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I've been spending a lot of time hunting on Black Library's website lately, and though I haven't read everything yet, I realized that my to-buy list is becoming long enough to be exhaustive. Since the Chaos forums has something like this for the different Legions, I figured it's time we had one. I'm probably missing tons, especially older things like White Dwarf articles that aren't readily available, so feel free to add them in!

 

Some things about the list!

 

  1. This isn't, ah, a thread to discuss the quality of these works at length, though. Maybe note whether you recommend a thing or not, but I know that some of these stories in particular have been discussed a lot on this board already. This is just a list for informational purposes.
  2. Where an older work is already collected in a new place, I tried to just put the newer one. It's possible some of the newer things I haven't read yet collect older things without me realizing. I'm just one man!
  3. Many of the successors feature in the novel Red Fury, by James Swallow. It is collected in Blood Angels: the Second Omnibus. As an older novel, some of its information is contradicted in later sources. Where applicable, I will list it under the chapter's list for completion's sake.
  4. I'll do my best to list things in a vague order where a series might matter, but they're really just my guesses based on how far back on Black Library's website a work appeared.

 

The Horus Heresy

 

 

Blood Angels

 

 

Angels Sanguine

 

 

Angels Encarmine

 

 

Angels Vermillion

 

 

Flesh Tearers

 

 

Blood Drinkers

 

 

Knights of Blood

 

 

Flesh Eaters

 

  • ???

 

Lamenters

 

 

Other

 

  • Index Astartes: Death Company by Aaron Dembski-Bowden mentions the names of some successors not heard of before, but only their names: the Angels Numinous, the Golden Sons, and the Crimson Legion. Golden Sons and Crimson Legion are noted as being extinct from the Flaw.
  • The Crown of Thorns by Peter Fehervari. Short story about the Angels Penitent.
  • Red Fury has the Blood Swords as a successor, but Codex: Blood Angels 5th Edition specifically lists them as not being a successor. Your choices are James Swallow or Mat Ward, who will you side with?

Awesome topic man, this definitely should get pinned. smile.png

The Index Astartes articles for the Blood Angels and the Flesh Tearers are a must, in my opinion some of the best background ever written for each Chapter. Originally published in White Dwarf, they can be found in the Index Astartes compilations, still out of print though.

  • Blood Angels: Index Astartes: Angels of Death (in Index Astartes II)
  • Flesh Tearers: Index Astartes: Blood Frenzy (in Index Astartes I)

Oh, and the excellent Warlords: Dante article was written by Aaron Dembski-Bowden.

Found a copy of Honour the Chapter. Information is more scant on the BA successors than I thought, but it has rules for playing as all of the otherwise untouched Badab War chapters for Deathwatch, so I'm happy.

 

List above has been updated accordingly.

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