BrotherCaptainArkhan Posted October 5 Author Share Posted October 5 Cheers @BadgersinHillsand @MoriyaSchism! The daggers are actually Roman gladii from the Victrix Early Imperial Romans set. I wanted a visual connection between these guys - who are pretty heavily Ojibwe/Anishinaabe Native American-inspired - and their Ultramarines progenitors. The gladius is a mark of honour received by every marine on completion of his training and a symbol of his heritage and bloodline shared with the warrior-kings of Macragge. So goes the theory, anyway - I'll enshrine it in a little lore piece at some point, but for now wanted it to be a small visual throwback to their bloodline. MoriyaSchism, BadgersinHills, Firedrake Cordova and 1 other 4 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/386704-the-sons-of-the-condor/page/2/#findComment-6135105 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrotherCaptainArkhan Posted October 5 Author Share Posted October 5 Slight tangent, I've really picked up enthusiasm for this project now. I'm planning an intro to Kill Team very soon, and am discussing a few narrative campaigns with some friends already. In the mean time, I wanted to trial a paint scheme for Tyranid NPCs. Picked up a Genestealer from the old Space Hulk 3rd ed set and this is what I came up with. Any thoughts? gaurdian31, MoriyaSchism, Tallarn Commander and 9 others 7 5 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/386704-the-sons-of-the-condor/page/2/#findComment-6135119 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoriyaSchism Posted October 5 Share Posted October 5 I like the colour scheme, I don't think I've seen a hive fleet quite like it. I think it you pulled off the organic look without the creature looking too squishy. Firedrake Cordova and Dr_Ruminahui 2 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/386704-the-sons-of-the-condor/page/2/#findComment-6135126 Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Pounder Posted October 6 Share Posted October 6 Yeah, looks great! Firedrake Cordova 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/386704-the-sons-of-the-condor/page/2/#findComment-6135159 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firedrake Cordova Posted October 6 Share Posted October 6 Really nice work on both the marines and the genestealer Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/386704-the-sons-of-the-condor/page/2/#findComment-6135173 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrotherCaptainArkhan Posted October 7 Author Share Posted October 7 Cheers chaps. I'm working on a fair few Tyranids for the Condors to face off against - will be a really fun juxtaposition hopefully. In the meantime, also working on a Scout tester. Tallarn Commander, The Yak, Kurgan the Lurker and 6 others 8 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/386704-the-sons-of-the-condor/page/2/#findComment-6135426 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firedrake Cordova Posted October 7 Share Posted October 7 I like the addition of the cloak (the old sniper scouts were always my favourites) BrotherCaptainArkhan, Tallarn Commander and gaurdian31 2 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/386704-the-sons-of-the-condor/page/2/#findComment-6135434 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MetalFingers Posted Thursday at 10:39 PM Share Posted Thursday at 10:39 PM Everything is looking great, love that marine scheme. I also was pulled back into the hobby this year with SM2 and the Astartes trailer. Can’t wait to see more! BrotherCaptainArkhan and gaurdian31 1 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/386704-the-sons-of-the-condor/page/2/#findComment-6135957 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrotherCaptainArkhan Posted Friday at 11:28 AM Author Share Posted Friday at 11:28 AM Thanks chaps. Same - SM2 and Astartes have a lot to answer for :) The Scout tester is done - and just like that, I think I'm now looking at building a small force for OPR's Grimdark Future ruleset. 20-odd Astartes feels very, very doable. More thoughts to come in a future post. BadgersinHills, Rusted Boltgun, RolandTHTG and 11 others 5 9 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/386704-the-sons-of-the-condor/page/2/#findComment-6136044 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Ruminahui Posted Friday at 09:28 PM Share Posted Friday at 09:28 PM Those are all great. Another doable thing you could do with them is use them as a selection of teams for Kill Team. Firedrake Cordova and gaurdian31 2 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/386704-the-sons-of-the-condor/page/2/#findComment-6136160 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoriyaSchism Posted Saturday at 11:03 AM Share Posted Saturday at 11:03 AM You can run multiple (loyal and traitor) Space Marine teams in the current edition of Kill Team with just 13 models. Granted it involves making two different types of Librarian and an Apothecary but it's doable. You can push it to 20 if you want some variation with your gunners or if you include the Scout kill team. You can have a Lexicanium as a stand in for the Visionary (Night Lords) and the Balefire Acolyte (Legionary) or a Codicier as the Ventrilokar (Night Lords), Sorceror (Thousand Sons) and Malignant Plaguecaster (Plague Marines). Firedrake Cordova and gaurdian31 2 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/386704-the-sons-of-the-condor/page/2/#findComment-6136221 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrotherCaptainArkhan Posted 7 hours ago Author Share Posted 7 hours ago On 10/10/2025 at 10:28 PM, Dr_Ruminahui said: Those are all great. Another doable thing you could do with them is use them as a selection of teams for Kill Team. On 10/11/2025 at 12:03 PM, MoriyaSchism said: You can run multiple (loyal and traitor) Space Marine teams in the current edition of Kill Team with just 13 models. Granted it involves making two different types of Librarian and an Apothecary but it's doable. You can push it to 20 if you want some variation with your gunners or if you include the Scout kill team. You can have a Lexicanium as a stand in for the Visionary (Night Lords) and the Balefire Acolyte (Legionary) or a Codicier as the Ventrilokar (Night Lords), Sorceror (Thousand Sons) and Malignant Plaguecaster (Plague Marines). Those are really interesting ideas. On looking deeper into Kill Team, I see proxying is fairly common? I'm having my first tester tomorrow night (and can't wait). In truth, I really, really like the look of OPR for the sheer flexibility on offer. I could run a force of 20 Astartes and a Dreadnought and that's a full army (and they'd be decent in-game as well by the looks of it). But I'm very keen to try out Kill Team as I'm likely to get more games in. I'll report back. For now I've been assembling the rest of Wolf Cadre - and a friend: Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/386704-the-sons-of-the-condor/page/2/#findComment-6136478 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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