Legion of the Damned

[Minibem]

Morning all,

Sorry if this has been discussed before but have been reading the Legion of the Damned book and then looked at the minis and thought that if they are the Fire Hawk Chapter that have come back then why are they wearing MK4 armour? Surely if they are the lost legion they would be wearing pre heresy armour or am I missing something?

I love the minis I just thought that if they were meant to be pre heresy then I have a project and could do actual legion of the damned marines in Mk2 / 3 armour!

[Psychosplodge]

I've never seen anything that suggests they're pre-heresy. Did I miss something in that book?

[Minibem]

My bad, got the dates wrong. The Fire Hawks disappeared in M41 so post heresy!

*feels silly now*

[Wolfshade]

The link between Fire Hawks and Legion of the Damned is "fairly" well established.
The argument about armour types is tricky, but one needs to consider that the Legion first appeared in Rogue Trader, where GW were not overly concerned about the "correctness" of any armour mark.

A couple of observations:

WD 99. These boyos are the remains of the Fire Hawks. So for my tuppence:

1. Should all be Mk VI armour.
2. Should not have latest godwyn pattern bolters - should have gone for crusade or heresy pattern (pay attention all you pre-heresy modellers its your most common mistake)
3. Individually patterned armour? I think not. They wouldn't have sufficient artificer support to do this - should just be black plain armour with painted designs.
4. GW should stop with flame effects in braziers etc - they almost always look rubbish.

So, overall, I think these are good looking minis, can see chaplains or some mad Chaos conversions here. But not very Legion of Damned.

1 & 2 - MK VII armour was introduced at the very end of the heresey, so would have easily been available to a 26th founding Chapter (M36), as would the current issue bolters.

3 - I think this is to tie in with the "are they the Fire Hawks or are they Ghoooost Maaarines (oooooo)".

4 - Agreed.

Of course they could always have scavenged more modern armour plates and weapons and updated them...

[Psychosplodge]

But in the second edition WD release aren't they spotted on a timeline of suspected actions, preM41?

[Quaade]

But in the second edition WD release aren't they spotted on a timeline of suspected actions, preM41?

Time flows differently in the warp!

[Psychosplodge]

Good point...

[Rissan4ever]

Plus, they're essentially the Emperor's personal army of ghosts, so I'm pretty sure they can have whatever style of armor they darn well please.

[Wolfshade]

Plus, they're essentially the Emperor's personal army of ghosts, so I'm pretty sure they can have whatever style of armor they darn well please.

More like Death Company wannabes..

[Rissan4ever]

More like Death Company wannabes..

No, not really. It's a completely different situation.