Salamander ARGUES With An Ultramarine?!

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[@NovantisGrimwal]

Salamander: Don't ever talk to me and my human again.

[@hummazhughes766]

I'll fix this

[@Therestrial205]

"Leave - Her - Alone! I won't repeat it again"

[@austinbutcher8106]

*holding greater barking toad * I love frogs

[@ashmanpotter]

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[@vicegt]

​@@austinbutcher8106Vulcan: I want to boop da snoot.

[@DovahPoot]

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is one of many reasons why the Salamanders remain one of the best around.

[@kronos661]

And also the ones who ultimately are a reason for more civilian casaulties because they leave noone behind they loose their battlebrothers who could be plugging a breach into the apartament complex instead of dying for a single orphan.

[@Thalanox]

How many dead civilians do you think these stories of inconvenient kindness cost? Think of Electric cars. Would I like it if I had a car that didn't need to be filled with gas? Sure. But there are a whole lot more details about an electric car that make the cost unacceptably high in many ways.

[@vothbetilia4862]

​@@kronos661bruh they can literally multitask the situation, plus they're almost never alone anyways.

[@cadettrev762]

@@kronos661Salamanders don’t care if they themselves die for civilians. Not because they’re stupid, they have the philosophy that The Imperium is as strong as its people. Tons of people who were saved by Space Marines ended up terrified of them, and some even lost faith. In a galaxy as depressing as Warhammer 40k, faith is pretty much the only thing they have

[@acreon547]

Who are the others if I may ask?

[@hahnpark1037]

“What you’re doing does not honor warriors.” “Of course not. It honors the Emperor.”

[@societyender6666]

Probably the most truth on here

[@LastRookie]

​@@societyender6666 I wouldn't say that. Wasn't Big E pretty indifferent to the average human, and only cared for his Primarchs? Sure, he wanted humanity to become number one in the galaxy, but he set up the Night Lords to keep the average humans in check, under fear of Big E's glory/wrath, right?

[@codegoodwin22]

Bruh i can feel the pen and paper blaze in fire

[@jamielattin9182]

Implying big E wasn't the single greatest warrior in the galaxy prior to his interment in the throne? Implying he isn't still a powerful psychic warrior engaged in constant battle with the forces of evil in the warp? Sounds like heresy to me

[@azagorod8479]

​@@jamielattin9182Well Big E is still your C-tier God, after all.

[@CT-1902]

The love of humanity Burns brightest in the heart of a salamander

[@Springtrap11556]

A beautiful comment. But, if you'll let me, I'd like to do you one better: "The only things said to rival the love of humanity that Burns in the heart of a Salamander, are the flames they use to defend that humanity."

[@Proditum-dt4vz]

Lamenters too. They fought on corella to the death to save as many ppl as possible and were devastated that only 4 out of 9 billion survived

[@PuppetierMaster]

haha I get it "burns" good one

[@filthycasual927]

The salamanders are true angels in a galaxy muddle in the dirt grime and blood of wars the true light bearers at the end of tunnels

[@diegohiramguidogarcia6003]

​@@Proditum-dt4vz FOR THOSE WE CHERISH WE DIE IN GLORY!!!!!!!

[@RoninBlackwing]

Trying to tell a salamander not to help someone? This guys was NOT paying attention in class.

[@PrimordialNyx]

Trying to convince chaos gods to abandon their ways and change their ideologies would be a lot easier than convincing a salamander to not help someone.

[@northernalpine4350]

They would much sooner discard their flamer than let a child fall to flames

[@silverthekitsune7007]

More likely has a death wish

[@koboldsage9112]

Not paying attention is right. Speaking this way to a salamander seems like a shortcut to learning new definitions of friendly fire.

[@edu6972]

@@koboldsage9112and put a lot of fire on that

[@viniciusmelo8010]

Hekha'Tan could carry another five civilians by himself in his arms because he is used to carrying his massive adamantium balls

[@thenerdking5261]

That was actually good asf 😂😂😂😂

[@skarlock5257]

Never ask an Eldar a question. Never start a fight with Orks that you can't immediately and decisively end. But most important, never, ever get between a Salamander and a civilian.

[@diomano.3341]

Why not ask space elves a question

[@jaredharrison7024]

Because they’ll give cryptic bullshit answers

[@skarlock5257]

@@diomano.3341 Because they will give you three answers, all of which are horrifying and true.

[@shervinmarzock7021]

And never be a marines malevolant or Death Korps of Krieg

[@vothbetilia4862]

​@@diomano.3341because they never answer truthfully and for some reason think they're the Riddler or something.

[@justsomerandomguy6562]

"What good is all your vaunted strength then if it can't be used to protect those who can't protect themselves?"

[@Wolfrage76]

True facts.

[@XRyanK]

Good for pretty much everything I guess

[@augustuslunasol10thapostle]

@@XRyanK good for what exactly? Every human loves someone else even the emperor felt love if you cant use your strength to protect them you are worthless

[@Sandrodziej]

​@@XRyanKdon't be such an edgelord

[@SeraphimRoad]

"To enforce and protect the political interests of our High Lords of Terra. And we like sanctioned murder and destruction" - Minotaurs Chapter

[@unifiedhorizons2663]

Brothers, "a child is danger!" get the entire chapter down here! we're saving the damn kid! ultra marine: entire planet is overrun with bugs! salamander: did i stutter!

[@falsehero2001]

“A child is in danger.” Salamander rushes in. The child is an Aeldari. “A child is in danger.”

[@Ruby150]

Considering how the Salamanders acted during their first deployment... it's not far off

[@unifiedhorizons2663]

@@falsehero2001 nah few salamanders would raise her as a sister of battle/ librarian so they could revive them in battle Just to disrespect eldar as a whole

[@shiraitsukki]

"The strong can protect themself. Stronger protects those who can't"

[@stewpid4410]

More like the strongest

[@guyincognito959]

A soldier without something to fight for is but a pariah.

[@ktkxwolf]

Man Barnyard had a pretty decent influence.

[@stevenn1940]

Variation; "mercy is a luxury only the strong can afford"

[@tommysalami420]

@@stevenn1940 Then simply become the strongest to protect the weak.

[@plasma3064]

"Burden, Ultramarine? Aye. But it's a burden we Salamanders gladly bear, for our shoulders are strong. And the strong will protect the weak until they find their own strength."

[@anjaneyasreetrout2444]

And in that process, the Salamanders often end up wasting more lives. Their actions are honorable but impractical.

[@hughmann9568]

​@@anjaneyasreetrout2444me living my life as I want is a waste? OK buddy. Stop being a parot and find some examples. Funny Noone else could either.

[@thisistherevolt]

​@@hughmann9568bro, don't bother trying to convince psychopaths that other people's lives matter. You'd be better served ignoring or even punching folks like that in the mouth. Real men protect the weak at our own expense. Opinions be damned.

[@piotrwisniewski70]

​@@anjaneyasreetrout2444what do you mean "waste more life's"? Can you elaborate further?

[@TimaeusEXE]

​​@@anjaneyasreetrout2444not really but go off

[@maturin1919]

I love how in this universe the beings created to protect humans by and large don't even like them. Great job, Emperor Vegetable. Well done.

[@TricksterPoi]

Most Space Marine chapters already forgot their true objectives what the big E told them. Only few like the Salamanders and Lamentators remember.

[@markangeloporcare5289]

Fighting your former brothers-in-arms and other alien beings can do that to an Imperium

[@xceedsilva]

Salamander really hit him with the "Don't care" + "Didn't ask"

[@leovillant768]

Was about to say that yeah

[@mrnohax5436]

he fr didn't elaborate either

[@ismailabdelazim2206]

+cope+seethe😂

[@Larken42]

And the “also fuck you, I’ll walk faster”

[@lamerxgamer069]

​@@ismailabdelazim2206 and L ratio + Mald

[@somerandomguy2316]

“What You’re doing doesn’t honor warriors” “What you’re doing doesn’t honor humanity”

[@apocalypticash1242]

Or the Emperor

[@henrypaleveda7760]

"it does honor the emperor."

[@Haka-f3k-u]

"What are you, some kind of Blue Anti-Humanity Heresy Warrior? Yes, Lord Inquisitor, this HERETIC right here!"

[@apocalypticash1242]

@@Haka-f3k-u Or a small blue thunder warrior the custodes missed

[@primaltruth5754]

​@@Haka-f3k-uBlue Anti-Humanity Heresy Warrior with the lighting claws and bat winged red helmet to be exact!

[@EchoARC6895]

salamanders casually becomes the face of the imperium

[@RUDE7643]

“She’ll slow us down” “She would slow YOU down! I however could care for 5 more before my combat efficiency would decrease by any significant amount.”

[@angerskarin9222]

I think that girl weight less then the bolter lol.

[@miyoko8380]

​@@angerskarin9222she weight less than anything he's carrying lol.

[@VentrexTheXVth]

This makes me laugh and cry

[@Aichi1138]

"She'll slow us down" "Then what a failure of a warrior you must be to be hindered so"

[@JonesingUSAF]

@@angerskarin9222a single bolter round probably outweighs her😂

[@phoenixfire9176]

"you have only strength for yourself. I have enough to spare".

[@TheAKgunner]

Your words would make Vulcan proud, Brother.

[@quanlinglingdingle6122]

Damn this literally go full 🔥✍️

[@keopsps3474]

Damn

[@skoryuroborus9677]

​@@TheAKgunner Indeed. 🫡 VULKAN LIVES!✊🐉

[@TheAKgunner]

@@skoryuroborus9677 *STOMP STOMP*

[@gwaheeboo4216]

"What you do does not honor warriors" "Yes it does, I see them ready to fight and die a useful and proper death for the Emperor, you would waste their worth, however small"

[@seanbrown2294]

The Salamanders are literally the last warm feelings the Emperor has for Mankind.

[@chasedean4032]

Proby the prometheum

[@MasterSethern]

What about the Lamentors?!

[@PenishetTop]

Ogrins

[@ringo3917]

FUCKING WHITE SCARS

[@williansnobre]

The warmth of fire in a dark universe

[@viciousyeen6644]

„If a single civilian is a burden to you, how do you expect to carry the weight of the imperium itself?“

[@PrimarisAngelusMortis]

This is an unfathomably based comment

[@InVinoVeratas]

Because it isn't about the Imperium, it's about his stupid notions of "Honour" if honour were synonymous with cowardice.

[@ShardDeVir]

​@@InVinoVeratas not cowardice - stupidity.

[@baked_beans_779]

​@@PrimarisAngelusMortisunfathomably based indeed

[@Freshtildeath]

Part of the ultramarines curse. They Focus on being the best at what they do but forget why they do it.

[@Sivrn-Val]

"She'll slow us down." "She weighs a fraction of my Bolter ya dumb Blueberry."

[@YuriSupporter]

Salamanders and Lamenters are the two greatest chapters to exist.

[@snakedoctor6969]

❤ this

[@XShrike0]

Celestial Lions?

[@ArchonSeachmall]

For those we cherish, we die in glory!

[@somerton4383]

​@@XShrike0 If we knew more lore about them, maybe. I do like the Lions, but we still know next to nothing about them except for their valiant last stands

[@BloodKnight003]

Crimson Fists are also pretty good, probably not as nice as those two but from what I remember one of the nicer ones

[@feldamar2]

"She's a burden? Yes. Of course she is a burden. The burden we swore to carry when we swore to serve the emperor. Dropping her is a failure as much as falling to chaos."

[@northernalpine4350]

"are you so frail as to consider a woman a great burden upon you brother?" _"Are you so uncoordinated and incompetent with handling your bolter that you cannot aim and fire without both hands holding your weapon like a trembling infant?!"_ *_"Are you so immersed in your delusions that the slaughter of the Emperor's People do right by his name?"_* "It is a travesty that you even consider yourselves his son"

[@soundcloudpandapandawa2997]

@@northernalpine4350 Is Roboute Guilliman as cold as this Ultramarine? Just asking

[@TheUncivilizedNation]

@@soundcloudpandapandawa2997 Rarely. He’s usually pretty chill, albeit very stressed out so he can lose his patience quickly. However on a bad day he’s the complete opposite of his sons and more like Angron or Sanguinius. One time in the Horus Heresy Gulliman’s rage was so great he literally refused to die in the vacuum of space out of sheer hatred and went on a massacre, killing Lorgar’s Word Bearers So yeah he’s a little different from his sons. They’ve never crashed out like that before

[@lorddeathofmurdermountain76]

@@TheUncivilizedNation his face was so red you could see the anger he felt also he punched them so hard it was like fallouts bloody mess perk they exploded into chunks.

[@BenjaminIzquierdo-nb6tq]

@@northernalpine4350bro is COOKING

[@Xaffire]

Heka'Tan is literally the "what you gonna do about it brother? Tell dad?" type of marine

[@gr8m887]

“So, ‘courage and honor’ when it’s CONVENIENT, then, Ultramarine?”

[@garex1939]

your profile pic conveys the emotion very well 😂

[@BenjaminIzquierdo-nb6tq]

Exactly

[@pyotrbagration2438]

Angron said they dont know the meaning of those words.

[@linkdancer3890]

@@pyotrbagration2438Most of them don’t really

[@Ironpursuer]

@@linkdancer3890he does the chapter a disservice, the lords of ultramar frown this day

[@thomasnolastname8734]

Imagine Salamanders fighting alongside Ogryns There wouldn't be a single civilian casualty

[@TheHolyRomanEmpireGaming]

“PROTEC THE LIL’ UNS!” “Aye, brother.”

[@enderborn6860]

ogryn salamander thats a death sentence to any other none human

[@hillbillywizard497]

Modern Space Wolves care about guardsmen. Although I'm not sure if they care about civilian lives. But the Lamentors? That whole Chaptor would gladly give their lives for a single civilian. Would anybody want them there is a whole other question entirely.

[@Mendoza-yi6qk]

​@@hillbillywizard497we have over 50 chapters and only 3 of them actually care for humanity sad ain't it

[@hillbillywizard497]

@@Mendoza-yi6qk It is

[@jtnachos16]

'does not honor warriors' is a WILD claim considering that what makes a difference between a warrior and a monster is that they are fighting for something tangible. A warrior fights, for resources, for safety, for goods, with the intent that they benefit those they associate with. A 'warrior' who would abandon the civilians they are supposed to be protecting in order to seek more fights or to seek their own advancement, is a monster, not a warrior. Especially when, in context such as this, a single human is literally as burdensome as a shopping bag with a glass jar in it, as far as 'slowing them down'.

[@pablowarsong5503]

Heka'Tan? More like Heka'Chad

[@on_the_inverse_5193]

Love that the Salamander-marines known for their jet-black skin-'s name is basically "Heckin' Tan"

[@tdpuuhailee8222]

​@@on_the_inverse_5193 Classic GW naming right there.

[@JewcyJewceXo]

Wish Heka’Chad could be my Heka’Dad!

[@gravebird398]

Chadamander

[@Fairwhite195]

"Heka'Tan" is just a title. It's what the Salamander's apothecaries yelled out when they weighed his titanic ceramite balls.

[@Baloo106]

"Yeah, I'm a good person, cry about it."

[@laevateinx9163]

"Your objection is noted...and duly ignored"

[@E0S1776]

And that’s why the Salamanders will ALWAYS be my favorite Chapter.

[@dynamicheatwave9949]

they're my favourite and it's not even close

[@TheGreatThicc]

It's weird. The Salamanders are my favourite Marines by faaaar for the value they put on life, yet the Death Korp are my favourite Guards by far for their total disregard for life.

[@thenexus8384]

​@@TheGreatThiccsame

[@ReiseLukas]

​@@TheGreatThicc Salamanders are my serious choice of space marine chapter, but for the memes I would choose Blood Ravens

[@Eadwulf_Skald]

​@@ReiseLukasIf chaos counts then the only meme pick is Night Lords. (Although the books are so good they're top 3 not for the meme)

[@AkumuLyn]

“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.” -G.K. Chesterton

[@Tyonline777]

“I do not love the sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.” -J.R.R. Tolkien

[@alteredbeast7145]

"I'm behind you" -Jago Sevetarion, First Captain, Eighth Legion Night Lords

[@addison_v_ertisement1678]

This comment is good, but this just reminds me of that one Star Wars scene, and now I'm mad.

[@TheOmegaAlfa]

Like NKVD machine guns or Kadyrov’s Chechens?

[@agentc7020]

​@@alteredbeast7145 "I will love killing you" - Artellus Numeon, First Captain, Seventeenth Legion Salamanders

[@diablo56100]

Here I thought the Ultras were decent, but oh hell was I frakking wrong. Sign me the frak up for Salamanders

[@yucatansuckaman5726]

"Didn't see saving single humans in the codex anywhere"😂😂😂😂😂

[@LEOODARTHVADER2]

"What you're doing does not honor warriors" "AND HOW YOU'RE ACTING *DIS*HONORS THE IMPERIUM"

[@northernalpine4350]

"what youre doing does not honor warriors" *_"What youre suggesting does not honor these nuts, now fuck off"_*

[@darkrush9602]

A warrior is only a warrior because it has a reason to fight for, otherwise you are just a mindless beast lost in the slaughter

[@christopherholmes7324]

I agree 100%!

[@profaa927]

Yeah but zoom out and you will see by wasting time with this woman you are slowing down our entire campaign. - sincerely an Ultramarine main. 😂

[@Equinox2149]

​@profaa927 It's admittedly practical but somewhat inhumane

[@TheLikenessOfNormal]

@@profaa927 Ah the same logic that turned the Imperium into a hellscape that Big E despises?

[@darkrush9602]

At this point they sould rename the imperium of man to imperium of space marines

[@CrabLadius]

The Salamanders and the Lamenters are the shining lights of hope in an otherwise hopeless galaxy. Putting the lives of innocent civilians above their own brings honor to their Primarchs. They make Vulkan and Sanguinius proud.

[@dmf4254]

Should have responded with, “But it honors the Emperor.”

[@francoquaglini2404]

+40.000 Emotional Damage!

[@juanagustinavaloskocis2158]

One of the many voices of the emperor, from the Golden throne: "OOOOOOHH".

[@daamlop8946]

BUUUUUURRNN!!

[@BonesMalon3]

@@juanagustinavaloskocis2158 TTS voice: GET REKT BLUE BOI

[@Haka-f3k-u]

Big E would cringe at the Ultrasmurf so hard that they would get shunted into the Warp directly.

[@insultinsultan705]

>be human >world on fire >His Angels of Death arrive much to your awe >they start arguing over whether to leave you for dead Gotta love the Imperium

[@dms-f16]

> be grateful for it all or you're a heretic & you'll be killed by fellow man 😅

[@danieltukua4527]

It’s not much of an argument when one of them is saying theyre taking you with wether the other likes it or not

[@BalthazarSturm]

>Survive absolute devastation >Everyone else is dead >Space Marines arrive to save you! >Space Marines refuse to save you!

[@SerfsUp1848]

Night lords show up

[@northernalpine4350]

There IS no argument Youre coming with, whether the blue bastard wants it or not If he has any further objections, then he'll have to go through the salamanders first

[@davidfalloutbandit]

He was more of a warrior than any other person on that battlefield

[@TheKingsLibrary]

"A burden? Then I shall ask the Emporer for broader shoulders to carry it" should have been his response

[@northernalpine4350]

"for an ultramarine, youre rather frail, shall i carry you and your weapons to the next destination as well brother?"

[@komradewicked7613]

​@@northernalpine4350So you guys just want platitudes and grandstanding ? Lol

[@theflerffyburr7919]

"Are you so weak that a mere woman burdens you, brother?"

[@MrSlug-ki9jl]

Only a Salamander can deliver such a devastating burn.

[@patrickdees5256]

A roast so good, you'd think he was one of the Khan's.

[@leonardoacosta4577]

​@@MrSlug-ki9jlnah bro, that an exterminatus

[@Finalhellmaster]

Apply dreadnought coffin to the burned area.

[@chocolatesquirrel2002]

Carry a woman or a gun, its pretty obvious

[@callmeghostly7632]

Something like; “No, but it honours the angels they view us as” would go hard

[@robouteguilliman7628]

Being kind isn't a dishonour, its a honour in of itself.

[@theeobeastone5068]

Salamander: “really? In front of my human!?”

[@ZekeFiinn]

I am born and bred to save people. You are born and bred to fight we are not the same - salamander

[@EVERYTHINGELSEWASTAKEN77]

Ultramarine: She'll slow us down Salamander: And so will you with a broke leg and third degree burns

[@Briselance]

"If she slows you down, blue boy, then you are the weakest Ultramarine ever."

[@TheReapergod36]

I imagine if I asked you to hold a drink, it would slow you down.@@Briselance

[@Vasilefs_Terranorum]

@@BriselanceI’d image that would get the blueberry to dedicate every fibre of his being to protecting her without sacrificing mission efficiency.

[@liammercado1235]

Heka'Tan: with all the sas he can muster "I apologise brother, I did not see you were too weary and fible at the moment to carry this small light refugee, that your strength was faltering as we speak, would you like me to carry you to our next destination as well?

[@EVERYTHINGELSEWASTAKEN77]

@@liammercado1235 this is my favorite one

[@th3nightlion624]

"abandoning his people does not honor the Emperor" Conversation over.

[@NarasimhaDiyasena]

They say the heart of the emperor is in a warp, but I believe a part of it was imbued into the salamander. Each chapter represents a fragment of the emperors character, be it good or bad.

[@mizuhokusuha]

"It does not honour warriors? No, it honours humanity."

[@P.W.N.ed_9000]

Reminds me of the time a space marine saw a mother fresh out of a war zone who reportedly walked for 3 days and 3 nights carrying her baby to safety. She finally hobbled to the Astarties and collapsed at their feet due to exhaustion. To the surprise of his fellow Astarties(who fully expected the emperor’s mercy), one walked forward and cradled her in his arms. “You have carried your burden, now let me carry you.”

[@martinford4553]

That's Kantor (Crimson Fist chapter master) in Rynn's World.

[@williamnone]

This story always brings tears to my eyes. A moment of true kindness, humanity and true manliness.

[@vanomzero]

yeah that baby is definitely dead

[@IVLoyalistIronWarriorLegionnai]

​@@vanomzeroshut it grimderp boy

[@joeofdoom]

He did it partly as punishment for Alessio Cortez who ignored an order so he could save her and her children, in part it was penace for himself for forgetting the value of human life. Pedro Kantor is awesome.

[@gradientApostle]

They seem to be the only marines that actually realize what their fighting for

[@bryantan8654]

Honourable mention to the Raptors successor chapter too.

[@dynamicheatwave9949]

and the raven gaurd

[@kingpatty4628]

Arcadese: What are you doing does not honor warriors. Guilliman: And what are you doing is disappointing, son.

[@mcsleuthburgur1034]

"If this doesn't honor warriors, I don't want to know what you call a warrior, much less be one"

[@LamborghiniDiabloSVPursuit]

"This does not honor warriors." Bobby G, who was an unapologetic Mama's Boy throughout the Great Crusade: This doesn't what now, son?

[@MrJerichoPumpkin]

was thinking the same, "I don't think that line would sit right with your Primarch..."

[@Flame4516]

Robocop gorillaman is about to bring out the emperor's belt for this one.

[@GreySpectre610]

Rhomboid Gluten-free: “I sense a disturbance in the Warp…”

[@Firebolt193]

@@GreySpectre610 "Rhomboid Gluten-free" L M F A O

[@mugenokami2201]

@@Flame4516no. He’s going to use his own for this one

[@MuchKoku]

"She'll slow us down." "We'll see how quickly YOU move when I rip your legs off."

[@HugeHaddock]

"I gain a +30% speed bonus, and a 7% psychic resist for every civilian I'm carrying"

[@oompalumpus699]

That smurf would have been lectured by Rotorboat Ghilliesuit about what it means to be a warrior.

[@matapavosgamer]

Yeah, sometimes I hate how inhuman they write the ultramarines, it just feels wrong

[@ryanchong9965]

I stealing that "Rotorboat Ghilliesuit"

[@SignoftheMagi]

​@@ryanchong9965Roboto Girlyman?

[@Edible_edibility]

​@@SignoftheMagirubber boot gorilla glue

[@asssalt7347]

​@@Edible_edibilityRawbutt Grillman

[@kathydina3646]

I just hear the Salamander hit back with "... and what you just DID does not honor humanity."

[@northernalpine4350]

"ask your primarch what he thinks of my actions compared to yours regarding this woman, then come back to me, if you CAN come back that is"

[@AndrewsArtDen]

'What you're doing does not honour warriors.' 'No, it does not. It honours humanity.'

[@randolphbienmateo8174]

Vulkan is proud to his sons for being humanitarian

[@arnettthayer5314]

As a tyranid player salamanders are the coolest Space Marines everytime.

[@nidnoms3622]

indeed brother

[@Red-Check-Mark]

They make great biomass. 😊

[@ThedreadrogueYT]

I’m new to WH40K I but I think that I want to start as a nid player. And I can confirm that irl I indeed love some nice biomass.

[@hectorcott3204]

“You only have strength for yourself, i have strength to spare” -Chad Salamander

[@shadowgrinch]

Ultramarine: We don’t need to carry a burden. Salamander: I’m built different.

[@liammercado1235]

Salamander: Skill issue.

[@feldamar2]

Ultramarine: We don't need to carry a burden. Salamander: What burden did you think you swore to carry when you swore yourself to the emperor? The freaking armor?

[@videopolice432]

Pedro Kantor of the Crimson fists supports this action.

[@thearchives1094]

It's macaronius cheesegar

[@drunknnirish]

@@thearchives1094 easily one of the best 40k intros ever made.

[@sessy01]

Yes, but your ass is still walking to the extraction point if your legs still work.

[@wolfsmaul-ger8318]

saving humanity more often than not means saving one life at a time

[@TheBowTizzle]

"What you are doing does not honor warriors." "Perhaps not. But it does honor Humanity."

[@northernalpine4350]

"You claim honor but condemn a helpless woman to death regarding her as a burden" "Where's your honor when its most needed? Or do you only speak of it when convenient?"

[@deepjyotideb1173]

Courage and honour, but only for the emperor

[@TheSilversepiroth]

"Honor warriors? Perhaps not. But it honors humanity, and that, my brother, is why we were made."

[@nullblasterthevoidmaker1750]

This is why the Salamanders are my boys.

[@davidcook680]

This is why the salamanders are my favorite. Protecting the weakest and most in need.

[@br2nd]

May not honors warriors but damn sure honors heros.

[@henrypaleveda7760]

it is what the warriors are for, the reason why they were made in the first place.

[@Endless_Jaguar]

I can't help but see the Salamander as a soldier serving his nation with conviction. And the Ultramarine reminds me of a cop.

[@madkaris7224]

Salamanders + Crimson fists = best astartes to be around.

[@apocalypticash1242]

Don't forget the space wolves and, though they hide it, dark angels surprisingly

[@alduintheanti-dragonborn]

From what I hear, Raven Guard are surprisingly friendly towards civilians.

[@Arbaaltheundefeated]

@@apocalypticash1242 I can think of a case where the Space Wolves weren't very nice at all to an enormous amount of innocent civilians.

[@apocalypticash1242]

@@Arbaaltheundefeated ....Very fair...they have that nasty little incident of roid raging worse than the world eaters that time, eh?

[@Arbaaltheundefeated]

@@apocalypticash1242 Like a squad of Blood Angels in an abattoir

[@kucklowmusic9184]

In 40 thousand years of war, only the salamanders seemed to remember what they were actually fighting for

[@Wierd_Loco_Steam_Works]

"There are no good guys in 40K" The Salamanders:

[@knightblade0188]

Also Lamenters

[@Arbaaltheundefeated]

I would still only say they are the best guys, not good guys. Had that human woman instead been a defenseless Eldar or Tau infant squirming on the floor for example, the Salamander would have stepped on them instead. Nothing in 40K is "good", just better than others.

[@DeathMessenger1988]

@@Arbaaltheundefeated Emperor damnit, it was only ONCE and Vulkan wasn't thinking straight because Konrad & the Night Lords were fucking about and got his remembrancer friend killed.

[@tiagobelo4965]

​@@DeathMessenger1988also, they were knife ears, so it doesn't really count

[@DeathMessenger1988]

@@tiagobelo4965 They're Salamanders, not Squats.

[@snaffu1]

Heka'Tan and Pedro Kantor need to meet up some day.

[@gamechanger8908]

Heka'Tan is a Horus Heresy era Salamander. So unless he and his buddies got swallowed by a warp storm that displaced them 10,000 years into the future like the Risen/Fallen. It's highly unlikely for them to meet. Despite how nice it could have been.

[@snaffu1]

​@@gamechanger8908In 40k damn near anything is possible. Even if they meet in the afterlife somewhere, that'd put the biggest smile on my face.

[@wizardofaus7013]

Should be noted that it was Pedro’s buddy that first brought the mother and kids along. Pedro softened up to her in one of the most heartfelt Astartes-humans moments.

[@henrypaleveda7760]

@@gamechanger8908 dreadnaught perhaps along with the warp storms?

[@danielpenalvapanighel7475]

"I honor the humanity, we are more than warriors, we are guardians of the human race, if you won't act like one, i will"

[@Squiggles01]

"False warriors see those whom they have sworn to protect as burdens... A true warrior shoulders the burdens of those he has sworn to protect!"

[@Scream_Lord]

The Salamanders should have been the poster boys of the Space Marines

[@rasputinloveroftherussianq1985]

The Crimson Fists were known for something similar to the incident in the reel, and for the first few editions they were the chapter on the cover.

[@samuellove9619]

Salamanders are the exception, not the rule. Grimderk remember?

[@nokturnallex2160]

I don't even remember them being a prominent Chapter when I first started collecting, they only became more popular once they fleshed out their lore in 5th Edition I believe. Ultramarines were the original Poster boys.

[@oneofthechosen874]

They just hate green.

[@tdpuuhailee8222]

​@@oneofthechosen874 *Angry ork noises*

[@BIGD-cc7ru]

Barnyard quote I was thinking of: “A strong man stands up for himself. A stronger man, stands up for others”

[@TheGreatThicc]

What he did may not "honour warriors" but it sure as hell honours Vulkan. He once used himself to shield a child from an Ork grenade that landed nearby

[@purplefood1]

To be fair it would have to be one hell of an ork grenade to even damage Vulkan let alone kill him, and even if it did he's a perpetual.

[@TaurusTheCrazyBull]

@@purplefood1 I could believe a grenade from an Ork could go from anywhere between a normal nade to the size of a nuke, depends on how big of a boom they think It'll make

[@purplefood1]

@@TaurusTheCrazyBull That's not quite how it works but okay

[@TaurusTheCrazyBull]

@@purplefood1 From my understanding, Ork stuff work how they do because the Orks believe they work that way, they do have to follow certain rules, like shootas need to look like shootas and not like choppas. So can you really say with certainty that a Mek Boi couldn't make a grenade as strong as a nuke by putting a shiny green rock In It? (I am genuinely asking, because my understanding of Ork logic means they can, what's stopping them from just doing that would be the fact It's not as fun as what they are doing)

[@purplefood1]

@@TaurusTheCrazyBull The ork psychic gestalt gives their stuff enough of a nudge to make it work but it won't just make it work out of nowhere it has some limits. It'll keep an engine running with bullet holes and dodgy fuel, it'll keep a plane flying with most of the wings and control surfaces shot to pieces, it'll even keep a shoota shooting when it should have jammed but it won't just make a grenade into a nuke without some tinkering. That said if a mekboy set out to make a football nuke and intentionally tinkers with it to do so adding extra bits then it may well be able to manage it without understanding anything about what they're doing but it's more than simply throwing an explosive and believing it's a nuke.

[@CuriousLumenwood]

Every time I read/hear about something about the Salamanders in the lore I’m reminded why I chose it as my army

[@austinroach95]

Protecting and helping the weak amd defenseless? Sounds like a true warrior to me.

[@HomemdaFaina]

"Without wisdom, skill cannot be focussed. Without skill, strength cannot be brought to bear. Without strength, wisdom may not be applied." Stand tall, Prometheans.

[@Nimi450]

IT is not a quote from 40k but in the same vein I4ve always loved this quote. "A courageous sword is swung in vain without power, but a powerful sword swung without courage only harms. A sword needs to be wielded with courage and power to reveal it's true means. The courage to protect those who need it no matter the odds to reveal the power to overcome any and all challenges."

[@wahluigisixtyninefourtwent519]

Salamanders: One of the only chapters to be guardians of humanity, rather than the Imperium

[@mivapusa]

We really need more team-ups between Salamanders and Lamenters.

[@jasyewe6360]

As "good" as the Ultramarines are, their priority has always been and always will be the objective first. They will minimise human casualties in every effort but they will never go out of their way to keep a civilian safe and/or rescue them(unless thats the objective itself). But this is what makes Salamanders so great.

[@ronanchristiana.belleza9270]

Then you have Marines Malevolent

[@Arbaaltheundefeated]

Pragmatism vs Idealism

[@colinbielat8558]

​@Arbaaltheundefeated I mean this is set during the hourus heresy, the remaining salamanders are basically one percent of their orginal legion strength and the ultramarines have not fared better taking around fifty percent casualties at calth but losing about the same number of astartes if not more than the salamanders. Not to mention the story is about am iterator trying to keep a planet from siding with horus and the two astartes are there to aid and protect him. The ultramarine understands his mission and what he needs to do, the salamander is blinded by prereunification tendencies that Vulkan wanted to remove, especially considering the ultramarines knows that the mission comes first as if the planet sides with horus, they are dead and that women will likely have died anyway in service to the traitors, if the planet sides with the Imperium their is still a chance it can hold out but the people will still face unrelenting war, but in service to humanity.

[@BelisariusAlKhwarizmi]

The Imperial Fists saved one delinquent Guardsman from Hydra Cordatus; wouldn't put it past the Smurfs

[@cykeok3525]

@@BelisariusAlKhwarizmi GUARDSMAN HAWKE!

[@tetrobro5182]

Salamanders: “You’re my friend now.” *doodoodoodoodoo*

[@nicolbolas5934]

we're having soft tacos later!

[@Razzy-sr4oq]

Dammit, you two, I heard this all perfectly in my head, including the tacos and music part! 🤣

[@diablo595]

“I don’t recall asking for your opinion”

[@gruk5319]

It's funny if you were to look at what that smurf said he would've realized the salamanders are more honorable warriors than what even them ultramarines are BECAUSE they fight to protect more than just the greater part of the imperium,they protect the lives of man and fight those who'd seek em harm. A warrior doesn't have to be known for JUST their bloodshed,nor by just their overall combat prowess its in that they protect and fight to keep protecting the weak as they are of the flock.

[@robsomethin4415]

I remember a conversation from KOTOR between Carth Onasi and Canderous Ordo regarding the fact that they were on different sides of a war at one point. Canderous says that Carth would have been a fine warrior. Carth denies this, saying he was not a warrior, but a soldier. A warrior fights for personal glory and for war. A soldier fights to protect people from warriors. A soldier doesn't want war.

[@williamnone]

@@robsomethin4415deep and honest.

[@gruk5319]

@robsomethin4415 a truly beautiful analogy, it is true but one shouldn't overlook not all warriors seek glory as the rest,not all soldiers stay true to fighting what they love or want to protect. Both can be true until actions made prove otherwise which for 40k it gives alot to look at,regardless its nice to see other parts of lore from 40k being used to actually further a comment as opposed to the good ol "no u wrong" XD I'll have to look at KOTOR tho

[@robsomethin4415]

@@gruk5319 sorry to disappoint, but I wasn't bringing in 40K here. KOTOR is short hand for "Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic", an old star wars rpg from the original Xbox days. Still a really good game though

[@gabrielbernard5440]

I love that everyone is calling them smurfs

[@r3ktfox146]

This right here is why the Salamanders are more of a blessing to humanity than any other Astartes

[@Sawyer523-v4s]

A quote from Ninjago describes the Salamanders perfectly: 'You were built to protect those who cannot protect themselves.' -Dr. Julien

[@JessieMorris-sz3ph]

"she'll slow us down." WELL THATS TO DAMN BAD

[@Cheap_Coffee]

too*

[@XainArchives]

No, that is exactly how you have honor as a warrior.

[@Your_western_knight]

This is why I absolutely love the salamanders “We can’t take her” “The fuck you mean we arnt”

[@Ereldor]

Salamander: "...What you just said honours neither humanity, nor your gene-father."

[@koboldsage9112]

Speaking this way to a salamander seems like a shortcut to learning new definitions of "friendly fire". If you are a foe to the emperors loyal subjects, you are a foe to vulcan.

[@jovpal5685]

Ultramarines and Salamander actually have good relationship with each other Salamander often answering and supporting the call of Ultramarines

[@ovan2190]

To the Salamanders it's an Honor to protect Civilians, I like how Salamanders are shown to have a bit more humanity than other space marines otherwise the setting would go from dark to bland Everyone gritty and dark is cool but only when you get those moments of humanity

[@IW3527]

Exactly grimdark only works well in when there are bits of light shining through to balance the narrative otherwise it's quickly gets boring and predictable.

[@forge4119]

"The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him."

[@brucejedilee5290]

He may hate what's in front of him because it seeks to destroy what's behind him

[@hansdykstra3869]

I have always loved that the most frightening space marines are actually the kindest

[@ArtyBuz]

Based salamanders at it again

[@lordcurze]

I hope Heka'Tan outlived that UM.

[@azschott6969]

Damn now I need to buy and read the book

[@ChaplainPhantasm]

I honestly hope Heka'Tan actually got to teach the Ultramarine how to serve his duty to humanity better. Not in a scolding way, but in a tough cousin love way

[@colinbielat8558]

@@ChaplainPhantasm he dies saving an ambassador of horus, he is not someone to be remembered as he failed the mission, the planet was destroyed and everyone died.

[@SebastianRose-ic4nt]

​@@colinbielat8558who?.