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I see your point. But i'm changing it to only 2 squads breach the ship through the bridge/command deck and kill all of the orks there on that level and hard wired the ship to fly into the sun killing the rest of the ork. Loosing 5 men in the conflict 1/4 of the total boarding squads die.

WARHAMMER40KWARGAMES wrote:I see your point. But i'm changing it to only 2 squads breach the ship through the bridge/command deck and kill all of the orks there on that level and hard wired the ship to fly into the sun killing the rest of the ork. Loosing 5 men in the conflict 1/4 of the total boarding squads die.

How about:
Ork invasion (Beggining of a Waagh)
The Blue Tigers arrive to help.
Most of their fleet is kept busy by the main Ork fleet but this ship for whatever reason has been marked out especially for destruction.
2 Sterguard squads are chosen for a suicide mission to destroy the Ork ship as no other assets can be spared.
They manage to board the ship and fight their way through to the bridge/engineering deck (If they got o the bridge the crash the ship into the sun, if they go to engineering they over load the reactors and destroy it that way)
They manage to destroy the ship just as the are overrun by the Orks.
Everything dies barring a single sternguard who manages to survive badly injured in a sealed portion of the ship.
He is picked up days later and eventually transferred to a dreadnought after the Apothecaries can do no more to save him...

purplefood wrote:

WARHAMMER40KWARGAMES wrote:I see your point. But i'm changing it to only 2 squads breach the ship through the bridge/command deck and kill all of the orks there on that level and hard wired the ship to fly into the sun killing the rest of the ork. Loosing 5 men in the conflict 1/4 of the total boarding squads die.

How about:
Ork invasion (Beggining of a Waagh)
The Blue Tigers arrive to help.
Most of their fleet is kept busy by the main Ork fleet but this ship for whatever reason has been marked out especially for destruction.
2 Sterguard squads are chosen for a suicide mission to destroy the Ork ship as no other assets can be spared.
They manage to board the ship and fight their way through to the bridge/engineering deck (If they got o the bridge the crash the ship into the sun, if they go to engineering they over load the reactors and destroy it that way)
They manage to destroy the ship just as the are overrun by the Orks.
Everything dies barring a single sternguard who manages to survive badly injured in a sealed portion of the ship.
He is picked up days later and eventually transferred to a dreadnought after the Apothecaries can do no more to save him...

Like it this is going in the chapter fluff I think the overload the reactors is better (more bang for your buck) now all I have to do is buy a dreadnought for him (poor sod).

WARHAMMER40KWARGAMES wrote:

purplefood wrote:

WARHAMMER40KWARGAMES wrote:I see your point. But i'm changing it to only 2 squads breach the ship through the bridge/command deck and kill all of the orks there on that level and hard wired the ship to fly into the sun killing the rest of the ork. Loosing 5 men in the conflict 1/4 of the total boarding squads die.

How about:
Ork invasion (Beggining of a Waagh)
The Blue Tigers arrive to help.
Most of their fleet is kept busy by the main Ork fleet but this ship for whatever reason has been marked out especially for destruction.
2 Sterguard squads are chosen for a suicide mission to destroy the Ork ship as no other assets can be spared.
They manage to board the ship and fight their way through to the bridge/engineering deck (If they got o the bridge the crash the ship into the sun, if they go to engineering they over load the reactors and destroy it that way)
They manage to destroy the ship just as the are overrun by the Orks.
Everything dies barring a single sternguard who manages to survive badly injured in a sealed portion of the ship.
He is picked up days later and eventually transferred to a dreadnought after the Apothecaries can do no more to save him...

Like it this is going in the chapter fluff I think the overload the reactors is better (more bang for your buck) now all I have to do is buy a dreadnought for him (poor sod).

I hoped you would...
I had a very cinematic image of it in my head...

That sounds like a fantastic battle!

Got myself a loverly new dreadnought from the local model shop perfect for that one veteran.

Update: changed it to they are a first founding chapter formed from the Blue tiger legion (I wanted to make my own pre-herasy legion).
wrote little bit of background:
The Blue Tigers legion saw extensive combat during the great crusades lead from the front by there primarch Bengal Khan they often were employed to hold hive cities from being over run by Xeno scum. They normally utter the phrase “the only good Xeno is a dead one.” They fought in many glorious campaigns across the galaxy winning battle after battle. They fought in the battle of Aragon, out numbered, surrounded, low on supplies and trapped within city walls. They set up sniper teams in the battlements, prepared the tanks, dreadnoughts and marines creating a death field for all incoming units that came through the only entrance the front gate. The gate creaked open as the orks came rushing through then the order “all units open fire was issued by the captain and then they swiftly cut down the orks driving them of the planet. Later on there primarch Bengal Khan went missing but is rumoured to trapped in the warp, every marine of blue tiger decent hopes for his return.
After the atrocities of the Horus Heresy the legion was split into chapters with the chapter lead by the former captain, now chapter master Angelo della morte retained the legions name blue tigers. The blue tigers changed the rank of chapter master to Angelo della morte to honour there first chapter master, who died in the defence of there fortress monastery by pulling the pin on his krak grenade running up to the ork warboss ramming the grenade in his mouth then putting two bolt shells in his head, the grenade goes off killing 50 orks and fills him with shrapnel then the orks surround him and he kills twenty before he is over run and uses the hammerblow protocol, sacrificing himself for the survival of the chapter.

Why?
It was good before...

I know but I wanted to also make a custom primarch and pre-herasy force to go along with my chapter.

Why?
That has never been done well...
Every time someone does it, it turns out Mary Sue...
I'm not gonna say what you can and can't do but if you do this it stops being possible in the 40k universe...

It is not going to be Mary-sue because they will be a normal legion based on the ultra-marines but with less numbers roughly 10,000. The other difference is they have a preference for amoured advances.

Why not just make your post-heresy chapter descended from the Ultramarines, but a particular part of the Legion?
They could have come from this 10,000 strong force and during the counter-attack against the traitors they were whittled down to just under 1,000.