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I am wanting to make some human serfs and militia that support the DA and operate on their recruiting planet anyone know any good fluff about them or what models i could use and how to paint them?

I would recommend a mixture of Scout and Cadian parts to create them, so they have half and half feel. Can't tell you the fluff though...

The OC-D

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theocd wrote:I would recommend a mixture of Scout and Cadian parts to create them, so they have half and half feel. Can't tell you the fluff though...

The OC-D

If anything serfs and militia would be less armored than Imperial Guardsmen, not more. Don't use scout parts.
EDIT: Unless you are talking about the serfs which were DA applicants that failed, if I remember correctly that is what serfs are, in which case they might be better equipped and most likely DA colors.

The world the Dark Angels recruit from has a human culture verymuch like native american tribes.

That's why you get the feathers on their armour and weaponry. There is a story, called Deathwing if I remember, that details much of this, I've not read it myself but it concerns the tribes and also a genestealer infestation, since it was written back when the Deathwing expansion for space hulk was released.

If you ask about the story in the fluff section I'm sure others can provide more info.

Im not sure of the 'current' recruiting methods, but in the horus heresy books Decent of Angels and Fallen Angels caliban is detailed pretty well. If they established anything like what they had on caliban on this new world, then you're set for info from the first book.

The entire method and reasoning of their recruiting is in Decent. Though not much of the story is devoted to serfs and whatnot, you can get an idea of what life is like for them from the books. If youre fan enough to build an army based on them, Id be willing to bet that 7$ isnt to much to get the backstory and enjoy it to boot.

The story Deathwing that MGS references is pretty archaic, lol.

It does say, within THAT story, that the planet this squad (Terminators) came from was ONE of the DA recruiting planets, not the sole one. Which is good, cause it was certainly very tribal and feathers/spears/shamanistic style. In the story, the Marines repainted their armor white to show they were "already dead" and could then operate without fear or self-preservation.

At the end of the story, other DA forces arrive after generations, to find out what happened, and thus the White Deathwing got folded into the regular DA force org.

Good story.. but obviously very early 40k fiction.

-P

IIRC, the warriors on Caliban wore white robes to show their status. If I'm right you could do something along those lines.

when they wore the white robes was it like the DA robed model or just a robe like a monk and no armour?

Pre-astartes, it was just a robe, don't think they wore armor...could be wrong on that one though.

cool thx mate