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Fluff:
The War Sovereigns are an Ultramarines successor chapter, who deviate slightly from the Codex Astartes.

Unlike some Space Marine Chapters who have little regard for human life, or downright dislike humanity in general, the War Sovereigns highly value "normal" humans, going to great lengths to protect the citizens of a warzone, and viewing PDFs and Guard Regiments as an asset instead of a liability. To this end, the chapter has organized themselves to act as a spearhead for larger regular forces. The preferred way for the War Sovereigns to enter a battle is to Drop Pod themselves where the fighting is thickest between the regular forces and the enemy.

Where the War Sovereigns deviate from the Codex is the level of integration they have with regular forces. It is common for veteran Brothers below the rank of sergeant to act as advisers for regular infantry squads, who will join the squad as its leader for the skirmish, battle, or campaign. This has multiple benefits for the regular human fighters, and the Battle Brother. The humans learn much from the attached Space Marine, who passes on his decades of experience, as well as gaining the morale boost from having an angel of death in their midst. Not to mention the additional firepower a Space Marine bolter gun provides. The benefit for the Space Marine is the experience of leading men, which puts him on the fast track for promotion amongst his battle brothers. In fact, leading a regular human unit is almost a requirement for the rank of sergeant, although promotions are given for exceptional feats of valor.

Infantry combat is not the only way in which the War Sovereigns become temporarily organic to a regular human force. It is common for a Dreadnought to work closely with a Sentinel Squadron, or a Predator tank to spearhead a Leman Russ formation. In protracted campaigns, the War Sovereigns often combine logistically with regular human forces, techmarines working with techpriests, psykers leanring from esteemed librarians, and so on.

This level of cooperation is beneficial to the recruiting process for the chapter. At the end of a conflict, Guard or PDF fighters who fought particularly tenaciously are extended an invitation to join the Ranks of the War Sovereigns. this provides a supply of already trained warriors to bolster the chapters ranks. However, this creates another divergence from Codex normality. Instead of neophytes beginning their Space Marine service as scouts, they are organized and equipped similarly to Imperial Guard Storm Troopers or Veteran Squads. These units are often led by a Space Marine. Once the surgeries and initiation rituals are complete, these individuals are then given their power armor and recognized as battle full Brothers of the chapter. Recruitment is conducted in this manner because the individuals War Sovereigns select are usually already trained, and retraining them as scouts has been deemed a waste of time. Once a battle brother has served long enough as a Tactical Marine, he may choose to undergo Assault Marine, Devastator Marine or Scout Training. Individuals who were tank crew members previously often serve as Tactical marines before undergoing their new vehicular training, or progress straight to it once they are recognized Battle Brothers. This depends on the needs of the chapter at the time.

This close affiliation with regular humans has often put the War Sovereigns at odds with members of the Inquisition, as the War Sovereigns have been known to directly oppose Exterminatus orders when they believe human lives can be saved.

Rules:
The War Sovereigns have no special rules as of yet, but eventually I'd like to make entries for some of the more integrated regular human units.

P&M:
So far I've only got a few models painted. This is my first real army, (I don;t count my 500 points of painted Catachans) and I'm still learning alot about painting. The primary color of the Chapter is Enchanted Blue, with lots of gold trim, some white, and Iyanden Darksun used sparingly. The War Sovereigns wear bright colors to be easily visible to regular human forces, which boosts morale and gives beleaguered Guardsmen a rallying point.

So far I've done:


Chapter Master Ludorious Endova, wearing his special, personal relic/artificier armor. The color is 1 part Gunmetal 2 parts Ultramarines Blue.


Honor Guard with Standard.



1st Squad Alpha Team, with bravo team being unpainted at the moment.

Let me know what you think! I want to use some more washes to give them more depth and shading, but I don;t know what ones would look good, and obviously I don;t want to ruin what I've already done. I'm also going to get those push-together marines so I can practice my highlighting technique, because these lack any highlights.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/265534/1113834.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/265534/1113834.page GMT
Yea. Your painting looks good, though the cloth bits could use some wash to help highlight them. But they look exactly like Ultrasmurfs. Not much point making a homebrew chapter if you're going to paint it exactly like it's parent chapter.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/265534/1113930.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/265534/1113930.page GMT http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/265534/1113940.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/265534/1113940.page GMT

Whats a good wash to use on the cloth?]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/265534/1113964.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/265534/1113964.page GMT IMHO.

As for washes, I find Devlan Mud does a good job making cloth look old and gritty. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/265534/1113981.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/265534/1113981.page GMT

However, for smurfs your painting is quite clean and even. I would however, work on the eyes a bit (red is a good contrasting color), and give the cloth a wash of Devlan Mud. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/265534/1113984.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/265534/1113984.page GMT
I probably would've made them Ultramarines, but I'm not a fan of the letter U. I'll figure something out...]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/265534/1114031.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/265534/1114031.page GMT Avenging Sons, Death Strike, Emperor's Hands, and Rainbow Warriors come to mind (one link to lexicanum per customer ). Its not like they play any differently.

For the cloth, I'd suggest going with a Sepia wash - its quick an easy for lighter colors.

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That would definately set them away from Ultras, but still make people recognize them as an Ultamarines sub-chapter at a glance.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/265534/1118320.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/265534/1118320.page GMT http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/265534/1118505.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/265534/1118505.page GMT
Basic Color Scheme:


Sergeant:

Note the silver stripe on the helm.

Techmarine:


Apothecary;


Librarian:


Veteran:

Note the gold helmet stripe.

Champion:


Chapter Master:


How's that? Distinctive enough?]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/265534/1167221.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/265534/1167221.page GMT ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/265534/1167250.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/265534/1167250.page GMT
As for the sergeant, I get what you're saying, but I think that would confuse at a glance with the Techmarine or the Apothecary. Besides, the idea of the chapter is that you get more "bling" as you rank up. Starts with silvers, then goes to golds. It has to do with the theme of the army. Since the chapter name is the War Sovereigns, I've settled on a crown as the chapter symbol. The stripe represent the crown.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/265534/1167275.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/265534/1167275.page GMT
After spending a few days stripping and repriming all my models in white, (as trying to paint yellow halfing onto black primed and blue painted models wasn't working, I am pleased to present:

Brother Korsos:


The first one I've done. Tactical squad member. I have to go get some tranfer sheet paper at some point to do up chapter, tactical and squad markings. My freehand isn;t any where near good enough.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/265534/1182719.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/265534/1182719.page GMT http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/265534/1183617.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/265534/1183617.page GMT



Tactical Sergeant.

Group Shot:
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This is a Chaplain. I never liked the Skull Helmet thing that chaplains have going on, so I went with the hood.


An assault marine, that was led by the Chaplain.



Finally, a scout.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/265534/1437920.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/265534/1437920.page GMT iirc.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/265534/1437941.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/265534/1437941.page GMT http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/265534/1437991.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/265534/1437991.page GMT I hope you like the letter S more than the U . S for Sweden ...

Nice scheme but need some washing I think .

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