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[RapatoR]

Well this is probably a marginal thing but I will post it here anyway. My warband has members from (arguably) Night Lord warband too.

 

(get ready for convoluted explanation :D)

 

The idea behind my warband is that it consist from members of various Alpha Legion warbands, who are sent to Hydra's tail as a form of punishment for various failings/sins.

 

Among the warbands who "contributed" to Hydra's tail are The Blessed (also called The Monsters by other Alpha Legion warbands or The Bastards by other Night Lord warbands). The warband is known for frequent occurence of surprisingly efficient mutations and members of the warband revere mutations as a blessing.

The Blessed are rumored to have mixed Night Lord/Alpha Legion geneseed that is a result of experimentations of Rapheol The Deranged (allegedly a former apprentice of Flaymaster Mawdrym Llansahai).

 

So fellow cousins it is your call, do they count as a Night Lords?

 

(sorry for bad grammar)

[Rune_Priest_Rhapsody]

I found my VGC night blue, anyone used it on their Night Lords?? I use a very dark blue on my Space Wolves as well, so I like it for them. Here's a pic (sorry it not NL related):

http://i899.photobucket.com/albums/ac194/Khyron666/DSC04038.jpg

 

I might try it out on one of the Mk III marines I am assembling. And mixing it with some black could be good too. It's a nice rich blue.

 

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[Kol Saresk]

Well this is probably a marginal thing but I will post it here anyway. My warband has members from (arguably) Night Lord warband too.

 

(get ready for convoluted explanation :D)

 

The idea behind my warband is that it consist from members of various Alpha Legion warbands, who are sent to Hydra's tail as a form of punishment for various failings/sins.

 

Among the warbands who "contributed" to Hydra's tail are The Blessed (also called The Monsters by other Alpha Legion warbands or The Bastards by other Night Lord warbands). The warband is known for frequent occurence of surprisingly efficient mutations and members of the warband revere mutations as a blessing.

The Blessed are rumored to have mixed Night Lord/Alpha Legion geneseed that is a result of experimentations of Rapheol The Deranged (allegedly a former apprentice of Flaymaster Mawdrym Llansahai).

 

So fellow cousins it is your call, do they count as a Night Lords?

 

(sorry for bad grammar)

If Variel can be a Night Lord, I don't see why your guys can't. :)

[Forté]

VGC Night Blue.

[Rune_Priest_Rhapsody]

Yours looks darker than mine forte... That's odd. Mine is over 2 years old, but that should in no way alter the color. hmmm

 

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[Flint13]

 

 

 

Well this is probably a marginal thing but I will post it here anyway. My warband has members from (arguably) Night Lord warband too.

(get ready for convoluted explanation )

The idea behind my warband is that it consist from members of various Alpha Legion warbands, who are sent to Hydra's tail as a form of punishment for various failings/sins.

Among the warbands who "contributed" to Hydra's tail are The Blessed (also called The Monsters by other Alpha Legion warbands or The Bastards by other Night Lord warbands). The warband is known for frequent occurence of surprisingly efficient mutations and members of the warband revere mutations as a blessing.
The Blessed are rumored to have mixed Night Lord/Alpha Legion geneseed that is a result of experimentations of Rapheol The Deranged (allegedly a former apprentice of Flaymaster Mawdrym Llansahai).

So fellow cousins it is your call, do they count as a Night Lords?

(sorry for bad grammar)

Yep, be they Terran, Nostroman, or mixed blood recruits they're all welcome. Provided they stand in midnight clad by their own virtues. Besides, the Alphas and Sunless sons have traditionally gotten along as well as homicidal cousins can hope ^_^ 

 

Let me know if you'd like to add a company number. Is Rapheol as close to a commander as the Blessed have?

[GhostMalone]

My fellow lords of night

I need your help

I need to find an arm that I can use to attach the tartaros terminator shield to my praetor

 

http://i1279.photobucket.com/albums/y524/Taron_James_Beer/image_zpsb56585de.jpg

http://i1279.photobucket.com/albums/y524/Taron_James_Beer/image_zps22e381f0.jpg

http://i1279.photobucket.com/albums/y524/Taron_James_Beer/image_zpsdd265133.jpg

[Armond]

I thought that a Company was a unit of about 100 Marines and there were several of them that made up a Chapter?  I also thought that Night Lords considered themselves a Legion still, so I figured they would use the following:  Legion>Chapter>Battalion>Company>Squads
 
I just want to get my head wrapped around how people are picking their Company numbers, I figured they would be Chapter numbers.  Please help me understand!  I would like to toss mine out there.  Right now it would look like this:
 
VIII Legion, 37th Chapter "The Shadow Sworn," led by Captain Zar-Helek
 
I am referencing this: http://static4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20131001033405/warhammer40k/images/3/38/Space_Marine_Legion_Structure_1.jpg

Edited January 24, 2014 by Armond

[Kol Saresk]

The Night Lords are weird. Their companies can be one hundred, or they can be larger than one hundred. If we go by Massacre, anything above the Company level is basically a "joint operation" between companies with one captain being the overall leader(by "vote" or order of the Primarch) and being given some honorary title like "Regent" to signify this. But nothing has been said on whether or not their Chapters have names or numbers.

 

Basically, there is no discipline in the VIII Legion. :P

[Armond]

I don't know what to do now!  Recommendation?
 
BTW, I am writing some fluff, maybe some of you fellow Night Lords would appreciate it?

http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/topic/285900-the-dark-of-night/?p=3575179

[Kol Saresk]

Recommendation would be to just go with whatever feels right.

[Flint13]

Kol has about the right of it. The Nightlords have never been super compliant with organizational structure at the best of times. The way they wage war just doesn't allow for it, even before they broke from the Imperium. After the heresy, some bands grew into larger splinters containing reminants of dozens of companies, while others are just parts of smaller ones. Honestly it seems to just shift in the "offical" fluff whenever a need calls for it. 

 

So I suggest to have the most fun with it possible! The Shadow-sworn are accounted for in red.

[Brother Heinrich]

The most complete form of organization we have comes from the works of Aaron Dembski-Bowden and Forge World's newest Horus Heresy Book: Massacre. In AD-Bs novels, both the pre and post-heresy works, he details a simple command structure where you have as follows:

• Primarch

• Sevatar - 1st Captain

• The "Kyroptera" - A council of favored Night Lord Captains
• The "Atramentar" - The Elite 1st Company (It is debated whether or not this organization is solely composed of terminators)
• Battle Companies - These were lead by captains, though even that title was malleable with some referring to themselves as commanders, master, or regents. Additionally Captains could hold sway over other captains, in-effect creating micro-command structures within the framework of the legion itself. Though technically equals, there was clearly lines of supremacy woven throughout the legion on the basis of favors owed or simple prowess and weight of numbers.

• Terror Squads - Units of Night Lords infantry specifically tasked with using fear tactics and brutal methods to demoralize the enemy
• Night Raptors - Jump Pack assault specialists within the Night Lords Legion

 

Basically whatever organization the legion once had, it eroded under the steady influx of corrupted Nostraman recruits who grafted the social hierarchies of Nostraman gangs onto it. This is why you have such fluid and flexible command structures, and why promotion was often through murdering your predecessor.

 

Basically pick a company number, give them a cool title and roll with it. Welcome to the VIII Legion.  

[RapatoR]

 

Yep, be they Terran, Nostroman, or mixed blood recruits they're all welcome. Provided they stand in midnight clad by their own virtues. Besides, the Alphas and Sunless sons have traditionally gotten along as well as homicidal cousins can hope

 

Let me know if you'd like to add a company number. Is Rapheol as close to a commander as the Blessed have?

 

Well it seems that nowadays every murderous half-sane marine can call himself a Nigh...

Nevermind.

 

Concerning company number I would go with Unknown designation as warband was formed from members of various companies after retreat from Tsagualsa.

 

Rapheol is not a leader just an apothecary with friendly ties to the warband.

Official leader: a Daemon Prince known as The Revered One (never seen again after his ascension).

Factual leaders: the group of individuals known as The Shadow Hand.

Edited January 25, 2014 by RapatoR

[Kol Saresk]

 

 

 

Yep, be they Terran, Nostroman, or mixed blood recruits they're all welcome. Provided they stand in midnight clad by their own virtues. Besides, the Alphas and Sunless sons have traditionally gotten along as well as homicidal cousins can hope

 

Let me know if you'd like to add a company number. Is Rapheol as close to a commander as the Blessed have?

 

Well it seems that nowadays every murderous half-sane marine can call himself a Nigh...

Nevermind.

 

 

What's with this "half-sane"? We;re Night Lords! We go all the way! Besides, who needs sanity in a universe filled with gods and daemons?

[Flint13]

 

 

 

Yep, be they Terran, Nostroman, or mixed blood recruits they're all welcome. Provided they stand in midnight clad by their own virtues. Besides, the Alphas and Sunless sons have traditionally gotten along as well as homicidal cousins can hope

 

Let me know if you'd like to add a company number. Is Rapheol as close to a commander as the Blessed have?

 

Well it seems that nowadays every murderous half-sane marine can call himself a Nigh...

Nevermind.

 

What's with this "half-sane"? We;re Night Lords! We go all the way! Besides, who needs sanity in a universe filled with gods and daemons?

Never go full Nightlord. They can't handle full Nightlord.

[Brother Ambroz]

 

 

 

 

Yep, be they Terran, Nostroman, or mixed blood recruits they're all welcome. Provided they stand in midnight clad by their own virtues. Besides, the Alphas and Sunless sons have traditionally gotten along as well as homicidal cousins can hope

 

Let me know if you'd like to add a company number. Is Rapheol as close to a commander as the Blessed have?

 

Well it seems that nowadays every murderous half-sane marine can call himself a Nigh...

Nevermind.

 

What's with this "half-sane"? We;re Night Lords! We go all the way! Besides, who needs sanity in a universe filled with gods and daemons?

Never go full Nightlord. They can't handle full Nightlord.

Think that's when you get folks like Heath Ledger's Joker. Loved that guy....

[Imperialis_Dominatus]

In the vein of the Joker, perhaps it is not a lack of sanity, but entirely too much of it?

Also... I can fairly easily see either Kurze or any given Night Lord: "You remind me of my father... I hated my father!"

[Balthamal]

Thanks to Flint's gentle pointing to this thread, I shall indeed make some contribution. Sadly models are months away but that isn't going to stop my rather warped imagination giving them some life before that delicious resin finds it's way to my door. So without further ado....

 

Tap – tap. Tap - tap. Tap - tap. Those two sounds were the only thing that could be heard beyond the gentle whispers of the wind and the slight hum of active war-plate in the distance. The first was pleasing to the assembled brotherhood. Rich, red vitae leaking from a multitude of wounds. The second was even more invigorating. The expression of agony through the only means their victim had left. Fate had been a cruel mistress to deliver him to such an end, but fate was a spineless concept to the gathering, holding even less regard than morality or compassion.

 

The victim, for victim he was, not a warrior felled in combat, nor a soldier taken by the tides of battle, lacked everything but the most essential components of life and even those organs were failing. His limbs, his eyes, his ears, nose, and even lower jaw removed; part of the tally of 184 ritualistic wounds given by a blade. The only way left to articulate his torment through the hitting of the remains of his skull against the hull of the storm eagle he was pinned to, a pair of large steel spars rammed through his clavicles to hold him in place. His proud armour cast aside so that his flesh could offer a bounty of blood to the killer surrounding him. Only one remained close now,
the others, having made their cut had retreated to watch the spectacle in silence.

The victim could barely hear his approach, only the itching on his flayed flesh a sign that a demi god stood within reach. His voice, when it came, was whispered so softly that he had to strain even further through his agonies to hear it, knowing what was to come.

 

“You always were a fool Hurophion. Claws cast aside. VIII Legion blood wasted out of spite.Blades blunted out of false pride.” The victim barely felt the steel against
the remains of his ribs as the whisper continued. “You ordered the Fratum Cadeverosa to death because you are nothing but a blind, arrogant :cuss. You forsook us you bastard. Well, these are the Carrion Brotherhood no longer.These are yours no longer. They are mine now. And they have seen your blood price paid. Sevatar sends his regards.”

 

Without pause or any inflection, he gently slide the blade through Hurophion’s hearts, twisting as it struck the adamantium of the hull beneath.

 

Turning to face his men, Barbastellan Lasiurus  held his bloody blade high. “From this moment, the 14^th are no longer Fratum Cadeverosa. From now until dust, we are Forsaken”

Edited January 28, 2014 by Balthamal

[RedMoon]

http://i922.photobucket.com/albums/ad69/thatclone/72961_10202907334387458_905031507_n.jpg

 

The 13th company stands midnight clad. Ave Dominus Nox.

 

Naraka the Bloodless, the Headsman of Ikar 4, the Carrion King, Lord of the Corpse Fields.

 

No chaos Worship or mutation. Heavy use of Terror Claws and Night Raptor units.

[Flint13]

Dude!

 

That's freaking gorgeous! You *own* the 13th company.

[Rune_Priest_Rhapsody]

DAMN!! I'm black with envy!! Great conversion!! I love the use of the terrain with the angled Raptor legs. The 'wings' on the helmet, fit flawlessly!! Where are they from?? And the heads in his hand... Where are those from, I got to get me that bit!!

 

WOW, just WOW!!
 

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[RedMoon]

wow thanks yall :D. i hope to get more pictures took soon as all i have is my Iphone and no real place to do it gotta wait till noon when the light is good in the apartment LOL. and get a blog up and going...never done one and might be good to help motivate me lol

 

the Wings on his helm are from the banner that comes in the Grave Guard box. that is a GREAT box for bits for night lords, i used the wings from their helmets for the wings on my guys. so much smaller and less goofy then the GW ones.

 

the hand with the heads is from the Storm Vermin box.

[Forté]

It's not that awesome... Ok, I give on....holy :cuss that is amazing. Great kit bash, pose and everything.

[Flint13]

Seriously RedMoon, if there isn't a plog starting up with some of these awesome minis displayed sometime soon, you're going to get a few knives in the back. Friendly, fraternal knives of gentle persuasion, of course. For us Nightlords, it's totally like shaking hands ^_^