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My Blood Angels army is composed of Assault Marines & Death Company that are Blood Angels, Sanguinary Guard that are Angels Encarmine, etc.

Getting my Dark Angels together (mmm angel fetish), and I'm thinking of painting my 2 tac squads and 1 Deathwing as Dark Angels, another Deathwing as Angels of Vengeance, Deathwing Knights as Guardians of the Covenant, etc etc.

Is this something that is frowned on in your experiences?

Doesn't really bother me. All marine chapters are just different colours at the end of the day

Your force could be a hastily assembled group thrown together to take out a specific threat, for example.

That sounds great! I think armies only have problems if they don't have a good theme. You have one. Maybe try to tie them together with a common set of campaign markings on kneepads and shoulders, even uf the other iconography will be different.

Haven't had a problem with anyone that I know so far. I have white Death Company but standard Blood Angels and not one person has mentioned the paint unless to say that they liked them. As long as you have a color tying them together you'll be just fine. Sometimes it is just more fun to not have to paint the same color a 1000 times. I'd say go with it.

I'm planning an army that is literally going to include six totally different chapters (connected by an Inquisitor). You can get away with a few successors.

I own a crusade force and it is several different chapters.
The crimson suns devestators
Sable stars devestators
Dark angels chaplain
Ordo xenos inquisitor
Crimson fist tactical
Crimson fist tactical
Ultramarine tactical
Skyclaw pack
Ravenguard assault squad
Deathwing terminator unit
Pyreguard unit
Salamander dreadnought
Minotuars dreadnought

Thats the list of units I have for my crusade force, so many colours I dont get bored painting

oO what codex do you run with that, Formosa? I'm guessing vanilla marines with Grey Knights for the Inquisitor and the Pyreguard?

Just vanilla marines, I use the inquisitor with permission of my mates, no allies from gk, pyreguard are just a dakka termy squad with a heavy flamer, simples

I try and keep it all simple, that way no one gets confused, I'm going to be adding in sicarius as the over all commander of the space marines

At some point I will be adding in guard allies useing

1 death corp unit (30 guardman)
105th heavy recon regiment (2 chimeras, 20 vets, 3 sentinels, hellhound)
122nd Valhalla armoured co. 2 leman Russ
Chenkov in over all command.

Go alioth crusade

Huh, cool.

Formosa you are taking it to new heights. Does the force mesh well paintwise? That's my main concern for my army

I've actually always loved this idea and do the same thing when I play Codex Space Marines. The reason is because I hate trying to convert special characters and I think it looks cooler to have that special character come with his own entourage. If I field Darnath Lysandor then he's coming with five Imperial Fist terminators.

If I run Pedro Kantor then it's probably a drop pod heavy list (sometimes with a Darnath Lysandor and Terminator deepstrike squad) and I fill my three Elite slots with Sternguard from different chapters and different drop pods: Usually Crimson Fists with Pedro attached, Ultra Marines, and Salamanders.

The guys I play with are fine with it as long as they're not painted up as a chapter that has a codex such as DA, BA, or BT. This way the rules for my combined arms force all match and there isn't any confusion.

Frankly I think it's cool that someone else does it!

Oddly enough it does mesh quite well, bear in mind to do the bases all the same theme to help them mesh, I'm in the process of doing my imperial eagles command squad to go with my counts as sicarius, they are a deep purple and gold, reminiscent of pre heresy emperors children... A link perhaps.

My mate has done something similar too, he has written the fluff for his subsector, jalvene, he he has made his imperial guard from that subsector and is in the process of making the jalvene inquisition units and a space marine chapter that operates in the area.

My alioth crusade is to retake subsector Copernicus from the forces of the forces or chaos, the capital of the subsector is the forge world of alioth, the home world of the crimson suns.

If I could post pics I would, you can see my crimson fists on my pics I uploaded ages ago, my phone or this website.does not allow me to post pics now though, it's annoying

Your army is painted at all, therefore you're better than most people already. Having a mix of chapters (especially ones that make sense fluff-wise) is perfectly fine as long as everything is still WYSIWYG.

I love doing this. My 2k marine list has 2 death guard squads 1 rhino/1 drop pod, a Luna wolves squad w/DP, a salamanders squad w/rhino, a raven guard and white scars Attk bike, a 1k sons pre heresy terminator, Vulkan, a command squad with 1 member from each chapter/legion and a second from salamanders. Looks like a hodge podge but each squad has its own character.

I'm sick of painting this color, which is why I ask:

I think, actually, it's a really GOOD idea. Painting a Blood Angels force with all the various children chapters would be really sweet! Likewise with the Dark Angels. As long as you don't have Space Wolf models with Salamandes colors using Blood Angels rules, or similar nonsense, it's all good.

My armies simply have a passing theme to keep them together.

My DE are called the Kabal of the Green Hair. The leaders of each squad have green hair. Beyond that everything else was up for grabs. Within a single unit they have the same look, which also goes with their dedicated transport. For example, one units overriding color is dark red, another is orange, a third is light blue, another is dark blue, the next one is tan.

My necrons use white faces, but armor color is different across from unit to unit.

My marines are made up of White Scars (bikes), Imperial Fists (vets/elites), Salamanders (troops / terminators), DA (from the DV box set because the iconography was a bitch to strip off) and others. Basically, it's a coalition force so I have various HQs like Vulkan, Lysander, Khan and even a generic captain which allows me to change things up from game to game.

By not keeping the same scheme across the entire army, I accomplish two things. First, it is readily apparent which squad goes with with transport. Second, I'm not stuck painting the exact same thing over and over and over ... The only army I have that I haven't done this to is my HH:Emperor's Children. The entire theme is Emperor's Children so I felt it was best to keep to the canon purple.

So, go for it. I'm not a fan of monotonous armies myself.

 Thorn678 wrote:
I'm sick of painting this color, which is why I ask:

Spoiler:

I totally understand. I don't like that scheme at all (or the plain green), so when I started my DA force, I immediately started with a different paint scheme.

I really like the idea of having a few discreet schemes to represent different successors joining together. That's pretty cool. I think I'll do that with a few units, too.

Sure it's acceptable. As far as I know, such "Crusade" forces are an official part of the fluff since the Ultramarines Codex in 2nd edition actually stated that as a certain kind of force. Having them all be successors makes for an even stronger fluff basis for why they are fighting together.

Your army is painted at all, therefore you're better than most people already.

I support this statement.

Your force could easily represent a strike force consisting of squads from several chapters uniting to face a larger threat.

It's a good idea. I have a friend whose got a similar theme going with his Dark Angels. I'd love to see something like that done for Ultramarines.

I think it would be bad arse to say "I play The Unforgiven" when people ask you what force you play.

Isnt it really only Space Wolves or CSM that have any real graphical difference other than color codes anyway?
I dont play any MEQs but if i did i wouldnt even paint them the standard colors anyway (i hate to limit myself because of fluff saying it makes no sense if i dont do it this way). Im weird like that (i play orks after all lol).

I've got a 3k+ Guardians of the Covenant force. I've really had fun with that scheme.

These used to be fielded all the time in Rogue Trader.

Just paint up a Captain as a Rogue Trader, and they could be members of his ship's detachment (assembled from a variety of Chapters) on an expedition to open up new frontiers for the Imperium.

It's a great idea, the DA + successors pretty much operate as a single entity so it makes plenty of sense.

How can you ever get tired of painting bone sarcastic face

I did the same thing for the same reason. I got tired of painting my red BA theme for everything. I had just finished reading the second Blood Angels Omnibus and got inspired to do a Flesh Tearer theme. My Devs got painted as Flesh Tearers.

Once you field everything it looks quite cool. It's a change from seeing a sea of Blue or Red or pick-your-favorite-Skittle-flavor.

Actually, what I was worried about was it not looking coherent enough when I field them all together. Glad y'all think it would look good.

The fact that they pretty much ARE the I Legion even though they have been broken into chapters is the main reason why I think I can get away with it.

And reps that's what I do for my BA as well, haha. I hate GOLD sanguinary guard, so I painted them white like Angels Encarmine (and I love black wings) which started it all.

EDIT: and yeah, SO SICK of painting bone. I just airbrush and then do an oil wash. I'm really not a fan of the oil washes - I can't seem to get it right. But if I basecoat then wash, and go back in to paint everything up, I kill the natural shadows when I try to highlight around say, the rivets on the Terminator's power fist.

I paint my Nids all different colors b/c my fluff it is an alpha class psyker running around stealing Nids from different broods where he can. That way in group games (which we play a lot of 2 vs 2) when people say, "The Nids would just eat their partner this doesn't make sense." -- I bring up my fluff and they say, "Oh ok."

@Thorn678 Haha, that's cool. FWIW your Termie looks great.