GhostMalone Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 Denial of Godhood? Denial of Humanities only path to Ascension? Down that dark path of ignorance is only stagnation and defeat. Let my Volkite illuminate you brother. You claim to worship beings that represent chaos and disorder. These beings have evenly divided their power, ordered their ranks into tiers, hold power in mathematical numerology, and designate basic level promotion through manifestation of naturally occurring psychic powers. This is logic. This is order. This is the opposite of everything you claim to be devouted to. Your 'Gods' are a lie, and you are deceived. Turn away. Heed the Imperial Truth. Can we stop prodding our mod with these barbs Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/309608-your-legion/page/2/#findComment-4093300 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ak1508 Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 I simply go for the looks most of the times, so for me it is mostly the legions that have some sort of animal/creature as a sigil: Alpha Legion, Space Wolves, Salamanders and Emperor's Children :) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/309608-your-legion/page/2/#findComment-4093428 Share on other sites More sharing options...
v6v77 Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 The Alpha legion The most mysterious of the legiones astartes. Not like their brothers who rush and rend Not like their brothers using steel and stone. Not like their brothers so set in their ways. Fluid is the hydra Pragmatic is the hydra All knowing is the hydra To me (and based on all the fluff i have read of their and othe legions which is most if not all of it) the Alpha legion embody the super soldier. Every marine is trained in every task. Flexible, pragmatic and deadly. As the old saying goes. By the time you know your fighting the Alpha legion you have already lost. Seriously though they seem to me to be the perfect soldier. Not warrior but soldiers. Maybe operatives is the word. Not charging in mindlessly, or sitting and taking a beating, they plan and prepare for every contingency. Adopt, Adapt, Improve And come on, who doesnt love metallic teal with silver hydras. Sorry for the fanboy rant. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/309608-your-legion/page/2/#findComment-4093459 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reyner Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 Iron Warriors, Ultramarines and Imperial Fists are my favourites. Good mix of flavours and characters. The Fourth with their slight Ancient Greece theme and relentless assault, Thirteenth with the Ancient Romans and Empire building and the Seventh for never backing down. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/309608-your-legion/page/2/#findComment-4093511 Share on other sites More sharing options...
KJB Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 My legion changes roughly every 10 minutes... Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/309608-your-legion/page/2/#findComment-4093516 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barabbas Sogalon Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 The Dusk Raiders/Death Guard and pre Primarch VIII legion will always be my favourites and main legions, but I do also have a soft spot for the Iron Warriors and Imperial Heralds. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/309608-your-legion/page/2/#findComment-4093520 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fire Golem Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 My legion changes roughly every 10 minutes... Not the only one. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/309608-your-legion/page/2/#findComment-4093557 Share on other sites More sharing options...
simison Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 The cheat answer would be my Wardens. For a more canoncial answer, the Blood Angels. My first army, they will always have my loyalty with their themes and angelic motifs. That and they happened to be my favorite color. Can't wait for their FW book. But like many others, Black Library and Forgeworld have done a great job of presenting the other legions in positive lights. I nearly went Death Guard at first, just because of Eisenstein, despite my utter hatred of biological warfare. The only legion that I've never shown any interest in is the Alpha Legion. They're boring to me. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/309608-your-legion/page/2/#findComment-4093597 Share on other sites More sharing options...
v6v77 Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 The cheat answer would be my Wardens. For a more canoncial answer, the Blood Angels. My first army, they will always have my loyalty with their themes and angelic motifs. That and they happened to be my favorite color. Can't wait for their FW book. But like many others, Black Library and Forgeworld have done a great job of presenting the other legions in positive lights. I nearly went Death Guard at first, just because of Eisenstein, despite my utter hatred of biological warfare. The only legion that I've never shown any interest in is the Alpha Legion. They're boring to me. Im sorry you feel that way. Mind if i ask why? They can be a tiny bit bland and very...unspecialised sometimes. No flavour i will admit. BTW i love your wardens. Read through that whole thread. Smashing work. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/309608-your-legion/page/2/#findComment-4093618 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Tharand Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 The funny thing is that, as I work my way through the game books and listen to the audiobooks, I find things to love about all of the Legions. I never thought I'd care that much about the Death Guard before The Flight of the Eisenstein, but Garro and the other point of view characters sold me on their fortitude. However, the easiest answer is the Iron Tenth, closely followed by the Thousand Sons. This is very much how I feel towards the legions. The Black Library novels and FW books have drawn me and I find something in all the legions I enjoyed. My first love are the Dark Angels and I'll wait patiently for me to appear. The two legions that I am working on now are Iron Hands and Word Bearers. Each has something I find interesting. Iron Hands because I really dug 'Fulgrim' and all the short stories they have appeared in. I even enjoyed the much maligned 'Damnation of Pythos'. My other interest is Word Bearers mainly because they started the whole thing. But the books have increased my interest in other legions I might not have bothered with in the past like White Scars and World Eaters. I might not ever do an army for either of these but you never know. :) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/309608-your-legion/page/2/#findComment-4093655 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrandMagnus Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 The warriors kings, the scions of Ultramar, the XIIIth legion, the Ultramarines. Guardians of order and protectors of an Empire. Courage and Honour. And also iron Warriors, because iron is good, strong and human. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/309608-your-legion/page/2/#findComment-4093889 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skalpynock Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 Is it the Primus, these prototypes who had to be the greatest in every domain to enlighten the path to the Crusade? Is it the Emperor's Children, these nobles whose blood is killing them? Is it the so-called Corpse Grinders, the quintessential legion, damned forever by ruthless obedience and tyrannic officers? Is it the Emperor's Fist, so bright in its conquests? Is it the Crimson Sons, so bloody-handed that the mere threat of their deployment has toppled whole empires? Is it the Storm Walkers, these unflinching warmongers, breathing war and sweating conquest? Is it the War Hounds, so fierce is their eagerness to reduce all to dust? Is it the Warborn, truly the greatest soldiers to have even been wrought, their discipline adamantine regardless of the foe? Is it the Dusk Raiders, the Voice and the Clarion's call, and the Emperor's bloodstained right arm? Is it the Fifteenth, whose potential o so great is spoiled by a rotting geneseed? Is it the Wolves of Luna, a legion of many after the tragedy that fell the IIIrd and the elitist geneseed of the XIXth? Is it the Iconoclasts, who after burning the lie bring the Emperor's truth to the masses? Is it the Rams, whose eagerness to fight His foes might very well bring their downfall? Is it the Nomads, so powerful in their attack despite their small numbers and stealth? Is it the Last, inscrutable and many-fold? Of the Fifth, Sixth and Ninth, I can not yet speak. Of the Second and the Eleventh I may not. Neither can I chose, for each is so great in its own way. Obviously the correct answer is the Tonitrua Milites. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/309608-your-legion/page/2/#findComment-4093927 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remus Ventanus. Posted June 19, 2015 Author Share Posted June 19, 2015 I like ultramarines because they actually give a hoot about humans. Ultramarines seem the most....civil? Caring? (ok sallies may be the MOST caring) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/309608-your-legion/page/2/#findComment-4093937 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyaenidae Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 Obviously the correct answer is the Tonitrua Milites. http://i53.tinypic.com/11wdm4j.gif And so, it has come to pass, that the student becomes the teacher. Well done, grasshopper. :P Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/309608-your-legion/page/2/#findComment-4093942 Share on other sites More sharing options...
simison Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 Im sorry you feel that way. Mind if i ask why? They can be a tiny bit bland and very...unspecialised sometimes. No flavour i will admit. BTW i love your wardens. Read through that whole thread. Smashing work. When I think on it, I suspect it's because there is too much mystery. One can do anything with them because there are, for the most part, only two links that unite them: "I am Alpharius" and the Hydra. After I made that post, I tried to see if I'd like them better if I thought of them as an army of James Bonds, and it didn't work. With so much mystery, they're almost a blank slate. So, instead of James Bond, I end up thinking them as an army of Bella Swans. Also, thanks for looking into my Wardens! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/309608-your-legion/page/2/#findComment-4094024 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PastelAvenger Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 My favourite Legion has to be White Scars but I'm horrendous at painting white so I've never collected them. I've always had a soft spot for Blood Angels as well since they were the first 40k army I ever collected. I'm collecting Sons of Horus though because I like the models and rules and are pretty much a mixture of the above two. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/309608-your-legion/page/2/#findComment-4094032 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother-Chaplain Kage Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 I think FW and BL had good intentions with the Alpha Legion to start with, and then just lost control of it and it spun out into something ludicrous. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/309608-your-legion/page/2/#findComment-4094033 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viridia Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 Reading the HH novels, I've loved something about every legion. (Aside from the Dark Angels. Those books just made me think, 'man, Lion's a tool') As I've mentioned in the Legion For You thread, I took to the Fists as an army because I loved that depiction of them in Mechanicum rushing to Mars just to retrieve what they could to defend Mars. No needless last stands for them, not when they can take what they need and nothing else if it means serving the Emperor well. Still...Eisenstein made me love the DG, Betrayer made me love the XIIth (Both World Eaters and War Hounds) and the Word Bearers. I could go on but that'd take paragraph after paragraph. Each legion has been made to be very much its own thing, whereas 40k stuff often makes chapters seem only slightly different from each other, and I really like that individuality. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/309608-your-legion/page/2/#findComment-4094038 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allart01 Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 I love the World Eaters. There is so much tragedy in their descent into madness, as brotherhood -the value that they once placed above all others- is slowly killed by their cortical implants. There is so much tragedy in Angron, the son who was ruined since the beginning, the one who never even had a chance to fulfill his destiny. But also, Dark Angels. Machiavellian knights. The first Legion to step into the void, firing the very single bullet that started the Great Crusade. So cool. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/309608-your-legion/page/2/#findComment-4094115 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aqui Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 Before I became a (slightly) more frequent viewer of this sub forum, I have to say that: Sons of Horus Ultramarines Iron Hands (Not necessarily in that order, just the order I remembered) Were the ones I liked most. However, this sub forum has raised doubts, answered questions, given me more questions to answer/ask ( ), and basically challenged my old view points. Now, as well as the above, I have an...appreciation of the Iron Warriors, Blood Angels and Night Lords. I wonder why..? As for the remainder, well, I dare say that when others start blogs about them, I'll be in the same situation again, and will be able to appreciate them too. Thinking about it, it's a bit of a cop out answer really Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/309608-your-legion/page/2/#findComment-4094162 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyaenidae Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 I think FW and BL had good intentions with the Alpha Legion to start with, and then just lost control of it and it spun out into something ludicrous. Interestingly, if you just ctrl+alt+del all the Black Library and Games Workshop fluff you have in your head, and only focus on the FW HH books, they return to being awesome again. Sometimes, simplicity is better. Also, one must consider the XX Legions self-induced downfall when thinking of their BL fluff. There is every reason to believe that the Legion is heading into a full on civil war, but I'm beginning to think it will not be a matter of us-versus-them. Instead, like the mythological hydra, they may have many heads, but they also have many minds, each independent of each other, each free to think as they choose. The civil war will be dozens, even hundreds, of cells at ideological war with themselves. Despite their careful cultivation of a 'we are Legion, we are many' mentality, their inner nature consumed them, and each 'Head' of the hydra has developed their own way of thinking and acting and doing. Unlike the XIX Legion, who may break into guerrilla cells yet retain mission focus, the Alpha Legion's convoluted and insecure cell structure led to a 'bunkering' mentality, not trusting any outsiders beyond their cell, not even other Legion cells. This had led to cells fighting with each other, supporting each other without knowing mission directives of their peers, avoiding each other, even using each other as sacrificial lambs for simple egocentric self-gratification. Like the Hydra, their necks weave together, strike each other, confuse and distract each other, all acting independent and without true focus, barring a vague awareness that they are all of the same body. It was only a matter of time before each head begins to lash out at those that wound it, even it's kin. And the Hydra is not immune to it's own venom. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/309608-your-legion/page/2/#findComment-4094317 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyaenidae Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 Dang, now that I'm really thinking about this, this theory could explain the victory/disaster at Eskrador. The XX legion didn't put up much of a fight as first when the XIII hit, which could be explained by the Ultramarines accidentally walking into a civil war they didn't know was happening, and each Alpha cell trying to kill each other. Pure shock and surprise would leave the scattered XX at a vast disadvantage, and at the same time would easily reveal the Primarch's location as the battle lines melted and withdrew. When Alpharius or Omegon die, the Legion abandons their usual modus, and turn together against their father's murderer, thus why the XIII Legion found their fortunes change so drastically, as the XX return, just for a moment, to their old ethic; We are Legion, We are ONE. But, as we have seen twice so far, the death of a Primarch leaves vast scars on their sons' psyche. Even if one of the Primarchs is still alive, it would be like living with half of a soul, which could lead to cognitive dissonance and eventual insanity. Blended together with the worst aspects of the XX Legion's gene-bred nature..... I like this theory. I'm gonna hang on to it for a while. :D Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/309608-your-legion/page/2/#findComment-4094358 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyrannicide Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 Another wild Eskrador theory. What if the Ultramarines, the true real XIII Legion, was never there? What if the entire campaign was a civil war between the "Ultramarines" and "Alpha Legion"? Can we really take the purported accounts of mortal beings fighting against and alongside the Alpha Legion at face value? Nothing is what it seems when the Hydra is nearby... Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/309608-your-legion/page/2/#findComment-4094382 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Komrk Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 Raven Guard, I mean come on, operators in space. Honorable mentions to... Ultras (I'll probably make a small detachment if they give Thiel rules) Iron Warriors Death Guard Luna Wolves Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/309608-your-legion/page/2/#findComment-4094425 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DuskRaider Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 Hyaenidae, that is an excellent theory! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/309608-your-legion/page/2/#findComment-4094432 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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