SPACE MARINE DESTROYER SQUADS IN WARHAMMER 30000 The hideous weapons of the Unification wars and old night are banned. But there are some few that carry these forbidden arms, by writ of the Emperor or his sons alone. The Legion Destoyer squads. All stories are written by myself and are never, ever, to be considered cannon. They are simple ways to engage the listener so they can share the vision of the warhammer universe. In this instance, the 30K period of the Horus Heresy. Story Continues from HORUS HERESY LEGION TACICAL SQUADS: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mcChicSWqNLYcaM.html NEW CHANNEL: GK Natural History : kzfaq.info/love/OmrRUjHAw93gcWG6r9WoGg Earth and the Early Dinosaurs: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oNJoo9VhrJvLdmQ.html AFFILIATE LINKS (Provide a discount and support the channel) USA/Canada: www.nobleknight.com/affiliate/aw.asp?B=2&A=1232&Task=Click UK/EU: elementgames.co.uk/warhammer?d=10795 PATREON LINK: www.patreon.com/join/3510517 DISCORD: discord.gg/HDyxy5c5 OTHER VIDEOS: SPACE MARINES: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/e7xhndSozbmsco0.html SPACE MARINE FOUNDINGS: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/p7hhZ610mJzOlIU.html POWER ARMOUR: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mrtgo6ZomanJdGg.html THUNDER WARRIORS: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eKiWlryV0t3GaX0.html IMPERIAL FISTS: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ldSmfsJ71p-qkas.html BLOOD ANGELS LORE: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/md6mdJah0bXSaJc.html BLOOD ANGELS STORY SO FAR: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/edCedaxoudezhY0.html BLOOD OF BAAL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7uDH... SPACE WOLVES SAGA: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pp-XnMaGtLmzmGg.html SPACE WOLVES TIMELINE: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jL-Sdpydq8ycg6c.html ABUNDANCE TERTIUS! : kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gtBxh6xzqcW-iH0.html CHAOS THE STORY SO FAR (SSF): kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sMibobCfms7Me6c.html PROLOGUE TO ABUNDANCE TERTIUS: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ntindcSl2rScpKM.html RED EAGLE / WHITE TIGER SSF: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rL2XlcmHus-XnoU.html ULTRAMARINES SSF: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j7qcidJ2ssvSaWg.html TYRANIDS SSF: studio.kzfaq.infofP0wHwnHOlM/edit CHAOS VIDEOS ALPHA LEGION: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hb52fZti0N2uhXU.html THOUSAND SONS: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gruoh65nt9qlc58.html WORD BEARERS: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bt5-bLSG19G8o5s.html CHAOS SPAWN: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nZebp7xlnrnYpHU.html NIGHT LORDS: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h5qhptN-2NmRfaM.html IRON WARRIORS: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pcWnoKd1ubKpemQ.html MASTER OF EXECUTIONS: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eMqag7J_x86nl2w.html 6 OF THE BEST! CHAPTER FOUNDINGS: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/p7hhZ610mJzOlIU.html DEATH KORPS OF KRIEG: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z8Cboaxkqb_XfGw.html HOW WARHAMMER 40K ENDS: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/f7eihMxk1Zu3hKc.html DARK ANGELS: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mp5hhNBzms23ooE.html SPACE WOLVES: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pp-XnMaGtLmzmGg.html ALL PERSPECTIVES ARE MY OWN ALONE AND ARE NOT ENDORSED IN ANY WAY BY GAMES WORKSHOP. Animated Servo Skull Provided by SirFloof, an allied channel. kzfaq.info kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y6qmY6dk1aq2op8.html - just a model! (This chap is amazing - check it out) He is creating animations and we are working together. I am very excited by his efforts so far, so go check him out! (Its worth it) #warhammer40k #40klore #warhammer40klore #imperialfists #spacemarines #warhammer40000lore #warhammerlore #gamesworkship #grimdarktales

A buddy of mine runs dreadwing Eskaton Imperative as his heresy army and it’s in-shop nickname is the war crimes division. Salt the earth and burn the sky.

Guilliman did indeed never like the Destroyer-formations. He had them in his Legion, theirs were weapon he could use but never really wanted to. From my reading of the lore, the Primarchs most in farvor of the extensive use of destroyer-weapons and formations was The Lion, Mortarion, Ferrus Manus and Perturabo. Ferrus and Perturabo wouldn't use them needlessly, Mortarion would use them often and the Lions ethos of war was perhaps best embodied by his terrible Dreadwing.

As a newcomer to the lore of Warhammer 30 and 40K, this is what makes Roboute Guilliman so interesting. You can see at the end of the Heresy you have the feeling that he just wanted to save the imperium at all costs, even if it meant tossing out the baby with the bath water. The Codex has instituted out of fear, not really thought through. Yet when you look at the Guilliman of today, you see a man that has regrets. The loss of a father, brothers, and more importantly the thought that he might have been wrong to break up the legions for the imperium has fallen so much. I don’t think if we strapped down Guilliman and gave me a dose of truth serum he would admit that the breaking of the legions were a mistake, but his actions so it. The aggressiveness of the Indomitius Crusade, and more importantly his conversation with Dante, telling him to rebuild Baal into a beacon in the North.

Alchemical weapons, radiation munitions, the creeping horror of phosphex. Each piece of wargear killing is bearer almost as swiftly as it kills it’s target.

The Destroyer Squads had one singular purpose design by the Emperor of Mankind and that is simply to destroy anything in their way. Whether with Bolter fire or heavy weapons they will pursue, located, and destroy any Human or Xenos enemy, and without any moment of hesitation or doubt will completely and utter decimated any foe in their path, but during Horus Heresy these Destroyer Squad prove to be just as deadly to their former comrades as they were to any other enemy before the Horus Heresy.

You mad lad, Baldermort! How do you keep up with a release schedule that includes videos of such length as those you put out each and every week? Most channel are barely able to put out two videos of roughly ten minutes each, but you grace us with over 120 minutes of video total in the last five days! Mad respect from this old Ork Warboss! WAAAAAAGH!!! Blood for the blood god! Skulls for the skull throne! Milk for the Khorne flakes! Cobs for the Khorne holders! Likes, comments, and downloads for the Algorithm!

I don't think it's as extreme as "Guillamen lost it" since I think that didn't happen until he returned. In the present he might very well be so broken by dissapointment he's only fighting out of stubborness like his father. A point to be made for Robout's mindset is wether he recognized the problem in preserving an Empire that can't expand and had a plan for it. In the Horus Heresy the Primarchs sometimes talk about what will happen after the Crusade. My impresion (not sure) is that he always expected the Emperor to restructure the Emperium. Removing the Destroyers was likely a continuation of the paranoia left after the Heresy, the less heavy weapons available to the "ordinary" soldier the better in his mind.

I don't think old Rowboat Girlyman intended the codex to last as long as it has in its original format, getting demon stabbed kinda missed up the long term goals. I think the codex was likely a holding pattern plan to maintain order during a period of MASSIVE reorganization. He was likely looking for a structure that would give a crusad enough force to concore anything in front of it, but not enough force that it turn and be treat to what's behind it. G-man had built the largest galactic empire of any primarch WITHOUT marines before the empor found him, dude knew what it took to be in the right position to expand.

One thought, with the removal of the destroyer squads was noy just because of the more defensive mindset/lack of resources, but A) the lack of trust in the Space Marines themselves (as mirrored with other aspects of the Imperium's war machines such as Guard infantry being separate from tanks) so that no one chapter could wield such devastating weapons and B) the overall roll of the Space Marines changed from being the spearhead of the Imperium's armies to being the special forces of the imperium, designed for quick and surgical strikes, thus the long grueling slogs where the Destroyers were needed no longer applies to their combat role. Guilliman's primarch novel "Roboute Guilliman: Lord of Ultramar" goes into his thoughts on Destroyers, and while he didn't like them he did see that there were occasions for their use. In the modern Imperium, I would say the roll the Destroyer squads played is split between the Inquisition (the more esoteric weapons) the Mechanicus (Skitarii Vanguard) and the Navy (orbital dropped weapons up to exterminatus). Note for the navy, the Last Chancers's novel shows the navy can deploy "limited" scale virus and other devastating weapons to targets, much like what the destroyer squads of old did, so they are not just limed to full exterminatus

The Destroyers are my favourite unit from the Horus Heresy, and once again the Dark Angels are better in an area of expertise then the specialist legions. Plasma flamers, monomolecular acid shells and things such as men of iron and terminators armed with phosphex incinerator cannon are but a few of the things the Dark Angels brought with them.

I'd go you one further... Gilliman not only lost his courage, but also took council of and husbanded his fears and paranoia. He did all he could to weaken all the other Primarchs while paying only lip service to the restrictions he laid down by keeping his Realm of Ultramar and strict control over his "Puppet Chapters" within it. He broke faith with his brothers and demanded their subservience to his New Order under penalty of death... and he did this in direct violation of the word of his Father by Promoting and using the false and forbidden worship of the Emperor as a God to do so in order to gain control, even knowing this abomination came from the mind of a Fallen Primarch. In this he singlehandedly set back the Empire Of Man and steered it on to a divergent path that lead to internal strife, self sustaining weakness, and built-in ineffectiveness. As with most Cowards, he masked his weakness in _Good Intentions_ and thus paved the road to Hell... Before driving all into it.

The Angels Tears are devastating in combat and in game it’s shown too via their requiem i love when Sanguinius is mentioned yes he was an amazing person but he had his own savagery which really came out in the signus campaign the characters are always well represented here for the good and the bad

Some where in the background the Dreadwing of the Mighty 1st just whistles while wiping out the world’s of the traitors.

Minotaurs Chapter: ...you mean just squads?

Oh sweet the perfect way to end the work week! Thanks Balders!

Man... i feel sorry for those xenos. They were minding their own buisness and then had the Death guard dropped on them. Thats some seriously bad luck. The only thing worse would have been the night lords.

AIEEEEEEEEE WUBBA WUBBA!!! DESTROY ALL ENEMIES OF THE EMPIRE, KILL, CRUSH, MORTALLY INCONVENIENCE!! (luv it Brother B:)

what a glorious bloodpumping battle master B ^^ thank you for the hearty carnage followed by the more delicatly presented lore

Thanks for getting this episode out Mr. Baldimort, I like these Heresy episodes and stories.

Baldernort, I have a huge appreciation for your style of "Putting yourself in the shoes" of your subject matter. When talking about destroyers, Guilliman is the enemy, when talking about Eldar, The Imperium and Astartes are MONKE. BUT, when you talk about Gaurdsman, the Astartes are the Angels of the Emperor It really immerses me in your videos!!! Cheers!

I do not think the phasing out of Destroyer weaponry was a matter of resources or lost technology. A hundred techno-barbarian warlords each with a tiny patch of Terra's corpse to rule over managed to scrape together the resources to develop and produce them. I'd say it was more a corollary to the hard cap of 1,000 astartes per chapter. Having seen enough of what these weapons can do in astartes on astartes combat, Gulliman must have known these weapons made such numerical limits pointless. 1,000 rogue astartes each armed with them could be a match for one of the smaller pre-heresy legions and just as much a threat. But that's just my opinion.

I get the feeling this guy ends up a demon at some point... Blood for the Blood God! Skulls for the Skull Thrown! Farts for the Inquisition! Comments for the Algorithm!

I love the 30k material. Thanks for posting!

Another fine video staring your Death Guard Legionnaires!

Dear Faithful Servant, Thank you for your upload! I am at home in quarantine after testing positive for Covid on Tuesday. The whiskey is running low and moral was beginning to wain. This truly is a boon to what was starting to look like just another day of solo entertainment. Regards, Gentle Listener

Be it radiation or Phosphex my the fows of the Destroyer cadres die an agonizing death

Excellence as always balderort!. yo there is a new guy on the block, next collab video you do you should include Warrior Tier. i think with both of your voices combined all other lore channels would TREMBLE!

The fact that so few talk about your story in this one is MADNESS!! You turned the pale king from a primarch I hardly regarded as note worthy pre-heresy, into a primarch I NEED to see more stories with. Either you played him up so damn hard, or I just haven't been paying enough attention, cause that cold, deathly facade, mixed with the brutal warrior culture, is just so damn cool.

I can see the Sons Of Sanguinius holding up pretty well to radiation. They have the blood of Sanguinius running through their veins and he was highly immune to radiation. Even as an infant when he was discovered he was unaffected by it while those who found him had to be sealed up in heavy rad-suits just to venture out. I think the Angels recruited from Baal would be even more immune than those recruited from Terra.

There are only three words that disturb me at the end of your vids: "To be continued"... because your impatient acolyte always wants more... now. Magnificent... yet again.

Another fantastic video about a truly epic unit of Legion warfare. And , like everything good in 30k, they were ruined by Rowboat

Gods damn, that was a beautiful work baldermort!

I love these tales that you weave great bard, specially with these kinds since we read or hear so few of the wars with xenos that the Great Crusade encountered. The destroyers are some of my favorite formations of the Astartes, the sheer destruction they can met out is utterly unbelievable for a squad, although transhuman, still a squad.

Oh, happy day! A lovely tale for my long drive. Thanks for this Baldimort.

Good morning baldemort! Another good video before work 💪🏾

My gods baldermort. Your point is made, my primarch took away what they were made to do, conquer. But I do not agree it wasn't for the best, for the imperiums perseverance for 10000 year's, showing the skill and zeal, it is still there, and holding the line, and now, the push has begun again. What will 10th edition look like, we can only wonder

3:46 describing every slayer main in vermintide

Destroyer squads are my favorite. I'm printing custom destroyer squad pauldrons for my NL and SOH armies and then UM after those are done.

So glad there was a "to be continued" at the end.

Let's say the Geneva Convension was forgotten in Malcador's museum ^^ Great video, as always :3

Brother Baldermort! What a performance! Your storytelling and technical knowledge are second to none! BBB, B3 (bravo brother Baldermort) indeed!

Warhammer 30k is so jam-packed with uber-maximum lethality weapons. Some of the absolute highlight would be; Phospex-flame weapons, Rad-bombs, Wartex-missiles, warp-missiles Life-eater virus-bombs and of course the unknown dark tech the Dreadwing had reserved for its exclusive use, my personal farvorite being the "psychic-delete heavybolter. Yes that one is canon....

As any who has ever opposed *The Emperor, beloved by all..* these traitors will know fear before the end - Destroyer squad Sgt

The evil sneer I could feel and hear in your to be continued was a thing of wonder.

Funny thing, while there are no rules for them in 40k, I can't really find anything that says they are truly gone. They're barely even mentioned in any source, actually. Also, Guilliman did use them, particularly during the Heresy and Scouring. The 22nd Chapter was the reason the Ultramarines weren't overrun at Calth and eventually prevailed. I also think you're forgetting that Guilliman was fairly pragmatic, a less generous soul might say hypocritical, when it came to the Codex Astartes. The 4th Chapter, what became the Aurora Chapter during the 2nd Founding, has been noted as NOT following Guilliman's ideas and yet they are considered Codex Compliant despite being noted as armored warfare specialists second to none with multiple times the vehicles of other chapter, which isn't possible without exploiting a loophole a mile wide with a nudge and a wink. They're also noted as maintaining in sevice Heresy-era vehicles and Firestorm, their homeworld, is supposed to be some giga-Forgeworld. I think it's much the same with the Nemesis Chapter. They have almost no deployment record between M31 and M41, but they're still around, which is usually an indication of Inquisition shenanigans. What is the Inquisition most famous for? Exterminatus. What were Destroyer units used for? Exterminatus. So, yeah, they probably are still rocking around doing the Imperium's dirty work and they probably have an alliance with a specific Forgeworld that never lost the ability to produce those sorts of weapons.

Wonderful great FUN thankyu lore master Baldermort thankyu good sir

"and this here is a chain bayonette," *Attaches bayonette to bolter* "Let me show you its features >:D "

YES !!!! Finally a DeathGuard Narrative SSF !!! #HYPED

YES! SO GOOD! KEEP MAKING ENTRIES!

As always, your stories are the best in the fandom! Can't wait for more of these Death Guards!

Great work as usual Brother Balders. Thank you for covering one of my favourite units, and I must say Ullek (sp?) and his squad are quickly rising up the ranks of your amazing characters.

YEEESSSS THE CONTINUATION TO THE STORY IS HEEERRRREEEE!

Horus Heresy needs a game with different campaigns as the Primarch's in different sectors of the Galaxy. There would have to be multiple games for different legions and areas of the Galaxy but it would be so epic of done correctly

My Thousand Sons have a good number of Destroyer squads with them. After Prospero, several squads that had been ruined by either Prospero or other purges decided to rearm as Destroyers, to wreak Vengeance on a galaxy that had wronged them.

Ah yes, more HH lore. I love it. I'm planning on getting into 30k with loyalist Emperor's Children, though that is partly an excuse for me to save money and use my 40k Space Marines since they are descendants of loyalist EC, lol. Dunno if I'll use Destroyers for them, but now I'm tempted to add some of the warcrime boys to my list.

thank you brother Baltermort for the story and the lore !

Yeah I really liked how you approached this story superbly done ESPECIALLY (emphasizing not yelling) liked the ending

I just love your channel you are a legend in the making sir. May you be as legendary as Bob Ross

friday, off work, painting heresy Imperial Fists, got the new baldermort video on, lifes good.

Gotta love the 30K drinking game death guard style

Destroyers-when a Legion of demigod supersoldiers with chainsaw swords aren't terrifying enough

Keep up the great videos man!

I've finally built up the courage to listen to your Heresy Era story. I say courage, as I am well acquainted with your storytelling by now, and Chaos is nothing for the faint. Should be a wild ride. Thanks in advance Baldermort. I hope to be able to repay you for your craft, one day soon.

Hey Baldy, that theory on roboute's mental state when he wrote the codex is very thought provoking. When a mind is subjected to extreme trauma it has a tendency to cling to what is familiar and logical thought can be impossible. I had read somewhere that when roboute returned he was shocked that the codex had become the absolute rule by which so many chapters were governed by. This theory is brilliant and in my thoughts extremely likely. Love your vids and story telling.

This is a VERY interesting story, I'm excited to hear the rest!!

Fuck yeah more heresy stuff. PUT IT MY VEINS!! 11!1

I have never played Warhammer. But I will listen to your videos all day. You make the storyline so interesting.

I don't know how you keep getting better, but you just do.

A squad of Doom Slayers... fear given form

Excellent as always

Gentle storyteller, I love the tale you've been weaving of Sergeant Ullic (sp?) and his squad's journey through your 30k unit entries. You're really capturing the indomitable endurance of Mortarion's XIV! If the tale spans millennia, I'm definitely curious to see how and where it goes. Please, keep up the excellent work.

Thank you , great post.

3-4 Amazingly made videos in as many days? Mr and Mrs B are spoiling us rotten.

You know, I thought the fatman and the mini nukes it fires in Fallout were tongue-in-cheek stupid enough (And fit so perfectly in that parodical setting), but... rad grenades are something else, even by Warhammer standards. Kamikaze space marines! We can indeed go grimderper! My thanks to you, sir, from one baldy to another. Hmm, maybe we've both been too close to destroyer squads...

bruh, we need more mortarion. that was lit!

The difference between roboute and any other Primarch is that they win when the enemy can not fight back when he has not the muscle to raise a fist to the Emperor. Roboute only wins when the enemies farms feed the Guard when his factories make lasguns when his people praise the Emperor for it is all they ever have known and all they ever will know

Abbadon was sooo butt hurt on Terra After the justarin got slaughtered near the palace...."why you mad bro?"

"It's only a war crime if you lose!" - Sun Tzu

Impressive as always, sir.

Wow. Nicely done

Excellent video

The Emperor gets a lot of flak for some questionable choices but at least he knew not to shit where you eat

I suspect if The Lion returns, these units will come back…with a vengeance, to coin a phrase…

I love hearing the difference in HH era units, it really demonstrates how the setting has evolved

"The Destroyer Squad is dead. Long Live the Primaris Destroyor Squad."

The story section is a great depiction and remind that the imperium, despite being the pov faction, is evil. The death knell of a race, an offensive action instead of a defensive one against a similarly powerful alien empire to maintain their own holdings.

Personally, I think Guilliman was worried that kind of power falling into the wrong hands again. The Heresy had destroyed a lot, and he couldn't let anything more be destroyed or run that risk if he could avoid it.

Love it Young man and yes he did 🤘🤘😈🤘🤘

Thank you , BM . 🐺

You have me cheering on the Death Guard Brother Baldermort! True herasy but by the gods this was an amazing tale and one I really hope you expand on. Fantastic amazing and thoroughly enjoyable. You've been putting out some real bangers in short order!

That was awesome

Your content is amazing, You could make a video talking about your favourite toothpaste and you would make it interesting ❤

Love it! ❤

Hey Baldy, would you make a Horus Heresy playlist? You would? Thanks bud, you're the best.!

Loved you’re take on the destroyer units. I’m building a word bearers legion with argel tal but also I love the moritat centurion. So jet pack ashen circle, destroyer assault squads with some twisted gal vor bak & a mhara gal dread it is remember death to the false god emperor & let the galaxy burn in phosphex bombs, melta, hellfire & toxin bombs 😈.

Yes papa smurf lost his spine, but he was also consorting with chaos so he could become the new Emperor of Mankind. That's why I will never play a codex compliant chapter.

Awesome :)

I don't think he lost his spine, I do believe he forsore the future and knew defensive fighting would be the role for astartes, not Destroyers but Heros... Angels. Edited: for spelling

I like this mans narration skills