Who's you favourite loyalist Primarch?

[bfmusashi]

Vulkan. He's an unkillable kill machine that builds other kill machines and saves the children, but not the heretic children.

[Kirsten]

Corax, but it was very close, could easily have voted Ferrus, Sanguinius, or the Khan

[Megad00mer]

This made me chuckle.

Edit: Now I'm more awake, I'm going to make a more eloquent case for Corax and explain why he's far nobler than Sanguinius. may contain spoilers.

Humility. Whilst Sanguinius wanders around looking like an angel, being Mr Perfect and admired by his brothers, Corax has to hide in the shadows, his way of war looked down on with scorn by several of his brothers who see it as unmanly or even cowardly. Never once does he rankle at this unjust portrayal, never on e does he complain. He knows he has the love and respect of his father and that the Imperium needs his way of way. It's what he was created for and he accepts his place gladly and without the need to seek constant reassurance and love from his father.

When his legion is massacred in front of his eyes, he doesn't enter a berserk rage or a howling bloodthirst, he doesn't throw his life away in futile gesture so desperation. He weeps. Not even for the loss of his own sons, but for the sheer senselessness of it all, for the loss of everything the Imperium could have been. He weeps with pity for the fall of his brothers and their sons, even as they murder his own sons. When Angron finally corners him, he accepts his inevitable death with calm resolve, intent on fighting as a Primarch should.

Once he escapes the horror of Istvaan, he searches his own soul for his own weaknesses, seeing how he could have turned into Curze, how his own potential for treachery made him afraid to kill Lorgar and Curze. He seeks to rebuild his own legion not for his own sense of loss, but so he can serve the Emperor again and bring justice to his foes.

He is the truest of the Emperors sons. Selfless. Humble. Stronger than most of the rest, yet never feels the need to flaunt it. Emotionally aware enough to see his own weaknesses and failings. Unflinchingly loyal, even through all he suffers. From his earliest days he sought to protect the weak form the strong, to oppose and end tyranny in all it's forms. A champion of the people. What more could a Primarch be.

Oh, and did I mention he can turn INVISIBLE?

Respect, Sir. Victorus Aut Mortis.

[Psychosplodge]

Leman Russ, because space vikings...

Corax and Vulkan are close second.

[Angelus Mortifer]

Sanguinius, for all of the comments already mentioned. Ultimate sacrifice, the knowledge and understanding of the great attributes of his Legion and their weaknesses, which create the constant struggle within as well as without. Likewise, also actually giving a sh*t about humanity when possessed with and granted such power as to be a Primarch, and for controlling 1/20th of the greatest warmachine ever created by humanity.

He is a relatively complex character too, when many of the others are not (even though for some, their on-dimensionalness is exactly what they're meant to be). I can say so much about what I like about him. He is also the only one with an obvious mutation which, given how mutants are considered within the Imperium, is interesting seeing as he is "arguably" the most celebrated Primarch throughout the Imperium.

[Wildeybeast]

Respect, Sir. Victorus Aut Mortis.

Victorus Aut Mortis indeed.

Also, Anggul makes a great point about him being least like the Emperor. He always thinks before he kills and his method of warfare is about minimising casualties. Admittedly he once cares about casualties on his side, but the RG method of war reduces collateral damage. He is the scalpel where others are the anvil or the hammer. There's also an interesting section in Ravens Flight where he seems to realise the Emperor isn't all he's made out to be. His commitment to the Emperor never wavers, but he doesn't view him with the blind devotion some of the others do. I won't spoil the line for you, but it sums up perfectly just how self aware Corax is compared to most of the others.

[BrotherAlpharius]

I found this even tougher than the Traitor Primarchs. What I find interesting is that for the traitors I voted Kurze even though my main chaos force is Alpha Legion and my second is Plague Marines and I don't like the Night Lords.

For the loyalists I play Space Wolves but Leman Russ doesn't even make it into my top three. For me it's a close run between Sanguinius, Corax and Vulkan. I went with Sanguinius because he was there at the climax of the Heresy and made the ultimate sacrfice. I'm really hoping the Khan is going to be an interesting character. Prospero Burns kept the barbarism and savagery of Russ but hinted at hidden depths, however the viewpoint of the central character meant that we didn't see anything of the true Russ.

The one I want to like more but can't is Ferrus Manus. A friend said to me, "It doesn't really matter - he's not in it for long." and I replied, "He's not, but I want to give a damn about that fact, I want to feel that his loss is a tragedy and I just don't."

[oni]

I will never understand why so many people like Sanguinius.

Roboute Gulliman all the way... He only rebuilt the Imperium after the Heresy and set forth the foundation of nearly every Space Marine chapter galaxy wide... No big deal really.

[Mouser]

I will never understand why so many people like Sanguinius.

Roboute Gulliman all the way... He only rebuilt the Imperium after the Heresy and set forth the foundation of nearly every Space Marine chapter galaxy wide... No big deal really.

That is true, without Gulliman, we probably would have a good, united Imperium in the year 40000 instead of the **** hole it turned out to be. So he wins my favorite loyalist.

[Chris22]

Dorn turned the Imperial Palace into an impregnable fortress. Without his efforts there and his unmastered knowledge of siegecraft, the Palace would have fallen, and the Heresy would have had a much different ending. And his personal flagship predates the Imperium.