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do you have an interesting background for your army doesn't mtter which army. nid, IG, orks whatever. so if you think your story is interesting post it here (btw i dont know if this is the right place for this please move it if its in the wrong place. so here's the story for my traitor guard. A group of catachans and cadians invade an ork settlement. the IG were getting beaten badly. suddenly the commander and his closest advisors leave their companies to die. The company would have been wiped out if not for a chaos space marine strike force landing on the planet and driving the orks out of the settlement. Angry the company vowed loyalty to the chaos gods. soon they tracked down their former commander and killed him. today they fight everything that is not loyal to chaos. especailly IG.
I had one for my Grey Knight Brotherhood. I'm not sure if they have names, but I called them Brotherhood of the Bloodied Hand. In the year 446.M33, a Bloodthirster by the name of Tarazma, led his Daemonic host on a rampage across the twelve planets of the Sirux system. Many billions were sacrificed to the Blood God before Grey Knights arrived to support Imperial Guard regiments and still fresh third founding chapters of Space Marines. War raged across the system, but the Greater Daemon was finally brought to battle with the Grey Knights on the blood soaked planes before the capital of Sirux Prime. The Brotherhood, backed by many Imperial Guard regiments and two chapters of Astartes, The Brazen Blades and The White Apostles, struck through the army of infernal Daemons, as the Brother Captain and a few score Paladins fought Tarazma and his retinue of Bloodletters. The Brother-Captain, Kaleb Dranus met the Daemon master in single combat. Time and time again, Dranus turned away the twin axes wielded by his adversary, but even the formidable skill of a Brother Captain proved not to be enough. Tarazma knocked Dranus to the ground with a mighty blow, cleaving into his chest and shattering his Nemesis force sword. The mighty Bloodthirster stood triumphant, and proceeded to begin the slaughter of the other members of the Brotherhood. When all was thought lost, Dranus earned his place among the greatest legends of the Grey Knights. Wreathed in cleansing flame, he arose once more. Daemons turned from his holy form as he stalked towards the rampaging Greater Daemon. With one last prayer, he leapt upon Tarazma, smashing aside his defences, and plunged his right arm in the Daemons chest, ripping his black heart out. With Tarazma dead, much of the Daemonic horde dissolved, thrust back to the Warp once their link was severed. Dranus dropped the heart as it burned away, his right arm stained dark red with his deceased foes blood. The Brother Captain returned to orbit, made sure the system was free of taint, and allowed himself to die from his horrific wounds. From that day, the surviving Grey Knights of his brotherhood painted their right arms red and embellished their armour with a red armed figure, wreathed in flame standing over a Daemon's corpse in memory of their mighty hero, passing on their tradition to new members of the Brotherhood where it has survived to this day.
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Equip, Reload. Do violence.
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Ive told the story of my SMs many times before and its a little.....vanilla. So heres the story of my inquisitor and GKs:
Inquisitor Jakus Ralno Is considered "radical" by many. By office he is a proud member of the ordo xenos, dutifully carrying out all that his office entails, especially forming treaties and alliances with many xenos, Indeed his retinue contains xenos from at least 5 different races. However his real passion is for alien technology. He is one of the most learned in all facets of xeno technology and believes that humanity could greatly benefit if their technology was adapted and used by humanity as once it had done many millennia ago. It is unsurprising therefore he is very closely watched by other members of his ordo and especially the mechanicum. The only reason he has not been destroyed by their guns is due to many "sacred" STCs he has discovered over his career, which he "shares" with the mechanicum.
At the end of the age of apostasy demonic infestations where becoming ever more frequent. As good as the Grey Knights were at fighting daemons, they could not spread their forces this thinly. Therefore the high lords commissioned the creation of several other chapters to fight daemons, which would follow some of the tradition of the grey knights but were smaller, non secret and founded from standard ultramarines gene seed. In addition they need not be all pykers like the grey knights.
One such chapter was the Black Knights. It is very small containing only around 500 line marines all based on a single battle battle barge and two strike cruisers, which patrol the sectors around the maelstrom. Like codex chapters they are split into 5 companies each led by a captain (the 1st led by the chapter master). However this is where the similarities end, there is no "veteran" and "scout" company, each of the 5 contains its share of initiates and veterans. Like the Grey Knights their initiation and training is exceptionally brutal to make them utterly incorruptible. However where the grey knights draw their power from the warp, the black knights take it from "acquired" technology. Instead of "nemesis force" weapons they carry "electo shock" weaponry. It works like a power weapon and power fist combined. The electricity can be released when struck, making the blow far more powerful than normal or released when stabbed inside the enemy, frying even the mightiest foe from the inside out. Like the grey knights they carry storm bolters, but only have around 150 suits of terminator armor. It is supplied by direct ties to the mechanicum, meaning the chapter is never short of weapons of war. The chapter very rarely fights together, instead lending small strike forces to any imperial force needing their expertise.
Inquisitor_Syphonious wrote:All I can say is... thank you vodo40k...
Zweischneid wrote:No way man. A Space Marine in itself is scary. But a Marine WITHOUT helmet wears at least 3-times as much plot-armour as a Marine with helmet. And heaven forbid if the Marine would also happen to have an intimidating looking, vertical scar. Then you're surly boned. Those guys are the worst. Not a chance I'd say.
My Tau ice cast is in secret allegiance with with an Imperial Guard cadian regiment.
No fancy story,
The Tau invaded a Cadian planet, being shortly followed by a tyranid swarm. The swarm were greatly useful in the beginning of the invasion, but soon the threat of a stray tentacle pursuing the Tau fleet and destroying their planet. Shas'o Kar'ha was forced to form a plan of action to with Commisar Travick, to combat the swarm that had potential to destroy both their worlds.
The swarm had already ravaged a mass of the planet before it converged on an enormous city structure, which was riddled with gunlines and tanks. The onslaught began and the city held strong. Thousands of shells, rockets and plasma bursts flew from the city walls, hammering in to the ground below and pulpverizing the masses of alien insects, with fire warriors and cadians picking off any of the beasts that survived the bombardment.
The swarm realized that this was nothing but a waste of biomass, and the assault ceased. A day and a night later came enormous beasts, ranging from Trygons to the dreaded Hierophant. In quick time they stampeded through the gunline, beating the walls and outer buildings to the ground, as was anticipated. The thousands of defenders pulled back to utilise plan B. They fled to their aircraft, and were evacuated to the Tau fleet above, and from there, Commissar Tavick had earlier put forward the popular idea to
NUKE IT FROM ORBIT. IT'S THE ONLY WAY TO BE SURE. Since then this secret alliance has obliterated Witches, Greenskins, and the equally hated Khornate scum
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My BTs where summoned to Rynn's World when the Crusader reached the rest of the Immperium. They landed in the far south of Sorroco and headed formthe capital. They fought their way through hordes of Orks, and finally reached the base of a major Ork warboss, where Marshal Augustine fought him in single combat. Whilst he managed to slay the beast, he was mortally wounded, and was placed in a Dreadnought. He still serves today, guiding the actions of young Marshal Lazarus, his replacement.
After Rynn's World was reclaimed, Lazarus sent his crusade of 1,000 men out into the Loki sector to avenge his fallen commander. He has since been assaulting across space, slaying as many Orks as it is possible to. They have also come into contact with Chaos forces, annoyed the Space Wolves and Lazarus learnt the deadly secret of the Dark Angels, in an incident that he refuses to disclose.
The crusade was recently requested by the Dark Angels in order to destroy a large Chaos warhost lead by one of the Fallen. It is not known whether the Captain that recruited Lazarus is aware of his knowledge of the Fallen. This conflict is still raging.
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'I once saw a man kill another with only a sock. It was slow and painful to watch...'
Darnath Lysander: The Man, The Mystery, The Legend
In M41.571 the imperial world of Calderon was told to provide a force for the defence of the Cadian Gate. Calderon was a forge world in the north of imperial controlled space near to where Dark Eldar raided constantly. They mustered 7 infantry regiments, 3 Leman Russ regiments, 1 Artillery Regiment, 4 Sentinel Companies, 1 Light Armour Regiment, 10 Valkeries, 2 Baneblades and a Warhound Scout Titan. They also had around 1,000 political officers.
they were as follows
4th, 5th and 6th Calderon Rifles
8th Calderon stromtroopers
12th Ranger Recon
17th and 21st Auxillary
45th, 76th and 81st Leman Russ Companies
129th Artillery
153rd Light Armour
4 Sentinel Squadrons from the 735th SEntinel company
485th Assualt Armour
10 Valkeries from the Calderon Air Assualt Corps (Attached to the 8th Stromtroopers)
The baneblades were called 'Revenge of Calderon' and 'Malleus'
the Warhound was called 'Enigma'
They were placed under command of Lord General Quintius Orellus
He was given command of a fleet of ships including three capital class ships and four mass conveyance ships and multiple Cruisers and Frigates.
Unfortunatley these ships had been rushed in their production as there was reportedly a mass assualt on the Cadian gate. This meant the warp drives of the ships failed instantly when activated so they let some of the warp seep into all the ships turning all the troopers skin black their minds were also warped by the experience. They realised that the imperium would kill them no matter their intentions. When they exited warp space they ended up on the wrong side of he Cadian Gate. THey didn't realise by this point it was M41.773. Warmaster Abadon's personal forces the first to find them. By this time all signs of the imperium had been defiled and all the priests had been killed. They then pleged allgence to Abadon and his dark gods. Most decided to serve all the gods equally but the stormtroopers pleged themselves to Khorne and Tzeench creating a great rivalary in that regiment. The warmaster in his tactical genius knew about the Sabbat Worlds Crusade and how the forces of the dark gods were being pushed back by Warmaster Macaroth's forces. They were sent to bolster the defences of Anakwannar Sek's forces including the Sons of Sek. Before they left The Warmaster had their ships warp engines repaired. When they arrived adopted the Command structure of the sons and Quintus Orellus adopted the Rank of Etogaur and took the name of the chaotic saint Sho'Va.
Enroute to he sabbat worlds the warp drives were need of colling so they stopped in an area of deep space. While they were resting two Astartes thunderhawks were detected heading towards their position. One belonged to the Ultramarines, under the command of Sergeant Ultarius, and the other to the Space Wolves, under the command of veteran Ulva. They headed towards a mass conveyance ship. HOused within it's great hull was the 5th, 8th, 17th, and 76th regiments. Two Cruisers 'Khorne's Chosen' and 'Beloved is Abaddon' moved up to intercept the Astartes and their ships. The Ultramarines landed weel within the barracks of the 8th regiment were all the troopers were returning from a field drill. There was a short but bloody fire fight with Malal damougaur (Colonel) slaying Ultarius in a duel. Ultarius thought by trying to hold back the Damogaur and his forces his brothers could escape. 7 Marines made it back to the escape pod just in time to see their thunderhawk destroyed by 'Khorne's Chosen'. They were slaughtered by Malal and his retinue. Ulva's forces landed in a canteen were 5th regiment troopers were enjoying a meal. They slaughtered over 200 troopers before Head Slaughterer (Lord Commissar) Gorath who personally slew 6 Wolves and as their thunderhawk was destroyed Ulva was brought down by the fire of 2 eintire platoons. 6 of the Space Wolves were seperated by the mass of bodies in the canteen. Realised they would die if they continued to fight the overwhelming tide of chaotic followers they surrended themselves to the will of the chaos gods as their will pressed against their mind. Ultarius's body was fastened to a leman Russes hull to show what they can do against Astartes when they are the favoured ones.
The baneblade called 'Revenge of Calderon' was renamed the 'Abadonn's Fury'
They then went to fight the imperials wining many victorys in the names of the dark gods , the Anarach and Abadon. They helped destroy the loyalist fleet defending Gereon when the Anarch decided to take it as his own.
Spoiler:
In 382 M.35 The White Angels were founded as a successor chapter of the highly honoured Blood Angels. Although they are scions of Sanguinus they were set up by the Inquisitors Grand Master Casophili of the Ordos Maelleus and Master Czevak of the Ordos Xenos. This was highly opposed by the Ordos Hereticus and many Puritan Inquisitors of the Ordos Maelleus. The reason for this was that the gene seed used wasn't purely Sanguinus. It was a mere 50%. Many Inquisitors were shocked to discover that the gene seed conatained parts of World Eaters, Thousand Sons and Space Wolf genes. This means there is a higher amount of Librarians in the Chapter and seem to be blood thirstier than other chapters but less fall to the Black Rage. This project was mainly backed by The head of Ordos Maelleus , Greig Hopfman. The reason for the mixed gene seed was to confuse Daemons as one of the main theroies was that Daemons could detect the gene seed of marines nearby and therefore know whether they were allies or enemies. This experiment was also to try and solve the problem of the red thirst. shortly after their creation the eintire chapter were conscripted to Cleanse a Daemon infested world in the Segmentum Obscurus.
The Angels enbarked on Thunderhawks, Stormravens and Stormbirds along with the 2 strike Cruisers and 5 Frigates. It took them 5 weeks to get from Scintilla, their homeworld, to get to Arqtius the daemon world in question. They were also accommpied by 5 imperial guard regiments and an eintire imprial navy fleet under Admiral Luas. When they entered orbit round the planet the Angels descended without letting Admiral Luas or Lord General Sunajes of the Imperial Guard who watched in amazement as one thousand marines dropped to the planets Surface in Drop pods thunderhawks stormhawks and storm ravens. Reports from the surviving marines claimed the daemons were acting unprepared as the marines emerged from the drop pods as if they weren't sure what ahd just happened. Millions of Daemons were vanquished within the first half hour as the marines slaughtered the confused Daemons. After an hour the imperial guard regiments dropped from orbit along with imperial navy air support. Unfortuneatley daemonic magic defenses were now in place. This meant half of the transports and aircraft were vapourised by daemonic lightning. The surviving craft were flung across the planets surface. 1000 infantry died as they plunged into a sea of daemonic acid. Only 600 infantry and 3 Leman Russ Companies landed at the RV point where the White Angels had focused their Defence. It was the Hive city Indomitus or Ghru'fa'tak as the daemons renamed it. In the center of the hive there resided a Greater daemon of Khorne who engaged a lst dich defence of the hive. He struck down 23 terminators of the 1st company including Captain Gruhan and Lieuteneants Jafal and Suroh as they tried to stop the daemon rampaging through the chapter. he was only felled by Chapter Master Lozrael and Inquisitor Glaedus. Lord General Sunajes aqquited himself very well by rallying 5 Leman Russ Companies and 1500 Infantry troopers and breaking through the almost limitless amounts of Slaaneshi Daemons. 2 Keepers of Secrets and 5 Heralds of slaanesh were killed of which 3 were killed by Sunajes in hand to hand combat. He was eventully laid low just before they linked up with the angels as he was surrounded Daemonettes. When the second wave reached his fallen and crippled body there was over 30 Damonettes bodies lying around his dying body. The bodies didn't disapate as there was still a warp gate open. He lived long enough to see the 7th company of White Angels charge into the rear of the daemons to link up with his now extremly thinned strike force. Eventully after 17 long hours of fighting Scouts managed to located and kill the Tzeench Sorcerors creating the warp storm. The warp strom suddenly dissapated. Now Lozrael called down orbital strikes on the remaining daemons and launched a spearhead to close the warp Gate. It took another 18 members of the first company and 7 librarians to close it but once it was closed the remianing daemons lost the will to fight and were quickly vanquished.
Due to the open possiblity of an action like this happening again the White Angels were allowed to expand to contain an extra 2 Scout Companies, 2 Front Line Companies and an extra Assualt Marine Company.
They also use the rank of Lieutennant unlike other MArine Companies.
The rank of lieutennat is bestowed to the five members of the command squad. This means there is a more structured command structure.
The White Angels are all extremly modest about themselves especially when in front of Blood Angels whom they idolise. Once not long after their battle on Arquitus that they were in a joint action with their forefathers against three ork space hulks. " were quickly destroyed but he larger third one took alot of fire and destroyed a strike cruiser. That was then Lozrael decieded to take on a boarding action. 5 White Angels and 2 Blood Angels drop pods smashed into the ork space hulk. After 2 hours of harsh fighting The MArines made their way to the Engine room. They hid over half a tonne of melta and krak explosives with the timers set for 1 hour. They then broke out in a devastating charge surrendering themselves to the red thirst. the orks were completely wrong footed by the sudden charge of marines. Within 55 minutes they made it back to the drop pods but 3 Blood Angels had been trapped in a side corridor on the way there. Lozrael Then led a counter attack slaughtering over a hundred orks and guiding the 3 injured Blood angels back to the drop pods. They made it back just as the charges detonated. Suddenly the hulk started to disentegrate and the marines just escaped. With the hulk disentegrating the Strike Cruisers poured fire into the cracks of the hulk destroying it in a massive blast
Currently debating whether to study for my exams or paint some Deathwing
My BA army are heresy era my captain is called Delphio and is a counts as Dante and his background is that the family on Baal who adopted Sanguinius later had a son of their own, Sanguinius trained him to fight and took him with him to the stars to fight in the emperors wars as an astartes, He started out as Sanguinius' herald and standard bearer but wanted to make his own reputation out from under his adoptive brothers wing so he joined the fith company, by the time of signus he had risen to the rank of captain. He is a fearsome warrior trained by the primarch personaly who's reputation causes other champions to doubt their own abillity to defeat him.
I like to think that he will survive the Heresy and perhaps become one of the first chapter masters of the second founding although I havent decided which yet.