Word Bearers Word bearers:black heralds chapter

[Polythemus]

Greetings fellow followers of the eightfold path. I am a recent convert to the dark powers having long pledged myself to the Dark Angels, I turn now to my most evil creations, the word bearers. These are the word bearers of the black Heralds chapter and I hope to use this as way to show off paint jobs, bat reps and flesh out the storyline of this legion offshoot. By way of intro here’s my first ever batrep using them. Hope you like it…

part 1

With the imperial capital falling to the hands of Chaos and the Forces of the Death Guard ascendant a new threat emerges on the calixis sector and the Hazeroth Abyss. The Word bearers have come forth lead by their Dark Apostle Kor Harken. Their sights have been set on the world of Regulus. Leaving a bloody trail of victims, Harken and his possessed have nearly complete control of the planet. 

After surprise at the swiftness of their arrival, the Black Templar garrison on their fortress world of Cloister have sent a relief force led by brother Redemptor Karno and his captain Altair. The brother Captain Tomaso Altair brings forth his brothers to confront the  menance…

 

 

 

Deployment: the word bearers have set up in the agricultural processing facility. While the black templars setup at the edge of the city.

Wb

Dark apostle

Cultists 10

Possessed 5+ 1 champion

Obliterators x2

 

Black templars

Captain

Assault intercessors x5

Veteran Bladeguard x3

Redemptor dreadnaught

 

 

‘Prepare to show these dogs the power of the Pantheon!”

 

 

T1 - Black Templars 

 

Marines burst forward from cover of the red temple

 

‘Cut down down the heretic with blade of faith and hearts of hate!’

 

The redemptor dreadnaught unleashes its hell fire on the obliterators but the word bearers use a hexaggrammatic ward blunting its potency.

 

 

 

T1-word bearers

 

 

The word bearers move about the cliffs for protection, while obliterators unleash on the bladeguard, the cultists take a few shots at the bladeguard inflicting 1 wound.

 

“Prepare to die imperial dogs”

 

The resulting melee sees the intercessors left with only blood stumps, while the possessed take minimal casualties.

Full batrep found at blog spot but rest will be posted here over the week.

http://legionofcaliban.blogspot.com/2022/09/calixis-campaign-eightfold-path.html

 

[Polythemus]

T2 - Templars

Brother captain Altair tries to support his left flank, to protect the intercessors, the redemptor has minimal shooting impact on the obliterators.

 

 

‘For the emperor!”

 

 

The possessed and the bladeguard clash, and the blade guard hold, cutting down several possessed but he battle is later joined by the Dark apostle, who turns the tide with unholy prayers to the dark gods.

 

T2 -word bearers

 

In the final push the word bearers are able to break the defense of captain Altair and cut down the remaining bladeguard. The obliterators unleash a withering salvo on the redemptor, bring it to 1 wound. In a frenzied craze of malice and bloodlust, the dark apostle charges the dreadnaught, and while chaos protects him from its potent crushing fist he is unable to breach its armor.

 

In the end a fun little game that mostly went all my way, and the luck of the dark gods was with me, I am not sure if my list was legal per the new chaos codex rules for list building. Fun to try out a bit of a different Army, possessed are pretty strong!

 

Epilogue: With chaos taking a foothold on the planet, brother redemptor Karno collects the body of his brother captain shielding him as the gunship arrived to collect them both. The last thing Karno’s sensors saw before gangway closed behind him was the terrible laughter of Kor Harken, drenched in his brothers’ blood…

[Slave to Darkness]

Ahh I do like a Word Bearers vs Word Bearers lite match up. 

[Prot]

Well first of all, I can’t believe this much time has passed and there hasn’t been any “ Dark Angel/ you’ve been playing chaos all along” jokes!

Secondly, yea the possessed are good-to-great depending on your build or legion. That said WBs are a great fit for possessed. .. I personally don’t use them. That would certainly be a fun matchup. Congrats on the win. 

Edited September 19, 2022 by Prot

[Slave to Darkness]

3 minutes ago, Prot said:

Well first of all, I can’t believe this much time has passed and there hasn’t been any “ Dark Angel/ you’ve been playing chaos all along” jokes!

 

Dont need to joke, everyone knows its the truth. 

[Rayray]

Guess I’m gonna have to get to working on some gal vorbak models for possessed to stand in if they’re that handy next to an apostle…

[Urauloth]

Nice battle! Can we get some more pics of those Word Bearers?