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Those ARE good names. Kudos!

(Also, I've totally done the: "Here's a good name!.. oh wait, GW already has them." thing before too. It sucks.)

leerm02 wrote:
Those ARE good names. Kudos!

(Also, I've totally done the: "Here's a good name!.. oh wait, GW already has them." thing before too. It sucks.)

I think we all have, since Battletech came up earlier HMBC, I think a number of the battletech clan names would make fantastic names for a space Marine chapter.

Jade Falcons, Ghost Bears or Smoke Jaguars in particular sound very space mariney

I once came up with a renegade Marine Chapter for a campaign called the Storm Ravens. This was before Apocalypse was a thing, and suddenly they were created by GW in Apoc, and then went and made a damned plane with the same name!

BrianDavion wrote:

Jade Falcons, Ghost Bears or Smoke Jaguars in particular sound very space mariney

How about Space Wolves-in-Exile?

BrianDavion wrote:

leerm02 wrote:
Those ARE good names. Kudos!

(Also, I've totally done the: "Here's a good name!.. oh wait, GW already has them." thing before too. It sucks.)

I think we all have, since Battletech came up earlier HMBC, I think a number of the battletech clan names would make fantastic names for a space Marine chapter.

Jade Falcons, Ghost Bears or Smoke Jaguars in particular sound very space mariney

My 30k SW detachment are called Ghost Wolves, but that's more to do with the fact that they're a small detachment set up for unsupported long-range patrols with little or no contact with HQ than any deliberate attempt to make a Battletech joke.

I have a long term, 'custom' hobby project in the works in an effort to add another dimension to my Chaos Knight army, and to attempt to consolidate some of my other Chaos miniatures in an interesting way.

I think one of the most fascinating regions in 40K (and relatively unexplored in lore) is the Maelstrom. Not quite part of the warp, not quite part of real-space, it sits in both simultaneously. Looking into the region, I came across an article on a character called Kaarja Salombar, she's a little known 'bit part' character from one or more 40K novels, and no longer living, but remains exceedingly interesting.

Kaarja was known as the 'Corsair queen', and commanded a large pirate (I'm a sucker for pirates and the golden age of piracy has long been a passionate area of study for me,) fleet and warband. Notably, she had ties with the Red Corsairs and appears to have been a half human, half aeldari hybrid.

Knowing she's dead, I took to wondering what happened to her (relatively large) warband. Did she have a daughter, or sister who inherited her status and became the next 'Corsair queen'?

As a hobbyist, I'm far more a painter and modeller first, and player second. I love diversity in armies rather than endlessly painting the same schemes, so am looking at making my existing Knights a diverse, Dreadblade lance that have flocked to the warbands banner, rather than a holistic 'Household'.
My favourite aspect of painting, is freehand work on vehicles, and I love the tradition of 'nose art' on aircraft. This will likely be the element that ties the Knights (and other vehicles) together.

Finally, I find terrain to so often be an element of the hobby that's left to one side. I really want this force to inhabit a 'living world' on the board, and have terrain they can fight from and defend in a game. I'm hugely inspired by the art of Ian Mcque https://www.this-is-cool.co.uk/wp-content/gallery/ian-mcque/ian-mcque-fantasy-scifi-artist-24.jpg and have this rough concept for a very 'old meets new' outpost, with worn canopies (sail-like) and a good amount of misuse and decay.

Early stages, with much of it still 'in concept', but I've been converting troops for the 'foot' warband, and several Knights are in various stages of completion.

Hankovitch wrote:

BrianDavion wrote:

Jade Falcons, Ghost Bears or Smoke Jaguars in particular sound very space mariney

How about Space Wolves-in-Exile?

... totally naming my next CSM warband that!

ON LIVERY: There's two liveries here, post mourning, and pre-mourning. The Orange and Green is pre-mourning livery from before the Craftworld was destroyed. However, after the destruction of the craftworld, they repainted themselves purple and blue in mourning. (Or at least trying to, they're short handed and have a lot of things to change colour)

LORE: Craftworld Shelwe'Buanna, (or Song of the Reaper) was a proud craftworld, taking pride in their independence and lack of need for any support, not even from other Eldar. So proud were they that even their aspect warriors coloured their armor to match that of their craftworld, rather than that of their aspect.

However, in their hubris they wandered into the ork stronghold near Angelis and the Ghoul Stars. They believed themselves impervious, however the Orks got the better of them and managed to not only board but demolish the craftworld. Slaanesh had tought them once again what pride brings about. With a combination of daemons on one end, orks in the other, nothing was left but to escape the craftworld woth what could be salvaged into the fleet. Mamy Eldari died in the escape, and many bonesingers and spiritseers lost their lives buying time with fortifications, and the later retrieving souls from the infinity circuit

Their current mission now is to rebuild Shelwe'Buanna, unfourtunately since most of the bonesingers died in the Craftworld, this proves to be a difficulty. Not only have they alienated their brethren before the destruction, the largest webway gate they have is on their flagship, however this is hardly large enough to move enough material and manpower to support all their needs. As such their equipment is looking a little raggety, unchange paintjobs, damages and dirt unrepaired and cleaned, and more. Only 3 Aspects are in a decent enough shape for heavy engagements, Howling Banshees, Warp Spiders, and Dire Avengers. The former by luck, the Warp Spiders because they were helping evacuate soul stones by warping them out and were able to escape, and the Dire Avengers shrine was found nearly intact in the wreckage and was grafted onto the flagship, and thus able to refill their numbers. Other aspects have taken smaller ships in the fleet as temporary shrines. They now use a large amount of Constucts, due to low manpower and thus use them to make the difference.