The SOLAR AUXILIA in the HORUS HERESY | Warhammer Lore 

The reason the Solar Pattern armour fell out of use was that it was only available in resin.

The Solar Auxilia were the real space marines of 30k. Humanity's best and brightest for a new age that would never come to pass

When it comes to lore and aesthetic I think the Solar Auxiliia are my favorite in 30k. Their lore fills a niche that Warhammer until recently has lacked- I mean you’d think in a Sci-fi/fantasy setting you’d have people in space suits in the void of space. Plus their outfits are just so cool. Giving me that old fashion scuba diver look

In a couple of novels I've read the Ultramarines have an "Ultramar Auxilia" (normally just a cursory mention) and their regiments are way better equiped and trained than standard guard regiments, with single Ultramarines being sent on rotation to oversee the training of new regiments. Their job is to garrison worlds in Ultramar and the "500 Worlds". It said they were also deployed to warzones like guard regiments, but by the order of the Lord Macragge or Tetrarchs of Ultramar (before the Tetrarch was desolved), and sometimes they fight in support of Ultramarines battle companies. I read another novel, I forgot which one, more recently that featured the Ultramar Auxilia in the Era Indomitus and it described the soldiers in much more detail, sounding a lot like how the Solar Auxilia look. Because of their armour and equipment they were much more resiliant to the plagues of the Death Guard and stood firm in the trenches against everything the Death Guard threw at them. It really made me want to buy some Solar Auxilia models to paint up as Ultramar Auxilia and use the Astra Militarum rules alongside my Ultramarins in 40k.

One of the things I've always enjoyed about 30k is the nuance in the traitors motivation. It's not all 'fallen to the chaos gods', personal glory, lust for power, revenge, ego and a sense of duty to the warmaster also all make sense as reasons to follow Horus.

This is SO outrageously cool! The Forgeworld lore feels ... real. Fleshed out. Tactile and believable. In a way that the codex armies just don't achieve. Thank you so much for introducing us to this!

Excellent video, the first time anyone's documented and captured the flavor and flair of the Solar Auxilia

You need more subs. Highest quality mid length 40K lore content in RU-vid.

“Let my epitaph be this; I was born nameless and abandoned in the gutter of a sunless pit, but I have died a conqueror of worlds.” -Lord Militant Erais Slaithe

I love how this has the nuance of real history to it. Like the best version of soldier didn't become the default because it's expensive and didn't work with the over arching bureaucracy. Thanks for a great video!

The Solar Auxilia were the real space marines of their time, un-augmented they still held their own, against fellow humans and even against Astartes with some cases even winning against a legion force! I would say the only "modern" Imperial unit coming close to equipment would be the Tempestus Scions.

Very cool to rewatch this after the new plastic models have been announced 🤙

Theoretically the void armor and weapons of the Solar Auxilia could still be produced, meaning you could have a guard regiment of Solar Auxilia. At least that’s my excuse for my printed Army of them

Great video, these guys are criminally underrated. Just a shame the awesome models are criminally expensive too 😆

Such a shame that we never got a proper Horus Heresy novel by Black Library focusing on the Solar Aux

Been into 40k since the 80s (with a huge break from age 14 until recently) but never knew about these guys, you learn something new.. what's with the huge bracelet of bolts though?

You really have to love that in a setting where super powered scions of demigods and bloodthirsty, reality warping daemons and aliens, that you can say "nah, feck all that" and just play an army of ordinary dudes. Well trained dudes, sure, but just dudes. It's actually funny because I love playing Horus Heresy but the space marine legions themselves have no appeal to me. It's everyone around them, caught up in their civil war, that I find interesting.

I didn't know half of that. Thank you for filling in so many blanks. This particular series is proving great fun

This is an area of 40k lore I knew virtually nothing about. Another informative video!

The more I leanr about the Solar Auxillia the more I fall in love with tbem. The new plastic kits are amazing. I have a few sets. I dont play HH and IG arent my thing, but tjey will be fun to use for other non GW games like OPR or even Trench Crusade snd more. Great video

YASSSSS , my favorite human forces !!!!

Could you do one of these about the Knight houses, how they differ from titan Legions and how their links to the admech or Imperium work? Also a general history of Rogue Traders, the people, would be really cool. As always great stuff!

Watching this to hype myself up for the upcoming plastic Solar Auxilia models.

Shameful how such a cool faction has been left to gather dust.

30k have so many interesting and diverse human forces.

elite troops specialised in space fighting and shipborne activities? So you're saying they're kinda like, marines but in space?

I really with GW with the addition of the Primaris went for the hog and brought the Solar Auxilia into the 40k realm too, would have been a really nice "alt-guard" kind of thing outside of the Scions.

Great video, I fell in love with these guys as soon as I saw them on Forgeworld. Praying for the day we get them in plastic...

huh. i always thought the Solar Auxilia were phased out, when the post heresy imperium saw the Forgeworld prices and said 'Nope!'

We need to bring back these masters of the universe back

I really wish that there was a modern equivalent to bridge the gap between baseline humans and Astartes like the Auxilia.

Awesome video. Very helpful lore. Learned so much I thought they were just what was re-branded to the Imperial Guard. Keep up the good work.

One of the things I like about some of your lore videos is that you don't just approach things from an "in-universe" perspective, but also sometimes cover the outside view of how the lore changed over its publication history, the authors' intentions, etc. I'd like to se more of that.

great breakdown, thoroughly enjoyed all your lore vids so far. i'm creating a small imperial homebrew faction, and their navy marines use admech rules and van saar models for as much as i can pull off. after watching this i'm thinking the Acturian Naval Marines might be a descendant of solar auxilia forces with advanced, fully enclosed void suits :D

Stuff like this is what I love. Guard/Imperial Army > Spoice Muhreen, ODST > Spartans. Maybe not in combat effectiveness, but in terms of how much I love them, at least lol

My favorite lore channel.

I would love to hear a story were a planet stuck in a time frame due to the warp at the edge of the imperium has solar auxilia and they still don't know what is happening they just got attacked by Iron warriors and are fortified, waiting for further orders till the salamanders arrive an the planet to tell them that was 1000 years ago.

Once again, a super cool video ! (it is not referenced but in the Horus Heresy 101 list by the way, is it normal ?)

honestly the Solar Auxilia are the only thing from Forgeworld that properly tempts me

can you do one of these. About the original imperial guard the first plastic ones for rouge trader 1987 to 89. They are the one's i fondly remember as the planet fighter's and painted as necromunda guard. with jet bikes land speeder's jump pack's and rhino's and many thing's that the space marine's had. Don't forget beastmen squad's

In the grim darkness of the 31st millennium, there is only an attractive retirement package after 30 years of military service.

Arbitor Ian back at it again!

For how badass these guys are, keeping pace with space marines and greatly contributing to the Great Crusade, they lose some points with the 1950s scuba diver astetic.

What’s the odds of a new range in plastic 🤔 great vid as always

Great vid! These would make for a cool personally created guard regiment.

So glad I have discovered this channel!

Good video. I'm glad the algorithm suggested it. Subbed 👍🏻

i just picked up the HH book and this was a great primer for that.

Just when I was starting a solar aux army too. Never clicked on a video so fast in my life.

Wake me when there are Plastic SA kits available.

Love this vid I was always confuse on weather or not they were in mass since the siege of terra books don’t really explain it

Again, you’re presentation of lore brings to light the detailed beauty of this dark distant future.

Nice!

That's more info on the Solar Auxilia than I have been able to muster since Legions came out. Was this one book your info came from? More and more units are coming out for Imperialis but there's not much to back it all up that I can find. Thanks for the info.

I always love your synopsis of these forces Sir. Really well done:)

A nice reminder of why I *SUBSCRIBE* to ArbitorIan!

Always liked these guys, thanks Ian!

Sounds to me their role was filled by the Tempestus Scions

Great video mate, very informative and fun!

Fantastic video, I hope some day Solar Aux become a reasonable army to build and paint

The Horace Herace is just cool already it feel so futuristic historic if you know what i mean i dunno its just awesome and this video just makes it cooler

Pretty sure the *entire* army of Ultramar as they had an extensive well equipped army became the Auxilia for the Ultramarines, which is why they are unique in having a horde rule, allowing for a lot of them to be fielded. However, in the 10 millennia since then Horus Heresy they no longer exist, wiped out after thousands of years of Chaos incursions and tyranid attacks. Now days Ultrimar is protected by a combination of standard Imperial Guard regiments and the Ultramarine's successor chapters.

Great video, I was totally in the dark on these guys Lore wise. All my Heresy knowledge has been limited to the Legions.

The self healing Kit. Lucifer Blacks had the same no?

I just printed a squad of them, and I gotta say they look super badass.

Great video again Ian will you be doing what 40k imperial guard can we use in 30k as well?

I really want these in plastic. Theirs 3d prints online but they are covered in chaos sigils. Here's to hoping to find some good ones without.

Oh yes!

The Solar Auxilia need to return

I like how they designed their helmets to have the worst possible peripheral vision 😂 Such great looking armour though! From hipsters like me wearing a coat that's not warm enough just because it looks damn good, to the Solar Auxilia getting shot by someone standing right beside them--we ALL must suffer in the name of fashion!

Please, do a video about Ollanius Pius

30k Solar Auxilia made for a cool Rogue Trader or Imperial Navy themed army in 40k

Definitely love their design

Cheers Ian, another excellent bit of lore.

Yet another brilliant video!

I wonder how these guys would stack up to the tempestuous scions

👍. Great Video. Great bit of Information.

Another cool faction that could be great if it wasent made out of resin. #burnallresin

Three squads of twenty! At forge world prices! 😢 time to look up some stls

6 sec after posting but I’m 2 days late already, lol

GW should make these. I'd rather have them than using boring cadians as proxies.

'Ireton Massad' of Agathon. Not sure where Massad part comes from but 'leading a coup against Parliament' sounds like a swapped riff on Henry Ireton, the prominent parliamentarian in the English Civil War? Sometimes I'm never sure how much the historical analogies are reaching too much. The idea of Terran nobles jostling for power for their respective dynasties after military conquests make the Crusade sounds more like the expansion of the Roman Republic with militarisation of consuls etcetera, which is very cool if a link but again maybe I'm reaching.

Thank you sir

Excellent video

Can anyone tell me what book or books some of these pictures came out of?

And depending on the lore you listen to (since you can make your own, or just listen to Baldermort), the Solar Auxilia and those blessed enough to use their weapons and armor? Were more than a match to Space Marines. They'd die in droves, assuredly, but power is power. Bias has no hold over that truth.

still waiting for that q&a video though

1:13 tercio? Like the Spanish square?

What book is Ian referencing here,it has great artwork!

Hello Ian, i have a question: Do you have a video on the imperial colonization of Cadia, in one of the Horus Heresy Books it was still in the grasp of Chaos, i believe it was in one of the Word Bearer stories, in which Lorgar searched for his new faith. Im wondering how a world this close to the archenemy could be colonized and turned into a fortress world of immense proportions. Did the loyalists fortify it after realizing they could not follow the traitors further into the eye of terror after the horus heresy?

What is the symbol at the centre of their aquila? The circle with 3 lines radiating out.

It's a shame they made the focus on the horus heresy itself when the unification wars and the great crusade are way more interesting. Still, guess people like seeing primarchs and space marines fight

There is a game in beta right now that kind of looks like it took inspiration from these guys. You have a big ship then get in a smaller boarding ship fly to the enemy then fly in. Then it's your basic 1st person shooter. It looked like they had WWII guns and gear but I can't be 100% sure. It looked really cool but I have found anything on it. It's not a 40k game, But it definitely took inspiration from 40k. Does anyone know what this game is called? It might be out of beta by now.

I always love this more than the guardsmen yeah call me a idiot,this guy are maybe even better than the guardsman because this were side by side with the astartes while the guardsman is just Cannon fodder now,the only saving grace are the commissar like yarrick or Cain

Can you cover the sons of sek?

What is the theme song please?

Steampunk imperial guard..

Its such a shame gw hates Australia, otherwise I think I'd absolutely be collecting these guys. As is I'm just waiting for Cults and Militia rules to come out so I can decide what path to kitbash :)

😊

I believe the alpha legions considered themselves the good guys. They were shown worlds where the traitors or their king won and it caused the death of humanity. Instead they forced the hands of reality and made a world where neither was true, possibly and very realistically saving humanity from both fates.