Chaos Backpacks

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**Howard A Treesong**

General fluff question, why do Chaos marines have those backpacks with the long arms protruding from them? Surely they should have similar ones to the current marines, or at least pre-heresy ones which are fairly similar. They are seen on the covers of the Horus Heresy books and look like the metal ones on the early RT marines.

**Lint**

I don't know, but as a csm player I really dislike the chaos backpacks...

**KingCracker**

so did I. I thought those packs were ridiculous. Ive always either chopped those extended parts off or just used SM packs from the get go.

**Kapitan Montag**

Me too, I always felt it was strange how when the space marines turned to chaos, their new dark masters appeared to them and said:

Dark lord:"If you serve me, you can have infinite rewards! so, to start you off,... BEHOLD!... a slighlty extended backpack"

CSM:"Thank you master, that's ..er.. great, is it OK if I carry a bolter, bolt pistol AND a chainsword too?"

Dark Lord: "Oh alright then, but don't try fitting more than ten of you in a landraider, I don't want you chipping the paint on your new backpacks."

**Delephont**

Its obvious WHY GW have done it, its an easy way to differentiate between the good guys and bad guys....same as the horns, spikes, leather gloves, and belt fed bolters......

Generally Chaos space marines are a little cliched, to say the least.....

The funniest slip up though, how come the Red Corsairs don't have standard MK7 armour like the Imperials, seeing as they are freshly turned to Chaos, and orginated from a Codex Chapter....

**BloodDeathAssault**

It might be because that csm are no longer loyalists, so they changed things, and because they get mutated there backpacks could have mutated to look like that. but i think they look pritty sweet

**Squig_herder**

warp mutations? rebelling against there parents [the emperor and his designed armour]. i dont mind it, leaves is open for conversions though and we all love them ^^

**BloodDeathAssault**

couldnt have said it better

**Squig_herder**

@BloodDeathAssault, knowing that your a CSM player [going back to the greater good soon] why not try out some conversions for us and post them here?

**BloodDeathAssault**

For which race, chaos or tau

**Squig_herder**

CSM's thats what this thread is about

**BloodDeathAssault**

give me some time and ill post a thread on me already existing csm, none of them are converted, mainly because i used csm for and army on learny how to play in all out blood death assualt lol

**BloodDeathAssault**

But my tau army which will be up and rnning in the near future will have golden demon conversions and painting, followed by a few chaos ones aswell

**KingCracker**

well yea didnt you know that as a SM when you make that decision. "yanno... what the hey, im going to be chaos now" instantly you hear a knock on the door
"KNOCK KNOCK"
you open the door
uhm... yes?
HELLO! are you brother whatsyourface?
errmmm..... yes
GRRRRREAT! I have a care package that was SUPER RUSH DELIVERY!
uh... thanks?

and as you open the box the inside contents are reveled
" what the? spikes...... an assortment of odd hair extensions and topknots..... and a backpack with extended exhaust vents?"

at least thats how i see it. that DOES explain how the red corsairs went from modern SM to old school chaos

**cadbren**

Alright, the general consensus seems to be that there is no good reason for the arms, they just are. I guess it should be alright to give loyalist marines those types of packs so long as the chaos symbols are removed, much like some people use csm (incl beserkers) for marine body parts.

Obviously a Red Corsair player who wants to be proper can cut the extended arms off and reattach the vents (they also look good on loyalists). Of cource they would still have the problem of all those horned helmets so maybe they shold just swap the heads and packs for normal marine ones.

**jmurph**

Wouldn't it be easier for the RC player to just use the loyalist squads and just paint a big red X here and there?

**GMort**

My CSM are all recently turned to chaos in my fluff, so are mainly made using space marines with the odd CSM part thrown in.

I have never used the chaos backpacks so have several hundred knocking around in my bitz box if anybody wants them.

GMort.

**warsmith pyrus**

in the codex it says they have extended vents because they have a stacked power cell.it's in the back

**KingCracker**

well GMort you could always glue them together to make a huge demon prince or something similar lol. thatd easily be lamer then the backpacks

**H.B.M.C.**

I swear I once saw a pic from the RT days that had CSMs using their Backpacks as Jetpacks.

BYE

**Xav**

yay finaly 10 rapter for £18.

**the_trooper**

warsmith pyrus wrote:in the codex it says they have extended vents because they have a stacked power cell.it's in the back

This.

According to Dark Heresy, powerarmor can only be powered for hours at a time. So the extended power packs would make a lot of sense for the poorly supported CSM.