Tidus Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 I am doing my heresy Blood Angels and have come across a little problem. The assault, devastator and honour guards have different colour helmets. I am wondering if anyone knows if this has always been the case or was it done once they spilt into chapters? I can not find any reference and i have a feeling it was post heresy they changed their helmet colour but wanted to find out for sure. Help me B&C your my only hope! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Memento Of Prospero Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 I have just finished reading fear to thread, and I assume it was done poat heresy, as the smurfs did that in the codex astartes. Girlyman decided that during Calth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GodEmperorOfMankind Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 Yes it was post heresy, your helmet can be whatever colour you like :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Memento Of Prospero Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 Yes it was post heresy, your helmet can be whatever colour you like as long as what you like is BLOOD RED FOR THE BLOOD GOD! HELMETS FOR THE THRONE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidus Posted January 28, 2014 Author Share Posted January 28, 2014 Thanks so much!!! I can start my 40 assault marines now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xenith Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 I was pretty sure they always had varied helmets, even in the preheresy, so Sanguinius could look and immediately see what warriors he had at his disposal. Source? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Memento Of Prospero Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 It's the lack of source that prompts me to say this. Not once is it mentionednin the series that they have distinctive colours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GodEmperorOfMankind Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 I was pretty sure they always had varied helmets, even in the preheresy, so Sanguinius could look and immediately see what warriors he had at his disposal. Source? I'll put it back to you then Xenith, what source have you got to say they had varied coloured helms? :) The only variation I can think of is sanguinary guard as they're all golden? (From Fear to tread if memory serves) Other than that I've done a bit of googling: From Another forum: The Red Sorcerer - June 24, 2008 09:56 AM (GMT) Although Pre-heresy, the coloured helmet system does not appear to be in use. Certainly all the BA assault squads in the Collected Visions have red rather than yellow or gold helmets. So to be honest I would avoid coloured helmets altogether and just paint it red. He saw more clearly now: the other Blood Angel wore the white and the crimson of an Apothecary, although the company colours and unit symbology were strange – not wrong, but somehow unfamiliar. The warrior’s wargear was of an elderly design, the old Mark IV Maximus pattern that few Chapters still deployed. >>And other things were subtly amiss: the other warrior’s wargear was ornate and oddly proportioned, chased with much detailing, and tapers of parchment dense with lines of text that Meros could not read. for the strictures of the IX Legiones Astartes forbade any but the primarch himself and his personal guard from donning such armour. I just reread the short story, these are the only notes on armour I could find, nothing says that the armour of the legion was 'bland', just that the modern armour is more ornate, theres also implication that they didn't tend toward wearing the parchment stuff till later. Oh and no Gold apparently. At the end of the day though, they're your model Tidus, paint them how you feel. When I do a squad of BA for my Heresy armies, I'll be leaving them all red except the officers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonaides Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 Well - the helmet colours must have come from somewhere fairly important since it remained despite the widspread adoption f the codex. Where else but from the pre-existing legion scheme? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Memento Of Prospero Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 Well - the helmet colours must have come from somewhere fairly important since it remained despite the widspread adoption f the codex. Where else but from the pre-existing legion scheme? It came from the Codex Astartes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xenith Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 Well - the helmet colours must have come from somewhere fairly important since it remained despite the widspread adoption f the codex. Where else but from the pre-existing legion scheme? It came from the Codex Astartes. That explains why Ultramarine Devastators have blue helmets...but not Blood Angel ones. The BA helmet scheme is distinctly un-codex. If the helms are all red in visions of heresy, then go with that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Memento Of Prospero Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 Well - the helmet colours must have come from somewhere fairly important since it remained despite the widspread adoption f the codex. Where else but from the pre-existing legion scheme? It came from the Codex Astartes. That explains why Ultramarine Devastators have blue helmets...but not Blood Angel ones. The BA helmet scheme is distinctly un-codex. If the helms are all red in visions of heresy, then go with that! We do not follow the codex to the letter, but we subscribe to many of it's principles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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