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Also, I ve seen a few armies with red helmets and white lines up the middles, what does this represent ?]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/504666/5240251.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/504666/5240251.page GMT
Gangers who had betrayed their gang but were too useful to kill dyed their hands red as a mark of shame. The Night Lords turned the red hands into a mark of censure to be worn on armor. Curse explained the basics, but not the origin to Roboute, who added the red helmet as a mark of censure for poor performance to the Ultramarines. Then an Ultramarine with a red helmet did something awesome and spoileriffic, so Roboute made the red helm into a mark of distinction in that Legionaire's honor.

When the codex Astartes was written, the red helm became the standard identifier for a Sergeant.

So before the Heresy, IF sergeants would not have had red helmets.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/504666/5240304.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/504666/5240304.page GMT http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/504666/5240898.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/504666/5240898.page GMT