Alright so I have an Alpha Legion army that's grown to a respectable size. AL is really my favourite Chaos legion and when I started out I didn't really know if I wanted it to be fully "daemonized", however I can safely say I have completely fallen to/for Chaos
So far I have focused on regular CSM troops, termies with termie lords, but I have extended with a couple of Obliterators and a Defiler. My dilemma is where to go from here. I really love the fluff of AL, however, reading it literally and reading into it that all AL are really loyalists (doubtful imo) it sort of makes it hard to justify all the additions I want to make. For example, I am becoming a huge fan of Khorne Berzerkers as they would fit my list and the way I play it, the regular CSM kind of lacks that CC punch. Now, the problem is how to paint them.
I am looking for some opinions on where to proceed, should I go the Black Legion route and paint them in Alpha Legion colours but with red shoulder pad/helm? Should I paint them fully red or AL and have them more as a "Counts as and looks as Berzerkers but are really Legionaires worshipping Khorne"? Or should I paint them as Word Eaters and have them as allies?
Imo, the last of the options is not the one I want to do, I would prefer a "clean" AL force. In my head I can surely make the fluff fit, but .. I don't know yet Even though I am a fluff fan, I find it hard to say to myself I can't really use half the units in the C:CSM book (granted, Posessed and Spawns etc suck hehe) because the background of the Legion does not explicitly state the units are not available to them.