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williamcll
The End wasn't The End - Found a new home after the great exodus of 2012

From the blog:  
“A Grey Knight! One of Celestia’s personal guards!  
I-I mean understood Inquisitor!”  
((Wow! I really love your version of Naked Steel! and the Grey Knight looks badass!)
Zincy
Solar Supporter - Fought against the New Lunar Republic rebellion on the side of the Solar Deity (April Fools 2023).
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In Vino Veritas
@Kazapsky
 
You know, I’ve never noticed that Omega looks like the bell curve, now I’ll never unsee that.
 
It’s why I prefer the Space Wolves, Grey Knights, Black Templars, and Salamanders. They’re interesting. The Wolves have their unstable gene-seed and propensity to crazy wolf mode, the Grey Knights are the ultimate daemon hunters, the Black Templars are just fucking terrifying, and the Salamanders go out of their way to help civilians and protect worlds. They feel vibrant and crazy. The Ulty’s, meh…
Zincy
Solar Supporter - Fought against the New Lunar Republic rebellion on the side of the Solar Deity (April Fools 2023).
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In Vino Veritas
@Kazapsky
 
That’s one of the reasons I hate the Ultra’s. They’re not powerful god beings, nor are they struggling from the bottom. They’re just…average, painfully average. They exist as the ultimate “status quo” of the Imperium. A bellwether to rate the power/craziness of the rest of the galaxy against. Hell, their primarch created the Codex, the medium standard. They’re so pegged in the middle that I’m surprised their crest isn’t a Bell Curve.
Kazapsky
Lunar Supporter - Helped forge New Lunar Republic's freedom in the face of the Solar Empire's oppressive tyrannical regime (April Fools 2023).

Five scoops of ice cream
@Zincy
 
Space Marines, excluding Grey Knights (which are in a league of their own) are canonically pretty evenly-matched from one chapter to another, if we’re comparing average soldier to average soldier. Ultramarines getting clobbered more often has more to do with their commanders being too by-the-book, ergo predictable.
 
As for quality of geneseed, Ultramarines are noteworthy for being less prone to random shit happening from one generation to another. You can’t exactly call some of the lowest mutation rates in the Imperium bad geneseed. Especially compared to the Blood Angels and their descendants, all of whom are potential ticking time-bombs for the Black Rage.
 
They’re not the super-marines Matt Ward likes to think they are, but the Ultras aren’t pushovers either.
Zincy
Solar Supporter - Fought against the New Lunar Republic rebellion on the side of the Solar Deity (April Fools 2023).
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In Vino Veritas
@Kazapsky
 
Still, inferior gene-seed breeds an inferior warrior. An Ulty couldn’t hope to battle a Blood Angel let alone a Grey Knight.
 
I’m surprised the artist didn’t make her a Space Wolf, seems more fitting of a chapter, and one that could at least go toe to toe with a Grey, for a while at least.
Kazapsky
Lunar Supporter - Helped forge New Lunar Republic's freedom in the face of the Solar Empire's oppressive tyrannical regime (April Fools 2023).

Five scoops of ice cream
@Zincy
 
From what I’ve seen of her, Naked Steel is an Ultramarine solely because of her homeworld. Her mindset is more maverick rip-and-tear than disciplined Codex-thumper.
Zincy
Solar Supporter - Fought against the New Lunar Republic rebellion on the side of the Solar Deity (April Fools 2023).
Non-Fungible Trixie -
Friendship, Art, and Magic (2020) - Took part in the 2020 Community Collab
Wallet After Summer Sale -
The End wasn't The End - Found a new home after the great exodus of 2012

In Vino Veritas
Please, a pussy Ultrasmurf would never mouth off to a Grey Knight. Their head would be in orbit before they could say “Codex”.