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Lammenters they are really good guys just teribbly unlucky from day 1 since they came from Cursed founding.

Crimson Fists Are pretty cool.

White Consuls(Ultramarines successor) are pretty cool. They were really good to the normal humans that they rule in there section of Ultramar, though Chaos forces over ran there planet during the 13th Black Crusade as it was located rather close to Cadia

 

Here is a WH40k fancomic that looks promising https://eatatau.com/?comics=InFaust

Thanks, and I now remember that the Scythes of the Emperor Chapter is also a good guy one.

 

For those not familiar with the Lammentersm

Here is the Emperor learning about them in If the Emperor had a text to speech device fan series. Pleas note they are a successor chapter of the Blood Angels so like all sons of the Glorious Hawk boy the already have the double issue of the Black Rage And the Red thirst.

Spoiler: Foul language and cartoon violence

Side note, this fan made series was my introduction into the World of War hammer.

 

For a while, they thought they'd overcome the Rage and the Thirst - but those resurfaced. They are 21st Founding and those chapters all tended to be a bit quirky.

 

Quirky, you mean Cursed. The whole founding was screwed up.

 

Some chapters came out of it without anything more unusual than "exceptional toughness" but those were the exception rather than the rule.


The Minotaurs are probably the least "unlucky" in that they rose from being berserkers to being the favourite choice of the High Lords for putting down rebellions by other chapters, getting lots of cutting-edge gear (the Minotaurs have an unusually high amount of Mark 8 armour).

 

Will post pictures of my Death wing companions tomorrow. almost finished them just have to paint a few last details.and glue the weapons on.

Getting the sword on the guys holding their swords two handed is always a little bit of a pain.

 

Maybe y’all can help me find this bit in Gaunts Ghost 1 so I’m not skimming through it.

Spoiler

i can swear I remember atleast two bits when an injured trooper seems to use a minor healing spell on themselves. Does this ring any bells? I’m on bk 3 now. On my other board people don’t recall this happening so I’m trying to refind to see if I misread this stuff.

I mean it’s extremely minor but dammit it’s bugging me.

 

Make that Sunday for the pictures. Got a bit of a stomach bug

 

Here is one of the conpanions

 

Taking a break from heresy army for a little bit.

This weeks project is 40k army 4 Primaris including LT. Zakariah (one of the two DA Characters that came with 8th edition psychi awakening) and 4 interceptors. Plus decided to paint two First born DA veterans while I am at it as Zachariah has Robes over his armor so I wanted to do more than one robed model at a time. All glued together this afternoon.

I have a bit more time to work over the next month and a half. Since I was not one of the people laid off/furloughed at my Job due to the pandemic I used only 1 of 9 vacation days I had. Got told last week by my manager to start using them this week I have Wednesday and next Sunday off and bad weather in the forecast means I will not have alot of other things competing for my time.

Afterwords may start on Raven wing guys and it should be interesting because bikes.

 

Finished Gaunt 3. Only 5 days to blow through it. I was hooked. Moving onto 4.

 

Were there any references to those in 1e? I know 2e had this, in the original boxed set:

Codex Imperium, page 19:
"Upon the seed of the Blood Angels there lies the most ancient curse of mutation, a foulness that cannot be seen, which is covered over by the grace, intelligence, and high achievements which are the proud boast of this most noble of Chaters. Yet the fire that burns behind the eyes of these sons of Sanguinius is bright with a thirst which only the blood of man can slake. Aye, it would be wise to but whisper the name that comes from times heavy with age and fear, a name which echoes in the march of the Blood Angels, the name of Vampire."

and 2e's Codex: Angels of Death elaborated on the Black Rage and the Red Thirst - but was it the first source to do so?

 

I cannot find any sources for when it was introduced on The Lexicanium ,1d4chan, dakkadakka, or the fandom 40k wiki.

 

EDIT:
Do anybody know the Chapter of the SM seen at 0:27?

 

Intercessor work in progress

Did some edge highlights on this guy most prominently on pauldrons

 

Going my to work on The ravenwing element of my 40k of my army this week. Have to decide between Raven wing command squad or Black knights.(the kit allows you to build either)

Command squad eats up some command points on the table top but I get an apothecary out of it which is a nice buff and makes them more durable but Black Knights are one of the coolest looking units available to Dark Angels players,Mark VI armor(with the Classic Beakie helmet) and corvus hammers on motorcycles.

Open to any suggestions from any of you.

 

Some interesting Space Marine info in the latest (#458) White Dwarf: Based on that the 4th Founding Chapter the Tomb Keepers was originally classified as "Chapter 281" is it most likely that as of the 4th Founding have there been at least 281 Chapters established.

Sorry, don't have any.

 

Its okay turns out I got a regular raven wing bike squad rather than the command squad. So its a sergeant and two bikers. My primaris outsiders come tommorow so I will just run it with the Sgt. And save the command points.

I am heavy on HQ's anyway for my 40k(not so much for my 30k Dark Angels where I just have the Lion, 2 Praetors and a Chaplain)/

For my 40k army
I have
Azrael-supreme Grand Master own rules
Azmodai-Interrogator chaplain with his own rules
Another Interrogator chaplain(with power fist)
companyMaster(captain in other Chapters) Lazarus-Primaris company master with his own rules
Lt. zakariah- 2nd in Command to Lazarus in their company with his own rules.
Primaris Captain
1 librairian in Phobos

And when my Death wing command squad a deathwing Knights come in I am going to kitbash the sergeant into a Belial (the current Belial model is very old and its easy to kitbash as you just need a Hooded head and I have lots of them)

I am going for a mixed army.

Currently have
1 first born tactical squad with bolt rifles and one with missle launcher
1 Primaris intercessor squad with bolt rifle
1 DA angels veteran squad with huge bolters, split into two 5 man teams with the sergeant with A power sword and bolt pistol
1 Primaris reiver squad with Bolt pistols and combat knives
1 raven wing squad Sergeant has power sword. Storm bolter on bikes
And the aforementioned hq's

One the way
1 death wing command squad that I will play with using the rule that will allow me to replace one models holder with A plasma cannon.
1 Tataros terminator squad with lighting claws, they are relic terminators and tartaros are able to close for close combat faster than the other two types of terminators.
1 squad of Death wing knights for more close combat for Azrael's bodyguard.

Eventual a drop pod and some rhinos for transport and a Dreadnought

After that probably finish my army with Primaries Hellblasters which I will pick up black Friday as Dark Angels need plasma weapons and blade guard veterans once GW puts those up for pre order to add to the Deathwing because they are the best looking 9th edition models

 

Do this sound interesting for anybody here?

 

Sadly I am nor confident enough in my painting skills to do more than post on this site.

 

Recent work, still have to add paint to the bases, chapter symbols to the primaris ones and squad markings to all. Then varnish them to protect.

this is the start of my raven wing. The 2nd company of the Dark Angels.

Unlike like most other Codex compliant chapters, in which veterans are limited to the first company and tend to wear normal armor marks and act as just a senior tactical squad, known as Vanguard or Stern guard veterans, the Dark Angels have two veteran units, The Deathwing, and the Ravenwing, once part of the 6 wings of the Hexagrammaton during the Great crusade by the 41st Millennium only two of the 6 exist. The Death wing form the first company which specializes in deep strike tactics, wearing mostly terminator armor(with Primaris Bladeguard veterans and brothers intered in Dreadnoughts being the exception) painted in Bone wbite while the 2nd company known as the Ravenwing specialize in mobility warfare driving bikes, Nephilim jet fighters, Land speeders(including the dark shroud) and in the of the Commander of the Ravenwing ,Sammael one of the few jet bikes still in existence in the Imperium outside of the armory of the Custodes, the Corvex. The raven wing wear the colors hardening back to the days of the Great crusade and the 1st legion, black and white.

Both the Deathwing and Ravenwing are steps within the inner circle of the dark angels. The Raven wing hunt the Fallen angels who betrayed the Imperium at the end of the Horus heresy. Once they have located them they call in the brothers of the Deathwing to apprehend this dangerous foes of the Chapter.

I have to say building and painting these was extremely fun and surprisingly easy.