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"His were the kind of words that are both terrible to hear and impossible to forget; I admired him greatly."
-Dilk Jirp on Kiergar

I am running a campaign this summer that ties together a Dark Heresy story we have been running for over a year with 40K, BFG and Apocalypse. The campaign involves a galaxy-wide Chaos plot to wage a crusade that will assault Mars itself. After ten millennium, the traitor marines would see their war machines renewed. The final battle will occur on a new 8x12' table representing a secret Adeptus Mechanicus base on Mars' polar cap. While the battle is preordained by Eldar seers, the nature of this struggle, whether a desperate last stand for the forces of the Imperium, or a clever trap set for the haughty forces of Chaos, lies in the hands of the players.

I have set myself about painting 10,000 points of Chaos by the apocalyptic finale in October. Aggressive, but it's good to aim high. The Chaos forces include three distinct armies, Mort's Reapers, a contingent of Berserkers led by Kharn (Maelstrom of Gore), and the masterminds of it all, the Iron Hydras.


Mort's Reapers

The grizzled Commissar had insisted on entering the reeking bunker first. He stood in the relative darkness with his back to the door, bust silhouetted by the firing silt in the far wall.
"Mort's Reapers" he confirmed flatly, harsh voice muffled by the cloth pressed over his mouth and nose.
"Mort?" piped up young Phil. "How bad can it be?" He sounded hopeful as ever. For a few moments the buzz of the carrion flies was the only sound.
"I guess you better have a look," the Commissar growled, turning back toward the men.
"Don't make 'im," the sergeant whispered plaintively.
"How bad can it be?" Phil repeated as he stepped forward, ignoring the officer. The Commissar moved out of the beam of light draped across the floor. Phil stopped. The other men turned away as the retching began.
"Grab 'im, Tiny," said the sergeant.
"Don't worry kid," said the Commissar as he stalked out of the bunker. "We'll all look like that soon enough."

The Daemon Prince Mortis leads the Reapers. First iteration (that will be a scythe):


And working on some pitting and corrosion of the armor after centuries:






I have done some more since and will add some pics when I can.

Mortis' friend, the Great Unclean One is also coming along:






And some WIP troopers:



The Maelstrom of Gore and other World Eater Elements

Kharn, MKII:




A bloodthirster WIP painted by my wife:




The bersekers are built and two rhinos with FW goodies are nearly complete. I just need to paint it all.


Iron Hydras

The Iron Hydras are a Chaos Legion formed millennia ago by the joinder of a an Alpha Legion warband led by the Daemon Prince Kiergar the Snake and an Iron Warrior warband led by Warsmith Dierar Wallbreaker. How these warlords separated from their original legions and the basis for their cooperation is not known by Imperial Scholars, but the two seem to work in perfect unison and with complementary styles, one a force of charisma and great schemer, the other a consummate tactician with a passion for armor. The Legion's symbol, a two headed hydra, references it's dual leadership and Alpha Legion roots.

This army includes a Hellblade, Warhound Titan, and other bits of armor on top if Daemons and CSMs.

Iron Hyrda Land Raider. See more here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/231137.page



Much more to come!

This will be heaps of fun to witness at Dakka too Thanks for finally sharing it here and I'm sure everyone is really excited to see more.

Looks good We can never have enough Chaos on this site

I like the boar head on the 'thirster (is it a boar head, looks like something out of the WHFB beastman/orc boar stuff).

how did you get the weathering on the DP, just jabbed away with a dremel or something, because It looks really cool

Back to this with some updates for Mort's Reapers as well as a look at an Iron Hydra air support vehicle. Looks like it's positioned more rakishly than it is due to the angle of the pics (from above). More to come.

Yes, LZ, I did use a Dremel to help make the texture on Mortis.

This blog looks set to be epic. Eagerly awaiting more!

Great to see new signs of life in this project. It's been thoroughly intriguing from the start. Keep us posted.

Wow, this looks awesome! I think its fantastic that you have combined different games and are now at the epic Apocalypse-sized showdown game.

I have been playing Dark Heresy for a year, running many games and have wanted to do something like this.

Good show!

This is the greatest idea. The follow up campaign must have Necrons(taking advantage of Mars' weakened state.).

Thanks for all the comments! Glad to hear others enjoying Dark Heresy too. We have 7 or so players in that game in 4-5 people for the 40K (a few overlap), so we should be able to do quite a bit with this. Not finding time for the BFG - another time.

Here are some Khornate Rhinos for the "Maelstrom of Gore" Datasheet:

Nice

im a huge fan of everything nurgle in this. Mort looks awesome, and i cannot wait to see the DG marines painted up. very nice

Wow, that sounds amazing. All that needs to be added is an apocalypse planetstrike game for the start of the invasion onto Mars.

This will end up being completely epic.

THIS IS PURE INSANE EPIC AWESOME!!!!!!!

Love the DP - simply spectacular work with the weathering! Quick question, what head did you use?

wow, i wond how this will play out, looks like it will be crazy

Thanks gents! It had stalled for a while, but I am back in the swing now. If I work hard between now and Columbus day WE (the big event) I will be able to get a lot, if not everything done. The plan is to get it looking good for Apoc pics, but go back and do the fine detail later if I have time. I want everything in the finale game to be WYSIWYG and painted.

Darkkt, the head is from a plastic Beastman banner.


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Quick update with some Nurgle stuff I finished earlier in the week:

Lotso FW goddies in this thread.

Looking good though.

person person wrote:Lotso FW goddies in this thread.

And I haven't even put together the Warhound yet! Might work on that this WE. Looking forward to it.

FOR CHAOS!
There is whole lot of win in this thread! FW worldeater and deathguard upgrade kits are amazing!

This is a massive project but it looks really good so far. :-)

Sometimes it's a little scary big.

Some more models built. First is Ahriman. Minor conversion on the arm and I figured some kind of circle on his base would be nice sorcerer symbolism.



The next one is Kiergar the Snake - one of the two leaders of the Iron Hydras (the one with the Alpha Legion roots). Love the Daemon Prince model, so did not do too much with it other than adding the tongue to provide a name reference.

sweet conversions

Epic thread. Now if you can keep up the pace, this will be even better!mI am really looking forward to more.

Campaign Intro

Over her shoulder, Inquisitor Kailen watched the Eagle Ascendant grow smaller from the VIP seating in the StormCrow patten interceptor. She wondered if she would see her void-borne home again and said a prayer for Commander Obel and Captain Denet. Even the Lord Inquistor's Black Arc, which dwarfed the Eagle Ascendant, was shrinking fast.

The grey-suited marines around her were taciturn as ever, but she could feel their unease. Even the Legion of Shades could not know fear, they knew concern and these Astartes were taking a terrible risk. It could only be a matter of time before Lord Inquisitor Quol would discover that they had Kailen with them. The consequences of that were certain - they would be declared heretics; their fortress Monastery would likely be attacked and with no reserve to defend it, the prospects were grim.

Pushing aside worry, Kailen found an upswell of faith and renewed her resolve. If it was not too late, they would pick up team Sigma and sound a warning to those who would listen. These were fateful times indeed.

Time for some more of Mort's Reapers. First we have his Chosen with 4 Meltas (gotta have some way to deal with tanks!). Nice to use some classic models with a few updating conversions - the Chosen should be the most warped and twisted so some of the wacky older models fit right in.



Next up are three units of 7 Lesser Daemons - I figured giant rats were very appropriate. Some of them are in pretty motley base-coating because they were dredged up from an old project. At least 3 generations of giant rats there, I think.







Finally, we have some PIP shots of the standard Plague Marines. They'll get a lot more detail and variation eventually, but they are coming along.

I say this alot, but I love nurgle models that aren't green, Necrons that aren't silver or black etc.

Good point PP, it's always fun to mix up and not do the archetype.

Made good progress this WE. Working on the traitor Baneblade now. Tonight's update are two huge units of flamers. Instead of the arms, I have added so GS flames coming out of their sides. I will probably end up splitting these up and they are super over-kill at 9.





And here's an old school obliterator (built 3 new ones over the WE).



Much more to come!

Very cool, however I am not a fan of the icon. It screams alpha legion but doesn't have anything to make one think that they are half iron warriors, I would just think that they were an alpha legion warband.

So awesome. The rats are a great idea - nice use of old models.

The DP - I know the tongue is to indicate that its alpha legion (snakey), but when its just 'jutting' out in a straight line, it looks a little comical/cartoony. I think the tongue should 'loll' out of its mouth, like a dogs.

I will be very interested in seeing how you paint this DP - Ive just finished painting my most recent alpha legion chosen melta model (Im a painfully slow painter) - Im going to try and post some pics tonight.

One more thing - really like the work on the bases - I try to do this myself, gluing spare bits of bitz on the bases for some extra goodness. Love it.

Keep up the good work.