SWORD BROTHER RYAN

I do believe we have a spot in the upcoming 4th war supplement, might not be a large one though. I'm still tempering my expectations for whatever we do/don't get mostly because of everything we got last edition. We'll have to wait and see. At least we know it's coming soon!

YKYABTW... Your vehicle blutooth flashes "B T" as it loads and you constantly think "even my electronics are BT!"

Glad to see that GW has apparently made 1 kit to build both variants of the Armiger. When I got mine, you could only build 2 of the same type (1 kit made 2 Helvirens, 1 kit made 2 Warglaives). Or am I mistaken that GW made 1 lit for both?

So long as this "upgrade" has BT specific Storm Shields (something along the lines of the old FW ones), I'd be happy with that.

I'm really loving those line painted crosses you do. Keep it up!

As an old BT player, I can tell you that BT was nearly always geared to be infantry heavy. Up close and personal has always been where they're the most dangerous. A few light transports to get them across the board, or LRC for better protection, but the foot troops have been the bread and butter for us since I started playing, at least. In my opinion, you have the right idea.

Just a short addition to the fluff. I haven't really sat down to write in a while, so I'm shaking the rust off. More to follow (hopefully soon!).

+++ FLUFF ALERT+++ HIVE MADRIGAL, ICARUS PRIME KEELTONIAN SYSTEM Jessen felt the hot rush of absolute fury a heartbeat before the Land Raider lurched forward out of the firing line, seemingly of its own volition. The incandescent rage of the vehicle overwhelmed him, tunneling his vision almost like a Storm Hawk Interceptor pulling excessive G forces. He grunted in pain, his teeth clenched so tightly that it felt as if they would pulverize into fragments inside his mouth. He wasn't the only one. He could hear the gunner groaning in sympathetic pain also, his connection to the multiple weapons systems feeding back into his own cerebral cortex, Every weapon began to fire on the charging enemy, regardless of range. Jessen squinted his eyes, and tried to will control back from the now furious machine spirit. The vox erupted with angry shouting from Malovich and the Against the Dawn squad in the crew bay. Marshal Eidrichs voice cut through, bellowing orders to return to the line. Jessen was so consumed with the rage from the machine that the vices barely registered. 'What...' he grunted past the cage his teeth made within his mouth, a strangled utterance through the corded muscles in his neck. It took extreme effort to pull himself forward in his harness, using the controls for leverage. The hate difound hidn't back down for a moment, and he felt the elation of the machine spirit as the multiple guns found their range and began to chop into the traitorous Space Marine lines like a scythe though wheat. He noticed then that the targets of the guns wasn't optimal. The Hurricane Bolters were targeting and pounding at vehicles they had little chance of doing any damage to. The twin assault cannon fired bursts only three round bursts. The machine spirit seemed both surprised and frustrated at the weapons individual performances. Jessen forced his mind to push past the pain of the feedback from the machine spirit, and slipped a portion of his awareness into the infosphere. He had to see what the machine was seeing, not just feel it's rage. * * * Jessen found himself astride the giant wolf, fingers dug into the long fur of its neck, holding on tightly as the animal bucked and thrashed at smoky black humanoid forms. Each spectral mass had an identifier rune hovering over its head. The vast majority of the runes were absolute gibberish that he had no desire to translate. Others were clearly the name runes of their attackers. Every one of them were etched out in red, as if they were all proud to be identified as an enemy. The wolf sprinted toward them, snarling and trying to snap at them from a distance. Jessen could see the weapon fire trying to cut into the mass, and felt the anger as vehicles targeted were not destroyed. Then it dawned on him that the wolf was trying to use the hurricane bolters as if they were the more powerful sponsons that usually carried lascannons. The twin assault cannons that took the place of standard heavy bolters weren't being used for maximum effect. In the machine spirits rage, it was trying to lash out at its opponents as if it had the standard loadout of weapons. He had to help it. It didn't know! * * * 'Guide it,' Jessen managed to vocalize over the shared link to his gunner, 'Don't fight it! Guide it!' Macharion began to nudge the hurricane bolters toward infantry targets nearby the vehicles the machine had been targeting, and Jessen could feel his strain as he did his best to fire more sustained bursts. Jessen himself managed to force the vehicle slightly left, more toward the leading edge of the foot charge. Both, to a greater or lesser degree, felt the elation as the machine spirit gunned down its foes in greater numbers. Macharion clambered up to the pintle mounted multimelta and target the nearest traitor Rhino. The approval of the machine was almost overwhelming as he punched a molten hole through the front glacis, obliterating the driver within. Jessen switched his vox to the crew bay, 'Prepare for combat disembarkation! Fifteen seconds!' he announced. Just as he was about to initiate the controls for the main drop ramp, a massive hit rattled the machine, followed by another. The machine spirit howled in pain, sending sympathetic waves through Jessens link. It felt as if his leg was almost blown completely off. 'Penetrating hit in the cargo bay,' Malovich yelled over the intercom, 'Overriding the hatches! We're disembarking now!' All forward momentum bled away as the starboard side track sloughed off through the drive gear. Jessen knew they were immobilized, but the guns still spoke.

Love these!

No, there can never be more than 10(?) Emperor's Champions at one time. It's not just the sword. It's the armor and the Emperor choosing to gift a brother with some kind of vision or something.

From my experience, painting yellow in a way that doesn't make it look like a child's toy is a major pain. Vince Ventrella (I'm sure I misspelled that!) in his hobby cheating videos has a great way to paint IF Yellow that is awesome (although I wouldn't go the WHOLE WAY for an entire army, just characters). He uses an airbrush quite a bit though. I use it for my House Hawkshroud Knights.

The claw would make more sense for Dorn due to the missing hand, and the fact that his own sword was broken and used to make the Sword of the High Marshal for the BT. I could see Russ as using the spear he used against Horus, or maybe something like the Emperors Bolt Gun with some special ability.

If Dorn comes back, I'd like to see him as the IF overall CDR, but with a special rule "Last Wall: Dorn can command any IF successor chapter", or something like that.

A lot of people like to do them in reds and hazard stripes, but I could see (especially with a BT army) individually colored weapons. It would be a little head cannon behind each one.

A Repulsor kit w/Hurricane Bolters? (I always thought that would be cool)