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Okay, so in a couple of months I'm going to a permanant duty station and I've been wanting to start a new 40k army.

I'm an old I.G. player, I need new army and I looked at Space Marines due to the avaliblity, cost and low numbers. As someone who is big on Army fluff I tried writing up a history for my chapter. I started with idea of making them akin to Knights, with with honor and whatnot, real good guys. But it became increasingly difficult to write my marines as "good guys" and stay in-line with current 40k fluff.

I started hearing a new call for my army. The call of Chaos.

So here is my idea. A Chaos Space Marine army that are followers Khorne, but they are more in-line with a lot of the old school aspects of Khorne-martial honor, duty, loyalty to a cause.

The basic (tentative) background is such: A company of Blood Angels is on a campaign. While fighting against the enemies of the IoM in a combined force under the control of an Inquisitor the Company Commander is given the order by the Inquisitor to wipe out a large amount of IG who have finished fighting an extended campaign against Chaos inside of Chaos territory because of possible taint.

The Company Commander refuses and the Inquisitor has local IG forces show their muscle, and then they open fire (possibly due to an over twitchy IG gunner), the Company Commander and bodyguards fight the Inquisitor and local IG. The Company Commander goes into a frenzy and the Red Thirst overtakes him as he kills the Inquisitor and drinks his blood.

When he recovers, the Company Commander realizes how close the Black Rage is to overtaking him and that he went nuts and killed a lot of IG.

He goes a an abandoned IoM temple in part of an old battlefield to pray to the Emperor. A deamon of Khorne answers and offers him a way to control the Black Rage- become a warrior of Khorne and the Chaos powers will remove the Curse.

The Company Commander, a man who has long seen the problems of the IoM and with the weight of the Curse, accepts and becomes a champion of Chaos, to fight the insanity and evil that exists in the IoM.

Meanwhile his Marines have been fighting the IG, who have a huge numbers advantage, with armor support as well. The Company Commander returns and, with deamonic power, kills a large number of the armor units to allow the encircled Marines to escape to the spaceport, but his Marines choose to follow him instead and so they become a Chaos Chapter.

Thus the Red Saints begin.
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So background good?
Does it fit with current 40k/Blood Angel fluff?
The chapter name any good?

O.O Coolio, sounds nice