Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-2253300-20140511200137/@comment-2253300-20140512000901

My personal choices for the Legions I would most want to serve with, and most want to avoid are the Imperial Fists and Iron Warriors respectively. The Imperial Fist have a glorious reputation among the Legions. according to some source they were second in esteem only to the Luna Wolves. In addition Dorn was a perfectionist, and the idea of deliberately allowing for casualties in order to secure victory is unlikely with him. combine that with the fact that the Fists often were deployed in defensive roles, and other honored task and you have a Legion that has a higher chance of gaining honor, and a greater probability of you surviving. Finally as the Praetorians of the Emperor the Fists have a much higher chance of sharing a battlefield with Big E. If I was a wide-eyed, green-as-grass trooper they're definitely on my short list of Legions I would want to serve with.

ON the other hand serving with the Iron warriors would be just plain Hell. The Iron Warriors were often assigned to the longest and most brutal campaigns in the Great Crusade. Real meat grinders. Furthermore Perturabo was very liberal in incorporating "acceptable losses" into his overall strategy. He was fine with spending lives in order to achieve the overall goal. The Iron Warriors in general were known for treating their human auxilla poorly. I f I got assigned to the Iron Warriors on my first tour I might just go AWOL.