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Teleport planetary battle slaves welcome commander series#

The first thing this book does is re-establish the lore of the Horus Heresy, telling the story of Horus’ decision to betray the Emperor beginning with the virus bombing of Istvaan III and the flight of the frigate Eisenstein. It’s cool seeing what’s already fully formed at this stage in 40k’s history and what still needed tweaks. There are a ton of threads in this book and many new ideas that would either be fleshed out in more detail later on or dropped altogether. One of the cooler things about looking back on this book 25 years later is seeing how the lore both evolved from the first edition of the game several years earlier and also seeing how it would change in the time since. So without further ado, let’s dive into what makes Codex: Chaos so great.Ĭredit: Robert “TheChirurgeon” Jones The Lore For this reason, the 2nd edition codexes remain much more collectible and interesting in the modern day than their later counterparts the older fluff has a rougher but more interesting presentation and when the rules content holds no interest because the edition it refers to has been dead for 20 years, there’s a lot less to recommend about the 3rd-5th era books. In most ways the codexes of 2nd edition have more in common with the modern hard-cover tomes released in 6th through 9th edition, albeit with only a small number of full-color pages in them reserved for showing off ‘Eavy Metal paint schemes. By comparison, the Codexes of 3rd, 4th, and 5th edition were little more than pamphlets, clocking in at 75-100 pages, though they were perhaps more focused. The Codexes of 2nd edition were softcover books that ran 100+ pages in length, packed with art, dozens of pages of fluff, color pages of models, and pages with datafaxes, wargear cards, and templates that could be cut out or photocopied. Over the last 25 years Games Workshop has changed how it approaches codexes several times. The book also gave us our first comprehensive look at the traitor legions themselves, several of which had never been mentioned or had only been a single reference in a prior book, as well as an introduction to the concept of modern renegade chapters with our first look at the Red Corsairs and their leader, Huron Blackheart. Codex: Chaos is the book that fundamentally reshaped Chaos Space Marines, bringing them into an aesthetic that would remain largely unchanged to the modern day.

Teleport planetary battle slaves welcome commander series#

While Rogue Trader’s Realm of Chaos books – Slaves to Darkness and the Lost and the Damned – introduced the traitor legions of Chaos as a series of scattered warbands and raiders who venture into the Imperium from the Eye of Terror to plunder, the 2nd edition version of Codex: Chaos Space Marines presents them as a much more organized and dangerous threat, introducing us to Black Crusades, key characters in the Traitor Legions, and the Daemon Princes that can lead entire forces of warp-spawned horrors into realspace. Perhaps no release had a bigger impact on the future of Warhammer 40,000 than Codex: Chaos.

This week we’re taking a look back to 25 years ago and some of the key releases of 1996.