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2012/11/01 22:32:59
Subject: What did Angron inherit from the emperor and what was he created for?
Manchu wrote: The Word Bearers may still be the second largest legion but if they are they are definitely larger than 100,000 strong.
The WB's were 100,000 at the start of the Heresy, they've only shrunk since then. My guess is only the Black Legion surpasses the 100,000 mark anymore.
Pretty sure I recall a Dan Abnett interview for Know No Fear that said they were the 2nd largest at at least 150,000.
"It is the great irony of the Legiones Astartes: engineered to kill to achieve a victory of peace that they can then be no part of." - Roboute Guilliman
"As I recall, your face was tortured. Imagine that - the Master of the Wolves, his ferocity twisted into grief. And yet you still carried out your duty. You always did what was asked of you. So loyal. So tenacious. Truly you were the attack dog of the Emperor. You took no pleasure in what you did. I knew that then, and I know it now. But all things change, my brother. I'm not the same as I was, and you're... well, let us not mention where you are now." - Magnus the Red, to a statue of Leman Russ
2012/11/05 12:07:44
Subject: What did Angron inherit from the emperor and what was he created for?
Manchu wrote: The Word Bearers may still be the second largest legion but if they are they are definitely larger than 100,000 strong.
The WB's were 100,000 at the start of the Heresy, they've only shrunk since then. My guess is only the Black Legion surpasses the 100,000 mark anymore.
Pretty sure I recall a Dan Abnett interview for Know No Fear that said they were the 2nd largest at at least 150,000.
120,000 was the final number if i remember rightly there was a tread a while ago about the heresy legion numbers
