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The two missing were thrown into the warp because they came out as Squats.....(Emperor forgive me). Thats the only thing I can think of that would be REMOVED from records completly....crap, GW might be sending black helicopters to get me now.
BURN THE HERETIC! KILL THE MUTANT! PURGE THE UNCLEAN!
Well, isn't in "25 for 25" anthology Sanguinius was said to be hiding Red Rage in his sons due to unwilingness to make third vacant pedestal in that certain area of Imperial Palace?
English Assassin wrote:At the time the missing legions were introduced (Epic Space Marine, 1989) there were in fact three missing legions, all destroyed after Istvaan V, and, as already stated, there was no need for the studio to leave spaces for players to invent their own, since the number of legions was not yet fixed. (Emphasis added.)
Commander Endova wrote:I think it's kind of funny in some ways. The 2 missing legions were left unknown so players could fill in the blanks. Yet anyone who does is usually met with much derision.
It's funny how poor some people's reading comprehension is.
Not sure what your point is. That may have been true in the past, but it no longer is. There are a fixed number of legions at this point, and two of them were intentionally created as enigmas so players could could fill in the blanks. Perhaps my reading comprehension suffers, but at the very least I am able to move out of the past. You'll also have to excuse me if I glaze over a few insignificant posts.
Well, I suggest you un-glaze a bit; I'll try to repeat myself as succinctly (that means briefly - just in case you lost interest before that word ended) as possible. The missing legions appeared in 40k's background long before the number of founding legions/chapters was fixed at twenty; at that time there was no need for 'blanks' to fill.
Red Hunters: 2000 points Grey Knights: 2000 points Black Legion: 600 points and counting
So then its safe to say that one of the missing legions is most likely dead, killed by the space wolves. Then the other legion is still out roaming around? or at least their primarch is?
Reading Know No Fear, one line about Guilliman states "There are only seventeen other beings like him left in the universe." So the missing two appear to be gone.
Backspacehacker wrote:So then its safe to say that one of the missing legions is most likely dead, killed by the space wolves. Then the other legion is still out roaming around? or at least their primarch is?
No. Anything beyond that there were twenty primarchs, all of whom were recovered, and that two were 'gone' by the time the heresy began is hearsay, both in-universe and out-of-universe.
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Red Hunters: 2000 points Grey Knights: 2000 points Black Legion: 600 points and counting
4oursword wrote:[posts that same picture for the thousandth time]
Seriously -- enough!
I've only posted it twice.
Veteran Sergeant wrote:If 40K has Future Rifles, and Future Tanks, and Future Artillery, and Future Airplanes and Future Grenades and Future Bombs, then contextually Future Swords seem somewhat questionable to use, since it means crossing Future Open Space to get Future Shot At.
Polonius wrote:I categorically reject any statement that there is such a thing as too much boob.
Coolyo294 wrote:Short answer: No.
Long answer: Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
So then the 2 missing primarchs did something so bad that they are to be lost forever. But what could that have been? traitor legions were just killed.
Backspacehacker wrote:So then the 2 missing primarchs did something so bad that they are to be lost forever. But what could that have been? traitor legions were just killed.
The Emperor, and his Righteous Authority!, was still around when whatever happened to the missing Legions/Primarchs happened.
A bunch of idiots who could barely think for themselves were in charge after the Heresy. Their ability to Unperson people wasn't nearly as good.
"'players must agree how they are going to select their armies, and if any restrictions apply to the number and type of models they can use."
This is an actual rule in the actual rulebook. Quit whining about how you can imagine someone's army touching you in a bad place and play by the actual rules.
Freelance Ontologist
When people ask, "What's the point in understanding everything?" they've just disqualified themselves from using questions and should disappear in a puff of paradox. But they don't understand and just continue existing, which are also their only two strategies for life.
It would of had to be something very bad, because even in the Heresy, the Emperor couldn't come to kill his own son, only doing so after seeing how far he had fallen.
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Every Dakkanaught gets a 4+ Pinch of Salt save.
When you suffer a Falling Sky hit, roll a D6 - on a 4+ the hit is ignored as per the Pinch of Salt save. On a 1-3 panic insues - you automatically fail common sense tests for the next 2 weeks and get +7 to your negativity stat. -Praxiss
Red Hunters: 2000 points 
Grey Knights: 2000 points 
Black Legion: 600 points and counting 