Editing Lamenters (section)

== How Unlucky Can They get? ==
[[File:Lamenter_Space_Marine.jpg|300px|thumb|right|They may be unlucky, but they'll fight on no matter the odds.]]
The Lamenters were formed during the "cursed" [[21st Founding]]; where the AdMech believed they could improve on [[God-Emperor of Mankind|Big.E]]'s template. The end result was... [[not as planned|weird]]. (Guess they should have waited for [[Belisarius Cawl|Grampa Cawl]] before trying to mess with gene-seed.) Most Chapters founded at that time suffered from some kind of mutation. At least one ended up terminated by the [[Inquisition]] with the remaining ones staying under '''very''' close scrutiny for deviancy.

At first the Lamenters seemed to be the ones getting the best deal out of the whole sorry lot, since they did not suffer from the Red Thirst and [[Black Rage]]; unique case among the [[Blood Angels]] and their descendants. Unfortunately, they seem to have been the specific target of [[Tzeentch]]'s eternal dicking ever since; they have been cursed with more misfortunes than any other Chapter out there. It's even gotten to the point where Imperial "[[derp|scientists]]" are wondering what the hell is going on because, sure, shit happens, some people are never lucky, some statistical impossibilities become true on a fluke... and then there's the Lamenters.

As if it couldn't get any worse, eventually the Black Rage came back. Sometimes you just can't win.

TL;DR: *weeps a single tear of manliness.*
[[File:Lamenters_2.png|right|thumb|500px|This image is often used as filler for [[Imperial Fists]] articles and other chapters with similar color schemes. Because even in wikis, the Lamenters get fucked over.]]
===List of How Hard the Lamenters Have Been Screwed Over:===
''"I am of the scions of Sanguinius. Mine is the glory of sacrifice eternal, mine is the duty that never ends."''

- Captain Anaes Rychter of the Lamenters 
*Founded during the Cursed Founding, earning them distrust among fellow Space Marines. Being a fleet-based chapter, they decide wisely to depart to the fringes of the Imperium to crusade against the xenos and the enemy without, rather than be mired in conflicts within.
*Were eventually recalled to the interior of the Imperium by <s>[[Tzeentch]]</s> the [[High Lords of Terra]].
*Tasked by the High Lords of Terra to partake in the defense against [[Abaddon|Failbaddon]]'s 9th [[Black Crusade]]. They were abandoned by the [[Mortifactors]] chapter in the defense of Corillia due to their origins. Being the heroic fuckers that they are, they decided to stay and fight anyways, and try to save the innocent people. Outnumbered as they were facing numerous combined Traitor forces, only 200 Lamenters were left 'standing' after the [[Ultramarines]] and [[White Scars]] finally gave enough of a shit to come in to reinforce them.
**The 200 survivors were subsequently lost in the warp after a freakish warp storm appeared. In a rare show of ''good'' luck for them, they ''did'' return afterwards, ''after fighting the whole way out''. Which, of course, just made other Space Marines trust them even less. <s>It is speculated Tzeentch only changed his plans at the last minute (!??!!)</s> {{BLAM}} {{BLAM|Heresy!}} so he could screw them over more. [[Eldrad|''What a dick.'']]

*Joined the Corinth Crusade with 300 Marines (all they had on hand at the time) in order to repay the Ultramarines for when they saved them on Corillia. (Because a debt of honour is a debt of honour, even the Chapter dying out doesn't get in the way of being bros!) In a decisive battle against an Ork slave mining world nicknamed "Slaughterhouse III", they liberated the 3 million human prisoners on the planet, who they decided to rescue (they did this alone, mind you - Calgar could not risk jeopardizing the entire crusade by attacking a planet that would most likely tie up their entire battleforce). Just a few moments after the victory, however, an Ork reinforcement fleet came over Slaughterhouse III. While everyone on the ground tried to evacuate as many people as they could, using their own ships and any planetside slaver ships that were still operational, the Lamenters realized they didn't have the time or resources to get everyone off-planet before being overrun, but decided to fight on to the last regardless. The remaining prisoners, though, wanting to spare their saviors from death and volunteered to be left to die so that the Lamenters could escape and deny the orks the planet. Reluctantly agreeing, the Lamenters detonated the seismic charges they had planted deep in the planet's mines and performed [[Exterminatus]] on the rest of the planet, utterly making sure the orks couldn't get anything valuable off it quickly and/or use it as a staging ground. (give Orks enough time and they'll loot/strip-mine/... a dead planet just fine; but Calgar & co didn't grant them the time.)
** After the Crusade, [[Marneus Calgar]] wanted to award them with [[Awesome|denying the Orks a vital mining planet and rescuing the few slaves they could get off-planet (mostly women and children)]] by giving them an [[Iron Halo]], but due to the losses (both theirs and civilians) [[Derp|they didn't feel like winners and turned it down]]. Despite how this was a case of manly tears, <s>most</s> some Space Marines instead took it as an insult to [[Matthew Ward|their spiritual liege]], so everyone hated the Lamenters even MORE. Although, turning down an item that would help them better save more people was pretty foolish. Calgar himself told the naysayers to shut the fuck up and was a good bro.
*Asked to partake in and to defend the area around the [[Maelstrom]] along with the [[Astral Claws]] and the [[Mantis Warriors]] after they got back to strength. For once, their fellow warriors the Astral Claws and the Mantis Warriors actually cared about them and the Lamenters had finally found true, believing friends. Then [[Lugft Huron]] decided to instigate what would become the [[Badab War]] with the Imperium because the Imperium ignored his pleas for launching a crusade into the Maelstrom. Understanding a trend here yet? When he does, the Lamenters and Mantis Warriors are drawn into the conflict as well out of bro ties to the Astral Claws — there is no way they are going to abandon their first genuine friends and only people in the Imperium who didn't treat them like shit. (And on top of that, from an outsider's point of view, it really seemed like the Imperium was bullying the Astral Claws pointlessly.)
**Reluctant to attack fellow Space Marines the Lamenters managed, for a time, to win conflicts with loyalists indirectly via their numbers, cunning maneuvers and effective shows of force causing ultimately little damage on both sides. This is known as excellence according to the Art of War and is basically the ultimate form of a mastery of warfare. But this strategy abruptly fell apart when the [[High Lords of Terra]] sent the [[Minotaurs]] into the fray, who were much less inclined to pull their punches. The Minotaurs discovered and ambushed the Lamenter's [[Fortress-Monastery]] and so began a brutal 17 hour siege with heavy losses on both sides where the Lamenters ultimately came out the worse. Outnumbered and outgunned by the infamously ruthless and well equipped Minotaurs (who are known for fighting ''en masse'' at nothing less than full Chapter strength and specializing in taking on other Astartes) the Lamenters were forced to surrender having been (once again) reduced to only 300, mostly wounded, Marines. Adding insult to injury, as recompense for their losses and just generally being poor winners, the kleptomaniac Minotaurs saw fit to pillage much of the Lamenters best equipment and even stole/were GIFTED a bunch of their ships, like a [[Blood Ravens|certain other chapter]], which they would eventually crash. Cherry on top, it was then the Lamenters learned that Huron and the Astral Claws had fallen to [[Chaos]] and that they'd ultimately been fighting for the wrong side.
*In another rare show of things, they were actually granted a pardon along with the Mantis Warriors. But again continuing this theme of getting fucked over, they had to do a penitent crusade for a hundred years ''without'' being able to replace losses or recruit new Marines (i.e. their fate would be in the Emperor's Hands now, and theirs alone). Their tattered banner was given to the [[Sisters of Battle|Adepta Sororitas]] for them to repair and re-sanctify. The Sororitas wept as they wove the ''Banner Of Tears'', as they contemplated the life of the Chapter, and how these glorious bastards refused to stop believing in their fellow Man, despite everything they had went through.
**This bears special mention: Sororitas (at least the ones in James Swallow's books) normally ''hate'' Space Marines. They treat the Astartes as [[abhuman|glorified mutants]], and their relationship soured even further when the Flesh Tearers accidentally gave the Sisters a [[Rip and tear|first-hand demonstration]] of the [[Black Rage]]; being blessed by the Emperor is pretty much the only reason the Sisters and the Marines don't get into more firefights than they already do. For the Sororitas to recognize the Lamenters as ''heroes'' worthy of having tears shed in their name? Heavy stuff, and the Lamenters earned it.
**Of course, the "official" story is that the Sororitas' tears were due to them 'contemplating the terrible sins of the Lamenters against [the God-Emperor]', [[FAIL|because fuck actually giving the Lamenters the respect they well and truly deserve in canon]], [[GW|we]] gotta keep them in constant misery because of GRIMDARK! (Of course as standard protocol disregard what GW wrote in the case why the sisters cried as non-canon, especially since there aren't any sins for them to cry about so...yeah.)
*They again wisely decided to crusade on the borders of the Imperium and against [[xenos]], lest they wind up getting fucked over in another internal squabble. But continuing this getting fucked over theme, in their first crusade action, they happened to encounter the [[Tyranid]] [[Hive Fleet Kraken]]. With only less than 400 marines on hand, they hold out to try to allow as many people as possible to escape whenever the Hive Fleet gets its OM NOM NOM'ing on.
*Just to make their shitty situation of repetitive forlorn hope rearguards even shittier, the [[Black Rage]] returned, meaning that the cure was a bust. So now the Lamenters have to form a [[Death Company]] and lose valuable battle-brothers that way... while still being unable to recruit (of course).
*A mere 13 years before their crusade was to end <s>[[Advancing the Storyline|the entire universe stopped]]</s>. Nevermind that, they have apparently survived through Kraken and have gotten Primaris reinforcements from [[Roboute Guilliman|Bobby G]], so at least they have a chance to survive their crusade.
**Well actually no. For some reason, Guilliman, the massive cunt he is decided to only give them the primaris tech and no Greyshields. Why? Because the Universe needs to shit on the Lamenters. (Like with the sisters crying segment disregard what GW wrote as non-canon)
*Perhaps even worse than all of the above, their colour scheme is masochistically hard to paint correctly. The [[Imperial Fists|yellow is alright]], nothing wrong there. [[RAGE|But the thing that basically makes the army Lamenters instead of any random yellow marines is their chapter's symbol, which is comprised of a black-and-white checkered pattern with a circle and a heart in the middle. Trying to paint that on a few dozen miniatures is more-or-less painstakingly time-consuming, if not impossible, in the face of other Chapters having easier symbols to paint.]] Anyway, as a result the Lamenters are cursed to be the least represented official chapter in the game, and almost certainly even less than a lot of fan made and random bullshit chapters. To play Lamenters, you need to be an uncommonly good painter and have a taste for being fucked over in the fluff, on the tabletop AND for hundreds of hours of painting. Certainly an acquired taste!
*Meta: Literally the day after StringStorm and Corgi release their masterpiece 1d4chan goes down and when it gets back up Captcha is broken so it can't be linked here until fixed. Even software hates them.
** It is fixed! Here it is! The Lamenters never give up! [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybvtDr48sqo]]
Basically an ideal Chapter for BDSM lovers.