Komrk Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 I've been in this sub forum for a decent while now and I officially have stepped into the Heresy (already have Command Squad, Praetor, MoS, Champion, and Contemptor but just bought 20 tac marines and 10 Recon Marines). Now I've seen a lot of cool discussions going on but I want to know what people are playing. What Legion/Chapter/Battalion/Company etc. What play style are you going for. If you have any backstory for your army and/or characters. Also if you have one, a theme song for your army So I'll start I play the 1st Battalion 7th Chapter of the Raven Guard. My play style is mainly going to be a mobile infantry force that can engage the enemy at medium to close range primarily. I have some fluff but I'm still not happy with it so that's a WIP. The theme song for my army is For Whom the Bell Tolls by Metallica. It's an awesome song and it's also the name of one of the Decapitation Strike rules. So what do you guys have. Edit: Also pictures, everyone loves pictures Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/295811-what-are-you-playing/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russ Brother 92 Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 I'm running a Pride of the Legion based IHs force, they're Istvann V Terminators and Contemptors but contrary to true fluff they're a mixed bag from 6 clans plus Lord Ferrus - I aim for short range firefights and into close combat where they really excel - I don't have a specific song atm but anything by either Iron Maiden or Motorhead gets the gears running right... My current plan is to get the 4 Cataphractii squads up to 10 man, 20 Tartaros, a further 3 Contemptors (2 mortis and 1 regular) and 6 Spartans to carry them all. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/295811-what-are-you-playing/#findComment-3790215 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brofist Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 I'm building up a renegade Iron Warriors force with Admec + Imperial Army axillia. The goal is to have enough different units that so I can play 30k and proxy things into 40k. The theme is technology and pragmatism, so depending on my list I use either Iron Hand or Iron Warrior rules. Fluff wise, I settled on the 13th Grand Company, 49th Expeditionary Fleet. In 30k they are ignorant the heresy has happened. In 40k they’re a living relic. Pre Heresy 13th sees considerable deployment during the crusade and builds a relationship with the mechanicus. Perturabo shows up, they refuse to decimate, so he executes the command staff instead. New Praetor gets appointed from the “Flawed, but useful” list, the company is attached to an expeditionary fleet, and then everyone gets sent off to do forgettable crusade work. Over time they become almost entirely self-sufficient and in absence of other factions grow a culture of comradery. Their last orders are to meet with several other fleet before the begging of the heresy… but they never show up. There are contradictory accounts that they participate on both sides of the heresy, but the 49th is mostly lost to the sands of time. Post Heresy The 13th emerges into the system they were expected at, nearly10,000 years later. Finding nothing but a lifeless world and shifted astrological charts, the fleet jumps to the nearest system- an imperial staging sector. Declaring themselves as the 49th Expeditionary Fleet of the 13th Iron Warriors Grand company… they are promptly shot at by panicking defenders. In the process of brining the system “into compliance” they find records pointing at a great heresy earlier in human history. Unsure if this is an alternate dimension or really the far future, they retreat into the Halo Stars. From here they continue the crusade- a living relic of times long lost. For them, the Imperium is a decaying vessel- a carcass of a thousand barbaric worlds identical to those brought into compliance millennia before. Unsure if they were abandoned by a selfish primarch or betrayed by a callous emperor, they persevere in the way they always had- unity, brotherhood, and discipline. Hope that was a fun read and inspires somebody to do something creative Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/295811-what-are-you-playing/#findComment-3790402 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slips Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 I too was thinking of doing a Time-travel-warpy-stuff with my Imperial Fists to justify them looking that much more badass than their 40k counterparts :P Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/295811-what-are-you-playing/#findComment-3790404 Share on other sites More sharing options...
deathspectersgt7 Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 Play? Just plan on doing a squad or 2 of each legion. Fluff wise no primarchs think the big E is a tyrant want to put the crusade on track for humanity but just want to kill . Theme song from Mr Rodgers Neighborhood. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/295811-what-are-you-playing/#findComment-3790411 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vazzy Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 I play the 129th company of the Ultramarines. A heavy siege/void war unit, the Hammers of Talassar are a mix of Rome, Golden Age Piracy and 18-19th century Whalers. Great Crusade The company is used as an effective siege cracker and void specialists, specifically known for their daring assaults on citadels by their 5th and Prime cohorts while the rest of the company demolishes the gates. Fought alongside the XVII on multiple occasions on moderate terms with a few Captains. Calth Chosen by the XIII primarch as one of the Companies to stay and guard Calth, the 129th would be caught off guard but due to extenuating circumstances, would survive relatively intact. Post Calth Part of the many task forces taking on the shadow crusade. Go on to become the Shattered Sons, a 3rd founding chapter. Untitled by vazzy2012, on Flickr Untitled by vazzy2012, on Flickr Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/295811-what-are-you-playing/#findComment-3790477 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hivey Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 i play alpha legion. i have 3 lists made, that i can do with current models. pride of the legion, coils of the hyrda, and armored spearhead. the first two are all infantry and has alpharius as the lord of war, second one is mostly land raiders and sicarans, with either a typhon or a glaive as the lord of war. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/295811-what-are-you-playing/#findComment-3790516 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother-Chaplain Kage Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 IX Company, VIII Legion, Crimson Sons, with a small contingent of Dusk Raiders from the LXXXIV Company, XIV Legion. For the time being, I'm not really planning on playing games, so it's mostly just a hobby and will be a display army. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/295811-what-are-you-playing/#findComment-3790525 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daemon2027 Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 I am throwing my self back into the Alpha Legion, initially planning a Pride of the Legion force, but will probably expand. Background wise, I am considering a Seigebreaker Harrow, which draws heavily from some of the original Infiltrartion tactics developed in WWI. The idea would be heavy artillery, which is followed by light infantry pushing through the enemy lines to split the enemy into small groups, which would then be assaulted by heavy infantry. Look wise I am going of a modern, spec-ops look, hi tech, lots of extra grar, highly functional. For song, 'why so serious' from the dark knight soundtrack, it's the one used at the beginning, with the jokers bank robbery. It makes me think of the XXth for some reason. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/295811-what-are-you-playing/#findComment-3790656 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Rohr Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 Imperial Fists 187th Company 'the Grenadiers', Terran Household Guard Regiment. Led by Captain Wilhelm Rohr, known informally as 'the Exile'. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/295811-what-are-you-playing/#findComment-3791026 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyaenidae Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 Siege of Terra: XIV Dragoons (Mechanized), VII Grand Battalion, Iron Warriors. Led by Dragoon-Captain Phelan Mahdra, Firstborn of the Legions, Wolfhound of Old Earth. (Follow the XIV Dragoon link in my sig for the full story) Heresy: LD-A 517, Hyena, XX Legion. Led by Team Leader Rhorke Aramis, last of the Ghost Legion. Fortium Fracti. Unification: Heavenfall Chapter, XVII Legion, Iconoclast. Led by Senior Captain Isarin, the Charred. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/295811-what-are-you-playing/#findComment-3791042 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barabbas Sogalon Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 The 8th Battalion of the Death Guard 7th Great Company, The Last Judgement, specializing extermination and strongly influenced by Albian warfare. Exiled from the rest of the legion because of the heavy traditionalist views of its Terran master, Lieutenant-Commander Sogalon, The Lion of Albia and Last Warlord of Dusk. Allies in the form of the VIII legion 26. Company, Noctis Infernae, Terran scorched earth specialists led by Captain Aliksandr Saevus the Lord of Infernal Night. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/295811-what-are-you-playing/#findComment-3791069 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daemon2027 Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 Heresy: LD-A 517, Hyena, XX Legion. Led by Team Leader Rhorke Aramis, last of the Ghost Legion. Fortium Fracti. A war of shadows comes my brother, the Hydra will shed the skin of all who betray us. The Harrowing Comes. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/295811-what-are-you-playing/#findComment-3791135 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyaenidae Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 Let us see how easy it is for you to laugh when a Banestrike round has removed your head, my former Brother. We may be many, but we are not one. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/295811-what-are-you-playing/#findComment-3791142 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daemon2027 Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 I have died a thousand deaths but still live, I have worn the skin of all the legions but still am Alpha. I was of the first. I was a ghost. Now I am your Omega. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/295811-what-are-you-playing/#findComment-3791157 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyaenidae Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 Keep your riddles, traitor. You'll need something to amuse yourself with when I and my kin send you to hell. For the Emperor, brother. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/295811-what-are-you-playing/#findComment-3791164 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iron Hands Fanatic Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 Siege of Terra: XIV Dragoons (Mechanized), VII Grand Battalion, Iron Warriors. Led by Dragoon-Captain Phelan Mahdra, Firstborn of the Legions, Wolfhound of Old Earth. (Follow the XIV Dragoon link in my sig for the full story) Heresy: LD-A 517, Hyena, XX Legion. Led by Team Leader Rhorke Aramis, last of the Ghost Legion. Fortium Fracti. Unification: Heavenfall Chapter, XVII Legion, Iconoclast. Led by Senior Captain Isarin, the Charred. Hyena huh? Any relation to a certain formation occasionally known as Cadejo? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/295811-what-are-you-playing/#findComment-3791185 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyaenidae Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 Sister formation... ;) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/295811-what-are-you-playing/#findComment-3791191 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daemon2027 Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 Keep your riddles, traitor. You'll need something to amuse yourself with when I and my kin send you to hell. For the Emperor, brother. For the Emperor {Laughter crackles over the vox} :) Cant wait to see your take on the XXth dude, if its anything like the Crimson Son it will be amazing. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/295811-what-are-you-playing/#findComment-3791251 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fire Golem Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 Are the Ghost Legion the XXth before they found Alpharius? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/295811-what-are-you-playing/#findComment-3791270 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Rohr Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 That's one of their names in book 3 Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/295811-what-are-you-playing/#findComment-3791283 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daemon2027 Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 The Ghost Legion was an unconfirmed rumour, that there were bands of astartes, that would go into active warzones, with no colours or markings, or in the colours of other Legions active in the area, who performed acts of sabotage, assassination, and other activities that most Space Marines would find abhorrent. It was generally considered that the XXth legion was this Ghost Legion. It should also be noted that the XXth was not officially named, and the Alpha Legion is the most common out of many names the legion operates under. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/295811-what-are-you-playing/#findComment-3791322 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fire Golem Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 Ah okay thanks. I haven't actually read Extermination properly yet. I never knew they weren't officially named. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/295811-what-are-you-playing/#findComment-3791331 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daemon2027 Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 Well that's what it suggests in the background. Anyway back on topic: Who's playing what :) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/295811-what-are-you-playing/#findComment-3791344 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fire Golem Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 Sorry! I am playing (or planning) a Sons of Horus force with an allied Night Lords force. I'm still working on my fluff atm, tentatively titled 'In Serpent Scale and Midnight Clad'. Oh and any help would be appreciated ;) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/295811-what-are-you-playing/#findComment-3791369 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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