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World Eaters because of the models and units: Angron, Red Butchers, Rampagers, and Marine proxies with Khorne models like Blood Warriors.

 Talys wrote:

 welshhoppo wrote:
Word Bearers.

You also get AMAZING Word Bearers decals in the box!

I would hope so, seeing as they are supposed to be Word Bearers.

I had a look at the box set today, my flgs has about twenty.

If I was still playing GW, and had people to play with, I would totally get it.

I am split. I have always chosen armies based on their visual appeal and am stuck between Alpha Legion and the Sons of Horus as they are both shades of blue/green which I enjoy immensely.

I am leaning more towards the Alpha Legion (and not because of the 30k popular bandwagon) as I have always liked the Alpha Legion since the 3rd edition chaos codex (deep blue with green blends). I also love their pre-heresy colors of metallic teal and their dragon symbols.

Way back in the CSM of yesteryear when there was benefits to choosing a particular legion, I played Ironwarriors with their four heavy support choices and basilisks. I've loved the legion for a long time, and when I read my first BL book "Storm of Iron" I only loved them more. As a diehard Imperial the chance to play loyalist IW or pre heresy Perturabo is a chance I'm not gonna pass up!

I think I'll paint my fists like the unification era scheme because its pretty cool and I want to paint it black

 Tactical_Spam wrote:
I think I'll paint my fists like the unification era scheme because its pretty cool and I want to paint it black

No colors anymore

 King Pariah wrote:

 Tactical_Spam wrote:
I think I'll paint my fists like the unification era scheme because its pretty cool and I want to paint it black

No colors anymore

I want to see it painted, painted, painted, painted black yeah

I have 2 boxes. The 1st box, I'm painting as the game is presented, Ultras vs Word Bearers.

The 2nd box is still undecided. I'm not sure if I want to make 2 even sized Ultra and WB forces for bigger board game battles (and small TT matches) or if I want to start up an Alpha Legion force.

White Scars because I can then use them for 40k too.

But after reading the fluff, I'm leaning more towards Blood Angels. Sanguinius appeals to me so much.

I decided to use the BaC box to start a Word Bearers army. The rules seem pretty fun, the legion rules seem pretty balanced, I've got an endless trove of Tyranid bits I could use for some Darkly Channeled marine conversions, and I've got a greater Daemon and a Daemon Prince to use for the Allied detachment.

But I aint using that fugly color scheme.

Doesn't seem to be much love for the sons of Mundus Planus/Chogoris lol. 1 person so far!

The lack of white scars is a shame. Totally the second coolest legion (after thousand sons) but cost a fortune to get enough jetbikes together to do it justice

angelofvengeance wrote:Doesn't seem to be much love for the sons of Mundus Planus/Chogoris lol. 1 person so far!

Captyn_Bob wrote:The lack of white scars is a shame. Totally the second coolest legion (after thousand sons) but cost a fortune to get enough jetbikes together to do it justice

That's probably the reason, there's nothing in BaC that really yells 'White Scars', The Dread doesn't fit, and the Termies with Slow'n'Purposeful don't realy work for the Scars either.

That and painting white...

White Scars DO use dreadnoughts, contrary to popular belief. They are rare but not non-existent.

It's not so much 'popular belief' that they don't use them, rather that the Index Astartes article explicitly stated they don't use them and gave a good reason why which a lot of people feel should still stand. It's less of an issue for Great Crusade/Heresy era however because you'd still likely have Terran Dreadnoughts in the legion.

As for Slow and Purposeful Terminators being unfluffy.. that doesn't really make any sense to me, yes it's slow and cumbersome but so is regular Terminators, it's not as if a every White Scar Terminator is close to a neurotic breakdown because his armour is so slow, and Cataphracts extra slowness will push them over the edge.

White Scars are on my to-do list, but not til I've gotten the hang of painting white. I've voted Iron Warriors because they are the one legion I both want to do AND can paint the colour of. Though come to think of it I did do some abysmal *white* Iron Warriors back in 2nd edition, as that was their pre-heresy colour they were listed as in Codex Imperialis.

 Gashrog wrote:
It's not so much 'popular belief' that they don't use them, rather that the Index Astartes article explicitly stated they don't use them and gave a good reason why which a lot of people feel should still stand. It's less of an issue for Great Crusade/Heresy era however because you'd still likely have Terran Dreadnoughts in the legion.

As for Slow and Purposeful Terminators being unfluffy.. that doesn't really make any sense to me, yes it's slow and cumbersome but so is regular Terminators, it's not as if a every White Scar Terminator is close to a neurotic breakdown because his armour is so slow, and Cataphracts extra slowness will push them over the edge.

White Scars are on my to-do list, but not til I've gotten the hang of painting white. I've voted Iron Warriors because they are the one legion I both want to do AND can paint the colour of. Though come to think of it I did do some abysmal *white* Iron Warriors back in 2nd edition, as that was their pre-heresy colour they were listed as in Codex Imperialis.

You know... Ive never seen a White Scars Dread or Terminator...

They do have them but they don't have much in the way of scar markings on the armour. Obviously if you've gotten to terminator armour stage it's pretty obvious you're a badass!

I wanted to do Iron Hands. Would it make sense to do them in MK IV from the Betrayal at Calth box? In fluff does the legion use MK IV at all?

World Eaters... without question!

SG

Sons of Horus battle strategy I love and I really like their appearance, plus their primarch is my fav. Them, world eaters and word bearers but SoH top

 Ashiraya wrote:
White Scars DO use dreadnoughts, contrary to popular belief. They are rare but not non-existent.

Indeed, I've got WDs from the 90s with AAR featuring Scars in them, and they had dreadnoughts even back then.

night lords and imperial fists i reckon.

 sing your life wrote:

 Ashiraya wrote:
White Scars DO use dreadnoughts, contrary to popular belief. They are rare but not non-existent.

Indeed, I've got WDs from the 90s with AAR featuring Scars in them, and they had dreadnoughts even back then.

Other than their Primarch's name and a few notable battles the White Scars didn't have much fluff before the 3rd edition Index Astartes article, wherein the chapter specific rules did not allow Dreadnoughts because: "Dreadnoughts are not employed by the White Scars, as the cold, metal sarcophagi of these mighty constructions evokes a horror of eternal confinement that goes against the White Scars` philosophy that when a warrior dies, his soul should be free to travel to the afterlife."

The IA did allow them to take Terminators but they had to be mounted in a Land Raider - and Land Raiders couldn't be taken unless Terminators were.

 DocStammson wrote:
I wanted to do Iron Hands. Would it make sense to do them in MK IV from the Betrayal at Calth box? In fluff does the legion use MK IV at all?

Yes. Pretty much every legion used every armour to varying amounts. Conquest only had three profiles of power armoured Iron Hand marines and it was an even spread: one each of II, III & IV.

I already have a fledgling force of Word Bearers. Looks like they're getting some reinforcements...

Sons of horus for me, getting my chaos fill

I am very much torn between my two beloved Blood Angels and Emperor's Children.

I honestly don't know which to love. But I think I'll up going with Emperor's Children.

Blood Angels because they are awesome and their aesthetics are !!!

I'm planning on eventually starting an Emperor's Children army with it! Hoping to pick it up after Xmas, but I have to wait to start the army, gotta do my Eldar first!

Ultramarines. Courage and Honor! We march for Macragge!

I marked Imperial Fists, but that is because the answer "Stare at the models and never make a decision" was not a choice. I like the Imperial Fists legion rules, but they play exactly the same as, unsurprisingly, my Crimson Fists. I don't want to make a new Blood Angels army unless their legion rules are amazing, because their 40K rules are terrible. The other big choices for me would be Night Lords (probably not going to happen since they are dark blue marines like my Crimson Fists), Salamanders (usable in 40K as well, and a pretty cool army overall), or Raven Guard (especially given their new 40K rules being pretty amazing).

Ultimately, if I decide on an army, I would want it to be able to pull double duty as a 40K army. This is why most of the Traitor Legions are out of the picture.