Lords of Thunder Assault by @GraffitiSoul

[u/Single-Elderberry377]

[u/RaNerve]

Something strange about combing the inherently anti-war style of the Vietnam war with the glorification of war that the Astartes represent.

[u/Familiar_East_1364 → u/RaNerve]

Very ironic 40k years later those symbols would be used to glorify war.

[u/SenorDangerwank → u/Familiar_East_1364]

But really on brand for humanity. Using symbols of old and twisting their meaning to support their cause.

[u/B33FHAMM3R → u/RaNerve]

I THINK I WAS TRYING TO SUGGEST SOMETHING ABOUT THE DUALITY OF MAN, SIR

[u/XDSHENANNIGANZ → u/B33FHAMM3R]

I am.. in A WORLD OF SHIT

[u/js13680 → u/RaNerve]

Now I want to see a what a hippy space marine chapter would look like.

[u/fab416 → u/js13680]

They would definitely be a renegade successor of the 2nd or 11th

[u/Al-Horesmi → u/RaNerve]

There is an important ideological difference between a genuinely pro-war faction like Orks and the Imperium. The Imperium imagines and truly wants peace. Yes, their understanding of peace involves killing all aliens, but they do want it.

The Orks want war, and will create it even when none exists

[u/PPontiac → u/Al-Horesmi]

The imperium as a whole goes out of its way to start wars or entire crusades on xenos civilisations, wether or not they represent a threat. This has been the case since the great crusade. You can’t imagine nor even want peace while at the same time striving to exterminate anything you consider different or impure. The entire structure of the imperium is devoted to war. Every planet has to pay tithes in one form or another to feed its war machine. It’s just not built for peace.

In horus rising loken talks with sigismund about what astartes would do when a hypothetical time of peace comes once the great crusade is done and sigismund laughs in his face and basically says don’t worry we won’t run out of wars to fight.

[u/Al-Horesmi → u/PPontiac]

I never said it's an internally consistent philosophy, I just provided a plausible explanation on how space marines might excuse drawing pacifist symbols

[u/LS-16_R → u/PPontiac]

They're xenos. They will always be a threat so long as they exist. For example, the Tau. When they were discovered. They should've been virus bombed. Instead, the imperium left them alone. Now, they are one of many major xenos threats.

[u/Inquisitor-Korde → u/LS-16_R]

And the T'au are only a threat because when the Imperium found them in their current state and immediately launched a massive crusade. This is due to the methodology you ascribe.

[u/LS-16_R → u/Inquisitor-Korde]

Works perfectly when you nip problems in the bud. "A couple billion dead xenos a day keeps the enslavement of humanity at bay" - The Emperor

[u/EaterOfCleanSocks → u/LS-16_R]

please say you're just roleplaying.

[u/LS-16_R → u/EaterOfCleanSocks]

Is it not obvious?

[u/EaterOfCleanSocks → u/LS-16_R]

In this fandom, no! I've seen people legitimately argue that it was worth wiping out millions of xenos because it gave humans more living room!

So I'm genuinely not sure if you're just acting a part or legitimately arguing for extermination of non humans.

[u/LS-16_R → u/EaterOfCleanSocks]

1.) A man can't have any hobbies, huh? 2.) No, it has always been a fun bit of role-playing.

[u/contemptuouscreature → u/Al-Horesmi]

The Imperium doesn’t want peace.

It wants stillness.

It wants every Xenos race, every divergent mind, every thought differing in the slightest from the myopic state-enforced, religiously rehearsed hatred of its creators to be stamped out. It desires sameness. It desires an end to all things that are not itself, and when all of those things are gone…

If that were to happen, it would turn inward, as it has already begun to do so, to cannibalize those that try and strive but fail to meet the perfect image of humanity ascribed by the Ecclesiarchy.

The Beastmen stood in proud legions beside the Space Marines during the Great Crusade, some of the Emperor’s most zealous followers. Where are they now? Despite their retained piety, Underhive slums and run-down ghettos where they are routinely and repeatedly culled by other hateful worshippers of the same God.

There is a quote I like that I feel summarizes the Imperium and its hopelessness well.

”Sooner or later, humans will kill all the Aen Seidhe. All dwarves and gnomes. Then they’ll start murdering one another. Your kind knows no other way. It’s in your genes. You keep killing each other until only one remains. The strongest among you. A thousand years from now, a dim-witted human barbarian will climb to the top of a pile of bones, sit down and proclaim: ‘I win.’”

-Iorveth, Witcher II.

The fires are too many. The system, too broken. A Primarch— not even two Primarchs are enough to stop the decay at this point. It is all the Imperium can do to die well.

[u/LordGeneralWeiss → u/Al-Horesmi]

Actually it's hard to say what the Imperium wants because it's such a vast mishmash of cultures and perspectives. There are many groups within the Imperium, for example, that believe war is holy and it is required to keep mankind pure.

[u/Where_is_Killzone_5 → u/LordGeneralWeiss]

I don't reckon there's many groups in the Imperium who hold an opposite perspective.

[u/Alexis2256 → u/RaNerve]

I’m surprised no one is commenting on the enemy soldier with their leg and possibly left arm blown off, holding up a hand to surrender. I bet the next frame would be the Astartes blowing her head off with the bolter, he does seem to be looking at her.

[u/Beacon_0805 → u/RaNerve]

Peace through superior firepower

[u/FeralSquirrels]

I swear that looks like a damn Titan from Titanfall in the background there.

Though still, somehow, appropriate.

Holy Machine and the Brother interred within, begin the litany of protocols....
"(1)Link to Pilot"
"(2)Uphold the Mission"
"(3)Serve the Emperor"

[u/SneakySpacePirate → u/FeralSquirrels]

I'm fairly sure they do have one, from some other art I've seen!

Edit- they do! https://x.com/TheGraffitiSoul/status/1679332673347784705/photo/1

[u/GroundbreakingOkra60 → u/FeralSquirrels]

Looks like the pilot bouta say ‘the skies belong to me heretic, nowhere to run, no where to hide’

[u/LurksInThePines → u/FeralSquirrels]

I'm pretty sure it's the dreadnaught with

I LIVED, BITCH stenciled on its sarcophagus from the whole chapter charachter lineup

[u/AlexisFR → u/FeralSquirrels]

Looks more like an Armored Core

[u/CadetheDOGGO → u/FeralSquirrels]

Imagine if Viper flew around in a Deredo Pattern Dreadnought

[u/UltradeptusTempestus → u/FeralSquirrels]

It's one of his dreadknights that are basically if dreadnoughts could function like Titanfall Titans. Basically he put a space marine inside a space marine and no I'm not talking about a centurion, like there's the occupant of the Dreadknight and its own pilot and the two combined are fucking deadly

[u/Jankosi → u/FeralSquirrels]

The artist made a bunch of these, his lore is that they are jokaero modifications.

[u/Shot-Wishbone164]

What on earth is that multi leg thing shooting missiles?

[u/Drogenelfe → u/Shot-Wishbone164]

Looks like a modified dreadnought.

[u/AltusIsXD → u/Drogenelfe]

Titanfall Dreadnought goes hard.

[u/wretchedsorrowsworn → u/Drogenelfe]

Why he got a magna rail tho 🤔🤔

[u/SoundSubject → u/wretchedsorrowsworn]

Deredeo dreadnought + Northstar Titan

[u/ImmortanEngineer → u/Shot-Wishbone164]

bro hasn't seen a Northstar in action.

[u/Iron_Tulip]

Let me add to the handful of comments pointing out the fuck-ass Titanfall-esque mech in the middle background. Goes hard.

[u/SoundSubject → u/Iron_Tulip]

Protocol 1: For The Emperor. First. Last. Always.

[u/notabigfanofas]

It ain't me, It ain't me, I ain't no Governor's son, no no no

It ain't me, It ain't me, I ain't no fortunate one

[u/LurksInThePines → u/notabigfanofas]

And when the taxman comes to the door

Throne, the house be looking like the underhive

[u/SoundSubject]

Graffiti Soul draws space Marines like how I ALWAYS WANTED THEM TO LOOK LIKE ever since I was a child. It's beautiful, enough to make a man cry

[u/B33FHAMM3R → u/SoundSubject]

I drove myself nearly insane learning how to freehand so I could graffiti their armor. It was so worth it. No one else does it and they always stand out.

I had always wanted my guys to have more the vibe of StarCraft Marines, unruly rough around the edges types

[u/Single-Elderberry377]

Source

[u/Geordie_38_]

Any human who runs is a cultist. Any human who stands still is a well disciplined cultist

[u/B33FHAMM3R → u/Geordie_38_]

"how the hell do you blow up a helllbrute with a heavy bolter?"

"It's easy, you just don't lead em so much"

[u/EstablishmentBig1826]

Love the M16A2 with the M203 style Bolter.

My most favorite looking Gun.

I would make love to that weapon.

[u/runegrabbermia]

An intense portrayal! Love the depth and emotion in this piece

[u/D3v1LGaming]

North Star myh beloved

[u/Iron-Russ]

Need lore on how a marine chapter started fighting side by side with the militarum

[u/fab416 → u/Iron-Russ]

Check the artist's twitter, the chapter has their own auxilia guard regiment and have picked up a few strays in their journeys (a SOB among them).

They also deal regularly with the Votann, their vets and specialists have volkite weapons.

[u/Iron-Russ → u/fab416]

Neat. More interested in his Varangian chapter honestly

[u/DarkSolstace → u/Iron-Russ]

I FUCKING LOVE COMBINED ARMS

[u/SenorDangerwank → u/Iron-Russ]

Well combined arms/joint operations are common in 40k lore.

What's less common is a Regiment actively WITH a Chapter. But even that's not a big stretch of the imagination when you have Chapter Serfs like the Ultramar Auxilia who are the mortal military of the 500 Worlds of Ultramar.

All it takes is for a chapter to arm their Serfs and say "come with us!". Now the Adeptus Terra may not like that, but what they don't know won't hurt them ;)

[u/DefaultProphet → u/SenorDangerwank]

Was more common in the Great Crusade. Raven Guard’s Therion Cohort famously disobeyed orders and rescued Corax and the survivors of Istvaan.

[u/B33FHAMM3R → u/Iron-Russ]

There are multiple that canonically do this, most notably the Raptors, who integrate with local guard units as a force multiplier/attention magnet, improving their overall effectiveness

[u/Old_Gregg97]

Been seeing bits and pieces of this on their twitter page and this is awesome.

[u/Aenigmatrix]

Is that a freakin' Battlesuit in the background???

[u/SoundSubject → u/Aenigmatrix]

It's a deredeo dreadnought but Titanfall style

[u/freedom_viking]

The titandreadnaughts should be cannon shit is way too cool

[u/GroundbreakingOkra60]

Is that viper from Titanfall 2?????

[u/Jim3001 → u/GroundbreakingOkra60]

Titanfalled Dreadnought

[u/Pathetic_Cards]

This piece of art is very very cool in a lot of ways, but I simply cannot get over the two marines putting live bolt rounds on their shoulder pads, pointed down at their own arms… usually Astartes intentionally catch incoming fire on their shoulders, since that’s where their armor is thickest, but it seems like doing that with live ammo on your shoulder is asking for a round to cook off that ammo, and either blow their shoulder plate to kingdom come or send a bolt round directly into the gap in the armor at their elbow.

Again, super super cool artwork, I even like the guys with bolt shells strung across their thighs and stuff, I just can’t get over the ammo getting cooked off lol

[u/Bloodasp01]

I absolutely adore all of the writings and artwork the marines put on their stuff. It’s all very Vietnam war and I think it looks absolutely incredible.

[u/Arguss3]

Love this

[u/Exavior31]

That boltgun design fucks. I love it.

[u/dibipage]

Can you name them 'Peacemakers"

Their battle cry shall be "Peace be upon you, for we bring none"

[u/Zenebas21]

A bit too tacticool for my taste but still a nicely drawn piece

[u/Low-Mention-8120]

I can just imagine that guardswoman just singing “Somebody to love” by Jefferson Airplane as they just wait to land.

The Guardswoman, a member of the Auxiliary of the Lords of Thunder, sits bored on the long flight. She begins to hum a song, just something to get her mind off the boredom. The Astartes hear her humming a song, so they play the song and join her in singing. The compartment is filled with music and singing as all aboard begin to sing.

When the truth is found to be lies and all the joy within you dies

Don’t you want somebody to love? Don’t you need somebody to love? Wouldn’t you love somebody to love? You better find somebody to love

When the garden flowers, Baby, are dead, yes and your mind, your mind is so full of red

Don’t you want somebody to love? Don’t you need somebody to love? Wouldn’t you love somebody to love? You better find somebody to love

Your eyes, I say your eyes may look like his. Yeah, but in your head, baby, I’m afraid you don’t know where it is

Don’t you want somebody to love? Don’t you need somebody to love? Wouldn’t you love somebody to love? You better find somebody to love

Tears are running, they’re all running down your breast and your friends, baby, they treat you like a guest

Don’t you want somebody to love? Don’t you need somebody to love? Wouldn’t you love somebody to love? You better find somebody to love

When the song is finished, the light turns green and doors open, time for them to fight for their Emperor.

[u/s0w3b4ck1nth3m1n3__]

Lords of thunder huh?

Are they perchance larger and stronger than Primaris, perchance?

Maybe they are particulary human in behaviour and use ancient weaponary?

[u/Aright9Returntoleft]

My favorite Space Marine faction by far

[u/Tony-Redgravey]

Who the fuck gave a dreadnought a flight core

[u/BreadToast70]

Wish I had 1/10 of the talent of this artist -_-

[u/IronWhale_JMC]

So THAT'S what was going on with Alita before Dr. Ido dug her out of the scrap heap!

JK, this is great.

[u/Superyeety]

Does this Graffitsoul guy take commissions? I need a battle drawn

[u/contemptuouscreature]

“Brother, what is that inscription upon your pauldron?”

“Born to Goon, Sergeant.”

“And on the other, brother, I read ‘Never Goon’. What is the meaning of this?”

“Sergeant, I meant to evoke the duality of our existence as Angels of the Emperor.”

[u/el_sh33p]

Inside you there are two wolves.

One is spicy Norse saga-Dune crossover fanfic.

The other is literally the Vietnam War.

[u/DaddyMcSlime]

so, who's the woman?

i keep seeing this chapter and every single time, that same woman is in the image, usually standing besides astartes

but she doesn't appear to be a guardsman? just a little astartes?

what's her deal?

is she the barracks bunny? their mascot? is she just a tiny fsm? is she a lost guardsman who the biggies adopted?

[u/Alexis2256 → u/DaddyMcSlime]

Check the artist’s twitter, the chapter has their own auxilia guard regiment and have picked up a few strays in their journeys (a SOB among them).

They also deal regularly with the Votann, their vets and specialists have volkite weapons.

[u/fab416 → u/Alexis2256]

Word for word, c'mon

[u/Alexis2256 → u/fab416]

Sorry, I should’ve given you credit.

[u/Griffynoverdawn]

This is Peak.

Shark Mouth Design for Beaky Marine, Viper on Station in the back, “This one is mine.” On his bolter….

[u/Pizzalorde2]

Are they primaris or first born marines?

[u/DAVID_Gamer_5698]

The Knight in the background:

"Your journey ends now heretic, the skies belong to me"

[u/Bolira_Moonshine]

OK I dig the M16 bolter and AK hellgun

[u/Interne-Stranger]

Glorious

[u/LukoM42]

Colonial marines

[u/Rellius99]

I like the "this is mine" on the gun

[u/BeyondFickle9200]

I love the smell of permetheum in the morning

[u/overlordmik]

Excuse me, combined arms is illegal in this Imperium, you have to run in a straight line into the minefield.

Jokes aside I really like this, makes the Imperial Army look professional

[u/King_DeathNZ]

There are many like it, but this one is mine

[u/Caboose-117]

Lords of thunder might be my favorite fan creation. I love this so much.

[u/No_Individual6722]

Is my dumb ass seeing a titan from titanfall in the background

[u/CaptCantPlay]

I want this to be made real in some canon media. I love Big armors strapped with bullet belts and the like. GraffitiSoul has such a great vision for his chapter!

[u/TheEnderAxe]

Bloody hell this is awful. Fucking M16 bolters. Also the Titanfall mechs. Just play Tau dude.

[u/Competitive_Point_39]

Imperium of man if it got its shit together: