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Starting a smaller plog for this particular force so it isn't lost in my other one. I think this is actually achievable, we will see how it goes.

So, I have been toying around with a small Fallen Angels list led by Cypher and a Sorcerer. I have always liked the idea of proper undead Astartes, not LotD, or Nurgle-ified plague zombies, but risen by a necromancer or somesuch. There really aren’t “necromancers” per se in the 40k universe with the exception of the aforementioned Nurgle adherents. That’s not really the look I want. What I decided to go for was a Fallen Dark Angel Sorcerer who was raising the dead loyalist Marines that his warband killed and adding them to his legion. Along the way, for whatever reason (Cypher gona Cypher) he was contacted by the Lord of the Fallen and their forces were linked for a time.

Building out the list with that in mind meant I wanted at least one squad of Chaos Marines to represent the undead legion. Giving them the Mark of Nurgle to up their toughness made sense in my head, it may or may not stay in the list at the end of things. The Sorcerer, the undead Astartes and a small unit of Cultists will round out that contingent.

Cypher and the Fallen, I wanted to stand out in 2 ways; clearly not being undead, as well as having their loyalty being slightly suspect. I knew I didn’t want them all covered in chaos bitz and I also know I don't want just dudes in robes with some chaos shoulderpads either, so I may err on the side of more exposed armor, less robes and hoods. So there will be a 5 man Fallen Havoc squad with auto cannons and a 5 man Chosen squad who will accompany Cypher. The Chosen will be set up as sword and board guys with their shields representing the +1 toughness from their Mark of Nurgle. Along with a Rhino and a Predator Annihilator, that’s the plan for the 1000 pt force.

(Yes I know the line up there is lifted from Dune, but it’s an absolutely brilliant line for Chaos Marines.)

First 5 of the Undead. I think the guy on the far left is my favorite so far, kinda reminds me of Venturestein.


"Whatever you do, don't lose your head..." - Ramirez (this guy clearly would have made a terrible Highlander.)


Tis but a flesh wound! - Needs a head, doesn't look enough like undead at this point. I'm leery of making them all helmetless zombies though. :/


Aspiring Champ for the squad. Someone "gave" him a fancy sword, for keeps even!

Love the champ )))

Excellent, I look forward to seeing more!

It's been a good weekend for hobby stuff, got the 5 Chosen mostly knocked out and I think I can get the Havocs done today as well, they are an easy assembly.



Pretty happy with how these guys are coming along. I wanted to leave their allegiance questionable with subtle hints here and there. Also, no hoods. I wanted to make sure I didn’t just do guys in hoods with Chaos shoulderpads. I think it’s working, I may need to push it towards the Chaos end of the spectrum further, on Vassago in particular. I do think the Chaos packs do a lot to break up the regular Astartes silhouette, it feels good so far. Need mor skulz! I maaaaay end up marking up the Dark Angel iconography in subtle ways, like… is it battle damage, or has it been intentionally defaced? Not sure on that though yet.

Another thing I was trying to do was make sure that each of the Fallen felt like a distinct individual. I feel like I have achieved that so far, right now Moloch and Barakiel are far and away my favorites, but I’m kinda digging Rahab as well. Semyaza and Vassago are feeling a bit same-y at the moment but I have a plan for Vassago’s sword to get swapped out for a nasty looking daemon blade type deal, and I found a spare topknot in my bitz box that he will get as well, that should push them further apart. I have one of the Roman looking loincloths that I wanted to put on Rahab, but I didn’t find it till after he was assembled and I dont want to pop him apart to put it on so he may have to do without. I dig the boarding shield vibe he has, will look even better with the First Legion icon on it. I need more chaos banner poles too… ah well, loyalist world problems. :/

The other thing I have done, name wise is dug around and given them all fallen Angel or Demon names, feels appropriate.

Semyaza, First of The Host


Brother Moloch


Barakiel


Rahab


Vassago

Fallen Havocs and their Champion

Morax


Havoc1


Havoc2


Havoc3


Havoc4

These guys are great fun! Love the undead squad and the havocs are brilliant too.

Havocs look great.


Its really messing with my head that you have glued the models to the base before doing the base! Must be set in my ways.

@SJM They are veeeeeery lightly glued in most cases. I just came across some really sweet 32mm scenic bases that look like ruined tiled temple parts that I think the Fallen will all go on. I think the undead guys will end up on regular sand/grass basing though. I want to make sure the Fallen Angels stand out as such.

Need to build out 5 more undead marines, and a couple vehicles and the list is done. Although I keep going and reworking things for more Fallen to run around with Cypher. That will have to wait till the initial "army" is done I think.

Great work so far, can't wait to see them painted

Loving the Guardsmen (?) legs. Awesome kitbash and the swords and spears sticking in everyone is an awesome concept. Good jerb!

Digging the undead and fallen angel theme.

Cheers for the feedback folks. Been trying to sort an apartment move so, work has been slow going on these guys. I have one undead guy to go and a Chaos Predator to assemble and then the first 1k points is sorted, then I can go murder Dark Angels.

Anyhow I saw this body on ebay while trawling for FW bitz and knew instantly what I wanted to do with it. He will be another Fallen that will rock into the melee squad at some point, for now he just looks cool. He's feeling a bit Night Lordy to me though so who knows. I also got some Kromlech choppy bitz in so, seriously considering giving him one of the blades below instead of the LC. Undecided so far, but those swords are coooool. The thin Chainsword is earmarked for a Ragnar conversion.

Unnamed Fallen



Choppy Bitz!