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Right guys, I'm finally getting back in to the hobby and I've decided to create my own SM chapter.
I've decided that most of the chapter had gone renegade including half the captains, the Chapter Master and the Master of Sanctity, now one chaplain who blew the brains out of the former Chapter Master and Master of Sanctity has taken both roles due to popular demand, just until he deems one of the new Captains worthy of the title. My question is this however;
Would other chapters now view him with suspicion? Is he well within his rights to declare that all remaining marines paint their armour black and bone colours until all traitors from the chapter have been destroyed? Should I use this very ambitious conversion I'm planning as a chapter master that looks chaplainy or the other way around? And finally, would the LotD turing up quite often to these guys since the betrayal be a bit too weird?
Okay, technically several questions, but, y'know, I'm a tad flustered.

Thanks in advance guys

If there's still any Captains left loyal in the Chapter I'd assume that one of them would take over as Chapter Master. There's nothing wrong with a Chaplain assuming command by "popular vote" though, as long as the rest of the Chapter is fine with it.

AlmightyWalrus wrote:There's nothing wrong with a Chaplain assuming command by "popular vote" though, as long as the rest of the Chapter is fine with it.

Exactly so. Chaplains are religious officers but they have all the marine training anyways, and lead from the front like any other marine officer.

As for ceremonially painting their armor black and so on, marines have done weirder things when their chapter is disgraced. I'd expect lots of purity seals and maybe scrolls with religious texts hanging on armor plates too. Librarians and techmarines would probably still have to keep their primary colors, blue and red respectively.

Well the story I had planned from the captains was that the one's who'd turned renegade had killed the loyalists, so all the captain's now are newly promoted, hence why the Chaplain has taken control, but he has it more as a regency.

As for the colours, I was thinking purity seals and scrolls everywhere, painting script onto the armour and such (I am going to raid the hell out of the bitz sellers.) But all non standard colours will stand, maybe painting the shoulder pads bone colour though, I'm working on making them look carved from bone, which isn't going well.

Thanks for the input though guys, and if anyone has any more ideas, I'd be happy to steal, erm, listen to them.

The Techamarine and Librarian are only obligated to have, I think, one shoulder painted the proper color. The Vanilla Codex has an Ultramarines MotF whose armour is primarily blue, with just a bit of mechanicus red.

Anyway, nothing else you said sounds too far-fetched. Go for it! As for making the model... give the chaplain a cape! That would be classy as all get-out.

FerrusFair wrote:As for making the model... give the chaplain a cape! That would be classy as all get-out.

That was my original plan, but now I'm using the LotD sergeant from the box, with some hefty green stuff work, and using the captain's Roman style tabbard, some purity seals, laurels and the such, the idea is that he doesn't really want the role, he has it out of necessity, so I don't want to make him look too grand, more intimidating. Converting that axe into a Crozius is going to be the least of my worries...

Sir Samuel Buca wrote:Is he well within his rights to declare that all remaining marines paint their armour black and bone colours until all traitors from the chapter have been destroyed?

If he's leading the Chapter, he's within his rights to do whatever he wants. (Seriously, he pretty much has the latitude to restructure or alter the Chapter in any way that the Chapter lets him get away with.)

Sounds like a pretty good background actually. I really like the "repainting their armor in black and bone" part, to show they've been disgraced. As others have said, if the normal order of succession has been destroyed, I see no reason why the ranking Chaplain couldn't rally the remainder of the loyalists and take command. Once doing so, he'd have authority to change whatever he could get away with.

Even cooler if you have a friend who plays a marine chapter painted in their "former colors". Instant grudge match lol.


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Also forgot to mention, Legion of the Damned are pretty rare, but if you have some models and want to include them, more power to you. Just say your marines are on a penitent crusade and can't stop until they wipe out their traitorous brothers, and as your numbers are gradually whittled down, the Legion of the Damned seems to be paying closer and closer attention to their plight.

That background sounds really cool. There are no problems with it that I can see.

The Chaplain idea sounds good. Fluff would point out that due to such an event the emains of the chapter would most likely be sent on a redemptive crusade by the Inquisition/High Lords until they can be trusted again.