Chaos Space Marine Legions and Warbands (List)

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A list of Chaos Space Marine Legions and warbands.

Legions

The nine Space Marine Legions that betrayed the Imperium during the Horus Heresy:

• Alpha Legion ^2a
• Black Legion ^2d
• Death Guard ^2a
• Emperor's Children ^2b
• Iron Warriors ^2b
• Night Lords ^2c
• Thousand Sons ^2f
• Word Bearers ^2b
• World Eaters ^2f

Warbands

The term warband is used to describe a group of Chaos Space Marines that work together. They can be generic fighting forces of the Traitor Legions which go by their own names or sub-factions which bear their own distinctive heraldry. Others are made up of renegade Space Marines who fell in the years after the Horus Heresy, including whole companies and Chapters. ^{2, 5}

Below is a list of known named warbands:

A

• Adharon's Reavers ⁵
• Angels of Ecstasy, formerly Sons of Ulthunas ^2a
• Angels of Pain ^4a
• Anointers of Blood ²ⁱ
• Apocalypse Company ^3b
• Apostles of Contagion ⁵
• Apostles of MinthRas ^2a

B

• Beasts of Annihilation ^2k
• Berserkers of Skallathrax ⁵
• Betrayers of Pain ^3b
• Black Brethren of Eyreas ⁵
• Bleak Brotherhood ^2a
• Blood Disciples ^2k
• Blood Gorgons ⁷
• Blood Legion of Khorne ⁸
• Brotherhood of Blood ^2e
• Brotherhood of Darkness ^2a
• Brothers of Anarchy ^2h

C

• Children of Purgatos ^1a
• Claws of Lorek ^2a
• Cleaved, The ^2j
• Company of Misery ^2a
• Company of the Shadow, formerly Death Falcons ^2g

D

• Damned Company of Lord Caustos, The ^1a
• Death Shadows ^2b
• Deathmongers ^2l
• Disciples of Destruction ^2b
• Dragon Warriors ^2b

E

• Exalted, Warband of the ⁹
• Extinction Angels ^1a

F

• Faithless, The ⁵
• Fire Reavers ^2e
• Flawless Host, The ^2b
• Foresworn, The ⁶

H

• Hakanor's Reavers ^2b

K

• Killmongers ^3a
• Knights of Blood ^2b

L

• Lords of Decay ^2c

N

• Night Stalkers ^2k
• Nightkillers ^3b

O

• Oracles of Change ^2c

P

• Punishers ^2c
• Purge, The ^2c
• Pyre, The ^1a

R

• Reborn, The ^2c
• Red Corsairs, formerly Astral Claws ²ⁱ

S

• Sanctified, The ^2c
• Scourged, The ^2l
• Skulltakers, formerly Berserkers of Kharadon ^2c
• Skyrar's Dark Wolves ^2f
• Sons of Hate ^2e
• Sons of Malice ^1a
• Sons of Vengeance ^2f
• Steel Brethren ^2f
• Steel Cobras ^1a
• Steel Heart ^4b
• Swords of Kargoth ^2f

T

• Tainted, The ⁵
• Terror Lords ^4a

V

• Violators ^1a

W

• Warp Ghosts ^1a
• Warriors of Aggannor ^2l
• Warriors of Mayhem ^2f

Sources

• ¹: Codex: Chaos Space Marines (3rd Edition, 2nd Codex)
  • ^1a: p.76
• ²: Codex: Chaos Space Marines (4th Edition)
  • ^2a: p.18
  • ^2b: p.20
  • ^2c: p.21
  • ^2d: p.22
  • ^2e: p.23
  • ^2f: p.24
  • ^2g: p.41
  • ^2h: p.43
  • ²ⁱ: pp.56/57
  • ^2j: p.68
  • ^2k: p.69
  • ^2l: p.70
• ³: UK White Dwarf 333: Slaves to Darkness
  • ^3a: p.22
  • ^3b: p.28
• ⁴: Battle Missions
  • ^4a: p.9
  • ^4b: p.33
• ⁵: Imperial Armour Volume Seven - The Siege of Vraks - Part Three, p.172
• ⁶: Conquest of Armageddon (Novel)
• ⁷: Blood Gorgons (Novel)
• ⁸: Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Winter Assault
• ⁹: Soul Hunter (Novel)