The Ghost Walkers - A TvTropes Space Marine Chapter

Too blatant!? Well, to Google Translate! I vote we use Estonian. Their word for "divider" is "jagaja". That kinda works as a last name to me.

These are ex-Ultramarines. Need to keep up the faux-Latin they've got going on.

Also, the Damned Men were founded before Calgar's time.

But we are tropers! Let us gloriously subvert with our knowledge of conventions!

If you'd prefer to keep it, there's a lost list of verbs like "divide" according to Google Translate that would be marginally subtler.

• PARTIO
• DIVIDO
• PARTIOR
• DIDUCO
• DISTRIBUO
• TRIBUO
• DISDO
• DIDO
• DISPARTIOR
• APSCINDO
• SECO
• DISCERPO
• DISCINDO
• APSCIDO
• DISCRIMINO
• DISSIDEO
• DESSICO
• CARPO
• SEGREGO
• DISTERMINO
• DISPARTIO
• EXCERNO
• CONFINDO
• DISPERTIOR
• DISPERTIO
• SCINDO
• ABSCINDO
• DISPARO
• DISCRIBO
• DILUNGO
• DISTINGUO

Maybe I should of just linked it...

edited 7th Sep '11 8:31:46 PM by VutherA

I vote we name the 7th company captain Eddward Rapidus.

I vote the whole "burn the Codex" thing. Maybe that's what spawned the Penance Crusade in the first place, the as of yet unnamed 7th Company Captain burning the Codex in view of the Chapter Master to initiate his penance crusade?

Burning the Codex just seems like a petty and almost childish thing to do. Plus, a truly pragmatic Chapter would realize that it is useful under some conditions; it just shouldn't be slavishly followed to the letter.

I agree with this. The Codex Astartes does work. The Ghostwalkers/Damned Men (that name needs to be re-thought, I think) seem more pragmatic than that.

Perhaps it´s only a ritual to represent their scorn of the blind dogma that has kept the Ultramarines stuck for ten millenia?

Is what I thought. They don't burn it because they hate it or because they don't think it's useful at times, they just despise it for what it represents - dogma and single-minded belief in one set of tactics that might have changed over the couse of ten millennia.

Maybe what caused the penance crusade were tensions within the Chapter that blew into an argument between the Chpater Master and the Captain that got so heated that they came to blows. And in the end the Captain was banished and the 7th company went with him.

The reason why the Chapter Master got so angry was because the Captain might have spit/thrown away/burned a codex right in front of him?

Furthermore, we could say that the day before the Damned Men were "destroyed" a single bonfire was spotted on a freshly conquered world. Containing several charred copies of the Codex Astartes.

edited 8th Sep '11 7:22:27 AM by Neo_Crimson

That sounds like a good idea. They burned the Codexes to signify their final separation from the Ultramarines and their genetic heritage, devoting themselves to their interpretation of Rawbutt Girlyman?

So, has anyone tried recreating our Chapter in Dawn of War I/II yet? I'd like to see if you're able to make it look anything like our blueprint so far.

I tried, but I didn't make a screenshot. I could try to get one in a second.

Please do, I'm curious.

This is how mine turned out

edited 8th Sep '11 11:36:09 AM by arcsquad12

I LIKE IT, it says it all: a color as plain as possible, so you can just paint over it whatever camouflage you need. After all, trophies and distinctions in combat are for moronic glory hounds, right? :)

EDIT: BTW, I can also see it clearly:

UM chapter Master: "Your actions are clearly against the sacred Codex, brother-captain, you should medit-" Captain: "Codex? HANG THE CODEX!" (takes a copy and rips it to pieces in front of the Chapter Master, thus triggering the events we know).

edited 8th Sep '11 11:53:36 AM by Gamabunta

Their parade ground colors are probably a bit brighter, though. In fact, it would be sort of funny if their official colors, the ones they wear to formal events, were kind of vivid and eye-hurting. The enemies of man would find themselves scanning the battlefield for searing crimson or chrome cyan as camouflaged scouts in ghillie suits creep up behind them.

That could work.

I'm not too happy with the Ultramarine symbol, though. If only I actually had any drawing skill, we could probably make up an image to use as a sort-of code of arms, or we can go with one of the premade ones from Spehss Mareen if we're going to be playing as these guys.

And how about their names. Are we going with the same Fauxius Latinicus as the Ultramarines, or are we going with something else?

I guess it would depend on the world they now control.

Maybe some asian theme? I haven´t seen much of it in 40k, besides the White Scars.

Then they'd just be Space Ninjas. I'm thinking we might want to go with the Latin.

Or perhaps an Eastern European theme? We've got Western Europe pretty well represented, but the aren't really a lot of Space Poles about.

edited 8th Sep '11 2:04:58 PM by math792d

Base it on the native resistance movements of the Eastern Front WW 2 perhaps? Large use of snipers, guerrilla fighting, strategic attacks, the list goes on.

That could work.

The Space Poles, favored allies of the Adepta Sororitas

A)The Tau are basically Japan/India IN SPACE.

B)Eastern Europe doesn't have any "outstanding" cultures/styles that doesn't overlap with Western European culture. The closest I can think of would be Ancient Greece/Eastern Roman Empire/Macedonia, and despite those being located in the Balkans, they're far more "mediterranean" than Eastern European. There's also Transylvania, but unless the chapter master of the Ghostwalkers is a tyrannical vampire hiding in a castle and their homeworld is overrun with werewolves, its not going to work.

What if we give the Ghostwalkers a sort of Arthurian legend feel? I don't know how we would do it, but it would be interesting for a Space Marine chapter.