Brother Captain Aruis Posted September 11, 2008 Share Posted September 11, 2008 I don't know what happen to my other post ( Maybe I didn't post it. My computer been acting up lately) , but I was wondering which legion is least represented in their PH forms by the gaming community. I always see Emperor Children, World Eaters, Death Guard, Thousand Sons, and Sons of Horus done. So what legions are least represented ? I'm thinking Word Bearers and White Scars Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianBlessed Posted September 11, 2008 Share Posted September 11, 2008 Iron hands and Iron Warriors hardly get any pre heresy love, I'd like to see some Word Bearers and White Scars too but I'm biased. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pacific81 Posted September 11, 2008 Share Posted September 11, 2008 To be honest, the only ones which seem to be relatively common (as it is quite a niche interest!) are World Eaters, Emperors Children, Lunar Wolves/Sons of Horus, Death Guard and Thousand Sons. However, even the armies of these are relatively few and far between. Personally, I would just go with whatever your gut instinct tells you. Think of the style of legion you want, the paint scheme and modelling you are comfortable with, and work backwards from there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razrhaghul Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 least? hmm. sallies, night lords, iron hands, iron warriors, and those other two, you know the ones that everyone has forgotten their names...now that's gonna bug me all day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarKHaZZ13 Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 i've seen a few pre heresy night lords sallies iron hands white scars raven guard probably my top 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Captain Aruis Posted September 12, 2008 Author Share Posted September 12, 2008 Has anyone seen word bearers? I would think people would do them since they were the ones who set up the heresy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarl Kjaran Coldheart Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 i played against an word bearer player once, but he decided if he was going to paint that much red he might as well go khorne. wolf lord kieran Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weiss Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 Pre-heresy, they were grey. The problemn with them is that they are basically a 40k space marine chapter... in which case you might as well do Relictors and not have to bother sourcing/sculpting all the bits that make a force pre-heresy... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deneris Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 Pre-Heresy Alpha Legion forces seem quite rare... And who would WANT to do Pre-Heresy Ultramarines? :tu: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Captain Aruis Posted September 12, 2008 Author Share Posted September 12, 2008 I thought the PH Word Bearers were black? Yeah I thought the PH Alpha Legion would be a good idea, but after reading the what if the loyalist legion turn on the emperor and reading about Khan killing whole villages I was thinking the White Scars could be it. Has anyone seen PH Dark Angels, Imperial Fist, or Space Wolves? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnlyInDeath Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 Well, PH fists run into the problem of PH ultra marines....pretty much the same. PH space wolves would just have a darker grey color scheme, otherwise be essentially the same (I personally like that idea more than the powder blue). What I would like to see is either Nightlords, Alpha Legion, Deathguard or Raven Guard. PH armies are rather rare to find all around, so I think that whatever floated your boat could be a "rare" army to see around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chronowraith Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 I thought the PH Word Bearers were black? Yeah I thought the PH Alpha Legion would be a good idea, but after reading the what if the loyalist legion turn on the emperor and reading about Khan killing whole villages I was thinking the White Scars could be it. Has anyone seen PH Dark Angels, Imperial Fist, or Space Wolves? Pre-heresy Dark Angels are pretty common. At least around this region. Most of the Pre-Heresy chapters you never see suffer from a lack of divergence from their post-heresy brothers. So I can not honestly recall seeing any pre-heresy Ultramarines, Imperial Fists, Raven Guard, etc. I've seen a number of Iron Legion/Iron Warriors Primarchs but rarely pre-heresy marines. The most common are easily the obvious Emperor's Children, Thousand Sons, Death Guard, World Eater's, Sons of Horus, Blood Angels, Dark Angels, and Space Wolves. If I were to make a suggestion I'd say Word Bearers (which were gunmetal grey pre-heresy), Night Lords, Alpha Legion, or Iron Legion. Most of the loyalists didn't change much post-heresy and the ones that did are the ones you often see armies for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Captain Aruis Posted September 12, 2008 Author Share Posted September 12, 2008 What GW colors would best represent gunmetal grey so I can get a Idea. I rather like the idea of PH iron warriors, their symbol was better before it was chaosifed. What would be rarer Sons of Horus or Lunar Wolves? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chronowraith Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 What GW colors would best represent gunmetal grey so I can get a Idea. I rather like the idea of PH iron warriors, their symbol was better before it was chaosifed. What would be rarer Sons of Horus or Lunar Wolves? Boltgun metal with soft highlights using a mix of mithril silver and boltgun metal (with a few crisp highlights at sharp corners) would be the most direct way of doing such. Otherwise I'd probably say to use the glazing method to paint layers of codex grey. Lunchbox has a decent tutorial on glazing in the tutorial section. Anyone bearing the livery of the Lunar Wolves would be far rarer than the Sons of Horus from a modern fluff perspective. As far as number of models I've seen, it's pretty equal, although I'd give the edge to Lunar Wolves since most people can't stand painting the hideous pea/seafoam green that became standard with the Sons of Horus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Richard Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 My vote is Alpha legion... Although all the hype since the last book might bring them forward. I would still think that would be a decent group to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trve Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 Im the only person Ive ever known, seen, heard of, etc who has a pre-heresy Night Lords legion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarKHaZZ13 Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 how about thousand sons they're are done, but not nearly enough! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Captain Aruis Posted September 13, 2008 Author Share Posted September 13, 2008 Yeah after I heard about the book my love for the Alpha Legion grew a lot. I think they have the best color is it violet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pacific81 Posted September 14, 2008 Share Posted September 14, 2008 Debate still rages over what colour the Alpha Legion are actually supposed to be! The cover of 'Legion' contradicts much of the artwork in the HH artbooks, which makes the armour seem more 'blue' in hue, although that may just be the artists perogative! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gideon Bane Posted September 23, 2008 Share Posted September 23, 2008 Debate still rages over what colour the Alpha Legion are actually supposed to be! The cover of 'Legion' contradicts much of the artwork in the HH artbooks, which makes the armour seem more 'blue' in hue, although that may just be the artists perogative! The thing is a lot of the legions had very non-standard paint/equipment schemes. There was a lot more diversity within a legion than in today's chapters. I'd frankly expect to see blue and purple Alpha Legion as well as probably camo painted ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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