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I am in a campaign with a friend, I am using a mixture of blood angels, black Templar, and grey knights. they are all primed black with the vehicles using a black and grey urban camouflage. I have customized some units mostly focusing on the grim reaper, and angels aspects. any advice how I can turn this into my own chapter. the story so far is the marines I have were sent into the rift after a huge whole opened near terra. this coalition arrives across the galaxy were their is little influence from the emperor but their is man. my friend is playing a desert version of the IG, along with dark eldar who are inhabitants of the system. im thinking of having my chapter eventually go rogue but not towards chaos. just away from the emperor. thanks for the help.

What exactly do you want help with? Is this one chater? (I am assuming it is)

A chapter focussing on death and retribution suits the BT and BA combination well. They will have to be BA successors for it to work... the curse and such.

As for the story so far...
Well...
Instead of a rift (You didn't really explain what the hell the rift is or what the hole is so i'm gonna assue it's a warp rift) in the Sol system, how about there is a rift in their home system which they counter-invade with their entire fleet before they can be invaded. In fact, if they are a fleet based chapter it would be even better since they could resupply in this new location.

As for IG, well they could be an IG force whose transport was sucked into the rift a few years before the SM were.

DE are opportunistic raiders so having them in a secret base and then performing raids on the IG and SM suits their nature.

thanks for the critique, I was planing on a warp rift but having it open near ball makes more sense. do you have any advice for the name of the chapter. I was thinking knights of the black blood, but im not sure how much I like it.

Hang on...
Are they Blood Angels or a successor chapter?
If they are Blood Angels then you are slightly limited in your options because they have pre-existing background.
If it's a successor chapter then you have a lot more freedom.

They will be a successor chapter. Sorry about the confusion.

Right then...
If it was me, i would make them a fleet based chapter.
This lets them have a foothold in the system and also the possibiity of re-supply through foundry ships. The rift could pull them in.

I'm not sure about the name but Angels Mortis sounds good. Especially if they have an obssession with death and redemption...

what all goes into the fleet based chapter. I would like to put this together with the most detail. I will also play around with death and angels to figure out a good name.

Usually a fleet based chapters have a higher amount of Strike Cruisers and higher than average amount of Battle Barges. The support shps aren't mentionned as much but there have been mentions of foundry ships which are essentially floating manufactorums.
http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Space_Marine_Fleet
This is a list of what ships an SM fleet might have in their fleet.

sweet that will help with the story.

I like your approach to the game. I think what you have will work for what you are gonna do with the game. Way to write your own chapter; I would look into giving your army its own special troop rules as well kind of mixing c:GK,BA,BT.

i was thinking of doing something like that. my focus is going for diversity, blood angel rage and decent of angels, grey knight psychic powers, and the preferred enemy oath from the Black Templar's. I was also thinking of making a fast attack unit that is all close combat that can deep strike and assault. but also has fleet. what are your opinions from this. I will chaplins will make rerolls to wound instead of to hit. so squads with them attached have reroll to wound and hit on the assault. I would like to be able to give the upgraded special rule that the BT have either counterattack or infiltrate or furious charge for extra points each.

I have a conundrum of how to paint my vehicles for my chapter. My overall theme for troops is black body armor with white, red, silver, and bone highlights with green eyes. I am thinking of doing a mixture of 3 or 4 shades of grey urban camo on black. Or going black with red and white detailing like the grey knights. Or a mixture of both, with the camo on my Baal predators and vindicators, and the red and white on the razorbacks and land raiders. Overall I have 2 land raiders, 3 Baal predators, 3 vindicators, and 6 razorbacks, 2 storm ravens, 3 dreadknights, 3 dreadnoughts, and 3 drop pods. Not sure which color scheme to go with which vehicle. Also I was given 8 accessory vehicle accessory frames for dark angels so I’m going to deck out my vehicles with the angel of death theme, mostly my razorbacks and land raiders (that is why I thought they would look better red and white, not too sure though)


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also as far as the name goes im still not satisfied. what iv come up with so far is.
Angels of eternal peace
angels of the apocalypse
angels of judgment

I want it to be based on angels and death just not sure how.

joshua.gray.williams wrote:I am in a campaign with a friend, I am using a mixture of blood angels, black Templar, and grey knights. they are all primed black with the vehicles using a black and grey urban camouflage. I have customized some units mostly focusing on the grim reaper, and angels aspects. any advice how I can turn this into my own chapter. the story so far is the marines I have were sent into the rift after a huge whole opened near terra. this coalition arrives across the galaxy were their is little influence from the emperor but their is man. my friend is playing a desert version of the IG, along with dark eldar who are inhabitants of the system. im thinking of having my chapter eventually go rogue but not towards chaos. just away from the emperor. thanks for the help.

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Jon

what?

joshua.gray.williams wrote:what?

I think he means, rethink your idea. Also, choose a codex to use yet?

im using the blood angel codex as a base but I have all three so different battles I will use different codex's depending on what I feel like playing. what should I rethink I was asking about color schemes and name ideas. why not some more positive feed back like the user who suggested to have it a fleet sub chapter of the blood angels. I have only been playing for a couple of months now and am still looking for help.

joshua.gray.williams wrote:im using the blood angel codex as a base but I have all three so different battles I will use different codex's depending on what I feel like playing. what should I rethink I was asking about color schemes and name ideas. why not some more positive feed back like the user who suggested to have it a fleet sub chapter of the blood angels. I have only been playing for a couple of months now and am still looking for help.

why not use the Grey Knights as Sanguinary Guard?
And the regular blood angels as your chapter? It could work.
because the grey knights will just mind wipe everyone when they are done.

joshua.gray.williams wrote:im using the blood angel codex as a base but I have all three so different battles I will use different codex's depending on what I feel like playing. what should I rethink I was asking about color schemes and name ideas. why not some more positive feed back like the user who suggested to have it a fleet sub chapter of the blood angels. I have only been playing for a couple of months now and am still looking for help.

Alright, alright, relax, I was just letting you know what he said, no reason to bug out. That being said, from what I've gathered from my gaming community, mixing codices is a bit of a no-no; You should probably just stick with one. As stated above, Grey Knights as count-as Sanguinary Guard could work pretty well, just make sure you use the Sanguinary Guard rules.

sorry to wig out. I will only use one codex per battle if that is what you are saying. I want mix during a game that will be to broken. the way I saw it was that in this fleet there were different platoons under the blood angels formed into a coalition that was trained by the other chapters thus making them diverse. but the vehicles I am trying to paint so they can be used across the board. which brings me to my most recent question about paint themes. I have tried painting some things white and red but they tend to look splotchy and uneven any advice on how to make it look better, also how do you make straight lines. I am not sure which color scheme to run with for the vehicles across the board though. thanx for the feedback its been a big help over all.

as far as using a dif army the reason I am running it this way is that I can get the bang of 3 for the price of 1 if I do it right, although I do have an ork build that I want to get sometime down the road so that I can realy mix it up. the necrons are cool but my friend with the IG and dark eldar is planing on ruining them when they come out, so im trying to stay away from his armies just so we get more of a variety.