The Marines Superior are a relatively small Astartes Chapter based on the feudal world of Mycelium. Due to amorously relationships between the original chapter master of the Marines Superior and the founding matriarch of the planet's noble dynasty, the chapter has a long-standing oath to protect and serve Mycelian Royalty, perhaps even, as certain rumours have it, before the Emperor himself.
Regardless, the Marines Superior have proved themselves time and time again to be a versatile and highly effective fighting force, having successfully driven back a local WAAAAAGH!! lead by the fearsome Freeboota Kupp'a Da King on numerous occasions, foiling his numerous plots to kidnap the royal family.
Tactically, the Marines Superior focus on versatility and unorthodox methods of achieving constant mobility in order to respond and adapt to any circumstance. Each and every Battle Brother of the chapter is fitted with miniature jump packs fitted into their armour as well as earthshaking "Power Boots" to better trample the foes of man underfoot.
Members of the Marines Superior are trained in the use of multiple separate load-outs, and are well known for swapping gear in the heat of battle to augment the chapter's tactics of extreme adaptability.
One iconic example of this is the elite company of Assault Marines known as the Feathered Capes, who employ gilded jump packs to augment their already impressive jumps to true soaring heights. The capes themselves act not merely to mark a Marine as a member of this group, but also as limited parachutes; stiffening like a glider to extend the radius of the Feathered Cape's power jump.
Ryan Lewis
IT'S A ME, BROTHER-CAPTAIN MARIO
Jose Ward
Give him a mustache and he could be Mario
Hunter Carter
Presumably they have an unusually high amount of Thunder Hammers and man portable inferno cannons.
Also I'd guess they're very well practiced at driving unarmored one-man vehicles, be it bikes or go-karts
Dominic Jackson
GEE I WONDER IF THAT WAS THE POINT
And of course they ride strains of riding Grox known as the Yosh
Evan Cruz
Nintendo, stop trying to switch it up. You aren't TG, shouldn't be TG, and certainly can't be 40k.
Now go and play with your HD rumble somewhere else.
Parker Clark
>Portable inferno cannons
Gotchu covered on that front.
The Infernal Roses are another speciality company based around the use of flamers and shock tactics
Isaac Taylor
>the battle cry of the Thunder Hammer squads is the Mario hammer music
It is said that if a Battle Brother ceases to sing, their good fortune will come to an end.
Asher Edwards
specialized in fighting in sewers of underhives, can fix pipes too while they're at it.
Blake Green
You are mistaken my friend. The Venerable Marines Superior have engaged in battle on certain infamous occasions, such as the Battle of the Four Pipes, in which they cooperated with their green-clad Brother Chapter to defeat Chaos-mutated sewer creatures.
Enclosed is a rare colourized pict of the event.
Camden Harris
OP, this is waaaaaaay better than The Hanged.
Leo Young
OP here.
The Marines Superior do not, in fact, have the planet to themselves, and share Mycelium as their homeworld with their obscure Brother Chapter the Marines Inferior.
The rivalry that has sprung between the two, made even worse with the lack of accreditation to the Marines Inferior for their significant contributions in numerous campaigns, has left this green-clad Brother Chapter far more embittered and belligerent than the Marines Superior, sparking rumours of their "Stare of Death" which can kill at a glance. In reality, this phenomena is actually attributed to the ocular weaponry many Marines Inferior choose to arm themselves with, but the effect on these unfortunate chapter's reputation remains.
Sebastian Ward
The chapter seems to have a geneseed defect that causes them to attempt to leap at any sort of flag or banner. This uncontrollable subconscious reaction has cost them many battles.
Owen Cox
WARIO CHAOS WARBAND WHEN
Jaxson Roberts
When a Marine Inferior finds himself bereft of weaponry in the midst of battle, they have been known to simply crush the opponent under the sheer weight of their armored bulk by falling face first flat on their foes.
Jonathan Cox
Would they be Slaanesh or Nurgle
Camden Collins
fuck it took me a while to get it damn it, hangovers a bitch
Aiden Gutierrez
The Marines Inferior are experts in the field of demonology, secondary (as is their eternal curse) only to the Grey Knights. Using a modified variant of gravity weapons, they are able to not only rend the flesh of Daemons, but also to give solidity to their Warp Essence and imprison them within their backpacks.
This is especially ironic for the Marines Inferior given their quite embarrassing Gene-Seed Defect which causes the inevitable manifestation of Phobias of varying severity within their ranks, which the Daemons and Warp Creatures they face take gleeful advantage of. According to their Chapter's historians, this tradition was begun as a personal penitent crusade and means of purging the weakness from the chapter via direct exposure. Other sources claim that it was begun by mere chance when their founding chapter master stumbled quite by accident into a warp anomaly guised in an ancient manor.
Grayson Richardson
Please draw your attention to the II on their kneepads. I thought that was a clever fucking touch.
Pls appreciate me
That is all. -OP
Jack Johnson
They don't have drop pods, their ships just extend long green tubes down to the planet
Brandon Martin
Wtf is the Hanged?
Wario would probably by Nurgle. He's got the repulsive and disgusting habits. (See; using flatulence as an attack)
Waluigi would be Malal, for they are both obscure and self-defeating
Asher Williams
Kupp'a Da King and his Kupp'a Klan are orks known for their obsessive fascination with a strangely mutated strain of squigs, tentatively classified as Shell Squigs.
While there are a staggering variety of these strange creatures, Shell Squigs are, for the most part, dumb brutes which can be trained as simple guard animals, though they have an unfortunate tendency to patrol in endless circles or off cliffs- members of this family include the Turtle Squigs, the Spiny Squigs, and the Beetle Squigs. The Chomp Squigs are terrifying exceptions to the rule: too ferocious for even their brutish masters to properly control, these toothy, nigh-indestructible beasts are often chained to posts and left to their own devices.
However, when worn as backpacks by their orkish masters, these squigs harden their carapaces into something akin to living armor. While rank and file orks- 'Troopaz'- are fearsome enough, larger orks in leadership positions- 'Boom-Boomz' and/or 'Kupp'a Kidz'- are given rarer, even more strangely mutated subspecies of squigs to wear. And, of course, there are Kupp'a Da King's own personal shell squigs...
Nathan Johnson
>WTF is the hanged
TAKE THE KNOT
Xavier Price
Mate Wario is much more greedy and unhygenic then malicious.
He's clearly a rouge trader dynasty.
If you want chaos warbands why not the Witch Cackletta?
Wyatt Ramirez
So snakebites?
Oliver Martin
Consider it canon now. Pretty great stuff.
Both the Marines Inferior and Marines Superior and Marines Inferior claim heritage from the same Lost Primarch; Maya Moto. While Inquisitorial records have evidence of this figure ever existing, lost data files buried in the oldest of Pre-Imperial ruins have been found containing programmes attributed to him. These generally take the form of simplistic simulations and are thought to be methods of documenting the history of the two Brother Chapters for youth education.
'Cause then we get obscure my dude. The aim is to import the big parts of Mario into the setting, not literally everything.
It's a good thought, but a bit beyond what I had in mind.
Honestly, Wario and Waluigi could both be considered candidates for Malal, or just Renegades, as they are variably dastardly fiends and mildly annoying anti-heroes
Alexander Davis
Problem I see is that there are like 1 reoccuring antagonist.
Wario has officially saved the world and sold more games then he has particurally bothered it. And Wailuigi is mostly known for his tennis skills.
Hence the rogue traders, gaudy and for the most part annoying to the actual respectable citizens.
King Boo? Petey Pirranha?
Kamek?
Ryder Anderson
Well, sure, they have their signature foe, but that hardly means they can't take on other people. The Grey Knights' signature foes are Daemons, but have also been deployed against other foes.
Kamek is Kup'a allied, I'd imagine just a high ranking Weirdboy.
Give King Boo to the Marines Inferior as a reoccurring Daemon foe
Petey has very little info. A beast that inhabits the underground of Mycelium maybe.
Adrian Allen
No i mean in mario.
Mario games have either a 1 off antagonist or bowser. There is no inbetween really.
Luke Scott
Irrelevant. The point here is to create a joke Chapter based on Mario while preserving lore in interesting ways.
If we want to say that the Mario legion fights Tyranids, they can fight Tyranids
Daniel Perez
I'm dialing it back.
There was hesitation in using minor enemies in mario such as Fawful, Bleck, blah blah.
My arguement is that, except for the Big B, they are ALL minor.
Sure mario can fight tyranids, you can probbably even make the tyranids a fuzzies reference. Or of course the Shy Tau. Mario's a flexible guy.
Its just if your going to be picky on your mario inspiration your going to find that is a shallow well.
Jacob Foster
>Shy Tau This needs art. They could almost be a chaos cult given their masks, robes and spontaneous powers, but Tau helmets work perfectly for the idea.
Shy'Ui? Shas'Guy? Guy'La Auxilliaries? I have no idea but it's fucking hilarious and wonderful. Incidentally I'm loving this thread and I like the Marines Superior and Inferior and Kupp'a da King's boyz, I love the whole of Mycellium so far and agree that including super niche stuff as anything other than one-off mentions is probably too much. Are Princess Daisy and Lunette too niche? I don't know, Ihaven't slept in a while so I'm just watching this all mostly.
Camden Wood
>This needs art
Here you go.
Thomas Wilson
Daisy is not too obscure, that's fine. Call her the heir to a separate Dynasty that fought in civil war against the Toadstools backed by the Marines Inferior and Superior respectively.
Hell, she's even supposed to be the princess of Sarasaland, which is separate to the Mushroom Kingdom
Speaking of Mushrooms.. had a thought.
Despite the Marines Superior's general success as a chapter, their initiates are renowned for being inept and generally ill-trained, especially when compared to the scouts of other Chapters (even, to the Marines Superior's great shame, the Marines Inferior)
As such, their role in battle is largely relegated to armed bellhops: toting around their veteran Brothers' spare gear for them to change loadout mid battle.
Their distinctive red and white spotted helmets, modelled after the PDF uniform of Mycelium, and their subservient position have earned them the unfortunate nickname of "Toadies"
Joshua Phillips
Shi'Gue?
Cooper Thompson
We should come up with some special characters. Not sure how that would work, but I have some thoughts.
The Chapter Master of the Marines Superior would, of course, be none other than Marius Mario; a jovial and paternal sort of fellow to his fellow Battle Brothers and a true terror on the battlefield due to his masterful use of Jump packs in junction with his Power Boots, able to down even the greatest of foes in a singular leap. Years of fighting against the heavily armoured foes of the Kupp'a Klan have taught him how to angle his leaps just so as to bypass armour entirely when attacking from above.
The Marines Inferior, however, are lead by a much less bombastic individual; one Lugius Mario. While lacking the striking battlefield presence of Brother Marius, Lugius is well studied in tactics and, fittingly enough for one so confined to the shadows, allows his fellow marines to keep a low profile even in their brightly coloured armour. In addition, his expertise excising all manner of Daemon give him and his men an edge over any and all foes of Daemonic origin, making him a bane of the warp when coupled with his custom archaeotech gravity weapon.
Ayden Sanchez
WAAAAAAHHH
Nicholas Gomez
Shouldn't the toadies be the Guard regiment?
Robert Russell
Probably, but that'd mean buggering about with two codexes. Could make them serfs, but I like it this way.
Eli Moore
1st Guard Regiment of Mycelium, aka the "Toads" have existed ever since the first settlement of the planet. The 1st is famous for their guard duties of the royal family alongside the Marines Superior. Their helmets are a distinct white with red dots to represent the royal familie's colours which were based on Mycelium's many mushroom species.
Camden Gutierrez
Colored in a attempt of the Shy'Gue.
I made the soft armor the same color as the mask straps because the overwhelming red made them look like i didn't know how to use the paintbucket.
Isaiah Johnson
Yeah.. you're right. It does make a lot more sense, I was just coming from gameplay standpoint of not wanting to deal with mashing Codexes.
Anyway, so I think all the power ups we have to work with would make for great Artefacts for the Marines to take.
"Charm of Life Beyond Death" allows a unit to survive a hit that would normally kill it on a successful roll, pic related.
Tyler Long
Are we allowed to include NPCs from the Paper Mario games as options for major figures, by the way?
Also, what does this make Donkey Kong and the other Kongs? Chaos warband?
Carson Morris
The Primaris Mycelin grew only in the crackling arcanotech of the planet's oldest ruins, scattered castles that must regurally be purged of the feral orks and their wild squigs that infest them. There they lie in wait in the ancient portal boxes. Golden relics who's std template are long lost that were used to store technology in the age of strife. With these devices now failing they may still cough up treasure to the lucky.
To become a initiate a hopeful must navigate within these keeps, find the box and strike it firecely enough to dislodge a mushroom.
More orks I'd say. Orks are the most gorillay.
Acquiring one of this from the
Austin Torres
"Token of Embiggened Might" +1 wound
Go for it, if it fits, it should be okay.
I dunno if the Kongs really fit in. Perhaps beastmen living in the jungles of Mycellium
Andrew Cook
One could argue they are good guys though just at arms against Mario. They could be a very very rival faction. One aggressive enough to kidnap their monarch as humilation (claiming the worship was heresy). Marines Simius?
Jordan James
Inquisitor Cranky and his retinue of feral worlders, most notably the scum known as Donkey, famous for kidnapping a planetary govenor who had to be rescued by the Marines Superior in one of the now chapter master's first missions.
However Donkey escaped capture and ended up under Inquisitor protection.
His plasma gun can fire in spurts if it shoots ya, its gonna hurt.
Though perhaps the most useful is the blank codnamed lanky, he has no style or grace.
Wyatt Gomez
Infernal Rose: Extra damage when using flamers or other incendiary weaponry
I dunno, I'm sort of latching onto the idea of the Kongs as beastmen. Pre-Imperial contact, Mycelium was divided between numerous different kingdoms: The Mycelian Kingdom, Sarasaland, The Country of the Kongs, and the Kupp'a Klans. The Kongs were all but wiped out and Sarasaland was pacified after the civil war, but the Kupp'a are still at large due to their spacefaring capacity and Orky habit of making more of themselves.
Samuel Rogers
Anyone want to settle for a compromise that the Kongs are Beastmen who lived in the jungles of the Mycelian planet, but once Imperial contact was established the Kong clans were slowly brought into the fold as Empire-sanctioned beastmen? At least until the Empire decided that beastmen were bad?
Benjamin Ortiz
A few notable ones lived though (DK) and still prove shaky relations with the other factions on the planet (sometimes allied, sometimes not so much).
Alexander Taylor
>Kongs Well obviously a naturalized tribe of Jokaero. Long time ago a Mechanicus transport loaded with Jokaero crashed in the jungles of Mycelium, with the only survivors being the Jokaero. Time went and they regressed a bit, losing some of their engineering expertise in adapting to Mycelium's jungles.
Or we could set them on a nearby planet, Kong's Land (named after the Rogue Trader, Kong III).
Oliver Baker
For the record I think Count Beck is far too obviously chaos for him NOT to be used.
I mean, come on, his backstory won't even need much tweaking.
Joshua Thomas
Anons and gents, I think we have a winner.
It actually makes perfect sense too, given what the Kongs get up to.
They build fucking planes and shotguns out of barrels.
Call 'em "Feral Jokaero"
That may be true, but we're straying quite a bit here. Let's stick to basics
Carter Wright
>"Stare of Death" which can kill at a glance.
Aiden Price
>Mario and Luigi: Space Marine Chapters >Kongs: Feral Jokaero >Koopas: Orks n Squigs n Whatnot >Shyguys: Tau >Toads: Guard Regiment >Hylians: Eldar maybe? (If we're going full blast, don't gotta though)
Personally, I would prefer the Koopas be something more like a particularly large Chaos Warband + Lost and the Damned Regiment, but Orks with special squigs works fine.
Michael Adams
Honestly I'd have made "Hive Fleet Koopa" and gone from there but Koopaling nobs work just as well.
As for Hylians why use them?
Matthew Gray
have him fuck luigi in the buthole
Matthew Williams
A gigantic Smash-brothers style clash over one particularly valuable planet between the most notable nintendo-themed race-factions.
Alexander Williams
...
Jose Turner
Why Hylians? This is a Mario thread, you can go fluff some Zoldo elsewhere.
If you really want to get the Eldar in on this, why not use Rosalina and have pic related be a Craftworld in the region of Mycelium
Connor Thomas
Link makes a cameo in the first Super Mario RPG game on SNES.
Levi Gomez
You're grasping at straws here bud, let's try to keep a focus.
Andrew Allen
I'm just saying that's why may have suggested Hylians as part of the faction list.
Julian Price
Bullet bills can be a astartes weapon.
Relic or just a modified artillery?
Jose Morgan
Ah, awright, fair dinkum.
Anyway, we were talking about unique characters before, right?
I suppose we could name various chars after Nintendo execs. Maya Moto is already a Primarch, so why not have a Venerable Brother Ihwatah Dreadnought or a Regginator Termie hero?
BBs are actually used by the Koopas in game, but I sort of like the thought of a mutal tech exchange between them.
So both the Marines Superior and Inferior as well as the Kupp'a Klan use Bullet Bills (Self-directed artillery rounds) and Bob-Ombs (Explosive simple minded drones)
The Blue Shell should be a big heavy ordinance.
Nathan Bailey
Actually, I was suggesting Hylians because they're a separate entity that is usually kept to themselves, already elves, and with Ganondorf could also lead to a Dark Eldar faction based on him and his minions-- but if nobody likes it, that's cool. Them, Samus, and many other Nintendo properties are only a degree of separation further than the Kongs.
Don't see Rosalina as an Eldar personally, but whatever floats your boat. Or spaceship, I guess. She's a bit too nice.
Venerable Brother Iwata, who still fights side by side with Reggie's Terminator Squad.
Xavier Hall
Also, they are able to jump good.
Christopher Scott
Donkey kong has a bigger influence on the mario verse then wailuigi and daisy do.
Bentley Powell
But Donkey Kong is its own franchise. Aside from the original arcade games from before there was a universe, and a couple of tacky crossover games, he only really ever appears in the same games as the two you mentioned. Hell, Waluigi even has a bigger part in certain games.
Jaxson Jenkins
>Couple I think you mean "Almost all of them". Kart, party, every sports game.
Oliver Baker
I see where you're coming from, but the difference here is that while they did evolve into their own franchise, the Kongs started out as baddies for Mario and continued to serve that role every now and then.
Why, what role do you see her in? She'd obviously need to be tweaked quite a bit from the godlike position she takes in game.
>PLEASE UNDERSTAND, BATTLE BROTHER
Oliver Sullivan
Okay, but I meant the Mario vs. Donkey Kong games involving those weird tinkertoy shitbots. They all also appear in those.
I'd probably see her as something like a particularly powerful member of the adeptas sororitas, or a fairly disconnected member of the Adeptus Mechanicus. She just seems too nice to be an Eldar.
Also, thanks for reminding me of what games those shitty little robots were from.
Cooper Lopez
>Also, thanks for reminding me of what games those shitty little robots were from. No prob friend.
Eh. Rosalina seems like something for the backburner. Incidentally, should we consider archiving this? I could just screencap important bits, but I'm lazy
But back to unique units. I think we can give the Trickster Sakurai to the Marines Inferior. Not sure how he'd play, but definitely something underhanded and sly.
Charles Clark
Living Saint Rosalina of the Order of the Starry Night?
Kevin Jenkins
Maybe we should consider archiving? I dunno.
Sakurai goes to the Marines Inferior. Should we figure out where Yoshi and the Goombas come in?
That sounds cool, honestly.
Angel Young
Marines Diabolical
Robert Bailey
Yoshi is defiantly a species used as mounts by the Marines Superior (someone mentioned it earlier, calling them "Yoshs".)
Aaron Reed
Yoshi is easy. Riding grox bred to be Space Marine sized called Yosh. I think I mentioned that earlier
Goombas can just be squigs, they're both fungoids. (Though Goomba is supposed to be based on a chestnut)
Lesse... I'm forgetting some people.. Howard Phillips I suppose is a good all around guy for morale if anyone else remembers them.
We wanna get extra obscure, Stan Lee the Tyranidbane gives Preferred Enemy: Tyranids
Jumpmhan is just a tougher marine with a big hammer and Hatred: Jokaero
Getting into original stuff, Kai-Zhoh could be a hard-as-nails tank who's impossible without burning tonnes of units.
Chase Evans
Not just mere mounts, but such is the Superior's attachment to these Yoshs that they are deployed along initiates with the expectations that they will protect these young trainees.
Yoshi island reference. Almost none of this makes sense to me. Shows what i know about mario.
Nolan Mitchell
In order:
Howard Phillips was the spokesman for Nintendo through the Golden Age years back in the NES-SNES days. Had a sort of a Jimmie Olsen meets Archie sorta persona that was really good for connecting with both kids and adults. Nintendo gave him a business card as a "Game Master" and everything.
Stanley the Bugman is from Donkey Kong 3, pic related, where he replaced Mario and fought bugs
Jumpman was Mario's original name back in Donkey Kong days
and Kaizo refers to a series of romhacks that make the Mario games (nearly) impossible to beat youtube.com/watch?v=6ULoRwpfClM
Samuel Kelly
Kong Island is close enough to Bowser's Kingdom that one of his tanks have actually shown up in DKC.
Liam Cook
The Marines Superior have many enemies like Kupp'a Da King, however none have proved so elusive as a group of Hereteks, the Nauts. Their main base has not yet been found in the more recent millennium however it is thought to be somewhere within the solar system due to a lack of warp signals. They are known for their glaring red and white uniforms with their more heinous combat servitors lacking even the barest human form.
Alexander Hall
That actually looks more like a Kong style tank, look at the wood and rope.
That's what Bowser's tanks look like, unless you count the ones from SMB3, in which case you may have a point.
John Nelson
Rumors among the Marines Superior say that the Nauts search the system for seven Dark Age Artifacts that will allow them to summon a Demon Prince.
Christian Rogers
Nevermind, you're right, the wiki confirms it.
Samuel Cruz
So, the Kongs are fleshed out a bit, what about K. Rool and the Kremlings?
Elijah Rodriguez
Heretek's intent on using the jokaro to bolster their own impressive armory?
Jaxson Gomez
*Mutant* Hereteks
James Torres
Its chaos its a default assumption.
Mason Miller
>Count Bleck My good bro.
Andrew Harris
Asteroidea Observatorium: Marines Superior Battlebarge.
This ancient ship may look bizarre compared with the most "standard" configurations of other chapters. Some even say that it has heretical xenotech of Eldar origin.
However this heterodoxy is due to millenia of combat and repairs. It is said that it is piloted by an ancient navigator, the fairest of them all, untouched by the corruption that punishes this caste.
Owen Mitchell
Marines Inferior are also the creators of the D.E.L.U.G.E purgation system used by their brother chapter: weaponised high preassure blessed water able to send back to the warp the cursed nurgle demons that invaded Delfino IV.