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I have a ton of questions in the following post, my initial gut feeling is that they're not all too far removed from acceptable fluff, and wouldn't stand out as ridiculous on the table without any back story (an open minded player would catch on to the theme without wondering what the heck is going on).


So:
Would a group of khornate marked chaos marines put up with a tzeench sorcerer's leadership/eccentricities because he can move them through the warp (finding battles) to sate the bloodlust? Meanwhile he's happy to have them around since they provide a nice tool for getting things done?

Is that too far fetched? Would tzeench worshipers and khorne worshipers not get together if they're just bro-ing around the galaxy being supremely evil (aka without a cause like a crusade to unite them)?

To add to it, how would it look if I painted the khornate marines as a mixture of really mutated (added greenstuff to make spikey marines look less vanilla and more like warp-crazed evil mutants) and beat up paint jobs? Like they've been following their sorcerer through the warp regularly for the last thousand years or so and aren't part of an organized traitor legion. Would a mixture of faded blues, reds, yellows and other colors clash too much? Would khornate-worshipping csm guys all turn reddish/bathe in blood?What loyalist chapters still in service in the "present" had individuals secede to chaos without being disbanded (in other words any suggestions for paint schemes to give the motley crew marines some acceptable background)?


If my idea of a fun renegade chaos group doesn't work, what would you suggest changing about the theme? I'm open to dropping the marks, or understanding better how the mark/worship thing works: Does picking up a mark put the csm on the road to becoming a elite of that god's soldier (like plague marines or rubric marines)? Or is picking the mark just kind of a "yeah, yesterday I was working for slannesh, today I'm feeling more pestilent!" aka something that can change without any repercussions other than the already omnipresent repercussion of working for chaos to start with.

I tried reading up on this in the codex, but the codex seems more concerned with some overarching stories and really doesn't help as much as I'd like for putting together small little groups; the kinds that the fluff only hints about, but explains as being everywhere (rogue marines setting up dictatorships far from core imperial worlds).

I also really like the new theme for the csm: that whole "we're old hands at this and it shows, check out these mad mutations" (as opposed to the previous "vanilla marines+spikes=chaos"), so that was the catalyst for making a small roaming band or summat, if anyone was curious.