40k Stories: The Minotaurs 

"1 to ANGRON" is my favourite scale of measurement

The Minotaurs are my favorite loyalist chapter, thanks for doing them justice.👍

Fun fact there are 2 other Minotaurs Chapters; The White Minotaurs The Brazen Minotaurs They have a simmilar heraldry Wich also share with the Taurans Chapter

WHAT IS THAT FOUR BARRELLED BOLTER WITH A GRENADE LAUNCHER?!?!?!?!?

To clarify. There are two Minotaur chapters The original chapter had chimeric and unstable geneseed. They died off. The new Minotaurs are loyalist Iron Warriors working directly under the High Lords of Terra.

Great video Please do Carcharadons thet are my favourite chapter!!!

It has been hinted that the Minotaurs are actually a chapter made from genetic material from a surviving Thunder Warrior who did stuff to some geneseed stocks and on himself for his lifespan, I forgot the book and got reminded from a comment on another video. Honestly I'd like that better than making them loyalist from the traitor legions, it gives them a sense of uniqueness that stands that amongst the others. I'm not sure really but it's my canon

Yey. Minotaurs :) While not outright stated, I feel it's implied they lost their insane berserkery after their re-emergence (Part of which suggests they might be an entirely new chapter bearing the same name), but otherwise good stuff :D I basically built my entire chapter around that first image you have, the guy in Mk4 armour (though I reserve that for elites, with standard troops getting Mk3) and spartan plume on the helm.

They sound a lot like Iron Warrios.

I love the aesthetic of these guys. Great video as usual buddy

Great video, Michael, informative as ever but also quite witty in places as well. As for the Minotaurs - Guilliman will surely have opened these secret documents about them by now and, like everything else in 40k, it probably just made him more depressed. I know you don't really have the time to read all the novels but I'd really recommend at least the chapter in Dark Imperium when Guilliman is reading documents and catching up on the state of the Imperium. I like RG, he's one of my favourite primarchs, but it was actually hilarious to hear how everything he learns just makes him facepalm and reflect on how utterly retarded the Imperium is now.

I think that Iron Warriors//World Eaters chimerac Geneseed is most likely. Angron is basically space Spartacus as is, and siegecraft, with savage combat sounds like Minotaurs. Either that, or Luna Wolves, or...Thundah Warriors...

THEY. ARE. IRON. WARRIORS.

Will be interesting to see how their future unfolds due to Guilliman taking over, sacking most the high lords and also the Minotaurs bad rap with the Ultras and successors. The whole "being banned from Ultramar Segmentum" deal.

The Minotaurs & Carcharodon Astra are easily the most brutal Space Marine Legions ever and I FVCKING LOVE IT lo BTW, your channel is awesome, thanks for all the hard work you put into these videos, I'm grateful for them

Thanks for making these videos - I’m a fairly new to warhammer 40k but I’m learning thanks to your vid cheers mate

Are we sure the Minotaurs are not loyalist World Eaters? Being berserkers and all. Being Angron's sons would make sense for their given tactics and fighting style.

I’ve got this crazy idea that these dudes are of the same gene seed as Magnus mixed with the Emperors Custodes, the council of Nicea was about 31000 so it makes sense we start seeing these guys around 32000, which would also explain why they aren’t Psykers since Magnus is such a powerful psyker he would need the emperor’s assistance in making nonpsyker astardes, along with Magnus having Minotaur iconography, Moloche In history is associated with “child sacrifice” which you can read into a couple ways, Magnus supporting the Council of Nicea which is a huge sacrifice for a Psyker of his level, the emperor making a sacrifice for his child maybe? Could also explain the custodes spear (being partial custodes themselves maybe?) The fact they have 1000 units, that they have older versions of equipment. I’m pretty noob at most all the lore but from the tidbits I hear it was fun to play with this idea. Oh almost forgot, along with the ancient Minotaur living in a maze it also plays at the eerie similarity of tzeenchs maze. Roast me lore pros ;)

Considering how many stupid ideas were implemented in that founding, I think they might have Horus gene seed. After all, they do fit in the description of the Luna Wolves, and it would explain why they don't want to say who their Primarc is. And if you're gonna use traitor gene seed, Horus' is probably the safest

Awesome. My homebrew marines are a minotaurs successor chapter.

"If I had to guess..."

While I prefer The Blood Angels and The Imperial Fists,I love their name and the mystery behind them.

Have you read the book "spear of the emperor" that will help clear up alot.

14:39 "It's actually heresy to record the Custodes as losing" I guess having my Ork Freebootas submitting their battle report where they overran and krumped a bunch of Custodes into paste yesterday to the Administorum is no-go then? "Wot? Wot da zog are ya lookin' at me like that for?" Seriously though, the Minotaurs are a nasty bunch indeed. It almost feels like they're the High Lord of Terra's equivalent to what the Space Wolves/Night Lords were during the pre-Heresy days: the guy you send in to deal with people who get too far out of line and need to be dealt with/made an example of (except less of the 'Terrorizing entire sectors because we were bored' mentality of course).

Personally my guess for their primarch(s) are either the world eaters, space wolves or imperial fists, one, all and some of them I'm certain.

Descendants of one of the lost primarchs, or perhaps perturabo

Nice video mate

Space Wolves with the Canis Helix removed from the Geneseed.

I'd put my money on World Eaters being involved. There was a lot of shenanigans being done to the Cursed Founding geneseed, World Eaters or World Eaters Chimeric would be my guess. You'd definitely hide that, especially from the inquisition. Without the Butcher's Nails there really isn't much defining about World Eaters that would physically stand out to the best of my knowledge. World Eaters always had brutality issues even before the nails, if you use them primarily to check other Astartes and fleet based combat it wouldn't become apparent though. Killing the entire crew of a ship is much easier to justify than killing everything in a hive city. You know they're gonna throw everything they have at every problem, which acts as a natural control. Their combat doctrines depend on incredible resupply and recruitment, makes them better armed and armored than most chapters you send them against but also means you can cripple them by cutting off resupply after a major conflict and a few engagements later their reckless loss of life and expenditure of material would reduce their combat effectiveness drastically. Then they could be easily taken on and mopped up by other Astartes if they happen to get out of line. That's just my thought, I'm maybe 70-75% on that theory. It's loose but plausible and fits the cursed founding

My own favourite has to be the SONS OF EDEN placed among the trade routes in fast well armoured ships painted in PALE GREY and black pauldrons with a CHROME EAGLE or OTHER DECORATIONS upon the chest. THE chapter marking is a simple WHITE SIGN (imagine the ultramarines emblem turned over 180°.) So their originators may have come from ULTRAMARINES or has the machine God followers produced its own Primaris marines? All that is known is their ships hit hard and the boarding actions are perfect. It's reported that once a ship is taken be it xnomorph, Renagades or others they are imolted into vapour and the craft be it humanoid sent to the nearest loyal planet as a bond between them and the Emporeor. The Inquisition recently made contact and were surprised to find the Astartes totally pure with no grafting of machines or improper properties growing from or through armour ! So was this just a odd chance in picking a ship new to the trade routes time will tell . Recently the chapter whole (SONS OF EDEN) were called to assist the IRON SNAKES fighting the Dark Elder plus ORK raiders who were possibly identified using the warp storms as cover ? IRON SNAKES members had learnt that the SONS OF EDEN followed teachings from the codex but adapted it from teachings to practical not unlike themselves . .They were informed that the SONS OF EDEN fortress was a space port only known by ships crew (serfs whose Uniforms were grey with red caps) .The Marine officer's ie lieutenant, captain and above wore a gold chest insignia also they were allowed to carry the skulls of human champions they had defeated. THE IRON SNAKES were surprised to find the SONS OF EDEN respective to their tactics . Soon as they defeated the Ork and Dark elder( who taken innocent people as slaves or just for amusement) the SONS OF EDEN beganto depart only to be replaced by a huge space port visible by the human eye from the home world of the IRON SNAKES. THE chapter master had brought two captured defence stations as tribute to a new allies . THE SONS OF EDEN master 'JANUS AGRIPPA' descended via a craft unknown to the IRON SNAKES he wore a simple toga with a pale grey line at the waist which was simular to the clothing of Ithaka the sat and ate bread ( the IRON SNAKES tradition) Then signed a treaty of friendship that when either one needed help the other if possable would send help. So the honour guard clad as IRON SNAKES in their steel coloured armour,white pauldrons and the SONS OF EDEN in their pale grey armour black pauldrons shook hands in the warrior tradition grasping the forearm. Both under the sun of ITHAKA forging new brotherhood as the Ultramarines primarch had written! SONS of Eden made for such moments to fight in the name of the Emporeor so man may also protect the empire one day?

The high Lords already gave them the primaris marines already in the lore.

I think that they're a "hybrid" created from a combination of the various Gene Seed of the different Primarchs that are / were stored in stock on Terra.

What if molok is a perpetual. Would make sense if so.

I would not be suprised if the high lords would juse minotaurs against anoying inqvisitors or even Guiliman for taking most of their power.

What about the Carcharadons chapter masters...he's massive!!!

Just to clarify one thing, it seems the Cursed Founding Minotaurs have nothing to do with the chapter that participated in the Badab War. Probably an error in wroting from GW. Can we expect a lore video on the Cursed Founding ? ;)

I really don't understand why Guilliman didn't completely wipe out the minotaurs when they committed blatant treason by aiding the former high lords in their rebellion against him.. 🤔

are you planning on making a video on the Carcharadons? that would be sick

Their Tactics suggest they possibly share a father with the Luna Wolves.......

Nice. Also happy St. Patrick's Day anyways

How is this going to play out with Girlyman since he's stripped the High Lords of their power?

I think they are Sons of Angron given that they are Berserkers.

Umm...not...there is a certain faction of the Inquisition that has immediate access to them, and that faction has had dominance over the High Lords...things have changed since Micro-Manager in Blue has busted on to the scene. I think the Minotaurs will do whatever is tasked to them based on whatever seems to hold the greatest power to give them 'gibs'...and thus, they have Primaris through some sweet talking waffle.

I can't help but feel like they are like spoiled brats because of the gear they get from the High Lords.

Papa Smurf, replaced most of the high lords when he took over, so he knows something about this chapter that we may or may not get to find out...

Clones!!!

Moloc could be a perpetual.

Hell yeah

14:50

Are the Minotaurs the same as the Brazen Minotaurs?

My nis troni

Maybe they are from CHOAS in a way?

That they have a Reclusiarc suggests Black Templars link

On a scale of 1 to Angron lol.

I don't know about anyone else, but I don't really care about space marines, as most of them are usually based on the Ultramarines, which I feel are the least interesting. Even then, a lot of the other Space Marine Chapters are slightly more interesting to around the same level of Ultramarines. It doesn't help that a lot of chapters are based on the Ultramarines or Blood Angels. I don't even care for the Primarus Space Marines as they are just Ultramarines that are space marine space marines... yay. ... but if there was anything I liked about the Space Marines, it would have to be anything in the 21st founding. There are a few chapters that I like outside of this founding, but the 21st "Cursed" Founding is great. Lamenters, Black Dragons, Minotaurs, Blood Gorgons... they are all just great. They all have something about them that make them more interesting than the standard Space Marine Chapters. Don't know if the Lamenters of Black Dragons are my favourite

Pffffff! Who cares about civilians!? All they are good for in battle is either as meatshields or bait.

Astra. Carcaradon Astra. Everyone never remembers the Astra part of the name.

Am i the only one who is happy that the Death Guard rendered they're geneseed useless?