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And it'd be a loyalist codex.
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You guys are aware there's a third Alpharius triplet, right?
Look at the Alpha Legion logo. It's a three headed hydra.
Look at the Alpha Legion logo. It's a three headed hydra.
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Blew my fucking mind.
Alpha, Omega, and... one more. Although you could argue the average AL marine is that third brother in spirit.
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I think they have that particular plot card setup for a "get out of lore clusterfuck free" situation, myself. Like, he comes back as both a loyalist and a renegade Primarch at the same damned time.
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Look, its simple. Everyone in the Alpha Legion is a loyalist, renegade, full-blown traitor, Alpharius, Omegon and a regular Marine all at once.
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alpha legion created Banestrke rounds, that unto itself is a sin.
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Do Alpha legionaries ever get in so deep that they completely forget who they are and what they're supposed to be doing?
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It would certainly explain why some portions of the legions are completely devoted to Chaos while others honestly believe they are doing the will of The Emperor. That and there is no known figure that is at the helm of the entire Legion to give it direction. Sure there are strong warlords that have united some of the more powerful warbands in the past, but the state of the legion is completely fractured. Each warband is just going through the motions and following what they perceive is their main goal (whatever end that is).
The only one's who had an inkling of the ultimate goal of the Alpha Legion was were Alpharius and Omegon. Even then, Omegon was starting to second guess and undermine his brother (see the Tenebrae 9-50 Operation as an example).
Basically, this meme might be more accurate than at first glance:
However, one can't help that this may have been Alpharius' plan all along:
So in short:
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In Deliverance Lost, there's an Alpha Legionnaire who infiltrated the Raven Guard after Istvaan V and is in place to stop them from using the Emperor's gene-tech to rebuild their numbers. He has several moments where he gets so deep into character that he briefly forgets which Legion he belongs to.
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I just hope they bring them back to 40k in a real fashion. They are one of the only "chaos" space Marines I actually like.
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their alright, im more looking forward to lorgar and WBs making a re-entry, given how imperial society views lorgar.
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Coincidentally I am reading this very book right now (making my way through the Black Library one book at a time as I slowly paint my own Blood Angels)
My favorite part so far is him training with his adopted squad and he uses a cool knife trick that apparently only Alpha Legion knows, and the other Raven Guard are like "bruh what the FUCK was that" and he has to come up with a story of seeing a traitor Marine use it on a Salamander at the drop site massacre. Which of course they immediately adopt the move into their own melee routine, thus Alpha continues the tradition of forgetting who they are helping.
Pretty good book so far as I know almost nothing about the Raven Guard, other than beakie helmets for everyone.
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They recently were in one of the books. They "accidentally" created an entire planet of anti-chaos super-psykers, the "Humble Saints." Each one could destroy greater demons just by looking at them, and there was a planet full of them.
The Iron Hands attacked the Sisters of Battle and brought the Sisters of Silence in to kill them all.
To be fair I believe they were accidentally causing the planet to fall into the warp, summoning Emperor-aligned "Order Demons," etc etc. So the Iron hands had a point... kinda... but they were also being anti-psychic dicks, so...
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They had to be bigger to compete with "tru-scale" 3rd party models.
Use my old books, huh?
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Unfortunately it's just 8th and 9th edition. They also said they are going to be doing stuff with relevant forge world stuff. Whether that means incorporating them into 9th ed codexs, or actually making a book that isn't $100+ covering their updated states is up in the air. This I'm excited for since I am of need of grav tanks.
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I mean you're not wrong, but only by a margine of degrees:
Spess Marines:
- super special super soldiers who are super
- main difference between chapters is the colour they paint their armour but like m&ms are all pretty much the same
- save teh day
- call each other brother (lol, gay)
- love teh emperor
Yawn/10
Chaos Spess Marines:
- super special super soldiers who are super
- main difference between the legions is the amount of spikes on their armour, ouch the edge - okay there are some aesthetic and tactical differences which are pretty cool, but points deducted for the Night Lords being a thing
- wreck teh day
- sometimes call each other brother (lol, still gay)
- love teh Chaos Gods, a pantheon of extradimentional eldrich gods so powerful they can influence events in a totally different realities to their own
Pretty cool/10
Of course, the best thing to do to make both flavours cool is to reimagine them as orks, i'm currently involved in a project to rebuild all 18 as orks, here's mine, Rogork Da'ork, primork of da Orkperial Fistaz.
Just waiting for his legs to appear in the post.