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Raven Guard.

In the novel Hunt for Voldorius, the White Scars notice that the RG's power armor servos are totally silent compared to theirs.

Their power armors are tweaked for total silent running.

The Raven Gurad by far they are a founding chapter that remained loyal and during the Targus Campaign Kayvaan Shrike and his command squad killed over 500 orks without being seen ... and Shrike is not the stealthiest of the Raven Guard ... if you dont believe me then read the book or look it up in the lexicanum

Raptors. They are Raven Guard devoted entirely to stealth tactics. So anyone saying Raven Guard is actually saying Raptors, since by their specific division, they were the ones focused on sneaking.

And Alpha Legion is wrong for at least two reasons: 1. they aren't a chapter. 2. They didn't use stealth as a battlefield strategy. They use infiltration and spying, not suddenly ambushing you with a thousand marines.

Anyone saying Night Lords is also wrong (even aside from them not being loyalists and thus ineligible for the thread).

The Night Lords make use of terror tactics. While that sometimes means being stealthy, it's only a means towards a very conspicuous end: letting the enemy know you are there, and making them piss themselves in fear before you even start the battle.

Night Lords would pull the classic movie badguy "leave the last guy alive and tell him to tell his boss who did this" move. Raven Guard would kill everyone and leave no calling card.

Raven Guard are spec ops. Night Lords are the freaking mafia.

Grey Knights, can't get sneakier then teleporting in behind the enemy. Or making a shroud of darkness so you can't see them.

How can marines be stealthy though you could prob here them a mile off with power armour foot steps.

Bassline wrote:Grey Knights, can't get sneakier then teleporting in behind the enemy. Or making a shroud of darkness so you can't see them.

How can marines be stealthy though you could prob here them a mile off with power armour foot steps.

What?

Ilove40k wrote:

Bassline wrote:Grey Knights, can't get sneakier then teleporting in behind the enemy. Or making a shroud of darkness so you can't see them.

How can marines be stealthy though you could prob here them a mile off with power armour foot steps.

What?

Power armour foot steps.
They're a thing now...

For having been in the Army, I think SM can walk stealthly with a power armor because even is I had 50+ lbs I could walk stealthly so I don't see why a super human with a power armor couldn't do this its all in the feet!

Ilove40k wrote:For having been in the Army, I think SM can walk stealthly with a power armor because even is I had 50+ lbs I could walk stealthly so I don't see why a super human with a power armor couldn't do this its all in the feet!

Trenching through a forest, with power amour can you really go unnoticed? You will leave foot prints esp if you are the size of a super human and got power armour on. I am better those are not little boot prints as well. How can you be stealthy if you can be tracked?

Landing on a planet, thunderhawk or drop pod. Your making allot of noise and can be spotted with the naked eye to. Teleporting who can see a space ship in orbit teleporting down troops?

Bassline wrote: Teleporting who can see a space ship in orbit teleporting down troops?

No human I know

Seriously, do you tend to see all the satellites that orbit the earth?

Bassline wrote:
Landing on a planet, thunderhawk or drop pod. Your making allot of noise and can be spotted with the naked eye to.

Yeah, I totally see all those orbital launches in Florida from here in Missouri. Oh wait, no...

Turns out planets are slightly larger than a grocery store parking lot.

You would really have to define the "stealth" that you are talking about. Do you mean unable to be seen by the enemy or the best at ambushing?

CalgarsPimpHand wrote:Anyone saying Night Lords is also wrong (even aside from them not being loyalists and thus ineligible for the thread).

The Night Lords make use of terror tactics. While that sometimes means being stealthy, it's only a means towards a very conspicuous end: letting the enemy know you are there, and making them piss themselves in fear before you even start the battle.

This.

ADB in Soul Hunter wrote:
'Surprise is an insubstantial blade, a sword worthless in war.
It breaks when troops rally. It snaps when commanders hold the line.
But fear never fades.
Fear is a blade that sharpens with use.
So let the enemy know we come. Let their fears defeat them as everything falls dark.
As the world's sun sets...
As the city is wreathed in its final night...
Let ten thousand howls promise ten thousand claws.
The Night Lords are coming.
And no soul that stands against us shall see another dawn.'

IMO LotD are the stealthy one, kinda, well only when they arrive and leave. They come out of no where most of the time right in the middle of the enemy or behind them. Then they shoot ALL the bullets, make ALL the noise, kill ALL the xenos, then leave without a trace and never say a word the whole time.

Ilove40k wrote:For having been in the Army, I think SM can walk stealthly with a power armor because even is I had 50+ lbs I could walk stealthly so I don't see why a super human with a power armor couldn't do this its all in the feet!

I don't think weight is as much of a problem as the fact that power armor itself makes noise as it moves. It has to robotically match the movements of whoever is wearing it. It's probably going to make whirring noises at its most quiet.

The Raven Guard for all the reason stated above .
Also Mantis Warriors have special sniper teams, not scouts in training but actual SM battle brothers sneaking around and sniping filthy xenos.

I would say Raptors. Why? Because after looking at Lexicanum and IA 9, I realized that they were the closest in terms of Reasonable Marine tactics, which is exactly what I am going for.

Though I didn't realize that Mantis Warriors had devoted Sniper Teams.

Backspacehacker wrote:IMO LotD are the stealthy one, kinda, well only when they arrive and leave. They come out of no where most of the time right in the middle of the enemy or behind them. Then they shoot ALL the bullets, make ALL the noise, kill ALL the xenos, then leave without a trace and never say a word the whole time.

Make ALL the meme references!!!

And also QFT.
This and the two missing legions are definetely the most original posts in this thread.

Justicar Cliesthenes wrote:What does the dakka community think is the the stealthiest loyalist space marine chapter? Raptors? mantis Warriors? Raven Guard?
What are your thoughts? Out of the stealthy chapters which do you find the "coolest"

Propably Raven guard.

Is there an absolute 'stealthiest' Chapter? There are plenty of Chapters whose doctrine deals with sneakiness, but there's no way to compare Chapters as a whole with each other on things like this, no metrics to compare that would let us work out which is 'stealthier'.

To my knowledge, the Raven Guard and Dark Angels among the original Legions tend to operate in more covert fashions than the rest, other 'stealthy' Chapters would probably be born of their gene-seed.

the raptors are commandos
the raven guards are raiders
the pre hh alpha legion is the most sophisticated one, almost subtle in their approach until the cut loose

fluff says Raven Guard

it is their whole schtick