Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-92.97.77.182-20130321145115/@comment-24944355-20140722233934

The Alpha Legion were the most dangerous of the astartes BECAUSE they didn't charge straight in & go hack, slash shoot-em-up. They were the masters of asymmetric warfare & utterly unpredictable. Moreover they used any resource that was effective and could do more damage with less outlay than any other legion. On top of all that they matched the Night Lords for the use of terror tactics, hell they scared the crap out of ORKS!. The Alpha Legion was the most adaptable & flexable of all the legions they could and did occasionally use the basic shock & awe tactics other legions preferred but the Alphas could use many other forms of warfare.

In the modern setting they have done more damage than Abaddon & his black crusades a dozen times over. In fact the most telling point that reads into the Alphas playing both sides for their own endgame is that they haven't already destroyed the empire, they could have done so long since if they wanted to.

The Alpha legion play the long game and do their work quietly and without fanfare and are always underestimated just as they wish to be. They ARE the most dangerous of the legions.