Lesser-Known Chapters You Want Spotlighted

[bluntblade]

One of the things I dig about the Badab War campaign is seeing obscure Chapters like the Executioners, Mantis Warriors and Sons of Medusa spend some time in the limelight (heck, even the First Founding Marines who featured are ones who generally need some love). So my question is, going forward, who would you like to see barge past the Ultramarines (and the other nine main Chapters, counting the Templars) to strut their stuff for a campaign?

 

My personal preferences:

- Black Dragons

- Storm Lords (if only because I'd like to see if my suspicions about where they come from holds water)

- Red Talons (OK, they've had plenty of attention in the Heresy, but I want to see what becomes of them)

- Death Eagles

- Aurora Chapter

[Captain_Krash]

I would really like the Badab war to be made into books ala War of the Beast series.

 

Each book focusing on a different Space marine chapter perspective during the war...

 

It would be incredible.

 

Sadly won't ever happen. 

 

Lamenters all the way

 

(Explain your theory on the Storm Lords please)

 

Krash

Edited October 11, 2019 by Captain_Krash

[redmapa]

Mentor Legion, not exactly a lesser known chapter but I would love to see more fluff for them or even a BL novel about the chapter experimenting with weapons or fighting with the Imperial Guard and maybe treating the mortals as equals, that would be cool.

[bluntblade]

I reckon that the Heresy-era Brotherhood of the Storm will become the Storm Lords - unless, given Shiban Khan's position in the BL books, they either become the Scars Chapter or the Destroyers.

[SkimaskMohawk]

Mentor Legion, not exactly a lesser known chapter but I would love to see more fluff for them or even a BL novel about the chapter experimenting with weapons or fighting with the Imperial Guard and maybe treating the mortals as equals, that would be cool.

From Amadeus' example in Spear of the Emperor, I'd be highly surprised if they treated mortals as equals.

[Nomus Sardauk]

In no particular order...

 

1. The Iron Champions (https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Iron_Champions#): I've always been fascinated by their unusual design and wondered what sort of culture they might have, and we know they've been involved in at least one major conflict, that being the 3rd War for Armageddon alongside the Celestial Lions, so that'd be cool to read about.

 

2. Angels of Absolution (https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Angels_of_Absolution): Dark Angels without the emotional baggage, I'd love to learn about why they alone seem to believe themselves unsullied by Luther's betrayal and how they and their brother chapters get along/view each other as a result.

 

3. Angels of Iron (https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Angels_of_Iron): Not much to say here, I just think that their scheme, symbol and detailing looks really interesting and I totally want them to get the Emperor's Spears treatment.

 

4. Angels Penitent (https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Angels_Penitent): This one speaks for itself really, a once glorious and noble Chapter of Sanguinius' line brought low and transformed into hateful, raving fanatics that forsake and despise all forms of art and self-expression by a mysterious and sinister Prophet (perhaps inspired by the historical Bonfire of the Vanities?). While we already know the general story of their fall I'd love to see those events as well as their prior culture and history fleshed out in a proper novel to make their fall from grace all the more tragic.

 

5. Emperor's Shadows (https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Emperor%27s_Shadows): Same as with the Angels of Iron really, because with how much love and detail was put into their appearance by their original creator Victoria Lamb, they surely deserve some fluff too.

 

6. Wolf Brothers (https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Wolf_Brothers): The first and only Space Wolves Successor, well, until the Ultimate Founding that is. While short-lived and despite my usual disdain for the Sons of Russ, I'd be interested to read about their founding and the great hopes/plans their predecessors had for them, their homeworld and inevitable descent into mutation and madness.

 

And that's all that come to mind at the moment.

[Iron Father Ferrum]

The Marines Exemplar. Sinister scheme, cool name, and one of the Admins (Brother Tyler, I think) did them as an army once.

[Marshal van Trapp]

Honestly, I wanna know what became of the Soul Drinkers, I know they went renegade and corrupted but last we heard from them they were trying to end their corruption and get back in the emperors light

[Dracos]

I like ^that^ but I'd like to see Mantis Warriors done right, or the Black Watch

[Aurica]

I would love for GW to revisit what they did for Badab War Space Marine Chapters as well.  Perhaps covered them in WD article or campaign book.

https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/resources/fw_site/fw_pdfs/Warhammer_40000/Forge_World_Space_Marine_Chapter_Tactics_V2.pdf

 

Other than that, would like to see the following Chapters also get their own rules/coverage

 

1. Hawklords

2. Aurora Chapter

3. Celestial Lions

4. Rainbow Warriors

5. Mentor Legion

6. Scythes of the Emperor

[Son of Sacrifice]

I'd love the Badab war to be revisited but don't see it happening. A series about the scouring with each book featuring a different second founding chapter would float my boat.

 

1. Flesh Tearers

2. Angels of Vengeance

3. Sons of Orar

4. Raptors

5. Brazen Claws

6. Dark Hunters

 

Something like that. I want to know how Veterans of the HH see their victory and how they handle sporting new colours.

[Medjugorje]

Iron Knights (because they are a mix between Black Templars and Imperial Fists^^)

Lamenters (because they are possibly the answer to the red thirst / black rage)

Novamarines + Aurora Chapter + Sons of Orar (because they are cool as the Ultramarines but without the irritating lovechild Thing Gedub has with their ultrasmurfs)

Nemisis Chapter (because they have a Gloriana class battleship)

Howling Griffons (same as above and they have a nice heraldry)

Red Scorpions (because they have a very nice fluff + they believe in the emperor as a god like the Black Templars)

Hospitalers + Fire Angels (because they have a nice heraldry and believe in the emperor as a god).

Scytes of the Emperor

Death Spectres

Celestial Lions

Hammers of Dorn

Charcharodons (because they are sharks)

Fulminators (because it would be nice to see a Primaris Chapter who get more Intention - and they look pretty nice)

Death Spectres (

Excoriators (because they had a nice part in "LotD")

Executioners (because their first Chapter Master was Big Bro with Sigismund,... and he was the guy with the cool guy)

Exorcists (because they are bad ass and soooo interesting)

Fire Hawks (because LotD and their beliefs in the emperor as a god)

Edited October 12, 2019 by Medjugorje

[The_son_of_Dorn]

White templar space marines just for opposition.

 

Silverskulls modernised.

 

Angels encarmine and angels of redemption (names are simply to bug and have gone unfluffed for a longntime, need fleshing out and character given to them)

 

Any chapter that could also have a secret traitor origin (mainly death guard) would also get my attention

[Charlo]

Badab is my gut feeling, however I'd love for GW to do something similar in a more contempory setting involving Primaris and the current state of the 40k Galaxy, even something like the first seeds of resentment/ fear of redundancy from Firstborn are planted and grow into a rebellion against the Primaris of a single chapter. You could have some VERY cool stores of old vs new tech, with the Firstborn's mixed weaponry and veterancy battling against the Primaris new-age tactics and tech.

 

Loved what we learned about the Mentor Legion in Spear of the Emperor so more of them would be fun too.

 

While still Badab technically I'd love some stuff on the Minotaurs and how they are adopting Primaris etc.

 

Libators could be interesting too, bloodletting ultramarines you say?

[Brother Tyler]

There are a lot of Chapters that I'd love to see fleshed out. I'm going to skip over any that Forge World has covered, any that BL books have focused on, or any which have had Index Astartes articles for the top three others:

• Celestial Lions (yes, I know that they got some coverage in a book, but they were supporting characters; and since Black Library has rescued them from oblivion, I'd love to see more)
• Angels of the Covenant (my favorite of the Unforgiven in terms of their appearance)
• Marines Exemplar (bold scheme, the first official Chapter that I ever painted up)

The Marines Exemplar. Sinister scheme, cool name, and one of the Admins (Brother Tyler, I think) did them as an army once.

Indeed!

Sucky paint job, but that was a long time ago and I was rushing. Hell, the black was just primer.

[Spiky Norman]

I would like to see the Silver Skulls get fleshed out and read the details on how a loyalist band of Iron Warriors were taken in by and sheltered by the Ultramarines as a successor chapter to avoid the backlash of the Heresy.

[Gederas]

I'm also saying a Badab War novel series would be awesome. I'd love to see the intrigue and politicking in that one.

 

Mentor Legion, not exactly a lesser known chapter but I would love to see more fluff for them or even a BL novel about the chapter experimenting with weapons or fighting with the Imperial Guard and maybe treating the mortals as equals, that would be cool.

From Amadeus' example in Spear of the Emperor, I'd be highly surprised if they treated mortals as equals.

I'd rather not have these guys show up in books 'in the present' of 40k until AD-B is done with the Emperor's Spears trilogy, because he's written them into a mess that's not going to end well for them. At. All.

 

Because.... Well it's a spoiler:

It's a big one for Spear of the Emperor, don't open the next one if you don't want one of the major plot twists spoiled.

I'm serious here.

Okay, fine

Spear of the Emperor states that Ekene Dubaku was beheaded by a Callidus posing as a Thrall servant of Amadeus Kaias Incarius (yes, the master of the PoV Serf in the novel) from the Mentors. Yes, the guy everyone loved in the Armageddon books who was made into the new Chapter Master of the Celestial Lions. This means the Inquisition, Officio Assassinorum, and the Mentor Legion (assuming the Mentors were in on the plan, which based on their limited lore of being less grim dark then other chapters is possible) have dishonored and therefore majorly enraged off yet another Chapter and the Black Templars of all Chapters by assassinating a Chapter Master of a Loyal Marine Chapter.

 

Yes. Really.

 

Charcharodons (because they are sharks)

Errr.... Have you missed their novel series mate? We're on book two of it so far, and I think there's a third on the way
 

Edited October 12, 2019 by Gederas

[Marshal Reinhard]

Executioners

[Kallas]

Howling Griffons (same as above and they have a nice heraldry)

 

I second this notion! 

[Marshal Reinhard]

Because.... Well it's a spoiler:

It's a big one for Spear of the Emperor, don't open the next one if you don't want one of the major plot twists spoiled.

I'm serious here.

Okay, fine

Spear of the Emperor states that Ekene Dubaku was beheaded by a Callidus posing as a Thrall servant of Amadeus Kaias Incarius (yes, the master of the PoV Serf in the novel) from the Mentors. Yes, the guy everyone loved in the Armageddon books who was made into the new Chapter Master of the Celestial Lions. This means the Inquisition, Officio Assassinorum, and the Mentor Legion (assuming the Mentors were in on the plan, which based on their limited lore of being less grim dark then other chapters is possible) have dishonored and therefore majorly enraged off yet another Chapter and the Black Templars of all Chapters by assassinating a Chapter Master of a Loyal Marine Chapter.

 

Yes. Really.

 

Well . Grimmy'll be furious.

Edited October 12, 2019 by Reinhard

[Gederas]

Because.... Well it's a spoiler:

It's a big one for Spear of the Emperor, don't open the next one if you don't want one of the major plot twists spoiled.

I'm serious here.

Okay, fine

Spear of the Emperor states that Ekene Dubaku was beheaded by a Callidus posing as a Thrall servant of Amadeus Kaias Incarius (yes, the master of the PoV Serf in the novel) from the Mentors. Yes, the guy everyone loved in the Armageddon books who was made into the new Chapter Master of the Celestial Lions. This means the Inquisition, Officio Assassinorum, and the Mentor Legion (assuming the Mentors were in on the plan, which based on their limited lore of being less grim dark then other chapters is possible) have dishonored and therefore majorly enraged off yet another Chapter and the Black Templars of all Chapters by assassinating a Chapter Master of a Loyal Marine Chapter.

 

Yes. Really.

Well . Grimmy'll be furious.

Well.... More than he normally is :lol:

 

But yeah. Grimaldus is not gonna be happy to find that out...

[The_son_of_Dorn]

Good. The imperium department that authorised that need a good hard fist crushing cartilage and bone to the mouth!

[SkimaskMohawk]

 

 

 

Because.... Well it's a spoiler:

It's a big one for Spear of the Emperor, don't open the next one if you don't want one of the major plot twists spoiled.

I'm serious here.

Okay, fine

Spear of the Emperor states that Ekene Dubaku was beheaded by a Callidus posing as a Thrall servant of Amadeus Kaias Incarius (yes, the master of the PoV Serf in the novel) from the Mentors. Yes, the guy everyone loved in the Armageddon books who was made into the new Chapter Master of the Celestial Lions. This means the Inquisition, Officio Assassinorum, and the Mentor Legion (assuming the Mentors were in on the plan, which based on their limited lore of being less grim dark then other chapters is possible) have dishonored and therefore majorly enraged off yet another Chapter and the Black Templars of all Chapters by assassinating a Chapter Master of a Loyal Marine Chapter.

 

Yes. Really.

Well . Grimmy'll be furious.

Well.... More than he normally is :lol:

 

But yeah. Grimaldus is not gonna be happy to find that out...

The crux of the issue is how will they find out. The main issue is that basically nothing gets out of the straits of eponna; I doubt the inquisition will allow that information to spread if the capsul makes it across.

[Bjorn Firewalker]

The Iron Knights drew my attention when the 5th Edition Codex stated their Champion was first to win two consecutive Feasts of Blades. I wish they had more details BESIDES losing the same Champion after Dark Eldar/Drukhari kidnapped him, threw him into one of the foul xenos' gladiatorial arenas, and having Lelith Hesperax kill him for the thrills, as detailed in 6th or 7th Edition's Codex: Dark Eldar.

 

Do the Iron Knights' combat doctrine focus on close combat, like the Black Templars? Do they combine ranged and close combat specialists into one squad, which deploys with one combat squad (fire team) providing suppressive fire for the combat squad charging forth to bring the enemy within arms' reach? Does the Chapter have a Librarius, or do the Knights view the use of psychic powers as "cowardly"?

 

I'm not the only one who wants these questions answered, am I?

[Jacques Corbin]

I really want to see the Hammers of Dorn, because they are hilarious.

 

Seriously, I want the spotlight on the Disciples of Caliban. The Dark Angels "successor chapter" that specializes in tracking Cypher. Remember when he (and the filthy Eldar) helped Guilliman get to Terra? Well, didn't Cypher also have about 3 squads of Fallen with him as well? Now he vanished from his cell on Terra, but what about those Fallen? All Guilliman, or anybody else, knows is that there was a Dark Angel officer and his troops, demanding an audience with the Emperor. Somebody just HAS to get ahold of the Dark Angels about that. To get answers if nothing else. I really want to see how that plays out!