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Other sites with conversion bits are Paulson games, scribor, and Maxmini, tho of the 3 I have only used Paulson, and I do recomend him. Some pretty sweet wing jump packs you could use for Vang vets, among other things.

I'm sorry, but when I first read the title I thought it said Hebrew Space Marine Ideas Needed!.

Someone (not me) should totally do that! use allies and make a rabbi inquisitor (yes I understand the irony)

The ancient Greeks had some very cool mythology that might fit the fluff your looking for.

Danaus had fifty daughters, his twin brother Aegyptus had fifty sons. Aegyptus decided one day that his sons should marry the Danaus' daughters. Instead Danaus and his daughters built a ship, the first ship that ever was, and fled. They landed at the city of Argos, and the people there (the Argives) granted Danaus and his daughters asylum. Eventually Aegyptus and his fifty sons found them and arrived to take Danaus' daughters. In order to spare the Argives the pain of battle, Danaus gave up his daughters, however, before giving up his daughter Danaus instructed them to kill their husbands on their wedding night. Danaus' daughters followed through, beheading their husbands during the night, all except his daughter Hypermnestra. She refused to hurt her husband, Lynceus, because he had honored her wish to remain a virgin. Eventually Lynceus and Hypermnestra go on to began a dynasty of Argive kings (the Danaan Dynasty).

All that legend could lend itself well to your space marine chapter you could work the "first ship ever built" angle and say your marines have the most advanced ships left over from the fall of man, maybe represent it by being able to take orbital bombardments as presented in codex Daemonhunters and Witchhunters.

Lynceus and Hypermnestra had a son named Abas (his name means "Father", whats sounds perfect for your Primarch/Leader) who becomes the 12th king of Argos. When Abas informs his father Lynceus of the death of Danaus, Abas is rewarded with the the shield of his grandfather Aegyptus, a shield ornate and sacred to Hera. In fact Abas was so fearsome a warrior that even AFTER his death, enemies of his royal household would run simply from the sight of this shield.

Right there you have an HQ with TH/SS, you could even say the shield forces morale checks of every unit in cc at some negative modifier. If you were to continue this theme "Sons of Abas" or "The Argives" would both work and I think both sound cool. Maybe think about stealing the rules for Grey Knight NFW, it would be represented nicely with spears.

I'm planning on grabbing some bits from a ton of armies, both 40k and fantasy. Needless to say this is starting to look like a money pit

The DA conversion box is $30 canadian, that is cheaper then buying sterngaurd at 45. The kit has bodies for 5 guys with special weapons, it also has tones of conversion pieces from big to small such as terminator legs, power sword, relic blade, power fists, storm bolter, plasma pistol, flamer, metla ect are in the box too.

how about this for the chapter emblem worked on it this morning you could do the laurels in black

Hmmm names for chapter:

Bronze Swords

Brotherhood of the Aquila

Brothers of the Sword

Eagle Swords

Praetors of Redemption.

Rather then get the DA vet box, get the upgrade kit. No bases or special weapons, but you get 10 instread of 5 and its cheaper.

I love the colors. It would be cool if you but symbols of the Greek gods on the sergeants.

Great ideas all around!
@Vignor- the bottom one is great! I may use that!

I would post more but I'm tired. 6 hours of sleep in 2 days isn't nearly enough...


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Oh Void... You always pop up and inject a bit of rational thought into things. I would start with a killteam but I really don't want to buy the entire battle missions book just for those rules. I want to get some killteam games going at my FLGS so I might have to suck it up and do it.

tony_nids_10 wrote:Great ideas all around!
@Vignor- the bottom one is great! I may use that!

I would post more but I'm tired. 6 hours of sleep in 2 days isn't nearly enough...


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Oh Void... You always pop up and inject a bit of rational thought into things. I would start with a killteam but I really don't want to buy the entire battle missions book just for those rules. I want to get some killteam games going at my FLGS so I might have to suck it up and do it.

KILL TEAM =

200pts
One unit selection from the codex
Every model counts as an individual unit.
Up to three models may be given a different USR.


That's about it I think, and I haven't EVER read the battle missions book.

BESIDES: Force first, game after.

Depending on your skill with green stuff you could make all your symbols with green stuff, even something basic or a basic wreath, put it right onto a shoulder or let them all harden on some paper and then super glue them on at your discretion.

On Darkvoidof40k's advice I am going to start with a killteam. Already ordered some bits for these little ones and I will be starting a P&M wip thread once they come in!


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Off topic- Anyone interested?

The not so Great Objective Swap! http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/311282.page

So, you just doing a normal unit? Or are you pulling out all of the suggested stops?

- Sanguinary Guard armour + Jump Packs, standard SG helmets, and to make it even better (i.e. not wasting all the lovely parts!) you could make it a vanguard squad, all with power weapons. Not the best (let alone cheapest) option.. but they're actually more than half decent in BA.

Or you could use them as normal swords and weapons and make it an assault squad anyway (with the possible exception of the sergeant, who I recomment giving a power fist).

And if you have any Meltaguns left over, definitely plan to put them in this squad at some point (10-man strong units are advised).

I will admit, I am going to use some of the lovely bits I just bought. As for the composition of the squad, haven't got that far yet

tony_nids_10 wrote:I will admit, I am going to use some of the lovely bits I just bought. As for the composition of the squad, haven't got that far yet

Assault squad -
-models x10
-sergeant with power weapon/or fist and inferno pistol
-2x meltaguns
-Jump packs



Done. Roughly 230-245pts.

Thought these might intrest you.
http://sciborminiatures.com/en_,shop.php?art=891
http://sciborminiatures.com/en_,shop.php?art=909

Acutally, Scribor has a whole line of roman based conversions and even a whole model. This guy would be a hell of a chapter master
http://sciborminiatures.com/en_,shop.php?art=933#i/sierpien_2010/big/spartan_sf_1_02.jpg
Really not even that pricy.

I ordered the spartan heads, and the torsos already Sheilds and big guy are next time through!

Great minds think alike!


Also, we had the same idea

It's true friend! I can NOT wait to get going on these guys! I'm holding off on doing anything else till I get these in!

I do really like the colour scheme, but this has to be said:
The New Orleans Saints.

I already said it, lol

OK, Listen. Is there a single place on the Saints jersey that is maroon? Just wondering.

I may tweak the colors a bit bit I feel like it will lose a little something if I do...

OK! COLOR SUGGESTIONS HERE PLEASE!


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Great! The more I look at the colors the more it makes me angry! Help me people!

love the colors!

tony_nids_10 wrote:OK, Listen. Is there a single place on the Saints jersey that is maroon? Just wondering.

I may tweak the colors a bit bit I feel like it will lose a little something if I do...

OK! COLOR SUGGESTIONS HERE PLEASE!


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Great! The more I look at the colors the more it makes me angry! Help me people!

the saints do not have maroon on there jersey and if you want to do a lil reading here you go it talks about the color theory of ancient greece

http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exchange/node/61

knowledge is power


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id also suggest just making the bronze a bit darker

As interesting as that article is vignor, you and I are not ancient greeks. Therefore we sadly do not get to enjoy the odd color circumstances they did. Plus an issue like that would be a defect in the geneseed! Such things are just not allowed in the glorius imperium That really was an interesting article though. i may do some more reading into that for my own interest I would not be opposed to changing up the colors up a little but the is not changing.

tony_nids_10 wrote:As interesting as that article is vignor, you and I are not ancient greeks. Therefore we sadly do not get to enjoy the odd color circumstances they did. Plus an issue like that would be a defect in the geneseed! Such things are just not allowed in the glorius imperium That really was an interesting article though. i may do some more reading into that for my own interest I would not be opposed to changing up the colors up a little but the is not changing.

hahaha yeah it does seem like it would be a gene-seed defect ...and yes it was interesting but very odd i know..So what are you thinking about doing to the colors

I'm at a complete loss for the colors. I want to stick with the gold but maybe change up everything else... I just don't know where to go

tony_nids_10 wrote:I'm at a complete loss for the colors. I want to stick with the gold but maybe change up everything else... I just don't know where to go

i say keep the red also and replace the black with another hue maybe scorpion green or shadow grey or tinbitz...and i thought your main color was bronze not gold sorry about the misunderstanding in the last post

If you're looking for a name, try 'Omega Marines'.