Marshal Rohr Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 If you're looking for longevity the shattered legions are all under ten thousand after Isstvan V. I don't know what FW has planned but I don't think they will have the infrastructure to do much for the next 7 years. That said the Iron Hands are easily one of my top 5. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/285586-horus-heresy-joining-the-fray/page/2/#findComment-3568980 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veteran Sergeant Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 You guys are awesome! I feel like a confused youth being courted by the various military recruitment officers of the army divisions at a career convention! Well at least you went with the Marines. Have you seen the Space Army? They're tiny. http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eAX8CZPqdvo/TwcPrGedT8I/AAAAAAAAAJI/QbstVwYS_ps/s1600/SpaceMarine%2B2011-11-19%2B18-31-20-53.jpg Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/285586-horus-heresy-joining-the-fray/page/2/#findComment-3568990 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Rohr Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Sign up. Travel the galaxy! Meet interesting people! Kill them with fire! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/285586-horus-heresy-joining-the-fray/page/2/#findComment-3568996 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyaenidae Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 And mass reactive rounds. Never forget. @OP: I've touted them before, but I'm gonna do it again. XIX Legion, Raven Guard. A Shattered Company from Istvaan, cut off and behind enemy lines, unsure if their father made it out alive, falling into some of the darker aspects that have shadowed Corax's sons. Scorched earth tactics, uncontrolled massacres of innocent and guilty, savage ambushes, etc. Are they loyalist, traitor, or utterly rogue? You and your gaming group can decide as you play along a campaign. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/285586-horus-heresy-joining-the-fray/page/2/#findComment-3569008 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheForgottenAngel Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 The clear choice for you is the Dark Angels Legion. We're the first in everything! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/285586-horus-heresy-joining-the-fray/page/2/#findComment-3569021 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kol Saresk Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 The clear choice for you is the Dark Angels Legion. We're the first in everything!Even losing! Too good to pass up Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/285586-horus-heresy-joining-the-fray/page/2/#findComment-3569024 Share on other sites More sharing options...
KBA Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Go Thousand Sons. Magnus' story and role in the Heresy is pretty cool, you're probably good at painting red, and the FW models will be awesome. I just may dabble my loyal toes in it. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/285586-horus-heresy-joining-the-fray/page/2/#findComment-3569061 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conn Eremon Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 I like the ideas set forth for Iron Hands allied with White Scars. In fact, it is the only option given with any merit in this thread. So do it. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/285586-horus-heresy-joining-the-fray/page/2/#findComment-3569064 Share on other sites More sharing options...
KBA Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Sometimes I wonder about threads like these. Are you really not pulled to one or two specific legions? If someone needs to sell you on the cool of a particular legion, don't pick up a bolter for it! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/285586-horus-heresy-joining-the-fray/page/2/#findComment-3569075 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dreadnova Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 People that hate on the third just have not read enough into them. You really have to read between the lines to get a good pre-heresy picture of the Emperor's Children. They were recruited from the nobility and made for excellent natural leaders with iron discipline. They adhered to strict standards to the letter and strove to be the example to which others might aspire, and for awhile they succeeded. Masters of tactics in all forms of warfare, however showing a penchant for perfectly executed maneuvers, such as overlapping fields of fire and combined arms that looked majestic to anyone watching. I imagine them as the Marine Corps silent drill team in their precision and practice both on the battlefield and on the parade deck. Officers of the third were also expected to be just as well versed in politics and culture as they were in tactical acumen, and often served advisory roles in a multitude of imperial institutions. Fulgrim himself was possibly the only primarch to rival Horus in charisma. He could give a speech to inspire anyone, and was a big proponent of art and culture and what would be left behind after the crusade. He expected a lot from those he commanded but he expected just as much and more from himself. He rallied his broken legion and rose with them from the ashes to become the paragons of what it meant to be astartes. Yes they were corrupted and had the fault of pride. But before that they were the legion that was looked to as the ideal of loyalty, even more so than the Imperial Fists and just like Horus, chaos can corrupt anyone. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/285586-horus-heresy-joining-the-fray/page/2/#findComment-3569078 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Semper Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Good points there Dreadnova! welcome to the B&C btw! @ KBA: it could be that it's not like he looks for a favourite but that he has many favourites and he needs to be influenced to pick one! ;) Anyway, what some others mentioned here could be the way to go: a main and an allied force! The org chart caters for it, and will give you some distraction from painting the same colour all the time. Try... Dunno... Dark Angels with allied Iron Hands? Hahahahaha!!! Seriously, if you're doing a Great Crusade army, how about a loyalist main force with a traitor ally - or vice versa! So Iron Hands with Thousand Sons? Hmm? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/285586-horus-heresy-joining-the-fray/page/2/#findComment-3569090 Share on other sites More sharing options...
KBA Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 he needs to be influenced to pick one! http://i.imgur.com/j74SykU.gif Good Luck with your indecision, Wolf Pack :) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/285586-horus-heresy-joining-the-fray/page/2/#findComment-3569094 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostMalone Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Just browse the heresy threads and get inspired brother Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/285586-horus-heresy-joining-the-fray/page/2/#findComment-3569107 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheForgottenAngel Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Who needs inspiration when you are the 1st Legion Most Awesome of them All??!?!?! I kid. Seriously though go with what you truly feel drawn to in regards to story, characters and color. I was initially drawn in by the Imperial Fists but I truly love the Dark Angel fluff more. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/285586-horus-heresy-joining-the-fray/page/2/#findComment-3569176 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conn Eremon Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Sometimes I wonder about threads like these. Are you really not pulled to one or two specific legions? If someone needs to sell you on the cool of a particular legion, don't pick up a bolter for it! Some people, like myself, are not pulled to any one or two, but to all of them. Even my typical "For the Emperor" stance is really just an aesthetics thing, and I love all of the Traitor Legions as well. Heck, on the flip side I am usually the one wondering how people can make such a decision so easily, or how they can say they dislike one or more. How do you choose which Legion is yours or not when they are all so awesome? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/285586-horus-heresy-joining-the-fray/page/2/#findComment-3569187 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clewz Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 just started with 30k myself. Was toying with SOH but theres far too much top knot action for my liking so I've gone to the reason I got back into Warhammer 40k - The Alpha Legion Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/285586-horus-heresy-joining-the-fray/page/2/#findComment-3569191 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheForgottenAngel Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Oh the Alpha Legion. They are pretty cool! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/285586-horus-heresy-joining-the-fray/page/2/#findComment-3569196 Share on other sites More sharing options...
deathspectersgt7 Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Heck with your modeling skills do the Emperor and his Boyz( Custodian Guard ) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/285586-horus-heresy-joining-the-fray/page/2/#findComment-3569205 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kol Saresk Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Sometimes I wonder about threads like these. Are you really not pulled to one or two specific legions? If someone needs to sell you on the cool of a particular legion, don't pick up a bolter for it!Some people, like myself, are not pulled to any one or two, but to all of them. Even my typical "For the Emperor" stance is really just an aesthetics thing, and I love all of the Traitor Legions as well. Heck, on the flip side I am usually the one wondering how people can make such a decision so easily, or how they can say they dislike one or more. How do you choose which Legion is yours or not when they are all so awesome? I force myself. Literally, I just pick one as an anchor and then force myself to hold to it. With books like Know No Fear and the First Heretic, it is pretty easy to want to swing into the direction of the Word Bearers. Especially since red is my favorite color. Vazzy makes a strong case for the Ultramarines and the list goes on. I grabbed the island I was most familiar with and then held on for dear life while the ocean roils and writhes around me. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/285586-horus-heresy-joining-the-fray/page/2/#findComment-3569285 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uprising Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 I have a question for you. Out of the remaining legion, what do you like and dislike about them? You will find your answer, and remember we can not CHOOSE YOUR ARMY, only you. I await for your answer. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/285586-horus-heresy-joining-the-fray/page/2/#findComment-3569290 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Rohr Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 As a lover of all the legions I find myself constantly drawn to each legion for the story they could tell. I mean, who doesn't love the idea of Colchisian Legionary in the Sundered Tower Chapter forced to come to terms with the new direction the legion has taken while he is unwittingly thrown into the grinder over and over again? Or a Death Guard legionary who watches Mortarion slowly become the very same monster as his foster father? What about an Iron Hand struggling with the loss of his father and legion while trying to fight on? The idea of an Ultramarine fighting a rear guard against the brunt of the Shadow Crusade as it burns down the colony he had administrated for years, watching the mortals he had grown attached to left to die for the greater good stirs my heart strings. I often say the Horus Heresy was the focal point for all human history in the background, and its because of moments like those I believe it. The books didn't do it justice, but I can imagine the internal pain Horus feels at being abandoned by the Emperor. I understand the idea that Horus feels it is the Emperor who betrayed him, not the other way around. Their whole relationship was a lie on the Emperor's path to Godhood. I feel Sanguinius' temptation to allow the Emperor to die and rule humanity in his stead. I share Angron's burning vengeance against a tyrant whose empire is built on the blood of free men. Picking a legion isn't just a matter of which one has cool rules and a nifty color scheme to me. It's which one of those stories do I want to experience the most. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/285586-horus-heresy-joining-the-fray/page/2/#findComment-3569295 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostMalone Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 As a lover of all the legions I find myself constantly drawn to each legion for the story they could tell. I mean, who doesn't love the idea of Colchisian Legionary in the Sundered Tower Chapter forced to come to terms with the new direction the legion has taken while he is unwittingly thrown into the grinder over and over again? Or a Death Guard legionary who watches Mortarion slowly become the very same monster as his foster father? What about an Iron Hand struggling with the loss of his father and legion while trying to fight on? The idea of an Ultramarine fighting a rear guard against the brunt of the Shadow Crusade as it burns down the colony he had administrated for years, watching the mortals he had grown attached to left to die for the greater good stirs my heart strings. I often say the Horus Heresy was the focal point for all human history in the background, and its because of moments like those I believe it. The books didn't do it justice, but I can imagine the internal pain Horus feels at being abandoned by the Emperor. I understand the idea that Horus feels it is the Emperor who betrayed him, not the other way around. Their whole relationship was a lie on the Emperor's path to Godhood. I feel Sanguinius' temptation to allow the Emperor to die and rule humanity in his stead. I share Angron's burning vengeance against a tyrant whose empire is built on the blood of free men. Picking a legion isn't just a matter of which one has cool rules and a nifty color scheme to me. It's which one of those stories do I want to experience the most. And this is why I can never leave Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/285586-horus-heresy-joining-the-fray/page/2/#findComment-3569311 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vazzy Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 As a lover of all the legions I find myself constantly drawn to each legion for the story they could tell. I mean, who doesn't love the idea of Colchisian Legionary in the Sundered Tower Chapter forced to come to terms with the new direction the legion has taken while he is unwittingly thrown into the grinder over and over again? Or a Death Guard legionary who watches Mortarion slowly become the very same monster as his foster father? What about an Iron Hand struggling with the loss of his father and legion while trying to fight on? The idea of an Ultramarine fighting a rear guard against the brunt of the Shadow Crusade as it burns down the colony he had administrated for years, watching the mortals he had grown attached to left to die for the greater good stirs my heart strings. I often say the Horus Heresy was the focal point for all human history in the background, and its because of moments like those I believe it. The books didn't do it justice, but I can imagine the internal pain Horus feels at being abandoned by the Emperor. I understand the idea that Horus feels it is the Emperor who betrayed him, not the other way around. Their whole relationship was a lie on the Emperor's path to Godhood. I feel Sanguinius' temptation to allow the Emperor to die and rule humanity in his stead. I share Angron's burning vengeance against a tyrant whose empire is built on the blood of free men. Picking a legion isn't just a matter of which one has cool rules and a nifty color scheme to me. It's which one of those stories do I want to experience the most. Goddammit. I had this in mind. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/285586-horus-heresy-joining-the-fray/page/2/#findComment-3569344 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kol Saresk Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 As a lover of all the legions I find myself constantly drawn to each legion for the story they could tell. I mean, who doesn't love the idea of Colchisian Legionary in the Sundered Tower Chapter forced to come to terms with the new direction the legion has taken while he is unwittingly thrown into the grinder over and over again? Or a Death Guard legionary who watches Mortarion slowly become the very same monster as his foster father? What about an Iron Hand struggling with the loss of his father and legion while trying to fight on? The idea of an Ultramarine fighting a rear guard against the brunt of the Shadow Crusade as it burns down the colony he had administrated for years, watching the mortals he had grown attached to left to die for the greater good stirs my heart strings. I often say the Horus Heresy was the focal point for all human history in the background, and its because of moments like those I believe it. The books didn't do it justice, but I can imagine the internal pain Horus feels at being abandoned by the Emperor. I understand the idea that Horus feels it is the Emperor who betrayed him, not the other way around. Their whole relationship was a lie on the Emperor's path to Godhood. I feel Sanguinius' temptation to allow the Emperor to die and rule humanity in his stead. I share Angron's burning vengeance against a tyrant whose empire is built on the blood of free men. Picking a legion isn't just a matter of which one has cool rules and a nifty color scheme to me. It's which one of those stories do I want to experience the most. Goddammit. I had this in mind. Oh please. We all know you just like the irony of the "Knives of Talassar" Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/285586-horus-heresy-joining-the-fray/page/2/#findComment-3569345 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Rohr Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 It's all yours if you want it Vazzy. The only one I have plans for is the Word Bearer idea. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/285586-horus-heresy-joining-the-fray/page/2/#findComment-3569348 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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