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The Blood Ravens don't have an official home planet for an unknown reason, and instead live in spess. They value information ("Knowledge is power, hide it well" is their motto, I think ) and much of the background information on them was purged or is kept highly secret.

It is known that their Brother-Captains have funny accents.

They're the loyalist equivalent to Alpha Legion, I guess, only less secretive and contradicting.

Alpha Legion's Primarch Situation is somewhat complex.

The Blood Ravens either have no true Primarch or an Unknown Primarch.

Yeah. Guilliman killed Alpharius. Or Omegron. Or both, or neither, or something.

All that I really know of 'em is what I gleaned from Dawn of War. Kronos IV is apparently an important world in their history, given how they went batshit crazy when they went to reclaim it.

As far as I know they sent at least two companies. The biggest thing of it was that they were turning blindly on other Imperial inhabitants of the planet, though they could argue that the Guardsmen had been tainted by (Chaos, Xenos, Necrons, etc.).

Anyone use the Legion Of The Damned yet?

I just fought a giant 4-player battle against a player with three scout squads and thirty (30!) legion of the damned marines. MY GAWD! Three plus invulnerable saves, Fearless, Deep Strike (that rerolls scatter) plus slow and purposefull. Moving and firing those lascannons turn after turn, Jeebus! not even the highly accurate power of three ordnance weapons could stop them.

Me and my brother, versus two really fat guys, one old and grey and one black and dreadlocked. We played corners, and they scored the first turn. They laid down scout squads on either flank, lots of snipers. They moved a big group of assault marines and bikes towards my right flank, and let all the other squads set up their firing positions. They started shooting at my well dug-in tallarn, who sustained only a single casualty in my anti-tank squad, due to their cameleoline. Their lascannon devastators failed to harm my tanks or Ian's dreads, and their turn was over.

My turn began with my sentinels, hellhound, and chimera moving towards their scouts, torching them all. Only something like six men out of the same number of squads survived. Promethium baby, promethium. Then the sound of two demolishers and a battlecannon opening up filled the air, vaping and pinning half of the assault marines, as well as killing three bikers. Ian's devastators and master of the forge found range on their devvies, and started throwing missile shots and conversion beamer blasts at them.

It was looking rather bleak for their side on the begining of turn two, until the mass of LOTD marines 'ported in. Damn. Filling in the craters where space marines were pre-demolisher/plasma cannon, they began an unstoppable advance toward our battlelines. Everything they touched as they advanced disappeared, hellhound, sentinel squad, Venerable dreadnought, Demolisher, Damn.

It became a game of manuvering our squads around for flanking attacks and just shooting as many heavy weapons at the enemy as we could. We had the overwhelming firepower that they couldn't match, and they had the indomitable power of the legion to soak it up

At the end of the sixth turn, there was only two of them left. After annihilating his partner's terminators, bikes, and assault marines to plasma cannon fire, and forcing his devastators out of their firing position (followed by a battlecannon round that killed the rest of them after they finally were out of their cover) their forces were in a complete rout from the overpowering firepower of our two combined armies.

All but the legion, which advanced oblivious to their few causualties. Knowing that the legion must be stopped at all costs, we fired every last weapon we had at them. In the end, we had ten kill points to their six, and the game was ours. but what a fight!

MVP award goes to their assault squad sarge, who after watching his entire squad eat demolisher cannon fire, he jumped eighteen inches into our lines, killing six marines in hand to hand before a dreadnought humped over to squish him.

All in all great fight, both sides had tons of fun. Again I wish I had a Camera

I don't see why people go all "OMIGOSH 3+ INV SAVE!11!!" when normal marines have the same armour save, sure, your few ap-low weapons don't work, but they still have the same ratio of dying from normal saves just like normal marines... They're more expensive, they're not as fast, and I don't see it as a big deal when they can move and fire 1 heavy weapon per turn... It doesn't make that much of a difference really.

I think part of the biggest of it is just that they have a much more precise deepstrike and, thanks to technical rules of S&P, you can deepstrike in and fire the squads HW. I personally might take a small unit of the bastards just to screw with my friends, but I see no reason to spend a full 40 pts on models en masse.

Hark...is there any chance at all that you can get/put up a picture of that? *desperately wants to see*