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It also has a great Alpha Legion moment.
Imagine being a Blood Angel wondering what did the Sons of Alpharius-Omegon did to cause Orkz to flee in terror right into utter annihilation.
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It also has a great Alpha Legion moment.
Imagine being a Blood Angel wondering what did the Sons of Alpharius-Omegon did to cause Orkz to flee in terror right into utter annihilation.
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Hell, pretty much any time the Alpha Legion turns up in an HH book they're doing something awesome.
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Heck of a guy, that Kharn. I know he has that reputation for killing his allies and all that, but seriously, he's a nice guy once you get to know him. Even loves small animals. One time my unit and I were fighting alongside him against the forces of the False Emperor, and one of the guys saw a starving kitten as were advancing through the ruins of an outer hive. He had already gone all-in with the whole Chaos thing (little did I know the rest of my unit would soon follow), and he tried to bayonet her. Next thing I know there's a chainaxe buried in the guy's sternum and Kharn's on his hands and knees playing with the creature. We were all too shocked to say anything, especially when he said all cutesy-like "Kharn love kitten. Kitten love Kharn?" Then some wanna-be berserker yelled "Blood for the Blood God" and next thing I know I've ducked under a piece of rubble as body parts wind up flying through the air. When I came out of my catatonia someone told me Kharn had headbutted everyone to death, the cat sleeping in his arms the whole time. I gave him a high five for being a swell guy and he even didn't hold it against me when my whole arm shattered. Best friend ever.
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You know? I actually have more respect for Kharn than Angron. At least Kharn has charisma.
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Well, he used to be Angron's personal tard wrangler, would you expect anything less?
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Kharn is pretty baller. Literally the only person who could calm down the Galaxy's Angriest Primarch, kicked the shit out of Erebus for being a teamkilling dick, died so fuckin' hard at the Siege of Terra that Khorne went "nice, bro" and resurrected him to keep on collecting skulls, and set fire to his own legion because they were hiding instead of fighting like men.
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Khârn the Betrayer was pretty fun to be around, and contrary to popular belief he actually had a sense of humor as well. Probably the best example was in the middle of the campaign during a sweeping of an Imperial Guard command post, with Khorne Berserkers and our Red Rivers company marching directly into the defensive fire. The closer we got, the more apparent it became that the only thing holding the Guardsmen together was a grizzled looking Commissar in full uniform, one gun turned on us and another firing on any of his men who looked like running.
Khârn was at the tip of the assault, and so he got to the Commissar first, plucking the screaming officer up by the neck and holding him over his head.
Then, out of nowhere one of the other berserkers grabs the Commissar's legs and roars "MAKE A WISH!". Well, as you can imagine everyone on both sides forgets about the fight, and watches Khârn and this other Khorne-worshiping marine just start pulling on this Commissar at both ends, the old man screaming out oaths and curses like you wouldn't believe! You could almost hear the sound of flesh tearing and bone snapping over the cheering.
Then, Khârn just let go. Totally not expecting it and pulling with all his might, the Khorne Berserker just falls backwards and starts tumbling with the near dead Commissar into a damaged hellhound, his armor grating off it and sparking!
Well, after the explosion we all turned back to Khârn, who had managed to keep a hold of the Commissar's fancy hat. Ol' Khârn put it on, and damned if it wasn't the funniest thing any of us had ever seen... till he turned to us and bellowed "I'M THE NEW COMMISSAR" at us.
They tell me five thousand traitor guardsmen died that day before someone could take that hat off him.
What a kidder!
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Then the Alpha Legion got butthurt because MUH ALPHARIUS and "gimmick infringement."
Word has it that they were responsible for cutting the fuel line of several Dreadclaw Drop Pods that day.
Some World Eaters never made it back to orbit...
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You know what would be an good plot twist? Remember how Guiliman was stabbed in the neck while he was fighting one of the twins? What if the Alpha Legion actually captured him and replaced him with either Alpharius or Omegon with the matching neck wound and enshrined by the Ultramarines. Fast forward to present year and we have the Alpha Legion subtly running (and ruining) the Imperium instead of Guliman.
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From a practical standpoint, GW can't introduce plot twists which invalidate aspects of the tabletop game. Way too many people have purchased their $60 Guilliman models for GW to suddenly pull the rug out from under them and say, "no that's actually alpharius lol"
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But it would make an great novel though...And give the Alphas an actual purpose than just staying in the dark, scheming all day and nothing much to show for it.
Stagnation is one thing that the series is known for.
Stagnation is one thing that the series is known for.
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I personally favor the theory that the reason the Alpha Legion tends not to get much done is because they don't even have a cohesive plan anymore, just thousands of warbands and solo infiltrators and spy cells scattered across the galaxy, all of them doing their own thing in an effort to accomplish a variety of goals that they may not even remember anymore, such as this list from 1d4chan:
1. Those who are actually still loyal and aid the Imperium as best it can in sneaky, inscrutable ways.
2. Those who are nominally loyal and uncorrupted but still carrying out the Cabal's plan to make the Imperium lose.
3. Those who have embraced Chaos to bring about the other version of the above plan.
4. Those who have embraced Chaos in a misguided effort to bring about the original version of the above plan.
5. Those who have embraced Chaos and are just doing their own thing. Sindri Myr comes to mind.
6. Those who are loyal only to the distant memory and legacy of their Primarch (either one) and Legion and act in whatever way they think best preserves that legacy.
7. Those who are loyal to the Emperor but deeply oppose the current state of the Imperium.
8. Those who are loyal to the Emperor and think that by destroying the weakest parts of the Imperium they strengthen the Imperium as a whole. Occam the Untrue specifically believes this in Sons of the Hydra.
9. Those who care only about the survival of their warband and brothers, even if they venerate Chaos/The Emperor/The Primarchs/etc. Kassar from Shroud of Night falls in this category.
10. Those who do their own thing, just in general.
11. Those loyal to their own conception of the Alpha Legion. Whatever the hell that entails. Which is most of them.
12. Those who are motivated by their hatred for something in specific, usually Guilliman. Quetzal Carthach from The Long Games at Carcharias and Sons of the Hydra just really fucking hates Ultramarines, allegedly because he was at Eskrador when Guilliman killed “Alpharius”.
13. About a million other things.
14. Fuck knows.
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All apart of the plan.
Side note, been thinking over Death company. Im thinking base coat in aluminum or chrome then building up layers of contrast Black templar on top. Someone posted a pic of the end result on /tg/. I think they would look pretty good.
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I think the Alpha Legion pulling off the heist of 10 Millenium would return reason as to why they were such a feared faction.
For example, infiltrating and successfully stealing Belisarius Cawl's research in creating Primaris Space Marines (as well as fresh Alpha Legion geneseed), similarly to how they infiltrated and sabotaged the Raptor project during the Horus Heresy only less sloppy. This would not give the Alpha Legion an edge on the battlefield, but also a bargaining chip in relations to other Chaos Space Marine Legions and warbands.
In an unrelated note, The Judgement tarot card is marked "XX." If The Judgement card is revealed upright, the meanings include "self-evaluation, awakening, renewal, purpose, reflection, reckoning." Should the card be revealed in reverse, the meanings include "self-doubt, lack of self-awareness, failure to learn lessons, self-loathing." Interesting perspective when applying these to the Alpha Legion.
This makes me wonder about the other legions or the order of primarchs found when matched up with the corresponding tarot cards.
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That tarot thing would be interesting in the case of Horus and Pertubo.
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So are Death Company dreads high on black rage too? Like that would make sense, but on paper doesn't seem like a good idea.
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"You thought you were betrayed by a fellow Ultramarine but no, it was really me, Alpharius, all along!"
I should avoid posting on 24 hours of no sleep. I get the worst takes...
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The more I hear about the alpha legion the more I love them. They're so schizophrenically confusing that I'm going to turn my word bearers all into alpha legionnaires that have infiltrated the warband so much that its entirely made up of alpha legionnaires trying to deceive and out act each other
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Yup. It takes a while for the chapter Techmarines to rein them in after the fighting's over, apparently. Then they have to decide whether to keep the current occupant or swap him for another Marine who has yet to completely lose his shit.