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Hi all, a lot of people, myself included, love to do custom paint schemes and conversions, and make up a chapter/regiment/klan to go with it, and while working on my own paint scheme it got me thinking.

What's your custom background for your army?

Let's share anything you've thought up for your minis, be it a characters backstory, a squad or the whole army.

For me my army is Imperial Knights supported by Imperial Gaurd, all the gaurd have been converted to look like the knight Household sworn soldiers, and the planet was only just rediscovered by the Imperium, so there isn't much that has the imperiums usual look (sorry Servo Skulls). The knight Household is very into hunting large beasties when it isn't at war, and each Knigt earned a title after an something he did in game to remember him for, The Preceptor is The Wyrmslayer because in one turn he killed a Trygon, a Flyrant and a Broodlord in one turn, and the Crusader is The Stargazer, because he once missed every shot with the RFBC and Gatling Cannon!

But what's your army's story? Can't wait to hear!

I have 27 pages of lore for the entire subsystem, from geography to politics. You can read the main part through the link in my signature. There is a lot of missing info and it's not translated yet, but the descriptions and history is present.

tl;dr
The solar system is independent. They are loyal to the Emperor, but not controlled by the Administratum or any other Imperial organization. They were left behind and forgotten. The colony developed and expanded into a self-governing mini-empire, that is still cut-off from the wider Imperium.

Unit I play is 4th Neutran Panzer division.
Coming from a cold planet of Neutra, that is mostly Taiga and Tundra. They are Panzer division because I got inspired by the Kampfgruppe Lehr and the Battle of Ardennes. My tanks are converted Panter tanks, Chimeras are SdkFz 251s and all guardsmen wear white-green long coats, grey armor, and the distinctive German Stahlhelms.

Ostrakan Legions are pure Ad-Mech units that guard the underground forgeworld and AdMech installations throughout the entire system. A branch of Xenarites located here managed to build a webway portal that is kept a secret from everybody else than the and they send small expeditions into the alien network.
Since the forge world is underground, in vast cave systems, whey wear stone-colored camouflage, inspired by the 5-color desert camo used by the US army in 1980.


Munistorum Order are refugees from Vakaria, the planet that was captured by the Arch Enemy (my friend has his chaos army based on that planet) and were given refuge. Later they built themselves a monastery and stayed for good. They have silver armor and purple clothes and serve mostly as a church and charity, while the Sororitas are mostly law maintaining and guarding force of important individuals, meetings and sites.


Since the subsystem is at relative peace, there were no major deployments yet. This may change as the great rift appeared.

My Big Mek warlord (Big Mek Tank Krusha) was marooned on a tropical-paradise planet by the freebootas he was supposed to be working with. His dreadmob easily overcame the imperial presence, and the imperials all ran away, cos they was so terrified of da orks! Then the tyrandis arrived...

After a bitter conflict with the bugz, Tank Krusha realised he was running out of fuel for the dreads, and set to getting some squiggoths bred, as they can eat the nids. Once his super-squiggoths (enhanced by weirdboys wired into them to channel WAAAGH! energy into their veins) were out stomping the bugs, he cannibalised his dreadmob to build a krooza and escape. By the time he did, he had 1 squiggoth left, which he de-wired from the weirdboy to stop it growing because he was fed up of keep expanding the hold of his krooza to hold it!

What was left of his WAAAGH! flew straight into a rift in the warp, and Mork decided to throw them at another planet which needed stomping.

After crashing on a desert planet, BMTK is now stomping across the wasteland in the mekshop he's built on the back of his squiggoth, uniting the klans and preparing for a new, even stompier WAAAGH!

Shouldn't this sort of thing be in Background?

OT,

My Tau are a group that live in the asteroid belt, mining minerals that are difficult to procure on terrestrial bodies for suits and ships . As such, there is as little exposed skin as I can get away with, the Kroot Auxiliaries that I use are Shoota Boyz (After all, kroot cannot survive in vacuum, but Boyz just wonder why their gunz and Waagh!s are silent).

Beyond that, I enjoy John Ringo as an author, and have enjoyed his 'Troy Rising' and 'Vorpal Blade' series (with the exception that there hasn't been a continuation in a couple years)

I'm planning on building my snakebites on a loosely buddistic idea. They follow a big and mighty weirdboy who claims orks get reborn each time they die (why else would the instinctively know how to do certain stuff?) and his goal is to achieve ascension and get to NirWAAAGHna, where there is endless Waaagh

Space marines Chapter- Blue Steel Iron hands successor chapter. A comedy of errors. Blue steel legion's monestary and recruitment is done on a system of planets known to the public as Zoolanderia.

There were two miscommunications that led to Blue steel being a bit different from other legions.

Weak in the locals dialect is a word depicting a blend of wonder and perfection. When the imperium found the worlds they found the populice extremely compatible with iron hands geneseed. They brough over some talet from thier parent legion, but due to an accident they were mostly killed in early skirmishes from an unearthed Necron tomb. As such they follow the doctrine of the "flesh is weak" to the literal meaning of the flesh is perfection and must stay flawless. As such a large portion of Blue steel legion is spent on their grooming rituals of applying lotions and exfoliating to ensure no blemish exists on their flesh. They apply oils and scents, but the use of makeup in the legion is seen as a degrading thing as it fakes the perfections of the flesh a member should strive for. In battle a Blue steel member would never go around helmet-less for fear a scar may appear on their untainted flesh.

The second error had to do with their continued use of the old parlance of the word finest. They seek to be the Emperor's finest. but take it to mean most attractive and beautiful. As such most of their recruits are chosen through a series of walk offs between male models to become members of the bluesteel legion.

Orks my most played army are simpler. RockJaw is a Mega armored warboss who was part of the beast's great waaagh. it was unfortunatly lost in a warp storm and spat out seemingly weeks later to the orks, but nearly 10k+ years in the matrium had passed. As a freeboota with the waagah energy goen and no great conflict in sight he proceeded to the nearest habitable planet (a renegades planet) and met with a system or worlds ownned by the dark mechanicum and World Eaters. they don't compete much as the orks take the scraps of useless junk the mechanicum throw out, have good fights with the world eaters and they even go on raids together (old ally rules where orks could ally with CSN) both just lookign for a good fight. worlsd eaters to appease the blood god, orks to appease gork and mork.

Much like Hawky I have a tangled set of developed backgrounds for many of my armies, some fairly closely linked, some only because their stories happen in the same area.

IG: A tank equipped Navy Provost (police) unit. They use their tanks to guard a land based navel facility, and patrol the area around it due to infighting between the now city and the planetary government. My (mostly female) Bobbies are made from Victoria miniatures, and the tanks are mostly converted Metal Slug tanks. AKA Dominion Tank Police IN SPACE!!!!

In the same city is a fairly large Sisters monastery. Sisters of the Kami-Emperor. They assist with maintaining law and order outside, as well as providing prayer and charity for those inside the city. Think Sisters of Battle as Mikos.

Adeptus Mechanicaus: While most of their personnel are in the navy's orbital station, they maintain a small armor park to keep up maintenance of the weapons you don't want to use in a space station, such as the Dune Crawlers. Due to the decree separating the Guard and the Navy, this maintenance shrine has been building tanks and tankettes for the local Provosts so they can do their jobs. MS has also been graced by the presence of a contemplative member of the Lego Cybernetica and her apprentices. She's established a small workshop/meditaion room used primarily by herself and the twins (her data smith students), next to the electro-chapel. Think Tauist mechanicus.

Searching for something in the MadMaxian wastes around the city (the reason for the Provost/Sororatas patrols), is a small contingent from Iyanden. This spirit seer and her body guards, The Brothers are searching for something.
Think shintoesque pilgrimage/journey to the west.

Also in the city, though not associated with the Basilica's sisters is Seraphim Rosalina. A sister orblata, she's been wandering the Imperium trying to find absolution for her homeworld in death by great deeds. So far she's failed to die. But this 'former' sister of the Silver Chalice has been finding objects and relics of importance on her travels. Despite her, Rosalina has also managed to collect a small following of space marines who find her crusade to be of importance. Even a pair of assassins seem to have attached themselves. Though she seems a normal sister, it's said that the blessed fallen saints and defenders of the Imperium will assemble to aid her in her cause. (Cypher w/Fallen + Assassins and 'Deamons')

My death watch are a small contingent of Blood Ravens that have been in and out of the area for unknown reasons. Mostly to steal stuff.


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 G00fySmiley wrote:
Space marines Chapter- Blue Steel

Do they have trouble turning left?

Very cool background.

 carldooley wrote:
Shouldn't this sort of thing be in background?

No, it should be in Dakka Fiction.

I’ll bite, however.

The overall umbrella of the Alphic Hawks for Militarum Tempestus Regiments was created to take advantage of the many new war orphans available in a sub sector after many Guard regiments ground away at an initial Tyranid invasion across multiple worlds. The Tyranids returned in larger numbers, however. By this time, the first few regiments of the Alphic Hawks had been created and were successfully holding back Tyranid invasions and even launching harrowing attacks against the bugs. After several generations, around twenty regiments of the Alphic Hawks we’re established. I play the one which I consider to be the most notable—The 7th Alphic Hawks.

12th Tallarn Sand Wolves. They're a combined regiment made of Tallarn armor and Catachan and Cadian infantry in desert colors.

My Salamanders represent the best of each of the 7 specific settlements on Nocturne. They are the strikeforce attached to Vulkan He'stan in the quest for the Artefacts of Vulkan. As such each unit is upgraded and their roles are clearly defined.

I'm still working on the complete picture for them so WIP.

My Guard are a mixed lot. Most belong to the 212th Mantos Dragoons. They hail from an oceanic hiveworld (called Mantos). Mixed with them are some 21st Kasrkin, 327th Scions "Red Ambulls", the 102nd Catachan "Night Shanks", 187th Vostroyans, 989th Elysian Platoon "Ryan's Raiders", and some tag along Crusaders.

I may want to add some Conscripts from the Savlar Chem Dogs.

As I'm collecting a Primaris force of Emperor's Spears, my fluff for my Guard is that they're groups that got stuck in Elara's Veil when the Great Rift formed. They're at the forefront of defending the Veil from the Exilarchy.

Lord Silius Tar
Commander of the Bronze Guard
Master of the Dreadforge
Butcher of Cassius Hive.

Use to be a Forge Master of the Legio Cybernetica until he was corrupted by the Slaaneshi Daemon Prince Esy'trix'dominus during the Heresy.
He now commands the Bronze Guard, a force of Daemon engines and warmachines from his personal Helstalker "Blacksmith".

My force consists of the Echoes of Eisenstein, a still loyal splinter of the Death Guard legion descended from those loyal few who deserted their sires under captain Garro to bring word of Horus's treachery to Terra. Through unkind years and millenia they remain, though bitter and battered, the Unbroken Blades.

The gist is they originally contributed to the post-Heresy purges while trying to work as part of the Imperial warmachine, but as time went by there were more and more misunderstandings and "accidents" against them, which eventually forced them to the fringes and out from the sight of the Administratum. True to their decree of stoic endurance and selfreliance, they carried on in the shadows, growing and seceding to establish domains of their own. Gamewise they do use Death Guard rules, but no daemons or such, preferring traditional chem/rad weapons of all-out annihilation. Death to the False Emperor is neatly explained by the fact that even more than the arch-traitors, these men despise the modern theocratic lunatics who cannot see beyond their selfdestructive propaganda as they destroy all their forebears bled to build.

Augusta per angusta.

I've got a few paragraphs on every unit in my army that comes together to form the army's background.

Essentially they are a group of Iron Warriors that fought against the Death Guard during the War of Rust and Ruin on Dysactis. They're all survivors that were afflicted by the plagues unleashed by the Death Guard and were hunted down by their fellow Iron Warriors as a result of their mutation.

They've banded together, united in their bitterness towards their former brothers and granted sanctuary by the Death Guard now that they're all gifted by Grandfather Nurgle.

The Death Guard use them as a sort of throwaway force - attacking Imperial weak points and sowing disease in vulnerable populations, but not particularly caring if they survive or not. The warband themselves are more ambitious and desperately want revenge on the Iron Warriors that sought to purge them.

The background lore of my armies is roughly as follows

Orks: Deathskull WAAAGH! lead by the duo of Warboss Vankraken and Warboss Scuzzer Warboss Scuzzer thinks up the plans while Vankraken steals those plans, each thinks the other is giving/executing their plans so both think they are the actual big boss. The other Orks are terribly confused about who is actually the bigger boss but any question about who is the main boss results in a PK to the face. The Orks with any sense of self preservation just keep their questions to themselves.

Tau: An Expedition Cadre that ended up cut off from supply lines due to the Damocles Gulf conflict. They took and held an Imperial world but endured countless conflicts with nearby IoM forces, Orks (The earlier mentioned Deathskull WAAAGH), Eldar, and the rare Necron incursion. Limited supply of equipment resulted in a lot of in the field modifications to units and more reliance on the traditional Tau hardware (Hammerheads, Devilfish, Broadsides, Crisis Suits) instead of relying on the newer large suit systems. They eventually gained some access to Riptides and Ghostkeels but still prefer the rely on the older proven tactics/tech.

Space Marines: The Void Kraken are a "renegade" force of loyalist marines that awoke a few hundred years ago in their strike cruiser coming out of the warp with no knowledge of their origins, no real markings, and a bunch of heresy era tech. Without any proof of their origins and surrounded by incredibly paranoid IoM, these marines decided that staying space borne was the best option for survival and started focusing on rapid deployment hit and run attacks, ship boarding actions, and any other operation that didn't lock them into any prolonged stay in any one area. Attacking the enemies of the IoM at the best of times down to raiding IoM ships and facilitates when supplies started to dwindle. These astates maintained their ranks by capturing children from raided facilities/ships and press ganging adults into servitude as serfs. These marines are exceptional skilled at rapid strikes and despite limited supplies, they prefer to bring lots of specialized equipment and ammo to bare on the enemy. They don't follow the codex astartes as they have only seen bits and pieces of its teachings. Their standard marines are more akin to Sternguard with their preference to bring highly specialized ammo and weapons for the mission at hand instead of opting for the more generalist loadout of a Tactical Marine. Scouts are not seen as recruits but another path of the Astarte who finds themselves better suited for recon and infiltration work. Newer Marines are mixed into existing units to be quickly trained/mentored by more seasoned battle brothers. Tabletop its primarily Sternguard, Vanguard Vets (lots of power lances), Terminators, Devastators, Scouts, Land Speeders, and Drop Pods.

They have constantly attempted to elude Inquisitors who would hear about acts of piracy, raids on facilities, or these mysterious marines who would suddenly arrive to turn the tide of a battle then just as quickly depart. They have succeeded in keeping themselves hidden from the Inq up until more recently when they found themselves cornered by an unusual Crusading force. With little choice other than mass casualties in attempting to fight/retreat, the Void Kraken decided that maybe joining this Crusade would be a way back into the good graces of the IoM.

Inq/Scions/GK/etc: A crusading force that is officially lead by a Planetary Governor made "Inquisitor". This force is known a "The Fiery Heart of the Emperor" and was established by a handful of Inquisitors that through means foresaw a great tribulation in the IoM which would require a holy and righteous army to fight against a great darkness coming from within the IoM itself. With the suspect events of Gulliman's Resurrection along with Cawl's introduction of Primaris Marines and other such abominable technologies. The threat within appears to be made clear and this Crusade seeks to fight against this heresy and cleanse any corruption.

Operating on the eastern fringe of IoM space, this force is struggling to gain momentum but is slowly gaining new worlds to pull soldiers, supplies, and ships from. They view all Primaris as the enemy and believe that it was the Primarchs that doomed humanity. While the loyalist Primarchs are revered for their service to the Emperor, they also believe that they have served their purpose and it is up to the strength of humanity to fight and win this galaxy. They view the events of Gulliman's resurrection as highly suspect and believe him to be either a puppet or corrupted by Chaos/Eldar/something. They view the Ynnari as Eldar who are unknowingly worshiping a Chaos God and that the Ynnari + Cawl's involvement in Gulliman's resurrection to have ultimately tainted Gulliman and thus he is setting the IoM on a path to ruin.

These views don't gain them much in the way of supporters but their ranks are filled with fanatical believers who will gladly fight on no matter the odds. They have enlisted the support of certain forces such as the Void Kraken who aren't fanatical in this belief but have been slowly convinced of the righteousness of their cause (and definitely didn't join to avoid complete destruction).

My Marines are based on a relatively unknown Chapter called (ironically) the Unforgotten. They consist of Marines who for whatever reason are unable to continue to fight for their original Chapter, wherever it be penitence, lost in the warp, or they're the last ones entirely.

They forgo their original armour in place of slate-grey plate with no icons or badges, and the original is kept on display in the main Battle Barge in the Hall of Heroes. Estimates of the total number of suits are above 10,000, although there are 5 suits leading them permanently shrouded, with what lies underneath known only to the Chapter Master.

Whereas the Deathwatch consist of the best of every Chapter, the Unforgotten are the last.

 Valkyrie wrote:
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Very nice concept.

Just a question. Do you paint your models at all?

Ork warboss commissioned a suit of mega armour from his meks. The big mek thought the warboss lacked ambition and instead built the suit for himself and used it to lead a coup against the boss.

After restructuring the warband, including hiring a bunch of deathskulls to help 'source' materials, the big mek was able to build a mechanical avatar of the gods; a stompa!

I have a fluff thread in my sig where you can read all the painfully-derivative details revealed to date, but tl:dr the Kronstaat IV Worker's Defence Force believe they have seceded from the Imperium in a popular uprising, to re-establish control of their own system in local hands.

In fact, they have been sold down the Suwanee by a Slaanesh-worshiper who is totally neither a massive Mary-Sue, nor Stalin.

"In 40,000, a crack Knight House was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Imperium backwaters. Today, still wanted by the High Lords of Terra, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire... House TKO."

/cue Theme song.

I ain't getting on no Storm Eagle, fool.

I have over 500 pages of headcannon fluff for my Blood Ravens, including detailed biographies on each character, how the chapter was restructured after the Third Aurelian Crusade, the M42 timelapse, the Great Rift, Guilliman and the Primaris Marines, etc. Each character is based on an in-game character model and converted to be used in my chapter, and complete with fluff about their gear and similarities to other characters.

I am currently (although on hiatus) writing a novel about my Deathwatch army, although the army only reflects the novel, not vice versa. It stars a Blood Raven sergeant, a veteran of over 400 years, and over the planned three-part series, details the move from purely Old Guard marines to newer Primaris marines.

I also have around 200 pages of fluff for my Chaos Marine, Tyranid, Grey Knight, the Orks I start collecting as of today, and a planned army of every faction, complete with all the inter-connected storylines and reasons why all of these ultra-famous characters appear.

I'm still not finished.

Basically my Nurgle Daemons are actually chaotic good. They try to help people, but they're not so great at it.


I guess I would have done the same with Tzeentch if I had the patience for the bangles and rings on the pink horrors.

I’ve done my own custom space marine chapter, based on how I collect. They’re called the Avengers of Horus - the Avengers for short (and when referred to in the presence of other loyalist factions).

Short version: the original marines are “redeemed” traitors, the first company is composed of Grey Knights brought in to keep the former traitors in line. The reserve companies are Imperial Guard who have encountered Chaos and persevered; they are inducted into the Chapter instead of killed (so there a lot of Cadians). Eventually, the guardsmen will be “uplifted” to Marines, if they survive long enough.

My Eldar are The Nesh-Ravan (children of a million suns)

In the grim darkness of the far future the doomed race of the Eldar was slowly fading away with the flow of time. Forgotten by time the craft-world of Nesh-Ravan emerged from the darkness...

My Eldar are one of the original craftworlds caught up in the warp wave following the fall. They were close enough to get caught up in a savage warp storm in real space but not close enough to be extinguished. Where in fact only a couple of centuries have passed for them, caught adrift in the time warp they were flung to fringe of the galaxy. They settled on a fringe maiden world. They truly believed they were the last of their race until after couple centuries of probing they have stumbled across a webway leading into the inner galaxy where they learned that 10 millenia have passed. They lamented at what became of their Asuryani brethren who have forgotten their former glory.

Learning this information and the sorry state the galaxy was in their grand farseer who possessed skills learned before the fall performed a forbidden art and sacrificed himself pouring all of his life force into a single effort to delve deep into the strands of fate. The dying seer managed to pass on fleeting dream vision. A great world serpent, breaking the shackles around their souls and thus opening leading them to the light. "The serpent knows all secrets".

Revived with a new purpose, they have united their various offshoot colonies and lead their people to freedom at any and all costs. They have just re-launched their craft-world again after centuries of laying dormant and they have a mission. They are in search of the black library, and the solitaire... They are after one thing only: information. They will carve out a new asuryani empire from the fringes of the galaxy.

My Eldar have set of to sail the stars in search of the serpent Deity they now worship as he has the answers..and a way to follow the old ones.

So basically they just cruise around smashing armies taking what they can, pirating anything that comes their way drifting through the stars looking for clues and artifacts and in the meantime expanding their empire keeping the momentum going.

Chaos Daemons - The Blood Scent is a strange amalgamation of forces of the chaos gods who follow after a Herald on Bloodcrusher, suitably named Herald of the Hunt with one of Khornes most ancient flesh hounds eternally chained to it, straining at the leash as it follows the soul scent of those to be slain.

Over the millennia the crusading force has proven to be unpredictable to even the creators of the Daemons, Seekers of Slaanesh fall in line to follow, knowing wherever the hound leads a tsunami of excess will erupt, droning legions of Plague Bearers file after, praising Nurgle for sending them a guide to the next glade to infect and gibbering Horrors and flamers sprout into existence, much to the chagrin of the other daemons as the incessant laughter and waves of raw magic causing mutations. Even the Iron Forge has committed Soul Grinders to the strange parody of a crusade, aloof and thundering into the front lines, maw cannons roaring.

Even the Chaos God's themselves find this particular legion an oddity, each of their forces working in a semblance of balance as it ruptures into real-space for unimaginable carnage and flooding back into the imaterium where more daemons are inexpiably drawn to join. The God's watch, jealous of the power of the legion but cautious to stop their daemons from joining, lest it makes themselves a target.

 Hawky wrote:

 Valkyrie wrote:
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Very nice concept.

Just a question. Do you paint your models at all?

Haha yeah I do. Their scheme is dark grey with yellow trim, red/white helmets for Sergeants. Original plan was to do Red Scorpions, but wasn't good at freehand the logos so just decided to keep it plain.

I recently started Warhammer 40k and began building a IG Tallarn army.

I haven't figured out the details yet but in general I imagine them as hailing either from some really secluded part of Tallarn itself or from another desert planet which was settled by Tallarns a long time ago. Either way while mainting more or less the technical level of the IG, their whole world view is more similar to a feudal world. They worship the emperor as the great sky father, are organized in smaller tribes and have very limited knowledge of what has been going on in the galaxy in the last century.
Some years ago they were "rediscovered" by the Imperium, and the adeptus ministorum quickly managed to direct (others might say "exploit") their religious believes and prepared them for their first thite. Yet the mission of their first regiment failed miserably, since the company commander and commissar hailing from other worlds did not succeed in gaining their respect as leader figures. Things weren't improved by the fact that the commissars were a bit overenthusiastic with their summary executions sometimes confusing a feinted retreat to lead the enemy into a trap with desertion. Long story short: this first regiment was completely lost and it was considered to only use them as cannon fodder or penal legion in the future.

In this situation the responsible missionary (which still needs a cool, arabic sounding name *cough') intervened and proposed to further use their spiritual beliefs, especially since this included legendary figures like blind prophets and angels, to ensure moral and disciplin. Paired together with keeping their own command structure and a more relaxed Commissar. Following that the Adeptus Ministorum arranged for the arrival of some Astropath "Oracles" who with their psychic feats quickly convinced the populace of their connection to the sky father and the oviously god-willed mission of the priests. A younger Commissar (intruduced as a keeper of faith by the Oracles) who was on the brink of beeing thrown out of the Commissariat for beeing to restrictive with the bolter joined and the second regiment began to form and start their journey for the Emperor.

All in all I will use mostly cadian torsos with third party heads but want to keep the fluff more feudal-world-like and less grimdark than the usual imperial forces. Would be great in fluffy terms if they, at some point could fight alongside Celestine.

I have a Chaos Space Marines army that I run as Black Legion called the Sin-Eaters. They were a pair of Companies from a Dark Angels successor Chapter that went into the Eye of Terror to try to fight the Chaos gods directly. You can imagine how well that worked out for them. When the Inquisition learned about this folly, they censured the Dark Angels successor Chapter (called the Nemeses Errant) and basically dismantled them, leaving only a small force still fighting under the watchful eye of an Ordo Hereticus Inquisitor.

Fast forward several hundred years.

An unknown Chaos vessel blasts its way out of the Eye of Terror, screaming out into realspace. The so-called Sin-Eaters proclaim themselves loyal members of the Imperium, and the rank-and-file members of the "Chapter" even believe that. Higher ups know they are not loyalists, but underestimate how far they have fallen, believing themselves to be doing the Emperor's will, but without His sanction. Only the Inner Circle truly knows how corrupted the Chapter is, and how loyal they are to the Chaos gods.

The remaining Nemeses Errant have been on the trail of their fallen comrades, and that trail has led them to the Sin-Eaters. Now, the Nemeses Errant have to dance around trying to find, capture, and interrogate Sin-Eaters while never letting the Ordo Hereticus Inquisitor know their suspicions, lest she decide to just annihilate them all.

My Blood Angels are a battle force formerly led by Captain Brando, and joined up with an Inquisitor following his death during the attacks on the Baal system by the forces of Khorn Daemons. Lt. DeNiro was given a field promotion by Dante himself, but as the fighting continued over a small hiveworld the Inquisitor ordered Exterminatus before allowing DeNiro time to evacuate his troops. With the loss of his mentor so recent, and then the sacrifice of his former squad led by Sgt. Pesci, the new commander of the group fell to the Black Rage, and joined the ranks of the Death Company.

That's how my Smash Captain came about, and all the other Sgts, Lts, and other characters will be given names of actors or directors of gangster films, but basically they're just Blood Angels who're maybe a little more ruthless from time to time in serving the Emperor.