The Storm Dragons

[StormDragon]

++ Chapter Name ++ Storm Dragons

 

++ Founding ++ 8th Early M33

 

++ Geneseed ++ Ultramarine

 

++ Chapter Master ++ Luis Serranno

 

++ Heraldry ++

 

Shadow grey power armour with black stripe on helmet, black shoulder pad trim, chest eagle, gauntlets and knee pads. The chapter symbol is displayed on the right shoulder pad with tactical markings on the left pad. Company markings are displayed on the left kneepad and consist of a simplified version of the Captain

[Gator_of_Bahamut]

Not bad, I think you've got some good basic fluff written out. Just be careful not to make them sound too soft in their defense of humanity. Remeber, there are also mutants, heretics, and traitors.

 

One detail I'm not sure about is the use of the Baku system. Did you take the name from Star Trek?

 

The paint scheme certainly is dark! Hard to imagine if that looks good or not, though. You should post a pic.

 

Oh, by the way, welcome to the Draco Astartes!

[Ancient_Galatan]

wow certainly a nice start I would certainly like to see how the colour scheme looks.

[StormDragon]

Just be careful not to make them sound too soft in their defense of humanity. Remeber, there are also mutants, heretics, and traitors.

What I'm trying to go for is something similar to the end of the Nightbringer novel. Where they could take the easy way out and destroy the Pavonis, or go down to the planet and put their own lives on the line and try to stop the big nasty that way. If that make sense :) They're still gonna be plenty mean to the enemies of the Emperor

 

One detail I'm not sure about is the use of the Baku system. Did you take the name from Star Trek?

Nope, I don't watch Star Trek. It came from a web site listing the names of old Russian towns. I was going to give all the marines Russian names, but I've since changed to using Hispanic names. I left Bacu because I thought it sounded quite generic, but if it's a name from Star Trek I'll change it.

 

I've got one test mini more or less done, he still needs a base and you can see the BluTac holding his bolter in place ;) but here are some pics:

 

http://www.andyandfae.co.uk/StormDragons/Dscn0460.jpg

 

http://www.andyandfae.co.uk/StormDragons/Dscn0462.jpg

 

Although I might change the colour scheme. I've got it into my head that a halved black and yellow scheme would look really good. So I'm going to paint up a test mini so I can see if it looks as good in the flesh as it does in my head, and to see how hard it is to paint :)

 

Oh, by the way, welcome to the Draco Astartes!

Thanks

[Gator_of_Bahamut]

Never read that novel, so I can't comment there. Baku was the system/planet from Star Trek: Insurrection, the movie before last. I didn't know of the earthly originins, but if you're going for hispanic names I think think it would fit anyways. Just be sure not to consfure your feminino and masculino endings.

 

The test mini looks good so far, but you should change the left kneepad. The red and white checks make it look like a mushroom. The rest of the scheme looks good, though. Have you decided on a chapter logo?

 

You're welcome.

[Commissar Molotov]

The system from Insurrection (one of the worst Trek movies made) was Ba'ku. The apostrophe makes all the difference in science fiction. ;)

 

I like the replacement method you've used regarding librarians. In my chapter the standard marines also take turns to serve as Librarians. It seems the most logical method to me.

 

Now - why are your first company lead by the Master of Sanctity - why does your chapter have a lot of chaplains? A lot of people merely state differences with their chapter, but not state why these differences have occured.. Did your chapter suffer from a lack of faith at some time?

 

I won't launch into my "marines aren't cuddly and caring" speech for the nth time today, but you could try expressing that at one stage in the chapter's history, a chapter master made a decree along the line of "Leave innocents untouched if possible" and your chapter has henceforth strived to adhere to that doctrine - they're honour-bound too and it's caused them complications in the past. That way, being 'nice' is a complication and it creates interesting dilemmas for your chapter.

[StormDragon]

Have you decided on a chapter logo?

I'm thinking along the lines of the dragon the Black Dragons have as their logo but slightly modified to make it my own. Then I want to get it made up as a decal.

 

Now - why are your first company lead by the Master of Sanctity - why does your chapter have a lot of chaplains? A lot of people merely state differences with their chapter, but not state why these differences have occured.. Did your chapter suffer from a lack of faith at some time?

It's explained in the chapter history I'm working on at the moment. In a nutshell, they had librarian fall to the lure of chaos and take the 3rd company with him. The rest of the chapter found out and destroyed them and ever since they've had no librarians, no 3rd company and extra chaplains to ensure that nothing like that can happen again.

 

I like the idea of a Chapter Master swearing an oath to protect the innocents. It seems to encompass just the feel I was trying to get. That's definetly going to be worked into the chapters history. ;)