shattered no longer

[Castrmen Orth]

I have been toying with the idea of starting a heresy force. I've always had a strong liking for the isstvaan v survivors. I plan to theme it as mainly an iron hands force with any assault troops and recon squads painted as raven guard, and any flamer squads Tec as salamanders, and here is where it gets controversial, any destroyer units painted as salamanders also.

 

Salamanders don't use destroyers though right? But I have this crazy idea of a bunch of bitter survivors faced with the scope of their losses turning down a darker path and taking up any and all weapons to punish those responsible.

 

Thoughts?

[helterskelter]

Of all the bits of salamander stuff I've read, 99.9% of them remain true to their ideals. The Raven guard do what they are told to, usually by iron hands unless your name happens to be my nykona. The iron hands will do all kinds of crazy

[Leif Bearclaw]

While Salamanders didn't favour Destroyers, preferring the cleaner Pyroclasts, they still did maintain a small cadre exclusively for use in xenocide operations.

[Iron Hands Fanatic]

Actually, the Sallies did have Destroyers exclusively for Xenocide operations - you could always go with the idea that in light of the Heresy, these guys eschewed their former restraint

 

Edit: Ninja'd

[Emperors Teeth]

It often goes unnoticed that the Salamanders 'No Destroyer & Moritat' rule only applies to Primary Detachments. There is nothing stopping you fielding an Iron Hands force with an allied Salamander detachment which includes a Destroyer unit.

 

Now, with the change to non-compulsory HQ's for the Moritat, you can't use these at all as there's only 1 HQ slot in the Allied FoC. Unfortunate,  but at least you cam still do a Destroyer squad.

[Castrmen Orth]

Cheers for the replies guys, think this will be a good looking force, with potential to ease me into the heresy proper

[Arac]

I am pretty sure they announced some kind of Shattered Legions Army List. I always guessed that it would combine all the surviving Legions from the Isstvaan V Massacre. So in some far future you wouldnt have to rely on seperate detachements but a combined army list.

[jeremy1391]

It often goes unnoticed that the Salamanders 'No Destroyer & Moritat' rule only applies to Primary Detachments. There is nothing stopping you fielding an Iron Hands force with an allied Salamander detachment which includes a Destroyer unit.

 

Now, with the change to non-compulsory HQ's for the Moritat, you can't use these at all as there's only 1 HQ slot in the Allied FoC. Unfortunate, but at least you cam still do a Destroyer squad.

Unless you run dual CAD and have the iron hands as your primary Detatchment ;)

Inferno pistol moritat lol!