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Lorehammer - A Warhammer 40k Podcast

230 - Ultramarines, 30k Legion Era

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🗓️ 3 April 2026

⏱️ 132 minutes

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From the disciplined conquests of the Great Crusade to the shadowed trials of the Horus Heresy and the grim resolve of the Great Scouring, the Ultramarines stand as the Imperium’s enduring architects of order and survival. Forged under Roboute Guilliman, they brought unity to the stars not through conquest alone, but through structure, governance, and the belief that empire must be built to last. Betrayed at Calth and isolated by warp-born storms, they became wardens of Ultramar, preserving the Five Hundred Worlds while the wider Imperium burned. When at last they emerged, it was not as avengers driven by fury, but as a disciplined force intent on restoration, securing fractured realms and rebuilding what war had shattered. In this episode, we explore how the Ultramarines did not simply fight the wars of their age, but endured them, shaping the Imperium’s survival through courage, reason, and an unbreakable commitment to duty.

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0:00.0

The Hello and welcome back to Lorhammer. I'm one of your hosts, Mark.

0:31.3

I've got a fun episode of Ultramarines tonight. You don't know Ultramarines, you haven't been lingering around 40K at all.

0:37.3

Like they're the boys in blue. I'm excited. The last episode, we won Christian over, and he's like, I think he reboot Gilman might be my favorite prior mark. So that's always fun when you can kind of just change. Not that Christian didn't like him, but, you know, it's always fun where you can just enhance or change it. So, uh, join me today. We got Gerald once again, hey.

0:57.0

Hello and good evening, everybody.

0:59.3

Ready to talk about, uh, these special little snowflakes, these special guys.

1:06.4

I guess. I don't know. I like 30K ultramarines. Okay.

1:29.6

You know, I love the blue and the gold, especially on the 30K ultramarines when they have that like gold faceplate going on. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it looks great look. We also got Fuzz joining us for the first time on an ultramarine episode. Hey. How's it going all of the lore friends out there friends out there yeah yeah we're doing good um

1:36.1

do you like reboot gillman ultramines what's a kind of general vibe on them i am very fairly neutral like i don't know a ton about them other than like you know gilliman is the you know

1:41.0

the logistical primark he's you, again, like the poster boy for their

1:46.0

primarks. They're the poster boys for the Marines. They're just like your, your stock standard

1:51.4

friends out there. And, well, there is something to be said for all of the variety with the other legions and everything and all

2:02.2

our little idiosyncrasies and eccentricities uh sometimes it's nice to be basic yeah yeah for sure

2:11.6

just have a little empire right you know what you're getting into yeah yeah i've always liked the ultramarines for what they are. There's been an era of ultramarine lore that was written with Matt Ward that was pretty fun to go through. Some atrocious things were written. But overall, ultramarines are pretty cool, man. I especially like them during the Great Scouring. It just like such a fun fun time to be alive uh and

2:36.0

ultramarines and reboot gilman have like a huge hand and just like rebuilding the imperium and like keep it from

2:41.5

falling apart you know they were such a big legion that horace during the heresy is like let's send

2:46.1

these guys away like we can't have them anywhere near us let's just occupy them elsewhere yeah like i don't know

2:52.2

like i said i don't know a ton about them other but i do know that they you know keep those supply

2:57.7

lines like so they help keep the imperium running and they have their own like little empire

3:02.5

yeah yeah like one of the things they did in the great crusade was uh they would conquer the planet and it wouldn't always be through like Marshall means. It would be through diplomatic means or through like I don't know, maybe just like a blockade. Okay, well, if you can't, you know, get any new supplies, then we'll blockade you. But then when they're done with the planet, they will rebuild in like, yeah, keep those supply lanes. Open them up and make sure everything's flowing try to make that planet so sufficient even and uh

3:28.3

yes and i think i'm going to like this because it's very tau like so i think i'm going to enjoy it

3:34.4

yeah yeah it could be like that like uh they're both blue you know oh. Ah. Oh, my God. It goes deep. Okay. Yeah. Well, it's going to be a fun episode. We're getting all into the Ultramarines here. Today we're just talking about them in the 30K Legion era. So we'll get into a bunch of stuff. But before we do, come join the Discord. It's all types of fun stuff to do in there i just

3:59.0

added a non-40k related channel and just looks like a lot of pictures of godzilla in there for some

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