Do you have your own custom space marine chapter?

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**Merellin**

if so, Is it just a custom colorscheme, Or do you have your own fluff and characters and such too? Tell us a bit about your custom chapter? I'v been trying to make one myself, But I never get any good ideas for it..

**Scott-S6**

Bolter and Chainsword have an extensive sub-forum devoted to this specific topic.

**Iron_Captain**

I do. They are called the Ash Wyrms. I am writing a lot of fluff for them. Currently I have 11 full pages worth of fluff on their homeworld, its culture and history (after all, the world they come from is the most important defining characteristic for any SM Chapter.), but I have yet to write most stuff on the Chapter itself apart from its early history.

The Ash Wyrms hail from the world of Ursha. The surface of their world was destroyed long ago by an apocalyptic war. The population has been forced to live underground in the world's massive cave systems ever since, permanently besieged in their cities by all kinds of nightmarish creatures. (the basic idea was Metro 2033 in Space!)
The Ash Wyrms themselves are the only ones who live on the surface, where circumstances are even worse than below. Despite its dangers, Ursha is a strategically important planet (justifying the presence of the Astartes). It is very rich in mineral resources, and most importantly, in orbit around the planet there is a gigantic shipyard dating back to the Dark Age of Technology. Even though this shipyard was heavily damaged during the Horus Heresy, it still is capable of producing a large amount of ships for the Imperial Navy, so it remains a vital asset for the Imperium in the local sector.

The Ash Wyrms are a Blood Angels successor Chapter, descended from the small detachment of Blood Angels that was left behind to guard the shipyard during the Horus Heresy. In their organisation, they are somewhat divergent from the Codex Astartes. Instead of 10 companies, the Ash Wyrms Chapter has only 8 companies, each of which is slightly larger than a standard Codex company. An important defining characteristic of the Chapter is its religious zealotry, formed out of the culture of its homeworld. The Urshan version of the Imperial Creed is fundamentalistic and archaic, and intolerant of any divergence. The Chapter refuses to work with Imperial forces whose faith they consider impure, and has at times even come into doctrinal conflicts with other Imperial forces. When deployed on Imperial worlds whose faith they consider too unorthodox, the Chapter has been known to conduct campaigns to purge the local clergy and forcefully convert the population to their own version of the Imperial Creed. At times, this has even brought them into conflict with the Ecclessiarchy, with which the Ash Wyrms normally share close ties. (they basically have a holier-than-thou crusader attitude as their biggest character flaw. Also unneccesarily long-winded ceremonies filled with flowery religious language

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On the good side, the Ash Wyrms also care a great deal about humanity and individual humans (okay, they do have to be ideologically pure), and will go to great lengths to protect and save the populations of warzones where they are deployed. Even heretics are given the option to convert rather than be purged immediately.
Tactically, the Ash Wyrms prefer heavy mechanised assaults using Land Raiders and Spartan Assault tanks to deliver powerful close combat units straight into enemy lines. These assaults are virtually always backed up by plenty of air power, as many aircraft are produced on Ursha. Often fighting besides their superhuman masters are the normal human auxiliaries of the Urshan Legion. (basically, my favourite kind of list has lots of tanks and flyers with assaulty units like th/ss terminators and death company, backed up by Imperial Guard with even more tanks)
As to weapons, the Chapter has a penchant for flamers, melta weapons and melee weapons of all kinds, especially thunder hammers.

Colour scheme:

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And a little short story I just wrote, about when the Emperor conquered Ursha during the Great Crusade, without a single shot being fired. (yay for psychic manipulation?)

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Jurmin turned the crank, which made a squeeking noise as the huge gun barrel slowly turned towards the mountaintop, barely visible in the dim twilight against the rolling grey clouds of the Urshan sky.
The augurs had calculated the course of the enemy's landing vessels and predicted that this peak and the surrounding slopes would be were the invader would make his first landing upon Urshan soil. It was a good strategic position from which to strike at the Urshan forces, gathered below in the valley. But the men of Urshan were prepared, and had turned the landing site into an ambush. Jurmin looked around. All over the valley, in the petrified forests, in the ruined settlements, on the slopes of hills where war leaders had planted their banners, everywhere raised upwards the rows upon rows of ominous long barrels of the heaviest artillery pieces found on their world, all cleverly camouflaged so that they would be near invisible from above. Amidst the huge cannons, millions of soldiers were gathered, the largest force ever assembled on Ursha since the days of the Fall. The invader would be be all exposed on the mountain slopes, and be massacred, just like all previous invaders had been before. They would be blown right back into space.
There! The clouds glowed red where the engines of alien space vessels illuminated them. A small, dull shape broke through the clouds. If not for the glow of its engines, Jurmin could never have made it out against the grey sky. No doubt the first ship of the large invasion force that the sensor-arrays had picked up. Jurmin checked the sights of his cannon, and shouted orders to his men to prepare for firing. Now it would begin.
The small craft touched down precisely on the mountain's peak. But where was the rest of the enemy? There was a huge enemy fleet in orbit, sensors had indicated they were incoming, and they had deliberately held back their own space fleet to lull the enemy into a fall sense of security and into the ambush. Why was there just send this one small ship, where had the rest of the enemy fleet gone? He looked over his shoulder, where the commander of his unit was discussing frantically with his superiors. If they destroyed this ship now, it would give the presence of their artillery away, ruining their ambush. Yet if they did not fire, who knows what kind of alien devilry this craft could unleash?
As Jurmin turned back to look at the alien vessel again, a sudden flash bathed the entire valley in a bright light. Blinded, Jurmin tried in vain to shield his eyes with his hands. Everywhere around him he heard men stumbling and shouting in panic. Jurmin tried to step towards the fire controls, which he would have been able to find even in complete darkness, but he stumbled over one of his men. Jurmin clenched his teeth; a cunning trick, the alien foe was devious. They had blinded the entire Urshan army with their light. But it would not last long. As his teary eyes accommodated the sudden increase in light, he was able to open them and see again.
And what he saw, made his jaw drop wide open. The clouds, the eternal grey rolling clouds of Ursha had parted! And trough the hole, the bright reddish disk of the sun could now be seen in full glory as it its rays pierced through the hole and illuminated the surface of Ursha for the first time since millennia. But yet, even the brightness of the unshrouded sun was eclipsed by a different light. The ramp of the alien vessel had opened, and from it had emerged figures clad in golden armour, shining more radiantly than the sun itself! The middle figure seemed small from this distance, but even so, Jurmin knew it had to be a giant from up close, towering even over his companions. And even from this distance, Jurmin could feel the immense, unnatural power that radiated out from the figure. This was no alien, this was a god! As Jurmin looked around him, he could see his men and all others around him staring, with tears in their eyes, in doubt and amazement at the figure on the mountain. And suddenly it dawned to him. The prophecy! Millennia ago, the tale goes, at the time of the Fall, the people of Ursha had blamed their god for leaving them, and turned against their religion. They had destroyed religious buildings and slaughtered the priesthood. But before dying, the ancient head priest had prophesied that one day, long after the world had perished and been remade, their god would return, and his coming would be known from the parting of the clouds. It was a story that had survived as an ancient myth, known by all people of Ursha, but rarely given much value beyond being an interesting story from a distant past. But now, the ancient story was becoming true before their very eyes! The clouds had parted! A strange feeling washed over Jurmin as he felt the power of the distant golden figure on the mountaintop, and he felt compelled to kneel. Their god had returned... And at the same time he came to this realisation and knelt, the entire army, as if driven by one single will, fell to its knees and shouted out an oath of allegiance to the golden god on the mountaintop.

As a funny sidenote, this all evolved from me just wanting a fluffy IG force to go along with my Iron Hands (An Imperial Army regiment from a planet named Ursha are briefly mentioned fighting alongside the Iron Hands in one of the FW HH books). Eventually I even began liking my custom fluff so much I ended up scrapping my beloved IH in favour of a custom SM chapter also from that world.

**Chastian**

One of the best custom chapters I've ever seen is the "Headhunters" (you can google them just search Headhunters Space Marine Chapter) - they also have a facebook page. Has all their own fluff & color scheme.

**Skinnereal**

Just the colour-scheme.
I started to paint my Terminators to go with the original Space Hulk, then stopped until 2011. When I started again, and bought AoBR, the Terminators were the only models I had left. It was silly to start again, when I had models painted already, and kept going.

**MechaEmperor7000**

I use to. Mine were named the Magna Marines (got the idea from Power Rangers) and had brass armor and black greaves and trim. However this ended up being too close to the Minotaurs in colorscheme, but I didn't actually want Minotaurs. Later on I came into a bunch of marines with Dark Angel iconography and a very cheap (as in 10 bucks) Sammael, so I decided to strip what I painted and change them all to Dark Angels.

I also had the Sons of Ouroburos, but I think I later ran into an actual chapter (in canon) from the Ouroburos system and the two were a bit too close for comfort. Plus I didn't really know where to go with their fluff because it was half corrupt, half emo and it just felt bad (I wrote it when I was like, 15). They eventually became the Magna Marines and...well you know the rest.

**ThirstySpaceMan**

My entire force is deathwatch Marines but I have done shoulder pad and bits to go with each chapter. My Favorite made up chapter is the Redbulls. I even used a can tab to stencil on a redbull. If I do moved on from deathwatch reedbulls would be what id do. Silver and royal blue hearldry with blood angels winged shoulders.oh and my sons of Osiris.

**Sheokronath**

This is actually something I'd love to do when I have some disposable income to spend. I'd use the Chapter Generators and just see where it takes me.

**Las**

Big time. The Void Kings. Their geneseed suffered a disability to the progenoid gland that produces feths for them to give.

**dusara217**

I spent a week or so throwing together the Angels Vitae (angels of life), which were Blood Drinkers Successors who actually cared about human life. Basic summary here:

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**Bookwrack**

Custom color scheme, background, characters, the works.

But no one wants to hear about your D&D chatacter. so I keep my mouth shut about it. XD

**Eldartank**

Merellin wrote:
if so, Is it just a custom colorscheme, Or do you have your own fluff and characters and such too? Tell us a bit about your custom chapter? I'v been trying to make one myself, But I never get any good ideas for it..

I have the Black Omega Chapter. One day I realized I had some 30 metal Terminator models in my bitz boxes, most of them still in the blister packs. I also had countless unused sheets of decals, with plenty of Ultramarines symbols of varying sizes. So the Black Omega Deathwing Company was born, their Chapter symbol being the Omega sign (simply the Ultramarines symbol turned upside down). They all have black shoulder pads with the chapter symbol. The Librarian is of course in blue armor with black shoulder pads. Officers such as the Deathwing Master has white armor, Sargeants are in bone colored armor, and the normal Terminators are in black armor. I have a Land Raider painted black, as well as a Dreadnought (he's black, but I might change that color). I'm in the process of assembling and painting a squad of the new plastic Deathwing Command Squad models, and also a Nephilim jetfighter (because that looks so awesome, despite the rules for it).

**Champion of Slaanesh**

I have my own custom imperial fists successor chapter. Im in the process of writing fluff for them.