Re: Codex Space Marines

Posted by precinctomega on
URL: http://the-lost-and-the-damned.71.s1.nabble.com/Codex-Space-Marines-tp1132645p1595938.html

Flippin' 'eck, Mortis!  How long is it since you bought a White Dwarf?

The background in White Dwarf 97 - repeated, IIRC, in the White Dwarf Compendium - was retconned not long after it was published: this was the same background article that had the Master of the Forge being a chapter serf rather than a full Battle Brother, remember?  And Marneus Calgar was mostly bionic after being crippled in a Tyranid boarding action.

"Adeptus Titanicus" introduced the "Epic" scale as well as the ancient stories of the Horus Heresy and, when its companion game, "Space Marine" was released (in about 1988-89), the First Founding was established as a line of twenty, eighteen of which (9 traitor and 9 loyal) were named in the game with two left unnamed (for players to invent their own, although many conspiracy theories have since been hinted at).

If this was in the Rogue Trader message board, then I guess sticking to Ultramarines as 3rd Founding might just about be fair enough but in 5th Edition, they're the Big Boys: not only First Founding, but the largest legion of the First Founding that spawned the most chapters in the Second Founding and been the most influential and powerful chapter for the last ten thousand years.

R.