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Relictors.

They were a Chapter Approved invention from the mind of Andy Chambers if I'm not mistaken. They could even use random relics and banners from the then current Chaos Marine codex. I had a lovely idea of doing a Relictors army and fudging the WD rules for them a bit so as to use current CSM items. Nothing serious, just swapping a few things around. As I recall it was something you rolled for at the beginning of a battle. You pay X amount of points to give one character a random demon weapon, and another character who can take a banner, ie command squad guy, can pay points to get a random icon.

Pretty random, but that's half the fun. Who knows what sort of devilry a Space Marine can discover and use to his own ends? The thing with the Relictors was that only the purest of mind could wield Chaos stuff, so not even veteran marines know about the true nature of the weapons their leaders sometimes wield. It was a big secret thing, they had some dark pit in their fortress that houses some unimaginable evil, but the Relictors keep it ere because it's useful somehow? I'm not sure really what their deal is, it was a very well written article and left all sorts to the imagination.

 thegreatchimp wrote:

Asterios wrote:
why would they even need to bother with Chaos vehicles which have been warped beyond recognition and tainted so foul, when they have those self same factory worlds to make them more?

Shortage of supply: There's constant references to the difficult and slow process of making land raiders, termie armour, etc. Some chapters only receive a trickle, and even some of the better known chapters don't have enough TDA to fully fit out their 1st company.

I've seen hints that even among the first founding chapters only the dark angels have eneugh TDA to give every member of their first company a suit