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You know I have discussed this and discussed this but i really don't know who has the largest fleet in the space marines that are loyalists.
Also question how many (fluff wise) Battle Barges can a chapter have?

Jokingly, I would say Blood ravens.

Seriously, the Black templars probably have a pretty hefty force. And as many as they can get their hands on, probably putting the blood ravens in the lead on how many barges there are in an army.

Black Templars, hands down.

Tossup for me between Ultramarines and Black Templars...but I think its the Templars (as they are fleet based and ignore the rules about membership limits)

SO no other chapter is known for space fighting?

Black Templars....no doubt

Asherian Command wrote:SO no other chapter is known for space fighting?

Eh, there are some fleet based chapters, but most of them follow Codex Astartes to some degree. BT just threw it out of the window and cried "ENDLESS CRUSADE, RARGH".

the Doom Legion has a Pre-heresy star fortress called Faithful's Deliverance.

I remember reading somewhere that the space sharks/charcharodons have a pretty large fleet, but I don't remember where I read it.

Imperial Fists has the Death Star aka Phalanx, and many more.

The Imperial Fists has the Phalanx.

Mr Nobody wrote:I remember reading somewhere that the space sharks/charcharodons have a pretty large fleet, but I don't remember where I read it.

They took almost half the Lamenters fleet as their prize.

bluedestiny wrote:Imperial Fists has the Death Star aka Phalanx, and many more.

forruner_mercy wrote:The Imperial Fists has the Phalanx.

So I heard from somewhere that the Imperial Fists have the Phalanx.

The Ultramarines has the most number of battle barge.

Adsidus - Battle Barge
Aeternus - Battle Barge
Caesar - Battle Barge, destroyed (details vary12,2d,13)
Emperor Incarnatus - Battle Barge
Lord Lamedon - Battle Barge
Octavius - Battle Barge
Pro Merito - Battle Barge; lost in the warp[Needs Citation]
Seditio Opprimere - Battle Barge
Severian - Battle Barge

The LARGEST fleet in one chapters control is hands down the Black Templar. Most of the Fists succesors are or were fleet based. Even then that doesn't guarantee a large fleet the Crimson Fists were fleet based once and down to what two BBs? The Blood angels have what three? I'm not backing these up by checking that's IIRC. the DAs have the Rock and a fleet although it's most likely made up primarily of Cruisers. I'd say a chapter COULD have at least one BB for each Battle Company so in theory 5 at a maximum and none at a minimum.

Sword of Silence wrote:The Ultramarines has the most number of battle barge.

Except maybe the Imperial fists and the Black Templars who have a monstrous fleet.

What is the current amount though :/

Asherian Command wrote:

Mr Nobody wrote:I remember reading somewhere that the space sharks/charcharodons have a pretty large fleet, but I don't remember where I read it.

They took almost half the Lamenters fleet as their prize.

It is the Minotaurs,not Charcharodons
"Most notably he led a victorious boarding assault against the Lamenters' strike cruiser Dawn Reaper during the cataclysmic Battle of Optera"
"he" is the Minotaurs Chaplain lvanus Enkomi

Where do DA fall?

Black Templars!

Black Templars are likely the biggest, though a lot of them are smaller ships suitable for splitting Crusades up all over the place.

Ultramarines have the most Battlebarges of any known Chapter (a ludicrous and unrealistic amount IMO).

The Imperial Fists have the most pwerful ship (Phalanx) and probably a very large and powerful fleet, being a fleet based, First Founding, Crusade chapter.

Charcharadons fleet is very large, and made up of old ships like Grand Cruisers etc, which are often better in "line of battle" fights than Astartes ships.

Minotaurs were always powerful in space, and after taking most of the Lamenters ships are definitely well up the scale.

Space Wolves have a large and fairly powerful fleet, though it is usually split up among the 12 great companies.

Thats probably the most powerful fleets I can think of offhand, but tbh most fleet based Chapters will be fairly powerful, if not quite on this level.

Also, the older chapters will tend to accrue a lot of tech, including ships. So in general, the more established they are, the more likely they will have a powerful fleet.

I don't know much about 40K fluff but as far as I know Black Templars have an unknown amount of units and ships.

Other than what's been suggested here already, the Fire Hawks were noted in Imperial Armour IX for their impressive fleet, including the warp-capable fortress Raptorus Rex, supposedly the most powerful vessel fielded in the Badab conflict.

True, the Fire Hawks were a big fleet Chapter, and the Raptorus Rex was incredibly powerful (it was a fleet all by itself tbh).

Sadly, they no longer exist, as the entire Chapter Fleet was lost in the warp in 936.M41 (Legion of the Damned are a seperate subject).

Indeed; truly that was a sad day for manufacturers of red and yellow paint.

I will bung for BT by far.

I would definitely say the Black Templars.

Ultramarines only have 3 battle barges at current according to the codex, so that leaves them around the norm for codex chapters.

I'm actually kind of surprised the Blood Angels don't have a larger fleet, considering that their codex makes a point of the fact that they travel all over the Imperium instead of keeping to a specific area like most chapters.

I'd say BT in terms of nmbers but not in terms of strength.

Caesar was the one that got hammered in The Chapters Due, I believe. Completely totalled.

From what I could tell when reading it, Chapters Due was basically a direct sequel to Codex Space Marines, so I suppose it's pretty canon...ish.

Probably templars do win though by numbers. However, you never know what The Phalanx could pull off, didn't it pretty much stay in orbit throughout the whole Invasion of Terra?

Dark Angels probably don't really count, since by official numbers they're separated in to Chapters. Then again, internally, aside from the newbie chapters (who probably get new ships?), they're effectively still a legion.

So, I guess it depends on what your frame of reference is.

Space Wolves ... for some reason powerful enough to deal with the entire Segmentum Pacifica Navy.

That singular piece of fluff aside I suppose I'd lean towards the Black Templars, too. They are fairly large as a Chapter already, and their focus on Crusades would seem to make them rely heavily on spaceborne assets.
Just a more or less uneducated guess, though.