List of Space Marine Chapters

This is a list of official Space Marine chapters named by Games Workshop. It does not include any fan created chapters, though it does include the Chaos Marine Legions and Renegade chapters. Not every chapter is known. Please note: fan created chapters must be posted on Fan Made Space Marine Chapters and not on this page.

Alpha Legion
The Alpha Legion were a First Founding Chapter who were corrupted to fight for Horus after prolonged contact with an alien entity, The Cabal.

Angels Encarmine
The Angels Encarmine is a Second Founding chapter of the Blood Angels.

Angels Porphyr
The Angels Porphyr chapter was founded in the 31st Millennium.

Angels Sanguine
The Angels Sanguine is a Second Founding chapter of the Blood Angels.

Angels Vermillion
The Angels Vermillion is a Second Founding chapter of the Blood Angels.

Angels of Absolution
The Angels of Absolution is a Second Founding chapter of the Dark Angels.

Angels of Ecstasy
The Angels of Ecstasy was formerly the Sons of Ulthunas, who rebelled during the "Ganymethian Betrayal".

Angels of Fire
The Angels of Fire are a Space Marine chapter of unknown origins founded during the 36th Millennium. They are sometimes confused with the Fire Angels chapter.

Angels of Redemption
The Angels of Redemption is a Second Founding chapter of the Dark Angels.

Angels of Vengeance
The Angels of Vengeance is a Second Founding chapter of the Dark Angels.

Angels of Vigilance
The Angels of Vigilance is a chapter surrounded with Controversy.

Astral Claws
The Astral Claws were created during the 35th Millennium to guard against the numerous threats emerging from the Maelstrom.

Astral Knights
The Astral Knights is a chapter from an unknown founding and origin.

Aurora Chapter
The Aurora Chapter is descended from Ultramarines gene-seed.

Avenging Sons
The Avenging Sons is a 19th Founding chapter from the world of Traekonnis Major.

Avenger
The Avengers is a Space Marine chapter of unknown founding and origin. The chapter was listed by name only in Chapter Approved 2001.

Black Consuls
The Black Consuls is a Second Founding chapter of the Ultramarines.

Recorded as annihilated during the Siege of Goddeth Hive, 455.M41. Current Status, unknown.

Black Dragons
The Black Dragons is a chapter from the cursed 21 founding. Their gene-seed is defective. Specifically the ossmoudla can lead to the development of bony crests on the heads and arms of certain marines. Effected marines are formed into special units known as Dragon Claws.

Black Guard
The Black Guard is a Second Founding chapter of the Raven Guard.

Black Templars
The Black Templars are a Second Founding chapter derived from the Imperial Fists and their Primarch, Rogal Dorn.

Blood Angels
The Blood Angels are one of the twenty First Founding Legions of the Space Marines.

Blood Drinkers
The Blood Drinkers is a Second Founding chapter of the Blood Angels.

Blood Ravens
The Blood Ravens are a chapter of Space Marines that prize information greatly, but ironically know little of their earliest centuries of service. (created by THQ for Dawn of War)

Blood Swords
The Blood Swords is a Space Marine chapter created using the gene-seed of the Blood Angels. The chapter's founding date is not known.

Brazen Claws
The Brazen Claws is a Second Founding chapter of the Iron Hands.

Brotherhood of a Thousand
The Brotherhood of a Thousand is a loyal Codex Chapter of unknown origin.

Brotherhood of Ultramar
The Brotherhood of Ultramar is a Second Founding chapter of the Ultramarines.

Celebrants
The Celebrants Chapter was founded during the 36th Millennium.

Celestial Lions
The Celestial Lions were founded during the 38th Millennium. Their Home World is Elysium IX.

Children of Purgatos
The Children of Purgatos is a chapter of unknown founding and origin, that was declared excommunicate.

The Consecrators
The Consecrators is a Successor Chapter created from the gene-seed of the Dark Angels.

Crimson Fists
The Crimson Fists is one of the Chapters created during the Second Founding, drawn from the Imperial Fists Legion. Though they remain understrength from the Ork invasion of Rynn's World, the Crimson Fists are a proud and stubborn chapter, never admitting defeat.

Crimson Guard
The Crimson Guard is a Codex Space Marine chapter.

Damned Company of Lord Caustos
The Damned Company of Lord Caustos is a group of Space Marines that turned to the Chaos gods after they were declared traitor by an Inquisitor of the Ordo Hereticus.

Dark Angels
The Dark Angels are considered among the most sinister and secretive of the loyalist Space Marine Chapters.

Dark Hands
The Dark Hands is a codex chapter of unknown origins.

Dark Hunters
The Dark Hunters is a Space Marine chapter of unknown founding date or origin.

Dark Sons
The Dark Sons is a Space Marine chapter of unknown founding date or origin.

Dark Tusks
The Dark Tusks is a Chaos Space Marine chapter of unknown founding date or origin. They are mentioned in the novel "Brothers of the Snake" by Dan Abnett.

Death Guard
A First Founding chapter the Death Guard are one of the nine Space Marine Legions which betrayed the Emperor during the Horus Heresy, becoming Chaos Space Marines

Upon first seeing them Mortarion told them, "You are my unbroken blades. You are the Death Guard."

Death Spectres
The Death Spectres is a chapter of Space Marines that participated in the Siege of Lelithar and the defence of the Cadian sector against the 13th Black Crusade.

Death Strike
The Death Strike Chapter participated in the Assault on Moros and acted as the rearguard during the Verdan II Extraction.

Deathwatch
The death watch are not a chapter.Instead they are squads formed from space marines of other chapters and fight for the ordo xenos.

Destroyers
A Second Founding chapter of the White Scars. Their armour is acid yellow with a red chevron pattern down the arms. Their symbol is two crossed lightning bolts.

Desert Lions
Known to have participated in Operation Carthage.<ref name= Warhammer 40000 Compendium 1989 (pg 105)

Disciples of Caliban
The Disciples of Caliban is a Successor Chapter of the Dark Angels legion, created late in the 37th Millennium.

Doom Eagles
The Doom Eagles are a Primogenitor, or Second Founding chapter of the Ultramarines. (Codex Ultramarines, 2nd Edition)

Doom Legion
The Doom Legion is a Space Marine chapter of unknown founding date or origin.

Doom Warriors
The Doom Warriors is a Codex Chapter of unknown founding and origin.

Emperor's Children
The Emperor's Children Space Marine chapter of unknown founding date or origin. They were involded in the Hours Hersey.

Eagle Warriors
The Eagle Warriors is a fleet based Progenitor chapter from the Ultramarines' Legion.

Emperor's Hands
The Emperor's Hands is a Codex Space Marine Chapter.

Emperor's Hawks
The Emperor's Hawks is a codex chapter of unknown origin and founding.

Emperor's Shadows
The Emperor's Shadows is a successor chapter created using the gene-seed of the Iron Hands.

Emperor's Spears
The Emperor's Spears are a Space Marine chapter of unknown origin.

Emperor's Swords
The Emperor's Swords is a chapter of unknown founding and origin. The chapter was decimated by the Alpha Legion Traitor Space marines.

Emperor's Wrath
This chapter is based in Segmentem Solar. Their home world is in a system where there are no planets only asteroids. This system contains three asteroids that have been hollowed out and made into three massive hive cities. This is where the Chapter recruits new members.

This chapter has a deep hatred for Tyranids and Orks. The Emperor's Wrath has purged many Ork held systems using Exterminatus. The chapter has done the same on many worlds that have fallen to Tyranids. Some of the worlds purged still had large numbers of Imperial forces on them.

The Chapter Master and the first, second and third company are currently on a crusade against the forces of Chaos on Cadia. Their tactics are very brutal when dealing with the forces of Chaos.

The Chapter wears metallic purple armor with gold shoulder pads. The armor has small golden triangles all over it that seem to move when you watch. The chapter badge is a purple triangle on the golden background.

Emperor's Warbringers
The Emperor's Warbringers Space Marine Chapter wear a gray-green power armor, with crossed swords as its badge.

Emperors Wolves
A space marine chapter whose gene seed contains the wolf gene similar to the one that afflicts the Space Wolves. The Emperors Wolves lost their eighth company in the warp.

Excoriators
The Excoriators is a Codex chapter of unknown founding and origin.

Executioners
The Executioners were one of four chapters that rebelled during the Badab War.

Exorcists
The Exorcists were founded during the 36th millennium, some time before the Age of Apostasy.

Extinction Angels
One of the chapters that turned to chaos after the Horus Heresy, the chapter is famous for its assault skill.

Fire Hawks
The Fire Hawks was one of the chapters created during the Cursed 21st Founding, from Ultramarines gene-seed.

Fire Lords
The Fire Lords is a Codex Chapter. Their founding date has not been established.

Flame Falcons
The Flame Falcons was one of the cursed Space Marine chapters created during the Cursed 21st Founding.

Flawless Host
The Flawless Host is a chaos marine warband, believed to be a splinter group of the Emperor's Children Traitor Legion (or at least a warband utilizing their gene-seed).

Flesh Eaters
The Flesh Eaters is a Third Founding successor chapter of the Blood Angels.

Flesh Tearers
The Flesh Tearers is a Second Founding chapter of the Blood Angels.

Genesis Chapter
A Second Founding chapter of the Ultramarines.

Grey Knights
They act as the military arm of the Ordo Malleus, the Daemon-hunting branch of the virtually omnipotent Inquisition.

Grey Slayers
The Grey Slayers chapter is only mentioned in the short opening piece to Realm of Chaos.

Grief Bringers
A chapter that suffered heavy losses fighting against Enslavers on Valhall II. Their armour is described as "principally a sickly pea-green, with engrailed chevrons of headachey purple."

Guardians of the Covenant
The Guardians of the Covenant is a successor chapter of the Dark Angels, of an unknown founding.

Hawk Lords
The Hawk Lords is a Codex chapter whose armor is colored purple with gold trim and chest eagle.

Heralds of Ultramar
The Heralds of Ultramar is a Codex chapter derived from the Ultramarines.

Howling Griffons
The Howling Griffons is a Codex chapter who traces their origin from the Ultramarines.

Harbingers of Death
the Harbingers of death chapter was founded in the 31st Millennium.

Imperial Fists
The Imperial Fists chapter were formed from the Imperial Fists Legion, Legion Seven of the Founding Space Marine Legions.

Imperial Ravagers
Their headquarters orbits Vindict V. They were summoned to perform Exterminatus upon the planet Stalinvast in the Inquisition War trilogy novel Draco.

Imperial Stars
The Imperial Stars is a Codex Space Marine Chapter.

Inceptors
The Inceptors is a Second Founding chapter of the Ultramarines.

Iron Champions
The Iron Champions is a Space Marine chapter of unknown origin and founding date.

Iron Fists
The Iron Fists is a Successor Chapter of the Iron Hands Legion.

Iron Hands
The Iron Hands is one of the initial Space Marine Legions.

Iron Snakes
The Iron Snakes is a Space Marine chapter protecting the Reef Stars. The novel "Brothers of the Snake" by Dan Abnett, is mostly about the exploits of the Iron Snakes Damocles squad.

Imperial Harbingers
The Imperial Harbingers hail from Birmingham ("the Black Planet") and are specialists at drop assaults.

Iron Hearts
Briefly mentioned in the short story "Hell in a Bottle" by Simon Jowett published in Let the Galaxy Burn. Their Primarch is mentioned as "Primarch Rubineck", possibly one of the unknown primarchs listed in the space marine codex. The removal of this chapter's name may be resultant of the content of the short story where at the end a chaos lord gains entrance to a training centre via the body of a failed space marine. Further canon disregards the use of the name primarch and goes on to state that the Chapter was all but annihilated fighting the Chaos Lord who manifested in their system. Only two companies, the Sixth and Tenth, remain at full strength.

Iron Knights
The Iron Knights is a Second Founding chapter, the Iron Knights were one of the many who participated in the defense against the Thirteenth Black Crusade.

Iron Snakes
The Iron Snakes is a Second Founding chapter, the Iron Snakes were one of the many who participated in the defense against the Thirteenth Black Crusade.

Iron Warriors
The Iron Warriors is a first founding chapter that turned renegade and fought against the Imperium in the Horus Heresy.

Knights of Gryphonne
The Knights of Gryphonne is a Codex chapter of unknown origin and founding date.

Knights of Order
The Knights of Order are a very early successor chapter of the Dark Angels.

Knights of the Raven
The Knights of the Raven is a Codex Space Marine chapter of unknown founding date.

Lamenters
The Lamenters is an unfortunate Chapter of Space Marines who took part, on the losing side, in the Badab War, before being devastated by the Tyranids.

Legion of the Damned
The Legion of the damned are the most famous of the cursed legions, officially dead to imperium records they appear as ghosts on battlefields only when the situation is dire, turning the tides of battle, many claim to have seen the spectres but no thanks can ever be given to them, for they leave as suddenly and as quickly as they appeared.


 * See also Fire Hawks

Luna Wolves
''The Luna Wolves is the Chapter of the Warmaster Hours Before the Rebel against the Emperor. They were Later Re-named to the Sons of Hours. A group of Loyalists went back to the Luna Wolves after Releasing the Plans the Warmaster had but were Destroyed on Isstvan III''

Liberators
The Liberators is a Second Founding chapter of the Ultramarines.

Lion Warriors
The Lion Warriors is a Codex Astartes Space Marine chapter of unknown origin.

Lords of Wrath
Lords of Wrath chapter is mentioned in the 3rd edition of Codex: Imperial Guard on P.32. They are said to have participated in the capture of Decius Mus a.k.a. Arch-Heretic of Auscum with assistance from the 23rd Bruttiam Regiment.

Mantis Legion
Sometimes referred to as the Mantis Warriors, the Mantis Legion was one of the three chapters that joined the Astral Claws in rebelling during the Badab Uprising.

Marines Errant
The Marines Errant is a fleet-based Space Marine Chapter of unknown origin.

Marines Exemplar
The Marines Exemplar is one of the chapters founded to make up the Astartes Praeses, the twenty chapters created to guard the regions surrounding the Eye of Terror.

Marines Malevolent
The Marines Malevolent Chapter was founded in the 32nd millennium.

Masters of Proteus
The Masters of Proteus is a Space Marine Chapter of unknown founding.

Mentors
Often referred to as the Mentor Legion. The Mentors is a Twenty-Sixth Founding Chapter and are the second chapter to be designated number 888 (the first one being the destroyed Star Scorpions).

Metamarines
The Metamarines is a Space Marine Chapter that participated in the 13th Black Crusade.

Minotaurs
The Minotaurs is one of the chapters created during the Cursed 21st Founding.

Mortifactors
The Mortifactors is a chapter founded during the 40th millennium from Ultramarines gene-seed.

Night Watch
The Night Watch is one of the chapters founded to make up the Astartes Praeses, twenty chapters created to guard the regions surrounding the Eye of Terror.

Novamarines
The Novamarines is a Second Founding chapter of the Ultramarines.

The Novamarines are scattered throughout the galaxy, and have not fought together as a Chapter since the early years of M37.

Omega Marines
A chapter founded during the 40th Millennium.

Praetors of Orpheus
The Praetors of Orpheus is a Second Founding chapter of the Ultramarines.

The Pyre
The Pyre was formerly a loyalist Chapter given the task of fighting Chaos around the Eye of Terror.

The Purge
The Purge is a Chaos Space Marine warband.

Purple Stars
A Space Marine Chapter featured in "Eye of Terror" by Barrington J. Bayley. The armor is a royal purple with five gold colored stars on the right shoulder. In the novel "Eye of Terror" Purple Star Marines were sent on a one way mission into the Eye of Terror with a research team, and were wiped out to the last man when their shuttle was boarded.

Rainbow Warriors
The Rainbow Warriors appeared as an example chapter in Rogue Trader (the first edition of Warhammer 40,000), but there is no mention of them in later editions of the game.

Rampagers
A Second Founding chapter of the White Scars. Their power armour is red. The chapter symbol is of a fist clenching a yellow lightning bolt. According to How To Paint Space Marines, squad badges are placed on the outer side of the right greave.

Raptors
The Raptors is a Second Founding chapter of the Raven Guard. The chapter first appeared in Rogue Trader era Warhammer 40K as the "Raptor Legion,"

Raven Guard
The Raven Guard is one of the original first founding chapters of Space Marines. The primarch of the Raven Guard is Corax, which is part of the Latin for raven (the full being corvus corax).

Reclaimers
A chapter that took part in the anti-Tyranid action at Coronia in the Damocles Gulf. They are mentioned several times in Sandy Mitchell's Ciaphas Cain series of novels, and are also one of the Astartes Praeses. They wear cherry-red armour and their symbol is a pair of gauntleted fists imposed on a blue pentagram.

Red Hunters
The Red Hunters has strong ties to the Inquisition; the entire Chapter has been known to serve under an Inquisitor Lord on occasion.

Red Scorpions
The Red Scorpions are the chapter responsible for the Land Raider Helios artillery support vehicle.

Red Talons
The Red Talons is a Second Founding chapter of the Iron Hands.

Red Templars
The Red Templars is a Codex chapter of unknown origin or founding date.

Red Wolves
The Red Wolves is a Second Founding chapter created from the gene-seed of the Iron Hands.

Relictors
The Relictors chapter was founded in the 36th millennium as one of the twenty Astartes Praeses Chapters.

Revilers
The Revilers is a successor chapter of the Raven Guard who specialize in jungle warfare.

Salamanders
The Salamanders is a First Founding Chapter.

Scythes of the Emperor
The Scythes of the Emperor is a Chapter of Space Marines who along with the Lamenters, were virtually destroyed during the invasion of the Tyranid Hive Fleet Kraken.

Silver Guards
Turned Renegade after the "Obscuran Uprisings" in late M34

Silver Skulls
The Silver Skulls is an Ultramarines successor chapter founded during the 31st millennium.

Skull Bearers
The Skull Bearers chapter wears bone-colored power armor.

Sons of Antaeus
A chapter created during the Cursed 21st Founding, records of the Sons of Antaeus are few.

Sons of Guilliman
The Sons of Guilliman is a chapter created during the 33rd millennium from Ultramarines gene-seed.

Sons of Justice
The Sons Of Justice armour is purple with bronze shoulder pad trim, backpack and head. The Sons Of Justice are also known as "The Defenders of Varlite" because they fought along side the Storm Lords and the Black Ravens in an apocalyptic battle to defend the fortress of Varlite, an important air field and military camp built around and over the mountain ranges of Valkador V.

Sons of Horus
The re-named Luna Wolves, lead by the warmaster horus before betraying the Emperor.

Sons of Malice
The Sons of Malice was founded to be one of the 20 Astartes Praeses Chapters.

Sons of Medusa
The Sons of Medusa is a loyalist chapter involved in the Badab War.

Sons of Orar
The Sons of Orar is a Codex Chapter of unknown origin, though the chapter symbol is closely related to the Ultramarines symbol. Though the history of the Sons of Orar has been lost, what is known is that they revere Orar, an Ultramarines Captain who won great renown in the wake of the Horus Heresy.

Sons of Vengeance
Turned Renegade after the "Obscuran Uprisings" in late M34.

Sons of Ulthunas
Turned Renegade during Ganymathian betrayal Now known as the Angels of Ecstacy

Soul Drinkers
The Soul Drinkers is a Space Marines Chapter created during the Second Founding, drawn from the Imperial Fists Legion.

Space Sharks
There is speculation that the Space Sharks' chapter was a successor of the Raven Guard.

Space Wolves
The Space Wolves is one of the twenty First Founding Legions.

Star Dragons
The Star Dragons is a Codex Astartes

Star Phantoms
The Star Phantoms participated in the Badab War. This Chapter was responsible for the final assault which ended the Badab War. Over five hundred marines assaulted the palace, and during the assault, crippled Huron Blackheart. The Cities of Death expansion book claims Captain Androcles of the Star Phantoms wounded him with a combi-melta in an ambush, although other sources claim this was an orbital bombardment.

Star Scorpions
The Star Scorpions was a Space Marine Chapter of the Twenty Fifth Founding.

Steel Confessors
The Steel Confessors is a chapter founded in 36th Millennium by the Adeptus Mechanicus for its own use.

Storm Callers
The Storm Callers is a chapter of unknown founding and origin.

Storm Giants
The Storm Giants is a chapter founded during the early 41st Millennium.

Storm Lords
The Storm Lords is a Second Founding chapter of the White Scars.

Storm Warriors
The Storm Warriors committed their entire chapter's forces to the defence of the Cadian sector during the Thirteenth Black Crusade.

Subjugators
The Subjugators is a 26th Founding Space Marine successor chapter of the Crimson Fists.

Tauran
A standart codex chapter Bone armor with black greaves, helmet, aquila, backpack, and markings. Symbol is a black bull's head on a bone field.

Terror Tigers
The Terror Tigers played a small part in the Inquisition War trilogy novel Harlequin. They lost one quarter of their Chapter when a mutant warlord assaulted their homeworld, after which their Chapter Master ordered his own execution as punishment.

An exploration team of Terror Tigers rediscovered the lost feral world of Hannibal, intervening on an Eldar attempt to reclaim the world as their own. The team dramatically came to the primitive human natives' rescue.

Thunder Barons
A Traitor Chapter mentioned in Soul Drinker and Daemon World.

Tiger Claws
The original name of the Astral Claws. They were depicted as wearing black and orange tiger-striped armour with a tiger head as their symbol (The Badab War, Rick Priestley). The name is no longer recognised by Games Workshop as canon.

Ultramarines
The Ultramarines are considered one of the greatest of all the Space Marine Chapters in the Imperium of Man, almost single handedly holding the Imperium together after the Horus Heresy. They are currently led by Marneus Augustus Calgar. Their homeworld is Macragge in the Empire of Ultramar.

Valedictors
Originally a First Founding Legion which saw action on the Eastern Fringe against Orks, Eldar, and traitors during the Horus Heresy. They were described in detail in two Epic articles in White Dwarf magazines 126 and 136, circa 1990-91. The status of the Valedictors changed in White Dwarf 235, where they are said to be of a "later founding," (post-Second Founding). Therefore, in the most recent canon literature, the Valedictors are no longer a First Founding Legion. The Valedictors armour is oak-leaf green with a teardrop on the kneecap plate with a Roman numeral inside to denote the company. The symbol is a winged "V".

Violators
A Traitor Chapter dedicated to Slaanesh. Their armour is a shade of blue and their chapter symbol is a lightning bolt crossed with a dagger. They are known to use electrical pulses to stimulate certain parts of the brain to increase pleasure. They fought in the 13th Black Crusade; most of their actions during it was in the Cadian Sector. During this war they repeatedly took recruits from the worst Imperial prisons.

Warp Ghosts
The Warp Ghosts is a chapter of unknown founding and origin, who turned Renegade.

White Consuls
The White Consuls is a Second Founding Chapter of Space Marines. They are listed in the Apocrypha of Davio as having derived from the Ultramarines gene-seed

White Minotaurs
The White Minotaurs is a Codex Chapter of unknown origin and founding date.

White Panthers
The White Panthers were part of the 26th Founding. They are organized according to the Codex Astartes.

White Scars
The White Scars was one of the First Founding Legions of Space Marines. Known and feared throughout the Imperium for their highly mobile way of war.

White Templars
The White Templars are a Codex chapter, rumoured to be descended from the Black Templars.

Wolf Brothers
A Second Founding chapter of the Space Wolves. They were eradicated due to rampant mutation of the unstable Space Wolf gene-seed