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6th Edition is finally here. However, in exchange for fortresses, overwatch and objectives that explode, I've found my favorite army (DE) has been nerfed a boatload of times and no longer is a viable army. I do have my IG and SM, but both are poorly painted and are more geared to the parking lots of 5th edition or the mind of a beginning player (When I look at my SM, I think to my self, "why the heck did I waste so much money on this junk). So, with rumors blowing on the wind, I decided to make a leap of faith and start a chaos army.

The army itself will be a Chaos Marine-Traitor Guard/Vrak Renegades. For my Guard detachment, currently I'm looking at a 1 or 2 vet squads, a primaris psyker, a company command squad, 2 ruses, a manticore/basilisk and a platoon of zombie guardsmen to make up my allied choices. the plan is to have them hold a fortress of redemption and unleash a hail of firepower. The marines will most likely be undivided to get as many bodies on the table as possible. 2-3 squads of marines as well as a lord and his termie retinue (may be either khorne or undivided, waiting for the new rules to decide) and maybe a squad of bezerkers. Looking forward to the new flyer and demon engine, so I'll probably include those in there as well. Sorcerer is a must too, as well as a defiler and maybe some oblits (or those new maulers I keep hearing about). Of course, I'll figure all of this out when the codex is released.

Heres all the FW stuff I'll use to personalize my army:

the army its self has two fluff back rounds:

-In one, they are the Black Brethren of Eyreas who have come to Vraks to assist in defense of Vraks Prime

-In the other, they are a war band (unnamed as of now) who are trying to flank the imperial defense at the eye of terror. Due to the unfortunate turning of a primaris psyker inside the main fortress, the guardsmen are assualted by a horde of zombies and have no choice but to turn to chaos.

Basically, I pick whether to ally Guard of Vrak Renegades to my marines and choose the one that fits.

The purpose of this project, besides giving me a good army to fight with in 6th, is too improve my less than favorable painting skills and to get an army on the table I can be proud of.

Current Units:

-Chaos Space Marine Squad-
Champion w/ PF and PP
Marine w/ Undivided Banner
Marine w/ Plasma Gun
Marine w/ Either HB, MG, or Flamer
6 more with a mix of boltguns, bolt pistols, and chainswords

Update:

A few more marines have been painted. The big thing is the new starter set pics were finally released today. So in a few weeks, I'll be adding Lord, a Hellbrute, some chosen and 18 cultists to my army. Heres the link to the pics:

http://natfka.blogspot.com/2012/08/white-dwarf-leaks-more-starter-set.html#more

I'm not sure about the Image problem, but I did check out your Gallery images, and the units look good. Are you using Elysian arms with Renegade Torsos? Another person did that on Dakka, and the results were great. You get a very in-charge and organised chaos look.

Thanks
Never thought of that, I'm actually using the actual renegade arms (the ones with the autoguns and the spiky arm swords) however elysian arms might be good for disiplnes of xaphan

if anyone has any idea on how to fix my pictures, please tell me.

When you are in your gallery, select the image you want to put up. On that same page there is a little part called share this image. Click the part that says Forums and copy paste it right into your post. Looks like you are using the Dakka Articles one instead.

Thank you SO MUCH! Pictures are finally up. Hope everyone enjoys them. I take a few more when the squads fully painted

Be careful how you arm your Marines. I think your army would be better off if you armed the marines you have now with Bolters. The Chosen, Cultists, and Hellbrute will all give you the CC option for the army, so you should have some ranged support for them.

Well, the rumor mill says they will retain their mix of cc/pistol and boltguns. To meet that, I've modeled them with a mix. If you can see in the pic, they are armed with a mix of boltguns, boltguns/cc weapons, and bolt pistols/cc weapons. theres also a meltagun and a plasma gun. I intend to have these guys capture and hold midfield/enemy objectives while my renegade guardsmen hold my own objectives.

But your right, these guys won't be charging into combat anytime soon, I modeled them this way just for the coolness factor. If they do have to choose between pistol/cc or bolt gun, then I'll just buy another box and make it to complete each squad (one shooting, one cc).

If you look at the banner, he's got a bolt gun. Its hard to see so I see how you may have missed it.