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I've previously built a couple of Blood Angel armies, and am aware their Captains and other high ranking or elite individuals will wear golden armour instead of the Chapter colours.

Is this an indulgence peculiar to the sons of Sanguinius, or do other lines of Astartes indulge in similar behaviour?

For example, are there incidences of an Ultramarines higher-up also with a fetish for LARPing as Golden Rod?

Its largely a BA only thing, that started in the way back machine (2nd edition?)

Most marines limit rank to markings, especially on the shoulder pads, extra decorations (wreaths were rank markers at some point), and helmet/backpack redesigns, additions or helmet recolors.

Its oddly non-standardized, partly because early RT stuff had SM lieutenants and other ranks, and then they vanished for multiple editions.

I know personally I use a lot more gold on HQs and honor guard/ champions as well. Not to BA levels, but a lot of shoulder trim, full shoulders, and helmets (on the guards)

Helps them stand out on the table.

Off the top of my head I can't think of any established chapters that do it, but there's nothing stopping you from doing it. Personally I also put more gold on my Captains to fancify them.

nareik wrote:


Is this an indulgence peculiar to the sons of Sanguinius, or do other lines of Astartes indulge in similar behaviour?

Golden gryphons.

Marines are basically knights in space, they are highly diversified and free in their heraldry and markings, in a lot of chapters. Primaris tend to nullifies that, but if you want an officer to be all gold or copper or black or whatever, just do it it's totally acceptable. The captain of the first company of my own chapter is actually wearing an all gold terminator armor

The most recent special marking for an ultramarines or codex captain was a black helmet, the same way sergeants have red helmets.

In the Raven Guard, the higher in rank a marine gets the more white trim they can wear, until the point that a high ranking captain can have more than half of his armor painted white. Ofc there are lots of raven guard players who don’t bother with this because of how stealthy they want their models to look, and it’s more of a personal heraldry than an official uniform.

I don't know about officers but Rogal Dorn wore gold armour rather than the yellow of his Legion so there is a precedent.

Who is the black girl in the background ?

Raven Guard are known to use very little in the way of ranks or marking on their armor, so it is harder for the enemy to pick of the leaders.