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Anyone here play with something that would be similar to a Ork Warboss or a Space Marine Captail or Wolf Lord where it has a ton of options that you have given a name too?
You know like made up your own Warboss or HQ Choice and had given it its own special name or back story to it?

Know it is a bit silly but I play d&d heavily so I tend to do this a bit. I have two wolf lords I had made and they come as such

Wolf Lord: Volund Guunar
Chapter - The Stellar Wolves
Runic Armor, Thunder Hammer, Storm Shield, Wolf Tail Talisman, Wolftooth necklace, Saga of Bear

Wolf Lord: Loki Freyr
Chapter - The Stellar Wolves
Runic Armor, Power Fist, Storm Shield, Wolf Tail Talisman, Wolftooth Necklace, Saga of the Warrior Born

Background - Battle Brother wolf lords whom never fight without the other. They were a part of the Space Wolf Chapter during the end of the Horus Heresy. When Leman Russ had
charged his retinue into the eye of terror, they had grieved greatly for they knew they would never see their primarch ever again. After a few days they had a long talk with one another of what
was to come since they no longer had their primarch and decided to break away from their chapter and fashion a new chapter from the wolves that wanted to join them. For what reason no one really knows but it is very well known that they still fully serve the emperor and the imperium of mankind.

They claim to be on a minor crusade to rid the galaxy of the major five threads they see as the biggest threat to the galaxy. 5.Tau 4.Orks 3,Necrons 2,Chaos 1, Tyranids is apparently on the top of the list.

Sounds really nice! I take it you created your own chapter to compliment the two Wolf Lords?

Well, there's not alot of options you can give a Necron Lord (as of yet), but I did give him a bit of a backstory.

Tol was once mortal like you and I. He was born a Necrontyr and suffered under the same curse of a short life. However, he did not let bitterness eat away at him like his other brethren. Tol had an innate sense of justice, and became the equivalent of a chief of police to better serve his people.
When the Deceiver promised them immortality, Tol was one of the first to accept the deal, believing that his race was given justice that was long overdue. He quickly realized his mistake when his soul was bargained away and entombed in the iron shell that he now resides in. As he and his army fought in bloody conflicts, and as he and the others died and came back to life, he slowly changed. A combination of lost data after each resurrection and the stress of battle finally reached him, shattering his mind and his once pure soul. His ideals of justice were slowly warped into a dark parody of the word, and he now believed that slaughter would restore the balance.
Having recently been awoken from his millennia-old slumber, Tol leads his troops to terminate the living once more. Along the way, he adopted some notable quirks, including dipping his cloak into the blood of his fallen enemies, forever staining it a hue of dark red. He was recently scarred, as one of his eyes is missing, blown off by some forgotten Hero of the Imperium. Tol later found the skull of that hero and adorned his staff with it, a grim reminder of the Necrons' continuing mission to wipe out all life in the galaxy.

I dont know about Loki Freyr....
kitbashing 2 Norse god names together is a bit blatant.
I like the other though!

Grand Masters Ignatus Faust and Something Longinus of the Grey Knights. Faust is my Grand Master with Psycannon, Longinus alternates between a Storm Bolter and an incinerator. Then there's Master of Sanctity Briareos of my Black Templars, who, sadly, has been shelved since the FAQ.

Dro'drom'arac'nah, The Harbinger of the Scorned, Lord of Change of Tzeentch.

Well here is all the characters I have either made or planned on making.

Angel Captain Kelitizifiel: Captain Librarian
-Chapter- The Wanderers 4th Company
Artificer Armor, Power Weapon, Close Combat Knife. Astrates Launcher.

Shield Captain Agro: Captain
-Chapter- Emperor's Shields 5th Company
Artificer Armor, Relic Blade + storm Bolter

Angel Magi Jehornis: Librarian
-Chapter- The Wanderers 2nd Company
Bolter Force Weapon

Captain Ulthizzar: Terminator Captain
-Chapter- Dusk Guard 6th Company
2x Thunder Claws, Terminator Armor, Auxiliary Grenade Launcher

Background these are the leaders of the Assault on Meranis all the models Except for Agro Have been built. I either give him a massive power axe or a Thunder Hammer. And these are all Leaders of 3 different Chapters, the chapters Include, Emperor's Shields Lead by Captain Agro, the Wanderers lead by Keltizfiel and Jehornis, and the Dusk Guard lead by Captain Ulthizzar and a Librarian (all of which the dusk guard use the Space Hulk miniatures)

Captain Navious: Terminator Captain
-Chapter- Storm Crusaders 1st Company
Terminator Armor, Power Weapon, Storm Bolter (Will switch this to Chainfist and another chainfist )

Captain Loken: Captain
-Chapter- Storm Crusaders 10th Armored Company
Relic Blade, Combi-Plasma, Jump Pack

Captain Calick: Captain
-Chapter- Storm Crusaders 2nd Tactical Company
Uses Cato Scarius Rules

Captain Night Bringer
-Chapter- Storm Crusaders 22nd Assualt Company
Uses Shrike rules

BackGround: This is part of the Hammer Fall Campaign, all these captains are part of a joint operation in the Grimnar System, this campagin was highly successful but cost the lives of at least 1 company of marines in total. The Storm Crusaders have since disbanded the large force into different sectors. The Iron Wolves (10th Company) stayed behind in the Grimnar System and are battling the Order of the Bloody Hand Chapter. Loken is actually, Gravionis Loki Tador, which is shortened to Loken. He comes from a far off planet in the Storm Crusaders Recuriting worlds that is a huge desert world filled with some of the most ferocious creatures. Calick is a Tactical Genius who was taken from the PDF forces of Drancoris. While Night Bringer is from the ice world of Snowbound. Navious is from the Planet Navinian which is now destroyed, and he has adopted Navious as his name, in honor of the planet that he called his homeworld.

Yep thats all I have apart from some minor characters.

I see a lot of really good ones there.

My Tau commander is named Shas'o Rly.

Tendulker Twice Damned: Archon to the Kabal of the Perverse Fist.
Brigadier General Temujin Scotland: Commander of the Protogaian 28th
Perkustin Nemecz (Nemitch): Lord of the Nascent Furies (Don't actually collect chaos atm but i already have a name for them and their leader)

I see what you did there.

My Imperial Guard CCS is lead by Major Alexi Noskoa, a war hero in the Lubyan PDF's campaign against the Eldar, he was indoctrinated into the Imperial Guard as the commander of Cadia Company during the founding of the 707th Regiment.

I expect most people characters have names!

My Chaos Space Marines have a variety of villains in their ranks, including:

Sergeant Bloodrender
Captain Mordecai the maddened
(the deceased, may he rest in torment) Adraar the Ender
Lieutenant Tarkus (who later ascended to Daemon Princehood and left the warband altogether!)
Lord Lureiun
Captain Yanor

Tau Commander Shas'O Short Jaw

He was named thus after obliterating a Dreadnought deepstriked nearby. Whilst this was going on I had imagined said Dreadnought had fallen impaled itself into a maw of unorganized pointed teeth hence the "Jaw" part. The "Short" part came from the most lethal weapon he bears, the Fusion Blaster.

Wolf Lord Hrafn The Grim: After hearing a prophecy that he and his company would never join Russ at the Wolf Time Hrafn began a Great Hunt that has lasted 400 years in order for he and his men to either find Russ or earn their place by his side and only returns to the Fang to reinforce his companies losses. His name is actually missleading as he actually has a very cheerfull personality and earned it from his time as a Wolf Guard for constantly making jokes, he carries a large axe called Head Biter.

Warboss Imbad Ironskull: Lead his Waaagh throughout Imperial Space untill he arrived at a Forge World (the name escapes me at the moment), during the battle for the planets main city Imbad dueled with the cities Arch Magos who prooved incredibly hard to kill due to his enhancments. After killing the Magos and taking the city Imbad became obssessed with bioniks and is now a rather large cybork as are most of the Boyz in his army. He opperates from the same Forge World and has held off a number of counter attacks.

O'ka'mesa (Commander Grey Scar): As a Shas'la he was apart of a Pathfinder group which was ambushed by Ork Kommandos, an Ork cleaver cut into his helmet and part of his face before he was able to kill it with his carbine point blank. He now leads a Fire Caste Garrison attached to a Tau exploration/colonization fleet, he is one of the oldest serving Shas'o and is known to put greater trust in auxiliaries then most commanders.

The Destroyer of Eternities: In life he was a brutal and cruel general of the Necrontyr who was known for his hatred of the Old Ones creations. Countless races where wiped out by his command for he did not take prisoners. Upon becoming a Necron Lord he became the enforcer of the C'tan and was dispatched only when complete destruction was required. Though his true name has been lost with time to the Eldar he is The Destroyer of Eternities and to the Imperium he is The Red King. He carries an ancient gauss axe, the same weapon he wielded as a mortal.

There are a couple.

I've got plenty for both my armies. Here are some of my favorites:

Dark Eldar Archon with Huskblade, Soultrap, Shadowfield, and Ghostplate: Lord Dakkon Blackblade, and Incubus who is wrongly exiled under the current Archon, he eventually overthrows this Archon and takes control.

Urien Rakarth: Lieutenant General Haraldur "The Alabaster", also in exile, he meets Dakkon and leads him to the legendary Huskblade.

Lelith Hesperax: Major General Lilija Frostborne, Dakkon's unlikely ally in the fight against the current Archon.

Duke Sliscus: Colonel Valdis Palemist, a bystander who joins Dakkon after witnessing his prowess in overthrowing the Archon.

Scourge Solarite (fluff wise, he's played as a regular Scourge): Brigadier General Leifr Bleakveil, Dakkon's right hand man, he lead his Scourge troops with fierce loyalty to Dakkon.

As for Tyranids...

Deathleaper: Snowstorm

Red Terror: Frostmaw

Old One Eye: Ice Crusher

Note that I don't field any of those Tyranids, they're just in my fluff.

Wolf Lord named Kyrl Grimblood (Saved Fenris from a 3 year long seige) uses Logan Grimnar's rules.
And an SM captain named Iago Winter (Named after Iago, the villain from Othello)

My Eldar...

Artemis Davoña, Chief Farseer of craftworld Tonesh-ian. She holds The Heaven Blade, which has been held by the Chief Farseer since the craftworld first set out. It is an ancient relic from the crone worlds and has been imbued by countless spirit stones adorning its hilt over the millenia.


And then there's Shamalir, the Knight of the Dolorous Shape. The Master Exarch of the Dire Avenger shrine on Tonesh-ian, who didn't die from four mortars, two lascannons, a battlecannon and plenty of lasgun fire. (he was instead knocked down by a guardsman and taken to Tallarn for analysis of his strange durability oh, the irony)


And speaking of irony: My Iron Warriors...

Aaron Silencus, captain of the seventh company and the battleship Strages Incus. His weapon is called Steelbane, a gift from the Dark Mechanicus.

I now have a Duel Power Fist Marine that can be swapped out from being a Wolf Lord to a Squad Leader for my Long Fangs.

I call Him Bob the Basher because he likes to punch things and has two power fists.

Vasarto wrote:I now have a Duel Power Fist Marine that can be swapped out from being a Wolf Lord to a Squad Leader for my Long Fangs.

I call Him Bob the Basher because he likes to punch things and has two power fists.

I have a similar model named Big Hans...

I call him Mr. Poweraid

Twin Rune Priests Brann and Vann.

Brann and Vann were born to a tribal leader on Fenris. At the ages of sixteen, they realized they were able to communicate without speaking to each other, as thoug hthey were speaking through their minds. At the age of 18, both were in a furious battle with a neighboring tribe over hunting territories and fishing waters. The brothers, displaying raw and reckless courage, charged at the front of the line, being the first to engage the enemy. They fought as one body, using their connection to each other to relay information from one to the other. At the end of the battle, over 100 enemy tribesman lay dead at their feet, with minor injuries sustained on their persons.

Later that night, at the tribal victory celebration, Vann was approached by a monster of a man. He was told that he would be able to fight men of incredible power and beasts of monstrous size. Vann accepted, on one condition. The stranger did not seem shocked at this answer,and asked what the condition was. Vann exclaimed that he would only leave if his brother Brann was also able to join. The large stranger began to laugh, saying that he was not surprised at all, and that Brann had already told him that he would go, only if Vann accepted as well.

The brothers were both introduced to the Canis helix at the same time, and the only time they were ever separate was when they had to complete the trial inducting them fully into the Space Wolves. After they both succeeded, they began harder training. As they trained, a Rune Priest began to take notice of how the two did everything at the same time, and communicated as though they could speak with their minds. He felt their potential, and approached the you Blood claws to let them know they had a very special gift. He then Began training them to control this power. After several decades, they had finally mastered their powers and were inducted into the Rune Priest's of the Space wolves. Both have since then grown in power. Vann rules the elements, calling on the power of the wind and the heart of the storm to both give him and his brother protection, but also strike deep the hearts of their enemies. Brann calls upon the spirits of the great wolves, causing the very Earth to swallow their enemies and the spirits of the Great Wolves to fall upon and destroy their enemies with a ferocity no Xeno-species could ever imitate.

I've named my warboss and weirdboy unique names: Pimpboss Porkchop. and Wyrdboi Won Aye.

I name most of my heroes in an army, and I name Space Marine sergeants regularly. I wouldn't go so far as to call them my own "special" HQs, but I feel like it gives a nice narrative aspect to the game.

I tend to use named Characters, but my Hive Tyrant is named Gargamel since he routinely stomps Ultramarines into a fine bluish salsa. My Chaplain is named Mica, most likely because it sounds like my own online name (cant remember the actual reason for it).