They sound weirdly normal for non-compliant Ultramarine Successor chapters, almost like they could actually come from actual Guilliman gene-stock instead of the II and XI legion genestock that is theorized to be the cause of Ultramarine-successor weirdness.
Yeah, i'd think that some of the other wierder Ultramarine successors, like maybe the Mortifactors, would be 2ed or 11th. The Iron Snakes feel very much like, just like the Emperor's Spears, the result of the culture of a chapter homeworld influecing the marines
@@PeachDragon_ a friend once told me the reason those two legions don’t have anything is so that the fans can make their own chapters and have them come from that if they don’t fit anywhere else, and I’m sure they tease and hint about the what ifs specifically for fan speculation and engagement like this, keeps people invested.
@@PeachDragon_ except those legions got absorbed into the Ultramarines and the Imperial Fists. And the Soul Drinkers were a fists 2ex founding successor who were convinced they had Dorn Geneseed until someone checked and it came back as unknown So its likely there are 2ed founding chapters from either legion who are unknowlingly 2ed or 11th
@@thewerdnaDorn also took some Thousand Sons under his wing at some point, they were part of the troops that were besieging Horus' homeworld, to me those look like the most likely ancestors of the Soul Drinkers with their psykers and weird mutations.
I once knew a player in 3rd Ed who played an Iron Snakes army. Every Veteran Sergeant was tooled up like a captain. They sometimes held their own against my Hive Tyrants in combat. If your watching this from the Bolton store UK, late 90s your army was cool.
First time hearing about this chapter. Got to admit, the Greek names of their planet and Iron being in their name made me think there was going to be a 4th legion twist for a minute. That aside, this chapter is quite the elaborate Odessey reference. Ithaca, Charybdis, Scylla (the sea serpents), and long voyages thinking longingly of home.
Brothers of the Snake is probably the single best book to explain to a new person what a single space marine is capable of and what they can do in large numbers.
That's one of the most consistent pieces of lore about the Ultramarines/successors. They honor their dead. After the Word Bearers pretty much turned Calth into a Death World and prolonged exposure on the surface essentially was the equivalent of getting microwaved by a poisoned radioactive sun, Ventanus not only ordered all the fallen UM to be collected from the surface of the planet, but also had commissioned giant mausoleums to hold every single one of the Ultramarines' dead. This is all still while the Underwar is happening by the way. He didn't put off going "we've got bigger problems right now". From the onset of the WBs betrayal he refused to leave anyone behind. "Fight for the living, kill for the dead."
The raven guard let their fallen brothers to be consumed by carrion birds of their homeworld cleaning up the bones; after harvesting the gene seed and collecting their gear to be used by future battle brothers.
Alright these dudes are pretty cool I don't know if I have have ever heard of them before this video. Thanks for showing off such a neat chapter I might pick up a book about them soon.
The also appear in the Sabbat Worlds Crusades, they are one of the main Astartes chapters of that Crusades, though the main books that cover that war are about an Astra Militarum regiment IIRC there is a book in which the Iron Snakes are the main focus.
One of my favourite chapters. Definitely in my top 5. The book Brothers of the snake is just awesome and Dan Abnett did a really great job making these marines human enough to make them relatable, but also different enough from the regular humans, that they still look and act like superhuman warriors. Some books make the space marines look like guardsmen, making them die really easily. Well not this book.
These guys are really cool. Very special forces among Astartes in terms of tactics and deployments. Smaller more flexible and independent squads vs companies that are rigid and deploy in single locations. Especially love the true family aspect and how care deeply about their brothers, like the humans they once were. And the flask and funeral rites are really bittersweat, like you said, and is very wholesome deep down. Very underrated, but very amazing.
Thank you for sharing this, Arthur. I've never known anything about the Iron Snakes other than they exist, and all this time they've been a terribly kickass and interesting chapter. I really like their whole deal with the flasks, and I like your theory with them too. May have to add this to my list of Killteams to make....my ever growing list...
Best space marine chapter, one of the most understated and believable chapters imo; they have their interesting traditions and organisation without becoming an over the top one-trick-pony caricature like a lot of chapters
Got into 40k and was having trouble deciding what to paint my Space Marines as, Blood Angels and Carcharodons were in the running for a while but then I discovered the Iron Snakes and I was hooked. One of my favorite chapters.
Good that more chapters are getting mentioned aside from the original 9 loyalists, flesh tearers, lamenters, minotaurs, carcharodons, black dragons, templars, crimson fists, grey knights, and death watch. They are still cool but glad the iron snakes are getting the attention as well👍
Iron Snakes seem like some interesting lads. The concept of them sending a single marine on missions was something our Deathwatch GM used for one of our recent missions in which we were sent looking for one that went missing when they went looking into reports of a Genestealer Cult in a Hive City.
This video was fantastic to listen to, it's given me some further ideas of lore for my own chapter the Dragon Guard! Also I think I now know what chapter I'm going to paint next on my channel this week! 🐍
Running as Deathwatch is so smart. I was painting Iron Snakes a while ago and we frustrated I couldn't make them more lore accurate on the table and gave up.
God i love bitter sweet stories in 40k, it like a spark of light surrounded and overwhelmed by darkness, all you can do is appreciate the moment before it fades away, i also thought of how long it takes for a partitioners, imagine you spend 20 years training and making connections with others in the monarchy only to leave with a squad and not see them for many years or ever again quite sad
Great choice for lore. Brotherhood of the Snake is great, also The Urdesh Novels are great. The Iron Snakes seem to have some humanity, where other writers make them without feelings per say. Always a joy to read their novels.
They were one of the first books in 40k I read when i was still newly getting into the series outside the games. I remember thinking they were amazing and thought most space marines fought like them. I remember thinking if I liked them I was going with vanilla marines. Oh how wrong i was haha
I’m guessing these guys were inspired by the Odyssey. Ithaca being Odysseus’ home island (Charybdis was a whirlpool monster he encountered on his journey.) Their armour has motifs reminiscent of Greek art as well. I also like the idea of them having their own Odyssey across the stars only to return to Ithaca when they can. Grief over lost battle brothers is something that occurs often in the Odyssey so that fits with them as well.
thanks to the shout out of genesis being cool dudes, had some asshole told me I should strip paint my army and start again cause I chose them when I played space marines at the time.
The lore and chapter structure following Greece mythology and society was alot more independent from The Ultramarines than I expected. The nautical world reflected from the Mediterranean was well done. So GW, more lore and stories please!!!
Ah yes, the brothers of the snake, good times, good stuff. The squads(notables) always have an apothecary as part of them. The novel even covers how main character, priad(iirc) recruits/rescues one named kyron for his damocles squad. A chapter not covered often, if at all, in the lore/novels. Sofar, aside from brothers of the snake and a handful of short stories, haven't seen them much(one shows up in gaunt's ghosts, was either in warmaster or anarch, or both), and perhaps Urdesh novels(didn't read those yet).
I feel like the Iron Snakes were made for Kill Team before Kill Team existed. Lore wise at least. They don't have companies and instead just have squads, each member of the squad is a master of their craft, and these squads are just sent out to do shit on their own. Pretty neat.
One thing that worries me about the Iron Snakes is given their borderline intrinsic attachment to Ithaca I feel like they would be completely unable to deal with the loss of their homeworld like the Scythes of the Emperor did to the Tyranids. If Ithaca was lost the Iron Snakes would almost certainly be lost too. Perhaps there would be survivors of a last stand but whoever remained would likely be so changed and traumatized they wouldn't really be Iron Snakes anymore.
I have painted exactly one Iron Snake marine -as a body on Possessed base. The Chaos Warband I paint was originally made from stolen and mutated Ultramarines Successor geneseed, and they have an obsession on hunting them. Every helmet on their trophy racks originates from a different Successor Chapter. Iron Snake armor and lore are really nice, so they got a position of honor.
I wish there was more information about the Libators which seem to be one of the wackiest Ultramarine successors and those guys are Second Founding but then again the Mortifactors are Second Founding too. A lot of variety between Guilliman's sons, from straight-up Ultramarine carbon copies to "you cannot be dad's son"
Emperors spears and iron snakes actually have a strong dislike for each other, because the iron snakes redeployed in a vital battle where the spears need them. The dislike has gotten to point the spears send a box of sea serpents to them every year, basically calling them “traitorous snakes”.
I'm like 90% certain that's the Aurora Chapter and not the Iron Snakes but It's been a minute since I read spears of the Emperor or the accessories so I'll have to check. Yep, I just looked it up it's the Eukarian Insurrection you're referring to, and it was actually the Aurora chapter Though I don't fault you, Guilliman has too many sons.
It’s interesting to me that people mention how non compliant to the Codex some of the Ultramarines successors are. Leutin made an interesting observation about the Ultras themselves, the whole ‘Our presence remakes the past’ part. If anyone here has read or listened to ‘The Returned’ you may see the point I’m about to make. In Returned, it is mentioned how the original Chapter Master of the Doom Eagles (another 2nd founding Ultra successor) formed the chapter with the idea that the Ultras had failed the Emperor and Imperium by arriving too late to Terra. They had the idea that they would rather die in the right place than live another day and let Imperial citizens be harmed. I argue most of the Ultra successors hold similar beliefs and hence their lack of compliance to the Codex. Hell most of the Iron Snakes mention Bobby G as ‘The Primarch’. Most Ultramarine successors have determined that they failed in the siege of Terra. Now they each have their own mission and method to avenge the failure and kill the enemies of the Imperium. Edit: Originally referred to Monastery of Death but the book I am speaking of is actually ‘The Returned’. TL;DR: Iron Snakes aren’t REALLY that non compliant to the Codex Astartes if you consider that the Ultra Marines and MOST Ultra successors (Especially 2nd founding Chapters) think they failed the Emperor by arriving too late to Terra. Iron Snakes mega badass but have a good reason to not 100% follow in Bobby G’s direction.
Pretty awesome! I guess they inherited the emphasis on meritocracy thing The "sailor culture" touch is pretty neat and relatable, and seems pretty consistent with the setup/background
Ithaca being their planet reminded me of ithacus (I think) which is the home planet for the necrons in the twice dead king. So I thought, "was this the group that raided there?" Swiftly realizing, no those were blood angels.
Except this series is about second founding chapters, chapters founded directly after the dissolution of the legions. Astral Claws were found sometime in m35 so nowhere close to second founding
I’d say the Mortifactors are cool or maybe more awesome wearing skulls of there enemies and also eat there foes and wear there faces too a 180 from the Ultramarines
and the black templar maintain...8?... fleets numbering between 100 and 1000 marines because sigismund politely told Guilliman he wasn't adhereing to the codex astartes, but the is video is about the Iron Snakes and not them :)
They sound weirdly normal for non-compliant Ultramarine Successor chapters, almost like they could actually come from actual Guilliman gene-stock instead of the II and XI legion genestock that is theorized to be the cause of Ultramarine-successor weirdness.
Yeah, i'd think that some of the other wierder Ultramarine successors, like maybe the Mortifactors, would be 2ed or 11th. The Iron Snakes feel very much like, just like the Emperor's Spears, the result of the culture of a chapter homeworld influecing the marines
The Geneseeds of those legions are not used bro
@@PeachDragon_ a friend once told me the reason those two legions don’t have anything is so that the fans can make their own chapters and have them come from that if they don’t fit anywhere else, and I’m sure they tease and hint about the what ifs specifically for fan speculation and engagement like this, keeps people invested.
@@PeachDragon_ except those legions got absorbed into the Ultramarines and the Imperial Fists. And the Soul Drinkers were a fists 2ex founding successor who were convinced they had Dorn Geneseed until someone checked and it came back as unknown
So its likely there are 2ed founding chapters from either legion who are unknowlingly 2ed or 11th
@@thewerdnaDorn also took some Thousand Sons under his wing at some point, they were part of the troops that were besieging Horus' homeworld, to me those look like the most likely ancestors of the Soul Drinkers with their psykers and weird mutations.
I once knew a player in 3rd Ed who played an Iron Snakes army. Every Veteran Sergeant was tooled up like a captain. They sometimes held their own against my Hive Tyrants in combat.
If your watching this from the Bolton store UK, late 90s your army was cool.
Brothers of the snake is an incredibly underrated book, so glad you picked iron snakes
Agreed. One of my favorite space marine books
Why the fuck does this comment say two weeks ago when the video was posted 3 hours ago?
I was going to ask where I can find some lore on the Iron Snakes, is that their book?
I’ve read it at least a half dozen times. It’s of my favourite novels.
I am currently half way through it, great fun indeed@@udp1073
First time hearing about this chapter. Got to admit, the Greek names of their planet and Iron being in their name made me think there was going to be a 4th legion twist for a minute. That aside, this chapter is quite the elaborate Odessey reference. Ithaca, Charybdis, Scylla (the sea serpents), and long voyages thinking longingly of home.
Brothers of the Snake is probably the single best book to explain to a new person what a single space marine is capable of and what they can do in large numbers.
Their armor just looks nice, also like how the chapter is mostly veterans and specialized in close quarter fighting.
That's one of the most consistent pieces of lore about the Ultramarines/successors. They honor their dead. After the Word Bearers pretty much turned Calth into a Death World and prolonged exposure on the surface essentially was the equivalent of getting microwaved by a poisoned radioactive sun, Ventanus not only ordered all the fallen UM to be collected from the surface of the planet, but also had commissioned giant mausoleums to hold every single one of the Ultramarines' dead. This is all still while the Underwar is happening by the way. He didn't put off going "we've got bigger problems right now". From the onset of the WBs betrayal he refused to leave anyone behind.
"Fight for the living, kill for the dead."
The raven guard let their fallen brothers to be consumed by carrion birds of their homeworld cleaning up the bones; after harvesting the gene seed and collecting their gear to be used by future battle brothers.
Alright these dudes are pretty cool I don't know if I have have ever heard of them before this video. Thanks for showing off such a neat chapter I might pick up a book about them soon.
The also appear in the Sabbat Worlds Crusades, they are one of the main Astartes chapters of that Crusades, though the main books that cover that war are about an Astra Militarum regiment IIRC there is a book in which the Iron Snakes are the main focus.
@@BloopTube that's a hell of a recommendation
One of my favourite chapters. Definitely in my top 5. The book Brothers of the snake is just awesome and Dan Abnett did a really great job making these marines human enough to make them relatable, but also different enough from the regular humans, that they still look and act like superhuman warriors. Some books make the space marines look like guardsmen, making them die really easily. Well not this book.
These guys are really cool. Very special forces among Astartes in terms of tactics and deployments. Smaller more flexible and independent squads vs companies that are rigid and deploy in single locations.
Especially love the true family aspect and how care deeply about their brothers, like the humans they once were. And the flask and funeral rites are really bittersweat, like you said, and is very wholesome deep down.
Very underrated, but very amazing.
"Brothers of the Snake" is hands down my favorite Warhammer 40k novel. Thanks for sharing them!
Thank you for sharing this, Arthur. I've never known anything about the Iron Snakes other than they exist, and all this time they've been a terribly kickass and interesting chapter. I really like their whole deal with the flasks, and I like your theory with them too. May have to add this to my list of Killteams to make....my ever growing list...
new favorite Ultramarine successors
Brothers of the Snake was my introduction to 40K and Space Marines in general. Absolutely loved the book. Reread at least once a year.
Best space marine chapter, one of the most understated and believable chapters imo; they have their interesting traditions and organisation without becoming an over the top one-trick-pony caricature like a lot of chapters
You are quickly becoming one of my favorite 40k youtubers. Iron Snakes is the first space marines chapter I got into. I love them
Making a homebrew squad of them based off all the snakes from metal gear solid now..
You don’t know how many UA-camrs I’ve asked to talk about the Iron Snakes! I am so happy
Got into 40k and was having trouble deciding what to paint my Space Marines as, Blood Angels and Carcharodons were in the running for a while but then I discovered the Iron Snakes and I was hooked.
One of my favorite chapters.
These are mah booooyyyss. Honestly didn't expect you would make a video about them :')
Good that more chapters are getting mentioned aside from the original 9 loyalists, flesh tearers, lamenters, minotaurs, carcharodons, black dragons, templars, crimson fists, grey knights, and death watch. They are still cool but glad the iron snakes are getting the attention as well👍
I had no ideas who the iron snakes even were! Never heard of them, thanks dude great vid
Iron Snakes seem like some interesting lads. The concept of them sending a single marine on missions was something our Deathwatch GM used for one of our recent missions in which we were sent looking for one that went missing when they went looking into reports of a Genestealer Cult in a Hive City.
I was hoping for the Mortifactors, but the Iron snakes are cool too.
This video was fantastic to listen to, it's given me some further ideas of lore for my own chapter the Dragon Guard! Also I think I now know what chapter I'm going to paint next on my channel this week! 🐍
I like the Mentor legion, it’s cool that you can have a few in any space marine army lore wise.
Running as Deathwatch is so smart. I was painting Iron Snakes a while ago and we frustrated I couldn't make them more lore accurate on the table and gave up.
I run red hunters as death watch because it's the closest we get to space marine special forces
Hey! Another case of my Iron snake drawing being used in love videos!! That’s sooo cool xD
(The walking one with the corvus helmet)
You did a kickass job, the lil wrap of cloth giving the impression of a toga was a fantastic touch
i liked their lore so much the first time i read about it, i decided to paint a single reiver for my phobos strike team with their painting scheme
Watching this has made the Iron Snakes one of my top favorite chapters! They seem so cool!
That dog disappearing into the mist at the end of that book really got me lol
God i love bitter sweet stories in 40k, it like a spark of light surrounded and overwhelmed by darkness, all you can do is appreciate the moment before it fades away, i also thought of how long it takes for a partitioners, imagine you spend 20 years training and making connections with others in the monarchy only to leave with a squad and not see them for many years or ever again quite sad
Great choice for lore. Brotherhood of the Snake is great, also The Urdesh Novels are great. The Iron Snakes seem to have some humanity, where other writers make them without feelings per say. Always a joy to read their novels.
The Iron Hands are the most underrated.
Love these guys. The name of the planet as well, Ithica, just sounds amazing
Can you do and emperors spears or mentors legion vid/vids? I love that book and id love to hear your views on especially the mentors legion.
I hope soon you talk about the Tome Keepers, love your content bro thank you
They were one of the first books in 40k I read when i was still newly getting into the series outside the games. I remember thinking they were amazing and thought most space marines fought like them. I remember thinking if I liked them I was going with vanilla marines. Oh how wrong i was haha
Hi Arthur, You help me sleep, thanks man.
Oh hey it’s that one chapter from that mishmash did a short on 🤪
I’m guessing these guys were inspired by the Odyssey. Ithaca being Odysseus’ home island (Charybdis was a whirlpool monster he encountered on his journey.) Their armour has motifs reminiscent of Greek art as well. I also like the idea of them having their own Odyssey across the stars only to return to Ithaca when they can. Grief over lost battle brothers is something that occurs often in the Odyssey so that fits with them as well.
Oh hey my second favourite chapter! I love me some iron snakes
That was a good one, overlooked the chapters lore.
thanks to the shout out of genesis being cool dudes, had some asshole told me I should strip paint my army and start again cause I chose them when I played space marines at the time.
The lore and chapter structure following Greece mythology and society was alot more independent from The Ultramarines than I expected. The nautical world reflected from the Mediterranean was well done. So GW, more lore and stories please!!!
God i love the emperors spears color scheme. That color of blue is just sick for armor.
I do enjoy the snakes lore, following Priad from his solo deployment to leader of his own "notable" squad. Then into the Urdesh series.
Dawg i really cant tell ypu how absolutely happy i was to see that it was the Iron Snakes. Thank you.
Love this video. Please do one of The Charcarodons
They're lack of care for humans, really sets them apart from ultras. Like I think they're cool, I just can't write them like I do ultras.
Cool to see a Chapter that actually has a good reason to use the emblem they do.
Ah yes, the brothers of the snake, good times, good stuff. The squads(notables) always have an apothecary as part of them. The novel even covers how main character, priad(iirc) recruits/rescues one named kyron for his damocles squad.
A chapter not covered often, if at all, in the lore/novels. Sofar, aside from brothers of the snake and a handful of short stories, haven't seen them much(one shows up in gaunt's ghosts, was either in warmaster or anarch, or both), and perhaps Urdesh novels(didn't read those yet).
man this was very good video, the best i think you have done. now i kinda want to make a squad of them also PLS do soul drinkers
i just gotta say i finished 80% of my iron warriors and 50% of dark eldar and today i finished my first iron snake
If I had a nickel for every time I heard Omori music in a WH40k video I’d have, like, four nickels.
I feel like the Iron Snakes were made for Kill Team before Kill Team existed. Lore wise at least. They don't have companies and instead just have squads, each member of the squad is a master of their craft, and these squads are just sent out to do shit on their own. Pretty neat.
One thing that worries me about the Iron Snakes is given their borderline intrinsic attachment to Ithaca I feel like they would be completely unable to deal with the loss of their homeworld like the Scythes of the Emperor did to the Tyranids.
If Ithaca was lost the Iron Snakes would almost certainly be lost too. Perhaps there would be survivors of a last stand but whoever remained would likely be so changed and traumatized they wouldn't really be Iron Snakes anymore.
The wolfs wouldnt survive that. Although, I don't see Fenris destroyed without the wolves dying before
I have painted exactly one Iron Snake marine -as a body on Possessed base. The Chaos Warband I paint was originally made from stolen and mutated Ultramarines Successor geneseed, and they have an obsession on hunting them. Every helmet on their trophy racks originates from a different Successor Chapter. Iron Snake armor and lore are really nice, so they got a position of honor.
I wish there was more information about the Libators which seem to be one of the wackiest Ultramarine successors and those guys are Second Founding but then again the Mortifactors are Second Founding too. A lot of variety between Guilliman's sons, from straight-up Ultramarine carbon copies to "you cannot be dad's son"
Salamander bodies go into the volcano. Dragonspears eat them.
The most underrated chapter is absolutely ALWAYS your homebrew.
I'm surprised this wasn't the Lamenters episode, what with 13 being an unlucky number.
Man, I really think I'm going to do my next Space Marines as Iron Snakes. I really like the books.
Reminds me of the team of mercs in the Hammer's Slammers book, The Sharp End. Brothers of the Snake audiobook by Dan Abnett only $4 on Amazon today.
Emperors spears and iron snakes actually have a strong dislike for each other, because the iron snakes redeployed in a vital battle where the spears need them. The dislike has gotten to point the spears send a box of sea serpents to them every year, basically calling them “traitorous snakes”.
Sigma spear behavior
I'm like 90% certain that's the Aurora Chapter and not the Iron Snakes
but It's been a minute since I read spears of the Emperor or the accessories so I'll have to check.
Yep, I just looked it up
it's the Eukarian Insurrection you're referring to, and it was actually the Aurora chapter
Though I don't fault you, Guilliman has too many sons.
@@TheBoneZone40k oh yeah fair enough.
The book of grudges remains full.
dude your really good at going in on these chapters, right up there with isyander & koda in my honest opinion =) keep it up
Absolute top lads those Iron Snakes
They are one of my favourites
It’s interesting to me that people mention how non compliant to the Codex some of the Ultramarines successors are. Leutin made an interesting observation about the Ultras themselves, the whole ‘Our presence remakes the past’ part.
If anyone here has read or listened to ‘The Returned’ you may see the point I’m about to make.
In Returned, it is mentioned how the original Chapter Master of the Doom Eagles (another 2nd founding Ultra successor) formed the chapter with the idea that the Ultras had failed the Emperor and Imperium by arriving too late to Terra. They had the idea that they would rather die in the right place than live another day and let Imperial citizens be harmed.
I argue most of the Ultra successors hold similar beliefs and hence their lack of compliance to the Codex. Hell most of the Iron Snakes mention Bobby G as ‘The Primarch’.
Most Ultramarine successors have determined that they failed in the siege of Terra. Now they each have their own mission and method to avenge the failure and kill the enemies of the Imperium.
Edit: Originally referred to Monastery of Death but the book I am speaking of is actually ‘The Returned’.
TL;DR:
Iron Snakes aren’t REALLY that non compliant to the Codex Astartes if you consider that the Ultra Marines and MOST Ultra successors (Especially 2nd founding Chapters) think they failed the Emperor by arriving too late to Terra. Iron Snakes mega badass but have a good reason to not 100% follow in Bobby G’s direction.
Ayyyy I love the iron snakes. Brothers of the Snake was one of the first warhammer books I listened to
Pretty awesome! I guess they inherited the emphasis on meritocracy thing
The "sailor culture" touch is pretty neat and relatable, and seems pretty consistent with the setup/background
Ithaca being their planet reminded me of ithacus (I think) which is the home planet for the necrons in the twice dead king. So I thought, "was this the group that raided there?" Swiftly realizing, no those were blood angels.
2:25 That's no iron snake, that's an angry marine
Well as a huge Emperors Spears fan I guess I will read Brothers of the Snake and see if I can now enjoy two Ultramarine successors.
Man, you should have done the Astral Claws/Red Corsairs
Because it would be hilarious
Except this series is about second founding chapters, chapters founded directly after the dissolution of the legions.
Astral Claws were found sometime in m35 so nowhere close to second founding
Another huge win for Rogue Trader lore!
Damn, I was really hoping for Mortifacters for this episode. Oh well, at least we still get another one of Gullimans weird ass kids.
Brothers of the Snake was my first introduction to WH40K. It’s an underrated book, they’re an underrated chapter. And they will always be my favorite
I’d say the Mortifactors are cool or maybe more awesome wearing skulls of there enemies and also eat there foes and wear there faces too a 180 from the Ultramarines
You're gonna love Blood Gogons
Good pick for the Ultramarines.
The death spectres mummify the dead they can recover
Easily my favorite Smurf successors.
This would be a really cool chapter to do as a kill team
Emperor be praised! My favorite chapter 🐍
A snake as solid as iron.
Emperor Spears are also a great choices too very funny sense of humor and great graves with jokes of the death for fun savage too but honorable
Did you know their initiation rituals involve cheese?
Brothers of the snake is a fantastic book, if anybody hasn’t read it check it out!
5m10s. That family feeling. Esprit de corps my bro
Wasn't it implied they maybe Alpha Legion who Robbie G generously added to his personal empire of borrowed others?
Amazing Chapter by Dan Abnett..
It is interesting that there is an Astartes chapter with an Odyssey theme.
was hoping for the "fire hawks" .... - well what they turned into anyway - unless your saving them for the Badab war
I'm just getting my feet wet in Warhammer 40k, and I chose the Iron Snakes as my favorite.
Inwas gonna build a Salamanders kill team but now I am sold on Iron Snakes..
and the black templar maintain...8?... fleets numbering between 100 and 1000 marines because sigismund politely told Guilliman he wasn't adhereing to the codex astartes, but the is video is about the Iron Snakes and not them :)
Now I have 3 top favorite Chapters.
Back Templars
Salamanders
And now:
Iron Snakes
Aaa yes the Greek flavor space marines that aren’t complete psychopaths
OH YeAH YEAR OF THE SNAKE, BABY! Oh wait, this was released a year ago, nevermind