MAKING A SPACE MARINE: RECRUITMENT, CREATION, PAIN | Warhammer 40k Lore

[@VallornDeathblade]

Ultramarines: *sensible recruitment methods* Other legions: "sensible? What's that? We're over here yeeting our recruits into the snow naked, setting them on fire, making them sleep in a coffin filled with blood, etc"

[@louissteff8308]

And they're people who says "blueberry boys are too numerous thats cheating"

[@SolarArmadillo]

Seriously. No wonder the Imperium hasn’t fully defeated any of their major enemies yet. They’re murdering hundreds if not thousands of their own potential elite troops for basically no reason.

[@Lotan_]

Yeah... After reading the Marneus Calgar comic that's exactly what the Ultramarines do with theirs as well. The flashbacks to the recruitment times are basically just a montage of kids being fucking decimated.

[@chuckbuck5002]

@@SolarArmadillo They have a finite amount of troops the can field at a time and are fighting near constantly on the strategic level they need troops asap and cant waist time every recruit who fails is a failed and costly investment.

[@woaddragon]

@@Lotan_ Well more say that comic was not that accurate to ths Ultramarine lore...but i admit i cant verified that.

[@vulkan4108]

Families of salamanders don't have to necessary say goodbye cuz sometimes space Marines will come back to see their friends and relatives and actually be involved in their family over the span of generations

[@JuanPalomoM]

Salamanders just want hugs and adventure.

[@afqwa423]

Salamanders are pretty heart-warming. They basically make trips around to their extended families and descendants to bless their newborns.

[@ultramarinescaptain3840]

Imagine that, you meet your Great Great Great Uncle, whose nearly 500 years old, giving you a lesson on crafting. So awesome, but so strange.

[@sebastianls412]

HUGS FROM GRANDUNCLE MARINE

[@S3verusMyG]

Salamanders are still dicks, but they still wholesome

[@catbug5255]

Sometime after Fulgrim was discovered: Big E: Fulgrim, my son, the Emperor’s Children have been decimated over the years due to gene-seed poisoning. You must help replenish their stocks so that they may stave off annihilation. Fulgrim: say no more father, it shall be done. *comes back and presents a chalice full of “gene seed” to the Emperor* Big E: ... Fulgrim:.... Big E: son, why is it white? Fulgrim: I mean, isn’t it always this color? Big E: usually it’s red. Fulgrim: if it was red, then there would definitely be problems. Now let’s get this to an apothecary, it took me all night to make this. Big E: well, at least you’re not as bad as Angron. Fulgrim: also, father, do you think Ferrus Manus would mind my aid during his gene-seed extraction? I imagine those metal hands are quite uncomfortable. Big E: atleastheisnotangron, atleastheisnotangron atleastheisnotangron. Slaanesh *watching from the immaterium*: He’s the one!

[@luangomes2431]

Vindicare assasin on a rooftop: just one world i need to do it

[@GreenBaji]

*Wheeeeeeezing in Slaanesh *

[@memesofwarhemmer7076]

@@luangomes2431 funny thing is that he was shot by one during the Horus heresy but he can regenerate faster than Vulkin as his brain 🧠 regenerated he with one second cut the assassin in little pieces but used his psychic power to make him imortal but only feel pain for eternity in the worp begging for death 💀

[@rythofthefourthhouse7104]

I’m not sure I want to know….but how big would the chalice have to be for it to take Fulgrim of all people all night to fill it?

[@memesofwarhemmer7076]

@@rythofthefourthhouse7104 fulgrin is 3.80 meter tall so chose the bigger bell 🛎 you can find and say it is a chalice

[@jdoggydogg]

It kind of cracks me up that the super zealous Black Templars have one of the most "normal" recruitment processess where after a recruit receives their geneseed and proves themselves in training, they just, essentially, become a regular ole squire until their master is like, "Yeah, you can rank up now. You've earned it."

[@matiasyannuzzi9655]

TBF, the Blood Angels perform all the surgeries (minus the one where the Black Carapace is implanted) on their recruits while they're in their coffins. The go in as 10-13 yo kiddos and come out a year later as a hulking mass of himbo (or as a corpse, or a raving lunatic of a himbo). So they're a lot more efficient than other chapters in the speed at which they dish out new marines.

[@NameIsDoc]

Concidering Blood angels can get the red thirst when they get exposed to too much blood it makes sense...

[@randomlygeneratedname]

Ironically they probably have more receuits die trying to get to the trials than durinf them

[@Bluecho4]

@@randomlygeneratedname At least they aren't wasting any geneseed on those recruits...

[@alexanderm8880]

Considering their rate of attrition due to the Black Rage it's kinda' necessary, especially since in the lore the speed of brothers falling to the rage seemed to be getting faster

[@Dracobyte]

From mutant virgin to giga chad to angry chud!

[@mainmanstan7405]

The Exorcists are my favorite chapter, so I'll explain what their deal is. 1. The chapter was founded by members of the Ordo Mallaeus, so they have backing from the Inqusition (this is how they get away with their boarderline heretical practices) 2. Their "possession therapy", while extremely dangerous, causes their marines to develop a strong resistance to daemonic enfluence and even gain the ability to "camoflauge" their presence in the Warp like a Blank, making themselves undetectable by daemons and psykers. 3. The Exorists were originally the only successor chapter of the Grey Knights, but were recently retconned into being Imperial Fist successors, which gives them a really funny relationship with the Black Templars.

[@Meuduso1]

That's one hell of a family reunion whenever the Last Wall protocol is activated lmao

[@AimlessSavant]

@@Meuduso1 a very, very heated reunion of all the successor chapters. It's like the Spiderman pointing meme.

[@luckiller019]

there is a hidden comedy gold about all these primaris who were send to Exorcists and instead of welcoming they probably just recieved a bullet in a head because it would faster to just kill them, harvest their geneseed and jam it into some scout than risking possesion with fully developed marine. Granted, in my head canon most first arrived primaris ended up as involuntary geneseed donors but in case of Exorcist it should be made canon just to poke some fun of the lore butchery known as "Cawl just pulled a million improved space marines out of his ass and dont ask about it"

[@mainmanstan7405]

@@luckiller019 I believe the ship that was supposaed to carry thier primaris recruits was "mysteriously destroyed" and only the tools fors making new primaris made it to their homeworld.

[@judjementine]

it's always the imperial fists who turn into extreme zealots.

[@Yormolch]

Throwing our dear Salamanders under the bus just like that. Salamanders take their initiates at the age of around six into their forges, where they just learn from their assigned teachers. Blacksmithing is their first and most important lesson. They actually start implantation before the actual training (those organs give them a better chance at survival) and make sure (as much as they can), that initiates are compatible with the prossedure/can endure the harsh training. Still, a lot of recruites die, but their training is not as loveless and unforgiving as in other chapters, after all, another one of their most important lessons is compassion and to be there, for the normal citisens of the imperium. During the final phases of the initiation, all aspirants/neophytes must naturally succeed in the hardest task: be like Vulkan. Which means to face the same challenges he did in his youth. Walk over rocks that float on lava, make a wonderfull piece of armor or weapon in a melting hot forge, probably defeat some drukhari or something (as scouts) and then as the final step, they have to kill a Salamander (basically a big ol dinosaur, ranging from Triceratops, over Tyrannosaurus and giant Lava-Krokodiles to Pterodactyls) and most of them wear a piece of that Salamanders skin on their armor for the rest of their lifes.

[@DanteSuper95]

I love this so much. SALAMANDERS BEST BOYS

[@Yormolch]

@@DanteSuper95 They really do be.

[@S3verusMyG]

@@DanteSuper95 but can they beat go- ultra marines?

[@davisdf3064]

I really like when chapters start training their recruits with the extra organs already, they will, after all, have those until the end of their lifes, so it makes sense to have them used on training so they know how to "use" them.

[@jaredhall1457]

a space wolf eats an ork, and aboyt a week later he gets a cockney voice in his head telling him to fight more, which conveniently works for him

[@lordfelidae4505]

That ork’s name? Nail.

[@sirkelendor5429]

@@lordfelidae4505 *ethereal bri'ish voice* oooooooiiiii, 'humie! You betah foight som mOre, 'humie!

[@AniZombie921]

The Space sharks(Carcharodons) have something called "The Red Tithe" in which they fly over to the nearest imperial prison world and then literally kidnap as many prisoners as possible, then just shove the gene seed organs in them and hope for the best.

[@FoxHound-ut1hu]

Yep their definitely Night Lords

[@Bluecho4]

Imagine a Penal Legions army, except in fluff it's the human forces in thrall to the Space Sharks. Those prisoners that weren't inducted as initiates get handed a lasgun and thrown into the fray to soften up the Space Sharks' enemies.

[@tyberostheredwake6153]

@@FoxHound-ut1hu *Well, in the Void with almost no contact with the rest of the galaxy for like 2 centuries we really can't get picky. Also Raven Guard. Kinda*

[@ConcreteTargetBawlz]

@@tyberostheredwake6153I like the idea that they’re night lords looking to repent for their fucked up existence

[@_NIKOS9_NIKOS]

I love the implication that Big E not only used to play Among Us back in the day but he was such a huge fan to the point he named one of the gene-seed organs after the most well known meme in the community

[@davidfrancisco3502]

Some of the space marine organs got their names from the scientists who invented them and served the Emperor during the Age of Strife.

[@DoctorHomicide]

@@davidfrancisco3502 whixh means that Big E decided that he would show his scientists Among us so he could have some people to play his favorite game with

[@avonthesageoc4980]

I bet this version of among us was probably made during the dark age of technology. If humanity made a game so good the emperor liked it then I'd play that shit any day.

[@davisdf3064]

@@avonthesageoc4980 High quality virtual reality + Among Us No wonder the Emperor liked it so much!

[@TheVoltage2]

In regards to the Exorcists, they have zero control over what daemon possesses the recruit. If you're lucky, you'll get a low level bloodletter or something. On the other hand, you could also get a keeper of secrets in which case it sucks to suck.

[@13931411119]

In the case of keeper of secrets, it'll suck in more ways than one. It it won't be consensual on your part either.

[@TheVoltage2]

Yeah. Sucks to suck.

[@twilightgryphon]

Also they have close ties to the Inquistion, and there will be Inquisitors involved for the summoning and following exorcism of the daemon, hence why it's not heresy because it's sanctioned and controlled. Well "controlled" at any rate.

[@schmushschroom3873]

Wait if they can't control the possession, can a super high daemon or something just get in and kill everyone?

[@lilthreegame7991]

@@schmushschroom3873 in theory, yes. but also I'd bet money the grey knights are on standby so the chances of it getting too far is VERY slim. like as soon as they start losing control its probably just an execution.

[@burnin8able]

One part of space marine creation that I think is just funny is how once they fully survive all the augmentation and training, they get thrown into the marine scout units, and aren't given their power armor until after they've been in combat before. So they end up being essentially super jacked imperial guard for a while lol

[@louissteff8308]

@@lazerhosen not when you took a Bolt in your torso

[@burnin8able]

@@lazerhosen eh, potato, potato. I just have it on my mind because I plan on making a major villain out of a Scout Marine in my current Only War campaign. The players are ex-penal legion turned Tau empire.

[@burnin8able]

@@lazerhosen so far it's been a fun campaign. The penal legion was set up on a minor world conquered and quickly colonized to feed local resources back into the war effort during the Damocles gulf crusade, but then abandoned for obvious reasons, and now the Tau are taking it back with the help of any humans willing to revolt and join their ranks.

[@JuanPalomoM]

“They were demigods, with the mannerisms of children” From “Dante” in regards to the mewly augmented blood angels.

[@woaddragon]

Except of course for the Space wolf. That said, Blood claws are a good example why other chapter dont give them.armor...

[@chaosisprime9815]

Can we get Luten to guest star in the word bearer episode please. Having a Ultra marine fan talk about how cool they are would be the best XD. Nothing but love for that guy though.

[@Ether1312]

Man that would be so good

[@brya9681]

Or the deamoncilaba episode

[@Ryze255]

Cant respect him after all that dawn of war 3 shilling

[@Ether1312]

@@Ryze255 then don’t watch clearly, was nearly 5 years ago now…

[@uncharted7954]

That's gonna be epic

[@judjementine]

the thousand sons as part of their recruitment rituals send your soul half way across the galaxy and have you try to find your way back to your body, which requires a lot of psychic strength.

[@eduardop2111]

Do they even have geneseeds in 41k

[@jeambeam3173]

@@eduardop2111 yes but it be extremely rare as only there most powerful Psychers would have any also if they were to some how siege Terra or sneak in the Imperium def has caches of Traitor Gene Seed

[@judjementine]

@@eduardop2111 they do! after all! the sorcerers are not dust themselves and the geneseed outside marines wasn't dusted either to my knowledge. it's just that their geneseed is a "bit" more warp mutated now. however, the whole send their soul into space and have fun getting back was more of a pre heresy test. normally what happens now is they just perform a bunch of dark and profane rituals on the prospective psyker. and, if they don't get torn apart by the psychic energies or driven mad, then they will emerge as a new thousand sons chaos space marine and become an aspiring sorcerer.

[@sirkelendor5429]

@@eduardop2111 most of the thousand sons are souless automats and are naught but dust. Keyword being MOST there, so yeah likely

[@TheVoltage2]

So Iron Hands recruit in a couple ways. 1)The potential recruit makes a trek through the planet to a special event that takes place occasionally where the Iron Hands specifically set up recruitment. This, I believe is a trial by combat where all the potentials fight to the death until however many the Iron Hands want remains. 2)They will forcefully take candidates from the planet who show strength. This happens because they roll around in their giant Land Behemoths (they don't have a chapter monastery). They rarely cross paths with the clans of Medusa, but when it does happen either the clan will bow in reverence, or, and this isn't uncommon, the clan will outright attack the Behemoth to raid it for supplies. Because Medusa is Australia on crack. Everything trying to kill you including the planet itself. Supplies are scarce to say the least. This is incredibly one sided as you can imagine. However, if any of these people actually make it onto the Behemoth, the Iron Hands will capture them and put them on ice until the next recruitment ritual. The last step to becoming an Iron Hand is you and your new brothers are, stripped of armour and weapons, put into a lavish room with wine and fine dining and a human servant who will wait upon you. This is a ruse, naturally, as the weakest of the battle brothers will eventually pull a bolter out of nowhere. He and the human servant will then try to kill the remaining recruits. So either kill them both or die. This final test is done to teach that at any moment you can be betrayed even by those you consider close to you. Aka instilling into the recruit the same feeling Ferrus had when Fulgrim betrayed him. Edit: So it just occurred to me, so I figured I'd throw in a cheeky edit, that I forgot to mention something very crucial. Context, Iron Hands are only vaguely codex compliant. They have 10 "Clan Companies". Each functions similarly to how you might see a typical company, however there are key differences. Such as, each Clan houses their own stock of weapons, vehicles, and even terminator armour. In fact, you will NEVER see someone from Clan Haarmek (5th company) driving a, ie, Rhino from Raukaan (3rd company). If the Iron Hands believed in heresy, this would be considered as such as each weapon, vehicle, and piece of armour is considered as a gift from Ferrus himself to that clan. I bring this up because it shows you just how fiercely independent each clan is from each other. To the point they are practically mini-chapters in and of themselves. Now, the lore here has changed a bit. In the old days each clan recruited and trained their own recruits. Now, everyone starts their training in Clan Dorrvok's (10th company's) care and upon graduationto full battle brother will be sent back to their original clan. I do believe each clan still recruits separately from each other. This would explain potential discrepancies from what I've mentioned here and what some may have read in a White Dwarf index from way back when. This is probably the most unique thing the Iron Hands do as far as recruits since, to my knowledge, everyone else functions on a strict 10th scout promotion up to 1st Veteran.

[@alextylergaming2320]

I didn't read this but thank you turbo nerd 🤓

[@TisTheWay]

Thx 4 the info

[@Femonk100]

Also don’t they cut their non dominant hand off and replace it with a robohand?

[@TheVoltage2]

@@Femonk100 They all cut off their left hand as part of a ritual. There's conflicting info as to exactly WHEN they do it however. Upon recruitment? Becoming a neophyte? Full battle brother? It's hard to know. Makes more sense to me when they become a battle brother, but there's references to all of it.

[@raycearcher5794]

@@TheVoltage2 I think the most grimdark option is they gotta cut it off when they join up, and they don't get the bionic hand until they finish their time as scout acolytes and get their power armor. Did you survive your tour in carapace armor? Well, here's a second hand so you can hold your bolter!

[@Akranejames]

I think the right way to see Rogal Dorn is as the "Inflexible, Unbreakable" guy that loves making his structures and his warriors that way too. So, strangely enough, the obsession with pain and getting rid of it makes sense to make the marines unbreakable.

[@captainash1297]

Inflexible is very accurate.

[@lordfelidae4505]

He is a diamond. Hard, inflexible, strong as shit, but brittle as hell.

[@sparking023]

I'll now try to perform a trick on your brain: *It is I, Rogal Dorn*

[@MrMichael360]

My favorite part of the salamanders recruitment is that once they've done all their first trials they just say "Yeah now go hunt a dragon (salamander but basically the same thing) on mount Deathfire" which just sounds like the plot of a powermetal song

[@unintentionally_edgy5867]

“Sounds like the plot of a power metal song” I’ll take 40k for 1000 Alex

[@CarbonFox01]

Makes me think of Ocarina of Time volcano boss fight, both young and adult link had to kill giant fire breathing lizards.

[@ghostparty2062]

I swear Wednesday has become my favourite day of the week 😆

[@ghostparty2062]

@@JewishFrog please elaborate 🙃

[@TheKingsPride]

@@JewishFrog this is some weak-ass bait

[@ghostparty2062]

@@JewishFrog I Don't live in America and don't care about there political nonsense, i'm just happy because my favourite channel uploads vedios on a Wednesday 👍

[@ghostparty2062]

@@JewishFrog very good

[@FM-10]

@@JewishFrog R u ok? People are allowed to like any day that they want, just bc some bad things happened on a Wednesday once, doesn’t mean that liking Wednesdays are racist.

[@reillycurran8508]

Someone once commented on the Daemonculaba "You know it's bad when the merciful option is letting a greater demon of Khorne loose on everyone." Also IIRC the Grey Knights have Gene Seed directly derived from Big E while everyone else's is derived from the primarch their chapter or war band descends from. Also also, apparently the nids have a unit that's suspected to be based on Space Marines they've eaten, which means that the nids might have their own gene seed concoctions from how the Norn Queens work, meaning you could possibly get a Gene Stealer Space Marine Chapter, or even get full on nid marines.

[@drask1988]

As long as those spacemarine genestealers don't have the stupidly malformed heads, i'm all for it

[@afqwa423]

I think the Emperor geneseed is just an unconfirmed fan theory.

[@blam320]

Yeah, about that, I highly recommend you read "Belisarius Cawl: The Great Work." It's got some real interesting revelations.

[@13931411119]

Didn't the Scythes of the Emperor got their geneseed corrupted by a genestealer cult? Or am I misremembering things?

[@sjeveburger381]

it's hinted that the space marine tyranids are Tyrant Guard and the eldar tyranids are Zoanthropes.

[@ricpreganz2772]

Three things: One: Primaris Marines have a few extra organs: the Sinew Coils (which reinforces the sinews making the marine stronger and adding an extra layer of defense), the Magnificat (which secretes hormones to increase the body's growth function and enhance some of the other implants), and the Belisarian Furnace (Named after Cawl, obviously. Connects to both hearts and only activates when the marine is in dire need. Basically releases a fuck-ton of chemicals that increases their combat prowess while also pushing their healing factor into overdrive.) Two: You forgot the best part of the Black Carapace: they flay the poor fucker alive to implant it while the neophyte is still awake and aware. Three: I remember when someone asked DK what the dumbest piece of lore he had heard so far during the Khorne episode's Q&A. At the time, he didn't have one. Now, I think that has changed with the Exorcists' initiation.

[@davidfrancisco3502]

The Magnificat is the half of an organ only the primarchs have called the Immortis Gland.

[@AimlessSavant]

Space Marine recruitment in general is a joke. A laughably edgy pissing contest.

[@PhthaloGreenskin]

Yea the whole thing being done without anesthesia is frankly absurd. Even Arch mentioned this because anesthesia also serves the purpose of reducing blood flow so you don't bleed out on the table. I know that by the time the carapace is implemented they already have thier laramens cells, but they also do the same thing with the second heart, the neophyte would just die on the table.

[@cruelmilk4465]

Aimless Savant the assassins 2

[@Nempo13]

@@PhthaloGreenskin The Blood Angels put all the organs into you during your year long coma in the coffin, you don't feel any of it.

[@weareharbinger914]

The salamanders thing is not that bad, you just are a forge apprentice for a while, examined to see if you'll live through it, then implanted. If you fail you are just a well educated dude. When you have the implants things get rough, you have to replicate what vulkan did, including hunting a dragon. Its when someone dies or a captain is promoted that the fire thing really comes in.

[@librarybear3419]

If I remember right, the Death Spectres get to do their dying everytime they receive a promotion. Becoming the Chapter Master would mean dying and willing themselves back to life some half dosen times, at least. If a veteran firstborn decides to become a Primaris and risks dying on operating table? No problem, we have done this before. Also, initiation of the Iron Hands requires amputation of hand and replacing it with prosthetic. Every one of them is literally an Iron Hand and they just keep adding cybernetics and replacing limbs of their own volition. As far as malfunctioning organs go, Imperial Fists can't spit poison or go into hibernation. Both Raven Guard and Salamanders are stuck with one skin colour, chalk and coal respectively. These are ultimately a minor issue, so they are not in immediate risk of not being able to fight. Another thing to notice are mutations in Geneseed, which could Mark a Chapter do immediate purge. One Chapter developed an ability to catch spontaniously fire and was put to death. Black Dragons may have Wolverine Claw coming from their wrists, but Inquisition has been a bit busy to make judgement about that. Then there's the Soul Drinkers...

[@TheVoltage2]

In regards to the Black Dragons, the reason why they haven't been called out yet is because they game the system. Not all brothers of the BDs display any of the bone growths of the majority of the chapter. These brothers are incredibly important to the chapter as their geneseed is what the BDs offer up to the mechanicus whenever they are required to tithe for the regular inspections on geneseed stability and purity. They pass the purity test every time because of this, so the inquisition leaves them alone even if they squint their eyes every time.

[@EVER_PRINCE]

@@TheVoltage2 I love that story so much - the black Dragons are kinda depressing especially since I believe their planet was wiped out by the Inquisition

[@VallornDeathblade]

@@TheVoltage2 I just reread that book recently. The Black Dragons are an awesome chapter.

[@ajaxo85]

If I recall that chapter that kept catching fire: It was some sort of 'holy' flame that purged the shit out of chaos and daemons and would ignite them in their presence. It also did no harm to non chaos entities as I remember making them pretty much an invaluable and important tool against chaos. But the inquisition was like, ' nah, we gonna exterminate you all cos reasons'.

[@winstonyan544]

Something extra grim dark about the Death Spectres is that their chapter master, the Megir, is doomed anyway, because they sit upon a throne on their home world that gives them tremendous psychic potential(their chapter master is/was the master librarian) but slowly turns them to stone. Spook

[@Intelligent_Turtle]

The exorcist thing is awesome though, as the process makes them invisible to Daemons (To the point they have like a ridicolous 100 to 1 kill rate against them). Plus the process is made "safer" as its overseen by the Ordo Malleus and the Grey Knights

[@spacecowboy2737]

Blood angels don't bother staggering out the implants over time, they just drug their aspirants, stuff them full of organs, and say "have fun wrestling with the memories of our bird dad in a coffin full of blood. See you in a year" and then they pop out almost full space marines. So they actually take less time to make full marines than other chapters. And then their first lesson is to go do arts and crafts in order to resist drinking people's blood better

[@spacecowboy2737]

@Preston Henson it actually is pretty funny, but really cool at the same time. Blood angels are all master artisans because they train for hundreds of years in their craft. The recruits are given a bare barracks during during training, and over time they get better to the point where every surface is covered in art and statuary to make it like a shittier version of the blood angels fortress monestary

[@_Eternos]

thats fucking hilarious

[@chestnut4860]

Dear god these people would steam roll tumblr.

[@jb03hf]

Gene seed "doubles" as the first glad is removed early. The other sticks about till death and is removed after. Chapters are required to periodically send gene seed to Terra to allow for new Chapters to be created - and to ensure it is not corrupted.

[@Mattastrophic1]

"Ok little Timmy, you can stay in school or join these Space Marines here." "Do I have to study algebra if I join the Space Marines?" "Well no, but you will have to..." "I'll do it."

[@TheSYLOH]

In Rogue Trader, gene seed was referred to as "gene sperm". So Shy is just being old school.

[@epic3893]

Which chapter had the space marines where basically half their organs were either missing or didnt work? Basically you had these marines stumbling out of drop pods and getting nausea because they werent able to tolerate it.

[@THExRISER]

The only ones I can think of are the Imperial Fists after the War Of The Beast, since they all died in that war, they formed a new Chapter from Successor marines, but they ended up missing an organ or two, don't remember what they were but it was minor though, so not as bad as you're describing.

[@bladestormviking]

i don't recall ever hearing of a chapter like that, but there was the Raptor experiment during the heresy; where Corax got "mixed" results trying to fast-food space marine creation.

[@Ashtor1337]

@@bladestormviking , read the book. The Alpha legion fucked with the program. They introduced Chaos with a Capital C into the mix.

[@Zakvadr1995]

Well, I know the Iron Hands find most of the Implants useless because machines “do the same things, but better!”.

[@remygallardo7364]

@@Ashtor1337 Why am I not surprised

[@jamieenoshima5147]

A lot of people really liked the Dante books, it goes through the whole process of joining the Blood Angels. Almost exhaustingly detailed. Wasn't for me but I know a lot of people highly recommend the book. It was fun seeing how the Blood Angels specifically make & mold Space Marines.

[@yordlejay6820]

I'm listening to it rn honestly one of my favourites. I love seeing Louis journey to becoming Dante

[@jaredhall1457]

the salamanders are like, we believe in you kiddo, keep on trudging through the lava

[@OvercutHood]

"This is the most humane way to educate you on the peace we bring, next you'll be drowning an Eldar infant in semi molten tungsten"

[@Yormolch]

I can just imagine, how they cheerlead their initiates from the sideline. "Yeah, go kid! Wrestle that 20 foot dinosaur to death! That's my boy! Ouh, he bit off his hand... don't worry champ, we'll make you a new one!"

[@Yormolch]

@@OvercutHood Vulkan probably: "It was one fucking time! Why does everybody keep bringing it up?! I said I'm sorry!"

[@memesofwarhemmer7076]

@@Yormolch the purge of exodite: one 1 billion eldar were burn into crisp and had the survival used by the night lords as payment for their help and you still want to invade our home

[@jakebailey1636]

if I recall right, Exorcists are authorised 2 extra companies, an 11th and 12th scouting company, due to the fact the whole recruitment thing is THAT rough

[@T3CH33]

ALL astartes chapters have at least 13 companies now to allow the primaris to join them. So Exorcists probably have 15 companies now.

[@Darqshadow]

@@T3CH33 Wolves have more. But then each company is more like a chapter to themselves

[@pathfindersavant3988]

They forgot the part for the Space Wolves where they throw you through a gate where you get violated by Chaos. Actually, since TTS is pretty dead, now they can watch some of their supplementary vids, like the Gate of Morkai vid.

[@gergelyosztrogonacz9464]

"They shall be my finest warriors, these men who give themselves to me. Like clay I shall mould them and in the furnace of war forge them. They will be of iron will and steely muscle. In great armour shall I clad them and with the mightiest guns will they be armed. They will be untouched by plague or disease, no sickness will blight them. They will have tactics, strategies and machines such that no foe can best them in battle. They are my bulwark against the Terror. They are the Defenders of Humanity. They are my Space Marines and they shall know no fear."

[@VapingHolograms]

Reverend Mother Mohiam: Put your hand in the box. Rogal Dorn: Just my hand?

[@danyael777]

Excellent

[@jacobfreeman5444]

I have this image of Dorn being caught with the box in a compromising position.

[@ObakeOnna]

"I like your little box. May I have the schematics? I feel like this design could be... expanded."

[@ethantheginger967]

late af but iron hands recruitment time things to note: 1. the iron hands are organized into 10 100 marine clans, each of which can act as a mini chapter with its own dreadnoughts, vehicles, servitors, marines, and leaders and the role of chapter master semi does not exist instead being lead by roughly 40 iron fathers 2. each clan instead of having a big fortress monastery they have 10 big mobile land fortresses, 1 for each clan that roams around the waste of their home planet of medusa 3. there are a few conflicting sources on a few parts 4. if you fail any steps on this you get turned to a servitor 5. twice every 10 years medusa experiences whats called the “iron moon” which is basically a fancy eclipse recruitment 1. first to ever be considered you have to participate in a form of combat test/game that takes place on the 1 hive city of medusa called meduson where young members of the human clans that roam medusa will be put in cages with spears or bare hands against the monsters native to the planet, during this members of different clans will roam around looking at the competitors and may select a handful to become recruits 2. after you've been selected your brought onto the mobile fortress of which every clan picked you and your training starts with you being thrown out into the waste of medusa and told to make your way back to your fortress (which will be moving around this whole time) while also being hunted by other iron hands some of which will be full members others will be neophytes that are farther along the path of implants and such 3. along the way you are taught to not trust the other members wether they be hunter or hunted they are out to win, kill them if needed but if they make it back first they are better then you, there is no strong sense of brotherhood taught they are taught to not trust and to always have their head on a swivel and to sleep with their eyes open (not literally basically taught to be paranoid and untrusting) 4. between the times your dumped out into the cold hells cape you’ll also be shown how to shoot, fight, and other normal space marine things and you also may be introduced to the culture of your clan and taught the story of Ferrus Manus how he defeated the silver wyrm and wore its metal skin over his arms and how he died after putting trust in his brother Fulgrim. along with the inherent weakness of the flesh and the power and strength of iron and metal 5. if at any point of this you succeed in the trials but end up loosing a limb it will be replaced with a metal cybernetic prosthetic 6. after all of this then you enter the final trial, you and all the surviving neophytes are brought into a room, this room is beautiful in every way, art of the walls, food and drink of the table, furniture around the room to sit BUT somewhere in the room there is a gun hidden and if you find it your meant to kill the others in the room (they are your competition after all they would do the same to you, you cant let them find it they will kill you so you kill them first) 7. after the person who found the gun is killed or has killed the others the Iron Father of the clan (basically a mic of a chaplain and a tech marine) will come into the room and welcome the surviving members into the clan as full marines now you will do the final trial of sticking your left hand into lava up to your shoulder till it melts away to be replaced with a metal arm in a form of mirroring how Ferrus got his metal hands (unless your Clan Raukaan in which case iron father fierros just cuts it off but thats boring clan garrsak is life) 8. you also have something implanted into your spine that will cause you to be semi linked to the other members of your clan allowing you to communicate to members of equal and lower rank through a signal this is how the iron hands fight so calculated I know bricky bashes the iron hands at basically every chance but they are still dope even if GW and bricky dont agree lmao

[@AnamolHouse]

So I don't know why but them not knowing that the dictionary could and does change is extremely funny to me. Also literally has actually been used the *sarcastic* way for a lot longer than you'd think.

[@lucasbeck1391]

It's unfortunately not sarcastic

[@kingghoul2324]

Yeah. Even Shakespeare used Literally like that. It's been around for a LOOOOOOONG time.

[@brutalbeard9441]

I think people just assume there's an official lexicon and our speech is determined by it, rather than dictionaries changing over time in response to how people use words X-D Dictionaries are the reflection, and there's a few of them out there :-)

[@dragonboy131308]

I feel like we should be updating the dictionary more often tbh, does not keep up at all with modern uses lmao. But then again we got urban dictionary for that lol

[@woaddragon]

The Canterbury tales is my.go to when saying that. It was written in the 1300s

[@thecmoose4754]

The Salamanders are so tough on their aspirants because post heresy, the entire legion was so decimated they had almost no gene seed left. They couldn't even split up into chapters there were so few Salamanders left.

[@DragonGurdian5]

23:50 ish, Bricky says he doesn't know if there's a way to make new Geneseed. There are some Chapters who force Serfs to grow Geneseed in their bodies, similar to cattle, so that some extra can be held on-hand. Dunno how many though...

[@woaddragon]

@@lazerhosen they are grow gene seed in vat grown human. At least this is what overall the Imperialium does, so the can make more Space marine chapters

[@MrIAMKROGAN]

The Black Templars pair their recruits with a regular marine, give them a shotgun and some shitty power armour, and are then thrown into battle. They are units you can even use on the tabletop too, called crusader squads

[@alovard3]

DK: We don't do cards Shy, listening to this: Oh you sweet summer child

[@depholade]

Some fun facts from the Uriel Ventris books: a space marine can breath through his butthole, can stop his own heart just by thinking about it, and one time he ate a tau’s brain in order to learn how to pilot one of their scout craft

[@Huppa3333]

The average failure/washout rate for a Space Marine recruitment program is 99.99%, with most of the cases resulting in dismemberment or death.

[@Kristian.B.Kristiansen]

Then you include the entire process from picking up the kid to full brother. The organ implementation is dangerous, but not that! dangerous.

[@vedymin1]

Wouldn't that lead to geneseed shortage fast ?

[@killotronjedi705]

@@vedymin1 Most of that 99% die before getting geneseed, they only get it after surviving a while.

[@Huppa3333]

@@vedymin1 Nope, most Space Marine Aspirants are children age 10-12 who undergo at least 2 years of the physical selection process, which is where the majority of the casualties and deaths lie. The survivors are then judged by a character-screening process, before entering Space Marine "Novice" stage where they receive smaller power armor, light modifications and brainwashing to usually act as scouts for at least 4 years or so. If they are still alive by then, they receive the geneseed implantation together with the rest of the Space Marine implants, and if they survive that, they graduate to become Space Marines. So yeah, the mortality rate is really high.

[@Huppa3333]

@@lazerhosen I'm basing off the UltraSmurfs program, but I'm sure other types of Space Marines have their own training regime.

[@davidthomas2870]

Dictionaries merely report the most used definitions of words for reference. Language evolves and changes, slang becomes common use, and definitions change over time. Additionally, most dictionaries in english only report the definitions of words in standard american english or standard british english (or both), but those are not the only english dialects out there (or even the most widely spoken), and these dialects and vernaculars DEEPLY affect the evolution of language but are almost totally undocumented until very recently. So yes "literally" has also had its dictionary definition changed to also be a synonym of "figuratively" because that's how people were using the word. The dictionary doesnt decided language. Language decides the definition.

[@couchpotato5592]

**Rogal Dorn returns** Dorn: Kept you waiting huh

[@redking1851]

It's true. Literally has an Informal definition in the Oxford Language of "used for emphasis or to express strong feeling while not being literally true"

[@dhamon45]

There is actually a Gene-seed bank that stores reserves for the purpose of starting successor chapters or replenishing chapters that get wrecked in a major debacle. Every chapter must tithe five percent of harvested Gene-Seed for storage and testing for mutations. The Gene-Seed is kept segregated to their "Legion" to prevent cross-contamination. And all of this is run by the Mechanicus.

[@Wakshaani]

In terms of Shy's final question at the 50 minute plus mark? Space Wolves are infamous for helping repopulate their planets after a big mead hall feast. So....

[@bloodwolfkoji]

The two main ones I know of besides the Space Wolves are 1. The Mortificators literally recruit from a planet of cannibals; where one of their trials is carving out the skull of an enemy and using it as a mask and 2. The Emperors Spears are feared by their homeworlds tribes when they recruit

[@alexanderm8880]

Emperor's Spears are best Smurfs.

[@punchghost4188]

Between Guilliman and Dorn, Guilliman is a Statesman where Dorn is a General. They actually clashed quite a bit over this, especially in regards to what would happen to the Astartes after the Great Crusade is over. Guilliman shifted focus towards building and policy, arguing that there would be a time where the Astartes aren't needed as full-time warriors and that they should cultivate skills like tradework, politics, and poetry. Dorn thought Guilliman was putting the cart before the horse because what mattered for the Astartes was what the Crusade needed now, and they could figure out their place in a peaceful galaxy when they reached it, so he and his sons put all their focus into being and doing whatever it was the Imperium asked of them, which was always war.

[@Okada_Caelun]

The Sus-An Membrane: Allows the Space Marine to enter a state of SUS-pended AN-imation when critically wounded, keeping them alive until medical help arrives. Worth noting that even if they stabilize on their own, a Marine cannot wake up from this state without a specific chemical influence, so they won't be rejoining the battle that knocked them out.

[@davisdf3064]

They become SUS The Alpha legion definitely would be proud

[@unpaintedarmy]

Imagine going through all the trials and tribulations to become a space marine just to get killed by a couple of orks who think a burnt out hinda civic is a tank.

[@MLGHazrad]

Can someone answer this: Do space marines look to Catachan people as prime candidates to be Space Marine. I vividly remember TTS say that they do not

[@Wulgreath]

Catachan isn't tithed to any Astartes bc the Administratum and Guard called Dibs. Such a sacred tenet cannot be overturned even by the Astartes

[@johnaxios6335]

@@Wulgreath The Catachan would consider it a demotion anyways

[@rustkarl]

The Guard basically call exclusive rights. Same with Krieg. (Though that’s partly to cover up the ‘questionable’ methods they use to churn out so many soldiers)

[@goliath1179]

That pain glove must do wonders, because I can trust an Imperial Fist more then anyone to lose an arm, not give an absolute fuck and still fire his bolter with his other hand.

[@openaardvark419]

Or a Rubricae

[@didekjozwiak]

Don't all space marines do that?

[@austindow9850]

@@didekjozwiak They can, but the Imperial Fists will make it seem like they don't even notice. An Ultramarine will get his arm blown off and while he'll still fight, he will definitely be stunned for a moment. A Fist will seem like it never happened.

[@didekjozwiak]

@@austindow9850 Ok, that's pretty cool

[@killianasheart5175]

So two of my favorite recruitment process for space marine chapters would probably be the Charcharadon Astra and the Minotaurs. Both simplistic and neat. The Charcharadons, since they’re completely fleet based, will tear apart their opponents ships, find any potential recruits amongst the wreckage, then brainwash them and just put them through the ropes. The Minotaurs do something very similar with brainwashing and what not, but it’s rumored that they use enhanced growth chemicals to just refill stock even faster. Which a lot of chapters don’t agree with, but the Minotaurs just don’t care. I could be wrong on some of these, haven’t read up on them in a while Edit: I’ve done further research on the Carcharodons. They are literally sanctioned to raid and pillage imperial worlds, in something called the Red Tithe, which is how they recruit and procure more resources.

[@menschman1464]

Bricky has returned as dreadnaught bricky

[@Turk3YbAstEr]

The blood angels, after passing a bunch of trials, get a sip of Sanguinius's blood then pass out and get placed in a sarcophagus. For the next year they basically have a really bad trip with Sanguinius's memories and get all their extra organs added (except for the black carapace). After a year they emerge sexy as hell and looking like papa sang, but some of them go insane and succumb to the black rage and/or red thirst (one of Dante's fellow initiates came out with talons and bright red skin, then went full nosferatu on a servitor before getting his head blown off by a chaplain). During Dante's initiation, he was screaming about the Horus heresy/great crusade and thrashing about and damaged the inside of his sarcophagus; the chaplains were expecting to have to kill him the moment he emerged, but he came out completely sane. After that ordeal they get sent to blood angels art school.

[@Darqshadow]

God Emperor above... I'll take being a Space Wolf aspirant over that

[@Bladecharge]

In this episode brickyard has problems saying all of the extra organs of a space marine

[@HovektheArtist]

I love that the card tab is "yes we do ya nerd"

[@spinetanium3296]

I like how this episode is basically Bricky struggling to read while he questions his life choices.

[@sinistrality7883]

Bricky's reaction to the 12th Implant has gotta be one of the funniest things I've seen, like him just saying "no" with complete betrayal is just hilarious.

[@PuppyM0dr]

Hiya, english major here for the whole "definition of 'literally'" thing, yes, it was changed to have a figurative use, however it maintains its traditional meaning as its primary use. Language isn't nearly as rigid as people assume, and the meaning of words can change drastically over time. for this reason, most dictionaries are *descriptive* texts, meaning they describe how a word is used in common parlance rather than being the ultimate authority on what a word *should* mean.

[@carlosmiguelteixeiraott3643]

Bricky: Talks about the pain glove. Me: " So what you're saying is...Rogal Dorn is a masochist"

[@davisdf3064]

Slaanesh would like him so much

[@Fire_Gaming64]

If I remember correctly, Raven Guard just make you catch a bird in a forest with your hands

[@roseriot4063]

If you want to know more about the Blood Angels recruitment I'd recommend reading "Dante" book by Guy Haley. It's about 9 hour read.

[@killianasheart5175]

39:41 HELL YEAH! Exorcists are bloody awesome as hell. Best part too about their whole recruitment an possession thing, the Exorcists are commanded directly by the inquisition. And if I recall correctly it’s not a librarian that exorcises them, but an inquisitor. Meaning the people that are all about “DIE HERETIC,” turn right around and go, “Daemonic possession for recruitment? Sure why not.”

[@jbark678]

Speaking of the pain glove, you should add, "Stolen from Dune" to the bingo.

[@chrismaws6801]

Lol it's not like an actual glove for ya hand it's more like a full body wetsuit lol and dune stole it from a native African tribe that puts there hands in a glove full of fire ants at there coming of manhood ceremony lol....

[@woaddragon]

God emperor also came from Dune

[@albertjordan3249]

4:00 I mean language changes over time, based on usage. Nimrod was a great hunter in the Bible, but because of BUGS BUNNY of all things used it sarcastically to Elmer Fudd to mock him, it has entered common usage that such that if someone were to call you a nimrod, you would not think they are complimenting your refined tracking and hunting skills. The "rules" and "meaning" of words are not immutable and written in stone. They are simply combinations of letters and sounds that are given meaning by those using them and those listening/reading them. If for whatever reason those meanings shift, then what is most important is that the meaning is mutually intelligible, not whether it has the same meaning as was written in a dictionary 50 years ago.

[@terratheterribl]

I'm very excited about the imperial fists episode, even if bricky isn't lol.

[@Skylerraemhild]

Black Templars have a really cool recruitment system. After all the Space Roids they get and the anti heresy juice, they are thrown into the nearest battle being lead by a full member of the chapter. If they live they go forward.

[@zanestempek2084]

The grey knight can recrute from anywhere being a part of the ordo malius section of the Inquisition. Ounce you are found you are take to the moon of titan that circles saturn, and sent down to the surface of the planet, With only the cloths on your back. The goal of this treck is to even reach the fortress monistary.(aka. The starting line for your Recruitment).

[@RichardX1]

Considering the fact that all Grey Knights are psykers, my first guess would be that they recruit from the Black Ships.

[@Ophidia_Lore]

Knowing the termininology from my A&P, this is hilarious. For those that wanna know, Epiphyseal (Epi-fease-ee-ahl) fusion is a strengthening of the bones basically on its growth plate to make super-strong bones compared to the average human. Haemastamen (Ha-eem-must-amen) functionally makes the blood able to transport O2 and CO2 and an increased rate, which is why their blood is wicked bright red. Most of the organs are, very bleeding edge MAYBE possible things the human body can do sometimes, but 40k of course just takes all the abilities to 11.

[@ianlachey1726]

I like the black templars where they sometimes straight up kidnap people to turn into neophytes then put them into crusader squads where they are the first to die almost always

[@ascendant2-7]

Just watched Girls Play do an honorary stream for Helsreach and found out that they've had chats with both Bricky and Leutin on their 40k learning. Maybe invite them over for a Lesson Collab episode to teach them?

[@simplewrites]

I've come to greatly respect Space Marines. Everyone just sees a big super soldier that screams "FOR THE EMPEROR" while they slaughter aliens, but there is much much more. People blame them for being emotionless, but that's not a choice, it's a necessity. They need to be pure to fight the demon hordes and not get corrupted, emotions are the gateway to the c***s gods. Being an astartes is just as much of a curse as it is a gift, a punishment as much as a privilege, because nothing is free.

[@jamespocelinko104]

Stuffing new organs in someone makes me think this process was developed by Medic from Team Fortress 2, after he got bored with implanting baboon fetuses in people.

[@StevenCarusone]

In "The Devastation of Baal" novel, the character Luigi is a washed out neophyte who fell during a rock climbing training and hit his head. He is mentally disabled but otherwise fully space marine neophyte. He lives with his dad and grandfather. The three of them help defend Baal during the Tyranid invasion. When Baal is saved by Guilliman, Luigi is given the rubicon option of becoming Primaris which cures his brain damage. He then returned to training as a Blood Angel neophyte.

[@FullmetalMerc1]

Gotta love the Astartes. But also love the contrast. So, Marine... How did you get like this, so superhumanly strong and all? Astartes: *Goes on an hour long lecture about selective recruitment, brutal rituals, rigorous training, ALL the cyber- and bionetic implant surgery, mindgames, brainwashing, etc.* Impressive. Harsh, messed up to no small degree, but impressive... So, Mister Ork Nob. How did you get this tall, strong and even somewhat smart? Ork Nob: Crumpin'! Oh.. Okay... anything else, by chance? Ork Nob: MORE Crumpin!!! And Dakka! Ah, fair enough... But like... nothing else? Ork Nob: Harharhar! Oh, youz funny humies! Oll youz need in loif is crumpin', dakka an' a roit, propa WAAAGH!!!

[@MistarSandMan]

'are you in the process of becoming a space marine?' Me: yes

[@stubthegato3306]

When dameki asks were space marines come from I’m just like “when a mommy battle sister and a daddy space marine love each other very much…”

[@ladywaffle2210]

Technically, that's possible, which is the best and worst thing I've realized this week.

[@filwilliamson9149]

Decently sure that would just produce a normal human. The space marine’s dna isn’t modified when he becomes a marine, since the geneseed organs are more like implants, so if a space marine did have a baby then the baby would be normal. Now a weird case would happen if the father was a Custodian (assuming they can still reproduce), since their dna is modified extensively.

[@Yacovo]

A Chapter's homeworld influences the chapter a lot through their recruits. The Mortifactors' homeworld is a world of little sunlight, next to no farming, unlivable surface, and tunnel tribes. Their recruits turned the Chapter into superstitious cannibals who worship death, keep their dead's skeletons in their Fortress Monastery, ritualistically eat worthy foes, mount skulls everywhere, and prefer wielding scythes. Did I mention the Mortifactors are an Ultramarines successor chapter, and a Second Founding one at that? The Founding Chapter Master apparently picked the world using the Emperor's Tarot. Still loyal somehow, with frequent Inquisition checks.

[@terratheterribl]

Laugh all you want at the pain glove, it's better than the sisters of battle who literally de-glove their hands and just leave it that way with no medical attention.

[@Nobleheart111]

Don’t Blood Angels also relive all of Sanquinius’s memories too after they drink his blood? Meaning they spend an entire year locked in total darkness and silence with nothing but all of the battles and final death of Sanquinius at the hands of his brother Horus? Feel like that should have been worth mentioning…

[@Rogerv1032]

I believe that happens in general? After the Horus Heresy, the blood angels lost a large amount of their gene seed, in which they were forced to extract some from Sanguinius himself. In which it’s said that’s what caused the black rage to occur to every successor chapter and marine.

[@khairallahdh]

It’s funny how somehow one of the most intelligent primarchs who was literally chosen to build the imperial palace due to his skills as both an architect and defensive siege expert has been memed into someone that can’t read lol. Rogal Dorn is probably my favorite primarch.

[@matiasyannuzzi9655]

So the Sus-an Membrane is what allows a SM to enter a state of hibernation or suspended animation, requiring almost no resources to stay alive and even being able to survive fatal injury. It takes chemical therapy and extended psycho-indoctrination to be able to use it, and combined with the Mucranoid it could help a SM stay alive in the void of space. For example, if he were to be vented out from the airlock of a spaceship, on account of him being SSSSSUS

[@kirbyfanta]

A part of the ritual training of the Ravens is to go hunt and catch a bird in your hands in a forest

[@Ironfrenzy217]

That pain glove sounds like the box from the Gom Jabar test in Dune.

[@Ironfrenzy217]

@@lazerhosen not really a surprise. I just like calling it when I see it. :)

[@DjGameKing]

The obvious one you missed in how insane it is (though not really in the funny way) is Grey Knights, but I also think that that was a good idea for the dedicated Grey Knights episode whenever that happens. Aside from that, don't really know any really great ones so... just a good episode! Thank you all as always!

[@victorbaez8673]

Honestly waiting for that grey knight vid

[@deeperestmeme479]

Fun fact: The Cacharadons (otherwose known as the Space Sharks) do the thing Night Lords did and grab their recruits from a planet’s prisons. Then induct them into the chapter through a process of extremely high mortality even by marine standards. They call this practice The Red Teeth Also you are right Bricky The Pain Glove is based

[@DISTurbedwaffle918]

Bricky, when prompted about Space Marine dongs: "I rage and quit." *Roll outro music*

[@lil_ursa]

The daemonculaba is just the dragon age broodmother treatment but instead of chaos space marines it’s dark spawn. And different race broodmoms make different darkspawn! Variety!

[@uria3679]

I hope they do Mutants and Abhumans soon, because they are not talked about enough

[@TheSchultinator]

*abhumans, from abnormal humans

[@sirgaz8699]

I know Ogres, Skaven and Dwarfs are parts of the imperium but I know a lot more about their fantasy counterparts rather than their 40k bros.

[@TheSchultinator]

@@sirgaz8699 Well, the Dwarfs not so much anymore

[@YoBen100]

"The Emperor protects..." -"But having a loaded bolter doesn't hurt either."

[@RichardX1]

But spending all your film's budget on the cast does.

[@BenisDD]

fun thing: exorcised beings are invisible to demons.

[@michaelwilliamson9275]

One of the best recruitments of any space marine chapter I've come across is the Blood Jaguars, their recruitment process is batshit.

[@madmanvarietyshow9605]

The Exorcist chapter was actually created by the Inquisition as an experiment. And it was successful. But yeah they're sanctioned so they're good.

[@Resomius]

Jaghatai: "I heard you do weard things to your men, Fulgrim" 3 rooms next: 3 IF in thight leather suites FEELING THE PAIN. One of them is Rogal.

[@xx_cringynqme_xx1212]

Seeing how you make a video on each chapter and another on their primarch, would we ever get a video on the BIGGEST ork around Ghazgkull

[@T3CH33]

'Tuska Daemonkilla has entered the chat.'

[@austindow9850]

I would honestly love a video that goes over all of the 1st Founding Legion/chapters recruitment methods. It's such an unexplored topic that most of them I can only speculate at. Like, the World Eaters probably had aspirants fight in gladiatorial matches and who knows what the Luna Wolves or Word Bearers did.

[@timothyhenegar7484]

Okay I thought of this, there needs to be a "Bulk A Mania" homebrew chapter where they have three trials. 1: They have to say their prayers, and survive 3 minutes of playtime enduring getting bone sawed by Bonesaw. 2: They drink a mysterious concoction that tempts them into the "Bulkan Rage" a hyped mania frenzy much like a Berserker Rage for Slaansh. If they give into the Chapter hyped Testosterone rage? Which includes killing anything in sight butt naked? With a Fu Man Chu on their lips? Their out! 3: Last but no least, the last trial is to wrestle with an Ogryn named Andre. If they can both bench press, and lift this mother fucker, all while surviving his long winded farts? Only to body slam him afterwards? Then they are officially a Bulk A Mania Space Marine! 😏🥴😋🤪😅😂🤣

[@alienlordgamin5339]

I think dk will enjoy this fact, but pre heresy the thousand sons were recruited by the emperor, as small warp pockets appeared on tera which allowed the Magnus gene seed to not instantly turn them to chaos spawn. Post heresy any space marine who is a psyker and is tempted by tzeentch and goes through a mutation trial which either kills them mutates them or turns them into a thousand sons aspiring sorcerer.