[Archive] Most interesting Chaos Space marine legion?

Grimstonefire:

Of the main traitor legions, which do you think is the most interesting?

Looking at gaming, fluff and modelling potential. So people like me that never have and most likely never will play a game of 40k can still have a vote.

DAGabriel:

Not too easy. Personally I like the Death Guard since I started them 10 years ago, they are my second army, started shortly after Dark Angels.

Especially the conversion potential, all the rot and rust on the vehicles, it has such a vast potential.

deadlydeceiver:

Most interesting Chaos Space marine legion? Hmmm…interesting…?

What could be more interesting then a legion that’s mainly shrouded in mysteries: ALPHA LEGION

That being said I’d like to mention the following:

Thousand Sons (Magic is interesting ^^)

Word Bearers (Religious fanatics are interesting)

Night Lords (Batman Marines are interesting)

Emperor’s Children (Perfectionists are… just cool)

DD

ViLe:

i like thousand sons and night lords because of their fluff and their look. You get a lot of cool conversation stuff for them on the internet. Since i have the horus heresy rules i am thinking of starting a thousand sons army with the heresy army list.

cornixt:

I like the Iron Warriors, all that mechanical stuff is nice.

I’d make up my chapter if I did them though.

Ugly Green Trog:

I love the night lords because they aren’t exclusively chaos marines but they are all imperial hating murderous bastards through and through.

veso:

Thousand sons and word bearers - I love the idea of a largely cultist army supported by super awesome egyptian style marine wights/deamons. The way I see a chaos army is 1-2 units of super awesome chaos marines, 1 centerpiece and everything else cannonfodder.

JMR:

I wouldn’t mind building some crazy machines of destruction sometime - Iron Warriors for me. I’m fond of their colour scheme too.

That said, most Space Marines look the same to me.

I’ll settle for letting my Dawi Zharr do the crazy-machines-of-destruction-building in the mean time :hat

Samanos:

I love the night lords because they aren't exclusively chaos marines but they are all imperial hating murderous bastards through and through.

Ugly Green Trog
+100000

imperial hating murderous bastards +  batman style= win :cheers

GRNDL:

Without a doubt, Alpha Legion. And to see why, you NEED to read “Legion” by Dan Abnett.

Let me put it this way. I dallied with the World Eaters, I covered myself in mucous with the Death Guard, did the Thousand Sons thing, went Undivided with the Black Legion, read books with the Iron Warriors and blah, blah, blah… Everything else seemed REALLY boring. I thought the same thing of the Alpha Legion. Cultists? Phtphptptpht… Then I read Legion and everything I knew about the Horus Heresy was turned upside down - and it was very cool.

You want the most brutal? Sure, pick another? Toughest? Pick yet another… You want the most special, the most interesting, the most mysterious (and not for the reasons you think), read LEGION.

Animatone:

Thousand Son’s all the way! Such a cool idea of soulless warriors of Tzeentch, Egyptian’esque and steadfast marching forward slow and steady to kill.

Zuh-Khinie:

Noise marines for the win…

http://www.coolminiornot.com/pics/pics12/img46ef31e9448d6.jpg

Still have this one at home just waiting for a paintjob in the name of Slaanesh! :slight_smile:

Ravenswood:

Voted for the Night Lords Legion. Paranoic murderous bastards = win.

Hashut’s Blessing:

I’m guessing you mean iron Warriors, not Iron Legion?

For me, it’s a toss up between the Iron Warriors and the Thousand Sons. In terms of favourite, I think iron Warriors edges in. In terms of most interesting, probably Thousand Sons. They never chose to be evil, they were thrust into that role and eventually succumbed to it - they were attacked by their own brethren whilst doing their lord’s bidding and caused problems accidentally when trying to find out why and requesting the Emperor stop the madness. They then found their unfortunate gene-problems were coming to the fore more, partially due to the battle that happened and how they had to defend themselves, and so resorted to desperate measures which backfired, meaning only the most potent survived as independent minds, with intact bodies.

Their outcast nature, the horrors inflicted upon them and the subtleties of Tzeentch eventually meant they fell to side of cookies (A.K.A. The Dark Side). It’s tragic, really.

Grimstonefire:

Ah, yes, Iron Warriors.  Could you edit the poll please because I don’t think I can.

It’s interesting no votes for the Word Bearers yet.  With my limited knowledge of 40k lore I would have thought they’d be right up there.

Not that I’m tempted to actually buy anything more than a squad, but I was curious what the general feelings are out there.

@GRNDL
I’ll definitely pick up Legion then.  I’m currently reading The First Heretic, then a warhammer book or two, then Fulgrim, then A Thousand Sons, then probably Betrayer, then I’ll read that!

Ugly Green Trog:

Without a doubt, Alpha Legion.  And to see why, you NEED to read "Legion" by Dan Abnett

GRNDL
Legion is cool and I love Abnett books, but read the Night Lords trilogy by Aaron Dembski-Bowden and the Alpha Legion look like silly Boy Scouts. Plus the fact that many night lords fight the long war for its original cause, the Alpha Legion seem to have been well and truly corrupted by that which they set out to end.

GRNDL:

@GRNDL
I'll definitely pick up Legion then.  I'm currently reading The First Heretic, then a warhammer book or two, then Fulgrim, then A Thousand Sons, then probably Betrayer, then I'll read that!

Grimstonefire
Can't speak of the others in there, but I can recommend Fulgrim. One of the best Horus Heresy books I've read. Well written, flows nicely, fun read.