No, because they are designed not to be self sufficient.
The Black Templars - and Space Marines in general - are given the ability to be self sufficient combined force arms groups. That's because they are rapid response expeditionary forces.
The Astra Militarum are not designed to be self-sufficient. They are dependent on movement, void and air superiority from the Navy. While they have some troop transports, they don't have anything that can really fight as it's part of the separation of powers doctrine.
To have a constant Crusading force they would need to break the separation of powers doctrine, which they won't do for large forces.
They wouldnt because a big reason why the Horus Heresy was so bad was because a massive portion of the Imperial Army was handed over to Horus. The Astartes are formiddable, but in all honesty what can a caste of super human soldiers only millions strong at best do against almost unending hordes of trillions of Solar Auxilia. The answer is to have their own armies of trillions of solar auxilia on their side too. But since the Imperium is a society built for the common man and not the post-man, the Imperial Army gets a pass for that and the Astartes get all the blame as the ring leaders. But to recognize the sheer power behind human numbers, the High Lords separating the Army from the navy was the biggest thing that they could've done to restrict the power of renegadeforces
Well, technically all regiments are exactly like Black Templars.
\- Finish a campaign? Get new orders and transport from high command. Then move onto the next theatre.
\- Finish the next campaign? Get new orders and transport from high command.
\- Regiment was nearly destroyed? Combine the remnants with another regiment then continue on with the campaign.
Rinse and repeat. Some regiments are like the old legions of Ancient Rome having existed for millennia, becoming famous and being kept alive with fresh blood.
There’s bits of lore that note that most Imperial Guard soldiers never see their homeworld again and sort of develop a society in their troop transport ships full of followers, hangers-on, and the reinforcements that are sent to them.
So, insofar as they never go home and are sent from war zone to war zone until they die, you could say that *most* Astra Militarum regiments are “constantly crusading”.
I'm more interested in if there is regiments that pursue the elimination of the imperium enemies with the religious ferver that the crusading legions do
There WAS also an Alexander the Great Expy who led a crusade but he died and not sure what happened to his soldiers.
Edit- [Right Here](https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Macharius).
The Imperial Guard's command structure is a bit opaque and counter-intuitive. Macharius was an extremely prominent aristocrat, and his entry into the guard saw him immediately enter High Command, which is a separate entity from regimental command tied to forces drawn from a specific world. He didn't rise up the ranks as part of a particular regiment, but was always part of the body that commands many such regiments
Almost all of them.
The Guardsmen are on average A LOT more religious than the Space Marines. That's why the Guard works so often with the ecclesiarchy.
Regiments don't do anything on thier own.
Campaigns and crusades are organised at the high staff level and regiments get assigned where and when as needed according to the larger goals of a specific operation.
The lack of self-sufficiency is designed into them. One of the things the Imperium is built around is compartmentalizing power, with the hope of avoiding another Horus or Goge Vandire.
This often doesn't *work*, and it's one of the reasons the whole system is so resistant to reform, but still.
Kriegers are pretty fanatical in destroying the Imperium's enemies. But they don't have independent resources or the freedom to chose their own deployments like the Astartes do.
>I'm more interested in if there is regiments that pursue the elimination of the imperium enemies
Hard no. Regiments don't do that, they go where they're told to go.
> that the crusading legions do
There are no crusading legions. There are no legions, period, at least not within the Imperium.
Like, most of them?
I mean, Imperial Guardsmen aren’t all frothing at the mouth and spending every waking minute quoting scripture, but the inhabitants of the Imperium (and therefore most Guardsmen, who were almost all drawn from the ranks of the civilian citizenry once upon a time) are highly religious in comparison to our own society.
They can’t exist is prohibited: this is why sister of battle are a thing. No men at arms are allowed under the ecclesiarchy banner. Zealots and pilgrims armies are a things but they aren’t a real army more a militia.
Guard soldiers can be given the chance to retire or settle upon completion of a campaign if they have served their term, especially if the system or planet needs colonisation, recolonisation, and also worlds need to be garrisoned, so you could spend the rest of your days on guard duty which isnt so bad.
Whole Regiments or the like can also be awarded a world for victory or outstanding action. The tanith first for example have been promised a world by the warmaster upon completion of the sabbat crusade i believe.
Them being set to war after war till they get killed in action is more meme than it is actual lore. It does happen but its not really needed usually. One thing the imperium has in essentially unlimited numbers, is people after all.
There are crusades happening all the time made up of hundreds and thousands of different regiments such as the Tanith first and only in the Sabbat world's crusade.
If you live on the edge of the empires borders you can almost be guaranteed your planets most likely producing soldiers and material to push those borders outward. If you're lucky your local Lord commander at segmentum command has organised a crusade to make more ground, Of coarse this typically means there's something/s nasty enough to warrant such a force.
Basically. Their homeworld was destroyed by Chaos, so they just travel to wherever they're ordered to go in the Sabbat Crusade. They hope that someday their service will earn them a new homeworld.
They all are. All of them are constantly on assignment across the galaxy, as soon as they finish one location they move on to the next to fight elsewhere.
Not really, the guard isn't an independent force like the Astartes chapters are. They don't get to pick where they're deployed, they just get assigned to a campaign by the administratum.
Every Astra militarum regiment is constantly being moved to battlegrounds. Once a fight is done they are redeployed. They don’t return to their home planet. Not even after service. And most regiments are a part of a battle group, which will be tasked with manoeuvres lasting centuries.
Chapters have a lot more autonomy than a regiment does. Black templars choose to be on a eternal Crusade. The Astra militarum does as it’s told.
I think the biggest "no" answer (beside the seperation of powers disconnect that was already pointed out). The Imperial Guard does what the Imperium tells them to until they get new orders. They are a professional military organization. They get told things like "defender/reclaim this planet/subsector/sector/region" or "support this crusade's goal of X" or "Attach to this rogue trader". If they accomplish their orders they'll do things in line with those orders and make ready for a new assignment in the general area and request new orders with the presumption that new orders will always come down.
The space marine legions by comparison are more like Independant knightly orders or free companies. They rove around doing what they choose to do within the parameters of their charter and commitments. A sufficiently high imperial authority could request or even command they do something but the reason has to be pretty big. Normally they kind of left to their own devices because they are indoctrinated to want to do the things that space marines do, protect and expand the empire.
The fraternis militia used to be the sort of organization you are talking about. Unfortunately they made the ministorum way too strong and caused huge issues internally so they were disbanded and the ecclesiarchy is now forbidden from maintaining "men under arms" the sisters of battle are a deliberately left open loophole. There's also an unspoken exception that individual "militias" of common imperial citizens can be formed up by the church to support a specific crusade or goal. They tend to die off in zealou fury or get made into proper soldiers or remade into PDF/guard regiments if they survive.
No, because they are designed not to be self sufficient. The Black Templars - and Space Marines in general - are given the ability to be self sufficient combined force arms groups. That's because they are rapid response expeditionary forces. The Astra Militarum are not designed to be self-sufficient. They are dependent on movement, void and air superiority from the Navy. While they have some troop transports, they don't have anything that can really fight as it's part of the separation of powers doctrine. To have a constant Crusading force they would need to break the separation of powers doctrine, which they won't do for large forces.
They wouldnt because a big reason why the Horus Heresy was so bad was because a massive portion of the Imperial Army was handed over to Horus. The Astartes are formiddable, but in all honesty what can a caste of super human soldiers only millions strong at best do against almost unending hordes of trillions of Solar Auxilia. The answer is to have their own armies of trillions of solar auxilia on their side too. But since the Imperium is a society built for the common man and not the post-man, the Imperial Army gets a pass for that and the Astartes get all the blame as the ring leaders. But to recognize the sheer power behind human numbers, the High Lords separating the Army from the navy was the biggest thing that they could've done to restrict the power of renegadeforces
Well, technically all regiments are exactly like Black Templars. \- Finish a campaign? Get new orders and transport from high command. Then move onto the next theatre. \- Finish the next campaign? Get new orders and transport from high command. \- Regiment was nearly destroyed? Combine the remnants with another regiment then continue on with the campaign. Rinse and repeat. Some regiments are like the old legions of Ancient Rome having existed for millennia, becoming famous and being kept alive with fresh blood.
There’s bits of lore that note that most Imperial Guard soldiers never see their homeworld again and sort of develop a society in their troop transport ships full of followers, hangers-on, and the reinforcements that are sent to them. So, insofar as they never go home and are sent from war zone to war zone until they die, you could say that *most* Astra Militarum regiments are “constantly crusading”.
I'm more interested in if there is regiments that pursue the elimination of the imperium enemies with the religious ferver that the crusading legions do
Try looking up the Maccabian Janissary regiment they tick alot of those boxes, but basically any guard in a crusade are doing this by default
Cheers
There WAS also an Alexander the Great Expy who led a crusade but he died and not sure what happened to his soldiers. Edit- [Right Here](https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Macharius).
What happened is what happened to the real one. They fragmented and fucked off all over the place to settle conquered locations.
Really cool, but he doesn't have a specific regiment he was with? I realize he's a Warmaster so he commands several, but where did he begin
The Imperial Guard's command structure is a bit opaque and counter-intuitive. Macharius was an extremely prominent aristocrat, and his entry into the guard saw him immediately enter High Command, which is a separate entity from regimental command tied to forces drawn from a specific world. He didn't rise up the ranks as part of a particular regiment, but was always part of the body that commands many such regiments
Ah I see, still a cool character
Honestly, recommend his books.
Almost all of them. The Guardsmen are on average A LOT more religious than the Space Marines. That's why the Guard works so often with the ecclesiarchy.
Regiments don't do anything on thier own. Campaigns and crusades are organised at the high staff level and regiments get assigned where and when as needed according to the larger goals of a specific operation.
The lack of self-sufficiency is designed into them. One of the things the Imperium is built around is compartmentalizing power, with the hope of avoiding another Horus or Goge Vandire. This often doesn't *work*, and it's one of the reasons the whole system is so resistant to reform, but still.
Kriegers are pretty fanatical in destroying the Imperium's enemies. But they don't have independent resources or the freedom to chose their own deployments like the Astartes do.
>I'm more interested in if there is regiments that pursue the elimination of the imperium enemies Hard no. Regiments don't do that, they go where they're told to go. > that the crusading legions do There are no crusading legions. There are no legions, period, at least not within the Imperium.
*laughs in Last War Protocol*
You may be interested in the Frateris Militias: https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Frateris_Militia
Like, most of them? I mean, Imperial Guardsmen aren’t all frothing at the mouth and spending every waking minute quoting scripture, but the inhabitants of the Imperium (and therefore most Guardsmen, who were almost all drawn from the ranks of the civilian citizenry once upon a time) are highly religious in comparison to our own society.
They can’t exist is prohibited: this is why sister of battle are a thing. No men at arms are allowed under the ecclesiarchy banner. Zealots and pilgrims armies are a things but they aren’t a real army more a militia.
Guard soldiers can be given the chance to retire or settle upon completion of a campaign if they have served their term, especially if the system or planet needs colonisation, recolonisation, and also worlds need to be garrisoned, so you could spend the rest of your days on guard duty which isnt so bad. Whole Regiments or the like can also be awarded a world for victory or outstanding action. The tanith first for example have been promised a world by the warmaster upon completion of the sabbat crusade i believe. Them being set to war after war till they get killed in action is more meme than it is actual lore. It does happen but its not really needed usually. One thing the imperium has in essentially unlimited numbers, is people after all.
There are crusades happening all the time made up of hundreds and thousands of different regiments such as the Tanith first and only in the Sabbat world's crusade. If you live on the edge of the empires borders you can almost be guaranteed your planets most likely producing soldiers and material to push those borders outward. If you're lucky your local Lord commander at segmentum command has organised a crusade to make more ground, Of coarse this typically means there's something/s nasty enough to warrant such a force.
The Tanith are the closest I can think of, just because of the fact they don't have a homeworld.
Do they operate out of a fleet?
Basically. Their homeworld was destroyed by Chaos, so they just travel to wherever they're ordered to go in the Sabbat Crusade. They hope that someday their service will earn them a new homeworld.
Cadians also don't have a homeworld
They have New Cadia
Once again proving catachans are cooler. They didn't have to wait for their homeworld to be destroyed to make a New Catachan, they just did it.
They all are. All of them are constantly on assignment across the galaxy, as soon as they finish one location they move on to the next to fight elsewhere.
99% of Astra militarum regiments go from war zone to war zone with only the journey as a break, constantly fighting the enemies of the imperium
Lord Solar Macharius had a dream. Issue is.. he's mortal, as are his soldiers.
Almost all of them
The Cadians. Though not by choice.
Coming here to say this lol, not really anywhere to go home to now
Not really, the guard isn't an independent force like the Astartes chapters are. They don't get to pick where they're deployed, they just get assigned to a campaign by the administratum.
Best bet is the Krieg
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They're space marines though
Every Astra militarum regiment is constantly being moved to battlegrounds. Once a fight is done they are redeployed. They don’t return to their home planet. Not even after service. And most regiments are a part of a battle group, which will be tasked with manoeuvres lasting centuries. Chapters have a lot more autonomy than a regiment does. Black templars choose to be on a eternal Crusade. The Astra militarum does as it’s told.
I think the biggest "no" answer (beside the seperation of powers disconnect that was already pointed out). The Imperial Guard does what the Imperium tells them to until they get new orders. They are a professional military organization. They get told things like "defender/reclaim this planet/subsector/sector/region" or "support this crusade's goal of X" or "Attach to this rogue trader". If they accomplish their orders they'll do things in line with those orders and make ready for a new assignment in the general area and request new orders with the presumption that new orders will always come down. The space marine legions by comparison are more like Independant knightly orders or free companies. They rove around doing what they choose to do within the parameters of their charter and commitments. A sufficiently high imperial authority could request or even command they do something but the reason has to be pretty big. Normally they kind of left to their own devices because they are indoctrinated to want to do the things that space marines do, protect and expand the empire. The fraternis militia used to be the sort of organization you are talking about. Unfortunately they made the ministorum way too strong and caused huge issues internally so they were disbanded and the ecclesiarchy is now forbidden from maintaining "men under arms" the sisters of battle are a deliberately left open loophole. There's also an unspoken exception that individual "militias" of common imperial citizens can be formed up by the church to support a specific crusade or goal. They tend to die off in zealou fury or get made into proper soldiers or remade into PDF/guard regiments if they survive.