Make Your Own Space Marine SUCCESSOR CHAPTER

[@talscorner3696]

Bonus tip! If you're feeling overwhelmed about making *a whole Chapter* from scratch, try starting with the lore for a Kill Team or a Boarding Patrol ^^

[@Dutch40KGuy]

That's a good one!

[@OFFCODEV2]

Im using chatgpt to help me with mine

[@RSBurgener]

I just started my own chapter a few months ago, after nearly 30 years of being into 40k. They're called The Emerald Knights and they began as Dark Angels Successors. But their Chapter Master was one of Luther's pupils, and the lead Interrogator did not trust any of them. They were deployed on the edge of the galaxy to watch for traitors, then essentially abandoned. They had no help from the DA whatsoever. Later, their geneseed degraded and they could barely make new space marines. Then a Warsmith of the Iron Warriors besieged them for several years and tried to turn them, exploiting how the Knights were betrayed by their Legion. But eventually the Knights defeated their attackers. And when only one in four neophytes survived implantation, they had a choice to make. They cut open the chest of the dead Warsmith and found that his geneseed was pristine. So over several decades, they implanted neophytes, replenished their ranks, deleted the ruined portions of the Lion's geneseed and spliced in the corresponding portion of Perturabo's. By this time, THREE escaped warbands of traitors took up residence in their territory. Not having the numbers to purge them, the Knights sent out an astropathic call to the Dark Angels. They did not answer. The Knights used their very last astropath, pleading for anyone to come and help them destroy these enemy forces. And they were answered by a Black Templars crusade fleet, who brought the remains of their chapter on a mission lasting several decades. Today, The Emerald Knights possess a Deathwing, a Templar Wing, and are about 65/35 percentage Lion to Perturabo genetically. Their returned Primarch knows this and has no problem with it. Because the Lion fondly remembers Barabas Dantioch and how the Warsmith saved his life and died for The Imperium. Now The Emerald Knights travel towards Sotha, fighting for the Imperium and hoping to recover whatever relics remain of Warsmith Dantioch, a forbear they can now finally be proud of.

[@Leavemealoneplz-wu2ms]

That is one of the greatest fan made 40k lore I have ever seen

[@RSBurgener]

@@Leavemealoneplz-wu2ms thank you very much! I'm glad you like it. I have nearly finished painting the army, just trying to find the time to photograph them and post them.

[@sundownerstudios8563]

I’ve always been a fan of Carcharadons. I’ve been making different divisions based on shark names, Assault Intercessors are Makos, Dreadnoughts are Threshers, infiltration units are cookie-cutters, and my flamer Marines are tigers.

[@lukehendriech3812]

that is really cool dude love the Idea

[@ongboklichan]

I love that idea!

[@tronmaster5704]

That's incredibly cool, but why is it that whenever I see/think of the word "Mako," I IMMEDIATELY think of that godawful pseudo-tank from the first Mass Effect?

[@Dutch40KGuy]

I hope you guys enjoy, this was a lot of fun to make! More chonky vids coming soon!

[@continuumsanctum869]

een klus die zeer goed is uitgevoerd 👍🏾😃 _(I hope google didn't failed me)_ 😅

[@AverageIrishDude]

You should do a video about making horus heresy black shields. I'm doing a chapter that started out as loyalist iorn hands black shield.

[@ScottAT]

“We’re the Flying Elveses, Utah Chapter!” 😂

[@troopergio]

I've been working for the past three years on a Blood Angels successor chapter that is heavily inspired by ancient Irish and Celtic culture alot of the chapter's naming conventions are done through Gaelic which is the ancient language of the Irish people. Despite their heavy Irish influence they still possess all of the same genetic flaws as the Blood Angels and still follow Blood Angel combat doctrine.

[@mitchmcginn4250]

I smell the epic air of Cú Chulainn in this chapter!

[@johnnymichaux9316]

I wanna know more

[@batondude0818]

I’m working on a second founding Dark angels successor with around 2.5k marines with most of which are Primaris due to the Chapter almost dying out on their home world in a 4 way war between the Eldar, Emporers children, and a tyranid splinter fleet. (Note the Chapter had around 100 battle brothers by the time Rowboat and his new marines arrived to save them)

[@geraintdearnley4464]

I'm working on a ? Founding (they don't know) iron hands? (Also kinds mystery) with 100% primaris due to the chapter losing 70% of its marines on Cadia, then losing 95% of that running through the great rift to get back to their homeworld. They received primarily but thr final 5% all died when they were ambushed by emperors children.

[@ComfortsSpecter]

@@geraintdearnley4464 A Good Heritage to Honor

[@ryanlorenzo5003]

Here with a 35th Founding Dark Angels successor. During that time Segmentum Pacificus decided breaking off from the Imperium was a brilliant idea and Cypher may have been involved. Had a brief civil war that was broken up by the Great Rift, fought between Inner Circle members about their spiritual purity, with the Chapter Master nursing the largest migraine trying to keep both radical sides from killing each other. Ultima founding resulted in the reformist parts breaking off into a new Chapter with the Primaris while the original Chapter stayed mostly Firstborn. I have yet to think about how the hell they will react with the return of Johnson.

[@Serbian_Sam]

Reminds me of the Crimson Fists, though even they didnt fight a 4 way war(Unlucky)

[@alfadasfire]

Working on a chapter founded during the Ultima founding, so all primaris. They are, as far as they know, an Imperial Fist successor chapter. In reality however, Cawl used Death Guard geneseed. The chapter is sort of an experiment. They are closely watched by my sisters of battle order, some inquisitors, and a knight house for any signs of being chaos tainted. Also they are somewhere on the farthest frontiers and have very limited access to a fleet, using mostly the sister's fleet for transport. That is, that in the case of them turning traitor, they can't cause too much damage.

[@darthkillhoon]

I made the Chapter called the Gray Hussars, an Imperial Fist Successor Chapter but the Officers were drawn from the Black Templars, with the First Chapter Master being a former Castellan of the Black Templars. My Chapter are essentially Space German Knights like if you took the Teutonic Order and made them Space Marines. They were made in the 26th Founding to Garrison and Secure the Saras Sector, close to Ultramar and rarely leave the borders of that sector of Space. They have no home world but the First planet, Totenburg, they made a recruitment world was a lost world with a Germanic Culture that was technologically stuck in the 1910s. It was a world in competition between Liberal Democracies, Socialist Nations and the more Traditional Absolute Monarchies. They were in the middle of a world war the mirrored our First World War when the Gray Hussars arrived and negotiated with the Monarchs of the world to join the Imperium as a united world under the rule of the most powerful King of the World (Planetary Governor) King Wilhelm XII of Prussland. The Chapter crushed the Democracies and Socialist Nations and appointed hereditary aristocratic families to rule over them while setting up a Chapter Fortress. From the Planet came the bulk of the early recruits of the Chapters and the Chapter adopted the naming conventions of the world as well their history dating back to the Ancient Terran Germanic Kingdoms. They worship the Emperor as the God of Humanity and don't have a librarious like the Black Templars. They also always claim to be on Crusade so they don't have to abide by the Codex Astartes. For more google Gray Hussars and the wiki should come up.

[@ryan.1990]

Actually sounds cool af, will Google

[@gruby_0924]

Color scheme looks dope AF!

[@davidmassey4114]

Reading this made me lol but I do love it.

[@alexandersakellarakis9803]

I’m working on one currently - Sons of the Phoenix, Salamander Successor. Dismembered or otherwise physically compromised salamanders are sent to specialist forgers taken from the most elite blacksmiths on Nocturn who provide bionic limb and organ replacements. Astartes who were “reborn” in this way eventually found a common ground with each other and would go on to form the Chapter taking a well known symbol of rebirth as their sigil, the Phoenix. As the chapter grew in both size and recognition from their parent legion, Vulkan He’stan himself put to work personally chosen machine workers and smiths to create a host of dreadnoughts for the Sons of the Phoenix, as the chapter was already deeply connected to rebirth The Forgefather saw the potential of a heavily armored dreadnaught centric deployment force. As every Son of the Phoenix was once a Salamander, the chapter continues many of the Salamanders traditions whilst adding a number of their own. They employ tactics much alike their Salamander brothers with many flame weapons on the battlefield however it is also common to see multiple dreadnoughts when the Sons engage a battlefield due to the nature of their “recruitment”. In a word the chapter symbolizes “Rebirth”. Their chapter words (commonly heard at induction ceremonies involving ceremonial ashes of fallen brothers), “Baptized in flame, reborn in ash”.

[@christophersalinas2722]

isn’t there an imperial fists chapter already named that?

[@alexandersakellarakis9803]

@@christophersalinas2722 lol yeh I did some more research, guess I'm going to need a new name.

[@christophersalinas2722]

@@alexandersakellarakis9803 something like the Flaming Phoenixes? lol idk

[@indigoeagle239]

This is incredibly wholesome and badass, very fitting for the sons of Vulkan 😊😊😊

[@saigitsjevstignejevs8]

I'm currently working on a chapter called "Keepers Of The Garden" ultramarine/salamanders successor chapter formed to deal with tyranids, who have a lot of dreadnaughts and are closely tied with my custom knight house "house Ironwood", the short story is they guard ironwood oasis forests on their home world and have grey knight inspired recruitment processes without the psychic stuff, they have dirtied white armor with blue accents and silver trims.

[@somefallenleaves]

I was making a custom chapter for a couple of years now. It begins when i ran a couple of d&d games with some sort of OC, that was once a knight. Sudenly after those games i decided, that he had to be coming from a knights order, while at the same time 40k dropped primaris marines. So i started trying to kitbash something that would fit this very raw idea, since i want sure what they were about. In that period of time just for this sake of creating them i read alot of books and wiki, constantly changing them to fit not only my liking, but the universe they are about to be merged into. I repainted and reassembled my models couple of times, but that was worth it. Now they have have both desine i can enjoy and a back story fitting in the 40k world.

[@TrashenClaw]

I've been working on an imperial fists successor that specifies on breachers squads and close combat but also un heavy artillery and dreadnought due to a genetic flaw that takes their mobility over time and only the veterans who don't die in battle due to becoming slower and heavier physically get the honour of being the dreadnought as a second chance , due to them being short lived they are seeing as a stubborn and never wanting to retreat but they are all loyal to their chapter master that is inside a relic leviathan dreadnought and has served the imperium for 1500 years , they don't use librarians because burn the witch but they have an unusual number of apothecaries and techmarines, even though they take their liberties they mostly follow the codex Astartes to not bring any unnecessary attention to them.

[@KillerOrca]

Thicc bois. HUMUNGUS TERMINATOR DADDIES even

[@TrashenClaw]

@@KillerOrca yeah I was thinking on running it with very heavy units like dreadnoughts and terminators , but I'm waiting for the new terminators and a rework of the assault terminators to be sold separately

[@princexizor5151]

I am a Tax Accountant (yes I love Ultramarines), so I am working on a chapter called The Auditors who go around the Imperium auditing the Imperial Tithe of each world making sure they are in compliance with what the Imperium asks of them. They have green shoulder pauldrons with the Excel logo as their heraldry and white armor with little black vertical and horizontal lines to make it look like a spreadsheet. Their words are “Death and Taxes”, people call them the Pencil Butchers (instead of Pencil Pushers), their flagship is called The Quickbook, and their fortress monastery is the current IRS Headquarters Building in Washington DC floating around space on a giant rock.

[@megasoctopuslegionofcake6248]

That's soooo good.

[@thedyingmeme6]

This is the kind of shit i ADORE in this fanbase. Just balls-to-the-wall silly shit

[@ttsstrategy2017]

i have started working on a white scars successor chapter based on the polish hussars, the winged lancers (a little nod to the warhammer fantasy unit made after the polish hussars) are a codex Complient chapter with their companies divided across 4 different noble houses, house Krawiec focuses on traditional warfare tactics utilizing tanks, and heavy infantry to create an anvil for the other houses to use. house wola focuses on fast flanking and shock tactics with a heavy utilization of bikes, jump pack marines, and land raiders. house wola often works in tandem with house Krawiec making for a lethal combination. house lech focuses on aerial support and deep strike operations, providing tactical support to eliminate threats before they make it to the main field of battle, they have a large terminator wing alongside their extensive use of inceptors. lastly is house borowski, who are the scholars of the winged lancers, in charge of strategy and all the scouting forces. while they are strong when working together, when divided due to their limited companies under each house they do not have much staying power so a divided war of attrition will grind them down fast. the chapter was founded at some point between the 9th and 15th founding's to combat increaseing ork and chaos incursions into the segmentum tempestus. however during the implementation of the primaris marines, most of the chapter underwent the extremely dangerous change from first born to primaris, transitioning to a mainly primaris force in search for higher martial superiority. however in this change the houses lost between 2/3rds to 3/4ths of their marines, leaving the chapter crippled, however they are slowly rebuilding their forces to regain their once mighty chapter.

[@astartesanonymous]

Excellent job, brother!

[@Dutch40KGuy]

Thank you good sir!

[@zarthes]

Creating your own chapter is a fun experiance, had an idea since I got into the setting around 2007, as I went got into the lore it helped me wedge them in the setting. Got me one of them "Ultramarines" successors with a name of what they are about SO on the nose, no one would actually guess it. (And yes, I did forget who the bad guys in Harry potter were) The Death Eaters, a mix of surviving loyalist Death Guard and World Eaters who use their combined specialities for a classical Hammer and Anvil style tactics, who pick from the nearby hive world gangers and shape them into something more. These guys got started simply from coming up with special characters like the Chapter Champion and Chapter Master and whatnot.

[@GrimViridian]

Wait are combined successors a thing? If so that's cool, otherwise cool idea anyway lol

[@zarthes]

@@GrimViridian Closest thing to that in canon I believe are Chimeric Geneseeds which are as you’d imagine are geneseeds made through a mix of two or more. Like the Carcharadons. So I guess that’d make more sense for how my chapter functions as a mix of those two.

[@GrimViridian]

@@zarthes that's really cool thanks for the info!

[@vontheunknown7982]

I love homebrew chapters, they're so awesome 😁👍

[@Dutch40KGuy]

Yes they are!

[@darthkai3621]

@@arcahmwinters70 agree. I made two Sisters of Battle orders and a Eldar Craftworld. Said Eldar Cradtworld is unique in that it’s suffering overpopulation

[@monty6851]

I have an Ultima founding successor of Russ, the Blood Howlers. They specialize in assault tactics, and love the use of Wulfen, making them focus a lot on having more Wolf Priests in the chain of command. They see the Wulfen Curse as a test from the Emperor and Leman Russ to utilize their flaw to best serve the Imperium, and coincidentally, a good chunk of the chapter happens to struggle with it, with one of the companies being made almost entirely out of Wulfen. Due to their liking of Wulfen, they're usually sent out to battles expected to be slaughters for both sides, practically used like attack dogs. This usually leads to the chapter having a lower number of men, and regularly being looked over in regards to being supplied with wargear like vehicles. Chapter Master Balgruuf Dragonbane is an older marine, and has been giving into the Wulfen pretty often during battles. His Captains/Jarls aren't exactly fond of it, and are trying to convince him to pass the mantle to someone with a more sound mind.

[@TechNinjaSigma]

I should definitely get back to the Chapter I was writing! Ahem The Fireblades appear to be an Iron Hands Successor Chapter, but this is a well kept facade, as they are Emperor's Children successors. They know full well how the legion fell and what could lead to Slaaneshi corruption. As such, they've abandoned the flashy, artistic pursuits of the Legion of old in favor of pious, monasticism. They are very few, numbering around 150-300, due to their constant deployments against their hated, but powerful foe. They are the few who remember the friendship between Ferrus and Fulgrim, so to honor him, they forge Fireblades, power weapons in the style Ferrus's original Fireblade and use them to strike down the forces of Slaanesh. Their swordsmanship is the equal of any Demon or traitor, and their righteous fury can match that of any Blood Angel or Black Templar. They paint their wargear in simple greys, their symbol is an outline of the Aquila, a reminder of what they once had and strive to one day regain. Their Battle Barge, the Prodigal Son, is actually from the crusade era and is equipped with a rather large teleportarum, which the chapters terminator squad uses to great effect. The Fireblades favor Droppod and Terminator assaults, dealing devastating hammerblows to enemy weak points or slicing the head of the snake in one fell sweep. As there are so few of them, each battle brother is a valuable resource and is to be trained and utilized to the highest degree. As such, they are humble enough to know when they must withdraw and take care not to be drawn into wars of attrition; as usual, most chapters see this as cowardice, the Fireblades understand amd ignore such accusations as each marine is a courageous fighter even amongst Astartes. Similar to the Iron Hands, the Fireblades do not have a Chapter Master proper, but have a council, elected from amongst the many Chaplains, who serve the dual purpose of Chaplain and Captains within the chapter. Only those warriors who have proven themselves to be utterly unshakable and skilled are chosen by the council to undergo a Trial in which the marine will display his prowess as a swordsman and must best a Fireblade wielder in combat. Then a new Fireblade will be forged or an older one gifted to them, should the weapon suit them. Fireblades come in different forms depending on the wielder, they are encouraged to pursue and master their own unique styles of combat so that no enemy can exploit any potential similarities; this is their art and their pursuit of perfection. They also prefer very simple names, which are paired with their title, an example being their Head Chaplain/ closest man to a Chapter Master, Paul. Their most recent and greatest feat was their purging of a powerful Slaaneshi cult, who managed to summon forth the Keeper of Secrets, Fuwalafuwaloo. The chapter sweeped through the heretics, allowing Head Chaplain Paul and Councilman Chaplain Lucas to face the Greater Demon. The fight was a blur of violet and fire, but together, the chaplains banished the demon and in their fervour, permanently MAIMED the Keeper with holy fire, severing its lower right arm, for which it vowed revenge. However, Chaplain Paul nearly succumbed to his wounds, but was interred to a dreadnought. Chaplain Lucas's left leg was torn to shreds and his left eye was put out, though at the very least he now had the Iron Hands aesthetic. With Paul's blessing and that of the Council, Lucas was elevated to Head Chaplain and continues to serve as such in the Era Indomitus. The Fireblades long for the day that they no longer have to hide their heritage, where they can where the Aquila with pride once more and show everyone they are not sons of the traitor Fulgrim, they are The Emperor's Children! 🗡️ 🔥

[@libraveggie4451]

Only just started the hobby last year but immedietly decided to go with my own style paintjob. And from there kinda came up with stuff on the fly for my newly dubbed Renegade Chapter. The Cockatrices! General gist was head librarian and discovered (and thusly got corrupted by) a chaos artifact. Lost his legs, earned the title "The Legless" after my cat shattered his bottom half. He now has ghostly looking forgefiend tentacles as limbs! From there he murdered the chapter master, took his place at the head yadda yadda. Their shtick is petrifcatiion. All members have stone skin and they turn all their cultists into living statues to use as cannon fodder. And their weapons of course, petrify. Had all kinds of stories formed from my local store thanks to just playing, my favorite being the single cultist who destroyed an Eldar Titan.

[@rev7710]

Got into 40K around a year ago after rewatching the Astartes animation, this video honestly covers a lot of the stuff I needed to know about, hope this video helps other people getting into Warhammer

[@Dutch40KGuy]

Glad it helped brother!

[@black_templarastaty9575]

I have been working on my custom chapter for a year now and this video just refreshes what I had to do I am glad to see channels who do this stuff

[@Dutch40KGuy]

I'm glad you could use it!!

[@Fayheurblode]

I've been working, since my beginning during 4th edition, on a chapter from an unknown founding, from an unknown geneseed, called the Doom Knights. Initially posted to protect an ancient relic, they are now a ship based chapter, having had to exterminatus their own homeworld, and in the urgency about it, lost not only most of their archives, but also of their librarius as a whole, and nearly all their veterans. The nearly twenty years of play had them paying a heavy tribute to the protection of the imperial citizens, earning them the respect of some well known chapters, such as the Salamanders and the Blood Angels, but they still harbour a deep resentment against the Dark Angels, whose interference looking for some fallen that weren't even there pushed their home defense from possible to needing an exterminatus. For a time, they had so much heavy wounded marines that they put dreadnought sarcophagus into every kind of vehicle present in their armory, as they simply had no more Dreadnought chassis When the primaris reinforcements came along, the chapter was at around half a complete strength, with a mere three experienced captains, and a specialisation again Marines and equivalents...

[@dantecote6763]

this will help alot of people out I know it but the Guard will always be my poster boys as they got me into the Hobby

[@Jvegas2281]

Ive had an idea of a successor chapter of the Luna Wolves. The Devil Dogs. While out on assignment, they receive word of Horus' wounding on Davin. In their desperation to reunite with their brothers, they are lost in the Warp, only re-emerging in Realspace around 100 years ago. Learning of their father's betrayal and death, they pledge themselves to wiping out as many traitor marines as they can, in hopes of finding redemption before their inevitable end.

[@frogwithhumanteeth7808]

I’ve been working on an Imperial Fists Ultima Founding successor called the Storm Chorus. Their chapter master, Grand Conductor Melodius Trenth, got inspiration from the Sisters of the Sacred Rose during a battle where they fought alongside one another. So, basically, Space Marines who sing

[@dpinoy5642]

"Grand Conductor" that's honestly SUCH a wicked title, it has such a Victorian/Fantastical feel to it

[@frogwithhumanteeth7808]

@@dpinoy5642 thanks! I was toying with Composer, Conductor, and other titles, but I landed on Grand Conductor because, come on, once you know it’s there, your can’t not use it

[@dpinoy5642]

@@frogwithhumanteeth7808 im honestly glad you chose Grand Conductor, because it definitely is the best out of the two you mentioned. Like i'm visualizing the Grand Conductor using a conducting baton (the sticks you see composters/conductors use in orchestras) but it's super ornate/40k-ized so it has golden trim, skulls, etc, and he's using it to make battle formations, rate of fire, and even singing. So when the baton is low/center, it's precise and relatively low rates of fire, but at the (no pun intended) crescendo of the battle, he raises the baton up the sky: and it just becomes a hail of roaring bolter fire, thunderous artillery, and booming singing, kind of like a 40k version of 1812 Overture. (sorry if this is alot, it was just really cool thinking about it)

[@frogwithhumanteeth7808]

@@dpinoy5642 it’s all good dude, that’s actually sick as hell. I’m really glad that just a name has invoked such vivid images and ideas

[@dpinoy5642]

@@frogwithhumanteeth7808 thanks. well, it mixes theatre and combat, which is awesome

[@Shrimperion]

I ended up founding a loyalist subsect of Thousand Sons who remained loyal to the Imperium during/after the heresy. They firmly believe that the Space Wolves attacked Prospero due to the influence of Chaos and Horus, and that they are traitors who have fooled the Imperium into believing they're loyal. The Lions of Prospero know better, and have vowed that someday, they will have vengeance for their actions on Prospero. They also believe that Magnus was entirely unfit to lead them any longer, having let his legion be slaughtered on the planet's surface, and believe that no singular man should have full control over them. They have taken residence upon a small knight homeworld and formed a symbiotic relationship with them. The chapter has little in the way of armored support of any kind, so the knights fill in for them where they can. Each sergeant and above is the ruler of a plot of land on their new homeworld, and they are organized in a medieval heirarchy, ruled over by 3 high ranking officers that form a council. Each councilor leads a specific sect of the chapter, and they make up for each others shortcomings. The chapter is thus split into 3 distinct sections, each autonomous but part of a greater whole: the psychic branch of the chapter, focused on training all battle brothers in the use of their powers, no matter how small, and the support of the other 2 sects. There is the combat branch of the chapter, focused on all things war and battle, taking the front while supported by their more powerful psyker brothers. Then there is the loremaster sect, where the chaplains (loremasters) and techmarines reside, recording data and sagas from battle brothers during and after combat to fill their chapter libraries with the deeds of their greatest heroes, and where they entomb those deemed worthy within a dreadnought chassis to forever lead their brothers in the field. roughly 600 strong, VERY MUCH codex noncompliant.

[@ГригорийГ-ч4н]

In canon [three thousands] of Sons under leadership of Sul Kontep escaped Prospero straight under nose of Leman, made a deal with Malcador, fought during Heresy in seige of Chtnoia. Some survived this brutal fighting. So you can theoretically link your chapter with that canon event.

[@imjustsam1745]

Starting the build on my second chapter this weekend after over two months of writing about them. The Ever Implacable Rougarous, Ultraboys successors, trying to match their armor to the color of palmetto leaves and wisteria blossoms. Cajun cowpunks with A&M degrees. Their chapter master was my way of decompressing from my first construction season with seniority, feels too young and too poorly equipped but takes an absolute beating while exceeding all expectations. They were rushed into combat early when the Tyranids attacked the galactic east, in the first battle the guard broke and their chapter command and most of their veterans were eaten. This left them under the leadership of a lieutenant who had just transferred in from another ultramarine successor as the chapter master to about two dozen hardened survivors and another hundred soon to be ready for combat. Currently they're assisting in the evacuation of an unpopular Mechanicus cult from a world ravaged by Drukhari raiders. Eventually both are going to claim a world and it's moon in a system close enough to my 9th edition homebrew that their stories intersect, they're very different and that's fun.

[@chaconut6431]

I'm working on a salamanders successor chapter called the Phoenix Talons. Like the salamanders, they are very fire based and have a close relationship to civilians. They are specialized in retaking lost ground and lost planets, as well as extracting and evacuating civilians in the middle of war zones

[@rebel1717]

I’ve pretty much created my custom chapter. All I need to do is write some books about them. The Uniters are an Iron Warriors successor chapter that rebelled against Perturabo during the Horus Heresy, and were rewarded by Guilliman with the ability to rebrand themselves and create their own chapter. They are still stern and unrelenting like their Iron Warrior kin, but they are different from their traitor kin because they have a heart under their hard exterior. Where the 4th Legion are Iron Within and Iron Without, the Uniters have a bronze exterior, and a burning heart underneath. They lead their own civilization in a giant rock made of the largest piece of their blown up homeworld. And in this station, the marines lead their human population with hard, yet fair work. And unlike most Imperial worlds, the work is bearable, and the workers are allowed rest and meals after a limited amount of work hours. The Uniters’ training is the most painful training regiment in the Imperium, even more so than the Imperial Fists, but thanks to it, their bodies are naturally tougher, and they can shrug off pain that would even make an Ultramarine scream. The Uniters also have human soldiers fighting alongside them. Guardsmen who’s commanders were inept or overzealous, and deserved to be left to the enemy. Or people who want to help defend the home that freed them from the slavery of Imperial religion. The Uniters HATE the Imperial Creed, and are actively hunted by the Inquisition and Imperial church for it. They have partnerships with other chapters such as the Salamanders, Blood Angels, Lamenters, Crimson Fists, and a few Ultramarines. But are known foes against the Flesh Tearers, Marines Malevolent, Black Templars, Minotaurs, Iron Hands, Dark Angels, and more. They excel at fighting most xenos, and certain Chaos forces, but struggle against Harlequins, Craftworld Eldar, major Tyranid hive fleets, and Necrons. For Chaos, they have trouble against the Iron Warriors, Thousand Sons, Word Bearers, and many daemons. They survived this long without Imperial wargear or Mechanicus assistance because they have a stable trading relationship with the Tau. For civilians, soldiers, and Imperial intelligence, the Tau provided the Uniters with food, weapons, and advanced technology to keep their station up and running, and their soldiers/marines well armed.

[@demolitionnicholas689]

I’m working on my homebrew chapter over the past 3 years: the Knights of Reoentance. Their chapter culture i based off pre Colonial Philippines. There’s many more lore but there’s still much more I want to smooth out after watching this video

[@DragonxFlutter]

I’ll for sure be using this method. One thing I’d like to see as a followup to this is: How to make your own Imperial Guard Regiment.

[@cpt.s.seiden]

Alright this will be quite a tad scattershot. The Shattered Ravens are a 2nd Founding chapter that hail from the 19th. They’re initial marines are those who worked within the Shattered Legions and thus picked up traits from their cousin legions. They maintain the Raven Guards typical guerrilla warfare tactics, but with many specialized units. These units are lead by sergeants that have served tours with other chapters such as the Raven Guard, Salamanders, and Iron Hands. This is to honor those that fought at Istvan. Such examples of traits they take from their cousin chapters are that they tend to prioritize civilian life highly though not quite to the same extent as the Salamanders. They also tend to have most if not all their tech Marines serve extended tours with the Iron Hands to ensure their skills are trained to their highest standards. A notable relationships they have in the wider Imperium include a friendship with the Adeptas Sororitas of the Shrine World Fury 16, the Order of the Iron Eagle. The Captain of the 2nd Company, Captain Delgore in fact even knew their Patron Saint and fought alongside them against invading Orks of the Bad Moons. Ever since they’d always have an agreement to come to the Sisters aid if ever they needed. Even though they were a 2nd founding chapter there are still rumors that they’re gene seed may not be 100% Raven Guard as the mechanicist who monitor the Shattered Ravens’ gene seed from time to time find discrepancies. Their outward appearances do indeed match with typical Raven Guard traits such as pale skin and pitch black eyes, but an odd occurrence pops up occasionally where some marines retain an ability to spit acid. Though this may not be too irregular for other chapters the Raven Guard and their successors typically lack this ability, and with the arrival of their Primaris reinforcements this suspicion has grown even more so as the inquisition has now started to notice that in particular the 8th company of the Shattered Ravens, which is comprised of only Primaris acted more like that of the Night Lords of old. Preferring to terrorize and maim their opponents with chain weapons. There is even a higher percentage of Reiver squads and Assault Intercessors among the 8th Company to the point they have been dubbed the Night Raptors. The 2nd Company on the other hand is much more typical of an Astartes force comprising of usual Tactical, Assault, and Devastators. Captain Delgore himself tends to lead with his Tactical squads luring the enemy in and his Devastator and Assault squads wiping out the foe.

[@ArtyomMikitich]

This video remembers me "Deathwatch - Rites of Battle" handbook, where's a part of creating a new one Chapter on your own in several steps.

[@GeneralBradley101VA]

Bout Bloody Time!

[@Lightscribe225]

Best I've seen was the Emperor's Nightmare: Raven guard descendants who thanks to a mutation in the Catalepsean Node, either stay awake(like fully awake no half sleep like they normally do) for months or years at a time, or fall asleep and cannot be woken for just as long. Sounds mundane until you realize what sleep deprivation does to you. Imagine that in a space marine.

[@Removal450]

I started working on my chapter a few weeks ago. They are called the Black Fyrd (Based it off the Old Kingdom of Wessex, basically an English inspired Chapter) They were founded after many of the Imperial Worlds had been consumed by the Tyranid scourge. They are made up of recruits that have miraculously survived the Tyranids, so they have a particular dislike for the spidey boys. For this reason they were mostly sent to combat the Tyranids on worlds that can or cannot be salvaged. So their fighting style is more on defense and speed at the exact same time. So I would think they used heavily modified Javelin Attack Speeders or something. I'm still working out some details but that's what I have for the moment.

[@Jack5mi7hy]

I've been working on a small army I named The Bastards of Ultramar, not exactly a successor chapter or army but rather a gaggle of Ultramarine chapters that I thought would consolidate their forces together due to being separated from Gulliman during the indomitus Crusade after the Primarch's resurrection. Iron Hounds, Praetors of Orpheus, and a few others that lost many of their brothers that dot the army. Tactics are vast between them and the commanders often argue with the right approach to the many situations before them. Damocles, captain of Iron hounds, believes in taking the board and knocking the enemy down fast and hard. Marius, captain of the Praetors of Orpheus, believes in a more tactical approach and defending key points of interest. Dalton, the Recently promoted captain of the Patriarchs of Ulixis, is one to use strong points and holdouts to draw the enemies in to eat a hail of bolter fire. All round there is room for hilarity, and for me is a fun way to play a table top army.

[@thedyingmeme6]

Demons, listening in to the characters argue: "Do-do we jump in?" Bigger demon: "no no, im enjoying the free entertainment"

[@elvigilantenocturno-ro3hf]

You know, I don't really play or paint figures, I came here for THE LORE!!

[@warhounds]

that close up of Angron smiling is really terrifying man edit here is a "chapter" idea: what if imperium had multiple loyalist Fabius Bile that expermients with genetics? imagine a chapter consisting of all chapter geneseed including the traitor geneseed before they turned traitor where they keep it as a secret and the only ones that dont have mixed geneseed are apothecaries and chaplains that usually take business face to face with imperial agents in order to avoid some "missunderstandings". Officially they will have a half chapter of pure singular geneseed but in reality they are more than a thousand. As we know the black dragons have their skin made out of adamantium and blood angels have red thirst, now add also some butcher nails to a marine and you got the angriest bloodthirsty hardened warrior humanity has ever had but of course with such experiments things dont always go correct which is why they always try to have 1 or 2 companies made out of pure geneseed to avoid further investigations from mechanicus and inquisition. I imagine their armour grey with their shoulderpad colours representing their speciallity such as red for the cocktail mix i mentioned above, blue for ambush (night lords, space sharks, blood ravens and white scars mix), green/camo for stealth (raven guard, blood ravens and raptors mix), purple for techmarines/vehicle secialists (iron hands, iron warriors, slamanders and alpha legion mix) and so on but the commanders have grey shoulders because they have reached the perfect balance of each geneseed within their bodies and is very rare to reach. The flaw with the chapter is not that they think they are perfect but they are above their other brothers and think they are pathetic along with chaos so they are cocky and stubborn so wont accept help from others nor will they offer none. Besides they will always make sure nobody will witness what they truly are. BTW they steal chapter geneseed however they can and stay hidden when it happens so they really dont wanna be noticed among others. Since they think of themselves above astartes they hunt everything including imperials if they stand in the way. there are chapter records of who the founding primarch is but with this much geneseed basically every primarch is involved, but some within the chapter believe that one of the missing primarchs are their original creator.

[@AlyxofBirbs]

I've only just within the past few days gotten interested in 40k from seeing all the crazy things in total Warhammer, gotta say, really interested, but absolutely overwhelmed. It's like learning a whole new Star wars depth level story from scratch. As I always do I made a little concept for a chapter, as absurd as it is I really wanted a space marine chapter based around their flesh memory ability, so I made the Tyrannical Typhoons. An entire chapter based around using tyranid memories to use their own bioweapons and armor against them. Stupid, I know, but I like dreaming big. I'm really excited to keep exploring this whole thing and seeing what kind of wacky and horrific things I can figure out! I'd love some advice on the Tyrannical Typhoons as well, always accepting criticism!

[@Dutch40KGuy]

I mean if the Deathwatch can use Xenos weaponry to fight Xenos, a couple plates of chitin and bio weaponry could definetely be.. hidden in plain sight🤔

[@AlyxofBirbs]

@@Dutch40KGuy what do you mean by hidden in plain sight? I still don't know a lot about Warhammer details so would they hide it from the chapter Inquisitor? Also who IS the chapter Inquisitor?

[@julianpower2052]

You know, out of all the videos I've seen for making successor chapters, this one has helped the most. Thanks!

[@Dutch40KGuy]

Glad it helped good sir!

[@6-4crusader55]

I’m working on a he chapter of unknown origin called the 11th Sons (take a wild guess why) loosely based off the Viet Cong and also kind of the Luna Wolves. They like grav tanks, bikes, and jet packs.

[@carcionpetto]

I'm a sucker for the spartan aesthetic so I obviously swerved into minotaurs for my space marine KT. The fact you have so many different options for 3rd party bits you can buy probably helped. As for their lore, at first it kinda got me by surprise as I didn't expect them to be so hated by the community, but now I love their position as that one chapter that just executes the worst and most unpleasant orders without questioning it for a second, it fits what they paint the imperium to be, I feel like too many morally good chapters around would make the imperium feel too righteous.

[@earltheartist3697]

Eyy congrats! And nice to do this thumbnail for you

[@Dutch40KGuy]

Thank you brother!

[@matteoferrarizanolini6724]

Did the same with Steel Legion at the time of the GW 3rd war for Armageddon Campaign. Instead of being raised on Armageddon my regiment was from Voss, a forgeworld nearby te Armageddon subsector. After almost 20 years I'm still adding vehicles and miniatures with second hand metal miniatures bought on ebay, vinted etc. some russian recast for kit bashing since GW never made therms, flamers or autocannon as heavy guns, it was heavily insipired by the Wehrmacht and sepcifically the 21st panzer division stationed in Normandy in '44, the "Rommel Circus" made up of converted looted vehicles and with a lot of field modifications. Mine was made of rhinos converted to be used as Chimera, leman russ with 1/32 tank turrets, used the whole imperial armour line of vehicles (salamander scout&command, trojans, tank hunter, conqueror turrets for Leman Russ even a Hyena wheeled vehicle from white dwarf of the late '80s as command vehicle" . I wrote pages of background charged on a myspace page along with pictures, changed a couple of times the color scheme of both vehicles and uniforms. Used a NATO style joint military symbols to create the regimental structure. More hobbist than gamer I loved the "pure" lore of early and mid WH40K. Right now I feel no shame in switching to recast, proxy STL and so on since GW doesn't give a shit about coherent lore and came out with primaris and forgetting armies that where pillars of the game and universe. Cadians and Krieg are great, Catachans really need to be hauled because are really '90s, but you can't just cut out regiment from Valhalla, Tallarn, Steel Legion even Elysian and the weird/strange looking Mordians. I understand the difficulties and costs of producing lines of miniatures that are a niche. But at least update rules and let older players to use decade old armies that give flavor to the game.

[@CommFox]

1. American modern, American accent with Japanese influences 2. Descended from Blood Angles and Alpha Legion 3. Deficiencies involve personality disorders induced by the black rage and “Alpharius” 4. This is perfect because it makes them really good in melee combat 5. Mostly Codex Compliant 6. Naming needs to be tied to modern America and feudal Japan 7. Prefer direct melee combat with an honor element 8. Chapter created in 41500-ish era for Tyranid problem 9. Not well known but becoming a recognized force their honor makes all other imperial factions have a reverence and respect for them but not the inquisition because they do not respect extermanatus 10. The American raced SM’s with feudal Japanese ideals have great craftsmanship, civilian life is an Empire but with American social aspects and freedom of speech 11. The SM are very Samuari-like while the gaurd resemble the US military 12. No scarring because of crazy healing factor which is an anomaly in the seed 13. Honor code used to stabilize the personality disorders because is is retained during episodes 14. average marine armor is metallic black with a purple light refraction, armor markings are a silver Sakura flower as the symbol, they have silver accents like the alpha legion 15. Planet is called Matsunaga, it is mostly pine forest as the name implies with rich natural resources like metals and quality wood 16. Chapter master is referred to not so subtlety as the Shogun, he has the most powerful healing factor in the setting and is insanely skilled in hand to hand combat, so much so that a melee weapon would be nerfing him, proficient in ranged combat due to American aspect 17. Legions flaws are the personality thing and being slightly smaller than average space marines 18. Chapter master Funetsu is an almost unstoppable force but still ass kickable, you may not kill him but you can knock him out of the fight for a VERY long time, he does feel pain so it’s an extra stab against him and his legion 19. Not proficient in fortifications, stealth, or sieges the legion is best suited for direct deployment into a war zone or directly inserted into a fortified position because there is no way they are breaking it themselves 20. Chaplains are used and apothecaries aren’t, the healing factor is usually enough to save a not-dead SM 21. Created for tyranids but have become very proficient at fighting chaos too 22. There are virtually no traitors due to the honor aspect of the chapter 23. Less melee weapon because of hand to hand proficiency as well as ground vehicles because they are dishonorable 24. Barely any fleet at all like most legions 25. The inherent flaw is the personality disorders due to the blood angels and alpha legion 26. Would get smacked by all stealth chapters and most others that are proficient at range, also wouldn’t do too well against the savagery of the space wolves, I’d say 50/50 That’s about all so far, I definitely need to delve deeper into lore and operations they’ve been in. What do you guys think?

[@phillipaguilera7908]

I've had a home brew chapter that has lasted me for years. I present "The Stillborn" They are sons of horus successors that have been part of the cursed founding. Payne's grey with silver and gold accents. They gained their name from the high failure rate of implantation. Their chapter lord "Xatesh" at the time of the 42nd millennium is newly raised after the death of their last chapter master. Following the death of his master Xatesh collected his skull and cast it in gold, taking a tradition that was long forgotten by the legions. Brothers of the chapter do not take pride in the slaying of enemies of the imperium but the preservation of their brothers. Each skull cast hold a friend departed, a brother lost. In this instance, they highly value dreadnoughts as a way to preserve life but in fighting in the chapter has caused them to both honour and forsake them. Due to this, the chapter held the rank of mortifactor which has not seen the light of day since the marines of old. The Lord Xatesh lives his second life in an ancient suit of contemptor dreadnoughts armour. Because of this, a renegade chaplain who saw the elevation as an affront to the preservation of their brothers, took a company of still-born to find spiritual guidance. Instead they ancient xenos tech which corrupted their minds. They saw the preservation of life as a sign of a futile battle. Instead they sought to explore death. This company followed on the steps of the renegade marines. Finding out how to control the passing on of their brothers. Xatesh and his brothers sought to convince them but still the company of the dead was seen as an insult. Not because it was to preserve life but because they would not die. Chapter tactics include: dreadnoughts, heavy support and use of mortifactors (tech marines in game).

[@TheBiblesaurus]

I've already had been working on an army of space marines called the Blood Thorns. Their armor color is mainly white to signify purity, blood red for their head, hands and wrists, and feet so as to give tribute to the founder (wink wink), some violet on their pauldrons, knee guards, booster packs, and hips to signify royalty, and gold signants across the breastplate. The Blood Thorns are an off-shoot of loyalist Word Bearers who managed to elude being slain, but had stranded themselves on a remote death world. A regiment of disgraced Word Bearers were in the middle of fending off extremely hostile fauna before a pillar of fire abruptly struck the ground and a man wrapped in light commanded the attacking fauna to become pacified. Then another man, wrapped in light greater than the former, soon both addressed the 2,000 space marines. Several days were spent listening to these two divine beings who imparted fellowship, companionship, and much more. Taking the chance to redeem their disgraced chapter and be a vanguard loyal to humanity, the 2,000 astartes reformed into the Blood Thorns, primarily consisting of chaplains, priests, and exorcists. Asmokim was the first to go through ordinances shared by and performed by the two divine personages, becoming the chapter-master of the Blood Thorns. Sigoth was the second to have partook of these ordinances and was made into Asmokim's 2nd in command. Both were noble hearts and had extreme ferver, but Sigoth's ferver was more tempered which allowed Asmokim to remain grounded close to reason. Many within their ranks are focused on redeeming the Word Bearers, while the other part wishes to defend humanity. Since all 2,000 astartes had received these blessing and ordinances, each member has become extremely resistant to the corruptions of the Ruinous Powers, and even the Destroyer greater than even them. They've also tamed the death world, and called it Antipus Prime, with the capitol called Zarahem being founded where the meeting took place. Through the next thousands of years, The Blood Thorns had been seeking out particular artifacts they were instructed through revelations, currently having possession several items, weapons, and artifacts of biblical importance. ;)

[@TheStarWarsStoryteller]

Congrats on the 10k brother!

[@Dutch40KGuy]

🎉

[@Yumao420]

My successor Chapter is named The Sons of the Void Beast. They don't come from a founding but from the initiative of a single Astral Claws apothecary. Aran Kareq was an apothecary for the Astral Claws Chapter since even before Lufgt Huron because a full fledged battle brother. So seeing the horrendous experiments that were carried out in secret with the Holy Geneseed, he boarded and stole one of many small pirate vessels with an stach of what he believed to be Salamanders geneseeds, trusting that tge noble chapter would protect him in gratitude for taking it back. However, the ship would become lost in the warp and be spat out on top of a feral planet. On this planet, a psycker with the gift of foresight would help the apothecary to turn the feral population into an army with at least an sliver of a chance of stopping the onslaught of the strange xenos slowly taking over the the planet. It would only be after the death of his mortal friend that the apothecary would accept his pleadings, finally using the geneseeds he had stored. Only to find out that they belonged to the Carcharodons. Enraged, he decided to try and build a warband out of the savages he was left alone with, only to be stopped by one of the neophytes who could convince his brothers to turn against their master. Now, led by that Neophyte, by the bastard son of that same Psyker that started it all; they have grown to a chapter of no less than 200 battle brothers, attempting to grow powerful enough to survive a meeting with their genesires.

[@andrewjkipp2837]

I've been struggling with naming my chapter for years, but listening to your vid I think I finally thought of one. Thanks

[@22ronco22]

I have been working on an ultramarines chapter. I base them on the brotherhood of steel from the fallout universe, where their mission is to retrieve and preserve technology and knowledge, which generates a certain rivalry with the machanicus and suspicion with the inquisition. whether by gene or the culture they cultivate, they are more curious and inquisitive than most space marines.

[@dragodx8238]

Sounds like some Thousand Sons influence actually. Maybe chimeric geneseed that's kept under wraps.

[@kaleoarnold3709]

So more recently I’ve just basically been making loyalist traitor marines, with almost the same color scheme and slightly different emblem, but one idea I’ve been working on for a while now is the idea of a Black Templar crusader fleet that has been doing its own thing for so long that they have significant differences with the main chapter. For one this Crusader fleet still identify as Black Templars, but they also accept the name the citizens of the sector they inhabit call them, the “Teutonic Templars”. They are also more lenient on psykers and mutants, but to be clear, this is in part because due to some warp shenanigans they have a higher chance of awakening psyker powers then other sons of Dorn. Obviously they still don’t believe in using psychic powers, so they instead focus on meditation and prayer to keep them in check, and after that worked they began to teach budding psykers they found this as well, so that they can better keep their powers in check. The only ones allowed to use psychic powers are the Lord Marshal (chapter master in effect but technically Helbrecht is still their chapter master) and the High Chaplain, and even then only in very specific situations. Speaking of Chaplains, normally a Judicar is a Chaplain in training, but the Teutonic Templars have a path where one can be a Judicar as a full time role. These Judicar are allowed to speak but only in the language of the “His People” which generally only the crusading fleet speak. The language is actually Hebrew, and that gets into probably the most heretical part of them. They still worship the Emperor, but not as a god, but as a prophet, who would bring about a new age where humanity could rejoice in the light of the one true god, The Holy Trinity. That’s right, they found a book that could harm daemons just from touching it, so they saw it as holy. Lo and behold, it was a Bible, and they adopted it as their own faith. Now they don’t have any specific denomination they follow, but I’d say they are closest to being Protestant, as they don’t really like the bombastity of the eclesiarchy and believe them to be nothing but cowards and hypocrites. There’s a bit more but I think I typed enough for today lol, sorry about all that, but if you are anyone else is reading this, thank you for reading!

[@alfadasfire]

At first my custom chapter was ultramarines colour, with purple shoulderpads and lower right leg. They were really dark and nothing stood out. So i made the shoulderpads a very light grey. Much better. Making some testmodels really helps!

[@leonardofaridone3998]

Beautiful video! I have been working on the history of my chapter for at least 5 years. Born with the 4TH foundation to guard the northeastern part of the galactic center, the Adamantine Shields are successors of the Imperial Fists, via the geneseed of both the Excoriators and the Executioners. Ship-based, they specialize in boarding actions, zone mortalis combat and drop pod assaults (and they use the breachers squad from 30k). They have a strangely large number of apothecary.

[@realkebab]

This video kinda helped me a bit with what I wanted my chapter to be. I’m currently working on a Ultramarine successor chapter based on the french Grande Armée, with each company being Corp (inside of which are “regiments” of about 30 marines) and ranks inspired by ranks from the French of that time. They, of course, have an affinity for Line battle and Artillery, with regimental XO relaying orders via pre-recorded Fire and Drums that they play from speakers. I still gotta flesh it out a lot and barely started on characters but I think this could be a pretty fun chapter😊. Edit: forgot to mention but they also have regimental and Corp Standarts with golden Eagles on them and it’s a huge deal when one is lost, which also plays into what the chapter is up to right now.

[@InquisitorKryptman]

My successor chapter are going to combine both the black templars and Imperial Fists, heavily leaning into the Holy Roman Empire and tuetonic knights theme, while making use of librarians. I think I want them to be based on a fortress world guarding the eye of terror, now cicatrix maledictum, with a homeworld but also fleet based, the main chapter staying homebound whereas the rest are crusading.

[@twotales1645]

My favorite chapters have shifted over time, but I think I've found the favorite. I like telling stories and considered a short fan fiction of a Battle Brother sent on an odd death oath quest. However, this video has inspired the idea of maybe going a step further and taking the Space Marine and growing it into a succesor chapter. Good stuff, and thank you!

[@DigitalRiot28]

I have a UM successor chapter that started as the Silver Templars at the beginning of 9th edition but i felt like they lacked personality a little so i came to change them into Space Wolves Successors and renamed them the Silver Fangs. Their color scheme was a darkish gunmetal silver with Yellow and black shoulder and gold accent with red eyes. Like their parent chapter, they love getting into melee and shredding everything in their path although they used heavier equipment. They are a big fan of mixing units with lightning claws, Mastercrafted Power Swords and Thunder Hammers making them able to destroy light and heavy infantry as needed. They also like storm shields a lot, they often depart with them to combat no matter the situation. Most of the army is heavy infantry with Wolf Guard terminators, BladeGuards, Wolf Guard with jetpacks supported by melta rifles and long fangs with lascannons and Thunderwolves cavalry flanking. They started they story as a full Primaris chapter and after fighting some orks and losing badly due to their lack of training and experience against the savage greenskins, they were rescued by a company of Space Wolves. Seeing how poorly equipped the Silver Fangs were at the beginning and how much more training they needed, a part of the Space Wolves Company veterans and Wolf Guards took them under their wings and made them true sons of Russ. After 2 millennia and the blessing of the Grimnar himself, the Silver Fangs, accompanied by their veteran detachment, set for the stars towards Iritsium III, an imperial planet under siege by Chaos Space Marines warband. One of the SF, who showed great promise and leadership during the siege, managed to kill, in duel, the self proclaimed king of the sector of Iritsium, the Chaos Space Marine Lord "Avraks" of the Burning Skulls traitor Chapter warband, and led his fellow BladeGuards against the what was left of the leadership of the traitors. The Wolf Guard veterans nicknamed him Elric "Kingslayer" and eventually became the Chapter Master of the Silver Fangs. After fighting Chaos around and even some Harleyquinns (of which, he barely made it out alive), A new crusade by Lord Guilliman (10th edition) was called and he switched his BladeGuard armor for a new Terminator armor and a Frost Thunder Hammer but decided to keep his Relic Bladeguard shield and Helmet as they saved his life multiple times. All of this happen during many many 9th edition tabletop games and I write more and more of the Silver Fang's stories as I play more and more of 10th. It's my way to see how my successor chapter lives and fight for me on the tabletop.

[@dredgenauryx3382]

I'll definitely keep this in mind to help refine my Chapter. I am unsure of what to call them yet but I am leaning towards names relating to the Sun or Scarabs The Black Suns or Scarlet Scarabs are my current placeholder names. They are Loyalist Thousand Sons Successors that tried to escape Prospero while it burned but due to damage incurred in said attempt they reappeared from the warp far into the future (I am not sure when exactly they would resurface maybe some time right after the Horus Heresy or maybe straight up in the 41st millennium) and upon seeing what has become of their legion they promptly say NOPE and set out to prove themselves loyal. That is the foundation of what this chapter is... there is a lot to refine... The Flesh Change, the Rubrication that tried to fix it, their colors and heraldry... I am willing to handwave the Rubric away by invoking Warp time fuckery because quite honestly dealing with the Flesh Change is a lot more interesting narratively... I have 2 possible solutions that I am going to tell here if anyone has any other alternative ideas I am all ears. -First Solution: Martyrdom... I am not sure if I want to go down this route because it is treading dangerously close to Mary Sue levels. The Idea is that as the Flesh Change starts returning and effecting these marines and Tzeentchian Daemons try to break their morale and make them fall like the rest of their legion by starting with the Captain (technically the first Chapter Master but this is happening soon after they reenter reality so they wouldn't be a chapter yet), however as his body begins to mutate the Captain turns his weapons and psychic might upon himself while calling upon the Emperor, This act of self sacrifice and faith would lead to his death but the remains would become holy relic capable of slowing down the curse across the entire chapter allowing a new order of Biomancer Apothecaries to actually deal with it whenever needed, and it is needed often. -Second Solution: Alliance... Who are intimately aware of chaos, it's effects, corruption and how to manage those things? The Dark Eldar. My second Solution to the chapters blight is a deal with some the most despicable beings in the setting to learn the secrets of their flesh craft to fight the curse of flesh and mutation. What the Dark Eldar would want in return? I have no clue! This approach was recommended to me on Reddit and the conversation never reached that far and I am fully willing to admit that I avoid anything Drukhari, Slaanesh or Nurgle (Even if I want to build a death guard army at some point, Loyalists with chemical weapons, Geneva no longer exists after all.) like the things they do would happen to me just from reading. So if anyone has any ideas of what the monsters would want in return of stopping these marines from turning into chaos spawn? Please send it my way. That is pretty much I still have to work on. Some other thing one might want to know about the chapter?: They hide a lot of things from everyone but the one thing they don't hide is that they hail from Prospero, meaning Egyptian theme, They are a small fleet based chapter made up of three different orders that could almost be called their own chapters sharing the same home fleet, because of their differences. -Tactical Command (Place holder name) is the largest of these orders and it is made up of the average Marine. When the chapter is called to do something be it fighting the Thousand Sons, Eldar or any other Psychically active foe it is these Marines that respond to that, supported by the 2 other orders. -The Biomancer Apothecaries (Place holder name) tasked with keeping their forces healthy on the field as well as tending to their dead which often means retrieving the Geneseed and burning the body to hide any possible mutation from anyone that would think to remove the Marines armor (expecting the Marine hasn't burned himself already as they tend to do when an Apothecary is unavailable). It is also the duty of the Biomancer Apothecaries to hunt down and kill any member of the chapter that actually succumbs to their curse and becomes a chaos spawn. This entire order wear armor similar to the Chaplains of other chapters -The Reliquary is the third and smallest order of the chapter. It is tasked with the maintenance and operation of the Chapter fleet and vehicles as well as guarding the vault deep within the Chapters flagship holding all that the chapter wishes to either safeguard or hide (if I go with the Martyrdom option the corpse of the first Chapter Master would be held there). Even with their low numbers this order is the strongest one amongst the 3 due to only the best of the best of the chapter hand picked based on unimaginable tests and precognition performed by the orders Librarians being allowed to join and the vast amount of war machines and secret arcane knowledge guarded by them.

[@Victriona]

i'm quite a newcomer to the hobby proper, but i've been engaged with the setting for a long while i've got a whole star system in the imperium nihilus with a bunch of homebrewed armies (a cohort of the farsight enclaves searching for a piece of archeotech, an ork warband hurled at the system through a warp portal that are obsessed with 'da big one' which is a planet sized orbital railgun dreamed up by their insane warboss, et cetera), but the centerpiece is my chapter the covenant (the name parallel to that organization on colchis is intentional), white scars successors who have diverged from their other brother chapters, inheriting a fierce loyalty to their own homeworld rather than chogoris, fracturing their relationship with their primogenitors skipping a lot of details that are irrelevant here, the main story beat is that almost all of the chapter's firstborn were lost in the warp, and the chapter was only saved by the reinforcements from the indomitus crusade. their new and current chapter master was a captain of the greyshields, and when he and his ~400 greyshield brothers were sent to the covenant's homeworld, they found the chapter was missing its entire command cadre and barely had any forces left, so he was thrust into the role of chapter master and tasked with rebuilding the chapter the firstborn that were lost, which included basically the entire command structure, would become my renegade warband, cursed by warp entities to be remade in the warp each time they die, slowly losing their minds as they kill and die over and over, most of their soldiers utterly broken psychologically and so the renewed covenant search for their lost, not knowing the fate of those who were lost there's a lot of narrative juiciness i love in this chapter

[@EVER_PRINCE]

I currently have a loyalist Sons of Horus Successor Chapter. The idea was during the GC a company of SoH went out on compliance only to, on the way to the muster as Istvann-3, they get lost in the Warp. The reason they’re lost is because of the Ruinstorm which causes them to lose the Astronomicon and get lost in the Warp. Only for, after a year later, to finally find the Light of the Astronomicon again. Emerging in the 42 millennium.

[@KordellCunningham]

I'm currently working on improving my chapter called The Techno Hounds. With the information that I can provide, they are an Iron Hands successor chapter hailing from the Curse Founding and their gene curse, the flesh madness, causing them to kill anyone, even themselves, that bears flesh in a combination of anger and fear. Due to this, it takes longer for the chapter to go back to full strength after each battle. However, an odd solution that worked out for them was the combination of receiving additional implants and taking the worship of the Machine God. Because of this, they have a strong relationship with the Mechanicus. During the Ultima Founding, the Techno Hounds are effectively cured of their gene curse, though they still go through their creditors to replace their flesh with implants to appease the Machine God and are currently on a crusade to recover lost STCs.

[@guilherme5094]

Congrats and thanks man👍!

[@Dutch40KGuy]

Thank you brother!

[@ElXulin]

I just got into the lore of 40k a month ago and I love it. I wanted to create my own Spanish Tercios themed chapter but didn't know how because I like to stick homemade stuff to lore or at least be lore friendly. Seems I have to study the lore and the legions but this video made the work a bit easier. Nice one!

[@stuartlittledrowning4965]

Ive been workinng on a Space shark variation called the "iron tide" They garrison the ocean forge world of Abyssius (my main army is Admech). In exchange for protecting the forgeworld and deepsea mines from frequent tyranid and chaos attacks. the mechanicus and Cawl reinforce the Iron tide with primaris marines and new ships and vehicles from the orbital dockyards. The will specialize in ariel assault, stealth and close combat.

[@GrimDarkHalfOff]

Bro I've been rewatching your videos lately and you are incredibly underrated

[@Dutch40KGuy]

You have no clue how much I appreciate that, thank you brother!

[@alasiadarthe001actual9]

Another tip is what is there home world like? You can tell a lot about a chapter based on where they get their recruits Example: my chapter the Night cobras control the world of Doisagg a former planet wide junkyard now overgrown into a dense jungle of monsters. The planet has an effect that hampers technology from working. This means that the planet has lots of technology buried under deep jungles. The marines often use local monsters for mounts to hunt for tech. Outriders riding dinosaurs and most of the chapter preferring lighter armor. However the tech when it does work allows them to build superior dreadnoughts from scrap.Thus the planet combines both their dual natures of recon forces and melee dreadnoughts.

[@calebhall1445]

I’m working on a blood angels successor chapter which takes inspiration from Vlad the Impaler ( Real life Dracula ). They are extremely ferocious and imaple their greatest foe at the end of each battle, yet very noble. They usually use shock assault jump pack units, and their flaw is that their gene seed mutated to make them require more blood to drink, and they fall to the black rage more easily. Their sanguinary priests bless the spears with which they impale their enemies. They were created as a response to a giant ork waaagh on a key imperial world. They only take the most ferocious warriors into their chapter.

[@Nobodywithabeard]

My own personal chapter is some loyalist World Eaters/ Luna wolves that managed to escape the istvan 3 massacre. They have been keeping an extremely low profile since the end of the scouring. They are a fleet based chapter thats semi flexible, but perfers ambush tactics. They have 3 strike cruisers and some smaller escorts. They use the old world eater paint scheme but with a cresent moon. They are currently in imperium secundus. And that's what I got.

[@dalekdozer8209]

I'm thinking of making a white scars successor chapter who's geneseed has given them higher than average (for astartes even) resistance to G forces, which they use to fly their combat aircraft as fiercely as they can. their flaw is that they do not take well to downtime, growing dangerously restless, leading them to pursue prolonged tours of action, without taking the time to take care of themselves or their wargear.

[@zaneriva5903]

I'm currently writing up the backstory on my Chapter Master, Sariel, as he is lost in the warp following the destruction of caliban. He lands on an unknown world in the Eye and slowly finds more and more of his lost brothers and vowing to protect a population of humans on that world. They face mainly demons and orks. It's my headcannon that Zahariel survived and was lost in the warp. He and Sariel found the Blades of Caliban, I'm mostly going off the armies my friends are building since we eventually will play a narrative campaign that would be perfect.

[@DABOSSEMPRAH]

looks about the same as the fallen...

[@zaneriva5903]

@DABOSSEMPRAH pretty similar not gonna lie. Main difference is they end up getting back to the Imperium proper by amassing a small fleet and ping ponging between planets, searching for human life. Kinda going for a "continuation of the great crusade" since my 2 friends that recently started 40k along with me are playing orks and either Tyranids, Chaos Demons or Plauge Marines and we wanna start a crusade campaign and I thought being in the Eye would lend to that pretty well

[@KyrasTheMoontamer]

I have been working on a chapter called the 'Umbral Coyotes', a 19th Founding chapter belonging to the Vostok Sector. Adept at Urban and Tactical warfare, they are comfortable leading and fighting alongside guardsmen and having been fighting primarily Chaos and Drukhari forces on their borders. Some members have done a stint on the Deathwatch, and others have been tasked to fight other forces across the galaxy, but primarily their specialty is Chaos and Renegades. Currently have them as White Scars stock, but I'm undecided on that, as they are more friendly and caring about the humans and even sanctioned abhumans in the galaxy. By the time of the Ultima Founding their forces were dwindling low due to the proximity of their home sector and neighboring sectors to the Cicitrix Maleditcum, and are slowly recovering thanks to the Primaris Marines. Kinda working out the kinks though just dunno where to post the whole bit when done!

[@jonathanaretorn9062]

I am working on a Blood Angel's Successor known as the Consecrated Angel's, they are a returned force from the old days that have been MIA for almost 10-9k years and re-emerged not long befor the Devestation of Baal. Or that is what I have but I am re doing there lore and am usimg this video for it. It is rely good so thank you 🙏

[@Dutch40KGuy]

Im glad you enjoyed it!

[@ExplainedGoodly]

oh this will be fun!

[@Ric3Raid3r]

I’m working on a 19th founding with a mix of iron warriors and blood angels gene seed. They both work in chaos and unity together, they are more aggressive when it comes to combat and when the black rage is active it gets worse, but when normal the tactician comes out from the iron warriors side.

[@gahngis8158]

so useful for someone even with a chapter.

[@unclesamlore]

I will definitely have to apply some of these techniques to my own writing, thanks so much!

[@Dutch40KGuy]

You're welcome good sir!!

[@dxundownload8635]

I'm working on an Imperial Fist successor unit that primarily pushes the line back as they can to keep the eye of terror, and now the great rift from expanding. "A line made, a line held!" They also served in the Abyssal Crusade and get pride fighting what they deem the true enemy over any xenos, chaos itself.

[@iilaunch]

I liked your video a lot, I run my own custom chapter, and I'm glad I didn't made too many mistakes in making it😅 : Chapter : Iron Scythes Geneseed : Iron Hands Founding : Indomitus crusade (they actually existed prior, but as a smaller scaled loyalist warband, they were then acknowledged and reorganized as a chapter) Chapter Master : Dreadarch Arcturus History of the Chapter : Arcturus, the current chapter master, is the only member of the legion to be a first-born, being an Iron Hand techmarine from the great crusade. By the time of the dropsite massacre, he was away from his brothers, this caused him to avoid being killed during his legion's demise during the start of the Heresy. He would regroup with some of his battle brothers, and despite being heavily under armed, they attacked a death guard frigate and actually managed to blow it up after they stole the death guard weaponry. Arcturus' mechanical axe was damaged, and he changed the axe head for the blade of a power scythe he stole. The small group would be known as the "Iron Scythes", ambushing the backlines of the traitors during the whole length of the heresy. By the time of the siege of Terra, they would unfortunately fall in an ambush from a terminator division while trying to board a ship of the sons of Horus. Most of them would be killed, and Arcturus would be badly injured. After the heresy, the few remaining Iron Scythes would rejoin the Iron Hands and try to reform their legion, while Arcturus was placed in a dreadnought. He was fairly infamous within the mechanicus, as he was among the ones advocating for technological furthering instead of owe and stagnation. Even though he never met with Belisarius Cawl, he hold deep respect with the Archmagos and his view of what technology should be. Leaving his legion, he would study Xeno technology and heavily modify his own dreadnought, creating a techmatine-dreadnought, a heavy artillery platform with a devastating dreadnought-sized powerscythe, and capable of repairing other vehicles. During his expedition, he would eventually stumble upon a world within the Rim of the Ghoul stars. This world's population, though heavily mutated, was still human and (partially) sane. Their two main physical traits were their long, thin, sharp teeth, as well as their eyes bearing only pupil, and thus being fully black. But Arcturus would soon realize that those "Ghouls" as he calls them, have an extremely high rate of Pariah and Blanks. Seeing that as a potent weapon, Arcturus would slowly start to place infrastructures on the planet in order to form his own space marines. Almost a millennia later, as soon as Arcturus learned about the Indomitus Crusade and the return of Primarch Robute Guilliman, Arcturus would lead his small force (roughly a hundred "ghoul marines") to join the fighting. Their most notable battle was alongside a Salamanders's successor chapter, where they fought against Word bearers and Death Guards. The Ghoul Marines would show the efficiency of their Blank gene as their mere presence was enough to banish the demons of the word bearers, and cause terrible pain and terror within the death guard warband. After being reorganized as a chapter, their numbers grew to roughly a small thousand, and they had access to better infrastructures. The chapter started to produce more of their Techmarine dreadnought, and take on the name of "Iron Scythes" to honor the fallen battle brothers of their Chapter master. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ War doctrine : The chapter is solely focused on fighting Chaos, dealing very little with Xeno threats. They are using a large amount of dreadnoughts, and their chapter holds a lot of techmarines and techmarine dreadnoughts, making them extremely tough. The ghouls also proved to be very resilient, and would be able to survive otherwise deadly wounds. Arcturus formed quite a number of Apothecary and Techmarines to take care of his soldiers' flesh and bionics. Forming Ghoul marines is excessively complicated, and they need to travel all the way to the rim of the ghoul stars to do so, the chapter therefor centered it's tactics on reducing to the strict minimum any casualties, performing calculated strike assault, using and overwhelming long-ranged fire power, and only using melee combat once the enemy is weakened enough. They also rely a lot on their Blank gene to weaken or even kill any Chaos-tainted threat. The chapter (although having their own world near the ghoul stars) is fleet based, only coming back to reform Ghoul marines. They have to their disposition a small fleet with two Dauntless class light cruisers, an Endurance class light cruiser, an Endeavour class light cruiser, and their flagship being a Lunar class cruiser. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ In therms of relations, the chapter is extremely secretive, and often fights alone. They make sure of not letting any intel about the nature of their marines or weaponry (which is a mix of imperial and Xeno tech) to the inquisition. Although it already happened that an inquisitor learned a little too much about the chapter for Arcturus' taste, those people are usually...removed. The chapter being immune to chaos corruption from their blank gene, they spend most of their time fighting in the most tainted areas. Although they almost always fight alone, they were recently joined by an Imperial Knight Freeblade which started to travel with the chapter, providing her martial deeds in exchange for the chapter's help to maintain and repair her knight. As an Iron Hand successors, they are often replacing limbs by bionic enhancements. The chapter's main strength is also it's main weakness. As they are all Blanks, they are heavily specialized to fight against any chaos threat, but this prevent the chapter from using any psyker. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The Chapter's Ghoul marines are naturally prone to violence and being hyper-aggressive. But such behaviors would cause the chapter too many losses, thus, Arcturus made sure to form his soldiers to temper their violence into a cold and calculated onslaught. Surprisingly, during their free time, they enjoy to play music, even though it is weird as their gene father wasn't found of arts, but music allows them to more easily temper their rage once in battle, and remain calm and deadly. It is said that once they are unleashing their thundering firepower over their targets, they often use gigantic vox-casters to play operatic music. Said music is so loud that it can actually be heard better than the thundering boltershots ! The chapter is always wearing helmets to council their mutated nature. Their armors are mainly painted in black, with bionic limbs, silver on the right shoulder, the chest piece, and the helmet. Sergeants have a red stripe on the helmet, and the right arm is painted red. Lieutenant have a fully red helm, and also paint red their right shoulder in addition to the arm. Veterans have both shoulders painted in silver. Techmarines have no specific color, but all bear heavy backpacks with servoarms. Apothecary have a white helm and a white stripe on the right arm. They are often wearing different variations of camo-cloak, depending on the battlefield. Because of their blank nature, normal humans would feel deafened and horribly cold while near them, if they look towards them, they would see a strange dark and horrifying aura around them. Psykers and other entities chaos-related would feel extreme pain and dread while near them. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Characters : Chapter Master : Arcturus He is a massive and terrifying customized dreadnought, using his gigantic dreadnought-sized powerscythe and his large array of cannons to rip through enemies. Though originally not a blank, he studied the ghouls enough to give himself a similar resilience to chaos and aura, while not being affected by the presence of the other blanks. His massive dreadnought is often hiding it's true size by arching itself and being covered by a long camo-claok. He is a cold minded leader, not speaking a lot, but commanding a lot of respect and admiration from his battle brothers. His cold temper though actually hides an extreme ruthlessness, he absolutely hates anything chaos-related, having captured a bunch of possessed word bearers just to look at them intensely and letting his blank aura torture them to death. He also despise the Ecclesiastes and the inquisition, knowing that the Emperor was devoutly against the idea of being seeing as a God. As such, he also see the black Templars as hypocrites. In the same way, he has mixed feeling about groups like the sisters of battle, seeing their faith as foolish, but acknowledging their strength and courage. Arcturus's latent anger issues would come out when he flayed the skin of an inquisitor because he dared to called the Emperor a God while on his ship. This accident pushed the chapter to avoid any contact with the wider Imperium beside the strict minimum.

[@iilaunch]

1st Captain Crates Alvos Captain Alvos is a renown warrior and tehcmarine, leading the first company alongside his blood-brother the Techmarine-dreadnought Argetrius. Alvos is a charismatic figure and one of the least mutated ghouls, having an almost normal face. He is the one acting as the chapter's voice, being more "presentable" than most of his brothers. On the battlefield, he is a fearsome warrior, but far more importantly, and excellent tactician. He and Arcturus are close friends, and they are often playing any types of strategy-based game during their free time, as a way to think about and perfect new strategies and tactics. In the past, During a devastating encounter, the chapter would come to help an eldar team trapped against Empreror children. Even though the Eldars were horrified by the presence of so many blanks, they would be thankful to the marines for saving them, and would give to Alvos one of their scythe-riffle (having noticed the fascination of the marines for scythes in melee combat) as a gift (Alvos having dueled and defeated the Emperor children warband leader). The weapon would then be modified to fit his terminator armor, and he is still using it to this day. Lucienne Palael in the Striker Orca Lucienne Palael is the young and bold pilot of the Imperial knight known as "striker Orca". She is a freeblade, having left her house after she killed her bother for having turned to Chaos. During the duel, her knight would be badly damaged, losing her right arm that was caring her themal cannon. She would then rebuild her knight and change it from an Errant to a Gallant. She was herself a pariah, and so doesn't feel any discomfort while near the ghouls. She is now a close and trusted friend of the chapter, travelling within their Lunar class cruiser. Outside of battle, she is a stubborn and decided young woman, but enjoying a lot the presence of the marines, having learned to get used to their terrifying appearances, and creating strong friendship with Argetrius Alvos (the brother of the first captain Crates Alvos). On the battlefield, she is a fierce fighter, acting as a strong melee fighter for the chapter when close combat is inevitable. The many techmarines made sure to make her knight as resilient as possible, using their expertise with all human and Xeno technology to strengthen her void-shield and armor, as Lucienne is often driving her knight straight in the enemy line, but she causes such a toll among the enemy that her actions were often the key to decisive victories. Her daring (and often dangerous) attacks is so well-known within the chapter that she is jokingly refereed to as Angaron by the marines. Although he does appreciate her very much, Arcturus often argues with her about her recklessness, as he remembers that this is what led to the demise of his Primarch and most of his legion.

[@prophetisaiah08]

My custom chapter is a small, obscure chapter called the Black Sappers from the 26th founding. Their chapter homeworld is Terranova Borealis, and they are a Dark Angels successor. The culture of Terranova Borealis is based on my homeland, Newfoundland and Labrador, and the Black Sappers are loosely based on the miners and blue-collar industrial folk of my hometown in western Labrador. Their chapter master was in the Deathwing company, so they primarily use terminator armor. While not training for combat, the Black Sappers are known to aid in the massive open-pit mines in the subarctic mountains of Terranova Borealis. Their name comes from the thick layers of black ore dust that cakes their armor. They are painted in the white, blue and green of the Labrador flag, but they are covered in the dirt and grime of outdoor industrial equipment. Their chapter symbol is an evergreen branch growing out of a skull, representing the neverending cycle of life and death. They have two prominent gene seed mutations. The firs is inherrited from their parent legion, as they are extremely secretive like the Dark Angels. The second one is strange. For some reason, the captains of this chapter grow to a massive size, 25% larger than the average space marine. (Note: This comes from a goof on my part that I've decided to incorporate into the chapter lore. I'm new to 40K, and I 3d printed my army. When I found out that the terminator captain was on a larger base than other terminators, I scaled up the model to fit. Now I have one *absolute unit* of a captain in my army, but I think that's kinda cool.) As for how the larger Imperium sees them, the Black Sappers would rather that they don't. The chapter has taken great pains to make themselves and the planet of Terranova Borealis seem as unremarkable and forgetable as possible within the Imperial beureaucracy. This chapter and the people of their homeworld hold many secrets that would make them pariahs to the Imperium, bringing down the wrath of the Inquisition, the Mechanicus, and nearly every other faction of the Imperium on them if these things were known. Terranova Borealis only has a population of less than 50 million, and the Black Sappers are far from standard codex chapter strength. If the Imperium knew what they were hiding, Terranova Borealis wouldn't stand a chance, and the Black Sappers know it. For them, "Secrecy is Survival."

[@PlasticAddict301]

I've got my own little Salamanders successors called the Platinum Dragons. In the 35th Millenium, the Platinum Dragons were founded on the second planet in a system dubbed Fafnir, chosen for its similar environment to Nocturne. A century or two after establishing their chapter monastery, the system was obscured in a warp storm that put them in a temporal stasis for around six millennia. Closely monitored, they were welcomed back into the Imperium Sanctis upon the storm's dissipation in the 41st millenium. Thanks to the system's relatively close proximity to Holy Terra, they were chosen among the first to cross the Rubicon Primaris once the tests were complete, with all but their 7th company making the conversion. The chapter's centurion squads were dispersed through the other 6 companies, with the 7th becoming a Scout Company for trainees.

[@kylerichard2877]

I'm working on a successor chapter for the Salamanders called the Grim Drakes. The growing Tyranid infestation caught the attention of the Salamanders and after realizing how well fire works against organic beings, the formed the Grim Drakes who primarily focus on stemming the growing swarm of bugs.

[@keithsimonh]

I've got a couple Resplendent Scorpions: a mixed stock DA successor cobbled together during the Cursed Founding iirc, nicknamed "Mariachi Marines" by a friend thanks to their dress colors; high mobility tactics, typically secretive about their history Cremators: originally called the Solar Castellans and descended from the Imperial Fists, they're now on a penitent crusade as an exterminatus support element Sand Dragons: another rebranded chapter, originally the Star Dragons, their primary battle barge crashed on a sandy death world and was converted into a fortress monastery as the chapter adopted local customs into their iconography (Persian/Egyptian themes), stealth/recon ranged specialists, they color their left arm and cheekplate black in remembrance of an ancient failure

[@DABOSSEMPRAH]

I've been working on an Iron Hand successor with a centurion as chapter master who's basically just a brain in a tube inside a bulking armor, no fleet only single battle barge operated by 100 battle brothers and 500 human servants, and 1 magos mechanicus tech priest with around 700-1000 skitarii in his disposal. the twist is they also a rouge trader. how a space marine become a rouge trader? long story... 😅 they'd be working under the authority of the forge world ryza so there might be a lot of plasma shooting going on and lots of accidental suicide explosion, which is why most of their human crews are also highly augmented but not necessarily a servitor and it cause a huge problem sometimes in the compliance department but nevertheless they could work it out under the chapter master guidance. their speciality is in void war, rarely make planet fall and never engaged when the odds are too slim. I'm still working on the battle barge specification, trying to not overkill... 😅

[@herowesley1804]

My Chapter I have been working on is B. ANGEL successor chapter Created shortly after the Devestation. Consuls Encarmine, or Crimson Consuls.(haven't really finalized the name.) One of the many new chapters organized by Dante and Guilliman after the Devestation of Baal. The Consuls Encarmine are a fleet based chapter that have been ordered by Dante to aid in recovering the disparate and isolated systems of Nihilus. Currently the chapter is separated by a warp storm, the larger part embattled with Traitors from the Word Bearer legion. The war is being led by 2nd Company Captain Carolus, and Guard Colonel Kaspian Leonid of the 44th Jouran Dragoons.

[@christopherhughes7970]

I’ve been considering getting into 40k since the tabletop i used to play isn’t supported where I live now. I like the idea of Sergeant Chronus becoming chapter master of his own successor chapter of the ultramarines based around his title of Spear of Macragge. Maybe he was given a chapter to hunt down hive fleets and stop them from devouring worlds using his superior tactics with vehicles and blast weaponry.

[@christopherhughes7970]

Would it be possible for him to be put in charge of an existing chapter that is already assigned to that task that is rebuilding like the Scythes of the Emporer whose battle barge is named after him?

[@Dutch40KGuy]

Absolutely!

[@blunthonesty8633]

I'm working on a starter kit currently, but am thinking of doing a custom colour scheme when I get more. I'm becoming more and more interested in all the lore and topics like this as I read and listen to stuff about it.

[@Mecha_phant0m]

I’m currently working on a white scars successor chapter called the thunder giants who were originally created as a general purpose strike force, but after there chapter master began to receive prophetic visions of the khan alongside the places and times a drukari raid was going to strike, they pivoted into an anti drukari specialization. They take the fight directly to them intercepting there raids in the hope that not only will they find evidence to jagatais location, but that they will be the ones to rescue him and bring there primarch home. There flaw is they will often ignore or refuse calls to help or reinforce other people’s fights in favor of seeking out more dark eldar unless it’s a BIG emergency. Despite the fact they aren’t a outright cruel or malicious legion, This fact has done very little in making them friends or garnering support from other legions. Also they have a rouge jokaero that occasionally lets itself into there main ship and just makes them new weapons and terminator armor. No one knows why it does this but they aren’t complaining.

[@aesthetics8230]

I Thought of Something Called the Lonestar Chapter, Their Symbol is a Simple White Star wich can be Underlayed with a Red, white and Blue Background, they Opt for a Simple Brown Mono Color Scheme, with a Leather Coat and Cowboy Style Hat worn. For Their Cultural Insperation its From Lawmen of the Old west. They Usually Operate Solitary due to Nature of their work wich is to Bring Law to Less Populated worlds. They have Very Stable Geneseed (Ultramarines / Imperial Fists), They Arent a Full Strength Chapter whos Recruitment Rate is Very Low due to The Practice of drawing from a Older pool of Applicants.

[@mattbagel6783]

Im working on a Night Lords successor chapter that flaw is that they can feel fear, unlike other space marine chapters. They were created to deal with a space rat infestation on some planet and dress up for the most part like Ultramarines (working closely with them and claiming they are a successor to them instead of the Night Lords) with the exception of their shoulder pads which are a darker Night Lords blue.

[@jacobjohnson8906]

I started working on the grozny devils a few days ago. I based them on the chechen separatist due to the fact that I like reading about stuff that happened in the 90s

[@codyfoster7183]

Thanks man this will make my boys come to life. They are a Sentinel founding E.C. chapter that are on a penitent crusade to find Fulgrim and all the other chapters that fell to Slaanesh.

[@infinity6450]

I've started work on a 5th founding Salamanders successor chapter. not real far into it yet but I've come up with Tallarn as a home world and the marines specialize in siege and close quarters combat within the planets sub-terranean tunnels. They are quite obscure and are not well known throughout the galaxy, rarely leaving Tallarn's orbit. Chapter name is the sand hawks, and they have a tan and tarnished bronze color scheme. Culture is loosely based on 1930s and 1940s Australian outback, where people did it tough and made do with the help of mates and a lot of work.

[@drthehunterman]

With the game out i thibk you should do a video or stream where you make a chapter with your fans and then you could match

[@BahamutXER]

Currently tinkering with an Ultima Founding group from the homebrewed world of KaTet[War World, in the tongue of the native Xenos] They were actually commissioned by the human ruler of KaTet in preparation of joining the Imperium, specifically to cut off any accusations of Heresy since the native Xenos consider humans to be allies/friends and no one wants to be Exterminatused because of inquisitirs with itchy trigger fingers. They are derived from a mixed group of Ultramarines, White Scars, Space Wolves, and Salamanders, one group fir each of the 4 Hive Cities. Each tying to the four elements [salamanders at Fireburg, Ultramarine at Foresta, White Scars at Windia, and Space Wolves at Aquaria] A major flaw for them is their dedication to protecting civilians takes priority even over loyalty to the Imperium, something that does get them in hit water. Main combat style is a mix of stealth and overwhelming force, with some elements of pacific islander and US Military in themes. Weapons-wise, each group tends towards weapons used by local xenos from each region. The Ultramarine-based group uses Grappling Claws, power claws designed to lash out like grappling hooks. The Salamander-based team woelds Crystal Warpicks that generate explosive force at a fine point. The White Scar-group uses Sailblades, massive lightweight greatswords that can let them surf on strong winds, and the Space Wolves-group uses icebrands, cryptic power swords that can launch piercingg ice darts. Still planning color scheme and deeper lore for them, but there's 250 of each and the group as a whole is codex-compliant.

[@beauregardwhitney7830]

A chapter I am currently working on is heavily inspired by Italy and Renaissance, At the moment I'm calling them lords of the tower because Their home world is A High world which only has one livable place, a Giant tower Something I've been having a bit of difficulty with is trying to convey *without being too edgey or too obvious* Is that they are night Lord successors Made by cawl During the Primaries Founding, Or whatever it's called, I forget its actual name

[@satire__]

I'm working on a Successor of the Iron hands, They were named after a (Now wiped out) Successor whos whole deal was Reinforcing guard regiments and defences, like the Mentors but for the Militarum.

[@iamaperson.9471]

I'm thinking of a Salamanders successor chapter with a samurai aesthetic and having divisions for close range (power katanas, spears, shields) and long range (sniper bolters, plasma rifles) tactics. They specialize mainly in cavalry ( yes tanks but also GIANT MFing MUTANT DEER-WOLF THINGS which they ride into battle). They adhere to a strict code of honor and protect civilian life at all costs. They often work for the Imperial Guard or as planetary defense forces in the faltering defense lines of the Imperium. Their flaws are that they will refuse to work with any force which doesn't agree with their code and any Astartes of this legion who breaks it must commit the equivalent of sanpokku. They reside on the agri-world of Meridian, where the recruited astartes are allowed return to see and live with their families during times of relative peace. Their symbol is a blue stag. Their colors are silver and teal blue with gold accents and blue helmets and kimonos for captains. They are the Cosmic Blades.

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For the deer-wolf things I'll probably DIY some Space Wolves wolves with some 3D printed antlers

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My homebrew was based on the legion of the dammed color wise but are a salamanders successor but use a mos of salamander and black Templar tactics, and are named the Drake Templars.