@@thomasjoychild4962 nah, the codex is meant to be flexible and work as a set of recommendations on what to do out on the battlefield... its not the god damn bible or something, and leandros's zeal on having to follow the codex reminds me more of the friggin word bearers instead of the ultramarines... sure him being suspicious of quite literally ANYTHING THAT BREATHES might be a good thing, but as all things are, too much is also a problem.
@@crustybomb115 You know that and I know that and Rowboat Gillman absolutely intended that, but the Imperium's got a major trend of guidelines becoming hard doctrine over the millenia without the authors/originators being around to re-assert that they're meant to be flexible. All part of the fun Grimdark, but also part of why it's interesting now, Robot Gorillaman is around again.
And technically the Blood Angels. Apparently whenever they can control the Red Thirst and when they're not having a Black Rage hallucination they can be really nice
@@AFanOfCinema Heck, one of the traumas of their Chapter Master was killing civilians because of the Red Thirst (the book Dante has this event). Resulted into him swearing not to drink blood, until the events of Baal. As for the Black Rage, the Blood Angels Chaplains make it a point to ensure the Death Company DO NOT harm civilians (as seen in Devastation of Baal)
Of those you listed, only Salamanders could really be counted as "good guys." All the others have been part and parcel to some really huge atrocities. Especially the Imperial fists - they've been known to fight to the last man and then Exterminatus a planet just so they don't technically "lose."
After the huge success of Space Marine 2 I feel like we’re gonna see a lot more Warhammer fans in the U.S. military. I’d love to see their reaction to learning about all the Space Marine legions and which one they would pick to serve. Me I’m choosing the Salamanders, not because of the flamethrowers, but because they are the closest to real U.S. marines in terms of putting the lives of civilians before themselves.
IIRC, it's them and Wolves who are the best to have around/be fighting alongside if you're a civilian or Guardsman. The Dark Angels, on the other hand, may at any second catch wind of some dirty secret of theirs nearby and drop everything to chase and cover it up, leaving you blinking and confused. If they didn't kill you for accidentally discovering the existence of said secrets before dropping everything to chase.
@@thomasjoychild4962 Also Blood Angels in your battle line could be a real problem if they give in to the Black Rage and just sprint off in mindless fury leaving your once well defended line not-so-well defended now.
Fairly sure Terminids (and helldivers in general) are inspired by Starship Troopers, which pre-dates Warhammer 40k by several decades (the Novel was first published in 1959). Agreed on the zerg though for sure
the entirety of Starcraft was supposed to be a 40k game but they ran into some publishing issues or something (i'm sure someone with better knowledge will correct me) so thats why Starcraft and Warhammer seem so similar.
@@Delnorei The book bugs are nothing like the movie (and consequently Helldivers) inspiration. The book had the bugs capable of spaceflight advanced tactics and ranged weaponry. The movie pulled from other inspirations (probably Aliens and maybe even something like 40k.)
@@Delnorei Helldivers is a pastiche of various Sci-Fi tropes and ideas. The Automatons faction included units inspired by the Terminator franchise as well as bigger enemies that likely drew on designs from 40k Dreadnoughts and Walkers from Star Wars. The Helldivers' arsenal included legally distinct versions of Phasers and Boltguns. It would be no surprise if the Terminids didn't count the Tyranids as part of their inspiration, alongside any other mainstream space-bugs the Devs laid their eyes on.
My biggest pet peeve with the living tank super solider is that they can climb stairs and clamber into vehicles despite weighting half or more of a ton. The cool thing about Warhammer is that the tech priests design everything, and a tech-priest can also weigh several tons. That being said, Titus and Co should be taking hover tanks or bikes through the swamp or risk sinking up to their necks in mud.
The taught empire? Nah. The Farsight Enclave, I could see, but the empire actively seeks to covertly sterilize and slowly wipe out the humans on the world's that join the Tau. Not good guy behavior.
You could also have picked a few other humanitarian chapters to join: * The Space Wolves: They pretty much hold regular humans in higher regards as they respect any human who have been brought up in harsh environments. They're not as integrated in human society as Salamanders, but they have human soldiers posted in the Fang and prefer human serfs rather than servitors, mostly because they are akin to space age vikings who are slow to trust high tech; most of them for the longest of times even refused to Deep Strike using teleporters because of this. * Ultramarines: The paragon society builders, they are pretty much the forgers of an empire within an empire, dedicated to the prosperity of all mankind. Their whole deal is to further mankind as a whole and are known to treat humans with respect, as long as they follow the rules. * Crimson Fists: They are fiercely protective of Rynn's World natives, and their Chapter Master even carries a mother and her children to safety in the SM Battles novel that covers the Invasion of Rynn's World. On the opposite side of the spectrum, you've got chapters like the Black Templars, who are extremely zealous and care little of the ordinary man if push comes to shove. The Carcharodons see humans as simple resources and the Marines Malevolent even goes so far as viewing regular humans as mere decoys and have generally poor relations with the Salamanders in particular because of this.
No offense, but the scale is as follows: PDF = army Imperial Guards = marines Ordo Tempestus = special forces Space Marines = super special forces Grey Knights = super super special forces Custodes = super³ special forces
PDF = National Guard Astra Militarum = literally the Army (A well trained organization that depends more on the overwhelming pressure of numbers rather than exemplary training, while still having a number of highly trained units in it like Rangers, Green Berets, 160 SOAR etc.) Ordo Tempestus = the US Marines (a highly trained department of a larger organisation that relies on exemplary training over mass quantities of troops)((Tempestus belong to the Adeptus Administratum while Marines are a Department of the Navy)) Space Marines = are the Delta Force of the Imperium (will take the best and brightest from anywhere and put them through the hardest training and only accept the finest) Agree on all other accounts though.
Lore is not totally precise about that, but often I read if they are silver it’s like 50 years, gold is 100 years so 400 years of service for Titus I would say
@@LeVeLs404 you're kind of both right in a weird way. Each gold service stud signifies 50 years of service to the Emperor of mankind but between Space Marine one and Space Marine 2 Titus was held in question by the Inquisition for 100 years and when they couldn't find any taint on him The Inquisitor that took him into custody held him in stasis for another hundred years he was then rescued by the chapter Master of the ultramarines and was to serve Penance in the death watch as a black shield for another hundred years so technically 200 years of service to the Emperor of mankind but he is in fact over 400 years old.
From what little I understand about the 40K universe, the "nicest" and most "noble" Space Marine chapters as far as caring for civilians and guardsmen's lives go, I believe Salamanders & Space Wolves top the list. I've heard that Ultramarines also care, but they are far more pragmatic and logical about things as well, so while they won't like seeing civilians and guardsmen die, they will accept it if they deem it as being necessary to achieve victory. But Salamanders will 100% go out of their way and even lay down their lives to protect civilians. If you're ever in a situation where you need to trust a Space Marine from another chapter to get something done, a Salamander would top that list. Like when the duo of Sa'kan (a Primaris Salamander) and Brutus (a Primaris Ultramarine Apothecary) were attempting to return home with the gene-seeds of fallen Ultramarines, Brutus was crippled when a Necron Gauss Rifle destroyed the power pack for his power armor, Brutus gave the Ultramarine gene-seeds to Sa'kan, trusting him to return them to the Ultramarine chapter while Brutus did what he could to delay the pursuing Necrons as long as possible so that Sa'kan could escape. It's also worth noting that Sa'kan was 100% ready and willing to fight and die alongside Brutus and would never have left Brutus behind if not for the fact that saving the Ultramarine gene-seeds was a far higher priority than trying to save Brutus or to die alongside him. And on top of that, Sa'kan was also badly wounded at the time, and yet he was still 100% willing to fight and die by Brutus' side without hesitation.
"I'd be a Space Marine, they have the best training." Adeptus Custodes has entered the chat. Marines are cool, but they aren't even remotely comparable to a custodes.
The Lamenters are legitimately the most loyal space marines in the Empirium. Seriously, entire chapters have turned to Chaos for less than half of the crap those marines have had to endure.
Well yeah there is always some sort of "bug" humanity faces in these games, because they all took the idea from Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers and the Arachnoids that were an allegory for communism. It also is why there was a shift from Alien to Aliens as the 70s Alien was some sort of reproductive organ looking thing to a hive-minded bioweapon as James Cameron took inspiration from Starship Troopers. That is also why there is power armor in all these series, why there are always orbital drops, etc. Starship Troopers is to Science Fiction what Lord of the Rings is to Fantasy and Dune is to Science Fantasy.
@@TheAussieBlue Starship Troopers is less Science Fiction than it is Heinlein's thinly veiled political philosophy rant. 80% of the book is people just standing around spouting exposition about the benefits of a deeply authoritarian regime.
@@armyfreak9389 that's not the bit that made me angry. What disgusted me was the opening scene, an attack on a skinnies city explicity called, in book, a "terror raid" designed to destroy civillian infrastructure and displace millions. What horrified me was the bootcamp where three cadets died and it was normalized, and considering that training also consisted of leaving recruits with nothing but sweatpants, a shirt, and a pair of underwear (no shoes even) to survive two weeks in the wilderness alone I'm amazed there weren't more. But what angred me was when they said that youth crime was solved by tying children to posts and publicly flogging them with whips if they did so much as steal a chocolate bar, even at the age of ten. That was my breaking point.
seeing the jetpack at 1:30, if hands are required for the other two thrusters, they could use the same balancing thing that the eco mobile had? then again't that just means adding more computing parts on an already heavy piece of equipment. which would then have you be required to use the exo legs that helps carry back packs. that's ALOT of batteries which is also, MORE weight
I still confused about few sources says that titus now is in service for 200 years and some other sources says he’s in service for 400 years (Well i heard that the silver ones are 50 years count each and the gold ones are 100 years each but since many people also confuse the pins on titus’s skull if it was silver or gold)
Well 400 makes sense, for the decade of service in the deathwatch and also his time as an captain so 4 golden ones standing for 400 years makes sense, but the lore is not totally clear on that subject, sometimes between chapters they handle it differently
Considering in Space Marine he only had 2 service studs, and in Space Marine II he now has 4 studs, but it has Canonically only been 100 years since the events of the first game (his service in Deathwatch was only a century) it makes more sense that he is repping the silver 50 year studs. Giving us a grand total of 200 years of active service.
Haha! He's got a Netflix show called Toughest Forces on Earth that's really fun. We also have companion BTS videos for each of his episodes on Pop Culture Field Manual. Good stuff.
For anyone confused, Fort Liberty was until recently known as Fort Bragg, until they finally realized it was kind of weird to name an American military base after a national traitor.
It would be so cool if you and your Ranger buddy voiced a couple of characters for a story I’m working on called “Black and White”, it’s about some futuristic sci-fi soldiers called Black Berets and Space Rangers.
Which one lol? Our time on Shift Fire ended a while ago. We have Pop Culture Field Manual YT if you want to check that out. That'll be where new stuff comes out. I've got my Twitch stream and YT of the same name MyHappySelf. Also a horror gaming channel called the Iz-Files. Tons of stuff just no Shift Fire anymore.
@@ERRATAS0707 the Death Korps is much harder than Cadian training. Both are exemplary units but the Death Korps of Krieg are who you call when something absolutely positively must be destroyed by sundown, regardless of the losses. Cadia is the epitome of stalwart defiance. The Death Korps literally nuked their entire planet to oblivion to purge heretics they then engaged in grinding trench warfare for centuries, until such time as they had served penance for their dishonor.
