Thanks guys.
Bonde, yeah, spearhead is what they are. Plan is to drop them in my opponents deployment zone and generally be a nuisance. Give my assault marines a better chance of running safely across the board.
W4, thanks, decided to try weather the pods quite heavily. They have just fallen from space after all.
As to fluff, yeh, I tried a while ago to put some stuff together. It's just bare bones at the moment, but I do intend to flesh it out a bit in the future. There's a link to the fluff on the first page of the P&M blog. There's also this post I put on bolter and chainsword;
http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/topic/278922-angels-amaranthine/
Feel free to add any ideas to it.
Thanks for your interest.
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am·a·ran·thine
adj.
1. Of, relating to, or resembling the amaranth (an imaginary flower that never fades)
2. Eternally beautiful and unfading; everlasting.
3. Deep purple-red.