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Bittersweetly, I say Black Legion

Although they are all failures on an EPIC scale, they actually do get off thier collective asses and do things worth noting. Unlike other legions who don't and won't do this. World Eaters in/excluded for doing ONE thing

da001 wrote:I am missing "All of them". And "Dark Angels".

Did I start something I think the poll needs an addition

Dark Angels or Alpha Legion for me. I can't tell the difference!

Word Bearers. Still unified in their quest to free humanity from the false Emperor's tyranny and usher in a new age of prosperity, faith and strength.

Night Lords. I like how when they were loyal they would often disobey orders completely if they weren't willing to fulfill them, and how they would also refuse battles that weren't stacked in their favor. They are a very "human" legion, psychopathic, but human. It is sad that their legion was doomed to treachery from the start, not 1000 Sons sad, but a little sad nonetheless. Their Omnibus was a fantastic read, their armor looks cool, and I like their angle of being traitors due to hatred of the Emperor instead of pacts with Chaos Gods. (However, those are good stories as well)

1. Night Lords
2. Alpha Legion
3. Death Guard

 ChiliPowderKeg wrote:
Bittersweetly, I say Black Legion

Although they are all failures on an EPIC scale, they actually do get off thier collective asses and do things worth noting. Unlike other legions who don't and won't do this. World Eaters in/excluded for doing ONE thing

Have you read fenris?
Thousand sons and alpha legion got some work done.

Not sure what's alpha's agenda there, but still.

Anyone that read legion can pm me a TLDR version? I don't have time for a book currently.

Word Bearers, no one would be where they are now without the legions being brought the truth of the Great Pantheon!

Death to the False Emperor!

Death Guard all the way, cause Nurgle seems to be the only Chaos-god with a sense of humor. And I like their WW1 vibe in the Horus heresy, drowning the battlefield in gas, radioactive stuff, phosphex... and bodies.

I also like Night Lords and Iron Warriors.
And since I read the Black Legion supplement I also like them, because Abby united all Chaos and crushes the Imperium right now as we speak.

Greatest traitor legion...Dark Angels?

Iron Warriors!
Because Perturabo. He created the greatest Trap. He modified the crap out of a bunch of Domitar-automata. He inspired the Typhon. He had his own labyrinth! And he plays a kind of tabletop-game!
Oh. And he crashed the head of that princess Fulgrim into a Warhound-model!
Iron within, iron without!

Thousand Sons, just for their characters, background in the heresy and fancy helmets. Really ties it together and Ahriman's adventures are quite interesting to follow.

well, by the fluff Death Guard were only partially traitors (according to old old fluff, when they got to tera, they were gonna fire on the traitor fleet since Mortation didn't like sorcerers, being lied to, or the like. Thanks Typhus, you ass) they were also the only legion who didn't route after Tera fell, they kinda just marched to the eye or terror.

I chose TS, though I don't count them as chaos alligned either: the worst the magnus-loyal TS have done since the Heresy was kick the space wolves in the shin, which I think is perfectly justified. the Blue TS are exiles from the rest of the legion.

Death Guard. Nigh unstoppable, and I think Typhus is the coolest favored champion, along with Mortarion being a badass Primarch/Daemon.

 Terminus wrote:
Alpha Legion, for being smarter than the average bear, despite their novel being among the worst-written books ever.

Out of all the Horus heresy novels Legion is actually my favorite and I believe it's the most well written book in the entire series. To each their own I guess.

My vote goes to thousand sons because no other Legion could stand toe to toe against them without the help of the sisters of silence and custodes.

Of all the legions loyal and traitor, they are the most feared for good reason.

On the table top, thousand sons are... not anything what the fluff describes.

Has no one posting become aware of the unholy thread necromancy that occurred this day?

This thread was 6 years old. I wonder at what dark powers were employed to pull it from the recesses of Dakka past, consequently crawling its way to the top of my subscription list, when it includes likely one of the first posts I made on Dakka, about a game I have not played for 4 years.

Truly, the powers of chaos are with the poster who dragged this topic from its grave...

Where's Dark Angels on this list?

 General Seric wrote:
Has no one posting become aware of the unholy thread necromancy that occurred this day?

This thread was 6 years old. I wonder at what dark powers were employed to pull it from the recesses of Dakka past, consequently crawling its way to the top of my subscription list, when it includes likely one of the first posts I made on Dakka, about a game I have not played for 4 years.

Truly, the powers of chaos are with the poster who dragged this topic from its grave...

Close to the last time CSM was remotely competitive...

Black Legion, because black never goes out of style. Also Terminators.

 General Seric wrote:
Has no one posting become aware of the unholy thread necromancy that occurred this day?

This thread was 6 years old. I wonder at what dark powers were employed to pull it from the recesses of Dakka past, consequently crawling its way to the top of my subscription list, when it includes likely one of the first posts I made on Dakka, about a game I have not played for 4 years.

Truly, the powers of chaos are with the poster who dragged this topic from its grave...

My god... what have we done?







Emperor, preserve us.

*** hyperbole incoming...you were warned ***

Black Legion

- Horus was the only primarch ever to fully realize his potential. He went and achieved god like power on par with the emperor all on his lonesome. Without giving in to daemonhood. So I consider him to be the most powerful primarch of them all.
- The word Bearers may have started the heresy, but by all that is unholy, the Black Legion will finish it.
- People say they are an epic failure. These guys have picked a fight with the entirety of the imperium and have been fighting them for ten thousand years...alone *. Despite fighting such a long war with limited access to resources, they are somehow the largest of the traitor legions by an order of magnitude. They must be doing something right. Not to mention that Abaddon has not only survived 12 black crusades but has gotten stronger after each one. Talk about playing the long game!
- They are the only legion to reject their primarch for being a failure and taking vengeance and bitterness to whole new level. They want to burn an entire Galaxy to the ground not for the sake of it or because some god wants it so, but out of sheer hatred.
- All other primarchs have ascended to daemonhood and are hence bound to the warp or dead. Abaddon is the only one alive and kicking as a mortal(ish) in the real world. And who knows with alpharius/omegon lol.

*The other legions help during a black crusade, but after that they return to doing their thing, while the Black Legion are left to fight the imperium on their own. The others might cross paths and end up fighting the imperium but that's random. The Black Legion will actively seek them out. An enemy that outnumbers them so vastly in all regards it's not even a contest. And yet they grow in strength.

NL as they are so Chaos they hate their Primarch, the other traitors, themselves, the loyalists, puppies, Abaddon and themselves (yes again, they really hate themselves)

 General Seric wrote:
Has no one posting become aware of the unholy thread necromancy that occurred this day?

This thread was 6 years old. I wonder at what dark powers were employed to pull it from the recesses of Dakka past, consequently crawling its way to the top of my subscription list, when it includes likely one of the first posts I made on Dakka, about a game I have not played for 4 years.

Truly, the powers of chaos are with the poster who dragged this topic from its grave...

Wow...
When this thread was made I was only 10 years old... So much time. Now I don't know whether to feel old or young

Also, the Iron Warriors are the greatest, for they are the most tragic.

Roknar wrote:
*** hyperbole incoming...you were warned ***

Black Legion

- Horus was the only primarch ever to fully realize his potential. He went and achieved god like power on par with the emperor all on his lonesome. Without giving in to daemonhood. So I consider him to be the most powerful primarch of them all.
- The word Bearers may have started the heresy, but by all that is unholy, the Black Legion will finish it.
- People say they are an epic failure. These guys have picked a fight with the entirety of the imperium and have been fighting them for ten thousand years...alone *. Despite fighting such a long war with limited access to resources, they are somehow the largest of the traitor legions by an order of magnitude. They must be doing something right. Not to mention that Abaddon has not only survived 12 black crusades but has gotten stronger after each one. Talk about playing the long game!
- They are the only legion to reject their primarch for being a failure and taking vengeance and bitterness to whole new level. They want to burn an entire Galaxy to the ground not for the sake of it or because some god wants it so, but out of sheer hatred.
- All other primarchs have ascended to daemonhood and are hence bound to the warp or dead. Abaddon is the only one alive and kicking as a mortal(ish) in the real world. And who knows with alpharius/omegon lol.

*The other legions help during a black crusade, but after that they return to doing their thing, while the Black Legion are left to fight the imperium on their own. The others might cross paths and end up fighting the imperium but that's random. The Black Legion will actively seek them out. An enemy that outnumbers them so vastly in all regards it's not even a contest. And yet they grow in strength.

he didn't give into daemonhood, but he was still a controlled pawn of chaos like a daemon.
"alone" with the help of multiple warbands, their leaders being technically immortal while in favor of the gods, their troops in much the same situation, and a never ending supply of traitor guardsmen, chaos daemons, and others. yes, they sure are "alone"
They didn't reject their primarch, he got mind nuked out of existence
Abaddon is not a primarch. Horus was his primarch, and he didn't just die, he was removed from existance. Additionally, daemons are bound to sit in the warp, they are bound to return there when out of energy or killed.
Night lords are pirates, Iron Warriors go out to loot supplies, DG, WE, and EC all go kill imperials, black legion is not special on that front. Hell, Huron arguably does a better job at killing imperials then Abby and his boys.


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 Iron_Captain wrote:

Also, the Iron Warriors are the greatest, for they are the most tragic.

Bull, Thousand Sons are the most tragic. Attacked by the wolves based on Horus's treachery, while getting shown that their single greatest flaw and fear (flesh change) was back, all while their research, knowledge, and home was destroyed around them. Finally, after all this was done, their first captain accidentally sacrificed most all of their flesh to stop the mutations plaguing his brothers. Damn, just damn :(

I voted alpha legion cause they betrayed everybody.

If I could pick two I probs would have also picked the Black Legion. I mean, they're the Luna Wolves, who were formed by Horus, who started the Horus Heresy... So, ummmm.... Yeah.

Black Legion.

The largest, best equipped, most flexible, and most threatening legion. Blessed by the entire pantheon of Chaos and lead by the fearless Warmaster.

Armoured in ebony, bone and brass, armed with the most devastating weapons of Chaos, poised to annihilate Cadia and tear the Emperor from his throne.

I'd like to point out it should be Sons of Horus, not Black Legion. The Black Legion is formed from warbands of the Sons of Horus and isn't a true Legion.

I go Alpha Legion>Night Lords>Thousand Sons>Emperor's Children>Word Bearers based on fluff and looks.

Black Legion, no question. as of M.41 999 they're easily the strongest msot well orginzied Legion,

All legions loyal to horus or to the emperor betrayed human kind, by feeding chaos all sorts of horrible emotions for more then 10.000 years. The emperor is the greatest traitor he should have sacrificed himself and his grimdark dream of a regressing empire in order to save human kind and all other sentient species living nearby.

Aesthetics: Thousand sons.
Power: The legion consisting solely of power armoured wizards and respawnable power armoured ghosts.
Culture: The legion which produces spellbooks and wine and awesome psychic societies as opposed to more scripture or prescriptive war bibles
Gameplay: errr, ummm, hmmm.

WE by far. Their brutality cannot be matched.