So....the end of Space Marine's campaign

[Lord Mad Balrog]

Ultramarines colors:

Primary - blue (armor)

Secondary - white (tactical badges, Chapter symbol)

Tertiary - gold (general trim, Aquila, iconography)

Quaternary - red (default accent color - Purity Seal wax, capes, cingula, weapons)

Quinary - black (weapon color)

 

http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m1252454_99120101024_SMCombatsquadmain_873x627.jpg

 

Fourth company, straight from the Games Workshop site. The command squad appears to be Second Company, but there's no telling with the Librarian or any of the Ultramarine-flavored Devastators.

 

I kind of thought the addition of the Blood Ravens was a little cheeky and self-promoting, but apparently they, like the Black Templar, are a fleet-based Chapter (even though they have a sub-sector's worth of recruiting worlds, circa Dawn of War 2...), so at least that makes sense. I didn't mind the Black Templar - if nowhere else, I could totally see them escorting the Inquisitor to take a possible witch into custody in the final cutscene. You obviously need Astartes around to handle another Astartes.

 

As an execution move, the button-mashing quicktime would've worked better, I also think. It's nothing we didn't see with the execution moves on other enemies, only this one had more button options, as it should for the climactic boss fight. But you should actually have to stun Nemeroth first by, I dunno, stomping on him with the Titan or something.

 

Oh, and in Pirates of the Caribbean, that was Captain Barbosa.

 

EDIT

The Emperor's Champion is quite right when he says that those are the Roman numerals for "6", not 4. They still confuse me, and I admit to being rushed when I was posting the picture.

[The Emperor's Champion]

http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m1252454_99120101024_SMCombatsquadmain_873x627.jpg

 

Fourth company, straight from the Games Workshop site. The command squad appears to be Second Company, but there's no telling with the Librarian or any of the Ultramarine-flavored Devastators.

Uh.... I don't really know what your point it, but that's 2nd Company Tactical Squad #6....

There's nothing 4th Company about that.

[Chapter Master Ignis Domus]

Note the gold trim, signifying the 2nd company, which was yellow in 3rd edition, I believe, and the nicely done VI on the shoulderpads and knees.

[Wysten]

I just completed it, sure, the final fight wasn't the aweinspiring, jetpack hogging spectical i might of hoped for, but it made sense considering that titus was so easily beaten every time he encountered the Chaos Marine anyways. He needed a gigantic advantage (knocking him off a cliff) to stop him gaining the upper hand he held both of the previous times. Otherwise it would be "wut?! Where did he suddenly get the balls from" and create a contridiction in the other direction. Plus the chaos tower didn't quite feel chaosy enough. I really wished I kept the jetpack the entire final level, that would have been epic.

 

The game was generally quite awesome all the way the way through. Dem rokket ork's ar' da pain in behind though. I loved the natural feel of the game though, it really made the entire obscure concepts that would be so alien to outside cultures, really feel kind of natural.

[Captain Blint]

There are two things in the ending that I can't come to terms with. 1)NO ONE even bothered with the "The Emperor protects" line of reasoning for Titus's immunity. Let's break this down... The Emperor is at least the most powerful psyker ever, if not a god. The Ultramarines are weapons/tools/servants (however you decide to put it) of the Emperor. Why is it so hard for these normally fanatically religious warriors to grasp, "This Daemon Prince would be bad for the Imperium and I'm uniquely suited to stop him... it must be the Emperor's will!" However, I will say that it left a great cliffhanger and I am eagerly anticipating the next game already. 2)IIRC The Inquisition and the Black Templars HATE each other... or are at least suspicious of each other. The Templars are accused, or at least investigated, for heresy due to their zealotry (more likely because the Imperium doesn't like Space Marines who are so borderline out of control). I could be wrong, or thinking of an old piece of fluff that has recently been outdated, if so I apologize and withdraw this complaint :P. I'd say Relic chose them because of the MMORPG.

[thade]

1)NO ONE even bothered with the "The Emperor protects" line of reasoning for Titus's immunity.

They can neither prove nor disprove the Emperor's involvement with Titus. The way the Imperium works is Trust no one...so lack of clear evidence = presumed guilty until proven innocent. It sucks, but them's the brakes.

 

However, I will say that it left a great cliffhanger and I am eagerly anticipating the next game already.

On that we can agree.

 

2)IIRC The Inquisition and the Black Templars HATE each other... or are at least suspicious of each other.

I recommend you (and others who don't get the BT tie-in) hop over and read the thread about it on the Black Templar forum. TL;DR is makes perfect sense for them to be there.