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Ultramarines

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{{Infobox Spess Mahreen Chapter
|Name = Ultramarines
|Heraldry = [[File:Smurfpauldron.jpg|140px]]
|Battle Cry = "Courage and Honour!" and "We March for Macragge!"
|Number = XIII
|Founding = [[First Founding]]
|Original Name = War-Born
|Successor Chapters = Roughly 65% of all Chapters. Allegedly. However, a lot of those don’t know who their Primarch is or are very different from Gulliman. Generally, most loyalists of traitor legions claim Ultramarines as parent Chapter.
|Chapter Master = [[Marneus Calgar]]
|Primarch = [[Roboute Guilliman]]
|Homeworld = [[Ultramar|Macragge]]
|Specialty = Jack of all trades. Obsessed with strategy, tactics and [[Codex Astartes|discipline.]] Basically Greco-romans IN SPESS!!
|Strength = Above 1000 Marines
|Allegiance = [[Imperium]]
|Colours = Ultramarine Blue, white & gold (For the most famous Second Company. Other Companies use different colors)
}}
{{Topquote|Battles are won by [[World Eaters|slaughter]] and [[Codex Astartes|maneuver]]. The greater the [[Creed|general]], the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.|Winston S. Churchill}}
{{topquote|Our Presence Remakes the Past!|The Banner of Macragge}}

The '''Ultramarines''' (More commonly known as Ultrasmurfs) are a chapter of [[Space Marines]], probably the most famous and well-known and mincy (both within the [[Warhammer 40,000]] universe and without). [[Games Workshop]] considers the Ultramarines their chapter of choice, and the Ultramarines represent the standard upon which most other Space Marine chapters are based but strive to be different from as they are so mincy. Why Games Workshop would want a Space Marine chapter whose symbol is a <s>toilet seat</s> <s>repulsive reverse vagina</s> <s>upside down Omega</s> <S>upsilon</S> [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-close_back_rounded_vowel International Phonetic Alphabet transcription for "uhh..."] ('''℧''') as their go-to chapter is beyond us. They have an easily recognizable blue-with-gold-trim colour scheme that the [[Thousand Sons]] decided to rip off post-heresy (after the Newcrons ripped off ''their'' Egyptian motif.) Of course technically that's only the second company ,but who ever heard of an ultramarine player not painting his army blue and gold? The blue colouration, coupled with the small size of the minis, has lead them to be nicknamed "Smurfs" by <s>some</s> everyone. [[Rick Priestley]] was originally inspired to promote the ultramarines heavily in publications of White Dwarf after a dream he had whilst staying around a friends house in which he claims [[What|the miniatures began speaking to him]], this part allegedly had a role in his eventual dismissal from [[Games Workshop]] in 2010.

A squad of Tactical Marines are the protagonists of the 40k-based CGI movie surprisingly titled "[[Ultramarines:The Movie|Ultramarines]]". It's not bad ''per se'' ([[Dan Abnett]] did some of the writing, although the fact that it was only "some" shows) but could have been [[Skub|better]].

==Overview==
[[File:NroL23W.jpg|left|350px|thumb|All said and done, the Ultries can be badass.]]
The Ultramarines are perhaps the closest to what many would consider a 'modern' military among the Adeptus Astartes. Strategy, planning and the minimization of casualties is the basis of any Ultramarine battle-plan and their central concept is that of a well drilled, immaculate army of soldiers who execute their duty with professionalism and competence. [[Alpha Legion|"Information is victory"]] is essentially the Ultramarine way, more so than [[Alpha Legion|most]] [[Raven Guard|other]] Chapters. Though they are much more relaxed with regards to discipline than the [[Red Scorpions|Forge World's favoured]], or [[Hammers of Dorn| those other guys]]. Even before they had reunited with their Primarch, it had been noted that the XIIIth Legion (then called the War Born) was strongly inclined towards the adoption of carefully thought out battle plans, an established chain of command, and an aversion to inflicting collateral damage. These tendencies were intensified further by their extensive study and practice of the [[Codex Astartes]], which covers a very broad range of battlefield situations and doctrines to live by. Thanks to each and every one of them training and living by it, their companies operate like a smoothly functioning combat machine with every unit functionally interlocking with every other. However, as much as this by-the-book discipline was their strength, it is often also, like the real-life ancient Roman Legions, their weakness, since the few situations that the Codex Astartes did not prepare them for tended to catch them flat-footed, lacking the flexibility to properly respond. More accurately, no Marine knows the whole Codex as it is too vast for even their minds. Each learns different parts of it. This means that while the whole Codex can be used for any situation, commanders don’t have all the pieces to the puzzle. The initial Tyranid invasion and the [[Necrons|Damnos incident]] exemplify such situations, where the unconventional nature of their enemy nearly led to their defeat. It doesn't matter how smoothly your forces function if you don't actually have a way to win the battle.

That being said, they are extremely good at adapting to a threat once the initial shock has passed . In the aftermath of their near-defeat to the Tyranids, the Chapter would go on to crush Hive Fleet Kraken as a coherent invasion force as well as create an entire unit dedicated to fighting this particular threat (Almost as if they are a chapter that is protected by a [[Plot armour|mystical]] armour), called the Tyrranic War Veterans. These specialists would become highly sought after by the Deathwatch due to their experience and knowledge and was even augmented by survivors from [[Scythes of the Emperor|other Chapters]] that suffered the wrath of the Tyranids. During the Horus Heresy, an entire force of 1000 Ultramarines was decimated the initial Night Lord of invasion of Sotha. Despite being caught off guard at first due to their unfamiliarity with the Night Lord's unconventional tactics, they began to adapt fast to their enemy's fighting style and by the end of the battle, achieved a near 20-1 kill ratio over their traitorous cousins. Although they may be weak to a new enemy or new tactics, they have a superb reactivity once they have the information they need.

They’re not warriors or knights, but soldiers; a professional fighting force dedicated to defending the 500 Worlds of Ultramar and serving the interests of the larger Imperium beyond. A standing army that is the byproduct of a prosperous Star Empire to whom they owe their existence to. This is seen in their combat doctrine. They don’t have any specializations themselves because they are supposed to adapt to whatever situation presents itself and act accordingly. They are a fluid and malleable fighting force that is supposed to assess the situation, gain every scrap of intelligence/battle data they can, and then change themselves into whatever is required to get the job done; be it a blunt hammer or a precision blade.

Ironically, their “super-soldier not super-warrior” approach has been far less successful than the super-warrior Chapters such as the Dark Hunters, Black Templars, and Space Wolves. Because fighting like a normal soldier in powered armor makes your augmentations a completely worthless waste. Fighting like a living battering ram/blender takes full advantage of your physiology. The Emperor said it himself: “They shall be my finest warriors”.

The [[Primarch]] of the Ultramarines is [[Roboute Guilliman]] (aka Robot Girlyman and about a thousand other highly appropriate names: Big Bobby G, Rowboat Gillman, The BIG RG, Rawbutt Girlyman , The Great Papa Smurf, God-Emperor of smurfs Ex. Ex.) and it was he who wrote the (in?)famous [[Codex Astartes]] after the events of the [[Horus Heresy|Daddy Issue Invasion]], prescribing each Space Marine chapter to a mere thousand warriors to ensure that no one man would ever command the loyalty of an entire Space Marine legion again. At least, that was the plan, but Roboute Guilliman himself never got to see it come to light, as he was [[Battle of Thessala|mortally wounded]] by a poisonous attack from his bro, the Traitor Primarch [[Fulgrim]], and he had been kept in stasis by the Ultramarines for thousands of years, only being revived through the actions of [[Belisarius Cawl|Archmagos Cawl]] and the [[Ynnari]] ten thousand years later (Working with Xenos? HERESY!).

The Ultramarines base their ideals upon the teachings of super-Ultra Smurf daddy, who ended up on a neo-Roman planet and soon adopted their way of thinking. They believe in individual strength to strengthen the whole ([[Chaos|and not for the betterment of one self]]), and in following the rules, however strict they might be. This way, order is maintained in all things. Courage is, naturally, also a big thing to them, since it goes with the idea of the individual working to better the whole. All this means that the Ultramarines are very, ''very'' good at doing their job, as long as they are prepared for it and works alongside the rest of their Chapter, but tend to be completely stumped when a situation, which their planning and reasoning can't immediately deal with, comes up.

[[File:SpacemarineGettingArmoured.PNG|500px|right|thumb|Ehh... Could you get your ass off the altar, Claudius?]]

The Ultramarines are also notorious for disregarding much of the wider Imperium in favour of their own worlds, the famed ''500 Worlds of Ultramar''. This has earned them much hate from in-universe factions, who don't like how they essentially go "Screw you guys, we'll just make our own, sort of working empire!"; One of Fulgrim's [[Iterator|iterators]], who had the ear of powerful members of Terran court, once said that ''"The Lord of Ultramar sees little else besides the primacy of his own culture."'', and also Malcador and the Emperor were not surprised when Guilliman chose to defend his 500 worlds rather than get his hands dirty with the Horus Heresy. Which is, of course, the complete opposite of Ultramar’s “protect the greater whole” philosophy, but GW has always been stupid like that. Many elegen/tg/entlemen dislike this as well, since it sort of makes the Ultries seem they know better than the rest of the Imperium, while still being lauded as being some of the most honourable Chapters in the entire galaxy. Though in the Ultramarine's defense, they're probably the most successful space marine chapter in the galaxy, considering that they defend and maintain hundreds of worlds, and those worlds are some of the most prosperous, meritocratic worlds in the entire Imperium. Plus, the Ultramarines have an affinity with the common people, as they believe that it's their sworn duty to protect the innocent, like the Salamanders. Even with their duties in Ultramar, the Chapter still sends warriors out into the wider galaxy, making significant contributions at [[Armageddon]] and at [[Ultramarines Honour Company|Cadia during the]] [[Black Crusade|13th black crusade]].

All of the other Space Marine legions [[Space Wolves|save one]] (or maybe [[Dark Angels|two]], depending on how you look at it, maybe [[Angry Marines|three]] if you count anger and most likely [[Black Templars|four]] when thinking about it) adopted the Codex and split up into multitudes of smaller chapters, and most Space Marine chapters today follow the practices found within it, although some like the Space Wolves and the Black Templars have refrained from implementing it. Few are as rigid in pursuing the use of the Codex as the Ultramarines, though. Where most other Chapters like the [[Imperial Fists]] and [[Raven Guard]] looks to it for guidance when encountering unfamiliar situations, the Ultramarines see the Codex as a sort of "holy book" and follow its instructions to the letter. Ironically, Guilliman himself believed this to be misguided and noted that the Codex was never meant to replace the ability to act on one's own judgments. But [[Grimdark|Irony]] is a strong force in 40K universe.

Because they are the poster-boys for Space Marines, they are perhaps the most famous Chapter in the general 40k fandom, but are widely hated by many denizens of [[/tg/]]. This may initially have been due to their popularity - the Space Marines in general suffer something of a backlash from fa/tg/uys because of their overwhelming popularity with the annoying young children that infest the hobby, and the Ultramarines are the most popular of them all - but of recent editions the blatant favouritism displayed by certain Games Workshop writers towards the Chapter have earned them considerable ire, especially from fans of other Space Marine chapters that get slagged off in the process. This is mainly the fault of [[Matthew Ward]]'s 5th edition Space Marine Codex, which explicitly claimed that the Ultramarines were superior to all other Space Marines (In 2nd edition it was explicitly stated.) and was not helped by Ward's own poor fluff-writing skills (see [[#Quotes|Quotes]] below). However, more recent fluff has served to bring the Ultramarines back to their "Space Roman" roots, making them far less objectionable than they were in the past. Forge World's Horus Heresy line has been particularly kind to them, giving them a variety of stylish Heresy-era gear, all of them with that "The Glory That Was Rome" vibe.

==First Edition History==
[[Image:UltramarinesRT.jpg|thumb|right|Fig.1.1: An Ultramarine, note the [[Beakie]].]]
{{Oldschool}}

[http://www.scribd.com/doc/118383071/WD97-Chapter-Approved-Index-Astartes| Back in the] [[Rogue Trader (Sourcebook)|first edition]] of Warhammer 40,000, in an article co-written by [[Rick Priestley]]. The XIIIth Legion were actually traitors and were banished to the Eye of Terror along with the other traitor legions. The modern day 40k Ultramarines were established on new years day 001.M32, which would make them a Third Founding chapter. They received all of the [[Gene Seed|gene-"sperm" & implants]], rituals and paraphernalia of the original legion.

Not only that, they only received lordship over the world of [[Macragge]] AFTER the First Tyrannic War. And though they did have different names for all of their company captains and command staff, they were/are still commanded by a man named Marneus Calgar.

The implications of this would be startling if we use the ''"everything is canon, but not necessarily true"'' stance that GW has adopted when regarding fluff inconsistencies. Hinting that Guilliman's marines were [[Imperium Secundus|heretics and traitors]] and were eventually banished from the Imperium.

However, attempting to reconcile this old origin story with "modern" Ultramarines is extremely difficult, we can only coherently insert it into the current state of play if we assume there is a second chapter out there called the "Ultra-Marines" with a chapter master and homeworld of the same name and the same level of involvement with the Tyrannic Wars. Though what completely knocks this old fluff out is that it ''also'' has possession of the body of [[Roboute Guilliman]] so it has to be a retcon though it still opens the door to conspiracy theories or that Marneus Calgar is [[Lugft Huron|in command of multiple Chapters]].

The other possibility is that when the Ultramarines were declared traitor and forced into the eye of terror, Guilliman, recognising his plans for [[Imperium_Secundus|Imperium Secondus]] were about to topple with the death of [[Sanguinius]] (who had been declared ruler as a means to placate the Emperor and the other legions), Guilliman had himself cloned and a portion of his legions most pure geneseed moved to the Eastern Fringe and [[Macragge]] to ensure survival of the Ultramarines, The Ultramar Empire and the Imperium Secondus concept as its eventuality. This occurred just as the rest of the legion (Including the original primarch) were declared traitor and forced into the eye. It would also suggest, given the appearance of Guilliman's wounded body in stasis on Macragge, that it was in-fact the clone that was killed by [[Fulgrim]] and the real primarch still resides either in the eye of terror or the immaterium with the remains of the Ultramarine Traitor Legion.

In either case, somehow one of the two possible Guilliman's was returned to Macragge and placed in stasis <strike>post-mortem</strike> after being Mortally-Wounded. If you accept the cloning of Guilliman, this all makes sense; he wanted to ensure his empire survived and having been declared traitor, cloned himself and sent the clone to rule over the new Imperium, the clone being mortally wounded by [[Fulgrim]] en-route. Or somehow, and for some reason, a traitor primarch was dragged out of the eye of terror and kept in stasis on the opposite side of the galaxy. Given the stupidity of that second line of thought, the clone being the primarch on Macragge is a much more likely situation... Especially as if his wounds heal and the clone recovers he would be able to continue acting out the original Guilliman's plans for a second imperium with its epicentre based within the Ultramar Empire and using Space Marines created from the remains of the purest legion-stock geneseed.

Or, infinitely more likely, it's just old fluff which went the way of the [[Squats]] after Rogue Trader, and we should hope so, because if it isn't, we also have to reconcile the space marines being entirely beaky space cops.

== Name & Breaking the Hyphen ==
The Ultramarines are not [[Matt Ward|named because they are 'Ultra' as in 'Superior']]. They're called "Ultramarines" because their home sector is [[Ultramar]] and the demonym is Ultramarine. Think of how people from America are Americans. Taking it as literally as possible, they're the "People of Ultramar," which plays back into their theme of being a part of their home's society. Their armour colouring is "coincidentally" called Ultramarine, which is generally described as being a slightly grapish (in contrast to Phthalo's greenish) blue.

The overseas section of the Spanish Empire was referred to as ''Ultramar'' (''waaaaaaaaaaay'' beyond the sea). Given the great distance between Ultramar and [[Terra]], it's a fitting analogy.

In early versions of the Lore, "Ultramarines" (As they are now known) are spelt in a myriad of different ways. Rick Priestly himself describing them as "Ultra-Marines". Other versions include "Ultra Marines", "The Ultra-Marine Chapter" and <strike>"Smurfs"</strike> {{BLAM}} amongst many other iterations. In all instances, and all cases (even accounting for the First Edition lore above) it can be assumed the lore refers to the same Chapter or Legion. Punctuation matters, just not in 40K...

==Ultramarines post-Ward==
{{MattWard}}
[[Image:Ultraknights.jpg|thumb|right|Ultramarines, from the days of [[Awesome]].]]
{{topquote|Our love is nothing but the blues, baby, how blue can you get?|B.B. King}}
{{Topquote|Listen to your blue-clad wretches yelling of courage and honour, courage and honour, courage and honour. Do you even know the meaning of those words? Courage is fighting the kingdom which enslaves you, no matter that their armies outnumber yours by ten-thousand to one. You know nothing of courage. Honour is resisting a tyrant when all others suckle and grow fat on the hypocrisy he feeds them. You know nothing of honour.|[[Angron]], proving that a stopped clock is right twice a day}}

Unless you are new here, then you should be well informed by now over the really [[Skub|skubtastic]] history involving the [[Ultramarines]] and the dreaded [[Matt Ward|Ward]]. While Ward was indeed responsible for the immense [[butthurt]] and [[Rage|rage]] caused on [[/tg/]] and to [[1d4Chan]] itself (Seriously just look at the pages history, it was a war on green and red edits), Ward himself wasn't completely at fault here, [[Games Workshop]] is just as much to blame for their irresponsible and careless attitude in handling fluff to a ''clearly'' biased player and gave him the green light to write whatever things Ward could come out with. However after Ward's quite unexpected departure in 2014 (He came back in 2016 though, just hope he can control his Ultramarine urges now(he can’t)), the Ultramarines have been getting....less of the limelight like they used to back in the heydays of Codex: Space Marines 5th Edition. Nowadays, the [[Blood Angels]], [[Space Wolves]], [[Dark Angels]] and even the [[Deathwatch]] are getting more in the spotlight. While the Ultramarines are still the de facto mascots of WH40K, it seems that the post-Ward era has seen the return of more... [[Pauldrons|diverse forms of Space Marine Chapters]]. Furthermore, the [[Horus Heresy]] lineups made by our favorite [[Forgeworld]] has been giving the Ultramarines and the rest of the Space Marine Legions an equal respect in both their lore and crunch which was unthinkable back in the day, "The [[Salamanders]] and [[Raven Guard]] get their own moment to shine without the Ultras overshadowing them? How preposterous!" would be the most likely answer if went back in time and told our past selves over this.

Additionally the Forgeworld model for [[Roboute Guilliman]] has been well received by fans with some commenting that of all the [[Primarch]] models, Guilliman's was one of the best designed and posed (although the truth is that his armour has went from Grecco-Roman in style to Marvel, and in spite of all his Mary Sue-ness, he's still likely to get stomped over by an [[Imperial Knight]] or Assault Terminators). What does this mean for our (in)famous blueberries? A redemption of sorts? Winning back the crowd? Earning back the respect it once had? The answer could be all of them. Whatever is the case, the legacy of Ward and the Ultramarine fiasco did impact the way players see the Ultramarines and the Space Marines to an extent either negatively or positively (More inclined to the negativity though). But seeing as how GeeDubs still has the [[Robin Cruddace|Cruddhead]], it can be seen with some sigh of relief that GeeDubs seems to be back to their grips now in terms of fluff at least.

==Tabletop==
Throughout most of GW's history the Ultramarines have been portrayed on the tabletop as the "standard" space marine chapter, to the point where most other chapters are represented as "Ultramarines +,- variable X". [[Dark Angels|More]] [[Grey Knights|popular]] [[Space Wolves|chapters]] often get [[Blood Angels|their own]] codices, but less popular chapters get relegated to sets of advantages and disadvantages on top of the Ultramarine baseline. At certain points in GW's sordid tabletop history this has led to Ultramarines being literally vanilla marines with no bonuses whatsoever, where the '''only''' advantage to taking them is their wide selection of characters, and other times such as 7th edition where with the right builds and the right tactics, you could statistically beat out the Blood Angels and Space Wolves in assault, and Dark Angels and Imperial Fists in shooting.

8th Edition is probably the best they've ever been while not being quite as cheesy as they were in the past. Their strategies, characters, chapter tactics, and warlord trait all grant bonuses to command points, to the point where you can get the effective use of 20(!) command points on stratagems in a 2000 point game, leading to an army with massive tactical flexibility. Gone are the days were you can butcher melee dedicated forces in close combat, and out-shoot the gun-factories of the universe, a bunch of damn sues who win because they are - of course - the BEST EVAR. Now you get the Ultramarines as they should be: a versatile but non-specialized army with the tactical and strategic flexibility to make the most out of any situation.

==Notable Members==
[[File:1280346485348.jpg|thumb|right|While most believe the story told by the Ultramarines, eye-witnesses paint a different story...]]
*'''[[Marneus Calgar|Marneus Augustus Calgar]]''': [[Marneus Calgar#Gathering Storm|Regent of Ultramar]] and Chapter Master of the Ultramarines. His accomplishments include being thoroughly ripped apart by the [[Swarmlord]] (by that we mean all his limbs, a large portion of his body and his eye), and single handedly holding off an Ork Waaagh! for 9 days all by himself. However, his crowning moment is his defeat of an Eldar Avatar of Khaine in 1 vs 1, hand-to-hand combat, which is typically killed by the same effort it takes to kill a Khornate Bloodthirster - never mind that the thing is made of molten metal and over three times his size. He also had a rematch with the Swarmlord and won, which must have been pretty easy, considering that it had been recently ripped apart. Has also faced [[Abaddon the Despoiler]] as well (following turning into a [[Primaris Marine]]), but his plot armor wasn't as strong that day and he just barely escaped that mess.
*'''[[Severus Agemman]]''': Captain of the Ultramarines First Company. He was Captain of the Second Company, and Sicarius' commanding officer before being promoted after the First Tyrannic War. There isn't much fluff about him besides being overshadowed by his former subordinate Sicarius. As first Company Captain he's Calgar's appointed successor, however much of the chapter thinks it will be Sicarius instead of him. Agemman is aware of this possibility and isn't very happy about it. As of the end of the Plague Wars, Severus serves as the Tetrarch of the northern reaches of Ultramar.
*'''[[Cato Sicarius]]''': Former captain of the Ultramarines Second Company and Leader of Guilliman's Victrix Guard. Is kind of a glory hog, but he's arguably earned his right to be a braggart through his skill at arms. Was taken on as a [[Matt Ward|ward]] by the primarch after his resurrection, mostly because Cato's brash, forthright personality reminded him of Aeonid Thiel, whose counsel Guilliman greatly missed. His captaincy was given to Sevastus Acheran.
*'''[[Uriel Ventris]]''': Captain of the Ultramarines Fourth Company and the main character of Graham McNeil's Ultramarines novel series. Notable for destroying the [[Daemonculaba]].
*'''[[Ortan Cassius]]''': Master of Sanctity of the Ultramarines and ex-member of the [[Deathwatch]]. Currently one of the oldest Space Marines alive and [[Bjorn the Fell Handed|not yet placed in a Dreadnought]]. The Tyrannic War Veterans were his idea.
*'''[[Varro Tigurius]]''': the Ultramarine's (Primaris) Chief Librarian, has enough psychic prowess to make psychic contact with the Hive Mind without going bonkers in the process.
*'''[[Torias Telion]]''': (aka; Sean Connery made [[Grimdark]]) Ultramarine Scout Sergeant. A skilled sniper, other chapters have borrowed him to train their scouts occasionally. He also has an impressive mustache.
*'''[[Captain Titus]]''': Captain of the who the fuck knows company (if the trim of his pauldrons are accurate, he's Captain of the 2nd Company). He gained prominence (will gain prominence?) on the forge world of Graia, trying to keep a whole Waaagh! from stealing all the bitz for themselves while keeping a probably radical Inquisitor happy. Also there's a portal to the warp letting out Daemons and Chaos Marines to go on a jolly old pub crawl. He is also one of the few Ultramarines who clearly states that the Codex Astartes is not meant to be a mental straightjacket. Thus, he is [[awesome]].
*'''Varnus''': Ultramarines Chaplain dispatched to Lorn V. For perhaps the first instance in recorded time, he is a Space Marine who actually respects the Imperial Guard and couldn't ask for a better force (barring his own company).
*'''[[Aeonid Thiel]]''': A sergeant during the Horus Heresy. Despite being seen as a rule breaking maverick for proposing battle simulations of Space Marines fighting one another, he ends up playing a major role first in the Battle of Calth, then in laying the groundwork for the Ultramarines post-war, including the red painted helmets for sergeants. Also served as the co-writer of the Codex. Promoted to Captain of the 2nd Company at the time of Guilliman's wounding, though his ultimate fate is unknown.
*'''Decimus Felix''': Primaris Captain of the Ultramarines Eleventh Company (Though one doesn't quite exist) and Equerry to Guilliman. Despite the utterly suspicious circumstances of such a fresh-ish face being afforded this much power, he acts as the voice of reason for the primarch. Acts as Tetrarch to the eastern reaches of Ultramar and has been trolled a bit by Cawl.
*'''Sergeant Cornellus''': A sergeant of an embarrassing squad. Notable for killing [[Eliphas the Inheritor]] the first time, stopping a daemon invasion and finding the Ultramarines Scrabble set all while sounding like a baby
*'''Smurfette''': The only [[Yvraine|female]] member of the Ultramarine chapter.

==Quotes==
{{topquote|Chapters (not descended from Guilliman's geneseed) are disciples who owe their genetic inheritance to another [[Primarch]], but follow the [[Codex Astartes]] as keenly as their divergent heritage allows. While primarily composed of successor Chapters, this group also includes several Chapters of the [[First Founding]] - notably the [[Imperial Fists]], [[White Scars]] and the [[Raven Guard]]. <s>These chapters can never be Ultramarines, for their gene-seed is not that of [[Roboute Guilliman]]. Nevertheless, they will ever aspire to the standards and teachings of the great [[Primarch]].</s>|Fucking [[Matt Ward]]...}}
{{topquote|(Chapters who do not emulate the Ultramarines) are aberrants; chapters who, through quirk of gene-seed, mutation or stubbornness, eschew the Codex Astartes in favor of other structural and combat doctrines. Some, such as the [[Blood Angels]] and their successors, strive to be worthy of Guilliman's legacy, but their recalcitrant gene-seed drives them ever further from it. Others, such as the [[Space Wolves]] and the [[Black Templars]], remain stubbornly independent, looking to [[Primarch|their own founder's]] ways of war (which is hilarious for the Templars) and caring little of how they fare in the eyes of others. These aberrant Chapters were always few in number and their presence diminishes with each passing decade, for their gene-seed is no longer the source of fresh Chapters.|[[Matt Ward]], Ultramarines player, codex writer, [[Codex]]: [[Space Marines]], 5th Edition, p. 25.}}
{{topquote|The Ultramarines are undoubtedly the best Space Marines ever. Yes, really! Thanks to the heritage of Guilliman and their myriad heroic deeds, the Ultramarines are the exemplars of the Space Marines. With a few fringe exceptions who have severe mutations ([[Blood Angels]]) or stolid stubbornness ([[Space Wolves]] and [[Dark Angels]]) all [[Space Marine Chapter|Space marine chapters]] want to be like the Ultramarines and recognize [[Marneus Calgar]] as their [[spiritual liege]].|Matt Ward, Ultramarines player, codex writer, in the [[White Dwarf]] interview celebrating the release of Codex: Space Marines.}}
{{topquote|But your teachings…" "Are yet flawed," said Guilliman. "No one, not even one such as I, can anticipate every possible outcome of battle. My words are not some holy writ that must be obeyed. There must always be room for personal initiative on the battlefield. You and I both know how one spark of heroism can turn the tide of battle. That knowledge and personal experience can only be earned in blood, and the leader in the field must always be the ultimate arbiter of what course of action should be followed.|[[Roboute Guilliman]], making a point that his successors would quickly forget about and [[Matt Ward|the writer above]] would ignore.}}
{{topquote|Wondering what would be in the supplemental Codex for the Ultramarines that won’t be in the main book? Come take a peek!|Adam Harrison, August 8 2019, for Bell of Lost Souls, [[Games Workshop|selling to us]] the new Ultrasmurf supplement and priviledges...}}

==Daily Rituals==
04:00 - The Ultramarines rise up from their sleep in their marble-encased sleeping chambers. The Primarch has already been awake for some time, having lost the need for sleep as a side effect of his revival. (Good thing, too- according to Guilliman himself the Armor of Fate is too noisy to let him rest, and even if it wasn't the armor doesn't have the flexibility to let him lie down in the first place.)

04:30 - Morning Prayers. The Ultramarines conduct morning prayers on why they are the SECOND TO TEH EMPRAH! and how all other chapters view [[Marneus Calgar]] as their ''Spritual Liege.''

05:30 - Codex Astartes. The Ultramarines are indoctrinated and reminded on the rules and values of the Codex Astartes. Guilliman makes a note to break the news of his Codex revisions gently so his gene-sons don't go into conniptions.

08:00 - Morning Firing Rites. The Ultramarines enter target practice with spiritual guidance from Chaplain Ortan Cassius, who manages to only occasionally go off into furious rants about "The goddam bugs".

09:00 - Battle Practice. The Ultramarines leave for Macragge's Colosseum to train against each other, the local Macragge fauna and Battle Servitors.

10:00 - Morning Meal. While later than some chapters, the Ultramarines feast upon a light meal made of fruits, biscuits and light meat by the Chapter serfs. The serfs are thanked soon afterwards in a manner of respect.

10:15 - Tactical Indoctrination. The Ultramarines head to see the latest battle plans and which military techniques that can best complement the Codex Astartes. Guilliman reviews the most recent major warzones of the Imperium and prepares battle plans for the forces deployed there.

10:30 - Meetings with the Spiritual Liege. Whilst the rest of the Ultramarines practice reciting the Codex Astartes, the leaders from each of the Ultramarine's companies discuss political, social and military affairs of Ultramar and the Imperium at large. When the Primarch has the opportunity to be present, discussions and tactical briefings on his long absence last for hours, with plenty of facepalming and sighing from said Primarch.

11:00 - Afternoon Wargames. The Ultramarines conduct [[Tabletop Miniature|miniature wargames]] to best simulate strategic and combat play which can be learned and adapted in real life combat.

13:00 - Midday Meal. A light meal of cheese, bread, meats and vegetables is prepared by the Chapter serfs.

13:30 - Codex Astartes. More indoctrination of the Codex Astartes are read to ensure that the Ultramarines never diverge from the book of Guilliman. The Primarch privately wonders how his words about the Codex being a guideline could have been misinterpreted so badly.

15:00 - Evening Firing Rites. The Ultramarines enter target practice.

16:00 - Battle Practice. The Ultramarines are now dropped into the wilderness of Macragge to fend off the local fauna and flora there. The animals and plants killed are sent to the Chapter Serfs for more ingredients.

17:00 - Evening Prayers. The Ultramarines gather together to pray on why they are the chosen chapter and why the Ultramar System is the best system.

18:00 - Nighttime Firing Rites. The Ultramarines take target practice in the night to further hone in their nocturnal experience.

19:00 - Battle Practice. The Ultramarines descend to one of the neighboring planets in Ultramar to further fight the planet's local fauna and flora, as well as the various nasty things Nurgle has been attacking Ultramar with lately.

19:30 - Daily Medical Checkup. Whilst the rest of the Ultramarines are busy practicing their combat prowess, the long hours of having to keep the entire Imperium afloat has left Roboute Guilliman in a state of dismay, anger and minor facial injuries due to repeated facepalming. [[Apothecaries]] try and fail to warn their Primarch that continued usage of the facepalm will eventually give the Avenging Son a concussion. Any battle-brothers who have come into contact with the forces of Nurgle are painstakingly decontaminated to prevent the spread of any warp-contagion.

20:00 - Evening Meal. A feast made from the creatures slain by the Ultramarines earlier on is cooked in the finest ingredients. Cooking it perfectly gets the serf a purity seal of valor while cooking it imperfectly forces the serf to be read the entire Codex Astartes section on cooking. Guilliman privately wonders how the joke section made it into the official print.

21:00 - Cleaning up Guilliman's chambers. The Ultramarines go and clean up their Primarch's marble chambers after Macragge's daily tourist traps are closed for the night. Despite the Avenging Son's frequent absences from Ultramar, they like to be sure his quarters are just as he left them.

22:00 - Free Time. The Ultramarines get free time. Some continue to read the Codex Astartes, others pray to the Emperor while some go out of their Fortress Monastery to catch up on the local news and political affairs as well as hanging out with the citizens of Macragge.

24:00 - Rest Period. The Ultramarines descend back to their marble-encased sleeping chambers to rest, save for Guilliman who is needed elsewhere in the Imperium.

==Some music==

*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wTXrLsZvVI Their theme] done by [[HMKids]].
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt1M8iZNHpQ Their theme] from Chaos Gate. Became a major meme among Russian 40k fans due to some deliciously stupid [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBg9ZAqBifQ misheard lyrics] and made ultramarines associated with soup in Russian community.
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf9AaTV4-yw A track] from their official movie.

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:ultrawombles.jpg|ULTRAWOMBLES
File:Spacemarine.jpg|[[Iron Hands|Sgt Pasanius didn't want that hand anyway.]]
File:Warhammer ultramarine take 2 by faroldjo.jpg|Say what you want about Ultramarines, but their Honour Guards looks pretty boss.
File:Ultramarines concept by Malkavian7515.jpg
File:Pimp Suit.png|Captain Cato Sicarius' power armour, also known as the Mantle of the Mary Suzerain
File:CodexSM EPUB Cover.jpg|Ultramarines got the front cover of the Space Marine Codex and admittely looks fucking cool for it.
</gallery>

==See also==
*[[Who Watches Them]]
*[[Macragge heresy]]
*[[Ultramarines Honour Company]]
*[http://www.scribd.com/doc/118383071/WD97-Chapter-Approved-Index-Astartes| The past wot got remade by their presence - the original Chapter Approved write up of the "Ultra-Marines."]
*[[Genesis Chapter]], their reserve.
*[[Veteran_Squad#Tyrannic_War_Veterans|Tyrannic War Veterans]]

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Ultramarines

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{{Infobox Spess Mahreen Chapter
|Name = Ultramarines
|Heraldry = [[File:Smurfpauldron.jpg|140px]]
|Battle Cry = "Courage and Honour!" and "We March for Macragge!"
|Number = XIII
|Founding = [[First Founding]]
|Original Name = War-Born
|Successor Chapters = Roughly 65% of all Chapters. Allegedly. However, a lot of those don’t know who their Primarch is or are very different from Gulliman. Generally, most loyalists of traitor legions claim Ultramarines as parent Chapter.
|Chapter Master = [[Marneus Calgar]]
|Primarch = [[Roboute Guilliman]]
|Homeworld = [[Ultramar|Macragge]]
|Specialty = Jack of all trades. Obsessed with strategy, tactics and [[Codex Astartes|discipline.]] Basically Greco-romans IN SPESS!!
|Strength = Above 1000 Marines
|Allegiance = [[Imperium]]
|Colours = Ultramarine Blue, white & gold (For the most famous Second Company. Other Companies use different colors)
}}
{{Topquote|Battles are won by [[World Eaters|slaughter]] and [[Codex Astartes|maneuver]]. The greater the [[Creed|general]], the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.|Winston S. Churchill}}
{{topquote|Our Presence Remakes the Past!|The Banner of Macragge}}

The '''Ultramarines''' (More commonly known as Ultrasmurfs) are a chapter of [[Space Marines]], probably the most famous and well-known and mincy (both within the [[Warhammer 40,000]] universe and without). [[Games Workshop]] considers the Ultramarines their chapter of choice, and the Ultramarines represent the standard upon which most other Space Marine chapters are based but strive to be different from as they are so mincy. Why Games Workshop would want a Space Marine chapter whose symbol is a <s>toilet seat</s> <s>repulsive reverse vagina</s> <s>upside down Omega</s> <S>upsilon</S> [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-close_back_rounded_vowel International Phonetic Alphabet transcription for "uhh..."] ('''℧''') as their go-to chapter is beyond us. They have an easily recognizable blue-with-gold-trim colour scheme that the [[Thousand Sons]] decided to rip off post-heresy (after the Newcrons ripped off ''their'' Egyptian motif.) Of course technically that's only the second company ,but who ever heard of an ultramarine player not painting his army blue and gold? The blue colouration, coupled with the small size of the minis, has lead them to be nicknamed "Smurfs" by <s>some</s> everyone. [[Rick Priestley]] was originally inspired to promote the ultramarines heavily in publications of White Dwarf after a dream he had whilst staying around a friends house in which he claims [[What|the miniatures began speaking to him]], this part allegedly had a role in his eventual dismissal from [[Games Workshop]] in 2010.

A squad of Tactical Marines are the protagonists of the 40k-based CGI movie surprisingly titled "[[Ultramarines:The Movie|Ultramarines]]". It's not bad ''per se'' ([[Dan Abnett]] did some of the writing, although the fact that it was only "some" shows) but could have been [[Skub|better]].

==Overview==
[[File:NroL23W.jpg|left|350px|thumb|All said and done, the Ultries can be badass.]]
The Ultramarines are perhaps the closest to what many would consider a 'modern' military among the Adeptus Astartes. Strategy, planning and the minimization of casualties is the basis of any Ultramarine battle-plan and their central concept is that of a well drilled, immaculate army of soldiers who execute their duty with professionalism and competence. [[Alpha Legion|"Information is victory"]] is essentially the Ultramarine way, more so than [[Alpha Legion|most]] [[Raven Guard|other]] Chapters. Though they are much more relaxed with regards to discipline than the [[Red Scorpions|Forge World's favoured]], or [[Hammers of Dorn| those other guys]]. Even before they had reunited with their Primarch, it had been noted that the XIIIth Legion (then called the War Born) was strongly inclined towards the adoption of carefully thought out battle plans, an established chain of command, and an aversion to inflicting collateral damage. These tendencies were intensified further by their extensive study and practice of the [[Codex Astartes]], which covers a very broad range of battlefield situations and doctrines to live by. Thanks to each and every one of them training and living by it, their companies operate like a smoothly functioning combat machine with every unit functionally interlocking with every other. However, as much as this by-the-book discipline was their strength, it is often also, like the real-life ancient Roman Legions, their weakness, since the few situations that the Codex Astartes did not prepare them for tended to catch them flat-footed, lacking the flexibility to properly respond. More accurately, no Marine knows the whole Codex as it is too vast for even their minds. Each learns different parts of it. This means that while the whole Codex can be used for any situation, commanders don’t have all the pieces to the puzzle. The initial Tyranid invasion and the [[Necrons|Damnos incident]] exemplify such situations, where the unconventional nature of their enemy nearly led to their defeat. It doesn't matter how smoothly your forces function if you don't actually have a way to win the battle.

That being said, they are extremely good at adapting to a threat once the initial shock has passed . In the aftermath of their near-defeat to the Tyranids, the Chapter would go on to crush Hive Fleet Kraken as a coherent invasion force as well as create an entire unit dedicated to fighting this particular threat (Almost as if they are a chapter that is protected by a [[Plot armour|mystical]] armour), called the Tyrranic War Veterans. These specialists would become highly sought after by the Deathwatch due to their experience and knowledge and was even augmented by survivors from [[Scythes of the Emperor|other Chapters]] that suffered the wrath of the Tyranids. During the Horus Heresy, an entire force of 1000 Ultramarines was decimated the initial Night Lord of invasion of Sotha. Despite being caught off guard at first due to their unfamiliarity with the Night Lord's unconventional tactics, they began to adapt fast to their enemy's fighting style and by the end of the battle, achieved a near 20-1 kill ratio over their traitorous cousins. Although they may be weak to a new enemy or new tactics, they have a superb reactivity once they have the information they need.

They’re not warriors or knights, but soldiers; a professional fighting force dedicated to defending the 500 Worlds of Ultramar and serving the interests of the larger Imperium beyond. A standing army that is the byproduct of a prosperous Star Empire to whom they owe their existence to. This is seen in their combat doctrine. They don’t have any specializations themselves because they are supposed to adapt to whatever situation presents itself and act accordingly. They are a fluid and malleable fighting force that is supposed to assess the situation, gain every scrap of intelligence/battle data they can, and then change themselves into whatever is required to get the job done; be it a blunt hammer or a precision blade.

Ironically, their “super-soldier not super-warrior” approach has been far less successful than the super-warrior Chapters such as the Dark Hunters, Black Templars, and Space Wolves. Because fighting like a normal soldier in powered armor makes your augmentations a completely worthless waste. Fighting like a living battering ram/blender takes full advantage of your physiology. The Emperor said it himself: “They shall be my finest warriors.

The [[Primarch]] of the Ultramarines is [[Roboute Guilliman]] (aka Robot Girlyman and about a thousand other highly appropriate names: Big Bobby G, Rowboat Gillman, The BIG RG, Rawbutt Girlyman , The Great Papa Smurf, God-Emperor of smurfs Ex. Ex.) and it was he who wrote the (in?)famous [[Codex Astartes]] after the events of the [[Horus Heresy|Daddy Issue Invasion]], prescribing each Space Marine chapter to a mere thousand warriors to ensure that no one man would ever command the loyalty of an entire Space Marine legion again. At least, that was the plan, but Roboute Guilliman himself never got to see it come to light, as he was [[Battle of Thessala|mortally wounded]] by a poisonous attack from his bro, the Traitor Primarch [[Fulgrim]], and he had been kept in stasis by the Ultramarines for thousands of years, only being revived through the actions of [[Belisarius Cawl|Archmagos Cawl]] and the [[Ynnari]] ten thousand years later (Working with Xenos? HERESY!).

The Ultramarines base their ideals upon the teachings of super-Ultra Smurf daddy, who ended up on a neo-Roman planet and soon adopted their way of thinking. They believe in individual strength to strengthen the whole ([[Chaos|and not for the betterment of one self]]), and in following the rules, however strict they might be. This way, order is maintained in all things. Courage is, naturally, also a big thing to them, since it goes with the idea of the individual working to better the whole. All this means that the Ultramarines are very, ''very'' good at doing their job, as long as they are prepared for it and works alongside the rest of their Chapter, but tend to be completely stumped when a situation, which their planning and reasoning can't immediately deal with, comes up.

[[File:SpacemarineGettingArmoured.PNG|500px|right|thumb|Ehh... Could you get your ass off the altar, Claudius?]]

The Ultramarines are also notorious for disregarding much of the wider Imperium in favour of their own worlds, the famed ''500 Worlds of Ultramar''. This has earned them much hate from in-universe factions, who don't like how they essentially go "Screw you guys, we'll just make our own, sort of working empire!"; One of Fulgrim's [[Iterator|iterators]], who had the ear of powerful members of Terran court, once said that ''"The Lord of Ultramar sees little else besides the primacy of his own culture."'', and also Malcador and the Emperor were not surprised when Guilliman chose to defend his 500 worlds rather than get his hands dirty with the Horus Heresy. Which is, of course, the complete opposite of Ultramar’s “protect the greater whole” philosophy, but GW has always been stupid like that. Many elegen/tg/entlemen dislike this as well, since it sort of makes the Ultries seem they know better than the rest of the Imperium, while still being lauded as being some of the most honourable Chapters in the entire galaxy. Though in the Ultramarine's defense, they're probably the most successful space marine chapter in the galaxy, considering that they defend and maintain hundreds of worlds, and those worlds are some of the most prosperous, meritocratic worlds in the entire Imperium. Plus, the Ultramarines have an affinity with the common people, as they believe that it's their sworn duty to protect the innocent, like the Salamanders. Even with their duties in Ultramar, the Chapter still sends warriors out into the wider galaxy, making significant contributions at [[Armageddon]] and at [[Ultramarines Honour Company|Cadia during the]] [[Black Crusade|13th black crusade]].

All of the other Space Marine legions [[Space Wolves|save one]] (or maybe [[Dark Angels|two]], depending on how you look at it, maybe [[Angry Marines|three]] if you count anger and most likely [[Black Templars|four]] when thinking about it) adopted the Codex and split up into multitudes of smaller chapters, and most Space Marine chapters today follow the practices found within it, although some like the Space Wolves and the Black Templars have refrained from implementing it. Few are as rigid in pursuing the use of the Codex as the Ultramarines, though. Where most other Chapters like the [[Imperial Fists]] and [[Raven Guard]] looks to it for guidance when encountering unfamiliar situations, the Ultramarines see the Codex as a sort of "holy book" and follow its instructions to the letter. Ironically, Guilliman himself believed this to be misguided and noted that the Codex was never meant to replace the ability to act on one's own judgments. But [[Grimdark|Irony]] is a strong force in 40K universe.

Because they are the poster-boys for Space Marines, they are perhaps the most famous Chapter in the general 40k fandom, but are widely hated by many denizens of [[/tg/]]. This may initially have been due to their popularity - the Space Marines in general suffer something of a backlash from fa/tg/uys because of their overwhelming popularity with the annoying young children that infest the hobby, and the Ultramarines are the most popular of them all - but of recent editions the blatant favouritism displayed by certain Games Workshop writers towards the Chapter have earned them considerable ire, especially from fans of other Space Marine chapters that get slagged off in the process. This is mainly the fault of [[Matthew Ward]]'s 5th edition Space Marine Codex, which explicitly claimed that the Ultramarines were superior to all other Space Marines (In 2nd edition it was explicitly stated.) and was not helped by Ward's own poor fluff-writing skills (see [[#Quotes|Quotes]] below). However, more recent fluff has served to bring the Ultramarines back to their "Space Roman" roots, making them far less objectionable than they were in the past. Forge World's Horus Heresy line has been particularly kind to them, giving them a variety of stylish Heresy-era gear, all of them with that "The Glory That Was Rome" vibe.

==First Edition History==
[[Image:UltramarinesRT.jpg|thumb|right|Fig.1.1: An Ultramarine, note the [[Beakie]].]]
{{Oldschool}}

[http://www.scribd.com/doc/118383071/WD97-Chapter-Approved-Index-Astartes| Back in the] [[Rogue Trader (Sourcebook)|first edition]] of Warhammer 40,000, in an article co-written by [[Rick Priestley]]. The XIIIth Legion were actually traitors and were banished to the Eye of Terror along with the other traitor legions. The modern day 40k Ultramarines were established on new years day 001.M32, which would make them a Third Founding chapter. They received all of the [[Gene Seed|gene-"sperm" & implants]], rituals and paraphernalia of the original legion.

Not only that, they only received lordship over the world of [[Macragge]] AFTER the First Tyrannic War. And though they did have different names for all of their company captains and command staff, they were/are still commanded by a man named Marneus Calgar.

The implications of this would be startling if we use the ''"everything is canon, but not necessarily true"'' stance that GW has adopted when regarding fluff inconsistencies. Hinting that Guilliman's marines were [[Imperium Secundus|heretics and traitors]] and were eventually banished from the Imperium.

However, attempting to reconcile this old origin story with "modern" Ultramarines is extremely difficult, we can only coherently insert it into the current state of play if we assume there is a second chapter out there called the "Ultra-Marines" with a chapter master and homeworld of the same name and the same level of involvement with the Tyrannic Wars. Though what completely knocks this old fluff out is that it ''also'' has possession of the body of [[Roboute Guilliman]] so it has to be a retcon though it still opens the door to conspiracy theories or that Marneus Calgar is [[Lugft Huron|in command of multiple Chapters]].

The other possibility is that when the Ultramarines were declared traitor and forced into the eye of terror, Guilliman, recognising his plans for [[Imperium_Secundus|Imperium Secondus]] were about to topple with the death of [[Sanguinius]] (who had been declared ruler as a means to placate the Emperor and the other legions), Guilliman had himself cloned and a portion of his legions most pure geneseed moved to the Eastern Fringe and [[Macragge]] to ensure survival of the Ultramarines, The Ultramar Empire and the Imperium Secondus concept as its eventuality. This occurred just as the rest of the legion (Including the original primarch) were declared traitor and forced into the eye. It would also suggest, given the appearance of Guilliman's wounded body in stasis on Macragge, that it was in-fact the clone that was killed by [[Fulgrim]] and the real primarch still resides either in the eye of terror or the immaterium with the remains of the Ultramarine Traitor Legion.

In either case, somehow one of the two possible Guilliman's was returned to Macragge and placed in stasis <strike>post-mortem</strike> after being Mortally-Wounded. If you accept the cloning of Guilliman, this all makes sense; he wanted to ensure his empire survived and having been declared traitor, cloned himself and sent the clone to rule over the new Imperium, the clone being mortally wounded by [[Fulgrim]] en-route. Or somehow, and for some reason, a traitor primarch was dragged out of the eye of terror and kept in stasis on the opposite side of the galaxy. Given the stupidity of that second line of thought, the clone being the primarch on Macragge is a much more likely situation... Especially as if his wounds heal and the clone recovers he would be able to continue acting out the original Guilliman's plans for a second imperium with its epicentre based within the Ultramar Empire and using Space Marines created from the remains of the purest legion-stock geneseed.

Or, infinitely more likely, it's just old fluff which went the way of the [[Squats]] after Rogue Trader, and we should hope so, because if it isn't, we also have to reconcile the space marines being entirely beaky space cops.

== Name & Breaking the Hyphen ==
The Ultramarines are not [[Matt Ward|named because they are 'Ultra' as in 'Superior']]. They're called "Ultramarines" because their home sector is [[Ultramar]] and the demonym is Ultramarine. Think of how people from America are Americans. Taking it as literally as possible, they're the "People of Ultramar," which plays back into their theme of being a part of their home's society. Their armour colouring is "coincidentally" called Ultramarine, which is generally described as being a slightly grapish (in contrast to Phthalo's greenish) blue.

The overseas section of the Spanish Empire was referred to as ''Ultramar'' (''waaaaaaaaaaay'' beyond the sea). Given the great distance between Ultramar and [[Terra]], it's a fitting analogy.

In early versions of the Lore, "Ultramarines" (As they are now known) are spelt in a myriad of different ways. Rick Priestly himself describing them as "Ultra-Marines". Other versions include "Ultra Marines", "The Ultra-Marine Chapter" and <strike>"Smurfs"</strike> {{BLAM}} amongst many other iterations. In all instances, and all cases (even accounting for the First Edition lore above) it can be assumed the lore refers to the same Chapter or Legion. Punctuation matters, just not in 40K...

==Ultramarines post-Ward==
{{MattWard}}
[[Image:Ultraknights.jpg|thumb|right|Ultramarines, from the days of [[Awesome]].]]
{{topquote|Our love is nothing but the blues, baby, how blue can you get?|B.B. King}}
{{Topquote|Listen to your blue-clad wretches yelling of courage and honour, courage and honour, courage and honour. Do you even know the meaning of those words? Courage is fighting the kingdom which enslaves you, no matter that their armies outnumber yours by ten-thousand to one. You know nothing of courage. Honour is resisting a tyrant when all others suckle and grow fat on the hypocrisy he feeds them. You know nothing of honour.|[[Angron]], proving that a stopped clock is right twice a day}}

Unless you are new here, then you should be well informed by now over the really [[Skub|skubtastic]] history involving the [[Ultramarines]] and the dreaded [[Matt Ward|Ward]]. While Ward was indeed responsible for the immense [[butthurt]] and [[Rage|rage]] caused on [[/tg/]] and to [[1d4Chan]] itself (Seriously just look at the pages history, it was a war on green and red edits), Ward himself wasn't completely at fault here, [[Games Workshop]] is just as much to blame for their irresponsible and careless attitude in handling fluff to a ''clearly'' biased player and gave him the green light to write whatever things Ward could come out with. However after Ward's quite unexpected departure in 2014 (He came back in 2016 though, just hope he can control his Ultramarine urges now(he can’t)), the Ultramarines have been getting....less of the limelight like they used to back in the heydays of Codex: Space Marines 5th Edition. Nowadays, the [[Blood Angels]], [[Space Wolves]], [[Dark Angels]] and even the [[Deathwatch]] are getting more in the spotlight. While the Ultramarines are still the de facto mascots of WH40K, it seems that the post-Ward era has seen the return of more... [[Pauldrons|diverse forms of Space Marine Chapters]]. Furthermore, the [[Horus Heresy]] lineups made by our favorite [[Forgeworld]] has been giving the Ultramarines and the rest of the Space Marine Legions an equal respect in both their lore and crunch which was unthinkable back in the day, "The [[Salamanders]] and [[Raven Guard]] get their own moment to shine without the Ultras overshadowing them? How preposterous!" would be the most likely answer if went back in time and told our past selves over this.

Additionally the Forgeworld model for [[Roboute Guilliman]] has been well received by fans with some commenting that of all the [[Primarch]] models, Guilliman's was one of the best designed and posed (although the truth is that his armour has went from Grecco-Roman in style to Marvel, and in spite of all his Mary Sue-ness, he's still likely to get stomped over by an [[Imperial Knight]] or Assault Terminators). What does this mean for our (in)famous blueberries? A redemption of sorts? Winning back the crowd? Earning back the respect it once had? The answer could be all of them. Whatever is the case, the legacy of Ward and the Ultramarine fiasco did impact the way players see the Ultramarines and the Space Marines to an extent either negatively or positively (More inclined to the negativity though). But seeing as how GeeDubs still has the [[Robin Cruddace|Cruddhead]], it can be seen with some sigh of relief that GeeDubs seems to be back to their grips now in terms of fluff at least.

==Tabletop==
Throughout most of GW's history the Ultramarines have been portrayed on the tabletop as the "standard" space marine chapter, to the point where most other chapters are represented as "Ultramarines +,- variable X". [[Dark Angels|More]] [[Grey Knights|popular]] [[Space Wolves|chapters]] often get [[Blood Angels|their own]] codices, but less popular chapters get relegated to sets of advantages and disadvantages on top of the Ultramarine baseline. At certain points in GW's sordid tabletop history this has led to Ultramarines being literally vanilla marines with no bonuses whatsoever, where the '''only''' advantage to taking them is their wide selection of characters, and other times such as 7th edition where with the right builds and the right tactics, you could statistically beat out the Blood Angels and Space Wolves in assault, and Dark Angels and Imperial Fists in shooting.

8th Edition is probably the best they've ever been while not being quite as cheesy as they were in the past. Their strategies, characters, chapter tactics, and warlord trait all grant bonuses to command points, to the point where you can get the effective use of 20(!) command points on stratagems in a 2000 point game, leading to an army with massive tactical flexibility. Gone are the days were you can butcher melee dedicated forces in close combat, and out-shoot the gun-factories of the universe, a bunch of damn sues who win because they are - of course - the BEST EVAR. Now you get the Ultramarines as they should be: a versatile but non-specialized army with the tactical and strategic flexibility to make the most out of any situation.

==Notable Members==
[[File:1280346485348.jpg|thumb|right|While most believe the story told by the Ultramarines, eye-witnesses paint a different story...]]
*'''[[Marneus Calgar|Marneus Augustus Calgar]]''': [[Marneus Calgar#Gathering Storm|Regent of Ultramar]] and Chapter Master of the Ultramarines. His accomplishments include being thoroughly ripped apart by the [[Swarmlord]] (by that we mean all his limbs, a large portion of his body and his eye), and single handedly holding off an Ork Waaagh! for 9 days all by himself. However, his crowning moment is his defeat of an Eldar Avatar of Khaine in 1 vs 1, hand-to-hand combat, which is typically killed by the same effort it takes to kill a Khornate Bloodthirster - never mind that the thing is made of molten metal and over three times his size. He also had a rematch with the Swarmlord and won, which must have been pretty easy, considering that it had been recently ripped apart. Has also faced [[Abaddon the Despoiler]] as well (following turning into a [[Primaris Marine]]), but his plot armor wasn't as strong that day and he just barely escaped that mess.
*'''[[Severus Agemman]]''': Captain of the Ultramarines First Company. He was Captain of the Second Company, and Sicarius' commanding officer before being promoted after the First Tyrannic War. There isn't much fluff about him besides being overshadowed by his former subordinate Sicarius. As first Company Captain he's Calgar's appointed successor, however much of the chapter thinks it will be Sicarius instead of him. Agemman is aware of this possibility and isn't very happy about it. As of the end of the Plague Wars, Severus serves as the Tetrarch of the northern reaches of Ultramar.
*'''[[Cato Sicarius]]''': Former captain of the Ultramarines Second Company and Leader of Guilliman's Victrix Guard. Is kind of a glory hog, but he's arguably earned his right to be a braggart through his skill at arms. Was taken on as a [[Matt Ward|ward]] by the primarch after his resurrection, mostly because Cato's brash, forthright personality reminded him of Aeonid Thiel, whose counsel Guilliman greatly missed. His captaincy was given to Sevastus Acheran.
*'''[[Uriel Ventris]]''': Captain of the Ultramarines Fourth Company and the main character of Graham McNeil's Ultramarines novel series. Notable for destroying the [[Daemonculaba]].
*'''[[Ortan Cassius]]''': Master of Sanctity of the Ultramarines and ex-member of the [[Deathwatch]]. Currently one of the oldest Space Marines alive and [[Bjorn the Fell Handed|not yet placed in a Dreadnought]]. The Tyrannic War Veterans were his idea.
*'''[[Varro Tigurius]]''': the Ultramarine's (Primaris) Chief Librarian, has enough psychic prowess to make psychic contact with the Hive Mind without going bonkers in the process.
*'''[[Torias Telion]]''': (aka; Sean Connery made [[Grimdark]]) Ultramarine Scout Sergeant. A skilled sniper, other chapters have borrowed him to train their scouts occasionally. He also has an impressive mustache.
*'''[[Captain Titus]]''': Captain of the who the fuck knows company (if the trim of his pauldrons are accurate, he's Captain of the 2nd Company). He gained prominence (will gain prominence?) on the forge world of Graia, trying to keep a whole Waaagh! from stealing all the bitz for themselves while keeping a probably radical Inquisitor happy. Also there's a portal to the warp letting out Daemons and Chaos Marines to go on a jolly old pub crawl. He is also one of the few Ultramarines who clearly states that the Codex Astartes is not meant to be a mental straightjacket. Thus, he is [[awesome]].
*'''Varnus''': Ultramarines Chaplain dispatched to Lorn V. For perhaps the first instance in recorded time, he is a Space Marine who actually respects the Imperial Guard and couldn't ask for a better force (barring his own company).
*'''[[Aeonid Thiel]]''': A sergeant during the Horus Heresy. Despite being seen as a rule breaking maverick for proposing battle simulations of Space Marines fighting one another, he ends up playing a major role first in the Battle of Calth, then in laying the groundwork for the Ultramarines post-war, including the red painted helmets for sergeants. Also served as the co-writer of the Codex. Promoted to Captain of the 2nd Company at the time of Guilliman's wounding, though his ultimate fate is unknown.
*'''Decimus Felix''': Primaris Captain of the Ultramarines Eleventh Company (Though one doesn't quite exist) and Equerry to Guilliman. Despite the utterly suspicious circumstances of such a fresh-ish face being afforded this much power, he acts as the voice of reason for the primarch. Acts as Tetrarch to the eastern reaches of Ultramar and has been trolled a bit by Cawl.
*'''Sergeant Cornellus''': A sergeant of an embarrassing squad. Notable for killing [[Eliphas the Inheritor]] the first time, stopping a daemon invasion and finding the Ultramarines Scrabble set all while sounding like a baby
*'''Smurfette''': The only [[Yvraine|female]] member of the Ultramarine chapter.

==Quotes==
{{topquote|Chapters (not descended from Guilliman's geneseed) are disciples who owe their genetic inheritance to another [[Primarch]], but follow the [[Codex Astartes]] as keenly as their divergent heritage allows. While primarily composed of successor Chapters, this group also includes several Chapters of the [[First Founding]] - notably the [[Imperial Fists]], [[White Scars]] and the [[Raven Guard]]. <s>These chapters can never be Ultramarines, for their gene-seed is not that of [[Roboute Guilliman]]. Nevertheless, they will ever aspire to the standards and teachings of the great [[Primarch]].</s>|Fucking [[Matt Ward]]...}}
{{topquote|(Chapters who do not emulate the Ultramarines) are aberrants; chapters who, through quirk of gene-seed, mutation or stubbornness, eschew the Codex Astartes in favor of other structural and combat doctrines. Some, such as the [[Blood Angels]] and their successors, strive to be worthy of Guilliman's legacy, but their recalcitrant gene-seed drives them ever further from it. Others, such as the [[Space Wolves]] and the [[Black Templars]], remain stubbornly independent, looking to [[Primarch|their own founder's]] ways of war (which is hilarious for the Templars) and caring little of how they fare in the eyes of others. These aberrant Chapters were always few in number and their presence diminishes with each passing decade, for their gene-seed is no longer the source of fresh Chapters.|[[Matt Ward]], Ultramarines player, codex writer, [[Codex]]: [[Space Marines]], 5th Edition, p. 25.}}
{{topquote|The Ultramarines are undoubtedly the best Space Marines ever. Yes, really! Thanks to the heritage of Guilliman and their myriad heroic deeds, the Ultramarines are the exemplars of the Space Marines. With a few fringe exceptions who have severe mutations ([[Blood Angels]]) or stolid stubbornness ([[Space Wolves]] and [[Dark Angels]]) all [[Space Marine Chapter|Space marine chapters]] want to be like the Ultramarines and recognize [[Marneus Calgar]] as their [[spiritual liege]].|Matt Ward, Ultramarines player, codex writer, in the [[White Dwarf]] interview celebrating the release of Codex: Space Marines.}}
{{topquote|But your teachings…" "Are yet flawed," said Guilliman. "No one, not even one such as I, can anticipate every possible outcome of battle. My words are not some holy writ that must be obeyed. There must always be room for personal initiative on the battlefield. You and I both know how one spark of heroism can turn the tide of battle. That knowledge and personal experience can only be earned in blood, and the leader in the field must always be the ultimate arbiter of what course of action should be followed.|[[Roboute Guilliman]], making a point that his successors would quickly forget about and [[Matt Ward|the writer above]] would ignore.}}
{{topquote|Wondering what would be in the supplemental Codex for the Ultramarines that won’t be in the main book? Come take a peek!|Adam Harrison, August 8 2019, for Bell of Lost Souls, [[Games Workshop|selling to us]] the new Ultrasmurf supplement and priviledges...}}

==Daily Rituals==
04:00 - The Ultramarines rise up from their sleep in their marble-encased sleeping chambers. The Primarch has already been awake for some time, having lost the need for sleep as a side effect of his revival. (Good thing, too- according to Guilliman himself the Armor of Fate is too noisy to let him rest, and even if it wasn't the armor doesn't have the flexibility to let him lie down in the first place.)

04:30 - Morning Prayers. The Ultramarines conduct morning prayers on why they are the SECOND TO TEH EMPRAH! and how all other chapters view [[Marneus Calgar]] as their ''Spritual Liege.''

05:30 - Codex Astartes. The Ultramarines are indoctrinated and reminded on the rules and values of the Codex Astartes. Guilliman makes a note to break the news of his Codex revisions gently so his gene-sons don't go into conniptions.

08:00 - Morning Firing Rites. The Ultramarines enter target practice with spiritual guidance from Chaplain Ortan Cassius, who manages to only occasionally go off into furious rants about "The goddam bugs".

09:00 - Battle Practice. The Ultramarines leave for Macragge's Colosseum to train against each other, the local Macragge fauna and Battle Servitors.

10:00 - Morning Meal. While later than some chapters, the Ultramarines feast upon a light meal made of fruits, biscuits and light meat by the Chapter serfs. The serfs are thanked soon afterwards in a manner of respect.

10:15 - Tactical Indoctrination. The Ultramarines head to see the latest battle plans and which military techniques that can best complement the Codex Astartes. Guilliman reviews the most recent major warzones of the Imperium and prepares battle plans for the forces deployed there.

10:30 - Meetings with the Spiritual Liege. Whilst the rest of the Ultramarines practice reciting the Codex Astartes, the leaders from each of the Ultramarine's companies discuss political, social and military affairs of Ultramar and the Imperium at large. When the Primarch has the opportunity to be present, discussions and tactical briefings on his long absence last for hours, with plenty of facepalming and sighing from said Primarch.

11:00 - Afternoon Wargames. The Ultramarines conduct [[Tabletop Miniature|miniature wargames]] to best simulate strategic and combat play which can be learned and adapted in real life combat.

13:00 - Midday Meal. A light meal of cheese, bread, meats and vegetables is prepared by the Chapter serfs.

13:30 - Codex Astartes. More indoctrination of the Codex Astartes are read to ensure that the Ultramarines never diverge from the book of Guilliman. The Primarch privately wonders how his words about the Codex being a guideline could have been misinterpreted so badly.

15:00 - Evening Firing Rites. The Ultramarines enter target practice.

16:00 - Battle Practice. The Ultramarines are now dropped into the wilderness of Macragge to fend off the local fauna and flora there. The animals and plants killed are sent to the Chapter Serfs for more ingredients.

17:00 - Evening Prayers. The Ultramarines gather together to pray on why they are the chosen chapter and why the Ultramar System is the best system.

18:00 - Nighttime Firing Rites. The Ultramarines take target practice in the night to further hone in their nocturnal experience.

19:00 - Battle Practice. The Ultramarines descend to one of the neighboring planets in Ultramar to further fight the planet's local fauna and flora, as well as the various nasty things Nurgle has been attacking Ultramar with lately.

19:30 - Daily Medical Checkup. Whilst the rest of the Ultramarines are busy practicing their combat prowess, the long hours of having to keep the entire Imperium afloat has left Roboute Guilliman in a state of dismay, anger and minor facial injuries due to repeated facepalming. [[Apothecaries]] try and fail to warn their Primarch that continued usage of the facepalm will eventually give the Avenging Son a concussion. Any battle-brothers who have come into contact with the forces of Nurgle are painstakingly decontaminated to prevent the spread of any warp-contagion.

20:00 - Evening Meal. A feast made from the creatures slain by the Ultramarines earlier on is cooked in the finest ingredients. Cooking it perfectly gets the serf a purity seal of valor while cooking it imperfectly forces the serf to be read the entire Codex Astartes section on cooking. Guilliman privately wonders how the joke section made it into the official print.

21:00 - Cleaning up Guilliman's chambers. The Ultramarines go and clean up their Primarch's marble chambers after Macragge's daily tourist traps are closed for the night. Despite the Avenging Son's frequent absences from Ultramar, they like to be sure his quarters are just as he left them.

22:00 - Free Time. The Ultramarines get free time. Some continue to read the Codex Astartes, others pray to the Emperor while some go out of their Fortress Monastery to catch up on the local news and political affairs as well as hanging out with the citizens of Macragge.

24:00 - Rest Period. The Ultramarines descend back to their marble-encased sleeping chambers to rest, save for Guilliman who is needed elsewhere in the Imperium.

==Some music==

*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wTXrLsZvVI Their theme] done by [[HMKids]].
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt1M8iZNHpQ Their theme] from Chaos Gate. Became a major meme among Russian 40k fans due to some deliciously stupid [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBg9ZAqBifQ misheard lyrics] and made ultramarines associated with soup in Russian community.
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf9AaTV4-yw A track] from their official movie.

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:ultrawombles.jpg|ULTRAWOMBLES
File:Spacemarine.jpg|[[Iron Hands|Sgt Pasanius didn't want that hand anyway.]]
File:Warhammer ultramarine take 2 by faroldjo.jpg|Say what you want about Ultramarines, but their Honour Guards looks pretty boss.
File:Ultramarines concept by Malkavian7515.jpg
File:Pimp Suit.png|Captain Cato Sicarius' power armour, also known as the Mantle of the Mary Suzerain
File:CodexSM EPUB Cover.jpg|Ultramarines got the front cover of the Space Marine Codex and admittely looks fucking cool for it.
</gallery>

==See also==
*[[Who Watches Them]]
*[[Macragge heresy]]
*[[Ultramarines Honour Company]]
*[http://www.scribd.com/doc/118383071/WD97-Chapter-Approved-Index-Astartes| The past wot got remade by their presence - the original Chapter Approved write up of the "Ultra-Marines."]
*[[Genesis Chapter]], their reserve.
*[[Veteran_Squad#Tyrannic_War_Veterans|Tyrannic War Veterans]]

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Genesis Chapter

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{{Infobox Spess Mahreen Chapter
|Name = Genesis Chapter
|Heraldry = [[File:Genesis.jpg]]
|Founding = [[Second Founding]]
|Successors of = [[Ultramarines]]
|Chapter Master = [[Spiritual Liege|"Unknown"]]
|Homeworld = Newfound, near [[Ultramar]]
|Specialty = Copying the [[Ultramarines]]
|Strength = [[Codex Astartes|Codex Approved]]
|Allegiance = [[Imperium of Man]]
|Colours = Red & White
}}
{{topquote|While all [[Space Marine Chapter|Space Marine chapters]] want to be like the Ultramarines and recognize [[Marneus Calgar]] as their [[spiritual liege]]..." "...these chapters can never be [[Ultramarines]].|Matt Ward}}
{{topquote|Oh but we CAN be Ultramarines!|No-name Genesis Chapter Master}}

The Genesis Chapter (also known as the Ultramarines reserve team) is generally held to be the closest of the Ultramarines’ Successors, both doctrinally ,astrographically, and historically; given it was founded out of the [[Veteran Squad|Legion Veterans]] that survived the [[Horus Heresy]]. Which sounds like a retarded way to make a Chapter and, wait, weren’t all Marines veterans of the Horus Heresy? So, maybe this explains the Rogue Trader Ultramarines. The Chapter holds to the wisdom of the Codex Astartes in [[Red Scorpions|every possible way]]. The Chapter’s home world of Newfound is a neighbour of the Ultramarines’ Realm of Ultramar, and its brothers commonly undertake at least one pilgrimage to the Shrine of the [[Roboute Guilliman|Primarch]] whilst popping over for tea and sugar.

The Chaplains of the Genesis Chapter regard the Codex Astartes as utterly sacrosanct, and they go to great lengths to ensure the Chapter’s adherence to its tenets. Any points of contention are debated thoroughly, with recourse to the opinions of the Ultramarines’ Chaplains for final ratification in order to ensure there is no doctrinal drift between Progenitor and Primogenitor whatsoever. So in essence whatever the [[Spiritual Liege]] orders; the Genesis Chapter will follow blindly, since if they cannot decide an action, they'll check with the [[Ultramarines]] to make a decision.

Because the Genesis Chapter maintains [[My Little Pony|such close links]] with its Progenitor, the two Chapters frequently cruise through the stars together, looking for battles/[[Sisters of Battle|hos]]/[[Matt Ward|Codex deviants to bully]]. Genesis Chapter squads routinely fill gaps in Ultramarines’ companies should they fall below codex strength due to battle losses or other commitments. Individual Genesis Chapter Battle-Brothers have even been seconded to the Ultramarines to temporarily fill empty specialist positions in the Ultramarines Chapter such as [[Librarian|Librarius]] and [[Techmarine|Forge staff.]] and what do they get in return? FUCK ALL that's what.

If proof were ever needed to show that the Ultramarines were in breach of their own limitations on chapter size set down in the [[Codex Astartes]], the Genesis chapter would be it as they are essentially an entire spare chapter for the Ultramarines to use as private reserves and can ensure ([[Lamenters|unlike]] [[Raven Guard|some]] [[Crimson Fists|other]] [[Blood Angels|chapters]]) that they never have to undergo a long painful period of rebuilding after a brutal campaign, and thus retain their [[Mary Sue]] status.

The Genesis Chapter itself, however, did get [[just as planned|out played]] by some [[broken Aquila|Night Lords]] during the early parts of the 13th Black Crusade. Seeking to stop the Night Lords from landing on a planet, a cruiser launched its drop pods while still in orbit, looking to use them as makeshift boarding torpedos and storm the bridge. However, the Night Lords instead had laid a trap and decided to blow up half of the orbiting moon to take out the cruiser after killing the marines who had boarded their own Strike Cruiser. inside. To be fair, they did give a pretty good account of themselves. They only possessed a few squads led by a veteran sergeant and they managed to take half of the Night Lords with them. Not to mention said veteran sergeant took on the entirety of First Claw and killed Xarl, one of its most fearsome members. ((Said veteran sergeant was also a company champion and in a terminator suit with a thunder hammer, fighting against marines with power armour that looked like someone assembled it from 5 different armour sets, which is good as it makes this event very believable and prevents Mary Sueness)) The moon blowy-upyness just goes to show how powerful 40k is.

TL;DR: Ultramarines reserve team.

==Daily Rituals==
04:00 - The Genesis Chapter rise up from their sleep in their faux marble-encased sleeping chambers. They show a live feed of Guiliman, who has already been awake for some time, having lost the need for sleep as a side effect of his revival.

04:30 - Morning Prayers. The Genesis Chapter conduct morning prayers on why they are the SECOND TO THE ULTRAMARINES! and how all other chapters should view the Ultramarines as the best stuff evah!

05:30 - Codex Astartes. The Genesis Chapter are indoctrinated and reminded on the rules and values of the Codex Astartes. The news of Codex revisions causes them to go into conniptions.

08:00 - Morning Firing Rites. The Genesis Chapter enter target practice with spiritual guidance from the Chaplain. However, their shock over the changes to the Codex cause them to often miss their targets.

09:00 - Battle Practice. The Genesis Chapter leave for Newfound's Colosseum to train against each other, the local Newfound fauna and Battle Servitors.

10:00 - Morning Meal. While later than some chapters, the Genesis Chapter feast upon a light meal made of fruits, biscuits and light meat by the Chapter serfs. The serfs are thanked soon afterwards in a manner of respect.

10:15 - Tactical Indoctrination. The Genesis chapter attempt to see the latest battle plans and which military techniques that can best complement the Codex Astartes. The Ultramarines respectfully tell them to butt out and find something better to do.

10:30 - Prayers to the Spiritual Liege. Whilst the rest of the Genesis Chapter practice reciting the Codex Astartes, the leaders from each of the Chapter's companies discuss political, social and military affairs of Newfound and the Imperium at large.

11:00 - Afternoon Wargames. The Genesis Chapter conducts [[Tabletop Miniature|miniature wargames]] to best simulate strategic and combat play which can be learned and adapted in real life combat. However, they almost always play the small blueberries with powerful ranged attacks.

13:00 - Midday Meal. A light meal of cheese, bread, meats and vegetables is prepared by the Chapter serfs.

13:30 - Codex Astartes. More indoctrination of the Codex Astartes is read to ensure that the Genesis Chapter never diverge from the book of Guilliman. However, they often recite verses wrongly, causing them great distress.

15:00 - Evening Firing Rites. The Genesis Chapter enter target practice. Their aim still sucks, due to their guilt of not memorizing the Codex Astartes.

16:00 - Battle Practice. The Genesis Chapter are now dropped into the wilderness of Newfound to fend off the local fauna and flora there. The animals and plants killed are sent to the Chapter Serfs for more ingredients.

17:00 - Evening Prayers. The Genesis Chapter gather together to pray on why they are the chosen chapter and why the Newfound System is the best system.

18:00 - Nighttime Firing Rites. The Genesis Chapter take target practice in the night to further hone in their <s>lack of</s> nocturnal experience.

19:00 - Battle Practice. The Genesis Chapter descends to Ultramar to fight the planet's local fauna and flora, as well as the various nasty things Nurgle has been attacking Ultramar with lately. They also thank the Emperor for allowing them to be there.

19:30 - Daily Medical Checkup. Whilst the rest of the Genesis Chapter are busy practicing their combat prowess, the long hours of having to keep said Chapter away has left Roboute Guilliman in a state of dismay, anger and minor facial injuries due to repeated facepalming. [[Apothecaries]] try and fail to warn their Primarch that continued usage of the facepalm will eventually give the Avenging Son a concussion. Any battle-brothers who have come into contact with the forces of the Genesis Chapter are painstakingly decontaminated to prevent the spread of any nerd obsession.

20:00 - Evening Meal. A feast made from the creatures slain by the Genesis Chapter earlier on is cooked in the finest ingredients. Cooking it perfectly gets the serf a purity seal of cooking while cooking it imperfectly forces the serf to be read the entire Codex Astartes section on how to be a spiritual liege.

21:00 - Cleaning up shop. The Genesis Chapter go and clean up the signs they were on Macragge. They also return home to Newfound.

22:00 - Free Time. The Genesis Chapter get free time. Some continue to read the Codex Astartes, others pray to the Emperor while some go out of their Fortress Monastery to catch up on the local news and political affairs as well as hanging out with the citizens of Newfound.

24:00 - Rest Period. The Genesis Chapter return to their faux marble-encased sleeping chambers to rest. Guilliman breathes a sigh of relief as he is no longer pestered by those fanboy nerds.

<s>Wait a gosh darned minute! This is just the daily rituals for the Ultramarines with a few adjustments!</s> {{BLAM| '''*BLAM!*''' Heresy! this is a unique Daily ritual of the holy Emprah's angels.}}

==Relics==
In the [[Deathwatch]] there is a hallowed tome referred to as '''Tulius Insight'''. To which battle brothers from stricter chapters are directed to if they are having difficulty adjusting from [[Codex Astartes]] doctrines to the much looser freedoms allowed by the [[Ordos Xenos]]. This tome details how the Codex Astartes can still be applied to the marine's duties, even when away from their parent chapter in situations where it [[Weeaboo Fightan Magic|might not be apparently clear]].

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:Genesis Miniature.jpg
File:Genesis Battle Brother.jpg
File:Genesis Primaris.jpg
</gallery>

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Genesis Chapter

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{{Infobox Spess Mahreen Chapter
|Name = Genesis Chapter
|Heraldry = [[File:Genesis.jpg]]
|Founding = [[Second Founding]]
|Successors of = [[Ultramarines]]
|Chapter Master = [[Spiritual Liege|"Unknown"]]
|Homeworld = Newfound, near [[Ultramar]]
|Specialty = Copying the [[Ultramarines]]
|Strength = [[Codex Astartes|Codex Approved]]
|Allegiance = [[Imperium of Man]]
|Colours = Red & White
}}
{{topquote|While all [[Space Marine Chapter|Space Marine chapters]] want to be like the Ultramarines and recognize [[Marneus Calgar]] as their [[spiritual liege]]..." "...these chapters can never be [[Ultramarines]].|Matt Ward}}
{{topquote|Oh but we CAN be Ultramarines!|No-name Genesis Chapter Master}}

The Genesis Chapter (also known as the Ultramarines reserve team) is generally held to be the closest of the Ultramarines’ Successors, both doctrinally ,astrographically, and historically; given it was founded out of the [[Veteran Squad|Legion Veterans]] that survived the [[Horus Heresy]]. Which sounds like a retarded way to make a Chapter and, wait, weren’t all Marines veterans of the Horus Heresy? So, maybe this explains the Rogue Trader Ultramarines. The Chapter holds to the wisdom of the Codex Astartes in [[Red Scorpions|every possible way]]. The Chapter’s home world of Newfound is a neighbour of the Ultramarines’ Realm of Ultramar, and its brothers commonly undertake at least one pilgrimage to the Shrine of the [[Roboute Guilliman|Primarch]] whilst popping over for tea and sugar.

The Chaplains of the Genesis Chapter regard the Codex Astartes as utterly sacrosanct, and they go to great lengths to ensure the Chapter’s adherence to its tenets. Any points of contention are debated thoroughly, with recourse to the opinions of the Ultramarines’ Chaplains for final ratification in order to ensure there is no doctrinal drift between Progenitor and Primogenitor whatsoever. So in essence whatever the [[Spiritual Liege]] orders; the Genesis Chapter will follow blindly, since if they cannot decide an action, they'll check with the [[Ultramarines]] to make a decision.

Because the Genesis Chapter maintains [[My Little Pony|such close links]] with its Progenitor, the two Chapters frequently cruise through the stars together, looking for battles/[[Sisters of Battle|hos]]/[[Matt Ward|Codex deviants to bully]]. Genesis Chapter squads routinely fill gaps in Ultramarines’ companies should they fall below codex strength due to battle losses or other commitments. Individual Genesis Chapter Battle-Brothers have even been seconded to the Ultramarines to temporarily fill empty specialist positions in the Ultramarines Chapter such as [[Librarian|Librarius]] and [[Techmarine|Forge staff.]] and what do they get in return? FUCK ALL that's what.

If proof were ever needed to show that the Ultramarines were in breach of their own limitations on chapter size set down in the [[Codex Astartes]], the Genesis chapter would be it as they are essentially an entire spare chapter for the Ultramarines to use as private reserves and can ensure ([[Lamenters|unlike]] [[Raven Guard|some]] [[Crimson Fists|other]] [[Blood Angels|chapters]]) that they never have to undergo a long painful period of rebuilding after a brutal campaign, and thus retain their [[Mary Sue]] status.

The Genesis Chapter itself, however, did get [[just as planned|out played]] by some [[broken Aquila|Night Lords]] during the early parts of the 13th Black Crusade. Seeking to stop the Night Lords from landing on a planet, a cruiser launched its drop pods while still in orbit, looking to use them as makeshift boarding torpedos and storm the bridge. However, the Night Lords instead had laid a trap and decided to blow up half of the orbiting moon to take out the cruiser after killing the marines who had boarded their own Strike Cruiser. inside. To be fair, they did give a pretty good account of themselves. They only possessed a few squads led by a veteran sergeant and they managed to take half of the Night Lords with them. Not to mention said veteran sergeant took on the entirety of First Claw and killed Xarl, one of its most fearsome members. ((Said veteran sergeant was also a company champion and in a terminator suit with a thunder hammer, fighting against marines with power armour that looked like someone assembled it from 5 different armour sets))

TL;DR: Ultramarines reserve team.

==Daily Rituals==
04:00 - The Genesis Chapter rise up from their sleep in their faux marble-encased sleeping chambers. They show a live feed of Guiliman, who has already been awake for some time, having lost the need for sleep as a side effect of his revival.

04:30 - Morning Prayers. The Genesis Chapter conduct morning prayers on why they are the SECOND TO THE ULTRAMARINES! and how all other chapters should view the Ultramarines as the best stuff evah!

05:30 - Codex Astartes. The Genesis Chapter are indoctrinated and reminded on the rules and values of the Codex Astartes. The news of Codex revisions causes them to go into conniptions.

08:00 - Morning Firing Rites. The Genesis Chapter enter target practice with spiritual guidance from the Chaplain. However, their shock over the changes to the Codex cause them to often miss their targets.

09:00 - Battle Practice. The Genesis Chapter leave for Newfound's Colosseum to train against each other, the local Newfound fauna and Battle Servitors.

10:00 - Morning Meal. While later than some chapters, the Genesis Chapter feast upon a light meal made of fruits, biscuits and light meat by the Chapter serfs. The serfs are thanked soon afterwards in a manner of respect.

10:15 - Tactical Indoctrination. The Genesis chapter attempt to see the latest battle plans and which military techniques that can best complement the Codex Astartes. The Ultramarines respectfully tell them to butt out and find something better to do.

10:30 - Prayers to the Spiritual Liege. Whilst the rest of the Genesis Chapter practice reciting the Codex Astartes, the leaders from each of the Chapter's companies discuss political, social and military affairs of Newfound and the Imperium at large.

11:00 - Afternoon Wargames. The Genesis Chapter conducts [[Tabletop Miniature|miniature wargames]] to best simulate strategic and combat play which can be learned and adapted in real life combat. However, they almost always play the small blueberries with powerful ranged attacks.

13:00 - Midday Meal. A light meal of cheese, bread, meats and vegetables is prepared by the Chapter serfs.

13:30 - Codex Astartes. More indoctrination of the Codex Astartes is read to ensure that the Genesis Chapter never diverge from the book of Guilliman. However, they often recite verses wrongly, causing them great distress.

15:00 - Evening Firing Rites. The Genesis Chapter enter target practice. Their aim still sucks, due to their guilt of not memorizing the Codex Astartes.

16:00 - Battle Practice. The Genesis Chapter are now dropped into the wilderness of Newfound to fend off the local fauna and flora there. The animals and plants killed are sent to the Chapter Serfs for more ingredients.

17:00 - Evening Prayers. The Genesis Chapter gather together to pray on why they are the chosen chapter and why the Newfound System is the best system.

18:00 - Nighttime Firing Rites. The Genesis Chapter take target practice in the night to further hone in their <s>lack of</s> nocturnal experience.

19:00 - Battle Practice. The Genesis Chapter descends to Ultramar to fight the planet's local fauna and flora, as well as the various nasty things Nurgle has been attacking Ultramar with lately. They also thank the Emperor for allowing them to be there.

19:30 - Daily Medical Checkup. Whilst the rest of the Genesis Chapter are busy practicing their combat prowess, the long hours of having to keep said Chapter away has left Roboute Guilliman in a state of dismay, anger and minor facial injuries due to repeated facepalming. [[Apothecaries]] try and fail to warn their Primarch that continued usage of the facepalm will eventually give the Avenging Son a concussion. Any battle-brothers who have come into contact with the forces of the Genesis Chapter are painstakingly decontaminated to prevent the spread of any nerd obsession.

20:00 - Evening Meal. A feast made from the creatures slain by the Genesis Chapter earlier on is cooked in the finest ingredients. Cooking it perfectly gets the serf a purity seal of cooking while cooking it imperfectly forces the serf to be read the entire Codex Astartes section on how to be a spiritual liege.

21:00 - Cleaning up shop. The Genesis Chapter go and clean up the signs they were on Macragge. They also return home to Newfound.

22:00 - Free Time. The Genesis Chapter get free time. Some continue to read the Codex Astartes, others pray to the Emperor while some go out of their Fortress Monastery to catch up on the local news and political affairs as well as hanging out with the citizens of Newfound.

24:00 - Rest Period. The Genesis Chapter return to their faux marble-encased sleeping chambers to rest. Guilliman breathes a sigh of relief as he is no longer pestered by those fanboy nerds.

<s>Wait a gosh darned minute! This is just the daily rituals for the Ultramarines with a few adjustments!</s> {{BLAM| '''*BLAM!*''' Heresy! this is a unique Daily ritual of the holy Emprah's angels.}}

==Relics==
In the [[Deathwatch]] there is a hallowed tome referred to as '''Tulius Insight'''. To which battle brothers from stricter chapters are directed to if they are having difficulty adjusting from [[Codex Astartes]] doctrines to the much looser freedoms allowed by the [[Ordos Xenos]]. This tome details how the Codex Astartes can still be applied to the marine's duties, even when away from their parent chapter in situations where it [[Weeaboo Fightan Magic|might not be apparently clear]].

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Spiritual liege

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[[Image:Wardass.jpg|thumb|Yeah, it's kind of like this.]]

A "liege" is a sovereign to whom one owes fealty. Therefore, a "'''spiritual''' liege" would be a person to whom one is ideologically loyal, like a thinker whose philosophy one follows.

This phrase has come to be widely used among fans of [[Warhammer 40,000]] after [[Matt Ward]] gave [[Ultramarines#Quotes|an interview]] explaining why ''[[Codex]]: [[Space Marines]]'' had so many [[Ultramarines]] characters in them: "[t]he Ultramarines are undoubtedly the best [[Space Marines]] ever. Yes, really! Thanks to the [[Codex Astartes | heritage]] of [[Roboute Guilliman|Guilliman]] and their myriad heroic deeds, the Ultramarines are the exemplars of the Space Marines. With a [[Space Wolves|few]] [[Black Templars|fringe]] [[Grey Knights|exceptions]]... all [[Space Marine Chapter]]s want to be like the Ultramarines and recognize [[Marneus Calgar]] as their '''Spiritual Liege.'''" (The real reason was it was going to be ''Codex: Ultramarines'' until at the last second [[Games Workshop|GW]] changed their minds.)

Apparently the heresy of acknowledging someone other than [[God-Emperor of Mankind|E-Money]] as their liege, be it physically or spiritually, is lost on the Wardian Space Marines.

Because it makes ''total sense'' why [[FAIL|they'd venerate the Ultramarines and not ''their own Chapter Masters and Primarchs'']].

Since then, "spiritual liege" has been used as an insulting way to refer to Roboute Guilliman, Marneus Calgar, and Matt Ward. It is also used ironically, to make the point that one's spiritual liege is '''not''' one of those three. In ages past, the term was used instead of the phrase "Matt Ward" on /tg/ (since if you should ever type "Matt Ward" or "Matthew Ward" in the text box, it'll count your entire post as spam).

The kindest way to view this would maybe be by seeing it as “Ultramarines are supersoldiers instead of superwarriors and therefore are the best form of the Emperor’s vision for the Astartes.” Or perhaps that the Ultramarines methods and structure means they best fit what their particular legion was created for more than other Primarchs’ sons live up to their legions’ purposes. For example, the Raven Guard were blatantly intended to be an oppressive force of domination and occupation for worlds that had to be particularly brutally forced into Compliance. Which, of course, the Corax Raven Guard threw out the window and became the opposite of. So, in this way the Ultramarines can be viewed as being the Space Romans they were made to be by the Emperor whereas the other legions deviated from his design to varying degrees. That said, this is just a kind interpretation of Ward’s statement but probably not right at all and he’s just a rabid fanboy.

In the [[Horus Heresy]] novels it's heavily implied that the remnants of the [[First Founding#Two Unknown Legions|two lost Legions]] were absorbed into the Ultramarines, after being loyalty-checked into nigh oblivion by the [[Space Wolves|Emperor's Executioners]]. Therefore a large number of so-called Successor Chapters aren't really Ultramarines but venerate Guilliman over their original [[Primarch]]. On the other hand, when your alternative is facing down the [[Space Wolves]], you'd pledge anyone, even [[Abaddon]], as your liege.

Amusingly enough Abaddon is in fact the [[Chaos]] Spiritual Liege, as many renegade [[Chaos Space Marines]] do renounce their Primarchs and venerate him when they join. Actually absolutely appropriate if Abaddon is in fact somehow a clone of [[Horus]] (even if weak weak weak in comparison).

==<s>Why</s> this <s>isn't QUITE</s> is as dumb as you think==
Other than the fact that technically Ultramarines were always viewed ''by non-Space Marines'' as the prime example of what it means to be a Space Marine and if it wasn't for Guilliman, the Chapter would not exist...

Ward's work is poorly worded but there's some truth in it. There is a rather large number of Chapters that don't know who their Primarch is, either due to the [[Imperium of Man|Imperium's]] [[Administratum|exceptionally professional record-keeping]] or because [[Inquisition|it was covered up]], often due to the [[gene-seed]] used coming from a traitor Legion or being somehow tainted from the start. The lineage of some Chapters could be guessed based upon key traits, but many others are just too "generic". The [[Soul Drinkers]] thought they were [[Imperial Fists]] successors, and the [[Blood Ravens]] are probably <s>also sons of Guilliman assuming the "loyalist [[Thousand Sons]]" theory doesn't pan out (although it probably will)</s> successors to the Thousand Sons (check out this video theorizing about it!: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4m8HH5zy7w]). Since it's a common fact that Ultramarines are the prime and favored source of gene-seed due to their low mutation rate it is a safe bet to assume the Chapter is one of their successors; [[Dark Angels]] successors are irrevocably inducted into "the Unforgiven" (basically Legion Building) without exception, [[Blood Angels]] successors all have [[Blood Angels#Red Thirst|Red Thirst]], the [[Raven Guard|Poets]] and Imperial Fists both have notable and consistent defects in their gene-seed, and neither the [[Salamanders|rastas]], nor the [[Space Wolves|furries]] (although the Space Wolves couldn't actually make successors) have any real habit of forming successor chapters, the former due to lack of numbers during the [[Second Founding]], and the latter courtesy of Fenris' nature or some other underlying factor, so it kinda narrows down the list of who your Primarch could be (specifically, [[Roboute Guilliman|Rowboat]], [[Jaghatai Khan|Genghis Khan]], and [[Ferrus Manus|Metal Hands]]. Even then, both the [[White Scars|mongols]] and [[Iron Hands|the ultimate Mechanicum bros]] only have a handful of successors while the Ultramarines have a large majority).

The novel ''The Unremembered Empire'' shows the Ultramarines have a number of [[Traitor Legion Loyalists]] within their ranks, even saying their battle cry "We march for Macragge!", one notable group was a full [[Iron Warriors]] Chapter, notice an Ultramarine successor [[Silver Skulls| has similar colors]] to Iron Warriors? Humorously they've rallied to Guilliman's foster mother. And this is also not factoring in those rumors that they absorbed the remnants of the legions of [[Unknown Primarchs|those two brothers they dare not speak of]].

And if none of that calms you down, just pretend that Ward's codex is just some exaggerated propaganda collected from [[Macragge]] that the Smurfs distribute to make their citizens feel better.

==OBJECTION==
It is frequently touted that the Ultramarines have the most Successor Chapters. This is mainly because, in addition to their more stable than average gene-seed, they were the largest Legion at the time of the Second Founding. However, it is known fact that the Ultramarines absorbed the Legions of the [[Primarch#Two Missing Primarchs|two missing Primarchs]]. Now, it's entirely possible (and probable) that a fair number of these Space Marines would be running around at the time of the Second Founding. So when the Ultramarines legion was splitting up, it's entirely possible that Chapters were made from the gene-seed of the missing Primarchs. Therefore, whilst it's still probable that the Smurfs have the most Successor Chapters, there might not be as many as you'd think... given that it's entirely possible that dozens, if not hundreds of Chapters are actually descended from the missing Primarchs. Also the lack of losses due to arriving late to the Siege of Terra(#blameLorgar) also helps them to the spot of largest post-heresy legion. While they did lead the Scouring of the traitor legions they were fighting retreating and mostly leaderless forces and the Imperial Fists willingly chose to go for the hardest objective of the the whole campaign.

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Ultramarines

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{{Infobox Spess Mahreen Chapter
|Name = Ultramarines
|Heraldry = [[File:Smurfpauldron.jpg|140px]]
|Battle Cry = "Courage and Honour!" and "We March for Macragge!"
|Number = XIII
|Founding = [[First Founding]]
|Original Name = War-Born
|Successor Chapters = Roughly 65% of all Chapters. Allegedly. However, a lot of those don’t know who their Primarch is or are very different from Gulliman. Generally, most loyalists of traitor legions claim Ultramarines as parent Chapter.
|Chapter Master = [[Marneus Calgar]]
|Primarch = [[Roboute Guilliman]]
|Homeworld = [[Ultramar|Macragge]]
|Specialty = Jack of all trades. Obsessed with strategy, tactics and [[Codex Astartes|discipline.]] Basically Greco-romans IN SPESS!!
|Strength = Above 1000 Marines
|Allegiance = [[Imperium]]
|Colours = Ultramarine Blue, white & gold (For the most famous Second Company. Other Companies use different colors)
}}
{{Topquote|Battles are won by [[World Eaters|slaughter]] and [[Codex Astartes|maneuver]]. The greater the [[Creed|general]], the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.|Winston S. Churchill}}
{{topquote|Our Presence Remakes the Past!|The Banner of Macragge}}

The '''Ultramarines''' (More commonly known as Ultrasmurfs) are a chapter of [[Space Marines]], probably the most famous and well-known and mincy (both within the [[Warhammer 40,000]] universe and without). [[Games Workshop]] considers the Ultramarines their chapter of choice, and the Ultramarines represent the standard upon which most other Space Marine chapters are based but strive to be different from as they are so mincy. Why Games Workshop would want a Space Marine chapter whose symbol is a <s>toilet seat</s> <s>repulsive reverse vagina</s> <s>upside down Omega</s> <S>upsilon</S> [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-close_back_rounded_vowel International Phonetic Alphabet transcription for "uhh..."] ('''℧''') as their go-to chapter is beyond us. They have an easily recognizable blue-with-gold-trim colour scheme that the [[Thousand Sons]] decided to rip off post-heresy (after the Newcrons ripped off ''their'' Egyptian motif.) Of course technically that's only the second company ,but who ever heard of an ultramarine player not painting his army blue and gold? The blue colouration, coupled with the small size of the minis, has lead them to be nicknamed "Smurfs" by <s>some</s> everyone. [[Rick Priestley]] was originally inspired to promote the ultramarines heavily in publications of White Dwarf after a dream he had whilst staying around a friends house in which he claims [[What|the miniatures began speaking to him]], this part allegedly had a role in his eventual dismissal from [[Games Workshop]] in 2010.

A squad of Tactical Marines are the protagonists of the 40k-based CGI movie surprisingly titled "[[Ultramarines:The Movie|Ultramarines]]". It's not bad ''per se'' ([[Dan Abnett]] did some of the writing, although the fact that it was only "some" shows) but could have been [[Skub|better]].

==Overview==
[[File:NroL23W.jpg|left|350px|thumb|All said and done, the Ultries can be badass.]]
The Ultramarines are perhaps the closest to what many would consider a 'modern' military among the Adeptus Astartes. Strategy, planning and the minimization of casualties is the basis of any Ultramarine battle-plan and their central concept is that of a well drilled, immaculate army of soldiers who execute their duty with professionalism and competence. [[Alpha Legion|"Information is victory"]] is essentially the Ultramarine way, more so than [[Alpha Legion|most]] [[Raven Guard|other]] Chapters. Though they are much more relaxed with regards to discipline than the [[Red Scorpions|Forge World's favoured]], or [[Hammers of Dorn| those other guys]]. Even before they had reunited with their Primarch, it had been noted that the XIIIth Legion (then called the War Born) was strongly inclined towards the adoption of carefully thought out battle plans, an established chain of command, and an aversion to inflicting collateral damage. These tendencies were intensified further by their extensive study and practice of the [[Codex Astartes]], which covers a very broad range of battlefield situations and doctrines to live by. Thanks to each and every one of them training and living by it, their companies operate like a smoothly functioning combat machine with every unit functionally interlocking with every other. However, as much as this by-the-book discipline was their strength, it is often also, like the real-life ancient Roman Legions, their weakness, since the few situations that the Codex Astartes did not prepare them for tended to catch them flat-footed, lacking the flexibility to properly respond. More accurately, no Marine knows the whole Codex as it is too vast for even their minds. Each learns different parts of it. This means that while the whole Codex can be used for any situation, commanders don’t have all the pieces to the puzzle. The initial Tyranid invasion and the [[Necrons|Damnos incident]] exemplify such situations, where the unconventional nature of their enemy nearly led to their defeat. It doesn't matter how smoothly your forces function if you don't actually have a way to win the battle.

That being said, they are extremely good at adapting to a threat once the initial shock has passed . In the aftermath of their near-defeat to the Tyranids, the Chapter would go on to crush Hive Fleet Kraken as a coherent invasion force as well as create an entire unit dedicated to fighting this particular threat (Almost as if they are a chapter that is protected by a [[Plot armour|mystical]] armour), called the Tyrranic War Veterans. These specialists would become highly sought after by the Deathwatch due to their experience and knowledge and was even augmented by survivors from [[Scythes of the Emperor|other Chapters]] that suffered the wrath of the Tyranids. During the Horus Heresy, an entire force of 1000 Ultramarines was decimated the initial Night Lord of invasion of Sotha. Despite being caught off guard at first due to their unfamiliarity with the Night Lord's unconventional tactics, they began to adapt fast to their enemy's fighting style and by the end of the battle, achieved a near 20-1 kill ratio over their traitorous cousins. Although they may be weak to a new enemy or new tactics, they have a superb reactivity once they have the information they need.

They’re not warriors or knights, but soldiers; a professional fighting force dedicated to defending the 500 Worlds of Ultramar and serving the interests of the larger Imperium beyond. A standing army that is the byproduct of a prosperous Star Empire to whom they owe their existence to. This is seen in their combat doctrine. They don’t have any specializations themselves because they are supposed to adapt to whatever situation presents itself and act accordingly. They are a fluid and malleable fighting force that is supposed to assess the situation, gain every scrap of intelligence/battle data they can, and then change themselves into whatever is required to get the job done; be it a blunt hammer or a precision blade.

The [[Primarch]] of the Ultramarines is [[Roboute Guilliman]] (aka Robot Girlyman and about a thousand other highly appropriate names: Big Bobby G, Rowboat Gillman, The BIG RG, Rawbutt Girlyman , The Great Papa Smurf, God-Emperor of smurfs Ex. Ex.) and it was he who wrote the (in?)famous [[Codex Astartes]] after the events of the [[Horus Heresy|Daddy Issue Invasion]], prescribing each Space Marine chapter to a mere thousand warriors to ensure that no one man would ever command the loyalty of an entire Space Marine legion again. At least, that was the plan, but Roboute Guilliman himself never got to see it come to light, as he was [[Battle of Thessala|mortally wounded]] by a poisonous attack from his bro, the Traitor Primarch [[Fulgrim]], and he had been kept in stasis by the Ultramarines for thousands of years, only being revived through the actions of [[Belisarius Cawl|Archmagos Cawl]] and the [[Ynnari]] ten thousand years later (Working with Xenos? HERESY!).

The Ultramarines base their ideals upon the teachings of super-Ultra Smurf daddy, who ended up on a neo-Roman planet and soon adopted their way of thinking. They believe in individual strength to strengthen the whole ([[Chaos|and not for the betterment of one self]]), and in following the rules, however strict they might be. This way, order is maintained in all things. Courage is, naturally, also a big thing to them, since it goes with the idea of the individual working to better the whole. All this means that the Ultramarines are very, ''very'' good at doing their job, as long as they are prepared for it and works alongside the rest of their Chapter, but tend to be completely stumped when a situation, which their planning and reasoning can't immediately deal with, comes up.

[[File:SpacemarineGettingArmoured.PNG|500px|right|thumb|Ehh... Could you get your ass off the altar, Claudius?]]

The Ultramarines are also notorious for disregarding much of the wider Imperium in favour of their own worlds, the famed ''500 Worlds of Ultramar''. This has earned them much hate from in-universe factions, who don't like how they essentially go "Screw you guys, we'll just make our own, sort of working empire!"; One of Fulgrim's [[Iterator|iterators]], who had the ear of powerful members of Terran court, once said that ''"The Lord of Ultramar sees little else besides the primacy of his own culture."'', and also Malcador and the Emperor were not surprised when Guilliman chose to defend his 500 worlds rather than get his hands dirty with the Horus Heresy. Which is, of course, the complete opposite of Ultramar’s “protect the greater whole” philosophy, but GW has always been stupid like that. Many elegen/tg/entlemen dislike this as well, since it sort of makes the Ultries seem they know better than the rest of the Imperium, while still being lauded as being some of the most honourable Chapters in the entire galaxy. Though in the Ultramarine's defense, they're probably the most successful space marine chapter in the galaxy, considering that they defend and maintain hundreds of worlds, and those worlds are some of the most prosperous, meritocratic worlds in the entire Imperium. Plus, the Ultramarines have an affinity with the common people, as they believe that it's their sworn duty to protect the innocent, like the Salamanders. Even with their duties in Ultramar, the Chapter still sends warriors out into the wider galaxy, making significant contributions at [[Armageddon]] and at [[Ultramarines Honour Company|Cadia during the]] [[Black Crusade|13th black crusade]].

All of the other Space Marine legions [[Space Wolves|save one]] (or maybe [[Dark Angels|two]], depending on how you look at it, maybe [[Angry Marines|three]] if you count anger and most likely [[Black Templars|four]] when thinking about it) adopted the Codex and split up into multitudes of smaller chapters, and most Space Marine chapters today follow the practices found within it, although some like the Space Wolves and the Black Templars have refrained from implementing it. Few are as rigid in pursuing the use of the Codex as the Ultramarines, though. Where most other Chapters like the [[Imperial Fists]] and [[Raven Guard]] looks to it for guidance when encountering unfamiliar situations, the Ultramarines see the Codex as a sort of "holy book" and follow its instructions to the letter. Ironically, Guilliman himself believed this to be misguided and noted that the Codex was never meant to replace the ability to act on one's own judgments. But [[Grimdark|Irony]] is a strong force in 40K universe.

Because they are the poster-boys for Space Marines, they are perhaps the most famous Chapter in the general 40k fandom, but are widely hated by many denizens of [[/tg/]]. This may initially have been due to their popularity - the Space Marines in general suffer something of a backlash from fa/tg/uys because of their overwhelming popularity with the annoying young children that infest the hobby, and the Ultramarines are the most popular of them all - but of recent editions the blatant favouritism displayed by certain Games Workshop writers towards the Chapter have earned them considerable ire, especially from fans of other Space Marine chapters that get slagged off in the process. This is mainly the fault of [[Matthew Ward]]'s 5th edition Space Marine Codex, which explicitly claimed that the Ultramarines were superior to all other Space Marines (In 2nd edition it was explicitly stated.) and was not helped by Ward's own poor fluff-writing skills (see [[#Quotes|Quotes]] below). However, more recent fluff has served to bring the Ultramarines back to their "Space Roman" roots, making them far less objectionable than they were in the past. Forge World's Horus Heresy line has been particularly kind to them, giving them a variety of stylish Heresy-era gear, all of them with that "The Glory That Was Rome" vibe.

==First Edition History==
[[Image:UltramarinesRT.jpg|thumb|right|Fig.1.1: An Ultramarine, note the [[Beakie]].]]
{{Oldschool}}

[http://www.scribd.com/doc/118383071/WD97-Chapter-Approved-Index-Astartes| Back in the] [[Rogue Trader (Sourcebook)|first edition]] of Warhammer 40,000, in an article co-written by [[Rick Priestley]]. The XIIIth Legion were actually traitors and were banished to the Eye of Terror along with the other traitor legions. The modern day 40k Ultramarines were established on new years day 001.M32, which would make them a Third Founding chapter. They received all of the [[Gene Seed|gene-"sperm" & implants]], rituals and paraphernalia of the original legion.

Not only that, they only received lordship over the world of [[Macragge]] AFTER the First Tyrannic War. And though they did have different names for all of their company captains and command staff, they were/are still commanded by a man named Marneus Calgar.

The implications of this would be startling if we use the ''"everything is canon, but not necessarily true"'' stance that GW has adopted when regarding fluff inconsistencies. Hinting that Guilliman's marines were [[Imperium Secundus|heretics and traitors]] and were eventually banished from the Imperium.

However, attempting to reconcile this old origin story with "modern" Ultramarines is extremely difficult, we can only coherently insert it into the current state of play if we assume there is a second chapter out there called the "Ultra-Marines" with a chapter master and homeworld of the same name and the same level of involvement with the Tyrannic Wars. Though what completely knocks this old fluff out is that it ''also'' has possession of the body of [[Roboute Guilliman]] so it has to be a retcon though it still opens the door to conspiracy theories or that Marneus Calgar is [[Lugft Huron|in command of multiple Chapters]].

The other possibility is that when the Ultramarines were declared traitor and forced into the eye of terror, Guilliman, recognising his plans for [[Imperium_Secundus|Imperium Secondus]] were about to topple with the death of [[Sanguinius]] (who had been declared ruler as a means to placate the Emperor and the other legions), Guilliman had himself cloned and a portion of his legions most pure geneseed moved to the Eastern Fringe and [[Macragge]] to ensure survival of the Ultramarines, The Ultramar Empire and the Imperium Secondus concept as its eventuality. This occurred just as the rest of the legion (Including the original primarch) were declared traitor and forced into the eye. It would also suggest, given the appearance of Guilliman's wounded body in stasis on Macragge, that it was in-fact the clone that was killed by [[Fulgrim]] and the real primarch still resides either in the eye of terror or the immaterium with the remains of the Ultramarine Traitor Legion.

In either case, somehow one of the two possible Guilliman's was returned to Macragge and placed in stasis <strike>post-mortem</strike> after being Mortally-Wounded. If you accept the cloning of Guilliman, this all makes sense; he wanted to ensure his empire survived and having been declared traitor, cloned himself and sent the clone to rule over the new Imperium, the clone being mortally wounded by [[Fulgrim]] en-route. Or somehow, and for some reason, a traitor primarch was dragged out of the eye of terror and kept in stasis on the opposite side of the galaxy. Given the stupidity of that second line of thought, the clone being the primarch on Macragge is a much more likely situation... Especially as if his wounds heal and the clone recovers he would be able to continue acting out the original Guilliman's plans for a second imperium with its epicentre based within the Ultramar Empire and using Space Marines created from the remains of the purest legion-stock geneseed.

Or, infinitely more likely, it's just old fluff which went the way of the [[Squats]] after Rogue Trader, and we should hope so, because if it isn't, we also have to reconcile the space marines being entirely beaky space cops.

== Name & Breaking the Hyphen ==
The Ultramarines are not [[Matt Ward|named because they are 'Ultra' as in 'Superior']]. They're called "Ultramarines" because their home sector is [[Ultramar]] and the demonym is Ultramarine. Think of how people from America are Americans. Taking it as literally as possible, they're the "People of Ultramar," which plays back into their theme of being a part of their home's society. Their armour colouring is "coincidentally" called Ultramarine, which is generally described as being a slightly grapish (in contrast to Phthalo's greenish) blue.

The overseas section of the Spanish Empire was referred to as ''Ultramar'' (''waaaaaaaaaaay'' beyond the sea). Given the great distance between Ultramar and [[Terra]], it's a fitting analogy.

In early versions of the Lore, "Ultramarines" (As they are now known) are spelt in a myriad of different ways. Rick Priestly himself describing them as "Ultra-Marines". Other versions include "Ultra Marines", "The Ultra-Marine Chapter" and <strike>"Smurfs"</strike> {{BLAM}} amongst many other iterations. In all instances, and all cases (even accounting for the First Edition lore above) it can be assumed the lore refers to the same Chapter or Legion. Punctuation matters, just not in 40K...

==Ultramarines post-Ward==
{{MattWard}}
[[Image:Ultraknights.jpg|thumb|right|Ultramarines, from the days of [[Awesome]].]]
{{topquote|Our love is nothing but the blues, baby, how blue can you get?|B.B. King}}
{{Topquote|Listen to your blue-clad wretches yelling of courage and honour, courage and honour, courage and honour. Do you even know the meaning of those words? Courage is fighting the kingdom which enslaves you, no matter that their armies outnumber yours by ten-thousand to one. You know nothing of courage. Honour is resisting a tyrant when all others suckle and grow fat on the hypocrisy he feeds them. You know nothing of honour.|[[Angron]], proving that a stopped clock is right twice a day}}

Unless you are new here, then you should be well informed by now over the really [[Skub|skubtastic]] history involving the [[Ultramarines]] and the dreaded [[Matt Ward|Ward]]. While Ward was indeed responsible for the immense [[butthurt]] and [[Rage|rage]] caused on [[/tg/]] and to [[1d4Chan]] itself (Seriously just look at the pages history, it was a war on green and red edits), Ward himself wasn't completely at fault here, [[Games Workshop]] is just as much to blame for their irresponsible and careless attitude in handling fluff to a ''clearly'' biased player and gave him the green light to write whatever things Ward could come out with. However after Ward's quite unexpected departure in 2014 (He came back in 2016 though, just hope he can control his Ultramarine urges now(he can’t)), the Ultramarines have been getting....less of the limelight like they used to back in the heydays of Codex: Space Marines 5th Edition. Nowadays, the [[Blood Angels]], [[Space Wolves]], [[Dark Angels]] and even the [[Deathwatch]] are getting more in the spotlight. While the Ultramarines are still the de facto mascots of WH40K, it seems that the post-Ward era has seen the return of more... [[Pauldrons|diverse forms of Space Marine Chapters]]. Furthermore, the [[Horus Heresy]] lineups made by our favorite [[Forgeworld]] has been giving the Ultramarines and the rest of the Space Marine Legions an equal respect in both their lore and crunch which was unthinkable back in the day, "The [[Salamanders]] and [[Raven Guard]] get their own moment to shine without the Ultras overshadowing them? How preposterous!" would be the most likely answer if went back in time and told our past selves over this.

Additionally the Forgeworld model for [[Roboute Guilliman]] has been well received by fans with some commenting that of all the [[Primarch]] models, Guilliman's was one of the best designed and posed (although the truth is that his armour has went from Grecco-Roman in style to Marvel, and in spite of all his Mary Sue-ness, he's still likely to get stomped over by an [[Imperial Knight]] or Assault Terminators). What does this mean for our (in)famous blueberries? A redemption of sorts? Winning back the crowd? Earning back the respect it once had? The answer could be all of them. Whatever is the case, the legacy of Ward and the Ultramarine fiasco did impact the way players see the Ultramarines and the Space Marines to an extent either negatively or positively (More inclined to the negativity though). But seeing as how GeeDubs still has the [[Robin Cruddace|Cruddhead]], it can be seen with some sigh of relief that GeeDubs seems to be back to their grips now in terms of fluff at least.

==Tabletop==
Throughout most of GW's history the Ultramarines have been portrayed on the tabletop as the "standard" space marine chapter, to the point where most other chapters are represented as "Ultramarines +,- variable X". [[Dark Angels|More]] [[Grey Knights|popular]] [[Space Wolves|chapters]] often get [[Blood Angels|their own]] codices, but less popular chapters get relegated to sets of advantages and disadvantages on top of the Ultramarine baseline. At certain points in GW's sordid tabletop history this has led to Ultramarines being literally vanilla marines with no bonuses whatsoever, where the '''only''' advantage to taking them is their wide selection of characters, and other times such as 7th edition where with the right builds and the right tactics, you could statistically beat out the Blood Angels and Space Wolves in assault, and Dark Angels and Imperial Fists in shooting.

8th Edition is probably the best they've ever been while not being quite as cheesy as they were in the past. Their strategies, characters, chapter tactics, and warlord trait all grant bonuses to command points, to the point where you can get the effective use of 20(!) command points on stratagems in a 2000 point game, leading to an army with massive tactical flexibility. Gone are the days were you can butcher melee dedicated forces in close combat, and out-shoot the gun-factories of the universe, a bunch of damn sues who win because they are - of course - the BEST EVAR. Now you get the Ultramarines as they should be: a versatile but non-specialized army with the tactical and strategic flexibility to make the most out of any situation.

==Notable Members==
[[File:1280346485348.jpg|thumb|right|While most believe the story told by the Ultramarines, eye-witnesses paint a different story...]]
*'''[[Marneus Calgar|Marneus Augustus Calgar]]''': [[Marneus Calgar#Gathering Storm|Regent of Ultramar]] and Chapter Master of the Ultramarines. His accomplishments include being thoroughly ripped apart by the [[Swarmlord]] (by that we mean all his limbs, a large portion of his body and his eye), and single handedly holding off an Ork Waaagh! for 9 days all by himself. However, his crowning moment is his defeat of an Eldar Avatar of Khaine in 1 vs 1, hand-to-hand combat, which is typically killed by the same effort it takes to kill a Khornate Bloodthirster - never mind that the thing is made of molten metal and over three times his size. He also had a rematch with the Swarmlord and won, which must have been pretty easy, considering that it had been recently ripped apart. Has also faced [[Abaddon the Despoiler]] as well (following turning into a [[Primaris Marine]]), but his plot armor wasn't as strong that day and he just barely escaped that mess.
*'''[[Severus Agemman]]''': Captain of the Ultramarines First Company. He was Captain of the Second Company, and Sicarius' commanding officer before being promoted after the First Tyrannic War. There isn't much fluff about him besides being overshadowed by his former subordinate Sicarius. As first Company Captain he's Calgar's appointed successor, however much of the chapter thinks it will be Sicarius instead of him. Agemman is aware of this possibility and isn't very happy about it. As of the end of the Plague Wars, Severus serves as the Tetrarch of the northern reaches of Ultramar.
*'''[[Cato Sicarius]]''': Former captain of the Ultramarines Second Company and Leader of Guilliman's Victrix Guard. Is kind of a glory hog, but he's arguably earned his right to be a braggart through his skill at arms. Was taken on as a [[Matt Ward|ward]] by the primarch after his resurrection, mostly because Cato's brash, forthright personality reminded him of Aeonid Thiel, whose counsel Guilliman greatly missed. His captaincy was given to Sevastus Acheran.
*'''[[Uriel Ventris]]''': Captain of the Ultramarines Fourth Company and the main character of Graham McNeil's Ultramarines novel series. Notable for destroying the [[Daemonculaba]].
*'''[[Ortan Cassius]]''': Master of Sanctity of the Ultramarines and ex-member of the [[Deathwatch]]. Currently one of the oldest Space Marines alive and [[Bjorn the Fell Handed|not yet placed in a Dreadnought]]. The Tyrannic War Veterans were his idea.
*'''[[Varro Tigurius]]''': the Ultramarine's (Primaris) Chief Librarian, has enough psychic prowess to make psychic contact with the Hive Mind without going bonkers in the process.
*'''[[Torias Telion]]''': (aka; Sean Connery made [[Grimdark]]) Ultramarine Scout Sergeant. A skilled sniper, other chapters have borrowed him to train their scouts occasionally. He also has an impressive mustache.
*'''[[Captain Titus]]''': Captain of the who the fuck knows company (if the trim of his pauldrons are accurate, he's Captain of the 2nd Company). He gained prominence (will gain prominence?) on the forge world of Graia, trying to keep a whole Waaagh! from stealing all the bitz for themselves while keeping a probably radical Inquisitor happy. Also there's a portal to the warp letting out Daemons and Chaos Marines to go on a jolly old pub crawl. He is also one of the few Ultramarines who clearly states that the Codex Astartes is not meant to be a mental straightjacket. Thus, he is [[awesome]].
*'''Varnus''': Ultramarines Chaplain dispatched to Lorn V. For perhaps the first instance in recorded time, he is a Space Marine who actually respects the Imperial Guard and couldn't ask for a better force (barring his own company).
*'''[[Aeonid Thiel]]''': A sergeant during the Horus Heresy. Despite being seen as a rule breaking maverick for proposing battle simulations of Space Marines fighting one another, he ends up playing a major role first in the Battle of Calth, then in laying the groundwork for the Ultramarines post-war, including the red painted helmets for sergeants. Also served as the co-writer of the Codex. Promoted to Captain of the 2nd Company at the time of Guilliman's wounding, though his ultimate fate is unknown.
*'''Decimus Felix''': Primaris Captain of the Ultramarines Eleventh Company (Though one doesn't quite exist) and Equerry to Guilliman. Despite the utterly suspicious circumstances of such a fresh-ish face being afforded this much power, he acts as the voice of reason for the primarch. Acts as Tetrarch to the eastern reaches of Ultramar and has been trolled a bit by Cawl.
*'''Sergeant Cornellus''': A sergeant of an embarrassing squad. Notable for killing [[Eliphas the Inheritor]] the first time, stopping a daemon invasion and finding the Ultramarines Scrabble set all while sounding like a baby
*'''Smurfette''': The only [[Yvraine|female]] member of the Ultramarine chapter.

==Quotes==
{{topquote|Chapters (not descended from Guilliman's geneseed) are disciples who owe their genetic inheritance to another [[Primarch]], but follow the [[Codex Astartes]] as keenly as their divergent heritage allows. While primarily composed of successor Chapters, this group also includes several Chapters of the [[First Founding]] - notably the [[Imperial Fists]], [[White Scars]] and the [[Raven Guard]]. <s>These chapters can never be Ultramarines, for their gene-seed is not that of [[Roboute Guilliman]]. Nevertheless, they will ever aspire to the standards and teachings of the great [[Primarch]].</s>|Fucking [[Matt Ward]]...}}
{{topquote|(Chapters who do not emulate the Ultramarines) are aberrants; chapters who, through quirk of gene-seed, mutation or stubbornness, eschew the Codex Astartes in favor of other structural and combat doctrines. Some, such as the [[Blood Angels]] and their successors, strive to be worthy of Guilliman's legacy, but their recalcitrant gene-seed drives them ever further from it. Others, such as the [[Space Wolves]] and the [[Black Templars]], remain stubbornly independent, looking to [[Primarch|their own founder's]] ways of war (which is hilarious for the Templars) and caring little of how they fare in the eyes of others. These aberrant Chapters were always few in number and their presence diminishes with each passing decade, for their gene-seed is no longer the source of fresh Chapters.|[[Matt Ward]], Ultramarines player, codex writer, [[Codex]]: [[Space Marines]], 5th Edition, p. 25.}}
{{topquote|The Ultramarines are undoubtedly the best Space Marines ever. Yes, really! Thanks to the heritage of Guilliman and their myriad heroic deeds, the Ultramarines are the exemplars of the Space Marines. With a few fringe exceptions who have severe mutations ([[Blood Angels]]) or stolid stubbornness ([[Space Wolves]] and [[Dark Angels]]) all [[Space Marine Chapter|Space marine chapters]] want to be like the Ultramarines and recognize [[Marneus Calgar]] as their [[spiritual liege]].|Matt Ward, Ultramarines player, codex writer, in the [[White Dwarf]] interview celebrating the release of Codex: Space Marines.}}
{{topquote|But your teachings…" "Are yet flawed," said Guilliman. "No one, not even one such as I, can anticipate every possible outcome of battle. My words are not some holy writ that must be obeyed. There must always be room for personal initiative on the battlefield. You and I both know how one spark of heroism can turn the tide of battle. That knowledge and personal experience can only be earned in blood, and the leader in the field must always be the ultimate arbiter of what course of action should be followed.|[[Roboute Guilliman]], making a point that his successors would quickly forget about and [[Matt Ward|the writer above]] would ignore.}}
{{topquote|Wondering what would be in the supplemental Codex for the Ultramarines that won’t be in the main book? Come take a peek!|Adam Harrison, August 8 2019, for Bell of Lost Souls, [[Games Workshop|selling to us]] the new Ultrasmurf supplement and priviledges...}}

==Daily Rituals==
04:00 - The Ultramarines rise up from their sleep in their marble-encased sleeping chambers. The Primarch has already been awake for some time, having lost the need for sleep as a side effect of his revival. (Good thing, too- according to Guilliman himself the Armor of Fate is too noisy to let him rest, and even if it wasn't the armor doesn't have the flexibility to let him lie down in the first place.)

04:30 - Morning Prayers. The Ultramarines conduct morning prayers on why they are the SECOND TO TEH EMPRAH! and how all other chapters view [[Marneus Calgar]] as their ''Spritual Liege.''

05:30 - Codex Astartes. The Ultramarines are indoctrinated and reminded on the rules and values of the Codex Astartes. Guilliman makes a note to break the news of his Codex revisions gently so his gene-sons don't go into conniptions.

08:00 - Morning Firing Rites. The Ultramarines enter target practice with spiritual guidance from Chaplain Ortan Cassius, who manages to only occasionally go off into furious rants about "The goddam bugs".

09:00 - Battle Practice. The Ultramarines leave for Macragge's Colosseum to train against each other, the local Macragge fauna and Battle Servitors.

10:00 - Morning Meal. While later than some chapters, the Ultramarines feast upon a light meal made of fruits, biscuits and light meat by the Chapter serfs. The serfs are thanked soon afterwards in a manner of respect.

10:15 - Tactical Indoctrination. The Ultramarines head to see the latest battle plans and which military techniques that can best complement the Codex Astartes. Guilliman reviews the most recent major warzones of the Imperium and prepares battle plans for the forces deployed there.

10:30 - Meetings with the Spiritual Liege. Whilst the rest of the Ultramarines practice reciting the Codex Astartes, the leaders from each of the Ultramarine's companies discuss political, social and military affairs of Ultramar and the Imperium at large. When the Primarch has the opportunity to be present, discussions and tactical briefings on his long absence last for hours, with plenty of facepalming and sighing from said Primarch.

11:00 - Afternoon Wargames. The Ultramarines conduct [[Tabletop Miniature|miniature wargames]] to best simulate strategic and combat play which can be learned and adapted in real life combat.

13:00 - Midday Meal. A light meal of cheese, bread, meats and vegetables is prepared by the Chapter serfs.

13:30 - Codex Astartes. More indoctrination of the Codex Astartes are read to ensure that the Ultramarines never diverge from the book of Guilliman. The Primarch privately wonders how his words about the Codex being a guideline could have been misinterpreted so badly.

15:00 - Evening Firing Rites. The Ultramarines enter target practice.

16:00 - Battle Practice. The Ultramarines are now dropped into the wilderness of Macragge to fend off the local fauna and flora there. The animals and plants killed are sent to the Chapter Serfs for more ingredients.

17:00 - Evening Prayers. The Ultramarines gather together to pray on why they are the chosen chapter and why the Ultramar System is the best system.

18:00 - Nighttime Firing Rites. The Ultramarines take target practice in the night to further hone in their nocturnal experience.

19:00 - Battle Practice. The Ultramarines descend to one of the neighboring planets in Ultramar to further fight the planet's local fauna and flora, as well as the various nasty things Nurgle has been attacking Ultramar with lately.

19:30 - Daily Medical Checkup. Whilst the rest of the Ultramarines are busy practicing their combat prowess, the long hours of having to keep the entire Imperium afloat has left Roboute Guilliman in a state of dismay, anger and minor facial injuries due to repeated facepalming. [[Apothecaries]] try and fail to warn their Primarch that continued usage of the facepalm will eventually give the Avenging Son a concussion. Any battle-brothers who have come into contact with the forces of Nurgle are painstakingly decontaminated to prevent the spread of any warp-contagion.

20:00 - Evening Meal. A feast made from the creatures slain by the Ultramarines earlier on is cooked in the finest ingredients. Cooking it perfectly gets the serf a purity seal of valor while cooking it imperfectly forces the serf to be read the entire Codex Astartes section on cooking. Guilliman privately wonders how the joke section made it into the official print.

21:00 - Cleaning up Guilliman's chambers. The Ultramarines go and clean up their Primarch's marble chambers after Macragge's daily tourist traps are closed for the night. Despite the Avenging Son's frequent absences from Ultramar, they like to be sure his quarters are just as he left them.

22:00 - Free Time. The Ultramarines get free time. Some continue to read the Codex Astartes, others pray to the Emperor while some go out of their Fortress Monastery to catch up on the local news and political affairs as well as hanging out with the citizens of Macragge.

24:00 - Rest Period. The Ultramarines descend back to their marble-encased sleeping chambers to rest, save for Guilliman who is needed elsewhere in the Imperium.

==Some music==

*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wTXrLsZvVI Their theme] done by [[HMKids]].
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt1M8iZNHpQ Their theme] from Chaos Gate. Became a major meme among Russian 40k fans due to some deliciously stupid [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBg9ZAqBifQ misheard lyrics] and made ultramarines associated with soup in Russian community.
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf9AaTV4-yw A track] from their official movie.

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:ultrawombles.jpg|ULTRAWOMBLES
File:Spacemarine.jpg|[[Iron Hands|Sgt Pasanius didn't want that hand anyway.]]
File:Warhammer ultramarine take 2 by faroldjo.jpg|Say what you want about Ultramarines, but their Honour Guards looks pretty boss.
File:Ultramarines concept by Malkavian7515.jpg
File:Pimp Suit.png|Captain Cato Sicarius' power armour, also known as the Mantle of the Mary Suzerain
File:CodexSM EPUB Cover.jpg|Ultramarines got the front cover of the Space Marine Codex and admittely looks fucking cool for it.
</gallery>

==See also==
*[[Who Watches Them]]
*[[Macragge heresy]]
*[[Ultramarines Honour Company]]
*[http://www.scribd.com/doc/118383071/WD97-Chapter-Approved-Index-Astartes| The past wot got remade by their presence - the original Chapter Approved write up of the "Ultra-Marines."]
*[[Genesis Chapter]], their reserve.
*[[Veteran_Squad#Tyrannic_War_Veterans|Tyrannic War Veterans]]

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Ultramarines

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{{Infobox Spess Mahreen Chapter
|Name = Ultramarines
|Heraldry = [[File:Smurfpauldron.jpg|140px]]
|Battle Cry = "Courage and Honour!" and "We March for Macragge!"
|Number = XIII
|Founding = [[First Founding]]
|Original Name = War-Born
|Successor Chapters = Roughly 65% of all Chapters. Allegedly. However, a lot of those don’t know who their Primarch is or are very different from Gulliman. Generally, most loyalists of traitor legions claim Ultramarines as parent Chapter.
|Chapter Master = [[Marneus Calgar]]
|Primarch = [[Roboute Guilliman]]
|Homeworld = [[Ultramar|Macragge]]
|Specialty = Jack of all trades. Obsessed with strategy, tactics and [[Codex Astartes|discipline.]] Basically Greco-romans IN SPESS!!
|Strength = Above 1000 Marines
|Allegiance = [[Imperium]]
|Colours = Ultramarine Blue, white & gold (For the most famous Second Company. Other Companies use different colors)
}}
{{Topquote|Battles are won by [[World Eaters|slaughter]] and [[Codex Astartes|maneuver]]. The greater the [[Creed|general]], the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.|Winston S. Churchill}}
{{topquote|Our Presence Remakes the Past!|The Banner of Macragge}}

The '''Ultramarines''' (More commonly known as Ultrasmurfs) are a chapter of [[Space Marines]], probably the most famous and well-known and mincy (both within the [[Warhammer 40,000]] universe and without). [[Games Workshop]] considers the Ultramarines their chapter of choice, and the Ultramarines represent the standard upon which most other Space Marine chapters are based but strive to be different from as they are so mincy. Why Games Workshop would want a Space Marine chapter whose symbol is a <s>toilet seat</s> <s>repulsive reverse vagina</s> <s>upside down Omega</s> <S>upsilon</S> [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-close_back_rounded_vowel International Phonetic Alphabet transcription for "uhh..."] ('''℧''') as their go-to chapter is beyond us. They have an easily recognizable blue-with-gold-trim colour scheme that the [[Thousand Sons]] decided to rip off post-heresy (after the Newcrons ripped off ''their'' Egyptian motif.) Of course technically that's only the second company ,but who ever heard of an ultramarine player not painting his army blue and gold? The blue colouration, coupled with the small size of the minis, has lead them to be nicknamed "Smurfs" by <s>some</s> everyone. [[Rick Priestley]] was originally inspired to promote the ultramarines heavily in publications of White Dwarf after a dream he had whilst staying around a friends house in which he claims [[What|the miniatures began speaking to him]], this part allegedly had a role in his eventual dismissal from [[Games Workshop]] in 2010.

A squad of Tactical Marines are the protagonists of the 40k-based CGI movie surprisingly titled "[[Ultramarines:The Movie|Ultramarines]]". It's not bad ''per se'' ([[Dan Abnett]] did some of the writing, although the fact that it was only "some" shows) but could have been [[Skub|better]].

==Overview==
[[File:NroL23W.jpg|left|350px|thumb|All said and done, the Ultries can be badass.]]
The Ultramarines are perhaps the closest to what many would consider a 'modern' military among the Adeptus Astartes. Strategy, planning and the minimization of casualties is the basis of any Ultramarine battle-plan and their central concept is that of a well drilled, immaculate army of soldiers who execute their duty with professionalism and competence. [[Alpha Legion|"Information is victory"]] is essentially the Ultramarine way, more so than [[Alpha Legion|most]] [[Raven Guard|other]] Chapters. Though they are much more relaxed with regards to discipline than the [[Red Scorpions|Forge World's favoured]], or [[Hammers of Dorn| those other guys]]. Even before they had reunited with their Primarch, it had been noted that the XIIIth Legion (then called the War Born) was strongly inclined towards the adoption of carefully thought out battle plans, an established chain of command, and an aversion to inflicting collateral damage. These tendencies were intensified further by their extensive study and practice of the [[Codex Astartes]], which covers a very broad range of battlefield situations and doctrines to live by. Thanks to each and every one of them training and living by it, their companies operate like a smoothly functioning combat machine with every unit functionally interlocking with every other. However, as much as this by-the-book discipline was their strength, it is often also, like the real-life ancient Roman Legions, their weakness, since the few situations that the Codex Astartes did not prepare them for tended to catch them flat-footed, lacking the flexibility to properly respond. More accurately, no Marine knows the whole Codex as it is too vast for even their minds. Each learns different parts of it. This means that while the whole Codex can be used for any situation, commanders don’t have all the pieces to the puzzle. The initial Tyranid invasion and the [[Necrons|Damnos incident]] exemplify such situations, where the unconventional nature of their enemy nearly led to their defeat. It doesn't matter how smoothly your forces function if you don't actually have a way to win the battle.

That being said, they are extremely good at adapting to a threat once the initial shock has passed . In the aftermath of their near-defeat to the Tyranids, the Chapter would go on to crush Hive Fleet Kraken as a coherent invasion force as well as create an entire unit dedicated to fighting this particular threat (Almost as if they are a chapter that is protected by a [[Plot armour|mystical]] armour), called the Tyrranic War Veterans. These specialists would become highly sought after by the Deathwatch due to their experience and knowledge and was even augmented by survivors from [[Scythes of the Emperor|other Chapters]] that suffered the wrath of the Tyranids. During the Horus Heresy, an entire force of 1000 Ultramarines was decimated the initial Night Lord of invasion of Sotha. Despite being caught off guard at first due to their unfamiliarity with the Night Lord's unconventional tactics, they began to adapt fast to their enemy's fighting style and by the end of the battle, achieved a near 20-1 kill ratio over their traitorous cousins. Although they may be weak to a new enemy or new tactics, they have a superb reactivity once they have the information they need.

They’re not warriors or knights, but soldiers; a professional fighting force dedicated to defending the 500 Worlds of Ultramar and serving the interests of the larger Imperium beyond. A standing army that is the byproduct of a prosperous Star Empire to whom they owe their existence to. This is seen in their combat doctrine. They don’t have any specializations themselves because they are supposed to adapt to whatever situation presents itself and act accordingly. They are a fluid and malleable fighting force that is supposed to assess the situation, gain every scrap of intelligence/battle data they can, and then change themselves into whatever is required to get the job done; be it a blunt hammer or a precision blade.

The [[Primarch]] of the Ultramarines is [[Roboute Guilliman]] (aka Robot Girlyman and about a thousand other highly appropriate names: Big Bobby G, Rowboat Gillman, The BIG RG, Rawbutt Girlyman , The Great Papa Smurf, God-Emperor of smurfs Ex. Ex.) and it was he who wrote the (in?)famous [[Codex Astartes]] after the events of the [[Horus Heresy|Daddy Issue Invasion]], prescribing each Space Marine chapter to a mere thousand warriors to ensure that no one man would ever command the loyalty of an entire Space Marine legion again. At least, that was the plan, but Roboute Guilliman himself never got to see it come to light, as he was [[Battle of Thessala|mortally wounded]] by a poisonous attack from his bro, the Traitor Primarch [[Fulgrim]], and he had been kept in stasis by the Ultramarines for thousands of years, only being revived through the actions of [[Belisarius Cawl|Archmagos Cawl]] and the [[Ynnari]] ten thousand years later (Working with Xenos? HERESY!).

The Ultramarines base their ideals upon the teachings of super-Ultra Smurf daddy, who ended up on a neo-Roman planet and soon adopted their way of thinking. They believe in individual strength to strengthen the whole ([[Chaos|and not for the betterment of one self]]), and in following the rules, however strict they might be. This way, order is maintained in all things. Courage is, naturally, also a big thing to them, since it goes with the idea of the individual working to better the whole. All this means that the Ultramarines are very, ''very'' good at doing their job, as long as they are prepared for it and works alongside the rest of their Chapter, but tend to be completely stumped when a situation, which their planning and reasoning can't immediately deal with, comes up.

[[File:SpacemarineGettingArmoured.PNG|500px|right|thumb|Ehh... Could you get your ass off the altar, Claudius?]]

The Ultramarines are also notorious for disregarding much of the wider Imperium in favour of their own worlds, the famed ''500 Worlds of Ultramar''. This has earned them much hate from in-universe factions, who don't like how they essentially go "Screw you guys, we'll just make our own, sort of working empire!"; One of Fulgrim's [[Iterator|iterators]], who had the ear of powerful members of Terran court, once said that ''"The Lord of Ultramar sees little else besides the primacy of his own culture."'', and also Malcador and the Emperor were not surprised when Guilliman chose to defend his 500 worlds rather than get his hands dirty with the Horus Heresy. Many elegen/tg/entlemen dislike this as well, since it sort of makes the Ultries seem they know better than the rest of the Imperium, while still being lauded as being some of the most honourable Chapters in the entire galaxy. Though in the Ultramarine's defense, they're probably the most successful space marine chapter in the galaxy, considering that they defend and maintain hundreds of worlds, and those worlds are some of the most prosperous, meritocratic worlds in the entire Imperium. Plus, the Ultramarines have an affinity with the common people, as they believe that it's their sworn duty to protect the innocent, like the Salamanders. Even with their duties in Ultramar, the Chapter still sends warriors out into the wider galaxy, making significant contributions at [[Armageddon]] and at [[Ultramarines Honour Company|Cadia during the]] [[Black Crusade|13th black crusade]].

All of the other Space Marine legions [[Space Wolves|save one]] (or maybe [[Dark Angels|two]], depending on how you look at it, maybe [[Angry Marines|three]] if you count anger and most likely [[Black Templars|four]] when thinking about it) adopted the Codex and split up into multitudes of smaller chapters, and most Space Marine chapters today follow the practices found within it, although some like the Space Wolves and the Black Templars have refrained from implementing it. Few are as rigid in pursuing the use of the Codex as the Ultramarines, though. Where most other Chapters like the [[Imperial Fists]] and [[Raven Guard]] looks to it for guidance when encountering unfamiliar situations, the Ultramarines see the Codex as a sort of "holy book" and follow its instructions to the letter. Ironically, Guilliman himself believed this to be misguided and noted that the Codex was never meant to replace the ability to act on one's own judgments. But [[Grimdark|Irony]] is a strong force in 40K universe.

Because they are the poster-boys for Space Marines, they are perhaps the most famous Chapter in the general 40k fandom, but are widely hated by many denizens of [[/tg/]]. This may initially have been due to their popularity - the Space Marines in general suffer something of a backlash from fa/tg/uys because of their overwhelming popularity with the annoying young children that infest the hobby, and the Ultramarines are the most popular of them all - but of recent editions the blatant favouritism displayed by certain Games Workshop writers towards the Chapter have earned them considerable ire, especially from fans of other Space Marine chapters that get slagged off in the process. This is mainly the fault of [[Matthew Ward]]'s 5th edition Space Marine Codex, which explicitly claimed that the Ultramarines were superior to all other Space Marines (In 2nd edition it was explicitly stated.) and was not helped by Ward's own poor fluff-writing skills (see [[#Quotes|Quotes]] below). However, more recent fluff has served to bring the Ultramarines back to their "Space Roman" roots, making them far less objectionable than they were in the past. Forge World's Horus Heresy line has been particularly kind to them, giving them a variety of stylish Heresy-era gear, all of them with that "The Glory That Was Rome" vibe.

==First Edition History==
[[Image:UltramarinesRT.jpg|thumb|right|Fig.1.1: An Ultramarine, note the [[Beakie]].]]
{{Oldschool}}

[http://www.scribd.com/doc/118383071/WD97-Chapter-Approved-Index-Astartes| Back in the] [[Rogue Trader (Sourcebook)|first edition]] of Warhammer 40,000, in an article co-written by [[Rick Priestley]]. The XIIIth Legion were actually traitors and were banished to the Eye of Terror along with the other traitor legions. The modern day 40k Ultramarines were established on new years day 001.M32, which would make them a Third Founding chapter. They received all of the [[Gene Seed|gene-"sperm" & implants]], rituals and paraphernalia of the original legion.

Not only that, they only received lordship over the world of [[Macragge]] AFTER the First Tyrannic War. And though they did have different names for all of their company captains and command staff, they were/are still commanded by a man named Marneus Calgar.

The implications of this would be startling if we use the ''"everything is canon, but not necessarily true"'' stance that GW has adopted when regarding fluff inconsistencies. Hinting that Guilliman's marines were [[Imperium Secundus|heretics and traitors]] and were eventually banished from the Imperium.

However, attempting to reconcile this old origin story with "modern" Ultramarines is extremely difficult, we can only coherently insert it into the current state of play if we assume there is a second chapter out there called the "Ultra-Marines" with a chapter master and homeworld of the same name and the same level of involvement with the Tyrannic Wars. Though what completely knocks this old fluff out is that it ''also'' has possession of the body of [[Roboute Guilliman]] so it has to be a retcon though it still opens the door to conspiracy theories or that Marneus Calgar is [[Lugft Huron|in command of multiple Chapters]].

The other possibility is that when the Ultramarines were declared traitor and forced into the eye of terror, Guilliman, recognising his plans for [[Imperium_Secundus|Imperium Secondus]] were about to topple with the death of [[Sanguinius]] (who had been declared ruler as a means to placate the Emperor and the other legions), Guilliman had himself cloned and a portion of his legions most pure geneseed moved to the Eastern Fringe and [[Macragge]] to ensure survival of the Ultramarines, The Ultramar Empire and the Imperium Secondus concept as its eventuality. This occurred just as the rest of the legion (Including the original primarch) were declared traitor and forced into the eye. It would also suggest, given the appearance of Guilliman's wounded body in stasis on Macragge, that it was in-fact the clone that was killed by [[Fulgrim]] and the real primarch still resides either in the eye of terror or the immaterium with the remains of the Ultramarine Traitor Legion.

In either case, somehow one of the two possible Guilliman's was returned to Macragge and placed in stasis <strike>post-mortem</strike> after being Mortally-Wounded. If you accept the cloning of Guilliman, this all makes sense; he wanted to ensure his empire survived and having been declared traitor, cloned himself and sent the clone to rule over the new Imperium, the clone being mortally wounded by [[Fulgrim]] en-route. Or somehow, and for some reason, a traitor primarch was dragged out of the eye of terror and kept in stasis on the opposite side of the galaxy. Given the stupidity of that second line of thought, the clone being the primarch on Macragge is a much more likely situation... Especially as if his wounds heal and the clone recovers he would be able to continue acting out the original Guilliman's plans for a second imperium with its epicentre based within the Ultramar Empire and using Space Marines created from the remains of the purest legion-stock geneseed.

Or, infinitely more likely, it's just old fluff which went the way of the [[Squats]] after Rogue Trader, and we should hope so, because if it isn't, we also have to reconcile the space marines being entirely beaky space cops.

== Name & Breaking the Hyphen ==
The Ultramarines are not [[Matt Ward|named because they are 'Ultra' as in 'Superior']]. They're called "Ultramarines" because their home sector is [[Ultramar]] and the demonym is Ultramarine. Think of how people from America are Americans. Taking it as literally as possible, they're the "People of Ultramar," which plays back into their theme of being a part of their home's society. Their armour colouring is "coincidentally" called Ultramarine, which is generally described as being a slightly grapish (in contrast to Phthalo's greenish) blue.

The overseas section of the Spanish Empire was referred to as ''Ultramar'' (''waaaaaaaaaaay'' beyond the sea). Given the great distance between Ultramar and [[Terra]], it's a fitting analogy.

In early versions of the Lore, "Ultramarines" (As they are now known) are spelt in a myriad of different ways. Rick Priestly himself describing them as "Ultra-Marines". Other versions include "Ultra Marines", "The Ultra-Marine Chapter" and <strike>"Smurfs"</strike> {{BLAM}} amongst many other iterations. In all instances, and all cases (even accounting for the First Edition lore above) it can be assumed the lore refers to the same Chapter or Legion. Punctuation matters, just not in 40K...

==Ultramarines post-Ward==
{{MattWard}}
[[Image:Ultraknights.jpg|thumb|right|Ultramarines, from the days of [[Awesome]].]]
{{topquote|Our love is nothing but the blues, baby, how blue can you get?|B.B. King}}
{{Topquote|Listen to your blue-clad wretches yelling of courage and honour, courage and honour, courage and honour. Do you even know the meaning of those words? Courage is fighting the kingdom which enslaves you, no matter that their armies outnumber yours by ten-thousand to one. You know nothing of courage. Honour is resisting a tyrant when all others suckle and grow fat on the hypocrisy he feeds them. You know nothing of honour.|[[Angron]], proving that a stopped clock is right twice a day}}

Unless you are new here, then you should be well informed by now over the really [[Skub|skubtastic]] history involving the [[Ultramarines]] and the dreaded [[Matt Ward|Ward]]. While Ward was indeed responsible for the immense [[butthurt]] and [[Rage|rage]] caused on [[/tg/]] and to [[1d4Chan]] itself (Seriously just look at the pages history, it was a war on green and red edits), Ward himself wasn't completely at fault here, [[Games Workshop]] is just as much to blame for their irresponsible and careless attitude in handling fluff to a ''clearly'' biased player and gave him the green light to write whatever things Ward could come out with. However after Ward's quite unexpected departure in 2014 (He came back in 2016 though, just hope he can control his Ultramarine urges now(he can’t)), the Ultramarines have been getting....less of the limelight like they used to back in the heydays of Codex: Space Marines 5th Edition. Nowadays, the [[Blood Angels]], [[Space Wolves]], [[Dark Angels]] and even the [[Deathwatch]] are getting more in the spotlight. While the Ultramarines are still the de facto mascots of WH40K, it seems that the post-Ward era has seen the return of more... [[Pauldrons|diverse forms of Space Marine Chapters]]. Furthermore, the [[Horus Heresy]] lineups made by our favorite [[Forgeworld]] has been giving the Ultramarines and the rest of the Space Marine Legions an equal respect in both their lore and crunch which was unthinkable back in the day, "The [[Salamanders]] and [[Raven Guard]] get their own moment to shine without the Ultras overshadowing them? How preposterous!" would be the most likely answer if went back in time and told our past selves over this.

Additionally the Forgeworld model for [[Roboute Guilliman]] has been well received by fans with some commenting that of all the [[Primarch]] models, Guilliman's was one of the best designed and posed (although the truth is that his armour has went from Grecco-Roman in style to Marvel, and in spite of all his Mary Sue-ness, he's still likely to get stomped over by an [[Imperial Knight]] or Assault Terminators). What does this mean for our (in)famous blueberries? A redemption of sorts? Winning back the crowd? Earning back the respect it once had? The answer could be all of them. Whatever is the case, the legacy of Ward and the Ultramarine fiasco did impact the way players see the Ultramarines and the Space Marines to an extent either negatively or positively (More inclined to the negativity though). But seeing as how GeeDubs still has the [[Robin Cruddace|Cruddhead]], it can be seen with some sigh of relief that GeeDubs seems to be back to their grips now in terms of fluff at least.

==Tabletop==
Throughout most of GW's history the Ultramarines have been portrayed on the tabletop as the "standard" space marine chapter, to the point where most other chapters are represented as "Ultramarines +,- variable X". [[Dark Angels|More]] [[Grey Knights|popular]] [[Space Wolves|chapters]] often get [[Blood Angels|their own]] codices, but less popular chapters get relegated to sets of advantages and disadvantages on top of the Ultramarine baseline. At certain points in GW's sordid tabletop history this has led to Ultramarines being literally vanilla marines with no bonuses whatsoever, where the '''only''' advantage to taking them is their wide selection of characters, and other times such as 7th edition where with the right builds and the right tactics, you could statistically beat out the Blood Angels and Space Wolves in assault, and Dark Angels and Imperial Fists in shooting.

8th Edition is probably the best they've ever been while not being quite as cheesy as they were in the past. Their strategies, characters, chapter tactics, and warlord trait all grant bonuses to command points, to the point where you can get the effective use of 20(!) command points on stratagems in a 2000 point game, leading to an army with massive tactical flexibility. Gone are the days were you can butcher melee dedicated forces in close combat, and out-shoot the gun-factories of the universe, a bunch of damn sues who win because they are - of course - the BEST EVAR. Now you get the Ultramarines as they should be: a versatile but non-specialized army with the tactical and strategic flexibility to make the most out of any situation.

==Notable Members==
[[File:1280346485348.jpg|thumb|right|While most believe the story told by the Ultramarines, eye-witnesses paint a different story...]]
*'''[[Marneus Calgar|Marneus Augustus Calgar]]''': [[Marneus Calgar#Gathering Storm|Regent of Ultramar]] and Chapter Master of the Ultramarines. His accomplishments include being thoroughly ripped apart by the [[Swarmlord]] (by that we mean all his limbs, a large portion of his body and his eye), and single handedly holding off an Ork Waaagh! for 9 days all by himself. However, his crowning moment is his defeat of an Eldar Avatar of Khaine in 1 vs 1, hand-to-hand combat, which is typically killed by the same effort it takes to kill a Khornate Bloodthirster - never mind that the thing is made of molten metal and over three times his size. He also had a rematch with the Swarmlord and won, which must have been pretty easy, considering that it had been recently ripped apart. Has also faced [[Abaddon the Despoiler]] as well (following turning into a [[Primaris Marine]]), but his plot armor wasn't as strong that day and he just barely escaped that mess.
*'''[[Severus Agemman]]''': Captain of the Ultramarines First Company. He was Captain of the Second Company, and Sicarius' commanding officer before being promoted after the First Tyrannic War. There isn't much fluff about him besides being overshadowed by his former subordinate Sicarius. As first Company Captain he's Calgar's appointed successor, however much of the chapter thinks it will be Sicarius instead of him. Agemman is aware of this possibility and isn't very happy about it. As of the end of the Plague Wars, Severus serves as the Tetrarch of the northern reaches of Ultramar.
*'''[[Cato Sicarius]]''': Former captain of the Ultramarines Second Company and Leader of Guilliman's Victrix Guard. Is kind of a glory hog, but he's arguably earned his right to be a braggart through his skill at arms. Was taken on as a [[Matt Ward|ward]] by the primarch after his resurrection, mostly because Cato's brash, forthright personality reminded him of Aeonid Thiel, whose counsel Guilliman greatly missed. His captaincy was given to Sevastus Acheran.
*'''[[Uriel Ventris]]''': Captain of the Ultramarines Fourth Company and the main character of Graham McNeil's Ultramarines novel series. Notable for destroying the [[Daemonculaba]].
*'''[[Ortan Cassius]]''': Master of Sanctity of the Ultramarines and ex-member of the [[Deathwatch]]. Currently one of the oldest Space Marines alive and [[Bjorn the Fell Handed|not yet placed in a Dreadnought]]. The Tyrannic War Veterans were his idea.
*'''[[Varro Tigurius]]''': the Ultramarine's (Primaris) Chief Librarian, has enough psychic prowess to make psychic contact with the Hive Mind without going bonkers in the process.
*'''[[Torias Telion]]''': (aka; Sean Connery made [[Grimdark]]) Ultramarine Scout Sergeant. A skilled sniper, other chapters have borrowed him to train their scouts occasionally. He also has an impressive mustache.
*'''[[Captain Titus]]''': Captain of the who the fuck knows company (if the trim of his pauldrons are accurate, he's Captain of the 2nd Company). He gained prominence (will gain prominence?) on the forge world of Graia, trying to keep a whole Waaagh! from stealing all the bitz for themselves while keeping a probably radical Inquisitor happy. Also there's a portal to the warp letting out Daemons and Chaos Marines to go on a jolly old pub crawl. He is also one of the few Ultramarines who clearly states that the Codex Astartes is not meant to be a mental straightjacket. Thus, he is [[awesome]].
*'''Varnus''': Ultramarines Chaplain dispatched to Lorn V. For perhaps the first instance in recorded time, he is a Space Marine who actually respects the Imperial Guard and couldn't ask for a better force (barring his own company).
*'''[[Aeonid Thiel]]''': A sergeant during the Horus Heresy. Despite being seen as a rule breaking maverick for proposing battle simulations of Space Marines fighting one another, he ends up playing a major role first in the Battle of Calth, then in laying the groundwork for the Ultramarines post-war, including the red painted helmets for sergeants. Also served as the co-writer of the Codex. Promoted to Captain of the 2nd Company at the time of Guilliman's wounding, though his ultimate fate is unknown.
*'''Decimus Felix''': Primaris Captain of the Ultramarines Eleventh Company (Though one doesn't quite exist) and Equerry to Guilliman. Despite the utterly suspicious circumstances of such a fresh-ish face being afforded this much power, he acts as the voice of reason for the primarch. Acts as Tetrarch to the eastern reaches of Ultramar and has been trolled a bit by Cawl.
*'''Sergeant Cornellus''': A sergeant of an embarrassing squad. Notable for killing [[Eliphas the Inheritor]] the first time, stopping a daemon invasion and finding the Ultramarines Scrabble set all while sounding like a baby
*'''Smurfette''': The only [[Yvraine|female]] member of the Ultramarine chapter.

==Quotes==
{{topquote|Chapters (not descended from Guilliman's geneseed) are disciples who owe their genetic inheritance to another [[Primarch]], but follow the [[Codex Astartes]] as keenly as their divergent heritage allows. While primarily composed of successor Chapters, this group also includes several Chapters of the [[First Founding]] - notably the [[Imperial Fists]], [[White Scars]] and the [[Raven Guard]]. <s>These chapters can never be Ultramarines, for their gene-seed is not that of [[Roboute Guilliman]]. Nevertheless, they will ever aspire to the standards and teachings of the great [[Primarch]].</s>|Fucking [[Matt Ward]]...}}
{{topquote|(Chapters who do not emulate the Ultramarines) are aberrants; chapters who, through quirk of gene-seed, mutation or stubbornness, eschew the Codex Astartes in favor of other structural and combat doctrines. Some, such as the [[Blood Angels]] and their successors, strive to be worthy of Guilliman's legacy, but their recalcitrant gene-seed drives them ever further from it. Others, such as the [[Space Wolves]] and the [[Black Templars]], remain stubbornly independent, looking to [[Primarch|their own founder's]] ways of war (which is hilarious for the Templars) and caring little of how they fare in the eyes of others. These aberrant Chapters were always few in number and their presence diminishes with each passing decade, for their gene-seed is no longer the source of fresh Chapters.|[[Matt Ward]], Ultramarines player, codex writer, [[Codex]]: [[Space Marines]], 5th Edition, p. 25.}}
{{topquote|The Ultramarines are undoubtedly the best Space Marines ever. Yes, really! Thanks to the heritage of Guilliman and their myriad heroic deeds, the Ultramarines are the exemplars of the Space Marines. With a few fringe exceptions who have severe mutations ([[Blood Angels]]) or stolid stubbornness ([[Space Wolves]] and [[Dark Angels]]) all [[Space Marine Chapter|Space marine chapters]] want to be like the Ultramarines and recognize [[Marneus Calgar]] as their [[spiritual liege]].|Matt Ward, Ultramarines player, codex writer, in the [[White Dwarf]] interview celebrating the release of Codex: Space Marines.}}
{{topquote|But your teachings…" "Are yet flawed," said Guilliman. "No one, not even one such as I, can anticipate every possible outcome of battle. My words are not some holy writ that must be obeyed. There must always be room for personal initiative on the battlefield. You and I both know how one spark of heroism can turn the tide of battle. That knowledge and personal experience can only be earned in blood, and the leader in the field must always be the ultimate arbiter of what course of action should be followed.|[[Roboute Guilliman]], making a point that his successors would quickly forget about and [[Matt Ward|the writer above]] would ignore.}}
{{topquote|Wondering what would be in the supplemental Codex for the Ultramarines that won’t be in the main book? Come take a peek!|Adam Harrison, August 8 2019, for Bell of Lost Souls, [[Games Workshop|selling to us]] the new Ultrasmurf supplement and priviledges...}}

==Daily Rituals==
04:00 - The Ultramarines rise up from their sleep in their marble-encased sleeping chambers. The Primarch has already been awake for some time, having lost the need for sleep as a side effect of his revival. (Good thing, too- according to Guilliman himself the Armor of Fate is too noisy to let him rest, and even if it wasn't the armor doesn't have the flexibility to let him lie down in the first place.)

04:30 - Morning Prayers. The Ultramarines conduct morning prayers on why they are the SECOND TO TEH EMPRAH! and how all other chapters view [[Marneus Calgar]] as their ''Spritual Liege.''

05:30 - Codex Astartes. The Ultramarines are indoctrinated and reminded on the rules and values of the Codex Astartes. Guilliman makes a note to break the news of his Codex revisions gently so his gene-sons don't go into conniptions.

08:00 - Morning Firing Rites. The Ultramarines enter target practice with spiritual guidance from Chaplain Ortan Cassius, who manages to only occasionally go off into furious rants about "The goddam bugs".

09:00 - Battle Practice. The Ultramarines leave for Macragge's Colosseum to train against each other, the local Macragge fauna and Battle Servitors.

10:00 - Morning Meal. While later than some chapters, the Ultramarines feast upon a light meal made of fruits, biscuits and light meat by the Chapter serfs. The serfs are thanked soon afterwards in a manner of respect.

10:15 - Tactical Indoctrination. The Ultramarines head to see the latest battle plans and which military techniques that can best complement the Codex Astartes. Guilliman reviews the most recent major warzones of the Imperium and prepares battle plans for the forces deployed there.

10:30 - Meetings with the Spiritual Liege. Whilst the rest of the Ultramarines practice reciting the Codex Astartes, the leaders from each of the Ultramarine's companies discuss political, social and military affairs of Ultramar and the Imperium at large. When the Primarch has the opportunity to be present, discussions and tactical briefings on his long absence last for hours, with plenty of facepalming and sighing from said Primarch.

11:00 - Afternoon Wargames. The Ultramarines conduct [[Tabletop Miniature|miniature wargames]] to best simulate strategic and combat play which can be learned and adapted in real life combat.

13:00 - Midday Meal. A light meal of cheese, bread, meats and vegetables is prepared by the Chapter serfs.

13:30 - Codex Astartes. More indoctrination of the Codex Astartes are read to ensure that the Ultramarines never diverge from the book of Guilliman. The Primarch privately wonders how his words about the Codex being a guideline could have been misinterpreted so badly.

15:00 - Evening Firing Rites. The Ultramarines enter target practice.

16:00 - Battle Practice. The Ultramarines are now dropped into the wilderness of Macragge to fend off the local fauna and flora there. The animals and plants killed are sent to the Chapter Serfs for more ingredients.

17:00 - Evening Prayers. The Ultramarines gather together to pray on why they are the chosen chapter and why the Ultramar System is the best system.

18:00 - Nighttime Firing Rites. The Ultramarines take target practice in the night to further hone in their nocturnal experience.

19:00 - Battle Practice. The Ultramarines descend to one of the neighboring planets in Ultramar to further fight the planet's local fauna and flora, as well as the various nasty things Nurgle has been attacking Ultramar with lately.

19:30 - Daily Medical Checkup. Whilst the rest of the Ultramarines are busy practicing their combat prowess, the long hours of having to keep the entire Imperium afloat has left Roboute Guilliman in a state of dismay, anger and minor facial injuries due to repeated facepalming. [[Apothecaries]] try and fail to warn their Primarch that continued usage of the facepalm will eventually give the Avenging Son a concussion. Any battle-brothers who have come into contact with the forces of Nurgle are painstakingly decontaminated to prevent the spread of any warp-contagion.

20:00 - Evening Meal. A feast made from the creatures slain by the Ultramarines earlier on is cooked in the finest ingredients. Cooking it perfectly gets the serf a purity seal of valor while cooking it imperfectly forces the serf to be read the entire Codex Astartes section on cooking. Guilliman privately wonders how the joke section made it into the official print.

21:00 - Cleaning up Guilliman's chambers. The Ultramarines go and clean up their Primarch's marble chambers after Macragge's daily tourist traps are closed for the night. Despite the Avenging Son's frequent absences from Ultramar, they like to be sure his quarters are just as he left them.

22:00 - Free Time. The Ultramarines get free time. Some continue to read the Codex Astartes, others pray to the Emperor while some go out of their Fortress Monastery to catch up on the local news and political affairs as well as hanging out with the citizens of Macragge.

24:00 - Rest Period. The Ultramarines descend back to their marble-encased sleeping chambers to rest, save for Guilliman who is needed elsewhere in the Imperium.

==Some music==

*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wTXrLsZvVI Their theme] done by [[HMKids]].
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt1M8iZNHpQ Their theme] from Chaos Gate. Became a major meme among Russian 40k fans due to some deliciously stupid [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBg9ZAqBifQ misheard lyrics] and made ultramarines associated with soup in Russian community.
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf9AaTV4-yw A track] from their official movie.

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:ultrawombles.jpg|ULTRAWOMBLES
File:Spacemarine.jpg|[[Iron Hands|Sgt Pasanius didn't want that hand anyway.]]
File:Warhammer ultramarine take 2 by faroldjo.jpg|Say what you want about Ultramarines, but their Honour Guards looks pretty boss.
File:Ultramarines concept by Malkavian7515.jpg
File:Pimp Suit.png|Captain Cato Sicarius' power armour, also known as the Mantle of the Mary Suzerain
File:CodexSM EPUB Cover.jpg|Ultramarines got the front cover of the Space Marine Codex and admittely looks fucking cool for it.
</gallery>

==See also==
*[[Who Watches Them]]
*[[Macragge heresy]]
*[[Ultramarines Honour Company]]
*[http://www.scribd.com/doc/118383071/WD97-Chapter-Approved-Index-Astartes| The past wot got remade by their presence - the original Chapter Approved write up of the "Ultra-Marines."]
*[[Genesis Chapter]], their reserve.
*[[Veteran_Squad#Tyrannic_War_Veterans|Tyrannic War Veterans]]

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Hammers of Dorn

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{{Infobox Spess Mahreen Chapter
|Name = Hammers of Dorn
|Heraldry = [[File:HoD_Shoulder_Pad.png|150px]]
|Number = Unknown
|Battle Cry = Unknown
|Founding = Unknown
|Successors of = [[Imperial Fists]]
|Successor Chapters = Unknown
|Chapter Master = Unknown
|Primarch = [[Rogal Dorn]]
|Homeworld = Unknown
|Specialty = Being perfectly adherent to the [[Codex]], trolling to hell and back the [[Ultramarines]], having superior firepower and putting emphasis on [[Devastator Squad|Devastators]], [[Terminators]], [[Dreadnoughts]] and [[Vindicator|Vindicators]] (basically emphasis on things that kick the shit out of everything)
|Strength = Perfectly 1000
|Allegiance = [[Imperium]]
|Colours = Black and Brass
}}
[[File:Hammers of Dorn-Hero.jpg|300px|thumbnail|left|One would mistake him for a Chaos Marine if it wasn't for the complete lack of [[Chaos]] symbols and presence of Imperial ones.]]
A Successor Chapter of the Imperial Fists, this is what you get when you try to out-perform [[Ultramarines]] and [[Red Scorpions]] in [[Codex]] compliance. The '''Hammers of Dorn''' were created in an unknown founding and are known to maintain a friendly (for a given definition of friendly) rivalry with the Ultramarines.

The Hammers of Dorn are ridiculously compliant with the Codex Astartes to the point that they'll call out the Ultramarines on every divergence from the great book of war [[Roboute Guilliman]] wrote. They also extend it to other Ultramarine Successor Chapters. Also note how their chapter symbol looks like the flag of the Soviet Union, a nation also ridiculously obsessed with following rules.

These marines take pride in [[Rogal Dorn]] further than any Imperial Fists Successor (as well as the Imperial Fists themselves), for Dorn fought alongside the [[Emperor]] during the final stages of the [[Horus Heresy]] during the Siege of The Emperor's Palace. This caused them also to believe that while Roboute Guilliman was a great strategist and tactician, only the sons of Dorn are capable of mastering the Codex he wrote, [[Troll|infuriating]] the Ultras and their successors (not to mention trying to steal the Ultramarines' <s>boyfriends</s> greatest rivals, the [[Word Bearers]], away from them).

Although it would seem that they fail at reading the Codex as a great book of everything and instead as a guide on how marines are supposed to be (ironically meaning they unintentionally succeed in how Guilliman intended it to be read), it could also be said that they read the Codex cover to cover and learned how to use every tactic in it, ''while also using their brains.'' They've actually been pretty successful at utilizing it in a multitude of campaigns, notably the [[Damocles Crusade]] where their rapid adaptability actually gave the Tau problems, at least until [[Farsight]] [[Bullshit|cracked the Codex and used it to predict their every action.]] Even though they follow the Codex to the letter, they do put emphasis on firepower and protection (hence their frequent use of Devastators, Terminators, Dreadnoughts and Vindicators). This technically means that they actually ''don't'' strictly follow the Codex as they wouldn't be able to emphasise anything if they did (unless the Codex supports this method of warfare, of course). This also means that Farsight couldn't have predicted their moves because they wouldn't actually have been fully following the Codex. Luckily, being predictable doesn't matter if you are so good at adapting that an opponent's counter is countered and/or you have enough armor and firepower to simply slaughter everything anyway. Besides, the Codex is so massive that even Ultramarines do not memorize the whole thing (each knows a different piece), so a Tau brain wouldn't be physically capable of comprehending enough of the Codex to predict how Space Marines would use it. If a Space Marine can't do it, a mortal can't do it, let alone a species the Eldar abandoned due to their "crippling lack of creativity". Farsight got lucky (or Chaos dicked around) and didn't realize it. Alternatively, the Tau may have put the Codex into an easily searchable database so that they wouldn’t have to memorize it, because they remember how computers work and haven’t devolved into medieval primitives who store all their information on literal paper scrolls. Maybe, but the search would take so long the battle would be over by the time it completed. You're talking about something it took many years to write and was made by someone can, in a moment, conceive every aspect of a planetary invasion down to the slightest detail. And he still took ''years'' to make this thing. Besides, the Hammers would've have brought much of the tactics and such out as there just wouldn't have been a reason to. Also, there are counters to everything and counters to counters and so on. Anything Farsight did would be countered in an endless cycle, except the Astartes, as the attackers, would have the initiative and as defenders their far greater thought speed would win the day. Look, no species as ever “decoded” the Codex. Not even the Eldar. Even other Primarchs in traitor legions didn’t magically have answers to predict Codex Marines’ actions. The Farsight thing is just usual Tau wank bullshit from GW because the Tau exist to represent minor xenos (a playable faction they replaces) and GW realized the Tau had no chance in Hell against the Imperium. The Codex seems to focus on the situation, and the Tau are rather limited on the methods of combat they employ and their tactics reflect this and enjoy very little variation and adaptation. It's basically just "get to a vantage point and shoot a lot". Perhaps the simplicity (or stupidity) of Tau tactics forced the situation which there isn't much variation from the Codex available for that situation. I mean, there are only so many ways to handle someone simply sitting back and shooting at you from a hill or something. Yeah, it’s called “teleport Terminators on the hill and slaughter the xenos” or “blow the hill up from afar and laugh at the aliens’ incompetence” or “go around it and let them wither on the vine.”

Given how fanatical the Hammers are about the Codex, they're probably not terribly happy about Guilliman coming back and starting a full rewrite of their rulebook. A sentiment /tg/ can sympathize with, actually. If they have a problem with the author of the Codex: Astartes changing it, then they weren't loyal to it for the right reasons. I mean, if you obey something because a primarch wrote it and then the primarch changes it and you have a problem with the changing...well, really, it just means you're an idiot. No idea on their opinions of the Book of the Five Spheres, if any.
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Hammers of Dorn

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{{Infobox Spess Mahreen Chapter
|Name = Hammers of Dorn
|Heraldry = [[File:HoD_Shoulder_Pad.png|150px]]
|Number = Unknown
|Battle Cry = Unknown
|Founding = Unknown
|Successors of = [[Imperial Fists]]
|Successor Chapters = Unknown
|Chapter Master = Unknown
|Primarch = [[Rogal Dorn]]
|Homeworld = Unknown
|Specialty = Being perfectly adherent to the [[Codex]], trolling to hell and back the [[Ultramarines]], having superior firepower and putting emphasis on [[Devastator Squad|Devastators]], [[Terminators]], [[Dreadnoughts]] and [[Vindicator|Vindicators]] (basically emphasis on things that kick the shit out of everything)
|Strength = Perfectly 1000
|Allegiance = [[Imperium]]
|Colours = Black and Brass
}}
[[File:Hammers of Dorn-Hero.jpg|300px|thumbnail|left|One would mistake him for a Chaos Marine if it wasn't for the complete lack of [[Chaos]] symbols and presence of Imperial ones.]]
A Successor Chapter of the Imperial Fists, this is what you get when you try to out-perform [[Ultramarines]] and [[Red Scorpions]] in [[Codex]] compliance. The '''Hammers of Dorn''' were created in an unknown founding and are known to maintain a friendly (for a given definition of friendly) rivalry with the Ultramarines.

The Hammers of Dorn are ridiculously compliant with the Codex Astartes to the point that they'll call out the Ultramarines on every divergence from the great book of war [[Roboute Guilliman]] wrote. They also extend it to other Ultramarine Successor Chapters. Also note how their chapter symbol looks like the flag of the Soviet Union, a nation also ridiculously obsessed with following rules.

These marines take pride in [[Rogal Dorn]] further than any Imperial Fists Successor (as well as the Imperial Fists themselves), for Dorn fought alongside the [[Emperor]] during the final stages of the [[Horus Heresy]] during the Siege of The Emperor's Palace. This caused them also to believe that while Roboute Guilliman was a great strategist and tactician, only the sons of Dorn are capable of mastering the Codex he wrote, [[Troll|infuriating]] the Ultras and their successors (not to mention trying to steal the Ultramarines' <s>boyfriends</s> greatest rivals, the [[Word Bearers]], away from them).

Although it would seem that they fail at reading the Codex as a great book of everything and instead as a guide on how marines are supposed to be (ironically meaning they unintentionally succeed in how Guilliman intended it to be read), it could also be said that they read the Codex cover to cover and learned how to use every tactic in it, ''while also using their brains.'' They've actually been pretty successful at utilizing it in a multitude of campaigns, notably the [[Damocles Crusade]] where their rapid adaptability actually gave the Tau problems, at least until [[Farsight]] [[Bullshit|cracked the Codex and used it to predict their every action.]] Even though they follow the Codex to the letter, they do put emphasis on firepower and protection (hence their frequent use of Devastators, Terminators, Dreadnoughts and Vindicators). This technically means that they actually ''don't'' strictly follow the Codex as they wouldn't be able to emphasise anything if they did (unless the Codex supports this method of warfare, of course). This also means that Farsight couldn't have predicted their moves because they wouldn't actually have been fully following the Codex. Luckily, being predictable doesn't matter if you are so good at adapting that an opponent's counter is countered and/or you have enough armor and firepower to simply slaughter everything anyway. Besides, the Codex is so massive that even Ultramarines do not memorize the whole thing (each knows a different piece), so a Tau brain wouldn't be physically capable of comprehending enough of the Codex to predict how Space Marines would use it. If a Space Marine can't do it, a mortal can't do it, let alone a species the Eldar abandoned due to their "crippling lack of creativity". Farsight got lucky (or Chaos dicked around) and didn't realize it. Alternatively, the Tau may have put the Codex into an easily searchable database so that they wouldn’t have to memorize it, because they remember how computers work and haven’t devolved into medieval primitives who store all their information on literal paper scrolls. Maybe, but the search would take so long the battle would be over by the time it completed. You're talking about something it took many years to write and was made by someone can, in a moment, conceive every aspect of a planetary invasion down to the slightest detail. And he still took ''years'' to make this thing. Besides, the Hammers would've have brought much of the tactics and such out as there just wouldn't have been a reason to. The Codex seems to focus on the situation, and the Tau are rather limited on the methods of combat they employ and their tactics reflect this and enjoy very little variation and adaptation. It's basically just "get to a vantage point and shoot a lot". Perhaps the simplicity (or stupidity) of Tau tactics forced the situation which there isn't much variation from the Codex available for that situation. I mean, there are only so many ways to handle someone simply sitting back and shooting at you from a hill or something. Yeah, it’s called “teleport Terminators on the hill and slaughter the xenos” or “blow the hill up from afar and laugh at the aliens’ incompetence” or “go around it and let them wither on the vine.”

Given how fanatical the Hammers are about the Codex, they're probably not terribly happy about Guilliman coming back and starting a full rewrite of their rulebook. A sentiment /tg/ can sympathize with, actually. If they have a problem with the author of the Codex: Astartes changing it, then they weren't loyal to it for the right reasons. I mean, if you obey something because a primarch wrote it and then the primarch changes it and you have a problem with the changing...well, really, it just means you're an idiot. No idea on their opinions of the Book of the Five Spheres, if any.
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Hammers of Dorn

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{{Infobox Spess Mahreen Chapter
|Name = Hammers of Dorn
|Heraldry = [[File:HoD_Shoulder_Pad.png|150px]]
|Number = Unknown
|Battle Cry = Unknown
|Founding = Unknown
|Successors of = [[Imperial Fists]]
|Successor Chapters = Unknown
|Chapter Master = Unknown
|Primarch = [[Rogal Dorn]]
|Homeworld = Unknown
|Specialty = Being perfectly adherent to the [[Codex]], trolling to hell and back the [[Ultramarines]], having superior firepower and putting emphasis on [[Devastator Squad|Devastators]], [[Terminators]], [[Dreadnoughts]] and [[Vindicator|Vindicators]] (basically emphasis on things that kick the shit out of everything)
|Strength = Perfectly 1000
|Allegiance = [[Imperium]]
|Colours = Black and Brass
}}
[[File:Hammers of Dorn-Hero.jpg|300px|thumbnail|left|One would mistake him for a Chaos Marine if it wasn't for the complete lack of [[Chaos]] symbols and presence of Imperial ones.]]
A Successor Chapter of the Imperial Fists, this is what you get when you try to out-perform [[Ultramarines]] and [[Red Scorpions]] in [[Codex]] compliance. The '''Hammers of Dorn''' were created in an unknown founding and are known to maintain a friendly (for a given definition of friendly) rivalry with the Ultramarines.

The Hammers of Dorn are ridiculously compliant with the Codex Astartes to the point that they'll call out the Ultramarines on every divergence from the great book of war [[Roboute Guilliman]] wrote. They also extend it to other Ultramarine Successor Chapters. Also note how their chapter symbol looks like the flag of the Soviet Union, a nation also ridiculously obsessed with following rules.

These marines take pride in [[Rogal Dorn]] further than any Imperial Fists Successor (as well as the Imperial Fists themselves), for Dorn fought alongside the [[Emperor]] during the final stages of the [[Horus Heresy]] during the Siege of The Emperor's Palace. This caused them also to believe that while Roboute Guilliman was a great strategist and tactician, only the sons of Dorn are capable of mastering the Codex he wrote, [[Troll|infuriating]] the Ultras and their successors (not to mention trying to steal the Ultramarines' <s>boyfriends</s> greatest rivals, the [[Word Bearers]], away from them).

Although it would seem that they fail at reading the Codex as a great book of everything and instead as a guide on how marines are supposed to be (ironically meaning they unintentionally succeed in how Guilliman intended it to be read), it could also be said that they read the Codex cover to cover and learned how to use every tactic in it, ''while also using their brains.'' They've actually been pretty successful at utilizing it in a multitude of campaigns, notably the [[Damocles Crusade]] where their rapid adaptability actually gave the Tau problems, at least until [[Farsight]] [[Bullshit|cracked the Codex and used it to predict their every action.]] Even though they follow the Codex to the letter, they do put emphasis on firepower and protection (hence their frequent use of Devastators, Terminators, Dreadnoughts and Vindicators). This technically means that they actually ''don't'' strictly follow the Codex as they wouldn't be able to emphasise anything if they did (unless the Codex supports this method of warfare, of course). This also means that Farsight couldn't have predicted their moves because they wouldn't actually have been fully following the Codex. Luckily, being predictable doesn't matter if you are so good at adapting that an opponent's counter is countered and/or you have enough armor and firepower to simply slaughter everything anyway. Besides, the Codex is so massive that even Ultramarines do not memorize the whole thing (each knows a different piece), so a Tau brain wouldn't be physically capable of comprehending enough of the Codex to predict how Space Marines would use it. If a Space Marine can't do it, a mortal can't do it, let alone a species the Eldar abandoned due to their "crippling lack of creativity". Farsight got lucky (or Chaos dicked around) and didn't realize it. Alternatively, the Tau may have put the Codex into an easily searchable database so that they wouldn’t have to memorize it, because they remember how computers work and haven’t devolved into medieval primitives who store all their information on literal paper scrolls. Maybe, but the search would take so long the battle would be over by the time it completed. You're talking about something it took many years to write and was made by someone can, in a moment, conceive every aspect of a planetary invasion down to the slightest detail. And he still took ''years'' to make this thing. Besides, the Hammers would've have brought much of the tactics and such out as there just wouldn't have been a reason to. The Codex seems to focus on the situation, and the Tau are rather limited on the methods of combat they employ and their tactics reflect this and enjoy very little variation and adaptation. It's basically just "get to a vantage point and shoot a lot". Perhaps the simplicity (or stupidity) of Tau tactics forced the situation which there isn't much variation from the Codex available for that situation. I mean, there are only so many ways to handle someone simply sitting back and shooting at you from a hill or something.

Given how fanatical the Hammers are about the Codex, they're probably not terribly happy about Guilliman coming back and starting a full rewrite of their rulebook. A sentiment /tg/ can sympathize with, actually. If they have a problem with the author of the Codex: Astartes changing it, then they weren't loyal to it for the right reasons. I mean, if you obey something because a primarch wrote it and then the primarch changes it and you have a problem with the changing...well, really, it just means you're an idiot. No idea on their opinions of the Book of the Five Spheres, if any.
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[[Category:Warhammer 40,000]][[Category:Imperial]][[Category:Space Marines]]

Ultramarines

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{{Infobox Spess Mahreen Chapter
|Name = Ultramarines
|Heraldry = [[File:Smurfpauldron.jpg|140px]]
|Battle Cry = "Courage and Honour!" and "We March for Macragge!"
|Number = XIII
|Founding = [[First Founding]]
|Original Name = War-Born
|Successor Chapters = Roughly 65% of all Chapters. Allegedly. However, a lot of those don’t know who their Primarch is or are very different from Gulliman. Generally, most loyalists of traitor legions claim Ultramarines as parent Chapter.
|Chapter Master = [[Marneus Calgar]]
|Primarch = [[Roboute Guilliman]]
|Homeworld = [[Ultramar|Macragge]]
|Specialty = Jack of all trades. Obsessed with strategy, tactics and [[Codex Astartes|discipline.]] Basically Greco-romans IN SPESS!!
|Strength = Above 1000 Marines
|Allegiance = [[Imperium]]
|Colours = Ultramarine Blue, white & gold (For the most famous Second Company. Other Companies use different colors)
}}
{{Topquote|Battles are won by [[World Eaters|slaughter]] and [[Codex Astartes|maneuver]]. The greater the [[Creed|general]], the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.|Winston S. Churchill}}
{{topquote|Our Presence Remakes the Past!|The Banner of Macragge}}

The '''Ultramarines''' (More commonly known as Ultrasmurfs) are a chapter of [[Space Marines]], probably the most famous and well-known and mincy (both within the [[Warhammer 40,000]] universe and without). [[Games Workshop]] considers the Ultramarines their chapter of choice, and the Ultramarines represent the standard upon which most other Space Marine chapters are based but strive to be different from as they are so mincy. Why Games Workshop would want a Space Marine chapter whose symbol is a <s>toilet seat</s> <s>repulsive reverse vagina</s> <s>upside down Omega</s> <S>upsilon</S> [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-close_back_rounded_vowel International Phonetic Alphabet transcription for "uhh..."] ('''℧''') as their go-to chapter is beyond us. They have an easily recognizable blue-with-gold-trim colour scheme that the [[Thousand Sons]] decided to rip off post-heresy (after the Newcrons ripped off ''their'' Egyptian motif.) Of course technically that's only the second company ,but who ever heard of an ultramarine player not painting his army blue and gold? The blue colouration, coupled with the small size of the minis, has lead them to be nicknamed "Smurfs" by <s>some</s> everyone. [[Rick Priestley]] was originally inspired to promote the ultramarines heavily in publications of White Dwarf after a dream he had whilst staying around a friends house in which he claims [[What|the miniatures began speaking to him]], this part allegedly had a role in his eventual dismissal from [[Games Workshop]] in 2010.

A squad of Tactical Marines are the protagonists of the 40k-based CGI movie surprisingly titled "[[Ultramarines:The Movie|Ultramarines]]". It's not bad ''per se'' ([[Dan Abnett]] did some of the writing, although the fact that it was only "some" shows) but could have been [[Skub|better]].

==Overview==
[[File:NroL23W.jpg|left|350px|thumb|All said and done, the Ultries can be badass.]]
The Ultramarines are perhaps the closest to what many would consider a 'modern' military among the Adeptus Astartes. Strategy, planning and the minimization of casualties is the basis of any Ultramarine battle-plan and their central concept is that of a well drilled, immaculate army of soldiers who execute their duty with professionalism and competence. [[Alpha Legion|"Information is victory"]] is essentially the Ultramarine way, more so than [[Alpha Legion|most]] [[Raven Guard|other]] Chapters. Though they are much more relaxed with regards to discipline than the [[Red Scorpions|Forge World's favoured]], or [[Hammers of Dorn| those other guys]]. Even before they had reunited with their Primarch, it had been noted that the XIIIth Legion (then called the War Born) was strongly inclined towards the adoption of carefully thought out battle plans, an established chain of command, and an aversion to inflicting collateral damage. These tendencies were intensified further by their extensive study and practice of the [[Codex Astartes]], which covers a very broad range of battlefield situations and doctrines to live by. Thanks to each and every one of them training and living by it, their companies operate like a smoothly functioning combat machine with every unit functionally interlocking with every other. However, as much as this by-the-book discipline was their strength, it is often also, like the real-life ancient Roman Legions, their weakness, since the few situations that the Codex Astartes did not prepare them for tended to catch them flat-footed, lacking the flexibility to properly respond. The initial Tyranid invasion and the [[Necrons|Damnos incident]] exemplify such situations, where the unconventional nature of their enemy nearly led to their defeat. It doesn't matter how smoothly your forces function if you don't actually have a way to win the battle.

That being said, they are extremely good at adapting to a threat once the initial shock has passed . In the aftermath of their near-defeat to the Tyranids, the Chapter would go on to crush Hive Fleet Kraken as a coherent invasion force as well as create an entire unit dedicated to fighting this particular threat (Almost as if they are a chapter that is protected by a [[Plot armour|mystical]] armour), called the Tyrranic War Veterans. These specialists would become highly sought after by the Deathwatch due to their experience and knowledge and was even augmented by survivors from [[Scythes of the Emperor|other Chapters]] that suffered the wrath of the Tyranids. During the Horus Heresy, an entire force of 1000 Ultramarines was decimated the initial Night Lord of invasion of Sotha. Despite being caught off guard at first due to their unfamiliarity with the Night Lord's unconventional tactics, they began to adapt fast to their enemy's fighting style and by the end of the battle, achieved a near 20-1 kill ratio over their traitorous cousins. Although they may be weak to a new enemy or new tactics, they have a superb reactivity once they have the information they need.

They’re not warriors or knights, but soldiers; a professional fighting force dedicated to defending the 500 Worlds of Ultramar and serving the interests of the larger Imperium beyond. A standing army that is the byproduct of a prosperous Star Empire to whom they owe their existence to. This is seen in their combat doctrine. They don’t have any specializations themselves because they are supposed to adapt to whatever situation presents itself and act accordingly. They are a fluid and malleable fighting force that is supposed to assess the situation, gain every scrap of intelligence/battle data they can, and then change themselves into whatever is required to get the job done; be it a blunt hammer or a precision blade.

The [[Primarch]] of the Ultramarines is [[Roboute Guilliman]] (aka Robot Girlyman and about a thousand other highly appropriate names: Big Bobby G, Rowboat Gillman, The BIG RG, Rawbutt Girlyman , The Great Papa Smurf, God-Emperor of smurfs Ex. Ex.) and it was he who wrote the (in?)famous [[Codex Astartes]] after the events of the [[Horus Heresy|Daddy Issue Invasion]], prescribing each Space Marine chapter to a mere thousand warriors to ensure that no one man would ever command the loyalty of an entire Space Marine legion again. At least, that was the plan, but Roboute Guilliman himself never got to see it come to light, as he was [[Battle of Thessala|mortally wounded]] by a poisonous attack from his bro, the Traitor Primarch [[Fulgrim]], and he had been kept in stasis by the Ultramarines for thousands of years, only being revived through the actions of [[Belisarius Cawl|Archmagos Cawl]] and the [[Ynnari]] ten thousand years later (Working with Xenos? HERESY!).

The Ultramarines base their ideals upon the teachings of super-Ultra Smurf daddy, who ended up on a neo-Roman planet and soon adopted their way of thinking. They believe in individual strength to strengthen the whole ([[Chaos|and not for the betterment of one self]]), and in following the rules, however strict they might be. This way, order is maintained in all things. Courage is, naturally, also a big thing to them, since it goes with the idea of the individual working to better the whole. All this means that the Ultramarines are very, ''very'' good at doing their job, as long as they are prepared for it and works alongside the rest of their Chapter, but tend to be completely stumped when a situation, which their planning and reasoning can't immediately deal with, comes up.

[[File:SpacemarineGettingArmoured.PNG|500px|right|thumb|Ehh... Could you get your ass off the altar, Claudius?]]

The Ultramarines are also notorious for disregarding much of the wider Imperium in favour of their own worlds, the famed ''500 Worlds of Ultramar''. This has earned them much hate from in-universe factions, who don't like how they essentially go "Screw you guys, we'll just make our own, sort of working empire!"; One of Fulgrim's [[Iterator|iterators]], who had the ear of powerful members of Terran court, once said that ''"The Lord of Ultramar sees little else besides the primacy of his own culture."'', and also Malcador and the Emperor were not surprised when Guilliman chose to defend his 500 worlds rather than get his hands dirty with the Horus Heresy. Many elegen/tg/entlemen dislike this as well, since it sort of makes the Ultries seem they know better than the rest of the Imperium, while still being lauded as being some of the most honourable Chapters in the entire galaxy. Though in the Ultramarine's defense, they're probably the most successful space marine chapter in the galaxy, considering that they defend and maintain hundreds of worlds, and those worlds are some of the most prosperous, meritocratic worlds in the entire Imperium. Plus, the Ultramarines have an affinity with the common people, as they believe that it's their sworn duty to protect the innocent, like the Salamanders. Even with their duties in Ultramar, the Chapter still sends warriors out into the wider galaxy, making significant contributions at [[Armageddon]] and at [[Ultramarines Honour Company|Cadia during the]] [[Black Crusade|13th black crusade]].

All of the other Space Marine legions [[Space Wolves|save one]] (or maybe [[Dark Angels|two]], depending on how you look at it, maybe [[Angry Marines|three]] if you count anger and most likely [[Black Templars|four]] when thinking about it) adopted the Codex and split up into multitudes of smaller chapters, and most Space Marine chapters today follow the practices found within it, although some like the Space Wolves and the Black Templars have refrained from implementing it. Few are as rigid in pursuing the use of the Codex as the Ultramarines, though. Where most other Chapters like the [[Imperial Fists]] and [[Raven Guard]] looks to it for guidance when encountering unfamiliar situations, the Ultramarines see the Codex as a sort of "holy book" and follow its instructions to the letter. Ironically, Guilliman himself believed this to be misguided and noted that the Codex was never meant to replace the ability to act on one's own judgments. But [[Grimdark|Irony]] is a strong force in 40K universe.

Because they are the poster-boys for Space Marines, they are perhaps the most famous Chapter in the general 40k fandom, but are widely hated by many denizens of [[/tg/]]. This may initially have been due to their popularity - the Space Marines in general suffer something of a backlash from fa/tg/uys because of their overwhelming popularity with the annoying young children that infest the hobby, and the Ultramarines are the most popular of them all - but of recent editions the blatant favouritism displayed by certain Games Workshop writers towards the Chapter have earned them considerable ire, especially from fans of other Space Marine chapters that get slagged off in the process. This is mainly the fault of [[Matthew Ward]]'s 5th edition Space Marine Codex, which explicitly claimed that the Ultramarines were superior to all other Space Marines (In 2nd edition it was explicitly stated.) and was not helped by Ward's own poor fluff-writing skills (see [[#Quotes|Quotes]] below). However, more recent fluff has served to bring the Ultramarines back to their "Space Roman" roots, making them far less objectionable than they were in the past. Forge World's Horus Heresy line has been particularly kind to them, giving them a variety of stylish Heresy-era gear, all of them with that "The Glory That Was Rome" vibe.

==First Edition History==
[[Image:UltramarinesRT.jpg|thumb|right|Fig.1.1: An Ultramarine, note the [[Beakie]].]]
{{Oldschool}}

[http://www.scribd.com/doc/118383071/WD97-Chapter-Approved-Index-Astartes| Back in the] [[Rogue Trader (Sourcebook)|first edition]] of Warhammer 40,000, in an article co-written by [[Rick Priestley]]. The XIIIth Legion were actually traitors and were banished to the Eye of Terror along with the other traitor legions. The modern day 40k Ultramarines were established on new years day 001.M32, which would make them a Third Founding chapter. They received all of the [[Gene Seed|gene-"sperm" & implants]], rituals and paraphernalia of the original legion.

Not only that, they only received lordship over the world of [[Macragge]] AFTER the First Tyrannic War. And though they did have different names for all of their company captains and command staff, they were/are still commanded by a man named Marneus Calgar.

The implications of this would be startling if we use the ''"everything is canon, but not necessarily true"'' stance that GW has adopted when regarding fluff inconsistencies. Hinting that Guilliman's marines were [[Imperium Secundus|heretics and traitors]] and were eventually banished from the Imperium.

However, attempting to reconcile this old origin story with "modern" Ultramarines is extremely difficult, we can only coherently insert it into the current state of play if we assume there is a second chapter out there called the "Ultra-Marines" with a chapter master and homeworld of the same name and the same level of involvement with the Tyrannic Wars. Though what completely knocks this old fluff out is that it ''also'' has possession of the body of [[Roboute Guilliman]] so it has to be a retcon though it still opens the door to conspiracy theories or that Marneus Calgar is [[Lugft Huron|in command of multiple Chapters]].

The other possibility is that when the Ultramarines were declared traitor and forced into the eye of terror, Guilliman, recognising his plans for [[Imperium_Secundus|Imperium Secondus]] were about to topple with the death of [[Sanguinius]] (who had been declared ruler as a means to placate the Emperor and the other legions), Guilliman had himself cloned and a portion of his legions most pure geneseed moved to the Eastern Fringe and [[Macragge]] to ensure survival of the Ultramarines, The Ultramar Empire and the Imperium Secondus concept as its eventuality. This occurred just as the rest of the legion (Including the original primarch) were declared traitor and forced into the eye. It would also suggest, given the appearance of Guilliman's wounded body in stasis on Macragge, that it was in-fact the clone that was killed by [[Fulgrim]] and the real primarch still resides either in the eye of terror or the immaterium with the remains of the Ultramarine Traitor Legion.

In either case, somehow one of the two possible Guilliman's was returned to Macragge and placed in stasis <strike>post-mortem</strike> after being Mortally-Wounded. If you accept the cloning of Guilliman, this all makes sense; he wanted to ensure his empire survived and having been declared traitor, cloned himself and sent the clone to rule over the new Imperium, the clone being mortally wounded by [[Fulgrim]] en-route. Or somehow, and for some reason, a traitor primarch was dragged out of the eye of terror and kept in stasis on the opposite side of the galaxy. Given the stupidity of that second line of thought, the clone being the primarch on Macragge is a much more likely situation... Especially as if his wounds heal and the clone recovers he would be able to continue acting out the original Guilliman's plans for a second imperium with its epicentre based within the Ultramar Empire and using Space Marines created from the remains of the purest legion-stock geneseed.

Or, infinitely more likely, it's just old fluff which went the way of the [[Squats]] after Rogue Trader, and we should hope so, because if it isn't, we also have to reconcile the space marines being entirely beaky space cops.

== Name & Breaking the Hyphen ==
The Ultramarines are not [[Matt Ward|named because they are 'Ultra' as in 'Superior']]. They're called "Ultramarines" because their home sector is [[Ultramar]] and the demonym is Ultramarine. Think of how people from America are Americans. Taking it as literally as possible, they're the "People of Ultramar," which plays back into their theme of being a part of their home's society. Their armour colouring is "coincidentally" called Ultramarine, which is generally described as being a slightly grapish (in contrast to Phthalo's greenish) blue.

The overseas section of the Spanish Empire was referred to as ''Ultramar'' (''waaaaaaaaaaay'' beyond the sea). Given the great distance between Ultramar and [[Terra]], it's a fitting analogy.

In early versions of the Lore, "Ultramarines" (As they are now known) are spelt in a myriad of different ways. Rick Priestly himself describing them as "Ultra-Marines". Other versions include "Ultra Marines", "The Ultra-Marine Chapter" and <strike>"Smurfs"</strike> {{BLAM}} amongst many other iterations. In all instances, and all cases (even accounting for the First Edition lore above) it can be assumed the lore refers to the same Chapter or Legion. Punctuation matters, just not in 40K...

==Ultramarines post-Ward==
{{MattWard}}
[[Image:Ultraknights.jpg|thumb|right|Ultramarines, from the days of [[Awesome]].]]
{{topquote|Our love is nothing but the blues, baby, how blue can you get?|B.B. King}}
{{Topquote|Listen to your blue-clad wretches yelling of courage and honour, courage and honour, courage and honour. Do you even know the meaning of those words? Courage is fighting the kingdom which enslaves you, no matter that their armies outnumber yours by ten-thousand to one. You know nothing of courage. Honour is resisting a tyrant when all others suckle and grow fat on the hypocrisy he feeds them. You know nothing of honour.|[[Angron]], proving that a stopped clock is right twice a day}}

Unless you are new here, then you should be well informed by now over the really [[Skub|skubtastic]] history involving the [[Ultramarines]] and the dreaded [[Matt Ward|Ward]]. While Ward was indeed responsible for the immense [[butthurt]] and [[Rage|rage]] caused on [[/tg/]] and to [[1d4Chan]] itself (Seriously just look at the pages history, it was a war on green and red edits), Ward himself wasn't completely at fault here, [[Games Workshop]] is just as much to blame for their irresponsible and careless attitude in handling fluff to a ''clearly'' biased player and gave him the green light to write whatever things Ward could come out with. However after Ward's quite unexpected departure in 2014 (He came back in 2016 though, just hope he can control his Ultramarine urges now(he can’t)), the Ultramarines have been getting....less of the limelight like they used to back in the heydays of Codex: Space Marines 5th Edition. Nowadays, the [[Blood Angels]], [[Space Wolves]], [[Dark Angels]] and even the [[Deathwatch]] are getting more in the spotlight. While the Ultramarines are still the de facto mascots of WH40K, it seems that the post-Ward era has seen the return of more... [[Pauldrons|diverse forms of Space Marine Chapters]]. Furthermore, the [[Horus Heresy]] lineups made by our favorite [[Forgeworld]] has been giving the Ultramarines and the rest of the Space Marine Legions an equal respect in both their lore and crunch which was unthinkable back in the day, "The [[Salamanders]] and [[Raven Guard]] get their own moment to shine without the Ultras overshadowing them? How preposterous!" would be the most likely answer if went back in time and told our past selves over this.

Additionally the Forgeworld model for [[Roboute Guilliman]] has been well received by fans with some commenting that of all the [[Primarch]] models, Guilliman's was one of the best designed and posed (although the truth is that his armour has went from Grecco-Roman in style to Marvel, and in spite of all his Mary Sue-ness, he's still likely to get stomped over by an [[Imperial Knight]] or Assault Terminators). What does this mean for our (in)famous blueberries? A redemption of sorts? Winning back the crowd? Earning back the respect it once had? The answer could be all of them. Whatever is the case, the legacy of Ward and the Ultramarine fiasco did impact the way players see the Ultramarines and the Space Marines to an extent either negatively or positively (More inclined to the negativity though). But seeing as how GeeDubs still has the [[Robin Cruddace|Cruddhead]], it can be seen with some sigh of relief that GeeDubs seems to be back to their grips now in terms of fluff at least.

==Tabletop==
Throughout most of GW's history the Ultramarines have been portrayed on the tabletop as the "standard" space marine chapter, to the point where most other chapters are represented as "Ultramarines +,- variable X". [[Dark Angels|More]] [[Grey Knights|popular]] [[Space Wolves|chapters]] often get [[Blood Angels|their own]] codices, but less popular chapters get relegated to sets of advantages and disadvantages on top of the Ultramarine baseline. At certain points in GW's sordid tabletop history this has led to Ultramarines being literally vanilla marines with no bonuses whatsoever, where the '''only''' advantage to taking them is their wide selection of characters, and other times such as 7th edition where with the right builds and the right tactics, you could statistically beat out the Blood Angels and Space Wolves in assault, and Dark Angels and Imperial Fists in shooting.

8th Edition is probably the best they've ever been while not being quite as cheesy as they were in the past. Their strategies, characters, chapter tactics, and warlord trait all grant bonuses to command points, to the point where you can get the effective use of 20(!) command points on stratagems in a 2000 point game, leading to an army with massive tactical flexibility. Gone are the days were you can butcher melee dedicated forces in close combat, and out-shoot the gun-factories of the universe, a bunch of damn sues who win because they are - of course - the BEST EVAR. Now you get the Ultramarines as they should be: a versatile but non-specialized army with the tactical and strategic flexibility to make the most out of any situation.

==Notable Members==
[[File:1280346485348.jpg|thumb|right|While most believe the story told by the Ultramarines, eye-witnesses paint a different story...]]
*'''[[Marneus Calgar|Marneus Augustus Calgar]]''': [[Marneus Calgar#Gathering Storm|Regent of Ultramar]] and Chapter Master of the Ultramarines. His accomplishments include being thoroughly ripped apart by the [[Swarmlord]] (by that we mean all his limbs, a large portion of his body and his eye), and single handedly holding off an Ork Waaagh! for 9 days all by himself. However, his crowning moment is his defeat of an Eldar Avatar of Khaine in 1 vs 1, hand-to-hand combat, which is typically killed by the same effort it takes to kill a Khornate Bloodthirster - never mind that the thing is made of molten metal and over three times his size. He also had a rematch with the Swarmlord and won, which must have been pretty easy, considering that it had been recently ripped apart. Has also faced [[Abaddon the Despoiler]] as well (following turning into a [[Primaris Marine]]), but his plot armor wasn't as strong that day and he just barely escaped that mess.
*'''[[Severus Agemman]]''': Captain of the Ultramarines First Company. He was Captain of the Second Company, and Sicarius' commanding officer before being promoted after the First Tyrannic War. There isn't much fluff about him besides being overshadowed by his former subordinate Sicarius. As first Company Captain he's Calgar's appointed successor, however much of the chapter thinks it will be Sicarius instead of him. Agemman is aware of this possibility and isn't very happy about it. As of the end of the Plague Wars, Severus serves as the Tetrarch of the northern reaches of Ultramar.
*'''[[Cato Sicarius]]''': Former captain of the Ultramarines Second Company and Leader of Guilliman's Victrix Guard. Is kind of a glory hog, but he's arguably earned his right to be a braggart through his skill at arms. Was taken on as a [[Matt Ward|ward]] by the primarch after his resurrection, mostly because Cato's brash, forthright personality reminded him of Aeonid Thiel, whose counsel Guilliman greatly missed. His captaincy was given to Sevastus Acheran.
*'''[[Uriel Ventris]]''': Captain of the Ultramarines Fourth Company and the main character of Graham McNeil's Ultramarines novel series. Notable for destroying the [[Daemonculaba]].
*'''[[Ortan Cassius]]''': Master of Sanctity of the Ultramarines and ex-member of the [[Deathwatch]]. Currently one of the oldest Space Marines alive and [[Bjorn the Fell Handed|not yet placed in a Dreadnought]]. The Tyrannic War Veterans were his idea.
*'''[[Varro Tigurius]]''': the Ultramarine's (Primaris) Chief Librarian, has enough psychic prowess to make psychic contact with the Hive Mind without going bonkers in the process.
*'''[[Torias Telion]]''': (aka; Sean Connery made [[Grimdark]]) Ultramarine Scout Sergeant. A skilled sniper, other chapters have borrowed him to train their scouts occasionally. He also has an impressive mustache.
*'''[[Captain Titus]]''': Captain of the who the fuck knows company (if the trim of his pauldrons are accurate, he's Captain of the 2nd Company). He gained prominence (will gain prominence?) on the forge world of Graia, trying to keep a whole Waaagh! from stealing all the bitz for themselves while keeping a probably radical Inquisitor happy. Also there's a portal to the warp letting out Daemons and Chaos Marines to go on a jolly old pub crawl. He is also one of the few Ultramarines who clearly states that the Codex Astartes is not meant to be a mental straightjacket. Thus, he is [[awesome]].
*'''Varnus''': Ultramarines Chaplain dispatched to Lorn V. For perhaps the first instance in recorded time, he is a Space Marine who actually respects the Imperial Guard and couldn't ask for a better force (barring his own company).
*'''[[Aeonid Thiel]]''': A sergeant during the Horus Heresy. Despite being seen as a rule breaking maverick for proposing battle simulations of Space Marines fighting one another, he ends up playing a major role first in the Battle of Calth, then in laying the groundwork for the Ultramarines post-war, including the red painted helmets for sergeants. Also served as the co-writer of the Codex. Promoted to Captain of the 2nd Company at the time of Guilliman's wounding, though his ultimate fate is unknown.
*'''Decimus Felix''': Primaris Captain of the Ultramarines Eleventh Company (Though one doesn't quite exist) and Equerry to Guilliman. Despite the utterly suspicious circumstances of such a fresh-ish face being afforded this much power, he acts as the voice of reason for the primarch. Acts as Tetrarch to the eastern reaches of Ultramar and has been trolled a bit by Cawl.
*'''Sergeant Cornellus''': A sergeant of an embarrassing squad. Notable for killing [[Eliphas the Inheritor]] the first time, stopping a daemon invasion and finding the Ultramarines Scrabble set all while sounding like a baby
*'''Smurfette''': The only [[Yvraine|female]] member of the Ultramarine chapter.

==Quotes==
{{topquote|Chapters (not descended from Guilliman's geneseed) are disciples who owe their genetic inheritance to another [[Primarch]], but follow the [[Codex Astartes]] as keenly as their divergent heritage allows. While primarily composed of successor Chapters, this group also includes several Chapters of the [[First Founding]] - notably the [[Imperial Fists]], [[White Scars]] and the [[Raven Guard]]. <s>These chapters can never be Ultramarines, for their gene-seed is not that of [[Roboute Guilliman]]. Nevertheless, they will ever aspire to the standards and teachings of the great [[Primarch]].</s>|Fucking [[Matt Ward]]...}}
{{topquote|(Chapters who do not emulate the Ultramarines) are aberrants; chapters who, through quirk of gene-seed, mutation or stubbornness, eschew the Codex Astartes in favor of other structural and combat doctrines. Some, such as the [[Blood Angels]] and their successors, strive to be worthy of Guilliman's legacy, but their recalcitrant gene-seed drives them ever further from it. Others, such as the [[Space Wolves]] and the [[Black Templars]], remain stubbornly independent, looking to [[Primarch|their own founder's]] ways of war (which is hilarious for the Templars) and caring little of how they fare in the eyes of others. These aberrant Chapters were always few in number and their presence diminishes with each passing decade, for their gene-seed is no longer the source of fresh Chapters.|[[Matt Ward]], Ultramarines player, codex writer, [[Codex]]: [[Space Marines]], 5th Edition, p. 25.}}
{{topquote|The Ultramarines are undoubtedly the best Space Marines ever. Yes, really! Thanks to the heritage of Guilliman and their myriad heroic deeds, the Ultramarines are the exemplars of the Space Marines. With a few fringe exceptions who have severe mutations ([[Blood Angels]]) or stolid stubbornness ([[Space Wolves]] and [[Dark Angels]]) all [[Space Marine Chapter|Space marine chapters]] want to be like the Ultramarines and recognize [[Marneus Calgar]] as their [[spiritual liege]].|Matt Ward, Ultramarines player, codex writer, in the [[White Dwarf]] interview celebrating the release of Codex: Space Marines.}}
{{topquote|But your teachings…" "Are yet flawed," said Guilliman. "No one, not even one such as I, can anticipate every possible outcome of battle. My words are not some holy writ that must be obeyed. There must always be room for personal initiative on the battlefield. You and I both know how one spark of heroism can turn the tide of battle. That knowledge and personal experience can only be earned in blood, and the leader in the field must always be the ultimate arbiter of what course of action should be followed.|[[Roboute Guilliman]], making a point that his successors would quickly forget about and [[Matt Ward|the writer above]] would ignore.}}
{{topquote|Wondering what would be in the supplemental Codex for the Ultramarines that won’t be in the main book? Come take a peek!|Adam Harrison, August 8 2019, for Bell of Lost Souls, [[Games Workshop|selling to us]] the new Ultrasmurf supplement and priviledges...}}

==Daily Rituals==
04:00 - The Ultramarines rise up from their sleep in their marble-encased sleeping chambers. The Primarch has already been awake for some time, having lost the need for sleep as a side effect of his revival. (Good thing, too- according to Guilliman himself the Armor of Fate is too noisy to let him rest, and even if it wasn't the armor doesn't have the flexibility to let him lie down in the first place.)

04:30 - Morning Prayers. The Ultramarines conduct morning prayers on why they are the SECOND TO TEH EMPRAH! and how all other chapters view [[Marneus Calgar]] as their ''Spritual Liege.''

05:30 - Codex Astartes. The Ultramarines are indoctrinated and reminded on the rules and values of the Codex Astartes. Guilliman makes a note to break the news of his Codex revisions gently so his gene-sons don't go into conniptions.

08:00 - Morning Firing Rites. The Ultramarines enter target practice with spiritual guidance from Chaplain Ortan Cassius, who manages to only occasionally go off into furious rants about "The goddam bugs".

09:00 - Battle Practice. The Ultramarines leave for Macragge's Colosseum to train against each other, the local Macragge fauna and Battle Servitors.

10:00 - Morning Meal. While later than some chapters, the Ultramarines feast upon a light meal made of fruits, biscuits and light meat by the Chapter serfs. The serfs are thanked soon afterwards in a manner of respect.

10:15 - Tactical Indoctrination. The Ultramarines head to see the latest battle plans and which military techniques that can best complement the Codex Astartes. Guilliman reviews the most recent major warzones of the Imperium and prepares battle plans for the forces deployed there.

10:30 - Meetings with the Spiritual Liege. Whilst the rest of the Ultramarines practice reciting the Codex Astartes, the leaders from each of the Ultramarine's companies discuss political, social and military affairs of Ultramar and the Imperium at large. When the Primarch has the opportunity to be present, discussions and tactical briefings on his long absence last for hours, with plenty of facepalming and sighing from said Primarch.

11:00 - Afternoon Wargames. The Ultramarines conduct [[Tabletop Miniature|miniature wargames]] to best simulate strategic and combat play which can be learned and adapted in real life combat.

13:00 - Midday Meal. A light meal of cheese, bread, meats and vegetables is prepared by the Chapter serfs.

13:30 - Codex Astartes. More indoctrination of the Codex Astartes are read to ensure that the Ultramarines never diverge from the book of Guilliman. The Primarch privately wonders how his words about the Codex being a guideline could have been misinterpreted so badly.

15:00 - Evening Firing Rites. The Ultramarines enter target practice.

16:00 - Battle Practice. The Ultramarines are now dropped into the wilderness of Macragge to fend off the local fauna and flora there. The animals and plants killed are sent to the Chapter Serfs for more ingredients.

17:00 - Evening Prayers. The Ultramarines gather together to pray on why they are the chosen chapter and why the Ultramar System is the best system.

18:00 - Nighttime Firing Rites. The Ultramarines take target practice in the night to further hone in their nocturnal experience.

19:00 - Battle Practice. The Ultramarines descend to one of the neighboring planets in Ultramar to further fight the planet's local fauna and flora, as well as the various nasty things Nurgle has been attacking Ultramar with lately.

19:30 - Daily Medical Checkup. Whilst the rest of the Ultramarines are busy practicing their combat prowess, the long hours of having to keep the entire Imperium afloat has left Roboute Guilliman in a state of dismay, anger and minor facial injuries due to repeated facepalming. [[Apothecaries]] try and fail to warn their Primarch that continued usage of the facepalm will eventually give the Avenging Son a concussion. Any battle-brothers who have come into contact with the forces of Nurgle are painstakingly decontaminated to prevent the spread of any warp-contagion.

20:00 - Evening Meal. A feast made from the creatures slain by the Ultramarines earlier on is cooked in the finest ingredients. Cooking it perfectly gets the serf a purity seal of valor while cooking it imperfectly forces the serf to be read the entire Codex Astartes section on cooking. Guilliman privately wonders how the joke section made it into the official print.

21:00 - Cleaning up Guilliman's chambers. The Ultramarines go and clean up their Primarch's marble chambers after Macragge's daily tourist traps are closed for the night. Despite the Avenging Son's frequent absences from Ultramar, they like to be sure his quarters are just as he left them.

22:00 - Free Time. The Ultramarines get free time. Some continue to read the Codex Astartes, others pray to the Emperor while some go out of their Fortress Monastery to catch up on the local news and political affairs as well as hanging out with the citizens of Macragge.

24:00 - Rest Period. The Ultramarines descend back to their marble-encased sleeping chambers to rest, save for Guilliman who is needed elsewhere in the Imperium.

==Some music==

*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wTXrLsZvVI Their theme] done by [[HMKids]].
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt1M8iZNHpQ Their theme] from Chaos Gate. Became a major meme among Russian 40k fans due to some deliciously stupid [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBg9ZAqBifQ misheard lyrics] and made ultramarines associated with soup in Russian community.
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf9AaTV4-yw A track] from their official movie.

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:ultrawombles.jpg|ULTRAWOMBLES
File:Spacemarine.jpg|[[Iron Hands|Sgt Pasanius didn't want that hand anyway.]]
File:Warhammer ultramarine take 2 by faroldjo.jpg|Say what you want about Ultramarines, but their Honour Guards looks pretty boss.
File:Ultramarines concept by Malkavian7515.jpg
File:Pimp Suit.png|Captain Cato Sicarius' power armour, also known as the Mantle of the Mary Suzerain
File:CodexSM EPUB Cover.jpg|Ultramarines got the front cover of the Space Marine Codex and admittely looks fucking cool for it.
</gallery>

==See also==
*[[Who Watches Them]]
*[[Macragge heresy]]
*[[Ultramarines Honour Company]]
*[http://www.scribd.com/doc/118383071/WD97-Chapter-Approved-Index-Astartes| The past wot got remade by their presence - the original Chapter Approved write up of the "Ultra-Marines."]
*[[Genesis Chapter]], their reserve.
*[[Veteran_Squad#Tyrannic_War_Veterans|Tyrannic War Veterans]]

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