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I'm trying to rebuild a army I had in high school, and so my new one has about the same fluff, just a different regiment. Their planet is mostly water and the biggest continent is about the size of Australia, so any regiment raised there is mostly an amphibious force. This also gives me a great excuse to run a mech force of pretty much purely Chimera and Valkyrie/Vendetta mounted infantry. Its a pity my group doesn't run more water heavy terrain set-ups. Other than the DE player, no one would be able to keep up with me!

Yeah my army has a background. Since i only use CSM, but have a variety of units, my renegade chapter consists of several warbands. My current warband has a strong Space Wolves renegade core (since the base of the army is a corrupted SW battle force) with Khorne Berserkers and some units of plague marines been the cult forces.
A previous warband was a Slaanesh one, but this has been retired until i can get some good looking daemonette models.

The main conceit of this Renegade chapter is that the Chaos Lord in charge of each warband is the same person, and that each warband represents his allegiance to a different chaos power at a different time. (hes not like abaddon, he follows 1 power at a time). Central to this conceit is that, due to the time and space warping effects of the Eye of Terror these warbands are actually operating at the same time in the real galaxy.

I havent bothered with a timeline, but i think he worshipped Khorne > Slaanesh > Nurgle > Tzeentch then became a Daemon Prince.

purplefood wrote:

Toeko wrote:

BluntmanDC wrote:It would have to be a very very soft landing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event (and that was only believed to be small and didn't hit the Earth).

But just think about an object that size approaching a planet, exodite worlds are temperate 'paradises', even before the craftworld hit the planet there would be mass flooding, planetary axis changing.

Sounds good, I like it. I just wanted to make sure you were aware, and had a defense prepared for them.

You're aware you're talking to different guy here right?

Nope I was clueless

I've got a decent amount of fluff thought up for my Orks, the Goldtoof Marauders - namely, they're a Freebooter splinter group that used to be under the thrall of the Arch-Arsonist of Charadon until the Big Mek in charge, Wazsog Skumgor, decided to split off and start his own army. Wandering around in a large KillKroozer, the army has been the bane of areas outside the Arch-Arsonist's territory - notably, they tend to strike at areas that are close to Crimson Fists stations. Each Boy that wants to join has one of their teef pulled out by the resident Painboy and replaced with one large fang made of solid gold, which must be provided by the Boy himself.

As such, a large amount of Bad Moons and Death Skulls have joined the Goldtoof Marauders, since they tend to have the needed loot to melt down into one of these teef. If a Boy ever loses the toof that marks his status as one of the Marauders, he is not allowed back into the group until he has recovered the original, be it from another clan or from deep within enemy territory. In addition, many of the Boyz that tend to join up with Big Mek Skumgor are pyromaniacs, and as such he employs plenty of Burna Boyz. Lootas, while not as common, do occasionally gather enough teef together to add significant firepower to the army.

Yeah my army has background, in fact I just got round to posting an article with the basics on it.

They're the 112th Jalvene task force, it consists of 4 Jalvene regiments and Imperial Navy elements. The main regiment is the Jalvene 33rd outlanders the others are more of a support role.

I wanted my own fluff because I use Cadians but didn't want my army to be just another Cadian regiment. I started with a basic Idea of what I wanted from my fluff but its adapted and changed a lot to fit with my army list and recent builds.

I think I've got about 10,000 words down so far.

SpankHammer III wrote:Yeah my army has background, in fact I just got round to posting an article with the basics on it.

They're the 112th Jalvene task force, it consists of 4 Jalvene regiments and Imperial Navy elements. The main regiment is the Jalvene 33rd outlanders the others are more of a support role.

I wanted my own fluff because I use Cadians but didn't want my army to be just another Cadian regiment. I started with a basic Idea of what I wanted from my fluff but its adapted and changed a lot to fit with my army list and recent builds.

I think I've got about 10,000 words down so far.

10,000 words? Thats amazing. I have done some work with stories of fiction and 10,000 words while not a huge amount is a lot, way to go with the commitment on the project.

All three of them do!

I'm a bit too lazy to fetch my Sororitas army background from the BnC, and I'm not done rewriting my Guard background on the IGMB... but seeing as I haven't typed out my Ork stuff any time recently, here goes:


Groknar Skullsplitta was a yoof who rejected his warband's Goff leanings, being an innate Blood Axe instead. He was drawn into Kommando work, and decided he would prove he was bigger than the other Orks by going out and taking out the biggest and most badass human he could. Being a yoof who rejected the Orky kultur, this was exhilarating to him, and he stalked a Space Marine captain (an ultramarines descended chapter, not that it necessarily matters for this background) for four days, until the two forces met in combat. After the Captain killed the band's current warboss and two nobs, Groknar took a fallen sergeant's thunder hammer and jumped off of a large rock, slamming that hammer down onto the captain's head, killing him instantly and indeed almost causing him to go splack upon the ground from the force of his adrenaline-enhanced strength and the thunder hammer's own explosive force.

So Groknar decided hey, that would make for a nice surname, and called himself Skullsplitta afterwards. The Orks, leaderless, looked to Groknar, seeing as he was the ballsiest Ork present, and he led them to mop up the remainder of the Marines, forcing them to go into hiding and, as the Ork horde grew in numbers, eventually wiping them out. A few nobz didn't like Groknar's Kommando leanings nor his small size (due to being so young), forcing the up and coming warboss into a life of constant battle.

Naturally, he couldn't be happier. Through skill rather than brute strength, Groknar defeated all of his Nob opposition and eventually grew to full warboss size from all of the fighting and the confidence boost from his constant victories. His warband was influenced by his way of thinking, and Kommandos formed in remarkably high numbers under his leadership, as he moved across the world to crush all Ork opposition (the human opposition having been wiped out before he was born). Eventually, the world was completely infested iwth Orks, and he looked to the stars.

And laughed. Today was a good day to WAAAGH!

Might Melissa PM me the SoB fluff or post it here? I am most interested, because outside 4chan you NEVER see fluff for the Sisters.

I'd have to look through the huge damn thread in Bolter and Chainsword's inquisition section from its archives about a year ago, and frankly I couldn't be arsed.

It's nothing spectacular anyway, just an overview of the army.

I can easily, however, link you to my IG officer's background on the IGMB,.

10,000 words? Thats amazing. I have done some work with stories of fiction and 10,000 words while not a huge amount is a lot, way to go with the commitment on the project.

Thanks, might be a little less due to some of the article being descriptions of the models i've made. It has got to be close though, as I did at least 5,000 for a competition I have just entered, admittedly some of it is a short story though.

I really like to have a background idea for my armies. Especially the new Dark Eldar codex inspired me to write a short story of the Archon leading it.

Shameless link to the first two parts (of 4) of her story:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/329024.page

I find it interesting to see how players mark the background on their models. Since background is often an issue it can certainly lead to more flavorful models. For insistent are there players who kept all there models painted like rookies and neophytes for their first few games and then went back in and marked the survivors afterwards with various marks, or started painting heads white to show the veteran-ship status of the model in actual games played. Now I can see a practicality and an impracticality to this as well...but I'm just curious if it does happen.

Yeah, I like to make up backgrounds for my armies.

A general overview of them is that of a less-than-successful Warsmith whose Grand Company were so badly mauled he was forced to empty his coffers to hire mercenaries to take the places of the causalties, an Ork Warlord whose fighting and tactical abilities are counterbalanced by an annoying tendency to get his fleet completely lost, leading to an unintentional Waaagh! as he tries to get his Ladz to Armageddon in time for the second war (which he is now over 50 years late for), and a SW Wolf Lord who likes to use the raiding tactics he learnt as a youth, and relies heavily on transports and drop pod assaults to win the day.

My army plays on the Obliterator Cult fluff from Codex CSM as well as the Iron Warriors legion. You could probably say that mine is a renegade legion from the renegade legion. They don't use Daemon's persay, but they make extremely active use of a weaponized warp virus. As such they look very....strange. Lots of huge guns, crazy biomechanical stuff, and a serious lack of spikes and horns.

I'll probably write some in depth fluff for em once I finish modeling and painting.

I find it interesting to see how players mark the background on their models. Since background is often an issue it can certainly lead to more flavorful models. For insistent are there players who kept all there models painted like rookies and neophytes for their first few games and then went back in and marked the survivors afterwards with various marks, or started painting heads white to show the veteran-ship status of the model in actual games played. Now I can see a practicality and an impracticality to this as well...but I'm just curious if it does happen.

It's a nice idea but it would be difficult to do, I mean I play guard an one guardsman is pretty much the same as the other 350,000,000 I did have the idea of marking up one of my tanks. Kill markings that actually represented it's kills and damage for every time it was destroyed. I realised the problem would be by the end of a year my tank would be in a complete state

My armies fluff doesn't really have a lot of basis on the actual games I play. I build a model and then usually come up with fluff for them. For example i've just built a SWS trooper with a demo charge. He is now copral Sebastian Bernard from the mining colony on Little Bad Rock, i'll probably make up more history later.

I use games i've played for a little bit of history and flavour. For example in my fluff I bang on about the Vorkan campaign a fair bit, which is loosly based on a sereis of games I played against an ork friend of mine. I also mention the battle of Tygon a fair bit, which is based on my first ever 1500 point game.

I like fluff and thanks to "tale of many gamers" i'm getting to write a fair bit as there seems to a writing challenge every week, I just wrote about 4,000 words for my CCS history. It's really important to me that my army have history.

I have a bunch of ideas for chatpers and the like. my biggest army, orks, needs very little in the way of writing.
I find that whatever do i write falls a bit short of the high standards of the dakka community so i'm a bit ashamed to post any of it. oh well, at least i know i have it!
Right now though i'm looking at building on an existing chapter that nobody uses.

SpankHammer III wrote:It's a nice idea but it would be difficult to do, I mean I play guard an one guardsman is pretty much the same as the other 350,000,000 I did have the idea of marking up one of my tanks. Kill markings that actually represented it's kills and damage for every time it was destroyed. I realised the problem would be by the end of a year my tank would be in a complete state

My armies fluff doesn't really have a lot of basis on the actual games I play. I build a model and then usually come up with fluff for them. For example i've just built a SWS trooper with a demo charge. He is now copral Sebastian Bernard from the mining colony on Little Bad Rock, i'll probably make up more history later.

I figured as much but felt it was worth it to toss the question out there. And I can see some problems with it in various armies such as guard where there are soo many units.

I have a background check it please http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/333177.page

I am currently doing a WIP heresy-era BA raven guard army. Back then, the raven guard legion was split differently, into larger groups.
My heresy-era RG are the "Raven's talons" battlegroup, the leading warriors, consisting of over 25,000 astartes. This battlegroup is in turn split into smaller detachments, the "muninn" company (still a lot larger than 41st millenium-era companies)

The reasoning behind "Muninn" is a quote from shrike "We strike, fast and lethal, and by the time our enemy reacts-darkness there, and nothing more." which I feel is strongly related to Edgar Allan Poe's "the raven" in which are the sentences "darkness there, and nothing more" and the raven repeatedly says "nevermore"-the last word of Corax. Corax is translated from greek into "raven", and the raven from "the raven", Poe's famous story, is thought to be inspired by Norse mythology, in which Odin had two raven called Huginn and Muninn, translating into thought and memory. My company is named that in honour of all those lost in the dropsite massacre (my company served in the brief year in which Corax was still in this universe and the dropsire massacre had just happened).

My 41st millenium RG are the 6th company, led by shadow-captain Learchus, chaplain charlie (heh) and epistolary Lenore. (Poe strikes again)