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@Thenoobomb, ha - not you dude, you're ok - Alpha legion is my target
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ADB: I showed the Wolves revealing the key weakness at the heart of the World Eaters; showing Angron that his Legion was broken and worthless compared to the others; that he was the one primarch who couldn't trust his own warriors, and that they didn't care if he lived or died; showing that loyalty to brothers and sons is the heart of success for the Legiones Astartes, to the point even Lorgar makes a big deal out of saying the World Eaters and their primarch were massively outclassed by Russ, and Angron was too stupid to see the lesson Russ had sacrificed time, sweat, and blood, to teach. We're talking about a battle the Wolves won, by isolating the enemy general through pack tactics, and threatening to kill him, without a hope of defending himself. It was a balance, 50/50 - Angron overpowered Russ, and the Wolves were losing ground to the World Eaters; but Russ and his warriors had Angron by the balls, and barely broke a sweat. They won, no question. Lorgar even says: "The Wolves won, meathead."
Dorn won’t help you either. He’s too busy being the Emperor’s groundskeeper, hiding behind the palace walls. The Wolf is too busy cutting off heads as our father’s executioner, while the Lion holds on to his secrets, and has no special fondness for you. Who else will come? Not Ferrus, certainly. Nor Corax either. Even as we speak, I suspect he flees for Deliverance. Sanguinius?’ Curze laughed cruelly. ‘The angel is more cursed than I. The Khan? He does not wish to be found. So who is left? No one, Vulkan. None of them will come. You are simply not that important. You are alone.’ Konrad Curze to Vulkan
ADB: I showed the Wolves revealing the key weakness at the heart of the World Eaters; showing Angron that his Legion was broken and worthless compared to the others; that he was the one primarch who couldn't trust his own warriors, and that they didn't care if he lived or died; showing that loyalty to brothers and sons is the heart of success for the Legiones Astartes, to the point even Lorgar makes a big deal out of saying the World Eaters and their primarch were massively outclassed by Russ, and Angron was too stupid to see the lesson Russ had sacrificed time, sweat, and blood, to teach. We're talking about a battle the Wolves won, by isolating the enemy general through pack tactics, and threatening to kill him, without a hope of defending himself. It was a balance, 50/50 - Angron overpowered Russ, and the Wolves were losing ground to the World Eaters; but Russ and his warriors had Angron by the balls, and barely broke a sweat. They won, no question. Lorgar even says: "The Wolves won, meathead."
Dorn won’t help you either. He’s too busy being the Emperor’s groundskeeper, hiding behind the palace walls. The Wolf is too busy cutting off heads as our father’s executioner, while the Lion holds on to his secrets, and has no special fondness for you. Who else will come? Not Ferrus, certainly. Nor Corax either. Even as we speak, I suspect he flees for Deliverance. Sanguinius?’ Curze laughed cruelly. ‘The angel is more cursed than I. The Khan? He does not wish to be found. So who is left? No one, Vulkan. None of them will come. You are simply not that important. You are alone.’ Konrad Curze to Vulkan
Since we're on the subject of the Alpha Legion, another personal retcon of mine is more a retcon of a retcon. I don't like the idea of the Alpha Legion working against Horus by working with him, I prefer it the way I first read/ interpreted it; Alpharius had always given his loyalty to Horus before the Emperor, that's why he joined the Heresy.
Sir Samuel Buca wrote: Since we're on the subject of the Alpha Legion, another personal retcon of mine is more a retcon of a retcon. I don't like the idea of the Alpha Legion working against Horus by working with him, I prefer it the way I first read/ interpreted it; Alpharius had always given his loyalty to Horus before the Emperor, that's why he joined the Heresy.
QFT and this is what I wroted on previous page...I'm not even angry at dumb James Bond LEGION concept, only Cabal...I' mean c'mon, it's like Mexican soap opera...
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The Wolves go for the throat. We go for the eyes. Then the tongue. Then the hands. Then the feet. Then we skin the crippled remains, and offer it up as an example to any still bearing witness. The wolves were warriors before they became soldiers. We were murderers first, last, and always."
-- First Captain Sevatar, when asked why the Night Lords aren't the Emperor's sanction force against other Legions.
"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
My guess is that the Cabal probably won't play that big of a role and that the focus on the AL will be the continually growing divide between Alpharius and Omegon.
That Draigo ever existed at all and/or had a single sentence written about him.
That there are approx 1000 Space Marine chapters are 1000 strong, with the way we play this game they would have been completely obliterated within a year
2. HH remains a time of legend and mystery and all of the Primarchs, Chaos or not, are lost in the annals of time.
2. The Tau treat other species as second class but are not totalitarian in policing them, they are waging a massive economic and political war against the IoM to convert human worlds to their side which has allowed them to start expanding significantly but not appear to be such an existential threat that the IoM feels they need to waste the resources wiping them out. Basically the IoM knows the Tau are hurting them but the costs of destroying them currently outweigh the cost of them continueing to do what they do.
3. The IoM operates more like the Rogue Merchants with hundreds of sectors that oprerate almost completely indepedent of the IoM. But they are helpless to stand up to the massive and advanced IG navalships so they remain very loyal in regards to various tithes.
4. The AM consistently produces new technologies but at incremental pace and the distribution of the new tech remains very small as it is only doled out on the basis of favors to the AM.
5. Chaos mostly comes in the form of highly advanced marauders. They very rarely initiate large invasions. Instead they are dependent on legitimate IoM rebellions which they then infliltrate by offering more advanced weapons, intelligence, or supplies before converting them to Chaos. Chaos is also more of a mind agent that creates a sort of frenzied mob mentality. Chaos is essential much more subtle and less about giving people mutations/bathing in bile than corrupting people with good intentions until they lose all perspective on right and wrong and are just devoted to destroying the IoM. They become kind of like terrorists where they could have families and kids that they are nice to from time to time but would use them as meatshields in a second if they deemed it neccessary.
Will post more later.
Automatically Appended Next Post: 1. Inquisitors are like the IRA on steroids mixed with Hannibal Lector mixed with Sherlock Holmes. Their main jobs is to serve as regulators for Terra and act as enforcers so that no one forgets where the central authority of the IoM lies. Since botching numbers is incredibly simple the High Lords have to have Inquisitors eyes onsite to make sure things are done properly. Proper tithes, proper showing of faith ect. As a result Inquistors spend less time fighting real heresy and more time fighting corruption in local goverments. Except when they find corruption there isn't a trial they just start killing gak.
2. I was very inspired by a medieval painting of Calgar from the 2nd edition codex. Space Marines are closer to space lords than military monks. I imagined them being the soldiers, captains and generals that composed a perfect military machine under the Emperor. After the HH the High Lords didn't have the IG the way they do now to protect the IoM so early on they designated systems for Chapters to guard. But over the millenia those orders became less like military postings at a base and more feudal in nature. Now they essentially lease out planets to Chapters under the condition that they would protect those planets and heed the High Lords call to war. The state of the system really depends on the noble/chapter master who owns the planet/fief.
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