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XX Legion: Alpha Legion[edit]
Legion Special Rules
Your choice of Scout, Infiltrate, Tank Hunters, Counter Attack, Move Through Cover, or Adamantium Will. Choose it when you pick warlord traits.
Martial Hubris: If alpha legion suffers more units destroyed than the foe, the enemy gains +1 VP.
New Rite of War: The Coils of the Hydra
Subterfuge: +1 to going first, or can reroll Seize the Initiative.
Signal Corruption: -1 to enemy reserves
The Rewards of Treason: Gain the ability to use any other Legion's special units (except for ICs) as an Elites choice. They keep all equipment and special rules, but switch out their parent Legion's special rules for the Alpha Legion's rules.
Must take an additional compulsory Troops choice.
All infantry must possess either Deep Strike, Infiltrate, or a Dedicated Transport.
Only one Consul permitted (save for Vigilator).
No fortifications or allied Space Marine Legion detachments.
Unique Wargear
Banestrike Bolter Rounds- Bolters, Combi-Bolters, and Heavy Bolters with this ammo treat to-wound rolls of 6 as AP3, but have shorter range.
Power Dagger- S(User-1) AP3, Specialist Weapon, and Rending, all for half the price of a power sword. A cheap way to give someone with a power fist, a lightning claw, or a paragon blade an extra attack.
Venom Sphere- Assault Grenades that grant Hammer of Wrath.
Venom Sphere Harness- As above, but for Terminators and one use only.
Headhunter Kill Team - Seeker squads that have traded in 'Marked for Death' for 'Preferred Enemy (Infantry)', lost special ammo in exchange for Banestrike only bolters, but gained Infiltrate. One can trade his bolt gun for a Banestrike heavy bolter with suspensor web. The entire squad has venom spheres and power daggers. Same base price as a seeker squad, but more points per model than the already horrendously expensive seekers.
Lernaean Terminators - Terminators with Cataphractii armor, power axes, Volkite Chargers, and act as scoring units at any time Troops are counted as scoring units. What's not to like? Can take a conversion beamer, if for some reason you want to put a weapon that gets better at extreme range in a squad that has "slightly better than pistol" range for the rest of it's weapons.
Saboteur - Consul for you. D6 S6 AP4 shots against things with a toughness, else an auto pen. It also ignores cover saves. Has to come in from reserve, and can't join squads though. Probably better off with a regular vigilator in 90% of cases.
Armillus Dynat - an interesting choice that makes Alpha legion units and Dreadnoughts in your opponent's deployment zone gain re-roll on sweeping advance rolls and +1 on the vehicle damage chart. Has weapon mastery (a-la Horus and Logan Grimnar) and a power sword/thunder hammer. Has a unique warlord trait that allows you to grant one infantry unit the ability to deep strike with re-roll on the scatter. Could be an excellent addition to an aggressive, close-combat oriented Alpha legion list.
Exodus - The Tactical Operator. He has a sniper rifle called 'The Instrument' that can be fired in two modes- Rapid Shot makes it S5 AP4 with Salvo 2/4 and Rending, while Execution Shot makes it S6 AP3 with Heavy 1, Rending, Ignores Cover, and Lethal (unsaved wounding hits inflict two wounds instead of one). To make him more effective at picking off special snowflakes, he can choose which model in a unit he hits on a to hit roll of 4+ (ignoring Look out, Sir!). However, he can never be the Warlord and can only join Legion Reconnaissance Squads and Headhunter Kill Teams.

Alpharius: His stats aren't too good for a unit costing 415 points, but you won't take the Last Primarch for that- you'll take him for how badly he can fuck with your opponent. Sire of the Alpha Legion grants all Alpha Legion units Preferred Enemy (Everything) and gives Alpharius Counter attack, Move through Cover, Scout, and Crusader- but not right away. You see, after both sides deploy he can opt out of deploying normally or via deep striking and choose to hide in any of your units disguised as a generic model, but can reveal himself starting at turn 2 (and does so automatically at turn 5) for all of the above buffs. If the unit he's hiding in is falling back when he reveals himself, it auto-rallies, and if it's destroyed while he's still hiding, he just goes into reserves. He can seize initiative on a 4+, give units arriving via Outflank a +d3 movement bonus, and best of all if an enemy unit is successfully brought in from reserves and your army has an identical version of that same type also in reserve, roll a d6- on a 4+, the opponent brings in your unit instead.
Alpharius can use the following wargear:
The Pythian Scales: 2+/4++, ignores the effects of Poison and Fleshbane. Not bad.
The Pale Spear: No boost to Strength, but it does have AP1, Armourbane, and Instant Death along with Two-Handed. Also, it's a Necron weapon. Don't ask how he got it.
Venom Spheres
Master-Crafted Plasma Blaster
Cognis Signum
Nuncio Vox
Camelioline