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Apollo Diomedes

2017-04-29T17:28:30Z

2602:306:C48F:5730:6880:C36A:8024:A21C: /* Diomedes' famous lines */

[[File:Captain Diomedes.jpg|right|400px|thumb|You have Captin Diyomidis.]]
:''You have captain Dayomidis!
:''Bruvah I'm pinned here!
:''Bruvah I am hit!
:''[https://youtu.be/LNK5-uE5JFg?t=1m1s |IT IS THE BEEEEEIIIINBLAAAAADE!]''
:''- Diomedes being himself in a usual day.''

Apollo Diomedes; also known as Day-o-MIDIs, Abaldo Diomedes, Boreale 2.0, and BRUVAIAMHITT, is the [[Brother-Captain|captain]] of the [[Blood Ravens]] [[honour guard]] and the main Space Marine protagonist of [[Dawn of War 2]]: Retribution. He also seems to be a close relative of [[Indrick Boreale]] due his unique intonation and [[Derp|highly elaborated ingame responses.]] Ohh, and he's also bald, as in Captain Boreale bald. He is also notable for constantly soliciting [[Love Can Bloom|Eldar Farseers for sex]] on the battlefield with bellowing cries of; "FAHSEEYAH LET US '''TO IT'''!!". In essence, he is Boreale with a lesser level of win and more grimdark. Funnily, the portions of his dialogue that aren't deployed at maximum volume are actually decent, as seen in the final mission and the Blood Ravens ending. They are, unfortunately, nowhere near as hilarious.

The Captain's name is outstandingly greek for a fictive culture with so much focus on the roman - Apollo is of course the roman/greek god of light, music, sports, archery, but also fear, death and plague and a ''fuckload'' of other stuff, while Diomedes was a greek hero on the Achaean side in the Trojan war, a badass without equal in greek mythology - Not only did he beat several Trojan warriors and officers in single combat, he, literally, wounded the god of war Ares so badly that the god had to fall back and brood over his failure on the Olympian mountain (He did all of this with the blessing of Athena, but don't tell his fans that). ''Within ten minutes of fighting.'' It's saying something about the ancient greeks that this guy was so unimportant that he's only mentioned as a token hero and not as a main character or something.

He is also amazingly overpowered, with the single most devastating special ability in the entire game; to victory, which when fully upgraded causes even space marines to explode into fountains of gore for just being near him as the ground itself tears apart beneath his feet as he charges. His medpack has absolutely absurd range, essentially covering your entire army, his jump-pack actually recharges more quickly than kayleth's and his other commander items like the banner do hilarious things like heal your troops and make them immune to suppression. Thanks to two abilities that let him heal rapidly in combat he is essentially invincible in melee and with the right weapons he can skull fuck basically any enemy unit in the game. Following some apparent nerfs to Eliphas Diomedes may very well be the single most devastating close combat unit in the game short of the unbelievably bullshit Necron Overlord in the last stand.

In DoW3 he returns as Chaplain Diomedes, keeping his signature oratory skills from the previous game.

==History==
Dayomidis has served as part of the Blud Rehvens for quite some centuries, being the yes-man of [[Azariah Kyras]], allowing him to reach the level of captain of the honour guard. In Chaos rising, he makes it his mission to obstruct the lives of Gabriel Angelos and FC Hairgel, but canonically survives to Retribution.

Unfortunately for him all his sycophancy was being dumped in a traitor chapter master allied to Chaos; how he deals with this and manages to redeem himself is dealt in Retribution, where he looks for hints of who is the Ascended, encouraging both the other Blood Ravens (read: [[Cyrus]] and [[Martellus]]) and the players to shout "oh come on Diomedes, just look at Kyras, do you really think he is one of the good guys?" Tellingly, none of the Blood Ravens he encounters in the campaign show any respect for him. After finally realizing he had been serving a heretic all these centuries, he suffers a heroic BSOD which forces the Ancient to reveal his identity. After some brief but precise words about what truly makes a [[Space Marine|Spess Mehreen]], as well as the threat of a meltagun being shoved in certain orifices, he is back on track and goes with Cyrus, the Ancient and Martellus to kick Kyras arse. In the resulting fight Gabe, who was already trying to kill Kyras, gets stomped by him, which finally makes Dayomidis show he actually seems to have got his rank due being a powerful warrior and proceeds to annihilate Kyras, finishing him with a nice orbital bombardment and delivering a kickass ending speech.

Diomedes is believed to have suffered from a unique Psyker mutation known as "Banebladeitism" since birth. This reputably gives him the ability to control any kind of Baneblade in existence. He is also believed to have been the spawn between an Ogryn and a Baneblade, making him half-Baneblade. It is rumored that instead of making his home on a Blood Ravens battle barge or strike cruiser, he instead contains himself to a Baneblade painted in Imperial Fists colors.

He was also in the Dark Knight as Detective Stephens, in Fallout as Joshua Graham, in Universe at War as the Xenos Underseer Kamal Re'x of the Hierarchy (and as Kamal is essentially a Grey type ayy lmao; is also bald), in Asura's Wrath as Kalrow (who is balding), in Halo 4 as the The Didact (Who surprisingly is almost bald). Ohh and he's also secretly the collective intelligence of Harbinger from the Mass Effect series (who is well...reapers don't have hair so let's call Harbinger bald too). He was also recurring character in the oldfag crime series THE EQUALIZER. You can now hear him in Bioshock Infinite as Captain Cornelius Slate, who might as well be his (great)^20 great grand father, and is bald.

==Codex Diomedes==
Because it was waaaay too long to wait for someone to make it.

{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" align="left"
! || Pts || WS || BS || S || T || W || I || A || Ld || Sv
|-
| '''Captain Diomedes:''' || 200 || 7 || 5 || 4 || 4 || 4 || 5 || 4 || 10 || 2+/4++
|}<br><br><br><br>

'''Unit Type''':
* '''Infantry (Character)'''

'''Unit Composition''':
* '''1 Captain Diomedes'''

'''Wargear''':
*'''Blade of Divination''': Can be swapped for the Talons of The Blood Raven for 50 pts or Doom of Apostasy for 40 pts.
*'''Bolt Pistol''': See Codex: Space Marines. Can be swapped for a Plasma Pistol or a Storm Shield for 15 pts. Either of these are replaced if Diomedes chooses to swap the Blade of Divination for the Talons of The Blood Raven or Doom of Apostasy.
*'''Artificer Armour''': May swap it for the Star Shield for 20 pts.
*'''Iron Halo'''
*'''Frag Grenades'''
*'''Krak Grenades'''
'''May take one of the following Wargear''':
*'''Jump Pack''' - Can take for free. Changes unit type to Jump Infantry (Character)
*'''Personal Teleporter''' - Can take for free. Gains the Deep Strike USR.
*'''Personal Standard''' - Can take for free. Counts as Company Standard.

'''Special Rules'''
* '''And They Shall Know No Fear'''
* '''Chapter Tactics (Blood Ravens)''': As per the rules for all Chapters who do not know their primogenitor Chapter, the Blood Ravens do not have a unique Chapter Tactic. Instead, the player can elect to use any existing Chapter Tactics from Codex: Space Marines and any Forge World supplements.
* '''Independent Character'''
* '''Rampage (Talons of The Blood Raven Only)'''
* '''Captain of The Honour Guard''': Diomedes is both the Captain and Champion of the Blood Ravens' Honour Guard, making him both a master of both tactical and martial acumen. Diomedes may take an Honour Guard squad instead of a Command Squad. This will not take a Force Organization slot. If Gabriel Angelos and Diomedes are in the same Detachment, then Diomedes may never be the Warlord.
* '''Champion of The Chapter''': Diomedes can issue Challenges and accepts every Challenge. If an enemy unit declines the Challenge, Diomedes gains the Hatred USR against the unit that refused the Challenge. If the enemy accepts, then Diomedes can re-roll one die to-hit and to-wound.
* '''Chapter Master's Shield''': If Gabriel Angelos has only one Wound remaining and Diomedes is in the same unit, then Diomedes will automatically pass any ''Look Out Sir!'' rolls he may take.

------------------------------------------

*'''Blade of Divination''': The Blade of Divination is a renowned Power Sword once wielded by Sergeant Martinus of the Ultramarines, who dispatched countless daemonic horrors in the purging of the planet Quinn IV. Its effect on the forces of Chaos was so potent that when Martinus began to fall prey to the whispers of the Dark Gods, the blade took it upon itself, to "cleanse" him. It was lost after Martinus' death, but was later found by the Blood Ravens and wielded by a Battle Brother in the Aurelian conflict [[Blood Ravens Force Commander|whose name has curiously been stricken from Chapter Records]].

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name !! Range !! Strength !! AP !! Type
|-
| '''Blade of Divination''' || - || User || 3 || Melee, Master Crafted, Vorpal Strike, Anathemic Presence
|}

**'''Vorpal Strike''': During Combat, Captain Diomedes may exchange his attacks to make a Vorpal Strike. Place a Small Blast Marker in front of Diomedes. All enemy models under the blast marker must undergo a Toughness Test. If failed, all models that failed the test must take a wound that cannot be saved using Armour Saves (Invulnerable Saves are usable though)

**'''Anathemic Presence''': Attacks from this weapon force units with the Daemon USR to re-roll all successful saves granted by that rule.

*'''Talons of The Blood Raven''': The Talons of the Blood Raven are venerated Lightning Claws that were gifted to the Blood Ravens Chapter, at the conclusion of the Buckley Purgation, by the artificers of the Raven Guard. Fashioned after the famed Raven's Talons of Shadow Captain Shrike, these strengthened adamantium blades can cut through the thickest armour with ease. These Lightning Claws grant the Rampage USR.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name !! Range !! Strength !! AP !! Type
|-
| '''Talons of The Blood Raven''' || - || User || 3 || Melee, Specialist Weapon, Master Crafted, Shred
|}

*'''Doom of Apostasy''': The Doom of Apostasy is a two handed Thunder Hammer belonging to the Blood Ravens Chapter. Legend has it that the Black Templar High Marshal Sigenandus wielded this mighty Thunder Hammer during the Terran Crusade. Apocryphal records would have it that Sigenandus used it in the final assault on the chambers of [[Goge Vandire]], the debased head of the Ecclesiarchy and target of the Crusade. Imperial scholars dispute the origins of these records, but the few who have wielded the Doom of Apostasy have little doubt in its holy providence.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name !! Range !! Strength !! AP !! Type
|-
| '''Doom of Apostasy''' || - || 10 || 2 || Melee, Two-Handed, Master Crafted, Unwieldy, Concussive, Strikedown, Purifying Aura
|}

**'''Purifying Aura''': All Infantry Units of the Chaos Space Marines, Chaos Daemons, and Renegades & Heretics factions who charge Diomedes must do so as if he has defensive grenades.

*'''Star Shield''': For nearly a millennium, Brother Gunn patrolled the halls of Strike Cruiser Decimus. Rarely did his boots touch solid earth, but he did not want for battle. Mysterious Eldar, creatures of the Warp, and even the undying Necrons boarded the Decimus during interstellar flight. Brother Gunn stood against them all, and died among the stars after a lifetime of vigilance. The Star Shield is an Artificer Armour that also grants the Feel No Pain and It Will Not Die USR.

-----------------------------------------------------

==Diomedes' famous lines==
*Bruva I am hit!
*CAP-TOR-ING!!
*Bruva I am pinned heer!
*IT IS THE BEEEEIIIIIINNNBBLLLLAAADE!!!
*I AVE TE EMUN LUSS ANK!!!
*Ah! A WAHP SPIDEAH!
*OGRYNS?! AGAINST ME?!
*IT IS THE STOOOOOOOOOOM TROOPER!
*You are healed, DO NOT FEAR!
*That vehicle...is *Puts on his helmet* halted.
*FAHSEER LET US TO IT!
*That....noise.....CANNOT DEFEAT ME! (Hammers a [[Noise Marine]])
*Dreadnought...thing! I shall ruin you!
*'Tis nothing.
*These weapons shall bring us gloreh!
*DEATH TO HIS ENEMIES ALLL!
*TRAITORS! FAILURES! FOES! (While reducing Chaos Marines to bloody pulps)
*I DIE.....AS I SWORE I WOULD!
*I SHALL ARIVE SEEEWN.
*I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN THIS DAY WOULD COME...
*In an age gone mad, the madmen should lead the way!
*I bequeath the Emperor's greatest gift to humanity: HATRED FOR HIS ENEMIES!
*SPPPPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDDDDDDDD

[[File:Diomedes_Donation.png|200px|thumb|right|The Blood Ravens would like to thank the Raptors for their generous donation of Captain Diomedes.]]

==A most generous donation==
The [[Deathwatch (RPG)|Deathwatch]] book Honour the Chapter has revealed some interesting information. It mentions that the [[Raptors]] chapter once had a Captain Diomedes who took the Apocryphon Oath and served a Long Watch with the [[Deathwatch]]. He was an expert at using the [[Jump pack|jump pack]] in jungle environments. He commissioned an upgraded jump pack to improve his effectiveness in said terrain, an artifact that still serves with the Deathwatch. Using a new method of transportation always takes training, and as such it is quite possible that Diomedes smashed head-first into a tree while getting accustomed to his new jump pack. Since captains do not wear helmets and Diomedes has no hair to cushion the impact his brain was scrambled a bit. If a particularly sneaky Blood Raven [[Cyrus|happened to be serving in the Deathwatch at his side that time]], it is very possible that he... recruited the captain to the cause of the Blood Ravens. Why this did not include the jump pack is not certain: perhaps it detached upon impact and the Blood Raven had to choose which to acquire.

==A list of Diomedes' Hijinks ==
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFs4_8sJTT0 Diomedes' voicelines]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpBngmCpUrU IT IS THE BEEEIIINBLADE! - Diomedes' first single.]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BYDfDJ0nJA Diomedes attempts to use his Baneblade-itism.]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REz_Piwwb24 We all live in a Yellow Baneblade.]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TJdSnpkCSY The most devastating weapon employed by Captain Diomedes himself: The Banebladeapult.]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg4hXhogGYM It seems he turned to chaos.]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=LNK5-uE5JFg The Bald Brothas: Boreale and Diomedes feat.]
*[http://www.blacklibrary.com/warhammer-40000/baneblade.html Diomedes favorite Black Library book... BEEIIINNEHBLADE!!!]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgZEXzHJwno All shall yield or fall before the BEHNBLAAAADE!]

{{Marines-Characters}}
[[Category: Dawn of War]]

Apollo Diomedes

2017-04-29T17:28:04Z

2602:306:C48F:5730:6880:C36A:8024:A21C: /* Diomedes' famous lines */

[[File:Captain Diomedes.jpg|right|400px|thumb|You have Captin Diyomidis.]]
:''You have captain Dayomidis!
:''Bruvah I'm pinned here!
:''Bruvah I am hit!
:''[https://youtu.be/LNK5-uE5JFg?t=1m1s |IT IS THE BEEEEEIIIINBLAAAAADE!]''
:''- Diomedes being himself in a usual day.''

Apollo Diomedes; also known as Day-o-MIDIs, Abaldo Diomedes, Boreale 2.0, and BRUVAIAMHITT, is the [[Brother-Captain|captain]] of the [[Blood Ravens]] [[honour guard]] and the main Space Marine protagonist of [[Dawn of War 2]]: Retribution. He also seems to be a close relative of [[Indrick Boreale]] due his unique intonation and [[Derp|highly elaborated ingame responses.]] Ohh, and he's also bald, as in Captain Boreale bald. He is also notable for constantly soliciting [[Love Can Bloom|Eldar Farseers for sex]] on the battlefield with bellowing cries of; "FAHSEEYAH LET US '''TO IT'''!!". In essence, he is Boreale with a lesser level of win and more grimdark. Funnily, the portions of his dialogue that aren't deployed at maximum volume are actually decent, as seen in the final mission and the Blood Ravens ending. They are, unfortunately, nowhere near as hilarious.

The Captain's name is outstandingly greek for a fictive culture with so much focus on the roman - Apollo is of course the roman/greek god of light, music, sports, archery, but also fear, death and plague and a ''fuckload'' of other stuff, while Diomedes was a greek hero on the Achaean side in the Trojan war, a badass without equal in greek mythology - Not only did he beat several Trojan warriors and officers in single combat, he, literally, wounded the god of war Ares so badly that the god had to fall back and brood over his failure on the Olympian mountain (He did all of this with the blessing of Athena, but don't tell his fans that). ''Within ten minutes of fighting.'' It's saying something about the ancient greeks that this guy was so unimportant that he's only mentioned as a token hero and not as a main character or something.

He is also amazingly overpowered, with the single most devastating special ability in the entire game; to victory, which when fully upgraded causes even space marines to explode into fountains of gore for just being near him as the ground itself tears apart beneath his feet as he charges. His medpack has absolutely absurd range, essentially covering your entire army, his jump-pack actually recharges more quickly than kayleth's and his other commander items like the banner do hilarious things like heal your troops and make them immune to suppression. Thanks to two abilities that let him heal rapidly in combat he is essentially invincible in melee and with the right weapons he can skull fuck basically any enemy unit in the game. Following some apparent nerfs to Eliphas Diomedes may very well be the single most devastating close combat unit in the game short of the unbelievably bullshit Necron Overlord in the last stand.

In DoW3 he returns as Chaplain Diomedes, keeping his signature oratory skills from the previous game.

==History==
Dayomidis has served as part of the Blud Rehvens for quite some centuries, being the yes-man of [[Azariah Kyras]], allowing him to reach the level of captain of the honour guard. In Chaos rising, he makes it his mission to obstruct the lives of Gabriel Angelos and FC Hairgel, but canonically survives to Retribution.

Unfortunately for him all his sycophancy was being dumped in a traitor chapter master allied to Chaos; how he deals with this and manages to redeem himself is dealt in Retribution, where he looks for hints of who is the Ascended, encouraging both the other Blood Ravens (read: [[Cyrus]] and [[Martellus]]) and the players to shout "oh come on Diomedes, just look at Kyras, do you really think he is one of the good guys?" Tellingly, none of the Blood Ravens he encounters in the campaign show any respect for him. After finally realizing he had been serving a heretic all these centuries, he suffers a heroic BSOD which forces the Ancient to reveal his identity. After some brief but precise words about what truly makes a [[Space Marine|Spess Mehreen]], as well as the threat of a meltagun being shoved in certain orifices, he is back on track and goes with Cyrus, the Ancient and Martellus to kick Kyras arse. In the resulting fight Gabe, who was already trying to kill Kyras, gets stomped by him, which finally makes Dayomidis show he actually seems to have got his rank due being a powerful warrior and proceeds to annihilate Kyras, finishing him with a nice orbital bombardment and delivering a kickass ending speech.

Diomedes is believed to have suffered from a unique Psyker mutation known as "Banebladeitism" since birth. This reputably gives him the ability to control any kind of Baneblade in existence. He is also believed to have been the spawn between an Ogryn and a Baneblade, making him half-Baneblade. It is rumored that instead of making his home on a Blood Ravens battle barge or strike cruiser, he instead contains himself to a Baneblade painted in Imperial Fists colors.

He was also in the Dark Knight as Detective Stephens, in Fallout as Joshua Graham, in Universe at War as the Xenos Underseer Kamal Re'x of the Hierarchy (and as Kamal is essentially a Grey type ayy lmao; is also bald), in Asura's Wrath as Kalrow (who is balding), in Halo 4 as the The Didact (Who surprisingly is almost bald). Ohh and he's also secretly the collective intelligence of Harbinger from the Mass Effect series (who is well...reapers don't have hair so let's call Harbinger bald too). He was also recurring character in the oldfag crime series THE EQUALIZER. You can now hear him in Bioshock Infinite as Captain Cornelius Slate, who might as well be his (great)^20 great grand father, and is bald.

==Codex Diomedes==
Because it was waaaay too long to wait for someone to make it.

{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" align="left"
! || Pts || WS || BS || S || T || W || I || A || Ld || Sv
|-
| '''Captain Diomedes:''' || 200 || 7 || 5 || 4 || 4 || 4 || 5 || 4 || 10 || 2+/4++
|}<br><br><br><br>

'''Unit Type''':
* '''Infantry (Character)'''

'''Unit Composition''':
* '''1 Captain Diomedes'''

'''Wargear''':
*'''Blade of Divination''': Can be swapped for the Talons of The Blood Raven for 50 pts or Doom of Apostasy for 40 pts.
*'''Bolt Pistol''': See Codex: Space Marines. Can be swapped for a Plasma Pistol or a Storm Shield for 15 pts. Either of these are replaced if Diomedes chooses to swap the Blade of Divination for the Talons of The Blood Raven or Doom of Apostasy.
*'''Artificer Armour''': May swap it for the Star Shield for 20 pts.
*'''Iron Halo'''
*'''Frag Grenades'''
*'''Krak Grenades'''
'''May take one of the following Wargear''':
*'''Jump Pack''' - Can take for free. Changes unit type to Jump Infantry (Character)
*'''Personal Teleporter''' - Can take for free. Gains the Deep Strike USR.
*'''Personal Standard''' - Can take for free. Counts as Company Standard.

'''Special Rules'''
* '''And They Shall Know No Fear'''
* '''Chapter Tactics (Blood Ravens)''': As per the rules for all Chapters who do not know their primogenitor Chapter, the Blood Ravens do not have a unique Chapter Tactic. Instead, the player can elect to use any existing Chapter Tactics from Codex: Space Marines and any Forge World supplements.
* '''Independent Character'''
* '''Rampage (Talons of The Blood Raven Only)'''
* '''Captain of The Honour Guard''': Diomedes is both the Captain and Champion of the Blood Ravens' Honour Guard, making him both a master of both tactical and martial acumen. Diomedes may take an Honour Guard squad instead of a Command Squad. This will not take a Force Organization slot. If Gabriel Angelos and Diomedes are in the same Detachment, then Diomedes may never be the Warlord.
* '''Champion of The Chapter''': Diomedes can issue Challenges and accepts every Challenge. If an enemy unit declines the Challenge, Diomedes gains the Hatred USR against the unit that refused the Challenge. If the enemy accepts, then Diomedes can re-roll one die to-hit and to-wound.
* '''Chapter Master's Shield''': If Gabriel Angelos has only one Wound remaining and Diomedes is in the same unit, then Diomedes will automatically pass any ''Look Out Sir!'' rolls he may take.

------------------------------------------

*'''Blade of Divination''': The Blade of Divination is a renowned Power Sword once wielded by Sergeant Martinus of the Ultramarines, who dispatched countless daemonic horrors in the purging of the planet Quinn IV. Its effect on the forces of Chaos was so potent that when Martinus began to fall prey to the whispers of the Dark Gods, the blade took it upon itself, to "cleanse" him. It was lost after Martinus' death, but was later found by the Blood Ravens and wielded by a Battle Brother in the Aurelian conflict [[Blood Ravens Force Commander|whose name has curiously been stricken from Chapter Records]].

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name !! Range !! Strength !! AP !! Type
|-
| '''Blade of Divination''' || - || User || 3 || Melee, Master Crafted, Vorpal Strike, Anathemic Presence
|}

**'''Vorpal Strike''': During Combat, Captain Diomedes may exchange his attacks to make a Vorpal Strike. Place a Small Blast Marker in front of Diomedes. All enemy models under the blast marker must undergo a Toughness Test. If failed, all models that failed the test must take a wound that cannot be saved using Armour Saves (Invulnerable Saves are usable though)

**'''Anathemic Presence''': Attacks from this weapon force units with the Daemon USR to re-roll all successful saves granted by that rule.

*'''Talons of The Blood Raven''': The Talons of the Blood Raven are venerated Lightning Claws that were gifted to the Blood Ravens Chapter, at the conclusion of the Buckley Purgation, by the artificers of the Raven Guard. Fashioned after the famed Raven's Talons of Shadow Captain Shrike, these strengthened adamantium blades can cut through the thickest armour with ease. These Lightning Claws grant the Rampage USR.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name !! Range !! Strength !! AP !! Type
|-
| '''Talons of The Blood Raven''' || - || User || 3 || Melee, Specialist Weapon, Master Crafted, Shred
|}

*'''Doom of Apostasy''': The Doom of Apostasy is a two handed Thunder Hammer belonging to the Blood Ravens Chapter. Legend has it that the Black Templar High Marshal Sigenandus wielded this mighty Thunder Hammer during the Terran Crusade. Apocryphal records would have it that Sigenandus used it in the final assault on the chambers of [[Goge Vandire]], the debased head of the Ecclesiarchy and target of the Crusade. Imperial scholars dispute the origins of these records, but the few who have wielded the Doom of Apostasy have little doubt in its holy providence.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name !! Range !! Strength !! AP !! Type
|-
| '''Doom of Apostasy''' || - || 10 || 2 || Melee, Two-Handed, Master Crafted, Unwieldy, Concussive, Strikedown, Purifying Aura
|}

**'''Purifying Aura''': All Infantry Units of the Chaos Space Marines, Chaos Daemons, and Renegades & Heretics factions who charge Diomedes must do so as if he has defensive grenades.

*'''Star Shield''': For nearly a millennium, Brother Gunn patrolled the halls of Strike Cruiser Decimus. Rarely did his boots touch solid earth, but he did not want for battle. Mysterious Eldar, creatures of the Warp, and even the undying Necrons boarded the Decimus during interstellar flight. Brother Gunn stood against them all, and died among the stars after a lifetime of vigilance. The Star Shield is an Artificer Armour that also grants the Feel No Pain and It Will Not Die USR.

-----------------------------------------------------

==Diomedes' famous lines==
*Bruva I am hit!
*CAP-TOR-ING!!
*Bruva I am pinned heer!
*IT IS THE BEEEEIIIIIINNNBBLLLLAAADE!!!
*I AVE TE EMUN LUSS ANK!!!
*Ah! A WAHP SPIDEAH!
*OGRYNS?! AGAINST ME?!
*IT IS THE STOOOOOOOOOOM TROOPER!
*You are healed, DO NOT FEAR!
*That vehicle...is *Puts on his helmet* halted.
*FAHSEER LET US TO IT!
*That....noise.....CANNOT DEFEAT ME! (Hammers a [[Noise Marine]])
*Dreadnought...thing! I shall ruin you!
*'Tis nothing.
*These weapons shall bring us gloreh!
*DEATH TO HIS ENEMIES ALLL!
*TRAITORS! FAILURES! FOES! (While reducing Chaos Marines to bloody pulps)
*I DIE.....AS I SWORE I WOULD!
*I SHALL ARIVE SEEEWN.
*I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN THIS DAY WOULD COME...
*In a in an age gone mad, the madmen should lead the way!
*I bequeath the Emperor's greatest gift to humanity: HATRED FOR HIS ENEMIES!
*SPPPPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDDDDDDDD

[[File:Diomedes_Donation.png|200px|thumb|right|The Blood Ravens would like to thank the Raptors for their generous donation of Captain Diomedes.]]

==A most generous donation==
The [[Deathwatch (RPG)|Deathwatch]] book Honour the Chapter has revealed some interesting information. It mentions that the [[Raptors]] chapter once had a Captain Diomedes who took the Apocryphon Oath and served a Long Watch with the [[Deathwatch]]. He was an expert at using the [[Jump pack|jump pack]] in jungle environments. He commissioned an upgraded jump pack to improve his effectiveness in said terrain, an artifact that still serves with the Deathwatch. Using a new method of transportation always takes training, and as such it is quite possible that Diomedes smashed head-first into a tree while getting accustomed to his new jump pack. Since captains do not wear helmets and Diomedes has no hair to cushion the impact his brain was scrambled a bit. If a particularly sneaky Blood Raven [[Cyrus|happened to be serving in the Deathwatch at his side that time]], it is very possible that he... recruited the captain to the cause of the Blood Ravens. Why this did not include the jump pack is not certain: perhaps it detached upon impact and the Blood Raven had to choose which to acquire.

==A list of Diomedes' Hijinks ==
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFs4_8sJTT0 Diomedes' voicelines]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpBngmCpUrU IT IS THE BEEEIIINBLADE! - Diomedes' first single.]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BYDfDJ0nJA Diomedes attempts to use his Baneblade-itism.]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REz_Piwwb24 We all live in a Yellow Baneblade.]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TJdSnpkCSY The most devastating weapon employed by Captain Diomedes himself: The Banebladeapult.]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg4hXhogGYM It seems he turned to chaos.]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=LNK5-uE5JFg The Bald Brothas: Boreale and Diomedes feat.]
*[http://www.blacklibrary.com/warhammer-40000/baneblade.html Diomedes favorite Black Library book... BEEIIINNEHBLADE!!!]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgZEXzHJwno All shall yield or fall before the BEHNBLAAAADE!]

{{Marines-Characters}}
[[Category: Dawn of War]]

Kaurava System

2017-04-29T17:21:48Z

2602:306:C48F:5730:6880:C36A:8024:A21C: /* Kaurava Conflict */

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The '''Kaurava System''', also known as the '''Cow-of-a-System''', or the '''Car-of-a-System''' (according to some YouTube subtitles), was the star system in which the complete fuck-fest known as ''[[Dawn of War]]: [[Dawn of War#Soulstorm|Soulstorm]]'' took place.

[[File:KauravaSystem1.png|right|thumb|The Kaurava System.]]

==Kaurava Conflict==

Prior to the events in Soulstorm, the system had been relatively peaceful by normal standards, with only one planet infested with [[Ork|extremely warlike genetically-engineered fungi able to grow bigger and stronger the more they fight]] and another with [[Necron|sleeping ancient murdering robots that destroy the laws of physics with their tech and don't die even if they are nuked]]. However, this all changed upon the SUDDEN APPEARANCE OF A WARP STORM AT THE KAURAVA SYSTEM'S OUTER EDGE. In fact, the appearance was so sudden that over half the [[Imperial Guard|Imperial Forces]] had been wiped out by the forces of [[Chaos]] (who had somehow appeared at the exact same time), before [[Vance Motherfucking Stubbs]] could even say 'fuck'. By this point commander [[Indrick Boreale]] had decided to show up with bunch of his [[Blood Ravens|Blood Raven]] [[Space Marines|SPESS MEHREENS]] in [[METAL BOXES|METAL BAWKSES]] to help eradicate both the Ork and Chaos forces present in the system.

Unbeknownst to Boreale, the [[Tau]] empire also had a similar idea, and decided to set up shop directly above his head on a small moon orbiting Kaurava II. Their plan was to somehow contain the Warp Storm while expanding their territory's border right into Indrick Boreale's face. Around this time the [[Necron|crons]] on Kaurava III decided that now might be a good time to wake up and start their malicious genocidal campaign against anything unfortunate enough to [[Vance Motherfucking Stubbs|still be alive]]. However, [[Caerys|Farseer Caerys]] had already foreseen this, and inevitably showed up with her fellow [[Eldar|space elves]] by travelling through some random [[Webway]] Gate that just happened to be conveniently lying around. MEANWHILE, a bunch of [[Dark Eldar|evil space elves]] had started arriving through some other random Webway Gate located on a moon above the totally-fucking-Chaos-infested-evil-planet known as Kaurava IV. Lastly, the <s>party crashers</s> [[Sisters of Battle]] turned up. Lead by Canoness [[Selena Agna]], they had come in a futile attempt to cleanse the system before shit got ''really'' [[Derp|fucked up]]. However, because they had taken so long to get their own shit together the system was already pretty fucked by the time they got there.

So what actually happened? Well, anyone who has actually played ''Dawn of War: Soulstorm'' will know that there are actually '''10''' different outcomes that can be achieved. First off, one can be defeated and no outcome is ever achieved apart from their own demise. However, if one persists and somehow manages to keep playing long enough with any of the nine races to achieve victory... then shits starts to actually get even more ''fucked''. For example, if the Orks somehow achieve victory, then the Kaurava System will be completely turned into a staging ground for the largest Ork [[WAAAGH]] you have ever seen in your fucking life. If the Eldar manage to attain victory, then they will show the Sisters of Battle how you really cleanse a system and then proceed to retreat back to Kaurava III in order to stop the Imperium from ever colonizing that planet again. If their evil Dark Eldar counterparts succeed, then they will drink everybody's blood and subsequently leave (what else did you expect?). If the Blood Ravens achieve victory, then the system will be returned to the control of the Imperium, but the Lands of Solitude territory on Kaurava II will be renamed to "[[Derp|Borealum]]" (after Indrick Boreale), and a new [[Fortress-monastery]] will be founded there in the name of the [[God-Emperor of Mankind|Emprah]]. Alternatively, if the Sisters of Battle somehow succeed, then they will carry out their fanatical cleansing and proceed to subsequently bathe everything beneath mountains of holy fire and molten plasma. However, if the maniacal forces of CHAOS succeed, then.. well.. you know what happens. <s>Thankfully, the cannon</s> The victory for the the Imperial Guard under the command of Vance Motherfucking Stubbs who somehow managed to wrest control of the system by throwing an almost endless supply of Guardsmen and [[Banblade|Banblades]] at anyone [[Sisters of Battle|stupid enough]] to pose a threat. After his victory, the system is apparently re-built to it's former glory and becomes highly militarised and able to produce superior infantry who were regarded as second best only to those produced by [[Cadia]]. Only Kaurava III was left barren due to threat of the cronies waking up again. Additionally, it was mentioned in [[Dawn of War II]] that Indrick Boreale along with the 5 companies of Blood Ravens under his command were inevitably wiped out during the Kaurava conflict (no surprises there).

Ultimately, while the details are sparse, Gorgutz conqured the entire Kaurava campagin and was for a while content being the biggest Ork in the sector. Until he found some hidden lore from the necrons about another tombworld called Acheron filled with treasure. Greed and Wanderlust prompted him to leave his forces in Kaurava. Likely the whole sector is stuck in an endless Ork civil war.

==Trivia==
*In ''Dawn of War: Soulstorm'', the Warp Storm will disappear in every ending apart from the Chaos one.
*Although the planets appear close together in the campaign, they are actually not.
[[Category:Planets & Sectors]]
[[Category:Warhammer 40,000]]
[[Category:Dawn of War]]

Gabriel Angelos

2017-04-29T17:11:26Z

2602:306:C48F:5730:6880:C36A:8024:A21C: /* Old Gabe's return in DoW III */

:''"Had the Emperor not intended I suffer, then I would feel no pain."''
:-Gabriel Angelos in ''[[Dawn of War#Dawn of War|Dawn of War]]''.
[[Image:Gabriel_dow.JPG|300px|thumb|right|Gabriel Angelos is one of the few non-[[Space Wolves|Sphess Wolf]] space marines that actually has some hair, not to mention a huge mouth.]]
'''Gabriel Angelos''' AKA Gabriel Mangelos, is a commander of the [[Blood Ravens]] [[Space Marines]]. He first appears in ''[[Dawn of War]] 1'' as third company Captain, and as of ''DoW 2: Retribution'' he has succeded that scheming heretic Azariah Kyras as Chapter Master.

Contrary to other stubborn, hot-headed captains of other [[Space Marines|Spess Mehreen]] chapters, Gabe is cool and calm in most situations - like [[Vance Motherfucking Stubbs]]. Instead of first killing the enemies and then helping the population, Gabriel manages [[Just as planned|just as planned]] tactics that let him do both things at the same time. Apparently Gabriel had to call the [[Inquisition]] after a recruiting excursion to his home planet, Cyrene, when he discovered some heretical (no one really knows) shit going on. The Inquisition launched an [[Exterminatus]] to fix it, which resulted in Gabe turning into a mournful bastard and also the only mournful bastard left alive from Cyrene.

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8Q34IEdK-8 He also plays the grand piano], making him one of, if not the only non-[[Noise Marines]] known to play a musical instrument. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1zMF53jmbE He's not the only one...]. He also has a tendency to yell "Dick" while throwing dildos at peoples faces ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z1Nd_2zIrY&list=PL0D8C3E4B80598B78 especially if those are Chaos Space Marines or Traitors]).

Angelos is nearly universally liked by /tg/ and indeed the Warhammer community as a whole. He's strong, heroic, and noble, while compassionate, intelligent, and perhaps one of the few objectively good people in all of Warhammer while still being grimdark (in fact, he's basically [[A Song of Ice and Fire|Ser Davos Seaworth]] in 40k). And unlike [[Marneus Calgar|some]] [[Kaldor Draigo|others]] he manages to pull this off in a believable manner, is realistically flawed and generally was dragged through hell to accomplish his deeds. While not everyone thinks that Relic did the best job with Warhammer, few will say that Gabriel is a poorly done character. Problem, Ward?

==Gabe's role in Dawn of War I==
Gabe led the Blood Ravens 3rd Company sent to Tartarus to stop Warboss Orkamungus's Ork invasion. After wading through the Orks and assorted Eldar, it's eventually revealed that [[Bale]], a [[Chaos Lord]], was orchestrating everything and planning to recover an artifact called the "Maledictium," which imprisoned a great daemon of Khorne (It wasn't a Bloodthirster, but probably a daemon prince).

Gabriel's friend and one of the only other survivors from Cyrene was [[Isador Akios]], a Librarian who served in Gabriel's company. Bale's [[Chaos Sorcerer]] lieutenant, [[Sindri Myr]], telepathically subverted Isador against the Imperial forces, which led to him taking the Maledictum when it was unearthed. Isador blamed Gabe for the [[Exterminatus]] of Cyrene, but Gabe claimed that he did it for the good of humanity. Isador may have further argued the point, but Gabriel instead decided to cut the bullshit and to perform a time-honored Space Marine cleansing ritual to free Isador from the taint of the dark gods; the ritual itself closely resembled discharging a bolter round directly into Isador's head at point-blank range.

After the death of Isador, Gabe got his shit together and faced off against Sindri, now a daemon prince of Khorne (Much to Khorne's dismay, a sorcerer even offering tribute to him). He eventually succeeded in bashing Sindri's head into his spine and saving Tartarus from becoming a daemon world. His last act before leaving Tartarus was to smash the Maledictium with God-Splitter, [[Mordecai Toth|Inquisitor Mordecai Toth]]'s daemon hammer, even after the warnings of [[Macha]] that he'd doom everyone by doing it. In Just as Planned fashion, it did; rather than banishing the bound daemon, destroying the Maledictum freed it. Based on the daemon's endgame gloating monologue, all the "blood sacrifice" of wartime death (mostly Angelos's personal handiwork, including Orkamungus, Bale, and finally Sindri) had strengthened the daemon enough for it to escape the shattering intact. Gabriel then had to live with the fact that he was responsible for its freedom and would fight it if it should ever appear again.

==Gabe's role in DOWII==
In [[Dawn of War II]] Gabe is back, now a full-fledged hair-etic, with a bitchin' cape, his old Daemonhammer and several drop-pods of fuck you to share with the Tyranids. He's so awesome that his battle-cry makes everyone around him almost as awesome as he is, and so becomes invulnerable for a few seconds, and he can hit someone so hard that their motherfucking armour shatters. You only get to play him during the final mission in the original DoWII though.

==Gabe's role in Chaos Rising==
In the many battles that transpired during the Campaign of Chaos Rising, Gabriel Angelos stayed on the Litany of Fury and did very little apart from kill stealing in the final battle. His phoning it in this time made even more egregious since he wasn't stuck in the warp, lazy old codger that he is. This may be a clever ploy however to 'dispose' of a certain HAIRITIC, by sending him on suicide missions. He was also branded a traitorous heretic by Kyras (The Blood Raven' Schmuck Master and Chief Dick) through the Honor Guard leader Diomedes. However, depending on the Force Commander's actions, Diomedes can be persuaded to see that Kyras is a heretic or can simply be slain.

At the end of the game, Angelos made this speech;

"''Brothers, victory is ours! You have driven the Black Legion from the sector, and defeated the vile daemon who sought to consume us. But a more terrible battle yet remains, our chapter is in the hands of a madmen and a heretic, Kyras, he who should be the greatest of us, has bargained away his soul to the Powers of Chaos! While we, are branded as renegades and traitors, my brothers, this CANNOT, THIS -WILL NOT- STAND. (Insert Force Commander's fate here) LET NONE FIND US WANTING, BY CHAPTER AND EMPEROR."

The rest of the speech regarding the Force Commander and his men depends on how well you take care of not going to Chaos. Maintaining a high purity level leads you to becoming the Force of Retribution within the Chapter, partial Purity leads both you and Angelos to be declared Renegades by Kyras. Maintaining a neutral purity or slightly corrupted level means you are exiled to the Eye of Terror for at least a 100 years until you die or kill everyone. At half+ but not at full corruption, Angelos brutally kills you on the spot with his Thunder Hammer. At full corruption, Angelos swears to kill you for becoming a Chaos Lord. He can't do it there because you took your ship for a spin in the Eye of Terror.

==Gabe's role in DOWII Retribution==
[[Image:Rt sm gabriel 01.jpg|thumb|right|Gabriel in his most Awesome in Retribution]]
In Dawn of War II Retribution, Gabe gets his ass pwnd by Kyras the previous chapter master who turned to the dark gods during Chaos Rising. After getting said ass pwnd (literally) he got smashed by Kyras's demon fists of fisting). He gets saved by Diomedes (you) via spamming orbital bombardments on Kyrus's face.

And lastly Gabriel comes back at the end of the game as the Chapter Master of the motherfucking BLAHD REHVENS. So, let me make this perfectly clear to you: Thule gets cut up by a Warrior beast and has to be interred in a Dreadnaught. Angelos is crushed by the flaming fists of a Daemon Prince of Khorne. Chapter Master Angelos is now mostly bionics, which when combined with his profound dedication to the Emperor and Imperium as a whole makes him a kind of foil for [[Lugft Huron]]. Anyway, this maybe explained by the fact that the aforementioned flaming fists were just flaming fists (in other worlds sterile) while the aforementioned Warrior Beast had all sorts of shit on it's claws '''THAT COULD MELT POWER ARMOR AND FLESH LIKE SOME REALLY STRONG ACID OR SOMETHING''', either that or his fucking AWSOMENESS or raw Plot armor allowed him to live

<s>(Which begs the question how the fuck was he able to kill SIIINNDRIII the Daemon Prince back in DoWI and come back one piece.. wut)</s> (Sindri merely tapped a small portion of the Daemon of the Maledictum's power, which while making him significantly more powerful than an ordinary daemon prince, does not hold a candle to Kyras becoming ONE with the Daemon of the Maledictum AND gaining enough favour through mass slaughter to ascend normally, making him quite likely the most powerful new daemon prince since the Daemon Primarchs)

It is said that the retribution 'Epic end' is a combination of the Eldar, Imperial Guard and space marine endings, as well as parts of the Chaos Space Marine ending. Taldeer's soul stone is rescued, the Blood Ravens purify their chapter, Castor gets the head of Kyrus mounted in his already impressive trophy gallery, and Eliphas will regain his badassness and become a Daemon Prince.

He also has a sexy old man voice and several of the most broken (and awesome) abilities in the game. Though he is second to Eliphas in this regard, who with a fully upgraded Sweeping Doom can ROFLstomp an entire army with a single sweep.

==Old Gabe's return in DoW III==
[[Image:Gabriel-DoW3.jpg|thumb|600px|Angelos in DoW3 in his new shiny armor]]

For now we don't know much about Gabe's role in DoW III other than that [[Magnus the Red|he's lost his right eye]] and that he's confirmed as Chapter Master and he will be the commander of Space Marines and their Imperial Knights allies in the new story. It also appears he will be donning Tartaros (or Cataphractii...nobody knows) Terminator Armor (that somehow allows him to jump around into enemy formations while dropping Godsplitter on them) [[Blam|He also has a new voice actor...again.]]

He leads the Blood Ravens to the planet of Acheron, battling with the Eldar and Orks in a race for a powerful weapon known as "The Spear of Khaine". Gabe, however, desires not its power as he believes the Spear to be corrupted (and will corrupt any who wields it), and swears that no one will obtain the spear until his dying breath. He then has a heart-to-heart with Macha about smashing the Maledictum.

==In books==
{{WTF}}
{{heresy}}
The [[C.S.Goto|Midget Goto]] wrote a series of DOW books (this pleased him) which were about Gabriel's adventures, but since this only provoked Nerd Rage from both fans and Redshirts alike, his stuff is not [[canon|CANON]]. Speaking of Novels, one apparently claims that Gabriel was an Imperial Guardsmen before becoming a Space Marine. This is bullshit of the highest order, as the biological implants of a Space Marine can only transplanted into candidates at a young age and many only join the ranks as full fledged battle brothers at something close to 18 (the only exception is the [[Angry Marines]]; their writefaggotry implies they can recruit from adults too, as well as, presumably, the Space Wolves because they only recruit from people who have already fought gloriously in battle and children don't really do very well with fighting). That means that Gabe must have been something between 8 - 13 when he became an infantryman in the Guard, which is impossible because the conscription age of the guard is usually 13 ([[Cadia]] notwithstanding), and they usually don't conscript unless they're under constant attack and are running out of trained guardsmen to throw at the enemy. Additionally, according to the Midget Goto, he's a 'symbol of hope to the Biel-Tan Eldar', despite the Biel-Tan being the most racist and xenocidal craftworld of all. He also had a thing with Macha which ended when she had to turn herself into some kind of green warpfire to stop the Necrons at Lorn V and disappeared from the story afterwards.

Dammit Goto! Just stick to putting multilazers on the multilazers on the multilazers. So that you can shoot multilazers while you shoot multilazers while you shoot multilazers. It might be retarded but it can be written off as an in-universe quirk of some idiot with a few spare multilazers lying around. [[Matt_Ward|Completely '''fucking up''' the fluff by re-writing the fundamental motivations and character of entire races]] can not be overlooked in the same way!

A more recent short story reveals what exactly happened on Cyrene- while there were no explicit signs of corruption present there at first glance, the planet was just about ready to launch a full rebellion against the Imperium; in light of the discovery that psykers were no longer being taken to the Black Ships and that trade with xenos was the norm, the Inquisition declared the situation to be grounds for Exterminatus. The one week of orbital bombardment was actually preceded by an all-out assault on the ground by the Blood Ravens and the Grey Knights, because apparently the Inquisition wanted to be absolutely sure nothing could possibly survive (that, or they were afraid killing too many psykers at once would cause bad things to happen). Gabe had hope he could save his father from the purge, but to his horror he learned that his father was one of the rebellion's leaders and had despised the Imperium ever since Gabriel had been chosen to become a Space Marine. With a heavy heart, Gabriel had no choice [[Grimdark|but to execute his own father]](Doesn't this mean that Gabe is pretty young for a Space Marine? I mean, his father is still alive). No wonder he refused to talk about what happened on Cyrene.

==Codex: Gabriel Angelos==
If you ever wanted to play a cheesy Captain/Chapter Master for fun, here's your statline.

{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" align="left"
! || Pts || WS || BS || S || T || W || I || A || Ld || Sv
|-
| '''Captain Gabriel Angelos:''' || 200 || 6 || 5 || 4 || 4 || 3 || 5 || 4 || 10 || 2+/4++
|-
| '''Chapter Master Gabriel Angelos:''' || 260 || 7 || 5 || 4 || 5 || 4 || 5 || 4 || 10 || 2+/4++
|}<br><br><br><br>

'''Chapter Master''': Chapter Master Gabriel Angelos possesses the rank of Chapter master, and as such, may be accompanied by an Honour Guard squad, in addition, he may call down a single orbital bombardment per game (see Codex: Space Marines).

'''Wargear''':
* '''Master Crafted Power Sword (Captain Only)''': Can be Swapped for Godsplitter for 10 pts.
* '''Godsplitter (Only weapon when as Chapter Master)''': Force Weapon that's Master crafted to be usable by those with Pi-Rho psyker levels
* '''Left Hand of Gabriel''': Is replaced when Gabriel chooses to take Godsplitter.
* '''Artificer Armour''': See Codex Space Marines.
* '''Reclamation of the Chapter (Chapter Master Only)'''
*'''Iron Halo''' (Captain only)
* '''Frag Grenades'''
* '''Krak Grenades'''

'''Special Rules''':
* '''Independent Character'''
* '''Eternal Warrior'''
* '''And They Shall Know No Fear'''
* '''Chapter Tactics (Blood Ravens)''': As per the rules for all Chapters who do not know their primogenitor Chapter, the Blood Ravens do not have a unique Chapter Tactic. Instead, the player can elect to "borrow" any existing Chapter Tactics from Codex: Space Marines and any Forge World supplements.
* '''Inspiring Presence''': Even before becoming Chapter Master, Gabriel was known for his uncommon leadership capabilities. All friendly units in a range of 18" can use Gabriel's Ld when testing for Morale, Pinning and Fear.
* '''My Foe Shall Fall!''': Gabriel has squared off in combat against some of the most terrifying and powerful foes the Blood Ravens have faced in recent centuries, including colossal Daemons and Tyranid Bio-terrors. Gabriel's close-combat attacks against Monstrous Creatures gain a +1 to I.
* '''My Faith is My Shield! (Chapter Master Only)''': Despite the heresy and treachery that has plagued the Blood Ravens in recent years, Gabriel has never wavered from his faith and maintained absolute loyalty to the Emperor. In combat Gabriel channels his purity through the hallowed wards inscribed into his blessed armour. Once per game, Gabriel may give himself a 2++ Invulnerable save for the duration of a single combat phase, regardless of whether it is yours or your opponent's.
* '''Cybernetic Enhancements (Chapter Master Only)''': After his battle with Kyras much of Gabriel's body had to be rebuilt with so much cybernetics that he would put [[Marneus Calgar]] to shame. As a result he is more resilient than before. This grants him +1 Toughness (already included in profile).
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* '''Godsplitter''': God-Splitter is a powerful Daemonhammer gifted to Gabriel Angelos of the Blood Ravens 3rd Company by Inquisitor Mordecai Toth on the planet Tartarus to combat the Daemon of the Maledictum. Just like every Daemonhammer, Godsplitter strikes with the speed of a lightning bolt. Unlike every Daemonhammer, this weapon strikes with an even greater and truly terrifying power.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name !! Range !! Strength !! AP !! Type
|-
| '''Godsplitter''' || - || 10 || 1 || Melee, Two-Handed, Master Crafted, Concussive, Strikedown, Anathemic Presence
|}

** '''Anathemic Presence''': Attacks from this weapon force units with the Daemon USR to re-roll all successful saves granted by that rule.

* '''Left Hand of Gabriel''': Blood Ravens Captain Gabriel Angelos used this pistol to slay the traitor Isador Akios, once his closest friend. Angelos discarded the weapon in disgust at the Ruinous Powers and the taint they bring to Man. His battle brothers recovered the weapon and returned it to the chapter armory.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name !! Range !! Strength !! AP !! Type
|-
| '''Left Hand of Gabriel''' || 12 || 4 || 3 || Pistol, Master Crafted, Precision Shots
|}

* '''Reclamation of the Chapter (Chapter Master Only)''': This suit of Cataphractii Terminator armour was granted for Angelos by the Chapter's Techmarines to honour his ascension to Chapter Master and is designed around his extensive bionics. It has also been inscribed and blessed by the Chapter's Chaplains to signify his victory over the forces of heresy. This is Cataphractii Terminator armor that infers the 'My Faith is my Shield' special rule.

== External Links: ==
*[http://forums.relicnews.com/showthread.php?t=246133 Gabriel Angelos can now be played online via mod]

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[[Category: Dawn of War]]

Macha

2017-04-29T17:09:28Z

2602:306:C48F:5730:6880:C36A:8024:A21C: /* Dawn of War III */

{{Promotions}}
[[Image:Machadow3.jpg|thumb|600px|Go bring up her virginity to her face, I dare you.]]
'''Macha''' is an [[Eldar]] Farseer from [[Dawn of War]] infamous for being a 4000+ year-old virgin. Like [[Taldeer]], she's another daughter of [[Eldrad]] (as far as [[/tg/]] canon is concerned). Usually depicted to be mostly reasonable, outside of relationship matters where she falls into a self pitying, whiny wreck concerning her virginity. Fa/tg/uys masturbate furiously to pictures of her naked (many of which can be seen below). She can be distinguished from other Eldar by her cheek lines and red hair.

Later developments brought about the theory that Macha is destined to be with the [[Emprah]], but due to Eldrad dickery these two will continue being a virgin and comatose corpse-god, respectively. There are also conflicting opinions on whether Macha is actually saving herself for the Emperor and choosing to be a virgin, or if she is simply extremely unlucky and is constantly frustrated as to why she fails to get laid when her body is the hottest piece of ass this grimdark universe has ever seen. For a while, she died, no thanks to [[C.S. Goto]], but she got better (she was only a little dead).

Macha has had anal sex, frequently in fact, but it has always been with a Callidus Assassin masquerading as someone or another. While initially traumatizing for her, Macha has accepted this fact and views the unnamed Callidus as her sort-of girlfriend. Whether this makes Macha bisexual or not (considering that the Callidus always takes male form when they interact) is up for debate. Rumors of her getting laid for real with a mon'keigh fuckbuddy of hers have yet to be confirmed or denied, as the people who try to bring it up keep getting a Singing Spear jammed into their eye sockets. Often drawn by [[Drawfag|Chink]] before he left /tg/ for [[/v/|Skullgirls]].

She'll be returning in [[Dawn of War III]]. Hilariously enough, her unmasked appearance is exactly the same as what /tg/ has always depicted her looking like, right down to the cheek lines and red hair. This has lead to some theories as to this design choice:

#The Designers are total fa/tg/uys and read this wiki and the boards
#The Designers want to appease 40k fans by throwing a little fanservice their way
#The character designer for Macha was a new guy who went looking for character references and didn't realize that all the drawings were just fanon interpretations

==Dawn of War ==
During the events of the original game, Macha leads a warhost of Biel-Tan Eldar on the planet Tartarus. Their mission was to safeguard an ancient artifact known as the "Maledictum", which contained a powerful greater daemon of Khorne that the Eldar had imprisoned millenia ago. When the Forces of Chaos arrived on Tartarus with the intention of obtaining the artifact, Macha lead her forces to ensure that they would not succeed. Though because of the Eldar's legendary arrogance and seeing themselves as the only ones capable of handling the situation, rather than explaining themselves to the imperials and maybe trying to ally with them, Macha led the warhost against the imperial forces and engaged in a bloody conflict with Captain Gabriel Angelos of the Blood Ravens that ultimately led to the Eldar's defeat and greatly weakening their forces.

Macha was then confronted by Angelos and his Librarian friend Isador near the dig site which held the key to the Maledictum, and pleaded with them to bury the key. However the Chaos Sorcerer Sindri appeared and quickly took the key before teleporting away. Macha then told Angelos that if he wanted more answers, then he should ask Inquistor Toth as she states that he knows more than he lets on. Before she left, she informed Angelos of where the Forces of Chaos were entrenched while also blaming him for weakening the Biel-Tan warhost (conveniently forgetting the conflict between the Eldar and the Blood Ravens was partly her fault if not more).

She and the Eldar forces appear again during the final mission where they allied with the Blood Ravens against the Alpha Legion and Sindri, who had ascended into a Daemon Prince. After Sindri got his ugly face smashed thanks to Angelos and his newly acquired daemon-hammer, both the Space Marines and Eldar got a hold of the Maledictum. Macha implored Gabriel to not destroy the stone, but rather than straight out saying that destroying it would release the daemon, she just vaguely said that he knows little of what he is doing before ordering her forces to open fire on the imperials. Gabriel proceeded to destroy the Maledictum, causing the Eldar to flee and Macha cursing him that his action has doomed them all.

After that, she hasn't been seen since. Until.....

==Dawn of War III==
Macha returns after more than a decade since the first game. She serves under the command of Lord Kyre who seeks to obtain the Spear of Khaine, located on Acheron, the wandering world. She is still tsundere for Gabriel as she receives orders to kill him for mucking up with Kyre's plans.

==Stories Featuring Macha==
* [[Imber]]
* [[The Ever Virgin]]
* [[Macha's Vacation]]
* [[Chris Orksen]], Macha gets vanned for trying to pedo-sex human male children.
* [[Macha writes a fapfic]] - Macha accidentally frees the Star Child from the Warp.(NSFW)
* [[The Final Saga of Macha the Ever-Virgin: Extra Large Heresy]] - Sometimes miracles really do happen. (Even more NSFW)

==See Also==
* [[Caerys]], another farseer
* [[Gabriel Angelos]], an old crush of Macha's, although he was chem-gelded (which made bedding him out of the question). However, there are rumours that the reason he did not bed her was because he is gay[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRuXt2lIp3U]
* [[Callidus]], Macha's stalker that keeps tricking her into thinking she's getting it on with a guy... EVERYDAY. And she falls for it... EVERY TIME.

==Gallery==
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{{Eldar-Characters}}

[[Category: Dawn of War]]

Chaplain

2017-04-29T17:07:04Z

2602:306:C48F:5730:6880:C36A:8024:A21C: /* Notable Chaplains */

[[File:Doom Chaplain.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Welcome to the 1st Imperial Church of Awesome]]
In the Warhammer 40K universe, a Chaplain is a basically a [[Space Marine]] version of the [[Ecclesiarchy|Ecclesiastical]] priest, but with guns and power armor.

==Overview==
Chaplains were originally formed by [[Lorgar]] as part of the religious slant he brought to the [[Word Bearers]], charging them with spreading the cult of the Lectitio Divinatus, his early form of [[God-Emperor of Mankind|Emperor]]-worship. After assuming control of the Council of [[Terra]], [[Malcador the Sigillite]] instructed the Space Marine Legions to employ Chaplains to enforce the Decree of Nikea, the Emperor's restrictions on [[Librarians]], as a sort of proto-[[Commissar]].

In the present, a Chaplain's role in a chapter is to root out [[heresy]], inspire other Marines by chanting a litany of verses, maintain the Chapter's relics and traditions, and basically make the Marines around him righteously angry. Unlike [[Commissar]]s of the Imperial Guard, he isn't keen on executing his own men for simple cowardice, mainly because Space Marines only retreat to gain a better tactical advantage and the fact that a Marine is more expensive to create than an expendable guardsman (plus the whole "And they shall know no fear"); but he does still torture/kill [[xenos]], mutants and heretics for tactical, religious, or recreational purposes. Chaplains are an HQ unit and use a Crozius Arcanum. It is their badge of office, a fuckhueg mace capable of going straight through armour and utterly shattering your head right off of your shoulders in a single swipe, while looking totally sweet in his black power armour and skull visage helmet, while scaring the living shit out of the enemy (until 6th/7th edition, it's now AP4 so it's even worse than a normal Power Weapon for that. THANKS GW!!), higher ranked Chaplains may also be issued Terminator armour. Outside of the company Chaplains, you have the Master of Sanctity or High Chaplain, who oversees the [[Space Marine Chapter|Chapter]] Chaplaincy and is a senior advisor to the [[Chapter Master]], and the Reclusiarch, who oversees the Reclusiam, where the Chapter's sacred relics and trophies are displayed. Often times the two posts are combined.

For all intents and purposes, just imagine a Space Marine, but even more fanatical and badass. He also has [[Indrick Boreale|great oratorical skills]] to make his brothers stop bitching and to pick up his knife then charge that [[Bloodthirster]] and stab him right in the balls because goddammit that's how you make the [[God-Emperor of Mankind|Emprah]] proud. It is also suggested that Chaplains use their "oratory" skills for other purposes as well, but these may just be rumours spread to question the MANLINESS of the Spess Mehreens.

The [[Chaos Space Marine]] equivalent is the [[Dark Apostle]], most associated with the [[Word Bearers]]. Older fluff stated that only Word Bearers could have them because no other Chaplains ever fell or will fall to Chaos... which later editions revealed to be a lie, since Chaplains in their present form only originally existed ''in'' the Word Bearers in the first place.

==Variations==
===Blood Angels Chaplain===
The Blood Angels Chaplains were originally known as "Wardens", who served as advisors and mentors to the younger generations. When the Edict of Nikaea was declared and the Chaplain Edict followed, the Wardens were appointed to oversee enforcement. Following the Horus Heresy, the Wardens of the Blood Angels and their successor Chapters became Chaplains, and were tasked with an additional, somber purpose: they were to lead the [[Death Company]], those Marines who fell to the Black Rage and the Red Thirst, into battle. Being surrounded by raging berserkers, the Chaplains must have iron strong wills to oversee these Marines and maintain their own sanity.

===Dark Angels Interrogator-Chaplain===
The [[Dark Angels]] and their successors have an extra rank for Chaplains who make it into the Inner Circle and learn the "truth" (or at least part of it) about the <s>[[Fallen Angels]]</s> HUGE PARTY THE LION THREW AT CALIBAN. After passing several trials of the soul (the penalty for failure being death or worse), they interrogate (read: torture) captured <s>Fallen Angels</s> TRAITORS THAT HAVE NO CONNECTION TO THE DARK ANGELS WHATSOEVER to try and force them to repent for their crimes. These "Interrogator-Chaplains" are extremely patient and resilient against the *cough* ''insidious lies'' of captured heretics, and will take as long as necessary to finally break them. To put this in perspective, the very best Interrogator-Chaplain that the Dark Angels ever had only managed to get ten <s>Fallen</s> TRAITORS FROM THE NINE TRAITOR LEGIONS BECAUSE, AS WE ALL KNOW WELL AND GOOD, THERE ARE ONLY ''NINE'' TRAITOR LEGIONS to confess and repent over the course of 300 years of service.

===Iron Hands Iron Father===
Among the [[Iron Hands]], the Chaplains are known as an "Iron Father", which combines the role of Chaplain and [[Techmarine]] together, which reflects the Iron Hands heavy preference for augmentics. Also unique in the fact that they're completely separated from the Ecclesiarchy altogether, considering the chapter's predilection towards machinery and the like. The spat ended with them splitting off and the Iron Hands unable to have Rosarii. To compensate that, the Iron Hands have to fabricate their own equivalents using some special [[Adeptus Mechanicus]] schemes. Needless to say, when comparing the technological prowess of the Ecchlesiarchy and the Mechanicus...

===Space Wolves Wolf Priest===
The Chaplains of the [[Space Wolves]] are the Wolf Priests, who combine the role of Chaplain and medic into one. All Wolf Priests(also look after the chapters gene seed and perform the implantation process normally the role of the apothicary), along with the Rune Priests (Librarians) and Iron Priests (Techmarines) serve as part of the Company of the Great Wolf (the elite Great Company under the Chapter Master of the Space Wolves) and are assigned to the other eleven Great Companies as needed.

==Notable Chaplains==
*'''Varnus''': An [[Ultramarines]] Chaplain whose defining deed (making him a potential mary sue(IT WAS [[AWESOME]] NONETHELESS)) is single-handedly [[AWESOME|pwning a fuck-mothering]] [[Bloodthirster|BLOODTHIRSTER]]. Needless to say, [[Khorne]] was very [[RAGE|salty]].
*'''[[Asmodai]]''': Interrogator-Chaplain of the [[Dark Angels]]. A major buzzkill, and batshit crazy, but more famous than his boss.
*'''Sapphon''': Head Interrogator-Chaplain of the Dark Angels, at odds with Asmodai over practically everything.
*'''[[Grimaldus]]''': Reclusiarch of the [[Black Templars]]. A seriously hardcore bastard who defended Helsreach.
*'''[[Xavier]]''': Famous [[Salamanders]] Chaplain, meaning he's a major bro.
*'''[[Ortan Cassius]]''': Master of Sanctity for the [[Ultramarines]]. Responsible for the formation of the Tyrannic War Veterans, to better help combat the menace that [[Tyranids|almost devoured all of Ultramar]].
*'''[[Ulrik the Slayer]]''': High Wolf Priest of the [[Space Wolves]]. A wild bastard who survived the First War of Armageddon and also has [[Leman Russ]]' own helmet.
*'''[[Kardan Stronos]]''': [[Iron Hands]] Iron Father. Was elected to act as Chapter Master by the clan council. Also has a massive boner for Razorbacks, and an equally large hate-boner for the [[Necrons]].
*'''[[Astorath]] the Grim''': [[Blood Angels]] Master of Sanctity and ''Redeemer of the Lost''. His job involves rounding up those in the [[Death Company]] and then lops their heads off, as they're pretty much lost causes by that point.
*'''[[Lemartes]]''': Blood Angels Chaplain who's badass enough to rein control over the [[Black Rage]]. Keeps an eye over the Death Company as ''Guardian of the Lost''. He is currently the second most 40K thing in 40K, being the patron saint of always being mind-shatteringly angry, closely beat out by the [[Eversor Assassin]].
*'''Mikelus''': [[Blood Ravens]] Reclusiarch who was said to have beaten the Necron Lord of Kronus...according to [[Davian Thule]]. Everyone else can attest to him dying like a bitch to the 'cron Lord's incredible amounts of [[cheese]]. But he was a nice honour guard member so it's okay.
*'''Durendin''': Chaplain of the [[Grey Knights]] who appears in the first story of Justicar Alaric. Known for wielding [[awesome|relic nemesis force lightning claws]] passed down from the early days of the chapter.
*'''[[Diomedes]]''': Former Honor Guard Captain turned Chaplain in light of his never waving faith and loyalty in the emperor when the [[Blood Ravens]] chapter master went full-heresy. His great oratory skills spur on his brothers in the battle for baldness. Believes that in a mad age, the [[Angry Marines|madmen]] should lead the way.

==Tabletop==
For 90 pts Chaplains have a Veteran stat line with +1WS, 2Ws, and LD10. They've got a bolt pistol and Crozius which counts as a powermaul, and a 4++, with access to Terminator armor, ranged, special issue, and chapter relics like other Independent Characters. Chaplains are more a support character than a singular power house, giving their unit re-rolls to hit, and Fearless. Vanilla Marine's chaplains have no choice in melee weapons for some reason. Odd considering that codex represents the broadest spectrum of chapters. Only getting to take a powerfist, in place of their pistol.

Dark Angels have two: regular ones and Interrogators. Regular ones are identical to the above, but cannot take Terminator Armor and Chapter Relics. They do however have access to melee and ranged weapons. Interrogators come for 20 more points and get the Deathwing, Preferred Enemy (Chaos) and ''Fear'' rules and a near-captain stat line with -1WS, and access to every piece of wargear expect heavy weapons, they practically outstrip regular Captains in every way unless you pimp out a captain with loads of expensive gear. If you use them they're best used in either the Black Knights or Deathwing Knights.

Wolf Priests are probably an oddity among the Space Wolves, since they can take multiple ranged options but no melee. They also have access to Chapter Relics, Terminator Armor and Runic Armor, other than having a 4++ thanks to the wolf talisman. Having the same stat line of regular chaplains, these guys are even more support-focused than their vanilla counterparts. Thanks to the half-apothecary gig, they give Feel No Pain(6+) to the unit they're in, along with Favoured Enemy, making them the perfect scrub-sitters, making the weakest units in your army able to hold their own in a fight, especially if supported by big numbers. Wolf Priests also have Counter Attack and Acute Sense, much like every other unit in a Space Wolf army.
Best use for a Wolf Priest is to stick them in a big Blood Claws unit (or even better, Swift Claws) and use them to target the opponent's infantry. Favoured Enemy allows you to use an abundance of plasma guns with relative safety and kinda makes up for the Blood Claws' WS3 and BS3, while FNP gives your guys a chance to last even against stronger opponents, at least for a while. Unfortunately, the lack of melee options means the Wolf Priest is not gonna be much useful in challenges against MEQs, so you better give him a Wolf Guard pack leader properly kitted for the task, while the Wolf Priest and the Blood Claws drown the rest of the enemy unit with the sheer amount of attacks.

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{{Marines-Forces}}

Apollo Diomedes

2017-04-29T17:04:59Z

2602:306:C48F:5730:6880:C36A:8024:A21C: /* And Then DoW3 happened. */

[[File:Captain Diomedes.jpg|right|400px|thumb|You have Captin Diyomidis.]]
:''You have captain Dayomidis!
:''Bruvah I'm pinned here!
:''Bruvah I am hit!
:''[https://youtu.be/LNK5-uE5JFg?t=1m1s |IT IS THE BEEEEEIIIINBLAAAAADE!]''
:''- Diomedes being himself in a usual day.''

Apollo Diomedes; also known as Day-o-MIDIs, Abaldo Diomedes, Boreale 2.0, and BRUVAIAMHITT, is the [[Brother-Captain|captain]] of the [[Blood Ravens]] [[honour guard]] and the main Space Marine protagonist of [[Dawn of War 2]]: Retribution. He also seems to be a close relative of [[Indrick Boreale]] due his unique intonation and [[Derp|highly elaborated ingame responses.]] Ohh, and he's also bald, as in Captain Boreale bald. He is also notable for constantly soliciting [[Love Can Bloom|Eldar Farseers for sex]] on the battlefield with bellowing cries of; "FAHSEEYAH LET US '''TO IT'''!!". In essence, he is Boreale with a lesser level of win and more grimdark. Funnily, the portions of his dialogue that aren't deployed at maximum volume are actually decent, as seen in the final mission and the Blood Ravens ending. They are, unfortunately, nowhere near as hilarious.

The Captain's name is outstandingly greek for a fictive culture with so much focus on the roman - Apollo is of course the roman/greek god of light, music, sports, archery, but also fear, death and plague and a ''fuckload'' of other stuff, while Diomedes was a greek hero on the Achaean side in the Trojan war, a badass without equal in greek mythology - Not only did he beat several Trojan warriors and officers in single combat, he, literally, wounded the god of war Ares so badly that the god had to fall back and brood over his failure on the Olympian mountain (He did all of this with the blessing of Athena, but don't tell his fans that). ''Within ten minutes of fighting.'' It's saying something about the ancient greeks that this guy was so unimportant that he's only mentioned as a token hero and not as a main character or something.

He is also amazingly overpowered, with the single most devastating special ability in the entire game; to victory, which when fully upgraded causes even space marines to explode into fountains of gore for just being near him as the ground itself tears apart beneath his feet as he charges. His medpack has absolutely absurd range, essentially covering your entire army, his jump-pack actually recharges more quickly than kayleth's and his other commander items like the banner do hilarious things like heal your troops and make them immune to suppression. Thanks to two abilities that let him heal rapidly in combat he is essentially invincible in melee and with the right weapons he can skull fuck basically any enemy unit in the game. Following some apparent nerfs to Eliphas Diomedes may very well be the single most devastating close combat unit in the game short of the unbelievably bullshit Necron Overlord in the last stand.

==[[Skub|And Then DoW3 happened.]]==

<s>He's a fucking Chaplain now. That's right, the fucking CAPTAIN OF THE HONOUR GUARD (I.E. The second most important fucker in the WHOLE DAMN CHAPTER is now Just a fucking Chaplain. [[Fail|JUST A FUCKING CHAPLAIN.]] Needless to say, [[Rage|most view this as Complete Bullshit]] on the part of [[Fail|Relic.]]</s> {{FWIP}} {{FWIP|(sound caused by Crozius Arcanum) SO YOU ARE SAYING BEING A CHAPLAIN, AN IMPORTANT MEMBER OF A SPACE MARINE CHAPTER THAT PREVENTS HERESY FROM THE CHAPTER IS A LESS IMPORTANT OF A DUTY THAN BEING CHAPTER MASTER'S LAP DOG!!!????}}

But yeah, some backstories would be nice, most people just assumed Diomedes was ashamed of serving Kyras that he atone for his sin by stepped down as honor guard and instead decided to serve as Chaplain to ensure no more heresy goes on in the chapter.

BRUVA I'M REPENT HERE!!!

==History==
Dayomidis has served as part of the Blud Rehvens for quite some centuries, being the yes-man of [[Azariah Kyras]], allowing him to reach the level of captain of the honour guard. In Chaos rising, he makes it his mission to obstruct the lives of Gabriel Angelos and FC Hairgel, but canonically survives to Retribution.

Unfortunately for him all his sycophancy was being dumped in a traitor chapter master allied to Chaos; how he deals with this and manages to redeem himself is dealt in Retribution, where he looks for hints of who is the Ascended, encouraging both the other Blood Ravens (read: [[Cyrus]] and [[Martellus]]) and the players to shout "oh come on Diomedes, just look at Kyras, do you really think he is one of the good guys?" Tellingly, none of the Blood Ravens he encounters in the campaign show any respect for him. After finally realizing he had been serving a heretic all these centuries, he suffers a heroic BSOD which forces the Ancient to reveal his identity. After some brief but precise words about what truly makes a [[Space Marine|Spess Mehreen]], as well as the threat of a meltagun being shoved in certain orifices, he is back on track and goes with Cyrus, the Ancient and Martellus to kick Kyras arse. In the resulting fight Gabe, who was already trying to kill Kyras, gets stomped by him, which finally makes Dayomidis show he actually seems to have got his rank due being a powerful warrior and proceeds to annihilate Kyras, finishing him with a nice orbital bombardment and delivering a kickass ending speech.

Diomedes is believed to have suffered from a unique Psyker mutation known as "Banebladeitism" since birth. This reputably gives him the ability to control any kind of Baneblade in existence. He is also believed to have been the spawn between an Ogryn and a Baneblade, making him half-Baneblade. It is rumored that instead of making his home on a Blood Ravens battle barge or strike cruiser, he instead contains himself to a Baneblade painted in Imperial Fists colors.

He was also in the Dark Knight as Detective Stephens, in Fallout as Joshua Graham, in Universe at War as the Xenos Underseer Kamal Re'x of the Hierarchy (and as Kamal is essentially a Grey type ayy lmao; is also bald), in Asura's Wrath as Kalrow (who is balding), in Halo 4 as the The Didact (Who surprisingly is almost bald). Ohh and he's also secretly the collective intelligence of Harbinger from the Mass Effect series (who is well...reapers don't have hair so let's call Harbinger bald too). He was also recurring character in the oldfag crime series THE EQUALIZER. You can now hear him in Bioshock Infinite as Captain Cornelius Slate, who might as well be his (great)^20 great grand father, and is bald.

==Codex Diomedes==
Because it was waaaay too long to wait for someone to make it.

{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" align="left"
! || Pts || WS || BS || S || T || W || I || A || Ld || Sv
|-
| '''Captain Diomedes:''' || 200 || 7 || 5 || 4 || 4 || 4 || 5 || 4 || 10 || 2+/4++
|}<br><br><br><br>

'''Unit Type''':
* '''Infantry (Character)'''

'''Unit Composition''':
* '''1 Captain Diomedes'''

'''Wargear''':
*'''Blade of Divination''': Can be swapped for the Talons of The Blood Raven for 50 pts or Doom of Apostasy for 40 pts.
*'''Bolt Pistol''': See Codex: Space Marines. Can be swapped for a Plasma Pistol or a Storm Shield for 15 pts. Either of these are replaced if Diomedes chooses to swap the Blade of Divination for the Talons of The Blood Raven or Doom of Apostasy.
*'''Artificer Armour''': May swap it for the Star Shield for 20 pts.
*'''Iron Halo'''
*'''Frag Grenades'''
*'''Krak Grenades'''
'''May take one of the following Wargear''':
*'''Jump Pack''' - Can take for free. Changes unit type to Jump Infantry (Character)
*'''Personal Teleporter''' - Can take for free. Gains the Deep Strike USR.
*'''Personal Standard''' - Can take for free. Counts as Company Standard.

'''Special Rules'''
* '''And They Shall Know No Fear'''
* '''Chapter Tactics (Blood Ravens)''': As per the rules for all Chapters who do not know their primogenitor Chapter, the Blood Ravens do not have a unique Chapter Tactic. Instead, the player can elect to use any existing Chapter Tactics from Codex: Space Marines and any Forge World supplements.
* '''Independent Character'''
* '''Rampage (Talons of The Blood Raven Only)'''
* '''Captain of The Honour Guard''': Diomedes is both the Captain and Champion of the Blood Ravens' Honour Guard, making him both a master of both tactical and martial acumen. Diomedes may take an Honour Guard squad instead of a Command Squad. This will not take a Force Organization slot. If Gabriel Angelos and Diomedes are in the same Detachment, then Diomedes may never be the Warlord.
* '''Champion of The Chapter''': Diomedes can issue Challenges and accepts every Challenge. If an enemy unit declines the Challenge, Diomedes gains the Hatred USR against the unit that refused the Challenge. If the enemy accepts, then Diomedes can re-roll one die to-hit and to-wound.
* '''Chapter Master's Shield''': If Gabriel Angelos has only one Wound remaining and Diomedes is in the same unit, then Diomedes will automatically pass any ''Look Out Sir!'' rolls he may take.

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*'''Blade of Divination''': The Blade of Divination is a renowned Power Sword once wielded by Sergeant Martinus of the Ultramarines, who dispatched countless daemonic horrors in the purging of the planet Quinn IV. Its effect on the forces of Chaos was so potent that when Martinus began to fall prey to the whispers of the Dark Gods, the blade took it upon itself, to "cleanse" him. It was lost after Martinus' death, but was later found by the Blood Ravens and wielded by a Battle Brother in the Aurelian conflict [[Blood Ravens Force Commander|whose name has curiously been stricken from Chapter Records]].

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name !! Range !! Strength !! AP !! Type
|-
| '''Blade of Divination''' || - || User || 3 || Melee, Master Crafted, Vorpal Strike, Anathemic Presence
|}

**'''Vorpal Strike''': During Combat, Captain Diomedes may exchange his attacks to make a Vorpal Strike. Place a Small Blast Marker in front of Diomedes. All enemy models under the blast marker must undergo a Toughness Test. If failed, all models that failed the test must take a wound that cannot be saved using Armour Saves (Invulnerable Saves are usable though)

**'''Anathemic Presence''': Attacks from this weapon force units with the Daemon USR to re-roll all successful saves granted by that rule.

*'''Talons of The Blood Raven''': The Talons of the Blood Raven are venerated Lightning Claws that were gifted to the Blood Ravens Chapter, at the conclusion of the Buckley Purgation, by the artificers of the Raven Guard. Fashioned after the famed Raven's Talons of Shadow Captain Shrike, these strengthened adamantium blades can cut through the thickest armour with ease. These Lightning Claws grant the Rampage USR.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name !! Range !! Strength !! AP !! Type
|-
| '''Talons of The Blood Raven''' || - || User || 3 || Melee, Specialist Weapon, Master Crafted, Shred
|}

*'''Doom of Apostasy''': The Doom of Apostasy is a two handed Thunder Hammer belonging to the Blood Ravens Chapter. Legend has it that the Black Templar High Marshal Sigenandus wielded this mighty Thunder Hammer during the Terran Crusade. Apocryphal records would have it that Sigenandus used it in the final assault on the chambers of [[Goge Vandire]], the debased head of the Ecclesiarchy and target of the Crusade. Imperial scholars dispute the origins of these records, but the few who have wielded the Doom of Apostasy have little doubt in its holy providence.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name !! Range !! Strength !! AP !! Type
|-
| '''Doom of Apostasy''' || - || 10 || 2 || Melee, Two-Handed, Master Crafted, Unwieldy, Concussive, Strikedown, Purifying Aura
|}

**'''Purifying Aura''': All Infantry Units of the Chaos Space Marines, Chaos Daemons, and Renegades & Heretics factions who charge Diomedes must do so as if he has defensive grenades.

*'''Star Shield''': For nearly a millennium, Brother Gunn patrolled the halls of Strike Cruiser Decimus. Rarely did his boots touch solid earth, but he did not want for battle. Mysterious Eldar, creatures of the Warp, and even the undying Necrons boarded the Decimus during interstellar flight. Brother Gunn stood against them all, and died among the stars after a lifetime of vigilance. The Star Shield is an Artificer Armour that also grants the Feel No Pain and It Will Not Die USR.

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==Diomedes' famous lines==
*Bruva I am hit!
*CAP-TOR-ING!!
*Bruva I am pinned heer!
*IT IS THE BEEEEIIIIIINNNBBLLLLAAADE!!!
*I AVE TE EMUN LUSS ANK!!!
*Ah! A WAHP SPIDEAH!
*OGRYNS?! AGAINST ME?!
*IT IS THE STOOOOOOOOOOM TROOPER!
*You are healed, DO NOT FEAR!
*That vehicle...is *Puts on his helmet* halted.
*FAHSEER LET US TO IT!
*That....noise.....CANNOT DEFEAT ME! (Hammers a [[Noise Marine]])
*Dreadnought...thing! I shall ruin you!
*'Tis nothing.
*These weapons shall bring us gloreh!
*DEATH TO HIS ENEMIES ALLL!
*TRAITORS! FAILURES! FOES! (While reducing Chaos Marines to bloody pulps)
*I DIE.....AS I SWORE I WOULD!
*I SHALL ARIVE SEEEWN.
*I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN THIS DAY WOULD COME...
[[File:Diomedes_Donation.png|200px|thumb|right|The Blood Ravens would like to thank the Raptors for their generous donation of Captain Diomedes.]]

==A most generous donation==
The [[Deathwatch (RPG)|Deathwatch]] book Honour the Chapter has revealed some interesting information. It mentions that the [[Raptors]] chapter once had a Captain Diomedes who took the Apocryphon Oath and served a Long Watch with the [[Deathwatch]]. He was an expert at using the [[Jump pack|jump pack]] in jungle environments. He commissioned an upgraded jump pack to improve his effectiveness in said terrain, an artifact that still serves with the Deathwatch. Using a new method of transportation always takes training, and as such it is quite possible that Diomedes smashed head-first into a tree while getting accustomed to his new jump pack. Since captains do not wear helmets and Diomedes has no hair to cushion the impact his brain was scrambled a bit. If a particularly sneaky Blood Raven [[Cyrus|happened to be serving in the Deathwatch at his side that time]], it is very possible that he... recruited the captain to the cause of the Blood Ravens. Why this did not include the jump pack is not certain: perhaps it detached upon impact and the Blood Raven had to choose which to acquire.

==A list of Diomedes' Hijinks ==
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFs4_8sJTT0 Diomedes' voicelines]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpBngmCpUrU IT IS THE BEEEIIINBLADE! - Diomedes' first single.]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BYDfDJ0nJA Diomedes attempts to use his Baneblade-itism.]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REz_Piwwb24 We all live in a Yellow Baneblade.]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TJdSnpkCSY The most devastating weapon employed by Captain Diomedes himself: The Banebladeapult.]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg4hXhogGYM It seems he turned to chaos.]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=LNK5-uE5JFg The Bald Brothas: Boreale and Diomedes feat.]
*[http://www.blacklibrary.com/warhammer-40000/baneblade.html Diomedes favorite Black Library book... BEEIIINNEHBLADE!!!]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgZEXzHJwno All shall yield or fall before the BEHNBLAAAADE!]

{{Marines-Characters}}
[[Category: Dawn of War]]

Apollo Diomedes

2017-04-29T17:03:59Z

2602:306:C48F:5730:6880:C36A:8024:A21C: /* And Then DoW3 happened. */

[[File:Captain Diomedes.jpg|right|400px|thumb|You have Captin Diyomidis.]]
:''You have captain Dayomidis!
:''Bruvah I'm pinned here!
:''Bruvah I am hit!
:''[https://youtu.be/LNK5-uE5JFg?t=1m1s |IT IS THE BEEEEEIIIINBLAAAAADE!]''
:''- Diomedes being himself in a usual day.''

Apollo Diomedes; also known as Day-o-MIDIs, Abaldo Diomedes, Boreale 2.0, and BRUVAIAMHITT, is the [[Brother-Captain|captain]] of the [[Blood Ravens]] [[honour guard]] and the main Space Marine protagonist of [[Dawn of War 2]]: Retribution. He also seems to be a close relative of [[Indrick Boreale]] due his unique intonation and [[Derp|highly elaborated ingame responses.]] Ohh, and he's also bald, as in Captain Boreale bald. He is also notable for constantly soliciting [[Love Can Bloom|Eldar Farseers for sex]] on the battlefield with bellowing cries of; "FAHSEEYAH LET US '''TO IT'''!!". In essence, he is Boreale with a lesser level of win and more grimdark. Funnily, the portions of his dialogue that aren't deployed at maximum volume are actually decent, as seen in the final mission and the Blood Ravens ending. They are, unfortunately, nowhere near as hilarious.

The Captain's name is outstandingly greek for a fictive culture with so much focus on the roman - Apollo is of course the roman/greek god of light, music, sports, archery, but also fear, death and plague and a ''fuckload'' of other stuff, while Diomedes was a greek hero on the Achaean side in the Trojan war, a badass without equal in greek mythology - Not only did he beat several Trojan warriors and officers in single combat, he, literally, wounded the god of war Ares so badly that the god had to fall back and brood over his failure on the Olympian mountain (He did all of this with the blessing of Athena, but don't tell his fans that). ''Within ten minutes of fighting.'' It's saying something about the ancient greeks that this guy was so unimportant that he's only mentioned as a token hero and not as a main character or something.

He is also amazingly overpowered, with the single most devastating special ability in the entire game; to victory, which when fully upgraded causes even space marines to explode into fountains of gore for just being near him as the ground itself tears apart beneath his feet as he charges. His medpack has absolutely absurd range, essentially covering your entire army, his jump-pack actually recharges more quickly than kayleth's and his other commander items like the banner do hilarious things like heal your troops and make them immune to suppression. Thanks to two abilities that let him heal rapidly in combat he is essentially invincible in melee and with the right weapons he can skull fuck basically any enemy unit in the game. Following some apparent nerfs to Eliphas Diomedes may very well be the single most devastating close combat unit in the game short of the unbelievably bullshit Necron Overlord in the last stand.

==[[Skub|And Then DoW3 happened.]]==

<s>He's a fucking Chaplain now. That's right, the fucking CAPTAIN OF THE HONOUR GUARD (I.E. The second most important fucker in the WHOLE DAMN CHAPTER is now Just a fucking Chaplain. [[Fail|JUST A FUCKING CHAPLAIN.]] Needless to say, [[Rage|most view this as Complete Bullshit]] on the part of [[Fail|Relic.]]</s> {{FWIP}} {{FWIP|(sound caused by Crozius Arcanum) SO YOU ARE SAYING BEING A CHAPLAIN, AN IMPORTANT MEMBER OF A SPACE MARINE CHAPTER THAT PREVENTS HERESY FROM THE CHAPTER IS A LESS IMPORTANT OF A DUTY THAN BEING CHAPTER MASTER'S LAP DOG!!!????}}

But yeah, some backstories would be nice, most people just assumed Diomedes was ashamed of serving Kyras that he atone for his sin by stepped down as a chaplain.

BRUVA I'M REPENT HERE!!!

==History==
Dayomidis has served as part of the Blud Rehvens for quite some centuries, being the yes-man of [[Azariah Kyras]], allowing him to reach the level of captain of the honour guard. In Chaos rising, he makes it his mission to obstruct the lives of Gabriel Angelos and FC Hairgel, but canonically survives to Retribution.

Unfortunately for him all his sycophancy was being dumped in a traitor chapter master allied to Chaos; how he deals with this and manages to redeem himself is dealt in Retribution, where he looks for hints of who is the Ascended, encouraging both the other Blood Ravens (read: [[Cyrus]] and [[Martellus]]) and the players to shout "oh come on Diomedes, just look at Kyras, do you really think he is one of the good guys?" Tellingly, none of the Blood Ravens he encounters in the campaign show any respect for him. After finally realizing he had been serving a heretic all these centuries, he suffers a heroic BSOD which forces the Ancient to reveal his identity. After some brief but precise words about what truly makes a [[Space Marine|Spess Mehreen]], as well as the threat of a meltagun being shoved in certain orifices, he is back on track and goes with Cyrus, the Ancient and Martellus to kick Kyras arse. In the resulting fight Gabe, who was already trying to kill Kyras, gets stomped by him, which finally makes Dayomidis show he actually seems to have got his rank due being a powerful warrior and proceeds to annihilate Kyras, finishing him with a nice orbital bombardment and delivering a kickass ending speech.

Diomedes is believed to have suffered from a unique Psyker mutation known as "Banebladeitism" since birth. This reputably gives him the ability to control any kind of Baneblade in existence. He is also believed to have been the spawn between an Ogryn and a Baneblade, making him half-Baneblade. It is rumored that instead of making his home on a Blood Ravens battle barge or strike cruiser, he instead contains himself to a Baneblade painted in Imperial Fists colors.

He was also in the Dark Knight as Detective Stephens, in Fallout as Joshua Graham, in Universe at War as the Xenos Underseer Kamal Re'x of the Hierarchy (and as Kamal is essentially a Grey type ayy lmao; is also bald), in Asura's Wrath as Kalrow (who is balding), in Halo 4 as the The Didact (Who surprisingly is almost bald). Ohh and he's also secretly the collective intelligence of Harbinger from the Mass Effect series (who is well...reapers don't have hair so let's call Harbinger bald too). He was also recurring character in the oldfag crime series THE EQUALIZER. You can now hear him in Bioshock Infinite as Captain Cornelius Slate, who might as well be his (great)^20 great grand father, and is bald.

==Codex Diomedes==
Because it was waaaay too long to wait for someone to make it.

{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" align="left"
! || Pts || WS || BS || S || T || W || I || A || Ld || Sv
|-
| '''Captain Diomedes:''' || 200 || 7 || 5 || 4 || 4 || 4 || 5 || 4 || 10 || 2+/4++
|}<br><br><br><br>

'''Unit Type''':
* '''Infantry (Character)'''

'''Unit Composition''':
* '''1 Captain Diomedes'''

'''Wargear''':
*'''Blade of Divination''': Can be swapped for the Talons of The Blood Raven for 50 pts or Doom of Apostasy for 40 pts.
*'''Bolt Pistol''': See Codex: Space Marines. Can be swapped for a Plasma Pistol or a Storm Shield for 15 pts. Either of these are replaced if Diomedes chooses to swap the Blade of Divination for the Talons of The Blood Raven or Doom of Apostasy.
*'''Artificer Armour''': May swap it for the Star Shield for 20 pts.
*'''Iron Halo'''
*'''Frag Grenades'''
*'''Krak Grenades'''
'''May take one of the following Wargear''':
*'''Jump Pack''' - Can take for free. Changes unit type to Jump Infantry (Character)
*'''Personal Teleporter''' - Can take for free. Gains the Deep Strike USR.
*'''Personal Standard''' - Can take for free. Counts as Company Standard.

'''Special Rules'''
* '''And They Shall Know No Fear'''
* '''Chapter Tactics (Blood Ravens)''': As per the rules for all Chapters who do not know their primogenitor Chapter, the Blood Ravens do not have a unique Chapter Tactic. Instead, the player can elect to use any existing Chapter Tactics from Codex: Space Marines and any Forge World supplements.
* '''Independent Character'''
* '''Rampage (Talons of The Blood Raven Only)'''
* '''Captain of The Honour Guard''': Diomedes is both the Captain and Champion of the Blood Ravens' Honour Guard, making him both a master of both tactical and martial acumen. Diomedes may take an Honour Guard squad instead of a Command Squad. This will not take a Force Organization slot. If Gabriel Angelos and Diomedes are in the same Detachment, then Diomedes may never be the Warlord.
* '''Champion of The Chapter''': Diomedes can issue Challenges and accepts every Challenge. If an enemy unit declines the Challenge, Diomedes gains the Hatred USR against the unit that refused the Challenge. If the enemy accepts, then Diomedes can re-roll one die to-hit and to-wound.
* '''Chapter Master's Shield''': If Gabriel Angelos has only one Wound remaining and Diomedes is in the same unit, then Diomedes will automatically pass any ''Look Out Sir!'' rolls he may take.

------------------------------------------

*'''Blade of Divination''': The Blade of Divination is a renowned Power Sword once wielded by Sergeant Martinus of the Ultramarines, who dispatched countless daemonic horrors in the purging of the planet Quinn IV. Its effect on the forces of Chaos was so potent that when Martinus began to fall prey to the whispers of the Dark Gods, the blade took it upon itself, to "cleanse" him. It was lost after Martinus' death, but was later found by the Blood Ravens and wielded by a Battle Brother in the Aurelian conflict [[Blood Ravens Force Commander|whose name has curiously been stricken from Chapter Records]].

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name !! Range !! Strength !! AP !! Type
|-
| '''Blade of Divination''' || - || User || 3 || Melee, Master Crafted, Vorpal Strike, Anathemic Presence
|}

**'''Vorpal Strike''': During Combat, Captain Diomedes may exchange his attacks to make a Vorpal Strike. Place a Small Blast Marker in front of Diomedes. All enemy models under the blast marker must undergo a Toughness Test. If failed, all models that failed the test must take a wound that cannot be saved using Armour Saves (Invulnerable Saves are usable though)

**'''Anathemic Presence''': Attacks from this weapon force units with the Daemon USR to re-roll all successful saves granted by that rule.

*'''Talons of The Blood Raven''': The Talons of the Blood Raven are venerated Lightning Claws that were gifted to the Blood Ravens Chapter, at the conclusion of the Buckley Purgation, by the artificers of the Raven Guard. Fashioned after the famed Raven's Talons of Shadow Captain Shrike, these strengthened adamantium blades can cut through the thickest armour with ease. These Lightning Claws grant the Rampage USR.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name !! Range !! Strength !! AP !! Type
|-
| '''Talons of The Blood Raven''' || - || User || 3 || Melee, Specialist Weapon, Master Crafted, Shred
|}

*'''Doom of Apostasy''': The Doom of Apostasy is a two handed Thunder Hammer belonging to the Blood Ravens Chapter. Legend has it that the Black Templar High Marshal Sigenandus wielded this mighty Thunder Hammer during the Terran Crusade. Apocryphal records would have it that Sigenandus used it in the final assault on the chambers of [[Goge Vandire]], the debased head of the Ecclesiarchy and target of the Crusade. Imperial scholars dispute the origins of these records, but the few who have wielded the Doom of Apostasy have little doubt in its holy providence.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name !! Range !! Strength !! AP !! Type
|-
| '''Doom of Apostasy''' || - || 10 || 2 || Melee, Two-Handed, Master Crafted, Unwieldy, Concussive, Strikedown, Purifying Aura
|}

**'''Purifying Aura''': All Infantry Units of the Chaos Space Marines, Chaos Daemons, and Renegades & Heretics factions who charge Diomedes must do so as if he has defensive grenades.

*'''Star Shield''': For nearly a millennium, Brother Gunn patrolled the halls of Strike Cruiser Decimus. Rarely did his boots touch solid earth, but he did not want for battle. Mysterious Eldar, creatures of the Warp, and even the undying Necrons boarded the Decimus during interstellar flight. Brother Gunn stood against them all, and died among the stars after a lifetime of vigilance. The Star Shield is an Artificer Armour that also grants the Feel No Pain and It Will Not Die USR.

-----------------------------------------------------

==Diomedes' famous lines==
*Bruva I am hit!
*CAP-TOR-ING!!
*Bruva I am pinned heer!
*IT IS THE BEEEEIIIIIINNNBBLLLLAAADE!!!
*I AVE TE EMUN LUSS ANK!!!
*Ah! A WAHP SPIDEAH!
*OGRYNS?! AGAINST ME?!
*IT IS THE STOOOOOOOOOOM TROOPER!
*You are healed, DO NOT FEAR!
*That vehicle...is *Puts on his helmet* halted.
*FAHSEER LET US TO IT!
*That....noise.....CANNOT DEFEAT ME! (Hammers a [[Noise Marine]])
*Dreadnought...thing! I shall ruin you!
*'Tis nothing.
*These weapons shall bring us gloreh!
*DEATH TO HIS ENEMIES ALLL!
*TRAITORS! FAILURES! FOES! (While reducing Chaos Marines to bloody pulps)
*I DIE.....AS I SWORE I WOULD!
*I SHALL ARIVE SEEEWN.
*I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN THIS DAY WOULD COME...
[[File:Diomedes_Donation.png|200px|thumb|right|The Blood Ravens would like to thank the Raptors for their generous donation of Captain Diomedes.]]

==A most generous donation==
The [[Deathwatch (RPG)|Deathwatch]] book Honour the Chapter has revealed some interesting information. It mentions that the [[Raptors]] chapter once had a Captain Diomedes who took the Apocryphon Oath and served a Long Watch with the [[Deathwatch]]. He was an expert at using the [[Jump pack|jump pack]] in jungle environments. He commissioned an upgraded jump pack to improve his effectiveness in said terrain, an artifact that still serves with the Deathwatch. Using a new method of transportation always takes training, and as such it is quite possible that Diomedes smashed head-first into a tree while getting accustomed to his new jump pack. Since captains do not wear helmets and Diomedes has no hair to cushion the impact his brain was scrambled a bit. If a particularly sneaky Blood Raven [[Cyrus|happened to be serving in the Deathwatch at his side that time]], it is very possible that he... recruited the captain to the cause of the Blood Ravens. Why this did not include the jump pack is not certain: perhaps it detached upon impact and the Blood Raven had to choose which to acquire.

==A list of Diomedes' Hijinks ==
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFs4_8sJTT0 Diomedes' voicelines]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpBngmCpUrU IT IS THE BEEEIIINBLADE! - Diomedes' first single.]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BYDfDJ0nJA Diomedes attempts to use his Baneblade-itism.]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REz_Piwwb24 We all live in a Yellow Baneblade.]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TJdSnpkCSY The most devastating weapon employed by Captain Diomedes himself: The Banebladeapult.]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg4hXhogGYM It seems he turned to chaos.]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=LNK5-uE5JFg The Bald Brothas: Boreale and Diomedes feat.]
*[http://www.blacklibrary.com/warhammer-40000/baneblade.html Diomedes favorite Black Library book... BEEIIINNEHBLADE!!!]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgZEXzHJwno All shall yield or fall before the BEHNBLAAAADE!]

{{Marines-Characters}}
[[Category: Dawn of War]]

Apollo Diomedes

2017-04-29T17:02:23Z

2602:306:C48F:5730:6880:C36A:8024:A21C: /* And Then DoW3 happened. */

[[File:Captain Diomedes.jpg|right|400px|thumb|You have Captin Diyomidis.]]
:''You have captain Dayomidis!
:''Bruvah I'm pinned here!
:''Bruvah I am hit!
:''[https://youtu.be/LNK5-uE5JFg?t=1m1s |IT IS THE BEEEEEIIIINBLAAAAADE!]''
:''- Diomedes being himself in a usual day.''

Apollo Diomedes; also known as Day-o-MIDIs, Abaldo Diomedes, Boreale 2.0, and BRUVAIAMHITT, is the [[Brother-Captain|captain]] of the [[Blood Ravens]] [[honour guard]] and the main Space Marine protagonist of [[Dawn of War 2]]: Retribution. He also seems to be a close relative of [[Indrick Boreale]] due his unique intonation and [[Derp|highly elaborated ingame responses.]] Ohh, and he's also bald, as in Captain Boreale bald. He is also notable for constantly soliciting [[Love Can Bloom|Eldar Farseers for sex]] on the battlefield with bellowing cries of; "FAHSEEYAH LET US '''TO IT'''!!". In essence, he is Boreale with a lesser level of win and more grimdark. Funnily, the portions of his dialogue that aren't deployed at maximum volume are actually decent, as seen in the final mission and the Blood Ravens ending. They are, unfortunately, nowhere near as hilarious.

The Captain's name is outstandingly greek for a fictive culture with so much focus on the roman - Apollo is of course the roman/greek god of light, music, sports, archery, but also fear, death and plague and a ''fuckload'' of other stuff, while Diomedes was a greek hero on the Achaean side in the Trojan war, a badass without equal in greek mythology - Not only did he beat several Trojan warriors and officers in single combat, he, literally, wounded the god of war Ares so badly that the god had to fall back and brood over his failure on the Olympian mountain (He did all of this with the blessing of Athena, but don't tell his fans that). ''Within ten minutes of fighting.'' It's saying something about the ancient greeks that this guy was so unimportant that he's only mentioned as a token hero and not as a main character or something.

He is also amazingly overpowered, with the single most devastating special ability in the entire game; to victory, which when fully upgraded causes even space marines to explode into fountains of gore for just being near him as the ground itself tears apart beneath his feet as he charges. His medpack has absolutely absurd range, essentially covering your entire army, his jump-pack actually recharges more quickly than kayleth's and his other commander items like the banner do hilarious things like heal your troops and make them immune to suppression. Thanks to two abilities that let him heal rapidly in combat he is essentially invincible in melee and with the right weapons he can skull fuck basically any enemy unit in the game. Following some apparent nerfs to Eliphas Diomedes may very well be the single most devastating close combat unit in the game short of the unbelievably bullshit Necron Overlord in the last stand.

==[[Skub|And Then DoW3 happened.]]==

<s>He's a fucking Chaplain now. That's right, the fucking CAPTAIN OF THE HONOUR GUARD (I.E. The second most important fucker in the WHOLE DAMN CHAPTER is now Just a fucking Chaplain. [[Fail|JUST A FUCKING CHAPLAIN.]] Needless to say, [[Rage|most view this as Complete Bullshit]] on the part of [[Fail|Relic.]]</s> {{FWIP}} {{FWIP|(sound caused by Crozius Arcanum) SO YOU ARE SAYING BEING A CHAPLAIN, AN IMPORTANT MEMBER OF A SPACE MARINE CHAPTER THAT PREVENTS HERESY FROM THE CHAPTER IS A LESS IMPORTANT OF A DUTY THAN BEING CHAPTER MASTER'S LAP DOG!!!????}}

But yeah, some backstories would be nice, most people just assumed Diomedes was ashamed of serving Kyras that he atone for his sin by stepped down as a chaplain. Still, the guy survived a fucking Necron tomb world crashing into a starfort and has some of the better unit lines for Space Marines.

BRUVA I'M REPENT HERE!!!

==History==
Dayomidis has served as part of the Blud Rehvens for quite some centuries, being the yes-man of [[Azariah Kyras]], allowing him to reach the level of captain of the honour guard. In Chaos rising, he makes it his mission to obstruct the lives of Gabriel Angelos and FC Hairgel, but canonically survives to Retribution.

Unfortunately for him all his sycophancy was being dumped in a traitor chapter master allied to Chaos; how he deals with this and manages to redeem himself is dealt in Retribution, where he looks for hints of who is the Ascended, encouraging both the other Blood Ravens (read: [[Cyrus]] and [[Martellus]]) and the players to shout "oh come on Diomedes, just look at Kyras, do you really think he is one of the good guys?" Tellingly, none of the Blood Ravens he encounters in the campaign show any respect for him. After finally realizing he had been serving a heretic all these centuries, he suffers a heroic BSOD which forces the Ancient to reveal his identity. After some brief but precise words about what truly makes a [[Space Marine|Spess Mehreen]], as well as the threat of a meltagun being shoved in certain orifices, he is back on track and goes with Cyrus, the Ancient and Martellus to kick Kyras arse. In the resulting fight Gabe, who was already trying to kill Kyras, gets stomped by him, which finally makes Dayomidis show he actually seems to have got his rank due being a powerful warrior and proceeds to annihilate Kyras, finishing him with a nice orbital bombardment and delivering a kickass ending speech.

Diomedes is believed to have suffered from a unique Psyker mutation known as "Banebladeitism" since birth. This reputably gives him the ability to control any kind of Baneblade in existence. He is also believed to have been the spawn between an Ogryn and a Baneblade, making him half-Baneblade. It is rumored that instead of making his home on a Blood Ravens battle barge or strike cruiser, he instead contains himself to a Baneblade painted in Imperial Fists colors.

He was also in the Dark Knight as Detective Stephens, in Fallout as Joshua Graham, in Universe at War as the Xenos Underseer Kamal Re'x of the Hierarchy (and as Kamal is essentially a Grey type ayy lmao; is also bald), in Asura's Wrath as Kalrow (who is balding), in Halo 4 as the The Didact (Who surprisingly is almost bald). Ohh and he's also secretly the collective intelligence of Harbinger from the Mass Effect series (who is well...reapers don't have hair so let's call Harbinger bald too). He was also recurring character in the oldfag crime series THE EQUALIZER. You can now hear him in Bioshock Infinite as Captain Cornelius Slate, who might as well be his (great)^20 great grand father, and is bald.

==Codex Diomedes==
Because it was waaaay too long to wait for someone to make it.

{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" align="left"
! || Pts || WS || BS || S || T || W || I || A || Ld || Sv
|-
| '''Captain Diomedes:''' || 200 || 7 || 5 || 4 || 4 || 4 || 5 || 4 || 10 || 2+/4++
|}<br><br><br><br>

'''Unit Type''':
* '''Infantry (Character)'''

'''Unit Composition''':
* '''1 Captain Diomedes'''

'''Wargear''':
*'''Blade of Divination''': Can be swapped for the Talons of The Blood Raven for 50 pts or Doom of Apostasy for 40 pts.
*'''Bolt Pistol''': See Codex: Space Marines. Can be swapped for a Plasma Pistol or a Storm Shield for 15 pts. Either of these are replaced if Diomedes chooses to swap the Blade of Divination for the Talons of The Blood Raven or Doom of Apostasy.
*'''Artificer Armour''': May swap it for the Star Shield for 20 pts.
*'''Iron Halo'''
*'''Frag Grenades'''
*'''Krak Grenades'''
'''May take one of the following Wargear''':
*'''Jump Pack''' - Can take for free. Changes unit type to Jump Infantry (Character)
*'''Personal Teleporter''' - Can take for free. Gains the Deep Strike USR.
*'''Personal Standard''' - Can take for free. Counts as Company Standard.

'''Special Rules'''
* '''And They Shall Know No Fear'''
* '''Chapter Tactics (Blood Ravens)''': As per the rules for all Chapters who do not know their primogenitor Chapter, the Blood Ravens do not have a unique Chapter Tactic. Instead, the player can elect to use any existing Chapter Tactics from Codex: Space Marines and any Forge World supplements.
* '''Independent Character'''
* '''Rampage (Talons of The Blood Raven Only)'''
* '''Captain of The Honour Guard''': Diomedes is both the Captain and Champion of the Blood Ravens' Honour Guard, making him both a master of both tactical and martial acumen. Diomedes may take an Honour Guard squad instead of a Command Squad. This will not take a Force Organization slot. If Gabriel Angelos and Diomedes are in the same Detachment, then Diomedes may never be the Warlord.
* '''Champion of The Chapter''': Diomedes can issue Challenges and accepts every Challenge. If an enemy unit declines the Challenge, Diomedes gains the Hatred USR against the unit that refused the Challenge. If the enemy accepts, then Diomedes can re-roll one die to-hit and to-wound.
* '''Chapter Master's Shield''': If Gabriel Angelos has only one Wound remaining and Diomedes is in the same unit, then Diomedes will automatically pass any ''Look Out Sir!'' rolls he may take.

------------------------------------------

*'''Blade of Divination''': The Blade of Divination is a renowned Power Sword once wielded by Sergeant Martinus of the Ultramarines, who dispatched countless daemonic horrors in the purging of the planet Quinn IV. Its effect on the forces of Chaos was so potent that when Martinus began to fall prey to the whispers of the Dark Gods, the blade took it upon itself, to "cleanse" him. It was lost after Martinus' death, but was later found by the Blood Ravens and wielded by a Battle Brother in the Aurelian conflict [[Blood Ravens Force Commander|whose name has curiously been stricken from Chapter Records]].

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name !! Range !! Strength !! AP !! Type
|-
| '''Blade of Divination''' || - || User || 3 || Melee, Master Crafted, Vorpal Strike, Anathemic Presence
|}

**'''Vorpal Strike''': During Combat, Captain Diomedes may exchange his attacks to make a Vorpal Strike. Place a Small Blast Marker in front of Diomedes. All enemy models under the blast marker must undergo a Toughness Test. If failed, all models that failed the test must take a wound that cannot be saved using Armour Saves (Invulnerable Saves are usable though)

**'''Anathemic Presence''': Attacks from this weapon force units with the Daemon USR to re-roll all successful saves granted by that rule.

*'''Talons of The Blood Raven''': The Talons of the Blood Raven are venerated Lightning Claws that were gifted to the Blood Ravens Chapter, at the conclusion of the Buckley Purgation, by the artificers of the Raven Guard. Fashioned after the famed Raven's Talons of Shadow Captain Shrike, these strengthened adamantium blades can cut through the thickest armour with ease. These Lightning Claws grant the Rampage USR.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name !! Range !! Strength !! AP !! Type
|-
| '''Talons of The Blood Raven''' || - || User || 3 || Melee, Specialist Weapon, Master Crafted, Shred
|}

*'''Doom of Apostasy''': The Doom of Apostasy is a two handed Thunder Hammer belonging to the Blood Ravens Chapter. Legend has it that the Black Templar High Marshal Sigenandus wielded this mighty Thunder Hammer during the Terran Crusade. Apocryphal records would have it that Sigenandus used it in the final assault on the chambers of [[Goge Vandire]], the debased head of the Ecclesiarchy and target of the Crusade. Imperial scholars dispute the origins of these records, but the few who have wielded the Doom of Apostasy have little doubt in its holy providence.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name !! Range !! Strength !! AP !! Type
|-
| '''Doom of Apostasy''' || - || 10 || 2 || Melee, Two-Handed, Master Crafted, Unwieldy, Concussive, Strikedown, Purifying Aura
|}

**'''Purifying Aura''': All Infantry Units of the Chaos Space Marines, Chaos Daemons, and Renegades & Heretics factions who charge Diomedes must do so as if he has defensive grenades.

*'''Star Shield''': For nearly a millennium, Brother Gunn patrolled the halls of Strike Cruiser Decimus. Rarely did his boots touch solid earth, but he did not want for battle. Mysterious Eldar, creatures of the Warp, and even the undying Necrons boarded the Decimus during interstellar flight. Brother Gunn stood against them all, and died among the stars after a lifetime of vigilance. The Star Shield is an Artificer Armour that also grants the Feel No Pain and It Will Not Die USR.

-----------------------------------------------------

==Diomedes' famous lines==
*Bruva I am hit!
*CAP-TOR-ING!!
*Bruva I am pinned heer!
*IT IS THE BEEEEIIIIIINNNBBLLLLAAADE!!!
*I AVE TE EMUN LUSS ANK!!!
*Ah! A WAHP SPIDEAH!
*OGRYNS?! AGAINST ME?!
*IT IS THE STOOOOOOOOOOM TROOPER!
*You are healed, DO NOT FEAR!
*That vehicle...is *Puts on his helmet* halted.
*FAHSEER LET US TO IT!
*That....noise.....CANNOT DEFEAT ME! (Hammers a [[Noise Marine]])
*Dreadnought...thing! I shall ruin you!
*'Tis nothing.
*These weapons shall bring us gloreh!
*DEATH TO HIS ENEMIES ALLL!
*TRAITORS! FAILURES! FOES! (While reducing Chaos Marines to bloody pulps)
*I DIE.....AS I SWORE I WOULD!
*I SHALL ARIVE SEEEWN.
*I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN THIS DAY WOULD COME...
[[File:Diomedes_Donation.png|200px|thumb|right|The Blood Ravens would like to thank the Raptors for their generous donation of Captain Diomedes.]]

==A most generous donation==
The [[Deathwatch (RPG)|Deathwatch]] book Honour the Chapter has revealed some interesting information. It mentions that the [[Raptors]] chapter once had a Captain Diomedes who took the Apocryphon Oath and served a Long Watch with the [[Deathwatch]]. He was an expert at using the [[Jump pack|jump pack]] in jungle environments. He commissioned an upgraded jump pack to improve his effectiveness in said terrain, an artifact that still serves with the Deathwatch. Using a new method of transportation always takes training, and as such it is quite possible that Diomedes smashed head-first into a tree while getting accustomed to his new jump pack. Since captains do not wear helmets and Diomedes has no hair to cushion the impact his brain was scrambled a bit. If a particularly sneaky Blood Raven [[Cyrus|happened to be serving in the Deathwatch at his side that time]], it is very possible that he... recruited the captain to the cause of the Blood Ravens. Why this did not include the jump pack is not certain: perhaps it detached upon impact and the Blood Raven had to choose which to acquire.

==A list of Diomedes' Hijinks ==
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFs4_8sJTT0 Diomedes' voicelines]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpBngmCpUrU IT IS THE BEEEIIINBLADE! - Diomedes' first single.]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BYDfDJ0nJA Diomedes attempts to use his Baneblade-itism.]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REz_Piwwb24 We all live in a Yellow Baneblade.]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TJdSnpkCSY The most devastating weapon employed by Captain Diomedes himself: The Banebladeapult.]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg4hXhogGYM It seems he turned to chaos.]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=LNK5-uE5JFg The Bald Brothas: Boreale and Diomedes feat.]
*[http://www.blacklibrary.com/warhammer-40000/baneblade.html Diomedes favorite Black Library book... BEEIIINNEHBLADE!!!]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgZEXzHJwno All shall yield or fall before the BEHNBLAAAADE!]

{{Marines-Characters}}
[[Category: Dawn of War]]

Chaplain

2017-04-29T17:00:28Z

2602:306:C48F:5730:6880:C36A:8024:A21C:

[[File:Doom Chaplain.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Welcome to the 1st Imperial Church of Awesome]]
In the Warhammer 40K universe, a Chaplain is a basically a [[Space Marine]] version of the [[Ecclesiarchy|Ecclesiastical]] priest, but with guns and power armor.

==Overview==
Chaplains were originally formed by [[Lorgar]] as part of the religious slant he brought to the [[Word Bearers]], charging them with spreading the cult of the Lectitio Divinatus, his early form of [[God-Emperor of Mankind|Emperor]]-worship. After assuming control of the Council of [[Terra]], [[Malcador the Sigillite]] instructed the Space Marine Legions to employ Chaplains to enforce the Decree of Nikea, the Emperor's restrictions on [[Librarians]], as a sort of proto-[[Commissar]].

In the present, a Chaplain's role in a chapter is to root out [[heresy]], inspire other Marines by chanting a litany of verses, maintain the Chapter's relics and traditions, and basically make the Marines around him righteously angry. Unlike [[Commissar]]s of the Imperial Guard, he isn't keen on executing his own men for simple cowardice, mainly because Space Marines only retreat to gain a better tactical advantage and the fact that a Marine is more expensive to create than an expendable guardsman (plus the whole "And they shall know no fear"); but he does still torture/kill [[xenos]], mutants and heretics for tactical, religious, or recreational purposes. Chaplains are an HQ unit and use a Crozius Arcanum. It is their badge of office, a fuckhueg mace capable of going straight through armour and utterly shattering your head right off of your shoulders in a single swipe, while looking totally sweet in his black power armour and skull visage helmet, while scaring the living shit out of the enemy (until 6th/7th edition, it's now AP4 so it's even worse than a normal Power Weapon for that. THANKS GW!!), higher ranked Chaplains may also be issued Terminator armour. Outside of the company Chaplains, you have the Master of Sanctity or High Chaplain, who oversees the [[Space Marine Chapter|Chapter]] Chaplaincy and is a senior advisor to the [[Chapter Master]], and the Reclusiarch, who oversees the Reclusiam, where the Chapter's sacred relics and trophies are displayed. Often times the two posts are combined.

For all intents and purposes, just imagine a Space Marine, but even more fanatical and badass. He also has [[Indrick Boreale|great oratorical skills]] to make his brothers stop bitching and to pick up his knife then charge that [[Bloodthirster]] and stab him right in the balls because goddammit that's how you make the [[God-Emperor of Mankind|Emprah]] proud. It is also suggested that Chaplains use their "oratory" skills for other purposes as well, but these may just be rumours spread to question the MANLINESS of the Spess Mehreens.

The [[Chaos Space Marine]] equivalent is the [[Dark Apostle]], most associated with the [[Word Bearers]]. Older fluff stated that only Word Bearers could have them because no other Chaplains ever fell or will fall to Chaos... which later editions revealed to be a lie, since Chaplains in their present form only originally existed ''in'' the Word Bearers in the first place.

==Variations==
===Blood Angels Chaplain===
The Blood Angels Chaplains were originally known as "Wardens", who served as advisors and mentors to the younger generations. When the Edict of Nikaea was declared and the Chaplain Edict followed, the Wardens were appointed to oversee enforcement. Following the Horus Heresy, the Wardens of the Blood Angels and their successor Chapters became Chaplains, and were tasked with an additional, somber purpose: they were to lead the [[Death Company]], those Marines who fell to the Black Rage and the Red Thirst, into battle. Being surrounded by raging berserkers, the Chaplains must have iron strong wills to oversee these Marines and maintain their own sanity.

===Dark Angels Interrogator-Chaplain===
The [[Dark Angels]] and their successors have an extra rank for Chaplains who make it into the Inner Circle and learn the "truth" (or at least part of it) about the <s>[[Fallen Angels]]</s> HUGE PARTY THE LION THREW AT CALIBAN. After passing several trials of the soul (the penalty for failure being death or worse), they interrogate (read: torture) captured <s>Fallen Angels</s> TRAITORS THAT HAVE NO CONNECTION TO THE DARK ANGELS WHATSOEVER to try and force them to repent for their crimes. These "Interrogator-Chaplains" are extremely patient and resilient against the *cough* ''insidious lies'' of captured heretics, and will take as long as necessary to finally break them. To put this in perspective, the very best Interrogator-Chaplain that the Dark Angels ever had only managed to get ten <s>Fallen</s> TRAITORS FROM THE NINE TRAITOR LEGIONS BECAUSE, AS WE ALL KNOW WELL AND GOOD, THERE ARE ONLY ''NINE'' TRAITOR LEGIONS to confess and repent over the course of 300 years of service.

===Iron Hands Iron Father===
Among the [[Iron Hands]], the Chaplains are known as an "Iron Father", which combines the role of Chaplain and [[Techmarine]] together, which reflects the Iron Hands heavy preference for augmentics. Also unique in the fact that they're completely separated from the Ecclesiarchy altogether, considering the chapter's predilection towards machinery and the like. The spat ended with them splitting off and the Iron Hands unable to have Rosarii. To compensate that, the Iron Hands have to fabricate their own equivalents using some special [[Adeptus Mechanicus]] schemes. Needless to say, when comparing the technological prowess of the Ecchlesiarchy and the Mechanicus...

===Space Wolves Wolf Priest===
The Chaplains of the [[Space Wolves]] are the Wolf Priests, who combine the role of Chaplain and medic into one. All Wolf Priests(also look after the chapters gene seed and perform the implantation process normally the role of the apothicary), along with the Rune Priests (Librarians) and Iron Priests (Techmarines) serve as part of the Company of the Great Wolf (the elite Great Company under the Chapter Master of the Space Wolves) and are assigned to the other eleven Great Companies as needed.

==Notable Chaplains==
*'''Varnus''': An [[Ultramarines]] Chaplain whose defining deed (making him a potential mary sue(IT WAS [[AWESOME]] NONETHELESS)) is single-handedly [[AWESOME|pwning a fuck-mothering]] [[Bloodthirster|BLOODTHIRSTER]]. Needless to say, [[Khorne]] was very [[RAGE|salty]].
*'''[[Asmodai]]''': Interrogator-Chaplain of the [[Dark Angels]]. A major buzzkill, and batshit crazy, but more famous than his boss.
*'''Sapphon''': Head Interrogator-Chaplain of the Dark Angels, at odds with Asmodai over practically everything.
*'''[[Grimaldus]]''': Reclusiarch of the [[Black Templars]]. A seriously hardcore bastard who defended Helsreach.
*'''[[Xavier]]''': Famous [[Salamanders]] Chaplain, meaning he's a major bro.
*'''[[Ortan Cassius]]''': Master of Sanctity for the [[Ultramarines]]. Responsible for the formation of the Tyrannic War Veterans, to better help combat the menace that [[Tyranids|almost devoured all of Ultramar]].
*'''[[Ulrik the Slayer]]''': High Wolf Priest of the [[Space Wolves]]. A wild bastard who survived the First War of Armageddon and also has [[Leman Russ]]' own helmet.
*'''[[Kardan Stronos]]''': [[Iron Hands]] Iron Father. Was elected to act as Chapter Master by the clan council. Also has a massive boner for Razorbacks, and an equally large hate-boner for the [[Necrons]].
*'''[[Astorath]] the Grim''': [[Blood Angels]] Master of Sanctity and ''Redeemer of the Lost''. His job involves rounding up those in the [[Death Company]] and then lops their heads off, as they're pretty much lost causes by that point.
*'''[[Lemartes]]''': Blood Angels Chaplain who's badass enough to rein control over the [[Black Rage]]. Keeps an eye over the Death Company as ''Guardian of the Lost''. He is currently the second most 40K thing in 40K, being the patron saint of always being mind-shatteringly angry, closely beat out by the [[Eversor Assassin]].
*'''Mikelus''': [[Blood Ravens]] Reclusiarch who was said to have beaten the Necron Lord of Kronus...according to [[Davian Thule]]. Everyone else can attest to him dying like a bitch to the 'cron Lord's incredible amounts of [[cheese]]. But he was a nice honour guard member so it's okay.
*'''Durendin''': Chaplain of the [[Grey Knights]] who appears in the first story of Justicar Alaric. Known for wielding [[awesome|relic nemesis force lightning claws]] passed down from the early days of the chapter.
*'''[[Diomedes]]''': Former Honor Guard Captain turned Chaplain in light of his never waving faith and loyalty in the emperor when the [[Blood Ravens]] chapter master went full-heresy. His great oratory skills spur on his brothers in the battle for baldness.

==Tabletop==
For 90 pts Chaplains have a Veteran stat line with +1WS, 2Ws, and LD10. They've got a bolt pistol and Crozius which counts as a powermaul, and a 4++, with access to Terminator armor, ranged, special issue, and chapter relics like other Independent Characters. Chaplains are more a support character than a singular power house, giving their unit re-rolls to hit, and Fearless. Vanilla Marine's chaplains have no choice in melee weapons for some reason. Odd considering that codex represents the broadest spectrum of chapters. Only getting to take a powerfist, in place of their pistol.

Dark Angels have two: regular ones and Interrogators. Regular ones are identical to the above, but cannot take Terminator Armor and Chapter Relics. They do however have access to melee and ranged weapons. Interrogators come for 20 more points and get the Deathwing, Preferred Enemy (Chaos) and ''Fear'' rules and a near-captain stat line with -1WS, and access to every piece of wargear expect heavy weapons, they practically outstrip regular Captains in every way unless you pimp out a captain with loads of expensive gear. If you use them they're best used in either the Black Knights or Deathwing Knights.

Wolf Priests are probably an oddity among the Space Wolves, since they can take multiple ranged options but no melee. They also have access to Chapter Relics, Terminator Armor and Runic Armor, other than having a 4++ thanks to the wolf talisman. Having the same stat line of regular chaplains, these guys are even more support-focused than their vanilla counterparts. Thanks to the half-apothecary gig, they give Feel No Pain(6+) to the unit they're in, along with Favoured Enemy, making them the perfect scrub-sitters, making the weakest units in your army able to hold their own in a fight, especially if supported by big numbers. Wolf Priests also have Counter Attack and Acute Sense, much like every other unit in a Space Wolf army.
Best use for a Wolf Priest is to stick them in a big Blood Claws unit (or even better, Swift Claws) and use them to target the opponent's infantry. Favoured Enemy allows you to use an abundance of plasma guns with relative safety and kinda makes up for the Blood Claws' WS3 and BS3, while FNP gives your guys a chance to last even against stronger opponents, at least for a while. Unfortunately, the lack of melee options means the Wolf Priest is not gonna be much useful in challenges against MEQs, so you better give him a Wolf Guard pack leader properly kitted for the task, while the Wolf Priest and the Blood Claws drown the rest of the enemy unit with the sheer amount of attacks.

== Gallery ==
<gallery>
Image:Chapdread.jpg|Now in [[Dreadnought]] flavour.
Image:BurningChaplain.jpg|I SERVE THE [[EMPRAH]]!!!!!
Image:Grimaldushelsreach.jpg|PRAISE THE EMPEROR AND PASS THE AMMUNITION!
File:EmprahsMetal.png|A Chaplain's role is not only to fight in combat, but to also duel in guitar solos.
</gallery>

{{Marines-Forces}}

Roboute Guilliman

2017-03-24T00:58:53Z

2602:306:C48F:5730:6880:C36A:8024:A21C: /* 41st millennium / Gathering Storm */

''"[[Horus|Leadership is not magnetic personality]], [[Fulgrim|that can just as well be a glib tongue]]. [[Vulkan|It is not "making friends ]][[Lorgar|and influencing people]]", that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations."''<br>
― Peter F. Drucker

''Si vis pacem, para bellum. If you want peace, prepare for war.''<br>
- Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
[[File:Robute_Guilliman.jpg|Guilliman as portrayed by Forge World. Also, that face just screams "I'm surrounded by plebeians."...And looks strangely like Mark Strong, maybe Daniel Craig if you squint a bit or block out his forehead.|400px|thumb|right]]
'''Roboute Guilliman''' ("Row-BOOT-ay" "GILL-uh-man" ɹəʊ-buːt-eɪ ɡɪl-ə-mæn) was the Primarch of the [[Ultramarines]], and a man with a staggering collection of nicknames, including but not limited to: Rowboat Girlyman, Roman Gorillaman, Rawbutt Jellyman, Rampant Gullytan, Robot Gigglytan, Raw-Rigged Ginger-Fan, Robot Gulliver, Robust Gilligan, Robit Ghillie Suit, Reboot Gigabyte, Robert Gullible, Roboot Girlymayne, Robot Gorillaman, Robooty Guillotine, Roman Gogillian, R. Googleman Esq. Rowyourboat Downthestreamlyman (and any and every combination of the above), Julius Caesar ''in SPESS'', Big Blue Daddy, Papa Ultra Smurf, Big Bobby G, or High Lord Douchebag and Ward's Ever Chosen Robart. Thanks to the rabid fanboying of [[Matt Ward]], most of [[/tg/]] hates him, which is sad, because he's actually one of the nicest and most with-it Primarchs, even if he did cling to tradition so much that it made him look like a total jerkwad; this included an inability to deal with "unconventional" tactics, which occasionally caused friction between his brothers and himself, most famously being partially responsible for turning [[Alpharius]] to chaos. [[Omegon|Maybe]]. It's [[Iron Snakes|hard to tell]].

'''HE'S BACK, BITCHES!!! Ultramarines players rejoice!'''

(Everyone else [[Anal_Circumference|despair]])

==Life==
Unlike most worlds that the other Primarchs landed on, Macragge was a pretty perfect and nice place to live on. However it was a Greco-Roman theme so someone like Magnus or even Sanguinius would have been thrown off a cliff for being defective, plus Guilliman was found by a politician while they were on a hunting trip. Konor was one of the co-rulers of Macragge and took the young boy. Konor was a pretty cool dude, he advocated helping the common man and reforms that would make the world a meritocracy. These were a major influence on Roboute and stayed with him throughout his life. It also says something that Konor's seneschal, Tarasha Euten, was effectively Guilliman's surrogate mother, making him one of the only Primarchs to have a conventional family, [[Butthurt|a fact that twisted Konrad Curze's nipples to no end (which goes double when she tells him to go fuck himself)]].

One day while Roboute was coming back after fighting the Macragge's version of the Gauls, he found his home in disarray. Konor was the victim of some Roman politics. The other co-ruler, Gallan, was pissed off at all these reforms and so just sent his army to rape, pillage and burn. Seeing his once peaceful home burning, neighbors looting and killing each other; left the second major impact on Roboute and the most likely source of why he was always so anal about keeping things in order.

After gutting Gallan and restoring order, Roboute worked to make his father's dream a reality. This was the third major impact on his life: though he claimed that Gallan's death was justice, Guilliman came to realize that it was in fact vengeance, and worked to master his emotional self-control. By the time the Emperor reached Macragge, Roboute had ruled for five years and turned the world into a place where you had to earn your place, not just be born, like what his father wanted.

===Great Crusade===
[[File:Know No Fear huge.jpg|400px|thumb|right|''"Lorgar of Colchis. You may consider the following. One: I entirely withdraw my previous offer of solemn ceasefire. It is cancelled, and will not be made again, to you or to any other of your motherless bastards. Two: you are no longer any brother of mine. I will find you, I will kill you, and I will hurl your toxic corpse into hell’s mouth."'' - Roboute Guilliman, channeling Bryan Mills.]]
Generally Roboute was a classic "Jerk with a heart of gold" he was a total asshole for people he didn't think earned their place, and a great number of people he saw as chaotic and unorthodox (although secretly he had great respect for [[Leman Russ]] and [[Jaghatai Khan]]) but was humble and nice to normal people treating them like equals and very much big on the need to raise the living standards of the Imperium. As a result, many of his brother Primarchs were uncertain about his intentions, and fewer still even liked him. His only friends among the Primarchs were [[Horus]], [[Sanguinius]], [[Ferrus Manus]], and [[Rogal Dorn]] and obviously [[Vulkan]] FRIENDLIEST OF MEN ([[Vulkan]] was everyone's friend, especially ''yours''.)

A good example of this was his dealings with Alpharius. While the common view is that Guilliman was simply annoyed at his younger brother for not having the same tactics as the Ultramarines, in truth it was because Guilliman was thinking ''after'' the battle. While the Alpha Legion's methods were great at messing and breaking an army, they left the world a ruined and chaotic mess with very poor public order, mass unrest and paralysed with both fear and uncertainty. By comparison, the Ultramarines' straightforward tactics ensured that planet was mostly intact, which allowed it to be more easily integrated into the Imperium. Curze, however, would strongly disagree on this statement, and so did Alpharius. But since Roby never needed to [[Exterminatus|blow up]] [[Nostramo|a world he previously "pacified" by just killing people]], maybe Spess Punisher was not the best attorney for Alpharius in retrospect... Or just Curze's standards were a lot higher (but VERY poorly executed): after all, Guilliman didn't change a thing on Nuceria, a beautiful feudal world of charming people enjoying slaves and pit fights and slaves fighting in pits (not to say they were fucking responsible for the mess Angron turned into) after incorporating it in his empire; it was of no concern to Robaut, the only thing he cared about was resources and taxes arriving in time. Truly, Guilliman mirrored the Emperor in more ways he would admit himself. Still better than being butchered by some space sadists AND forced to pay said taxes... Early Crusade Konrad was a creepy but kind of idealistic guy who killed only the guilty and saw fear as a tool to impose order and obedience with minimal (yet imaginative and memorable) bloodshed. Alpharius was just an arrogant asshole devastating whole societies for the sake of OLOLOL JUST AS PLANNED and he didn't even possess the Night Haunter's twisted sense of honour and justice.

He was an extremely skilled tactician, administrator, warrior and designer, and was an unparalleled statesman. While he preferred to form battle plans rather than actually participate in the fighting himself, he still did his fair share of Xeno-killing. In the hopes of passing down some of his strategic expertise, he worked very hard to turn the Ultramarines into an army of thinkers. His primary rule as a commander was "Information is victory", emphasizing that Space Marines needed theoretical knowledge and practical experience, in other words, a sound understanding of the tactical situation and a means to achieve their objective. Given that battle plans proved to be the first casualty, Guilliman soon realized that he would need to refine his own strategies even as he codified them, lest they fall apart in the chaos of warfare. In spite of that, with over 250,000 legionaries, he managed to achieve compliance on the highest number of worlds during the [[Great Crusade]], but was surpassed in ''military'' victories not only by the [[Luna Wolves]], but by [[Space Wolves]] and [[Dark Angels]] as well. Meaning he was either a good diplomat or his crusade encountered much more peaceful human societies not being mutants than average one. Or both. The planets were also model military worlds, and the Ultramarines would not leave until a modern [[Planetary Defence Force]] was established. He really should've been put jointly in charge of administration post-Ullanor, which would've made premature, excessive taxation of newly integrated worlds a lot easier to avoid (and therefore fewer worlds would have joined Horus' rebellion).

It is also implied in ''Know no Fear'' that Guilliman was maybe a little more tolerant than his father regarding religion, Oll Persson managing to remain a Catholic for 18 years after he settled on Calth (and his neighbors were well aware of his faith). Before screaming "noblebright Mary Sue!", you should know that it fits in with the Roman roots of the Ultramarines, as Romans didn't really give a fuck about what you did at home as long as your loyalty to Rome was absolute. But if you placed your private religion above the Emperor's orders, you were badly fucked. So perhaps Guilliman just exterminated the most dangerous cults, kept an eye on the others and chose a unofficial "don't ask, don't tell" policy.

Though above his genius, above his skills as an administrator and a statesman, Guilliman's most noteworthy characteristic is probably being one of the few well adjusted, sensible people in the entire freaking galaxy. Guilliman was one of the few Primarchs who didn't really see the Emperor as his father, and he was the first to state how shitty the Emperor was at raising kids and never fully forgave the Emperor for using him and his Legion as a tool to humiliate Lorgar. He understood how to run an empire, how to inspire loyalty and how to temper the flawed nature of humanity with organisation and discipline. The Emperor's greatest failing was always a lack of understanding in the people he ruled, a flaw that few saw in him, save perhaps for [[Malcador the Sigillite]] and Guilliman.

===Horus Heresy===
When civil war broke out, Guilliman was tricked into taking most of his Legion to Calth for a joint Ultramarines/[[Word Bearers]] engagement. While most of his Chapter Masters believed it was just Horus flexing his muscle, Guilliman realized it was partly political: when the Emperor of Mankind rebuked [[Lorgar|Lorgar Aurelian]] for spreading the ''Lectitio Divinatatus'', he ordered the Ultramarines to burn Monarchia, capital city of Khur, as an example of what would happen to those who continued to defy the [[Imperial Truth]]. Guilliman carried out his orders and didn't show Lorgar any sympathy, but privately confided to some of his officers his discomfort in doing so, feeling that the total humiliation would irreparably damage relations between the XIII and XVII Legions. Guilliman saw this as a chance to mend fences and forge friendships the old fashioned way: by getting Space Marines to kill Orks. Unfortunately, Horus and Lorgar used the Calth muster to kill nearly half the Legion in a surprise attack. When he found out Lorgar's treachery he personally declared to hunt Lorgar down and kill him, only to be attacked by some sort of [[Daemon]]ic proxy and voided onto his flagship. Guilliman did what any other pissed off Primarch would do: go on a rampage against Word Bearers trying to board the ''Macragge's Honour'' by punching them to death. In space. [[Mary_Sue|Without a helmet]]. ''For half an hour.'' ([[Dan Abnett]] is still pretty proud of that scene).

Anyway, after the Battle of Calth, Guilliman had to contend with the Shadow Crusade, as Lorgar and Angron tore the 500 Worlds of Ultramar a new one. (<s>Except not really, they razed 26 worlds, just 5.2% of ultramar</s> That is only the main fleet's count, [[Just_as_planned|both WB and WE were split into smaller fleets after Armatura to terrorise 500 Worlds while Guilliman was chasing Lorgar and Angron with his forces amassed]])

After seeing off the Shadow Crusade, Guilliman decided that if his father could not be saved, His ideals would be, setting up a new government called [[Imperium Secundus]], a second Imperium of Man which would reject Horus's alliance with [[Chaos]]. Although potentially traitorous, Guilliman's motives at least ''appeared'' sincere, he made a big hoohah about not taking the throne himself, since he would look like a Tyrant if he did. Fortunately/Unfortunately, [[Lion El'Jonson|The Lion]] arrived at Macragge and didn't like [[heresy|where it was heading]]. Neither brother trusted the other with the job of ruling the next Imperium, so [[Sanguinius]] got the job only to settle the matter between the two and was declared regent of the Imperium in the Emperor's absence, which meant fuck all because he promptly got murdered by Horus in the battle of Terra.

Whatever his intentions, Guilliman led over one hundred thousand Ultramarines to Terra with the [[Dark Angels]] and the [[Space Wolves]], intent on relieving the [[Blood Angels]], [[Imperial Fists]], and [[White Scars]] defending the throneworld. Learning about this and knowing that he could not sustain the assault on Terra anymore once the bulk of the loyalist forces came into the fight, Horus lowered the void shields upon the ''Vengeful Spirit'' in an all-or-nothing gambit to win the war by killing the Emprah in a duel. By one collosal fuckup or another, the vastly superior relieving force DIDN'T crush the beleaguered traitor forces. The traitor legions fled Terra, and the rest is history...

===41st millennium / Gathering Storm===
[[File:16999239_340497286345256_3126583543407667659_n.jpg|600px|right|thumb|Our [[Spiritual Liege]] about to give [[Skarbrand]] a [[Sanguinius]]-style head chopping.]]

:''We shall give the humans a demigod. A king reborn with a deathly blade.'' -Prince [[Yriel]].

As we know, after being poisoned by Fulgrim, Guilliman was put into stasis. A popular rumor was that he was slowly healing, though that would be impossible in stasis. After a long battle, Rowboat's <s>plot armour has finally defeated physics and it is confirmed that he does survive</s> boo-boo gets kissed by <s>Saint Celestine</s> Yvraine and Cawl. He feels all better now, as he plays a major role in the third Gathering Storm book. That's right; Gorillaman is back! And in plastic! Somebody call Fulgrim, he'll be pissed! (Spoiler alert. He is really, really pissed. So is Mortarion.)

Also, it seems that [[Saint Celestine]] and Inquisitor Greyfax have convinced Roboute to withold final judgement against the [[Ecclesiarchy]] ''for now'', setting that aside to deal with the larger problems facing the Imperium. Suffice to say, he is <u>'''NOT'''</u> pleased with the whole space Catholicism thing that has been going on while he was asleep.

Essentially, after Roboute was resurrected, he immediately took command of the local imperial forces and used his [[Tactical genius|tactical genius]] to inspire the combined forces of Chaos to simultaneously shit themselves. Within a month, Girlyman routed the entire invading Chaos force on Macragge in a series of battles and heroic duels worthy of any primarch. Once Macragge is liberated, Papa Smurf then looked to liberate the rest of the Macragge system, this time with help from the Primogenitor Chapters, the [[Dark Angels]], [[Space Wolves]], [[White Scars]], a [[Sisters of Battle]] army, the remaining [[Black Templars]], more [[Imperial Guard|Guardsmen]], a ship containing an entire [[Imperial Knight|Knight Household]], an entire [[Imperial Navy]] battlegroup, and the [[Mechanicus]] with an entire [[Titan|Titan Legion]] backing them. He also declares the independent sovereignty of the five hundred worlds null and void, assuming direct control over his former territories. [[Rape|There was no kill like overkill.]]

During his coronation as uber-boss of Ultramar, a fragment of [[Fulgrim]] possessing a planetary governor infiltrated the many, many pilgrims and dignitaries who had shown up to verify the Primarch's resurrection, and offered him a golden wreath to wear. The wreath was cursed to show Guilliman all his potential glories and lead him to the embrace of Slaanesh. When he saw through the deception and ordered the infiltrator slain, Fulgrim promised that Guilliman would never take any satisfaction from his victories ever again. Which kind of reinforces the notion that Fulgrim is beyond [[Butthurt]] that he did not kill Papa Smurf.

Later, [[Nurgle]] inflicted a plague on Ultramar called '''The Sorrows/Weeping Plague''' that spread via insects and caused its victims' eyes to rot out. However, the only known cure for the disease was to be admitted to the presence of Guilliman himself. Realising that it was a devious trick to play on the Primarch's compassion and contain Guilliman in Ultramar, he declared that he would not repeat the mistake of [[Imperium Secundus|defending his own realm while the rest of he galaxy burned]] and needed to go to Terra for the greater good of the Imperium, and left his Apothecaries to try and find a cure.

After Robby G has finished his job in ousting [[Chaos]] from Ultramar, the Ynnari bid their farewell, as they have other psychic mumbo-jumbo to do elsewhere. Roboute and Yvraine said their goodbyes, Roboute said that he is in debt to Yvraine for bringing him back to life and Yvraine telling Roboute to stay safe. Although in all honesty the respect between the two was a tad bit...[[Love Can Bloom|''too close''.]] Like it sounded that there was some sexual tension between the two. Is the implication of Primarch/Eldar attraction [[Heresy|heretical?]] Maybe, but it does show the reasonable and respectable behavior of Roboute even with xenos like the Eldar which has a chronic backstabbing disorder. [[Kharn|What a swell guy.]]

It is known that while heading to Terra on ''Macragge's Honour'' (OMG GLORIANA CLASS BATTLESHIP!), the Thousand Sons transport him into the Maelstrom, where a warband of Red Corsairs and daemons led by Kairos Fateweaver attack him and his allies. Kairos manages to "bind Guilliman in chains of his own guilt, anger, and disappointment" (kinky) and toss him into a cell on a Blackstone Fortress, which the Red Corsairs apparently got from Abbadon as a gift in exchange for their loyalty. However, his relief comes in the form of none other than '''[[Cypher]]''' who has been led to Guilliman by the Harlequins and a bunch of [[Khorne|Khornate]] daemons led by Skarbrand assaulting the Blackstone Fortress when Kairos insisted on keeping Guilliman alive for future plans. Cypher makes a deal with Guilliman, freeing him and the crusader army from bondage and offering the [[Fallen Angels]]' support in exchange for a free pass to Terra and the Imperial Throne Room to fulfill his destiny. After fighting their way through an army of daemons and escaping through the webway, they are pursued by the [[Thousand Sons]] but fight their way through to Luna and continue the battle on Terra's doorstep, and eventually Guilliman winds up having a duel with [[Magnus]] himself. Guilliman looks to be losing the fight until he gets saved by the [[Sisters of Silence]], supported by the [[Imperial Fists]] and the [[Adeptus Custodes]], who drop in to save the day. When he finally arrives on Terra, Guilliman double crosses Cypher by getting him arrested by the Custodians ''(though Cypher, being Cypher, immediately escapes, but is shown to have a particular bad case of [[Not_as_planned|butthurt]], first time in 40k history!)''.

Guilliman then gets an audience with the Emperor behind closed doors, at which point Big E presumably said, "the Administratum is a humongous festering bureaucratic blister upon the once fine musculature that is the Imperium, so do your thing and be useful for once you little derivative pile of blueberry pudding pop fuckery," along with perhaps a few pointed words about that whole [[Imperium Secundus|draining resources from Terra during the heresy]] thing. When he emerged, he would say he got all the enlightenment he needed and then declares himself '''Lord Commander of the Imperium''' ''(his old job)'' before forcibly deposing some High Lords he doesn't like and replacing them. Whilst his deposing of some of the High Lords may seem unnecessary given the desperate/fragile state of the Imperium, do take note that Guilliman is a meritocrat and an administrator first and foremost, so if anyone can save the Administratum and the Imperial Senate, it's him. Thus him rearranging the High Lords is perfectly in character as the High Lords have been repeatedly established as being almost entirely self-serving individuals who are incompetent at best and utterly uninterested in anything other than expanding their personal power at worst- in short, everything Guilliman is not. If anything, it would be even more out of character for Guilliman to just look the other way given their (lack of) overall performance.

[[Tl;dr]], Robby came, he saw, and he gave the entire Chaos Space Marines an [[Anal circumference|anal pounding]] like no other.

==Popular Opinion==
''All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.''<br>
- Sun Tzu

Guilliman is mostly hated by the community at large because of [[Matt Ward | Mattards]] Codex: Space Marines. However, it is worth stating that Guilliman was probably one of the most important figures holding the Imperium together after the Horus Heresy. He's pretty much the only Primarch to realize that the Emperor's ideals were more important than the man himself, which is something that [[Malcador the Sigillite|Malcador]] kept preaching.

He was also the best Primarch when it came to logistics and organization, rivaled only by [[Perturabo]] (but Guilliman wasn't an antisocial autistic weirdo, so there's that), which is pretty much one of the only reasons why the [[Imperium of Man]] didn't collapse after the Horus Heresy. He was able to train and equip more than twice as many Marines during the [[Great Crusade]] than any other Legion, and he wrote the [[Codex Astartes]] (still the standard for Space Marine tactics). He is credited with reorganizing the entire governmental and administrative system of the [[Imperium of Man]] (yes, the reorganized Administratum ended up running the galaxy into the ground, but the fact that it's still running at all is a good sign).

However as the Horus Heresy series continues, it is revealed that it was actually [[Malcador the Sigillite]] who had been creating the foundations for the later Imperium. In fact it is continuously being hinted that Guilliman positioned himself to take over the Imperium after the fall of the Emperor, being almost explicitly stated in ''Vengeful Spirit''. whether through good intentions or through sinister means has yet to be revealed. Funnily enough Kor Phaeron, who hated his guts, identified him as the Primarch best suited to succeed his dad, though given the source, that may well be intended as an insult. Despite this, Guilliman claimed that he had no desire to be Emperor and promised his brothers that if the otherwise impassable Ruinstorm abated, he would immediately send his fleet to Terra. That said, the Blood Angels managed to get back to Terra somehow, despite being on the wrong side of it, so it's unknown just how difficult it was to get back.

''Unfortunately'', thanks to 10,000 years of propaganda and exaggeration (and Matt Ward's Codex: Space Marines), Guilliman is ''absolutely perfect'' in every way and treated as ''second only to the Emperor'' through ''the entire Imperium.'' This is incorrect, considering that [[Sebastian Thor]] is actually the main Imperial saint, and [[Sanguinius]] is the primarch most beloved by the common men of the Imperium. Regardless, Guilliman is pretty high on the list and the only Primarch whose body is on public display. This "better than thou" shit is sad and quite paradoxical, since Guilliman himself genuinely recognized [[Lion El'Jonson|some]] [[Horus|Primarchs]] were better than him as leaders. He has sometimes been portrayed as petty or jealous of his brother Primarchs but also intelligent enough to acknowledge his own errors when proved wrong. Far from the "perfect in every aspect" figure Matt Ward promoted, the HH Guilliman is actually a man with a lot of very human weaknesses but possessing the humility to admit them as flaws he must deal with.

[[Fallen Angels|Astelan]], while a prisoner of the [[Dark Angels]] goes into detail explaining how Guilliman was purportedly the ''"greatest"'' of the Primarchs, but only in the context of what the Emperor intended for them. Astelan describes that Guilliman was '''"not the most able-minded, nor as charismatic, and not as physically adept"''' and was the inferior of [[Horus]] in every respect. Although Astelan was also a traitor and a fallen angel, so his word is hardly reliable. His greatness came from the fact that Guilliman never once wavered in dedication and service and created his Space Marines to be incorruptible. Guilliman and his Ultramarines were the perfect <u>sons</u>, not necessarily perfect soldiers. It's also worthy of note that much like [[Rogal Dorn]] and [[Lion El'Jonson]], Guilliman was a possible candidate for the position of warmaster, but was rejected for the same reasons they were: he didn't get along with many of his brothers.

However, contrary to that, He also did a lot of tricky things in [[Horus Heresy]], like that whole [[Imperium Secundus]] thing, and it's popularly theorized that he was bitter that he never got to be '''Warmaster''', which despite his claims that he had no desire to become Emperor, when he appointed the [[High Lords of Terra]] he nominated himself for the seat of '''Lord Commander of the Imperium''' which was essentially "Warmaster" in all but name, and the titular commander of the entirety of the Imperium's armed forces. So claiming that no man should have the power of a Legion, then place himself at the top of the chain of command for all of the [[Space Marine Chapter|Chapters]] that his remaining brothers were left with was a bit hypocritical.

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It's quite likely that Guilliman's actions in creating the Imperium Secundus, and his later actions during the reformation of the Imperium, are a reference to the Roman practice of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_dictator|Roman Dictatorship]]. A roman dictator was more or less what we think of as a modern dictator, with one key exception. The dictator was given absolute executive and military power over Rome and her holdings in times of crisis, when the gridlock and beaurocratic red tape of roman society got in the way of doing what needed to be done. But as strange as it sounds to our modern minds, dictators were elected to their position, and without exception in all the history of Rome every dictator willingly stepped down and returned power to the senate.

It's highly likely that Guilliman's actions after the emperor's death are a reference to this practice: he set aside the normal moral and legal rules restricting him so that he could restructure the imperium. Despite the fact that he was in the perfect position to assume power over the entire imperium, he relinquished power to the Council of Terra after some sense of stability had returned. This is further supported by how heavily his legion leans on Roman culture, and how much Guilliman himself draws on the famous generals of Rome (Julius and Augustus Caesar, Cininatus, etc).</div></div>

So with that being said, he was no more flawless than the other Primarchs; Even during the Great Crusade, while he was considered to be one of the greatest strategists in the entire Imperium, he was defeated in combat simulations by [[Corax]] of the [[Raven Guard]], having to be specifically taught that there is no fixed dividing line between non-combatants and soldiers when people are defending their homes; that under-strength units should not be ruled out as ineffective; and that small units of adaptable troops can be wielded with just as much effect as larger battalions and chapters. Furthermore, Guilliman stuck closely to his tried and true methods, refusing to give credit to what he considered "unconventional" tactics, pissing off many other Primarchs, most notably [[Alpharius]]. Even though he would later be shown by his own men how effective such unconventional guerrilla tactics would be and would include then in his codex.

Therefore while he was certainly the Primarch with the greatest mental capacity and adaptability, he was apparently incapable of lateral thinking and would fail to see the flaws in his methods until explicitly shown the error of his ways. ( which certainly indicates that he was definitely not the primarch with the greatest mental capacity or adaptability. Alpharius and Magnus come to mind or even Corax or the Lion whos Legion literally did it all.) Also, though the Codex Astartes undoubtedly did a lot of good things like making sure each chapter could feasibly fight under most conditions no matter their heritage or preference, forcing all of his brothers to split their Legions into [[Codex Astartes|Chapters]] risked a second galactic civil war.

Additionally, although it isn't (entirely) his fault, Guilliman is usually blamed for turning the Ultramarines into such faggots. The Codex is now basically treated as infallible by the Ultramarines ''(at least the more faggot-y ones; [[Captain Titus|there's at least some who take it with a grain of salt and realize where its strengths and weaknesses lie]])''. even though he '''specifically said''' that the [[Codex Astartes]] should not be treated as a bible to be followed unerringly... Except for the organizational parts, which he forced on his brothers as part of the post-Heresy reforms and were upheld by the High Lords of Terra as a means of keeping the Astartes in check.

Recently he's been increasingly entrusted to the care of the Mighty [[Dan Abnett]] and his faggot level is dropping rapidly. Now, Guilliman isn't portrayed as a power armored Sun Tzu, but as a logistical genius, planning planetary conquest in a way that would leave said worlds in a state that could quickly be returned to order and Imperial rule. His high number of compliant worlds is a direct product of this, helped by his Legion's innate tendency towards discipline, hierarchy and monomaniacal fixation on whatever their objective might be.

This adherence toward a rigid chain of command did end up becoming a double-edged sword later on, since when Guilliman was put into stasis the Ultramarines still tried to follow him (thanks to him being the at the top of the chain) and as such started to forget that the Codex Astartes was only meant to be a guideline, as opposed to a definitive text. More importantly, they slowly lost their ability to adapt to new situations, which was their most famed of traits, until the Tyrannic Wars illustrated the need to improvise new strategies when old ones failed them.

Once upon a time, thanks to the rabid fanboying of [[Matt Ward]], most of [[/tg/]] hated him, but many of them have since come around. Still expect people to [[Rage|bitch endlessly]] about how he was an absolute [[Leman Russ|narrow-minded]] [[Lion El'Jonson|hypocritical]] [[Dorn|jerk]], but don't feel bad about it.

Ironically enough, Guilliman has something the Imperium needs even more desperately than new technologies and peace: managerial skills, among the primarchs Guilliman was the only one who actually seemed to be bright enough to understand and strongly insist that no empire, no matter how militarily powerful, could withstand without a good administration, keeping the fiscal balance positive and ensuring the population, not just the armies, have a decent enough standard of living and supply lines, it speaks something of most of the denizens of 4chan that so few of them have ever pointed out this simple fact.

On a side note, he likes Shakespeare's work.

===Suddenly, Forge World!===
[[Image:Girlyman.jpg|400px|thumb|right|[[Dwarfs (Warhammer Fantasy)|Guilliman atop his mighty Oathstone (not seen are the Chapter Serfs who get the honour of carrying him around)! Note how tiny his sword is. Matt Ward does not approve.]]]]
When Tempest came out, it immediately forgot that Guilliman's supposed to be just as heavily flawed as the other Primarchs, in Tempest Guilliman is "a paragon among the Emperor's sons", and that he "is as much a statesman as he is an indefatigable warrior." He's also as just as great a strategist, in addition to being the most level-headed, the quickest to react, the smartest and the most analytical, constantly basing new and better designs off of existing materials, as well as refining battle plans thanks to having a mind that calmly and coldly allows him to analyze everything around him and wonder how various things like his marines, his armour and his weapons could all be improved. He observes what other Primarchs do with their warriors makes them better in his own creations, in doing so (specifically copying Perturabo's Siege Tyrants in the rules) they say he's "proving himself once again the master of all of the myriad disciplines of war." This is further evidenced by his rules below where he's the best Primarch at buffing his army, while as a warrior in a straight-up fight he only loses to Horus and Fulgrim''(not counting [[Lorgar|psychic interference]] or Primarchs with a [[Angron|bit of momentum behind them]])''.

In addition Guilliman's Ultramarines during the Horus Heresy were the most disciplined of all the Space Marines (wrong, as Unremembered Empire pointed out the 1st where more disciplined) as well as the most numerous, the ones who prized intelligence above all to help them formulate the best battle plan, and with the best training/recruitment (also wrong the 1st Legion had Luther who reduced training time for a marine to just 5 years.), not to mention being familiar with the other legions MO's and able to pull them off without any problems which had a lot to do with their rigid chain of command (again this is nonsense, as the raven guard and alpha Legion's M.O.'s where never even attempted by the Ultramarines nor the way that the Vlka Fenryka fought war. If they where capable of that feat they wouldn't have been behind other legions on victories). This goes on to the point that they were considered the biggest threat (before Isstvan) and the book outright states that if the Ultramarines were aware of Horus' rebellion they and their Auxilia would be able to make [[Ultramar|the 500 worlds]] a bastion that by itself, would be able to weather the entire heresy and challenge [[Horus]] for control of the eastern half of the Galaxy. [[Matt Ward|I guess the Imperial Fists, White Scars, and Blood Angels on Terra didn't really try hard enough.]] But to be fair the size of the Legion at the time is nothing new since the Ultramarines have always been described as the Legion with the most recruits and the least casualties long before the Wardian plague begins.

A more generous explanation could be that since the books were written after the Heresy in-universe, it could just be a case of "history is written by the winners" kicking in again, since (rather thankfully) "Everything is canon, not everything is true." Or maybe Matt was secretly brought back for that particular book, which would go quite a long way in explaining all of the Smurf wanking in it. It's likely we'll have to wait until the follow-up book on the Shadow Crusade to determine which of those it is. This doesn't entirely go against 40k's history however, while saying the smurfs and their auxiliaries could take on all of the traitor legions at full strength is undoubtedly complete horseshit, Ultramar was ''always'' considered to have been one of the greatest threats to Horus' rebellion and was the prime reason that the Battle of Calth took place; to get them all in one place and hit them with a surprise attack, and then pin the Ultramarines in place for the duration of the Heresy. The same applies to Guilliman, who has always been considered to have been one of the most intelligent and adaptable of Primarchs, as well as being gifted with his own brilliance.

Thankfully he still retains at least one flaw, that being he has no creative spark. He made Perturabo's Terminators better, but he'd never have made them on his own. He made his own versions of power weapons that were far better than regular power weapons as they were more precise/lethal when in trained hands, yet he could only do that after studying countless designs of regular power weapons. Even his own armour is artificer armour that he improved in ways heavily influenced by what Vulkan and Perturabo have made.

Well, two flaws actually. His assumption that his and therefore Ultramarine nobility and camaraderie will rub off on to other, less forward thinking legions was a direct contributor to his massive losses at the utterly disastrous Battle of Calth. His belief that the Word Bearers and their Militias could be best bros to his troops if only they spent more time, more closely together helped Lorgar's sons be in just the right position to inflict devastating casualties on the XIIIth from the moment of betrayal. Lets be clear, 100,000 Ultramarines were dead (not casualties, but dead) 12 hours after the battle began and by the end of the surface conflict 145,000 of his sons were killed or permanently combat non-effectives. Considering the total Legion strength prior to the slaughter was 250,000, Calth cost the Ultramarines c.60% of their strength and all for the bargain basement cost of 50,000 Word Bearers, though it's worthy of note that the casualty ratios between the two legions were actually pretty similar, as the Word Bearers were at about 125,000 by Calth. Considering that a force with superior wargear (that the Warmaster made sure his traitors had) striking from ambush against a force that's out of position, deliberately striking at the Ultramarine's command structure, something they're quite weak to, with ALL THOSE ADVANTAGES, they only got a 3 to 1 casualty ratio. It is perhaps no surprise that Imperial history records that Guilliman completely lost his temper and cool at Lorgar when the treachery was realized (insert max troll face here), perhaps this was what allowed him to survive immediately afterwards in the hard vacuum of space for 11 hours without his helmet?

On the other side (and that is a good point) Guilliman and the Ultramarines are not as "noblebright" in ''Tempest'' as they can be in other pieces of background. While he promotes meritocracy and progress and refuses to waste any life, Roboute is always described as cold and logical, obsessed with efficiency, and not a kind of crusading philanthropist. FW's Guilliman is first and foremost a statesman and a warlord willing to make the most effective system possible, and ''Tempest'' implies he used a kind of political police of his own (the Vigil Opertii) to silence any opposition in Ultramar. Just like the Imperium does. The only difference with the other Primarchs is Guilliman cannot deny HE is responsible for all the [[1984|authoritarian shit]] happening in HIS private empire. Feel free to think what you want about Guilliman being OP or a Mary Sue, FW still made him more grimdark than before, even if he remains a nice dude by 30k standards.

==Gameplay==

===30K Guilliman===
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True to his legion, Roboute Guilliman is fairly average as far as Primarchs go, both in terms of his stats and his points cost, but it's the rules and equipment you really want him for. He and any unit he joins can re-roll failed charge distances, and the Concussive special rule doesn't do shit against him. All Ultramarines in play gain +1 to Ld while he's in play and he also makes Invictarus Suzerains and Legion Terminators troops as long as he's the warlord. Preternatural Strategy can force opponents to re-roll successful attempts at Seize the Initiative while also granting all units from one entry in the Ultramarines army list Implacable Advance, Interceptor, or Tank Hunters if they don't have it already, and by that they do mean entry, not just one unit, so if you selected Legion Predator Strike Armour Squadron to have Tank Hunters then every Legion Predator Strike Armour Squadron in your army will gain the rule. It also buffs his WS by 1 for each round of combat within a challenge after the first one (e.g. he becomes WS8 on the second round and so on), although it resets back to 7 after the challenge is over or if his opponent swaps out for somebody else via something like Glorius Intervention. Finally, Unyielding Will negates all negative leadership modifiers and allows him to re-roll failed Deny the Witch tests. (Funnily enough, this actually makes him a decent counter for Lorgar's psychic faggotry, though it won't help him deny Lorgars' blessings.)

Guilliman's Armor of Reason gives him a 2+/4++ and the ability to re-roll the first invulnerable save he fails in each phase. (Not per turn, per phase.). As for his weapons, he can choose one of two melee weapons to use in any given assault phase: the Gladius Incandor (a Paragon Blade with Shred) and the Hand of Dominion (a S10 AP1 Power Fist with Concussion). Both of them are Specialist weapons, so regardless of which one he picks he still gets an extra attack. Finally, his gun is the Arbitrator, a S6 AP3 combi-bolter with Assault 2 and Rending- which he might as well have left at home for how often it fires it as he has a Cognis Signum to use instead (+1 BS to a unit instead of firing a weapon himself). Overall, he gives out a nice variety of buffs and can really hold his own in a fight while being one of the best tactician character in the game.

Don't forget, this is all for only 125 points more than [[Marneus Calgar|M.A.C. daddy]], further proof of 30k superiority.

==Roboute Guilliman (30K) VS other Primarchs:==
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Primarch fighting, while fun to see, isn't a very competitive thing to do as it'll usually tie up both Primarchs for the entire game without either of them dying. With that in mind this section is all about how Roboute Guilliman fares against other Primarchs mathammer wise. Please note that all the various abilities, with the exception of Blind, are taken into account (Blind is ignored because it is just too random and unreliable to come into play) and the match-ups assume the Primarchs are the only ones involved in the fighting, so various abilities like Angron's "The Butcher's Nails" and Rampage do not provide any bonuses. Also do note that Preternatural Strategy is taken into account (obviously) so prepare to see even more mathhammer than for the other Primarchs.
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* Roboute Guilliman VS Horus
**Horus will use his Talon of Horus (rerollable 3+ is better than flat 2+, and Disabling Strike can counter the slow-burn effect of Preternatural Strategy) and hits 4 times, wounds 3.555 times, 1.778 after saves, then 1.564 for the Armour of Reason and IWND will take that down to 1.231 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Guilliman hits 2.5 times, wounds 2.222 times (Gladius), 0.74 wounds after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.407.
**Guilliman loses this fight (Quite appropriately).
**Note: Due to the nature of the fight this match doesn't take into account Preternatural Strategy (Because it is balanced by Disabling Strike). Also do note that after the first few wounds inflicted from Horus, Guilliman will have his WS and S significantly reduced, making it even easier for Horus to win.

* Roboute Guilliman VS Angron
**Angron Round 1: Angron has Hatred, so on the first turn he will hits 5.333 times, wounds 4.444 times, 2.222 after saves, 2.008 after Armour of Reason re-roll and IWND take it down to 1.675.
**Angron Round 2: Angron hits 4 times, wounds 3.333 times, 1.667 times after saves, 1.453 after re-roll and IWND will take that down to 1.12 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Angron Round 3 and thereafter: Angron hits 3 times, wounds 2.5 times, 1.25 after saves and 1.036 after the re-roll. Then IWND take it down to 0.703.
**Guilliman Round 1/2/3: hits 2.5 times, wounds 2.222 times, 0.926 times after saves and FNP, and IWND will take that down to 0.59 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Guilliman Round 4 and thereafter: hits 3.333 times, wounds 2.963 times, 1.234 times after saves and FNP, and IWND will take that down to 0.9 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Unsurprisingly, Guilliman loses this fight in 6 rounds, dying directly before he's able to kill Angron as even though he has an extra wound on Angron, he takes too much damage.

* Roboute Guilliman VS Fulgrim
**Fulgrim Round 1: hits 4.861 times (Fireblade is MC), wounds 3.601 times (Child of Terra Warlord Trait), 1.801 times after the Invuln, 1.582 after the Armour of Reason and IWND will take that down to 1.249 at the start of the next turn.
**Fulgrim Round 2 and thereafter: hits 3.714 times, wounds 2.889 times, 1.445 times after the Invuln, 1.226 after the re-roll and IWND will take that down to 0.893 at the start of the next turn.
**Concussed Fulgrim (cannot happen earlier than round 3): Hits 2.708 times, wounds 2.106 times, 1.053 times after the invuln, 0.845 after the re-roll and IWND will take that down to 0.56 wounds.
**Guilliman with Gladius Incandor Round 1/2: hits 2.5 times, wounds 2.222 times, 0.74 times after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.407 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Guilliman with Gladius Incandor Round 3 and thereafter: hits 3.333 times, wounds 2.963 times, 0.988 times after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.654 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Guilliman with Hand of Dominion Round 1/2: hits 2.5 times, wounds 2.083 times, 0.694 times after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.361 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Guilliman with Hand of Dominion Round 3 and thereafter: hits 3.333 times, wounds 2.777 times, 0.926 times after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.593 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**An unsurprising loss for Guilliman. If Guilliman chooses to use the Gladius Incandor, Fulgrim will out-damage him in the long run, and if he chooses to concuss Fulgrim, Fulgrim temporarily loses his extra attacks, but Guilliman cannot put out enough damage to keep Fulgrim concussed, meaning Fulgrim gets back up to his normal initiative, gains his extra attacks back, and beats down Guilliman.

* Roboute Guilliman VS Mortarion
**Mortarion hits 2.5 times, wounds 1.666, 0,833 after saves, 0.625 wounds after Armor of Reason, and after IWND it becomes 0.292 wounds.
**Guilliman Round 1: hits 2.5 times, wounds 2.083 times, 1.042 after saves, and IWND take it down to 0.486.
**Guilliman Round 2 and after: hits 3.333 times, wounds 2.777 times, 1.388 times after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.833.
**Easy win for Guilliman.

* Roboute Guilliman VS Ferrus
**Ferrus: hits 2.5 times (Forgebreaker and Servo-Harm), wounds 2.083 times, 1.042 after the Invuln, 0.834 times after the re-roll and IWND will take that down to 0.501 at the start of the next turn.
**Guilliman Round 1: hits 2.5 times, wounds 2.083 times (Hand), 0.694 times after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.361 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Guilliman Round 2 and thereafter: hits 3.333 times, wounds 2.778 times, 0.926 times after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.593 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Guilliman wins this fight.

* Roboute Guilliman VS Konrad Curze
**Curze Round 1: hits 4 times, wounds 3 times, 1.5 times after the Invuln, 1.286 times after the re-roll and IWND will take that down to 0.953 at the start of the next turn.
**Curze Round 2 and thereafter: hits 3 times, wounds 2.25 times, 1.125 times after the Invuln, 0.911 times after the re-roll and IWND will take that down to 0.578 at the start of the next turn
**Guilliman Round 1/2: hits 2.5 times, wounds 2.222 times, 1.111 times after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.778 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Guilliman Round 3 and thereafter: hits 3.333 times, wounds 2.963 times, 1.481 times after saves and IWND will take that down to 1.148 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Guilliman easily wins this fight.
**Note: Konrad could attempt to even the odds with Hit and Run, negating Preternatural Strategy while gaining the +1 attack for the charge (and sniping some wounds with his knives), but so long as Guilliman uses his power fist by the second round of combat Curze will be locked to initiative 1 and will be dead before it's guaranteed he'll be able to leave combat.

* Roboute Guilliman VS Vulkan
**Vulkan hits 2 times, wounds 1.667 times, 0.833 times after saves, 0.633 times after Armour of Reason and IWND will take that down to 0.3.
**Guilliman Round 1: hits 2.5 times, wounds 2.083 times, 0.694 times after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.139 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Guilliman Round 2 and thereafter: hits 3.333 times, wounds 2.778 times, 0.926 times after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.37 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**A long as fuck fight, but Guilliman takes the win 'cause he does marginally more damage.

* Roboute Guilliman VS Lorgar
**Lorgar hits 2.5 times, wounds 2.083 times, 1.042 times after the Invuln, 0.834 after the re-roll and IWND will take that down to 0.501.
**Guilliman Round 1: hits 2.778 times, wounds 1.85 times, 0.926 times after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.593 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Guilliman Round 2 and thereafter: hits 3.333 times, wounds 2.963 times, 1.48 times after saves and IWND will take that down to 1.15 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Even with forcing Guilliman to re-roll 5's and 6's for the first round Lorgar will still lose.
**Note: this doesn't take into account Psychic Powers and with Precognition on Lorgar will easily win. Guilliman's rerollable DtW doesn't do shit, as it only works against witchfires and maledictions, while Lorgar's most powerful spells are blessings.

*Roboute Guilliman VS Perturabo
**Perturabo Round 1: hits 2.667 times, wounds 2.222 times, 1.111 times after the Invuln, 0.911 times after the re-roll and IWND will take that down to 0.578.
**Perturabo Round 2 and thereafter: hits 2 times, wounds 1.667 times, 0.833 times after the Invuln, 0.633 after Armour of Reason and IWND will take that down to 0.3.
**Guilliman Round 1/2: hits 2.5 times, wounds 2.222 times, 0.74 times after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.407 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Guilliman Round 3 and thereafter: hits 3.333 times, wounds 2.963 times, 0.988 times after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.654 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Again, Guilliman wins pretty safely. Starting to see a trend here.

* Roboute Guilliman VS Alpharius
**Alpharius hits 2.917 times and wounds 1.702 times (Remember he has Preferred Enemy), 0.851 wounds after the Invuln, 0.643 after Armour of Reason and IWND will take that down to 0.31 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Guilliman Round 1: hits 2.5 times, wounds 2.222 times, 1.111 times after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.778 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Guilliman Round 2 and thereafter: hits 3.333 times, wounds 2.963 times, 1.482 times after saves and IWND will take that down to 1.148 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Guilliman wins really easily, as the damage Alpharius does is almost irrelevant, thus making the claim that he personally killed the lord of the Alpha Legion actually believable...

* Roboute Guilliman VS Rogal Dorn
**Dorn Round 1: hits 2.666 times, wounds 2 times, 1 time after the Invuln, 0.8 wounds after the re-roll and IWND will take that down to 0.467 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Dorn Round 2 and thereafter: hits 2 times, wounds 1.5 times, 0.75 wounds after the Invuln, 0.55 after the re-roll and IWND will take that down to 0.217 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Guilliman Round 1/2: hits 2.5 times, wounds 2.222 times, 1.111 times after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.778 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Guilliman Round 3 and thereafter: hits 3.333 times, wounds 2.963 times, 1.482 times after saves and IWND will take that down to 1.148 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Guilliman easily wins this fight, taking a lot less damage and dishing out more.
**Note: Dorn doesn't use Sundering Blow because he would actually cause less damage with it.

* Roboute Guilliman VS Corvus Corax
**Corvus hits 4 times (Scourge)/3 times (Shadow-walk), wounds 3 times (Scourge)/2.25 times (Shadow-walk), causing 1.5 wounds (Scourge)/1.125 wounds (Shadow-walk) after the Invuln which drop down to 1.286 (Scourge)/0.911 (Shadow-walk) and IWND will take that down to 0.953 (Scourge)/0.578 (Shadow-walk) wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Guilliman Round 1: 2.5/1.666 times, wounds 2.0833/1.389 times, 1.389/0.926 wounds after saves and 1.055/0.593 wounds after IWND.
**Guilliman Round 2 and thereafter: hits 3.333/2.5 times, wounds 2.963/2.083 times, 1.975/1.389 times after saves and IWND will take that down to 1.642/1.055 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Guilliman easily wins this fight
**Note: Like Curze, Corax could try to use Hit and Run to even the odds, having even more bonus than Curze thanks to his uber-Furious Charge, but unlike Curze it wouldn't work for too long as the second time they fight (whether Corax charges or Guilliman catches him) Guilliman will have him concussed (He's using his fist for a reason) for the rest of the fight and will kill him before Corax can escape again, thus making the strategy not viable against Papa Smurf.

* Roboute Guilliman vs. Leman Russ
** Leman Round 1 & 2 (using the Axe of Helwinter): Hits 4.886 times, wounds 4.071 times, 2.035 after the Invuln, 1.817 after the re-roll with IWND taking that down to 1.484 at the start of the next turn.
** Leman Round 3 and on (using the Axe of Helwinter): Hits 3.719 times, wounds 3.099 times, 1.55 after the Invuln, 1.331 after the re-roll with IWND taking that down to 0.998 at the start of the next turn.
** Roboute Round 1 and Round 4+ (using the Hand of Dominion): Hits 1.667 times, wounds 1.389 times, 0.695 wounds after saves, and IWND will take that down to 0.362 wounds at the start of the next turn.
** Roboute Round 2 & 3: Hits 0.833, wounds 0.694 times, 0.3472 wounds after saves, and IWND will take that down to 0.014 wounds at the start of the next turn.
** Result: It's not even a challenge. Leman Russ kills Rowboat Girlyman almost effortlessly. What do you expect from trying to go up against The Emperor's Executioner(of primarchs). That furry fucker was designed from the ground up to kill every primarch in the entire game.

* TL;DR version: Surprisingly, despite being one the best army buffers amongst Primarchs and his generally not outstanding (for a Primarch) stats, Guilliman is actually a beast in 1 on 1 fights if they drag on long enough, beating all but the most specialised Primarchs and mathematically losing only to Horus, Angron, Fulgrim and Leman Russ. Truth is that he's very well balanced with a choice of good weapons for offense, a decent defense and an extra ability that benefits both. He loses when his more balls out brothers just dump damage on him but when he has the chance to let his strategy impact the fight he'll typically win. He'll likely fall down the rankings some more when Sanguinius and the Lion step onto the field but with his army buffs he'll remain a great choice.
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==40K Guilliman==
[[Matt Ward]].
[[Image:GUILLIMAN2017.jpg|400px|thumb|right|[[Matt Ward]] is having an orgasm right now... as are many [[Ultramarines]] players. If you look closely at his base, you can see the only new plastic Chaos Space Marine model GW will release for the next ten years.]]
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoLs0V8T5AA ''We can rebuild him. We have the technology...'']

''"Why do I still live? What more do you want from me? I gave everything I had to you, to them. Look what they have made of our dream. This bloated, rotten carcass of an empire is driven not by reason and hope, but by fear, hate and ignorance. Better that we had all burned in the fire of Horus' ambition than lived to see this."'' <br>
― Guilliman is back, and he wants to know what the fuck went so wrong with the Imperium.

But as for now, the hot topic is that HE'S BACK, in plastic, and a part of a "Triumvirate" of sorts with him, Cypher, and a Grey Knight Grand Master named Vorlus. The miniature itself looks somewhat cartoony, and has new armour courtesy of [[Belisarius Cawl]], a Power Fist with a built-in version of his old Bolter (seems Cawl couldn't spring for the Ad-Mech's good stuff), a life support system, and the option of a rather awesome helmet for maximum head protection (technically not needed at all since he fights Magnus on the moon, his suit gets breached and he fights without air again). Bonus points as he is also carrying the Blazing Sword, officially stated to be one of The Big E's weapons. Regardless, the general trend is that he looks really good. Yes, we're still talking about Guilliman. The only real complaint people have is how splay legged he is and how he looks like a Thousand Son with omegas.

Also, the GW community site seems to imply that you can change his two heads on the fly, meaning you can possibly paint and use both of them without committing to either one.

Strangely, the three Chaos Gods who are made of stuff other than rage and war aren't fazed or angry he's back; if anything they seem to view him as an opportunity. Slaanesh wants to corrupt him, Nurgle wants him as a plaything and Tzeentch <s>wants to manipulate</s> is already trying to manipulate him. Naturally Khorne reacted to this news as he always does, by giving his best queen of hearts impression and demanding Guilliman's head. Oddly enough while we get reactions from Fulgrim, Mortarion and Magnus (the former two being about as happy as Khorne while Magnus found it funny), Angron's suspiciously absent while Lorgar and Perturabo either didn't notice or they didn't care.

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*''Adamantium Will''
*''Chapter Tactics (Ultramarines)''
*''Eternal Warrior''
*''Fearless''
*''Fleet''
*''Precision Shots''
*''Precision Strikes''
*''Feel No Pain''
*''Preferred Enemy (Chaos)'' (CSM, CD, KDK)
*''Monstrous Creature''
**''Fear''
**''Hammer of Wrath''
**''Move Through Cover''
**''Relentless''
**''Smash''
*''Absolute Mastery''
**If he's the Warlord, he has all six Command traits applied to him at once, rather than rolling for a single WT. As a recap, they are:
***Friendly units within 12" of Guilliman can use his Leadership (10) rather than their own.
***Enemy units within 12" of Guilliman must use their lowest Leadership value, not the highest.
***Guilliman, and all friendly units within 12", have the Move Through Cover special rule.
***Guilliman, and all friendly units within 12", add 1" to the distance that they can move when they Run or Charge.
***In the Shooting phase, Guilliman and all friendly units within 12" of him re-roll To Hit rolls of 1.
***In the Assault phase, Guilliman and all friendly units within 12" of him re-roll To Hit rolls of 1.
*''Lord Commander of the Imperium''
**All Armies of the Imperium can re-roll all failed morale, pinning, and fear tests while Guilliman is on the battlefield.
*''Primarch of the XIII Legion''
**An extra copy of each Combat Doctrine that affects all Ultramarines models in your army.
*''Unyielding Will''
**His leadership is not subject to any negative modifiers of any kind (no Terrify Telepathy Powers, no Lictor debuffs). along with re-rolling failed Deny the Witch tests.
|wargear=
*'''The Armour of Fate'''
**If Roboute Guilliman is slain, place a marker at the spot at which he was slain. At the beginning of your next turn, roll a die. On a 4 or more Guilliman is restored by his armour – place him as close as possible to the marker, more than 1″ from any units, with D3 wounds remaining. Otherwise Guilliman is slain. if the marker is on the battlefield at the end of the game, Guilliman is considered to be slain.
{{40k-melee-weapon-profile|name=The Emperor's Sword|strength=10|ap=2|clear=True|align=center|rules=Armourbane, Concussive, Soul Blaze
*Any attacks with this weapon that roll a 6 to hit are resolved at Strength D rather than 10.
*Guilliman can sacrifice his regular 6 attacks to take a swing at every enemy model within 1″ of him.
}}
:*Technically the Sword is listed as two weapons, the Sword and the Hand (see below), "wielded together", but this is utterly meaningless other than to confuse you; for all rules purposes, he shows up to the fight carrying 1 melee weapon and 1 ranged weapon, as listed here.
{{40k-ranged-weapon-profile|name=The Hand of Dominion|range=24|strength=6|ap=2|clear=True|align=center|type=Assault|rof=3|rules=Rending}}
:*Note that the '''Hand of Dominion''' is essentially an [[assault cannon]] with -1 rate of fire that is always AP 2.
}}

He has the almost same statline he has in 30k with a significant buff to his weapon skill and a slightly smaller one to his attacks, but his special rules and wargear are slightly different. The comparison follows.
*He loses:
**''It Will Not Die''
**'''Type: Infantry (Character)''' (see below).
***Accordingly, he also loses ''Independent Character''.
**''Master of the Legion'', as this is a 30k-only rule.
*He keeps:
**''Adamantium Will''
**''Eternal Warrior''
**''Fear''
**''Fearless''
**''Fleet''
**''Precision Shots''
**''Precision Strikes''
*[[Rape|He gains:]]
**'''Type: Monstrous Creature (Character)''', hence he ''also'' gains:
***''Hammer of Wrath''
***''Move Through Cover''
***''Relentless''
***''Smash''
**''Feel No Pain''
**''Preferred Enemy (Chaos)'' (CSM, CD, KDK)
**''Absolute Mastery''
***If he's the Warlord, he has all six Command traits applied to him at once, rather than rolling for a single WT. As a recap, they are:
****Friendly units within 12" of Guilliman can use his Leadership (10) rather than their own.
****Enemy units within 12" of Guilliman must use their lowest Leadership value, not the highest.
****Guilliman, and all friendly units within 12", have the Move Through Cover special rule.
****Guilliman, and all friendly units within 12", add 1" to the distance that they can move when they Run or Charge.
****In the Shooting phase, Guilliman and all friendly units within 12" of him re-roll To Hit rolls of 1.
****In the Assault phase, Guilliman and all friendly units within 12" of him re-roll To Hit rolls of 1.
**''Lord Commander of the Imperium''
***All Armies of the Imperium can re-roll all failed morale, pinning, and fear tests while Guilliman is on the battlefield.
**''Primarch of the XIII Legion''
***An extra copy of each Combat Doctrine that affects all Ultramarines models in your army.
**''Unyielding Will''
***His leadership is not subject to any negative modifiers of any kind (no Terrify Telepathy Powers, no Lictor debuffs). along with re-rolling failed Deny the Witch tests.

Guilliman's Armor of Fate gives him a 2+/3++. The improved invulnerable save is nice, but the gimmick is that Guilliman can [[Commissar Yarrick|come back from the dead]]...half the time, with D3 wounds restored. THE EMPEROR'S FLAMING SWORD is the freaking '''MURDERSWORD''' to end them all. He attacks at S10 AP1 (but rule-wise uses both Hand of Dominion and The Emperor's Sword in the same profile, so yeah, Avatar will totally kick his ass) with Armourbane, Concussive, and Soul Blaze. The sword's 2 unique rules are ''The Emperor's Touch'': if Guilliman rolls a 6 to hit it becomes a Destroyer attack, and ''Whirling Flame'': he can sacrifice 6 attacks to hit every enemy model within 1" of him. His relic Power Fist (cannot be used separately) '''Hand of Dominion''' comes with the underslung Arbitrator, which is stronger than the 30k variant. It's now 24" S6 AP2 Heavy 3 (made irrelevant by Relentless), and Rending. - you don't bring him because of his dakka, you bring him for his special rules support.

In all, he's a bit of a mix between Marneus Calgar and Saint Celestine in that he gives your army a decent strategic edge with army-wide Ld re-rolls, Warlord traits, and the potential to revive himself. He's also the best non-Forgeworld/Superheavy melee fighter the Imperium has right now. Do not send him up against the Avatar of Khaine though, since Soul Blaze will nullify all of his attacks. .

On the downside he no longer can hide in squads or use non-superheavy transports, which severely limits his mobility and survivability compared to his 30k version. D-strength is particularly nasty because of his inability to hide, doubly so since there's much more D on the table in 40k (it's good for Guilly he's allied with the [[Eldar|guys who have it flying out of their asses]]).

Fortunately GW went out of their way to remedy this obvious weakness. A new formation created for the new Ultramarines detachment called the Victrix Guard allows for the models in the formation to LOS to Guilliman, so this will give him plenty of staying power. Note that Guilliman need not be in the same formation as the Victrix Guard for this, should that come up (e.g. if you are allying him in as part of his Triumvirate).

[[Rape|All this for 50 points less than 30k Guilliman]], proof of 40k supremacy.

{{Primarchs}}

[[Category:Imperial]]

Leman Russ

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2602:306:C48F:5730:6880:C36A:8024:A21C: /* Post-Heresy */

''"I am the punishment of God...If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.”''<br>
-[[Genghis motherfucking Khan|Genghis Khan]].

''"Let me live deep while I live; let me know the rich juices of red meat and stinging wine on my palate, the hot embrace of white arms, the mad exultation of battle when the blue blades flame and crimson, and I am content. Let teachers and priests and philosophers brood over questions of reality and illusion. I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content."''<br>
- Conan the Barbarian

''"NEEERRRRD."''<br>
- Leman Russ

[[Image:LEMAN_RUSS.jpg|frame|My hand is fire, my hair is rage, my pauldrons are justice and my cock is wolf. Prepare to die!]]
'''Leman Russ''', not to be confused with the [[Leman Russ (tank)|tank bearing his name]], is the primarch of the [[Space Wolves]] legion. A superhuman nordic king with a warrior's crude humor and a stubborn streak a mile wide. He was such a hard headed son of a bitch, that he's survived extended fights with [[Angron]], [[Magnus]], [[Lion El'Jonson|The Lion]], and even the Emperor himself. General all-around badass deserving of much respect, but superstitious and flawed, with a serious inability to see things from other's points of view. He's blonde underneath all the blood.

==Origins==
When the Primarchs were lost, Leman's capsule landed on [[Fenris]], a harsh planet of insane violence that the Norse gods shit out after a three day meth fueled orgy with a tyranid hive fleet. The locals there enjoy a life of fishing, drinking, sailing, fucking, pillaging and conquering other tribes of people for the modest little islands they all have to live on. Granted, it's also usually a very short life, because they're sharing the world with trolls, yetis, wolves the size of horses, bears the size of a house, whales that kill for fun, and krakens, which are to a squid as a [[Hierophant]] is to a [[Hormagaunt]].

So it was that little baby Russ left his capsule in the polar mountain region of Asaheim. There, some monstrous female wolf found him and said to herself "I WANT!". So Russ was raised by a dire wolf In Spess. A few years pass, Russ growing up big and strong and hairy, having a grand old time running around the mountains and killing the sheep and such of the humans there with his wolf brothers. Eventually a king named Thengir heard of the Wolf-man, and decreed he be captured and brought to his hall. The mist of ages (and retcons) have hidden the details of Thengir's first meeting with Russ. Some stories would say that Russ was bound and gagged and dragged into the hall of the King Thengir after his Wolf family was slain, others claim a hunting party stumbled across his cave and kicked off a bloody melee in which a dozen hunters were killed, along with Russ's mother, after which the hunters somehow convinced Russ to stand down and come with them, a conversation that may or may not have included copious amounts of alcohol and whores. Thengir took a wondrous interest in Russ and ordered he be educated. In a short time, Russ was trash-talking every short bastard who dared look at him the wrong way, and had become insanely good with weaponry. When Thengir finally died, all declared that Leman of the Russ become the new high King.

==The Next Step==

Russ conquered and took. He bartered and traded. He united the people of Asaheim under his rule. Somehow, the Emprah heard of it and realized it all had to be the work of a Primarch. So then he attended a royal banquet in the Hall of the Mountain Ki- I mean Leman Russ. The Emprah, taking a leaf out of Odin's book, disguised himself as some old geezer, then waited until the right moment to reveal his true identity. When he did Russ refused to bow down and challenged him to several contests, he ate so much the Emprah was forced to back down. Russ drank so much the Emprah was forced to back down. By now, the Emprah was fairly surprised at finally being out-done by someone else, Russ gazed upon the Emperor and challenged him in combat, and so did the Emprah raise his Power Glove into the air for all to see, and so did he then bring it down on Leman Russ's head, knocking him the fuck out in one solid hit.

Of course fluff changes and a 1-hit KO wasn't very fulfilling, so the new lore arrived: After the Emperor revealed himself Leman Russ skipped the eating and drinking contests and just challenged the Emperor to a fight. For hours they dueled, which ended when the Emperor punched Russ square in the face, presumably he was pissy the Leman was waving his cock in his face by just straight up fighting him, (debatable as to whether or not he was in his full armour and actually had his Power Fist at the time), and when Russ awoke, he laughed it off. Presumably he did a lot better this time by virtue of not being drunk. Afterwards he ended up in command of the one Space Marine legion that knows how to eat, drink, brawl and make war upon any asshole that mocks their Thunderwolf.

Rumour has it that the Emp was so pleased with Russ' prowess, that he thereforth tasked him and the Space Wolves to be his executioners and it seems Russ is the reason the 2nd and 11th Legions no longer exist. So he has experience fucking up a Primarch, which is pretty goddamn manly. (Not confirmed by any sources and is not more than passing conversation in one Black Library novel, other than that, yeah totally definitely didn't kill the other legions. Also if you take how he acted with Angron and Magnus, he totally hated his job of being the executioner...and apparently thought Lorgar was a pretty cool guy).

(The novel "Betrayer" contradicts almost all of this. It has Russ taking it upon himself to school the World Eaters without Emp's blessing as he was disgusted by their behavior, it has Angron defeat Russ in single combat because only he was fighting to kill while Russ was trying to teach, it then ends with the Space Wolves entirely outmaneuvering the Eaters and winning a tactical victory by surrounding Angron. The Eaters believe they won due to a higher kill count and the Wolves leave disappointed that their legion brothers were too retarded to see the lesson Russ was teaching. Even Lorgar tells Angron that he was a complete tool on that night and would have been killed)

Apart from that, Russ and his Space Wolves had a goddamn good time during the Great Crusade, although it hasn't been written about so this is all we can guess. When that fag-ass [[Horus]] started whining and crying, Leman Russ and his Legion were on their way to Prospero to bring Magnus the Red to Terra for questioning. Horus intercepted the message and re-worded it to order Russ to destroy Magnus and his Thousand Sons. Russ and the Space Wolves carried out a class-10 clusterfucking on Prospero, to the point where Leman Russ himself lifted Magnus the Red over his shoulders and broke the sorcerer's back over his knee. But even so, the red bastard managed to utter one single word of power and escaped through the fucking ground. Russ was so enraged that he ordered the 13th company of Space Wolves to pursue the fleeing Thousand Sons through their pansy-ass portals.

Despite his reputation, fighting Magnus took a serious toll on Russ. He probably knew that it was a "fair fight" only because Magnus was devastated and held back his power, with which he would have easily won, being at least the third most powerful psyker humanity, and possibly the galaxy, had ever known.

Rumour has it, that during the battle between those two demigods Magnus, by psychic means, laid his heart and mind bare to Russ, revealing that he knew not only every blow that was coming from his brother, but everything that he had come to know, accepting his failure and his fate, which was defeat. (Source?)

This shook the Wolf King deeply. But of course, he decided to carry on. An Inquisitor once called it an "emo phase" in front of a Rune Priest, and was fed balls-first to a Thunderwolf, especially when the news of the Drop Site Massacre reached the Wolves. In his own words, Russ felt he'd been "in the wrong place, doing the wrong thing". Just to make things worse, the Alpha Legion turned up to batter the Wolves, and the White Scars weren't going to help them after Prospero. Russ was forced to retreat and hide in deep space. The only real plus here was that Bjorn the Fell-Handed came to his attention, setting the young warrior on the path to ironclad badassness.

Oh and Empy totally gave him a spear with every single member of his original legion depicted fighting various gribbly xenos. Including Tyranids. Yup. Said spear was tossed into a certain Daemon Primarchs single eye, thereby preventing him from manifesting in reality AND resurrecting his legion. Russ totally hated this spear btw. At one point Russ tried to hit a moon orbiting some planet (he was drunk, don't judge) and the spear was lost for months.

== Russ and his Brothers ==

In many ways Russ can be best understood by looking at the clashes between him and his brothers, butting heads with [[Angron]], [[Magnus]], and [[Lion El'Jonson]] over the years. All three of them had much in common with Russ, and there was potential for great brotherhood there, but in large part his lack of tact or understanding crushed whatever relationship might have been.

His fight with Angron was his attempt to teach his brother a lesson. Both of them were penultimate warriors, both relied on their amazing athleticism and berzerker rages to triumph in battle, both were known for losing their temper when challenged, but Russ saw weakness in his brother's lack of strategy. Leman tried to just talk to the World Eater's primarch, but Angron was so uncontrollably, incredibly, "calm down son," angry that he just attacked Russ. While Russ and Angron were dueling, their retinues kicked off an open war, and in the battle that followed Russ found himself defeated by Angron, but Angron was in turn outmaneuvered and surrounded by the Space Wolves, thus proving Russ's lesson that warrior prowess isn't enough. That said, no one learned '''anything'''. Angron thought himself the victor because he'd won the duel and his sons had inflicted greater casualties than the wolves, but Russ thought himself the victor because he'd proven his point and "educated" his brother. If Russ had paid more attention and thought things through rather than just rushing forward to do things his way, he'd have used subtler methods of persuasion to calm Angron, as Fulgrim and especially Lorgar had done in the past. Russ may well have had an easier time of persuading Angron than either of them, given that he and Angron had a similar sense of brutal honor and a great lust for war. But, ultimately, it didn't occur to Russ to slow down and think it though, so he failed that day.

Russ really, ''really'' didn't get along with Magnus, even before the burning of Prospero. He hated that his brother used sorcery and warpcraft, despite the fact that Russ's legion ALSO USED SORCERY, but Russ insisted that they were just "channeling the spirits of Fenris." To add to that, other than Magnus and Lorgar, Russ was the most warp sensitive of all his brothers, to the point where Russ was a more capable warp navigator than the actual [[Navigator]]s. No long explanation, Russ was just being a superstitious moron.

Perhaps most famous and most tragic of Russ's feuds was his strife with [[Lion El'Jonson]]. Both men had very similar origins, but slight differences in their upbringings drove a wedge between them. The Wolf and the Lion were both raised by the wild: both of their pods had crashed in areas with no humans, and they had to learn to survive with no lessons from other men. Both were eventually taken in when they were discovered by the men of their world, but that's where their stories differ. Where Russ was raised in the friendly, bawdy brotherhood of Thengir's men, the Lion was trained and educated in the somber fraternity of the knightly Order. While Russ had been brawling and singing with his friends, leading great hunts to destroy monsters and enemy tribes, the Lion was mastering discipline and embarking on solemn quests to destroy the Great Beasts of the forest. The battle between the two came on the world of Dulan, where the IV and I legion were fighting together to slay a tyrant who'd insulted Russ's honor. At the beginning of the conflict the two brothers had promised to work together, but as time went on the Lion grew tired of his brother's insistence on utterly smashing every pocket of resistance rather than taking a more efficient, direct method of ending the war. Eventually he just launched an assault on the tyrant's palace, and beheaded the man before Russ could reach them. Naturally, Russ was ''furious''. Russ was an angry dickhead, the Lion was a snarky bastard, and before long blades were drawn and the two were trying to kill each other in a violent battle. After a long and bloody fight in which the two of them were beaten senseless and had fallen over the ramparts of the fortress to the ground below, Russ started laughing at the ridiculousness of what they were doing. The Lion asked if his brother would yield, a question that just confused Russ. ''The lion thought this was a duel?'' Russ had thought of the fight as a brawl between angry brothers, a quick spat that would end with both of them beaten and bloodied, something they'd laugh about over a drinks years later. The Lion however was taking it deadly serious, and while Russ was laughing, he struck a final blow, shattering Russ's skull and ending the fight. Had Russ stopped to consider his brother's mentality, or listened more closely to the Lion's words, he would have realized that the Lion saw the conflict as something profoundly different from what Russ thought it was. Again, Russ's lack of consideration was his failing.

However, while certainly abrasive, arrogant, and brutal, Russ was also every bit as loyal as Sanguinius or Dorn. The other thing Magnus, Angron, and the Lion have in common? They're all assholes. Magnus arrogantly assumes he knows best and blatantly favored psykers in his Legion. Angron is... [[Rage|self-explanatory.]] The Lion was absolutely infuriated that Russ correctly pointed out that it had been the Lion's lust for power and recognition that had led him to betray his promise to Russ. The battle took place in the days before Horus's ascension to the role of warmaster, and Russ knew his brother craved the title above all else, even above his own honor. Bottom line, his brothers all put their own feelings/goals before those of the Emperor. Not to say that Russ was tactful, diplomatic, or understanding with these three - he certainly could have handled all of these conflicts better - but Russ was never a dick just for the sake of being a dick- he was a dick because someone had to keep his brothers in line.

== Post-Heresy ==

Although unable to return to aid the Imperium in the Battle for Terra, Russ and the Space Wolves threw themselves headfirst into the post-heresy war efforts. Aside from spanking the traitors into the Eye of Terror, he came up with the concept for the Adeptus Praeses. Though he'd told Guilliman where he could shove his Codex, Russ liked the idea of successor chapters for the Wolves. To him (or the little reformist movement within the Legion later, the fluff isn't totally clear), they were a way of maintaining the Wolves' influence alongside that of Girlyman, Dorn and the rest. Unfortunately the Wolves' gene-seed proved too unstable to set up any viable successor chapters, and as a result while the Ultramarines, Imperial Fists and Dark Angels have shedloads of descendants, the Wolves are the sole embodiment of Russ' strength and drive. This hasn't helped their situation with Imperial institutions such as the Inquisition.

One-hundred years to the day after the Emperor's internment on the Golden Throne, during a feast in the halls of the Space Wolves fortress, Russ climbed upon a table to give a speech. He was stricken with a vision, and after standing there speechless for a few minutes, he fell to one knee, issued hushed orders to his retinue, and left. He left his sons with their first Wolf Lord; [[Bjorn the Fell Handed]], and a message.

"In the end, I will be there. For the final battle. For dinner time."

And then the winds of change blew over the fluff once again. In the audio play Parting of Ways we get a slightly different version of events. There was still an annual feast, though it wasn't just to celebrate the day the Emperor got the snot beaten out of him by Horus, but also to commemorate the space wolves that had died during the spring cleaning that followed the heresy, plus the completion of the Fang - the giant fortress of the Space wolves.
Also instead of a hundred years, it was two hundred years since the siege of Terra, so unless Dorn was a really slow learner and not very bright and it took him over a hundred years to assemble the golden throne, that is a clear lore change. Then again, given how Perturabo thoroughly kicked Dorn's ass in the iron cage, forcing papa smurf and the Ultrasmurfs to come and save Dorn's sorry ass, it's a possibility that Dorn just wasn't very bright. It's also a possibility that the Emperor got the Golden Throne from an old IKEA warehouse, which would explain why even a primarch would have had trouble in figuring out how to put it together in less than a hundred years.

Also Russ wasn't about to hold a speech, instead he had at first partaken in the festivities but as the party grew sullen, Russ retreated, sensing, as Bjorn put it, "a fell wind from beyond the mountains, bleeding through the cracks of the fang". After clenching the table for a while, Russ clambered to his feet on the table, screaming ''“No More!”'' The shout silenced the Space Wolves in their brawling and made the flags of the smoke filled halls tremble, so Russ apparently also had a gift for speech, plus he had a gift for getting instantly sober as Bjorn described his face going from being ruddy flushed with mjod to looking like an ice specter.
He then held a kickass speech ''“We come here to celebrate the allfather, we come here to remember his sacrifice and his ascension from the world of the senses and his victory over my brother the traitor.”
''“We remember the dead, who even now gather in the oververse, their blade sharp, their aim keen.”''
''“They are better than we are for they perished in war to end all wars and their souls have been purified! And what of us those left behind, wallowing in the drinks the fallen gods have left us?”''
''“We have grown fat, we have the beast within us, but is has never yet been mastered.”''
Then Russ grabbed his drinking horn and held it aloft and continued
''“So let us celebrate my father's ascension, let us remember what he was able to accomplish, let us remember what he built and what he foresaw and then what he lost and how he failed.”''
''“Do not morn the fact that he no longer walks among us, for the galaxy was too small to accommodate such soul, he was of an age of '''gods!''' And we are slumped in an age of mortals.”''
''“The lights of the stars will fade, this place will grow old and the ice will crack it.”''
''“We will forget no matter how much the skalds tell the old tales, what battles are left for us like the ones before?”''
''“My fallen brothers are gone, Malcador is gone, the leeches cluster around the golden throne and whisper of deeds done before they were born as if it where '''they''' who achieved them.”''
At this point Russ looked unsteady on his feet and his eyes went glassy
''“A doubt of all of this, one thing remains true we were not on Terra, we were not there when the palace fell and that shame will pursue us for eternity.”''
Then Russ dropped his drinking horn on the board and then started to speak not to his warriors, but to himself or to some presence that was unseen.
''“It remains unfinished… I have waited for too long, building this mountain squabbling with Gulliman, I will not grow old, feeble, limping around a crumbling inheritance, I have and Oath to keep there are beasts left to slay.”''
At this point Russ where fully immersed in his premonitions and he looked around the room a smile dancing on his fanged face, seeing thing from either long ago or yet to come.
''“Listen by closely my brothers, there shall come a time far from now, where the chapter itself is dying and our foes shall gather to destroy us.”''
''“Then my sons I shall listen for your call, in whatever realm holds me and come I shall, no matter what the laws of life and death forbid.”''
''“At the end I will be there for the final battle FOR THE WOLF TIME!”''

Then Russ gave the mustering signal and he and his retinue left, though as Bjorn made to follow only to have Russ turn towards him saying a single sentence ''“Not you.”''
When Bjorn asked for an explanation all Russ did was repeat the words ''“Not you.”''
Then he left.

It is theorized that Russ like Magnus had the gift of premonition and knew that Bjorn would be needed in the years to come as the first Great Wolf, as it is heavily implied that if Bjorn hadn't been persuaded to take the mantle of great wolf, the chapter itself would have fallen apart in the absence of Russ.

More likely Russ just didn't want Bjorn's moodiness to poison what ever adventure he was on.

As to where Russ went and what happened to him there's a few theories given

The Russ sought the Lion out to make amends of their old feuding (if so they both forgot to tell both their chapters about it)

That he fought in eternal combat with the resurrected cadaver of Horus (no that would be Abaddon's task and he completely owned that clone of Horus)

That he searched for the tree of life to heal the Emperor's soul (if so it will be needed sorely needed, as Abaddon blasted a remnant of the Emperor's soul, watching it decay in front of him)

That he is trapped within a hollow star and tormented by his old adversary Magnus (Since Tzeentch was able to trap Sigmar in another dimension, trapping Russ in a hollow star and have his star pupil Magnus use him as a punching bag makes as much sense as anything)

That he is actually searching for Magnus, to finish the last task given to him by the Emperor and "arrest" his wayward brother.

That he had passed beyond the bounds of space and time and now roamed among the gods, ready to return when needed accompanied by the fallen of his legion sundered in a paradise of warriors (so basically he's in the Age of Sigmar at this point? somebody put him out of his misery, that's not a paradise that's hell on earth)

That he's simply lost in the galactic fjord known as the Warp and has been playing drunken pranks on daemonic villagers for 10,000 years.

/tg/ theorizes that Leman Russ may return as [[Horo]] (Implying Horo isn't just one of Leman's many, many bastard children growing up on some shithole Feudal world).

Magnus actually know where is Russ now, but he don't tell it even to his trusted sorcerer lords.

The 13th company, and a figure bearing the likeness of Russ, was spotted during the 13th crusade and the siege of the capital of cadia.

==On The Tabletop==
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| '''Leman Russ:''' || 455 || 9 || 6 || 6 || 6 || 6 || 7 || 6 || 10 || 2+/4++
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An impressive stat-line, even by the insane standards of Primarchs, is coupled with unbelievably powerful wargear:
*The '''Armour Elavagar''' starts as your bog-standard 2+/4++ which is increased to a 3++ against flamer (in case that Marksmen Veteran with a Combiflamer or Heavy Flamer rolled a 6 wounding you), melta, and plasma weapons, but the truly <strike>awesome</strike> bullshit part is that it imposes -1 to hit on anyone in BtB with him, which is increased to a -2 after the first round of combat - combined with his insane WS this means nothing save [[Khaine|WS]][[Bloodthirster|10]] can hit him at better than 5+ on the first turn (Fulgrim wishes his shiny armour was as reliable) and [[Cheese|6+]] on the second. Anything that can't [[Corax|Hit]]'n'[[Konrad Curze|Run]] is gonna be stuck in CC with Russ with little to no chance of hurting him until he kills it.
*The '''Axe of Helwinter''' is a ''+2 master-crafted power axe with sunder and without unwieldy'' for your vehicle-wrecking needs.
*The '''Sword of Balenight''' is a Shredding AP2 power sword; oh wait, it also has '''Sever Life'''. If Russ' prey suffers one or more wounds from the sword, roll a 2d6. If this result beats your target's toughness, add 1d3 additional wounds.
**Thanks to vague wording, when you must make the test for Sever Life is a subject of debate. Some say "suffering one or more wounds" means that the rule applies immediately before saves are made. HOWEVER, the rule clearly states that Sever Life is used only if the model "is not slain" by the initial attacks, and you HAVE to make your save rolls in order to know if they are slain or not, so one can lawfully argue that ''unsaved'' wounds are the real trigger. Keep calm and make it clear with your opponent until a FAQ is released.
*For ranged fights he has the [[Vulkan]]-remade bolter (mentioned to be regular one until Xzibit got his hands on it) turned into a pistol for Primach's hand, called '''Scornspitter''' which is assault 3 AP3 rending, but with pitiful 12" range.

Meanwhile, his Sire of the Space Wolves gives him Night Vision, Counter-Attack, Prenatural Senses, and Hunter's Gait: all Wolves get +1Ld and Russ gets to Awoo once per game (letting everyone in his detachment reroll run and charge for said turn). Breaker of Shields, Bringer of Ruin gives weapon mastery (like Horus and Calgar). If he's Warlord, you can take Veteran Tacticals (who may run/shoot bolters then charge instead of regular Vet tactics) and Varagyr Terminators as troops.

On paper, Russ like a very expensive torpedo that is only good at tying stuff in combat and killing it, and adds only a bit to his army. However, the LD bonus, his ability to massively increase your army's board-crossing ability, and take Veteran Tacs, who just may be the best infantry in 30k, as compulsory troops combine to make him a reasonably strong force multiplier. Unlike Angron he's tough enough to withstand ranged firepower for a while, but not killy enough to wipe out tarpits Army/Cults or Thagmata can drown him in till the rest of the game for like 1/6 of his price. Exacerbating this issue is the fact that, like Angron, he isn't very mobile on his own, and as such will need a transport. However, Hunter's Gait mitigates this slightly, and he could always just Outflank with Vets. Take him with the Pale Hunters, point him at the biggest CC threat your enemy has, and if you're smart with Vet tactics and when you Howl your army will be great.

==Leman Russ VS other Primarchs:==
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'''<big>THEY ALL DIE. EVERY. LAST. ONE. OF. THEM.</big>'''

Sever Life on The Sword of Balenight is the real kicker here. <s>Because Russ' sword triggers '''Sever Life''' [[Rape|before saves]], he can put an outright frightening amount of saves on high-wound models. And since most primarchs only have a 4++, they tend to die in short order.</s> This is a subject of some debate (see above). So if you want to add the damage for Sever Life, here's the results:

*Against T6 Sever Life will cause an additional 1.091 Wounds.
*Against T7 Sever Life will cause an additional 0.909 Wounds.
::Note that these are Wounds that can still be saved via Invulnerable saves.

Actually, far worse than Sever Life (which probably is intended to trigger after saves, hence the "Is not slain" part) is his armor, which cripples almost every Primarch's ability to damage him with the negatives to hit. Even the uber-tanks are left flailing at him, barely doing any damage, while he grinds them out. He'll win almost every fight (including Horus).
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==Gallery==
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File:Leman russ by alexboca-d7930sk.jpg|Leman Russ being the biggest pimp this side of Segmentum Solar.
File:Russ_Behind.jpg| RUN <s> FORREST </s> LEMAN, RUN!
File:Russ_Front.jpg| He's running so [[White Scars|fast]] because he saw someone throw a stick.
File:Russ_Side.jpg| Here's hoping forgeworld gives him good rules when HH book 7 drops, His model deserves them.
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[[Category:Space Wolves]]

==See Also==
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0Q8uymv0vw&index=2&list=PLdPq6mYy-DRdA9aTRJghfDsQiyR5WLs7y/ Admit it, this is the only song that truly befits the glory of the Sons of Russ.]

Leman Russ

2017-03-24T00:36:16Z

2602:306:C48F:5730:6880:C36A:8024:A21C: /* Post-Heresy */

''"I am the punishment of God...If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.”''<br>
-[[Genghis motherfucking Khan|Genghis Khan]].

''"Let me live deep while I live; let me know the rich juices of red meat and stinging wine on my palate, the hot embrace of white arms, the mad exultation of battle when the blue blades flame and crimson, and I am content. Let teachers and priests and philosophers brood over questions of reality and illusion. I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content."''<br>
- Conan the Barbarian

''"NEEERRRRD."''<br>
- Leman Russ

[[Image:LEMAN_RUSS.jpg|frame|My hand is fire, my hair is rage, my pauldrons are justice and my cock is wolf. Prepare to die!]]
'''Leman Russ''', not to be confused with the [[Leman Russ (tank)|tank bearing his name]], is the primarch of the [[Space Wolves]] legion. A superhuman nordic king with a warrior's crude humor and a stubborn streak a mile wide. He was such a hard headed son of a bitch, that he's survived extended fights with [[Angron]], [[Magnus]], [[Lion El'Jonson|The Lion]], and even the Emperor himself. General all-around badass deserving of much respect, but superstitious and flawed, with a serious inability to see things from other's points of view. He's blonde underneath all the blood.

==Origins==
When the Primarchs were lost, Leman's capsule landed on [[Fenris]], a harsh planet of insane violence that the Norse gods shit out after a three day meth fueled orgy with a tyranid hive fleet. The locals there enjoy a life of fishing, drinking, sailing, fucking, pillaging and conquering other tribes of people for the modest little islands they all have to live on. Granted, it's also usually a very short life, because they're sharing the world with trolls, yetis, wolves the size of horses, bears the size of a house, whales that kill for fun, and krakens, which are to a squid as a [[Hierophant]] is to a [[Hormagaunt]].

So it was that little baby Russ left his capsule in the polar mountain region of Asaheim. There, some monstrous female wolf found him and said to herself "I WANT!". So Russ was raised by a dire wolf In Spess. A few years pass, Russ growing up big and strong and hairy, having a grand old time running around the mountains and killing the sheep and such of the humans there with his wolf brothers. Eventually a king named Thengir heard of the Wolf-man, and decreed he be captured and brought to his hall. The mist of ages (and retcons) have hidden the details of Thengir's first meeting with Russ. Some stories would say that Russ was bound and gagged and dragged into the hall of the King Thengir after his Wolf family was slain, others claim a hunting party stumbled across his cave and kicked off a bloody melee in which a dozen hunters were killed, along with Russ's mother, after which the hunters somehow convinced Russ to stand down and come with them, a conversation that may or may not have included copious amounts of alcohol and whores. Thengir took a wondrous interest in Russ and ordered he be educated. In a short time, Russ was trash-talking every short bastard who dared look at him the wrong way, and had become insanely good with weaponry. When Thengir finally died, all declared that Leman of the Russ become the new high King.

==The Next Step==

Russ conquered and took. He bartered and traded. He united the people of Asaheim under his rule. Somehow, the Emprah heard of it and realized it all had to be the work of a Primarch. So then he attended a royal banquet in the Hall of the Mountain Ki- I mean Leman Russ. The Emprah, taking a leaf out of Odin's book, disguised himself as some old geezer, then waited until the right moment to reveal his true identity. When he did Russ refused to bow down and challenged him to several contests, he ate so much the Emprah was forced to back down. Russ drank so much the Emprah was forced to back down. By now, the Emprah was fairly surprised at finally being out-done by someone else, Russ gazed upon the Emperor and challenged him in combat, and so did the Emprah raise his Power Glove into the air for all to see, and so did he then bring it down on Leman Russ's head, knocking him the fuck out in one solid hit.

Of course fluff changes and a 1-hit KO wasn't very fulfilling, so the new lore arrived: After the Emperor revealed himself Leman Russ skipped the eating and drinking contests and just challenged the Emperor to a fight. For hours they dueled, which ended when the Emperor punched Russ square in the face, presumably he was pissy the Leman was waving his cock in his face by just straight up fighting him, (debatable as to whether or not he was in his full armour and actually had his Power Fist at the time), and when Russ awoke, he laughed it off. Presumably he did a lot better this time by virtue of not being drunk. Afterwards he ended up in command of the one Space Marine legion that knows how to eat, drink, brawl and make war upon any asshole that mocks their Thunderwolf.

Rumour has it that the Emp was so pleased with Russ' prowess, that he thereforth tasked him and the Space Wolves to be his executioners and it seems Russ is the reason the 2nd and 11th Legions no longer exist. So he has experience fucking up a Primarch, which is pretty goddamn manly. (Not confirmed by any sources and is not more than passing conversation in one Black Library novel, other than that, yeah totally definitely didn't kill the other legions. Also if you take how he acted with Angron and Magnus, he totally hated his job of being the executioner...and apparently thought Lorgar was a pretty cool guy).

(The novel "Betrayer" contradicts almost all of this. It has Russ taking it upon himself to school the World Eaters without Emp's blessing as he was disgusted by their behavior, it has Angron defeat Russ in single combat because only he was fighting to kill while Russ was trying to teach, it then ends with the Space Wolves entirely outmaneuvering the Eaters and winning a tactical victory by surrounding Angron. The Eaters believe they won due to a higher kill count and the Wolves leave disappointed that their legion brothers were too retarded to see the lesson Russ was teaching. Even Lorgar tells Angron that he was a complete tool on that night and would have been killed)

Apart from that, Russ and his Space Wolves had a goddamn good time during the Great Crusade, although it hasn't been written about so this is all we can guess. When that fag-ass [[Horus]] started whining and crying, Leman Russ and his Legion were on their way to Prospero to bring Magnus the Red to Terra for questioning. Horus intercepted the message and re-worded it to order Russ to destroy Magnus and his Thousand Sons. Russ and the Space Wolves carried out a class-10 clusterfucking on Prospero, to the point where Leman Russ himself lifted Magnus the Red over his shoulders and broke the sorcerer's back over his knee. But even so, the red bastard managed to utter one single word of power and escaped through the fucking ground. Russ was so enraged that he ordered the 13th company of Space Wolves to pursue the fleeing Thousand Sons through their pansy-ass portals.

Despite his reputation, fighting Magnus took a serious toll on Russ. He probably knew that it was a "fair fight" only because Magnus was devastated and held back his power, with which he would have easily won, being at least the third most powerful psyker humanity, and possibly the galaxy, had ever known.

Rumour has it, that during the battle between those two demigods Magnus, by psychic means, laid his heart and mind bare to Russ, revealing that he knew not only every blow that was coming from his brother, but everything that he had come to know, accepting his failure and his fate, which was defeat. (Source?)

This shook the Wolf King deeply. But of course, he decided to carry on. An Inquisitor once called it an "emo phase" in front of a Rune Priest, and was fed balls-first to a Thunderwolf, especially when the news of the Drop Site Massacre reached the Wolves. In his own words, Russ felt he'd been "in the wrong place, doing the wrong thing". Just to make things worse, the Alpha Legion turned up to batter the Wolves, and the White Scars weren't going to help them after Prospero. Russ was forced to retreat and hide in deep space. The only real plus here was that Bjorn the Fell-Handed came to his attention, setting the young warrior on the path to ironclad badassness.

Oh and Empy totally gave him a spear with every single member of his original legion depicted fighting various gribbly xenos. Including Tyranids. Yup. Said spear was tossed into a certain Daemon Primarchs single eye, thereby preventing him from manifesting in reality AND resurrecting his legion. Russ totally hated this spear btw. At one point Russ tried to hit a moon orbiting some planet (he was drunk, don't judge) and the spear was lost for months.

== Russ and his Brothers ==

In many ways Russ can be best understood by looking at the clashes between him and his brothers, butting heads with [[Angron]], [[Magnus]], and [[Lion El'Jonson]] over the years. All three of them had much in common with Russ, and there was potential for great brotherhood there, but in large part his lack of tact or understanding crushed whatever relationship might have been.

His fight with Angron was his attempt to teach his brother a lesson. Both of them were penultimate warriors, both relied on their amazing athleticism and berzerker rages to triumph in battle, both were known for losing their temper when challenged, but Russ saw weakness in his brother's lack of strategy. Leman tried to just talk to the World Eater's primarch, but Angron was so uncontrollably, incredibly, "calm down son," angry that he just attacked Russ. While Russ and Angron were dueling, their retinues kicked off an open war, and in the battle that followed Russ found himself defeated by Angron, but Angron was in turn outmaneuvered and surrounded by the Space Wolves, thus proving Russ's lesson that warrior prowess isn't enough. That said, no one learned '''anything'''. Angron thought himself the victor because he'd won the duel and his sons had inflicted greater casualties than the wolves, but Russ thought himself the victor because he'd proven his point and "educated" his brother. If Russ had paid more attention and thought things through rather than just rushing forward to do things his way, he'd have used subtler methods of persuasion to calm Angron, as Fulgrim and especially Lorgar had done in the past. Russ may well have had an easier time of persuading Angron than either of them, given that he and Angron had a similar sense of brutal honor and a great lust for war. But, ultimately, it didn't occur to Russ to slow down and think it though, so he failed that day.

Russ really, ''really'' didn't get along with Magnus, even before the burning of Prospero. He hated that his brother used sorcery and warpcraft, despite the fact that Russ's legion ALSO USED SORCERY, but Russ insisted that they were just "channeling the spirits of Fenris." To add to that, other than Magnus and Lorgar, Russ was the most warp sensitive of all his brothers, to the point where Russ was a more capable warp navigator than the actual [[Navigator]]s. No long explanation, Russ was just being a superstitious moron.

Perhaps most famous and most tragic of Russ's feuds was his strife with [[Lion El'Jonson]]. Both men had very similar origins, but slight differences in their upbringings drove a wedge between them. The Wolf and the Lion were both raised by the wild: both of their pods had crashed in areas with no humans, and they had to learn to survive with no lessons from other men. Both were eventually taken in when they were discovered by the men of their world, but that's where their stories differ. Where Russ was raised in the friendly, bawdy brotherhood of Thengir's men, the Lion was trained and educated in the somber fraternity of the knightly Order. While Russ had been brawling and singing with his friends, leading great hunts to destroy monsters and enemy tribes, the Lion was mastering discipline and embarking on solemn quests to destroy the Great Beasts of the forest. The battle between the two came on the world of Dulan, where the IV and I legion were fighting together to slay a tyrant who'd insulted Russ's honor. At the beginning of the conflict the two brothers had promised to work together, but as time went on the Lion grew tired of his brother's insistence on utterly smashing every pocket of resistance rather than taking a more efficient, direct method of ending the war. Eventually he just launched an assault on the tyrant's palace, and beheaded the man before Russ could reach them. Naturally, Russ was ''furious''. Russ was an angry dickhead, the Lion was a snarky bastard, and before long blades were drawn and the two were trying to kill each other in a violent battle. After a long and bloody fight in which the two of them were beaten senseless and had fallen over the ramparts of the fortress to the ground below, Russ started laughing at the ridiculousness of what they were doing. The Lion asked if his brother would yield, a question that just confused Russ. ''The lion thought this was a duel?'' Russ had thought of the fight as a brawl between angry brothers, a quick spat that would end with both of them beaten and bloodied, something they'd laugh about over a drinks years later. The Lion however was taking it deadly serious, and while Russ was laughing, he struck a final blow, shattering Russ's skull and ending the fight. Had Russ stopped to consider his brother's mentality, or listened more closely to the Lion's words, he would have realized that the Lion saw the conflict as something profoundly different from what Russ thought it was. Again, Russ's lack of consideration was his failing.

However, while certainly abrasive, arrogant, and brutal, Russ was also every bit as loyal as Sanguinius or Dorn. The other thing Magnus, Angron, and the Lion have in common? They're all assholes. Magnus arrogantly assumes he knows best and blatantly favored psykers in his Legion. Angron is... [[Rage|self-explanatory.]] The Lion was absolutely infuriated that Russ correctly pointed out that it had been the Lion's lust for power and recognition that had led him to betray his promise to Russ. The battle took place in the days before Horus's ascension to the role of warmaster, and Russ knew his brother craved the title above all else, even above his own honor. Bottom line, his brothers all put their own feelings/goals before those of the Emperor. Not to say that Russ was tactful, diplomatic, or understanding with these three - he certainly could have handled all of these conflicts better - but Russ was never a dick just for the sake of being a dick- he was a dick because someone had to keep his brothers in line.

== Post-Heresy ==

Although unable to return to aid the Imperium in the Battle for Terra, Russ and the Space Wolves threw themselves headfirst into the post-heresy war efforts. Aside from spanking the traitors into the Eye of Terror, he came up with the concept for the Adeptus Praeses. Though he'd told Guilliman where he could shove his Codex, Russ liked the idea of successor chapters for the Wolves. To him (or the little reformist movement within the Legion later, the fluff isn't totally clear), they were a way of maintaining the Wolves' influence alongside that of Girlyman, Dorn and the rest. Unfortunately the Wolves' gene-seed proved too unstable to set up any viable successor chapters, and as a result while the Ultramarines, Imperial Fists and Dark Angels have shedloads of descendants, the Wolves are the sole embodiment of Russ' strength and drive. This hasn't helped their situation with Imperial institutions such as the Inquisition.

One-hundred years to the day after the Emperor's internment on the Golden Throne, during a feast in the halls of the Space Wolves fortress, Russ climbed upon a table to give a speech. He was stricken with a vision, and after standing there speechless for a few minutes, he fell to one knee, issued hushed orders to his retinue, and left. He left his sons with their first Wolf Lord; [[Bjorn the Fell Handed]], and a message.

"In the end, I will be there. For the final battle. For dinner time."

And then the winds of change blew over the fluff once again. In the audio play Parting of Ways we get a slightly different version of events. There was still an annual feast, though it wasn't just to celebrate the day the Emperor got the snot beaten out of him by Horus, but also to commemorate the space wolves that had died during the spring cleaning that followed the heresy, plus the completion of the Fang - the giant fortress of the Space wolves.
Also instead of a hundred years, it was two hundred years since the siege of Terra, so unless Dorn was a really slow learner and not very bright and it took him over a hundred years to assemble the golden throne, that is a clear lore change. Then again, given how Perturabo thoroughly kicked Dorn's ass in the iron cage, forcing papa smurf and the Ultrasmurfs to come and save Dorn's sorry ass, it's a possibility that Dorn just wasn't very bright. It's also a possibility that the Emperor got the Golden Throne from an old IKEA warehouse, which would explain why even a primarch would have had trouble in figuring out how to put it together in less than a hundred years.

Also Russ wasn't about to hold a speech, instead he had at first partaken in the festivities but as the party grew sullen, Russ retreated, sensing, as Bjorn put it, "a fell wind from beyond the mountains, bleeding through the cracks of the fang". After clenching the table for a while, Russ clambered to his feet on the table, screaming ''“No More!”'' The shout silenced the Space Wolves in their brawling and made the flags of the smoke filled halls tremble, so Russ apparently also had a gift for speech, plus he had a gift for getting instantly sober as Bjorn described his face going from being ruddy flushed with mjod to looking like an ice specter.
He then held a kickass speech ''“We come here to celebrate the allfather, we come here to remember his sacrifice and his ascension from the world of the senses and his victory over my brother the traitor.”
''“We remember the dead, who even now gather in the oververse, their blade sharp, their aim keen.”''
''“They are better than we are for they perished in war to end all wars and their souls have been purified! And what of us those left behind, wallowing in the drinks the fallen gods have left us?”''
''“We have grown fat, we have the beast within us, but is has never yet been mastered.”''
Then Russ grabbed his drinking horn and held it aloft and continued
''“So let us celebrate my father's ascension, let us remember what he was able to accomplish, let us remember what he built and what he foresaw and then what he lost and how he failed.”''
''“Do not morn the fact that he no longer walks among us, for the galaxy was too small to accommodate such soul, he was of an age of '''gods!''' And we are slumped in an age of mortals.”''
''“The lights of the stars will fade, this place will grow old and the ice will crack it.”''
''“We will forget no matter how much the skalds tell the old tales, what battles are left for us like the ones before?”''
''“My fallen brothers are gone, Malcador is gone, the leeches cluster around the golden throne and whisper of deeds done before they were born as if it where '''they''' who achieved them.”''
At this point Russ looked unsteady on his feet and his eyes went glassy
''“A doubt of all of this, one thing remains true we were not on Terra, we were not there when the palace fell and that shame will pursue us for eternity.”''
Then Russ dropped his drinking horn on the board and then started to speak not to his warriors, but to himself or to some presence that was unseen.
''“It remains unfinished… I have waited for too long, building this mountain squabbling with Gulliman, I will not grow old, feeble, limping around a crumbling inheritance, I have and Oath to keep there are beasts left to slay.”''
At this point Russ where fully immersed in his premonitions and he looked around the room a smile dancing on his fanged face, seeing thing from either long ago or yet to come.
''“Listen by closely my brothers, there shall come a time far from now, where the chapter itself is dying and our foes shall gather to destroy us.”''
''“Then my sons I shall listen for your call, in whatever realm holds me and come I shall, no matter what the laws of life and death forbid.”''
''“At the end I will be there for the final battle FOR THE WOLF TIME!”''

Then Russ gave the mustering signal and he and his retinue left, though as Bjorn made to follow only to have Russ turn towards him saying a single sentence ''“Not you.”''
When Bjorn asked for an explanation all Russ did was repeat the words ''“Not you.”''
Then he left.

It is theorized that Russ like Magnus had the gift of premonition and knew that Bjorn would be needed in the years to come as the first Great Wolf, as it is heavily implied that if Bjorn hadn't been persuaded to take the mantle of great wolf, the chapter itself would have fallen apart in the absence of Russ.

More likely Russ just didn't want Bjorn's moodiness to poison what ever adventure he was on.

As to where Russ went and what happened to him there's a few theories given

The Russ sought the Lion out to make amends of their old feuding (if so they both forgot to tell both their chapters about it)

That he fought in eternal combat with the resurrected cadaver of Horus (no that would be Abaddon's task and he completely owned that clone of Horus)

That he searched for the tree of life to heal the Emperor's soul (if so it will be needed sorely needed, as Abaddon blasted a remnant of the Emperor's soul, watching it decay in front of him)

That he is trapped within a hollow star and tormented by his old adversary Magnus (Since Tzeentch was able to trap Sigmar in another dimension, trapping Russ in a hollow star and have his star pupil Magnus use him as a punching bag makes as much sense as anything)

That he is actually searching for Magnus, to finish the last task given to him by the Emperor and "arrest" his wayward brother.

That he had passed beyond the bounds of space and time and now roamed among the gods, ready to return when needed accompanied by the fallen of his legion sundered in a paradise of warriors (so basically he's in the Age of Sigmar at this point? somebody put him out of his misery, that's not a paradise that's hell on earth)

That he's simply lost in the galactic fjord known as the Warp and has been playing drunken pranks among the daemonic villagers for 10,000 years.

/tg/ theorizes that Leman Russ may return as [[Horo]] (Implying Horo isn't just one of Leman's many, many bastard children growing up on some shithole Feudal world).

Magnus actually know where is Russ now, but he don't tell it even to his trusted sorcerer lords.

The 13th company, and a figure bearing the likeness of Russ, was spotted during the 13th crusade and the siege of the capital of cadia.

==On The Tabletop==
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An impressive stat-line, even by the insane standards of Primarchs, is coupled with unbelievably powerful wargear:
*The '''Armour Elavagar''' starts as your bog-standard 2+/4++ which is increased to a 3++ against flamer (in case that Marksmen Veteran with a Combiflamer or Heavy Flamer rolled a 6 wounding you), melta, and plasma weapons, but the truly <strike>awesome</strike> bullshit part is that it imposes -1 to hit on anyone in BtB with him, which is increased to a -2 after the first round of combat - combined with his insane WS this means nothing save [[Khaine|WS]][[Bloodthirster|10]] can hit him at better than 5+ on the first turn (Fulgrim wishes his shiny armour was as reliable) and [[Cheese|6+]] on the second. Anything that can't [[Corax|Hit]]'n'[[Konrad Curze|Run]] is gonna be stuck in CC with Russ with little to no chance of hurting him until he kills it.
*The '''Axe of Helwinter''' is a ''+2 master-crafted power axe with sunder and without unwieldy'' for your vehicle-wrecking needs.
*The '''Sword of Balenight''' is a Shredding AP2 power sword; oh wait, it also has '''Sever Life'''. If Russ' prey suffers one or more wounds from the sword, roll a 2d6. If this result beats your target's toughness, add 1d3 additional wounds.
**Thanks to vague wording, when you must make the test for Sever Life is a subject of debate. Some say "suffering one or more wounds" means that the rule applies immediately before saves are made. HOWEVER, the rule clearly states that Sever Life is used only if the model "is not slain" by the initial attacks, and you HAVE to make your save rolls in order to know if they are slain or not, so one can lawfully argue that ''unsaved'' wounds are the real trigger. Keep calm and make it clear with your opponent until a FAQ is released.
*For ranged fights he has the [[Vulkan]]-remade bolter (mentioned to be regular one until Xzibit got his hands on it) turned into a pistol for Primach's hand, called '''Scornspitter''' which is assault 3 AP3 rending, but with pitiful 12" range.

Meanwhile, his Sire of the Space Wolves gives him Night Vision, Counter-Attack, Prenatural Senses, and Hunter's Gait: all Wolves get +1Ld and Russ gets to Awoo once per game (letting everyone in his detachment reroll run and charge for said turn). Breaker of Shields, Bringer of Ruin gives weapon mastery (like Horus and Calgar). If he's Warlord, you can take Veteran Tacticals (who may run/shoot bolters then charge instead of regular Vet tactics) and Varagyr Terminators as troops.

On paper, Russ like a very expensive torpedo that is only good at tying stuff in combat and killing it, and adds only a bit to his army. However, the LD bonus, his ability to massively increase your army's board-crossing ability, and take Veteran Tacs, who just may be the best infantry in 30k, as compulsory troops combine to make him a reasonably strong force multiplier. Unlike Angron he's tough enough to withstand ranged firepower for a while, but not killy enough to wipe out tarpits Army/Cults or Thagmata can drown him in till the rest of the game for like 1/6 of his price. Exacerbating this issue is the fact that, like Angron, he isn't very mobile on his own, and as such will need a transport. However, Hunter's Gait mitigates this slightly, and he could always just Outflank with Vets. Take him with the Pale Hunters, point him at the biggest CC threat your enemy has, and if you're smart with Vet tactics and when you Howl your army will be great.

==Leman Russ VS other Primarchs:==
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'''<big>THEY ALL DIE. EVERY. LAST. ONE. OF. THEM.</big>'''

Sever Life on The Sword of Balenight is the real kicker here. <s>Because Russ' sword triggers '''Sever Life''' [[Rape|before saves]], he can put an outright frightening amount of saves on high-wound models. And since most primarchs only have a 4++, they tend to die in short order.</s> This is a subject of some debate (see above). So if you want to add the damage for Sever Life, here's the results:

*Against T6 Sever Life will cause an additional 1.091 Wounds.
*Against T7 Sever Life will cause an additional 0.909 Wounds.
::Note that these are Wounds that can still be saved via Invulnerable saves.

Actually, far worse than Sever Life (which probably is intended to trigger after saves, hence the "Is not slain" part) is his armor, which cripples almost every Primarch's ability to damage him with the negatives to hit. Even the uber-tanks are left flailing at him, barely doing any damage, while he grinds them out. He'll win almost every fight (including Horus).
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==Gallery==
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File:Leman russ by alexboca-d7930sk.jpg|Leman Russ being the biggest pimp this side of Segmentum Solar.
File:Russ_Behind.jpg| RUN <s> FORREST </s> LEMAN, RUN!
File:Russ_Front.jpg| He's running so [[White Scars|fast]] because he saw someone throw a stick.
File:Russ_Side.jpg| Here's hoping forgeworld gives him good rules when HH book 7 drops, His model deserves them.
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[[Category:Space Wolves]]

==See Also==
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0Q8uymv0vw&index=2&list=PLdPq6mYy-DRdA9aTRJghfDsQiyR5WLs7y/ Admit it, this is the only song that truly befits the glory of the Sons of Russ.]

Leman Russ

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''"I am the punishment of God...If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.”''<br>
-[[Genghis motherfucking Khan|Genghis Khan]].

''"Let me live deep while I live; let me know the rich juices of red meat and stinging wine on my palate, the hot embrace of white arms, the mad exultation of battle when the blue blades flame and crimson, and I am content. Let teachers and priests and philosophers brood over questions of reality and illusion. I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content."''<br>
- Conan the Barbarian

''"NEEERRRRD."''<br>
- Leman Russ

[[Image:LEMAN_RUSS.jpg|frame|My hand is fire, my hair is rage, my pauldrons are justice and my cock is wolf. Prepare to die!]]
'''Leman Russ''', not to be confused with the [[Leman Russ (tank)|tank bearing his name]], is the primarch of the [[Space Wolves]] legion. A superhuman nordic king with a warrior's crude humor and a stubborn streak a mile wide. He was such a hard headed son of a bitch, that he's survived extended fights with [[Angron]], [[Magnus]], [[Lion El'Jonson|The Lion]], and even the Emperor himself. General all-around badass deserving of much respect, but superstitious and flawed, with a serious inability to see things from other's points of view. He's blonde underneath all the blood.

==Origins==
When the Primarchs were lost, Leman's capsule landed on [[Fenris]], a harsh planet of insane violence that the Norse gods shit out after a three day meth fueled orgy with a tyranid hive fleet. The locals there enjoy a life of fishing, drinking, sailing, fucking, pillaging and conquering other tribes of people for the modest little islands they all have to live on. Granted, it's also usually a very short life, because they're sharing the world with trolls, yetis, wolves the size of horses, bears the size of a house, whales that kill for fun, and krakens, which are to a squid as a [[Hierophant]] is to a [[Hormagaunt]].

So it was that little baby Russ left his capsule in the polar mountain region of Asaheim. There, some monstrous female wolf found him and said to herself "I WANT!". So Russ was raised by a dire wolf In Spess. A few years pass, Russ growing up big and strong and hairy, having a grand old time running around the mountains and killing the sheep and such of the humans there with his wolf brothers. Eventually a king named Thengir heard of the Wolf-man, and decreed he be captured and brought to his hall. The mist of ages (and retcons) have hidden the details of Thengir's first meeting with Russ. Some stories would say that Russ was bound and gagged and dragged into the hall of the King Thengir after his Wolf family was slain, others claim a hunting party stumbled across his cave and kicked off a bloody melee in which a dozen hunters were killed, along with Russ's mother, after which the hunters somehow convinced Russ to stand down and come with them, a conversation that may or may not have included copious amounts of alcohol and whores. Thengir took a wondrous interest in Russ and ordered he be educated. In a short time, Russ was trash-talking every short bastard who dared look at him the wrong way, and had become insanely good with weaponry. When Thengir finally died, all declared that Leman of the Russ become the new high King.

==The Next Step==

Russ conquered and took. He bartered and traded. He united the people of Asaheim under his rule. Somehow, the Emprah heard of it and realized it all had to be the work of a Primarch. So then he attended a royal banquet in the Hall of the Mountain Ki- I mean Leman Russ. The Emprah, taking a leaf out of Odin's book, disguised himself as some old geezer, then waited until the right moment to reveal his true identity. When he did Russ refused to bow down and challenged him to several contests, he ate so much the Emprah was forced to back down. Russ drank so much the Emprah was forced to back down. By now, the Emprah was fairly surprised at finally being out-done by someone else, Russ gazed upon the Emperor and challenged him in combat, and so did the Emprah raise his Power Glove into the air for all to see, and so did he then bring it down on Leman Russ's head, knocking him the fuck out in one solid hit.

Of course fluff changes and a 1-hit KO wasn't very fulfilling, so the new lore arrived: After the Emperor revealed himself Leman Russ skipped the eating and drinking contests and just challenged the Emperor to a fight. For hours they dueled, which ended when the Emperor punched Russ square in the face, presumably he was pissy the Leman was waving his cock in his face by just straight up fighting him, (debatable as to whether or not he was in his full armour and actually had his Power Fist at the time), and when Russ awoke, he laughed it off. Presumably he did a lot better this time by virtue of not being drunk. Afterwards he ended up in command of the one Space Marine legion that knows how to eat, drink, brawl and make war upon any asshole that mocks their Thunderwolf.

Rumour has it that the Emp was so pleased with Russ' prowess, that he thereforth tasked him and the Space Wolves to be his executioners and it seems Russ is the reason the 2nd and 11th Legions no longer exist. So he has experience fucking up a Primarch, which is pretty goddamn manly. (Not confirmed by any sources and is not more than passing conversation in one Black Library novel, other than that, yeah totally definitely didn't kill the other legions. Also if you take how he acted with Angron and Magnus, he totally hated his job of being the executioner...and apparently thought Lorgar was a pretty cool guy).

(The novel "Betrayer" contradicts almost all of this. It has Russ taking it upon himself to school the World Eaters without Emp's blessing as he was disgusted by their behavior, it has Angron defeat Russ in single combat because only he was fighting to kill while Russ was trying to teach, it then ends with the Space Wolves entirely outmaneuvering the Eaters and winning a tactical victory by surrounding Angron. The Eaters believe they won due to a higher kill count and the Wolves leave disappointed that their legion brothers were too retarded to see the lesson Russ was teaching. Even Lorgar tells Angron that he was a complete tool on that night and would have been killed)

Apart from that, Russ and his Space Wolves had a goddamn good time during the Great Crusade, although it hasn't been written about so this is all we can guess. When that fag-ass [[Horus]] started whining and crying, Leman Russ and his Legion were on their way to Prospero to bring Magnus the Red to Terra for questioning. Horus intercepted the message and re-worded it to order Russ to destroy Magnus and his Thousand Sons. Russ and the Space Wolves carried out a class-10 clusterfucking on Prospero, to the point where Leman Russ himself lifted Magnus the Red over his shoulders and broke the sorcerer's back over his knee. But even so, the red bastard managed to utter one single word of power and escaped through the fucking ground. Russ was so enraged that he ordered the 13th company of Space Wolves to pursue the fleeing Thousand Sons through their pansy-ass portals.

Despite his reputation, fighting Magnus took a serious toll on Russ. He probably knew that it was a "fair fight" only because Magnus was devastated and held back his power, with which he would have easily won, being at least the third most powerful psyker humanity, and possibly the galaxy, had ever known.

Rumour has it, that during the battle between those two demigods Magnus, by psychic means, laid his heart and mind bare to Russ, revealing that he knew not only every blow that was coming from his brother, but everything that he had come to know, accepting his failure and his fate, which was defeat. (Source?)

This shook the Wolf King deeply. But of course, he decided to carry on. An Inquisitor once called it an "emo phase" in front of a Rune Priest, and was fed balls-first to a Thunderwolf, especially when the news of the Drop Site Massacre reached the Wolves. In his own words, Russ felt he'd been "in the wrong place, doing the wrong thing". Just to make things worse, the Alpha Legion turned up to batter the Wolves, and the White Scars weren't going to help them after Prospero. Russ was forced to retreat and hide in deep space. The only real plus here was that Bjorn the Fell-Handed came to his attention, setting the young warrior on the path to ironclad badassness.

Oh and Empy totally gave him a spear with every single member of his original legion depicted fighting various gribbly xenos. Including Tyranids. Yup. Said spear was tossed into a certain Daemon Primarchs single eye, thereby preventing him from manifesting in reality AND resurrecting his legion. Russ totally hated this spear btw. At one point Russ tried to hit a moon orbiting some planet (he was drunk, don't judge) and the spear was lost for months.

== Russ and his Brothers ==

In many ways Russ can be best understood by looking at the clashes between him and his brothers, butting heads with [[Angron]], [[Magnus]], and [[Lion El'Jonson]] over the years. All three of them had much in common with Russ, and there was potential for great brotherhood there, but in large part his lack of tact or understanding crushed whatever relationship might have been.

His fight with Angron was his attempt to teach his brother a lesson. Both of them were penultimate warriors, both relied on their amazing athleticism and berzerker rages to triumph in battle, both were known for losing their temper when challenged, but Russ saw weakness in his brother's lack of strategy. Leman tried to just talk to the World Eater's primarch, but Angron was so uncontrollably, incredibly, "calm down son," angry that he just attacked Russ. While Russ and Angron were dueling, their retinues kicked off an open war, and in the battle that followed Russ found himself defeated by Angron, but Angron was in turn outmaneuvered and surrounded by the Space Wolves, thus proving Russ's lesson that warrior prowess isn't enough. That said, no one learned '''anything'''. Angron thought himself the victor because he'd won the duel and his sons had inflicted greater casualties than the wolves, but Russ thought himself the victor because he'd proven his point and "educated" his brother. If Russ had paid more attention and thought things through rather than just rushing forward to do things his way, he'd have used subtler methods of persuasion to calm Angron, as Fulgrim and especially Lorgar had done in the past. Russ may well have had an easier time of persuading Angron than either of them, given that he and Angron had a similar sense of brutal honor and a great lust for war. But, ultimately, it didn't occur to Russ to slow down and think it though, so he failed that day.

Russ really, ''really'' didn't get along with Magnus, even before the burning of Prospero. He hated that his brother used sorcery and warpcraft, despite the fact that Russ's legion ALSO USED SORCERY, but Russ insisted that they were just "channeling the spirits of Fenris." To add to that, other than Magnus and Lorgar, Russ was the most warp sensitive of all his brothers, to the point where Russ was a more capable warp navigator than the actual [[Navigator]]s. No long explanation, Russ was just being a superstitious moron.

Perhaps most famous and most tragic of Russ's feuds was his strife with [[Lion El'Jonson]]. Both men had very similar origins, but slight differences in their upbringings drove a wedge between them. The Wolf and the Lion were both raised by the wild: both of their pods had crashed in areas with no humans, and they had to learn to survive with no lessons from other men. Both were eventually taken in when they were discovered by the men of their world, but that's where their stories differ. Where Russ was raised in the friendly, bawdy brotherhood of Thengir's men, the Lion was trained and educated in the somber fraternity of the knightly Order. While Russ had been brawling and singing with his friends, leading great hunts to destroy monsters and enemy tribes, the Lion was mastering discipline and embarking on solemn quests to destroy the Great Beasts of the forest. The battle between the two came on the world of Dulan, where the IV and I legion were fighting together to slay a tyrant who'd insulted Russ's honor. At the beginning of the conflict the two brothers had promised to work together, but as time went on the Lion grew tired of his brother's insistence on utterly smashing every pocket of resistance rather than taking a more efficient, direct method of ending the war. Eventually he just launched an assault on the tyrant's palace, and beheaded the man before Russ could reach them. Naturally, Russ was ''furious''. Russ was an angry dickhead, the Lion was a snarky bastard, and before long blades were drawn and the two were trying to kill each other in a violent battle. After a long and bloody fight in which the two of them were beaten senseless and had fallen over the ramparts of the fortress to the ground below, Russ started laughing at the ridiculousness of what they were doing. The Lion asked if his brother would yield, a question that just confused Russ. ''The lion thought this was a duel?'' Russ had thought of the fight as a brawl between angry brothers, a quick spat that would end with both of them beaten and bloodied, something they'd laugh about over a drinks years later. The Lion however was taking it deadly serious, and while Russ was laughing, he struck a final blow, shattering Russ's skull and ending the fight. Had Russ stopped to consider his brother's mentality, or listened more closely to the Lion's words, he would have realized that the Lion saw the conflict as something profoundly different from what Russ thought it was. Again, Russ's lack of consideration was his failing.

However, while certainly abrasive, arrogant, and brutal, Russ was also every bit as loyal as Sanguinius or Dorn. The other thing Magnus, Angron, and the Lion have in common? They're all assholes. Magnus arrogantly assumes he knows best and blatantly favored psykers in his Legion. Angron is... [[Rage|self-explanatory.]] The Lion was absolutely infuriated that Russ correctly pointed out that it had been the Lion's lust for power and recognition that had led him to betray his promise to Russ. The battle took place in the days before Horus's ascension to the role of warmaster, and Russ knew his brother craved the title above all else, even above his own honor. Bottom line, his brothers all put their own feelings/goals before those of the Emperor. Not to say that Russ was tactful, diplomatic, or understanding with these three - he certainly could have handled all of these conflicts better - but Russ was never a dick just for the sake of being a dick- he was a dick because someone had to keep his brothers in line.

== Post-Heresy ==

Although unable to return to aid the Imperium in the Battle for Terra, Russ and the Space Wolves threw themselves headfirst into the post-heresy war efforts. Aside from spanking the traitors into the Eye of Terror, he came up with the concept for the Adeptus Praeses. Though he'd told Guilliman where he could shove his Codex, Russ liked the idea of successor chapters for the Wolves. To him (or the little reformist movement within the Legion later, the fluff isn't totally clear), they were a way of maintaining the Wolves' influence alongside that of Girlyman, Dorn and the rest. Unfortunately the Wolves' gene-seed proved too unstable to set up any viable successor chapters, and as a result while the Ultramarines, Imperial Fists and Dark Angels have shedloads of descendants, the Wolves are the sole embodiment of Russ' strength and drive. This hasn't helped their situation with Imperial institutions such as the Inquisition.

One-hundred years to the day after the Emperor's internment on the Golden Throne, during a feast in the halls of the Space Wolves fortress, Russ climbed upon a table to give a speech. He was stricken with a vision, and after standing there speechless for a few minutes, he fell to one knee, issued hushed orders to his retinue, and left. He left his sons with their first Wolf Lord; [[Bjorn the Fell Handed]], and a message.

"In the end, I will be there. For the final battle. For dinner time."

And then the winds of change blew over the fluff once again. In the audio play Parting of Ways we get a slightly different version of events. There was still an annual feast, though it wasn't just to celebrate the day the Emperor got the snot beaten out of him by Horus, but also to commemorate the space wolves that had died during the spring cleaning that followed the heresy, plus the completion of the Fang - the giant fortress of the Space wolves.
Also instead of a hundred years, it was two hundred years since the siege of Terra, so unless Dorn was a really slow learner and not very bright and it took him over a hundred years to assemble the golden throne, that is a clear lore change. Then again, given how Perturabo thoroughly kicked Dorn's ass in the iron cage, forcing papa smurf and the Ultrasmurfs to come and save Dorn's sorry ass, it's a possibility that Dorn just wasn't very bright. It's also a possibility that the Emperor got the Golden Throne from an old IKEA warehouse, which would explain why even a primarch would have had trouble in figuring out how to put it together in less than a hundred years.

Also Russ wasn't about to hold a speech, instead he had at first partaken in the festivities but as the party grew sullen, Russ retreated, sensing, as Bjorn put it, "a fell wind from beyond the mountains, bleeding through the cracks of the fang". After clenching the table for a while, Russ clambered to his feet on the table, screaming ''“No More!”'' The shout silenced the Space Wolves in their brawling and made the flags of the smoke filled halls tremble, so Russ apparently also had a gift for speech, plus he had a gift for getting instantly sober as Bjorn described his face going from being ruddy flushed with mjod to looking like an ice specter.
He then held a kickass speech ''“We come here to celebrate the allfather, we come here to remember his sacrifice and his ascension from the world of the senses and his victory over my brother the traitor.”
''“We remember the dead, who even now gather in the oververse, their blade sharp, their aim keen.”''
''“They are better than we are for they perished in war to end all wars and their souls have been purified! And what of us those left behind, wallowing in the drinks the fallen gods have left us?”''
''“We have grown fat, we have the beast within us, but is has never yet been mastered.”''
Then Russ grabbed his drinking horn and held it aloft and continued
''“So let us celebrate my father's ascension, let us remember what he was able to accomplish, let us remember what he built and what he foresaw and then what he lost and how he failed.”''
''“Do not morn the fact that he no longer walks among us, for the galaxy was too small to accommodate such soul, he was of an age of '''gods!''' And we are slumped in an age of mortals.”''
''“The lights of the stars will fade, this place will grow old and the ice will crack it.”''
''“We will forget no matter how much the skalds tell the old tales, what battles are left for us like the ones before?”''
''“My fallen brothers are gone, Malcador is gone, the leeches cluster around the golden throne and whisper of deeds done before they were born as if it where '''they''' who achieved them.”''
At this point Russ looked unsteady on his feet and his eyes went glassy
''“A doubt of all of this, one thing remains true we were not on Terra, we were not there when the palace fell and that shame will pursue us for eternity.”''
Then Russ dropped his drinking horn on the board and then started to speak not to his warriors, but to himself or to some presence that was unseen.
''“It remains unfinished… I have waited for too long, building this mountain squabbling with Gulliman, I will not grow old, feeble, limping around a crumbling inheritance, I have and Oath to keep there are beasts left to slay.”''
At this point Russ where fully immersed in his premonitions and he looked around the room a smile dancing on his fanged face, seeing thing from either long ago or yet to come.
''“Listen by closely my brothers, there shall come a time far from now, where the chapter itself is dying and our foes shall gather to destroy us.”''
''“Then my sons I shall listen for your call, in whatever realm holds me and come I shall, no matter what the laws of life and death forbid.”''
''“At the end I will be there for the final battle FOR THE WOLF TIME!”''

Then Russ gave the mustering signal and he and his retinue left, though as Bjorn made to follow only to have Russ turn towards him saying a single sentence ''“Not you.”''
When Bjorn asked for an explanation all Russ did was repeat the words ''“Not you.”''
Then he left.

It is theorized that Russ like Magnus had the gift of premonition and knew that Bjorn would be needed in the years to come as the first Great Wolf, as it is heavily implied that if Bjorn hadn't been persuaded to take the mantle of great wolf, the chapter itself would have fallen apart in the absence of Russ.

More likely Russ just didn't want Bjorn's moodiness to poison what ever adventure he was on.

As to where Russ went and what happened to him there's a few theories given

The Russ sought the Lion out to make amends of their old feuding (if so they both forgot to tell both their chapters about it)

That he fought in eternal combat with the resurrected cadaver of Horus (no that would be Abaddon's task and he completely owned that clone of Horus)

That he searched for the tree of life to heal the Emperor's soul (if so it will be needed sorely needed, as Abaddon blasted a remnant of the Emperor's soul, watching it decay in front of him)

That he is trapped within a hollow star and tormented by his old adversary Magnus (Since Tzeentch was able to trap Sigmar in another dimension, trapping Russ in a hollow star and have his star pupil Magnus use him as a punching bag makes as much sense as anything)

That he had passed beyond the bounds of space and time and now roamed among the gods, ready to return when needed accompanied by the fallen of his legion sundered in a paradise of warriors (so basically he's in the Age of Sigmar at this point? somebody put him out of his misery, that's not a paradise that's hell on earth)

/tg/ theorizes that Leman Russ may return as [[Horo]] (Implying Horo isn't just one of Leman's many, many bastard children growing up on some shithole Feudal world).

Magnus actually know where is Russ now, but he don't tell it even to his trusted sorcerer lords.

The 13th company, and a figure bearing the likeness of Russ, was spotted during the 13th crusade and the siege of the capital of cadia.

==On The Tabletop==
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An impressive stat-line, even by the insane standards of Primarchs, is coupled with unbelievably powerful wargear:
*The '''Armour Elavagar''' starts as your bog-standard 2+/4++ which is increased to a 3++ against flamer (in case that Marksmen Veteran with a Combiflamer or Heavy Flamer rolled a 6 wounding you), melta, and plasma weapons, but the truly <strike>awesome</strike> bullshit part is that it imposes -1 to hit on anyone in BtB with him, which is increased to a -2 after the first round of combat - combined with his insane WS this means nothing save [[Khaine|WS]][[Bloodthirster|10]] can hit him at better than 5+ on the first turn (Fulgrim wishes his shiny armour was as reliable) and [[Cheese|6+]] on the second. Anything that can't [[Corax|Hit]]'n'[[Konrad Curze|Run]] is gonna be stuck in CC with Russ with little to no chance of hurting him until he kills it.
*The '''Axe of Helwinter''' is a ''+2 master-crafted power axe with sunder and without unwieldy'' for your vehicle-wrecking needs.
*The '''Sword of Balenight''' is a Shredding AP2 power sword; oh wait, it also has '''Sever Life'''. If Russ' prey suffers one or more wounds from the sword, roll a 2d6. If this result beats your target's toughness, add 1d3 additional wounds.
**Thanks to vague wording, when you must make the test for Sever Life is a subject of debate. Some say "suffering one or more wounds" means that the rule applies immediately before saves are made. HOWEVER, the rule clearly states that Sever Life is used only if the model "is not slain" by the initial attacks, and you HAVE to make your save rolls in order to know if they are slain or not, so one can lawfully argue that ''unsaved'' wounds are the real trigger. Keep calm and make it clear with your opponent until a FAQ is released.
*For ranged fights he has the [[Vulkan]]-remade bolter (mentioned to be regular one until Xzibit got his hands on it) turned into a pistol for Primach's hand, called '''Scornspitter''' which is assault 3 AP3 rending, but with pitiful 12" range.

Meanwhile, his Sire of the Space Wolves gives him Night Vision, Counter-Attack, Prenatural Senses, and Hunter's Gait: all Wolves get +1Ld and Russ gets to Awoo once per game (letting everyone in his detachment reroll run and charge for said turn). Breaker of Shields, Bringer of Ruin gives weapon mastery (like Horus and Calgar). If he's Warlord, you can take Veteran Tacticals (who may run/shoot bolters then charge instead of regular Vet tactics) and Varagyr Terminators as troops.

On paper, Russ like a very expensive torpedo that is only good at tying stuff in combat and killing it, and adds only a bit to his army. However, the LD bonus, his ability to massively increase your army's board-crossing ability, and take Veteran Tacs, who just may be the best infantry in 30k, as compulsory troops combine to make him a reasonably strong force multiplier. Unlike Angron he's tough enough to withstand ranged firepower for a while, but not killy enough to wipe out tarpits Army/Cults or Thagmata can drown him in till the rest of the game for like 1/6 of his price. Exacerbating this issue is the fact that, like Angron, he isn't very mobile on his own, and as such will need a transport. However, Hunter's Gait mitigates this slightly, and he could always just Outflank with Vets. Take him with the Pale Hunters, point him at the biggest CC threat your enemy has, and if you're smart with Vet tactics and when you Howl your army will be great.

==Leman Russ VS other Primarchs:==
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'''<big>THEY ALL DIE. EVERY. LAST. ONE. OF. THEM.</big>'''

Sever Life on The Sword of Balenight is the real kicker here. <s>Because Russ' sword triggers '''Sever Life''' [[Rape|before saves]], he can put an outright frightening amount of saves on high-wound models. And since most primarchs only have a 4++, they tend to die in short order.</s> This is a subject of some debate (see above). So if you want to add the damage for Sever Life, here's the results:

*Against T6 Sever Life will cause an additional 1.091 Wounds.
*Against T7 Sever Life will cause an additional 0.909 Wounds.
::Note that these are Wounds that can still be saved via Invulnerable saves.

Actually, far worse than Sever Life (which probably is intended to trigger after saves, hence the "Is not slain" part) is his armor, which cripples almost every Primarch's ability to damage him with the negatives to hit. Even the uber-tanks are left flailing at him, barely doing any damage, while he grinds them out. He'll win almost every fight (including Horus).
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==Gallery==
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File:Leman russ by alexboca-d7930sk.jpg|Leman Russ being the biggest pimp this side of Segmentum Solar.
File:Russ_Behind.jpg| RUN <s> FORREST </s> LEMAN, RUN!
File:Russ_Front.jpg| He's running so [[White Scars|fast]] because he saw someone throw a stick.
File:Russ_Side.jpg| Here's hoping forgeworld gives him good rules when HH book 7 drops, His model deserves them.
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==See Also==
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0Q8uymv0vw&index=2&list=PLdPq6mYy-DRdA9aTRJghfDsQiyR5WLs7y/ Admit it, this is the only song that truly befits the glory of the Sons of Russ.]