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Oh, did I mention your "Story of Bob" was quite funny?!?

I’ve decided to change my Night Lords army into the Bat Knights of Ultramar!

They’ll be the Elite Assault force of the Ultramarines! My thought is that they’ll be Ultramarines tainted by Chaos, but still allowed to serve beside their Battle Brothers, because they’re just too cool not to keep around!



What do you think?

Great!!

And, given sufficient sacrifices organized by Ultramar's PDF Cultists (see News & Rumours thread about LatD Codex in 2012), they'll be able to bring Darth Guilliman from the dead, who will re-forge all the splinter, Ultramarines descendant chapters into the mightiest Blue Bad Legion, and they'll re-launch the Great Crusade!!!

Wouldn't that be fun?

My little attempt at an April Fools' Day joke. I saw someone call them Chaos Smurfs in another thread and it got me thinking.

It's been raining the last couple days here so I haven't gotten much done with the actual army itself (not to mention thewarstore.com has been really dodgy with the shipping information for my order... )

Ho hum, hopefully I'll have something else to put up early next week, if not sooner.

Whisper wrote:My little attempt at an April Fools' Day joke. I saw someone call them Chaos Smurfs in another thread and it got me thinking.

It's been raining the last couple days here so I haven't gotten much done with the actual army itself (not to mention thewarstore.com has been really dodgy with the shipping information for my order... )

Ho hum, hopefully I'll have something else to put up early next week, if not sooner.

i fell for it and was so pissed

Hey besides the April Fools i really like your minis

I finally got my Warstore order, and the work has begun again!

First up, the Possessed Vanguard




These two squads are playing the roles of Vanguard Veterans, or in this case Vanguard Possessed. I made sure that they all still have their Bolt Pistols and Close combat weapons (the sergeants have Power Fists).

As far as the fluff behind these guys… They are lost and degenerate Night Lords who have fallen quite far into the temptations of chaos, which means they have forgotten the old ways of the Legion. Now the Night Haunter’s Guard have gathered up these corrupted Night Lords, not as brothers, but as beasts to be released on the enemy as a first wave of terror troops. The Guard may hold themselves to a higher standard, but they aren’t opposed to using their former brothers like they would any other terror tactic in their arsenal.

The reason these guys don’t have wings is also entirely based on fluff (I have more than enough Gargoyle wings laying around). When the Night Haunter’s Guard point these monsters at the enemy, they strap a simple jetpack on the possessed and kick them out the door in the enemy’s direction. They don’t get the fancy stuff.

Next up are the Night Priests.




These two are playing the role of the Sanguinary Priests. I have a hangup on trying to make things as wysiwyg as possible within the theme I’m working around. In this case I felt that they’d need the Apothecary arm to make it clear what their role is, that of giving their buddies Feel No Pain and Furious Charge. I’ll probably end up getting some Meltabombs and gluing them on somewhere, not sure where yet.

These two will also be the only figures attached to the Night Haunter’s Guard squads that don’t have any chaos symbols, spikey bits, or trophy racks anywhere on them. They zealously maintain the beliefs and tenets of Night Haunter, acting as living examples of the old ways of the Legion.

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Also, now that I've gotten the Soul Hunter Book, I see the big deal about making sure there are no eagles on their equipment. I spent quite awhile the other day filing and clipping all of the feathers off the first squad I assembled. When the first words of the book were "My sons, the galaxy is burning. We all bear witness to final truth - our way is not the way of the Imperium. You have never stood in the Emperor's light. Never worn the Imperial Eagle. And you never will." I knew I couldn't get away with letting the feathers stay.

Anyway, thanks for your comments!

I am really liking the look of the Night Haunters guard, i am glad that you got Soul Hunter, i just finished it today and enjoyed the book very much, and as for the armor and that Ultramarine chest piece it is said many times throughout that they scavenge armor of all types, i even believe the main character has an old ultramarines chest plate, not a 100% on that though, but also has a blood angels power sword. Anyway i really like the models and hope to see more

It is an ultrasmurf chest plate. IIRC he also has a Crimson Fist Pauldron

Sick minis. U like soul hunter? Its probably one of my fav books

WOW How much did you pay for all those Sang Guard?

risewiththefallen wrote:Sick minis. U like soul hunter? Its probably one of my fav books

Yep yep, I loved it!
It was the 'Lord of the Night' book that originally made me want to start a Night Lords army so I started buying the shoulder pads for them, but than the current Chaos Codex came out and it completely kill my desire to do anything with Chaos Space Marines. Fortunately, I started reading the Blood Angels codex, and all I could think was, "This is how the Night Lords should play!" So I ran with it. Just finalized my army list yesterday based on the models I've already bought.

Now I've started reading Soul Hunter, and the Night Lords in there behave almost exactly how I envisioned them. I laughed out loud every time they punched Uzas in the head. It only fueled my desire to work on this project more.

Im pretty excited for Blood Reaver to come out myself. Im glad to see another Count as Night Lords player so kudos for that.

I am loving your stuff

Here are the two characters that will be playing the roles of Commander Dante and my Librarian in this little adventure.

First up the Sorcerer.


He's a bit of an outcast, considering his Sorcery and the Night Lords general dislike of such things, but he has proven himself time and time again to be loyal to the Legion above all else. He'll also be one of the few models in the force to blatantly display a full Chaos Symbol. I haven't decided what color to paint the robes yet, but I'm thinking it'll have some runes along the edge of the trim.

Next up, my version of Commander Dante, henceforth to be known as Warlord Dante.


For the most part I was just going for something that looked dynamic and leader-like to play the role of Dante. I'm pretty happy with how he turned out. Also, just for the fun of it, I put a skull on his jetpack, so that when viewed from the back, the skull and wings give the appearance of a large Night Lord's Symbol.



All I've got left at this point is 3 more Night Haunter's Guard squads (Sanguinary Guard) one of which is almost done, a Furioso Dreadnought (from FW), and I may or may not have a Warhound Titan that will be added to the army too. *shrugs*

Than it's on to painting!

<3 Night Lords

Cool

Dante looks awesome. I love the skull on the back.

As for the librarian, how about a very dark, velvety purple? I think that would give him a malevolent mystical look that still ties into the Night Lords colours. Then again, I suppose purple isn't very frightening. Unless you're Grimace...eeugh

I got my copy yesterday and not a bad book so far.

Those are some great conversions, though if you continue ramping them up the Haunter himself wont stand out

That Dante is great!!!

And the skull on the back is a nice touch, though not many of his foes will probably ever sneak on his back to see it!

What kit is the banner/skeleton from? Looks good too!

Sweet models man, nice custom parts.

I have to say im loving the models but just a suggestion, could you make the paint a little "duller" the read and gold looks a bit to garish for me. Great otherwise.