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I'm in the process of working on a new project as I get back into the hobby - a chamber militant for the Ordo Chronos. While I have quite a few ideas in mind what this would look like, I'm very curious as to the wider community's thoughts.

Imagine the Ordo is powerful, focused on time-travel/preventing time travel interference, and at some point gains limited time travel itself (possibly limited to sending warp communiques forward/backward in time.

Based on what we know of the ordos and their chambers, what would you expect of the Ordo Chronos' chamber militant?

A motley collection of Astartes, lost in time and the Warp over the years, and 'rescued' by the Ordo?

An offshoot of the Grey Knights, dedicated to temporal incursions, constantly struggling against being written out of history?

A future-founded force sent back by the Ordo of the far future?

If I recall correctly from Weshammer's narrating of the Pharisene Paradox, Ordo Chronos is a mostly scientific ordo.

As a Stalker fan, I'd go around it by fielding an army of mercenaries (some kind of IG regiment I suppose, or some sort of penal legion) and state-founded ( mecanicus or inquisitors I guess) researchers as characters or elites. Similar to how the scientists in Stalker are depicted.

Research what "lost" or "rare" techs are available in these codices and focus the army's equipment on these long forgotten imperial technologies, or the most eldritch/nonsisical stuff the imperium can use.

Otherwise, maybe use some legion of the damned material if any is around, representing the ordo working hand in hand with the lost in time brothers you suggest. I feel it could convey the impression that they are "favoured" or "able to manifest them" rather than rescued or hired, that would sound like too much of a feat to me.

I'd add that it's a really fun and original theme for an army there, can't wait to see it on day!

I agree with Maréchal- the Ordo Chronos are unlikely to have a formal Chamber Militant.

That said, I think you could pair them nicely with a Space Marine force built using the Dark Angels codex and taking loads of the weird old tech they can access. Plasma, stasis bombs etc. Not the Dark Angels themselves, they don't like the Inquisition.

Aren't Legion of the Damned implied to have future knowledge and be disjointed from time? They could literally be the order chronis chamber militant.

I also imagine they utilize specialist navigators (who can canonically observe temporal phenomena in the warp) to see and utilize time related warp effects. Probably a big emphasis on tech specialists with tools to analyze and interact with chronal phenomenon. Maybe an emphasis on tech priests and regularly mind-wiped skitarii.

I picture them having a relatively small chamber militant. They don't need a huge presence or to hold much ground. They just need to time portal their way into the ongoing Doctor Who episode and then have the tools to solve the problem.

IIRC only the big three ordos have their own chambers militant, the lesser/minor ordos all rely on inquisitorial stormtroopers and requisitions marine strike forces, etc.

I don't believe they would have a chamber militant akin to Deathwatch or Grey Knights, I Imagine since it is a smaller ordo each inquisitor has their retinue of agents since Chronos, if they are indeed traveling through time and preserving the timeline would be very decentralized more so than most ordos no "pool" of operatives but who they picked up along their travels and studies. As such I think it should be a blend of high-tech and low-tech using Van Saar and Palatine Enforcer bits, but with WFB Empire bits energy shields with none powered Morningstar flail, black powered rifle with cybernetic limbs, and grenades. Also, I think they would make heavy use of webbers to capture those of interest.

You can't set it up for me any easier: