Homebrewed Chapters and Forces

>>50943209

The Astares lead by Isaphos Magn commanded their transport into a nebula as they argued for their next move. It was decided to lay low for short time and then just try to survive and continue fighting against enemies of Imperium. Stripping their armour from some of its colour and renaming themselves as Company Excelsior to present themselves as something better. Fighting against the ever increasing amount of chaos raids, their number started to dwindle. But as their reputation started to rise as suddenly appearing group of unknown Astares arrived to help against different threats, before disappearing after taking supplies with them, they gathered interest from both Imperium and other groups. This lead to number of other renegades and those outside direct control of Imperium to join and align themselves with Company Excelsior. Even a number of other Judged who had fled the Abyssal Crusade joined them along with few of those who wanted to repent their crimes.

When The Judged arrived from the Eye of Terror 800 years after their departure. As they removed the False Saint that send them there the Company Excelsior had a problem. Should they denounce their new colours and join back into Imperium or should they stay as renegades outside the Imperium. It was decided as the Company Excelsior had changed too much from the original idea, that it was feared they would be shot as traitors, to stay in the fringes of the Imperium.

The number of of Astares never rising above 50, they had to rely on hit and run tactics when they helped Imperial forces in their fights. Never choosing a battle they cannot win when fighting against Orks or normal traitors, they did not back down when there was probability to fight against traitor marines. When a change to fight against traitor marines Company Excelsior would call their allies for concentrated effect. This included Knight Freeblades, mercenaries and crusaders.


What do you think, criticism? Praise?

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I like everything except the whole hiring mercenaries thing, they are space marines, they should rely on age old oaths and promises if they need a supporting force

>also please fill his out for recording

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>>50943462
Also coloring

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>>50943209
>>50943212
>What do you think, criticism? Praise?
They're not Imperial Guard.

I've done like a dozen homebrew regiment concepts. One time, in a regiment creation thread, we made a space ISIS regiment. That was glorious.

>"Please don't be Shock and Awe"
>Rolls Shock and Awe
>We Space ISIS now

That thread died and stayed died though. Instead I present to you Space WWI, like Death Korps but less grimdark.

>The Brutus Old Guard are the unyielding soldiers of a planet that has been wracked in eternal conflict against the ork underbastions since misfortunate archeologists accidentally discovered ancient ork rokks buried beneath the earth. Thousands upon thousands of miles of defensive fortifications surround the semi-submerged fortresses brimming with greenskins, and millions of men and women maintain their vigil above and beneath the ground. Against the oversized defense guns and zzap kannonz the small Leman Russ and Chimera chassis are insufficient for deflecting cannonfire and armor-piercing energy blasts, and on the rough ground of no-man’s land speed is of little importance. Fortunately for the Brutes their local forgeworld happens to still build the heavier and slower Malcador chassis. Though older than the Imperium and slower than a grox in water, the Malcador has sufficient armor, enough space for the tools of trench warfare like flamers and demolisher cannons, and a certain charm to its look that the Brutes appreciated. Thus the Malcador is the primary battle tank of the Brutus PDF, supplemented by the centaur for reconnaissance and transport, and the occasional Macharius for that extra kick.

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>>50943534
>To the stars the Brutus Old Guard bring the same Malcador that they fought across no man’s land with. Already scarred by battle and commanded by fearless leaders, the Malcadors of the Old Guard are awesome to behold by anybody who witnesses them purposefully roll down the killzone. Guardsmen follow closely behind the lumbering behemoths as they brave gunfire, using them as cover to reach the enemy. Infernus variants scorch the earth, lascannon-armed centaurs and rare Valdors watch over the flanks for enemy armour. As artillery rains right in front of the firing line in a creeping barrage the Old Guard advance at a walking pace, their guns never ceasing until the last trench is taken in their stoic advance.

This was for Hektor Heresy, but that's sort of on and off and the concept isn't dependent on any major changes so I can just use this for Only War. Also did Spanish Conquistador tankers, British Chaos roughriders on giant dogs, not!VOTOMS, and space RAF space marines, among other things.

>>50943462
You are correct, they are space marines, but due to their situation they do not have much leeway in acquiring extra power. Of course as time passes they get more connections to Rogue Traders, Knight Houses and radical Inquisitors.

Btw here is the first picture bit bigger. I will fill this out next. Why do you want it?

>>50943534
There is something very neat in WW1 themed Imperial Guard and because of that I like your addition of Malcador. That tank gets too little of usage in homebrews.

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>>50943716
>There is something very neat in WW1 themed Imperial Guard and because of that I like your addition of Malcador. That tank gets too little of usage in homebrews.
Originally they were on the tail end of the forge world's list, so they got a shitton of centaurs instead of Leman Russ tanks; they modified the Centaurs to be scouts, battle tanks, transports, SPGs, etc.

The only thing that remains from the original is the British theme and the name. Another charm:

>In a galaxy pitted in an eternal struggle of the real and the strange there are few worlds that can hide from the carnage, and even fewer escape the burdens of scarcity and lawlessness that plague the Imperium. The planets that do possess something akin to peace are valued by their peoples, who praise the God-Emperor for giving them such fortune, and work their lives in content. However, this peace is simply not abided by the petty lords of Tiberon, a civilised world within Segmentum Solar removed from destruction.
>Tiberon is a planet liberated by the ancient Sardakan 365th Armoured Regiment who purged it of pig-faced mutants in M35. The soldiers of Sardakan set down their lasguns and took up the shovel and hammer, and laid the foundations that colonists from other worlds would build their cities upon. For centuries Tiberon laid in silence, but the nobility who descended from the 365th did not find the peace they wanted on that world; or rather, they never wanted peace. The sons of Sardakan inherited from their ancestors a dangerous addiction for war, and an aptitude for armoured combat. When the Administratum comes for their tithe of blood and produce the Tiberonans are happy to give them a breadbasket clad in the plasteel shell of the Tiberon Armoured Hidalgos.

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>>50943791
>From a young age noble children are given lessons in the art of war. On the training fields the Tiberonan princes hone their craft as tank commanders, drilling the fundamentals of armoured combat into their hearts. By the age of sixteen a hidalgo and his crew have already mastered both the Leman Russ Battle Tank, and is ready for battle on the worlds of the Imperium. In tanks produced by the nearest forge world the Armoured Hidalgos take to the battlefield, their weight in plasteel crushing the enemy beneath a thousand tracked frames. Breakthroughs, tank-hunting, infantry support: these are the tasks entrusted to the tanker-princes of Tiberon. With the Hidalgos at the spear’s tip a battlegroup need not fear the armour of the foe, for it is against wretched war engines that they exceed. The open field is the graveyard for many a tank battalion when haughty generals dare face Tiberon’s sons with tank and walker.

>>50943808
Reminds me of certain Panzer Regiment of Wehrmacht. Its roots was Kurassier Regiment in East Prussia, due to that it was common to call Officers with their noble ranks instead of their military rank. Sadly iirc the regiment was destroyed in Stalingrad.

>>50943462
Here you go, a filled form.

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>>50944723
And of course I forgot the picture.

I haven't decided yet is recruiting other Astares who are renegades or penitent the only way they expand or do they have facilities for limited growth.

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>>50943534
My god. Wasn't that the one where we figured that they had a teeth fixation? And that the Emperor had the best teeth of all and a huge harem?

>>50944879
I don't think so. >>50944723
>Reminds me of certain Panzer Regiment of Wehrmacht. Its roots was Kurassier Regiment in East Prussia, due to that it was common to call Officers with their noble ranks instead of their military rank. Sadly iirc the regiment was destroyed in Stalingrad.
Sadly? The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi!

Palatine Lionhearts
>There are many beasts in the Imperium of Man that humans would rather not trifle with. Catachan Devils, Fenrisian wolves, and Goda giant eagles all come to mind. Most people are too fearful of these fierce creatures, but the Palatine Lionhearts are nothing if not brave. On the shrine world they call home is the demigryph, a species of half-lion, half-eagle predators that stand at the apex of the food chain. Palatinians do not fear these noble animals, as they capture and tame them for use in combat against the Emperor’s enemies. And who better to ride these beasts than the Emperor’s most faithful? Knights of Palatine, whose family lines are unmarred by heresy or dissent, train and breed the demigryphs for ferocity and loyalty, creating the most dangerous mounts in all the Imperium.
>Across the galaxy the Palatine Lionhearts crusade for the Emperor, leading regiments of the Imperial Guard into battle on their demigryph mounts, meeting the enemy first in a clash of lances and lasgun bayonets. A cavalry charge may seem short-sighted and foolhardy, given how old mounted warfare may be; but no foe wishes to face the talons of monstrous creatures bearing down on them, or have their flesh torn from their still-living bodies by sharp beaks. The wave of ironclad half-griffons invites only glory against the enemy too weak-willed to stand, and slaughter against the enemy too stupid to run.

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>>50944876
>Battle Cry: "We didn't bend."
Do you know what happens to things that don't bend?

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>>50943209
Meet the Salusian 1st Engineer Regiment, otherwise known as the Gremlyns.

Pic related is a general approximation of the terrain you can expect to find where they come from. Long, long ago, ancient man bombarded the surface of Salus II for reasons that can only be speculated. The chief clue, however, is the lingering cry that echoes through the warp to this very day, centered on Salus. Whatever the ancients wished to destroy, its influence can still be felt millennia after its death; its death-knell resonates with every living creature on the planet.

The life that remained on Salus after the ancient ships left now presided over a world in pain, with huge chunks of once verdant forest burned by orbital fire. The few humans who survived huddled together within a few manufactorums, hiding behind their saving walls. When the dust settled, and the fires were out, the survivors looked out upon a world they did not know. Not long after, these ancient production facilities have become the center of Salusian society, the one reason they could live to this day.

While the embers of the Great Fire still smoldered, The Fiends appeared. Later, under scrutiny by scholars specializing in Bilogia, The Fiends were found to be Tyranid bio-morphs that adapted to the harsh environment by incorporating elements of local fauna, including humans. At the time, all the survivors knew was that after their world burned came monstrous amalgamations of insect and man, nightmares made flesh that stormed into their new homes and killed any they found.

So, the only ones who survived were those who were not found.

Until they were rediscovered by Explorators, Salusians spent their lives on the move, hiding from the Fiends and owning only what they could make themselves. Eventually, life returned to Salus II, they branched out from the Manufactorums into the lands beyond. They quickly found that the Fiends were not the only Tyrannic life-form that adapted to survive.

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>>50945368
(con't)
To be exact, ALL life that survived can be traced to Tyrannid life-forms, from the flowers of the Death Valleys that spread poisonous miasma to the swarms of tiny Ripper Beetles that devour men whole, along with all that they wore. Even the herbivorous creatures that emerged after the Great Fire were deadly in their own special ways. Along with the deadly life-forms of Salus II, The cry that rang through the immaterium from the day it burned remained. Although it was but an echo within the materium, it was enough to influence all life at its epicenter. Every man, woman and child grew accustomed to hearing it, a sound that greeted them at their birth and would live on after their death.

When the Adeptus Mechanicus found Salus II, it found a world covered in life that had to be seen to be believed. Monsters crawled every inch of it, from the smallest insect to the greatest behemoth. Among such terrors lived the Salusians. Clever by nature, resourceful by necessity, and hardened by experience, Salusians fascinated the Biologysts that found them almost as much as the other local wildlife. In exchange for helping the newcomers study Salus II's native life, Salusians were taken under the Mechanicus' wing. When the Inquisition began asking pointed questions concerning the echo in the warp, the Mechanicus made it clear that the world was under their jurisdiction, and that further inquiries would not be appreciated.

Salus II, like every other world under the Imperium, must pay its tithe. For the most part, this is fulfilled by the Manufactorums that survived the Great Fire; quickly secured by the Mechanicus, the ancient factories could now operate at their full potential, creating lasguns and armor to be used in the Imperiums wars. However, a small number of Imperial Guard regiments have been founded on Salus II. The most famous of these is, by far, the Salusian 1st; otherwise known as the Gremlyns.

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>>50945704

Salusians have a long and storied history of jury-rigging and improvised solutions. Their tech-savvy nature makes them excellent combat engineers. Unlike other engineer regiments, however, the Salusians are also excellent at stealth, living their lives hiding from the Fiends and other horrors of Salus II. This particular mix of skills make them premier saboteurs, capable of crippling an enemy force without giving them a chance to retaliate. Simple traps applied in complex ways are their trademark, with every Gremlyn being issued a kit that makes little sense to a front-line combat unit, but turns a Gremlyn into a force of pure, undilluted misery as guerillas.

Along with standard Imperial Guard fair, Gremlyns are issued a truly massive amount of explosives and trap materials. A standard-issue Gremlyn kit includes, among other things, 2 blind grenades, 2 stun grenades, 2 frag grenades, 2 demolition Charges, a lascutter, a 9-70 entrenching tool, a spool of accordion Wire, a mantrap, and 2 tube charges. With an arsenal of materials that could be conservatively considered "worrying", Gremlyns are most often deployed before a major offensive to soften up resistance, or in support of a larger force to serve as defensive engineers.

The regiment is earned after a lesser daemon of Mechanicus lore that has since been declared non-canon by the Preists of Mars. Fabled to be malevolent tricksters, gremlyns were said to strike without warning; they tormented machine spirits and caused mechanical failure before fleeing, disappearing before a Techpriest could banish them. The Gremlyns go to great length to live up to their name, taking savage delight in confounding the enemy and aiding their allies.

>>50945084
I am not going to get into argument if every landser was a nazi or not.

>>50946004
I must say, that is pretty nice way to go with combat engineers. Saboteurs and recon. Laying traps and causing havoc. I like it.

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>>50946486
>I am not going to get into argument if every landser was a nazi or not.
Yes you are! Refusal to partake in discourse is an attempt to suppress other people's opinions. You know who tried to suppress opinions? Hitler!

You don't want to be a Nazi, do you?
>>50945368
>Meet the Salusian 1st Engineer Regiment
Hello!

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The Adepta Sororitas Orders Minoris referred to as the "Shield Maidens of Aiden" were originally a preceptory of the Order of the Sacred Rose sent to guard the Shrine World of Andosia, a planet of major religious significance in the Skyllian Sector, also home to the headquarters of Ordo Hereticus Inquisitor Gavin Trask, who had served as a commissar briefly before being recruiting into His Most Holy Inquisition as an acolyte under Lord Inquisitor Xerxes.

Holding amicable relations with the Ecclesiarchy, Inquisitor Trask gained a reputation among the few people of Andosia who were aware of his presence, from higher-ranking public officials and priests, to the members of the Adepta Sororitas, oftentimes making use of the latter when his investigations found strong evidence of major heretic cults that were too large to be eliminated discreetly.

His efforts were part of a long-con by the forces of Chaos, however, as after approximately a decade of his work in the Skyllian Sector, a large force of the dark gods launched an invasion of Andosia, decimating the Shrine World's populace, numerous scholarly findings, and scouring its verdant green landscapes.

Inquisitor Trask and his powerbase fought alongside the Sororitas preceptory, Frateris Militia, and what Imperial Guard and Adeptus Astartes forces answered the call, in addition to the drafting of any and all able-bodied citizens, up to the highest-ranking priests who fought with fire and brimstone against the servants of the Warp. At the end of the war, Andosia was a shadow of its once-rich self, now covered in fields scorched to a crisp black soot and defiled waters. The Chaos warbands were defeated, but there was no real victory to be had among the Emperor's faithful aside from the survival of what few locals remained, primarily children who were left orphaned after their parents fought and died by the score.

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>>50947738

Many were distraught by the loss of their jewel of a planet, but the Inquisitor and Canoness, who were among the few high-ranking individuals left on Andosia, both understood that, although this may be an end to Andosia, it's only the beginning of a new era for the Skyllian Sector.

With the blessing of the Ecclesiarchy and the Adeptus Administratum, the two founded a Schola Progenium in the Sub-Sector Aiden of the Skyllian Sector, bringing what was left of Andosia's populance with them. There, they inducted the children into the academy, breeding into their blood the drive to take revenge on the forces of Chaos for bringing their homeworld to ruin and taking their mothers and fathers from them.

As was standard with Schola Progeniums, the orphans were divided up based on their aptitudes, with many girls being inducted to the new Sororitas Orders Minoris, the Shield Maidens of Aiden, who diverged from their mother Order, donning grey armor, green robes, and bronze gilding, in memory of the rainy skies, rich green landscapes, and shining spires of Andosia. The boys were sent into the Storm Trooper program, referred to as the [name to be decided], and sharing a similar color scheme to their sisters, with elements of both sexes being placed into a number of support roles, as well as the Inquisitor's retinues and spynets, including the non-militant Orders of the Dialogus, Famulous, Hospitaller, Adepts, and assassins.

Inquisitor Trask gave them a new purpose: to defend Sub-Sector Aiden from the forces of the Arch-Enemy, and any other blasphemous elements that may threaten the safety of its citizens, and to obey the call-to-arms to ensure that none of Aiden's worlds may fall to the same fate of Andosia.

>>50947779
This is pretty interesting. I like how all of this managed to provide backstory to two very, very scary groups at once. If this ever makes it into a game, there would be a lot of RP possibilities that come from the interaction between the stormtroopers, sororitas, and the Inquisitor.

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>>50948209
Thank you. It's the background of my Inquisition army, which is meant to feature a lot of different elements.

I intend to give the other aspects more background as well, but the primary focus is on the Sisters, since they're the core of the army.

>>50945101

They take the knot.

>>50950499
I was gonna go with something more scientific but hey, who am I to argue with dubs.

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Oh thank god, I've been thinking about a thread like this forever. I have a genestealer cult I rolled up and have been trying to expand upon, but I'm lost on where to go further.

The Voidborn Brotherhood. The basic idea is they have risen on a space station which serves the duel purposes of being a guard tithe world and housing facilities for IG R&D.

As such the majority of their forces are neophyte squads and higher positions. I was thinking maybe having them even decked out in Scion gear due to the R&D aspect. If not, cadian armor in the colors cheme of the 512th since they're void-based. The cult presents itself as a sort of officers club, where guards meet when not on duty and you can maybe work your way into higher positions on the station so you aren't shipped off world.

Beyond that though, I've hit a roadblock with ideas.

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The Angels of Atonement were founded by members of the Dark Angels who believed their duty was first to the Emperor, and felt the Hunt was meaningless if the action undertaken to apprehend the Fallen further tarnished the glorious name of the First Legion. They fight great battles in the name of the Emperor, believing their actions represent the loyalty of the Unforgiven.

I need some help fleshing out this idea. I have a bunch of ideas, but I would like some input as well.

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True Born Olympians.

An iron warriors warband from the apoclethron, they despise chaos worship and seek to become one with the machine. Although called the true born, not all are native Olympians. Some are more recent recruits who have shown their adherence to the creed of the warband - personal strength, the will to harness and break any power to ones will and an abhorhence of mutation. They refer to themselves as true born as they use their own geneseed to create new legionaries in a process largely unchanged from that of loyalist space marines, a process made possible as this warband does not inhabit the eye of terror like most other Iron warriors. Without the time warping effects of the eye of terror they have felt the full effects of 10 thousand years on their mortal flesh and so they feature a higher than normal level of bionic rebuild, with several members bearing closer resemblance to machines than marines.
In battle they typically use large numbers of dreadnoughts typically either teleported directly into battle using their forgeships several arcane Lux-styges teleportariums, or the dreadnoughts lead groups of mindless servitors thralls and mechanicum adepts.

Conventional legionaries tend to hang back and provide supporting fire with autocannons and lascannons, although some of the more heavily bionic members may rumble into battle on tracked motive units and provide a fast flanking force.

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Is this too Mary sue?

I wrote up a bunch of fluff a while back for a chapter of space marines that were basically fallen because during their production Ork blood got mixed in. They're super strong and resilient but seek to become as close to pure robots as they can, often replacing limbs, organs, and even pieces of brain with cybernetic modifications because they see their flesh as living sin.

>>50951800
Not even close. A Mary Sue has no weaknesses. Your warband has plenty. For example, they're spared the corrupting effects of Chaos, but they're denied the useful parts of serving the Dark Gods. The only real criticism I really have is that after 10,000 years of being tech-fetishists, they should be almost entirely bionic by now. It makes less sense for them to have squishy bits than it does for them to have glorious, perfect METAL if they've had the time to be modified.

>>50952083
Thanks. Its the fluff I'm using to justify using kataphron breachers as my bike sorcerors and characters. I think sticking a marine head on them and a marine right arm would make them suitably not-admec

>>50951832
Are they also real good at lootin and love dakka?

Not sure i like the idea of ork blood being mixed in. Maybe a radical magos biologis with a hard on got verdis giganticus inserted some ork DNA into their geneseed pre-chapter creation. Perhaps a cursed founding (21st).

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I got the kill team box set and I'm thinking of making the space marine squad Star Krakens
still looking around for bits to convert with, speaking of which, does anyone know where I could find space marine old timey diving helmets like pic?

>>50944879
I remember that thread. I wrote some of the weird Mad Max prophet type shit for it. They were like Mad Max meets the IRA meets ISIS in 40k. Hit and run, booby traps, nigga rigged cars, distraction Carnifexes. They remove the teeth of their victims and make dentures out of them to prove how badass they are.

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Void Knights

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>>50943534
I don't the malcador is older than the Imperium becuase its named after the first regent. Otherwise, nice details.

>>50952318
http://maxmini.eu/conversion-bits/head-swaps/biohazard-heads-bits

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I'm still thinking about Emblems, have two ideas atm.
3 peaked mountain with a thunderbolt in front
a skull with a crack but the crack is coloured as a thunder bolt

I have guard who are called the fortunate sons. They are an unholy kitbash and there's only like 10 of them for now
>also what the fuck is it with captchas and fireworks now

>>50952744
New Year's man.

>>50952688
For an emblem perhaps iron wings? Or an angel clad in armour?

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>>50943209
I have a few homebrewed Imperial Guard units; pic related is a collection document that gives a shorthand of each and a lot of their inspiration pictures.

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>>50943209
It was game night when I tried rolling up a chapter with the Creation Tables while waiting for my buddy to arrive. Nothing really clicked with me so I had nothing when my bud finally showed up with his Soulcalibur game in hand. After a match with Siegfried and Nightmare a lightbulb finally lit up and I was able to come up with a chapter idea.

The Knights Caliber, a chapter of chivalric and virtuous warriors that, even though being declared renegades due to mutation, still seek to protect the innocent and slay the wicked while maintaning their sense of honor.
The chapter lost most of their chain and power weaponry so they harvest the flesh and bone weapons that grow from their arms and shape/forge them into conventional weapons. They wear customized mark III Iron power armour made from a crystallized ceramite that's been warded to keep their mutaions in check to a degree and can also forge more potent power-type weapons from the crystal if they have enough material to spare. Lastly, almost all of their more heavy ordnance vehicles were lost as well so to get around this they use allied Imperial Knights to aid them when the bigger guns are needed, namely for sieges.
They rolled the "savior complex" so they always show up where aid is sorely needed and when forces are on the brink of defeat.
They also rolled "over strength" so to get around this I made it to where they often crusade alot and have to protect a large area of their home systems so they're often stretched thin, so not a lot of them are grouped together often.
The fluff explanation for this is that their gene-seed hardly ever has trouble with turning initiates into new Marines. Which was great before the mutation, but it might have allowed some unknown weakness to infect the gene-seed to begin with. When the gene-seed does reject an initiate, it's often bloody due to the weapon mutations, though the Knights are pragmatic and they'll harvest these weapons from what remains of the initiate.

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Then best

>>50954368
I really do like the Shiloh Union Guard. There is something very simple and beautiful in simple infantry regiments with crew served weapons.

>>50954368
>>50957396
Seconding this, the ACW has such a distinctive and cool feel and aesthetic that it deserves an IG regiment or two.

>>50951832
I always wanted to run "chaos" Marines that worshipped gork and mork

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>>50957396
>>50957420
Feel free to use them yourselves in a game, if you like. Here's the more specific document on the Shiloh Union Guard themselves.

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I've been trying to homebrew my own loyalist chapter, but I'm never able to settle on a good idea.

For Chaos and Renegades it's easy, and I have a bunch of warbands and groups for my Chaos force, but for Loyalists all my thoughts usually just end up as things better suited for traitors.

Any advice for neat marine ideas?

anyone still here?

>>50958784
You cam probably use some of your renegade ideas for your loyalists. not all loyalists are socially appealing or behavioral sound
for example the Black Templars, Dark Hunters, Flesh Tearers

>>50958784
>Any advice for neat marine ideas?
I once played around with the idea of psychic themed Native American Marines that tie themselves to the elements. Perhaps you can play around with that idea.
>>50960764
Yup.

>>50960810
Hmm...I might be able to flip something around to fit

>>50960832
I think a friend of mine mentioned a similar idea once. Native American marines with lots of lightning psykers.

I had planned on using Mark IV armor though, which is why I'm also feeling the need to tie them into one of the original legions in some way.

>>50960946
Well if they are decended from Loyalist Thousand Sons then I'm sure they would have inherited a lot of Mark VI armor anyways, plus maybe some other Crusade era goodies.
It's also said that the Thousand Sons had their own version of Mark VI armor.
The Achean Pattern.
> http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Power_Armour

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>>50960946
>I had planned on using Mark IV armor though, which is why I'm also feeling the need to tie them into one of the original legions in some way.

They found an old chapter forge "lost to time" near/on their homeworld. Or, somewhere in their sector, if they're fleet-based. That's the justification I go with. I hate Mk. VII helmets.

Besides, there are some chapters in the 41st millennium that use Mk. IV helmets/armor, like the Carmine Blades and Red Scorpions. I think in their cases, it's usually only given to veterans, but there's nothing that says Mark IV can't be more common within a chapter. Unusual, but not outrageous.

>>50961065
Loyalist Thousand Sons might work, though I get the feeling people will think I'm harping on Blood Ravens too much.

>>50961230
I might try that angle instead, having them get the production facilities to make more Mk. IV armor for themselves.

>>50961369
>I get the feeling people will think I'm harping on Blood Ravens too much.
Fuck it man, your trying to do your own thing.
Just be as creative as you can with the chapter idea, but use what ideas you wanna really use.

>>The Carlomann 4th Lancer Regiment AKA the poor man's bomber wing.

The Carlomann 4th Lancer Regiment is the 4th mounted regiment drawn from the Imperial world of Carlomann located on the fringes of the Calixis Sector. The world of Carlomann was founded and named after the bizarre Rogue Trader dynasty House Carlomann.

Due to it's location and relative unimportance it developed as a frontier world. Possessing 3 large cities and mainly small towns and a multitude of homesteads, ranching became a very important pastime for most Carlomnn citizens. The planet maintained a relatively good quality of life although it was never impressive in terms of resources or production capabilities.

After a visit by one of House Carlomann's ships, an ork outbreak was seeded after one of the mercenary freeboota squads had went down to the surface where they all died in a comedic yet unfortunate accident involving wrestling a towering stone statue of the Emperor. The spores released from the deceased orks ended up growing into feral orks who managed to escape into one of the massive valley forests on the main continent of Carlomann. Within 50 years an army of feral orks began to ravage ranches and homesteads. After a year of ruthless marauding the orks were within site of Monnath Pinnacle, a large settlement filled with near 100,000 loyal and devout imperial souls.

While the Carlomann PDF were confident that they could defeat the ork horde it became clear that due to their lackluster logistics situation that they would not reach Monnath Pinnacle for at least 3 weeks.

The citizens of the city and those who had fled to it had resigned themselves to the fate that they would need fight to survive. While the citizens fought hard it had become clear that they had neither the supplies nor the tools needed to beat off the Ork seige/offense.

It was from this that the Carlomann Lancer regiment had its roots. A number of strong defenders had decided to take the offensive to the orks.

>>50961636
Riding the Carlomann's Mutt, a large and very agile but dumb animal the riders rode out the settlement during a dust storm that had momentarily halted the Orks attack. Using slings to hurl demolition charges, along with a few grenade launchers, the riders would make fast passes agains the ork backline launching a multitude of explosives. After a lucky charge, the riders had managed to kill the warboss who was leading the attack.

However even after the rider's efforts the ork attack continued. it was only after the arrival of the PDF did the ork menace finally end. The brave riders though had managed to prevent the destruction of the city and saved thousands of lives.

After hearing of these events, the then current head of House Carlomann, Carlomann Valerine it was decided that House Carlomann would invest and fund a military academy to create riders to be named the Carlomann Lancers.

The Carlomann 4th Lancer regiment are mounted grenadiers. All soldiers are armed with grenade launchers or auxillary grenade launchers along with signal flare devies and stummers. The regiment is used for heavy skirmishing.

>>50961732
>>50961636

As the military academy has had time to grow and develop it has resulted in the Lancers develop formal tactics and methods.

Additionally the House of Carlomann ensures that the forces meant to be tithed out to the IG are prepared to bring glory to the House of Carlomann. So on a unsettled island chain, far from any settled areas, the House of Carlomann maintains a population of orks. Every graduating class of Carlomann lancers engage on a mission to eliminate a significant population of Orks that will be allowed onto the main island. Classes that fail this mission usually end up with considerable casualties and are no longer deemed capable of serving as Lancers. They instead will be reshuffled into Rider regiments with other failed classes. Thus Rider Regiments are a more standard regiment compared to the Lancers. They usually only are equipped with flak jackets, lascarbines/shotguns, and lances. Still a formidable force but far less versatile compared to their elite sibling regiment and meant to be a recon unit.

The Carlomann Lancer regiment tries to be as self sufficient as possible, perhaps a trait from their frontier world upbringing. Thus the Lancers have a habit of volunteering for missions without any backup if current allies are stretched thin. To aid the Lancers in this is the development of the Heavy Cradle.

The Heavy Cradle is the way a Lancer squad will move around and deploy any heavy weaponry. Due to the fast tactics used by the regiment it is critical that the heavy weapons are able to be deployed with speed. The Heavy Cradle is a frame used to hold and move a heavy weapon, mainly a multilas. The Heavy Cradle will be secured to two Lancer's mounts, a player and that player's comrade. as a result the Lancers carrying the cradle suffer slightly on terrain tests but can move and deploy heavy weaponry with great speed.

>>50963143
Once the Lancers with the cradle are in a desired position usually a bit away from the rest of the squad they will deploy whatever weapon is in the cradle. One lancer will dismount and undo the mechanism which is keeping the cradle in the locked travel position. Once this is done, the comrade will direct the mounts to move apart until the frame of the cradle locks into the firing position. Finally the dismounted lancer will operate the crank to lower the anchors that will keep the weapon steady and minimize recoil. The weapon is then ready to fire once it is loaded. All in all a trained Lancer team can deploy a weapon using the Heavy Cradle in under 30 seconds. Equally packing it up is only slightly slower.

The drawback of this system is that if one of the two mounts which the cradle is attached to is killed/or injured it will mean the other mount will need to either drop the whole cradle or take time to unhook it from the dead mount and secure it to his own.

Many guardsmen who have witnessed this system call it odd, foolish or plain dumb. The Lancers however standby it as it allows heavy weapon squads to rapidly reposition to best support the squad.

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Following is the backstory to my Chaos Warband
>Brazen Enforcers chapter, Imperial Fists Successor
>Gaius Manus made Master of the Fleet(4th company captain) at young age(94) due to strategic brilliance in void combat and inspirational leadership qualities
>Undefeated Admiral for almost two decades
>Blown out into space during a boarding action on Eldar raiders, goes into suspended animation
>Awakes near planet orbit, aims himself to fall from orbit without dying (Had a thread about this the other day, yes, a marine in terminator armor can survive falling from orbit if he does it right)
>Lands in ocean and crashes to ocean floor
>Awakens with no active memory and lots of broken bones and bruises
>Wanders across ocean floor hoping to find dry land before armor reserves run out, unknown if there even is dry land
>Finally finds land after stumbling over several underwater mountain ranges
>Stashes armor with low power reserves, begins surviving in local woods by hunting and gathering
>Found by local villagers and said to be a sky warrior who was sent to answer their prayers to help them fight off the monsters that had been plaguing them (Feral Worlders)
>Gaius kills monster, becomes wandering hero saving many villages
>Given many gifts including a family
>Loves wife but cant please her or give her children, doesn't know why
>Continues to live as wandering hero

>Imperial Governor wishes to industrialize world
>Tribal elders do not want to industrialize, call Gaius for help
>Gaius begins forcing construction workers and the like away from rural areas
>Governor calls for meeting and threatens to kill Gaius's loved ones if he doesn't stop
>Gaius can't give into fear because hes a space marine and continues to work against governor on behalf of the people
>Governor tries to have Gaius's wife and her family killed
>Gaius stops the assassination and then assassinates the governor and his cabinet
>Next planetary governor calls for imperial aid to deal with rebel tribal leader

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>>50963630
>Brazen Enforcers end up coming to planets aide
>New 4th company captain and Gaius recognize eachother
>Gaius agrees to return to his chapter with them peacefully and abandon his attachments on the planet and returns his armor after he has his situation explained to him
>Wife made into chapter serf but stationed on planet and forbidden to ever see Gaius again
>Returns to chapter, put under the care of 4th company Chaplain whilst Chapter Master decides what to do with him
>Chapter Master decides hes already demonstrated himself to be too dangerous without oversight, cant banish him
>Don't want to hand him over to Inquisition out of mercy
>Make him 4th Company Champion
>4th Company Captain makes him de-facto Master of the Fleet again even though the title is officially his
>Gaius commands chapters fleets successfully again for another four decades as he slowly regains his memory
>Begins to realize his battle brothers don't trust him or treat him like they used to since his return
>Realizes he was happy as a wandering hero, but is not happy in the rigorous space marine life and never was
>Begins to voice his concerns to loyal friends who are not chaplains
>Convinces a good chunk of the chapter that it's time for a new chapter to be formed
>Warps away with the majority of 7th, 6th, and 4th companies, along with precious gene-seed supplies.
>Find human system past imperial lines, Gaius lands and tells the local leaders he has come to bring the light of the emperor
>Planet accepts Gaius's patronage, Gaius names his new "chapter" the Neon Enforcers
>Neon Enforcers begin instilling order upon the system, new chapter fortess begins construction on the surface, rigid schedule of codex asartes abandoned and Neon Enforcers are free of the monk lifestyle.
>Powerful Neon Enforcers start owning land and property, become a warrior social elite
>Neon Enforcers begin to abuse power and civilians are too scared to come forward about their abuses.

>>50963908
>After a few decades trade with the Imperium established for the world
>Shortly after this, Brazen Enforcer and Inquisition ships arrive in system
>Gaius says he's happy to pay imperial tithes
>Inquisitor Lord says his chapter was not approved by the high lords of Terra and if him and his followers don't return that they will be declared heretics
>Gaius argues he's shown himself a worthy chapter master and servant of the emperor
>Inquisitor argues he's drifted too far from the Imperium and is dangerous but can still serve the Emperor in the Death Watch
>Gaius begins to believe he's having premonitions of the Inquisitor betraying and killing his followers once they agree to surrender
>Gaius agrees to surrender, and then proceeds to fire upon and capture the Inquisition and Brazen Enforcer ships, executes those aboard and steals the gene seed he can
>Begins preparing for next imperial invasion
>Less than two decades later a battefleet aided by Brazen Enforcers arrives that outnumbers Gaius's fleet by over 3-1
>Fights valiantly and tactically bests his foe destroys almost a third of their fleet before all of his vessels are disabled or critical
>Orders a warp jump, his navigator refuses and calls him a traitor
>Shoots navigator in third eye, orders a blind jump
>Begins a path of constantly trying to get away from the Imperial fleet under blind jumps.
>Pursued constantly, can never really get away do to only being able to make blind jumps.
>Adopt many other banished and renegade asartes and mortals as they flee, but Gaius's force is diminishing and is barely above company strength.
>A renegade asartes reveals himself to the desperate Gaius as a wizard, and says he can give Gaius a navigator who will let him travel beyond the Astronomicon and out of Imperial Reach
>Gaius gives in, the Sorcerer creates a demonhost to pilot the ship, they warp to far beyond the reach of Imperial vessels.

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>>50964138
>Gaius's fleet becomes roving pirates, taking what they need from whoever they find
>Many start pledging allegiance and fealty to Gaius, attracts a follower fleet of renegade civilian ships and the like.
>Over a few decades, Gaius starts to give into disillusions of grandeur fed to him by his sorcerer
>His force is still dropping slowly over time due to a lack of gene-seed supplies
>Plots an attack on Brazen Enforcer outpost out of vengeance and desperate need.
>During approach to outpost, a party of loyalists within his ranks attempts to confront and stop Gaius
>Say he is falling to the warp for consorting with sorcerers and demons
>Gaius and his Sorcerer foresaw the event, and use the opportunity to get all nonloyal members of his band together and have them killed
>Gaius succeeds in his attack on the outpost, several younger Brazen Enforcers turn traitor, several vessels are captured, and Gaiu's sorcerer tells him that due to his great victory Slaanesh will take him as a personal consort.
>Spends the next century raiding and exterminating his mother chapter and taking their supplies
>Establishes his own Slaaneshi Cult with himself as the head, claims he is their spiritual father and Slaanesh their spiritual mother.
>Establishes a more stationary battleship based fleet as a base for his cult, whilst his smaller vessels rove the sector
>Whilst he labels himself and his followers as The Cult of Gaius, the sectors they raid know them by a different name though, "The Depraved."

Fossam 8th Regiment

>>Ratling Regiment raised from the world of Fossam. Fossam is a pleasure world heavily centered on tourism. The Planet is mainly Ratling with a small regular population. As a result many Ratlings grow up working in the service industry where being seen or heard is a big no-no. Equally many of the elite of Fossam, along with high powered clients pay for good information. As a result the Fossam regiments specialize in stealth and information gathering.

>> The Fossam regiment is often sent behind enemy lines to gather intel, and sabotage. The regiment is quite good at breaking trail in the wilderness however their true speciality is in cities/hives/any large population centers.

>> The regiment is equipped with electronic warfare equipment. Additionally every soldier is armed with a stub revolver and a lascarbine/stub rifle.

>>50963908
Thanks, doc.

>>50946531
Dude shut up pol is gonna spill in here

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is this a good color scheme for communist marines

Just an excuse to kitbash VC minis with space marine minis.

>Knights Encarmine
>No one chapter symbol just symbols of the various coats of arms of the chapters lords
>Blood Angel successors with only some odd 400 marines too their name
>Chapter command is separated among "lords" the greatest among the remaining named "Aborash the Crimson."
>Lords cede company control to the eldest lord taking their age as experience and wisdom
>Believe that drinking the blood of great foes will stem the red thirst and black rage seemingly have some minor success
>Sanguinary Guard renamed to the "Blood Guard."
>Death Company is renamed to "The Lost."
>Chapters greatest heroes are entombed in dreadnoughts all the way back to the first chapter master who disapproves of the chapters current form but too bad he's asleep
>Chapter relies on shock and awe mixed with terror tactics
>Color scheme is a deep blood red with bones affixed over the armor plates

Mary sues but they're mine. My other chapter I want is bretonnians in space.

>>50965050
Seems okay, though the 4 quarters scheme tends to work better for more flashy chapters. I feel like it'd work better with larger amounts of one color and using the other to supplement it.

>>50960764
Yes

>>50963630
This is some good shit Anon. Congrats!

The Emperor's Harvest Chapter owned two systems comprising of hive worlds, agri-worlds, a seconded forgeworld and several blasted balls of rock only useful for mining or defense stations. By the time Lord Ausar had risen to his hight as Master of Menses, Irontongue, and Lord of the Sons of the Harvest warband, he controlled the greater part of his sector, strangled Imperial trade routes, destroyed an Astartes chapter sent to hunt him down, and amassed an impressive museum collection.

By contrast, his partner Krosis, the Sorcerer Secondus of Alpha Legion Cell 12672 controlled no planets, was little known outside circles of the arcane or the Inquisition, and was widely derided by other Astartes warbands. He was quite content with this state of affairs and even on occasion encouraged it. When his subordinates sent messages of supplication, offering up subverted planets and masses of cultists in his name, he simply sent a laundry list of supplies the warband needed and asked them to report back in a hundred years. Most did not send a second message, though they did send supplies. Those that did both, he accepted into his tutelage. Because as he once put to Ausar and a ratling at dinner over Themescara II: "anyone can be clever, Astartes, cultists, even Inquisitors manage it on occasion. But precious few in this age are both clever and sensible."

Relations between the two warbands were initially rocky and guarded, but over seven thousand years of ruthless elegant destruction of their enemies, the two became lifelong brothers in the Long War. Much of this successful relationship can be traced back to Krosis's Chosen, Ausar's Terminator bodyguards, and the Dreadnought Ghur. These members of the warbands moved freely between the two groups and with the help of their commanding officers, eventually forged a common bond during The Scouring which was cemented during the Escape from Maldorox the Mindless

>>50965373
Ausar the Swordwind, Lord of the Sons of the Harvest, is feared beyond the Imperium and extending into the dark halls of Commoragh itself. His corruption began when captured and tortured by the Dark Eldar, they peeled off all his skin in one long roll to use as a bathtowel for their Archon. Left in shackles and sure he would die, Ausar prayed for his scouts to be saved. Khorne was listening and Ausar turned to see a rusted, black-bladed sword lying against the door, almost as if one of the vile Xenos had left it there while walking out with Ausar's skin. Wrenching his way out of the restraints Ausar strode over, grabbed the sword and began slaughtering his way towards his scouts and the bloody destiny that awaited him, even as he lay ignorant of the sword's true master.

Ausar's deeds of valor and courage in his escape and passionate reasoning during the Sucession Crisis on his homeworld were to be eclipsed by the slaughter and curses he spawned as leader of the Sons of the Harvest. After losing his scouts to daemonic posession, his Chapter to civil war, and his homeworld to spite, Ausar now hates the Imperium almost as much as he hates himself. Khorne, pleased with his new servant, has ensured that Ausar is never without a weapon. While his plasma pistol may run dry, Ausar can pull swords from thin air if in need. While not as durable as his antique power axe Lunarium, being able to pull chainswords from the very Warp itself has saved his life on more than one occasion, though none of them last longer than a day.

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Following the third events of the Third Aurelian Crusade. The traitor forces of the slain chapter master Azariah Kyras realize that they would see no victory if they continued to fight in the sector and a force of approximately 200 marines strong fled with the black legion forces into the eye of terror. During this time Liberian Ancaeus Gallos asserted dominance over the leaderless raven forces by slaining the new force commander of the first company. Ancaeus Gallos knew they wouldn't do well on thier own in such a vulnerable state and the former blood ravens served under black legion colours for 6 years slowly rebuilding strength by taking the cultist aspirants to become new marines. Ancaeus Gallos finally saw and opportunity to split thier forces from the black legion when they took the spave hulk Tyrant's bane which contained a good number of pre-heresy equipment. They would now serve themselves as the Raven's Ascendant.

Using pic related as scheme with metal trim being silver.

I had an idea of a quirky imperial guard unit who came from a planet without lazguns and who have gotten so set in their ways that they stick with Autoguns and Heavy Stubbers when better weapons is available.

They have a group of supply troops who follow them around harvesting metal from the battlefield to cast into bullets making painstaking sure that nothing they use is chaos tainted and even blessing their bullets for use against cultists.

Orks, of course, love them.

>>50965316
Thank you, I tried to keep the villian tierlist in mind as I coming up with it, I wanted a villian whose motives were hard to find fault in and were arguably better than the heroes.

I also hate how instantaneous the turn to chaos is a lot of the time, it doesnt make much sense or feel real to me.

>>50965917
>THEY GOT RIGHT PROPA SHOOTAS!
>GIVE 'EM A GOOD FIGHT, 'DEN!

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>>50943209
Loyalist Emps Children for shits and giggles.

Leader was a former member of the Phoenix Guard.

Took a decent loyal few and fucked off after Fulgrim and Ferus had their tiff.
Pretty much sat out the heresy from fear of being shot at by either side and waited to see what happened.

Post-heresy they approached Guilleman in hopes to gain his graces, allowing them to fight for the Imperium again.
Guileman agrees keeps their actions just outside Ultramar to keep a close eye but limit their reach.

Eventually become chapter strength.
Chapter builds a reputation for modesty and humility, the Chapter not wishing to repeat the mistake of Fulgrim teaches restraint.

Become monk-like in their actions, eventually settling down on a few planets to build help centers for the needy, which slowly converted into chapels as the faithful flocked to them.

Age of Apostasy happens, the Chapter remain neutral, but assign troops to defend the faithful.

Post AoA get in good with the Sisters of Battle, introducing them to the Laud Hailers.
[Sonic Weapons 2: Electric Boogaloo]
And the holy flamer.
[Phoenix, Fire. who saw that coming.]

I have some issues here and there, seems like a mash-up of Dark Angels and Salamanders but eh.

They have a dis-trust of Iron Hands and their Descendants and prefer to avoid them.
They disdain traitors, especially of the Slaaneshi variety.

I chose a paint scheme similar to the Phoenix Guard, with white hands to symbolize the chapter wiping its hands clean of the heresy.

Only the Chapter Master, the Master of Sanctity, Chapter Master of the Ultramarines and the Inquisition know of their true origins, the chapter is otherwise told it is of Ultramarines stock.

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I made a custom scheme for a /tg/ chapter that was never finished.

It's up for adoption if any of you want it.

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>>50967871

Two different badges

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>>50967879

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>>50967871

And an alternate color scheme / different chapter.

The pauldrons are white. The grey-looking areas are bright silver

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>>50967899

They are codex adherent, so you can go from there to paint all marines.

These are probably best fit for the name "Star Marauders" (or Stellar Marauders) and to use this >>50967884 badge

>>50943808
This is fucking siiiiick

SIIIIIIICK

>>50951229
I like this one too. Man so many cool original ideas itt honestly most are better than the majority of official regiments.

>>50967303
Very simple, but nice backstory. The fact that they are not super specialized, but all rounder jacks of all trades chapter.

>>50967871
btw what is that space marine painter?

>>50952470
>>50944879
Yeah I remember that thread. Different group. The Teeth guys were a ganger formed PDF on a hive world in a system mostly conquered by the Necrons, they were the allies of a renegade Space Marine chapter who were basically Space Vikings camped out in a spacehulk who used archaeotech and performed human sacrifices to the space hulk for equipment

>>50968971
It's a Space Marine Painter that has limited Wargear options.
> http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/smpbeta.php

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Brethren of Iron (name still WIP, any suggestions?) is a chapter located east of Eye of Terror. Originally created during 4th Founding to bolster the numbers against Orc menace, the chapter crusaded against xenos threat for first two millennia of its history.

Originally it was planned to be created from Imperial Fists geneseed, instead they received a mix of multiple different chapters. Created with speed and haste, the half ready chapter was embarked on adhoc fleet of ships which had survived War of the Beast. Power armor taken from old armories were quickly checked, maintained and given dark green paint without insignia other than Imperial Aquila were provided to them. Some saw this as a folly done by High Lords of Terra and this attitude made the first Chapter Master, a former veteran sergeant of Iron Knights who forgave his past name and allegiance as he took the position, Gregorus Matthäus to show them that even thought they do not have experience or traditions they will be victorious.

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>>50970432

Their first campaign was against a forgotten Ork world. The full might of the chapter fell on Ork hordes during the initial landfall. The fighting was bloody and aggressive, taking numerous casualties the chapter was victorious. Decimating majority of Ork forces on the planet, the chapter left the mop-up operation to Imperial Guard. Moving onward they helped in numerous battles against Orks and the ferocity they fought against them surprised the attaches from other Imperial organizations and chapters. The heavy casualties taken by the chapter did not surprise the attaches, but the fact that the chapter could sustain the momentum and pace they were being deployed. It was thought that they either break Codex Astartes in recruiting and training or that they receive reinforcements directly from Terra. Neither worry was proven to be true expect that early in its history usage of Neophytes as scouts was abolished and those tactical marines who show aptitude in stealth were trained to become veteran scouts. This crusade would continue till the 5th Black Crusade shook the Imperium.


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>>50970441

After the lost of Warhawks and Venerators in the 5th Black Crusade by orders of High Lords of Terra, the chapter now known as Brethren of Iron was ordered to direct their crusade closer to Eye of Terror. In the past two millennia the chapter had received a reputation of a chapter that forces things to their favour. Deploying always in chapter strength, they relied in close combat and bolter drill to beat their enemies in battle. Gaining a short range fire superiority before advancing again. After receiving a distress call from hive world of Oryx, a planet near the Eye of Terror, the chapter diverted itself from its original Crusade route. The battle for Oryx was short but deadly with majority of the chapter laying dead on the ruins of the Oryx hive. The Orks were beaten, but with high cost. But the High Lords of Terra decided to reward the chapter with governorship of Oryx if they would then concentrate their effort in fighting against threats near and coming from Eye of Terror. Brethren of Iron agreed and started to rebuild themselves.

From there on the Brethren of Iron have fought constant aggressive wars against both Orks and traitors. Cleansing worlds near them from their filth they managed to create a small prosperous and relatively safe area for Imperium to muster and send patrols forth. Thought the unrealistically fast reinforcing and operation tempo has made suspicions on the chapters recruiting and training, just like in the past, but Brethren of Iron have managed to stay away from closer inquisitional inspection purely by having very good results and having them fast. During the 13th Black Crusade the Chapter deployed all 10 companies into the battle.


That is what I have written about it. I do still need to think about their Chapter Symbol. Maybe something that relates to Mark III Power Armour they received during their founding. The face grill is pretty iconic, but maybe too close to Iron Warriors.

>>50952603
>>50952596
>>50952590
where did you make those?

>>50965220
good idea

http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/topic/282304-chapter-generator/
People always seem to forget this really good highly customize Space marine maker. though it is hard to find

>>50943209
tfw there will never be ork marines

>>50970459 continuing a bit.

Brethren of Iron recruit large number of people in their ranks to reinforce the companies due to large casualties. With most applicants either taken from Hive Oryx population or taken in mass from planets they have fought in, larger than standard number of them will become Space Marines. This is the boon of harsh upbringing. With 10th Company, the Scout Company being transformed into standard Devastator reserve company, Chapter now has 5 fighting companies.

The recruits are put through a brutal and quick transformation into true space marines. Hypnotherapy and chemical treatment is also hastened, this has few side effects. Some of the recruits suffer broken mind and are not suitable for further progress. These are turned into geneseed farms, all implants are implanted with sole purpose to grow zygotes for further use. If the body survives, there is servitor applications available. At minimum this means 4 years for new space marine to be created, with most taking 5.

The other side effect is that due to rushed and heavy hypnotherapy, large majority of Neophytes lose their memories. This means that they have to be taught again. While not a hard task, this allows them to be molded perfectly into a role of space marine. Given a name and a number, they are act in unison. In long term chaplains and librarians have to watch them. Existential crisis is not uncommon and if untreated it could lead into doubt and heresy.

Cont

>>50974284

When the Neophytes have went through the implantation and training progress against local Orks, he is armoured, armed and shipped to reinforce the Chapter. There he joins 10th Company and performs in many different battlefield roles before being moved forward into other reserve companies. This is usually done quite fast with most new brothers serving in 10th Company for only few months to a year. True learning comes from the serving in these reserve companies which actively participate in fighting. If Emperor is willing he might advance further into the ranks of the chapter.

Due to large number of recruits going into the system Chapter screens a large portion of population. This has two good side effects. First is that mutants and psykers are found and dealt with and second those psykers are added into Inperial service. This has lead to chapter having larger than normal number of Librarians in their ranks, but most of them are concentrated in rear operations and they are used only when their efficiency is in fullest.

>>50974350

Chapter produces most of its equipment in Oryx with tens of thousands of workers toiling in the Chapter forges. Artificiers craft new Power Armors to replace old destroyed in battle and to replace broken parts. Most of the armours issued to the battle brothers are mixture of Mark IV and Mark V. While the Chapter produces their own armour it is not as good as the armour made by Adeptus Mechanicus. This has caused concerns of higher mortality, but the usage of older more heavily armoured Mark V and deployment of Mark III to breaching units have lowered the mortality.

Mark IV Oryx-pattern is the most produced variant of the Power Armour with existing suits including Mark III and V receiving upgrades to bring them to this level. Upgrade consists of slight modification of the armour to allow additional ceramite plates to be worn over the armor and easier mounting of combat and breaching shields. While the extra armour plates are heavy and cumbersome, they provide needed additional protection when facing enemies in close quarters.

The Chapter is lacking in vehicles. They never received large number of Rhinos or Predators or other vehicles. This has forced them to implement number of Imperial Guard vehicles into their armory. Chameleon Scouts are often used to scout the enemy before the battle and in inserting tank destroyer teams and other assets in the battlefield. Crassus Armored Transport is a new addition to Brethren of Iron. Due to lack of Land Raiders in the armory, Crassus has been seen as adequite in terms of protection, speed and availability. Finally the usage of Colossus Siege Bombards have been used for quite long time. Adapted into use in early of Chapters history these weapons have been used for maximum effect.
I think that is enough of Brethren of Iron for now, but if you have any questions I think I can bullshit an answer for you.

Sons of Strife

>> The Sons of Strife are a relatively young chapter, having been formed in a late founding. The chapter was fairly standard in terms of traditions. However for the first 20 years, it saw very little action due to it's location and logistical situation. While not necessarily a negative thing, it had made the chapter very hungry for battle and glory.

>> Finally a chance for a real conflict arose when the chapter was called to join a crusade that was relatively close. A Ork WAGGHHH had developed led by Mogitz the Humie Eata. Said Waagghh was raiding and attacking Imperial worlds. The Waagghh itself stretched across an entire system and so the Sons of Strife sent 3/4th of the chapter to participate.

>>The early fights were glorious victories for the chapter and allied marines. However the crusade finally reached the world of Catus which Mogitz had turned into his stronghold. The forces of the crusade were confident that the world could be taken with relatively few loses. However the prime objective was to destroy 3 massive ork installations which would later be identified as Rok launching platforms.

>>The Sons of Strife had managed to make lightning fast advances on the world. However due to their haste and lack of patience it had turned out on of the Rok Launching facilities they had taken out was still barely functional. The Sons of Strife would not know this until it was too late. As all of 1st, 3rd, 4th and 5th companies thunderhawks had come down to pick up and redeploy the marines on the front lines the few surviving orks and grots had managed to prepare the Rok Lobber to fire. As the majority of 4 entire companies took off and began to organize into formation before heading towards hostile territory, 2nd Company watched as the Rok Lobber launched it's massive payload.

>> The Rok had smashed right into the formation of thunderhawks. 1st company was almost entirely destroyed. 4th & 5th lost 75% each & 3rd company was only slightly better off.

>>50977571

>> After watching the destruction of more than half of their deployed forces the Sons of Strife soon found themselves in a terrible situation. The destruction caused by the Rok to the thunderhawks had drawn the attention of many routed and scattered ork forces. Invigorated by such destruction, hordes began to move towards the landing/crash site where 2nd company was gathering the survivors and dead.

>> Concurrent battles in space had meant the Chapter's cruiser and ships were in a bad position to launch a recovery effort which meant the closest help would be an allied chapter. Equally the remaining marines of 1st company who were still on the ship became slow to action. Stunned by the loss of their company and two others they would allow no swift action that would endanger more forces until evac could be safely conducted.

> And so 2nd company along with the survivors of the three destroyed companies fought off streams of orks. By the time reinforcements arrived in the form of an allied chapter the Son's of Strife had suffered even more losses.

>> The Battle of Catus would come to be know as 'Stone's Throw' to the chapter. The battle resulted in the loss of almost all of the chapter's suits of terminator armor along with many thunderhawks and suits of power armor and brothers. Equally the event led to the Chapter petitioning to change its name to the Sons of Strife. The chapter had since developed a very strong focus on patience and thoroughness ensuring that any and all missions are completed to the letter.

>>The Sons of Strife since then have rebuilt most of their chapter, although they still are rather poor in the equipment department compared to other chapters.

For my current 5e campaign.

>Church of the Lie
A cult that has been growing for the past century on the eastern sea board, originally set up to be the religious leaders of the city Illyan, the second leader of the Church became corrupted by the influence of an elder war king from the Abyss, he twisted their teachings around until the represented the dark practices of the demon lords followers. They're ranks are made up of corrupted paladins and clerics as well as other spell casters, their blind faith for the past 100 years have had an affect on the visual aspects of the spells they use, for example Arms of Hadar now appear as tendrils of light.

Almost all of their ranks use Warlock spells or corrupted weakened versions of cleric and paladin spells

Children of the Dragon

Status: Excuminate Tratorus
Founding Chapter: Blood Angels
Founding: 14th

When the Children of the Dragon were founded they set up in the name of Sanguinius and shortly after their founding they were given a mission by the Costodes, to assess the damage and map the remains of the Imperial Webway.

For a long time they fought their way through the web way. They mapped the damage, traced the paths, found the ways and marked the points where demons flowed in. After nearly 10,000 years the damage has now been assessed. This top secret mission over, with reports and maps in hand they returned to Imperial space, ready to hand over their report to the Emperor or the chief Custodian.

When they arrived what they found was nothing less than an inquisitorial war band waiting for them, spear headed by nothing less than a full deployment of a order of the Adpetus Soritas.

The Inquistor leading them demanded the Children of the Dragon hand over their reports and submit to mind wipes. The Children of the dragon, on the other hand refused. Recognizing their mission as far to important. The battle that followed was brutal, bloody, and if the Children of the dragon were not in such bad shape might have gone differently but their time spent in the web way without resupply had left them far below a fighting strength to win this battle and so they fled back into the Webway.

There is no record of where they emerged, or how they stole a battle cruiser. Let alone how the managed to make it to the eye of terror with the Blood Angels and Order of the Ocean Shrine chasing them.

What is recorded is that before being chased into the eye of Terror their Chapter Master Caligula sacrificed his life so that the others may survive...
[Continued...]

>>50977951
>>The one apparent oddity regarding the Sons of Strife is that it's 2nd company is almost non-existent. With only 1 squad in 2nd company, the chapter refuses to fill more squads in 2nd company in order to hide a serious secret.

>> After Stone's Throw, the entirety of 2nd company made a vow to go renegade in order to rebuild it's geneseed stores to replenish numbers. 2nd company turned in almost all of it's power armor with the exception of first company. The rest of 2nd company took all armor that was salvaged from Stone's Throw. 2nd company then took 2 ships of the chapter's fleet and left.

>> Since then 2nd Company has sailed on the fringes of Imperial space. Recognized as a renegade warband by any Imperial groups, their connection to the Sons of Strife seems to be undiscovered. 2nd company spends their time raiding pirates, orks, and non-imperial worlds. Equally the 2nd company maintains it's own world outside of the light of the Emperor. It is upon this world where 2nd company maintain's its mission. Using rather unethical means 2nd company essentially runs a geneseed farm. 2nd company also maintains links with some members of the dark mechanicum who provide the expertise and skill to allow 2nd company to produce the supplies it needs.

>> It is through these means that the Sons of Strife was able to rebuild so quickly. the chapter keeps close contact with it's 'renegade' company who often brings fresh geneseed and recruits to the chapter.

>> what is not widely know to the Chapter tho, is that the renegade second company has had some rather terrific success with it's efforts. While the Chapter is close to full strength, renegade 2nd company has close to 600 extra successfully implanted recruits. The warband also maintains a small fleet of void capable craft.

Working on an Adeptus Administratum sponsored chapter

>they come from a scribe world. Recruited from gangs of feral calculists, queue assassins, and mail room warriors
>potential recruits are thrown into a vast abandoned subsurface library complex and asked to return with a specific document
>the chapter is mainly sent out to guard facilities, delivering court appearances letters to high ranking imperial citizens, and collecting overdue tithes
>will refuse to drop onto worlds if the required paperwork has not been delivered in triplicate

Children of the Dragon
[...Continuing]
For a time the chapter wandered the eye of terror, it was Lucius the Eternal who found them, and greeted these fallen children of Sanguinius and brought them into his fold. He trained them in the ways of Preheresy combat, and refitted them and their allies helping them. Though this act was not selfless for doing so bolstered his numbers. More over, they brought with them a new toy. When they had entered the Webway one tool they brought with was a free blade Imperial Knight. The knight formerly of house Seras, house Seras was eradicated for it's connection to the Children of the Dragon. Any other surviving members are free blades who have discarded their names.

Their time spent in the warp proper and in service to Slaanesh has warped the Geneseed of the Children of the Dragon. They have a low tolerance for Ultraviolet Radiation, but a powerful and unnatural desire for blood which they consume greedily. They have become vampires, much like the creatures in old terran legends.

Their current Warlord is Vladamir, a cunning and brutal warlord. His relationship with the Eternal one is friendly and while the Children of the Dragon are not a separate Legion in full, they are considered a distinct enough that Fulgrim's lot consider them to be more of a sub legion attached to their own. Distinct enough that they have their own world and practices yet included enough that their leaders take orders from Lucius and their combat doctrines in some ways resemble their own.

>>50978302
The renegade 2nd company of the Sons of Strife, known as the Thirsting exists in a strange limbo. Not aligned to chaos, yet having engaged in many heretical acts it seems poised to choose a side soon. It's numbers are swelling and many of the newer members do not share the same history as the original company who set out in an act of penance and redemption.

>>50978375
Alright that is my Emperor's Children Legion.

What can I do to improve their fluff? What do I add next? Some notable battles?

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So I'm flipping between two ideas for my homebrew chapter. One is heavily codex compliant relic hunters who use a lot of well maintained gear and focus on defense of key sites. The other is less codex compliant warriors from a tribal world that focus more on sharpshooting, stealth, and psyker powers.

Any thoughts as to which is better? Or how to at least reconcile the two and get something in the middle.

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>>50978327
It would be a shame If you lost all your files to my chaos chapter, The crimson Permanent Abhorrence

>>50979659
Well Tribal world relic hunters who use psychers to hunt down ancient arcane relics, stealing them from Elder and Chaos alike, so they must remove those who protect them by use of their feral sharp shooting, and stealth tactics to lure the fools away from the goal.

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I made a Chapter based off the near human/human offshoot Mirialan species from Star Wars.

>The chapter hails from the Tundra/Ice planet of Jaesoona. The largest city on the planet, Mirial, is located near the more temperate Equator. Due to the atmosphere and local fauna, the people of Jaesoona have developed a skin complexion ranging between green and tan yellow.

>Jaesoona is the second planet in it's system, and it makes up one of 4 populated planets/celestial bodies of the system. The others include it's Moon, Vektan (home of the system's Imperial Guard group), the Death World of New Helghen, and the asteroid colony of New Manhattan.

>The chapter were founded after the Second Founding, and they are a successor chapter to the Imperial Fist. Much like the people of Jaesoona, the Marines often tattoo themselves to mark experience or expertise in certain areas.

Besides being more original, any thoughts?

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Fuck it, just 'cause I have ideas, want to know what's crap, and what I can do to hammer into detail with the good bits.

>Phoenix Knights
>Blood Angels successors
>Newly founded relatively; 41st millennium
>Based on rediscovered Knight World previously lost on the far edge of the Ultima Segmentum 'cause warp-storms
>Personal philosophy is that they want to live up to Sanguinius' example of heroism, thus try to take to being the bravest fuckers possible
>Reflected in their colors; white to represent his pure spirit, with the red shoulders that recognizes his and by extension their flaws, and also 'cause BloodAngels
>Pride in the Colors; those that originate from within the chapter are more likely to keep their plate predominantly white than those from the parent chapter. Librarians and techmarines will typically keep at least like an arm or head piece the color of their respective offices, where as chaplains go the reverse with white power armor and black skull helm
>Have a Death Company, (thinking on a unique name, something like "the Waning Embers") but given some reverence in a ceremony that resembles more a funerary procession before deployment rather than just being launched as berserker cannon fodder
>Favoring flamers, lots and lots of flamers
>Try rather hard to maintain favorable appearance in Imperial eyes; seen as earnest to most other chapters, particularly other BA's, ranging from fair to regarded as distasteful and naive (Flesh Tearers)

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>>50981551
Backstory I'm working on is rather bare-bones, I'd like to see it kept as is, but I'm open to suggestions, goes something like:

>Homeworld was re-discovered by BA's after warp storms keeping it cut off and obscured from rest of the Segmentum finally died down
>Angels touch down, discover human populace, roughly around medieval technological level, torn on whether they've just been busy with in-fighting or are under some xenos occupation; thought something like Dark Eldar but now not so sure
>Brother-Captain spearheads an aggressive campaign to reclaim it in the name of the Imperium
>Discover later it's a Knight World; word is relayed to the Blood Angels and then the Administratum
>Order is given to put planet back into knight production and founding of a chapter to over see, but among the BA there's some measure of caution - the Brother-Captain has shown no restraint about wanting personal glory and there's fear that being left in charge of a world on the far-rim of the galaxy is too great a risk
>Command speaks with Captain's trusted friend, a Librarian; they instruct him to join the new chapter to keep an eye on the new Chapter Master, make certain he doesn't do anything traitorous or heretical, and take him out if so
>Captain becomes Chapter Master, the Phoenix Knights are founded, they begin to develop a culture based on rebirth through justice and comradarie, go all knights-of-the-round table; everything's fine

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>>50981816
>Most recently, things take a turn as it seems like the Chapter Master is getting too big for his blood-soaked britches
>Librarian enacts plot that sees the CM get killed or assassinated, quietly convinces other chapter leaders to promote a new captain to replace him that he knows will not betray the Imperium
>Eventually the Librarian's secrecy comes to light, the new CM is left feeling betrayed by him and their predecessor
>Chapter Master exiles the Librarian, addresses the Blood Angels that their chapter will remain loyal to the Imperial cause, and is forced to move on, attempting to maintain the battle-forged bonds of brotherhood that the Knights were formed under in spite of their founders' original intentions

Hope of Lehman is a Prison World located in Pihjan Subsector. Named after one of the most known Pihjan Generals lost his will in a battle and was therefore executed. General Lehman hoped that they would build a prison for people like him, so that they could be useful instead of being wasted in executions.

Lehman is a big inhabitable world. It does not have breathable atmosphere due to poisonous scorching gasses on planet surface. Sadly the planet is rich in metals. It was hell for the first prisoners. Dying in thousands to build a airlock that can fit a lander. From there more prisoners were transported and facilities built. Gigantic prison blocks were mined into the stone with thousands upon thousands of cells. Housed in these cells the prisoners would mine the ores until they time is up, they are drafted or they die.

In these cell blocks a proto-nations are born due to lack of constant vigilance. Only things that are must is that everybody must work their share in the mines and that all dead must be brought to guards. Once a week or often a crackdown is ordered and companies of armed guards come and sweep the place for signs of heresy and weapons.

Due to bad living conditions among other reasons it is common for inmates to volunteer for Penal Legion duty. These volunteers are given bit more space and food than the mass drafted prisoners. When time comes a great Prison Ship arrives and takes 20000 new inmates to form another Lehman Legion.

cont.

>>50983844

During the transit to warzone Legion is formed and trained. Each men is given second hand uniforms and equipment. Those who volunteered get better equipment and are placed in first formations. Standard equipment includes:
>underclothes
>uniform jacket, pants and gloves
>boots
>helmet cap
>helmet
>respiratory system
>steel mask
>military harness with mag pouches and backpack
>mess kit with grooming equipment
>lasgun with bayonet

During the quick training Legionnaires are familiarized with their equipment and most skillful of them get white stripe painted on back of their helmets. These are the squad leaders you must follow. During familiarization flamer and demolition training is given to few specialist. Those lucky who have some kind of driving background are placed into motor company which has the Legions Trojans.

In battle Legion is formed into ten 2000 man strong rifle regiments which each have ten 200 strong companies. The last company of each regiment is the weapons company which has all special weapon users which are then assigned into rifle companies depending their required task. Legion is commanded by proper Imperial Guard officers or by those who have failed in past. Each regiment has its own Commissar and his enforcers that make sure that there is no rebellious thoughts within the legionnaires. It is usual that number of priests, fanatics and flagellants. Normally they would be driven off, but it is seen that their pious nature helps to keep the legionnaires in line for the short time they are alive.

cont.

>>50983853

Good example how Lehman Legions fight is Battle of Hill 749. 33rd Lehman Legion had taken responsibility of 3 km long strip of ruins and trenches. Their target was Hill 749, a small raise in land in far left of traitor lines. Tactically not very significant, but still significant enough that it needed to be captured. After probing the traitor lines for three days the attack started after heavy artillery bombardment with three attack waves. The first wave got near the hill, clearing the forward pickets. Second wave nearly reached the hilltop after brutal hand to hand fighting. Third and final wave with help of survivors of first and second wave managed to push the traitors off the hill. The desperation of battle is shown when Trojans of Legions 10th Regiment were ordered to provide fire support with their heavy bolters and machineguns and when small number of second wave soldiers managed to get to hilltop it was ordered to bombard the hill with artillery as they had no changes to hold the hilltop. Those soldiers died there, holding the hilltop from extra traitor reinforcements paving the way for third wave to succeed with their bodies.

With Hill 749 captured the Legion moved its assets there and fortified down. In next four days traitors threw men, tanks and mutants at the Legion, but they held the hill. Legion was relieved from hill to continue their attack against traitor forces. Two weeks of light combat was ended with major traitor counter-attack in which Legion was thrown to stem the tide against daemon engines and traitor stormtroopers. In the end Imperium prevailed, but 33rd Lehman Legion had taken very heavy casualties. With 17000 casualties the Legion was dismantled and reorganized as 65th Independent Lehman Penal Regiment. If you survived this long, your life expectancy would rise quite lot. These Independent Penal Regiments act in more “civilized” manner than Penal Legions, but are still used in most heaviest fighting.

>>50983869

The idea behind the Lehman Legions was quite simple. To follow the lines laid by already existing fluff regarding Penal Legions with bit softer take on how they operated. Instead of just pure cannon fodder as with most cases the original Lehman Legions have two objectives. First is to act as a large division sized unit that can be used to assault positions and fight with enemy in more or less equal manner. Secondly to create proficient soldiers out of the survivors. These Independent Lehman Penal Regiments can be regarded as stormtroopers that get shit done even when taking large casualties. These regiments are then reinforced by other penal soldiers from outside Lehman or by combining the survivors with other similar regiment.

Due to the fact that the survivors of the Legions are specialists in their own way, they are organized as a regiment sized unit instead of formed into basic division.

All in all Hope of Lehman as a planet is first proper write up for a sector I am making. I think I am going for at start few of these more important planets that are distinct enough to warrant my time. This to ensure that I do not write "Civilized planets 1-47" with each getting 5k characters.

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>>50943209
Here is my fluff for my dudes in Age of Sigmar

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DleJ7guokNXxnsKZX7hu-vjRa0Hw4edANjkYRwm0PDY/edit?usp=sharing

>>50961230
I mean, why can't they just make Mk IV helmets in their forges? Is this somehow illegal?

>>50963295
The Carlomann Lancers preferred tactic is to deploy in a position behind or to the flank of the enemy. Once ready the group will split into two wings and the heavy weapons riders will break off. The Heavy weapons teams will usually post up in a position offset to the wings and will deploy the weaponry. Depending on the supplies and type of fighting the heavy weapons team will either set up a mortar to deploy smoke rounds to give cover or unleash constant streams of Multi Las fire to keep the enemy disoriented. Once the heavy weapons team begins, the wings will each make attack runs launching grenades into exposed positions. Rinse and repeat.

>>50984925
Might be considered Tech-Heresy if they don't have the Legion Era schematics and forges to make them 100% accurately.

>>50952627
The Leman Russ is older than the Imperium but it's named after a primarch. STCs man.

>>50988207
Also pretty rare to produce other than Mark VII and even then it takes fucking long.

>>50988779
Yeah the naming conventions of Imperium are bit strange.

>>50984925
>>50988207
>>50992974
Im just getting round it saying my guys found bunch of it in a spacehulk >>50965693

>>50943209

Soo, what are the chances that a space marine chapter deemed renegade/on the run from the Imperium (not apart of the Imperium yet not apart of Chaos) would team up with a Rogue Trader's fleet? A more chaotic neutral Rogue Trader, of course. Secondly, how would one field such a force on the tabletop?

My chapter, the Vermillion Wings (Blood Angel successors) have a crazy mutation that makes them cannibalistic, and they devour the dead after the battle in a great feast (their own dead are devoured by their battle brothers/squad mates). When the Inquisition found out, they called for the planet they resided on to be invaded and the chapter cleansed. The majority of the Chapter got away. The PDF of the world were forced into a penal legion in order to redeem themselves and the planet itself was occupied.

>>50995316

Oops, Vermilion Wings.

They were one of the 23rd Founding. The High Lords of Terra found one area of space on the Eastern Fringe to be unprotected, within the Oshim system, and under constant threat of being invaded by the Greenskins. A petition had been signed, and the creation was underway. A training cadre was created from the Red Wings Chapter, and Mars had forged them a number of ships, arms and armor to begin with. The Brother-Captain Saon, formally of the Red Wings, was put in charge of this cadre while a larger force of Red Wings space marines led the fight into the Oshim system. Within they had discovered that the Orks were terrorizing the Imperial planets in the sector. The entire system was in chaos. From the Battle Barge Angel’s Flame, Saon sent his cadre to several worlds, alongside the large force of Red Wings space marines who had come in with their own small fleet, retaking the worlds from the Orks. The final battle against the Orks was upon the planet Callisto, where Saon did battle with the Ork warboss. The warboss was defeated within a massive desert valley in the largest battle of the campaign. Callisto, and the Oshim system had been conquered. Saon was named the first Chapter Master. The system’s local Techpriests began construction on the new Fortress Monastery on Callisto. Whilst the Fortress Monastery was being built, the newly formed Vermilion Wings used the Angel’s Flame as a base of operations.

>>50995429

Callisto is a temperate medieval world. It is much like Terra was in ancient times, with many different climates and cultures. It has several continents, each covered in kingdoms and cities. It was colonized just before the Age of Strife, but since then it had been cut-off from the Imperium and the people have since devolved, and had come under constant threat by Orks until the Vermilion Wings arrived. The people range from average people living in the cities, to barbarians living in the harsh north, to desert-dwelling dark-skinned warriors. A good group of people to recruit marines from.

The Fortress Monastery of the Vermilion Wings, The Spire, is located in the Green Desert, named after the fact that the campaign against the Orks had first ended there, and is still littered with Ork and marine wrecks. The Fortress itself is a big gray structure within the center of the desert, built to look like an ancient castle. It is surrounded by high walls, which are bristling with cannons. Within, the corridors are lined with the bones of battle-brothers long dead.

>>50995441

They have embraced the fact that, even though that Astartes are by far much longer than the average human citizen, the vast majority of them die in battle. Due to their curse, they all expect to die in battle one day, and sometimes entire forces are wiped out if only to hold the line to the last man. But they pay love and respect for their fallen. Once a battle is finished, they collect their dead, and lay them out in rows, and then devour their flesh. This horrific act will give them the memories of those who have passed on, and will sometimes rarely give them a brief glimpse at the memories of Sanguinius due to their hyper-sensitive Omophagea organ. The only ones allowed to eat the body of a fallen brother are those within his own squad. The bones are then added to the corridors within the Fortress Monastery.

Before the body is consumed, a servitor sucks out the blood of the marine through a giant needle. This blood is put within the Pool of Rememberance. The Pool of Rememberance is a vast underwater lake beneath the Spire full of the blood of every dead battle brother, it is unknown what keeps the blood warm. When an initiate is first taken to the Spire, they must take a ritual bath for some time within the Pool, so that they may become one with their brothers before entering the chapter in-full.

Once a battle is over, and their own dead are separated from the enemy's dead, they cook and consume the flesh of their enemies in a great ritualistic feast. They eat most enemies, save for those aligned to the Chaos gods, the Necrontyr, Tyranids, and Greenskins. Such things are said to be impure. If a Vermilion Wing is caught devouring a chaos warrior, he is brought to a chaplain, who will put him out of his insane misery.

>>50995464
The Death Company is the same as it is in every other Blood Angels Chapter, as the curse of Sanguinius is still present. If a marine who had succumbed was felled in battle, they will be given a proper burial as to not risk eating the flesh and falling to the Black Rage themselves. They will also transport the bones of the fallen back to Callisto, where they would be put within the Fortress Monastery to decorate the corridors lined with bones.

The Vermillion Wings fight with a tendency towards aggressive assault actions using mobile forces. They make extensive use of tactical squads and assault squads. They have little to no terminator squads, or transports besides Stormravens and Thunderhawk Gunships, as they believe hiding in tanks is silly and weak. The assault squads will swarm enemies, and rip them apart in close combat, whilst tactical squads sweep in and pick off whoever is left, and hold objectives. Tactical squads will also be used for smaller operations. All of the close-combat obsessiveness is due to their dark flaw.

>>50995476
Every year, a Chaplain travels the world, and visits several cities, picking up a group of young men from each. This day is like a holiday to the people. The boys are taken to the Saraphim Gorge, a heavily-forested mountain area on the eastern continent, where the Vermilion Wings have built an outpost. Here, in the gorge, where the water reaches up tot heir ankles, they are told to strip. The fifty young men strip themselves of their clothing, and are each given a combat knife. The Chaplain tells them to cut the symbol of the Vermilion Wings into their left shoulders. Some of the boys misunderstand, and end up cutting themselves all over, so that they are drenched in their own blood. Next, they are forced to pummel one another with their bare hands and knives and whatever else they can find, until twenty remain. These will be the next neophytes of the chapter. They are then flown to The Spire, where they are to bathe within the Pool of Rememberance. Following this, they will undergo the implantation and training process, and then finally become scouts.

>>50995495
They have the Red Thirst and Black Rage. This is something that cannot be cured. Every one of them does not like it but they continue to do their duty to the God-Emperor. Along with this, they have a hypersensitive Omophagea organ. This, mixed with the Red Thirst, makes them bloodthristy killing machines on the battlefield. They will stop at nothing to get as close to the enemy as possible, and rip their hearts out and, if possible, devour it in front of their enemy. After a battle is done, they will build a camp and cook their enemies, then dine upon their flesh. They are forced to fight the urge to devour meat and blood when near an Inquisitor or any other Imperial of high status, and instead do it in secret. While the Red Thirst and Black Rage cannot be avoided, they can at least control their Omophagea organs to an extent. This flaw appeared not long after they were created. Even in the earliest days of the Oshim campaign, the newly-made marines were found ripping off their helmets and ripping into grots after a victory and devouring them raw, along with eating anything that died, civilians, battle-brothers, and greenskins. This was first thought to have been just the Red Thirst, but Sanguinary Priests of the chapter have discovered otherwise. Within months they had learned to control themselves.

I've been developing an idea for an Astartes Chapter for the past couple of days that I'm really proud of.

So much so that I don't want to share it. At least not before it has more time in the oven, and I've actually put together some minis.

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So I think I've settled on the premise of my chapter.

Essentially, they're heavily focused on the past, and maintaining items of importance from it. This ranges from technology, to wargear, to even places of significance. They are known to assist in the recovery of lost records or relics for various other chapters or branches of the Imperium.

Due to how many pieces of history there are scattered throughout the galaxy, the chapter often finds itself rather divided and scattered, away from their brothers for long lengths of time. This is reflected in their fighting style. Bolter marksmenship is valued greatly to help conserve rounds while in the field for long periods, and those in the chapter excel at guerrilla tactics. When able to group in larger numbers, they prefer to take the defensive around any key areas, setting up improvised barricades and fortifications to help repel any assaults.

They hold rather rigidly to the Codex Astartes, though their main deviation is their excess of Honour Guard. With the chapter's focus on long-term survival for operatives and smaller missions, the chapter has an unusually high number of veterans. This is offset due to the fact that the chapter also seeks to protect as many shrines, ruins, and key locations as possible, and thus most are stationed in small teams on a large number of different worlds. While technically the chapter's numbers show them near full strength, in reality they're often operating at only half.

Typically, when the chapter responds with a larger force, it is often in response to a distress call from one of their Honour Guard, or from a world they know houses such a site. They often prioritize protecting such locations during an invasion, much to the frustration of their allies.

I like how it turned out overall, and lucky for me I've already got a color scheme planned. Now all I need is a name.

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>>50943209

The Crimson Doom were assigned to a crusade in the Wild System but were constantly fucked over by the imperial bureaucracy - supplies were always rerouted to other theaters, politicians fucked them over, they were basically left with their dicks in the wind trying to hold together this system where human colonists were getting sodomized by the Xenos and no one *cared*

So, being partially abandoned anyway, they went to ground and started to wage war on their own terms, ignoring orders. When a space hulk drifted through their system, they saw a chance too valuable to pass up. They invaded the Space Hulk as a chapter, during which a Scout Marine, master of their 10th company led a brutal campaign of cat and mouse through the Space Hulk, hunting and killing the horrors found there while the rest of the Chapter carved out Op centers and salvaged valuable Archaeotech. These efforts relied heavily on the Chapters flamers, and the majority of their Promethium was used up and the flamers themselves often destroyed in tooth and nail rifle-butt to face combat in the depths.

Unfortunately the whole campaign culminated with the Hulk drifting back into the Warp, whereupon all Hell (literally) broke loose. The Scout Commander, who knew the Hulk better than anyone at that point, led a Strike Team deep into the bowels of the Space Hulk, where he activated some sort of ancient Archaeotech device that tore the ship from the Warp and anchored it back into real space. Opinions vary on what happened to the elite of the 10th - some think they died saving the rest of the chapter, others think that they're still in the unknown depths of the Hulk, hunting for a valuable artifact or strange enemy. Others still think they were lost to the Warp, flung out of reality by whatever machine they activated and will only return when certain conditions are met or systems reactivated.

>>50996744
continued:

On returning to Real Space, the Crimson's took stock of their losses. The Scout Hero and his team were lost. As was the entirety of the Chapters Librarium - the sudden transistion to the Warp unfortunately had overwhelmed even the iron wills of the trained Astarte battle pyskers, and every pyschic member of the Chapter had simultaneously experience Subarachnoid Hemorrhage. Their deaths were mercifully swift as their brains literally exploded, being suddenly exposed unprepared to the raw Warp.

On the upside, they now had a completely (mostly) secured space hulk for their base of operations and a great deal of valuable ancient technology. Knowing that if they returned to the Imperium not only would they be chastised for going AWOL but also forced to turn over their findings to the Mechanicum, they decided to fully go rogue and take the war against the Xenos in the sector into their own hands.

They now operate in secret from their Space Hulk base, striking hard and fast at the awakening Necron Dynasty in the area. It's a losing battle, but the Archaeotech they recovered (some of which may possibly even be Necron in origin?) has evened the odds, as well as their local imperial allies in the area who are still loyal to them for their protection.

However, they have no mercy for traitors. This particular Necron Dynasty is of the slave-and-servant gathering sort - they don't just exterminate the human pests on their worlds, they conquer them. Those planets who align with the Necrons, whether by choice or at point of a gauss barrel, the Space Marines raid mercilessly for supplies.

They strike out of the void swiftly and viciously like the Vikings of old, riding drop pods and strike vehicles carved with gargoyles and dragons, coming out of the blackness of the sky, either as angels of salvation, or demons of the end times.

>>50978394
The Thirsting aka the renegade 2nd company of the Sons of Strife is fanatical about the need to rebuild the chapter to massive size. It is said that the leader of the Thirsting, Captain Abahjr Rahmiuld, has declared that his will make the chapter legion size. The obsessive desire to expand the chapter all stems back to Stone's Throw and the horrifying impact it had on the survivors and 2nd company. They all felt so utterly denied of their fate as the greatest warriors of the emperor. The notion that their gloryless chapter would be so grievously wounded in their first major action led to many to take a fanatical approach to doing whatever it takes to make the Sons of Strife a legendary chapter. The majority of the proper chapter do not share this belief as strongly and took a more tempered lesson from Stone's Throw, however as more and more recruits are brought in directly from the Thirsting, as opposed to indigenously, it seems that even the chapter is slowly changing.

Due to the Thirsting's renegade status it maintains a number of odd traditions out of both necessity and history. All space marines in the Thirsting are forbidden from wearing pauldrons. Every pauldron with Son's of Strife heraldry has been stripped and stored until it is given to a new recruit who is designated to be given to the chapter. This signifies the need for the Thirsting to fulfill it's duty and return every single pauldron they had showing that the losses and scarring of Stone's throw is over. However some of the tech adepts and priests in the Thirsting have noticed that the number of pauldrons is not going down. One even claimed to have seen a pauldron with heraldry from another loyal chapter in the sacred vault before it was reworked.

Additionally modifications have been made to the power armor suits the Thirsting has. All operational power armor suits still maintain their environmental seal.

>>50997588
The Thirsting however has a difficult logistics situation. While deals with some hereteks and and captured/swayed tech-priests/adepts have managed to get production of weapons and ammo up, it is still in no way capable of matching all of the needs of a warband that numbers near 750. While all 2nd company marines have bolters and many have power armor, the majority of the neophytes/recruits use substandard supplies. Bolters are doled out to leaders of recruit squads. The rest rely on autoweapons and las weaponry. Plasma and Melta weaponry is in very short supply.

Most recruits utilize heavily modified carapace armor more similar to the ancient Solar Auxilia Void armor than IG carapace armor. Talented recruits will use homemade power armor. While production is slowly becoming standardized, it is still slow and inferior to proper power armor. Most notable differences between Thirsting power armor and Adeptus Astartes power armor is lack of certain life support functions, limited power packs.

Due to less than ideal weapons and armor, the Thirsting maintains a secondary military force composed of 1800 potential recruits. When in battle, the Thirsting use the normal soldiers to soften targets or provide distractions to allow the marines to strike in the most devastating manner and suffer less casualties. Those who prove themselves will be offered the chance to become a marine, although this usually means that the soldier will simply become an geneseed farm for a younger potential recruit who will have a far better chance of surviving the process of becoming an astartes.

The Thirsting has fought many enemies, many of which are opposed to the imperium. However they have also fought the imperium at times.

While most raids carried out by the Thirsting on Imperial worlds are relatively bloodless, courtesy of the thirsting demanding supplies for an astartes chapter and dressing for the part, there have been instances where things got out of hand.

>>50995665
Not even a little overview?

>>50998756
When the Thirsting dispatched 2 squads of 2nd company and 60 Thirsting marines to the mining world of Rolgias Terchas to acquire supplies, mainly metals, melta weaponry, and alloys for armor the party figured out that there was a genestealer infection in the core mining city. It was not necessarily overwhelming, but it seem poised to grow and overtake the entire population of the city and surrounding areas.

Instead of acting on this discovery the band returned to the entire warband with the information. It was decided that if the genestealer infestation was allowed a few more months to take root, the entire planet would be under genestealer control which would mean the population would be either collaborators with enemies of the emperor or tainted filth. Either way it would mean much of the population would be ripe for judgement. Additionally it would mean that the planet would most likely triple their production output as the Genestealer cult looks to secure their control and seriously arm themselves incase any Imperial forces discover the massive taint.

So after 4 months of waiting, with 4 recruit squads on the ground, ensuring no actions to call for outside help were successful, the Thirsting descended upon the planet, now thoroughly in the hands of the genestealer cult. The entire warband was deployed planetside and engaged in a short and brutal war against the tainted and corrupted natives. Within 6 weeks the planets population was cut down to a 1/6 of it's original 800,000. The entire genestealer cult was eradicated. The Thirsting left the planet after taking everything of possible value to them. Their estimates were right and now that the planet was in utter disarray they took tremendous amounts of mined resources. All the equipment used by the corrupted PDF was confiscated. The surviving tech-priests who had locked themselves in their compound were inducted into the service of astartes.

>>50998987

This incident was only disclosed to the chapter-master of the Sons of Strife who was deeply unsettled by it. What struck him the most was how his brothers in the 2nd company spoke of how blessed the operation was. To the Thristing, it seemed that the emperor gave the Thirsting a chance to better test themselves. That it was righteous to condemn so many to death if it meant the angels of the emperor would be all that sharper and prepared when they return to his fold.

Their fanatical views towards glory and service as astartes had so blinded them that they saw their duty as above anything else. It is this utterly mental mindset that makes the 2nd company aka the Thirsting so dangerous. They straddle the line of loyalty and heresy not because of chaos, but because extreme devotion to their duty as Adeptus Astartes.

>>50984196
Cool stuff Anon. Makes me want to start my own AoS army to be honest.

>>50996762
I like it. They are renegades because of necessity. Not evil or heretics. Also I like the colour scheme.