You were saying the codex is meant to be followed mindlessly. Have you read the part where its thought up of?
Grey knights could appear... best chance is if they add god specific legions with daemons, who are the daemon slayers? Ultras and some successors do follow it mindlessly. Not as guideline but as a holy text. What I'm saying is that they should follow it as a guideline.
Or the back cover of Codex: Ultramarines, 2nd Edition written by Rick Priestley and Jervis Johnson (again, you might know them as the guys who created 40K). http://img.4plebs.org/boards/tg/image/1365/92/1365920670155.jpg Hopefully you didn't hurt yourself laughing like that.
"No Statue! No statue will here be raised, No memorial to stand as remark upon our triumph! No songs, No poems, Nor tales of deed, so mighty that they astound the ear! No roars of praise, no feasts, no drink nor meat shall we have! No hymns of Valour, no sagas of remembrance shall be heard. Frigid winds on blue sands, the inconstant light of poisoned stars. These things shall be our witness. These things do not matter. Who care for baubles? Who cares for fame? Let our presence upon this world be our memorial! Let our feet, steel clad, pressed into the soils of this alien land, remark on our passing. Let the bones and ruin we leave behind be our joyful hymnal! What need have we of plaudit and praise? What satisfaction in elevation above the faithful is there, that can best the knowledge of service given? For we serve the Emperor! His eye is upon us! His will is our guide and our master! When we triumph, he is well pleased. When we falter, he aids our recovery. What is the opinion of men, what matters the swift passing approval of mortal kind, when the Emperor looks upon our deeds? No matter these trinkets of recognition. No matter the laurels of victory, no matter the glories other may seek. We are Space Marines, The Adeptus Astartes, The Angels of Death! And more than this...We are the Black Templars. Victory is its own reward."
I think they chose these chapters because of their lineage. They all have huge banks of lore behind them and enormous numbers. And while yes the other 5 first founding chapters are just as powerful they aren't as well known. to the point that when the Deathwatch assisted an imperial guard regiment against a dark eldar incursion, one of the guardsmen refered collectively to the kill team as Ultramarines. The Space wolf on the kill team went to correct the guardsman, violently, and the squad leader(also not an Ultramarine) stopped him saying that "they could not be expected to tell one savior from another."
Lets choose 4 random neverheard niche chapters and suddenly the familiarity is much less. First thought as a new player would be like "Not sure if this is a cheap chinese ripoff with no copyrights or just a really cheap licence since they couldnt even get the proper guys" Am I the only one who is more happy to play as the iconic legions ?
It's good the Ultras will be here. Hopefully on Arkhona they'll finally be able to put a stop to that cannibalistic wizard and his damn cat.
we don't need the Emo Angels (both of them) and the UltraLames should have been: Salamanders Space Wolves White Scars Iron Hands
emo angels ? blood angels and dark angels are not emo. raven guard are emo.. Salamanders, Space Wolves, White Scars, Iron Hands...i would play as chaos instead your selection is wrong
