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Hello everyone !

I wanted to share with you all an army project that I just recently completed
If you like it, please feel free to improve it with your own ideas: it is completely open source !


For ten millenia, the God-Emperor of Mankind has been entombed on the Golden Throne. Not only did He continuously illuminate the galaxy through the radiance of the Astronomican, He was the direct object of prayers, laments and praises of trillions upon trillions of human beings, all resonating in the warp.

What if, after all these millennia, the light of the Astronomican came to influence and shape the warp just as strongly and deeply as any other Dark God?

What if the Living Saints and the Legion of the Damned were as much Neverborns as any Daemon Prince or bloodletter ?

What if the Emperor was so far on the path of becoming an actual god… that he had His OWN daemons?


I present you :

THE ANGYLS OF THE EMPEROR


The Angyls of the Emperor project is a fan-based open source homebrew army, inspired by disparate elements of Warhammer 40K lore (the Talon Of Horus novel by Aaron Dembski-Bowden, multiple theories on the Primarch’s creation, and the fuzzy nature of Living Saints and Legionnaires).

The codex of this army is an expansion for the Chaos Daemon Codex : the Angyls are designed with the same combat philosophy and unit structures as Daemons (one Greater Daemon, one Lesser Daemon, etc) but include unique perks so as to differenciate them from the four Dark Gods and to make them reflect different faces of what the Emperor is now.

All referenced units are designed to be as simple as possible to assemble and paint. They are easy to build, require about as much money as an average 40k army (and even less than an canon Daemon army !), and only include GW products and parts.

The codex is self-sufficient, and does not require the Chaos Daemon Codex for immediate use. It includes background lore, detailed rules, conversion instructions, some notes for future development, and a gallery section showing painted prototypes for all the units listed in the army.

The codex is available in both English and French in .pdf format at https://github.com/Angyls-of-the-Emperor. There is also a section where you can download HD version of all the units' pictures. However, I've also joined the English version attached to this post.

For any feedback, question, suggestion, or anything really, please feel free to contact me at angyls.of.the.emperor@gmail.com. Again, it's an open project, so anyone can contribute to it.


I hope you will enjoy this project and find it interesting !

Interesting read! I recently watched a video on youtube suggesting that Celestine and other living saints are indeed daemons of the God Emperor. Evidently the author of that video wasn't the only person pondering that theory.

You've obviously put a lot of work into this, so congratulations on getting to an outcome. How much play testing have you done? Do your peers at your LFGS allow you to play with the homebrew? How do they find playing against it?

I am pretty sure it is cannon, and that I have read about it. Like Emperor's deamons fighting deamons at the edge of the Eye of Terror. But where and what exactly...

Interesting... But I feel a universal -1 to shooting feels too powerful.

Thanks for your replies and sorry for this long silence! I stopped working on this project in 2018 for personal and professional reasons which pulled me away from Warhammer entirely.
After all those years, I'm now back on it. Recent lore development has only confirmed the theories backing this army project, 10th edition rules made the design of original units much simpler and flexible, and new product lines from both Games Workshop and 3D printing third parties makes it easier to find good-looking and unexpensive models.

Here are some updates :

All units have been reworked for 10th edition, with simplified rules and battlefield roles, better narrative descriptions, and AI-generated visuals. They have also their own Stratagems and Faction Rules, very closely derived from Chaos Daemons. Unit rules also still follow Chaos Daemon units patterns very closely while having their unique playtile focused on battlefield control, mutual protection, and enemy disruption. They are still crazy killing warp entities, but behave more orderly as befitting scions of the God-Emperor.

A complementary Slaanesh Daemon+CSM list system has been designed for proxy gaming (this God fitting their playstyle the closest).

Name changes : Sephirical Judge --> Seraphic Judge ; Whitewraith --> Whitegriever

New Whitegrievers models as a light-emitting color swap of AoS Bladegheist Revenants (and Dol Guldur Castellans for their leaders). They are now cheaper and better looking.

New units :
- The Throne (heavy support) : embodying the Emperor's Rationality and the Cult of the Omnissiah, a mechanical ophalim designed for tactical support.
- The Worldmaker (named Greater Daemon) : the warp essence of Ferrus Manus, a footslogging Seraphic Judge altering friendly and enemy units' saves.
- The Angel (Daemon Primarch) : lost Primarch prototype and zealous omnicidal maniac (https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/The_Angel), a team-killing, self-harming and very destructive beatstick

I'll soon provide all related content for peer review and challenging. Thank you in advance for your interest!

Sorcererbob wrote:
Interesting read! I recently watched a video on youtube suggesting that Celestine and other living saints are indeed daemons of the God Emperor. Evidently the author of that video wasn't the only person pondering that theory.

You've obviously put a lot of work into this, so congratulations on getting to an outcome. How much play testing have you done? Do your peers at your LFGS allow you to play with the homebrew? How do they find playing against it?

And six years later, even more videos have been made going in this direction. Along the Living Saints and Legion of the Damned increasingly frequent sightings in the galaxy, a bunch of "Golden Spirits" spawned during the Miracle of the Saint's Wall (a Psychic Awakening event) to defend the faithful, and several Primarchs (Corax, the Lion) have now developed Daemonic-like Warp powers which are implied to always have been latent in them, the Daemon Primarchs having simply taken an easier path.

Thank you very much for your praise, it was quite the hard work. Fortunately, 10th edition made their rework much easier. I have done one play test in 7th edition against Black Templars, and five play tests against Tau, Orks and Grey Knights in 10th edition. They proved balanced, if not a little bit underpowered againsts 7E BT. They surprisingly held their own against GKs very well due to their new rules focusing on tactical flexibility and battlefield control. One or two abilities had to be nerfed, but nothing major. My friends liked playing against the homebrew, they are not used to fight pure Chaos Daemons in 40k anyway so they welcomed the change, and I had a national expert (Ledha, a french Tau and Blade of Khorne player featured on Youtube) review their 10th edition rule to ensure balance and simplicity.

 godardc wrote:
I am pretty sure it is cannon, and that I have read about it. Like Emperor's deamons fighting deamons at the edge of the Eye of Terror. But where and what exactly...

At the edge of the Eye of Terror, that would have been during the Fall of Cadia. But in the Talon of Horus, they appear at the edge of the Maelstrom (which I refer to in the codex). The light of the Astronomican collides with the giant warpstorm and creates the Firetide, a region of radiant warpfire inhabited by crazy murderous fiery angels and harboring "Radiant Worlds". Abaddon dived into it and was met with Imperious, some kind of Herald / Daemon Prince that may or may not be an avatar of Malcador.

 JNAProductions wrote:
Interesting... But I feel a universal -1 to shooting feels too powerful.

It was actually not that powerful on troops due to their weaker toughness and strength (comparatively to other lesser daemons). Very powerful on Greater Daemon and Damned Legionnaires though. But they did not feel that powerful anyway for me and my opponent. The new rules makes them more fearsome and interesting to fight because they require more brain to pull it off. I can't wait to show you the update.

Attack of the cotton wool!

Now this is the better side of Warhammer; players getting creative and making do with what they have to hand. Adding the modelling guide is a nice touch, and was also thinking Bladegheist Revenants for the Whitewraiths.