Learn About The Ultima Founding In Warhammer 40,000
May 29, 2017 by brennon
More details have emerged about the Ultima Founding which the period of time in the world of Warhammer 40,000 when the Primaris Space Marines were drafted into the various Chapters and new ones were formed to help defend against the forces of Chaos.
"...enter Roboute Guilliman and his Primaris Space Marines. The newly reinstated Lord Commander of the Imperium has decreed that those Chapters most devastated by the ongoing wars should be amongst the first to be reinforced with this new breed of warrior. Starting with the Ultramarines, but also deploying these new Space Marines to every other Chapter in need, Guilliman aims to reinforce the Imperium’s scattered defenders across the galaxy.
It is not just as reinforcements to existing Chapters though. Guilliman has also ordered the creation of a host of new Chapters, the Ultima Founding, composed entirely of Primaris Space Marines. The warriors of these new Chapters were created entirely using the new processes discovered by Belisarius Cawl and established with all the necessary weapons, armour and equipment that they’ll need to conduct their defence of the Imperium."
Well, that certainly sounds interesting and it's neat to see some of the new Chapters being thrown into the mix when you check out the image above. More information can be picked up from the Blog Post but since Games Workshop are founding so many new Chapters this is the time to start creating your own armies.
You can download the sheet above and begin colouring to your heart's content. Sitting down with some coloured pencils, or maybe using a computer program, you can start to plan out how your Primaris Space Marines are going to look.
Are you going to build yourself a new Chapter?
"...since Games Workshop are founding so many new Chapters this is the time to start creating your own armies"
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As a fan and wargamer of 40k for 20 years.. this is kind of ridiculous . In a bad way. “Oh, do you play a short Marines Chapter or a tall Marines one?”
Yeah not a fan of these either
Short marines for me as I have no intention of replacing nearly 2 full battle companies!
I like Primaros marines but just like @olliep I am not going to replace my current marines with them.
I like the new models. However I don’t like the rather silly fluff reasons they’ve added for their creation and their use in ‘new’ chapters. In the Rogue Trader era we could build any chapter we wanted (we even had space dwarves once … ). Except after a while GW thought we shouldn’t do so and more or less focussed on a few big names (space wolves, blood thingies, dark angels,ultra marines and that’s it right ?). And now we get a rather silly in-universe explanation for the creation of these new chapters which technically might have existed since the… Read more »
it would work better if they were a better up armoured suit for the standard chapters before/as well as forming new chapters for the re restarting the imperial crusade.
I’m so looking forward to this I will give making my own Chapter a try and I’m also looking forward to plastic sisters of battle.
Still no sign of the Rainbow Warriors I presume?
Rainbow Warriors? – I honestly thought @torros you were taking the mickey so I asked Dr Google http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Rainbow_Warriors – Cheers.
Let’s face reality – none of us grizzled old veterans are going to replace our current Space Marine armies regardless of their vintage so @olliep & @mecha82 I agree neither am I due to both the $ investment in procuring said armies, the time investment painting them, and the endless hours of game time working out what works and what does not, etc! The saving grace is we don’t have to replace anything and I was very sceptical initially but have been both reassured and happily proved wrong. For those of us not building a new chapter and after putting… Read more »
I have been in two minds about the “new guys” since this news broke. I’m still undecided. Something about them just leaves me cold… all the new Space Marine stuff shown so far has. Normally I’m all about Doace Matines and how I can add the new stuff to my Dark Angels, but this… 🙁
Standard marines seeing their kind being replaced by these new primaris marines even after all they have done for the imperium decide to band together and fight back, new civil war starts.
bollicks to “silly reasons in the fluff so no to this”. There is nothing in the entire background which isn’t some degree of silly when you look at it, so that seems to be a case of old farts shouting “keep things the same” keep things the same”.
Personally, I like that the old ones still are usuable with their own stats and such, and they have not just replaced them altogether. Probably will be replaced over time though,
So, after making everyone rebase their marines onto 32 mm bases… what I propose is some company developing “space marine Mk. X stilt upgrades for the legs” and “Mk. X bolt rifle tip add-ons” for the guns…
so everyone can take their regular marines, knock them off their bases again… add stilts… add the boltgun upgrade… and shazam! New Marines with half the effort!!!