Khorne Alpha legion?

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**vaklor4**

As far as gameplay goes, nothing stops me from playing Khorne and AL. But does this break the fluff over its back? Are Stealth-Zerkers a thing?

**Eldarain**

Just call them Assassination Squads.

**Robisagg**

KHORNE NINJAS

**vaklor4**

Robisagg wrote:
KHORNE NINJAS

Yelling out blood curdling warcries and ripping enemies to shreds...Steathily!

**MechaEmperor7000**

Remember GW has an official Ninja Ogre model.

Ninja

Ogre

with ha "Hiya" gnoblar.

Anything is possible.

**Galef**

Not only is this a "thing" but it is one of the most competitive CSM armies at the moment.

Zerkers can be sneaky up until they get close to the enemy. Khorne doesn't just favor warriors who are pure brutes, but also rewards cunning warriors....that are also brutes

**Desubot**

vaklor4 wrote:
As far as gameplay goes, nothing stops me from playing Khorne and AL. But does this break the fluff over its back? Are Stealth-Zerkers a thing?

Lore wise?

Isnt this kinda the thing that nightlords would do?

**Galas**

Alpha Legion aren't the Sneaky ones, those are the Night Lords.

Alpha Legion would be the ones that put a bunch of sleeping (With drugs) Khorne Berzerker inside Imperial Containers and send them to a Imperial Guard Position and once inside use their undercover agents/cultists to give the "OK" pass, and then open them , releasing the now awakened Berzerkers in the middle of all the Imperium defenses.
The carnage would be glorious.

**Desubot**

Galas wrote:
Alpha Legion aren't the Sneaky ones, those are the Night Lords.

Alpha Legion would be the ones that put a bunch of sleeping (With drugs) Khorne Berzerker inside Imperial Containers and send them to a Imperial Guard Position and once inside use their undercover agents/cultists to give the "OK" pass, and then open them , releasing the now awakened Berzerkers in the middle of all the Imperium defenses.
The carnage would be glorious.

That honestly makes more sense. its not about the zerkers being alpha legion but how the alpha legion manipulates people and situations to make gak happen the way they want it.

**Earth127**

Rember the opening scenes from praetorian of Dorn, it's just that.

The scheme can't be too over the top for the alpha legion.

**Kap'n Krump**

Galef wrote:
Not only is this a "thing" but it is one of the most competitive CSM armies at the moment.

Zerkers can be sneaky up until they get close to the enemy. Khorne doesn't just favor warriors who are pure brutes, but also rewards cunning warriors....that are also brutes

So, is Khorne brutally cunning or cunningly brutal?

**Valentine009**

I feel like using Khorne Berserkers as a distraction is the exact kind of thing the Alpha Legion would do. What is more distracting then a beserker? Meanwhile the rest of the legion is behind the lines, setting up bombs and hacking communications.

**Lord Xcapobl**

Cunningly cunning and brutally brutal.

**TheWaspinator**

You just shove the Hulk out of a helicopter onto people.

**MagicJuggler**

I am imagining they're an entire squad of Dexter Marines.

**NoiseMarine with Tinnitus**

In the book Kharn: Eater of Worlds there indeed was a World Eater assassination squad. They used stealth of sorts to get to their objective without running around butchering everything in sight.

Mind you, once they were discovered eventually the gak well and truly hit the fan.

Good book, recommend it.

**MechaEmperor7000**

I can just imagine some Alpha Legionnaires capturing a bunch of world eater berserkers and throw them into stasis tubes, then airdropping them (sans parachute) into the warzone so that they won't be caught in the "blast radius" when the berserkers come out of stasis.

**NoiseMarine with Tinnitus**

MechaEmperor7000 wrote:
I can just imagine some Alpha Legionnaires capturing a bunch of world eater berserkers and throw them into stasis tubes, then airdropping them (sans parachute) into the warzone so that they won't be caught in the "blast radius" when the berserkers come out of stasis.

From the old fluff you are describing exactly what they did to deploy Eversor assassins. Turn off the drugs, drop them planetside and watch the hilarity ensue.

**MechaEmperor7000**

I was actually gonna say they'd do it in some morbid parody of the Eversors.

WRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRY

**Inquisitor Lord Katherine**

I think infiltrating Khorne Berzerkers is absolutely hilarious, whether or not it toes the straight-and-narrow with regards to lore compliance.

And, really, I don't see how the two are mutually exclusive. If anyone can figure out how to infiltrate Khorne Bezerkers, it's the Alpha Legion.

**MechaEmperor7000**

If an alpha legion army faces a world eaters army, I can just imagine that the "infiltrated" berserkers weren't actually infiltrated. Instead they're the blokes from the world eaters warband that got tricked into fighting their own men (probably with some rocks thrown at their heads and poorly-made attempts at mimicking their friend's voices).

**Rosebuddy**

AL operatives sedating berzerkers and outfitting them with a stimulant package that activates either on command of the local operations leader or on a timer is one way to explain it. The other is that they've simply put a lot of combat drugs into renegade marines and use them for shock troops. Eversor knock-offs is pretty appropriate.

If you just look at it straight on, yeah, it's kind of dodgy. That people tend to paint berzerkers in bright red doesn't help. If you were to use more toned-down models and paint them in blood-drenched camo it helps a lot. Berzerkers don't have to be fancy looking, you know?

**vaklor4**

I also wanted to ask something sort of on topic.

I wanna go Alpha Legion, but I've already painted 60% of my army red.

Is it reasonable to say they're Khorne worshippers first and foremost? And do you think I should paint the rest of my models Alpha Legion, or should I just keep with colour scheme and stick with Red/Brass/Black?

**MechaEmperor7000**

Just do what I do. Say your army is made up of different warbands that just happen to be working together.

My zerkers are all painted WE style. My tanks are all IW, and possessed are all Wordbearers.

**TheWaspinator**

Obviously, the seven-foot-tall armored berserk warrior just puts on a big floppy hat and a trenchcoat and he can blend in anywhere.

**nareik**

vaklor4 wrote:
I also wanted to ask something sort of on topic.

I wanna go Alpha Legion, but I've already painted 60% of my army red.

Is it reasonable to say they're Khorne worshippers first and foremost? And do you think I should paint the rest of my models Alpha Legion, or should I just keep with colour scheme and stick with Red/Brass/Black?

Sculpt a hydra shoulder pad on one of the marines. Paint him AL. Then repaint him Khorne. Make him your warlord.

None of the other marines realise this undercover AL operative is pulling the strings. This marine's machinations is what makes the Khorne Warband an AL force.