Warhammer 40k Thunder Warrior. Despite physical deterioration, the few Warriors that survived the end of the Unification Wars were easily more than a match for an Astartes These brutes smashed through warlords, techno-barbarians, and mutant filth like a wrecking ball through a sandcastle
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Once Unity had been achieved and the world united following the end. If you want to know more about the Thunder Warriors then you're best reading the novels The Outcast Dead by Graham McNeill, and Valdor: Birth of the Imperium by Chris Wraight, both of which contain the majority of known lore about them
Additionally, the Thunder Warriors were not like the Astartes who would follow them; they had been created solely for war and were not well-suited to any other activities What Happened to the Thunder Warriors in Warhammer 40K? In short? They got betrayed, butchered, and buried One thing I can tell you is that they were more like Custodes-lite than Astartes, in that they fought as individual warriors and not a cohesive army.
. The Thunder Warriors, also sometimes referred to in ancient records as the Thunder Legion and the Thunder Regiments, and known in High Gothic as the Legiones Cataegis, were the 20 regiments or legions of genetically-engineered, superhuman warriors of Terra created by the design of the Emperor of Mankind through alchemical augmentation, somatic gene-sculpting and muscle-grafting techniques. Arik Taranis, also known as Babu Dhakal, was one of the first Thunder Warriors -- the first group of genetically-engineered soldiers created by the Emperor of Mankind to help conquer the techno-barbarian warlords of Old Earth, and to reunite the homeworld of humanity beneath his rule after the long night of the Age of Strife
. Long before the Space Marines, there existed an army of unmatched ferocity and strength: the Thunder Warriors.These genetically engineered warriors, created by the Emperor of Mankind, were instrumental in unifying Terra during the Unification Wars, setting the stage for the Imperium of Man's rise to dominance. One thing I can tell you is that they were more like Custodes-lite than Astartes, in that they fought as individual warriors and not a cohesive army.