Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2has multiple game modes for players to play outside of the main story that follows Titus. In these other game modes, players will have the freedom to play as other customizable Space Marines.
From what has been shown, there will be a ton of freedom with the loyalist Space Marine customization, letting you make your Space Marinelook like just about any chapter. While Chaos Space Marines are in the game, the full extent of their customization is still unknown, but a few chapters have been seen in trailers and confirmed to be playable. This list is also in no particular order.
5Death Guard
Spreading Death, Decary, Rot, & Disease
The Death Guard are led by the Primarch Mortarion, and this chapter is most well-known for followingthe chaos god Nurgle. Nurgle is the chaos god of rot, death, decay, disease, and death, and those powers show in the Death Guard, as they incorporate those powers into their weapons.
Plague Marines, as they are known, are blessed by Nurgle with his powers that leave them eternally diseased yet still immune to those diseases they carry and spread. The Death Guard has the weapons and combat potential of any other Space Marine Chapter, but the contagion they spread on the battlefield adds an additional level of chemical warfare that can break down any enemies their weapons don’t get to first.
4Iron Warriors
Experts In Siege Warfare And Mechanical Augmentations
The Iron Warriors follow the Primarch Perturabo, with the Chapter being known for their siege capabilities along with their cybernetic enhancements. After falling to Chaos, it is very common for Chaos Space Marines to have demonic mutations, which is usually welcomed by most chapters as gifts to destroy the Imperium with. Unlike other chapters, the Iron Warriors will often cut off these mutations, and instead replace them with cybernetic modification much like the Mechanicum.
The Iron Warriors are still known for their siege tactics, as they came in handy during the Siege Of Terra. While still very active in the warp and invading real space, the Iron Warriors usually travel in smaller warbands to raid real space for technology before returning home to further enhance themselves with any modifications they can find.
3Alpha Legion
Stealth Over A Full Straightforward Confrontation
The Alpha Legion served under thePrimarch Alpharius Omegon, who was actually two Primarchs. Alpharius and his legion were always secretive and mysterious before they fell to chaos, and the fact that two twin Primarchs were leading the legion pretending to be the same person was one of the biggest mysteries of the chapter.
The Alpha Legion carries on this secretive nature in how they do combat, focusing more on stealth than other chapters. While they still have the firepower and capabilities of any other chapter, the Alpha Legion would sooner take out their enemies from afar before charging in with Bolters firing full force. Unlike other Chaos Space Marine chapters, the Alpha Legion didn’t escape into the Eye of Terror, and instead still live in the galaxy. Some members of the Chapter still see themselves as serving the Emperor in their own twisted way, seeing the loyalists as the real traitors.
2World Eaters
They Exist Only To Kill And Spill Blood
The World Eaters were already a brutal Chapter before falling into chaos. Their Primarch is Angron, who was raised as a slave warrior who was given a cybernetic implant that constantly causes him incredible pain and leads to uncontrollable rage to kill.
A similar implant was created based on Angrons and given to the rest of his chapter, making them stronger and better in combat, but also incredibly violent. Falling to Chaos, the World Eaters serve Khorne, the chaos god of blood and murder. While the chapter doesn’t fight as one unified group, the various warbands travel the galaxy and appear simply to kill and spill blood for Khorne, with little care about the great issues of the galaxy.
1Night Lords
Fear Is The Strongest Weapon A Space Marine Has
The Night Lords are one of the few factions that seemed to be a part of Chaos before they actually fell. The Night Lords use fear as a weapon, using brutality in battle to break the spirits of their enemies as they fight. The Night Lords were led by the Primarch Konrad Cruze, whose early life left him with psychological scars that would lead him to not caring for his chapter, and teaching his brutal fighting style to inflict fear.
Konrad Cruze was killed sometimeafter the Horus Heresyended, and without his leadership, the Night Lords don’t follow a single leader. Without their Primarch, the Night Lords still fight in the way he taught them, with absolute brutality killing all that oppose them without mercy.
