Codex: Ultramarines (2nd Edition) - Codex Compliant

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[@MasterShake9000]

Fun fact: that random mention of Calth is the inspiration for the word bearers attacking it in the later horus heresy fiction. Source: me, the less famous co-author of the original Word Bearers Index Astartes article.

[@SymbioteMullet]

A friend of mine (he was 'that' guy) converted his entire 5000pt marine army to be legion of the damned, and then couldn't figure out why nobody wanted to play him.

[@tomaubrey1555]

"... something boring like a tactical advantage over your enemies" why can't I stop laughing at this?

[@_auricle]

"and whose primarch literally wrote the book on how to do an Astartes good" lol

[@aidanquiett668]

Yes! Only codex I'm really looking forward to now is the video on normal imperial guard (catachan was nice, but a supplement without the base book is a bit odd). And of course, the cursed 2nd expansion set review we got teased with a while back

[@anotherzingbo]

The 1989 Space Marine rulebook has a page-sized (so large for the time) piece of fluff about the opening stages of a battle between the Ultramarines and the Word Bearers during the Horus Heresy. The Word Bearers are described as having deployed in full strength (though that's referred to as the full chapter being on the field, as back in 1989 they were not yet commonly referred to as legions, despite them being much larger than 1,000 strong chapters during the Heresy) and the Ultramarines being implied to be deployed in a similar way. Though the choice of battlefield does not appear to be described this could be a starting point for what became the Battle of Calth. It's odd that this bit of lore was forgotten about by the time Codex Ultramarines was released in 1995.

[@sneakyking]

Ah my 1st codex.

[@sigmatus303]

The legion of them damned section is mint. The iconography/chapter marking sections used to be amazing

[@Therealblacktux]

Cc ultramarines was the actual name of my notification lmao

[@Mrkabrat]

The colour sections of older codexes or army books are always nice to see. Even more if they show conversions (both made or how to make them)

[@AnIdiotsLantern]

This video mentions Marnius Calgar and NOT his writing desk made from a dinosaur! How are we going to see the return of the Dino desk unless we keep reminding people about the Dino desk?! Calgar has a Dino desk! Why? How? We don’t know! More Dino desk research must be done! I am super serial you guys

[@ShallowVA]

I love those stupidly detailed descriptions of all the emblems and icons and symbols Space Marines wear. I’ve been using them on Primaris models, and they look great on the bigger marines!

[@daiatnara971]

That takes me back - which has been the theme for the past couple of days since I found your channel and have been going through Codex Compliant videos whenever I've had the time, feeling all nostalgic. 2nd Ed was my gateway to 40k - I'd had a Space Hulk box earlier, but it was during 2nd that a GW store opened up here in Sydney and I wandered in to ask "Is Space Hulk still a thing?" and discovered the game it'd spun off from. Can't think what happened to my old 2nd Ed codices, I'm sure I didn't just throw them out because they're books, you can't throw out books - probably offloaded them to a second-hand bookstore after 3rd Ed came out; I've still got all my 3rd books, that was totally my era of 40k, with my Dark Eldar, my Craftworld army that I never actually managed to field because I just painted one of each aspect warrior then moved on to the next one, my Chaos army that, well, my Chaos champion, I did honestly mean to paint an army for her eventually (but she's canon!), and my female Space Marines, look gimme a break I was young and thought I was

[@nakenmil]

I loved the kind of super pedantic iconography stuff they used to put it. Very creative.

[@nekrataali]

Side note on one of those Ork weapons that takes up an entire page to figure out: one of them rolls scatter dice using a blast template, then rolls to wound/saves/etc. Then it rolls the scatter dice again. It keeps going until you roll a misfire. While the chances are small, you could hypothetically kill every model on the table the first turn with one shot.

[@gerardmontgomery280]

2nd editions kinda weird melee rules is an understatement. Whatching you friends face as Jain Zarr charges about 20 inches, then proceeds to slaughter most of his Ork army on the first turn is a memory that'll stay with me forever.

[@maxbrooks5468]

I like that you could take Eldar as a support for Ultramarines, great video guys!

[@lt.branwulfram4794]

So, let me get this straight, if you owned Codex: Ultramarines, then by default you also owned Codex: White Scars, Imperial Fists, Iron Hands, Salamanders and Raven Guard?

[@bennydeckard]

Yeah, that Birdemic song is the most earwormy thing that ever happened

[@ulrichs.3228]

Oh no, the Primarch Domain Controller has frozen! Call the techies, they need to ... Reboot Guilliman!