True Size of a Space Marine Chapter [999.M41] (Part 2) 3D Documentary 

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I’d like to see an episode on Guard regiments, all the fascinating logistics and diversity of units that goes into the first and often only line of defense for the Imperium of Mankind. Edit: True the planetary defense forces and local navies of planets are the first line of defense against the threats, I feel safest on Mcrrage protected by its planetary military. Outside of the Terran PDF and guard regiments they’re the best equipped , trained and managed, especially with the return of Gullimen. Except Mccrage is a better place to live since it’s the home of the son of your god whose principle trait is order and logistics. (Do Ultima citizens even see the Emperor as a god?)

My armor is contempt, my sword is hatred, my shield is disgust, in the Emperor's name, let none survive.

These two vids were very enjoyable. I would love to see one on the fleet assets of a Chapter.

"For it is I, Cato Sicarius, who will become chapter master"

11:51 "...and thus has drawn censure from Chapter Command" Marneus Calgar: I CAST FIST!!!!

It would be awesome if we got a part 3 exploring the Ultramar Auxillia.

"Sweet lotions and sacred oils" Spacemarine smells of oils and lotions.. now I know!

Really puts into perspective how Veteran Captain Titus (Now Lieutenant Titus) was. Since Captain Titus was once the Captain of the 2nd Company, Guardians of the Temple.

Puts into perspective what story characters mean when an entire chapter is deployed , its not just a 1000 dudes , although its a 1000 space marines which are a significant force multiplier but behind them are tens to hundreds of thousands of support personel , its like if you give every Green Beret an entire group of fighter jet ground technicians to take care of everything else.

This reminds me of the Raven Guard 4th Company project I’m working on.. I sat down and did my best to research the lore on unit makeup, unit size, equipment, vehicles, even servitors and tech marines needed (all the while trying to keep it as lore-accurate as I could specifically for Raven Guard). It’s been fun so far. I’m going to need like, 115 miniatures and 16 vehicles or something 😅😂

Must...not...post..."I, Cato Sicarius"....reference.

These 40k vids are a great refreshment. So much better than most established "lore" channels who only read the Lexicanum.

"The 2nd Company led by Captain Seve- er, Captain Titu- er, Captain Cato Sicarius"

8:09 Ah Ventris, so that’s why he’s always on Macragge talking to Calgar about how everything always seems to go right for them for some odd reason.

Another space marine chapter that would be awesome to see is the Grey Knights and their size and structure.

You guys struck gold with this genre of video! Keep it up guys! May the emperor shine his light upon thee ✊

Well done, I'm just missing one thing. Every vehicle IS crewed by Space Marines, some vehicles will have serfs and/or servitors, but I don't think the Space Marine crew is counted among the 1000 battle brothers. Many of these operators are also at least a bit trained in keeping the equipment running by the tech marines and some probably will be elevated to techmarine in a later stage. It is however never recorded how or when they end up as vehicle operators...

The sacrifice of the First Company Terminators in the polar Relquary during the Battle of Maccrage in the Tyranid Ultramarine War, is still something I love alot. I haven‘t read the codex entries and novels in a long time but if I remember correctly it is narrated from the perspective of an astartes rushing to the reliquary after defeating the main force attacking the fortress monestary and being anchious since a huge detachment of tyranid bioforms was seen heading there mid battle and the Veteran Brother there haven‘t responded after the battle. He rushes through the halls of the reliquary, drenched in tyranid blood and scorch marks of heavy flamers. He finds hundred of dead tyranids but not even close to as many as went there. In the end he finds the main chamber, the sanctum reliquaris to the whole complex where the relict (i forgot which artifact it was feel free to remind me) of their primarch is cept in the middle of the room. There he finds them. All of the first company terminators (which I think at this point was the whole company that hadn‘t died at the main fortress monestary as sternguards and vanguard veterans) dead in circles around the relic with uncountable numbers of xenos corpses surrounding them. The shell casings are piled between their motionless bodies and the all seem to have gone down fighting till their last hearts had given in and then some. And not a scratch or splatter of vile inhuman blood has touched the relic. They gave their lives and did their duty against all odds. The last Terminator seems to have bled out shortly after he killed the last bioform in the room. Or he stood watch after the fight not leaving his vigil to patch himself up in case more bioforms were hiding, until even his astartes bidy couldn‘t handle the bloodloss and organ failure from all the wounds his pierced Terminator armor had sustained over the days of constant assault. Such stories are why I love 40K and the spacemarines, I love the Astra Militarum just as much if not more for their simple defiance and courage towards impossible odds because they are ready to die for the chance of doing something that helps what they believe to be the only right thing and for all humans in the galaxy. That is in a very different way to these bigger than life super human acts of glory and honor the Astartes stories provide a very strong motive as well. But stories like the Honored First and their final Vigil in the polar Reliquary are just some of my favorite ones in terms of narrative and legendary feats

A funny irony is that 40k undersizes its scale, with massive planetary campaigns with fewer combatants than some WWII fronts. But it is the most accurate of galactic scale war/administration. Even though you need to put a zero on the end of every formation larger than a squad.

I was waiting for this second part and I came out very satisfied with your work, now I'm thinking about so many possibilities of Warhammer 40K armies that you could bring on the channel and now in the video you inform us that you also plan to talk about vehicles and other things, so I'm happier than ever. It would be great if you talked in future videos about The Gray Knights, the Adepta Sororitas, the Imperial Guard, the Chaos Space Marines, the Tau armies and Eldar armies.

Dude this is like TV documentary quality work you and your team are incredible 👍👍👍

It would be amazing to see a True Size video for the Dark Angels Chapter since they have a very unique Codex Organization with their 1st and 2nd company and inner circle.

This was GREAT! Might I request a special on the Salamanders … Vulcan Lives!

You know, I don't really know if the super-human crews of space marine armored vehicles are really worth it for the chapter in the end. A tank is a tank at the end of the day and could lightly be termed as a significant force multiplier but it doesn't really let the marines exploit the nature of their augmentations and previous training. Furthermore we know that the Imperium has access to augmentations for baseline humans so it really can't be that hard for a space marine chapter to take a group of serfs and augment them to the point they are capable of integrating with a vehicles sensors and weapons to the point there is no appreciable loss in performance. It just feels like it would have been a more efficient use of resources allowing for more battle-brothers in the squads rather than squirreling away your reserve in the chapter specialists.

For Courage and Honor

This is very well done and from what I can gather as accurate as is possible with such things all that being said I can this being very useful for someone new to 40k though I’d note that not all chapters complie with the codex. The black templars being a prime example of a chapter who probably see that particular tome is little more then glorified toilet paper.

This was fantastic! Really looking forward to your next warhammer 40K videos, this was S-Tier content.

And I shall know, no sleep

1:40 "and I have 40k on the pocket" for a moment there I thought you were flexing how much money you had on your pocket

True size of the Macharian crusade would be pretty cool

This was very well made, and provided a lot of good explanations on how a Space Marine chapter works. However, with all the traditionally old models showcased here slowly being phased out, the intent is clearly to have the old Marines replaced by the new 'Primaris' Marines, who no longer have any special distinct 'Primaris' treatment. It would be interesting to see a second version of this series where you review how the new Primaris squad units work in a chapter, since their organization is still very new and not as well-known compared to the old.

It ain't an real Ultramarine vid unless it involves an decent burn against Cato Sicarius

NGL, when I heard Captain Cato Sicarius' name the first thing that popped in my head is the TTS version 😅😂. Now I can't unhear his spamming of his name constantly given the chance. "I, Cato Sicarius am the most prestigious Cato Sicarius."

Something I'd love to see is the True Size of a T’au Hunter Cadre!

Love these videos. Also love the map design at 6:50

It's in the millions, when you add in all associated with a chapter, a battle-barge alone goes into hundreds of thousands of voidsmen.

The emperor protects

He's not lying, Tacticus is good

For The Honour Of Ultramar

So Invica is going full 40k channel, let’s go

Finally!!!! Cant wait for the titans!!!!

GOOD MORNING AND MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM PHILIPPINES❤️

Awesome work as always. Keep it up! PS. gotta love the Ultra Blood Angel Terminators.

Another amazing video! You guys did such great work!

Modern militaries typically has a 10:1 ratio of support logistics to "frontline" combat. Space marine chapters apparently have 100:1.

More 40k plz❤

Tyranids: "Thats rookie numbers"

When I hear anything about second company I immediately hear the tts voice "CATO SICARIUS!" In my head.

Can't wait for a tanith first and only video or one on the tau

At least you left out the Primarus Marines. A Space Marine from Neophyte to Chapter Master doesn't go through each company. Sure one will start at the 10th company as a scout, then will be assigned one of the reserves based upon his specialty (8th for Assault, 9th for Heavy weapons, 6th or 7th is most of them will be). When a Tactical Company suffers losses they will be brought up into a squad to replace losses. From there they could be elevated to the 1st Company or Promoted to Sergeant and given a position leading a reserve squad until a vacancy opens up in one of the battle companies, or become one of the 10 Tutors (Sergeants) of 10th Company. After some time leading a squad in the battle company the Sergeant will be elevated into the 1st Company as a Vanguard or Sternguard veteran, then one of the 1st Company Sergeants. After some time if not assigned to one of the other Chapter officers he will become a Captain of a Reserve Company, then promoted to Leading one of the Battle Companies. Before 1st Company Captain which is typically 2nd to the Chapter Master the highest rank.

One noble son, of the master of mankind, has arrived to attend this glorious ceremony of The Primarch of Logistics and Lord of Ultramar and his hollowed, indomitable Space Marines..

Loving these series. Would love to dive into the logistics of the troops and empire itself. Thanks for another awesome video,.

The work and research and pure entertainment of this video deserves a million views. Well done.

The voiceover is butterly smooth.

What I like the most is that these two videos give some much needed perspective of how much weight a phrase like "the entire Chapter was deployed" or "the entire chapter was lost" have. With a thousand Battle Brothers, many more Scouts, support Marines and leadership, and their mortal servants, a Space Marine Chapter brings to bear firepower rivalring a present-day First World power's entire military. If you read about a particular Imperial campaign that features the deployment of MULTIPLE Space Marine Chapters, that was a SHITSHOW.

"Hereditary slaves" made me chuckle. Very 40k.

Subbed after watching part one of this series. This is so cool! Thanks for all the hard work put into these videos!

Thank you for this. Now I have an idea how to do Captain Angelos’ third Company when I play DOW again.

I love everything you make but this series got me excited!

Great series! Would be cool to se a breakdown of an Primaris Space Marines chapter and its new and unique equipment.

As someone who’s always been in love with 40k lore (can’t wait for Henry caveils adaptation) but have never played, these videos are exactly what I love. Thanks for these series combination. Perfect video to end my day with a cold glass of eggnog.

This have been really fun and interesting to watch! would love to see you do the codex non-compliant chapters!

Love part 2&1! Would love to see a primaris only chapter, maybe the black templars or a guard version

7:08 Alright keep your hands out of your pants guardsman.

While the Ultramar Auxilia is mostly used as PDF garrison on the 500 worlds, they could be so much more. There is no Codex limit on the size and armaments of an Space Marine's auxiliary force, similar to an Inquisitor's retinue. And there are Inquisitors who induct millions of Guardsmen into their retinue, or entire fleets. Or both. Same for the tech-marines. A normal Chapter has maybe 40 tech-marines, but they could have 1000 or more, since they are not considered Battle Brothers, nor are the Dreadnoughts, the Librarians and so on.

An episode on the Stormhost of the Stormcast Eternals would be awesome 👌👌👌

The floodgates have been opened, can’t wait for more 40K

Never too old for 40k.

17:10 ah yes the green ultramarines.

I'm working on my own codex complianed homebrew space marine chapter and this little video series helps a lot. Thank you very much!!

Cool. Now do the updated roster with Primaris Marines!

Video suggestion because it's so well documented: True size of the 88th siege army.

Great video! Love 40k content. I wonder how things have changed since the introduction of Primaris and their assets.

Thank you so much for this series. Seriously. Thank you.

You made it part of the video... Tacticus is a lot of fun, but having tried it three times from install, it is aggressively PTP. You need certain characters of certain factions to open new campaigns or risk getting stuck in grinding. The first ones to open the initial campaign are trivial, but after that even when you grind, scrape and wait for 10x reinforcement shards (the drop pod thing) and despite the guarantee of a new character if you wait to cash 10 shards at once, doesn't happen after the initial characters. Instead you get character tokens for the initial characters, which are used for upgrading a character... if you happen to have the other, increasingly rare item to go with it. So, without paying, I was stuck in the initial Imperium, Necron and Chaos campaigns, with 1 of 3 required characters for the next two campaigns after 2x and 3x (different games) 10 shard drops that netted zero of the required characters but enough to level up the initial characters. By this time, I have piles of character coins for multiple characters and levels, but not the now super rare extra item... Oh, that extra item is also required for higher levels of character powers. So, two requirements, level up upgrades or special power upgrade... OR drop enough $$ to buy another game for 10 low-mid upgrade items that you start needing multiple of to upgrade. As for the required characters that refuse to drop as promised (no, a stack of character coins for a character I have does not equal a guaranteed new character), $$ works too, at an even more expensive rate. The costs are insane for digital bits, like GW plastic and resin price insane. You know, prices so high it is cheaper to shell out for a higher end 3d printer and resin to print your own minis. TLDR Summary: It is a fun game despite being a heavily overpriced pay to play rip off fairly quickly, which ends the fun.

this vid feels much better organized than the first, much appreciate the mention of chapter serfs

Production quality is first class great work!

Id love to see a video like this for a full Great Crusade era Space Marine Legion

Outstanding production quality. I enjoyed this video and was wondering if there will be more videos made on different chapters or perhaps taking the new Primaris units and organization into account.

Love these!! Would love to see other chapters, like my favorite the Black Templars!!

I love 40k. Been a follower of the books and shit forawhile. I appreciate all of your guys work and effort. So thanks

Really well made, And well researched. Im not going to "um actually" because im sure with how well you broke it up and got a bunch right with the lore I'm just going to guess it got put into the wrong spot. But you call terminator armor "dreadnaught" armor when detailing the vet squads. And you characterize dreadnaughts in the "vehicle" section. Dreadnaught are marines that have fallen in battle and are kept in the dreadnought armor that contains their life support systems. You cant pull someone out of the suit as they will die and are the most venerated men, as they most likely are some of the oldest Marines, and its a great honor to be in a suit. The way you go over it im sure is just a "dreadnaughts are separate "and got lost, just wanted to say in case anyone was curious ☺️

Can’t wait for all the other parts!

This is great! Id love to see some horus heresy focused videos as well, a focus on the legions would be amazing!

Brings me back to the days when I first got into 40k and I love it!!

It would be awesome if in a year or so you could cover primaris chapter organisation. I imagine by then GW will have done away with all the first Born units although I don’t know about in the lore because I think the primaris and firstborn dichotomy is cool. They probably won’t get rid of the land raider but hopefully they remake upscaled primaris Rhinos and all the rhino chassis vehicles like predators and whirlwinds, as well as the Centurions.

This is brilliant! Please keep making 40k Videos

Excellent video guys. Well done.

Nice job and beautiful presentation!

It's funny how the Interceptor class in Warhammer 40k: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters can so effortlessly spam Teleportation and Warp Strike if teleporting requires terminator armor just to survive such a feat

To be noted that a chapter also has further assets : ships and possibly chapter monastery (or even monasteries) Now to guard all of this there are armsmen amongst the ranks of the chapter serfs and crew members, because marines are too precious to act as permanent ship or monastery garrisons (altho obviouslt any marine aboard will aid on fighting boarders if it occur)

Thanks for including the servitors, serfs and other servants that make chapters viable!

Well done, I look forward to more content of this quality, great music choice and narrator you have a magnificent voice.

Really enjoying these 40K stuff!

For those curious, there's a book series by Graham McNeill that follows the exploits of cpt Ventris and his right hand man Pasanius(who is counted among tallest and largest marines currently in lore). Series span 6(now 7) books, from defense of ultramar vs tyranids, his censure and perilous undertaking to destroy one very nasty chaos project, then his escape and reinstatement to captaincy, book 7 even got him audience with primarch Guilliman and undergoing rubicon primaris. Good stuff if you're interested (it's a bit tied to another series by same author, but both can stand on their own). I must compliment the model department here, those vehicles look quite sharp.

Man, I love this collaboration! Y'all are gonna have me collecting marines again.

GREAT VIDEO! I'd love to see you do this for a guard regiment

I was actually looking forward to this. Thank you for delivering part 2 so soon. This was entertaining and educational indeed.

This was awesome!