Alpha Legion

“War is simply the galaxy’s hygiene” -Alpharius, Primarch of the XX^th Legion

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Faction Overview

The Alpha Legion (AL) are one of the playable Factions in The Horus Heresy: Legions. When every Faction is fighting a frontal war, the AL fights with one of subterfuge. Setting traps, delivering secret orders, infiltrating troops and overall disrupting the enemy, your play style will focus on completely shutting down what your opponent can do. Chaos and lies are your game, and you thrive on it. The Alpha Legion were the 10th Faction to be reworked, moving their original pool of cards to Legacy.

Strengths:

• One of the best "turned around to victory" type Faction, because even when it seems you're gonna lose, if your conditions start popping out they're not stopping. They're also one of the best "Control" type Faction.
• The most amount of jams, stuns, and generally ways to stop your enemy from playing.
• Great at milling your opponent, and turns giving them cards (normally a weakness) into a strength.
• Because of how secret orders work, you can force your enemy to make bad plays, or cautious, slower ones (which both benefit you).
• While experienced players may in most cases guess which warlord you're playing, new and not-so-new players will have a harder time figuring it out, which will give you advantage in how they'll respond to you.

Weakness:

• One of the worst Faction to have "filler cards" in a deck, or generally make decks that are not finely tuned. "Mish-mashing" your special cards leaves you with to many random chances, and a weaker presence in the match, so going for everything is no ideal (a deck with traps, secret orders, operatives, jams, stuns, etc. will rarely have the correct solution for any given time) and should only focus on combining two or three at most.
• This, in turn, means that is a "hard" Faction to use for new players.
• Too much RNG, that leads to inconsistent gameplay (can be mitigated, but it is still a factor).
• Overall weak troops.
• Not great against troop decks, mono-warlords, and hard-countered by Legio Custodes (if going for Traps).

Warlords

Standard

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  Alpharius
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  Armillus Dynat
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  Exodus
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  Ingo Pech
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  Sheed Ranko

Legacy

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  Alpharius
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  Armillus Dynat
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  Exodus
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  Ingo Pech

Special

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  Omegon
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  Alpha Legionary
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  Alpha Legionary (Legacy)

Troops and Tactics

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  Troops
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  Tactics

Traits and Available Effects

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Gameplay

The AL Troops main gameplay revolves around denying enemy Troops (acting wise) and synergies with Traps or Secret Orders.

The AL Tactics main gameplay revolves around the use of Traps and Secret Orders.

Most of the AL Warlords focus on some type of disruption (placing Traps, Secret Orders or Operatives)

The AL have Archetypes like: Control, Heavy Control, Midrange, Mill.

For a more complete look on the Faction gameplay, check — How to Play: Alpha Legion

Collection and Cosmetics

The AL cards can be obtained from the Hidden Dagger Crate and the Galaxy in Flames Crate, or bought in the Daily Shop.

The AL Card Backs and Badge Cosmetics can be obtained randomly from the Cosmetics Crate, or bought in the Daily Shop.

Premium Cards appear randomly in any Crate, and can be bought from the Collection tab.

Additional Information

Balance History
Date	Changes	Notes
03 may 2024	Sheed Ranko: Change ability to ‘(2) Choose an Operative and put it in your hand. It costs 1 less’
05 apr 2024	Askelitar Squad: Lower Health from 4 to 3 Ancient Inigo: Change description to: ‘When you draw a card, gains +1/+1’ (instead of +1/+2) Saboteur Consul: Lower stats from 5/5 to 4/4 Vigilator Xerophos: Lower attack from 6 to 5
07 feb 2024	Secret Identity (Exodus): No longer has ‘Draw a card’ Nul Terminators: Lowered stats from 5/7 to 4/6 Azure Serpent: Changed Rally to: ‘Deal 2 damage to a random enemy for each card in the enemy hand‘ (instead of each card in your hand) Paramar Invasion: Increased cost from 10 to 11
04 jan 2024	False Colours: Changed description to: ‘Your Warlord becomes Alpha Legionary. Add 2 random Secret Identity cards to your hand’ (instead of 3).
22 dec 2023	Faction Reworked

Lore

The Alpha Legion, the Ghost Legion, or the XXth, was known as secretive in the extreme, favouring cunning ruses and clandestine deployments, and as such very little is known of its deeds.  The accounts involving the Alpha Legion are regarded with outright skepticism, the misinformation surrounding them even extends to the nature and identity of its Primarch, Alpharius. It is said that Alpharius reveled in fighting in such a manner that his enemies only ever realised they were under attack at the very last moment. Such tactics are said to range from conventional flank attacks timed to strike at the precise moment when they would precipitate the enemy's complete collapse, to extended campaigns of infiltration, exploitation of partisan groups, undermining enemy command and control assets and spreading fear and suspicion through compromised communication networks. The Alpha Legion's most closely guarded secret, unbeknownst to all but a few outside the legion, is that they had two primarchs; Alpharius and his twin Omegon (sometimes referred to collectively as just 'Alpharius Omegon'). With every member classifying itself as Alpharius, certainly, the Alpha Legion fought in the manner of the mythical beast that adorns their armour -- the hydra -- for each time one head is cut off, another moves in to replace it. It is perhaps easy to see why the Alpha Legion sided with Horus when the Warmaster made his pact with Chaos; their martial pride and Alpharius' avoidance of all his brothers apart from Horus seemingly led to their downfall. However, another given reason is that, a scant two years before the Horus Heresy began, Alpharius Omegon was contacted by a Xenos organisation known as the Cabal, which presented the Primarch with visions of the Heresy to come and other predictions of the future as well as knowledge about the nature of Chaos. They showed him that if the Emperor won, Chaos will consume everything in the end, while if Horus won, Chaos (and humanity) would perish. The Alpha Legion was asked to take on their greatest challenge; to defect to the side of Horus and ensure the final destruction of Chaos. Alpharius Omegon appeared to accede to this request, embarking in war of subterfuge against the loyalist. Alpharius was eventually charged by and with Horus himself to spearhead the traitor advance into the Sol System, leading a large fleet against Pluto in the opening shots of the Solar War. During the battle, Alpharius was seemingly killed by Rogal Dorn but this, as with everything involving the Alpha Legion, could just be a lie...

Trivia

Because of the helmet in the reworked art (thus, not showing His face), Alpharius (the Standard version) is thought to be Omegon by some Players (considering the Lore implications). Be it or not, this won't change "nothing" gameplay wise, and is mostly a Community joke.

Notes

If looking for more info on how to play (in general) or aspects of the game, check our Guides:

• New Player Guide -The basics of the game are here.
• Advance Guide -More complex mechanics and variations of gameplay.
• Buyers Guide -For the Daily Shop, and an overall idea of what to spend your Gems.
• Deck Building Guide -The basics of how to build Decks (for all Factions).
• Community Decks -Decks made by the Player's base.

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