primaris legion of the damned

[Kristoff]

Sure, you can paint them up as them, but you won't be able to mix the stats of them to be Primaris LotD without House Ruling them.  If you group is happy working with just fandex units, then you can do so.  Write it up and post it in Homegrown Rules if you want feedback on how it should be presented.

 

But if you just want black, flame-covered Primaris, have fun.  If you want giant LotD, have fun.

[Uprising]

I would like to say thank you for all the ideas everyone.  I order a few bits to convert some test models.  If all go well, they will be posted.  Thanks for the advice. 

[Slave to Darkness]

That Ordo Chronos idea is bloody genius!!

[Inso]

I'd say no, not from a fluff standpoint.

 

I think that the Legion of the Damned are a bit too 'out there' for Primaris to be attached to them. I very much doubt that Guilliman would have contact with such an enigmatic chapter and would not want to waste his lovely, shiny new troops on a chapter that is beyond Imperial control.

 

Timing or not, I don't see it at all. It isn't fluffy and it is a bit too much of a stretch.

 

From a model making stand point... fill your boots :) ... When gaming, use the standard primaris rules and call them 'Flame and Bone marines'. Sorted.

[Kua]

I think that’s the point:

If we don’t know about them, neither does Gulliman. Probably no enough to give them Primaris, even if it was possible.

 

I wouldn’t decline playing against a LotD-painted primaris army, but I would laugh at it if insisted they actually were primaris LotD.

[Brother Captain Ed]

Only if you insist that they are real chapter. Master of mankind strongly suggests that they are literal incarnations of dead marines summoned at the Emperor's will. Primaris marines would make sense in that case.

 

There's no right answer of course but it's silly to insist that they must be the Firehawks when the overwhelming majority of the fluff posits that explanation as one of many. And, truthfully, the more stories we see about the Damned the less likely that explanation is.

[Volt]

Is there not fluff about them being a cohesive chapter? Or was that retconned? I don't recall them ever having random marines from other chapters join up with them. IIRC they were slowly dying off too. Their highest rank is a Sergeant.

They aren't dying, and in fact they can't die. We've seen them show up in at least one book and they are fully ghosts. Bolt rounds and blades pass harmlessly through their bodies. Their return fire on the other hand goes straight through power armor, along with their weapons. The only way to 'beat' them is with psychic attacks, and even then I can't recall the Legion of the Damned ever losing a fight besides Cadia.

 

Also important to note that when the Necron Pylons were activated the Legion of the Damned immediately vanished along with the Chaos Daemons.