Fire-Lord Posted July 29, 2010 Share Posted July 29, 2010 ah gday, so ive nearly finished my 1500 pont Fire Lords army and ive started to look at what to get next. while my fire lords are a shooty army i figure id put together a chop-chop army so i came up with the Vulture Legion, my own chapter of jump-pack equipped raving loonies. I plan on using the BA codex for these guys, minus all the "special" units, so itll pretty much be hordes of jump-pack troops supported by bikes and land speeders! bit of brief background ive come up with for em, will add more as i think of it :) Vulture Legion: Founding/Parent Chapter: unknown, believed to be members of the 23rd "cursed" founding. Genetic Flaw: The vulture legion brothers suffer from a genetic flaw that slowly degrades mental stability over roughly 100 years, to the point where they can no longer reason or be reasoned with and are for all intents and purposes clinicly insane. Some members of the chapter are able to last longer, although none have managed to last more than 250 years before succumbing. Due to the flaw, the chapter has no Librarians. This has caused much tension with the Inquistion, who continue to call for the chapters extermination. Only the Legions constant victories have staved off their destruction. Battle Doctrine/Orginisation: Due to their unique nature, the Vulture Legion do not follow the codex astartes. As all battle brothers have a hightend aggressive response to most situations, the chapter is a pure assault force. To this end the chapter forgoes any sort of armoured vehicle and each company consists of ten squads of jump-pack equipped troops supported by bikes, attack bikes and land speeders. The chapter does not use dreadnoughts, as none live long enough to make use of them. The chapter also does not have access to the tactical dreadnought armour, as it does not fit in with their prefered tactics. Those brothers that have finally fallen to their inherent genetic flaw are organised to into special squads and are unleashed on the foe where they wreak bloody havoc in a whirlwind of beserk insance violence until their deaths. Any of these brothers that survive are put down by their fellows before they turn on them. The Vulture Legions prefered method of attack is to arrive in orbit over their intended target and then procceed to bombard the area heavily untill, like their namesake, they descend on the battered and bleeding enemy. thats all ive got for now but i tought id share it. cheers! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/207547-the-vulture-legion/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
hummus Posted July 30, 2010 Share Posted July 30, 2010 kinda like an alzheimers version of the space marines? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/207547-the-vulture-legion/#findComment-2475952 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fire-Lord Posted July 30, 2010 Author Share Posted July 30, 2010 sortta.....except of becoming docile and drooling alittle they become hyper-violent and tear your throat out with their teeth! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/207547-the-vulture-legion/#findComment-2475968 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChaplainMathreyn Posted July 30, 2010 Share Posted July 30, 2010 Wow... An All-Assault Chapter is going to get wiped out when they meet the swarming Tyranids, or the close-combat oriented Orks... Space Marine Chapters are mean't to be tacticly flexible... An all-assault force, is decidedly not... Also... Are they Blood Angels geneseed... Because you've basically copied the Flaw par-for-par... Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/207547-the-vulture-legion/#findComment-2476753 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shinzaren Posted July 31, 2010 Share Posted July 31, 2010 This entire entry can be summed up in three words: Blood Angels Successor. I know what you are getting at. You needed justification for Death Company, and for the crazy assaults BA use. You're trapping yourself in the rule portion of the game. You have to remember though, BA are as close to Codex Adherent as they can be. They have tactical squads, devastators, and scouts. They just operate at lower capacity than their Assault Squads, as marines are constantly leaving their home squads to reinforce losses suffered by Assault Squads. Think outside the rules, and how your army plays. Think about a cool backstory. Perhaps instead of losing their minds and going berserk, they literally just lose their minds. Don't give them heightened adrenaline or anything, just make them crazy, as liable to shoot/stab friend as foe. Right now you are reading as a near perfect copy of BA, regardless of geneseed you choose to use. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/207547-the-vulture-legion/#findComment-2476808 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grey Hunter Ydalir Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 Rules and fluff often don't mix particularly well. Especially when you're trying to fluff up by working off a ruleset. The fluff is about backstory, about plot, characterization and cool stories. The fluff is not there to justify the rules you use. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/207547-the-vulture-legion/#findComment-2477817 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaydenn Kore Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 You don't visit a site for a couple of years and find at least two people have ripped off your chapter name.. I posted The Vulture Legion as images suggesting that they where based around assault companies back in January 2009.. Perhaps you read that before you thought of the name,which I doubt that you know the origin of. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/207547-the-vulture-legion/#findComment-2866224 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Tyler Posted September 4, 2011 Share Posted September 4, 2011 You don't visit a site for a couple of years and find at least two people have ripped off your chapter name.. I posted The Vulture Legion as images suggesting that they where based around assault companies back in January 2009.. Perhaps you read that before you thought of the name,which I doubt that you know the origin of. Just visited the site after being away for long time to find that someone had ripped off the name of my chapter. Do a search and you'll find images created January 2009 of "my" Vulture Legion......Guess you don't even know where the name originated ? A lesson is due, it seems. Or perhaps just some clarification for those that might be a bit foggy on the subject of DIY Chapters, Chapter names, and "ownership". No one has any right to claim a name or a concept for a DIY Chapter. So regardless of whether or not you came up with the idea of the Vulture Legion, twenty or thirty other people could decide to use that exact same name and you would have no claim whatsoever to it. In the same way, anyone and everyone can use the Iron Hounds (DIY Chapter I came up with some time around 1999/2000 - someone else has used that name as a matter of fact), the Spartans (I've lost count of how many of those DIYs we've seen), the Iron Dragons (I think we were at seven at the last count), etc. So he used the name "Vulture Legion" after you'd already decided to give your own DIY Chapter that same name. You weren't "ripped off" though, as you had no "ownership". You can be justly proud of whatever work you put into your Vulture Legion just as he can be similarly proud of his Vulture Legion. I'm sure you'll get over it. In the meantime, you might help him develop his own Vulture Legion. =][= +EDIT+ And the really funny thing about this is that Kurgan the Lurker started his Vultures/Vulture Legion in the late '90s. What's that they say about people that live in glass houses? :blink: Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/207547-the-vulture-legion/#findComment-2866319 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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