'Legio Reboare'

[Fulminata]

I am a long time Dark Angels player (I currently have a 3000pt Deathwing, 2000pt Ravenwing, and about 5500pt Battle Company), but I have always wanted to create my own chapter. For several long years I have played with this idea; it wasn't until recently I was able to devote any time or thought to their creation.

 

Here is a brief background on the chapter, I will write more fluff later.

 

 

Celestial Thunder

*'Legio Reboare' Latin for "to resound like celestial thunder"

* Chapter symbol is the Legio XII "Fulminata" levied by Julius Caesar in 58BC

* They adhere to the Codex Astartes, but the 1st Company are called Praetorians and act as body guards for the Chapter leadership

 

Brief History

* Ultramarines Successor Chapter

* Battle Barge Stormrider was dispatched with 300 marines to quell a chaotic uprising on a distant planet, but disappeared into the warp for over 3000+ years

* Meanwhile, their home planet was destroyed during a Tyranid invasion, where only a company+ managed to escape to on old Fortress monastery in the Schism system. They re-armed and planned an assault on their home planet. It is unknown what happened to them.

 

* The Battle Barge Stormrider returns from the warp (today) 3000+ years later to find the planet they were sent to defend destroyed by Exterminatus and labeled Incommunicado to all Imperial forces.

* Librarian Fulminata, the 'Lightning-Hurler' senses something wrong, but they are attacked by 3 Imperial Vessels who were sent to investigate the new arrival. The Battle barge suffered damage but destroyed one vessel before Fulminata figured out things were wrong. He communicated with the Navigators aboard the other vessels and the battle ended.

* The Battle Barge returned home to find it destroy and stripped barren by the Tyranids. Left with only one option, they travel to the Schism system in hopes of finding the remainder of the Chapter there.

* The Fortress Monastery is abandoned, but intact. Inside they find much equipment under various stages of repair including a dreadnought sarcophagus.

* Once awake, Brother Brontes rejoices at their return but relays the story of the destruction of their homeworld. He was wounded and placed inside the sarcophagus during the last evacuation form the planet, but was asleep so has no memory of what happened to the remainder of the chapter.

 

* The returnees decide to use the monastery as their base to rebuild the chapter...

 

 

The colors are very basic:

 

* gunmetal grey for the body

* gold for the trim

* Deep Blue for Praetorians

* Blood Red for the Battle Companies

 

Praetorian Veteran

http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh111/fmcbide4/Legio%20Reboare/CTVet.jpg

 

Tactical Sergeant

http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh111/fmcbide4/Legio%20Reboare/CTSgt.jpg

 

Eventually, (READ when I am done assembling and painting my massive Dark Angels army) I will probably put together a small tournament force between 1500-1750 points.

 

Comments, concerns? Thanks for looking

[Frater Marcus Scipio]

I appreciate the Fulminata reference. It is 12th legion I believe, closest English translation is the literal lightening-thrower which we assume is in recognition of Jupiter?

 

I'm a big fan of keeping the roman legion tradition alive which I believe your Ultramarine sourcing implies. However, I think the lost in the warp idea is a bit stale. Perhaps they were tied up in a thousand year crusade and only returned when reinforcements stopped arriving?

 

Like the color scheme by the way.

[Sigismund Himself]

* Battle Barge Stormrider was dispatched with 300 marines to quell a chaotic uprising on a distant planet, but disappeared into the warp for over 3000+ years

Ahh, lost in the warp, like a bad meal you return to haunt us once more..... It's a little cliche in DIY circles.

 

Are the 3 captains of the companies aboard as well?

 

Meanwhile, their home planet was destroyed during a Tyranid invasion, where only a company+ managed to escape to on old Fortress monastery in the Schism system. They re-armed and planned an assault on their home planet. It is unknown what happened to them.

Generally, chapters have one fortress monastery and that's on their homeworld. They don't have old ones lying around. Maybe change that to an outpost or something.

Tyranids have only shown up recently in the 40k timeline, within the last millenia.

 

* Librarian Fulminata, the 'Lightning-Hurler' senses something wrong, but they are attacked by 3 Imperial Vessels who were sent to investigate the new arrival. The Battle barge suffered damage but destroyed one vessel before Fulminata figured out things were wrong. He communicated with the Navigators aboard the other vessels and the battle ended.

What ships in their right minds would attack a Space Marine ship of the size of a Battle Barge? They would hail them before attacking anyway. And that would be communicating with the Telepaths, not navigators.

 

* The Battle Barge returned home to find it destroy and stripped barren by the Tyranids

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If they came from 3000 years ago, they wouldn't know what Tyranids were. Just commenting on that.

 

* Once awake, Brother Brontes rejoices at their return but relays the story of the destruction of their homeworld. He was wounded and placed inside the sarcophagus during the last evacuation form the planet, but was asleep so has no memory of what happened to the remainder of the chapter.

Generally, I thought it takes a while to put a marine into a dreadnought sarcophagus. They place a wounded marine in stasis to get him to where ever the sarcophagus is. It would be hard to actually put into the sarcophagus while escaping.

[utilityzero]

i hate lost in the warp chapters, with a passion. that said, this is not the usual route i see lost in the warp being used for, and it could work, though i believe there is also room for other explanations. that portion of the chapter could have been on crusade, like, out in the halo stars or beyond the veil where astropathic communication is sketchy at best so they would have been out of contact. they're gone for an extended period of time, then return to find the sarcophagus. if your chapter were fleet based rather than having a single homeworld, they might have had small outposts on a number of worlds so you can easily find and explanation for that somehow, there are multiple ways to explain that and what you have now isn't all that bad. as for a dead being abandoned, i agree it's a little unusual to me, though, if they were attacked or forced to move while they were implanting the marine in the sarcophagus they might not have had time to install it into a dreadnought body yet, so he's in some sort of suspension, waiting to be put into a dread, but not there yet. i don't know if the dread sarcophagus can be removed or not, but i'd say it's not entirely unbelievable to say that i could be, so maybe they were putting him into his sarcophagus, but they hadn't gotten around to installing it back into the dreadnought body yet.

 

sorry, too tired to do paragraphs.

[Fulminata]

Ok, so the 'lost of the warp' thing is out of the question. I didn't know it had been so over-used. Basically what I want is this battle barge to to depart for its mission and disappear. To the occupants of the battle barge they believe that have just transited the warp (they have no clue they were gone so long) but when they arrived at the planet they find it destroyed. To the rest of the chapter they got 'lost in the warp'. I will come up with some fresh, new idea to explain this.

 

The remainder of the chapter was destroyed when they held off the Tyranids while the citizens of a planet in the path of the one of the Hive Fleets were evacuated. Only about a company plus survived to retreat to their outpost in the Schism system. Brother Brontes was wounded and the process began for him to be interred into a dreadnought. For whatever reason (he doesn't know, he was in stasis) that process was never completed.

 

Brontes doesn't know what happened to the survivors of the chapter (once again he was in stasis) but he does relay what the Tyranids did to the chapter.

 

On the battle barge was the entire 4th Battle Company, the entire 6th Reserve Tactical Company, 4 squads from the 8th Reserve Assault Company, 2 squads from the 9th Devastator Reserve Company, 2 scout squads, and 20 Praetorians (10 termies and 10 veterans) to guard/protect Librarian Fulminata and Chaplain Summanus. About 300 marines in all with accompanying armored support. Overall lead was with Captain Taranis of the 4th Company.

 

Here are some more pictures of various chapter members:

 

Apothecary

http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh111/fmcbide4/Legio%20Reboare/CTApoth.jpg

 

Praetorian Terminator

http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh111/fmcbide4/Legio%20Reboare/CTTerm.jpg

 

Librarian Fulminata

http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh111/fmcbide4/Legio%20Reboare/Fulminata.jpg

He will be armed with a master-crafted stormbolter, Storm of the Emperor's Wrath (as if you couldn't guess that), and maybe Might of Heroes

 

Tactical Marine w/out Bolter

http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh111/fmcbide4/Legio%20Reboare/CTTac2.jpg

 

Tactical Marine w/Bolter

http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh111/fmcbide4/Legio%20Reboare/CTTac.jpg

 

Thanks for all the comments!

[Hubernator]

I hate to be a nag, but I've noticed you haven't actually done a standard marine for this chapter. Sounds wacky I know, but it's just something I've noticed. The other schemes are brilliant, nice work! :confused: Had a read of the fluff as well, and all seems alright IMHO :P

[utilityzero]

what if the 'lost' marines were on a penance crusade for some reason? they return to find the chapter completely destroyed and assume that this is further punishment for whatever had forced them to undergo a penance crusade in the first place.

[Hubernator]

Ahhhh, there's the tactical marines. Nice job :P I should've of guessed what they looked like from the sergeant :P Oh well.

[Mkvenner]

i think that your going in the right direction with everything so far once you have made your corrections just look back into the codex's and such jusr read over a few things but so far what ive read and some of the comments and suggestions that ive seen you have got the good workings of an orgianal chapter and i like the color scheme and plans, keep the ideas flowing!!

[Fulminata]

Thanks for all the comments. I don't have any of my source books with me, so most of what I am doing I am pulling from memory. I am currently tweaking the background fluff so I will have more soon.

 

I have been thinking about buying the Commander Cullin model form Forge world and converting him into Librarian Fulminata, I may do that when I get home so I can get serious about finishing my massive Dark Angels army and get onto my other projects.

[Fulminata]

Is "getting flung forward in time" counted as the same as "lost in the warp"? Just trying to flesh out the fluff a little more.

 

Maybe it is too deep for 40K, but I really want my marines to "return" and find everything they left behind gone, but not understand how this could happen. To them they just left their base and arrived at the planet they were trying to liberate and BAM! everything has changed and they have to struggle to remain a chapter and fight the enemies of Mankind.

[Hubernator]

No that sounds perfectly normal to me.

[utilityzero]

no, it's exactly the same, it's a lazy plot device.

[Fulminata]

OK, I have had some time to think and I think I have come up with a solution to get rid of the "lazy plot device" and still have my marines flung through time.

 

The 2nd, 4th, and 6th (Reserve) Companies along with a small contingent of Praetorians are sent to a planet to crush the forces of chaos. 300+ Marines descend to the planet below and begin assaulting the city where chaos has set up shop. They have opened a portal and daemons are coming forth at an incredible rate. The fighting is fierce. During the final stages of the siege, the chaos forces encapsulate the planet thus cutting it off from the rest of the universe. Though the Librarians sense something wrong, they concentrate on the fierce battle ahead. Meanwhile, outside the planet, the small marine fleet of a battle barge and strike cruiser witness the "planet turning chaotic", attempt to contact their ground forces, and after several years of waiting are called back to the main fleet. The remainder of the chapter is destroyed during one of the Tyranid Hive Fleet invasions, with only a small outpost remaining (where they will find Brother Brontes).

 

On the planet the marines fight for their lives, and eventually defeat chaos and "bring the planet back to reality". Only about 100+ marines survive. This sends a ripple effect through the warp and an Imperial fleet arrives to investigate and find the marines looking for a ride off planet. Librarian Fulminata senses something wrong, the fleet should have waited for them (under the chaos cloud time passes as normal) and the marines direct their transportation to "drop them off at an outpost". It is here where they discover the fate of their chapter from an awakened Brother Brontes and begin to rebuild their chapter.

 

Obvious there are little details I need to work on, but I wanted to change my story slightly to remove the "laziness" from my chapter creation.

[utilityzero]

hmm, i have to give you credit for at least trying for a newer approach, it seems a lot like a warp storm cutting them off but i'll let it go at that i guess.

[Fulminata]

I have been working on my chapters history over the past year and I think I have fixed the "lost in the warp" scenario.

 

This is just a quick update, I am getting ready to begin building the army and will open a blog showing my progress in building as well as writing history or each squad as I build them.

 

The Fourth Company is detailed to assist and Inquisitional Crusade into the Veiled Region to track down a traitor space marine force that has been terrorizing the Segmentum Tempestus. It is also rumored their leader has the ability to open a warp portal and the Inquisition wants to stop him before he opens another Eye of Terror. The Fourth Company, assisted by about 200 more marines from the reserve and scout companies travels into the Veiled Region and stays on crusade for 126 years. They weren't lost, it just took them that long to hunt down and destroy ever iota of the traitor marines.

 

Meanwhile, back in the Imperium, Hive Fleet Leviathan ravages through the Segmentum Tempestus, and the remainder of the chapter assists in the war. During the defense of the Gryphonne system, most of the chapter was destroyed. About 300+ gene seeds were harvested and one Praetorian Tactical Squad (Sternguard Veterans) were given the honor of protecting the gene seed. They and about 47 seriously wounded marines are secured in one of their recruiting strongholds and wait for the Fourth Company to return.

 

Lo and behold, about 126 years after they disappear into the Veiled Region, the Fourth Company, beaten but not broken returns to find their chapter all but wiped out. They go about rebuilding the chapter with the 300+ harvested gene seed.

[Grey Hunter Ydalir]

Well I am here to post on the Colour Scheme, simply because there isn't all that much to comment on for the actual IA itself, which is a shame.

 

What I am here to say is, I love the halved white and grey/silver with burgundy and gold that the Apothacary uses, and the colour scheme for the other grey and dark red schemes are fantastic. I don't however like how you depart into blue whenever a veteran or officer is presented. I don't mind different helmet colours and somesuch, as it doesen't break from the theme too much but to alternate into what is basically the same scheme but with blue instead of red seems to break it for me.

 

My advice is to pick one scheme and stick with it, perhaps make the veterans more ornate in the gold edging by adding more gold, perhaps engravings or gilding.

 

At worst it looks like two chapters who use virtually the same colour scheme to me, rather than two different parts of the same one. I think it's more to do with the fact of the veterans not being in any way more ornate, or having any sort of special look other than the colour swap.

 

Some people for example turn the Blood Angels Honour Guard units into close renditions of Blood Angels Chapter Master Dante's armour, cementing their role and rank in the chapter. Yes they are painted completely gold and therefore depart significantly from the rest of the vivid red forces of the Blood Angels. However their highly detailed armour and included BA Iconography brings them back and along with Dante himself make for a very imposing and extremely fluffy rendition of the unit.

 

The Praetorian at the top of the page (a less over-used name for these veterans would be nice as well) doesen't have the same weight to him as one of the Honour Guard. This does admitedly come down to the limitation of the painter in some respects, though a fantastic painter it can't possibly allow for all the fancies of our imaginations as we would like. However if you know someone who can use photoshop well, they could help you out if you can't do it yourself.

 

*edit* Perhaps instead of using mid-era roman names such as Praetorian you can use the Late Empire reformed military terms. Such as the Comitatus Praesentales who accompanied the Emperors on campaign, or the 'barbarian' Foederati who could perhaps be your new recruits, given that the Foederati were fighting men given over to the empire in treaty, if those peoples later became citizens of the Empire those fighting men would technically be Auxillia and no longer Foederati, and by extension the same logic could be applied to the scout company. Perhaps the recruits are given over in treaty to the chapter and, if they become full marines are inducted into the Comitatus or somesuch.

 

The reason I say this is because mid-era Rome is a fairly well, if not overly-trodden area of history used for inspiration of marine chapters. This has abated recently but there is usually a fist-full of Roman Legion inspired chapters that usually crop up from time to time, excepting the fads of the day. A good example would be the Spartan spate of chapters that cropped up after the movie 300.

[Fulminata]

I have changed the colour scheme a little since I posted this last year. I have dropped the red (never really a big fan of the red), so now the entire army will be the same colors. The veterans (Terminators, Vanguard, Sternguard and HQ) will be painted half blue and half steel like Librarian Fulminata.

 

As for the names, I have also decided to drop the Praetorian title, I need to find something else to call them. They are no longer Ultramarines successors either, they are now Raven Guard successors.

 

I have more history, I just have to edit it and type it out.

 

Thanks for the comments.