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In addition to their rules, Raven Guard have access to a number of great upgrade kits and models in their Forge World range, and just received a Primaris upgrade sprue that has shoulder pads, multiple helmet/head options, and sergeant guns. With 8th edition, the Raven Guard rules were scaled back to a Chapter Trait in the first Space Marines Codex before being expanded significantly again with the Raven Guard Codex Supplement. These were further expanded in the Angels of Death supplement, which added relics and warlord traits for the chapter. They did not receive separate new rules until 7th edition, when the release of the Kau’yon and Mont’ka campaign books re-introduced rules for them along with rules for White Scars and T’au. After their initial rules in Index Astartes, the Raven Guard featured in the 4th, 5th, and 6th edition Space Marine codexes. When he emerged, he had a haunted look, and fled for the Eye of Terror.
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The Primarch brooded in his tower over this for a full year following the Heresy. The Raven Guard were able to fight off Alpha Legion and Word Bearer attacks during the Heresy, but never recovered from their losses on Istvaan V, and had to go to great efforts to cover up the shame of Corax’s twisted gene-sons. These mutants fought ferociously in battle, but were warped beyond all humanity and reason. This caused Corax’s new legionnaires to become hideous, deformed monstrosities. But little did Corax know, the Alpha Legion had stolen his tech and sabotaged his gene-seed with daemon blood. He began work on his new legionnaires and at first the results were promising. After much arguing, the Emperor granted him the secrets, and he took them back to the Ravenspire, where he used the gene-forging technology to try and breed a new generation of reinforcements for his legion, a blend of primarch and Marine that would be bigger, stronger, faster, and return his legion to fighting strength in time to save Terra. Seeing the devastation of his legion and understanding the need to reinforce them quickly, Corax fled to Terra, where he confronted Malcador to ask for the secrets of the Emperor’s gene-tech. The Raven Guard had always been the smallest of the Marine legions, but after Istvaan V, their 80,000 legionnaires were reduced to barely 3,000 surviving veterans. In the fighting that followed, Ferrus Manus was killed, Vulkan was captured, and Corvus Corax barely escaped with his life. There they were betrayed, as four legions turned on them, decimating the loyalist legions almost immediately. When Horus turned traitor, the Raven Guard were one of seven legions sent to Istvaan V, joining the Iron Hands, Salamanders, Iron Warriors, Word Bearers, Alpha Legion, and Night Lords to put an end to the Warmaster’s rebellion.
The Raven Guard served the Imperium faithfully during the Great Crusade, taking part in covert operations and regularly employing guerilla tactics to accomplish their goal. This changed somewhat when the legion was reunited with its primarch: Corax purged the legion’s Terran commanders and placed a greater emphasis on stealth and quick strikes over terror tactics and brutal suppression.
As the XIX Legion, the Raven Guard were primarily used for infiltration, recon, counter-insurgency, and suppression missions on behalf of the Emperor. These would essentially be replaced by the 4th edition Space Marines Codex, which released with a model for the Raven Guard’s Captain of the Third Company, Kayvaan Shrike. And while Raven Guard and their Primarch Corax finally received mention in the 2nd edition release of 40k, they wouldn’t receive rules until almost a decade later in December 2002, when they finally saw rules in their own Index Astartes article in White Dwarf #276.
This led to some interesting quirks where Crimson Fists and Raptors existed before their own founding chapters. The Raven GuardĪlthough the Raven Guard are a First Founding Chapter, like several notable chapters from that founding they wouldn’t receive their first mentions in the fluff until the release of second edition, first appearing in White Dwarf #166 ahead of the release of the 2nd edition boxed set for Warhammer 40,000 when all of the First Founding chapters were finally named.
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With the release of the new Codex Supplement for Raven Guard, we’re taking a look at the XIX Legion – who they are, their history and heraldry, and how to paint them. In our How to Paint Everything series, we take a look at different armies of the Warhammer universe, examine their history and heraldry, and look at several different methods for painting them.