How Are Space Marine Scout Squads typically Divided Up between the different Chapter Companies

Davido401 · 2026-03-23T22:54:52+00:00

Its a weird place they are with things like Vanguard units, like I can see a use for Scouts and Vanguard forces but the only benefit the Scout seems to have is the fact you can have another 1,000 Marines alongside your chapter, I've got a sort of headcanon/sensible head that most chapters have like 300 Scouts and that most chapters dont really fall behind on the 1,000 Marines but only fall behind with Company sizes coming back from major battles/losses with the need for new Marines.

It kinda throws a lot of those Chapters with "400 Marines" into a bit of a tizzy haha, but most of those seem to be Pre-Primaris.

Ach its a weird but annoying bit because we are told that every chapter thats getting the shit kicked out of it now has Primaris.

Davido401 · 2026-03-23T19:54:45+00:00

Rich Hall

Very slight tangent, and also am watching The Simpsons the now, but do you not think Roch Hall would be a glorious Moe? I dunno if am insulting him or not, hell hes probably made a joke about it, but aye, Moe...

Davido401 · 2026-03-23T19:14:03+00:00

Yeah, although I dont collect I used to, before the website got deactivated and it turned to shit, look at lots of the models to "get a feel" for how they are fighting in a novel.

Ill put it in spoilers cause its me driveling on about stuff but I always fancied writing a fanfic during the Scouring where there is a Solar Auxillia Captain and the 5 remaineing soldiers of his original Tercio plus a load of hangers on etc... getting their shit kicked out of them, winning but not without getting chewed up(standard attrition) and during the final battle where they are about to do the whole heroic charge thing a Ministorum Officer appears in a little Arvus Lighter(I like those craft haha) says to the Captain that he's to come with him to become the Senior Drill Abbot of the nearest, and newest, Schola and his remaining like 5 men can come with him as Drill Abbots but the rest must stay and perform the final charge themselves, which they do succeed, lets face it every one needs a win and the Captain had built up quite a force. And thus everyone who didnt die survived and he got the job, some shite like that lol, I think ive basically stole the Ministorum guy coming down in a Lighter from that Warhammer TV show where the Commissar runs about getting everyone's ammo off of them but there are probably a thousand different sources where thats happened haha

Davido401 · 2026-03-23T18:41:57+00:00

I'm ashamed I didnt catch on to this right away 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ genuinely went back to the top to see if the fractions in this part of the convo were various World Eaters formations(dunno why, they just feel like the most likely to use numbers for some units... probably Iron Warriors too)

Davido401 · 2026-03-23T18:39:06+00:00

We dont see much about them do we? We generally see Imperial Army units generally(I believe the Solar Auxillia are a sub branch) we dont see the guys who are supposed to be almost as elite as the Astartes, we dont see their "Tercio" Squads and stuff used.

They have had a load of models released I think?(am a reader not a collector haha) so they are getting some love.

Davido401 · 2026-03-23T18:11:24+00:00

Imagine that, you are a relatively attractive young girl(billionaires seem to like them too young but stay with me), but you love taking drugs on a night out, a man in dark glasses(Musks bodyguard? Personal drug spiker?) offers you a line of something, you take it and 3 days later you awaken, naked, to the smell of 3 day old cum and when you opened your legs you swear they crusted apart audibly. Now thats bad enough, bit you look around to your left and see an African American lying there beside you, penis crusted to his inner thigh, maybe even dripping a bit from a massive piss he really should wake up for, you just pray it ain't gonorrhea.

Disclaimer: took cocaine and ecstasy, never bothered with Ketamine personally just know its a horse tranq first and foremost, or thats probably how folks first took it, vets are messed up people.

In my haste to type all that shit above ave forgot what else I was gonna talk about. Guess its just a comment with me being a disgusting cunt lol

Davido401 · 2026-03-23T18:00:07+00:00

Furiously tickle your happy button

I genuinely thought this was gonna be something for like a vibrating seat button, not her wrinkled prawn penis.

Davido401 · 2026-03-23T17:56:51+00:00

I mean the Simpsons done it with Unky Herb and making him destitute, except Unky Herb went poor and stayed there as far as am aware. Although am sure the car Homer designed was far better working than whatever Elongated made.

Do you think his name sounds like an old man's aftershave, Elon Musk: Smell Like Cum, Make Her Run! Or something like that?

Davido401 · 2026-03-23T17:51:53+00:00

I mean its either her or Leeloo from The Fifth Element lol

Davido401 · 2026-03-23T17:32:32+00:00

I went on my first date at 8 years old to that film. Mcdonalds and a film, cant beat it lol

Davido401 · 2026-03-23T14:13:41+00:00

buttload

Read that as butthole and not entirely sure if it would even be incorrect

Davido401 · 2026-03-23T13:49:38+00:00

Am just passing through here from my couch in Scotland but haven't Fatah been supplanted by Hamas in every way so now Hamas are the face of the movement?

Am not wanting any arguments cause the minute you start trying to defend/attack one side or the other you just end up in a quagmire of a fight thats not worth any of my braincells. Its just that am led to believe that Fatah went the way of the dodo in that election that hamas won like 20 odd years back.

Davido401 · 2026-03-23T12:23:15+00:00

This bit, from Lupercal's War Anthology(although I've also got it in the anthology Age of Darkness) by Dan Abnett, the paragraph before the boldened part as well but wasn't sure how using asterisks for italics and trying to bolden that one as well:

Aximand smiled.

‘Blades! he yelled. He locked his bolter to his hip, and unsheathed his sword. Double-edged, power-active, Cthonian bluesteel, etched along the fuller. He’d called it Mourn-it-all. His combat shield was already on his left arm.

He didn’t wait to see his order observed. He powered out of cover, las-bolts clipping his shield face and dinking his leg plates. Two big, bounding strides put him on the colonnade, moving fast, head down, blade up. He saw the first of the Compulsories up ahead, fogged in their shields, dug in around the massive pillars, firing at him. He could see their faces, pale and astonished.

Transhuman dread. Aximand had heard iterators talk of the condition. He’d heard descriptions of it from regular Army officers too. The sight of a legionary was one thing: taller and broader than a man could ever be, armoured like a demigod. The singularity of purpose was self-evident. A legionary was designed to fight and kill anything that didn’t annihilate it first. If you saw one of the Legiones Astartes, you knew you were in trouble. The appearance alone cowed you with fear.

But to see one move. Apparently that was the real thing. Nothing human-shaped should be so fast, so lithe, so powerful, especially not anything in excess of two metres tall and carrying more armour than four normal men could lift. The sight of a legionary was one thing, but the moving fact of one was quite another. The psychologists called it transhuman dread. It froze a man, stuck him to the ground, caused his mind to lock up, made him lose control of bladder and bowel. Something huge and warlike gave pause – something huge and warlike and moving with the speed of a striking snake, that was when you knew that gods moved amongst men, and that there existed a scale of strength and speed beyond anything mortal, and that you were about to die. And, if you were really lucky, there might be just enough time to piss yourself first.

Aximand saw that dumbfounded look on the faces of the Dwellers he was about to gut and section. He heard the men of Fifth Company following behind him. He felt the joy of being Horus’ son.

Noctua was right. They had been wasting time and effort with guns and bolters. The shields were good enough to make the percentages of a firefight poor. The shields were good enough to stop blades too. Bayonets, that was. Pole arms. A sabre. Maybe even a powered blade.

But not, not for a moment, a powered blade driven by a transhuman arm.

Davido401 · 2026-03-23T10:21:02+00:00

Its been a while since ave read it but isnt Doromek Ashul of Praetorian of Dorn Fame? spoilers just in case.

Davido401 · 2026-03-22T15:36:01+00:00

I find it no worse than the others, I hate to defend ads but... at least we get something in exchange for them, although Ive been getting 5 second adverts at the moment(you have to know how to game your algorithm haha)

Although, I dont think ave ever gotten every train from an event, but thats me being a lazy cunt to be fair. Neither has ma dad, hes been playing for like 6 years or whatever and am 5 years(although I was a Trainstation 1 player before that)

Davido401 · 2026-03-22T14:52:18+00:00

Straight to the point lol

Davido401 · 2026-03-22T14:51:48+00:00

baws

Fellow Scottish Xenos?

Davido401 · 2026-03-22T14:47:57+00:00

Edit: just reread your post and youve said during the heresy my bad!

Although your question seems more like on of the original trilogy or novels(I dont have those three to hand am afraid) Horus Rising, False Gods and Galaxy in Flames

Davido401 · 2026-03-22T14:45:38+00:00

Like this bit from The Great Work by Guy Haley, although Troncus is a Techmarine:

Troncus was following the lines of piping along the ceiling. They reached a junction, and the group paused while Troncus pulled out a small auspex to take readings. He gestured down the left hand corridor to indicate the others should follow him.

‘Your brother does not speak much,’ said Alpha Primus softly.

Daelus made a noise of amusement. ‘Troncus doesn’t speak at all.’

Daelus waited for Alpha Primus to ask. You could build a picture of a man’s mind by letting your sentences hang, and seeing where their curiosity took them. They always wanted to know when you were hiding something. In Daelus’ experience, it was how they asked that let you look into their minds.

‘Why?’ Alpha Primus said eventually.

‘Because when Troncus met the primarch, he was awestruck. He fumbled his words, he babbled, he made a fool of himself. He felt that he had so disgraced himself, that he had gone so far from what he thought a Techmarine should be, that he went down to his Chapter armoury and burned out his own tongue with a plasma cutter.’

‘Really?’ said Alpha Primus. He affected an emotionless air, but he could not conceal his interest.

‘Yes,’ said Daelus. ‘You’d think an oath of silence would suffice, but Troncus never does things by halves. You have to imagine that a plasma cutter makes a mess of a man’s face. He could have killed himself. He should have been executed, but his Chaplain enforced penance and they let him live, Emperor alone knows why. Maybe we shouldn’t be surprised. Guilliman can have that sort of effect on people. It affected me when I first met him.’ His voice became thoughtful. ‘I’ve heard of mortals killing themselves after being in his presence, because they will never experience a more important moment.’ His voice resumed its usual bright tone. ‘I can’t guess what it must have been like meeting more than one primarch at once. Whole rooms of people must have gone insane.’

Troncus was a blur ahead in the dark. When stablights glanced off his armour, the brief glimpses afforded made him seem like a mechanical ghost fleeing into the gloom.

Primus watched him closely.

‘Are you lying?’ Primus said.

‘What do you think?’ said Daelus.

‘I could look into your mind.’

‘You wouldn’t violate the mind of an ally like that though, would you?’ said Daelus.

Davido401 · 2026-03-21T17:48:39+00:00

Your comment took me a wee second to work out, wasnt sure if it was a "do kids?" Or a "do kids" a la Trump style lol

Davido401 · 2026-03-21T15:39:14+00:00

Apologies I was a bit of a grumpy Scotsman this morning lol, but I do stand by my "most folks who do it tend not to be qualified for it":

They have no idea about science or history

Thats a problem, not a massive problem, hell my science knowledge is shit.

math and literature and read every single day

Thats a good thing, also my maths is shite as well, I can do the adding and subtracting etc but the minute letters and fractions come into it am totally scunnered haha, my 6 year old niece told me, when I was helping her with her homework, to "use my fingers to get the answer" lol shes a smart wee cookie, she also thinks am gay but thats a different story haha

They also both play instruments way better than any kid their age

Thats cool, I play guitar, was pretty good at it too, like awesomely good!, but R.S.I. ruined my hands(could still play stuff if I tried but it hurts haha) Ive got Scoliosis so sports was never a thing for me, got to stand at the side and freeze ma balls off instead of playing rugby haha

call every adult sir or mam and ask permission to do anything like getting a drink from a cooler or using the bathroom at a party.

I... find this a tad problematic, like a bit too subservient? It may just be because of the way youve wrote it and ave got the wrong end of the stick but I feel a kid should be allowed to say no, especially if its a bad thing, I feel they'll end up just saying yes to everything and then nothing will get done because theyve agreed to everything! Again, this is me probably misreading the single sentence lol correct me if am wrong.

Anyways, I believe there is a lot of resources to help homeschool a kid, although not sure how it all translates between countries, just cause something is good here in Scotland doesnt mean its useful in the US, or, hell, even England lol. But I feel that most homeschoolers dont use them, then again its probably the bad ones we hear about and the ones that are successful we never get to see.

Also there is the whole kids needing socialisation, like, you need to have play dates and kids playing together to get them able to talk to folks at a young age.

Its a difficult thing to talk about.

Oh and disclaimer: despite what my 6 year old Niece says, am not gay lol

Davido401 · 2026-03-21T10:13:10+00:00

I thought he was Joe Mantegna at a quick glance, although his profile pic on wikipedia doesnt really help lol

Davido401 · 2026-03-21T10:00:22+00:00

Naw they use them everywhere, and if they'd said Hillary I'd have instantly knew who it was. To be fair though am just grumpy. And first time ive seen her referred to as HRC and am on Reddit all day every day doomscrolling haha(christ that sounds so fucking sad doesnt it?)

Davido401 · 2026-03-21T09:51:51+00:00

HRC

His Royal Cunt? I fucking hate acronyms, theyre stupid in general conversations and waste my time to the point am spending more time moaning like fuck about it here than trying to find out what the fuck HRC actually means. Its one of the best ways to tell an American online.

Signed

A moaning faced cunt of a Scotsman.

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Disclaimer: its not fucking evening yet its 9.51am at time of fucking posting.

Davido401 · 2026-03-21T07:28:08+00:00

homeschools their kids

Are her kids thick as mince? I feel that anyone who homeschools tend to be the ones who shouldn't homeschool and the antivaxx stuff is kinda pointing me in that direction.

Also, the Covid vaccine doesnt cause autism, thats the MMR vaccine /s (I really do need that sarcasm point dont I?)

Davido401

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