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New! Planet name:Mortum VII (Mortum 7) is a planet located near Eye of Terror.Gravity:Slightly less than Holy Terra making average height just under 6ft.,Temperature:between 30 and 80F very humid.The planet has 3 continents mostly plains and swamps, with a few mountains, and two oceans.
Regiment: The Legion of Mortum renamed "Mortum Plague-Tearers"

I need ideas for IG fluff and appearance. I like this character(see below) but I want an original regiment, rather than Armageddon Steel Legion. One thing's for sure they're elite chaos/zombie genociders and very grimdark. Their planet is a Death world, constantly ravaged by Chaos especialy by the forces of Nurgle. The reason for the attacks are rumors of ingrediants for the ultimate plague. I want their appearance to incorporate air filters of some sort and synthskin, they give little merit to personal armor rather they prefer mobility to show this their vehicles would not incorporate extra armor instead they would have enhanced engines. A vehicle of choice would be the Hellhound for its widespread attacks perfect for killing swarms of enemies i.e. zombies and nurglings. They loathe psykers as they have seen quite enough of the warp on their own world. They prefer long-las's and close combat weapons, they stay away from infantry flamers because on their planet the only thing worse than a charging deamon, is a charging deamon on fire. They also make seldom use of heavy weapons teams without very favorable conditions(see mobility). What I need is a name for the planet, a name for the regiment, a set appearance that makes them stand out, including gear and color scheme, also any input or ideas would be appreciated once the fluff is complete I'll start writing some stories, and finish their background.

Your Ideas(the ones I will probably use):lots of basic equipment, isolated from most imperial contact, Shotguns shotguns shotguns, dozer-blades on chimeras and hellhounds for killing zombies,

Guttrench Skullsmasha wrote:Give thier armor and gear a really grimy dirty look greenish, slimy gunk everywere to show the many effects of the horrible enviroment and lots of gas masks if you can try to give them knifes the last resort weapon incase your down to your last shot (It's not going to be the zombies)
*also Commissars would be good to "Purge infected members for the well being of the group"
If you can try to make them worn down looking lots of wounds from *hasty retreats, not so friendly fire, building colapse, deamon scrap* put groves down thier guns and have little gaps in thier knifes. Scars and other stuff to make them look like real death world vets!

, Hazmat not synthskin,...to be continued

[Louis Harkin: an Armageddon Steel Legion officer with extensive knowledge and experiance fighting Chaos especially Nurgle plague zombies, due to being trapped on a plague ridden planet for eight months before a Deamonhunters army was sent in to purge the planet a task made easier by Harkin and his men who had developed tactics to destroy masses of zombies, Nurgle Plaguebearers, and even Greater Daemons of Nurgle with only las rifles and the occasional scavanged grenade. Now harkin trains and leads Nurgle and Zombie kill-squads into infection areas that most gaurdsmen wouldn't survive. Uses a las-pistol w/chainsword bayonet in right hand, a long-las in the left, and carapace armor, has a bionic eye with infravision, also has bionic left arm had to rip off his real one to prevent infection via zombie bite. ]

Kar'modan XVI-Planet name (Car-mow-Don 16)

Kar'modan 1st Clenser brigade-IG name

Give thier armor and gear a really grimy dirty look greenish, slimy gunk everywere to show the many effects of the horrible enviroment and lots of gas masks if you can try to give them knifes the last resort weapon incase your down to your last shot (It's not going to be the zombies) and I say atleast one flamer in a group would make sense though *IE for burning fallen comrades so you don't have to make sure they "Fall back down and stay down"

*also Commissars would be good to "Purge infected members for the well being of the group"
If you can try to make them worn down looking lots of wounds from *hasty retreats, not so friendly fire, building colapse, deamon scrap* put groves down thier guns and have little gaps in thier knifes. Scars and other stuff to make them look like real death world vets!

Hope this helps some

Thanks for the input, good idea with the flamers and purging infected.

Glad I could be of service!

I wish you luck on your army!

You are probably also going to want a pale color for your skin(almost zombie-like imo) too much mucking around with the undead and the plague bearers does not go without its toll!

I would suggest Dozar blades on the chimera transports, even if you don't use them the idea pushing through hordes of zombies in one of these bad boys is awsome.

Great ideas all, I just got an idea myself from Left 4 Dead 2, Zombie attracting serum as a grenade option. It would make zombies frenzy and attack anything covered in said serum.

Many guardsmen of my regiment have bionics of some sort, mostly arms and legs, the areas most often bitten in zombie attacks, either for added strength and protection, or because they were bitten and had to cut off the limb before infection could spread. Some also have bionic lungs to remove the need for air filters and gasmasks, they still cover their faces to prevent infection though. I the ink I'll make some special zombies certain blessings of Nurgle, like ones that hide underground, pop up, grab people, and attempt to pull them under. I'm also thinking about zombies that have longer than normal arms covered in spikes. I'll elaborate more later, but for now I still need your help with ideas about the regiment!

cool idea but a few contradictions
they dnt like flamers but prefer hellhounds?
they give little merit to personal armour (good idea as a an infection will get you not matter how much flak you wear)but the character has carpace?
they prefer longlas AND ccw's?
i think that they rely on mainly basic equip is good but the whole killing 'Greater Daemons of Nurgle with only las rifles and the occasional scavanged grenade' is a bit overkill
was guna say the same have corroded armour sores on arms etc are they mainly mech? so they dnt have to stay outside much? you could use death korps as a base?
i think fluff sounds better when its subtle/understated
oh and a guardsman will NEVER make a Gknights job 'easier' :-)

cool idea i think that you should have them yous lots of flamers and no explisives becouse the just spread the dead

MOMUS wrote:cool idea but a few contradictions
they dnt like flamers but prefer hellhounds?
they give little merit to personal armour (good idea as a an infection will get you not matter how much flak you wear)but the character has carpace?
they prefer longlas AND ccw's?
i think that they rely on mainly basic equip is good but the whole killing 'Greater Daemons of Nurgle with only las rifles and the occasional scavanged grenade' is a bit overkill
was guna say the same have corroded armour sores on arms etc are they mainly mech? so they dnt have to stay outside much? you could use death korps as a base?
i think fluff sounds better when its subtle/understated
oh and a guardsman will NEVER make a Gknights job 'easier' :-)

I can see why your confused, first the character I posted was originally an Armageddon Steel Legionnaire I made for Inquisitor, I'm just recycling him, so not every thing in the description is final. Second I said they don't like man-portable or handheld flamers because they're heavy and because getting mauled by flaming zombies sucks. Third what I meant was long-las or CCW thanks for catching that. Fourth as far as Greater Daemons go, they have snipers, hellhounds, and they will have plasmaguns/pistols and elite guardsmen with better weapons. They would be pale because most of their lives is spent indoors and they have to wear synthskins(like a really tight HazMat suit)and rebreathors outside, they wouldn't have any sores on their arms because infection equals death and zombification. Their armor on the other hand, would be extremely worn and covered in the kill of the day. By the way Nurgle has been waging this war on and off for about 83 years.

mayb you could have the guys who have been infected 'count as penal legion' they are in the first stages of NR, but choose to fight out thier last days as suicide squads

if nurgle has been attacking on and off mayb the world has become isolated? or contact with imperial forces is intermitent, this means they would have to rely on more basic weapons.
i think the flamer would actually be a good idea to have -burn the bodies so the disease cnt spread and they cnt 'rise again', also its a fairly easy weapon to maintain and make.


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oh and vets with shotguns galore

Remove the synthskin that material is very expensive so IG won't get it.How about the regiment having more than usual number of carpace armor or having a inquisitor who assists them.

IvanTih wrote:Remove the synthskin that material is very expensive so IG won't get it.How about the regiment having more than usual number of carpace armor or having a inquisitor who assists them.

Oh crap it is? Okay then I'll have 'em use normal hazmat stuff I guess, sorta like Death Korps of Kreig. Okay apparently Hellhounds aren't enough for you guys, because everyone has suggested flamers in passing . I'll think about it because it would be good for burning bodies, but it seems pretty contradictory to what I'm doing, But I ask that you stop suggesting it since it has already been said, plus I still need a name for the planet and some outfit Ideas. Despite all my griping I'm pleasantly supprised at the good ideas I don't think I've gotten a single stupid post, even when suggesting flamers they've either had a good reason why or had another idea in the post. Also yes to the vets with shotguns.

Planet name:Narten is a planet located near Eye of Terror.Gravity:1.03G,Temperature:+37- -70.The planet has 3 continents.
Outfit:A outfit that cover all parts of body except head which has a rebreather.The outfit is dark green in color.
Weapons:Standard lasgun and prefered weapons:melta gun and heavy bolter .

New! Planet name:Mortum VII (Mortum 7) is a planet located near Eye of Terror.Gravity:Slightly less than Holy Terra making average height just under 6ft.,Temperature:between 30 and 80F very humid.The planet has 3 continents mostly plains and swamps, with a few mountains, and two oceans.
Regiment: The Legion of Mortum renamed "Mortum Plague-Tearers" I took everyones ideas mashed 'em together and added stuff. As far as outfit color goes grey and dark green for sure. p.s. thanks IvanTih

Appearance: Visored, closed-face helmets with integrated gasmasks with 1-3 tubes connected to air filtration units in their backpacks. They wear thick, dark green jumpsuits that are sealed and connected to their black rubber boots and thick leather gloves, the suits have high collars with a ring of steel in it to prevent neck wounds, many suits have a chest plate that looks like an octagonal 3inch wide strip of metal that's bent over the shoulders and connects in the back. Louis Harkin's differs in the fact that his right arm is bionic and uncovered, he also has a small ornamental metal wing jutting from the right side of his backpack, the only other difference is Harkins unique helmet, which bears the Imperial aquila it also has lensthat connects directly to his bionic eye.

the only thing worse than a charging deamon, is a charging deamon on fire* haaaahaaahaahaha... thats soooo awzum'ly written

i noticed you mentioned zombies and bionics at place they'r likely to get bitten, may i suggest a 40k version of a oooooold Anti Vampire bite armor, ofc this would work on zombies aswell,

its a High Collar of steel, stretching over the top of the shoulders, Wamp hunters would wear this under the Trench coat, and its easily made with some greenstuff.
If you dont use it on ur Cannon fodder troopers, may i suggest that more higher up personal use this, squad commanders , medics and those kinda of WIP's

Other then that, Gr8 idea, i personally LOOOOOVE Zombie themes , bests of luck dude! hell.. i got some IG marines myself, ima make one :p
oh.. there i go starting new projects again..i have a ton of half painted models standing about T_T


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bah. dident read the whole thread. u'r useing neck armor already :( well... make commanders with trench coats! and the collar! :p

and i had another idia.
for a 'HQ' a inquisitor that was sendt to the planet to manage the sitiuation,and for som reason decided to stick around. hes badass looking. with the classic witchhunter hat, AND a trench coat with the wamp collar
and if the troopers spend a lot of time in the swamps... give them cool looking 'rubber' boots for walking around in water all day! Prio NR 1 - ceep ur socks dry!


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again, not reading the whole thread...:p
Flamers! ofc you need flamers! burning infected body's is very VERY important,
but if you want ur squads to not have flamers, make a 'cleanup' squad that goes inn and removes the taint(this cleanup squad could also bee infected themselves)
but you mentioned swamps?
Swamps..- swamp gass.
Flamers..
flamers hit the swampgass..
=guardsmenn running for they'r life

Sound like that planet could use some backup.
maybe a certain Firebased SP chapter?

Hellz yeah, the inquisition will definitely be there but not in large numbers because they don't exactly know what's going on, also I totally forgot about swampgas that could be fun...hmm... and I would definitly enjoy some SM help you could have them fighting far away from eachother that way they can help eachother without knowing it, you could write from the Space Marine's point of view, while I do the Plaguetearers 1st. If we do it that way we could connect stories without stepping on eachothers fluff and avoid mixing up stories. This could be cool if your interested.


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Louis Harkin: Mortum Plague Tearers officer with extensive knowledge and experience of leadership, his rank is Lord of the Purge, a rank made specially for the the Plague Tearers 1st, He performs the task of a commisar but is not an official member of the Commisariat...yet, he obtained the rank after he kept the Plague Tearers 1st together during a Daemon assault from no less than three Deamon Princes and near 2000 zombies, the commisar had already been killed, but Harkin made sure the men stood firm, until reinforcements came in the form of three Hellhounds and a Leman Russ Executioner aptly named "Kill it With Fire" the Executioner Plasma Destroyer dealt horrendus damage to the Deamon Princes, killing one and forcing the other two to retreat, not wanting to waste ammo the chimeras mostly rolled over the zombie horde with their dozer-blades. During the assault he lost an eye from shrapnel and was was forced to cut off his right arm after he was bitten by a zombie, he now has bionic replacements for both, his eye includes infravision to see hidden enemies even through walls, it also integrates with his signature long-las allowing him to fire with stunning accuracy with out using the weapons scope. Despite the horror and death surrounding his world, Harkin has managed to uplift his troops with jokes and words of reassurance. He can be seen in the middle of the action firing his long-las and plasma pistol simultaneously attempting to keep the undead as far away from his men as possible. Wears a visored closed-face helmet which bears the Imperial aquila it also has a lens that connects directly to his bionic eye, it features an integrated gasmask with 2 tubes connected to the air filtration unit in his backpack which has anornamental metal wing jutting from the right side. He wears a thick, dark green jumpsuit that is sealed and connected to his black rubber boots and thick leather gloves, the suit has a high collar with a ring of steel in it to prevent neck wounds, his suit has a chest plate that looks like an octagonal 3inch wide strip of metal that's bent over the shoulders and connects in the back. Louis Harkin's right sleeve is missing because his right arm is bionic. He also has a chainsword bayonet that can attach to his plasma pistol.
He is 30 years old, 5"11', and is rumored to have dirty blond hair.

Black rubber boots!

LOL you didn't know that?

Ahh still need stuff.

tau battles suits are a must, they could have been stolen from a tau world or a tau expeditionary found this world and failed (epicly) to conquer it


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also Boanabardlement!!!!!!