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Hello again Dakka Dakka, it's been a long time since i last posted on here.
anyway i have now come to the conclusion that after several other types of army, i want to start a pre heresy space marine legion.
my problem however is which one.

so that's what i am asking the good posters on Dakka Dakka to help me with. The legions i'm strongly considering are;
The Ultramarines, Luna Wolves, Imperial fists, Emperors Children, The Blood Angels and the Iron Hands

my plan for the army is too possibly use the squad sizes for space marines as seen in Imperial armour IX
and that sort of organisation through out the force

the HQ will be a fully converted Primarch and maybe a couple of captains to go with him and then about 3000points to go with them.

so then I ask. Which legion should i choose ??

thanks in advance

- crayon

Iron Hands

I barely see anyone do them period, let alone doing them pre heresy

This though probably belongs in discussions or painting/modeling

thanks for poitning out where this belongs. i blame not posting for a while. and that's 1 for the iron hands then

Emperors' Children

Iron Hands would be cool

Chapter House just released T-sons pads thats a thought too

Minotaurs.
I've *never* seen anyone do a Minotaurs force.

Iron hands

Oldgrue wrote:Minotaurs.
I've *never* seen anyone do a Minotaurs force.

They are a legion?

Not Blood Angels - they wouldn't be any cooler as a legion than as a chapter, except that you would be able to field Sanguinius himself. Which would. Be. Awesome.

Soooooo, I'll go with the iron hands.

Sanguinius would be awesome to have but i have never really liked the sons of the winged one.

and from a lot of people both on the internet and those i've spoken too at my local shop the Iron Hands seem like the most popular legion for me to take up. Followed by the Imperial Fists.

Hmm, the more i think about it, Mark III clad Iron Hands marching to war alongside Ferrus Mannus seems awesome... hmmm i think they are probably the legion for me then

minotaurs are a chapter from the 21st "Cursed" founding....if you like sieges and tanks then iron hands or imperial fists

Iron Hands all the way

I say rainbow marines.

But my second vote is definitely Iron Hands. =]

Thanks to various people i believe that i am likely to start an iron hands army. I have some ideas for Ferrus Manus based around some art scale articles i've seen across various forums. how best to represent his giant metal hands....
But alongside the iron hands will be two squads of Luna Wolves, The Mournival and of course the Big Man Himself. Hell i'm kinda tempted to put Fulgrim in there aswell, my reasoning being Fulgrim's best friend was Manus and I feel they probably met whilst the Emperors Children were attatched to the Luna Wolves.

so in terms of the project outline

Ferrus Manus - His Honour Guard

2 Cohorts of 20 with 2 Centurions to act as line captains

so thats about 53 men

Emperors Children
Fulgrim Himself (conversion ideas would be most welcome)
1 Cohort of Emperors Children led by captain Tarvitz

Luna Wolves
Horus (in artificer armour, lets face it he did wear something other than terminator, hell he didn't have it during the first book)

The Mournival
Honour Guard for Torgaddon, Loken and Aximand

Vipus(centurion/line captain)
Cohort

Another line captain and yet another cohort

and the Justerean Terminators


not sure what else would be worth getting but that should be a good start, as its a lengthy project the size of the army might well be quite big.

I hope to begin at the end of this month one pay day
- okay i've already made head way on Horus, i need my tool box back so i can apply the green stuff and what not. Hopefully I'll have a project Log Started in the next few weeks with some very rough concepts for the 3 primarchs.