I think the Alpha Legion brewing civil war could be interesting as they’re breaking trends with “I am Alpharius” with “I am not Alpharius”. Book sucked and author is a fag but it could be interesting. And I want to see Decimus’s story continue. Iron Warriors and Red Corsairs also need more love.
Word Bearers, not even close.
I like the Alpha Legion, at least when they're being handled by competent writers. I'm especially fond of the implication that they're all just doing their own thing and have long since lost sight of whatever overly complicated bullshit plan Alpharius and Omegon were trying to pull during the Heresy. It gives a lot of space for Your Dudes, so you can do an army of closet loyalists, renegades, all-in Chaos worshippers, or space pirates and it makes total sense.
There was one Nurgle minor warband that the lore was like "these guys never leave their armor and a bunch of toxic oil and grease constantly leaks out of every rivet and seam, no one alive has a clue what they actually look like inside" with their armor being flesh colored. That seemed interesting and suitably horrifying.
I like the ones are that are very firmly daemonkin, Word Bearers, the cult legions and the Sons of Horus, my favorite is Emperor’s Children, their fall was the hardest and tied with the World Eaters for most destructive. It felt like Slaanesh just wanted to insult the Emperor and it did so by corrupting a Legion that had his favor and turning them into junkie fiends.
12 failed black crusades
For legions, favorite is Iron Warriors for being competent assholes who like artillery and daemon engines. Least favorite is Black Legion because they're a bland social club that congratulate failure as long term planning.
But it was very successful! Cadia is no more! Now GW is forced to make guard models other than Cadia and really expand the guard line!
Ran of, course by Creed’s nepotism hire daughter who looks like the evil lady from Matilda.
bitch looks like an ogryn
Imagine being a guardsman, in the shit and the person in charge is a fat nepo-hire. I’d start paying more attention to Guardsman Moon and his radical ideas about the Emperor.
Well once GW started doing more femstodes nonsense and their terrible reply to the community all the guard and loyalist fans started to switch to chaos and posted Night Lord and Iron Warrior memes
Yeah, I really loved that. They kept their motivation and plans so secret not even their own men knew what was going on, so of course they split up to do whatever they thought they should be doing all while the Imperium gaslights itself into thinking all the different AL warbands are working towards achieving some singular plan.
Word Bearers are definitely far more interesting than Black Legion and are (I think) the best choice for default CSM army. Word Bearers really lean in to the demonic cultist / religious angle and are much more the original traitors in the stories while the Black Legion are far more just generic bad guys with few if any distinguishing characteristics other than being pushed hard as the big threat. Fuck, at times I forget that the Black Legion are even a thing they are so forgettable.
Pre-heresy World Eaters had such a pretty color scheme, kind of funny that psycho blood drinkers were the best dressed legion.
I really like that. While I thought Legion was an interesting novel back when I read it and I personally think Dan Abnett is consistently the best writer they have (as long as he is not getting lost in the weeds) that book really was a massive fuck-you shaped spanner thrown in to the works that raised an awful lot of questions and contradictions. With any luck GW hold on to the idea that un-answered questions and mysteries are far more fun for fans to play around with than concrete answers. Alpha Legion have a pretty cool appearance going for them too.
I have never been any kind of painter or colorist but I like what you have so far.
CSM have always lent themselves well to /YourDudes/
Probably why I like them both so much. You can completely play them however. You can justify playing them as say loyalist (a bit difficult for Night Lords unless you want to go full Sev is a Grey Knight and recruited a loyal NL band), you can justify chaos, you can justify just renegade.
Okay but what about playing a LOYAL Sons of Horus. Huh? Who the hell is Horus LUPERCAL? What the heck are Luna Wolves?
If only BL and the Redditors that make up their fanbase would realize that they're getting lamer with every "Well, akshually, they're loyal and not!", revealing mysteries, and taking away from the mystique of the unit. They used to be my favorite Traitor Legion, and now I'm getting sick of seeing them and how flanderized/bastardized they've become.
Well the True Sons actually got some lore in the Cthonia book, they are SoH who saw the corruption and induction of non-Cthonians as “impure” dilutions. They’re Traitors but they’re not shoving daemons up their butts.
HH did them so dirty, not every mystery needed to be revealed.