Still working through ~3k points of EC. No demons besides a heldrake and maulerfiend (might even get a second) so I'm safe from most changes. Im hoping for new chaos bikes that get added and maybe sonic dreads but honestly i have enough points to paint this year.
The brigade list? Battle wagons just being able to carry more boys will get more mileage out of a single stratagem than a trukk would. You basically get out of activation charges on your opponents turn with one of the stratagems and another makes them harder to kill with shooting. If wanting to ram orks down people's throats ASAP the B-wagon loaded up with some mega nobz seems to be the move.
So you can run 2 units of tankbustas+SAG Meks in it and proc blast to turn 10d3 shots into 10d3+40 shots against 20 man squads. It's very silly.
by the time you take a child, brainwash them, pump them full of Gene Seed, and rapidly grow them into 9 foot tall demigods of war you're kind of past where even the best Catachan would be. The catachan space marine would also adopt his culture from the chapter he's been inducted in to, leaving him catachan in name only. Now, a Rambo-esque Space Marine chapter would be sick as fuck, and eminently possible if you kitbash some muscly arms from Khorne Berzerkers or get some 3d printed bits.
It's true, they dont. Mostly because worlds like Krieg, Catachan, Cadia etc are clearly serving a very specific purpose and are already "claimed" by the Imperial Guard anyway. Maybe in times of dire need a chapter operating near these worlds might consider it.
It was in the titus 500 worlds crap(I posted the zip previously) and honestly wasn't very interesting. Basically it was 3 templates per faction each getting a handful of choices that just kind of made them all sidegrades at best to existing characters(rather than actually generating anything unique or interesting). I've never seen it in use after the initial chatter about it.
If youve ever played stellaris (which has 40k mods but doesnt really need them) the Imperium leans heavily into the specialisation of each world. Which is fine when youre playing a game where hyperlanes exist and Genestealers/Tyranids dont. But this is 40k. They would rather import food through the warp from an Agri World to a Forge World that would starve to death if there was a hiccup. Im pretty sure ive read stories about Terra rioting because of similar issues.
All the rules are on new recruit if you want to play around with them, the only real interesting thing was a Sentinel HQ guy.
I get the impression that Krieg, Cadia, Catachan, and so many others are more well known in our universe than in their own. The number of guard regiments cant be counted and there are countless death worlds out there. There are a million places like Catachan with their own regiments.
The Imperium definitely likes to push your Krieg/Cadia/Catachans as propaganda alot, which may explain why they're so regarded well (beyond the simplicity of having a few archetypal guard factions for tabletop) and are widely known within the Imperium. I don't necessarily think that it's because space marines aren't aware of the death worlders, rather it's more an issue of logistics and culture. Of course, in the lore, there are way more worlds that could be full of good potential than the big three.
I don't even think that's necessarily true. Chaos gods/demons/traitors are a forbidden knowledge. I believe there is evidence in the lore of heavy handed suppression of that stuff, but I cant think of any examples off the top of my head.
Basically anything involving Grey Knights or inquisition and mind wiping or granting a population of a planet the emperor's mercy. The Space Wolves had a bit of a spat with them over this.
Random citizens, no. Anyone involved in the imperium military considering Cadia was the Cadian gate and that basically most of their planetary population was their tithe, yes. While random guardsmen may not know about Krieg or Catachan, officers and other leadership positions within imperial forces likely could have at least heard stories(some even interacting with Catachans since they occasionally get assigned as specialist consultants to other guard units. Additionally, because of Cadia's proximity to the eye of terror Cadians stand out within the imperial population even out of uniform due to having distinctly purple eyes(the original population of Cadia was a bunch of daemon worshippers, but the colonists or "modern" Cadians got the eye color within a few generations) this comes up in Ashes of Cadia(shitty book) and I believe Fifteen Hours, and gets mentioned off-hand in some others. Additionally, only Cadia prime was destroyed, there were other planets in the system and even Cadia prime itself still has bits that exist that they even have Cadians going on pilgrimages to(and this is ignoring the Cadia 2.0 bullshit from Ashes of Cadia because it's dumb).
Krieg fucked up their own planet out of retardation in a civil war and currently tithes the way they do out of embarrassment/atonement. Tallarn you'd be right, but again the problem is the number of Cadians out there, and the Cadian gate being of strategic importance for so long. Even if the existence of daemons wasn't widespread knowledge, traitor forces raiding from the Eye of Terror was.
I think the idea of its just Random citizens applies to the majority of the imperium's military. Unless you are working in that area of operation directly, you are probably clueless as to what is happening. If your working adjacent to it you probably have some idea "oh those guys with the purple eyes are fighting monsters and other heretics.".
The thing about propaganda is that it's a lie. One man's retardation could be a propagandist's story of self sacrifice and heroism.
Modern 40k is a tragedy.
Yes and no. You also need to consider than the imperium uses muster worlds where regiments from all sorts of planets... muster(that's kind of self explanatory) as well as the imperial navy who has to cart the guardsmen around. No, I'm not going to count imperial military forces as being the equivalent of random civilians. The reason for this would be that generally xenos knowledge other than "alien bad" barely exists, however the Infantryman's Uplifting Primer definitely covers how to fight xenos and every guardsman has one(or should). On top of the navy, even civilian transport services(bulk freight haulers and such) have been used to move guardsmen around, and of course aid the Munitorum in logistics(food and such, not actual arms) when necessary, which again exposes more people to information. And this is all of course ignoring the mechanicus who are kind of isolated by way of not speaking gothic regularly, but also have members definitely aware that daemons and other warp fuckery exists.
The modern Cadians would have only been fighting for a few thousand due to that purge of the original population bit(it's where Lorgar killed some custodes and maybe made some gal vorbak?)
They actually mostly are, and some do all the time. See the previously mentioned guard units, muster worlds, and imperial navy. The difficulty is being able to afford it, but generally speaking there's nothing stopping civilians from finding a way to travel from one imperial world to another. Some planets have visa systems even for workers.
Sure, if you want to pull the unreliable narrator bit with Krieg, except that's never even hinted at as being propaganda. But the problem is that wouldn't make sense even within 40k because it would be making up a lie about a rebellion... which the imperium wouldn't have a reason to do(why would the imperium include a public history of open revolt as a source of pride in anything?), not to mention Krieg became a deathworld by nuking themselves during their civil war.
Sure, but at this point most of this stuff if 15-20 years old but even then you've still got multiple loyalist space marine chapters basically in a cold war with the inquisition, which keeps the reach of the inquisition limited in ways(and of course not all of the ordos even give a shit if someone knows about daemons, it's just most likely that a witness wouldn't survive whatever happened to begin with). Then consider shit like flects specifically causing warp related issues among the civilian population leading PDFs, arbites, and so on to have to deal with it as well. The point being, that the imperium is such a mess, it can't keep up with the "lets just mind wipe or kill everyone" approach due to internal conflict and lack of resources, especially with the Eye of Terror having blown up into the Cicatrix Maledictum cutting off half of the imperium from Terra leaving xenos, traitors, and daemons with them running amok.
They did in Ashes of Cadia... pockets of Cadians just hanging out there for years, on chunks of planet that still somehow have an atmosphere, in bunkers with power that managed to go undetected by deathguard... damn that book sucks.