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well tony like how your wife has your camra, my school has the only scaner that dose not want to kill me

but i am working on the fluff maybe they are from the unknown primarch chapter! that and the primachs are like the greek gods (loyalists are the gods, not zeus hes replaced by the big E, trators are the titans) how bout it?

I love that idea BM! Good call!

i like the idea tooo maybe they were erased from the index to cover up there crusade

so tony im thinking the codex will be like the ones that BoLS put out, it would have something like "units replace bolt pistol with a CCW for free and have aceses to combat shields for +5 points per model"

and power wepons would be spears


I all so dont like the idea of the chapter being reduced to 3 companies maybe they lost 3 how bout?

Thats what i was talking about they sacrafice 3 companys like how the 300 hundred spartans gave there life to delay Persia so the rest of Greece could prepare there defenses and raise armies i would not think of reduction the shields to 3 company's

I didn't like that idea before. It seems so very dark angels. Maybe lost 3 of the 10 or so.

shure 3 out of ten that seem fair

Maybe the raven guard or imperial fists?

^ nah i like the lost primach idea

I still like the lost primarch idea.

Lost primarch Idea sounds best.
Any idea for a cool name?
(if it has been said already, I'm sorry, I haven't read through the whole thread, I just contributed once a while back)

The chapter name is The Emperor's Shields. As for the primarch..no clue.

tony_nids_10 wrote:The chapter name is The Emperor's Shields.

No. Fething. Way.

I knew that silly, I meant the primarch's name.

Any ideas bBL?

Since you replace the big E with Zeus, that leaves the name open if ya catch my drift.
Also, I think Hermes is the coolest of the God's Names.

Antia-culaculus

ANTIACOLOKULOUS

how bout not hermes? i dont know hes just anoying in my opinion, maybe Prometheus?

that and the reason thier the "lost chapter" is that the entier world got caught in a warp storm and cut off from the impierium

200 years later they get reunited with the impirium but they are shocked at how much it has changed yet they still fight for it (not for the emporer but for humanity like he would have wanted)

Prometheus died saving thier homeworld from a deamon atack led by a deamon prince named "the lord of a thousand tears" that threatend the whole sector.

HOW A BOUT DAT?!

I just think the name Hermes is cool. The god was a d-bag.
That is a cool name.
How about Hephaestus, or Hyperion?

Why don't we stay a little further from the mainstream when it comes to names. I like the homebrew feel of the chapter.

how about PROMETHION?

ya know tony thats why i came to this thread WHATS MORE HOMEBREW THAN GREEK MARINES?

I like promethion! Its based firmly on the mythos and still not the exact same! Thats all I'm looking for!

I like promethion tooo!!!!!! Prometheus was a titan that brought fire to mortals


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APOLLODOROS

THAIS

ZOSIMUS

Remember these names from my first post

Biggus Dikkus

Oh sorry, that's Roman... not Greek.

Gitsplitta wrote:Biggus Dikkus

Oh sorry, that's Roman... not Greek.

MONTY PYTHON FTW!

Darkvoidof40k wrote:212.M37 - as his first act, the newly appointed Chapter Master Ralkos of the Emperor's Shield chapter, declares that he will lead a hunt into the Eye of Terror, not resting until the disgraceful smear upon their history that is the Paragons of Faith from existance - in this realm and the next. With three-hundred warriors from his chapter, Ralkos sets off into the Eye of Terror.

233.M37 - Twenty-three Space Marines return from their crusade into the Eye, bearing the crippled body of their fallen Master. Though the tales of their battle's with their traitorous brethren is long and glorious, having killed many times their own number of the Paragons of Faith, they were ultimately defeated when the Chaos Lord Darkvoidof40k [will find a more appropriate name eventually] lead a surprise assault at the head of a Daemonic horde, and he eviscerated Ralkos before his brothers. Under the command of Captain Asargis of the first company, the remaining fifty Shields' withdrew, unaple to face the remainder of the Paragons' might and the daemons combined, although as they evacuate many more Space Marines are lost. The Chapter is severely damaged at the loss of so much of their fighting force, along with all of the equipment that Ralkos had taken with him - and more importantly - geneseed of their dead brothers; which is all now in the hands of the Paragons of Faith. Asargis swears vengeance, and it becomes a tradition for every new Chapter Master to lead a crusade in an attempt to destroy the Paragons of Faith.

^ updated it to make it more interesting, i.e. more hate between the two chapters and a 300 thing going on .

All of you who are saying they lost too many (now that it's fixed, not really anymore), well it WAS M37, so they've had 4000 years to recover.




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Also, as for the codex, I do believe I can help with that.

//scurries off to do a first attempt//

What if The Shields were crusading for a piece tech that was stolen from them by one of the other unknown chapters that had the power to restore the emperor a "Golden fleece" type thing...They were guarding it until the Mechanicus could perfect it but the renegade marines were like we'll steal it to restore horus but as the renegades exited the planet the set off a major warp storm that cut the shields and them self off from the imperium and sent them straight to the eye of terror or just to another horror filled galaxy ...and because of these absentee legions gulliman was like well there not here there either dead or traitorous so we'll let em slip by with a blank because the inquisition was like you have to cover this up the imperium can not handle any more news about a ton of super humans just dropping off the radar like that this would just cause more chaos and turmoi...so for 10,00 years the shields gave pursuit recruting from where ever they could find humans that would pass the the apothecary and chaplains of the Chapter they would take em and train em but remember when the marines
went through the hell gates they were at legion strength so thats like 30.000 marine right there and it happened right as the heresy took place so the legions had guard regiments under there control so that could be millions of guards men at the get go and as the crusade ebbed and wanned they would replace there equipment with what matériel they could find and recycle...and the Mechanicus
finds all kinds of non standard tech...and as always the marines would shout for the emperor and the traitors would shout for blood for the blood god and the shields would look at each other lke wtf is he talking about for a long time until they realized what went down with there brothers back west and the shields Primarch was like ohh no dads been hurt bad we need that crap back from them to restore the emperor...what do you all think about my mindless ramble


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and its nice to see some new faces

No, they can't do that I'm afraid. To be erased from all records and history in the Imperium, you need to do something far worse than the heresy (as it was not erased) and getting lost isn't worse.

I think this chapter should go the Blood Ravens way and just have an unknown primarch - not knowing who they're from.

Anyway, for this codex (I've got the entire codex template already on my PC that was for another project that died miserably (thank god it wasn't mine ). I need some images for the front cover, so if anyone has any particular images, suggestions are good!

I was thinking an Emperor's Shield marine standing over a dead CSM or something (but I don't have an image).

Naturally, it'd have to be in colour.

Darkvoidof40k wrote:No, they can't do that I'm afraid. To be erased from all records and history in the Imperium, you need to do something far worse than the heresy (as it was not erased) and getting lost isn't worse. .

i would not dare erase the dark void i was thinking of making you into the enemy Primarch...and it happend as soon as the heresy started like horus told you to take all of your boys and beat down mr.nids door and run in and steal his defibrillator and mr.nids would be like hey dark void why you stealing my stuff and he gathers all his boys up and is like were gonna stomp you but you open up the warp to escape but you catch mr.nids and shield legion in the warp hole with you and your slung way out of bounds and you fight fight fight!!!!!

Lol ok.. I disagree, because that's just the same as being part of the heresy.

I think we should just stick with the Emperor's Shields being made from the same geneseed as the Ultramarines, but as Tony doesn't like that idea (I can't see why..) then they should probably be made from the geneseed of the Imperial Fists (cause they're pwnage). Unless, of course, you want them to be BA successors, or just use the BA 'dex for "counts-as" and think of reasons for this special rule and that, as well as renaming the special characters (if you use any).

Why not from the Iron Hands or Raven Guard?