Which Legions Would Work Best Together?

[Lupe]

Iron Warriors and Alpha Legion brute force combined with brutal cunning.

There's even potential for good synergy there, despite the obvious differences. The Iron Warriors are no strangers fighting dirty and using unconventional tactics, and they would certainly value the Alpha Legion's skill in that matter. The Alpha Legion, on the other hand would appreciate the Iron Warriors's meticulous planning and methodical execution.

The two legions are both very focused on actual objectives, they're great at thinking outside the box and have a strong sense of foreseeing and planning for contingencies. Both are very independent and used to relying on nobody except their own legion brothers, so the cooperation would probably be very loose, as they wouldn't want others getting in the way of their plans.

However, they would have excellent coordination, even though communication would consist solely in relaying the important facts. While both are reluctant to place their trust in others, they are also pragmatic enough to cooperate efficiently without expecting trust or genuine friendship from their allies.

Neither have any particular ideologies they would enforce on others, and they rarely, if at all, fight a war for the sake of proving a point, of for the sake of war itself. Neither have any patience for pomp, ceremony or protocol, and couldn't give a damn about concepts of honor or faith.

[TheDungen]

the old index astartes said that the dark angels when the lion fought under the command of Horus had the highest victory count. So even if the primarches hated each others guts (and so the marines did to) the dark angels and the lunar wolves seemed to have functioned extremely well together.


and now that i look for it i cant find it.

[althathir]

I was thinging the exact same thing except with Night Lord/Space Wolves.

I do think that the Night Lords would be less prone to getting upset by the action of the Space Wolves though.

However, I think the scariest combo is Space Wolve, Dark Angels and Ultramarines. Exactly what Horus was looking at facing as the reenforcement on Terra.

I couldn't see wolves & night lords working well together tbh. Wolves would want to fight everyone & while the night lords would be looking for someone to torture to prevent the fight, that said with their reputations before the HH, they would probably be in the lead for planets throwing down their arms in surrender without shots being fired.

[Grubnar]

So it seems there are basicly two schools of thought on the matter.
1. Legions that are much alike in their modus operandi. For example the Night Lords and the Raven Guard, or the World Eaters and Space Wolves.
2. Legions that compliment one another and make up for each others flaws. For example the Death Guard and White Scars.

[ObsidianCube]

Ultramarines-Blood Angels


Fantastic Ranged capabilities combined with the almost Khornate melee troops

[Swordsman]

Hrmm.. I'd have to go with Dark Angels, and Emperor's Children. You have the two most well-rounded Legions, who are being lead by two of the most intimidating Primarchs. Both Fulgrim and The Lion are tactically gifted to the point of almost being savant-like, and they both are monsters in close combat.

That's a good one, definitely.

Although I'd probably substitute Ultramarines, in place of the Emperor's Children. Then you'd have the two most tactically gifted Primarchs, with a numbers edge as well. It would be absolutely brutal.

[Stonerhino]

I couldn't see wolves & night lords working well together tbh. Wolves would want to fight everyone & while the night lords would be looking for someone to torture to prevent the fight, that said with their reputations before the HH, they would probably be in the lead for planets throwing down their arms in surrender without shots being fired.

I think the black and white views of the Space Wolves would mesh well with the views of the Night Lords.

In Prospero Burns the Space Wolves mutilated some dead enemies to "Make them remember their fear, if they ever come back". The Night Lords would embrace this type of action and also prosper under the blanket protections given the Space Wolves' forces. And it would be interesting to see how Cruze views the Emperor's "Hypocrites" without being censured and seeing Russ in action, without being censuerd.

In the end it would probably turn the Night Lords into something other then what they were just before Cruze went rogue.

[ObsidianCube]

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[Lord_Crull]

Hrmm.. I'd have to go with Dark Angels, and Emperor's Children. You have the two most well-rounded Legions, who are being lead by two of the most intimidating Primarchs. Both Fulgrim and The Lion are tactically gifted to the point of almost being savant-like, and they both are monsters in close combat.

I cannot fathom any threat that they couldn't handle.

The Lion and Horus would be better, or the Lion and the Ultramarines.

[Son of Morkai]

I know this is three legions, but the White Scars, Blood Angels and Imperial Fists seem to do ok.

Wolves and the Dark Angels work well together. Both legions are willing to do whatever is necessary, and will settle for nothing less than total victory. Even put up with each other.

[Israfael]

Wolves and the Dark Angels work well together. Both legions are willing to do whatever is necessary, and will settle for nothing less than total victory. Even put up with each other.

They cleansed all before them on their return to Terra. They certainly have a history of being brutally efficient.

[Atia]

I think space wolves and word bearers, 'cause this armys would clean an battle-field from EVERY thing :Q or bearers and 1k sons, so you have massive bodys and high psionik powers. Or all three like in a thousand sons ... but, wayte ... russ would kill a few sons with his psionik battle rooooaw and than magnus would punsh russ in his face .....

[viv714r]

I know this is three legions, but the White Scars, Blood Angels and Imperial Fists seem to do ok.

Wolves and the Dark Angels work well together. Both legions are willing to do whatever is necessary, and will settle for nothing less than total victory. Even put up with each other.

That's only if they don't brain each other first. They're not exactly friends in any stretch of the imagination.

[TheDungen]

They dislike each other, they duel before working together but i'd say its fairly uncommon they attack each other.

[viv714r]

I exaggerate of course but there are fatalities in the champions duels so it's not exactly ceremonial or a light event.

[Lupe]

They dislike each other, they duel before working together but i'd say its fairly uncommon they attack each other.

That's the Chapters. The tradition dates from a campaign late in the Great Crusade, just before the Heresy, when Russ and the Lion fought each other. If I recall, the disagreement that made them come to blows was that Russ was taunted by the enemy leader, so he ignored the plan they'd worked up in advance in order to personally kill the leader that had offended him. Obviously, the Lion seems to have taken the deviation from the plans seriously enough to get into a fight over it.

So, I'd say that Heresy era legions would work quite poorly together, due in no small part to their primarchs' openly clashing personalities.

40k era Chapters would actually work a lot better together, though.

[Son of Morkai]

I exaggerate of course but there are fatalities in the champions duels so it's not exactly ceremonial or a light event.

This is Warhammer. Genocide is considered a light event.

Besides, after the Lion stabbed Russ through the heart, they were the bestest of buddies. Seriously. On "Friendship is Magic" levels. The feud was not reignited until well after the Heresy.

[TheDungen]

they worked together well enough when heading back to terra. and both primarches were present then.

[Lupe]

they worked together well enough when heading back to terra. and both primarches were present then.

That's not exactly conclusive, since they did not actually fight together at that particular point in time. Their fleets just deployed together, serving as a very efficient deterrent to the Traitors. What I'm saying is that, prior to the primarchs' fight, they didn't have any real chemistry as legions, and they never got the chance to fight as legions after that.

They could well be the best of buddies after the sucker punch incident, for all we know. Or they could just cooperate reasonably well, without actually having any special synergy, and still be a formidable fighting force - we're talking about two Astartes legions, after all.

[daveNYC]

they worked together well enough when heading back to terra. and both primarches were present then.

There's nothing like the impending fall of your capitol and death of your father to keep people focused.