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Blood Angels
Or Grey Knights.
Honest, they are both cool.

Space Wolves They eat, drink and fight and just don't get a feth about the inquisition.

Bled Ravens. They be stealin' yo stuff fool.

I would also like to say Blood Ravens, but they..tend to steal everything they come across it seems

ShatteredBlade wrote:I would also like to say Blood Ravens, but they..tend to steal everything they come across it seems

Thats what makes them so great

Bled Raven: "This weapon says Russ on it? Oh sorry, its a typo, meant to say Blud Ravens."

Black Templars you look at them they kill you, you talk to them they kill you, you shoot at them they still charge at you and hack your head off.

Chaos: Death Guard because they are just badass.

Astral Claws/Red Corsairs. The whole rebellion, the way they conduct their raids and the way they recruit new members really interests me. Also, Huron is awesome.

Emperor's Children (Pre-Heresy) because it's kind of cool in a conversation when one person goes "My dad drives a motorcycle!" you can say "My dad is the immortal God-Emperor of mankind."

The Lamenters. Unlucky, unwanted, ill-fated, depressed but still overall good guys? Hilarious, tragic and kinda awesome all at the same time. They've got a human, flawed style that most Space Marine chapters don't.
Gotta hand it to the one chapter you can accurately roleplay when your dice screw you over!

That snazzy yellow paintjob doesn't hurt either.


As a secondary choice, the Flesh Tearers. The opposite of the kind-hearted Lamenters but no less ill-fated. They've got a cool color scheme, and embody the Adeptus Astartes in the way I always saw them: Godlike combat monsters that due to many factors (but I'm sure being taken at the cusp of teenhood and then spending the next 30 years being pumped full of enhancing crap and being told that you're the hottest gak to ever exist doesn't help) are childlike in their monstrous focus on murder to the point where they're scarcely able to be in the same room as normal people.

The pre-heresy World Eaters have to be up there. As a legion they know what they are and are not bashful about it. They know they are butchers and see no shame in it, more so than even Russ' Dogs, it's a refreshing honesty

Post heresy it's the Salamanders for me. A chapter that embrances what humanity they have left and fight for the little guy until the end.

ShatteredBlade wrote:Sons of Medusa, hands down. I love their Fluff, and believe it or not, their paint scheme as well.

I gotta say Iron Hands. Bionic implants, being as much machine as Astartes and totally merciless. They are exactly the kind of Space Marines the Imperium needs to save its rear.

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bmoleski wrote:Mine is Alpha Legion. They are my favorite loyalist chapter.

Fixed it for you

That's where I stand on the issue anyways.

This is great... its so true you really for sure cant know what these sneaks are really up to. I like them too


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I gotta say my favorite chaos legion is the word bearers. If i was for chaos, which im not, id pick them because they started it all. Anyhow i think its really cool that they chant there nonsense while in combat


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Also i really loved the luna wolves. Pre heresy.

Imperial Fists all the way. Stubborn fighters with a great mentality and awesome fluff.

Black Templars.

Second place goes to Imperial Fists.

1. Dark Angels: the First Legion, intractable and fearless in a fight.

2. Exorcists: A new generation of Daemonhunters, are possessed by a daemon and then excised to increase demonic resistance.

3. Aurora Chapter: A chapter that specializes in armored warfare.

I rather like the Black Templars. Especially after reading helsreach. Most are pompous jerks, but Grimaldus shows how one could still fight for the civilians (towards the end) and fight to the last. although they rather fight than save civilians in most cases (spoiler: their disagreement with the salamanders)

my second favorite is the Ultramarines and my third is the Crimson Fists.

The Black Templars. They've continued the Crusades that the Emperor started...for 10,000 years!

If it was good enough for the Emperor, it's good enough for the Men in Black, the Sons of Dorn, the Emperor's Champions, The BLACK TEMPLARS!

Mine has to be the Iron Snakes... knock the book if you wwill(i thought it was great) but my near totally painted force of them drew a metric crapload of good comments at the lgs last weekend.
Not to mention their fluff.. i really dig that there are no companies and no scouts in the Iron Snakes, plus the squad retains its name from the original commander, and his weapon is passed down from leader to leader.

After them, it's gptta be the Raven Guard, or really, the Death Guard for my chaos fancies.

Death Specteres, they have the best symbol IMO.

Raven Guard, Night Lords, Alpha Legion, you know the sneaky basterds.

1. Crimson Fists
2. Salamanders
3. Raven Guard
Favorite chaos legion: Thousand sons.

I can't believe more don't like the BA

Blood angels are absolutely awesome, but nowhere near my favorite.

ah, well thanks for the BA support

Salamanders!

I love just about everything about this chapter. The humanitarian aspects of them are brought up frequently- so I won't even use that here.

They follow a unique approach training and recruitment that, while keeping their numbers low, creates a hardened core. This is enhanced by their equipment being incredibly well maintained and constructed, since each member of the chapter is an accomplished smith- which leaves their real elite crafters to make true masterpieces.

I love an underdog, and their primarch, Vulkan, I feel is consistently underrated. He drove off a dark eldar raid using forge hammers. He contested his father for days in feats of strength, but bent his knee to him when he demonstrated compassion and a value for life. He's obviously, to me at least, on the high end of the primarch martial power scale, but is tempered by his better nature.

I also love a mystery, even if this one frustrates me. The circumstances of the primarch Vulkan during the heresy are annoyingly vague. He vanished from the DSM mysteriously, but there was no indication of death. And Primarch deaths tend to be quite obvious. He objected to the legions being split in to chapters (not that it mattered to the Salamanders directly at that point), he created powerful artifacts and a prophecy, and then left his sons to find them and unravel it.

(My personal theory is that at the DSM, he disappeared through the webway by some means. I support this with his general emnity towards the Dark Eldar of his home world, and experience giving some insight in to their methods, combined with a mission big E sent the Salamanders on, where he lead them to a webway gate intentionally, combined with Vulkan's ability to create artifacts. I theorize that he had created, or modified, some device that could access the webway in some primitive way, and he either used it, and it backfired, or it was otherwise activated, and he had a difficult time getting out. This explains his DSM vanishing act, and return.)

The chapter itself is a stalwart, heavy fighting force. Plus they are green. And use fire. Like my Orks. So they're a good change of pace from my Orks theme wise, but retain the green. And the fire.

There was at least one person who liked blood angels. The majority seemed to be blood ravens, black templars and imperial fists though.

My Favorite is the Dark Angels, they're arngy dark and I love how their whole existance is bent twords sweeping their past heresy under the rug,


Favorite choas has gotta be Thousands sons, mostly its the paint shceme, but tha fact their all just rubric marines is pretty cool too

Blood Angels, the noble scions of Sanquinius, the most noble of all the Primarchs, are my favorite legion and chapter. I love their fluff, and their colors and dex. If I had a second it would be the lamenters cause I love the fluff and the fact that like Sanquinius they are the most human of all the Adeptus Astartes.

Iron Hands are pretty awesome. Unlike many other chapters, these guys are psychologically messed up due to their horrid and dark past! The Iron Hands are scarred like the Blood angels, which make them much more sinister than their noble brethren. I love them for it.

If it helps I'm going to be using my Angry Marines as counts-as Blood Angels.