Blood Angels vs Dark Angels

[Ganders]

Is there any instance in the heresy of the ninth legion fighting elements of the first? 

And if not how likely would it be? Were there traitor elements of the Dark Angels at the siege?

And if so I assume it would make more sense if the Dark Angels were in Calaban green?

Just for a little project I'm working on.

Cheers

[Spagunk]

There's definitely some cause on this type of thing, in my mind.

Mid/late heresy DA went through quite the campaign and gobbled up any and all loyalist legions while also purging anyone suspected of being non-loyalist. I would imagine a detachment of 9th basically thumbing their nose at Johnson in a non-subtle fashion and someone getting hot headed over it.

Also, it is possible the 9th may have had Horus aligned garrison ("What? Horus is the warmaster! He'd never turn his back on the Emperor! Put up yer dukes, scum")

The great thing about the setting is that no one is above question and everyone is suspect which will lead to interesting side battles and general chaos.

 

 

[Cactus]

Don't worry about painting them green. The whole thing about changing the colours is just to explain away why they had black armour in Rogue Trader but dark green on the cover of Space Marine. The symbolism of Calibanite (Calibanian?) troops using green because forests I think came later as we got into the detail of M31. It's all tosh.

Paint them however you like, don't feel constrained that they ought to be a certain colour just because you wrote a certain thing in their backstory.

[LameBeard]

I like this idea of “over-zealous, suspicious, but actually both loyalist” legions being the two protagonists - it’s kind of what is a hair’s breadth from happening in “Unremembered Empire”.

 

[No Foes Remain]

In last month's White Dwarf the Lion 'recruited' a small force of Imperial Fists who managed to breack out of the Siege of Inwit to seek help in lifting it and preventing a Legion world (and a big ass shipyard) from falling into traitor hands. They complied and left Inwit to it's fate as VIIth are nothing if not dutiful.

I don't really see the IXth doing much the same if it was them who fled the blockade of Baal and sought aid, only to be told they were leaving their world to suffer and instead to join the Ist in bombing traitor homeworlds. I can imagine that the IXth would have a few choice words to say in that instance and, with tensions high in the Hersey, blood could be drawn.

[WrathOfTheLion]

There could be a Knight Order that maybe delved/specialized into some things they're not supposed to, and decide to join up with the Warmaster and come in conflict with the IXth Legion.

Conversely, there could be IX Legion elements that cave to the Red Thirst (like mentioned in their traitor warlord trait), and then a 1st Legion patrol fleet like those mentioned in Book IX decides to eradicate them.

Edited August 23, 2022 by WrathOfTheLion

[Ganders]

Thanks for the thoughts and input all.

It was for part of a diorama I was doing with my ninth legion. Part of the scenery was a ruined dread and as I had the parts I had made it a Dark Angels Dreadnought. 

But it didn't really sit well with me and that along with the feedback I've remodeled it to a Word Bearer Dread.

This was the beginning of the original.