Chaos Raptors

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"You are already dead!"
--A Raptor after performing Hokuto Shin Ken

A Chaos Raptor...from the Night Lords Legion (it's just a coincidence, we swear!).

Raptors are Chaos Space Marine Assault Marines. Or, at least, they were at first. Then Games Workshop decided that they needed something original about them and made them separate from the Legions, turning them into mercenary warbands, or "cults" who don't worship the big four, instead worshipping the "Raptor God". And now they're Chaos Assault Marines again. Games Workshop sure is indecisive.

And despite what people might tell you, the Night Lords are NOT the "Raptor Legion". Though they are creators of Raptor squads and distinctive Raptor armour with clawed feets and large engine intakes, so Night Lord bands often have a large amount of Raptors in their ranks. The relationship is more that between the Word Bearers and Possessed or the Iron Warriors and Obliterators - they are distinctive motifs of the legion, yet not really so abundant as to define the group entirely, and in this case not having much real political power, instead being treated by "normal" marines as little more than beasts. Quite rightly when you consider how they deteriorate into mad killers, even losing the power of speech over time. The Night Lords still eschew the whole Chaos worship thing and only care about material/temporal power, so they probably find the Chaos-crazed Raptors more perverse than anyone else does.

Speaking of Raptor armour, it seems GW retconned the old awesome one (with predatory helmet, brutal-looking jump-pack and bird-like fanged legs) for the lame heresy-era armour with two beer kegs on the back and stupid little blades on the feet. Not like it is the first time GW replaces cool model design with derpy one.

They were present in the THQ Fire Warrior game, where they actually did screech like birds (and boy did it get on your nerves after a while let me tell you....). Despite them ostensibly being terrifying for a Fire Warrior, being essentially fast space marines who would engage you in melee (all of which give Fire Warriors difficulty), the Raptors are almost sad in how easy they are to beat because once you start facing them, you have the Rail Rifle and can oneshot them in any given engagement. Just don't miss.

See also Warp Talons, for their mutant daemonic 6th Edition elite version.

The Traitor Legions and Warbands of Chaos
Chaos
Legions
:
Alpha Legion - Black Legion - Death Guard
Emperor's Children - Iron Warriors - Night Lords
Thousand Sons - Word Bearers - World Eaters
Legion
Offshoots:
Apostles of Contagion - Bloodborn - Broken Aquila
Foresworn - Mouldering Claw - Plague Fleet - Prodigal Sons
The Consortium - Warband of Subsector Aurelia
Fallen
Chapters
(Including
Judged):
Adharon's Reavers - Blood Gorgons - Company of Misery
Corpus Brethren - Crimson Slaughter - Deathmongers
Death Shadows - Invocators - Lords of Decay
Oracles of Change - Red Corsairs - Shriven
The Brazen Beasts - The Flawless Host - The Scourged
Skyrar's Dark Wolves - Steel Cobras - Voidrippers
Unknown/
Other:
Apostles of Minthras - Claws of Lorek - Disciples of Destruction
Dragon Warriors - Extinction Angels - Hakanor's Reavers - Punishers
The Cleaved - The Purge - The Pyre - Sons of Malice - Sons of Vengeance
The Reborn - Violators - Warp Ghosts - Bleak Brotherhood