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Just read through the Sanctus Reach book today. Was funny to see Space Marines on the receiving end of getting crushed completely.

Obsidian Glaives we barely knew yee.

What are some of your guys' favorite chapters that got completely decimated?

Scythes of the Emperor.

Do you mean decimated as in reduced by a factor of ten or do you mean destroyed.

zeromaeus wrote:
Do you mean decimated as in reduced by a factor of ten or do you mean destroyed.

Preferably destroyed. Though I have to say the Lamenters have a soft spot for me.

The Lamenters are pretty great. That's probably what I would say for the former option. Dunno what Zi'd say for the latter.

I'm torn between Celestial Lions and Angels Revenant..

The Blood Angels, for their supreme idiocy.

The new Space Hulk game opens with the tale; the Blood Angels find a Space Hulk, and set upon it readily. In the attempt, almost their entire Chapter is wiped out. There are obvious problems with this - you'd think that after the first 40%, they may start to reconsider. The best part is that, upon encountering another Space Hulk six hundred years later, they do exactly the same thing. They just so happen to get lucky and succeed this time, though (even though they only used Terminators, despite TDA being actively detrimental when fighting Genestealers). Honour, and whatnot!

 Frozen Ocean wrote:
The Blood Angels, for their supreme idiocy.

The new Space Hulk game opens with the tale; the Blood Angels find a Space Hulk, and set upon it readily. In the attempt, almost their entire Chapter is wiped out. There are obvious problems with this - you'd think that after the first 40%, they may start to reconsider. The best part is that, upon encountering another Space Hulk six hundred years later, they do exactly the same thing. They just so happen to get lucky and succeed this time, though (even though they only used Terminators, despite TDA being actively detrimental when fighting Genestealers). Honour, and whatnot!

That's not new from the videogame, I'm pretty sure that's old fluff from the original boardgame several editions ago.

The Howling Griffins.

The Astral Knights, sacrificed their entire chapter to destroy the Necron World engine. If that doesn't embody the sacrifice required of every Astartes, I don't know what does.

The Invaders, don't even know what the feth happened to everyone, besides the previous bloodbaths. Slowly rebuilding though.

I really dig the Relictors, a renegade chapter headed by a radical inquisitor who harnesses daemonic artifacts in the service of the imperium... or maybe they're just chaos marines with a good cover story. In anycase, the Grey Knights roflstomped them into oblivion.

Fire hawks dying tragically in the warp. Now they are the legion of the damned or the emperors demons is how I think of them.

 Wyzilla wrote:

 Frozen Ocean wrote:
The Blood Angels, for their supreme idiocy.

The new Space Hulk game opens with the tale; the Blood Angels find a Space Hulk, and set upon it readily. In the attempt, almost their entire Chapter is wiped out. There are obvious problems with this - you'd think that after the first 40%, they may start to reconsider. The best part is that, upon encountering another Space Hulk six hundred years later, they do exactly the same thing. They just so happen to get lucky and succeed this time, though (even though they only used Terminators, despite TDA being actively detrimental when fighting Genestealers). Honour, and whatnot!

That's not new from the videogame, I'm pretty sure that's old fluff from the original boardgame several editions ago.

It is, but the game opens with it. It's funny because it tells this in total seriousness with a very dramatic voice-over.

 Frozen Ocean wrote:

 Wyzilla wrote:

 Frozen Ocean wrote:
The Blood Angels, for their supreme idiocy.

The new Space Hulk game opens with the tale; the Blood Angels find a Space Hulk, and set upon it readily. In the attempt, almost their entire Chapter is wiped out. There are obvious problems with this - you'd think that after the first 40%, they may start to reconsider. The best part is that, upon encountering another Space Hulk six hundred years later, they do exactly the same thing. They just so happen to get lucky and succeed this time, though (even though they only used Terminators, despite TDA being actively detrimental when fighting Genestealers). Honour, and whatnot!

That's not new from the videogame, I'm pretty sure that's old fluff from the original boardgame several editions ago.

It is, but the game opens with it. It's funny because it tells this in total seriousness with a very dramatic voice-over.

The better question is why the hell did the Blood Angels just happen to have a thousand suits of indomitus terminator armor just lying around. gak, dozens of chapters, including their successors, would kill for just some of that armor.

 Wyzilla wrote:

 Frozen Ocean wrote:

 Wyzilla wrote:

 Frozen Ocean wrote:
The Blood Angels, for their supreme idiocy.

The new Space Hulk game opens with the tale; the Blood Angels find a Space Hulk, and set upon it readily. In the attempt, almost their entire Chapter is wiped out. There are obvious problems with this - you'd think that after the first 40%, they may start to reconsider. The best part is that, upon encountering another Space Hulk six hundred years later, they do exactly the same thing. They just so happen to get lucky and succeed this time, though (even though they only used Terminators, despite TDA being actively detrimental when fighting Genestealers). Honour, and whatnot!

That's not new from the videogame, I'm pretty sure that's old fluff from the original boardgame several editions ago.

It is, but the game opens with it. It's funny because it tells this in total seriousness with a very dramatic voice-over.

The better question is why the hell did the Blood Angels just happen to have a thousand suits of indomitus terminator armor just lying around. gak, dozens of chapters, including their successors, would kill for just some of that armor.

I'm pretty sure they just have the normal amount of Terminator armour, they definitely don't have one suit for every marine..?

I don't think they had 1000 suits, just that Terminators were what was played in the game (TDA was created for the original game that featured Dark Angels - I believe the lore at the time was that they were made specifically for Space Hulk boarding actions, and the fan popularity is what got the armour into 40k itself).

If you've played Space Hulk, you'll know why it's a laughable concept to use TDA in this action - your major disadvantage is your lack of mobility (which, of course, the Genestealers have no shortage of) and the Terminators' inability to pass each other in a hallway. Meanwhile, the Terminator armour affords almost zero protection from Rending Claws. All in all, the game makes it clear that Scouts with flamers would be many times more effective at the task.

ImAGeek wrote:

 Wyzilla wrote:

 Frozen Ocean wrote:

 Wyzilla wrote:

 Frozen Ocean wrote:
The Blood Angels, for their supreme idiocy.

The new Space Hulk game opens with the tale; the Blood Angels find a Space Hulk, and set upon it readily. In the attempt, almost their entire Chapter is wiped out. There are obvious problems with this - you'd think that after the first 40%, they may start to reconsider. The best part is that, upon encountering another Space Hulk six hundred years later, they do exactly the same thing. They just so happen to get lucky and succeed this time, though (even though they only used Terminators, despite TDA being actively detrimental when fighting Genestealers). Honour, and whatnot!

That's not new from the videogame, I'm pretty sure that's old fluff from the original boardgame several editions ago.

It is, but the game opens with it. It's funny because it tells this in total seriousness with a very dramatic voice-over.

The better question is why the hell did the Blood Angels just happen to have a thousand suits of indomitus terminator armor just lying around. gak, dozens of chapters, including their successors, would kill for just some of that armor.

I'm pretty sure they just have the normal amount of Terminator armour, they definitely don't have one suit for every marine..?

Nope. The entire Chapter got into terminator armor and got absolutely slaughtered. They did kill something like twenty thousand genestealers, but they lost 950 space marines.

Really? Wow. Good going Blood Angels!

I actually don't know any chapters that got decimated or wiped out, can someone list or compile a few with backstories for me?

CELESTIAL LIONS!

 LumenPraebeo wrote:
I actually don't know any chapters that got decimated or wiped out, can someone list or compile a few with backstories for me?

Here you go, from the Lexicanum

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Lost_Chapter#.U8eMjCiCUVI

Some other tidbits that I have stumbled across on my travels through the interwarp. Not sure that the original sources are.

the REQUIEM MALESENT by Saint Kybra notes that during the millenia preceding M37 there was evidence that fifty-seven Space Marine chapters had been destroyed, lost or turned traitor during the Reign of Blood, Plague of Unbelief, Cursed Founding, and other horrific events of the time.

765M41 — A report to the High Lord of Terra details Space Marine Chapter losses, assessing 13 lost in the warp, 21 irrecoverable battle losses, 9 gene-seed failures, 4 Inquisitorial purges, and 16 lost to other circumstances.

The Black Consuls, technically some of them are still going in the deathwatch and stuff, but most of them died evacuating civilians from a hive and then blowing up the nuclear reactor to take a load of iron warriors and word bearers with them. Or maybe the Lamenters, they're still going, but probably not for much longer :(

DontEatRawHagis wrote:

Obsidian Glaives we barely knew yee.

*Ye or *Thee

OT, I thought it was impossible for BL authors to allow spehsss muhreenz to die. Huh.

 Frozen Ocean wrote:
I don't think they had 1000 suits, just that Terminators were what was played in the game (TDA was created for the original game that featured Dark Angels - I believe the lore at the time was that they were made specifically for Space Hulk boarding actions, and the fan popularity is what got the armour into 40k itself).

If you've played Space Hulk, you'll know why it's a laughable concept to use TDA in this action - your major disadvantage is your lack of mobility (which, of course, the Genestealers have no shortage of) and the Terminators' inability to pass each other in a hallway. Meanwhile, the Terminator armour affords almost zero protection from Rending Claws. All in all, the game makes it clear that Scouts with flamers would be many times more effective at the task.

Death of Integrity makes it clear that in most Space Hulk clearings, at least in the initial stages, Terminators are the only option. Most Space Hulks are full of ships with cracked or leaking active warp drives. This tends to douse large areas of the hulk in heavy radiation, usually at levels far above what normal power armor could handle. Hence the need for Terminator armor. Once the warp drives are shut down, or at least isolated in some way, then normal power armor can be used.

As for the Blood Angel's losses, it was at least put to good use by adding to Dante's backstory. He was originally an 8th company captain. He was moved to chapter master because he was literally the only captain left alive

The soul drinkers

I would say the crimson fists but they seem to have recovered their numbers


My issue is that the chapters seem to recover overnight, despite heavy losses in every battle

Astral Knights, I mean, is that or is that not the coolest death of a Chapter ever?

The logistics of it are ridiculous but, yano, go Astral Knights!

The Scythes of the Emperor and the Astral Knights, both chapters sacrificing themselves to stave off xenos invasions


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But my all time favorite decimated chapter is the Soul Drinkers, yes they were turned renegade but still fought for the emperor till the last and still a handful remain alive somewhere in the warp

 Frankenberry wrote:
The Astral Knights, sacrificed their entire chapter to destroy the Necron World engine. If that doesn't embody the sacrifice required of every Astartes, I don't know what does.

Beat me to it.

+1 to the Astral Knights! makes me want to run a necron/ space marine campaign every time I hear it.

Personally, I hate the Astral Knights' "Heroic" sacrifice.

There was NO reason to keep all the Marines aboard the ships when they made their kamikaze run. They could have deployed to Thunderhawks to be picked up by the other fleet elements in the engagement before initiating their attack.