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With the release of a new Chaos Space Marine codex pending, I'm curious as to which post heresy Chaos Space Marine legion paint scheme everyone here on Dakka prefers. Now if you prefer a warbands, tell us which one.

I think Hakanor's Reavers when painted up well, by far look the most bad@$$!

Hence why I've slowly started working on an army of them to go along with my Daemonic hordes.

I did not vote, because, for me, it is a tie between:

Night Lords

and

World Eaters.

Both of those chapters colors are top notch.

Huh, Im the only one to vote for Black Legion. I guess Im a sucker for dark colors.

Oh and I never really cared for the Night Lords. I dont think they are bad but I dont think they are good either, they are kind of just "eh whatever"

I quite like the cleaved, due their mysterious nature and the narrative the black ooze creates.

I like the Black Legion most. Then again, I like the Ultramarine colors too.

Close second is the World Eaters when they have a golden trim instead of bronze

Thousand Sons by far followed by Red Corsairs

 Trondheim wrote:
Thousand Sons by far followed by Red Corsairs

Red Corsairs aren't a Legion.

Iron Warriors all the way. They're definitely the most safety-minded of all Space Marines, and are courteous enough to put caution stripes on all of their chainsaws. Safety first!

Night Lords.

They got bat wings and bitchin lightning and skulls and all dat gak.

My favorite Legion, the Death Guard, are just the color of poop and pea soup.

The Iron Warriors obviously. Hazard stripes are sexy.

Night Lords, when done well, look great, as do Death Guard and Thousand Sons. Black Legion is rather stale and boring and far too common, I've never seen a well painted Emperor's Children or Alpha Legion army so I can't comment too much, World Eaters aren't too interesting visually and Word Bearers are often very similar.


That said, honestly I like a lot of the "unaligned" schemes, particularly those in the 3.5E book like the "The Pyre" and "The Damned Company of Lord Caustos" and the like.

I like the Night Lords.

Midnight Blue, Red and Bronze.

Cool skull face paint and lighting all over the place (though I like to think of the lightning as actual lightning not painted on the armour).

 Brother SRM wrote:

 Trondheim wrote:
Thousand Sons by far followed by Red Corsairs

Red Corsairs aren't a Legion.

Well, they tried to be a legion, but Big Daddy Imperium got angry at them for it!

I voted other, but my top three are probably the Red Corsairs, the Black Legion, and the Thousand Suns.

If talking preheresy with preheresy style armour, I like Death Guard or World Eaters. The white looks really good on Mk II- Mk IV armour, as does blue and white. Olive, Red, Purple, and all the others not so much.

If talking post heresy with preheresy armour, then Black Legion or World Eaters WHEN PAINTED IN A CERTAIN WAY. They have to have a really dark, bloody vibe and not just be evil BA. And the same for black legion Spraying them black and adding gold doesn't count, they need a really good painter to do it.
Post Heresy with plastic minis, still Black Legion but the paint scheme is more forgivable.

My favorite legion is the Iron Warriors but my favorite warband is The Purge which mine are painted as.

Pink Marines. Nothing says manly like playing with a bunch of pink toy soldiers.

 Noisy_Marine wrote:
Pink Marines. Nothing says manly like playing with a bunch of pink toy soldiers.

Hellz yeah. I was playing with some pink Daemons. Some guy was like, "d0d, yer guys are pikn" and I was all up in his face like, "WELL IM SECURE IN MY MASCULINITY ARE YOU I AM I AM VERY SECURE YESSIRRE!"

I'm emporers children all the way! the pink sets of the black of there armour so well!

i was going to go with Word bearers first as i liked the dark red scheme until i remembered the garishness of the emp children.

They are truely chaos as they even offend the eye just to look at them!

 Noisy_Marine wrote:
Pink Marines. Nothing says manly like playing with a bunch of pink toy soldiers.

The Dubble Bubble Legion are one of the most insidious of all the forces of the darker powers. They attack from within, spreading plaque and cavities without mercy.

Word bearers. Red is the best color and white tattered robes look good on marines.

Alpha legion when Done right is fething beautiful. Second would go to Word Bearers, third to night lords.

I'm all about some Thousand Sons.

However, I feel that AL have the best thing going on.

Midnight blue with green holographic type scales on their shoulders?

Yes please.

I love metalics so for me its Iron Warriors.

Blood Angels.

Correct answer is 1k sons, of course