Oh wow! I forgot I had this blog. Here is a massive update for all those who followed this blog - so sorry for forgetting about it! But it is back hahahahah!
So as an update, I put Warhammer 40,000 aside to instead focus on collecting and playing a battlefleet gothic fleet that involved my chapter. Well lo and behold, I created an entire fleet for my chapter. Now in total, it should be a Ramilies Class Starfort, 3 Battlebarges, 6 Strike cruisers, and 6 Gladius ships - this is Battlefleet Caridad!:
Battlebarge Havana - Flagship of the Kuba Chapter of Space Marines (This is my favorite ship and unfinished in painting. Based it off the Lord Inquisitor movie coming out)
Battlebarge
Strikecruiser
Strike Cruiser
Gladius
Battlefleet Caridad
So that was all my figures - but I have finished most of them since then - and I have taken much better pictures!
Also Here is the lore for the Kuban Space Marines!
First I will start with the Altered fluff story (please read, as it does give you a good laugh - and the reason behind this army):
History: A Space Marine Chapter using the home world of Kuba, they are descendants of the Salamanders Geneseed. Having a very tribalistic population, The salamanders believed that a chapter formed here would create very powerful marines. Much like the Salamanders, the Kubans are stoic and prideful, having much faith in not only the Emperor but in their home planet as well. They also have faith in a Saint from their home planet, recently given to sainthood due to acts of pure charity - in the language of the Kubans (also known as spaneesh), she is known as La Virgen
de la Caridad del Cobre [or for those in low-gothic Our Lady of Charity of Cobre]
One distinct feature of the planet is the cultivation of a drug known as tobacco. More potent and dangerous then the Guard issue Iho-stick, this drug was later banned to the imperium due to its ability to have anyone who smoked the substance hooked. The space marines take much pride in the fact that they can in fact smoke the drug, and take great efforts to roll them in the harsh conditions given in the factories of the planet. These skills in the forges have begun to transplant themselves in the ability for the chapter to produce and use flame weapons, since the process of creating these Kuban Tobacco's is quite harsh in the heat of the forge.
Inception of the Chapter: The first leader of the Kuban Chapter was Martius, who believed essentially that everyone in the Imperium was as importatnt as the next. This obviously led to many a fight between the chapter and The Ministorium - but no scuffles were to voilent (until the Sedition Wars - see below). They tended to ignore his slightly heretical views, since they did not want to get involved fighting a space marine chapter and possibly their gene father's as well. However, as time went on, each Chapter Master continually began to view the imperium in a very distasteful tone, seeing that the idea that every human was created equal was far from being enacted in its leaders. Essentially, the Chapter began seeing that the Imperium monopolized the image of the Emperor, giving it a very distasteful capitalistic view. The believed that the Emperor was God, but that he was accessible to anyone, and that no person was more important than the next - and that all must contribute, and get payed equally, from working towards the greater good of the Imperium. They began having slight contacts with the Tau Empire to adopt some of their methodologies in creating this idea, however, it was by this time that the Inquisition and the Imperium had enough of this "communal" (or as they dubbed it communist) propaganda and they decided to act behind the banner of Heresy - that the chapter was in league with the Tau Empire.
The Sedition War Known also as the "Freezing War," it was basically never a formal engagement, but rather a slow amassing of weapons. The Kubans, forewarned by their Librarians of what was going to happen, began amassing a greater fleet. Their Fortress Monastery was pulled back to the home planet, and they remodeled one of their BattleBarges - The Havana - to mimic the Famous Seditio Opprimere. In turn, the Imperium began ammasing more and more of a Fleet. It got to the point where if engaged, both fleets would enact horrible losses - and due to the impending Tyranid and Necron Threat, no other Space Marine Chapter wanted to have the heavy duty of destroying such a noble chapter that has proven themselves in war. Therefore, the Imperium, in an effort to hold their head high, blockaded the section of space used by the Kubans, in a hope that eventually, they will run out of resources and come back into the arms of the imperium.
The Revolution: Around the time of the Sedition War, a revolution happened in the Chapter as well. Chapter Master Batistaus wanted to return to the fold of the imperium, and by doing so he began exiling many of the Space Marines as well as killing many of his brothers. Fidelius, ashamed of his Chapter Master, began to fight back in many hit and run tactics, using quick lightening strikes and flamers to burn/destroy many supply lines. Eventually, Batistaus was forced to meet Fidelius in the battlefield, and in an Epic Dual said to have taken 2 days and nights, Fidelius finally executed Batistaus and took hold of the Chapter. It was his rule that began the blockading of space by the Imperium
The Future: As of now, no one knows what will happen. The current Chapter Master Fidelius Castrous is very old, and many are unsure if his successor - Raulous Castrous - will enact the same principles as all the other Chapter Masters. For now, the imperium has enacted certain sanctions on the space owned by Kuban Space Marines; meanwhile, the Kubans are biding their time to see what the future hold for the Chapter, and for the imperium as a whole.
Tactics and War Cry: War Cry: Para la Revolucion!
This is based on the Revolution War - where the Kubans feared that Batistaus would eventually ruin the Chapter. It evokes a sense of revolution and pride in Kuban culture, while also making note of the fact that Kuban dogma is in stark contrast to Imperium dogma when they view the Imperium rule.
Tactics: The Kubans prefer Flame and heat based weapons, as it reminds them of more peaceful days of forging Kuban cigars in the furnaces of their home-planet. However, in contrast to their parent chapter the Salamanders, they prefer quick aerial assaults, raids, drops from space, and a type of warfare that the White Scars have dubbed "Guerilla warfare." While other Chapters view this as weak, and distasteful, none could question the effectiveness of lightening fast raids with heat based weapons during the Revolutionary war and other combats that saw them victorious. Therefore, they prefer tanks, assault squads, bikes, landspeeders, as well as other things that quickly get them in, and out of the battlefield, to plan their next assault. The one exception to this rule has been jokingly referred to as "Kuban pride" - where either the main vehicle, or Space fairing vessel, is decked out with as many adornments as possible as well as sometimes the slowest vehicle. They also enjoy teleportation techniques with their terminators - and have on one occasion beamed 30 terminators at once in the heart of an enemy army - needless to say the army was decimated. Therefore, many of their Landraiders, or the three battlebarges they own, are big, adorned with many symbols and honors, and sometimes, quite slow (as seen with the Battlebarge Havana). Of course, these are always supported by their quicker cousins on the battlefield, as so they never get overwhelmed. It is said that at times, Kubans will pridefully lure the army to attacking the main vehicle while the rest of the Kuban force outflanks the enemy - this is a sign of the deepest respect and honor to be that vehicle, and if you survive, all the more pride and honor is given to you.
And of course a very special character added by a dakkite member
Chaplain Chi Guervo. A radical Chaplain tainted by Chaos who lived through several Chapter Master's reign, further poisoning each
CM against the Emperor with his whispers of heresy and promises of Social Justice throughout all of the Empire.
While attempting to bring the planet Bolvia under Kuban, control Chaplain Guervo was ambushed by an entire company of Bolvian Guardsmen (with rumoured support from a mysterious Chapter of Space Marines also colored in Red White and Blue Armor calling themselves "Mercans"). Chaplain Guervo was handed over to the inquisition where he was declared Herecticus Diobolique and executed for treason against the Emperor.
Automatically Appended Next Post: I also have somewhat abandoned the idea of a full Warhammer 40,000 army - or at least one that is full of regular space marines. Being that Cubans (the actual ones that I enjoy) are a bit prideful, I would expect their sci-fi counterpart to have many terminators and large units on the field of battle. Because of this, I am keeping the lore the same - but instead adopting more of a Dark Angels army load-out and instead Having a Kuban character Castro (who will represent Belial) followed by his elite guerilla fighting warriors in terminator armor. Less models to paint, a lot more fun to modify, and they are big and beefy and exagerative - any fellow cuban should be proud
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