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 Togusa wrote:

Not Online!!! wrote:

 Togusa wrote:
Unless I just missed it in the codex, how are legions organized on the chaos side?

I am trying to plan my Black Legion force and I'm trying to decide if there is any point at all to mirroring a force organization al a space marines, or if I should just treat them as random groups.

Ohhh this is a can of worms that really depends on the legions themselves:

Some like WE and EC are Shattered shadows and mercs:

Others like the BL are organized by mother legion but lead by a trusted leader from abbadaby which will send his personal executioner after you if you conspiere against him or fail.

Others like the WB and IW are heavily organized still.

AL: well we all know the meme but the al works less like a legion anyways and more like a unholly crossover of IRA, IS, Taliban, Partisans and guerillos and some groups might even be closet loyalists.

So they do not mark things like:

1st company
2nd company

Etc?

Night lords are very distinctive when it comes to makring positions , like first claw, third talon, etc. Iron Warriors are rigidly organized into companies that fight among each other. Losers of intercine conflicts often go their own way as raiders, scavengers, mercs, etc.

Other forces are more chaotic. EC tend to go with grand eloquent titles and designations but fracture at the drop of a feather.

In the end I suppose that chaos represents a total Darwinian situation where the forces that do what works survive and others die. Also, those that attract the favor of a chaos power or even a god will have advantages in surviving.