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Kind of an odd question here. So the Space Wolves are somewhat Norse in their inspiration, the Ultramarines are Greco-Roman, etc. Just wondering if there's a Space Marine chapter out there that's identifiably Germanic in flavor? Either pagan barbarian Germanic, or all the way up to Prussian?

Not to my knowledge, although there's WW1 and WW2 Germany present in the Imperial Guard. Somebody a while ago did a really gorgeous WW1 army for their IG.

Not that i can think of but if you created your own chapter and used the SW codex i think you could get the results you want.

Vindicator#9 wrote:Not that i can think of but if you created your own chapter and used the SW codex i think you could get the results you want.

I'm a little unsure of using the SW Codex to do Counts-As for a non-SW chapter. It's just so...Wolf-oriented. Same for BA, which I'd be even happier to do.

Rascon wrote:Kind of an odd question here. So the Space Wolves are somewhat Norse in their inspiration, the Ultramarines are Greco-Roman, etc. Just wondering if there's a Space Marine chapter out there that's identifiably Germanic in flavor? Either pagan barbarian Germanic, or all the way up to Prussian?

I have not heard of any that are Germanic, Best way to do this is make your own.

and once you get the Role Play for the chapter, use whatever SM book kind of fits your RP.

or use the vanilla SM book since that is more or less 'Universal'

Black templars are the closest to german I can think of.

Forget Germanic. If we are talking flavor, I want some Salt & Vinegar Marines.

Bromsy got it, I think.
Helbrecht sounds pretty germanic to me

A lot of the Chaos Space marine stuff has Germanic influence. It's more clear in whfb but it's there in 40k too.

Black Templars are loosly based off of the Knights Templar, from the Crusades. Oddly fitting due to the rampant racism displayed during the period, by both sides.

You could easily make a Teutonic style black templar force. As said they're all about crusading so would really fit with their style.

Bromsy wrote:Black templars are the closest to german I can think of.

Haha i just finnished up there codex this morning...and i think the templars are the closest thing you going to find of a German influenced SM
force but there more like the holy roman empire but as for pagan Germanic barbarians the wolves are a perfect proxy... and here is a link to where starting a fandex for Mr.nids Emperor's Shields


http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/310304.page

Lexx wrote:You could easily make a Teutonic style black templar force. As said they're all about crusading so would really fit with their style.

mmm yes, you can, anyway im impelled to remind that crusades and templars came along more countries apart from Germany. Spain and France played a major role in them, and all of them were a bunch of badass zealots

Yeh but they do have the iron cross on their shoulders

The Teutonic Templars. Oh yes that would be Amazing, "Panzer" Class Predators or "King Tiger" Land Raiders.
The Chapter master would have a huge Hammer and be called "Sigmar", "Seigfied" or "Manfred". "Red Baron" FTW.
IG had the Death Korps of Krieg which is basically WW1 German Sturmtroopers.

My Chapter is Based heavyly On the Knights Templar and the ANZAC's.
Asherain, Navous, Zekai, Alpha, Calnor
hehehe. I'm so clever.

Imperial Fists and successors are Germanic in theme, based of the Junker sort of class system.

Bromsy wrote:Black templars are the closest to german I can think of.

Templar were french in origin. But they became so wide spread that it wouldn't be abnormal for there to be germanic Templar.

Black Corsair wrote:

Lexx wrote:You could easily make a Teutonic style black templar force. As said they're all about crusading so would really fit with their style.

mmm yes, you can, anyway im impelled to remind that crusades and templars came along more countries apart from Germany. Spain and France played a major role in them, and all of them were a bunch of badass zealots

Quite true. I based my variant Templar chapter after the color pattern used by a Portuguese knightly order.

No mention of White Scars? They got the mongol vibe going on. Can't think of anything else at the moment (in terms of SM that is)

Mongol isn't German though, hence no mention.
Black Templars certainly are the Teutonic reference of 40K, as for a more barbaric German 'flavoured' chapter, that doesn't really fit in with SM. Not without being too similar to SW.