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My husband got me the sororitas army box to build as an advent calendar since it's got 25 models, and of course since I'm me I'm instead going to build them as word bearers' fanatics. I'm a little behind, but got some time to work at it! Here's the first two so far:

Greetings all. It has been a quick minute since I posted on the forums (way back in the depths of 2019). Some of you may recall my Thousand Sons, but this time I am back with a slightly different shade of red, the arterial red of the XVIIth legion. My friend wanted to get back into heresy and what better way then to split the launch box. This gave us both a core foundation to build on as we evenly split the tactical marines and terminators. I wanted to go with a look that was metallic red reminiscent of what was found in Book 2 Massacre and Book 5 Tempest. I chose the Flayed Hand chapter to represent the bulk of the legionaries though members of other Chapters will be appearing due to their presences on the lovely transfer sheet. Below are my initial works (not pictured is the Spartan). I've not quite decided on an expansion direction. Likely expansion directions include the Kratos, a mix of Rhinos and Drop Pods to lean into different rites of war, and then a unit of Procurators from the exemplary battles. Flayed Hand Chapter, 3rd Battalion First tactical squad - During the build process I had built all the bodies up and promptly forgot which arms paired best with each body, this led to some more varied posing with the bolters. For colour variety of the armour I have incorporated more black and silver panels on the back-packs. I also blacked in some of the beaks. As I had ran out of spare bolt pistols, I decided that the plasma pistols would become warpfire pistols for which I wanted an eerie green glow. After initial highlights on the armour I then apply a highlight with iron hands steel to reemphasis the metallic look of the armour and to added battle damage. Tactical squad two - This was the squad I built first and very much stuck to the instructions. Head poses do slightly mask the the repeating poses a little bit. This squad also has the most bare heads for variety. Since I used them here I didn't want repeating faces in the squad above. In the back you can see some of my initial test marines whilst I was waiting for the boxset to arrive. Now we come to Praetor Endyios Feyd, commander of the 3rd Battalion of the Flayed Hand Chapter. He is likely to be joined by a diabolist in the future. Thanks for stopping by and taking a look.

Hey folks! I am brand new to Horus Heresy. I've always been intrigued by the Word Bearers ever since I read The First Heretic, but I've never liked the Chaos range in 40k. There's too much trim and teeth and tentacles. Horus Heresy allows me to dip my feet into the heretic pool without having to deal without all that nonsense! (until I want to -- planning some Gal Vorbak down the line). In any case, here's what I've got so far! Planning on updating here as I complete models. First up is my Praetor! Captain Esarhaddon of the Serrated Suns. He is Corrupted, and wields a Tainted Blade. Here is my first tactical squad! Outfitted with bayonets.

Hi all, i am interested in expanding the small number of pre-heresy/heresy era Word Bearers. I painted three and a half squads grey so far, have the characters and true to my core interest in the Word Bearers and Horus Heresy – belief, strife, ambivalence etc. – I aim at portraying the Word Bearers as being on the edge to chaos and its mutating powers. Ideas: So fluff-wise it is clear that it cannot be an all Dark-Brethren or Daemon-Allies force. It should have a solid base of units that are used among all Legiones Astartes. Yet there need to be some units that lean towards the corrupting forces (that are on the edge) or already have stumbled into the oh so powerful darkness. So i decided to go with Chosen Duty plus a number of supporting/standard space marines, a good but not especially big number of tanks and throw in a small number of Gal Vorbak. Gameplay-wise the idea is to use the Leviathan and Vindicators aggressively to deploy the Veterans (re-actively to what the opponent does) and have the standard marines run ('hurried' by the chaplain) and drive the supporting flamers where needed to help clear/grab objectives. Lorgar, the diabolist and Gal Vorbak levitate and (try to) get the big fish. Questions: So it is pretty clear by now i guess that i do not play tournaments. Still I want a list that is not tabled every day. Or rather: I want to have a very fluffy and strong list. What are the list's weaknesses? Any legal issues i missed? Any units you think i will need, but that I left out, because I am even worse with military strategies than Lorgar? Should I re-distribute the characters somehow or do they fit well where they are (fluff/gameplay). The one change I thought of was flamers -> Gal Vorbak. I like the Support Squad (flamers) for fluff reasons, but it could be thrown out in favor of doubling the number of Gal Vorbak, if that makes a terrible list much better. Point wise that is pretty efficient and it would grant me the points to give Dark Channeling to the big blob of marines plus beef up vehicles. Yet this takes the number of scoring units down a little bit or quite a bit depending on the roll. List: Looking forward to your feedback. Thanks!

After a year and a bit of painting Guardsmen and starting not Squats (Wargames Atlantics Einherjar) for games of 1st ed I thought Id return to my one true love Chaos (not Kebabs, but they are a close second). After a bit of head scratching on what to do and all the retro feels bouncing about currently due to the 35 years of 40k I started thinking back to the glory days of my younger years and my first proper Chaos army (not including the mish mash of stuff I had from RoC). The army in question was inspired by this John Blanche army in the 2nd ed codex, but back then my idea of painting was literally throw paint at the mini and hope it looks ok, so it looked nothing like what I was trynna achieve. Now at least I understand shading and blending (even though I still throw paint at the minis) so I thought Id have another pop at trying to replicate (shamelessly copy) this army. I have even picked up a Mephiston and Vet Sgt Centurius for this project, and Im currently eyeing some Asmodais on ebay for the Icon Bearer (still trynna find the old Verminlord for the right price though). There are some other influences Ill be 'borrowing' ideas from, some are other Blanche minis shown in WD 150 and Fred Marcarini's minis (painted by some chap called Lorenzo) in WD199. Blanches stuff. Freds. As they are all Khorne marines I think that has dictated what God Ill be following this time around, but I dont want to be locked into World Eaters, so I have decided to combine them with younger me's other interest of Occultism, Demonology and the Esoteric (I used to play Dark Angels and the fact they named the characters after Demons amused me, clearly Traitors). So it looks like Khornate Word Bearers or a renegade chapter that used to have worryingly close ties to the Ecclesiarchy before they fell. I dont really have much in the way of 'lore' for these yet, and I dont remember what I wrote all those years ago other than they were super edgy and called themselves 'The Damned' (I went through a bit of a dodgy Goth phase before I discovered Black Metal) so I get the fun part of starting from scratch (name will be changed as well) so I guess its time for me to dig out all my old books that would have gotten my door kicked in my Matthew Hopkins back in the day and start bashing ideas together into some form of background.

Greetings fellow followers of the eightfold path. I am a recent convert to the dark powers having long pledged myself to the Dark Angels, I turn now to my most evil creations, the word bearers. These are the word bearers of the black Heralds chapter and I hope to use this as way to show off paint jobs, bat reps and flesh out the storyline of this legion offshoot. By way of intro here’s my first ever batrep using them. Hope you like it… part 1 With the imperial capital falling to the hands of Chaos and the Forces of the Death Guard ascendant a new threat emerges on the calixis sector and the Hazeroth Abyss. The Word bearers have come forth lead by their Dark Apostle Kor Harken. Their sights have been set on the world of Regulus. Leaving a bloody trail of victims, Harken and his possessed have nearly complete control of the planet. After surprise at the swiftness of their arrival, the Black Templar garrison on their fortress world of Cloister have sent a relief force led by brother Redemptor Karno and his captain Altair. The brother Captain Tomaso Altair brings forth his brothers to confront the menance… Deployment: the word bearers have set up in the agricultural processing facility. While the black templars setup at the edge of the city. Wb Dark apostle Cultists 10 Possessed 5+ 1 champion Obliterators x2 Black templars Captain Assault intercessors x5 Veteran Bladeguard x3 Redemptor dreadnaught ‘Prepare to show these dogs the power of the Pantheon!” T1 - Black Templars Marines burst forward from cover of the red temple ‘Cut down down the heretic with blade of faith and hearts of hate!’ The redemptor dreadnaught unleashes its hell fire on the obliterators but the word bearers use a hexaggrammatic ward blunting its potency. T1-word bearers The word bearers move about the cliffs for protection, while obliterators unleash on the bladeguard, the cultists take a few shots at the bladeguard inflicting 1 wound. “Prepare to die imperial dogs” The resulting melee sees the intercessors left with only blood stumps, while the possessed take minimal casualties. Full batrep found at blog spot but rest will be posted here over the week. http://legionofcaliban.blogspot.com/2022/09/calixis-campaign-eightfold-path.html

It has been quite some time, and Warhammer has changed along with B&c. I don’t quite know where to start with my word bearers, but here’s where I’m at. How is the life of a chaos marine nowadays?

Hello Everyone! About a month ago I made a post about going to start up some Night Lords. Yesterday my box came in of Kill Team: Legionaries which I will be using as the start of my Night Lords force. Currently I hope to be able to listen to the Night Lords audiobooks when I get to painting them. I did spend a good number of hours yesterday gluing up some models and printing off some bits such as the heads and the legion shoulder pads. I hope to turn this post into a bit of an log of the progress on my warband's fluff and painting as time goes on as a means of motivation. I plan on playing boarding action with this force once I have enough points. Right now my roadmap of sorts is to take a squad of terminators and a Master of Executions with this into boarding action but if anyone has any ideas or inspiration to share that would be fantastic! My main opponent is likely to be Black Templars and maybe the occasional Salamanders. For now, here are my 10 legionaries with some minor kitbashes with the old Khorne Berzerkers box. Also I figured I would note that my warband will likely be more pro using-chaos-as-a-tool and so things like the balefire tome are within the means (I liked the idea of incorporating the chapter's foresight abilities into the game somehow.)

Hey all, I've been playing around with a squad of Chaos Space Marines and settled on building a small-ish Word Bearers army (around 1000 points max for now). Now I'm just wondering what I should buy for it. Any suggestions? I'd preferably like to run a good helping of Possessed and Daemons myself, though ironically for Word Bearers I'm not super into painting a whole bunch of cultists.

Have a tournament coming up in December. Newer local store is running their first event. It's going to be a smaller points event, they have several newer players that got into the game over the pandemic. I've been playing 40k since 3rd but mostly skipped over 7th and most of 8th and have only been playing 9th regularly for a few months since I found this new group. I plan to play my CSM at the event and I'm just looking for some tips on list building. I'm not too concerned with it being ultra competitive, most of the players there are going to be pretty casual so I'm aiming for that sweet spot of strong but not exactly min/maxed. We've also been playing mostly just Tempest or War or normal Eternal War missions so I have almost no experience with Nephilim and secondaries so would love tips on what I should be picking there too. Anyway here's the list ++ Battalion Detachment 0CP (Chaos - Chaos Space Marines) [65 PL, 3CP, 1,250pts] ++ + Configuration + Battle Size [6CP]: 3. Strike Force (101-200 Total PL / 1001-2000 Points) Game Type: 4. Chapter Approved: War Zone Nephilim Legion: Word Bearers + HQ + Dark Apostle [5 PL, 95pts]: Chaos Undivided, Illusory Supplication, Warlord . 2x Dark Disciple: 2x Close combat weapon Master of Possession [6 PL, 105pts]: Chaos Undivided, Mutated Invigoration, Pact of Flesh + Troops + Cultists Mob [2 PL, 55pts] . 8x Chaos Cultist w/ cultist firearm: 8x Cultist firearm, 8x Frag & Krak grenades . Chaos Cultist w/ heavy stubber: Heavy stubber . Cultist Champion . . Autopistol and brutal assault weapon Legionaries [7 PL, 145pts]: Chaos Icon, Mark of Tzeentch . Aspiring Champion: Astartes chainsword, Boltgun . Marine w/ balefire tome: Balefire tome, Prescience . 2x Marine w/ boltgun: 2x Bolt pistol, 2x Boltgun, 2x Frag & Krak grenades . Marine w/ heavy weapon: Reaper chaincannon Legionaries [7 PL, 130pts]: Chaos Icon, Mark of Khorne . Aspiring Champion: Bolt pistol, Power fist . 3x Marine w/ astartes chainsword: 3x Astartes chainsword, 3x Bolt pistol, 3x Frag & Krak grenades . Marine w/ heavy chainaxe: Heavy chainaxe + Elites + Chaos Terminator Squad [10 PL, -1CP, 200pts]: Mark of Tzeentch . Chaos Terminator: Power fist, Reaper autocannon . Chaos Terminator: Accursed weapon, Combi-melta . Chaos Terminator: Accursed weapon, Combi-melta . Chaos Terminator: Accursed weapon, Combi-bolter . Terminator Champion: Accursed weapon, Black Rune of Damnation, Combi-bolter, Trophies of the Long War Helbrute [7 PL, 125pts]: Helbrute fist, Mark of Tzeentch, Multi-melta Master of Executions [4 PL, -2CP, 65pts]: 1. Flames of Spite, Aspiring Lord, Chaos Undivided, Stratagem: Relic, Ul'o'cca, the Black Possessed [7 PL, 140pts]: Possessed Champion . 4x Possessed: 4x Hideous mutations + Fast Attack + Venomcrawler [6 PL, 105pts] + Dedicated Transport + Chaos Rhino [4 PL, 85pts]: Havoc launcher ++ Total: [65 PL, 3CP, 1,250pts] ++

The Host of questionable purgation Word Bearers Legion Hello guys and welcome to my Word Bearers Log. I am starting this in order to keep track of my vows for the Call of Chaosss X and to see if I can finish this army fast. I was planning to use these minis for a loyalist chapter but meeeehhhhhhhhhhh chaos is better for me. Besides they scream Word Bearers everytime I look at them. I still have to do a lot of Green stuff work like candles, scrolls and such but I hope I can make this army work before the end of the Call of chaosss. Anyways here are the units I will work in and a bit of a Fluff description for each one of them. Here are my Dark Apostle, Diabolist (Sorceror) and Coryphaus (Chaos Lord). I still have to find some names for them but since they are the leaders of the Host they are fit to be shrouded in a little of mystery, don't you think? XD These are The Anointed. Each Word Bearers host are bound to have some protectors for their Leaders and this Questionable host wont be the exception. I Am planning to add lots of candles to these as well as some strips of skin for them to write their vows with the blood of innocents. These are The Choir Eternal (counts as Noise Marines) They are devotees to the god of pleasure and spread its word on the many wars the host are bound to fight. Of course, these are the ones that have to be most heavily converted with green stuff and such. The Companions (Chosen). They are the heirs of the work of the Ashen Circle of old. They like to burn stuff, topple monuments and make things blow (like tanks). I was thinking to paint them with the blood red scheme but add some black parts to their hand like scorched by flames. The Blooded Sons (Chaos Marines) Every warband has to have normal chaos marines and these will represent them. I chose to do a shooty squad with heavy bolter, plasmaguns and bolters because I felt I needed some normal strenght ranged support, as well because each time i think of a rank and file marine I picture him with a boltgun instead of a bolt pistol and chainsword. I will add 2 squads of 20 cultists to the host; one with autoguns and flamers and the other one with brutal close combat weapons and pistols, and flamers, but they will come later as I have to finish building them. Lots of gs work in order to make them look less like grey knights, I know but it will be worth the effort in the end, I promise in the name of Lorgar. If you have any suggestion on how to do something or how to decorate them in order to look more chaosy please comment it. Thank you for reading!