Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-31201083-20170201004854/@comment-24909831-20170221105702

Well, Salamanders have merely cosmetic mutation. Wolves have a bit buff in their gene-seed with a major setback in Wulfen, basically they too have merely cosmetic mutation.

You know. Mutations here tend to be so overwhelming that I just generally dislike them. They are usually written in a way that the chapter is of 13th or 21st Founding and its gene-seed is chimeric, or from "unknown" (that is traitor legion, or Emperor, or Grey Knight, or Space Wolves) origins or created by AdMech or Inquistion (or Inquisition controlled AdMech, or AdMech controlled Inquisition, or a Heretek, or traitor controlled Inquisition, or Inquisition controlled traitor AdMech...) or something Inquisition related. They usually have some specific Inquisitor, or a Conclave, or Cabal, that oversees them because of the mutation, which was propably created in purpose of... creating a chapter with a flaw. In general, the flaw in the chapter's gene-seed is only positive, granting the marines of the chapter immunity to all toxins there is, immunity against bullets, or laser weapons, or psychic powers or weapons or that they all are psykers when imbued with the gene-seed or something like that. Then suddenly the flaw begins to show some side-effect which sets the marines aflame, or the marines emit some electro-magnetic field, or that they become all blanks (which is not okay), or that they pee poison or feel urge to feed on people (to whom they are ever so kind anyway because we all love how good guys the Salamanders are) or something like that. Then the Inquisition is just okay with the flaw and let the chapter to operate freely or tries to succumb the chapter so the chapter becomes a bunch of "misunderstood heroes" who flee the Imperium because it is no fun and fair and kind to a force of thousand superhumans created to wage war. Finally they secede from the Imperium but do not turn to chaos, and start to help Imperial worlds jsut because they are so good guys and never have the problem to recruit new members (which are of course recruited from the saved guardsman regiments or PDFs of ages 15-25 like the whole thing reflects the writer's own desire to be a superhuman who helps others), or problems with logistics or providing new navigators or munitions et cetera.

I personally don't want to see Legion of Damned 2.0 but who am I to speak anyway.