Switch Theme:

Favorite decimated Space Marine Chapter  [RSS] Share on facebook Share on Twitter Submit to Reddit
»
Author Message
Advert


Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you:
  • No adverts like this in the forums anymore.
  • Times and dates in your local timezone.
  • Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance.
  • Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely.
  • Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net.
If you are already a member then feel free to login now.




Made in us
Stabbin' Skarboy





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?
   
Made in ca
Enigmatic Chaos Sorcerer





British Columbia

Scythes of the Emperor.

 BlaxicanX wrote:
A young business man named Tom Kirby, who was a pupil of mine until he turned greedy, helped the capitalists hunt down and destroy the wargamers. He betrayed and murdered Games Workshop.


 
   
Made in us
Regular Dakkanaut




Do you mean decimated as in reduced by a factor of ten or do you mean destroyed.
   
Made in us
Stabbin' Skarboy





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.
   
Made in us
Regular Dakkanaut




The Lamenters are pretty great. That's probably what I would say for the former option. Dunno what Zi'd say for the latter.
   
Made in gb
Thunderhawk Pilot Dropping From Orbit





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

 
   
Made in gb
Tunneling Trygon






Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland

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!

Sieg Zeon!

Selling TGG2! 
   
Made in us
Ancient Venerable Dark Angels Dreadnought





 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.

“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
 
   
Made in us
Regular Dakkanaut





The Howling Griffins.
   
Made in us
Longtime Dakkanaut





USA

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.

Shadowkeepers (4000 points)
3rd Company (3000 points) 
   
Made in us
Fresh-Faced New User





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




Minneapolis, MN

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.
   
Made in gb
Boosting Space Marine Biker





Stoke on trent

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.
   
Made in gb
Tunneling Trygon






Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland

 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.

Sieg Zeon!

Selling TGG2! 
   
Made in us
Ancient Venerable Dark Angels Dreadnought





 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.

“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
 
   
Made in gb
Thermo-Optical Hac Tao





Gosport, UK

 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..?
   
Made in gb
Tunneling Trygon






Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland

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.

Sieg Zeon!

Selling TGG2! 
   
Made in us
Ancient Venerable Dark Angels Dreadnought





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.

“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
 
   
Made in gb
Thermo-Optical Hac Tao





Gosport, UK

Really? Wow. Good going Blood Angels!
   
Made in us
Revving Ravenwing Biker




New York City

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

I will forever remain humble because I know I could have less.
I will always be grateful because I remember I've had less. 
   
Made in gr
Alluring Sorcerer of Slaanesh






Reading, UK

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.


This message was edited 2 times. Last update was at 2014/07/17 08:47:59


No pity, no remorse, no shoes 
   
Made in gb
Sinister Chaos Marine





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 :(
   
Made in gb
The Last Chancer Who Survived




United Kingdom

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.
   
Made in us
Lone Wolf Sentinel Pilot





 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
   
Made in gb
Twisting Tzeentch Horror



Bridgwater, somerset

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

   
Made in gb
Lit By the Flames of Prospero





Bearing Words in Rugby

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!

Muh Black Templars
Blacksails wrote:Maybe you should read your own posts before calling someone else's juvenile.
 
   
Made in us
Warp-Screaming Noise Marine





Manhattan, Ks

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


Automatically Appended Next Post:
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

This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2014/07/17 13:05:22


"Decadence Unbound..."

10,000+


 
   
Made in us
Ork-Hunting Inquisitorial Xenokiller






Carlisle, UK

 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.


2000pts IG. ( based on fallout US Army)

3000pts XIIth Legiones Astartes 8th Assault Company. (Pre heresy)

never in the field of human conflict, has so much been fired at so many, by so few.

My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, Commander of the armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions. Loyal servant to the true emperor Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.
Please leave your message after the tone...
 
   
Made in us
Quick-fingered Warlord Moderatus






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



413th Lucius Exterminaton Legion- 4,000pts

Atalurnos Fleetbreaker's Akhelian Corps- 2500pts
 
   
Made in gb
Hallowed Canoness





Between

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.



"That time I only loaded the cannon with powder. Next time, I will fill it with jewels and diamonds and they will cut you to shrebbons!" - Nogbad the Bad. 
   
 
Forum Index » 40K Background
Go to: