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Originally Posted by Cirative  There are 10 legions, man.
The Emperor created 20 Primarchs, right?
Two were erased from the records. And why? Because GW's plan was to make a balance of one custom legion going to Chaos and the other is a custom chapter that stayed loyal.
Hence, there are 10 Chaos legions and 10 loyalist chapters for the 20 Primarchs. |
Ah... you are of course assuming that one looks at the background from an entirely gaming perspective. Fluff is extremely important to us.
I actually think the honest answer to the whole, "missing legion" thing is that GW made up 20... and at the last moment realized that two of the names (one was, IIRC, the Space Sharks) were crap, so they said, "expluged from the records".
And... if I am right, the two missing legions went missing before the Horus Heresy...
Also, at the time, the Loyalists were still called Legions.
Oh, and Erus... I agree with you... to a degree. I would say that if you are going to include multiple cults, do so in only small amounts. I myself will have both Khorne and Nurgle in my army, but the Khornate dudes will only be in small amount... they're really there just because I'm getting some with the battleforce...