Why did you join Legion?

I really wasn’t looking to get into Warmahordes – but I wasn’t going to go back to GW after the large Tyranid army became invalidated. I tried Dark Eldar for a while but with no new content, the army just kinda stagnated.
There was a huge going out of business sale though and the price point on WarmaHordes was very appealing. I boiled down to 2 choices… Circle or Legion… and both of those choices were simply based on aesthetics. Dragons won.

After that (early MK2 time frame?) – I really started to get into it.
Eyeless sight, Pathfinder and Stealth allowed me to ‘cheat’. This made them easy to play. As soon as my meta figured out how to play against Legion (aka counter punch the glass cannon) – I had to learn to play (or still learning today).
I loved that Legion was ‘beast heavy’. This was really the appeal. I could play these monstrosities. Many of my lists, I was heavily outnumbered in model count but I didn’t mind because I loved the models and playstyle.
I rarely took to infantry with a few exceptions - Hex Hunters, Raptors… eventually WarSpears once the BlightBringer was released.

As far as the current state of Legion? Well, those who frequent these boards have seen me ask this question before. The response that I have held onto is ‘Constant Damage’ – don’t look for the big glass cannon, we can’t do that and legion has never been able to tank to absorb the alpha – but with a combined arms approach, we have tools to apply damage consistently.

That isn’t what brought me to Legion. But MK3 was supposed to change things – and it did. Some of it for the better (Khador, Ret, Jacks with PowerUp, etc.). One of the goals was for Legion to want to bring more infantry. I didn’t want this but I have been so invested that I kept an open mind.

I have not been impressed with the changes. We did get some power models (Hellmouth, Warlord, etc.) and that was great but then Thememachine hit. But I don’t want to wander into that topic, I rather address the question on hand (even though Themes may be a factor here).

What I want from legion… Beast heavy, fast moving, rule cheating elite models. We still have all of that. But something certainly seems missing. Maybe all that is needed is a little more cannon to our glass?

I ramble too much…

Just curious, for the naysayers, what would be the premier beast faction at this point? If I were to hazard a guess, I think it'd be Skorne due to their total overhaul post Mk3 transition. Maybe some of the Doomy based PoD lists from Trolls as well.

I liked the idea of powerful self sufficient beasts, and now PP wants me to play overbuffed spammed multi box infantry...

I'd rather lose a game with fun ^^

Thagrosh 2

I originally got shown the game by a Legion main in MKII. Made sense that he would tell me they were the best. I think I kind of fell for the faction initially for the shear weird occurrence where you like what's familiar. Thus, after watching him play and him summarizing the models. I felt okay with buying in. I later found that I like Circle tactics more. So I did buy into that, but my wife took over those models. Then I picked up minions which plays waaaay more like old MKII Legion is the massive number of beast I can put on the field and then +6 their damage. Lastly I've just bought into Protectorate. Reason being PoM was the first enemy I ever played my own Legion models against and to this day I felt I chose wrong. PoM is the aesthetic I like most. Their Casters, Jacks, and infantry all seem so diverse and capable.

But still, I will never stop playing Legion because of Thagrosh 2. He was the first caster I went head first into the faction for. He was always bonkers fun and here recently I just completely stripped the old crappy paint job, reassembled him better, modded him slightly, and worked tirelessly on an absolutely wonderfully clean paint job (for my skill level). He is by far the model I am most proud of now. Though I'm still terrified every time I take him out of the bag as the modded sword gave me cancer trying to get drilled and glued. Fingers crossed it's still together...

[Edit] Also Kryssa. Absolutely love playing Kryssa lists. I've made tons of them. So much fun and so easily adapted.

If I can get some more table time with Bethayne, she might also get a top 3 position in my book.

absolutely not meant in a negative way - Preaching to the choir.

Bethayne is great fun. She's the most active caster I've ever played and I love that about her. Belphagor and his animus are just fantastic (now that I know it's treated as a cloud). There is just so much you can do. I just haven't gotten the time to try all the possibilities. Right now I've only got a successful CotD list for here but I know she can do more. Like bird spam; Golab, Grotesque Rotwings, and such.