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Admit it. All of you, at one time or another while painting or playing a particularly awesome model, have come up with some cool little details for your sergeant/lord/warchief/whatever. Could be the smallest thing from a little description of an awesome kill to a backstory on how they rose through the ranks to command an army. Thought it would be nice to share some of these profiles. Maybe share a pic of your little guy. I'll start:

Name: Dolorem, Thane of Despair

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Brief History: A Chosen of the Chaos god Khorne, he leads the dreaded Chaos Warband known as the Legion of Hate. In his gruesome assaults, he always ensures a small amount of survivors, left alive to spread the fear of this dark champion through nightmarish stories, haunting the minds of their next victims. He is known by other names, such as the Soulcutter, or the Shadow of Damnation.

Noteworthy kill: His Terminator Guard had failed, laying slaughtered around him. Before him stood some of the finest soldiers the Ultramarines 2nd Company could muster, led by the venerable Captain Sicarius. Dolorem muttered a prayer to the dark gods, and dispatched the Captains entourage in a few swift, brutal swipes. After an epic duel overlooking the destruction of an imperial city, the champion Sicarius lay crippled; a banner of lost hope amidst the battle as the Ultramarines were crushed under the foot of the Legion.

Every Machine I have has a Name.

Every Tank gets a back story. (and If they don't have one then its I've either forgotten or just havn't gotten around to it)

The back story can be technical details of its creation or exploits (from different points of view) in battle (fictional or on Table Top).
My blog has the majority if not all of the fluff to each machine i've constructed.
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/417916.page

Tank: The T95000 Super Heavy Tank, the "Engine of War"
plays as a Shadowsword.



Technical Fluff: Only the Cannon was given details.
Its Main weapon is the AT7X Hyper Velocity Plasma Propulsion Cannon.
The cannons enourmus shells are forged from left over reactor fuel which make unimaginably dense rounds and give them a jet black appearance, hence the nick name "Obsidian Bullets" which unlike the fabled "silver bullets" of lesser AT rounds is capable of smashing through anything they are flung against. The Cannon's breach is loaded with the shell and a small propellent change of standard explosives, but thats where the similaritys end. Upon firing the small propellent change begins the shells journey down the extreamly long gun barrel and after a certin distance within the cannon the reactor dumps super heated plasma into the chamber that under extreame pressure expands at an incredible rate to propell the shell at velocitys that any other cannon (bar a starships macro cannon) could not dream of reaching. The Cannon lets out a deaffing boom and a ploom of super hot plasma as the shell exits the barrel on its journey down range.

Battle Fluff:
Planet: Mekiera 9 (Hive Planet); Ultima Segentum
Situation: Chaos Warband attack, Dark Mechanicus Titan Forces detected, Demon incursion imminet.
Space Marine Chapter "Blood Blades" Deployed, condition unknown
Impeiral Guard Regiments, 91st Experimental, 107th Cadian Infantry, 504th "Roaring Tigers" Artillary, 764th "Sledgehammers" Armored . condition: In combat

Location: Hive City, IronCliff
Status: Heavy Urban Combat, Chaos Titans detected.

The giant Dark Reaver titan "Infernum Bellator" strode through the wide streets of the Hive City, any and all loyalists it found it incinerated with no mercy. Turning a corner and smashing through a spire with a crash, it came upon a small fleet of tiny Leman Russ Tanks and chimeras. The Demon within the Reaver belowed its name through all loyalist comm channels and through the speakers embedded in the metal hide of the titan. The men below immediatly bailed from the chimeras and the little tanks opened fire with all their might. The shells pings harmlessly off the titans void sheilds as it systematically blasted each tank with a searing beam from its turbo lasers. As the huge titan searched for the infantry and chimeras its senses were alerted to the buildings flanking it. the little insects had set up lascannons and were aiming at it! the buildings on either side became bright with bright blasts of las cannon fire and the Reavers shields began to flicker under the assault. In a deafening roar it swung its arms into the buildings at the pests hiding within them, smashing its arms through the solid ferrocrete sending chunks of it everywhere along with the bodies of the guardsmen. As the dust settled and the Demon controlled war machine paused to find any who survived, crushing several guardsmen underfoot, a pair of las cannon beams blasted into the Reavers back and the void sheilds finally gave out for good. Infernum Bellator turned around, hatred and anger burning through its hydrolic fluid and warp twisted circuitry only to see a lone Baneblade of some sort many meters away. The "Baneblade" had an incredibly long cannon mounted in a flat super structure and it was aiming for the Dark Reaver. Both war machines stared each other down until an angry hiss of the hydrolic legs heralded the Reavers charge. As the massive Reaver titan charged at the baneblade its cannon let out a blast, blue flames of plasma vomiting out of the gun barrel as the hyper dense round roared through the air. The shell smashed into the Reavers leg joint disintigrating it. the great beast fell face first into the ground screaming in agony and rage. The Dark Titan tried to push itself upright for several minutes and when i managed to look up the Baneblade had moved its gun to point blank range. As the Titan screamed its name for the last time the Baneblade fired and blew the titans head into a thousand peices.

I am the 91st Experimental Regiment Imperial Guard. I have.... Different ....toys to other commanders.

This guy got 5 kills in one game, all in close combat, and most of them as the last remaining vanguard squad member, so here is the fluff:

Name: Brother Hyram

Data: First deployment as part of a scout squad led by sergeant =][=RECORDS ERASED =][=

Part of evacuation of sector cruor, inducted into the guards of brittanica 7th company known as the highlanders.

Took part of cruor crusade.

Highlight: Was part of the main thrust into the serad valley, led elements of the 7th company to victory after commander died to traitor marine (Defected to tau) forces, suffered serious wounds after engaging and eliminating traitor sternguard squad single handed.

Status: Part of planned assault to take back resalpeth's moon.