Fortis Crusade

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I used to have a thread on here tracking my progress on my crusade and it appears to have gotten deleted. Still, I need a place to post what I am working on so here we are. The crusade gets its name for a star system I created for a deathwatch campaign, I got it pretty fleshed out and would be happy to write up the fluff if anyone is interested in that sort of thing, but the TLDR is as follows.

1. Its a system of several planets, but only 2 of them have breathable atmospheres.
2. One of these planets is on a highly eccentric orbit, the surface is a boiling desert when it is close to the sun, followed by decades of frozen wasteland as it moves away. The incredibly harsh conditions drew the space marines to this world as a testing ground, and it still houses some old imperial research stations under the ice.
3. the other world is a hive, housing all life in the system
4. A research station from the horus heresy was re-discovered on a moon of the systems gas giant.

The concentration of relics in this area is abnormally high, but the system is largely forgotten. The great rift has made traveling here difficult, and even if you were to claim the treasures it has to offer, would you be able to leave with them?

The Black Templar arrived centuries ago to purge a chaos threat, but once it was banished back to the warp they were trapped in the system by the great rift, and new threats have appeared the threaten the area...
 

The drop pod list is good but its looking a little... unpainted. I am taking this string of victories as a cry for paint, and my mini's will be rewarded. But first they needed some templar-ing up. I found out Walmart sells 9ft of jewelry chain for $4, so I have gotten to work.
 

I will post my progress here, and hopefully it will be good motivation to continue the work.

 

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Alright, true to my commitment I got the test model for the rest of the army done tonight. He is the same Primaris from the post above.

I am not on the same level as many of the painter on this site. But I did freehand those crosses and I am proud of it. I am going for a volcanic theme for the basing, seemed appropriate for a mostly lifeless system.
 

[vossyvo]

The freehand crosses are great! Looking forward to seeing the crusade form.

 

Also read all your posts and tips from the tournament. As someone just getting into the playing side of the game they are great. I’m still making sense of how to use my random spread of various units coherently on the battlefield.

[SydonianDragoon404]

Glad to see a brother from the same Crusade as I! Great models. 

[Link2edition]

Glad to see a brother from the same Crusade as I! Great models. 

haha, Yeah I noticed I wasn't the only one using the name.

 

The campaign I ran was back in 2014, didn't feel right to change the name.

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Your model is well-painted. The chained bolt rifle is a good touch, but I'm concerned the chain may slip in front of the ejection port (which will make the weapon jam) or strike the selector switch (making it FIRE when it shouldn't, or SAFE when it should be on FIRE).

[Link2edition]

Your model is well-painted. The chained bolt rifle is a good touch, but I'm concerned the chain may slip in front of the ejection port (which will make the weapon jam) or strike the selector switch (making it FIRE when it shouldn't, or SAFE when it should be on FIRE).

The Templar have been chaining their bolters to their wrists for millennia. If these new Primaris boys are so great, they can figure it out.

 

Though while I was building the model I did think about how that conversation must have gone with the first wave of primaris.

 

"Neophyte, chain your bolter like this to show your devotion of fighting with it until the crusade ends or you do"

 

"The Codex Astartes says its unwise to-"

 

"OH MY EMPEROR, if you bring up gulliman's book one more time I am turning you over to the chaplains for a paddlin'."

[Bjorn Firewalker]

"Neophyte, chain your bolter like this to show your devotion of fighting with it until the crusade ends or you do"

 

"The Codex Astartes says its unwise to-"

 

"OH MY EMPEROR, if you bring up gulliman's book one more time I am turning you over to the chaplains for a paddlin'."

Primaris Intercessor-turned-Neophyte: "Brother-Chaplain, why does your crozius arcanum's head have such widespread wings?"

 

Chaplain: "So it may serve a secondary function as a paddle, with which I may punish brother Templars who turn from the righteous side."

 

Primaris Neophyte: "The Codex Astartes does not allow weapons to be modified for-"

 

Primaris Neophyte (as the Chaplain knees him in the gut, forcing him to bend over): "Oof!"

 

Chaplain (pulling down the Primaris Marine's pants, and using his crozius/paddle hybrid to spank the oversized baby): "Guilliman does NOT represent the righteous side when he does not fight in a crusade!"

 

Primaris Neophyte: "Waaaah!"

[vossyvo]

He can thank the emperor when his weapon does jam, for the opportunity to draw his chainsword/combat blade and wage war against the Heretic, close enough to smell the fear.

[Link2edition]

After reviewing the 4th ed codex I decided to change up the way I do the devotion chains a bit.

Here is a Primaris figuring out how to reload a chained weapon. I don't think I am going to paint up any of these guys as sword brethren, For now I will assume all Primaris are Initiates.

[Marshal Wolfhart]

The way he's reloading his gun he isn't even a neophyte :D

Also, i think your freehand crosses look very nice. Imo it is just another bit of character added if they are not all the same, enforcing the individualistic side of teh chapter further.

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Here is a Primaris figuring out how to reload a chained weapon.

As an American, I find it strange he's using his right hand to reload the bolt rifle. Are you Russian? (American magazine articles on the AN-94 claim Russian soldiers are trained to use their right hands to reload their assault rifles. American assault rifles are designed so the left hand may reload it, so wielders can keep their right hands on the grips, fingers near the triggers and safeties.)

[Link2edition]

That is just how GW modeled the bits.

[Gederas]

Here is a Primaris figuring out how to reload a chained weapon.

As an American, I find it strange he's using his right hand to reload the bolt rifle. Are you Russian? (American magazine articles on the AN-94 claim Russian soldiers are trained to use their right hands to reload their assault rifles. American assault rifles are designed so the left hand may reload it, so wielders can keep their right hands on the grips, fingers near the triggers and safeties.)

Marines are canonically ambidextrous. If you look at any bolt weapon, there's ejection ports on both sides of the gun casing to reinforce this fact.

 

He's reloading it in his right hand because he was probably holding the rifle in his left to begin with.

 

That is just how GW modeled the bits.

Also this :lol:

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Today's game was pretty much just Starship Troopers. Drop Pods VS Nids.

 

 

An old friend of mine who was back in town hadn't played in a long time. We used to throw down all the time a decade ago, so we decided it was a good way to spend our time. He lost but really he was having to re-learn a lot of rules. This picture is the turn after my pods landed in the middle of 30 hormagaunts, a carnifex and a tyrannofex and blew all of them off the board. This along with a horde of genestealers just out of frame to the left was his counter attack (deepstrikers). I just thought it was a cool picture, and it shows I am slowly getting these guys painted, no grey in sight!

 

And a couple of pictures of the Marshal of the Fortis Crusade in his terminator armor, he is also known to fight in power armor from time to time, that version is painted so I may post it at some point. I am proud of the greenstuff cape on this guy.