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Reading up on HH books and I started to question my original choice of Legion. I always liked the Alpha Legion because of their discipline, flexibility and anonymity, but now I'm really starting to dig other legions. Read Betrayer, Path of Heaven, and now Angel Exterminatus - I am digging how a lot of the legions have a very strong cultural identity.

Anyway, what appealed to you the most about your legion? What made you chose it? What did you read and just thought, damn, i need me some of that?

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For me it all came from the books. I read the first 4 books,. then First Heretic and Betrayer. From them it was all in on the 12th legion.

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Bloodbowl - Lizardmen.
Horus Heresy - World Eaters.
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New Orleans, LA

Imperial Fists because Dorn is a dick!

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I chose Ultramarines because of a massive variety of reasons.

I'd already played Ultramarines in 40k for several years beforehand, so playing them in 30k both appealed and repelled me at the same time. On one hand, I'd have all the paints and mixtures and bitz to do them well, and I could even proxy models from one into the other (using certain 40k vehicles in 30k and certain 30k models in 40k), but I'd just be doing an army I'd already done lots of.

Second was the Legion rules and in-game effects. Their style of play, with the overlapping synergistic style, the Breacher shields on the Invictarii and the power sword Breacher squads all seemed cool to me. I loved the idea of a Roman testudo force, and whilst Fists had the actual RoW for it, the Ultramarines could do it justice too.

Their aesthetic just got better in 30k. I liked them in 40k as it was, but 30k just got better. The look of the Invictarii, the artwork in the black books, and many of people's own projects I'd seen on Dakka just drew me in. The blue/gold scheme still looked good to me, and again, having plenty of Ultramarine bits would help in customizing them.

Lorewise? They just got better. I completely understand that in 40k, they were a bit ubiquitous. Nearly ever major galactic event had Ultramarines in some way involved, and the whole "Spiritual Liege" thing was still going around. 30k? Completely different. I liked their style, their focus on planning and fighting with logic, discipline and honour - sometimes being the "stuck-in-the-mud" isn't that bad. They're certainly not THE BESTEST EVERRR, which is good. The sheer size of the Legion was good for picking out a company from it, seeing as there was over 200 to choose from.

It's not to say they were the only Legion I looked at (Emperor's Children, Iron Warriors, Imperial Fists, Night Lords and Alpha Legion all got a look in), but out of all of them, I'm glad I sided with the Smurfs. Besides, I'll probably expand into a "traitor" Legion soon, leaving them ambiguous if they'll be Loyalists or not.


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Pretty much this model!

For 2nd army had to be loyal legion from siege of terra so imperial fist, blood angels or white scars? Easy. Blood angels are one of my fav chapters in 40k and didn't want to try painting white legion yet anyway.

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I like Space Wolves so I play Space Wolves. The real challenge is picking a Traitor force.

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Thousand Sons; their backstory is a classical Greek tragedy.

I don't think I could have chosen any other Legion. The other traitor Legions were either brutal for the sake of brutality, repulsive in action and/or demeanor, or just didn't have an appealing color scheme. Reasons for not picking loyalists varies per Legion: I played Space Wolves in 5th Ed, and didn't like how willing they were to slaughter the Thousand Sons, the Ultramarines still seemed bland on the surface (thanks 40k and the Spiritual Liege thing), I had enough trouble trying to paint ships yellow and black and gave up, so I didn't want to do an army of Imperial Fists, never cared as much for the Blood Angels (although that may have been due to a bad game in 5th ed 40k where someone brought nothing but Dante and Death Company), didn't like the color schemes of Dark Angels, Salamanders and Raven Guard, and I didn't do White Scars because I didn't want to spend a fortune on bikes.

If I really had to choose a different Legion, I might go for Luna Wolves, but there are no decals and I would be forever collecting Khorne Berserker helms and trimming off the "bunny ears".
   
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I chose Salamanders initially because someone was selling Vulkan and a batch of Firedrakes secondhand for cheap, but I ended up with Death Guard because I wanted to do a "make a Terminator army work" project and having Infiltrating Grave Wardens does really help with that.

Also because the Eisenstein has been my favourite bit of 40k lore since I started playing and my loyalist Morturg army gives Garro some friendly faces to hang out with, because the red/grey Dusk Raiders scheme my force has moved back to has come out really quite well, and because I get the fun of some of the Dark Angels jokes ("We were loyal since the beginning. Really. We're in the Second Founding register as a Raven Guard successor. Honest. Nothing to see here.") without a lot of the baggage.

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Blood Angels was my first 40k love and it translated over to my first army in 30k. But, after waiting for a couple years for more for them, I ended up with a small Iron Warriors army and read more of their back story, really digging the loyalists of a traitor legion (namely Kyr Vhalen) and that their style of war was different. Now I've got maybe 4k of painted Iron Warriors and have been collecting bits for an Alpha Legion army after reading "Legion" which was just awesome. After I finish a small Talons force (a few dreads, a dozen or so Custodes and some sisters), build/paint the AL, then I want to do a Court of the Crimson King list with Magnus and Ahriman. "Thousand Sons" remains my favorite HH novel, as said above, just classic tragedy.

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 kronk wrote:
Imperial Fists because Dorn is a dick!


I picked imperial fists because im a masochist and like painting yellow.

makes sense

 Unit1126PLL wrote:
 Scott-S6 wrote:
And yet another thread is hijacked for Unit to ask for the same advice, receive the same answers and make the same excuses.

Oh my god I'm becoming martel.
Send help!

 
   
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I chose Sons of Horus because:

1) I play Black Legion in 40K
2) Their bold, aggressive style of warfare
3) They are a Jack of all Trades army that can compete in every aspect of the game
4) They are the first among traitors

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World Eaters look awesome, and have the best and most tragic traitor story.
   
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Washington State

Sons of Horus

They are the stars of the Horus Heresy. They climbed the highest and fell the farthest.

The idea of savage combat, the win at all costs, savagery trumps technique really appeals to me.

They are probably the most well rounded, can do just about anything in 30K. Other armies perfect one way of combat. SoH can do all forms of combat.

Horus Lupercal himself is the most bad of the Primarchs. He is also the most expensive at 500 points. He is just brutal. I'd take Horus over every other Primarch in 30K to date. His rules are solid and don't depend on dice rolls, going first, or rolling the right psychic powers. Much like his Legion, he can do it all in close combat. Stack wounds, hit hard, or any combo thereof. He was also the first Primarch to affect the stats of models in combat with him- a trick that Leman Russ perfected... seven books later!


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UK

Blood Angels.

I'm collecting them for 40k and I really like Sanguinius being the acceptable Marty-Stu (in that he's too damn perfect but really has to die).

Had I not chosen Blood Angels for 40k, I think I might have gone with White Scars.

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United States

Iron Warriors was my Army in 40k since 5th. When the Horus Heresy came out I knew exactly what Legion I would use!!!

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I play blackshields because of the fluff and the "your dudes" vibe to them. I built them as a loyalist force with a knight-errant supporting them. (And I play Grey Knight and Deathwatch in 40k, so it was a nice little link...)

I'm also starting Alpha Legion because I really like the whole "triple bluff" fluff of their traitor status, or maybe loyalist? And also I am Alpharius and I play Alpha Legion in 40k too...

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Omadon's Realm

Alpha Legion, because I liked the color scheme best (after seeing that contemptor on FW) and they seemed like a good idea as allied for my Dark Mech.




 
   
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Thousand Sons – though I haven’t touched them since 8th came out and the fact that their rules were/are considered broken (especially at first).

Same as everyone else really, loved the books and lore behind them, along with the constant push for more knowledge!

Loyalist wise though, I keep getting drawn to the Dark Angels and Raven Guard, which also led to me running Raven Guard in late 7th 40k.

Not really sure why I’m drawn to these 2, but I am intrigued!
   
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Glasgow, Scotland

Way back when I first discovered Games Workshop in the 90s, I went into the shop with my mum and they sold me a build-and-paint set with that 5-man monopose Combat Squad with the push-fit bolters and the missile launcher and sergeant guys. I went into the store and got a paint lesson, where they guy showed me how to paint an Ultramarine. It was cool, I was hooked.

By the time I bought my first box of models though, I'd discovered the other chapters and, importantly, I'd discovered 'Space Wolves' were a thing, and they were AWESOME. So, they were my first 40K army. It probably wasn't super long before I ended up selling/discarding them as I chewed through a ton of armies in the way that only an impatient teenager who mostly cared about the gaming/social aspect of it could.. but the Space Wolves of Fenris will always be fondly remembered as my first real experience with 40K and wargaming in general.

When I got back into 40K, I had no intention of playing Imperials.. but once I heard that 30K was a thing, my immediate thoughts were:

* I have to get in on that hype train! -and-
* I have to build my first ever army again, done right this time!

There's a ton I like about Space Wolves in 30K, from their iconography and grim colour scheme to their (thankfully much better than 40K) lore, but none of that is why I decided to collect them in 30K. There's a ton of Legions that I'd have at least considered playing for their lore, playstyle, unique models or colour scheme if I went about it objectively, but Space Wolves, to me, are just pure hobby nostalgia.

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I picked Night Lords because of the Night Lord Omnibus. Those books shed a lot of light on both 30k and 40k NL. They are a really cool legion, with a lot more depth than just sadistic bat marines. Also, given their current status in 40k as being utterly shattered and war bandy, I find it interesting to imagine them in their full legion glory.
   
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My choice was simple, imperial fists. Because cruddice shoved black Templars (my favourite army at the time) in the marine Codex. I love the Templars and therefore it was a no brained for me
   
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I ultimately chose Emperor's Children (After flirting with Ultramarines as my first Legion choice) because I really like the way they look with gold trim and purple armor. Plus the Palatine Aquila looks frickin' sweet. Plus their obsession with perfect to a fault is a flaw I can sympathize with personally and I want to recreate the Drop Site Massacre. I would've done World Eaters but there are like three locally. Plus, playing a traitor legion means you can run them as loyalists (to represent people like Saul Tarvitz) or as traitors. You could do that with a loyalist legion too but chaos Ultramarines is a bit harder to swallow imo. The only downside is that for whatever reason Forge World discontinued their transfer sheet.

My other choice was Sons of Horus but their color scheme doesn't stick out as nicely on the battlefield.

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 TheCustomLime wrote:
My other choice was Sons of Horus but their color scheme doesn't stick out as nicely on the battlefield.


Depends on the battlefield Green over grey(cityfight) sticks juuust fine and luckily cityfight is my favourite scifi setting for battlefield.

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 AaronWilson wrote:
For me it all came from the books. I read the first 4 books,. then First Heretic and Betrayer. From them it was all in on the 12th legion.

Same for me. Plus I used to play World Eaters in 40k and I wanted to recreate the army in 30k. I like their simple approach to conflict.

“Because we couldn’t be trusted. The Emperor needed a weapon that would never obey its own desires before those of the Imperium. He needed a weapon that would never bite the hand that feeds. The World Eaters were not that weapon. We’ve all drawn blades purely for the sake of shedding blood, and we’ve all felt the exultation of winning a war that never even needed to happen. We are not the tame, reliable pets that the Emperor wanted. The Wolves obey, when we would not. The Wolves can be trusted, when we never could. They have a discipline we lack, because their passions are not aflame with the Butcher’s Nails buzzing in the back of their skulls.
The Wolves will always come to heel when called. In that regard, it is a mystery why they name themselves wolves. They are tame, collared by the Emperor, obeying his every whim. But a wolf doesn’t behave that way. Only a dog does.
That is why we are the Eaters of Worlds, and the War Hounds no longer."
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Raven Guard for now whilst I wait for the cool models I'll eventually get from the 1st legion.

Reason is fairly simple - I like infantry armies that use surprise as one of it's main weapons. As for the 1st Legion well, 40k first love was the Deathwing and there's always the option to play as the Fallen at some point in the future

 
   
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tneva82 wrote:
 TheCustomLime wrote:
My other choice was Sons of Horus but their color scheme doesn't stick out as nicely on the battlefield.


Depends on the battlefield Green over grey(cityfight) sticks juuust fine and luckily cityfight is my favourite scifi setting for battlefield.
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True, but I want my Legionnaires to -really- stand out. And a garish purple color scheme will stick out no matter where they fight!

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I chose the Alpha Legion because of the way they were portrayed in Legion, as equal opportunity philosophers who listened to a wide variety of opinions. But when push came to shove, rather than getting caught up in the anarchy of a diplomatic deadlock, they set aside all of their opinions and become an incredibly unified fighting machine. They are a finesse army both in lore and in-game. They require a lot of thought ahead of the game to pull off well, which is something I've always appreciated in seeing done well. So I decided it was time to do it well myself. Their color-scheme is gorgeous, also.

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British Columbia

Because we started the enlightenment of the Human Race. We tried to show the cattle the divinity of our father (Who they have now nearly elevated to his place in the pantheon)

On a more practical note the Word Bearers unique models are by far my favourite.

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I chose White Scars because:

Since I was in middle school, I have been fascinated by Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire, including their fighting style and culture.

I love playing armies that win by mobility and out-maneuvering your opponent rather than just standing still and winning with overwhelming firepower. To me, the movement phase (including reserves) is the most strategic phase.

The color scheme is striking and looks good on a table of ruins.


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Raven Guard because I have LOADS of original RTB001 Beakies, ie Corvus Mark 6 armour.

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