Re: [Epic] Space Marine Chapters

From: <oki_at_...>
Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 09:16:35 +0800

At 09:00 AM 5/7/97 +1000, you wrote:
>
>>Sauron1 writes;Actually the Giants reference to is a comment by a Traitor
>> space marine that acompanies an Epic battle report.He refers to the
>>Space Marines that were Original galaxy conquerors as such not the
>>shadows they are now.May be he sees a decline in the geanseed or just an
>>old warrior half remembering the"good old days"?Saginus had just
>>destroyed a blood thirster at the golden gates. It threw him down,to the
>>growns of the defenders and the cheers of the fallen,but he raised
>>himself up and picking it up,broke its back over his knee.the traitor
>>horus was fighting a weary superman when he killed Saginus. Reminds me of
>>the siege of Troy in the Ilad. sauron1
>

Pretty cool isn't it (Sanguinius vs Blood Thirster) ? And of the selective
memory of those Traitor Marines !_at_#! About SM being giants, I think you hit
it right on the head. Previously they were like 10 000, 20 000 strong. They
led the retaking of Human worlds and "not hoomies world" during the Great
Crusade and are answerable to their Primarchs and Emperor only. Compared
that to the sorry state of affairs today. 1000 warriors, defending old
territories as opposed to expanding, restrained by the Lords of Terra, blah,
blah, blah.


>But in the original (1st Ed. Adeptus Titanicus and Rogue Trader days)
>history it was ROGAL DORN and the IMPERIAL FISTS that accompanied the
>Emperor into Horus' COMMAND CENTRE ON EARTH!!!!! Sanguinus was actually
>dead by then. Then they slightly changed the history so that Sanguinus
>survived and it was he and not Dorn that followed the Emperor with the Blood
>Angels AND the Imperial Fists onto _Horus' Barge_ and not into his
>Battlefield command post. But then GW constantly change the history to fit
>their new ideas. I'm used to it now.
>
>-Kelvin.....

I think the most commonly accepted version now is both primarchs went with
the Emperor.

Regards
Oki
p.s. I came across some excellent fluff by a subsriber of 40k list on this
battle. Anybody still have them, I sure would like them.


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