Make Your Own: Loyalist Space Marines
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Would be fun to see a "create a traitor chapter" video as well
Don't worry we've got that covered!
can't wait,@@astartesanonymous
@@astartesanonymous cant wait for that
Build a bear but build a chapter😂
Even easier. There are two legions that were erradicated. Could even create a traitor primarch
I’ve always had the idea of three space marines chapters who where almost destroyed coming together and forming a whole new chapter with three different lineages and traditions working together. Each keep there own traditions and making new ones. And they pick there chapter master but having the highest ranking member form each different Original chapters fight for it in a three way dual every 150 years or so.
would you mind talking a bit more about them? Do you have an idea what lineages they have?
@@henrypaleveda7760 never really thought put much into it but the Origin chapters are that of salamanders, imperial fist and a unknown one ( a mixed gene seed one). The only ideas I had for a chapter name was the triple sons or the devastated sons. There also fleet based
@@scpwatcher8289 sounds like a good sandbox to work in. between salamanders and imperial fists, what kind of craftsmanship does the legion have?
@@henrypaleveda7760 The craftsmanship is what you expect to be from a salamanders and imperial fist. But the salamanders mostly tend to weapons and armor while the imperial fist mainly deal with the ships and armor vehicles besides dreadnoughts those go to the salamanders.
This would certainly be a great way to incorporate multiple geneseeds into the chapter! Also a really good way to make a chapter that has a big jack-of-all-trades vibe like the Dark Angels often do with their Hexagrammaton
I actually used the "doesn't match gene father" and "records are shit" as a neat combination for my own chapter, the Sable Owls. And they kind of feed into each other. See the chapter maintains that they are White Scars successors, but the Administration has them as Ultramarine descendants. Which was just a neat lore bit until their gene seed started to mutate. Not wildly, but slightly. They caught it early enough they might jave been able to fix it with some infusions of fresh gene stock, but the beurocrats wouldn't send anything other than Ultramarine like their records say and the Owls wouldn't take anything besides White Scars like their records say.
End result is that they have a minor mutation (that they went of a penance crusade a few millennia ago to atone for) that affects their hearing. Basically they have super human hearing in comparison to the already phenomenal sense of a typical astartes. The problem is their ability to damped and withstand noises weren't similarly enhanced, and they don't have a superhuman sense of balance anymore. So while it makes them excellent stealth fighters, preferring things like ambushes, stalker bolters, and knives over chainswords, it does come with the price of not being able to use jump packs or drop pods. So no Iron Rain. On the other hand they can hear the heartbeats of the kill team trying to ambush them in that building over there so it's arguable if it is a worthwhile trade.
Their biggest loss, in their kind, is their ability to easily use attack bikes like their lineage demands. They can do it, but they have to seg their helmets up to fully filter out the engine noise. Meaning that you have no audio cue for where your brother's cycles are, making adjusting formation difficult. Especially on the fly when under fire. And sometimes the enemy's vehicles have motors that are close enough to the bikes that they get filtered out too...
End result is that due to their new fighting style they often get mistaken for a Raven Guard successor, further adding to the confusion about their lineage.
I've got a bunch more stuff, but yeah it's a very useful tool.
I'm a Raven Guard person and I look over at the Carcharodons like a twice removed relative and just...you're related to me!? When did the bird give birth to a shark?!
The rules of we don't know anymore can be amazing.
I'm working on my first fanmade chapter, too. White, gold, and black, pref melee like bladeguard and as many units with shields. Whirlwinds unleash holy hell on the lines, chainblades are actually viewed as infernior and crude weapons compared to a simple sharp blade. All marines have the skull reiver helms. No homeworld, unknown primarch gene, suspected Cursed Founding as the marines never sleep, eat, drink, or remove their armour. Believe they are but skeletons and soulbound to their wargear. They have also been seen with cursed heretic wargear that has been cleanesed, melted, purified and remade into holy weapons.
I did have a idea for a loyalist Space marine chapter. The Nova Watch, Marines who’s geneseed is of salamander origin and they target specifically cults of nurgle and work to cleanse plague worlds, and use pykers to try and find pyschic ways to cure nurgles disease’s.
Brilliant premise! Strong foundations, solid goals in mind, great choice of enemy too.
So there basically advanced septic that’s actually kinda cool i hope they have cool septic tanks and stuff
I made a successor chapter with an unknown geneseed. They're from the Ultima founding and are called the Sundancers. They're in the 300s in total and just protect a planet from Drunkhari and daemon incursions. Their allies are a plantery defense force and a handful of Eldari.
That's a great name for a chapter, seems like an excellent premise for some kind of heroic last stand narrative
@@astartesanonymous i made few years ago for a literature campaign on forum Unseen Avengers, Third Founding (kinda) successors from Raven Guard. Descendants of nomad hunter terran fleet that returned to Imperium during Heresy, after scirmishes with traitors vanished back into wild space and was later re-discovered in remote star cluster by stray Blood Angels ship that had to make an emergency warp-exit to escape a storm. By modus operandi, not as much heroic as pragmatic and cunning. Camo, jamming of communication networks or even sudden reckorded roar of ork horde sounding through enemy comm-net. Oh, and a tradition of cuting five-edge star (symbol of chapter) on heads of slain heretic leaders.
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the eldar things pretty cool. how does primaris and unknown geneseed work though?
@@christophersalinas2722 Ask Blood Ravens, lmao.
Finally a not shitty opinion on homebrew. For real, so many of the supposedly cooler people in the hobby are very gatekeepy about homebrew so it's so nice to see someone with a following talk about it in an inclusive way. Super excited for the other videos!
I really appreciate this comment by my dude - I think the bottom-line is to have fun first, and everything else comes second.
@@astartesanonymous I completely agree! That's not a sentiment you always see in they hobby and I'm so thrilled I found your channel. All your videos make me feel welcome in the hobby!
Tbf tourist are always inserting there ideaolgy like female space marines,lgbt things(even tho they belong to slannish),Swastikas(they say it's the hindi sign) and other things that's just break the overall lore hell they always give a vague description and not just explain it fully or come up stories and characters for them
@@dirtypurplenurpl6667 As it was said, gatekeeping is lame. There's no 'to be fair' there. It's entirely true.
@inwit594 Gate keeping is a necessity for a hobby to grow because your giving the benefit a doubt to bad actor's who will use your own hobby against you and then the hobby dies and wonder what happened to the hobby maybe because of the bad actor's that the hobby is dead
It's amazing how much of a rabbit hole one homebrew chapter can turn into. I started out with just the Solar Spurs, my cowboy White Scars. Now I've got Macharia Eschate, an entire subsector with various regiments, planets, and so on where the theme is centered around frontiersmen from throughout history. It was then that I saw how versatile 40k really is as a setting.
That all sounds fucking awesome
@@Willothemask Thanks. It was a lot of fun to write.
That's interesting. I'd assume the subsector would be on the frontier of the Imperium if they were based off of frontier peoples from history, like cowboys and whatnot. 'Solar Spurs' is a pretty neat name. It sounds pretty campy but not so campy to me as to be unbelievable.
@@thelegate8636 could you give any more details as to the actual writing process you used to make the subsection? I'm curious because it's a pretty large thing to do.
but I want you to be my dad
I love you, son.
@@astartesanonymous thank you father
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I'm really enjoying these shorter non-podcast videos in addition to the usual content, it's cool seeing your channel start to branch out 👍
Thanks a lot my dude! Podcasts are still coming! In fact we've got a fun one planned for this Friday!
I remember rolling a custom Space Marine chapter using the dice tables that came from one of the Deathwatch add-on books and I was rather amazed with the results that I got. I haven't gotten to in-depth about the chapter and it's history and I rolled a d6 to figure out the number of starting heroic figures of the chapter, alongside worlds they recruit from. Everything was the result of rolling dice and the story is literally me making sense of the raw data and turning it into a story.
The Golden Death are a successor of the Ultramarines that was founded as a crusading force sometime in the 39th Millennium.
While their geneseed was free of deficiencies or flaws, experimentation in an attempt to improve the Ultramarine stock to better prepare this new chapter for fighting chaos tainted threats caused deviation from the pure Ultramarine geneseed that has been considered to be the starting point of the divergences that would come.
Unlike many space marine chapters, the Golden Death are zealous followers of the Imperial Creed to the point where the Emperor has supplanted Roberto Guilliman as the most important figure of their beliefs. The stringent hypno-conditioning that the marines of the chapter undergo is greater then that of most chapters to instill a greater understanding of the Imperial Creed and deepen their faith in the Emperor further to safeguard their minds and souls.While they have had a history of fighting xenos in the past, the Golden Death lives and breaths to bring a violent end to the heretic and purge their stain from existence.
At some point in the Chapter's history, they broke from the Codex and developed an organizational structure completely their own: This decision has made them quiet estranged from their fellow Ultramarine successors, alongside the original. Instead they focused their efforts on an armored assault doctrine and phased out the role of devastator marines from their ranks. The chapter has developed something of a preference of getting into close quarters/range combat, with power swords being their personal tool of choice outside of using their tanks.
Possibly because of their combat doctrine involving more tanks and mechanized support then normal (and to the surprise of many, considering their zealous nature), the Golden Death have strong, friendly ties with the Admech and get along with them surprisingly well. Worshiping the Emperor in his aspect of the Machine God is an acceptable path for warriors of the Chapter.
There are various cults of Chaos that *loath* the Golden Death and the Golden Death loath each and every one of them in turn in a more or less equal fashion.
The chapter's homeworld is an airless, 'feral' planet in that its population lives in tribal societies in the underground hives that litter the world. They also draw recruits from a nearby desert hive world in order to bluster the relatively low numbers that their homeworld can produce. The chapter rules both of these worlds via a system of stewardship, maintaining a presence on both worlds but largely leaving the day to day affairs of governance to the ruling class.
Of the chapters recorded heroic figures, 5 of them are well known, through Companion heroic figures seem to be common in the Golden Death (None of these people are named yet):
The original Chapter Master and original Master of Sanctity were seconded from the Ultramarines at the founding of the Golden Death and were the best of companions. The Chapter Master has many stories connected to them of their fights against the followers and forces of Chaos, including the slaying of a daemon prince in combat. His disappearance during a 'warp incident' was considered a grave loss, through it is believed he is still alive and will one day return in glory.
The Master of Sanctity was an important figure in many of the tales with his friend, through the primary legend about him remembered comes after the disappearance, in which he led a successful, brutal boarding action against an Elder Craftworld.
A battle brother from the 9th squad, 2nd company and the Squad Sergent of the 4th Squad, 6th Company worked together and proved the lynch pin that shattered Waargh Kracker'Lacker, slaughtering many of the greenskins and their leadership, including Warboss Kracker'Lacker itself.
A Chief Apothecary would briefly take over as the leading figure of the local Golden Death, Imperial Army and Navy forces in order to lead a campaign against rebels from the Imperium, shattering their armies and restoring a whole sector back into the Emperor's light.
Unsurprisingly, the chapter is currently endangered in strength. They've been very busy after all.
I know you guys are Space Marine Experts but it would be great to see other factions!
I once made a homebrew chapter a while ago as a thought experiment for a DeathWatch Game I was running and followed none of the guidelines you made. The Chapter I made was called the Doomed Crusaders and basically what happened is that their geneseed was entirely destroyed/corrupted making it impossible to make new Marines. So what they decided to do was "fuck it" and use all of the geneseed they had left to make as many Marines as possible and go on one last crusade. Their way of thinking basically was: "If we can die a glorious death, then the Chapter will live on eternally in the memory of the Imperium". When it happened they were a few thousands, now they are less than five hundred. That's all I got. I might write some new fluff for them using your guidelines and see if it is much better.
I'm making primaris loyalist iron warriors but posing as hybrid Iron Hands and imperial fists successors chapter named the Iron Wardens
One of my close friends is doing a DA's Successor he's called the Iron Wardens 😭 couldn't pick a better pair of Geneseeds to use for such a chapter imo
@@astartesanonymous DAs?
I've got two, but my favorite are the Blood Roses, which are basically my attempt at making Pretty Marines Canon.
Geneseed: Cursed founding, officially Blood Angels but some come out of the geneseed process having white hair and occasionally purple eyes. Their Chapter Master, prior to being interred into a dreadnought, is said to have looked startlingly like remembrancer depictions of Fulgrim.
Anyways, to stop beating around the bush, their geneseed is a somehow functional but cursed attempt at combining the geneseed of the Emperor's Children and the Blood Angels to create the perfect Loyalists.
There's one problem: The Inquisition fucking knows and their days are numbered unless they get the right Inquisitors on their side and fucking quickly.
They themselves also know of their cursed lineage, and do everything they can to avoid becoming like the Emperor's Children, including to killing anybody amongst their ranks who gets multiple scars on their face (Lucius, anyone?)
I think this is a REALLY strong premise and would make an excellent foundation for a short story if you ever wanted to have a crack at it. Cursed Founding is the perfect choice for a Loyalist EC/BAs wombo combo
I think another way to cheat with wanting a Chapters that utilize the traits of multiple cannon Chapters. You can chose which Capture they heil from, but say they have picked up on the culture, techniques or lessons of another Chapter. I guess almost similar to what the Crimson Fists do. Being successors of the Imperial Fists, but having a lot of traits similar to the Ultra Marines.
I've got an idea for a home-brew chapter. An Astartes chapter descended from the Black Shields(space marines who scoured all heraldry from there armor and left their legion. They could be loyalist, they could traitor, or any mix of ideals thereof.)
I like this Idea not only because it gives you the basis for a insanely old chapter, with the potential for any mix of lineage and battle doctrine, as well as not much surrounding lore, but just enough to make a sound foundation for a story.
Any thoughts?
Chaos fist please this was helpful
I love the creative power that the 40k setting can lend to homebrew.
My homebrew chapter, the Dawn Barons, are of Night Lords lineage, and instead of hiding that fact, they openly embrace it as they fight to atone for the sins of their fathers. One of the chapter's customs/traditions involves librarians (and anyone else who wishes to show the true extent of their devotion to the chapter's cause) ritually blinding themselves in imitation of the chapter master blinding himself in anguish when finding out about the chapter's true geneseed origins.
My homebrew space marine army is supposed to be rouge remnants of the second legion that had finally showed back up in the 41st millennium.
Since I was using dark angel model’s for this army, I needed to justify them having watchers in the dark. To make a lot of bs homebrew lore short, I decided that the second primarch was a powerful blank, but his genetic flaw was that he was forever stuck as a child. This meant that whenever someone was implanted with his geneseed there was a chance for them to become a blank and stop growing as well, explaining the presence of the watcher in the dark models.
I used this bit about him being stuck as a child to help explain why he ended up getting erased from history. Essentially he was still rather naive and innocent like a child, so he ended up not being able to handle the brutality of the Great crusade. He thought if he and the eleventh primarch rebelled most of the other primarchs would join up with him, and they could do a relatively bloodless coup of his father’s imperium. This belief was quickly shattered, alongside most of the bones in his body when Lemann Russ showed up to execute him and the eleventh primarch.
In the few hours between realizing he had made some massive miscalculations in his plan and dying, he managed to get some of his legion to flee into the warp.
Once they eventually popped back out they found an Imperium even worse then the one they had rebelled against, but they had no real way to rebel against it without immediately dying. Fortunately they had popped out in the dark side of the galaxy that’s disconnected from Terra, so they had some degree of breathing room.
So taking advantage of the fact that every record of their existence has been censored and that they are in space boonies, some of the survivors reluctantly rejoined the Imperium, mostly for the sake of fighting chaos. They made up a bs backstory to justify their existence, and most people in the dark side of the galaxy were a bit too desperate for help to question them too much.
Another bunch of them hated the Imperium even worse now and tried continuing the rebellion. They only had middling success in this, claiming five systems before being ground to halt and forced onto the defensive; essentially becoming a diet Farsight enclaves.
Then the rest of them decided to neither rejoin the imperium or fight against it, instead choosing to fly around and look for any planets in need of their aid and happily giving it; before moving since if they stay too long people might start to ask some questions about who they are and the last thing they want is attention.
The reason I had them split into three separate groups like this, is so I can easily justify any tabletop game I end up playing. And the ones that rejoined the Imperium are used to justify any game that I use primaris instead of 30k models in.
Their Legion culture is heavily based upon their Primarch’s faith in Protethism, which is basically the Protestant version of Catharicism. This has lead to the legion being very much into self sacrifice and favoring weapons usually considered dangerous to their users, like plasma weapons. They have always used very few dreadnaughts, viewing such a thing as delaying their battle brother from moving onto the afterlife, making them rather cruel in their eyes.
They are also very much into mercy and almost always offer their enemy a chance to flee before the battle begins.
During the great crusade they got along with very few of the other legions. This was due to a mix of their religious beliefs and their merciful attitudes being considered naive at best, and the large number of blanks in their legion didn’t help matters. They ended up having rivalry’s with quite other legions, like the Iron Warriors and and Deathguard, but their most intense rivalry was with the 1000 sons.
The second primarch’s home world had originally been controlled by a cabal of Tzenetchain sorcerers; which lead to him having a dislike of any sort of sorcery which was shared by his legion.
The 1000 sons on the other hand got massive headaches at best whenever around the second legion, so this caused a mutual hatred to form between the legions.
Weirdly enough, the legion had a decent enough relationship with the night lords during the great crusade. While they had major problems with the Night Lord’s methods, they were able to at least appreciate the ultimate result of less deaths.
They also got along with the Salamander’s, the Ultramarines, Raven Guard, and the eleventh legion.
In the current setting their biggest rival is the night lords, since both legions are focused on smaller fringe worlds so they frequently clash.
Their legion name is the Sons of the Lamb, with their original name before being found by their primarch was the Sons of Silence. Their original color scheme was gold and red, similar to the sisters of silence, but upon being reunited with their primarch he changed the colors to white and gold, since he thought using gold as the primary color was too excessive. The color of their right shoulder pad depends on what company they are in. First company uses light blue, second uses red, third uses purple, and fourth uses black.
If you think a Space Marine Chapter is complicated, try a Mechanicus Forge World. I've been slowly piecing together one for the better part of two years, and I'm still not done. It's hard because you have to do homebrews within homebrews, usually ones that can be entirely separate things.
Does the FW have a Titan Legion? If so, what's their culture? How many Engines do they have? What's their specialization and weakness?
What nasty things do they have leftover from [INSERT IMPORTANT TIME PERIOD HERE], if at all? Did they lose them if not, or is the FW still relatively new?
What's their Skitarii Legion like? What culture do they have? Are they basically Servitors, or are they closer to Guardsmen with fancy toys? What's their specialty? What're their failings?
It's stuff like this that makes it a daunting task. Wouldn't have it any other way.
You're a braver man than I
What is your opinion on if the emperor had a tts device?
I made a home brew chapter and ended up making a chaos force for them to fight ultimately getting knights houses (home brew) for each side culminating in the tyranids attacking both of them. Keep working at it and you can build your own mini universe a corner of the ip to yourself
Would love to see this kind of video for all the factions. Make your own kabal, Necron dynasty, forge world, etc.
I have to say some of this actually applies to Loyalist Guard regiments too.
Now time to give an incredibly brief lore dump about my own Guard Regiment real quick. I think their lore could be improved as I write it more as reports and events than individual character stories.
I'll even split it into the segments of lineage, tropes, goals and characters.
*Lineage (?)*
The Tripuran Guard Regiments hail from the planet of Tripura II, the second planet from the star in the Tripuran system. The planet was brought into the Imperium sometime after the Emperor found Guilliman, but all other information about the period has been lost. Sometime during millennium 38 the planet was invaded by orks which were dealt with by a Cadian regiment sent to the planet. The Orks became a permanent problem, mandating the creation of a permanent regiment other than the local PDF.
*Tropes*
Defiance and toxic stoicism. Even in the face of loss after loss in a hopeless situation, they will refuse to retreat. Occasionally this is due to the strategic importance of the area, other times the cultural value, however the majority of the time they simply keep fighting because they refuse to let the enemy claim total victory. Even if they are slaughtered to a man. They would prefer to die and give a traitorous Marine a bloody nose, then to live to fight another day.
*Goal*
The current goal of the Tripuran regiments are to push the various xeno forces off their planet. Unfortunately, if this war for their home world ends in victory, they will likely become another asset for (OC) Inquisitor Cocceia Maxima. Therefore, they will likely be torn from their own home to fight against hive fleet Behemoth, despite the more immediate threat to their home of hive fleet Leviathan.
*Characters, (Quick-fire round.)*
Guardsman/Plasma Gunner/Sergeant/Platoon Commander/Captain Lewys 'The Invincible' - A Guardsman who climbed through the ranks due to his seeming ability to avoid death. Between Necron flayers, surviving a direct hit from the spear of a Golden Giant, A Traitorous(yet surprisingly honourable) Nurgle knight, the Deamonettes of Slaanesh, and even an odd trickster Necron Lord who stole his arm.
Field Marshal Martinus Lovernius - A commander who thinks in large sweeping manoeuvres and decisive battles. Lovernius is a strategist first and foremost, reorganising the practical militia force that made up the bulk of the Tripuran Guard into a crack group of Infantry and Armoured Regiments. Through his orders and ideas, the disorganised and homeless Tripuran Guard have begun to retake their home.
The Governor General - The original civilian and military leader of Tripura. He is a man too easily overwhelmed by multiple threats, one who fell into potential distractions too easily and spread his forces out to try and hold the line everywhere at once. His primary success was organising the evacuation of civilians, however while doing so the Tripuran Guard regiments were sacrificed and only a fifth of their original collective strength remained. Therefore, he started the large scale mobilisation of conscript/militia regiments. He was at the very least somewhat self-aware and passed military leadership to Martinus Lovernius while continuing oversight on the now limited civilian matters.
Extremely based take.
This is making me wanna do a similar video on Guard Regiments!
@astartesanonymous Oh, thank you.
'Toxic stoicism' is such an amazing way to put how many more zealous IG regiments are. Refusing to acknowledge a bad situation and continuing on for reasons like 'honour and glory' rather than tactical or strategic sense.
@inwit594 Thanks. I could probably remake the comment to reflect how my custom regi.ent has changed, but the larger points are still the same.
Also one more thing to keep in mind with the Black Templars, they’re fleet based, they don’t stay in one location, and usually they’re broken up into multiple smaller groups on sub-crusades, so it’s a lot harder for anyone to get a precise number of how many there are at any given time (not to mention they mainly recruit from worlds outside imperial control other then themselves) In theory even if someone did count every single active Templar and raised a fuss, they could just say something like “you’ve made a mistake, these two separate groups you’ve counted were actually one single group, they simply finished one battle and moved to handle a near by threat, the eternal crusade waits for no one after all”. That’s of course is assuming someone can actually find them in time to bring up the issue, again, they never stop moving, and who the hell is going to try asking “hey are you sure you don’t have a few too many marines” in the middle of a battle? Even if they don’t kill you for asking stupid questions I’m pretty sure anyone they were helping would.
The Astral Claws on the other hand were all stationed in the Maelstrom zone, not to mention they were actively fighting the Imperium, if I understand things right no one noticed how big they’d gotten until after the war started, and someone noticed a discrepancy between how many reports of Astral Claw encounters occurred at the same time, the number of confirmed dead Astral Claws, and how many there should be.
That could be something to consider if you did want to make a chapter significantly larger than the codex and the Imperium would allow. Give a reason no one has cared, noticed, or been able to prove it to the wider imperium yet.
I have a general idea for what I wanna do for my Chapter, but I wasn't sure what to do as far as the lore and stuff. I'll definitely take some notes and do some reading lol. Maybe I'll submit my chapter for your series, to get some constructive criticism. I'm new to the table top stuff, so I wanna try and get it right lol
oh what all do you have for your chapter?
In a nutshell my homebrew is loyalists naive night lords.... Did i do it right?
same. They pretend to be whitescars, and have slowly gone more that direction.
Yes
I know this is a bit weird, but what or how, would you do approaching a custom Space Marine legion? I've got an idea and narrative set up already, but I was wondering whether it would be a better idea to crunch that down to a chapter.
This is a tough one to answer. Personally I wouldn't be anywhere near brave enough to undertake making a custom legion, unless I was working on a whole custom AU to go with it (which would grant a LOT more freedom), that being said, if you don't care about pushback from other homebrewers just go wild. But if you want others to see it and partake with you I'd take a look at the Heresy Era Black Shields and maybe feed your homebrew legion into them?
I don't know if it would be better to crunch it down into a chapter - but it WOULD be a lot easier
@@astartesanonymous Thanks! I know that getting a lot of pushback would be unavoidable, but considering the massive hole GW have made, an AU where this one wasn't obliterated would work well. The reason why I think it would be more interesting than a chapter is that another Legion could shake up the events of the Timeline so much. At worst, I could crunch them down to a chapter with some Chimeric geneseed, but yeah I'll keep this advice in mind!
“In a nutshell my homebrew SM are the real sons of the Phoenix, but they are both 3rd and 7th hybrid legion geneseed with expanded AU* lore.”
Kinda wanted to test out the last part of the video. I think mine works!
I liked this a lot and the Chapter in a sentence stuff is how a few of my own homebrews start as well. While Space Marine specific I do think it can be applied to a lot of other factions as well.
The point made at 13:00 is completely true. Over the last year I collaborated with a friend to create a self-contained but connected homebrew “setting” with WAY too much lore.
I took different approach. I found Dark Angels Succesors Chapter that I liked collor scheme, but information about them is almost nothing. We only know where they are. So I decided to make some lore myself. Chapter master was one of the BladeGuards from original Dark Angels Chapter, but he and 3 other blade guards were send to guide and to lead them. After some time one of the bladeguards was mortally wounded, so they put him into Dreadnought. If someone want to know, they are called Cowled Wardens and they are probably from ultima founding
Well this gave me the motivates I needed to finish my homebrew chapter.
Is there a similar idea with traitor legions? Like a splinter of thousand sons or word bearers?
Idea: a space-born chapter renowned for their diaspora across the galaxy and rumored to be over 1000 Marines (BT set-up). Now subvert; due to the modi operandis of the chapter it IS true they have over a thousand as each group replenishes forces while on campaign. But make it a problemnthey care about. Every 50 years or something the chapter gathers to take on the "Tithing Campaign". The number of marines the chapter (couple dozen or over a hundred) over isnsent on crusade to die. Sacrifice for the Imperium in Wild Space.
Decent trope but controls the chapter’s overall power.
Chapter's Apothecaries workin' overtime collecting all this geneseed 😭
Make for a very interesting idea, seems like the perfect force to be a part of a campaign holding back something like the denizens of the Maelstrom
I've been struggling so much where to start for my own homebrew since homebrew seems to be seen so poorly where I've looked, so this is SO HELPFUL!
Now the hardest part, finding other homebrews to make interconnected lore with lol😂
I got one called the Corpse Eaters, who thought they were Blood Angels successors and favored the brutality of the black rage, until they eventually learnt that they were actually World Eaters descendants where their "black rage" was just heightened anger from their lineage and the Blood Angels immediately cut all contact with them.
They are ashamed of what they are and they take every opportunity to do suicidal missions for Imperium in hopes to redeem themselves in the eyes of Sanguinius. They were almost dead when they came upon the Indomitus crusade and threw their entire chapter in the fray to help Guilliman, who then gave them their Primaris reinforcement.
Their chapter master is actually really close to Angron, being forces to be self-contained in a room where he focuses on painting (poorly) until they either send a recruit in to see if they survive the manic anger of him or they need him in the fray. He despise himself and the only thing keeping him sane is his entombed dreadnought brethern who guards his door that he talks to for advice as they can't be easily killed by his bouts of rage.
do a video on the strongest legion based on strategies and tactics
Just have fun. Make your own people.
With 35 thousand words and over 200 thousand characters, i think i accomplished that task
Well, here goes...
In a nutshell, definitely not Alpha Legion, we promise, these rejected aspirants are just serfs, not undercover agents to support the marines, we swear.
I have an idea of a chapter of “blood angels” but their gene seed is world eaters and the chapter master somewhat get gets the primarch power despite having the nails but at an extreme cost to his health, just like talos from the night lords, and it goes to a passing of a torch of him dying and looking upon the new chapter master of his choosing who doesn’t know of their gene seed origins and fully believes that their a blood angel chapter and the old master passes on dying with that knowledge and his rage that burdened him will die with him and he’s satisfied with the possible future of this chapter being far different then his original legion
ooo a guid how to make your own chapter alright.
Loving the long videos. I'm hyped to make my own chapter now, I'm definitely going full knight style with a badass chapter master. What is a good color scheme that has not been used by cannon legions?
Would you guy's be willing to post a good place for the more character sheet-y building parts of the chapters? Like a template for the leg work? Pretty new to 40k but it might be fun to have a side project to mess around with on paper along with lore making. Thanks, love the video.
Been making my own Chapter recently, this was super helpful!
EDIT: I ended up scrapping the original idea, as I found it a bit cliche and too ambitious to make an entirely new Legion. So I instead decided on a Loyalist Chapter made from the geneseed of Horus.
They're known as the Prodigal Sons, their colors being black, with silver on their right pauldron and arm. Their symbol is a bleeding wolf, which I'll get into the symbolism of in a sec.
Official records declare them as being part of the Second Founding, as an offshoot of the Blood Angels. Though notably, they do not share any of the traditions of the Blood Angels, nor do they suffer from the Black Rage or Red Thirst. This is also matcehd by a lack of the colors associated with their original Chapter. It's believed that this is what led to them gaining their name, that centuries ago, they performed some deed that saw them cast out of the Sanguinary Brotherhood, and made outcasts.
In reality, they are descended from the few Sons of Horus who survived defying their genefather, fighting alongside the Archtraitor's closest brother, Sanguinius, and his Blood Angels.
Following the Heresy, Sanguinius had ensured that one of his final requests be that these loyal Sons of Horus be spared. To protect them from the more...zealous Primarchs and Chapters, Robute Guilliman saw to it that the Chapter would be officially a successor of the Blood Angels.
The Prodigal Sons have never been the finest Space Marine Chapter. Due to the rumors surrounding their supposed exile from the Brotherhood, few other Chapters wish to associate with them. Finding new recruits and acquiring equipment is a difficult task, leading to them being undermanned and using old, worn equipment. In fact, their color scheme was simply because the resources needed to make black and grey pigments are plentiful, especially in the industrial hiveworlds they often recruit from.
This lack of resources left the Chapter with extremely poor discipline and morale, Companies often breaking apart into scattered pockets in larger formations.
They nearly faced extinction, in the last three centuries of the 41st Millenium. The Chapter MAster, desperate to save his Chapter from eventual ruin, accidentally opened a Chaos Gate on an Imperial World, dying in the process. The Inquisition, having long known the truth of the Chapter, and wishing to finally be rid of them without breaking the writ protecting them, sent the Chapter on a penitent crusade, hoping that they would break against the Archenemy.
Somehow, however, the Chapter would succeed in sealing the Chaos Gate, thanks to the brilliant tactics of a relatively new Astartes, Matthias Caecus, who would later emerge as the new Chapter Master.
Matthias would lead the Chapter out of ruin. He would reopen an alliance with the Blood Angels, organize the Prodigal Sons into an effectiv, combined arms force, and lead them during the Desolation of Baal.
When Guilliman returned, the Sons were some of the first to volunteer to become Primaris Marines, with Matthias himself being the first of his brother's.
Homebrew EVERYTHING. Sisters? Homebrew. Forge world? Homebrew. Hivefleet? Homebrew. Tau Sept? Homebrew. Chaos warband? Homebrew.
It's not just for the classics Space Marines and Imperial Guard.
It's why you can paint your models! Make everything your own.
Woo george abalayan here haha nice to contribute to the homebrew scene
This has helped me a lot, as I’ve recently gotten back into Warhammer and decided to make my own homebrew. I always loved the Space Marines but none of the official chapters really appealed to me. I love seeing all of the creative comments!
I'm gonna make my own chapter! Sentinels of the Watch.
Very good video! Looking forward to the chaos warband video!
Name of Chapter: Ravens of Death
Chapter of Raven Guard
Colour scheme: Red pauldrons, red leg bits, rest of parts are black, sergeants wear red pauldrons and red helmets, all use the raven guards helmet. They have red coming from the helmets sights to represent blood.
Flagship: Corvus's Wrath (Its a dominator class Cruiser)
Chapter Master: Constantinus Pimm
Type: Fleet based Chapter
Main Enemy: Followers of Tisnitch and The Red Hawks (Custom Warband of the World Eaters)
Name of Fleet: Chapter Fleet Rangus
Fleet Consists of: Dominator Class cruiser, 6 Dauntless Class Cruisers, 12 Firestorm class Frigates, 20 Transport Ships, 2000 Fury Interceptors.
Founded between the 7th and the 12th Founding
Worship Corvus as a God (Almost as much as the God Emperor)
Spend majority of the time on tisnitchs planets and mainly in the warp.
Constantinus Pimm Fought with a Strong Demon Prince of Zinch/Tsinitch only being saved by Zancuin, an ironclad pattern dreadnought.
Constantinus Pimm Also Has Warp Regen Abilities and Mainly Uses Lightning claws similar to Corvus Coraxs.
Geneseed made up of Blood Angels, Raven Guard, and World Eater.
Geneseed failures:
The Rage of Corvus will happen when the entire battleforce will see images of Istvaan 5 and Raven Guard dying, this temporarily makes them invincible, being able to fight a custodian guard 1 one 1 and injuring the custodian Severely, during this rage. And due to mass exposure to the warp, most become half Raven half Astartes.
This is just a fan idea made by me, tell me if its a great idea!
My first Homebrew Has Developed Into a Beautiful Collage of Homebrew of Dozens of Chapters Who Interact and Play Off Eachother
Allowing Me to Explore All These Different Aspects of Astarte’s Real World and Fictional Culture in More Than Enough Ways
It’s Quite Beuatiful
Ten Whole Chapters More Realistically Working In Unison
Not Just One
And Ten More That Play Off Each of Them More Personally as a Direct Support Chapter
Even Though Some Of Them Are Far More Logistical Than Others
Did Not Plan Most of This Until It Cane to Me By The By
Named All of Them and Their Centric Functions in Two Settings
Everything
Omnidexterous Perfectionist Of Everything Whitehand-Blackhand Chapter
Raptors and Ravenguard Style More Practical SOF Blackhand Chapter
White Consuls, ETC, Logistics, Government Centric Style Whitehand Chapter
A Fleet Based Chapter of Space Fleet Centric Marines
A Holy Theistic Chapter That Mostly Plays Into The Goals of a Not So Theistic Mission Unknowingly, A Mostly Unknowing Sleeper In The Church’s Service
Medical Obsessed Chapter, Masters of Recovery, Science, Research and Gene Maintenance
A Magic Centric Chapter Specializing in ALL Things Psyker, Blank, Spiritual and Warp Voodoo
An Blackhand; Sometimes Anti Asartes Chapter to Clean Up Undesirables and Maintain All The Others, Ofcourse Gather Intel and Big Brother Blackhand Everything They Touch
A Tech Centric Chapter; Vehicles, Support, Robots, Resources, Mechanicus Dealings, ETC
A History-Culture Centric Chapter With More Societal and Ceremonial Roles, Whitehand ofcourse
I Can Keep Rambling But I Just Love How Beautiful You Can Make Your Space Marine Chapters and Have Them Interact Perfectly Cannon In Universe
It’s So Adorable
I'd say go renegade chapter then chaos warband it creates a nice through line showing how a chapter may misalign with the imperium and eventually fall into chaos.
This has helped a lot guys! Thank you so much I’ll probably submit my fan chapter for y’all’s series. And I’ll try to make ‘em great for everyone to enjoy!
>cursed founding one
>failled project to create a stable source of recruits for Deathwatch
>they used DA geneseed (without DA permission) as a base for being one of the most stable oneand mixed it up with Canis Helix
>mutated Omophagea, primaris size, hypersensitiveness to sensory perception (always wear helmets) superficial feral traits
>project was stopped after getting leaked (fears that Ordo Xenos is building themself a private space marine army) and hush hush by getting send to forgotten corner of the Imperium to deal with pirates and petty kingdoms of rebels, heretics and xenos
>geneseed is so badly rigged that even Cawl couldn't fix it
>biggest ally is a small Forge world that is manufactoring power weapons and esoteric power armors (an excuse for kitbashing Dark angels and Grey knight bits)
>basically, space mariens Witchers using Deathwatch rules without being Deathwatch themself
>Fortress-monastery was destroyd by an Eldar raid in 42k during an suspision event (they are talks of an attack during a skirmishes between chapter members and an unknow primaris force)
Well... It seems my homebrew chapter is invalid. It's not for a tabletop anyway. But I want to tell about it.
To cut it short, it's a chapter-legion born from a loyal group of Iron Warriors, Thousand Sons, Lunar Wolves and Deathguard that, after Sebastus four, bargained with mechanicus and Imperium to be forgiven. They fought lesser xenorace that became a huge problem and due to high loss of space marines to xeno weapon(it destabilised implantations and genetical modifications) started to straight up clone gene seed and experiment on it and recruits to lower the death rate while suffering from resource shortages and loss of bolter and las weapons tech due to xenos targeting everyone who knew how to do it and literal hacker attacks so they had to use high-caliber stabbers as a standard weapon. These problems gave birth to two new Mechanicum cults among the mechanicus that agreed to go with them: cult of understanding and cult of reinventing, that later united. When the xenos were finally slain with a help of astra militarum and fresh fleet that came a thousand years prior to their defeat, it turned out that xenos had actually inherited many of human technologies and with a help of newly formed Mechanicum cult and Astartes themselves these technologies were brought back and sold them to forge and industrial worlds. Some of technologies, though, were kept or even enhanced(basically, a great crusade level. Somewhere close).
Chapter is named "Adamantium shields" since during the cerastid(xeno name) war their main source of minimising casualties were specific energy shields that consisted of adamantium nanoparticles within two layers of magnetic field.
Their main style of warfare is siege, but now with extra tools like psykers and diversion squads. They don't have a lot of infantry, mostly focusing on tanks and ordnance. And small mobile recycler-manufactorums they use to maintain and produce(mainly to replace the lost vehicles, armour and weapons) their gear on the battlefield form the resources they take from it.
Their specifics are:
At the end of the war (and the arrival of reinforcements) they started to use modified (way more powerful and advanced, to match with the status) hellguns and rotary lascannons because it's easier to supply them.
Their power armour along with combat vehicles and aircrafts is powered by miniature plasma reactors so the suppliment would be easier in terms of fuel.
During the war keeping dreadnoughts and terminator power armour wasn't cost efficient (gravely injured were just given implantations and prosthetics to keep them alive and able to fight), they invented Carnarvon terminators who's kind of in between: they can carry firepower close to dreadnoughts and are better armored than terminators, are more compact and cheaper than dreadnoughts, even though are less mobile then terminators and their armour is weaker than dreadnought's.
They use the Colossal pattern land raider that is more of a bigger version of Spartan assault tank. Once again, because it wasn't cost-effective to infuse a big number of landraidees with these energy shields I mentioned earlier, and because spartan was unfit for breaching the fortresses of Cerastids - its armour was too weak for that.and its armament was too light.
They turned the occupied cerastid systems into their material and human resources base. The human society they built is more educated compared to majority of the imperium.
Their fortress monastery is an ancient dyson sphere built around the warp-infected star they take energy from to slowly synthesise the resources they need. Process is slow, but it's better than nothing.
Adamantium shields are divided into four chapters( even though it's hard to call it chapters due to their enormous numbers after the Cerastid war) that are made with all four geneseeds. difference is which is main(which is more in mix). These are:
Adamantium Shields themselves( main genes - Iron Warriors), are also divided into three chapters - AS themselves(infantry, light vehicles and mobile manufactorums), Emperor's Lance ( heavy and superheavy artillery), Forge grinders(tanks and heavy armoured vehicles).
Lords of Mist(main genes - Death guard) - chemical weapons.
Sons of Abyss(main genes - Thousand sons) - psykers and psi-weaponry.
Winged flock(main genes - Lunar Wolves) - diversions and communication raids.
Procedure of modification becomes more complicated due to this, and the reason gene seed is so mixed is unknown. Probably to fix the side effects.
And that's where the worst secret of this chapter-legion is exactly there. Astartes creation procedure was changed to make it less deadly for recruits and faster at the same time. However, now these operations require ultimate precision to go as needed. And also one critical component... Cerastid blood. They didn't kill all the xenos. DNA of these aliens was able to work as modification stabilyser and connector of genomes that are in other circumstances deadly for each other, but unfortunately, due to its structure, can't be cloned. So couple thousands of cerastids are kept deep within the fortress-monastery as blood livestok. The problem, however, doesn't end here. Astartes made using renewed procedures are less mentally stable: Adamantium Shields slowly loose emotions, turning into artificial intelligences of flesh and bone, and become overly rational while withering until they turn into pale thin(compared to normal astartes) figures with dead, soulless eyes, that don't care about even their own casualties when it comes to achieving the best outcome.
Lords of Mist start to see ghosts of those they killed by accident, as collateral, and the more they fight, the more ghosts they see, which drains their souls until they die when the final piece of their soul will be spent.
Sons of Abyss exchanged the fleshchange for slowly losing their psycic powers. However, in the process their inner eyes start to see something between the warp and immaterium. Something that drives even the most experienced and mentally prepared psykers completely insane. Process can be slowed down by special noctilith implantants, but... Noctilith is extremely rare, so...
And finally, Winged Flock is tormented by the visions of Istvaan 3, therefore becoming something like chained dogs ready to tear apart everyone their commander will tell them to without any emotion.
I'd go ahead and say, go onto even create a whole set of a sub within a sub sector of planets that your chapter operates in/from, I went that far with making my painfully on the nose obvious "Ultramarines" successors from one of the "earlier" foundings, called the Death Eaters, born from an incredibly small number of surviving Death Guard and World Eater loyalists, who use an old brilliant terran tactic called the 'Hammer and Anvil' Wherease the obvious fit into each role perfectly, even going so far as to be very selective between the two orders in who recruits who for what role the chapter is 'split' into. Gangers for the hammer, stubborn and sturdy miners for the Anvil Their goal is to eventually stop lying to the greater imperium, and be the final dagger that ultimately puts down their paired genefathers.
I even have a guardsmen regiment, the "Gavangun Sappers" or 'Gavy's sappys' when they get into their cups. Mostly miners from the subsector's mining world who send out regiments whenever they cannot provide a tithe of minerals every once in a 'blue moon' by warhammer standards. They excel in being well, miners with a needless amount of explosives, 'digging' trenches with det charges and the like, they even have their own rough riders who just drive by yeet bundles of high explosives at choice targets.
And done. I have now created a chapter in the hour and a half it's been since I saw your video.
The Killing Blades Chapter
Name: Killing Blades.
Chapter motto: ”Strike the enemy right, and you won't have to fight him again.”
Chapter symbol: A downwards facing sword, similar to the Dark Angels, but black, lacking wings, and with a blast of red from the tip of the blade.
Colour scheme: Springleaf green, with blood red trim, red eye lenses, black helmets and black aquilas.
Founding: 24th Founding.
Descended from: ?(rumoured to be World Eaters).
Chapter homeworld: Fleet-based.
Flagship: Battle barge Nomad Vigilant.
Chapter Master: Laramir Shere.
History: A relatively young chapter. It is not known from which 1st Founding chapter they are descended, though it is whispered by some that it is the World Eaters. There is no evidence of this being true, though there are some things that could hint at this being the case.
For example, when in combat they do feel an urge to get into melee to butcher the enemy close up.
They truly revel in close quarters bloodshed. However, they have realized the need to make use of their ranged weapons in order to be more effective. So a great deal emphasis is placed on the Killing Blades controlling their urge to fight close up, focusing on firing their weapons first, before closing for honourable melee. And they have developed this to such a degree that their preferred method of fighting now consists of wearing the enemy down with overwhelming and precise ranged fire, and then striking the killing blow on the weakened enemy in close combat. The Killing Blades believe that, if they can time this right, the killing blow can damage the enemy to an unrecoverable degree which removes the necessity to strike again. A single decisive attack. And this is what they usually aim to achieve.
Another thing that some find worrying about them is that they have what can be interpreted as a tendency to rebel. For while the Killing Blades are Codex compliant, they do not view the Codex Astartes as rules set in stone that must always be obeyed. And they do often prefer to associate with chapters who aren't Codex complaint and chapters with... questionable reputations(such as the Space Wolves, the Salamanders, the Celestial Lions, and the Lamenters) over Codex compliant chapters. And no one, apart from the Killing Blades themselves, are entirely sure why.
Yet, despite these worries, the Killing Blades have been exemplary loyalists. The main worry about them is not that they might turn traitor, which most who aren't paranoid considers a preposterous notion, but their chapter master's youth. While Laramir Shere, at over 400 years old, is hardly a young man, he has only recently become chapter master after Loric Harn died in battle with an Iron Warrior with a metal arm. Though Loric's designated heir, he has yet to prove himself in the role, and many(including himself) wonder if he's up to the task. Fortunately, the 3 most senior(in experience) Killing Blades, Chief Apothecary Erhardt Findt, Chief Librarian Raphael Feliss, and 3rd Company Captain Walter Warburg, all support him.
Another piece of advice I would like to offer: When coming up with the chapter's name, Try shouting it out as "WE ARE THE ____" and if it sounds dumb, you need to workshop the name a bit more.
The nutshell test works for guard too! For example, space Condotierri who go around plugging gaps in the imperium’s defenses so that the guard can fight elsewhere.
This was really helpful.
I have been having trouble with where to start and what to do exactly with the idea for a kriegsmen inspired chapter and this helped a lot so thanks
can you please do an Episode on the Orks both individual Ork kharakter and a Ork Klan? please 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
- raises hand -
I have a homebrew chapter called the Redeemed. They're made up of former chaos and traitor marines from all different legions who turned away from Chaos. Their main shtick is being pretty much immune to Chaos and warp stuff after having been exposed to it for so long, and they hunt daemons and chaos servants. They're not very well liked in the Imperium but they're very dedicated anyway, seeing it as a way to redeem themselves of their pasts serving the dark gods.
Some notable members include
-The chapter master, an ex Thousand Sons marine who, thanks to an unfortunate encounter with a Slaaneshi witch is now a "living" crystal statue
-The chief apothecary, who made a deal with Isha to cure his Nurgle induced corruption and now has flowers growing out of his flesh
-Their only techmarine, a perpetually grumpy former Iron Warrior who commits tech heresy like he gets paid for it and probably hasn't smiled in 10k+ years, but who still ended up adopting the first infant he rescued from a daemon.
Homebrew imperial Guard is a thing i was focusing on first...
Amazing video! This has been a massive help whilst I’ve been creating my custom chapter! Just working out who they are the successor of as I have 3 Primarchs I love but everything else I’ve sorted 👍
I made a successor chapter! They are called the Aegis Valorant(or The Shields of Valor), and they are a Dark Angels successor that was heavily influenced by the Salamanders when they were still figuring themselves out. They believe preserving the citizens of the imperium is the point of their existance, and they very much agree with what Guilliman said to Dante during the devastation of Baal.
The Aegis Valorant have a knightly aesthetic, and they are a rapid response force that prioritizes battlefields where they can (loudly) distract foes and enable their allies to rally.
The Aegis Valorants Apothecarium is much more robust than most chapters, and they even deploy human combat medics from their home world to aid any needful allies or civilians in the theater of battle.
Good video but that part about dante being the oldest space marine....Mr Bjorn would like a word or 2 with you.
9:42 ;)
Dreadnoughts can be old as balls no problem! Love the Space Wolves storytime grandpa!
@@astartesanonymous I would like to retract my statement saying woopsie
This is a great guide, dude, and one I'm definitely going to keep in mind as I continue writing my own custom chapter, The Crimson Host. I actually have something similar to what you spoke about with Kharn with my Chapter Master, Vicram Evicarus. While fighting a World Eater Warband on the hive world of Calixan Secundus with the Scions of Baal (another homebrew BA successor), Vicram, Kharn, and the Champion of the Scions Inarel, were split off from the Host's First Company and Kharm's warband by a collapsing building, and nobody saw them for three solar days. When Vicram re-emerged, he was barely scratched, and immediately withdrew from the planet. Nobody knows what happened, but now the Host avoids the World Eaters like the plague, and Vicram has become obsessed with becoming a martyr to the point where his First Captain needs to actively hold him back from directly engaging in battle out of fear he'll straight up kill himself.
The unsaid reason? Kharn split Inarel, in his Terminator armor, in half with one hit of Gorechild, so Vicram decided that discretion is the better part of valor and *ran like hell*.
Holy shit+ you used my chapter master commission by Adrian Art at 7:04
This is how I'm going to get my female space marines. 😊
Where do we submit our homebrews?
Thanks this really helps a lot!!! i was trying to create a night lord loyalist chapter and this has set some awesome guidelines for me!
I want to thank you for this video! As someone who’s fairly new to the franchise, this has helped a lot with the “creation” of my own chapter and the nuisances there in. I sincerely appreciate this upload!
I've been working on a successor chapter from the space wolves called the saber wolves. They are often ridiculed but other wolves for taking in traits and tactics from other chapters, one example is a judicar assisting a squad of blood angels. The idea of these golden death masks to strike fear into their opponents so he did the same just with a golden wolf mask
Who is the artist for 4:12
Nate Kawachi :)
I've been intermittently developing a Renegade Space Marine... group? Chapter? If I was to In-a-Nutshell them, I think it'd be... Basically a blend of Salamanders and Raven Guard who've become a client state of some group of Tau in exchange for equipment resupply. The longer history I've got so far is a group of Marines taking charge of a small sector of Imperial planets that were isolated from the wider galaxy and basically under constant siege for at least a few hundred years. Desperately in need of resupply and reinforcements, and with Raven Guard-like pragmatism blending with Salamander-like commitment to the duty to their wards, they bargained with the first potentially friendly force to contact them, which were Gue'vesa. While I'm uncertain if it makes sense for this to be the Tau proper or a splinter group, they had enough industrial capacity to provide equipment. I'm still playing around with stuff, but it's mostly an excuse to equip marines with Tau toys. I love the name I gave them, though, Phoenix Sons. It has the fire of the Salamanders, the bird for Raven Guard, and the rebirth motif, given it's a name they adopt after the Imperium labels them as traitors.
Again, Phoenix is Fulgrim, using Phoenix as a name immedietly makes it sound like emperors children successor, and while they could fight “with” the Tau, you need to remember that they never can fight “for” the Tau, especially so against the imperium, but yea, thaught about it myself but never quite got the lore explanation nor the geneseed
Need to do Homebrew Xeno Armies and factions
Yep, this raven guard is gonna go well.
You could probably do a homebrew series. I would like to see an Admech homebrew.
This was such a wonderful help. I eagerly look forward to the next videos in this series 😁
So question. I think it's cool for the creativity but what is the point of home brewing aside for the fun of the art? Like nothing against it! I just am genuinely curious as to what it provides.
This video is amazing! I went through several ideas for successor chapters and characters until I settled on what I liked. It took me nearly a year to figure out what you explained in 14 minutes, bravo!
So, I feel it is very important to include a unique flaw in your home brew chapters alongside unique beneficial traits. Extra credit if you can tie their greatest strengths to their greatest weaknesses in this regard.
Exactly! This exact thing is one of the key things that makes the Blood Angels so good
Making a successor chapter was the thing that got me so invested into the hobby. I’m still working on the finer points of mine months after I started.
Mine’s called The Hellbenders. They are a Salamanders successor chapter and named after the hellbender, the largest salamander in North America. They specialize in vehicles and heat-based weaponry such as plasma, flamers, and melta. The broad theme of the chapter has changed as I go along, and so has the paint scheme, but the current version is a combination of a Mesoamerican theme and an ice world meant to mirror Nocturne.
I really like the dragon theme of the Salamanders and I feel that it’s an under-utilized aspect of their design. I really like kitbashing and proxy models so I use a dragon mini as a proxy for a Brutalis Dreadnought. I’ve named it Xol, which is a reference to the Aztec god Xolotl who wasn’t depicted as a dragon or even a serpent but he is the source of the name axolotl which is both one of my favourite animals and a member of the salamander species, so I felt it fits pretty well.
This is exactly what I needed man. Thank you so much
Very late but hello! I’m here because I’ve been struck with inspiration to make Salamanders but with Ice instead of Fire.
They get their recruits from three ice worlds all in the same star system, each of their companies follows its own sort of combat doctrine based on lessons learned from their homeworlds’ climate. (these happen to coincide with each of the Space Marine detachments, wow such a funny coincidence)
The 2nd Company is an Anvil Siege Force detachment, they invoke the immovable might of the snowy mountains which defied colonization efforts for hundreds of years. They will not bend, they will not break.
3rd Company is a Firestorm Assault Force, they invoke the freezing cold of their world. Funny thing to mention I’ve uh… swapped out their flamers with cryolaunchers. Is this lore friendly? Uhhh… no idea, is it cool? Hell yeah. They speed through battlefields like the icy winds of their home.
I’ve got more ideas but for now that’s what I’m working with.
I got a Chapter of Iron Hands; The Iron Crowns, that met with the Imperial Fists and various other Chapters during a sizeable Ork Purge. There was one particular character whom their Chapter Master met; Maximmion Voss. Given Voss's unusual features, the Chapter Master basically thought "What is this defective Astarte doing here?". But upon seeing how badass and STRONG Voss was, he was immediately humbled. Being Iron Hands, they were adherents to the ideas of "The Flesh is Weak" but after encountering Voss, their outlook changed.
"The Flesh is Weak? Make it Stronger!"
The Iron Crowns now push themselves with rigorous physical training, they are the swollest Astartes in the Sector. Their preferred enemy is Orks
Funny Fact, you know how Voss had to constantly have his armor refitted cuz he was bulking too much? The Crowns found a solution, whenever a group of em get too big for their armor, they line up according to size and switch to the set that's one size above like a bunch of Hermit Crabs.
The idea I had was for a homebrew legion called the Storm Chasers. They would have their origins as part of an existing loyalist legion (haven't decided which one yet), who were on their way to help Big Emps fend off the traitor legions, but got caught in a warp storm and spat out once the events of the Heresy had already long played out. Now they dedicate their time to studying warp storms and fighting demons, to try and find a way of utilising a warp storm to go back to the Heresy times and help the Emperor.
your point on established characters: Is dead on! I have been doing D&D and Star Wars D&D since 2008 and from my personal experience with it. Avoid them! Have them mentioned, maybe a brief glimpse but other wise it gets weird and will mess with 'canon'.
I've got an idea for a chapter, inspired by Gregorian Chanting, using sonic based attacks and being the scout/ranger archetype. Brotherhood of Hymns or something along those lines
I don’t play marines but I figured I should try my hand at making a chapter:
The Diving Wyverns are an experimental chapter, combining geneseed from the salamanders and blood angels in an attempt to cure the black rage. It worked, kinda, instead of slowly losing their minds overtime, upon the geneseed being implanted, the marine is filled with an omnipresent rage directed towards any and everyone who would harm innocent civilians.
Combine that and their unique method of flame based and jump pack based style of warfare, and they make a terrifying foe.
Their colors are inspired by Rathalos and Rathian from Monster Hunter, with ground troops and tanks being a dark green color and jump pack troops and aircraft being red. Lieutenants wear a faded pink color or faded blue color, and captains are either silver for ground captains and gold for jump pack captains.
Champion: "OUR LEGIONS NUMBER IN THE MILLIONS!"
Chapter Master: "He hand out 'Honorary Astartes' badges to kids, they like to count them."
hmm interesting.....i can use this to made my own Primaris Marine Chapter for my novel....
"maybe they played chess" the betrayer, play chess? I thought we were making it believable 😂
So you’re saying if I wanted to I could do a MGS kinda crossover and create a custom legion/chapter, just keep is vague lol
So you’re saying if I wanted to I could do a MGS kinda crossover and create a custom legion/chapter, just keep is vague lol
I’m actually in the middle of painting my homebrew Chapter, but I’m still trying to flesh out their lore. I do have their name and a flaw in their Gene Seed. They’re called the “Withered Talons,” and they suffer from a Gene Flaw known in their Chapter as the “Frailty.” Basically what this flaw does is after Gene Seed implantation is complete, an aspirant begins to undergo decades of aging all at once in under a single minute. You could go from 20 years old to 70-80 years in the blink of an eye. You still retain your Astartes traits, but some of your extra organs might not work, and your bones can ache. Sometimes the flaw won’t occur right after implantation, sometimes it can happen to you later in the future. At worst, it can happen in the heat of battle. Hitting you like a train. Some are safe from the flaw, but a majority of them suffer from it. A cultural trait they have is that the warriors of the Chapter have stronger brotherly bonds, and really look out for each other. And because of their flaw, they look to their Apothecary marines for help. In fact, the title of Apothecary is a rank the Withered Talons consider the highest honor.
The main thing to avoid in my opinion is don't create homebrew lore that conflicts with established history, so for instance you can't say your homebrew chapter was established before the horus heresy, because that will cause arguments among other players.
If you're unsure or can't be bothered to learn chapter foundings, you could simply state they have an unknown founding with an unknown primarch, and that can add interest to your chapter as now they have a mysterious background.
You could always pull the “warp storm time travel” bs, but yea, its annoying
@@filipbitala2624 yeah that's not a thing though, the time travel thing isn't simply jumping from one place to another, it leaves a mark on you, whether mental or a physical mutation
@@the98themperoroftheholybri33 so does nearly anything tho, and in devastation of baal Gabriel Setha and his flesh eaters warped like a week into the future without a mark, so as lucky as it might be, its still posible
I'm literally only struggling with picking a primarch and a name. My chapter is gonna have an autistic obsession with giant fucking castles, restoring almost destroyed planets back into lush gardens, caring for the humans on their worlds and crushing evil in all its forms. I'm thinking a similar look to the death spectres tho. And fallen brotheres will be buried in the gardens around their castles. Please spit some ideas for a primarch and name pls
I don't do tabletop but I have made a custom chapter for DoW. Their backstory is that they were founded by the Ultramarines of the Crusader Host in the second founding