Chapter Specific Quizzes: Ultramarines/Alpha Legion double header Answers

Ultramarines Section

Easy: 1 point questions

1. What is the battlecry of the Ultramarines?

Courage and Honour! (IA:UM)

2. How can ultramarine veteran sergeants be identified from their uniform?

Red sarge helmet, white vet stripe. From IA:UM.

3. Special SCC question: Where on Macragge does Roboute Guilliman lie in stasis?

In the Fortress of Hera, in the Temple of Correction, in the Shrine of the Primarch. (From IA:UM). Alternatively the Ultramarines BFG fleet article in UK WD 284 suddenly throws Castra Manga into the mix as the UL fortress where he resides. Any reasonable answer got the points.

Moderate: 2 point questions

4. Name the primarch that Guilliman ‘killed', and the Primarch that in turn ‘killed' him.

According to highly suspect documents Guilliman killed Alpharius of the Alpha Legion (from IA:AL). Fulgrim of the Emperors Children poisoned Guilliman, but he was put in a stasis chamber before he died, and some say his wounds are slowly healing. (From IA:UM).

5. What colour shoulderpad rims do the reserve assault company wear?

Grey. From 2nd ed Codex:Ultramarines

6. Which battle did Guilliman call ‘a huge waste of time, effort, and the Emperors bolt shells'?

The battle of Tesstra, where the ‘loyal' Alpha Legion allowed the rebellious guardsmen to fortify the capital city before they proceeded with the attack. (Otherwise it would have been too easy!) From IA:AL.

7. Name the Inquisitor who helped the Ultramarines crush a genestealer uprising on Ichar IV?

=][= Angmar! From 2nd ed Codex: Tyranids

8. The Gauntlets of Ultramar are potent artefacts worn by the Ultramarines Chapter Master. When they were examined by techno-magi what did they discover about the mechanism within their armoured shells?

They discovered that they couldn't get inside! Some kids must have put superglue in the lock or something… LOL From 3rd ed Codex: Space Marines.

Difficult: 3 point questions

9. Who is the only Ultramarine to be able to get away with referring to his chapter master as ‘Young Calgar'?

Chaplain Cassius. From CA: UM special characters in UK WD 256.

10. Who was the Ultramarines ‘Master of Sanctity' in 987.M41?

Tow Takka-Chow. From the IA:UM in waaaay back in WD97!

11. What are Brother Severus of Tarentus and Captain Fabian jointly credited as being the first to do?

They were the first to kill a Tyranid Hive Tyrant in close Combat. Severus was in a dread though… From IA:Dreadnoughts.

12. Name one of the squads which boarded the vessel ‘Hunter of the Void'.

Notaras, Gorius, Adrianus, Gladius, Constantius and Primus were Terminator squads that boarded the genestealer infested space hulk. From the Space Hulk mission in UK WD 201.

13. The most famous action of the Land Raider ‘Prometheus' variant was during the defence of a planet by a contingent of Ultramarines against a much larger Eldar force. Name the planet in question.

Masali, from the FW Prometheus fluff in Citadel Journal 41 among others.

Bonus ‘First Born' Black Library question: 3 points.

14. Name one of the Ultramarine successor chapters present at the disastrous parade to celebrate the triumph of Warmaster Dolsene in the Ophidian Suppression.

The White Consuls or the Aurora Chapter. From the second Eisenhorn novel ‘Malleus' by Dan Abnett. (I thought a Uriel Ventris question would have been too obvious!)

Alpha Legion Section

Easy: 1 point questions

15. What is the battlecry of the Alpha Legion?

‘For the Emperor' and similar to taunt and confuse the enemy. From IA:AL.

16. Who, according to Inquisitor Kravin, found the final Primarch Alpharius?

Horus, although I did accept the ‘space-pirates, me-hearties' answer too, depending how you look at things. From IA:AL.

17. What colour was the Alpha Legion power armour pre-heresy?

Purpley blue, as compared to the bluey green of the post heresy armour. I was lenient on this question. From IA:AL.

Moderate: 2 point questions

18. According to the Imperial Assessment of force dispositions at the outset of the 13th Black Crusade how many confirmed sightings of the Alpha Legion were recorded?

None! There were 20+ unconfirmed sightings, sneaky so that got you half marks. From C:EoT.

Difficult: 3 point questions

19. Which other traitor legion do the Alpha Legion have a particularly bitter rivalry with and why?

The Word Bearers. Their cults are in competition for followers, and this has extended to their sponsor legions. From IA: Word Bearers.

Bonus Rogue Trader era Library question: 3 points.

20. Back in the mists of time, (before GW had thought of Chaos Undivided,) the Alpha Legion devoted themselves to which god of Chaos?

Slaanesh. From the legion banners on page 166 of the classic RT era book, ‘Realm of Chaos - Slaves to Darkness'.

Scoring

With apologies to the traitor frater for the Ultramarine bias this time.

Dust-Krill farmer (0-10 pts): You clearly do not have the mettle to be an Ultramarine! Perhaps you can serve the chapter by providing sustenance for real warriors?
Son of Macragge (11-20 pts): You hold within yourself the genetic heritage of Guilliman. Continue to study the Codex Astartes to get closer to the Primarch's ideal.
Tyranid Hunter (21-30 pts): The tendrils of the great devourer draw tighter around the eastern fringe with every year that passes, but you have the tools and the training to push back the night.
Ancient (31-40 pts): You bear the chapter banner of the Ultramarines, a supreme honour. Defend it to your last breath.
Regent of Ultramar (41-42 pts): You are a worthy successor to Invictus as captain of the First Company. Chapter Master Calgar will have need of your wise council in the conflicts to come.