All Space Marine Infantry Squad & Unit Types Explained | Warhammer 40k Lore. Basic Primaris Astartes

Should I do more? This is most of the more basic ones.
Reiver, Eradicators, Hellblasters, Infiltrators, Intercessor, Suppressor, Eliminator.
Reiver.
Space marine squad and unit types. Let's start this series, or one full video, I don't know, with the Reaivers. Vanguard reivers. They fill a combination of stealth and shock trooper roles. Not shock as in the classic military definition of tip of the spear soldiers, but scare the pants off the enemy troopers. Terror troops. They travel in squads of 5 or ten, and wear a modified version of the mark 10 phobos armor that's lighter and completely silent for covert ops. Their primary weapon is a bolt carbine that's easy to maneuver but doesn't lose out on firepower. Then a heavy bolt pistol for close encounters, knives, and grenades, including shock grenades. Shock grenades for the shock troops to cause shock in the enemy. Their squad size allows them to operate independantly, and their main mission is to infiltrate an enemy location and then just pop up when they're least expecting it, sowing as much terror as possible. And these skull masks? They're voice amplifiers. They scream at the enemy too, and it works? These tactics can shatter the morale of entire armies, but since they're space marines, they still handle more disciplined enemies by slaughtering them.
Next up on space marine unit types, the incursor. This primaris marine seems really basic. Just a bolter, regular space marine weapons. But their technology is what they bring to the party, which is a weird thing to say about something from the Imperium of man in 40k. But thanks to their divinator class auspax and occulus scopes, they get a ton of battlefield data. Which is then fed to a totally not heretical AI machine spirit that gives them a very nice heads up display that can let them see enemies in darkness, through walls, and enemies about to teleport in. And this totally not AI can read enemy fighting patterns to predict their moves, letting the Incursor shoot or stab where the enemy is going to be. Really cool, but really rare, what with the technology.
Another space marine unit type, the intercessor. Just like the Incursor, this one seems really basic, but in this case, the intercessor is the core space marine unit for Primaris chapters. Between mono-edged combat knives, grenades, and a basic bolt rifle, these troops can fill most short to long range fire support roles. For more flexibility, each of the ten soldiers in a squad can swap out that basic bolter for either an auto bolter, providing higher capacity and higher rates of fire at the expense of range, or a stalker bolt rifle, increasing accuracy and range, acting more like a designated marksman bolter. Two battle brothers in a squad of ten can have Astartes grenade launchers, giving them more long range destructive firepower. While not specialized, this equipment allows the Intercessor to fill a number of defensive and offensive roles well, filling any battlefield need thanks to a balanced lethality and flexibility.
Hellblaster space marine squads. They seem really boring compared to other squads, just basic Primaris, except they have plasma incinirators instead of bolters. But every member of the 10 battle brother squad has one of these anti tank heavy weapons. Some even have heavier or faster firing versions. With the same range as regular bolt rifles, these plasma incinerators are capable of providing heavy fire support at long range. They can do what snipers do without subtlety and turn key high value targets into glass, they can focus fire on the strongest and heaviest armor, and again there are ten of them, so just imagine how devestating it would be if they focused fire. Unfortunatly these guns are rare, making the squads rare with only the best veteran marksmen getting a chance to even hold the powerful plasma incinerators. Like most plasma weapons the ones Hellblasters use can be overcharged for more damage, but at the risk of blowing up the user. Space Marines only use this feature when things look bleak.
Vanguard infiltrator space marines are another Primaris squad unit type that you could easily call basic. While they have even fewer weapon options than the bread and butter intercessor Marines, they often fill two roles: scrambling enemy communications with a fancy omni-scrambler, and providing medical support. While their helix adepts aren't as well trained as dedicated apothecaries, they're able to get marines back into fighting form after some injuries. They also are available to collect the geneseed producing progenoid glands from fallen enemies. What this guy in pariah nexus was trying to do. Despite the covert sounding infiltrator designation, they aren't really used in that fashion beyond carrying smoke grenades and scopes that can see through smoke.

[@jonathantheslow]

I think after you do all of the Primaris units, you should do the different Horus Heresy Astartes units.

[@MarcusVLore]

Cool idea!

[@SeanCrosser]

The Striking Reaper-Banshee Warriors embody the Emperor's Aspect of Being A Scary Skeleton That Screams Endlessly

[@sotiriospeithis6659]

I feel the primaris units are needlessly complicated compred to standard marine units. I get the interest and need to innovate, but it feels like half those units could have been meshed into one

[@upyours7]

I think it was done to streamline the gameplay and have a squad only rolling one type of weapon, as opposed to old tac squads and devastator squads able to pick and choose half a dozen entirely different weapons making for slower, more complicated decision making.
And money, why sell only two boxes when you can split them into a 5+ different ones.

[@sotiriospeithis6659]

@@upyours7 yeah the meta-reasons make sense. As long as the costumers are happy to have the pick of the litter, it's fine with me. That's all that matters after all.
It just seems way too bloated and overspecialised on a narrative aspect. The marines are now closer to aspect warriors and I have mixed feelings about it.
Also, if a codex compliant chapter is supposed to be 1000 marines strong, I don't see how they could possibly allocate a sufficient number of marines to each role to account for loses and deployment in multiple theatres. It just doesn't make sense narratively to me.

[@Bill-uw1oo]

Games Workshop: "I like Money"

[@VioletMaher1547]

intercessors - nothing more but basic riflemen
assault intercessors - a pure assault squad without the option to take special issue wargear
heavy intercessors - literally riflemen with 1 heavy bolter and just being tougher, heavy overlap with their normal counter part
eradicators - heavy intercessors but tank hunters and nothing else
infernus marines - anti troop/mass enemy removal
hellblasters - heavy/elite infantry killers
blade guard vets - good melee unit, but lack ranged versatilty of sternguard and speed of vanguard
tactical squad - capable of tackling multipule and fullfiling multipule combat roles, with combat squading you can do a backline objective holder with a lascannon, and then the other combat squad with a melta-gun and combi-melta in a razorback to aggressivly attack, this is but one example
assault marines - verstile in taking plasma, melta and flamers, can even take plasma pistols, heavy chainswords, and combat shields meaning they can be more aggresssive or defensive
devastators - can be long, medium and short range heavy fire support depending on equipment + you can get 5 more bolter bros for harassing the enemy
sternguard - tactical squad but on crack
vanguard - assault squad but on crack

[@redspyke8227]

@@VioletMaher1547 I appreciate your explanation of Sternguards and Vanguards and it honestly makes sense

[@bolojohnson711]

The Tau empire auxiliaries and mechs

[@ipbk8471]

woahhh coool that ur making lore videos now

[@Jester94v2]

Could've sworn I heard someone screeching in binary during the Incursor segment. Weird...

[@messageinthebottle1673]

Such ashame that Reavers ended up being forgotten and not very vaible in tabletop and torytelling in lore! Cause such concepts on paper 📃 and the idea 💡 itself of a "good guys, terror trooper" is a unit that i wish to see it strive become popular but sadly no 👎
Still tho for me i really love ❤the reaver and most likely I'll buy the tabletop models for it

[@user-mh9qz4qi1f]

nice video

[@MarcusVLore]

Thanks!

[@memosanchez8916]

Nice vid , I prefer the primaris over the first born they have the tactical look you’d expect from a warrior of the distant future. One small correction the plasma incinerator they use is the mk 2 cawl pattern incinerator .belesaruis cawl the creator of the primaris (who also created their tech and gear ) perfected plasma weapons so their more common then they used to be the older marks of plasma weapons though definitely are rare .

[@user-co3uc8vt7e]

> they have the tactical look you’d expect from a warrior of the distant future
I think you don't understand Warhammer...

[@DB8ed]

Dont get me wrong. I'm no primaris hater, I agree they look cool, but I still prefer the firstborn over the primaris. They are the emperor's finest and have been for the last 10,000 years. The imperium has also supposedly been stagnant in science and technology for that amount of time, and I think the battle worn and often refurbished firstborn armor conveys that much better. I'd also like them more if they weren't an obvious ploy by GW to just sell us space marine models all over again.

[@thefroknight3149]

Have you considered setting up a discord?👀

[@scarecrow_3215]

What's the difference between a heavy bolt pistol and a regular one

[@SeanCrosser]

Presumably they use full-size .75 cal bolter rounds instead of the standard .50 cal boltpistol rounds

[@vincentcrow6075]

That's not space marine units. That's primaris units.

[@andylastname566]

heheh....subtitles...says Boulders instead of Bolters.

[@asdf9890]

“A sturdy’s” for Astartes too 😂