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  • @TheBoneZone40k
    @TheBoneZone40k  ปีที่แล้ว +47

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    • @jamesgregory3169
      @jamesgregory3169 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      No

    • @alpha-sus
      @alpha-sus ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I AM ALPHARIUS (this is a lie)

    • @pedronogueira5267
      @pedronogueira5267 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      My dude making his stacks, glad to see it o//// but yeah, not installing the cash grab mobile game, but you go, dude o//////

    • @n1m4re77
      @n1m4re77 ปีที่แล้ว

      😂

    • @theashen2019
      @theashen2019 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Also don’t forget there’s a bunch of frozen sleeper spy’s under the imperial palace that are programmed to join the chaos or the imperium with just a key word.
      This leads me to believe that Alpha was the first to be found. This also leads me to think that Alpha or whoever is still alive is most likely remaining loyal.

  • @JDalton321
    @JDalton321 ปีที่แล้ว +810

    My favorite fact about the Alpha Legion is that as the 20th Legion their numeral is XX and they specialize in double crosses.

    • @moderndavinci6599
      @moderndavinci6599 ปีที่แล้ว +88

      Fuck that's clever

    • @darnokx9277
      @darnokx9277 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      I... did not see that coming. Or did I?

    • @orygungeeksolitude1380
      @orygungeeksolitude1380 ปีที่แล้ว

      20 was the original number for some historically relevant spy organization

    • @Diego-py3ts
      @Diego-py3ts ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Woah, nice!

    • @shonklebonkle324
      @shonklebonkle324 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I had never before thought of that...
      Wild.

  • @jamesf3871
    @jamesf3871 ปีที่แล้ว +698

    You forgot the one thing we know about the Alpha Legion with absolute certainty:
    They hate Rhinos. For only cowards and fools hide in METAL BOXES.

    • @MightyGachiman
      @MightyGachiman ปีที่แล้ว +89

      METUHL BAWKSES!!!!!

    • @Bodya_CN
      @Bodya_CN ปีที่แล้ว +54

      ​@@MightyGachiman*asthmatic breathing*
      SSSINDRRRRIIIII

    • @shonklebonkle324
      @shonklebonkle324 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      ​@@Bodya_CN (nerdy sigh) Lord Bale.

    • @jarlathquinn2628
      @jarlathquinn2628 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Our enemies hide in METUHL BAWKSES!!!

    • @Verrostete_legionär
      @Verrostete_legionär ปีที่แล้ว +7

      We hide in your armor anyways

  • @waddledee6729
    @waddledee6729 ปีที่แล้ว +462

    I played against alpha legion for a friendly game, he told me a particularly fancy model was Alpharius, then later on he revealed that his Chaos Lord was the true Alpharius, then after a long hard fought battle I discovered the real Alpharius was a normal marine that was twerking on his home objective this whole time. Or maybe the real Alpharius was the friends we made along the way...

    • @TheRedMan77
      @TheRedMan77 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      I am Alpharius.

    • @MonCalypso
      @MonCalypso ปีที่แล้ว +51

      That player IS Alpharius. You just didn't know about it. Or maybe not. Maybe you are.

    • @Sephiroth36977
      @Sephiroth36977 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      This is the way.

    • @ianduarte1992
      @ianduarte1992 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      That was, of course, a lie.
      The real alpharius was your warlord the whole time. (Disguised as omegon)

  • @sirdragon6860
    @sirdragon6860 ปีที่แล้ว +317

    Missed the joke of opening the video by saying "Hi, I'm Alpharius"

    • @damianallen4964
      @damianallen4964 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      You actually made me check. You brilliant bastard.

    • @krissteel4074
      @krissteel4074 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I was about to say the same thing
      -10xp for Arthur this video

    • @nagiaoe2434
      @nagiaoe2434 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He said he was Omegon thoughbeit

  • @arkwarp5970
    @arkwarp5970 ปีที่แล้ว +500

    I like how in the Siege of Terra books, "Alpharius" mentioned that there was a whole sleeper army of alpha legion marines just waiting for their activation code, but there's like 4 or 5 different codes with drastically different ramifications

    • @griffionwyvrus9063
      @griffionwyvrus9063 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Isn't their first captain was currently trap inside a stasis mine field.

    • @ananonymousnerd.2179
      @ananonymousnerd.2179 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      I can only recall three of those ramifications right now: The first two trigger loyalty to either Big E or Chaos, and the third is for them to kill each other... I feel like I'm missing something else, but I don't know how many.

    • @InquisitorialOperator
      @InquisitorialOperator ปีที่แล้ว +38

      ​@@griffionwyvrus9063Sort of. John Gram put a movement sensation bomb on his battle armour. Even the vibrations from him speaking can set it off. So currently, he's just stuck standing in the same position until he either figures out a way to disarm it or someone helps him. Or he dies.

  • @EdHandal
    @EdHandal ปีที่แล้ว +1279

    Dont ever call my legion a meme. We are not a meme. We are Alpharius.

  • @TheTopo8798
    @TheTopo8798 ปีที่แล้ว +329

    Third head in of the hydra is the legion themself, the marines, that can impersonate Alparius and Omegon and work without them. It was stated in lore.

    • @TheBoneZone40k
      @TheBoneZone40k  ปีที่แล้ว +134

      holy shit, I actually missed that!
      That's really cool

    • @ashardalondragnipurake
      @ashardalondragnipurake ปีที่แล้ว +56

      unless they where lying ofcourse

    • @TheTopo8798
      @TheTopo8798 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      @@ashardalondragnipurake Stop with this "nothing is true" There are many facts about alpha legion that are cannon, they are not that complicated as memes and youtubers make them to be.

    • @waynesmith7746
      @waynesmith7746 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      @@TheTopo8798reading the books. A lot of stuff is straight forward with the legion. Actually omegon/ alpharius are pretty chill and straight forward.
      Most of the mystique around the legion is stuff that just hasn’t been explained yet or people didn’t read the books and head canon hard asf.
      For example it was stated that we know for a fact one of the brothers is dead yet people keep acting like both may be alive.

    • @moderndavinci6599
      @moderndavinci6599 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@TheTopo8798 your totally an alpha legionnaire in disguise trying to reverse psychology us, do not lie!

  • @TheOnlyRealIRONicMAN
    @TheOnlyRealIRONicMAN ปีที่แล้ว +295

    In Renegades:Harrowmaster, a bunch of Alpha Legion warbands convene for some common cause. When a representative of one of those warbands made his introduction, stating "I am Alpharius", the entire gathering shouted "The fuck you are!"
    Even the Alpha Legion is sick of their own joke lol

    • @ivanivanovic5586
      @ivanivanovic5586 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      Ah yes, good novel. Also has the "fabius bile is a charlatan" bit, reaction to fighting primaris, and more or less likable main character, tho the writer can be a bit sus at times.

    • @atomicNoodle
      @atomicNoodle 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      That page is so hilarious.
      "The man stood up. 'I am Alpharius' he said. The entire hall burst in to a mix of scoffs, curses and objections."

  • @imperialfist2304
    @imperialfist2304 ปีที่แล้ว +239

    The one faction in fiction that pulls off the Hydra iconography and purpose incredibly well, get bent Marvel.

    • @ARC1701A
      @ARC1701A ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Compliance will be rewarded.

    • @purplehaze5607
      @purplehaze5607 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      God I hope you check this bc now I’m curious, but what does the hydra symbolise?? Like, now that I think about it I suppose it’s probably got something to do with how their decapitations work (cut off one head deal w 2 more etc) but now I NEED to know

    • @imperialfist2304
      @imperialfist2304 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      @@purplehaze5607 Mostly that, the Hydra symbolizes a never ending command structure or force that simply cannot be stopped because when one falls, two take its place. For Marvel? Fuck if I know other than that. For 40K the Hydra represents Alpharius, Omegon, and the Legion as a whole.

  • @shonklebonkle324
    @shonklebonkle324 ปีที่แล้ว +106

    Their gene-seed was very stable and they took very few casualties due to their whole "we don't do assaults" thing so they probably have a shitload of marines.

  • @theodorehodbor5080
    @theodorehodbor5080 ปีที่แล้ว +172

    For every Alpha legionnaire that convinces a bishop to become a Chaos spawn and plunge an entire sector into anarchy you have another that convinces a Champion of Chaos to become a Chaos spawn and dissolve his entire warband.

  • @narutoxley
    @narutoxley ปีที่แล้ว +192

    You know whats wild?
    For them to infiltrate the other legions/chapters, the have to EAT the Astarte that is to be replaced, to actually get his memories...

    • @jeremikrowicki970
      @jeremikrowicki970 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      They got that tyranid gene seed

    • @lana_del_Rei.neet-
      @lana_del_Rei.neet- ปีที่แล้ว +42

      That's kinda normal in some chapters tbh anyways

    • @Sara3346
      @Sara3346 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      ​@@jeremikrowicki970Nah if anyone that's probably the empererors children

    • @jeremikrowicki970
      @jeremikrowicki970 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Sara3346 lmao

    • @86pp73
      @86pp73 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      That's actually pretty normal. All Astartes can do that, it's just the vast majority of them are (rightly) disgusted by the idea

  • @mistertaz94
    @mistertaz94 ปีที่แล้ว +92

    Arthur really dropped the ball on introducing himself as "Hi. I'm Alpharius..."

  • @Th3_Raven
    @Th3_Raven ปีที่แล้ว +156

    I love the idea that Brad from the Poorhammer podcast had of playing an Alpha Legion with Loyalist Rules, since Primaris Marines would be appropriately sized for Alpha Leigon Marines. One can expand upon this by using the Alpha Legion Contemptor Dreads from 30k (since they're legal in 40k) and playing the Alpharius Model from 30k using Guilliman's datasheet. When your Ultramarines are actually Alphamarines.

    • @squiginjr
      @squiginjr ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Currently doing alpha legion primaris. Had the ideal few years back but finally found a deal on some primaris good enough to allow me to do it.

    • @11Survivor
      @11Survivor 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Currently doing Ultramarine Alpha infiltrators myself lol

  • @quinnamations9715
    @quinnamations9715 ปีที่แล้ว +211

    My thoughts on the Alpha Legion can be summed up as such: “I am Alpharius”

    • @EmonWBKstudios
      @EmonWBKstudios ปีที่แล้ว +10

      No, I am Alpharius!

    • @camgor4048
      @camgor4048 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      “This is a lie.”

    • @christianvillanueva1133
      @christianvillanueva1133 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I am Alpharius and this is a lie.

    • @BaranZenon
      @BaranZenon ปีที่แล้ว +14

      I am a lie and this is Alpharius.

    • @Kriegselite323
      @Kriegselite323 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Maybe its true that all of you are alpharius, but i am the Real alpharius

  • @saga3454
    @saga3454 ปีที่แล้ว +149

    There's this meme that always kills me because it's so true:
    Tzeentch has three legions :
    - His least favorite is the Thousand Sons
    - His second least favorite is the Space Wolves
    - His favorite is the Alpha Legion
    Seriously, I wonder why Tzeentch chose dumbass space wizards over literal masters of manipulation.

    • @petinonclement7872
      @petinonclement7872 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Because that a to obvious option

    • @waynesmith7746
      @waynesmith7746 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      Not to mention alpharius was the most willing to change. Alpharius was one of the few primarchs who respected humans and actively recruited them.
      He was willing to use any method.

    • @moderndavinci6599
      @moderndavinci6599 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Tzeentch chose the Thousand Sons because he doesn't like them, and he knows that serving him sucks ass.

    • @imperialfist2304
      @imperialfist2304 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sure, the Thousand Sons have a cult of duplicity but you don’t go to the Thousand Sons for infiltration and sabotage since astartes that are about as subtle and alive as the contents of an urn are not very great at hiding.

    • @hotsingleplaguedoctorinarea
      @hotsingleplaguedoctorinarea ปีที่แล้ว +11

      *C O C K L A S E R*

  • @harryknapper1133
    @harryknapper1133 ปีที่แล้ว +319

    AL1: Are you Traitor or Loyalist?
    AL2: That depends. Are you traitor or Lotalist?
    That sums up the Alpha Legion.

    • @Prophetofthe8thLegion
      @Prophetofthe8thLegion ปีที่แล้ว +16

      AL3: But the real question is are you traitor or loyalist. Because if you are I may not kill you

    • @the98themperoroftheholybri33
      @the98themperoroftheholybri33 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      ​@@Alpharius913omg are you the real Alpharius or just a fan account?

    • @dainguyen2733
      @dainguyen2733 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Prophetofthe8thLegion oh no... ITS YOU

    • @dseanm21
      @dseanm21 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      This shit made me laugh too Loud

    • @Prophetofthe8thLegion
      @Prophetofthe8thLegion ปีที่แล้ว

      @@dainguyen2733 Hello there.

  • @gammafighter
    @gammafighter ปีที่แล้ว +36

    My favorite Alpha Legion story is when they were like "Hey, we're Alpha Legion and we're here on this planet doing stuff" and people were like "Aren't you guys supposed to be like subtle?" And Alpha Legion were like "OOPS! I guess we forgot. I sure hope no one tells anyone that we were here on this planet doing this stuff." And the people were like "This is a psyop isn't it?" And Alpha Legion said "I'll never tell" in a sing-song voice and couldn't stop giggling.

  • @theashen2019
    @theashen2019 ปีที่แล้ว +87

    Personally I always thought that the two primarks were split on the heresy.
    One remains loyal and tried to sabotage whilst the other supported chaos.
    Their newest book showing the “truth” about Alpha makes me believe he remained loyal.
    This is mainly due to how he was “allegedly” being raised by the emperor. Whilst Omagon was not and wouldn’t believe in the big Es cause.

    • @tracethomas1937
      @tracethomas1937 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      yeah that’s what i thought. also i think the armor and spear that alpharius apparently died with is omegons so it would make sense if it was actually omegon was the one to be killed by dorn. also does it really make sense for alpharius turning traitor when he was raised by E & Malcador? the whole cabal thing was kinda dumb for alpharius to believe and think he knows best more than the E. Omegon should be the one to die to dorn and it’d be cool if alpharius was cypher

    • @theashen2019
      @theashen2019 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Well they both swapped their names at the end of their own book so technically Omega was loyal since he was raised by the emperor but Alpha was not.
      Everything is super confusing when they keep changing their names.

    • @Gustav_Kuriga
      @Gustav_Kuriga ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@theashen2019 And that's assuming you believe what was written in a book about the Alpha Legion.

  • @TS0ciety
    @TS0ciety ปีที่แล้ว +47

    Oh man, do I love these innocent looking Ultramarines. They are the best.
    Hydra Dominatus

  • @ingi7064
    @ingi7064 ปีที่แล้ว +73

    After all this time you finnaly got a sponsor now your one of the big boys we are all so proud

  • @21pope
    @21pope ปีที่แล้ว +87

    Fun fact: Canonically every person who was able to see through all the disguise bullshit are either dead (Malcador/The emperor) or *partially* missing (Rogal Dorn) meaning that Omegon could be perfectly around and none will known.
    Great content, youre becoming one of my favs for both consistency and quality💓

    • @TimeCircleBlue
      @TimeCircleBlue ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The second twin is Cypher pass it on.

    • @BrianHall33
      @BrianHall33 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      And we have no idea if Dorn could really see through the disguise or not. All we know is that HE thinks he sees through the bullshit, there is no way to tell if Alpharius was just playing along or if he really was caught

    • @devontheundivided9815
      @devontheundivided9815 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Remember when dorn thought the imperial palace
      Was impenetrable?
      Peter turbo tysm proved him wrong.​@@BrianHall33

    • @GuilhermeLPC
      @GuilhermeLPC 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@BrianHall33Rogal was fooled for sure. It was the Alpha Legions intentions to expose the weaknesses to Dorn so that Dorn would reinforce and Horus would fail at using the plans given by the Alpha Legion. Same way Alpharius fooled Valdor while on a mock assassination attempt of the Emperor.

  • @petinonclement7872
    @petinonclement7872 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    One thing is sure with that much confusion Tzeentch should be a big fan.

    • @ivanivanovic5586
      @ivanivanovic5586 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      And equally as confused at their shenanigans.

    • @Dimitriterrorman
      @Dimitriterrorman ปีที่แล้ว +4

      tzeentch would be too confused
      or the alpha legion alone is keeping him on par with the other gods

  • @anothershyguy
    @anothershyguy ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Fun fact: the Alpha legion has a bunch of secret bases that both space marines and human operatives from all sides can use a base.
    This leads to a funny image of a chaos alpha legion warband and loyalist warband spying on eachother in while being in the same building just down the hall. 😂

    • @pykamirulol
      @pykamirulol ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Idk sounds like something an Alpha legionnaire would say.

  • @pedronogueira5267
    @pedronogueira5267 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    Was already feeling some dread knowing that this was the end of the series, so I got SO relieved when you said you had other projects incoming!

    • @TheBoneZone40k
      @TheBoneZone40k  ปีที่แล้ว +18

      don't worry, there is going to be a major announcement next week about what actually is gonna happen

    • @mizublackriver7021
      @mizublackriver7021 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@TheBoneZone40k Finally.
      The onlyfans announcement!

    • @pedronogueira5267
      @pedronogueira5267 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@mizublackriver7021 oooooooohhhh let me count those bones

  • @trajanfidelis
    @trajanfidelis ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Alpha Legion can be super cool when written properly.

  • @ChapterMasterValrak
    @ChapterMasterValrak ปีที่แล้ว +9

    WAIT A SECOND...

    • @TheBoneZone40k
      @TheBoneZone40k  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      sorry, I had to let out your secret

  • @lukkaredwolf3534
    @lukkaredwolf3534 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Favorite lore tidbit: that the Emperor ordered his living saint to allow the Alpha legion to have the beacon, which would allow direct communication with him.

  • @carlsjolund2379
    @carlsjolund2379 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Speed run liver failure: take a shot every time Arthur says “I don’t know” in this video

  • @chainsawsubtlety9828
    @chainsawsubtlety9828 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    When it comes to the Alpha Legion, use the old adage, "Kill them all and let the Emperor sort them out."
    It's the only way to be sure.

    • @Gustav_Kuriga
      @Gustav_Kuriga ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Sounds like something an Alpha Legion agent within the Inquisition would say.

    • @chainsawsubtlety9828
      @chainsawsubtlety9828 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Gustav_Kuriga Kinda dumb, ultimately self-defeating... Yep, that sounds like them.

  • @WhenGoatsWentBaa
    @WhenGoatsWentBaa ปีที่แล้ว +16

    It makes me happy that they committed to this so much that they straight up wrote books that borderline ended with "There's a good chance everything you've been reading for the past few hours is complete bullshit Alpharius (or Omegon (or a random ass marine from the legion)) made up to either throw you off their trail or just to fuck with you"

    • @WhenGoatsWentBaa
      @WhenGoatsWentBaa ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Also to clarify the "First or last to be discovered, or both" (specifically the or both part) it's possible that Alpharius was discovered last, but Omegon had been with the emperor since the start, making them both the first and last to be discovered

  • @Karvoc
    @Karvoc ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I love how they might also be the biggest chapter if all of them in stasis are still there under the imperial palace. I love how they seem to act against one another, one warband will do something clearly chaos and it will actually help the imp and one warband will do something clearly in aid of the imp and its outcome will doom a planet to Orks. it's like Tzeentch has his own marines and gets to have fun with them.

    • @Freedmoon44
      @Freedmoon44 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Legion*, though only a few are under the palace, it is noted that the Custodes always refuses to take the option to wake them up whenever the idea is considered during a Blood Game (same legionnaires which could be awoken with traitor orders or loyalist too) so the Custodes still gets their own Alpha Legion Auxiliary as last resort.
      The funniest part about the legion is that since unlike every other Chaos Legion they didnt retreat to the Eye of Terror it means they are the Chaos Legion with the least amount of memories from the Horus Heresy, and they went through the same decline as the rest of the Imperium, only forever doomed to fight a Shadow War and use Chaos as further boost for the most part.
      So none actually remembers wtf were they supposed to do and thus all have their own quirks and identity, despite not having any as they are spies lol

  • @Drew_Thompson
    @Drew_Thompson ปีที่แล้ว +14

    The Alpha Legion is a legion which is most like a donut in that they are carbon based, have a opening at either end, and are made in bakeries from kidnapped children.

  • @andrewcasper139
    @andrewcasper139 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    Excellent work Mr. Bones. Now do every Space Marine successor chapter

  • @jtmartin1170
    @jtmartin1170 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Missed the opportunity to say “Hi, I’m Alpharius!”

  • @ashardalondragnipurake
    @ashardalondragnipurake ปีที่แล้ว +9

    love the idea of putting a alpha legion painted necron in the middle of a marine squad

    • @Th3_Raven
      @Th3_Raven ปีที่แล้ว +7

      "Battle Brother! Your Plasma Rifle is looking quite strange!"

  • @bengonzalez5215
    @bengonzalez5215 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    There is a sense of unease you make every time when you say "im arthur" that to me is so intriguing

  • @bard8903
    @bard8903 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    imagine if you will
    a whole chapter of space marines who are actually sleeper agents
    and every time this chapter recruits new members and does the standard mind wipes or mental conditioning on them as any other chapter would, they actually put activation code into the mind of another astartes from the very startm meaning that not even chapter master or any actual member would know that
    Like imagine this happening, a 1000 marins who all though themselves to be normal chapter like blood ravens and such, suddently turn to alpha legion because apharius comes back, says that he faked his death for 10k and then uses the code phrase to wake an entire chapter as if he was summoning some fuckin army out of nowhere

  • @-_-Reaver
    @-_-Reaver ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Their entire lore can be summed by by the phrase "or it could be a psy-op".

  • @Dogmelter42
    @Dogmelter42 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Alpha Legion. That moment when you get way into Metal Gear Solid V, Face:Off, and Memento and begin doing psyops off your local Feds, during the middle of their psyops.

  • @amanitamuscaria5863
    @amanitamuscaria5863 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Everyone always forgets about the 3rd Primarch of the Alpha Legion, Sigmar.

  • @Iocanthos
    @Iocanthos ปีที่แล้ว +9

    5 seconds in and I am disappointed. You had a golden opportunity for an Uhhh "Hi! Im Alpharius" :

  • @scarletfatefan8793
    @scarletfatefan8793 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Alpha legion are cool concept and decent meme, and I hear their primarch book is pretty good. A minor criticism would be that they lean a bit too much into the mastermind theme without really going beyond “it was the alpha legion all along!” But they are still really cool and their 30k design is really nice.

    • @pykamirulol
      @pykamirulol ปีที่แล้ว

      I think it's kind of part of their ego to do the whole mastermind thing. They *really* want people to know they're unknowable without letting them know, y'know?

  • @DudeOnTheInternet
    @DudeOnTheInternet ปีที่แล้ว +3

    My favourite piece of Alpha Legion lore is one time when they took over a planet of psykers by gasing the ENTIRE PLANET which made the people have dreams of snakes falling from the sky, and because they're psykers, venomous snakes actually started raining down and killing the local populous.

  • @abcdodd
    @abcdodd ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Ah, yes, wonderful. Now that we've come to the end of this 20 part series on Space Marine Legions, it means you can now focus all your efforts on a 20-part series on Eldar Craftworlds. Deeeelish!

  • @R3db34rd-13
    @R3db34rd-13 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Wow I can’t believe we’re already here, I’ve been with the series since dark angel and just want to say that this has actually been some of the best TH-cam warhammer lore content that I have as yet consumed and I can’t wait to see what @Mr.Bones40K dose in the future

  • @Lem0nsquid
    @Lem0nsquid ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Honestly these guys are the coolest legion. Not the best, but the coolest

  • @minoruiruma414
    @minoruiruma414 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    And now to start with every FOUNDING in order and their chapters! God that would be cray

  • @paille-boy
    @paille-boy ปีที่แล้ว +23

    alpha legion are the humies equivalent of an ork covering himself in tin foil and infiltrating the necron side

    • @OGXenos
      @OGXenos ปีที่แล้ว +10

      You're acting like Trazyn the Infinite isn't Alpharius wearing a tinfoil hat

  • @Octo_lqte
    @Octo_lqte หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Imagine how cool it would've been to have Tzeench worshipping alpha legion, the ultimate liars and decievers

  • @BU1Lander
    @BU1Lander ปีที่แล้ว +1

    They could have been triplets and no one ever knew... or it could all be a psyop.

  • @TriptuneRadio
    @TriptuneRadio ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I saw a notification for this on my phone earlier today, and when I clicked on it it said video unavailable. Thats about as alpha legion as it gets

  • @vancodling4223
    @vancodling4223 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    A ship full of 500 Ultramarines has been in the warp for weeks. In the mess hall one day, 499 of them all draw bolt pistols and all shoot each other dead. The 500th guy, left alive and confused, was the only actual Ultramarine. The rest were all pretending the whole time, so well in fact that none of them figured out everyone else was also alpha legion (not real lore but a good example of the meme)

  • @TheNME
    @TheNME ปีที่แล้ว

    This has to be the fastest ive seen a relatively new channel get a sponsor!! Job well done Arthur

  • @jimsabo1189
    @jimsabo1189 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Heavily inspired by Isaac Asimov’s foundation I think. Remember Gw rips everything off from other sci-fi properties. A lot of the big E’s actions would be explained by him foreseeing the future and manipulating things in such a way to ensure the survival of mankind. The alpha legion represents the group that keep the path on course, good or bad they seem to be manipulating events for a greater cause.

    • @WeAreTheBentusi
      @WeAreTheBentusi ปีที่แล้ว +1

      So essentially The Second Foundation.

  • @ivanivanovic5586
    @ivanivanovic5586 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    An underrated legion surely. In the games(and the "hunt for voldorius" novel), they're the punching bag and moustache-twirling villains. In novels (post-heresy notables are sons of the hydra, shroud of night and renegades harrowmaster), they are the force to be reckoned with, especially in latter (main character has been shown here, with dreads, demonic left arm and partial pale spear, think of him as alpha legion's answer to decimus from night lords trilogy).

  • @carlsjolund2379
    @carlsjolund2379 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I can explain the third head on their hydra logo; that is Alpharius! Why you ask? Cause clearly the first two are just space marines impersonating the primarchs.

  • @SkitariusNoKD
    @SkitariusNoKD ปีที่แล้ว +10

    how confusing is the alpha legion?
    in the arks of omen arc, a group of the alpha legion with Belakor ruined Vashtor plans to attack the dark angels rock, right in the next book we learn that vashtor has a group of the alpha legion infiltrated in the death watch working for him.

    • @rockchik409
      @rockchik409 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I've heard, *only heard*, from other people that their main goal is to stop mankind for completely collapsing. That if chaos wins or if the emperor got his wish, it would be bad for humanity as a whole. That's why they seem like they play for both sides.

    • @SkitariusNoKD
      @SkitariusNoKD ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@rockchik409 I kind of see the alpha legion like snakes with two heads (bicephaly), in nature when a snake is born with 2 heads, they will likely die because the heads fight between them, often compiting for food, or wanting to go to different direction and since both head control the same body they end up don't go anywere.
      the Hydra is the perfect symbol for them lol

  • @alphacypher7099
    @alphacypher7099 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The third head is the legion.

  • @secutorprimus
    @secutorprimus ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The Alpha Legion symbol is a 3 headed hydra. Could this imply that the twins had a third sibling? That would bring the number of primarchs back to 20. What could this mean for the 2nd and 11th?
    In this essay, I will

    • @averageeughenjoyer6429
      @averageeughenjoyer6429 ปีที่แล้ว

      The third head is the legion itself

    • @secutorprimus
      @secutorprimus ปีที่แล้ว

      @@averageeughenjoyer6429 Or so they say... maybe that's what they want us to think.

    • @averageeughenjoyer6429
      @averageeughenjoyer6429 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@secutorprimus They don't have the brains to do that sort of thing

  • @crisr.8280
    @crisr.8280 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Oh sweet. Excited to complete the pack of thicc space bois.

  • @sparrowsbewertungen6930
    @sparrowsbewertungen6930 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Goatfolk stownthrower sounds like an ork name honestly 😂😂😂

  • @Dingghis_Khaan
    @Dingghis_Khaan ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Dark Angels and Alpha Legion have a lot points of contrast, I've found. Besides being the first and the last, respectively, they also have contrasting cultures. The Dark Angels are paranoid as fuck, and the Alpha Legion are the ones who would make you paranoid if you knew their MO. Besides that, the Dark Angels (before the Lion's return, at least) had an ongoing thing about their loyalty being in question, while the Alpha Legion's betrayal may have been a lie this entire time. The two legions are also split between loyalist and traitor, the Dark Angels with their Fallen, Unforgiven, and now Risen subfactions, and the Alpha Legion with their Loyalist/Traitor split between their twin Primarchs' diverging motives.

  • @TheThestudent52
    @TheThestudent52 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love the bit where the novices are covered head to toe in relics and symbols to misdirect snipers. The actual leaders and veterans are in the most simple armor

  • @anthonycampos7417
    @anthonycampos7417 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Things make a bit more sense when you stop looking at the Alphalegion as a whole. Look at them as the same way you would look at the Nightlords, various bands of desperate individual renegades. Some are loyal playing a long con, some fell to chaos and its promises while others just fucked off into the galaxy.
    Also I believe Alpharius was the 1st Primarch found but since the legion required both of them, you can't count it as a whole. Just 0.5 of a Primarch found so no point in counting them or trying to round up when their whole purpose is supposed to be espionage.

  • @myself2noone
    @myself2noone ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The 3rd head is the legion it's self.

    • @alastor8091
      @alastor8091 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The third head is you. Applie pie. Imohtep. Flying Spaghetti. You know your mission. Do not fail.

  • @aliciagrayson4203
    @aliciagrayson4203 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I had planned to make a warband lead by "Epsileous" who always implied that he was the third head of the hydra. Now im kinda lost in other projects but maybe I'll get back to it one day.

  • @NightLordShadow
    @NightLordShadow ปีที่แล้ว +7

    "They're in the walls..."

    • @Wisptik
      @Wisptik 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      "THEY'RE IN THE GODDAMN WALLS!!!"

  • @Admiralkirk95
    @Admiralkirk95 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Another iconography trick of the Alpha legion(if we can believe it) is that the higher rank you are in a squad the less ornate your armour is. Drawing attention of would be assassins onto the lowest ranking member of the group. But at the same time Alpha Legionaires are all trained with more independence. So they can act alone when on stealth or infiltration missions. Which also leads to any Alpha legionaire being capable of taking command if their leader is killed. So who knows if that's true. Did you kill the seargent just for the nextguy in line to easily take control? Or did you kill the leastimportant person andleader is still around?
    Even on a macro level this works. Cause when G-man killed supposedly Omegon. it didn't take long for the entire legion to rally, decimate the ultramarines ina counter attack, and nearly trapped G-man on the wrong side of the battlelines.

  • @MagicXStallion
    @MagicXStallion 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    SOooo there the "Mr.Smiths" (from the Matrix ) of 40k

  • @TheAgentmigs
    @TheAgentmigs ปีที่แล้ว +7

    The whole, "or that could be an Alpha Legion ploy" is really just the by-product of bad writing. It leaves the writers a way to retconn something or alter the meaning of something that has occured in the universe.
    Wanna right Alpharius back into the lore after being killed?....Alpha Legion.
    Golden Throne starting to fail? Alpha Legion.

    • @moderndavinci6599
      @moderndavinci6599 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's bad writing to give yourself a logical, in universe way to retcon something? I think it's the opposite of bad writing, personally...

  • @CYBER_CEASAR
    @CYBER_CEASAR ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Im not a meme im Alpharius

  • @Metzgeweiser
    @Metzgeweiser 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The Alpha legion is like that scene in Venture Bros when Brock and Phantom Limb shake hands.
    BS: “For a second there, I thought you were gonna shock me.”
    PL: “So did I.”

  • @The_Rage_Kage
    @The_Rage_Kage ปีที่แล้ว +24

    "And Alpharius Omegon is a manlet."
    -Lion El' Jonson

  • @DioDeezBrando
    @DioDeezBrando ปีที่แล้ว +39

    Hi Arthur, I'm Deez

  • @amargwari2431
    @amargwari2431 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    0:55 Bro never heard about pokemon breeding 💀

  • @GrayderFox
    @GrayderFox ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I think the Alpha Legion might be my favorite. :) Congrats on seeing this through! It's given me a lot of food for thought on the Space Marines, introduced me to the ones I didn't really know much about and has been generally just a fun time. :3 Keep on.

  • @nooneatall1830
    @nooneatall1830 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My favorite bit of lore was an Alpha Legion warband psycho-indoctrinating Space Marines of a loyalist chapter to turn on their brothers and later adding them to their warband later.

  • @Cman465
    @Cman465 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Alight now make a series like this but about every successor chapter in the space marines

  • @LinkieNecronLore
    @LinkieNecronLore ปีที่แล้ว

    He didn’t start it with “Uuuhh- Hi! I’m Alpharius.” I’m rioting.

  • @sintonel133
    @sintonel133 ปีที่แล้ว

    not starting the video with "uhh... hi! i'm alpharius!" is criminal

  • @HydraDominus
    @HydraDominus ปีที่แล้ว

    the ultimate "i know what you are but what am i" legion

  • @BearCavalryWasTaken
    @BearCavalryWasTaken ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Don’t forget the Alpha Legion was about to pull up and start murdering traitors at the Siege of Terror but some random women stopped it

  • @heyguysiguessthatsit4610
    @heyguysiguessthatsit4610 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you so much fpr covering them! They are by far my favorite legion. I had a feeling that they would be the last legion to be covered.
    Now with the legions over, im guessing the xenos are next?

  • @Infinity_Coda
    @Infinity_Coda ปีที่แล้ว +1

    There's a line where "intriguingly mysterious" stops being interesting and starts seeming like a bunch of jangling keys to distract from a lack of real depth. Alpha Legion play jump rope with that line.

  • @TheRedMan77
    @TheRedMan77 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love their Hydra theme, because just how when you cut off a Hydra's head and two more grow back, when you think you've finally killed Alpharius, two identical assholes appear a week later calling themselves Alpharius.

  • @DaKdawg
    @DaKdawg ปีที่แล้ว

    Yep. Love em. I love their duality. I love their calculating, conniving, and chaotic methods. I might be mis remembering but aren't they the only legion to find a certain truth about the future, so they decided that their tactics were going to be a huge focal point about Imperial victory and moving the Imperium through the future? I love that everything is on the table, the implant kill phrases, the plans A through D also all have contingency plans and almost nothing that occurs is far from their mark. Even a "set back" might move things to be positioned where they want them. How can you not love them?

  • @ineverexist666
    @ineverexist666 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The Alpha legion where Khorne, Nurgle and Slanesh go to Tzeentch to complain how he got two legion, while tzeentch has a headache trying to understand what the deal is with those f-ers

  • @fluffynator6222
    @fluffynator6222 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Tzeench be like: "My precious little baby boys T-T"

  • @salvatoredanunciacao7770
    @salvatoredanunciacao7770 ปีที่แล้ว

    My favorite tid bit is, "I am Alpharius, and this is a lie", the final line in every Alpha legion book.

  • @Error-mn4el
    @Error-mn4el ปีที่แล้ว

    one time Alpha Legion just spray painted secret messages on the walls in a hive from which a loyalist chapter took recruits, just so after a century or something they sent a signal and a crapton of marines turned because they were essentially sleeper agents, wacky as hell

  • @nick0875
    @nick0875 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I like the idea of the Alpha Legion being these expert infiltrators but I end up rolling my eyes at some of the feats they allegedly achieve. I wouldn't be surprised to read a story where a Custodes or Primaris Marine turns out to be an Alpha Legionnaire all along.

    • @OGXenos
      @OGXenos ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Both of those may have already happened. According to the Siege of Terra books, there's thousands of Alpha Sleeper agents among the rest of the legion. And in Head of the Hydra, Alpharius killed a Custodian and wore his armor as a disguise, only getting caught by Constantin Valdor due to his inhumanly accurate knowledge of every Custodian's armor and weapon.

    • @nick0875
      @nick0875 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@OGXenos The saddest bit about the Alpha Legion is that GW is going to completely botch the reveal of what their real nature and motivations are.

  • @seanturner1197
    @seanturner1197 ปีที่แล้ว

    There was some warband that recovered the bladed components of one of their primarch's wargear, the mysterious pale spear. The original shaft of the weapon was held by the imperial fists.

  • @lukkaredwolf3534
    @lukkaredwolf3534 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm currently enamored with the concept of running a Deathwatch style pack of Space Marine Black Shields, with it being made up of equal parts Alpha, Salamander, and Space Wolves legions.

  • @whitlocktherevanchist5236
    @whitlocktherevanchist5236 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Look who got a sponsor! Nice!
    Hey, you need to do videos on the different armies of the Astra militarum! That would be badass. I just saw a video by the remembrencer on the vostroyan firstborn and it was pretty cool. Not to mention the amount of armies is almost endless.

    • @TheBoneZone40k
      @TheBoneZone40k  ปีที่แล้ว

      comically enough I have an Astra Militarum video coming out next week!

    • @whitlocktherevanchist5236
      @whitlocktherevanchist5236 ปีที่แล้ว

      @TheBoneZone40k hell yeah! There's something about regular people still being a force to be reckoned with in a world of demigods daemons and aliens. Taking the time to make them different from different planets was just an awesome move by gw.
      Love the channel man. Doing awesome

  • @madmaximperialknights9101
    @madmaximperialknights9101 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I cant believe gas lightning is whole space marine leagion

  • @multigatawny5204
    @multigatawny5204 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My favourite Alpha Legion lore is when one time Chaos contacted some rogue cell of Alpha Legion and tried to get them on their side AL voxed them back telling them to put the bolter in their mouth and pull the trigger.
    They literally went full LowTierGod xD

  • @derekburge5294
    @derekburge5294 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I have learned the true secret of the Alpha Legion.
    In all the backdealing, manipulation, and scheming, they literally forgot who they intended to support. Everything grew to be too complicated and the plot got away from them. They don't remember whose side they're on.
    The end.

  • @weskite5352
    @weskite5352 ปีที่แล้ว

    Shit bro, I didn't realize you were growing so fast. Almost 20k subs. Can't wait to see you hit 50k and then the march to 1 MIL!!!!!!!!!