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Hey guys

This is my new army. Blood Pact traitor guardsmen. Blood pact are a themed Khorne worshiping force from Dan Abnett novels. The rules for the Death Brigade troops are from a past Chapter aproved published in a WD a while back (Think Witch Hunter release issues).

Here you go. Hope you like.

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HQ.

Demi-Gaur (Counts as Luitenent)  

Power Weapon, BP, D. mutation, Strength, aura, Spiky bits, Furious charge, Undivided

6 Bodyguards (Counts as chosen)

4 Bolters, 1 Heavy Bolter, champion armed with lightning claw, plas pistol, D. mutation, spiky bits, 2 chaos spawn. Squad with undivided and Furious charge.

3 Corporals (Count as Aspiring champions)

All 3 with Axes of Khorne, Bps, Mutation, strength, spiky bits, Rage of Khorne, mark of Khorne

Elites.

8 Man Death Brigade

2 Shotguns, 1 Plasma gun, 1 Demo Charge, 3 Ccws and laspistols, Champion with Power weapon and Bp. All with Frag and Krak grenades and Furious charge.

Troops.

15 Blood pact infantry (Traitor guard)

Lasguns, Heavy Bolter, Heavy Stubber, Agitator with Power weapon and Bolter

15 Blood pact infantry 

Lasguns, Heavy stubber, Agitator with Power weapon and Bolter

15 Blood pact infantry

Shotguns, Grenade launcher, Agitator with Power weapon and laspistol

Heavy Support.

Khorne's Vandal (Lemun Russ battle tank)

Battle cannon, hull lascannon, sponson heavy bolters, pintle combi bolter, extra armour

Total: Around 1500pts (I don't have my list with me and I'm doing this by memory. It's around 1470 or something)

Tactics vary with each enemy I play. Usually the traitors with Shotguns infiltrate to give my enemy something to worry about early in the game while the rest of my army move up. The Chosen and Death brigade focus on elite units and are a space marines worst nightmare (The Lt has 6 S6 attacks on the charge at I6 and allow no armour saves).

The Traitors focus on enemy squads and are very effective against Orks, Tau, Eldar, and other lightly armoured units.

The Lemun Russ takes out tanks and Space Marine like units and gives my army some heavy hitting power.

For the record, I'm keeping the shotgun squad because I love shotguns. I'm only going to have 1 unit of them but I love shotguns and 15 of them (Firing 30 shots) are definitly something to worry about especially for enemies like Guard and Nids.

I have a basilisk painted up that I'll add to the army soon. I'm also painting a unit of traitors with CCws and laspistols (Converted with Cadian bodies and Scout arms). I'm thinking of next buying a box of 20 Catachans (What I've used to convert most of my traitors) and dividing them up into 2 squads of 5 (The remaining models used to bulk out my close combat squad. 1 of these armed with Sniper rifles and 1 with Lascannons. These will give my army some pinning power and anti-tank power. 5 models are small so that I won't suffer from their death, my opponant mite just plain ignore them, and I won't suffer from them grabbing a hill and staying in back the whole game. I'm also going to bulk out the chosen squad to 10 models.

For conversions, I've made most of my traitors from Catachans with head swaps with some Warhammer Marauders and a few archive chaos warriors.

Chosen and Death Brigades have been converted from SM scouts and ALOT of green stuff. I'm gunna put up pics soon as I'm pretty proud of these conversions. The only reason I have 2 shotguns in the death brigade squad is because I had 2 extra Necromunda enforcers lying around and I added them in until I had time (And money) to convert more Death Brigade models. They will soon be replaced by more Death brigade models with CCWs and laspistols. The spawn in the chosen squad are actually archive warhammer quest minotaurs I had lying around (The really really old plastic ones). I think the minotaurs fit the Khorne theme of my army. Their pretty effective at soaking up the first few wounds in the squad.

I'm going to change around my HQ some. The Demi-Guar, Aspiring champions and Champion of the bodyguard units are all just reguler chaos marine models and stuff. I plan on converting the Champions from the new Voytroyan officers and the Demi Guar from a Steal Legion seargent and their wargear will match their new models .

I'm happy with the army. It's preformed well against the armies I've faced (Space Wolves, Black Templars, Ultramarines, Necrons and guard for the most part). ALOT of green stuff went into the army and I'm happy with the conversions. I'll try and get some pics up soon.

Phew. Long post Thanks for sticking with me. Please add any comments.

Bolter