DIY Chapter: Elemental help!

[soddinnutter]

1st Company = Fire Company. Melta, Plasma, Flamers and all the Heavy Vehicles that employ them.

 

2nd Company = Lightning Company. Jump packs, Attack Bikes, Land Speeders. Things that go fast.

 

3rd Company = Air Company. Valkyries, Thunderhawks, Stormbirds. Anything that needs a Pilot. They are the rivals of the Lightning company and possession of the Land Speeders gets passed between the two depending on who is most influential at any given time

 

4th Company = Water Company. The Librarians. They seem to interpret the Warp as a sea. Also scrying into containers of water and ink.

 

5th Company = Wood Company. The Apothecarium. Also the Neophytes and Aspirants.

 

6th Company = Metal Company. The Tech-marines and the Mechanicus sub-cult. Each Tech-marine has a quite large

retinue of slightly too bright Servitors who border on the Skitarii. Also the Dreadnaughts.

 

7th Company = Cold Company. The Strategists. As many are not truly Marines it could be a point of stress amongst the other Companies as to why they have a voice at council at all. But as they all have to entrust them with their lives at some point these protests seldom last long

 

8th Company = Light Company. The Chaplains and one of the last surviving 'official' branches of the Fraternis Templars. They were preserved because the changes imposed upon the Imperium at the end of the Reign of Blood held no sway within the Adeptus Astartes.

 

9th Company = Stone Company. Responsible for the upkeep of the Fortress and the fortification of structures when in siege war.

 

10th Company = Shadow Company. Scouts. They leave as many footprints and signs of their passing as a shadow.

 

Just an idea.

 

It keeps with the Codex of 10 companies, is different to the Captain Planet method of elemental distribution and renders each company in rivalry and reliance upon its brother companies.

 

Also as the newbies are with the 5th it means that the 10th is mad up of extremely skilled stealth specialist instead of people who just can't be trusted with Power Armour yet.

[DarkLiege]

thanks Soddinnutter!! This really helps out a lot

[Ecritter]

Yeah that's nice, but you're not gonna have a whole company of Librarians, TechMarines or Chaplains, or Valkyries, Thunderhawks, and Stormbirds (most of which aren't used by SMs).

 

You're better off to put all those elements in each Battle Company.

[soddinnutter]

The Idea being that each company has to temporarily lend/exchange/trade marines to another company for the proper execution of a crusade.

 

All the companies are dependent on each other and if one company becomes corrupt there is comparatively very limited amount of damage it can do.

[Ecritter]

So you're saying that if a whole company of Librarians (more then any Chapter has) becomes tainted ... it can't do much harm? :eek

 

What verse do you live in? :RTBBB:

[soddinnutter]

I never gave a suggestion of a number for any company and it's your idea that they would all have the same number within their ranks.

 

I was thinking that the Water Company would be about 6-8 Librarians and a few Assistants/Serfs. I think the chapter might just be able to manage that many psykers.

[Ecritter]

So you'd call 8 Librarians a Company? A SM Company is normally 100 SMs strong. If its called a Company, thats the way it will seem.

 

Codex Chapters have around 27 Librarians in the Librarius ... very much separated from the Companies, but available to them.

 

Chaplains, Librarians, TechMarines, Apothecaries and vehicles aren't even counted in the 1000 marine structure.

[soddinnutter]

Such an assumption would only be correct to make if the chapter in question was codex adherent and not based upon some system of elemental discipline.

 

If the Codex is broken then assuming any number is an excercise in futility.

 

Exact numbers of available Librarians would vary greatly from gene-pool to gene-pool.

[DarkLiege]

As to say I'm not sure how many SM there will be for each companies but i'll figure that out later.

[Ecritter]

My suggestion is still a Tau-like caste system, with parts of each caste in each company.

[DarkLiege]

thanks for the suggestions and I'll look into it ^_^ ^_^ ^_^

[DarkLiege]

okay as i worked on this, i could not figure out some of the things so instead i might make a new chapter from scratch.

the name that I'm going with is either:

War Hounds-- a chapter that have 10 companies each named after an element with the geneseed of either Jaghatai Khan or Sanguinius? they will mostl likely have a symbol of a wolves

 

or

 

Blood Fangs-- a chapter with the geneseed of the Blood Angels with them embracing the Black Rage and the Red Thirst.

 

that's all for now. ^_^

[Heru]

The first one's name doesn't work, as War Hounds is what the World Eaters Legion were known as pre-Angron re-discovery.

[DarkLiege]

thanks for the info on that. I didn't know that about the world eaters. lol

[NightrawenII]

The first one's name doesn't work, as War Hounds is what the World Eaters Legion were known as pre-Angron re-discovery.

Not to mention the Warhound is pattern of titan.

 

The second name is a little cheesy.