Daveisdvd
03-31-2010, 06:02 AM
Ok so for many years now I have slowly been developing fluff for an army I have been building. My friends have been pressuring me to start a diary that actually shows the world what sort of army I have. At present I have no fantastic pics to show you but I will as time goes on.
For now I thought I would give a bit of an introduction into my army's size and theme. Originally started as a lost and the damned army until it was left in the dust with other past codex's (damn you Games Workshop). IMO it was one of the best themed codex's and much closely resembled what the forces of chaos should be. But enough crying about the past. Instead of saying goodbye to this army I stubbornly refused to let it die and continued collecting under the guise of imperial guard. Then came Apocalypse and all my dreams came true, not only was a data sheet released making my much valued mutants officially usable again but so too could I combine chaos and imperial guard units officially as one force. I was overjoyed. So with that little bit of history out of the way I can now explain the sort of army I have.
It began as an army built around a classic image of the chaos horde coming out of a red yellow mist on the cover of the Eye of Terror Codex. This image is what I wanted my army to be, an unending horde of banners devoted to the dark gods, monsters, mutants and medieval looking guys with a bad attitude. I wanted my opponent to be scared of even my least dangerous unit. So I composed my army of a variety of units. I used chaos marauders, chaos knights, catachans, beastmen and chaos space marines. I'll discuss this later when I post pictures so you can see my kit bashing. The army is supposed to be similar to the Blood Pact. They are a professional army that are bred and trained on a chaos world near the edge of the Eye of Terror. They use significant numbers of assault units and are geared towards assaults on imperial worlds and thus they tend to lean towards Khorne in their worship of the chaos gods. Although led by chaos space marines the army gives homage to the lords of their daemon world who are mortal (generally speaking). They are battle hardened from raiding the Cadian and surrounding systems and are often sent on long reaching missions by their superiors to gain some artifact of importance that will increase their masters power in the Eye.
This last section will give you some idea of the scope of my army idea. I want a horde, the assault elements are to be created from several 20 man units of mutants (beastmen) each being led by a chaos marine lord and containing 50% big mutants. I find this to be an excellent combination as the lord with a powerfist and mark of Khorne is always delivered by the beastmen into CC. Once there he will kill everything while the beastmen use their numbers to keep the enemy overwhelmed. I find it rarely fails and even terminators and sternguard steer clear of these units.
These units are backed up by plasma and melta toting traitor guard in chimeras x 3 and a demo charge packing special weapons squad.
I also plan to add a squadron of devil dogs for anti armour doom.
supporting these units will be a squadron of leman russ tanks. 1 demolisher with multimeltas and 2 destructors with plasma cannons for anti heavy infantry, and 3 armoured sentinels with plasma cannons and hunter killers.
My gun line behind this consists of massed traitor infantry with autocannons and missile launchers x 4 squads led bu my traitor guard command. Also included are 2 anti armor heavy weapons squads with las cannons and and sniper special weapons team.
Other supporting armour includes a battery of 2 armageddon class basilisks and one imperial bombard.
I plan to add another squadron of russ, 2 vanquishers and 1 standard. To finish of this awesome firepower will be a shadowsword and baneblade super heavy tanks.
So that is my army. I have most models already but only have a few painted. I will start to post images soon hopefully as an incentive to myself to stay motivated with the painting. Please feel free to comment on what I have said so far. :D
For now I thought I would give a bit of an introduction into my army's size and theme. Originally started as a lost and the damned army until it was left in the dust with other past codex's (damn you Games Workshop). IMO it was one of the best themed codex's and much closely resembled what the forces of chaos should be. But enough crying about the past. Instead of saying goodbye to this army I stubbornly refused to let it die and continued collecting under the guise of imperial guard. Then came Apocalypse and all my dreams came true, not only was a data sheet released making my much valued mutants officially usable again but so too could I combine chaos and imperial guard units officially as one force. I was overjoyed. So with that little bit of history out of the way I can now explain the sort of army I have.
It began as an army built around a classic image of the chaos horde coming out of a red yellow mist on the cover of the Eye of Terror Codex. This image is what I wanted my army to be, an unending horde of banners devoted to the dark gods, monsters, mutants and medieval looking guys with a bad attitude. I wanted my opponent to be scared of even my least dangerous unit. So I composed my army of a variety of units. I used chaos marauders, chaos knights, catachans, beastmen and chaos space marines. I'll discuss this later when I post pictures so you can see my kit bashing. The army is supposed to be similar to the Blood Pact. They are a professional army that are bred and trained on a chaos world near the edge of the Eye of Terror. They use significant numbers of assault units and are geared towards assaults on imperial worlds and thus they tend to lean towards Khorne in their worship of the chaos gods. Although led by chaos space marines the army gives homage to the lords of their daemon world who are mortal (generally speaking). They are battle hardened from raiding the Cadian and surrounding systems and are often sent on long reaching missions by their superiors to gain some artifact of importance that will increase their masters power in the Eye.
This last section will give you some idea of the scope of my army idea. I want a horde, the assault elements are to be created from several 20 man units of mutants (beastmen) each being led by a chaos marine lord and containing 50% big mutants. I find this to be an excellent combination as the lord with a powerfist and mark of Khorne is always delivered by the beastmen into CC. Once there he will kill everything while the beastmen use their numbers to keep the enemy overwhelmed. I find it rarely fails and even terminators and sternguard steer clear of these units.
These units are backed up by plasma and melta toting traitor guard in chimeras x 3 and a demo charge packing special weapons squad.
I also plan to add a squadron of devil dogs for anti armour doom.
supporting these units will be a squadron of leman russ tanks. 1 demolisher with multimeltas and 2 destructors with plasma cannons for anti heavy infantry, and 3 armoured sentinels with plasma cannons and hunter killers.
My gun line behind this consists of massed traitor infantry with autocannons and missile launchers x 4 squads led bu my traitor guard command. Also included are 2 anti armor heavy weapons squads with las cannons and and sniper special weapons team.
Other supporting armour includes a battery of 2 armageddon class basilisks and one imperial bombard.
I plan to add another squadron of russ, 2 vanquishers and 1 standard. To finish of this awesome firepower will be a shadowsword and baneblade super heavy tanks.
So that is my army. I have most models already but only have a few painted. I will start to post images soon hopefully as an incentive to myself to stay motivated with the painting. Please feel free to comment on what I have said so far. :D