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Renegade Ultramarines


Drichar Deis

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Go for it. It's totally plausible, essentially every Chapter in the Astartes, baring a couple exceptions, has produced Renegades in one form or another, ranging from a handful of breakaways to entire Companies or Chapters turning.

 

My Khorne Berserkers aren't World Eaters at all, but Renegades from various Chapters, including a Black Templar, an Ultramarine, and a Dark Angel. I get so many dirty looks from people for that. ;)

By the codex fluff, no Ultramarine has ever/will ever turn to chaos, end of story.

 

By Black Library's fluff, there's a story of a single Ultramarine that tried to oppose Chaos, but wasn't strong enough and a daemon forced its way in. A SoB seraphim had to kill him but failed. They later met again and he was now a daemon prince or somesuch, and she was able to get him that time.

 

GW says no, BL says yes (but extremely rare). Pick your poison!

By codex fluff, the Ultramarines are over the top in badassery, so far as to seem ridiculous.

 

p12, Codex: Marines

They spend a whole page that boils down to "Rowboat Gullyman was teh bestest primarch evar! Hurr!"

 

p40

Ultramarines fight an enire war in three weeks.

Calgar defeats "several hundred" CSM by "rallying the local population".

Calgar tears an "upstart" DP limb from limb.

36 scouts and Telion defeat an entire planet in a day.

 

p84

Calgar holds a gate for "a night and a day" against an Ork army.

 

p86

"Tigurius is...the most powerful psyker in the Imperium."

 

 

Hell, Codex: Nids is basically Codex: Kryptman and Ultramarines Kicking the Snot Out of Anything That Looks At Them Funny.

 

GW's stance on Ultramarines is way too extreme to be believable.

The only chapter where they clearly state that no member has ever fallen to Chaos is the Grey Knights, so I say Renegade Ultramarines are very possible. By Fluff, unlikely, but possible. I think it would be a kick butt looking army though. They proudly wear they loyalist colors just to bring shame to the Sons of Gulliman.
How would a CSM army based on corrupt/renegade Ultra Marines sit with the current fluff?

 

A lone Marine. Possible.

 

A squad. Hm, difficult.

 

A whole "army". I am pretty certain that would have been something that would have been mentioned in the fluff, so no.

How would a CSM army based on corrupt/renegade Ultra Marines sit with the current fluff?

 

A lone Marine. Possible.

 

A squad. Hm, difficult.

 

A whole "army". I am pretty certain that would have been something that would have been mentioned in the fluff, so no.

 

To be fair, the only renegade chapter that is talked about in the fluff is... the Red Corsairs.

By the codex fluff, no Ultramarine has ever/will ever turn to chaos, end of story... GW says no

 

Where? Grey Knights are the only Chapter that can claim that in any fluff I have ever read. And I've read nearly all of it in one form or another.

GW is not willing to allow the Smurfs to be corrupted by a companies length.

 

However, squads worth mixed with other Chaos renegades is plausable. We've mentioned a few times the only Chapter with any real claim to never falling is the Grey Knights, and that's confirmed in the cannon. Everyone else is fair game, no matter how much the loyalists bawww.

I apolagise in advance for the quality of the pics, but my camera phone is less than adequate for the job.

 

The Renegades so far:

 

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u94/sidrioswin/027.jpg

 

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u94/sidrioswin/029.jpg

 

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u94/sidrioswin/028.jpg

 

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u94/sidrioswin/030.jpg

Nice start! Though I would probably scale back the purity seals, there's a reason you never see any on any Renegades. :)

 

Hmm well he could 'defile' them. It would underline the idea he has that they display Imperial symbols with the intention of further dishonoring their former brethren.

Nice start! Though I would probably scale back the purity seals, there's a reason you never see any on any Renegades. :)

 

Hmm well he could 'defile' them. It would underline the idea he has that they display Imperial symbols with the intention of further dishonoring their former brethren.

 

 

BINGO!

 

Just found some reinforcments, flicking through threads found out about stripping plastic, I've got some badly painted Dark Angels boxed away (about 50).

 

They are defectors from Ultramarines and their succesor chaptors, using ultra scheme to sow discord in the imperium with their raids, or something like that :P!

Hmmm perhaps. I can see them pretending to be UM's at times fluffwise.

In battle they'd wear desecrated banners, markings, eagles etc. A slightly darker blue for their basecolor. The 2ndary color is actually varying as they come from varying companies.

Add in some CSM bits here and there too.

Stay a bit limited Daemon-wise. I'd say they stuck somewhat to the Guilliman doctrines and all that, being rather organised still.

Spite, cynicism, bitterness and ambition driving them.

Perhaps they even see themselves as the 'true' Ultramarines/ Sons of Guilliman?

Stay a bit limited Daemon-wise. I'd say they stuck somewhat to the Guilliman doctrines and all that, being rather organised still.

Spite, cynicism, bitterness and ambition driving them.

Perhaps they even see themselves as the 'true' Ultramarines/ Sons of Guilliman?

This would make the most sense. Those look like dirty sneaky Alpha Legion to me anyway ;).

 

As Legatus said, a lone marine is possible. It's been mentioned in fluff, and only ever a single marine (as far as I know).

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