Memento Of Prospero

you can squadron vindicators. I would suggest a unit of 3 with Orth, as his tank hunter will benefit the entire unit. Or go big with a squad of Malcadors with Orth. Ferrus is a lord of war, he does not take your HQ slots.

Or Nemesis. That novel is the template script of bad 80s action movies.

At the risk of sounding rant-like, here's my opinion. It seems to me that the overreaction to "patterns" with female characters comes from the fact that ADB's writing breaks from the rather misogynistic warhammer writing tradition. His female characters are no stronger leads than there strong men leads. You seem to expect it to be otherwise and are just choosing to ignore the fact that they are equally human beings and deserve a spot in the sunlight as well. There is no feminist agenda at work. It has always been a male dominated universe written for men who don't see them as worthy in combat roles because of the "grim dark" logic. Guess what, the Emperium is so hardcore that it does not care if you are a man or a women; you can hold a lasgun, pull the trigger and report your neighbor for being a heretic, you are doing your job or die trying. It will never sideline 50% of it's human resources for any reason you can come up with. This isn't the 90s anymore. The more we progress as a society in allowing women into those "dangerous" outlets, the more we realize that the slight difference in raw physical potential is completely overrun by their ability to empathize. It's like all the conservative minds claiming that women joining the police force would increase the amount of assaults against officers and use of firearms by said officers because they are not as strong physically. That's not what happened in reality, quite the opposite. It's proven that female officers can de-escalate situations and obtain cooperation much more efficiently than their male counterparts. The same needs to apply to the novels we write and read about, because the fantasy that stems from real world human interaction are the ones you can relate the most to and enjoy. It's the great moments of humanity that makes the Warhammer universe great, not the bolter porn novels.

Ulricon is indeed the prevalent associated Titan Legion. Their career highlight is that they lost 90% of their strength to the void in the Dark Angel teleport ambush at the end of the Tramas Crusade.

It's the ability to cause instant death and multiple wounds that makes it glorious. It bypasses the defenses of quite a few innately tough targets.

Powerfists are a no brainer and somewhat mandatory if you want to tackle hard targets. A few chain fists for the occasional High AV targets. Combi plasma all day every day.

At the risk of throwing napalm unto an already sky reaching inferno of hate, but are these actual forgeworld models? Because if so, Emperor's blue balls the sculpts are of poor quality!

The Falchion is the superior choice, as D weapons are hard to come by for the Legions and game changing. Stormblade could be a cool addition further down the road.

Using the mechanicum chickens would be best. Castellans are very bulky and great castellax alternatives

Tzeentch is the natural enemy of Nurgle. Tzeentch wanta constant evolution and change, Nurgle wants simplicity and stagnation

None. They some maybe be redeemable around the events of the Heresy, but 10,000 years of funk in the warp will get them beyond the point of redemption.

If by ferocity means to you pillaging and slaving mostly unarmed and ill trained civilians and running away, then sure they are ferocious. Vikings in general lost pretty much every pitched battle they every participated in. At least Romans got a few wins under their belts I guess. As for the topic, The whole concept of "roles" is a little absurd. When you have as many as 20 legions, they are bound to have different preferences and some may overlap based on their experience and the type of campaigns they face. You don't train a legion of 100,000 + to be really good at one thing or have a niche, it's counter productive. The fluff has much evolved since 2nd edition and so should we. Gone are the days of "theses guys are the plumbers, these are the electricians and these are the engineers." All legions are contractors and get the job done.

That's clearly not alpharius.