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So the discussion about Leman Russ had me remembering a story about the Dark Angels and Space Wolves joint journey to Terra during the Horus Heresy and how they got sidetracked to an Imperial world and almost came to blows until they discovered the Imperial commander was a traitor or something of that nature. The specifics elude me and now I cannot seem to find the source. Does anyone know what source that story was in? One of the HH Artbooks perhaps? For that matter does anyone have the details? This info is missing from the Comprehensive Histories and I'd like to add it if possible.

I think the story went something along the lines of Lion wanted to make all haste to Terra, where as Russ wanted to free/reconquer worlds on the way of strategic importance en route.  They had a falling out about that obviously.  Upon arriving on Terra Lion throws a primarch scale hissy fit about Russ slowing them down and that it was his fault they werent there to save the Emprah.  They have a fight Lion almost kills Russ by plunging a dagger into his heart only at the last moment realizing he was going to far and diverted an inch from Russ's heart or something...I think it might be in 4 edition or a white dwarf.

I believe this is mentioned in the 3rd Edition Codex...I checked my 2nd Edition one but did not see it in there.  I cannot find my 3rd at the moment but I am looking...I have to find it now that I do not know where it is at.

 

I just checked my 3rd Edition Codex and it's not there that I can see. In the thread I put in the DA sub-forum someone suggested Vol II of the Horus Heresy Artbooks but I lack that book to check.

 

I think the story went something along the lines of Lion wanted to make all haste to Terra, where as Russ wanted to free/reconquer worlds on the way of strategic importance en route.  They had a falling out about that obviously.  Upon arriving on Terra Lion throws a primarch scale hissy fit about Russ slowing them down and that it was his fault they werent there to save the Emprah.  They have a fight Lion almost kills Russ by plunging a dagger into his heart only at the last moment realizing he was going to far and diverted an inch from Russ's heart or something...I think it might be in 4 edition or a white dwarf.

 

I haven't read quite that story before but something similar. Either way a source would be fantastic if you can find it.

according to the fallen (can't remember where from, angels of darkness or something) it was the lion who was slowing his legion down because he wanted to get there after the battle had finished and declare allegiance to whoever was the winner.

in that version the wolves are not even mentioned

 

this is a subject that is going to get bogged down in the dingy history of those treacherous bloody dark angels and their eternal crusade to kill the last of the loyalists that know the truth about the lion and his treasons

Chapter Master Astelan and his account lacked the Wolves I would imagine simply because he had no fisthand knowledge, he was on Caliban the whole time, so would not have known that the Dark Angels and Space Wolves were traveling to Terra together.

The wolves where blocked by an unknown force and asked the WS for help, they sayd they could not help ant where heading to Terra. The wolves where ok with that, and an unexpected ally broke the blockade and set the wolves on there way to Terra. the joined up with the DA but Russ wanted to free some planets and forge world on the way. His point was why stop horrus if there isnt any Empire left if he is beaten.

OK HH 4

 

The fleet was Alpha legion.

Dorn told the kahn not to help Russ but come to terra and relay the orders to Russ to lure the alfa legion away from terra as far as they could.

 

Kahn added his own personal apology and Russ just shrugged and was sure they would bleed the alpha leagon for all it was worth

 

The help the wolves got is described as from unexpected quarters

The joined up with the DA but Russ wanted to free some planets and forge world on the way. His point was why stop horrus if there isnt any Empire left if he is beaten.

 

That is the story I'm looking for, would you happen to know the source material it is from?

 

OK HH 4

 

The fleet was Alpha legion.

Dorn told the kahn not to help Russ but come to terra and relay the orders to Russ to lure the alfa legion away from terra as far as they could.

 

Kahn added his own personal apology and Russ just shrugged and was sure they would bleed the alpha leagon for all it was worth

 

The help the wolves got is described as from unexpected quarters

 

So the Horus Heresy Artbook Volume IV? Is it in collected visions, I don't have #4 and don't have the hundreds to shell out on a copy from amazon. The Yarant thing I recently added, what I really need is the story about Russ and Johnson traveling to Terra and Russ wanting to stop along the way.

Sorry the part of the SW and DA being together on there way to terra is not in the HH books.

 

I dont know where i got that info from, i have so many books i wouldnt know where to start, I thought it was in the HH but it isnt

Sorry the part of the SW and DA being together on there way to terra is not in the HH books.

 

I dont know where i got that info from, i have so many books i wouldnt know where to start, I thought it was in the HH but it isnt

 

Yea that's my problem as well, don't know where to start. If it comes to you let me know, I'm trying to track down that source.

When the Horus Heresy erupted and many of the Space Marine Legions turned against the Emperor, Jonson was fighting alongside Leman Russ, Primarch of the Space Wolves, on the far side of the galaxy. When the two Primarchs learned of Horus's betrayal, they put aside their feuding, gathered their Legion and began the journey back to Earth. But the journey was long and beset by difficulties so that by the time they arrived, the battle for Earth was over and traitors had been defeated. - IA: DA

 

As to the specific "Russ slowed us down" angle... The German WD41 and the French WD61 may have something relevant (after much Google searching), but I can't figure out what their US/UK equivalents are. A variety of sources talk about Kalidus, and there's at least one article that mentions the place, but I can't find the original source. Return to Kalidus is from WD 158, which suggests that the original source predates that (1993).

 

Sorry the part of the SW and DA being together on there way to terra is not in the HH books.

 

I dont know where i got that info from, i have so many books i wouldnt know where to start, I thought it was in the HH but it isnt

 

Yea that's my problem as well, don't know where to start. If it comes to you let me know, I'm trying to track down that source.

 

2nd Edition Angels of Death Codex.

It was probably copy-pasted into the DA Index Astartes WD article as well. It's also mentioned in the WD short "Attack on the Imperial Palace" (by William King, I believe), and I believe the IA article about Horus' Legion as well that it was the impending arrival of these two Legions which moved Horus into his final gambit of allowing the Emp onboard his flagship.

 

I think, but I'm not sure, that it was actually Johnson who insisted they save a number of strategic worlds on the way. This caused Russ to rail against the events afterwards, bearing his chest to Johnson basically telling him to kill him (Russ) and the Lion, also mad with grief, stabs Russ through one of his two hearts. The irony, of course, is that they could never have made it in time, since it was their approach which forced Horus' hand.

 

Hmm, that would make more sense if it were Russ who insisted on stopping to defend other worlds, and he felt guilty afterwards.

 

NB: this is all old background completely ignoring the BL HH series, which I loathe.

No, that's correct. The part about them liberating forge worlds sounds to me like it came from one of their respective Index Astartes articles. I'd have to dig through my old white dwarfs to find out.

 

Unless my own sources are incomplete the story is not in any of the Index Astartes articles, and I've checked all even partially related to the event, though it's possible I missed something... I'll have another look.

It's not in the IA articles.<br /><br />White Dwarf 156-158 appear to have had a bunch of Space Wolf stuff for Rogue Trader. They might be the source.<br /><br />The French WD 61 would be the approximate equivalent of UK 233, but 232-234 have nothing relevant. The German WD 41 would be 160-something, and I don't have those.

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