Hello Dakka
I've decided sometime ago to start a new army and thereby post it on Dakka an awesome website that I shamefully lurked instead of giving something back to the community, which changes now.
A Brief History of the Raptors.
M31 - The Chapter is rumoured to have begun life as a Raven Guard Legion company of new initiates training on Deliverance at the time of Drop Site Massacre. After serving with distinction the company is honoured as a Chapter and the Raptors are founded during the reforms of the Codex Astartes. The fledgling Raptors now begin their service to the Imperium as a fleet based chapter hunting down the forces of the Traitor Legions.6
- Several centuries after their founding, the Raptors are granted a homeworld on the edge of the Eye of Terror the name of which is lost in the passage of time.
M34-M36 - The Raptors original homeworld is believed to have been destroyed some time during the 4th or 5th Black Crusade.
M37 - Imperial records list the Chapter as destroyed or missing in action.
M39 - The Raptors appear on the Imperial order of battle during the Caberiad Wars at full chapter strength. They are now based on a new homeworld within the Sutters Spiral Nebula and do not reveal its exact location or name.
339.M39-370.M39 - Sancta Angelis Campaign.
775.M41-777.M41 - Sulsalid Campaign, Fourth Quadrant Rebellion.
906.M41-908.M41 - Badab War.
969.M41 - While en-route to assault the Ork world of Gramnia Major in the Segmentum Solar as part of the crusade against the Arch Maniac of Calverna the Raptors ships are thrown off course while traveling through the warp. When they emerged, the chapter is forced to crash land their battered ships on the nearest planet, the Death World of Jemadal.
Jemadal is an orb of dense, slimy jungle, stagnant and dank to a suffocating degree and teeming with voracious predators and carnivorous plants. The atmosphere of the planet is so heavily saturated with moisture that the air is literally suffocating. Previous attempts to terraform the planet by the Adeptus Mechanicus had been abandoned centuries before and to survive an hour on Jemadal is an achievement. The world is also infested with predators and each day the Raptors come under attack from swarms of carnivorous beasts and bat-winged creatures that could kill an ordinary man with a single bite.
As the breathable air in the Raptors armour begins to run out and the oxygen supplies dwindle, the Chapter's Techmarines desperately seek a solution. The Techmarines are able to modify the breathing apparatus of the Power Armour helmets to incorporate an osmotic gill that filters the oxygen from the heavily moisturised air. This modification proves highly effective and the Raptors are able to subsist on a diet of indigenous plants and fungi.
976.M41 - After surviving on Jemadal for seven years the Raptors are rescued from the Death World by the Ultramarine Battle Barge Rath's Honour.
998.M41 - Third War for Armageddon and Taros Campaign.
999.M41 - Yural Campaing (Homebrew Dark Heresy / Deathwatch Campaing)
I also comissioned Mr. Peter Laycock on
http://stugmeister.deviantart.com/ and the result is this.
Knight Captain Korivrak of the Second Company, hacking down some Orks on the jungles of Armageddon.
To do list
Captain Korivrak - Finished.
Lias Issodon - under convertion work
20x Tactical Marines- Bought, 5 assembeled and painted.
8x Scout Bikers - Some assembeled
10x Sternguard Veterans- Conversion Work, 5 Converted.
Captain Korivrak
This guy was my first painted miniature this year (Still
WIP), I think I'm gonna strip his paint and redo him and his base, what do you guys think??
Fluff and
IG WIP's will be posted later tonight.
Peace out
