(Video) By Blade and Bolter Pt. 5 - The Crimson Armada
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🗓️ 27 April 2026
⏱️ 74 minutes
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*Ad Free Version available on Lorehammer Patreon, link below.*In this episode, we break down the Crimson Armada, a Chaos warfleet that operates less like a traditional navy and more like a fully self-sustaining war empire. Born from the fires of the Great Crusade and reforged in the Horus Heresy, this fleet has evolved into a roaming engine of conquest, built on discipline, brutal hierarchy, and unwavering devotion to Khorne. We explore how its unique doctrine prioritizes cohesion and planetary assault over void supremacy, and how its integrated structure, Astartes, mortal armies, and Dark Mechanicum industry, allows it to wage continuous war across entire systems. If you’re into large-scale warfare, fleet design, and what makes a Chaos force actually function long-term, this one dives deep into how the Crimson Armada holds together.Lorehammer Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/c/lorehammer/membershipOne Time Donationshttps://paypal.me/lorehammerpodcastLink to all Linkshttps://linktr.ee/Lorehammer40k
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| 0:00.0 | The Hello and welcome back to Lorhammer. |
| 0:31.7 | I'm your host Mark, and today we're doing another episode. |
| 0:34.7 | You thought you could get away. |
| 0:36.5 | You thought I was joking about doing eight of these. |
| 0:39.3 | Yeah, now we're doing another by blade and bolter episode. They're my homebrew, a Starties chapter. |
| 0:46.3 | But there's so much more than that. I was kind of staying at the beginning of this. |
| 0:49.3 | I was trying to write like a full, a full setting, a full world, a full universe you know with different elements different |
| 0:58.5 | factions and all that kind of stuff and tie it together so you know for the last four episodes |
| 1:02.7 | we talked about the knights of slaughter the astardis war band uh you know they're dedicated to corn |
| 1:08.2 | if you're this far deep you should know what they are i talked about them for like eight hours at this point so uh but yeah they have what is called the crimson |
| 1:15.7 | armada in today's episode we're going to be talking about that that is the name of their fleet and |
| 1:20.1 | in their fleet they got a whole bunch of different uh factions in there and uh allies and you know |
| 1:26.0 | rebels and all that kind of fun stuff so we're going to be getting |
| 1:28.6 | into that before we do some quick housekeeping come join the patreon there are links in the description |
| 1:33.7 | below somebody just said i fucked up my link for like the last 50 episodes my link to all links does not |
| 1:41.2 | work but i'm going to correct that over the weekend here but yeah come join the patreon you can find links in the description below and all |
| 1:47.8 | that kind of stuff all right let's just get into it it's gonna be a big episode |
| 1:53.5 | in this episode we will cover just like the one sheet I like to do a little |
| 1:59.5 | one sheet that I could hand out to everyone. |
| 2:01.6 | If I went to a tournament, not that I ever have or ever done that, but it's a fun concept, so we'll do one sheet. |
| 2:06.6 | We'll read a quick little short story called The Measure of War about the Crimson Armada. |
| 2:11.6 | We learn about its history, its strategic profile, purpose, its appearance, its doctrines, its operational cycle. |
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