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Ill say this; if space marines were real, Ultramarines are one of the few we'd be comfortable having around

7:55 as a big Emperor’s Children and Fulgrim fan, referring him to “That fucking twink” is both accurate and hilarious

Ultra marines and gulliman are the reason why i got into 40k and now that im making my ultramarine army you will be qpart of it

Ultra marines are cool in their own way, just like the Dark Angels and White Scars. Its just that they're the most common and face of the company.

The ultramarines are also really the only chapter that does everything a space marine is supposed to do. They are, by DESIGN, in and out of lore, the example that others have to measure against. Everyone else has a particular focus and/ or weakness drawing away from the space marine core.

Their divergent successor chapters only prove their adaptability due to location and experience. If anything the reason why the iron snakes have a broken down structure is due to them recognising their responsibility of guarding the reef stars logistically and tactically.

I heard that during the early days of G-man was reunited with his legion, his momma was also busy making sure the space marine are cleaning their barracks, armors etc etc

Maturity is when you realized the Ultramarines are pretty based

Ultramarines may be bland. But if space marines were real in our world you better want them to be like this legion.

The ultramarines also have the advantage of being Roman themed, which is kick ass

At the end of the day, guilliman is a bureaucrat. A competent one, and that is what makes him incredibly dangerous.

Calls Blood Angels mid Calls Ultramarines great You are on thin line… and I’m with you on the same line

9:17 as a Salamander simp I just want everyone to have a seat at the table, Space Marine 1 is one of my favorite games basically ever, Captain Titus is a grade A++ badass, Matt Ward hasn't worked at GW for YEARs now and yeah, Ultra depression is pretty damn funny, I got no problem with Rowboats boys

You know what would make this video better? *PUTTING THE ULTRAMARINES CHANT FROM CHAOS GATE AS THE BACKGROUND MUSIC*

I appreciate the fact you've organised these in order of legion

"Do they still have that fucking toilet seat as their insignia?" -TTS emperor

I like the ultramarines for their roman aesthetics as well as their legion designation as the 13th is a reference to the legion Caesar used to conquer Gaul.

Hey now, go easy on the HammerFuckers! Malleus Fornicus is a hard but fair chapter master who can pound any foe into submission.

i feel like a loyalist emperors children would have much in common to the ultramarines, their objective to be perfect at everything would probably leave them at a symilar spot to the ultrtamarines, quite good at most things, maybe with the ocasional outlier thats the best of the best at one thing or two

I loved the Theoretical and Practical bits from the Ultramarines. Making a formal tradition out of giving your plans and intentions a thorough reality check. Then, when all of the intellectual work is done, wading into battle with dual power fists, punching heads off and caving chests in.

The reason I like the Ultramarines and Guillimon so much is because they were one of the few factions that truly understood what it took to build and maintain an empire.

another great addition to the legion playlist hydra dominatus

"Roboute Guilliman is a mommas boy. And an entitled brat." -Lion 'El Johnson

The Ultrachadnicus Marinus

It has to be said that Mr. Bones came into 40k after Know No Fear. It can not be said enough that Abnett personally reworked and redeemed the Ultras and Bobby in that book. I remember the times before that. I remember the Fall of Damnos where the Necrons handed the Ultras a defeat. It was pretty well written and everybody seemed to like it. But having the Ultra's lose was something GWS could not allow, so the Ultra's went back and defeated an awakened necron tombworld, because screw you that's why. Remember that whole joke of Calgar killing necron's with a AA-battery? That is something that happend in that book. So when Abnett came along and wrote Know No Fear where the Ultra's lost massive amounts of troops in the betrayal at Calth, that was something worth reading.

Ultramarines are also one of the easiest armies to paint, which makes it both easy to raise a large force to battle ready status quickly, but also make them look pretty decent at the same time, even with minimal painting skills.

"Amateurs talk tactics, professionals talk logistics." General Omar Bradley

The ultramarines are what got me into warhammer over 15 years ago, and they are still my favorite chapter. Ive come to love other chapters as well. But the boys in blue will always be my favorite.

I think the chapter that can compete ultramarines in terms of common sense and logistics are the raven gaurd successors, raptors.

I don’t hate the ultramarines, but I don’t like them for 2 reasons. 1: most often they’re kinda bland in their aesthetic. I wish they’d go full throttle into the space Rome look like that Mersaror guy. It’d help them to stand out a bit more. 2: they don’t leave any screentime for any of the cooler, more specialized legions, and the only ones that do get screentime are the blood angels and space wolves.

I hope to Macragge that the logistics chapter has their own ice cream barge for prolonged campaigns.

Proud ultramarines player.

When I first got into Warhammer in 2020, the fist mini I painted was an assault intersessor as an Ultramarine due to lack of knowledge of other legions and only having the starter paint set. I didn’t realize at the time how much people loved to hate on them. It kind of made me double down on loving them.

Just think - 6-8 years ago, saying this would’ve been ultraheresy lol I really feel caught off guard by how much I found myself liking Guilliman, as someone who grew up in the “spiritual liege” era

This video is also why I love the Dark Angels. Just swap out Roman aesthetic for knightly aesthetic and go from perfectionist diplomats to arrogant schizios and you have yourself a pretty cool, balanced, powerful legi- I mean CHAPTER. They're a TOTALLY CODEX COMPLIANT CHAPTER, NOTHING TO SEE, MOVE ALONG!

Salamanders are my favorite, but I do love me the Ultramarines, I have a fondness for generalists in gaming and stories.

Love it! HH Know No Fear is my favourite book. I’m a Flesh Tearer by nature, but I do love the boys in blue. If I had more patience, I’d play them.

I like them. 40k at its best is a story about raging against the dying of the light if you ask me. (Rylanor's last stand anyone?) And most of the Ultramarine stories I have read are a lot like that. Hell thats what Ultramar kind of is. As you mentioned characters like Ventrus have virtues they stand for even in a setting where everything seems to keep getting worse. Duty seems to be the word of the day for them. Besides there a realistic depiction of what you would want a super soldier to be like. Above good at war they seem to be just good citizens.

Oh look, it's the FACTS

I loved that gas station bit. If you like 40k and live somewhere like nova scotia you just have to chuckle at that

"Bendable enough to adapt to situations" Meanwhile: "STOP, THE CODEX ASTARTES DOES NOT SUPPORT THIS ACTION"

The lorgar comment had me bursting out laughing

I'm astonished that you've talked about the Ultramarines and their perception in the fandom without mentioning Matt Ward even once.

Since (so far) I'm only a hobbyist, and since I'm still very inexperienced with the hobby, ultramarines are my main army since what got me into warhammer in the first place was my local games shop, which let people play video games for like 10$ an hour hence why my parents brought young me there in the first place, got a giant cutout of an ultramarine when 8th edition came out which was on display right in front of the small staircase right as you walked in. seeing this gigantic space marine that looked both futuristic yet ancient at the same time for like two years is what made me a fan. getting my first "start painting" set made me realize that this hobby was for me, and when looking into the lore further I did genuinely like what the ultramarines were all about. learning about the fandom's general attitude towards ultras did make me a bit sad at first since I was new, but now I don''t care anymore, and I've even come to like the "their Primarch's name is Rodent Guillotine" memes. plus, it does help that I'm a basic bitch who almost always likes the default options the most, or at least a slightly cooler looking version of the default option (hell my character in dark souls 3 is almost always just some normal knight looking bitch, and in Doom Eternal I almost always use the the default slayer suit.)

This is why i am subbed to you. You take the piss on all those fans that look at 40k through memes and make them fuming when you defend something that anyone without a cool head and grounded look cant understand.

Did my ass just get womp womped at the end of the video, or is my hearing going?

Doesn’t Papa Smurf need to stay in his armo(u)r at all times, and that he will die if he takes it off? If so, then he is essentially a dreadnought primarch.

I like them because of the versatility in the tabletop: a lot of miniatures leads to a lot of types of armies you can make

I really do like the idea of warriors who are dominant because of logistics. Such an enormous part of war that fiction seems intent on ignoring for the most part. If the 20 legions were real, it would likely be the one which focused on stuff like logistics who end up as a powerhouse.

Ah yes, the Hammerfuckers. Iron Hands successor chapter, I believe.

How could you? The Hammer Fuckers are my favorite Legion

Yooo love this channel, the quality is very good it reminds be a lot of majorkill. Keep it up I can see this channel becoming bigger :D

they look dope specially that guy with the halo looking thing and flaming sword if there suits were black and grey that would be even better

Bones the type of dude to drive over in his Honda Civic, take off his white Air Force Ones, and pick Mario in Mario Kart.

Dude I had never made the link with the Ultramar convenience stores. Subscribed!

it should be mentioned that Guilliman had something that none of the other primarchs did, he had a mom! that's why he's the most well adjusted of all of them

I have struggled with which chapter to paint for 13 years. I started with ultramarines, then crimson fists, then black templars, then aurora chapter, then blood ravens, then blood angels. I should've just kept my ultramarines. I think I'll go back to them, thanks to you.

Listening to someone talk about the best legion while I sit here and paint the best legion. Life’s good

There is an Ultramar gas station near me, it takes all of my willpower to not add a second head to their golden eagle logo and the white "not omega" on the sign. Also now I kinda want to make up an army of UM successors called the "Hammer Fuckers"

Great video Arthur, keep up the good work!

I didn't think much of the Ultramarines until i read 'know no fear' and now i love them

Ultra Marines are Vanilla Space Marines. Some days vanilla is what you want, I get it.

I still want to flay them alive but I like them a little.

I also don't understand what's so funny about his name but I nonetheless enjoy the fact that he is basically the Beanibag Cabbagepatch of 40k

Notifications of your videos are becoming one of my favorite thing on YT, I click on them so fast

i would say the Ultramarines biggest plus is the flexibility of troops and administration. when a problem comes up the Ultramarines are almost certain to lose when you use a specialty fighting style against them but the second fight you will only just get away with your life and for the third not even the god emperor himself can save you. they are the quickest to learn from mistakes of all the legions/chapters. when they have a foot in the door for all aspects of war its not hard to open it further depending on the situation.

One of my favorite Ultramarines moments is in Dark Imperium when Calgar takes the 1st Company to handle a minor rebellion on Macragge. He does this because yes it’s overkill and that’s the point, to send a message that any attempt to subvert Macragge will be met with overwhelming violence. What isn’t well reflected about them on the tabletop is that Guilliman trained them to be good citizens first and warriors second and they deal with problems through a lense of diplomacy and sending a message instead of “raaaah kill them all”. Calgar even makes a point to capture and spare the youths who rebelled because they only have good intentions at heart. If you want to get a good idea of who the Ultramarines and Guilliman really are I’d highly recommend Dark Imperium and the way Ultramar is governed there.

I am very much enjoying your content. Your humor has me chuckling and i dont get most of the jokes yet as I am new to 40k. Was thinking of starting with Orks simply because they look fun, and there doesnt appear to be a limit to them dieing off. As you said in your orks video they arent an invasion so much as an infestation.

They are about equal to me, with the Blood Angels. Just a big, flat meh. Though slightly below, because they are the poster boys. They are the ham and cheese sandwich of the setting. No mayo, just ham and cheese. I actually find a lot of their successor chapters more interesting. Mostly because they either zig where regular Ultramarines zag... Or just straight up eat people.

Bench max is directly correlated with space marine chapter preference. Ultramarines stay on top 💪

As someone who remembers the Ultras from 2nd edition and even collected them it's weird to seem them go through cycles of being the most "normal" and being the "super, best, mega" marines. Uriel Ventris is a Bro though. I'm still a loyal son of The Lion though.

Your intro makes me very happy and I have no idea why

When I got into the hobby for the first time, I didn't quite connect the dots that the Ultramarines were the poster boy. Dark Angles were getting heavy representation on the box art, Crimson Fists were on the cover of Codex: Space Marines, Black Templars on the rulebook. I just liked blue. And years of character development ensued :/

I deeply enjoy your take on 40K as a whole. I heard you on Lorecrimes and have listened to a bunch of your vids since then. Great stuff!

I’ll admit that the Ultramarines are probably one of the most competent chapters in the setting because few other people know how logistics work. HOWEVER, they aren’t my favorite because they feel just a bit too…milk toast to me. Plus they suffer from the “Posterboy effect” in my eyes, where through being the main face of the setting, the faction/character in question becomes over represented and just feel less interesting to those who dig deeper. If I were to pick a loyalist legion to be my favorite, it’d probably be the Imperial Fists because the paint job and tactics are closer my preferences rather than anything else.

Keep it up Arthur I love you, your content is very underrated xx

Just got into WH40k with the Recruit Edition. Will now paint my Space Marines as ultramarines.

What made me turn my opinion to liking the Smurfs is through their primarch. Was two things about him. First being his upbringing and how much of a momma’s boy he is. The second being how he feels he failed in parts of his life. He felt he had failed to save his father, to save Big E, and he feels he failed the people of the empire.

I love the Uriel Ventris model, but the fact we don’t have a Veteran Sergeant Possanius model, the actual hero of the Uriel Ventris books, is a damn shame. I want my nearly primarch sized ultramarine with a heavy flamer running around with Uriel

I love you Mr. Bones, Great vid as usual!!

I heard a rumor that Matt Ward was originally writing what was going to become an Ultramarine codex, and the project later got changed to being the generic Space Marine codex when it was nearly complete. And thus began both the wanking of, and the hating of our lovable smurfs.

Glory to Mcragge and Ultramar

I think it’s funny. Ultramarines have a cool theme, and lots of people who hate on them weren’t even around or in the game when all the hate started, they just hate through osmosis.

I love Ultramarines, it isn't a popular stance from the perspective of many Xenos mains since the represent the poster boys of the Space Marines... Which themselves are the poster boys of 40k as a whole. But they are rational beacons of sanity in an irrational and insane universe.

The thing is, that the Ultramarine nature as being noble knights and efficient legionaries, makes them in my eyes very appealing. Also their noble and shiny aesthetic is something that I like as well. And they are bood boys. Not as kind as Salamanders, but still good.

The ultrasmurfs gets shit done

Courage and honor battle brother! Boys study battles, men study logistics.

The more i learn about the ultra marines the more i love them. LIKE THE GENESIS CHAPTER! Literally the first successor chapter ever. And they fanboy over the ultramarines and try to live up to that ego inflated uber-knightly and chivelrous battle brother ideology they and the greater imperium thought them to be.

Arthur you spit with this one. I would def collect ultramarines if they weren’t the poster boys.

I can't look at the Ultramarines and not hear TTS' voice for Cato Sicarius so I struggle to take them seriously.

Salamanders and ultramarines gotta be my favorite genetic war machines

ALPHA LEGION SUPREMACY

About the primarch names having a hidden meaning. Roboute is the Chec word for slave, and the etymological origin of the word robot.

“Can bench 3 plates” oh god, Arthurs a Dyel… a space marine could easily press that 1 handed my guy.. they’d be pressing in the thousands, especially in armor?? Good lord. We already got normal people with slings benching over a thousand and raw at almost 800

Like you I love reading and playing Black Templars and by extension the Imperial Fists and other descendants of the VIIth Legion. But even from the beginning, I always liked the idealism and space Romans aesthetics of the Ultramarines.

i was there when the matt ward warded all over the lore and it was not a nice time :( kinda hard to shake that off i have to admit - dark imperium books were fun though, Girlyman is very likable

Ultramarine's are bros, but Dark Angels are heroes.

Godamn robuto girlyman and his papa smurfs

Thank you for your video❤ your are the best storyteller then most!!!!

This reminds me that I need more blue paint.