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Welcome! After many (read...many) attempts at stopping myself from starting up a Marine Force, I've just had to give in. The first purchase was a Contemptor Dreadnought totting HB and PF / flamer (this is shown in my gallery, though I have since stripped it back to plain ol' grey) and the Assault Boarding Captain which I treated myself to at Games Day. Some months later my wonderful fiance treated me to a box of Tactical Marines for Crimbo, which I've REALLY enjoyed building up.

The biggest part of this hobby for me though, has to be creating the back story for my forces & characters, and that's exactly what this initial post is: to outline the Chapter, their beliefs, etc. Modelling pictures will follow shortly once I receive my delivery of many shades of RED.

So, here we go, hope you enjoy:

Background

Formed in secret between Malcador the Sigillite & The Inquisition to root out & combat heresy whereever it may lay, and in whatever form it may take, be that individuals or entire galactic sectors.

The Chapters gene seed was grown as an experimental fusion of blood samples from each of the remaining loyalist legions, of which the Blood Angels sample seems to have dominated the 'evolution' of the seed, and as such the Chapter follows the Blood Angels methodology of structure and battle tactics.

The Chapter fields a large number of Apothecaries, referred to as "Gwaed Araila", or Blood Guard, by the Chapter. This literal translation of the name is quite apt, as without those dedicated to ensuring the 'attunement' of the Chapters gene seed, there is the risk of the Brothers of the Chapter falling victim to the many complications of such a cocktail of blood samples.

The Chapter is split in to 10 "Orders", similar to Companies as fielded by other Chapters. Each order is led by a High Inquisitor (or D'al), who report to the Master Inquisitor (or Feistrola, similar in function and responsibility to a Chapter Master). The Feistrola is elected by Chapter vote every 100 years, though only those of the D'al can be put forward for the position. Individual squads from the Chapter are led by Sergeants, internally referred to as 'Ringyll'.

Organisation

1st Order: The Black Masks.

Red armour with black trim

2nd Order

Red armour with gold trim

3rd Order

Red armour with silver trim

4th Order

Red armour with bronze trim

5th Order

Red armour with purple trim

1st Reserve Order

Red armour with blue trim

2nd Reserve Order

Red armour with green trim

3rd Reserve Order: The Blood Guard

Red armour with orange trim

4th Reserve Order: Devastators

Red armour with yellow trim

10th Reserve Order: Initiates

Red armour with white trim

Chapter Beliefs

Initiates are not permitted to intentionally engage in close proximity combat, until they have been blooded & have passed in to the ranks of a higher order. Therefore initiates are often found armed with longer range weaponry, and operate in support of the Brothers as opposed to as a single entity. This is enforced to ensure better protection of the Chapter gene seed and equipment.

The colours associated with each Order are said to be inspired by an ancient Terran martial art. As brothers grow in experience as status, they rise through each order, constantly striving to be deemed worthy enough to join the Black Masks. To have done so is to reach the perfect attunement with oneself, the ultimate personal goal of a Brother of the Sword.

The higher the Order to which a brother belongs signifies his initial 'distance to threat'on entry to each battle, with the 9th & 10th Orders operating almost exclusively at long range. Only the Black Masks may be given the right of immediate entry to close combat, with their Brothers following in support.

Hierarchy

Military Orders
Chapter Master / High Inquisitor - "Feistrola"
High Inquisitor - "D'al"
Captain - "Flaenor"
Sergeants - "Ringyll"

Blood Guard

Chief Blood Guard - "Bréyr Gwaed Araila"
Lower Blood Guard - "Isela Gwaed Araila"

Fleet

Admiral - "Buain"
Lieutenants - "His-Gapten"
Ensign - "Arwydd"

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And that's it for now, more will follow shortly, hope you liked what I have so far

Righto, lets get this gak started now! :-) I want to see you paint some RED!

It's on its way buddy! I'm going for a metallic red, got fed up trying to mix the shade I was looking for using GW paints so waiting on some vallejo and P3 gear to arrive!

Patience my young Padawan!

Patience! I'm short on that at the moment, and everytime I get more it's made of finecast so i have to send it back! :-)

sounds interesting though, did you see the metalic blue Ultras on dakka a couple of days ago? not a bad look mixed with the flat colours?

and i'm now myself starting another marine force, this time the Flesh eaters marines :-)

NF09

I can't say I did, my laptops broken and I've been using my.phone for the last couple of days, can you link me to it?

Sorry t hear about your finecast shenanigans! I just got my incubi out and they seem ok thank god.

Looking forward to seeing the new chapter! How come you decided to start another?

I'll try and find the model again and link you :-) and i just wanted to start a blood angels army but not blood angels per se :-) as my Sallies are taking soooo long to paint and i want a marine army! but i'm chugging along with my DE, my Incubi were gak, all warped blades which I straightened but the back racks were beyond saving :-(


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Hi Kitch. First things first your fluff is intriguing, apart from one thing: Malcador, i'm guessing he would be a bit busy what with founding the grey knights and advising the emperor. I would just say it was a post heresy experiment to try and create 'pure' marine chapters. Perhaps they are the only chapter that have been a success.

Hobbying:

Metallic red is risky, in fact any coloured metallic is very difficult to get right. The ultramrine nerdfest has found looks good but still has a slight air of Novelty piece.

Also your dark eldar if i recall are already pretty metallic heavy, perhaps try something different?

weathered (courtesy of wayne w):


Or white and red? Though you have to be very careful where the white and red go. Dont want santa claus marines, a bit of yellow could help.

nerdfest09 wrote:I'll try and find the model again and link you :-) and i just wanted to start a blood angels army but not blood angels per se :-) as my Sallies are taking soooo long to paint and i want a marine army! but i'm chugging along with my DE, my Incubi were gak, all warped blades which I straightened but the back racks were beyond saving :-(

I hear ya there, on closer inspection it seems that the joins on my back racks are a bit soft, or rounded, though it should be a pretty easy (yet annoying) fix. I opted for a BA chapter as I wanted to use Sanguinary Priests with jump packs (just for the image). Grey gaks were another option, though I didn't want to seem like I was jumping on the band wagon.

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nerdfest09 wrote:Ta Daaaa http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/419995.page

Cheers dude, that's an epic paint job, I'm really seeing my guys coming alive in red now you've shown that, thanks!

Perkustin wrote:Hi Kitch. First things first your fluff is intriguing, apart from one thing: Malcador, i'm guessing he would be a bit busy what with founding the grey knights and advising the emperor. I would just say it was a post heresy experiment to try and create 'pure' marine chapters. Perhaps they are the only chapter that have been a success.

Hey buddy, thanks for your thoughts. I'll be the first to admit that I'm a bit sketchy on the whole 40k background (and especially Malcador), though I opted to name him as the driving force behind the founding of the chapter as I understood that the GK were the Emperors "last gift to mankind" (and not Malc's?). I kinda see them as Malcadors own personal little army too, ready to take out the Sigillites political enemies at nothing more than a whispered instruction. I'm gonna stress that I'm sketchy on every aspect on 40k lore, and what's already been established, but I'm kinda seeing a Grima Wormtongue in spess here.

That's not to say I won't amend any part of their back story though!

Perkustin wrote:

Hobbying:

Metallic red is risky, in fact any coloured metallic is very difficult to get right. The ultramrine nerdfest has found looks good but still has a slight air of Novelty piece.

Also your dark eldar if i recall are already pretty metallic heavy, perhaps try something different?

weathered (courtesy of wayne w):

Spoiler:

Or white and red? Though you have to be very careful where the white and red go. Dont want santa claus marines, a bit of yellow could help.

Metallic red just feels right to me, kinda gets me excited to think about seeing it (plus I've just spent a tenner on bringing a load in! PLUS I'm a massive Iron Man fan).

My DE are going through some minor changes, by bringing in more green in place of gold, so they won't be quite as metal heavy, though it will still be an obvious part of the scheme, just reduced somewhat. Trust me when I say I've pained over what colour to do this Chapter for weeks, I just kept getting drawn back to met red! I will be doing what I can to ensure that they look worlds apart from anything else that I do though

Weathering... I appreciate it, and the skill involved, but it's never really appealed to me. I'm not sure why though as a weathered force would be in keeping with the whole "we live in space and kick the gak out of whoever we find and then move on to kick the gak out of someone else and bollocks to the paint job" thing that I associate marines with.

Time will tell though I guess It's likely, knowing me, that I'll decide a different scheme is required, but one thing I do know is that I'll be stearing clear of white & yellow based on recent attempts! These were my first two choices but I just couldn't get them to look right, but I'm fine with that

Fair points, i await the first painted models to make my judgement on metallic red then.

I think malcador also died before the emperor which may make things tricky.

An edit is definitely in order then. Thinking on me feet I'll have to say that Malcador carried out the original gene experimentation personally, keeping track of all his research on private data banks.

Following his death, the first Feistrola *insert cool sounding name here* found the data logs and carried on as best he could, though lacking the abilities of the Sigillite flaws were inevitable, leading to *similarities to red thirst*

I'll iron it out later, should be able to make it work.

Hope you don't think I'm being an ass and refusing everything you say, that's not the case, pinky promise

I like the idea, but I am very skeptical when it comes to all chapters especially those that claim to be a 2nd founding chapter. Just a little thought. If you go onto any other website there are tons of people that hate 2nd founding chapters so best to stay clear away from them.

Just to check, when you say all chapters do you mean the original legions descendants as well? The way I'm writing it is that samples were taken from the ultramarines, blood angels, space wolves, white scars etc etc etc and they were then created post heresy... I guess that makes them a second founding but millenia or whatever later...

How come people have it in for 2nd founding chapters? I think I may have missed a few hate threads lol.

Back on the gene experimentation part of the story, here's an amendment, the chapter was grown from samples of every legion, loyalists and who would later turn out to be renegade. Nice little twist thst heretic hunters have heretical influences themselves, and could add a little something extra to the story behind this chapters curse!

It is also tricky as the second founding is AFAIK largely named and accounted for. I do believe the first 10 or so founding were in quick succession though, i dont think any even have a precise date.

EDIT:

http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/index.php?showtopic=132379

Holy crap, that was a long read... Cheers perkustin, definitely worth looking at in more detail!

Would it be wrong of me to say they're not a 2nd founding chapter, chronologically speaking? If they were founded around the time of 22nd founding, but the 'work' started way back in the day, that'd get around it surely

kitch102 wrote:Holy crap, that was a long read... Cheers perkustin, definitely worth looking at in more detail!

Would it be wrong of me to say they're not a 2nd founding chapter, chronologically speaking? If they were founded around the time of 22nd founding, but the 'work' started way back in the day, that'd get around it surely

Well the thing is it is a cliche by some peoples standards. Because the emperor founding another chapter to do something. Is not like him. Most likely it would be a request by a High Lord of Terra if you want to do that. Or even a request from the Captain General of the Adeptus Custode Considering he is a high lord of terra.

Needless to say I have made a couple chapters in my day. Though I have scrapped a lot of them because I found them silly over the top.

Heres somethings if your chapter exceeds 1,000 marines to do...
They are either under oath,
sprung out far from each other.
Then here is something if you want to keep the emperor thing. The chapter has strong ties to the Adeptus Terra and recruited from terra until they were ready for service by request of the highlords.

Originally my Storm Crusaders chapter was a 2nd founding chapter with an unknown geneseed. By request I had to move it down to third founding and give hints to which legion it was from, leaving my chapter still unknown with geneseed.

The 2nd founding has been thoroughly explained and the Black Library has explained it to death. The 7 missing Chapters are most likely going to be used sometime by the Black Library. Its kinda deadlocked right now. You can't claim to be a new geneseed because geneseed is not some commodity they sell at a drug store. It is incredibly priceless and is highly defended. And the new geneseed stocks were created during the 21st founding and those chapters aren't doing so well.

The Emperor had no idea what was going to happen after horus hersey he would not create 1,000 other super soldiers alongside his grey knights because the space marine legions already filled out that role. He had no idea what a chapter was. :/ Its a good idea but it won't be liked by alot of people. Chapters usually take a good month of research before starting. But your name is actually quite original. Apart from these guys might dislike you. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livonian_Brothers_of_the_Sword)

Who asked you to move your chapter down a founding? That's ridiculous! Lol...

Just to clarify that it wasn't the emperor that created this chapter, I've had it so far that malcador did some experiments, died, and then an inquisitor carried on his research donkeys years later before founding the chapter.

I guess the best way around it will be to hint at the sigillite, and to hint at the origins of the gene seed, try leaving as much open to loose interpretation whilst putting the story across. Ah dammit, ah well, evolution can only be a good thing, even if its a plot line :S

The Livonians just gave me my chapter masters name: Riga Volkwin.

Cheers asherian

kitch102 wrote:Who asked you to move your chapter down a founding? That's ridiculous! Lol...

Just to clarify that it wasn't the emperor that created this chapter, I've had it so far that malcador did some experiments, died, and then an inquisitor carried on his research donkeys years later before founding the chapter.

I guess the best way around it will be to hint at the sigillite, and to hint at the origins of the gene seed, try leaving as much open to loose interpretation whilst putting the story across. Ah dammit, ah well, evolution can only be a good thing, even if its a plot line :S

The Livonians just gave me my chapter masters name: Riga Volkwin.

Cheers asherian

Thats some chapter mystery there ya go!

Oh wow I did?

My chapter has 42 comments of critcism of being either too large, too well equipped, too many reasons, and too well written. (here http://warhammer40kfanon.wikia.com/wiki/Talk:Storm_Crusaders)
Plus if you paint your marines side by side while your doing the lore you might see more stuff come out of it. Plus I like your story, its good.

Nice fluff, now we just need nice models (:
I love the idea of basing companies of martial art ability
great stuff.

Had an email confirming my paints have been despatched so that should be me set for the weekend!

What do we want to see first:

Tactical squad
Contemptor Dread
Assault Boarding Captain

?

Contemptor Dread.

It shall be done my friend, it shall be done

Paints have arrived, the met red doesn't look very metallic in the pot, more like blood red, though I have to try it out anything or see it on a palette.

All being well I'll get a test model done tonight, though may not be til late.

Tried getting some.of the turn signal red on to a snap.fit marine last night, damn that stuff is watery! Definitely meant to be used with an airbrush, I can't get any colour to show through...!

First splashes of colour added now that I'm close to getting the metallic red I was after (looks better in person)

Presenting Brother Acacius of the 3rd Order of the Sword

Where's the Contemptor Dread?

It's on the way, just wanted to make sure I got the colour right before I moved on to doing larger models. It needs building back up, base coating etc and I'm out for the next couple of nights though hope to have it started for end of this week