40K Retro: Birth of the Chaos Legions

 

Today we look back 20 years the look back at 1996’s Codex Chaos.  Witness the original unified Chaos forces with traitor legions, heretics & daemons!

Welcome to the BoLS Retro Corner, where each week, we take you on a time machine to the era of early tabletop awesomeness.  This week, we take you back to the heady days of Warhammer 40,000 2nd Edition, and the origin of many of the original Chaos villains – some still with us today and other lost to the mists of time.In particular we get a look at the early formative Chaos Traitor Legions bach when there were still new and unformed.

The 2nd Edition Chaos Codex is also a good example of the “everything AND the kitchen sink” appraoch to codex design that GW commonly used in those early days.

Take a look at this early artwork of some of the original Traitor Legion designs.

This was a grand unified book that incorporated the traitor marines, daemons and mortal heretics of the Ruinous powers – long before GW split them into separate books. Now kick back grab a cup o joe and enjoy your guided tour.

Author: Larry Vela

Dad, Gamer, Publisher, Pilot, Texan. All games all the time since junior-high. I started BoLS Interactive in 2006. I’m a lifelong tabletop & RPG gaming enthusiast, and internet publisher working to entertain and inform my readers every day. I've been playing RPGs and Tabletop Games since the 1970s. I'm been playing and covering Warhammer and Warhammer 40K for over 35 years.