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We all love the 1st founding chapters, but today, who is your favorite loyalist chapter barring the the original first founding chapters?

Carcharadon's. The awesome shark warriors

Gotta be the Black Templars for me (obviously ). They are Badass-ery combined with zealotry on a galactic scale. Who doesn't love the Space Teutons? haha

Blood Ravens.
Knowledge is power. Guard it well.

Carcharadons or Black Dragons.

Crimson Fists and Flesh Tearers.

Gota be crimson fists

 AnomanderRake wrote:
Blood Ravens.
Knowledge is power. Guard it well.

Seconded on that point.

 TheManWithNoPlan wrote:

 AnomanderRake wrote:
Blood Ravens.
Knowledge is power. Guard it well.

Seconded on that point.

Looks like the Blood Ravens stole your better judgement.

Carcharodons for life.

Black Dragons.

Introduced to 40k by Dawn of War, so Blood Ravens are definitely up there. I always liked the Lamenters though, and the silver skulls for potential IW connections.

Celestial Lions, Mantis Legion, Brazen Claws, Purple Stars, Vorpal Swords and the Harbingers are some of my favourites.

I find a lot of the later founded chapters more interesting than the Legions as we don't know amazing amounts about them. Some of the names are so cool too!

Definitely Silver Skulls for me.

Crimson Fists.

The original poster boys. Still awesome after all these years.

Blood Ravens - they motivated me to collect an army of Space Marines in the first place. Vidya be with you all!

What I'm realizng from this is that i don't even know much about these chapters, aside from the blood ravens of course. is there a best source to do some reading?

 Nevelon wrote:
Crimson Fists.

The original poster boys. Still awesome after all these years.

They are pretty cool, the whole Rynns World incident and possible assassin involvement adds an interesting element to it. So does them being sent to take out the Sons of Gideon and Marines Vigilant.They are a pretty unique Chapter.

 amazingturtles wrote:
What I'm realizng from this is that i don't even know much about these chapters, aside from the blood ravens of course. is there a best source to do some reading?

Lexicanum is a great source and it gives references as to where the information was pulled from so if you do find a Chapter you like you can then go on to find the book.

I'd say Red Talons, although nothing is really known about them aside from the fact that they were considered ruthless outcasts of the Iron Hands, and instead of booting out dissenters of that Mechanicum Schism thing they just executed their own Astartes because they were weak.

I was never a fan of the IH motto, the flesh is weak! (Ew, creepy clive barker images) so i tried to find a successor with a little less focus on flesh and more on exterminating weakness.


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While on the subject I primarily play the Rampagers, White Scars successors for their color scheme (red, just like the Red Talons).

But their backstory never fit right with me. Their only mention is that they overtook a rebel planet in one day, and now they recruit from that world. Now why would they recruit from a world that fell in one day? I mean... huh?

Further research, they are mentioned in the (Death watch?) RPG as having their faces so heavily scarred, that they cause Fear when unhelmeted. Kinda cool i suppose. And definitely a great name. We RAMPAGE!

Crimson fists, which is why I've got a full company of them. Legion of the Damned take a close second.

 amazingturtles wrote:
What I'm realizng from this is that i don't even know much about these chapters, aside from the blood ravens of course. is there a best source to do some reading?

1d4chan.org has a lot of interesting material for you to peruse.

https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Blood_Ravens

There's a handful that I find really interesting.

The Exorcists, particularly regarding their sub-cult organization based around the Orisons and their representation of the more radical side of the Inquisition compared to the puritan approach of the Grey Knights.
The Steel Confessors, as they're a chapter that was specifically not made by the HLoT and has to renew their vows of loyalty once word of their creation got out. It makes me think about the possibility of chapters that were founded by the Ur-Council of Nova Terra and how they would have had to be dealt with after the fall of Nova Terra.
The entire Pentarchy of Blood. Seriously, these were some of the most brutal chapters of the early Imperium, brought together to purge nearly a dozen space marine chapters! That's pretty damn awesome.

Edit: I got one more.
The Angels Penitent, who have gotten themselves in some real hot water trying to rid themselves of the Red Thirst. I really hope Peter Fehervari gets a chance to write more about them.

Lamenters. Better luck next time fellas.....

Fire Hawks. Ultramarines successor chapter from the 21st (Cursed) Founding. Lost their homeworld(s), twice. Nearly destroyed in the Badab War (loyalists). Entire chapter presumed lost in the Warp in the 41st Millennium. As many as two hundred members of the Chapter may have survived and renamed themselves the Legion of the Damned.

Black Templars.

Iron Knights.

Celestial Lions.

Silver Skulls (as an IW successor Chapter).

Lamenters or Celestial Lions, the two chapters that remind me why I am not a loyalist.

Charcharodons or Black templars..... something tells me I like stabbing things

Lamenters and Mantis Warriors are suitably grimdark, Black Templars are cool too, but my vote right now goes to the Flesh Tearers. Evidently I like my chapters severely flawed and undergoing severe consequences for it.

Raptors

I always kind of liked the lamenters, In fact my CSM army is based off traitor Lamenters.

 EmpNortonII wrote:

 TheManWithNoPlan wrote:

 AnomanderRake wrote:
Blood Ravens.
Knowledge is power. Guard it well.

Seconded on that point.

Looks like the Blood Ravens stole your better judgement.

Carcharodons for life.

We took Hunger and Slake off Tyberos, too.