

“I heard you do strange things to your warriors.” I heard from a contact on Mars, Jaghatai, that you do strange things to your ships.” “To shoot off into the stars and hunt down xenos on those delightful jetbikes.

“He wants to be left alone,” said Fulgrim. Jaghatai Khan is a Primarch of peerless skill and tactical acumen, but he holds a unique status as the deliverer of the most epic burn in the history of the Heresy, taken from Scars by Chris Wraight: Thankfully for the Imperium, they stood with the Emperor, but it could easily have gone the other way. Swift, deadly, inscrutable, the V Legion always stood slightly apart from their fellow Loyalists, and it was wholly unclear when the Heresy began which side they would stand with. It has been a long and winding road, but we are nearly at the end of the Goonhammer Legion Overview series! In this penultimate installment, we’re casting our eyes over the last of the Loyalists in the archives – the White Scars. “The V Legion were the pathfinders of the Great Crusade, ever in uncharted territory and far from the borders of the expanding Imperium, and oft forgotten by the chroniclers that followed in conquests wake… they were the swift blade that probed for weakness before a sudden and deadly strike, not the sledgehammer that some of their brother Legions had become.” In this article, our penultimate trip to the forbidden vaults of lore, we try to catch up with the swiftest of the Legions – Jaghatai’s V: The White Scars.Ĭredit: Robert “TheChirurgeon” Jones Introduction The Space Marine Legions of the First Founding make up the core factions and conflict of the Horus Heresy.
