Christian Nielsen wrote:
>
> > Does anyone have a
> > full history of the time period and the events (and OOB?). The most
> > complete I've seen so far is in the Ultramarines 40k Codex, which I
> > bought for the organizational stuff.
>
> I remeber seeing an EXTREMELY detailed account of the Horus Heresy in
> an old White Dwarf (about issue 160?)... anyway, it was around the
> same time as the one with the rules for a 40K Ork Gob Smasher...
> However, GW has since re-written the final battle (Sanguinous was
> originally killed by a daemon outside the ultimate gate...),
I thought that Sanguinous killed a demon (specifically, a
bloodthirster) at the gate, breaking its back over his knee, rather
than having been killed by one.
A good example of rewritten history is the Imperial Fists'
part in attacking Horus' battle barge. These days GW generally only
bothers to mention Sangy & his Blood Angels, even though Rogal Dorn
was the one who is supposed to have built the golden throne.
-----> Sanguinus breaking the Thirster over his knee was how I remembered
the article. But you also forgot to mention the White Scars were also
defending Earth. The rewrite that got me was about the Dark Angels.
Originally it was a combined Dark Angel, Space Wolf fleet coming to
Earth that forced Horus into the quick move. A little rewrite later there
is no mention of the DA's anywhere because of their little oopsy with
Chaos.
John (who misses the older fluffier days)
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