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They painted their armor bone white when they returned to one of their recruiting worlds to find out it was infested with gene stealers. Help was probably not going to come so they ordered and exterminatous be done if their home recruiting world. To honor them they painted their terminator armor bone white to symbolize the death to come.

Well turns out Deathwing terminators are a hell of a lot better in lore then the game, they kicked ass, in fact they kicked so much ass they ended up living from what was meant to be a garunteed suicide mission, and kicked so much nid ass the dark Angels were like damn son! And ended up painting all they first company bone white to honor their badassery ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/710890/9074632.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/710890/9074632.page GMT Pre-heresy Deathwing Colors http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/warhammer40k/images/4/45/DA_Legionary_Primaris_2.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/250?cb=20160303092140

And this is what post-Heresy Terminators looked like before the Deathwing story:
http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/warhammer40k/images/3/3e/Pre-Deathwing_Terminator.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20111130005843

Backspacehacker wrote:

They painted their armor bone white when they returned to one of their recruiting worlds to find out it was infested with gene stealers. Help was probably not going to come so they ordered and exterminatous be done if their home recruiting world. To honor them they painted their terminator armor bone white to symbolize the death to come.

Well turns out Deathwing terminators are a hell of a lot better in lore then the game, they kicked ass, in fact they kicked so much ass they ended up living from what was meant to be a garunteed suicide mission, and kicked so much nid ass the dark Angels were like damn son! And ended up painting all they first company bone white to honor their badassery

At least that's the story, there is of course debate about whether it's actually true or an allegory. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/710890/9076450.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/710890/9076450.page GMT Pre-heresy Deathwing Colors

Gashrog wrote:
This is what Deathwing Terminators looked like during the Heresy, Deathwing being denoted by the two crossed red swords:
http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/warhammer40k/images/4/45/DA_Legionary_Primaris_2.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/250?cb=20160303092140

And this is what post-Heresy Terminators looked like before the Deathwing story:
http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/warhammer40k/images/3/3e/Pre-Deathwing_Terminator.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20111130005843

Backspacehacker wrote:

They painted their armor bone white when they returned to one of their recruiting worlds to find out it was infested with gene stealers. Help was probably not going to come so they ordered and exterminatous be done if their home recruiting world. To honor them they painted their terminator armor bone white to symbolize the death to come.

Well turns out Deathwing terminators are a hell of a lot better in lore then the game, they kicked ass, in fact they kicked so much ass they ended up living from what was meant to be a garunteed suicide mission, and kicked so much nid ass the dark Angels were like damn son! And ended up painting all they first company bone white to honor their badassery

At least that's the story, there is of course debate about whether it's actually true or an allegory.

source on it being up for debate?

Never heard the story was debated ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/710890/9076494.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/710890/9076494.page GMT Pre-heresy Deathwing Colors

Backspacehacker wrote:

Gashrog wrote:
This is what Deathwing Terminators looked like during the Heresy, Deathwing being denoted by the two crossed red swords:
http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/warhammer40k/images/4/45/DA_Legionary_Primaris_2.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/250?cb=20160303092140

And this is what post-Heresy Terminators looked like before the Deathwing story:
http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/warhammer40k/images/3/3e/Pre-Deathwing_Terminator.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20111130005843

Backspacehacker wrote:

They painted their armor bone white when they returned to one of their recruiting worlds to find out it was infested with gene stealers. Help was probably not going to come so they ordered and exterminatous be done if their home recruiting world. To honor them they painted their terminator armor bone white to symbolize the death to come.

Well turns out Deathwing terminators are a hell of a lot better in lore then the game, they kicked ass, in fact they kicked so much ass they ended up living from what was meant to be a garunteed suicide mission, and kicked so much nid ass the dark Angels were like damn son! And ended up painting all they first company bone white to honor their badassery

At least that's the story, there is of course debate about whether it's actually true or an allegory.

source on it being up for debate?

Never heard the story was debated

I might be misremembering but in the current DA codex it mentions that the DA have lots of fake stories to cover up things related to Fallen. For example they might claim their green armour is to remember Calibans forests rather than to distinguish Loyalist and Traitor DA. It makes a degree of sense considering that Caliban wasn't very foresty toward the end.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/710890/9076596.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/710890/9076596.page GMT Pre-heresy Deathwing Colors

Backspacehacker wrote:

They painted their armor bone white when they returned to one of their recruiting worlds to find out it was infested with gene stealers. Help was probably not going to come so they ordered and exterminatous be done if their home recruiting world. To honor them they painted their terminator armor bone white to symbolize the death to come.

Well turns out Deathwing terminators are a hell of a lot better in lore then the game, they kicked ass, in fact they kicked so much ass they ended up living from what was meant to be a garunteed suicide mission, and kicked so much nid ass the dark Angels were like damn son! And ended up painting all they first company bone white to honor their badassery

At least that's the story, there is of course debate about whether it's actually true or an allegory.

I don't know the date of the Dark Angel's purge of one of their home worlds in the Deathwing story. That led to the change in color of Deathwing's armor (both in the Lore, and in the game). But, it had to be recent in the 40K timeline. The Ghosar Cult was the Imperium's first documented encounter with a Genestealer Cult. That was only a few hundred years before the current 40K time. Which means the DA Terminators were colored Black for about 9.7K years after the heresy. Officially, black in the illustration on the side of the First Edition Space Hulk box (as above). I think the whole chapter was black in the Rogue Trade book. Don't know exactly when they turned dark green. Changed to white with the SH Deathwing expansion, a couple of years later. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/710890/9076606.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/710890/9076606.page GMT Pre-heresy Deathwing Colors
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Backspacehacker wrote:
Nooooo Deathwing have been bone white since around....I wanna say like 3rd ed maybe even 2nd.

No he's right, it was mid-way through RT: http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/White_Dwarf_120_(UK) ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/710890/9080522.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/710890/9080522.page GMT