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A friend of mine really wants to start and EC army but hates the fact that their armour is pink.

I told him to do a pre-heresy (purple) army, but he prefers the post-heresy (chaos) version.

Can you guys think of any fluff justification that they would not have the standard black/pink armour? Perhaps an inner-sanctum, or a renegade force lead by Lucius or another EC Warlord?

Maybe they worship Slaanesh by painting their armour dark colors thereby getting some kind of perverse pleasure of NOT indulging in outlandish behavior 24/7 and letting out all their pent up emotion in one overwhelming act. Tantric
Slaanesh Worship? haha

Thoughts/ideas?

But pink is glorious and manly. It'd defeat the purpose :/

In the novella Reflection Crack'd, many of the newly turned chaos Emperor's Children are described as having the most outlandish colors and designs all over their armor. From Rorschach-esque blobs to garish, multi colored horizontal stripes to designs that would make old school Night Lords armor look tame. All in the name of giving more shocking and powerful experiences for those who view it. The pink and black is most likely only a single pattern that happens to be most common, but of all the chaos legions, the EC are likely to have the most variability in colors and designs in order to continually provide new sensory input. I wouldn't be surprised if some of their armor could even change color depending on their mood.

 Melissia wrote:
But pink is glorious and manly.

Two things the Emperor's Children are not.

THEN THEY ARE NOT PINK ENOUGH.

The fluff does not say they like pink, only that they paint their armor in bright and outlandish color schemes. I would go with the old 80's scheme with the rainbow, zebra stripes, animal print, and who knows what else. Noise Marines were cooler when they were rock gods.

Well, isn't the idea that Slaanesh Marines are have had their senses become very dull and can only see extreme colors (such as bright pink, purple, and yellow)?

So wouldn't any bright color suffice?

This is how Noise Marines should look:



The current pink and black theme is there because its easier for the 'Eavy Metal team (and less daunting for potential customers), and because Slaanesh has been watered down to being the god of bewbz and panty-raids.

They're supposed to be brightly-colored, ornate, vain, high-contrast, and garish. You can do that without using GW's black-and-pink scheme.

Emp's Children mainly wear black armor actually, the pink is just the most noticeable.

Now the Flawless Host....Those guys are the true Pinky's.

Its not pink, its lightish red.

But seriously it makes little difference what colors, cause if you really wanted to you could say that the marines in question are a warband that split off from the Emperor's Children, which is what I assume you mean when you say pre-heresy.

He doesn't have to paint them pink. Any bright colour will do. I rather like the idea of a bright purple scheme than a pink one.

1.) He can chose any colour scheme he likes for any non-EC Slaanesh CSMs.
2.) Wanting EC and hating pink is like wanting Space Wolves but hating Wolves and Vikings.

 Kroothawk wrote:
1.) He can chose any colour scheme he likes for any non-EC Slaanesh CSMs.
2.) Wanting EC and hating pink is like wanting Space Wolves but hating Wolves and Vikings.

That's actually a point; Noise Marines aren't necessarily Emperor's Children. Make up a different Slaaneshi warband.

 Kroothawk wrote:
2.) Wanting EC and hating pink is like wanting Space Wolves but hating Wolves and Vikings.

Incorrect. The EC use any colours that catch the eye, like striping bright yellow and blue. As long as they're attention grabbing and garish, they work. Though I've been using the light purple for my EC because GW don't seem to sell pink anymore.

They sell pink in various shades again since April.

 Durza wrote:

 Kroothawk wrote:
2.) Wanting EC and hating pink is like wanting Space Wolves but hating Wolves and Vikings.

Incorrect. The EC use any colours that catch the eye, like striping bright yellow and blue. As long as they're attention grabbing and garish, they work. Though I've been using the light purple for my EC because GW don't seem to sell pink anymore.

Indeed, there was much weeping and gnashing of teeth around here when tentacle pink was discontinued.

Humbrol used to sell an enamel called Polish Crimson. It looked a lot like pink, but honestly it was Polish Crimson. It really was...

This has always been, in my opinion, one of the greatest models and paintjobs Games Workshop has ever done, lol.

 Kroothawk wrote:
They sell pink in various shades again since April.

There's a pink in various shades ??? In 40k ???

Ofcourse. pink is very menacing.
Pink horrors, anyone?

 Void__Dragon wrote:

 Melissia wrote:
But pink is glorious and manly.

Two things the Emperor's Children are not.

No they're glorious alright.

As for OP go preheresy, purple and gold; like saint's row.

 Veteran Sergeant wrote:


This has always been, in my opinion, one of the greatest models and paintjobs Games Workshop has ever done, lol.

Guitar Riff of Death FTW

Seriously, they need to bring back the old blastmasters.

I am not sure if all post-heresy Emporer's Children fall under the category of Noise Marines.
If they have not given themselves over so specifically to that particular order then they might retain some of their original legion colors.

So I would say post-heresy EC are not solely limited to pink or even the garish color schemes.


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I am not sure if all post-heresy Emporer's Children fall under the category of Noise Marines.
If they have not given themselves over so specifically to that particular order then they might retain some of their original legion colors.

So I would say post-heresy EC are not solely limited to pink or even the garish color schemes.

This felt very appropriate for this discussion.

You could take inspiration from India - the range of colors available to those in opulence is astounding.

In dawn of war retribution the emperors children are a dark blue thats worn in. they look badass.

The Emperor's Children are a broken Legion. Their Primarch disappeared (he was possibly killed by the Black Legion during the Eye of Terror Slave Wars) and they have no clear leader. They've splintered off into thousands of warbands that can have any sort of color scheme, as long as it looks crazy.

Well since the EC have bright and vibrant colors, I would replace the pink with a really stand out lime green neon color, that would be sure to look B.A. on his chaos forces.

I am considering doing an Emperor's Children army (but in a more traditional scheme) but I can think of a few good ideas.

For starters, how about polished ivory with brass trims? That would be extremely extravagant and loud whilst not plain ugly. Likewise a combination of white and red could work.

Another idea would be to go for the traditional scheme (black with some pink panels and either iron or brass trim on the higher ranking models) but to heavily weather the pink, so it was more a dirty salmon flesh colour.