I have some questions about Chaos Space Marines Veeky Forums

I have some questions about Chaos Space Marines Veeky Forums.

How do the Legions recruit new members? For example how do Legions such as the World Eaters and Thousand Sons recruit and train new marines?

How big are the remaining Legions? Say if all remaining members gathered together no matter how unlikely that is how large are each legions forces?

Why does there seem to be no fluff explaining the individual differences of home planets in the eye of the remaining Primarchs? Shouldnt they be a bigger deal in the warp?

>How do the Legions recruit new members?
they send out flyers, advertise on cadiaslist,
and occasionally scout out new talent

>How do the Legions recruit new members? For example how do Legions such as the World Eaters and Thousand Sons recruit and train new marines?

For the most part with the more specialised legions they likely don't recruit new members, they were just so massive at the start that they've been running on that inertia ever since. Remembering as well that all World Eaters are Khorne Berserkers but not all Khorne Berserkers are World Eaters.

>Thousands Sons:
"Hey man you wanna read this psychic book that the imperium told you not to read because it will give you super powers" "Hell yeah that sounds awesome"
>Emperors Children:
"Hey man wanna fuck that midget hermaphrodite while doing a line of space coke off of that elephant's penis" "Hell yeah that sounds awesome"
>Death Guard:
"Hey man sorry i gave you space leprosy but it won't hurt anymore when your arms fall off" "Hell yeah that sounds awesome"
>World Eaters:
"So as you can see on page 32 we offer a very nice retirement plan and you can self finance into your 401k, you'll receive 5 vacation days a month and every Tuesday is wacky tie Tuesday" "Hell yeah that sounds awesome"

Also if your lucky you might get to ride on the CHAOS TRAIN.

It's a real shame that Rubric Marines break the All Legion are X but bot all X are Legion by being so tightly tied to Ahriman and the 1KSons.

There are what max 3000 rubrics?

also they can't make more. When a rubric marine "dies" they recapture the soul and stick it back into another suit of armor(or the same one after they super glue it back together).

>How do the Legions recruit new members?
death games with cultist rabble, in a dark mirror of the way the imperial ones recruit
daemonculaba if you want to go /d/ about it

>World Eaters
The world eaters have berserker-surgeons, which are the guys responsible for implanting and maintaining the butcher's nails. Recruitment is never really touched on but I'd imagine they maintain their numbers by assimilating/enhancing other traitor/renegade marines who are on the path of khorne. Slap on the nails and a new coat of paint and you're ready to go.

>Thousand Sons
magic

>How big are the remaining Legions?
big enough

>Why does there seem to be no fluff explaining the individual differences of home planets in the eye of the remaining Primarchs?
Because the warp is largely irrelevant. Nearly all of the fighting in the fluff, and more importantly on the tabletop, takes place in the materium rather than the warp.

Heres one of my favourite chaos stories.

>How do the Legions recruit new members?
As for this I can only answer for the TSons. Thousnad Sons recruit from psychic cultists that they find. Khrove from a short story is an example of this. He was found in cult started by Ahriman but was then stolen by the Sons and initiated on the Planet of Sorcerers. Pretty bad-ass. According to WoM there are probably more TSons now than at the end of the HH, except now they're all psykers.

As for Rubric marines they appear to be able to be resummoned from the warp. There are a couple of books that show this including the Ragnar Space wolf novels. I'ts never stated how many but they must have another way of making them otherswise there wouldnt be enough. But GW gonna GW.

Honestly Chaos is fucking gay, it's never been really supported by GW because nobody likes it

Actually, the most interesting question is how Chaos Space Marines keep up their numbers. Like, making gene-seed is hard. Creating recruits is even harder. Space Marines have entire recruiting worlds to pick from, and even then like 1% of all recruits survive.

For Chaos Space Marines, living (relatively) hand-to-mouth, recruiting new people must be impossible. If the entire warband is like 60 dudes on a single ship and the only guy who can create new Astartes is the Chaos Medic, it seems like you're not going to have much luck.

Shouldn't they just have died from sheer attrition?

One this I've never liked about Chaos is the marines themselves being basically its only threat besides daemons. Are humans the only race that's really compatible? Is that why every Chaos God jumped when given the chance to corrupted the Imperium? Outside the reaons given for Eldar and Necrons, given how large the Warp is and how long it has existed, shouldn't there way be more inside it that's been then just humans? Worlds upon world to draw upon? Where are all the xenos races that have been tainted or wholly consumed adding to the might of Chaos? We only have xenos in 40k that thus far have become incompatible and a few smatterings of lore here and there to say otherwise.

I remember reading that many "modern" chaos marines are regular humans pumped up with warp juice and put in salvaged power-armors,,but I have no source or idea if it's actual canon.

I imagine there are localized chaos xenos, but there are only two races who really mattered on a galactic scale, and Slaanesh kind of ate all of the chaos Eldar.

I'm pretty sure there's something about that, to that effect in one of the chaos supplements. I think I remember seeing that when reading about the Alpha Legion.

Well, perhaps the only other remaining Xenos races strong enough to call from are the ones that are incompatible, due to the Great Crusade and the volatility of the Warp. Humanity is at a perfect intersection of "vulnerable" and "strong enough to handle it".

It is never stated explicitly, except for the Daemonculaba, but I think Chaos Marines have ways of creating new Marines. Like, preserving (or deliberately not preserving) geneseed of a fallen Legionary was an important thing among the Night Lords in the ADB Night Lords series. I remember a similar thing in Word Bearers omnibus and some World Eaters novel, I think.

Also, renegade marines from different foundings often end up taking the colors of one of the Traitor Legions.

Similar to how Veeky Forums doesn't support tripfags such as yourself

>getting this mad about trips

It's not canon.

A codex of Tau merc-style factions but done for Chaos and presented as a daemons alternative for all the other fucked up shit that lives in the warp and potentially wants to dick humanity at the call of the chaos gods, could be cool. It would also let GW flex its Warp-lore muscles. Call it the Conquered or something.

The Yu'vath empire had warp technology and Chaos worshippers. Sadly the lore is only in the RPG books.