Chaos Space Marines

Chaos Space Marines (along with the Lost and the Damned and the Chaos Daemons) are arguably the main antagonists in the Warhammer 40K universe. Basically Space Marines who have channeled their Faith in the Emperor to something more worthy of worship, like say, a Chaos God. The majority of them are the 10,000+ year old Veterans who stood by the Emperor during the formation of the Imperium. Now, they want nothing more than to tear it down. Why? For the lulz, of course, particularly due to the fact that a great deal of them can't even remember why they rebelled in the first place.

Seeing as how they're basically very experienced and potent Veteran marines further enhanced by the Powers of Chaos, Chaos Space Marines are generally stronger combatants than their loyalist brethren. Basically they exist to show that Space Marines aren't complete Mary Sues. They come in 5 exciting flavors;

• Khorne - Close quarters badasses full of RAAAAAAAAAGGGEEEE!. Best dedicated melee fighters in the setting, second to NONE. Insane, ruthless, barbaric and continually lusting after BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD and SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE. Khorne's dedicated marines are known as Berzerkers and are famed for their revolutionary use of the Chainaxe, which is basically an Eviscerator Chainsword on steroids and reforged into an axe, and fucktastically fearless charges. Kharn is a fine example of a Khornate Marine and the World eaters are the most famous Chaos legion dedicated to Khorne.

• Tzeentch - Tricky, conniving psykers. Unlike Khorne, who hates magic users 'cause they're un-manly skirt wearers, Tzeentch is something of an equal opportunity employer among the Great Gods. And has no qualms with physical brutality and tremendous strength and combat skill when it can suit him. So his warriors, though not nearly the equals of Khornate Berzerkers, are quite fine in a good 'ol scrap. Although in setting, warriors under Tzeentch tend to rape anything in ranged combat with either enhanced weapons or magicks that would turn heroes into chaos spawns, squads of infantry into ash, and vehicles into a puddle of molten goo, that or basically they screw their brains so bad that the poor sap is mindfucked in 5 whole different levels. The Thousand Sons is the most famous Chaos legion dedicated to Tzeentch.

• Slaanesh - What you get when Space Marines start going hookers and blow, they wanna get higher than high while banging an absurd amount of chicks.....while being high. Slaaneshi marines are looking for the next high and have more drugs in their system than........pretty much every junkie in the world. Combined. With that, they get Penis fingers to give them the extra edge and guy-on-speedballx20-like awareness, which is kinda like being able to see bullets flying at you and actually evade them. Doomrider is one of the most famous Slaaneshi champions and the Emperor's Children are the best known Slaanesh-following legion.

• Nurgle - Rotting, diseased, decaying racks of flesh who can take hits that would kill a squad of Terminators. Something of a meat shield as far as Chaos is concerned. They've contracted every disease in creation and then some. Despite them looking like a bag of things best not described, Nurgle's followers won't hesitate to give you a big, long, family hug. Dawww. The Death Guard is the most famous legion dedicated to Nurgle.

• Undivided - Marines who worship Chaos as either a combined entity or as a pantheon, the latter is especially true for the majority of Undivided Legions, such as the Black Legion or the Word Bearers. But in reality, they're just asshats who lack the balls to commit themselves to a Chaos God.

Overview

Basically SPESS MEHREENS who, for whatever non-reason, decided they were too cool and edgy for the Imperium of Man, so they redirected their homolust for the Emprah to something else...like a Chaos god. During the height of the Horus Heresy, they went all evil and did a lot of nasty on their former comrades until they were forced to retreat to the Eye of Terror due to Smurfs. Who were not on the other side of the galaxy when this occurs., disregard that, the Smurfs didn't even participate in the defense of Terra.

Naturally, they fight just like Space Marines, except on the average, stronger, more experienced and older, given that the majority stood with their Primarchs during the Great Crusade. They keep using shit they were equipped with prior to the Horus Heresy such as bolters and the ever useful Space Marine plot armor, which would explain why they haven't fist fucked each other to death before reaching the Eye of Terror or why they would follow the lead of a particular Saturday morning cartoon villain. Chaos Marines are also commonly known to compensate their aging weapons (which didn't really age much considering how fucktarded Imperium tech support is) by using demon magic, giving themselves penis fingers for that extra edge in combat. (Daemon steroids for Khorne's followers, for example )

They're the oldest fogies (or at least the ones from traitor legions are anyway) in the setting, barring the homosexual faggots, That one angry viking dreadnought, who's about their age, the Emo Tomb King expys and maybe a few of the Omnivorous Space Bug Lizards. Because of this, they irritably refer to the Loyalists as "Pups", "An army of Children" and "Those FUCKING whippersnappers." Frequently mocking their methods of Warfare as un-manly, and shouting such phrases as "THIS IS HOW WE DID IT MY DAY!!". Except when they meet Bjorn the Fell Handed, then they just crap themselves.

The Traitor Legions

When the Horus Heresy struck, nine of the original twenty legions turned against the Emprah and most of them devoted themselves to a particular Chaos God or devoted themselves to Chaos itself. Now when they fell back to the Eye of Terror, Space Marine legions amounted to around 10,000 marines each when they were founded but most swelled to around 50-100,000ish by the time of the horus heresy, the Raven Guard for example numbered 80,000 before they got their shit fucked up at Istvaan, but the Thousand Sons Legion was noted to be rather undermanned, even before the whole "Rubric of Ahriman" incident. So there are still a lot of Chaos marines serving Chaos, though not enough to outnumber all of the Space Marines under the Imperium. They are mostly widely scattered, acting as warbands though there are a number under the original Primarch's rule, it's very rare to see more than a grand company (equal in size to a chapter) of them at a time at any one battle unless it's an organized invasion (The Black Crusades for example) led by a relatively competent champion, the Legion's primarch himself calls them to fuck some shit up, or you're dealing with the Word Bearers or Iron Warriors. The list of the 9 traitor legions:

• Emperor's Children: Fulgrim - dissolved after Kharn fucked their shit up and acts as roaming warbands and mercenaries, though non-Slaanesh serving warbands generally prefer the World Eaters' berserkers to their Noise Marines something that you can't blame said warbands for because Berserkers are a far better unit (their statline is generally better, Chaos is more of a close-combat army any way, and Havocs kind of render Noise Marines redundant) and are even more awesome than the Noise Marines (which is saying something because the Noise Marines kill people with heavy metal).

• Iron Warriors: Perturabo - this legion is generally the most coherent of the traitor legions and retains the most of it's pre-heresy organization and numbers. Iron Warriors are the masters of siege warfare (Basically, rooting out cover-camping bitches) and sworn enemies of the Imperial Fists who are said cover-camping bitches.

• Night Lords: Konrad Curze/Night Haunter - famous for being the origin of the Chaos Raptor, which is Chaos's answer to the Loyalist Assault marines. Doesn't appear an awful lot these days. They prefer ambush tactics (Which is surprising since it's nearly impossible to remain subtle when you're walking around in a huge power-armor suit) and screaming like a maniac to cause terror and one of the few legions who refuse to employ daemons. One of the two traitor legions to not have it's primarch still walking around on account of Konrad Curze's desire to go down like an emo to rebel against daddy.

• World Eaters: Angron- dissolved after Kharn turned the legion against themselves, what a guy. Now acting as roaming warbands and mercenaries but still unites every now and then when Angron wants to fuck something's shit up, such as Cadia. The only legion known to get shit done when called up to do so.

• Death Guard: Mortarion - doesn't show up much at all in the fluff at all, though plague marines and champions can be found in many other warbands and next to world-eater berserkers, are the most common of the one-deity dedicated units.

• Thousand Sons: Magnus the Red - doesn't show up much at all in fluff after the Horus Heresy and rubric marines don't show up much in other legions' warbands and most warbands use their own sorcerers. 6th Edition will probably break the ice.

• Black Legion: Horus - unites every now and then when Failbaddon wants to launch another black crusade. It's a miracle they're still surviving with Abaddon's incompetent leadership and numerous failed black crusades, which should have probably left them extremely undermanned.

• Word Bearers: Lorgar - only Legion to have retained it's Chaplains in the form of Dark Apostles, who can often lead a Word Bearer's Warband in the place of a Chaos Lord or Champion. They're one of the more, organized legions and complete legions as they have a central daemon world of their own named "Sicarus", where it's filled with dozens of temples and cathedrals devoted to Chaos, and how all Word Bearers are held under the banner of their Primarch: Lorgar......even if the lazy bastard never does anything these days but sit around doing nothing.

• Alpha Legion: Alpharius/Omegon- No such legion or primarchs exists, further speculation on this issue is heresy and will result in execution.

Gallery

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