Timeframe on the remaining legions?

[TalonZahn]

Bloodlust has 2 definitions.

 

The popular and most common definition is the desire for bloodshed, to kill or to see people killed. This would also be more true as it's directly related to the Black Rage, and their response from the psychic shock on Signus Prime.

 

The second, and less common, is to see the act of drinking blood or actually drinking it. This definition is only rumored of in the Lore.

 

I would argue the former is more true than the latter in the majority of references in all Blood Angel material written. Their Blood Rites are to infuse their candidates with the blood of their Primarch. A process that kicks off the geneseed and begins the transformation. Insanguination is no more odd than any of the other things that other Chapters do.

 

The final "nail in the coffin" is that all the recent "vampire" tendencies were brought about by, you guessed it; Matt Ward and James Swallow.

[GhostMalone]

I want them to redo sang guard with FW at the helm.

 

The 40k versions aren't what I imagine plus the death masks :/

 

I want real artifice not just a BA symbol

 

Like the EC

[Plague Angel]

Bloodlust has 2 definitions.

 

The popular and most common definition is the desire for bloodshed, to kill or to see people killed. This would also be more true as it's directly related to the Black Rage, and their response from the psychic shock on Signus Prime.

 

The second, and less common, is to see the act of drinking blood or actually drinking it. This definition is only rumored of in the Lore.

 

I would argue the former is more true than the latter in the majority of references in all Blood Angel material written. Their Blood Rites are to infuse their candidates with the blood of their Primarch. A process that kicks off the geneseed and begins the transformation. Insanguination is no more odd than any of the other things that other Chapters do.

 

The final "nail in the coffin" is that all the recent "vampire" tendencies were brought about by, you guessed it; Matt Ward and James Swallow.

 

But that's wrong.

 

Literal blood drinking, and all the vampire themes I quoted, are from Codex: Angels of Death. In second edition.

 

Everyone wants to blame Ward and Swallow for things they copy-pasted. I don't want to derail the thread further, but pretending that Blood Angels haven't always been blood-drinking Space Marines that sleep in coffins and writing that off as Wardian is bizarre and objectively, textually false. That stuff's always been part of the fluff. .

 

Bringing it back around towards the topic, Forge World may give Blood Angels some sort of pseudo-DC unit, but it wouldn't actually be Death Company. They can't include the Black Rage. But the Red Thirst is there, and is something FW has to deal with and account for in any Legiones Astartes (Blood Angels) they come up with. Even if they reserve a Red Thirst rule for some sort of Elite unit instead of making it army-wide.