Morticon Posted December 25, 2011 Share Posted December 25, 2011 Found this frater's post in the Liber - Its obviously a home grown chapter, but using the BA rules. Thought we could maybe give the dude a hand with our creative input! Japanese themed chapter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shin-ryu-ken Posted December 25, 2011 Share Posted December 25, 2011 Thanks mate :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sanguinarian Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 Aside from samurai-esque hairstyles for your helmetless Veteran Sgts and ICs or SCs, I would definitely try to convert all the other helmets into kabuto. Kikou, armor, may be difficult to distinguish on top of power armor. As for standout weapons, the Blessed Bolter, power katanas (long swords) and wakizashis (shorter swords used for death blows). Good Luck. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volcatus Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 Sang Priests are possibly the easiest, in my mind, to theme towards something Japanese. Giving them a sashimono helps set them apart visually, and helps provide an object to explain the Grail effect. Librarians could carry the Japa mala (psychic hood) and the Khakkhara (force weapon), taking the monk role. Chaplains would be the high ranking "samurai", while all regular marines would be lower level ashigaru. Visually this would mean that Chaplains would have the more regal looking head-gear, much like our current BA "halos". Whatever you do, though, please make Tachikomas/Fuchikomas for counts-as Dreadnoughts! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demoulius Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 well il add my extreme samurai experience (from watching the last samurai and playing shogun total war 2 ;) ) you need a form of cavalary or somesuch. so either bikers or another small elite unit with things that the common rabble dont have (in the samurai (or whatever its called) that was a horse...and shiney armor) sanguinary guard and/or honour guard fit the bill nicely i think :) sanguinary guard in particular actually... samurai sometimes wore those masks and samurai folklore basicly put the fear in people because they thought they were demons (or somesuch) sounds like a good excuse as anything to include deathmasks :D chaplains also fit in because of their masks and extreme zealousry (is that a word and/or is it spelled that way?) as samurai were basicly kill or be killed...come to think about most things were back in those days (and in 40K) but enough derailling B) sound like our gruff chaplains to me! the preffered weapon for a samurai was actually the bow (or so shogun tells me..) but they were no slouches with katana and the like either. so troops tactical marines? add 1 or 2 sanguinary guard units with character seasoning and add some attack bikes or such to deal with vehicles and youve got a pretty viable list i think :) sorry that my knowledge from history comes from a hollywood movie and a video game btw :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shin-ryu-ken Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 I'm not really going for historical accuracy here, just a cool looking army. I know that they favoured to bow but bows are foo foo poopy! On the mask thing, I have been toying with that. Maybe shave the halo off a death mask and paint it White and red like a kabuki actor? Think that'll look pretty striking with black/dark armour. Good idea for the dreads but I don't want to go too far from standard look of marines. Also as much as I love the Tachikoma the dreads will probably be more cc oriented so won't really look right. Want to do something with them though, perhaps using the dreadknight? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midnightmare Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 I'm pretty sure that the GW painting guide "How To Paint Space Marines" had some examples of somebody's Samurai-esq marines on the back page. As for the dreads, it would have to be a FW Contemptor Dread with the Nemesis Dread Knight sword in a suitable slashy Samurai pose! (They are just so posable) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Entei Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 http://www.coolminiornot.com/71469 by Victoria Lamb, featured in WD 298 :wacko: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morticon Posted December 26, 2011 Author Share Posted December 26, 2011 Matey easy on the pejoratives please. We don't use em here on the B&C - as common place as they are on the intrawebs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midnightmare Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 http://www.coolminiornot.com/71469 Aye, thems the kiddies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranwulf Posted December 27, 2011 Share Posted December 27, 2011 Hmmm... You could give each warrior, instead of a Chainsword, a two handed blade (I would suggest Glaives Encarmines, that look a like Katanas in some way). In aspect, I would not give them Kabutos or other famous japanese helmets. Mostly, because I always thought they looked weird in Space Marines. However, I think you should give them robes from the Dark Angels Upgrade. Most of the time, Japanese warriors trained with a Hakama, and the robes if well painted, could completely look like one. Ran Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cain Tiberius Kondrad Posted December 27, 2011 Share Posted December 27, 2011 Go to ebay and type Lego Katana. They are quite come and cheap and are the perfect size for space marines. ;) Always loved the Oriental theme, so I'm looking forward to see what you do :) CTK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fivepointedstar Posted December 27, 2011 Share Posted December 27, 2011 Samurai Heads ,Samurai Back packs ,power naginatas, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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