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The Fists of Dorn in general. Love the Crimson Fists and the Black Templar because of the Declates Crusade, and I love the Imperial Fists because... well... yellow.

Blood Ravens. I came to this conclusion after the greatest speech ever made in history:
Batul Brovas!
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 Lobukia wrote:
I'm assuming this means besides the Ultramarines who...
Literally wrote the book on being marines
Twice saved, ruled, the entire Imperium and then nobly gave it back
Along with loyal successors, control over 500 productive worlds, and individually have 5 planets; including a Forgeworld and an Inquisitorial fortress world
Host the most prestigious marine war college at the Fortress of Hera, which regularly trains the captains of almost 300 chapters
Blunted a major tyranid hive fleet... twice
Have the closest to perfect geneseed known to the marines
Killed more traitor Primarchs than any other legion
Host the most pleasant government in the Imperium to live under
Are allowed to maintain their own auxiliary fleets and guard regiments
Plus are cool blue Romans in space?

Yeah, they wrote the book. *slow clapping*
After that they forgot how to think for themselves and started to follow it blindly.
"Twice saved, ruled, the entire Imperium and then nobly gave it back" Eh..?
Guilliman basically declared himself an Emperor of his Imperium Secundus, and he would've kept it if Lion and Sanguinius wouldn't have came to him and asked to stop the bulls**t. Real noble, yeah.
How does the "we are perfect"-type of attitude make them awesome...? I'm confused, is this meant to be sarcastic?
As said, zero Primarch kills confirmed.

Saying that the Ultramarines are the most awesome chapter is the same as saying that the geeky kid in the class who gets straight A's is the coolest one of them.

 soomemafia wrote:

 Lobukia wrote:
I'm assuming this means besides the Ultramarines who...
Literally wrote the book on being marines
Twice saved, ruled, the entire Imperium and then nobly gave it back
Along with loyal successors, control over 500 productive worlds, and individually have 5 planets; including a Forgeworld and an Inquisitorial fortress world
Host the most prestigious marine war college at the Fortress of Hera, which regularly trains the captains of almost 300 chapters
Blunted a major tyranid hive fleet... twice
Have the closest to perfect geneseed known to the marines
Killed more traitor Primarchs than any other legion
Host the most pleasant government in the Imperium to live under
Are allowed to maintain their own auxiliary fleets and guard regiments
Plus are cool blue Romans in space?

Yeah, they wrote the book. *slow clapping*
After that they forgot how to think for themselves and started to follow it blindly.
"Twice saved, ruled, the entire Imperium and then nobly gave it back" Eh..?
Guilliman basically declared himself an Emperor of his Imperium Secundus, and he would've kept it if Lion and Sanguinius wouldn't have came to him and asked to stop the bulls**t. Real noble, yeah.
How does the "we are perfect"-type of attitude make them awesome...? I'm confused, is this meant to be sarcastic?
As said, zero Primarch kills confirmed.

Saying that the Ultramarines are the most awesome chapter is the same as saying that the geeky kid in the class who gets straight A's is the coolest one of them.

Yep. Don't get me wrong, I think the Ultramarines are fine and some of their fluff is okay, but the Primarch REALLY feths it up for them. Second, if he had kept up with his 2nd Emperor crap, Lion would've punched him just like Russ Guilliman is that guy at the office who always narcs on people for breaking rules

Agreed.

I'd like to add that there's actually nothing that bad about Ultramarines, they did their job like everyone else.
I'm just tired of people putting them on spotlights and giving them awards for that. And their schoolboy-attitude doesn't help at all.

I like the Crimson Fists, they are pretty cool and where probably my favorite chapter, Untill I came across the Minotaurs.. They are friggin awesome! Crazed berzerkers who dident give a f about rules or orders from the other imperial forces causing them to become outcasts, they they vanished for a few hundred years, Before returning from nowhere fully armed and stocked up with the latest and best gear, Following orders slavishly and without hesitation, Seemingly under direct control of the High Lords of Terra!

And they pissed off the Ultramarines so bad that the Ultramarines and their successors refuse to work with the Minoaturs, They also forbade the Minotaurs from traveling through Ultramar space.. And they are specialized in hunting other space marines!

Merellin wrote:
I like the Crimson Fists, they are pretty cool and where probably my favorite chapter, Untill I came across the Minotaurs.. They are friggin awesome! Crazed berzerkers who dident give a f about rules or orders from the other imperial forces causing them to become outcasts, they they vanished for a few hundred years, Before returning from nowhere fully armed and stocked up with the latest and best gear, Following orders slavishly and without hesitation, Seemingly under direct control of the High Lords of Terra!

And they pissed off the Ultramarines so bad that the Ultramarines and their successors refuse to work with the Minoaturs, They also forbade the Minotaurs from traveling through Ultramar space.. And they are specialized in hunting other space marines!

Also, their Chapter Master looks like this:



Baller? Baller.

 jreilly89 wrote:
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Guilliman is that guy at the office who always narcs on people for breaking rules

Worse. He is Dwight Schrute. Narcs on other people for breaking minor rules, and the second the boss is out of the picture, steps in and trys to take over.

Crimson Fists. Because Orkz.

Blood Angels. For the following reasons:
Death Company
Death Company Dreadnought
Furioso Dreadnought
LIBRARIAN Dreadnought
Dante
Have their own tactical squad and terminator squad
Epic fluff and cool successors
Formation with four elite slots
DEATH COMPANY
Melta Spam
Baal Predators

 MajorStoffer wrote:

Merellin wrote:
I like the Crimson Fists, they are pretty cool and where probably my favorite chapter, Untill I came across the Minotaurs.. They are friggin awesome! Crazed berzerkers who dident give a f about rules or orders from the other imperial forces causing them to become outcasts, they they vanished for a few hundred years, Before returning from nowhere fully armed and stocked up with the latest and best gear, Following orders slavishly and without hesitation, Seemingly under direct control of the High Lords of Terra!

And they pissed off the Ultramarines so bad that the Ultramarines and their successors refuse to work with the Minoaturs, They also forbade the Minotaurs from traveling through Ultramar space.. And they are specialized in hunting other space marines!

Also, their Chapter Master looks like this:



Baller? Baller.

The Minotaurs are quite awesome i agree.

I love The Minotaurs.

They have an awesome color scheme. And some of the most interesting tactics.

Black Templars of course.
Because really, who else has AC/DC singing a song about them?

Hmmmm... This is tough for me. I sort of have a three way tie between Exorcists, Raptors, and the Space Sharks.

Exorcists: To become a full fledged marine, they have to have a daemon exorcised out of them. They were created to battle the forces of chaos especially daemons but also fight xenos threats and the occasional rogue chapter. They don't kill you for being saved by them. And Captain Silas Alberec is a beast.

Raptors: Embrace adaptable and guerilla tactics. Use camouflage paint schemes. Seem to prefer shooting and engaging targets from a distance rather than get into melee. Generally pretty nice guys.

Space Sharks: Cold, brutal, and put the shock in shock troops. Willing to go to arguably excessive lengths to get the job done. And getting a war to pause when making their presence known because both sides are hoping that they're not about to have to fight the Space Sharks? Badass.

But if we throw in non-canon chapters... Sorry Angry Marines, the Ostrogoths have that special place in my heart.

Arguing from a wholly personal standpoint with no disrespect to most of the other awesome legions I have to put in my vote for the Iron Hands.

heres why
(The following is purely a light hearted observation)

Their primarch died and they still get stuff done... Witbout going all "blood Angels-y" and starting to hallucinate that they are fighting their primarch'a last battle. Sure they started turning themselves into a chapter of Darth Vaders, but that just gives them more longevity as a chapter. Why recruit when you can rebuild?

seriously though, the Blood Angels are an awesome chapter, I've just always wondered why they got all sorts of awesome "my primarch died so I'll kick twice the butt in half the time" rules, while the Iron Hands just carry on, business as usual? (I know they did that thing where they don't have a chapter master, but that just means that in game terms blood Angels get death companies and iron hands get... No named characters?)

JMS wrote:
Arguing from a wholly personal standpoint with no disrespect to most of the other awesome legions I have to put in my vote for the Iron Hands.

heres why
(The following is purely a light hearted observation)

Their primarch died and they still get stuff done... Witbout going all "blood Angels-y" and starting to hallucinate that they are fighting their primarch'a last battle. Sure they started turning themselves into a chapter of Darth Vaders, but that just gives them more longevity as a chapter. Why recruit when you can rebuild?

seriously though, the Blood Angels are an awesome chapter, I've just always wondered why they got all sorts of awesome "my primarch died so I'll kick twice the butt in half the time" rules, while the Iron Hands just carry on, business as usual? (I know they did that thing where they don't have a chapter master, but that just means that in game terms blood Angels get death companies and iron hands get... No named characters?)

To be fair to Blood Angels, their Primarch was a very powerful psyker. To my knowledge, Ferrus Manus wasn't. Or if he was, his psyker powers manifested a different way to the other Primarchs as all of them were in some way or another.