sisters of battle and other loyalist space marines. They got declared traitors after that and the iron hands got sent to kill them but the combined chapter fleet killed the iron hands force as they said "fuck it we ball" into the eye of terror to chase the dark mechanicus magos. They basically ran around in circles in the eye of terror until they got into a trap by the magos who gave them chaos covid 19 scrap code virus which made a bunch of the chapter turn to chaos and the rest lobotomized slaves. Now they go around stirring shit for the magos having heavy dark mechanicus support with legions of dreadnoughts and helbrutes
I'm working on a Blood Angels successor chapter named the Sanguinariae Sancti that blends Carthagenian culture and early Jewish mythologies. The Chapter Master is Azrael Hannibal, the Chief Librarian is Hasdrubal Refaeli, and the Chief Apothecary is Maharbal Tsoriel. They tend to use high-speed, high intensity hit and run guerilla warfare with Assault Intercessors supported by psykers to position their prey for the Terminators of First Company to teleport in and smash them. They're based out of New Carthage in Imperium Nihilus right near the edge of the Eye of Terror.
Congrats!!!
The successor chapters has always been my favorite side of the lore. 1,000 man fleets spread out just fighting off everything they come across.
I’ve created my own.
The Absolvers.
They are MASTERS of Ambush and they’re practically unknown in origin as they barely speak. They’re founding is considered a toss up between Rogal Dorn and Corvus Corax in geneseed. A Primaris exclusively chapter that just showed up one day. Gulliman himself doesn’t seem to know where they come as chaos machinations caused Cawl to lose a few reinforcement ships. Very stoic and Calm. The Absolvers have a seige and stealth style of combat. Heavy ordinance coupled with ambush and stealth tactics using long and medium ranges to cut down the foe when they’re least expecting it.
They are fleet based and are constantly setting up ambushes when the imperium is losing. Known for having a whole company of veteran pistol gunslingers that ambush enemy leadership and kill them on the spot with precision. Always jumping in at the last moment to turn things around. Never being seen or heard until they appear.
Using lots of tanks and missiles to cause mass damage as they assassinate key targets to completely wipe out the enemy.
They have a HUGE affinity for the human race. Guard, sisters, doesn’t matter the Absolvers will jump through hell to save people. Making them akin to Salamanders as well. They are known for using the people they save as replenishment for their ranks. Sisters becoming naval officers and ranked among their chapter. The Absolvers have NO ego nor do they care for listening to the high lords of Terra or the inquisition. Getting into conflicts with them. Given The Absolvers don’t say much.
So the Absolvers were infamous for battling the Minotaurs to a stand still as they’ve been sent out to cause damage to the Absolvers per the high lords of Terra not liking the fact that nobody can ever seemingly find the Absolvers each time they do something the high lords don’t like.
This video kinda helped me a bit with what I wanted my chapter to be. I’m currently working on a Ultramarine successor chapter based on the french Grande Armée, with each company being Corp (inside of which are “regiments” of about 30 marines) and ranks inspired by ranks from the French of that time. They, of course, have an affinity for Line battle and Artillery, with regimental XO relaying orders via pre-recorded Fire and Drums that they play from speakers. I still gotta flesh it out a lot and barely started on characters but I think this could be a pretty fun chapter😊.
Edit: forgot to mention but they also have regimental and Corp Standarts with golden Eagles on them and it’s a huge deal when one is lost, which also plays into what the chapter is up to right now.
I want to dedicate a chapter to the kids in the Residential Schools in Kamloops here in Canada. Their predecessors will be the White Scars and they will be called "Reconciliators". The Chapter Master will be distinguished by the headdress
Today (Sept 30, 2023) is National Reconciliation Day.
My Chapter I have been working on is B. ANGEL successor chapter Created shortly after the Devestation.
Consuls Encarmine, or Crimson Consuls.(haven't really finalized the name.)
One of the many new chapters organized by Dante and Guilliman after the Devestation of Baal. The Consuls Encarmine are a fleet based chapter that have been ordered by Dante to aid in recovering the disparate and isolated systems of Nihilus.
Currently the chapter is separated by a warp storm, the larger part embattled with Traitors from the Word Bearer legion. The war is being led by 2nd Company Captain Carolus, and Guard Colonel Kaspian Leonid of the 44th Jouran Dragoons.
My successor chapter are called the Shadow Dragons and their gene seed are derived from both the Salamander and Raven Guard gene stock. They specialize in covet missions, particularly rescue missions usually of people of great importance.
My Successor is named after my favorite boss from Dark Souls 3: the Abyss Watchers, and the best fight (at the time) from Dark Souls.
Actually, most of their lore is 40k meets Dark Souls. Their chapter masters are literally all named Artorias.
Every Chapter of the Unforgiven (the order each and every Dark Angel successor belongs to) has a defined role; mine are the executioners. Specifically in regards to heretics and demons.
In Dark Souls, the appearance of the Abyss Watchers signaled the demise of a kingdom, for it was deemed corrupted by the Abyss.
If the fleet of the Abyss Watchers convenes, your planet will become the next Cadia. Their astropaths have heard the psychic cries from the warp and led the Chapter to your world to proceed with its immediate destruction, for it has been corrupted and tainted by Chaos. If the strategic value is absolute, and the planet can’t be destroyed, 6 way oversized companies (*cough* wings *cough*) of highly specialized Astartes are going to personally oversee the delivery of a swift execution. Much like the Minotaurs, the entire chapter deploys to war.
Fashioned in the culture of their (former) homeworld, a dreadful medieval world, the Chapter is *heavily* non compliant with regards to the Codex Astartes: a major break compared to the Dark Angels and the Unforgiven, who are divergent. Their vaults are filled with scavenged relics from the time of the original Dark Angels legion, not to mention the relics and wargear from a watch fortress of the Deathwatch.
Oh yeah. Their fortress monastery is a former watch fortress.
So many hours of scouring the wiki, reading the books, building, painting, and playing this wargame have led me to 20,000 points of these absolute chads in narrative games, at least as of 9th edition. All the captains and the chapter master have nameplates, all their veterans have earned their way to names over years of narrative gaming, and the models I’ve used for games of kill team have, you guessed it, have names.
And I’m still expanding it. One day, I’ll have a complete *physical* space marine chapter: tanks, dreadnoughts, aircraft, and of course marines.
My father in law got me into this hobby, and he’s been collecting since the Dark Angels were introduced.
Storm paladins, a celtic fleet based chapter that has a few worlds near the ghoul stars for recruitment, created for indomitus era by cawl rumour has it they're a mix of two gene seeds, one being a lost primarch! Lol
I've been working on an Iron Hand successor with a centurion as chapter master who's basically just a brain in a tube inside a bulking armor, no fleet only single battle barge operated by 100 battle brothers and 500 human servants, and 1 magos mechanicus tech priest with around 700-1000 skitarii in his disposal.
the twist is they also a rouge trader.
how a space marine become a rouge trader? long story... 😅
they'd be working under the authority of the forge world ryza so there might be a lot of plasma shooting going on and lots of accidental suicide explosion, which is why most of their human crews are also highly augmented but not necessarily a servitor and it cause a huge problem sometimes in the compliance department but nevertheless they could work it out under the chapter master guidance.
their speciality is in void war, rarely make planet fall and never engaged when the odds are too slim.
I'm still working on the battle barge specification, trying to not overkill... 😅
Have been chipping away at a chapter placed under an ancient geass by the Eldar. They are struggling to remain loyal while hiding the curse from the Inquisition.
Calling them the Hounds of Doom.
I have an idea of making a Salamander Successor Chapter called the Golden Dragons. I want them to prioritize plasma weapons as refined holy fire. They are strictly hierarchical, putting emphasis on refining themselves and their skills and these skills through ritual endurance tests and battle. They have very similar coloration to base salamander but LOTS more gold infused. Still baking the idea but I like it so far