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What about Blood Ravens? Are they a minor chapter? I thought since the video game "Dawn of War" is all Blood Ravens that they would be popular. I guess they have their own codex now-- so they're not vanilla.

I do Doom Eagles cuz its easy enough to paint...(metal with red trim is it) and there's something cool about all the marines being monastic flagellents in power armor. They are very pious, and worship the emperor and their own need to DIE in his service, whenever they aren't busy punishing themselves in increasingly deadly training exercises just to weed out the heretics. That's a decent excuse for suicidal actions on a battlefield. That's how we roll yo! Suicidal actions in strategy are what its all about and that army embraces that idea plenty as far as I can tell. Plus silver coat + red detail + wash/dust = quick paint job

MeanGreenStompa wrote:MENTOR LEGION

That is very win, but strictly speaking you should only have one squad of them, if you use the original fluff rather than the modern nonsense.

Personally I have one squad of Mentor Legion and a Mentor Legion Predator alongside a Lamenters army.

In the current incarnation of the Marines 'dex it has to be the Salamanders. Vulkan is just redonkulous.

Forgive I haven't read much Black Library work, but what is Mentor Legion other than a color scheme? It's not like the LOTDamned that gets its own special rules and stuff. What's up with Mentor Legion?


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Forgive I haven't read much Black Library work, but what is Mentor Legion other than a color scheme? It's not like the LOTDamned that gets its own special rules and stuff. What's up with Mentor Legion?

White Consuls.

Fifty wrote:

MeanGreenStompa wrote:MENTOR LEGION

That is very win, but strictly speaking you should only have one squad of them, if you use the original fluff rather than the modern nonsense.

Personally I have one squad of Mentor Legion and a Mentor Legion Predator alongside a Lamenters army.

I'm waiting to see what they do with the Inquisition armies, if the Daemonhunters remains a viable mix of marines and imperial guard... well my marines won't be silver...

Mentors squads assigned to an ImpG regiment!


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Guitardian wrote:Forgive I haven't read much Black Library work, but what is Mentor Legion other than a color scheme? It's not like the LOTDamned that gets its own special rules and stuff. What's up with Mentor Legion?


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Forgive I haven't read much Black Library work, but what is Mentor Legion other than a color scheme? It's not like the LOTDamned that gets its own special rules and stuff. What's up with Mentor Legion?

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Mentor_Legion

The Mentor Legion were covered in a very very old edition of White Dwarf, back then you could take a squad of them for imperial guard armies, the chapter specialised in advanced weaponry and utilising alien tech (so things like time bombs that allowed you to have another round of shooting or moving etc, marines with shuriken catapults) instead of fielding as an entire squad, they loaned themselves out to other imperial armies and could either be kept in squads of their own or used as squad leaders (so a Guard army could have a space marine in each unit of infantry...nice indeed).

They espouse the art of war and excel at tactics and advancement of new doctrine for the Imperium. They are like a special forces for the astartes. To top it all off, they have the Elite Cadre, the most genetically advanced of any space marines.

Elite Cadre

The Elite Cadre of the Mentor Chapter are the most advanced warriors of their kind in the galaxy. It was originally envisaged that the Elite Cadre would perform a number of important semi-military roles, from counter-terror operations to complex undercover missions. They would be capable of dealing with threats outside a normal chapter's field of expertise. This aim has not yet been realized, but the elite Cadre are among the best the Imperium can deploy.

There are two ways Imperial commanders use them on the battlefield when they are loaned to them. First the cadre element may simply be used as a powerful squad, gaining the benefits of their special equipment; alternatively, they may become leaders for other units. The latter is preferred by Imperial Guard commanders as the Elite Cadre make especially good leaders for units of normal warriors.

I see Ultramarines everywhere!!

Well my first vallina marines were Crimsonfist( Just caused i had some blue paint around and some red( some 6000 points later)

Then is my babys now Howling Griffons some 12000 strong and growing , yeah i still have those poor crimson fist army some place in storage.. never too see the light of day again.....

I made my own, they were almost wiped out in Abbadons 12th, they were the skull brethren, now they are The Ones That Remain