Ranking the Most Powerful Chaos Space Marines(Warhammer 40k)

What are the most powerful Traitor Legions? Well this is kind of a hard question to answer since the warhammer 40k armies are kinda like real life ones in a way that they are constantly changing and dynamic, for example, the Dark angels before the Horus Heresy were one of the most numerous and hence one of the most powerful and now, as of the 42nd millenium they are just composed of a few successor chapters, the same goes to the others as well as the chaos traitor legions. But we are going to take the m42 numbers and their deeds in the past to justify the ranking.
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[@JohnSmith-cr5rd]

This might surprise you but the Nightlord gene seed is one of the purest and most stable known, even when compared to those legions who remained loyal.

[@nutbug445]

I'm not surprised

[@milosstojakovic7586]

I was looking for this comment. Precisely, one of the purest and the most stable gene seeds. Do some additional research before putting wrong / misleading info into video(s). Same for Alpha Legion, 10k pre-Heresy, really?!

[@Keller5327LV]

@@nutbug445 and yet.....

[@interestmonkey]

@@nutbug445 you make some pretty good content

[@AsurasWrath164]

​@@interestmonkey no his content is shite

[@no_one01-5]

Just couple minor details.. 0:50 Night Lords had, before the Heresy, one of the most stable gene seed and even after Heresy, they seem to bear the least evidence of mutation out of all the the traitor Legions. Insane, hells yeah but the gene seed was stable. 5:52 Alpha Legions numbers can be disputed but it wasn't particularly smol compared to other legions. Estimates are around 90-180k.

[@Tommybotham]

A lot of them were wiped out in Sons of the Hydra.

[@Dugong247]

Pre heresy they rumoured to have one of the largest legions due to the type of warfare the conducted causing them to have considerably lower death tolls. They also were happy to field human operatives which was a lot of the time shunned by the other legions out of pure arrogance.

[@MaximusDerpynes]

Might wanna add that Slaanesh doesn't just embody pleasure..... -_-, it embodies perfection (which is far more reaching than just pleasure)

[@Shadowsura]

nightlords have one of the most stable gene seeds out of any of the legions but apart from that great video 😁

[@DJsharp707]

Yeah how’s that working out for them?

[@Strongnurgling]

​​@@DJsharp707enjoying their lives lives

[@crimsonknight7011]

Alpha Legion are possibly he biggest thorn in the Inquisitions side due to how many worlds they infiltrate and how many sleeper agents they have. One of the biggest strengths is that if there is any trace of Alpha Legion being around then the command groups are skeptical of everyone around them and means they are more focused on their subordinates possible treachery than on the enemy they are fighting. Also due to the way they fight by making the populace fight for them they actually rarely get into direct combat and have much fewer Astartes casualties than any of the other legions/war bands.

[@An_Ian]

Combine all that with a still living primach and traitor legions not having any Codex population caps l wager the yare the largest legion in terms of man power

[@YourStylesGeneric321]

Not to mention having the Emperors own methods on creating new marines in months.

[@thedevourer.]

@YourStylesGeneric321 that's true but not correct, they stole the keys of the primach project... which was obviously for making primachs but helped corax speed up the process of creating astartes

[@genderconfusedwolffromshre8914]

I agree with this list and makes perfect sense, However in my opinion if the death guard wanted to, they could become the number 1. Simply because of the damage they cause and how resilient they are, i imagine them being an immovable object and an unstoppable force combined and also even when they lose they technically win because the worlds they attack are left with demonic AIDS. And i reckon that their conquered worlds are just as pleasant so attacking them (aside from orbit) could be really damaging aswell And they do this mostly as a united force, utterly horrifying and they stand up for their name. The death guard arent my favourite, though not far from it an army of "undead" Space marines is pretty dope and the fact that they are this powerful is just fitting for them.

[@RichardVSmall]

'demonic AIDS' hahahhahaha

[@hendrikmoons8218]

Acording to the Gods of the rulebook, my beloved Death Guard is death last... I kid you not. There is lore and there is the actual game with rules to back them up. Truly wished this list rang true on the table, alas, Prospero may have been singed, Earth besieged, the Lords of the Rules do not grand us victory today.

[@genderconfusedwolffromshre8914]

@@hendrikmoons8218 death last? sorry my english is broken and i dont quite understand what you meant by that xd

[@hendrikmoons8218]

@@genderconfusedwolffromshre8914 Helo there, do not worry my friend, English is not my first language either. That being said, I'm a long time wh40k player. I was talking not about the lore, the stories, but on how the Death Guard are mesuring up in games versus the other space marines. They are not doing well, my beloved Death Guard. At the curent, they are the weakest legion.

[@genderconfusedwolffromshre8914]

@@hendrikmoons8218 what the hell? Thats so inaccurate...I dont know anything about the tabletop but this is...not fitting for the death guard, they are meant to be resilient nigh immortal chaos marines.

[@KurtzeTube]

The Dark Angels, although are broken down into chapters, effectively operate as a legion, so they are probably the most powerful one

[@whitefam420]

Holy shit this is bad. Angron faithful but bitter lol lmao and the dark angels lost the battle in arks of omen lol angron lost to lion but he fucking destroyed both blood and dark angels. They had to retreat and lost the tuchulcha engine from the rock. Huge loss. Lmao

[@paimonisfood4986]

Yeah the Imperium lost but it was a fucking glorious battle and one of the largest void battles since the Heresy.

[@secondarytrollaccount]

Alpha legion is what the nightlords could be if they werent so insane. Alpha legion is just crazy enough to do all the things they do but not too crazy to fall off completely.

[@random_nick_for_comments]

No, they can't. They were created as a tool for a specific purpose, hammer can't become a screwdriver.

[@morallybankrupt1461]

Iron warriors are definitely my favorite.

[@Ahriman_362]

I honestly agree with all of the placings, well done.

[@PrimarisBlackTemplaDraven]

I got more respect to the Iron warriors than the black legion cause the iron warriors and the imperial fist are eternal rivals.

[@nutbug445]

Offenders vs defenders

[@DrearySaturn]

My friend plays the Imperial Fists so I want to get the Iron Warriors for that juicy rivalry. Perturabo (the name of the Iron Warriors' Primarch) is also the name of our D&D BBEG as well.

[@kayvaanmcsharrowkyn6901]

Let's continue with this for my first statement the night Lord's Gene seed is one of the most stable and the night Lords are not chaos undivided they actually hate chaos Bunches of their warbands have gone off and pledged themselves to different chaos Gods but as a whole they hated chaos they hated demons and sevatar was actually one of the most honorable Marines you can find. But yeah they're Gene seed know it's highly stable like ridiculously stable

[@nutbug445]

They're more like the drukhari but with different motives

[@chetmanley1885]

Yeah but on the other hand, Gendor Skraivok one of the least honourable characters in 30K, was also in the legion. Sevatar was more of an exception than typical of the Night Lords.

[@baggettotonio6837]

Saying that the Night Lord are the Weakest SMC legion because they use fear tactics(and raid / any non frontal assault) that work mostly on human and few xenos species like Eldar (and Tau I assume) would be a better point, plus NL, I mean the OG Night lord like Konrad Sevatar, and Talos are mostly traitor than Chaotic since they remember for what they became traitor, they actually the only legion that have a very good point betraying Big E, since Big E used them has a "punishing squad" and they started to enjoying a bit too much skinning alive people and that why Big E wanted to confront the Legion before Itsvan drop site massacre happen. Ave Dominus Nox

[@user-dn6oi6dt7U]

Next video for loyalist please. Tierlist with Charackters for example Dante, Loken, Sigismund...

[@adelinewar3222]

Good one 👏

[@Vohtwomax]

Happy to see Perty and the warriors rank in at #3

[@henriksparre4302]

The war of rust and iron show’ed PERTURABO crush the death guard and mortarion. They fielded an estimated 300 000 space marines

[@thedevourer.]

No legion had 300k ... ultramarines were the largest after taking on the remaining marines from the 2nd or 11th legion @250k ... no trator legion has that many as they all had a purge of sorts but there was a bit of lore where perty thinned how own ranks for disappointing him 1 in 10 were killed for his displeasure. Definitely did not even have 200k going into the seige of terra let alone after

[@henriksparre4302]

@@thedevourer. bro they as in both legion fielded together 300 000

[@thedevourer.]

@Henrik Sparre ahhh got you that makes a lot more sense now, my bad for misinterpreting bro 👍🏼

[@armand8802]

You need to do caption Bro, it's solid content by the way.

[@nolancavanaugh406]

I think you need to place the red corsairs at 1, Hurons numbers rival Abbadons. He’s got the best fleet, Also he has a black key stone forties.

[@dhanu_4539]

I think he should be on number 2. Second to the death guard. Abadon just has plot armor

[@maltheri9833]

Blackstone Fortress 💀

[@synergy8879]

black key stone forties headass

[@dalegribble7939]

​@@dhanu_4539even beyond that black Legion has something like a million Marines

[@SkyLorderon]

Why did world-eaters rank so low compared to word bearers?, they are the strongest physically and are extremely feared in combat, angron was one of the most powerful primarchs.

[@riktor3005]

Ah ha! Did you think these comments would escape the notice of the Inquisition? It has long been thought that your legion too turned traitor... You seem to know much of the heretical...

[@babouchemaxime]

Because they simply can't team up. Their thirst for blood makes them unable to unite, it is depicted in the book "Betrayer - Blood for the blood god" when Leman Russ got beaten by Angron in a duel. At the end of the duel, when Russ is about to be unmade, a pack of Space Wolves rescue their primarch surrounding Angron and aiming at his head with their bolters. Meanwhile, World Eaters are too busy fighting for their individualistic pleasure to worry about their primarch being on the verge of being executed.

[@WatchesYouAtNight]

​@@babouchemaxime Hate how this is somehow a depiction of their weakness, space wolves even with their cohesion were about to lose their primarch. It definitely was an eye for an eye moment.

[@MrInzombia]

@@WatchesYouAtNightWorld eaters weakness was clearly shown when the iron warriors cohesion and efficiency cut them down like mindless rabid dogs and angron was defeated by perturabo.

[@brothersargentalathbaraqun3083]

The Black Legion and Sons of Horus are not the same legion. See The Talon of Horus for reference.

[@nutbug445]

They're actually a unifying force for many chaos legions, but they're at the core of it and it's because of them that the cadian gate was destroyed. A feat no other faction achieved

[@brothersargentalathbaraqun3083]

@@nutbug445 yes there's many Sons of Horus in the Black Legion and they would be the survivors of when the other traitor legion unified and broke them. The Black Legion was founded long after that by a Son of Horus, a World Eater, a Word Bearer, an Empires children, and a Thousand Son.

[@kayvaanmcsharrowkyn6901]

The Thousand Sons don't want any of that they just want to not be dust anymore😅😅😅

[@HarryScTam]

What about the Red Corsairs?

[@My_name_is_Alpharius]

Good list. There are a lot of good points here; however, I don't think the Night Lords or Alpha Legion are actually Chaos. The Night Lords were frankly a bunch of sadists who ruled through terror because of KC and how Nostramo was. The Alpha Legion was convinced by the Kabal that the only way to destroy the Chaos gods was for Horus to win. This would have led to humanity dying out, and then Chaos would have not much left to feed on. Disclaimer: I could be totally wrong about this. :P

[@e-san6111]

Agreed. The Night Lords have been using fear tactics since Konrad was found, it’s just that they’re doing it for Chaos now. As for the Alpha Legion, I would say they’re like the Fallen: Some fell to Chaos, some think they’re doing the right thing, and others are unaware of their legion’s true goal.

[@My_name_is_Alpharius]

@@e-san6111 Yes, well put.

[@qillip]

a list of the most powerful successor chapters would be nice

[@nutbug445]

Just did a loyalist video

[@qillip]

@@nutbug445 not including the First foundings, only successors 🫣

[@RLnSara]

Black Legion my fave one🎉

[@theknightly1]

Night Lords on top of as has been pointed out having pure gene seed, also almost never actually worship chaos "undivided" or otherwise.

[@Blazey0557]

I respect the grind and all but at least google the information first especially whilst trying to be a lore focused channel.

[@etienneparis195]

No Red Corsairs ?

[@drakemguard1407]

Night Lords are not Chaos Space Marines they are Renegade Marines at best only a handful of them Worship Chaos gods while The Iron Warriors maybe categorized as a Chaos Space Marines majority of them don't worship Chaos only allying with them and use them as weapons of necessity both of this legion cooperate with Chaos but not outright worship them as a whole! Perturabo like Angron became unwilling became Deamon Prince they we're Forced to ascend , in Angron sake because his already dying and Lorgar unwillingly ascend Angron to Demonhood while Perturabo's life force was stripped and force back in his body degrading his Primarch physiology because Fulgrim that Whore son back stabbed him was also forced to ascend after the Iron Cage but I am hoping they retcon that and give Us an aging Perturabo instead

[@mnkyman478]

No corsairs?

[@Fallen9900]

you mixed the iron warriors and iron hands

[@trajanfidelis1532]

Hydra Dominatus

[@peterga3658]

world beares on 4th ?? like how you go by numbdrs alone ? this make so little sense

[@EM-tx7qm]

The Alpha Legion are not a small legion, it’s the opposite. They were one of the most numerous legions only behind such Legions as the Ultramarines or Word Bearers. Post Heresy not only did they have one of the largest remaining intake space fleets, as a legion they still had the majority of their numbers as they never really engage in large scale battles

[@legionplays513]

night lords geneseed unstable????????!!!!!!!!!

[@miketeeveedub5779]

Death Guard and Black Legion at the top; who can dispute that?! The order of the others are of no consequence! Blessings of Grandfather Nurgle upon you, and Death to the False Emperor!

[@CaptainMasolino]

there not the same now 41k

[@Mordroth-the-daemonwhisperer]

Thats not entirely true and the legions were showed a bit weak but they are the reason (mainly) why humanity struggles right now....

[@toheekang174]

4:05 Angron is not faithful to Emperor, in fact he hates him the moment he had been adducted

[@Dimitriterrorman]

nighthlors XD

[@marcusgarcia06]

What’s up with that intro? Had me thinking I was back at work lol

[@ShadowEquinox1982]

Lorgar hiding from Corax 🤣

[@thedevourer.]

Dude the alpha legion was over 180k pre heresy lol and sustained the lest amount of losses due to not taking part in most the heresy

[@rambo9691]

Expected the Tsons to be much much higher. Top 3 or 4

[@rowanlau1651]

individually the tson sorcerers are beasts, but they are a comparitively weak leigon. Not only where they the smallest of the leigons (

[@Ahriman_362]

I love tsons but there aren't enough concious members alive to be higher on this list. Most of them are rubrics and the remaining sorcerers while being individually very powerful, aren't enough

[@what4hats]

The tsons can practically go to any battlefield that they ever fought on and rez any fallen tson left. So, unless you end up a chaos spawn, they can always bring you back. That's pre and post heresy.

[@prophet4722]

Typo The NightHaunter their primarch also later known as Konrad Curze 😂

[@zorchon6706]

NOTHING BEATS TYBEROS

[@joeycepeda4659]

Based on what I read, night lords are cowards.

[@mauricebetait6674]

to many failures, the genes of the night lords are stable.

[@HarryScTam]

I thought the Alpha Legion was massive!?

[@Ferryman76]

Shhhhh ... they are, but they infiltrated the channel and manipulated the ranking so it seem´s they are weaker 😉

[@UrshulaTheBlackDragon]

I'd put the Word Bearers at #2 because they're one of a few Chaos Legions that isn't a Warband. I'd put the Red Corsairs above most of these on your list.

[@danielschroder5733]

Word Bearers above Alpha Legion? I don't know man.

[@asmrnathan1940]

Alpharius and Omegan are twins. There are/were two of them. This isnt an if or a theory , its been canon for a while. Their's theory that they are actually a triplet and theirs secretly a third one hence their symbol being a 3 headed hydra. And theirs a theory that Rogal killed Omegan and not Alpharius. But its recognized now that Alpha Legion has 2 primarchs and one is dead and the other is a mystery.

[@thedevourer.]

How do you know it was Omegon?

[@asmrnathan1940]

@The Devourer I do not know that. Are you referring to when I said "and theirs a theory that Rogal killed Omegan and not Alpharius." Because I said that was a theory, as in some people have suggested or theorized about it.

[@thedevourer.]

@@asmrnathan1940 sorry if I misinterpreted

[@asmrnathan1940]

@@thedevourer. no problem, all good

[@ajm0208]

Pretty sure it is canon that when Horus found "Alpharius" it was actually Omegon. They had switched before hand. So when they found "Omegon" it was Alpharius. That means that when Rogal Dorn killed "Alpharius" he actually killed Omegon and "Omegon" is actually Alpharius who is still alive. So the real Alpharius is alive and the real Omegon was killed by Dorn. "Alpharius" who was actually Omegon was a traitor, while "Omegon" who was actually Alpharius was a loyalist, so the real Alpharius is a loyalist and the real Omegon is a traitor.

[@monsieurbreakdown4814]

Night lords chaos undivided worshipper ? Lmao not at all, starting the video by a mistake, nice.

[@konradcurze4541]

My sons do not worship chaos

[@mycommentpwnz]

1.) Death Guard. 2.) Iron Warriors. 3.) World Eaters.

[@williamchu4595]

disagree ! black legion are minions in games, anime, videos for main character to farm

[@elias1579]

The lore for chaos in 40k is very weak, I have been reading black library for over a decade now. And I feel like the lore for chaos and it’s motives are far better in AoS. In 40k chaos feels more like background noise

[@ashardalondragnipurake]

the most powerful ones are those that arnt fighting ultramarines

[@CaptainMasolino]

lol

[@mandroid-rb4uy]

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[@dejanpavlovic5528]

please do more research. some informations are outright false.

[@RedCrowJXU]

Second

[@justinerickson282]

you need to brush back up on your lore.. World Eaters are not just or were not just mindless berzerkers.

[@thedevourer.]

Till the nails bite... only 2 of them that I know of have managed to overcome or tame the nails

[@justinerickson282]

@@thedevourer. a whole warband has.. they follow the gladiator teachings of Angron pre heresy.. still alive and highly skilled

[@thedevourer.]

@Justin Erickson they still around? I do enjoy me some wold esters when it's not just blood, blood and more blood for the blood god

[@justinerickson282]

@@thedevourer. yes they are

[@kharnt.betrayer2946]

Second.

[@kharnt.betrayer2946]

If this comment parallels the legions it should be purged.

[@kayvaanmcsharrowkyn6901]

You are highly misformed about the Dark Angels my friend they are still one of the most numerous Legions and their successor chapters that's just a front they all have a source code embedded into them that they will return as one Legion size group if need be under Grandmaster azrielle, and they also have different engrams embedded into them so they can no longer fight against one another. Please my friend before you make generalize statements read a little more of the lore when you say certain things that kind of makes me just shake my head. I mean you've got a good base going and I enjoy your channel just get a little more info before you make a broad statement like you did about the Dark Angels LOL

[@nutbug445]

Now the the lion has returned they'll be a force like none other

[@wojciechgrzybek4122]

1. Hydra dominatus. 2. All is dust. 3. Strive for perfection.

[@savagepatty]

Almost correct. Death guard are #1 imo. The black legion is just a big war band of everyone

[@mennohenderson6946]

First

[@Ahivalaostia88]

This is a lie.

[@peterga3658]

ok this list is wack.... those who know lore know what i mn thousand sons 3rd from last ?

[@Daintrain2120]

Ahhhh the word barers are not that high lol not above the world eaters at least

[@Daintrain2120]

@@honkiponki443 I just listen to an awesom story told threw the eyes of an ork….. and they think like I do that the word berers are just a bunch of pussie that summons demons to help them fight lol