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codemonkey wrote:
Mortifactors. Just because you're a genetically engineered post-human doesn't mean you have to give up your animistic belief that eating your dead foes will make you stronger, or that a deep meditative trance will cause the Emperor to send you visions.

And all of that while still having the least-cool geneseed.


I agree with this 100%

I loved the Mortifactors after reading them in the Ultramarines omnibus. So dark and mysterious and the way they go about battle, so awesome
   
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Raptors! Second Founding from the Raven Guard. Think for themselves instead of blindly following the book Guilliman compiled.


http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Raptors


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Minotaurs. Nothing says murder better than the state's highest approval.

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mine are the sons of medusa, there is a story there but they arent flaunted by GW.

Wherever and whenever they appear they leave only destruction in their wake; they are the Lords of Death, Bringers of War. The Dark Angels.

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my brother told me about the soul drinkers i like them interesting back round on them.

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 ShatteredBlade wrote:
Minotaurs are my favorite.


Same here, the Space Cow concept is a successor chapter idea, as I tended to charge into melee even when it wasn't necessary.

   
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Astral Knights. They sacrificed their entire chapter to destroy the Necron planet destroyer World Engine.

The Ultramarines retrieved the Knights' Battle Barge, Tempestus, which was used to ram and destroy the World Engine and placed it on the lifeless world of Safehold, the World Engine's last victim. Captain Donatos Aphael of the Blood Angels 2nd Company called for 772 statues--one for each Astral Knight--to be raised on Safehold alongside the wreckage of the Tempestus as a monument to the fallen chapter. From that day on, two Blood Angels of the 2nd Company and dozens of other Space Marines stand guard over the memorial at all times, which is considered a singular honor for the Marines who fought alongside the Astral Knights for the last time.

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Knights of Blood (loyalish right)

Wherever and whenever they appear they leave only destruction in their wake; they are the Lords of Death, Bringers of War. The Dark Angels.

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Minotaurs.

They are the best parts of the several First Founding Legions, lumped into one.

-Terra's Personal Strike-force (Space Wolves)

-Best Equipment, and lots of it (Salamanders)

-They love dat close combat (Blood Angels)

Plus, they almost always operate in full chapter-strength, and beat the piss out of an Ultramarines Successor chapter.

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Angels Sanguine. Their red/black scheme looks fantastic, their background (noble heroes with the dark flaw) is also super-cool, along with the secrets hidden in their fortress monastery. Their like the Dark Angels but with more Blood. Also their Chapter Master Sentikan is a badass. When one of his brothers falls and a Blood Angel goes to remove the his helmet Sentikan leaps over and threatens to kill anyone who tries to remove the fallen Angel Sanguine's helmet. Ruthless.


 
   
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Mentors from WD ~100
They field-test experimental equipment, such as time-jumpers, and squad-wide targetting matrices.
They wear green on white.

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Death Spectres

Love these guys; albino guardians against a mysterious alien threat. Really cool.

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Mentor Legion, from the 80s.

Not only their chapter Master saw the Emperor in person numerous times (Big E needed a decent worthy bridge partner), but he fields test experimental Ad Mech. devices, always on loan to other Adeptus (in small groups), secret HQ, and the Elite Cadre are basically the Delta Force of the NAVY SEAL of the Adeptus Astartes.

Plus check out the art!


I'm painting my scouts and my Captain with the Owl's head, way cooler than some generic red eagle's head they have nowadays.
   
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 LavuranGuard wrote:
Mentor Legion with their original fluff


This, Minotaurs have nothing on time-shifting Marines with targeting arrays and a whole host of crazy experimental equipment!
   
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 pretre wrote:
I'm into a lot of obscure marine chapters. You probably haven't heard of them.


This made me laugh out loud. People are staring at me now...


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Inquisitor Jex wrote:
Mentor Legion, from the 80s.

Not only their chapter Master saw the Emperor in person numerous times (Big E needed a decent worthy bridge partner), but he fields test experimental Ad Mech. devices, always on loan to other Adeptus (in small groups), secret HQ, and the Elite Cadre are basically the Delta Force of the NAVY SEAL of the Adeptus Astartes.

Plus check out the art!


I'm painting my scouts and my Captain with the Owl's head, way cooler than some generic red eagle's head they have nowadays.


I've always thought that particular piece of art looks soooo incredibly stupid. Then again, most of the old stuff does.

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Don't you guys think that looks like a Storm Talon gunship on the stained glass?

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 JbR of the Endless Spire wrote:
Don't you guys think that looks like a Storm Talon gunship on the stained glass?


...huh. So it does.

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I'm suprised that no one mentioned the Iron Snakes. Maybe they aren't obscure enough?! Fight like Delian warriors from ancient Greece, use a quasi-phalanx weapon load out, mimic the best of Corinth and Sparta... operate as legendary super tactical squads, and I think that they have a solid look to them.
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A sweet model for Priad

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 Lobukia wrote:
I'm suprised that no one mentioned the Iron Snakes. Maybe they aren't obscure enough?! Fight like Delian warriors from ancient Greece, use a quasi-phalanx weapon load out, mimic the best of Corinth and Sparta... operate as legendary super tactical squads, and I think that they have a solid look to them.


The only chapter that uses harpoon as the standard CC weapon
   
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 jah-joshua wrote:
Rainbow Warriors!!!

i think there has only been a single piece of art, and no fiction, but they have spawned a huge fanbase...
plus, they look awesome as Aztec Space Marines...
Actually, two.

There's a picture of a Space Nun in the Rogue Trader book blasting a Marine with the Rainbow Warriors heraldry.

Marneus Calgar is referred to as "one of the Imperium's greatest tacticians" and he treats the Codex like it's the War Bible. If the Codex is garbage, then how bad is everyone else?

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Celestial Lions would be my pick. I loved the gold mixed with cool blue, plus a very tragic backstory as others have said.

I have an army of them, at work right now so can't post pictures, but you could search celestial lions in google images or deviantart to see them.

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I like the Lamenters' heroic but doomed struggle against the 'Nids.
I'm also a fan of the White Scars, or are they not obscure enough? Everybody seems to have forgotten them, anyway...

Finally, the Legion of the Damned always draws my interest.
   
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Iron hands maybe? Founding Chapter and yet so ltitle story that they might as well not exist.

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 Lobukia wrote:
I'm suprised that no one mentioned the Iron Snakes. Maybe they aren't obscure enough?! Fight like Delian warriors from ancient Greece, use a quasi-phalanx weapon load out, mimic the best of Corinth and Sparta... operate as legendary super tactical squads, and I think that they have a solid look to them.


I was gonna go with them, but decided they were too mainstream with the amount of people butthurt about their book

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Either the Mantis Warriors or the Red Scorpions get my vote.

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Hiding in a dark alley with a sharp knife!

I'm fond of the Flesh Eaters. They were my first Space Marine army back in the day, andy my current "Blood Angels" force is still painted in their insiginia.

Got to love "space cannibals" after all!

TR

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I've always thought that particular piece of art looks soooo incredibly stupid. Then again, most of the old stuff does.


Bite your tongue!
Sheesh. Kids these days. No apreciation for tradition....

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 Ronin wrote:
Mantis Warriors. These crazy fethers hid themselves beneath the desert sands to ambush a Dark Eldar raiding party.


Source? I haven't read about this....

Oh and for my 2p......Mentor Legion, Rainbow Warriors...or my other fave "The Howling Griffons"

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