Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-18016240-20140115163511/@comment-18016240-20140115183043

Slug gunner fan wrote: Hereticalthoughts wrote: "And thus the third War of Armageddon was won, the guardsmen and PDF cheered, the surviving civilians were safe, and the M&Ms got humiliated in front of everyone by being slapped by Tushan, chapter master of one of the nicest Space marine chapters ever."

This begs the question though: Who's gene seed spawned these guys? I doubt any of the First Legions would even want to consider these guys as their progeny, but if I had to guess it might be...

1. Dark Angels (MMs might just be taking it too far on the guilt part, though the lack of dark green and such negates this a little)

2. Iron Hands (Believes the weak deserve to suffer, though unlike the MMs the Iron Hands don't go particularly out of their way to hurt civs and allies.)

3. World Eaters (Always angry all the time? I know the World Eaters are traitors, but they might be an offshoot and they are constantly mad.) Some good theories, the guilt thing may suggest Loyalist World Eaters as they're trying to make up for the rest of the Legion going loony and turning traitor. What are their battle tactics, a successor is often heavily influenced by its progenitor in that area. Oh, I hadn't considered that! Though they're definitely going about attonement the wrong way if that's the case.

From what I read they seem to prefer to use orbital bombardment before landing to do the actual fighting, and they don't seem to be particularly specialized in any form of combat like assaults or ranged warfare. Though their history of urban and naval warfare indicates a similarity to the Imperial Fists and Iron Warriors.

Huh, they might be Iron Warriors, they have a tendency to be really destructive and like to bombard from afar in comparison to the World Eater's CQC tendencies.