Editing Black Legion (section)

==On the Tabletop==
[[File:The XVI history.png|thumb|500px|right|The Devolution of the 16th legion, from brutal spartan warriors, to a laughing stock lead by a cretin.]]
===30k===
The Luna Wolves/Sons of Horus are an aggressive legion based on hitting hard, hitting fast and keeping up the pressure on the opponent. They have 3 special rules, ''' ''Edge of the Spear'' ''' letting you re-roll 1's for reserve rolls, ''' ''Death Dealers'' ''' increasing the Ballistic skill of a unit shooting at an enemy unit within 12" and ''' ''Merciless fighters'' ''' where if your unit outnumbers your opponents in, you get an extra attack at Initiative stage 1. These rules create a very clear, but effective strategy of dropping units down into your opponents front lines, shooting them, and the tearing the survivors to ribbons. You can also take a [[Drop Pod|Dreadclaw Drop Pod]] as dedicated transport, just for shits and giggles.

===7th Edition===
The Black Legion had their own 7th Edition supplement, which was essentially the same as the base Chaos 'dex with the exception that everything that can must take "Veterans of the Long War." The book gave them some formations, relics, and a few unique missions. It should be noted that this book offered the only way that Chaos can get an Eternal Warrior character without incredibly lucky rolling on the Chaos Boon Table. The rules from said supplement, however, have since been recollected and expanded upon in the "Traitor Legions" supplement. This retains the usual elite-focused army by making Terminators and Chosen troops, while giving them permanent hatred against Loyalist scum. And their decurion gives them first turn deep strike!

===8th edition===
With the changes of 8th, the Black Legion has become a bit more of a bland legion, becoming even more the [[Ultramarines]] of [[Chaos]]. Their Legion trait ''' ''Black Crusaders'' '''gives them a small bonus to leadership and the ability to treat rapid fire weapons as assault weapons if they advance, being a more aggressive mirror of the Ultramarines tactic. They've lost the ability to take [[Chosen]] or [[Terminators]] troop choices (even if [[Abaddon]] is taken) and their trait leaves much to be desired. They got a bunch of new things in [[Vigilus|Vigilus ablaze]], like new warlord traits and stratagems which has given them a nice bonus, but the other traitor legions also got their own update with the [[Psychic Awakening]] supplements. The primary reason to play Black Legion is for the big man himself, [[Abaddon]], as he is the single best non [[Primarch]] character in the game. PERIOD. He can re-roll all hit rolls for Black Legion units, has a 12" '''Fearless''' bubble around him, has a Strength and Toughness of 5, reduces all damage to him by half (rounding up) and has every Mark of Chaos, so can benefit from every God specific stratagem and psychic power so you can buff him to unbelievably strong levels. Most Black Legion strategies can be summed up as "[[Abaddon]] gets juiced on chaos magic, steam rolls through the enemy army, and has his back up dancers finish off any units he missed".

===9th Edition===
The Chaos Space Marines have yet to receive a 9th edition Codex, but have fallen far behind their Loyalist counterparts. For some reason, it was announced that ''all'' marines, including Firstborn and Chaos Space Marines, would be moving up to two wounds at the start of 9th edition. This was then changed so that they would be ''eventually'' moving up to two wounds. Over a year into 9e, Chaos Space Marines have yet to receive this FAQ-tier change since its announcement, and have fallen behind just about everyone with a Codex, putting them on par with Genestealer Cults and Tau as factions which are simply unequipped to play the current edition. (It happened! CSM will be going to 2 wounds sometime in 2022, not to mention that both Tau and GSC are good now.)