Favorite Loyalist Chapter

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**russthebus**

Hey all I may be starting a new space marine army so of the choices what is your favorite that you would like to see?
Salamanders http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Salamanders#.UcYVTGS9LTo
Raven Guard http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Raven_Guard#.UcYVt2S9LTo
Carcharodons http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Carcharodons#.UcYV5mS9LTo

Please comment on your reasoning, doesn't have to be sophisticated.

**Sir Samuel Buca**

Salamanders. I like flamers and thunder hammers.

**kinratha**

The dark angels sounds good. plus they have a new dex

**2x210**

Carchadons or Space Sharks, use BA or SW rules (BT are too outdated) Typhon the Red Wake is a beastly looking dude and the Sharks are the baddest of asses

**ScootyPuffJunior**

Out of that list, Raven Guard. My personal favorite, however, is Raptors... which happens to be a Raven Guard successor chapter.

**TheDraconicLord**

Out of those, Raven Guard. Ninjas in power armor FTW!

**ace101**

The lack of Blood Ravens is utter heresy! Actually, following the choices strictly, Raven Guard seem really cool.

**Jimsolo**

I've never seen a Raven Guard army, so that's where my vote went.

**russthebus**

Hey all it's down to the last 3 choices.
Salamanders
Raven Guard
Carcharodons

**russthebus**

Thanks for the help guys after thinking about it more and reading into the lore I have decided to go for the Carcharodons. They and the Raven Guard got the most votes and the Carcharodons are technically a descendant chapter of the Raven Guard using similar tactics. I also like the pale white with pitch black eyes idea that they have.

**Tyberos the Red Wake**

A wise decision.

**2x210**

Buy the guy above me's namesake immediately one or the coolest models I've seen

**Puscifer**

Out of that list, Salamanders.

In general for me, Ultramarines or Minotaurs.

**Coolyo294**

Carcharodons for me. I just love their tactics and strategies because they're simple, effective, and evocative of the Imperium's brutality. Plus they file their teeth into fangs and have grey skin and pure black eyes.

Tyberos is pretty kickass as well.

**Soo'Vah'Cha**

Carcharodons, its just fun to say...that and they use to be called the space sharks..and had the stupiest looking chapter logo

Now they got the FW treatment and are awesome

big improvement.

**TheDraconicLord**

Coolyo294 wrote:
Carcharodons for me. I just love their tactics and strategies because they're simple, effective, and evocative of the Imperium's brutality. Plus they file their teeth into fangs and have grey skin and pure black eyes.

Tyberos is pretty kickass as well.

Not only kickass, he probably has one of the coolest weapons ever:

Tyberos gained a dark fame for his brutal combat prowess and the two unique power weapons with which he carved a path of mangled and shredded corpses through the Secessionist forces. Known as "Hunger" and "Slake" these ancient relic-gauntlets, which combine barbed power blades with an inner maw lined with vicious teeth, are of a pattern and manufacture unknown to the Adepts of Mars

**beej138**

Space Sharks! Who doesn't love Sharks! IN SPACE!!

But other than that, their Chapter Master has got some pretty decent rules and wargear, so he could make for a different feel for a SM army

**Veteran Sergeant**

Carcharadons is the lamest name ever. If you're going to do them, do them right and call them Space Sharks.

The Carcharadons Astra suffer from Latinizititis, where people mistakenly believe that saying something in Latin makes it cooler, even though literally zero other GW chapters have a name that it Latinized. Forgeworld turned them into somebody lame home-brew chapter.

The logo thing is sill anyway. Plenty of chapters had awful logos during Rogue Trader, lol.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1f9EWsezc9E/TOVy-aUh8KI/AAAAAAAAAzE/SVm4bz_n01Q/s1600/BadabOld1.jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1f9EWsezc9E/TOVzBeUtWTI/AAAAAAAAAzI/OMG3hNIGWw0/s1600/BadabOld2.jpg