Alpha Legion

How to Paint Everything – Alpha Legion Chaos Space Marines

In our How to Paint Everything series we look at how to paint, well, everything, with a look at different approaches from different painters and some of the special techniques for painting. In this article we’re looking at how...

Unit Focus: Chaos Space Marine Leaders

In this article series we’re taking a look at the leader options available to each faction, looking at what units they pair with, and talking about the combos available to those units as well as tips for running them...

Start Competing: Alpha Legion Updated!

We’re currently doing a big inventory and update on our Start Competing series, and today we’ve updated the article for Alpha Legion, who are the masters of covert ops and subterfuge among the traitor legions. Stay tuned as we...

The Horus Heresy Legion Focus: Alpha Legion

You thought we were doing this in Legion order? Surprise sucka, the Alpha Legion are here. They've been here all along. You think that's your spouse/roommate/coworker/pet in the room with you right now? I'm afraid it's been an Alpha Legion operative all along. Maybe your cat is, in fact, Alpharius.

Horus Heresy Hot Take: Hydra’s Devastation & Imperial Fist Huscarls

This week, out of nowhere, Warhammer Community dropped a standalone campaign back for the Horus Heresy - The Battle of Pluto: Hydra’s Devastation. Contained within it was a new unit, the Imperial Fist Legion Huscarls.  A surprise, to be sure, but...

The Horus Heresy Legion Overview – The Alpha Legion

Oops, this is for Horus Heresy 1.0! - you might be after the updated article here. The Space Marine Legions of the First Founding make up the core factions and conflict of the Horus Heresy. In our final article, we...

Book Review: Alpharius: Head of the Hydra, by Mike Brooks

SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers for Alpharius: Head of the Hydra by Mike Brooks and also Legion by Dan Abnett. So if you're very spoiler-averse, don’t read this review. If still want to know if the book is...

How to Paint Everything: 2nd Edition Chaos Space Marines

In our How to Paint Everything series we look at how to paint well, everything. We look at different techniques and approaches to achieving results and the lore behind some of the models we're painting. As GOONHAMMER '96 comes...

Start Competing: Alpha Legion Tactics (Updated 12/23/2022)

This is a companion article to our larger Start Competing: Chaos Space Marines article. In this article, we’re looking specifically at the Alpha Legion traitor legion and how to manage their custom rules and strategies. The Alpha Legion were the...

9th Edition Faction Focus: Chaos Space Marines

9th edition is on the way, and with it a whole raft of changes to the factions of Warhammer 40,000. With the Munitorum Field Manual out in the wild and the Faction FAQs released, now’s a good time to start taking a...