Pre- or Mid-Heresy Luna Wolves

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**whatwhat**

In Horus Rising it goes on a fair bit about their speartip attacks, whereby one unit leads from the front and others follow in a speartip formation. Although it only once ( i think) actually says this in terms of battle formation as aposed to a campaign strategy. Either way, it says something about them.

But as jabbakahut says you're looking mainly at a vanila chapter like the Ultramarines.

**whatwhat**

Muoio 117 wrote:Ok so they were well rounded. I just remember something about them being a really good offensive army, supposedly the best. Was that them or some other legion I'm confusing them with?

They were suposedly the best marines at everything pre-sons of horus.

And are you going to do Luna Wolves or Sons of Horus. if you're doing Lunna Wolves i'd go with the sm codex. The sons of horus may be different.

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Muoio 117 wrote:They claimed to be the best at everything except, I think, defense. I believe even they said the Imperial Fists were the best defense.

Yep that does ring a bell. In fact if i recall corectly the statement was that they didn't match the fists in defense or the space wolves in attack but were overall the best rounded chapter.

I'd go with the Sons of Horus, on a modelng level I'd reckon they would be more fun to make.

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Muoio 117 wrote:
JD21290 wrote:I would use the vanilla dex to start with.

hounds where an all round balanced force, didnt really lean in any direction when it came to attacls or defence.
but they allways managed to get the mission at hand done 100% with no problems (eat that smurf boyz)
all in all, they were the perfect marines.

i would go with luna hounds simply for the fluff and fun of it all.

If I went Luna Wolves then their armor would be grey right? Also, what color was Horus' armor before the heresy. I can't remember and I plan on making him once my sculpting skills are up to the challenge. I would also probably make the Mournival but I can't remember the four characters. I think there was Garviel Loken and Abaddon, who were the others?

whatwhat wrote:
Muoio 117 wrote:They claimed to be the best at everything except, I think, defense. I believe even they said the Imperial Fists were the best defense.

Yep that does ring a bell. In fact if i recall corectly the statement was that they didn't match the fists in defense or the space wolves in attack but were overall the best rounded chapter.

I'd go with the Sons of Horus, on a modelng level I'd reckon they would be more fun to make.

If I went Sons of Horus then would their armor still be grey? Because I didn't think it was painted black until Horus died and Abaddon took over. I could put more icons on their armor, like the Eye of Horus (cool...). With Sons of Horus I could throw in some demons here and there which would be cool (if they used demons at that time). No more mournival though, but a crazy strong Horus would take their place. Hmm....a lot to think about.

More ideas are welcome.

The mournival members were Abadon, Loken, Tarik Torgadon and "little horus" Aximand. There's also Maloghurst (horus' right hand man) and a host of others like Iacton Qruze. The mournival were still together for a short while after the change from Luna Wolves to SOH so you could still do them. If you want to do SOH post Istvaan III then Torgadon, Loken and Qruze wont be there.

As for the colour Luna Wolves are white with black trim and SOH are greyish green (pictures here.). Horus is shown in standard Luna Wolves colours in some artwork pre SOH. The terminators will always be black as like the deathwatch in DA they wore different colours to the rest of the chapter.