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This thread is dedicated to all of the campaigns and fluff before the Emperor retires to Terra and Alexandros is appointed Warmaster. This should be where your Primarchs and legions show everyone how awesome they really are. The Great Crusade was a time of almost un-ending victories. Show your legions at their best as they conquer the Galaxy. But I don't want to see nothing but easy wins. There should be grinding sieges, unexpected foes of great power, and moments of great heroism in the face of defeat! Feel free to come up with xenos to exterminate, human colonies to force compliance upon, and lost regions to explore.

 

Battle List

 

Halcyon Wardens -

Battle of Three Flags

The Phireen Extermination

The Febian Defence

 

Crimson Lions -

The Ivraxian Campaign

 

Iron Bears -

(Union of Iron - Diplomatic Victory)

The Bear and the Lion ~ In Progress

Taking of the Craft World Melaanath

 

Godslayers -

The Incarceration of Eternity

 

Warbringers - 

The Abelard Campaign

 

Dune Serpents - 

War for Sequuntur Somnia

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To help generate ideas, here's a couple of starters:

 

What was the first battle the legion fought after achieving alpha stage? Some legions started on Terra, the Luna Wolves first deployment was on Luna, and others came later.

 

What was the first battle where legion and Primarch fought together? Alex's first battle was against a Dark Eldar cabal.

 

What major event created/cemented in one of their titles/nicknames?

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Once I'm done with my 2 Legion Vehicles, I'll get down to fluff. Promise :p

 

I'll more than likely base their First Conflict on/as a Void-Borne Mission on a Space Hulk that has recently entered the Sol System. 

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Invictus, I just finished reading the lore you put up in the legions thread and wanted to fly an idea by you. Before Alex, the Wardens were known as the Storm Riders and were also mechanized assault specialists. Perhaps our two legions enjoyed close brotherhood before the Primarchs were found?

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Right so here's some fluff I wrote about one of the legions campaigns pre reuniting with their primarch

Ivrax was a system located to the galactic south east of Terra. Settled during the dark ages of technology, it had been ruled over by the tech guilds for thousands of years. While the outer worlds of the system fell easily, as the Blood Wolves encroached further and further into the system, they began to discover that the tech guilds would not succumb so easily. They had weaponry that hadn’t been seen since the Dark Age if technology as well as gene engineered warriors each of whom was more than a match for the astartes. Soon the conquest began to grind to a halt. However, the Legion Master of the Blood Wolves was determined that the glory of having conquered such a worthy foe would go the XI legion only. So, he recalled all units of the XI who were attached to other legions and set about launching one of the most costly campaigns in the history of the Great Crusade.

 

Soon, the XI legion had adapted to using almost uniquely breacher squads rather than the tactical squads so common in other legions. By forming themselves into a shield wall, the Blood Wolves were able to weather the storm of fire that the Ivraxians threw their way and press forwards into close combat, where the savagery that their home cultures had bred into them allowed them to smash aside the tech guilds troops. Utilising strategies like these, the XI legion carved a bloody path through the system. As they reached the inner worlds of the Ivraxian tech guilds, they were forced to chase the tech guilds into their underground cities. While the Ivraxian defence troopers inflicted heavy losses on the Blood Wolves and their accompanying Imperial army troopers, the solid shield walls of the XI never faltered, always marching ever onwards, until they reached close combat when the Ivraxians were slaughtered, with the Blood Wolves smashing the Ivraxians skulls open with boarding shields, loosing close range bursts of bolter fire, ripping them apart with chain blades or even hammering their fists into the Ivraxians faces until there was nought left by splintered bone and blood.

Following many bloody sieges and battles, the Blood Wolves finally reached the capital of the tech guilds, Ivrax Secundus. It was a world of towering fortress cities all of which were part fortress, part city and part factory, belching thick clouds of black smoke up into the sky. As the Blood Wolves landed, the Tech lords unleashed the most hellish of all their weapons, a poisoned gas so potent that it ate through power armour and dissolved the lungs of any who breathed it. As the Blood Wolves landed, the Tech Lords rained poison gas shells down on them, before sending into battle their Fire Knights. Fire knights were machines the size of a warhound titan, each armed with two massive plasma cannons. Alongside these machines advanced the Ivraxian militia who seemed either unaware or uncaring that the poison gas they were advancing into would eventually kill them.

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I'm still coming up with a name..I have one but it feels a bit tongue in cheek, though not out of place for the 30k universe.

 

Considering my legion is Native American themed, I was considering naming the primarch Coch'ise after the last great tribe leader to fight against the manifest destiny (oh the irony of being a white guy lol)

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Invictus, I just finished reading the lore you put up in the legions thread and wanted to fly an idea by you. Before Alex, the Wardens were known as the Storm Riders and were also mechanized assault specialists. Perhaps our two legions enjoyed close brotherhood before the Primarchs were found?

Sure thing! The jackals used to utilise large land raider spear tip companies followed by machinised squads of tacticals to capture objectives. They specialised in breaking open "u breakable" fortifications and smashing armoured foes

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Wait, Coch'ise being the white you or you?

Lol I'm white, but not an apologist. Cochise was the actual name of the Chieftain...I forget if he was Comanche or what he was.

 

My legion will be sort of an anarcho style leadership with only charismatic or elected leaders of small groups leading bands of legionaries.

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Depth if you need any help with Native Names or history. I actually am Native (Odawa) and I am almost finished with a masters in precolonial/indigenous history, though I'm more knowledgeable on Eastern Anishinaa/Algonquin tribes than Western tribes.
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Depth if you need any help with Native Names or history. I actually am Native (Odawa) and I am almost finished with a masters in precolonial/indigenous history, though I'm more knowledgeable on Eastern Anishinaa/Algonquin tribes than Western tribes.

Thanks man, I'm pretty fascinated with the equivalent "Knights" in other cultures. I'll take anything you can give me as my legion is an amalgamation of any of the Iroquois Nation/Eastern tribes on out to the Plains and Southern ones.

 

If I remember my history correctly, the Plains and Southwestern tribes were more militaristic.

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Most of the eastern tribes kept and still keep a system of Clans for a social structure within the tribes, with any of the families belonging to one of the much larger clans. So for many it quite literally meant being born into it, I know for the Anishinaabeg tribes for example, warriors fell under the Marteen/Martin banner, but the Bear and Wolf clans (guards and hunters respectively) shared both a similar nature. Though in times of open war any whom could fight would, and it would fall to the Marteen and Bear clans to train any who needed to learn. This obviously became a lot more common after the English show up.

 

As far as Militarization goes it could vary from one band to another within a single tribe precolonization, I know based on verbal lore my ancestors had a very hard time with a particularly violent Iroquois tribe and the Marteen and Bear tribes became the most prominent in our tribe until they moved into the Great Lakes to trade with the French.

Post English it becomes a bit more unclear as so many fought in events like Pontiac's rebellion, that typical clan structure became less relied upon.

 

I hope that's a little bit of insight.

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Working on finishing up Daer'dd rules and fluff tonight. Had this come into my head.

 

Orks, ohh I love to break them.

But this one fether is damned near as big as me.

A smile of pure bliss revealed my own four golden fangs

a challenge I've never had.

His roar was deafening, it's a shame mine was louder.

When we hit it was cacophonous, to call it thunderous would have been an insult to the shock waves of two hulks colliding.

The massive Ork leader came at me with a blade that looked to be ripped from some industrial machine. I could have none of that, I tore the crude instrument from his claws and snapped it over my knee.

I pounded my chest like a beast of old, muscle versus muscle.

The Ork accepted.

We locked and strained, both unfamiliar with the sensation of someone our equal, he bit at me with dirty fangs, I bit back with mine gilded. I caught him with the bite, I locked in his arms my hands pressing against his elbows, towards the sky I pushed till I felt a snap. His roar confirmed the damage, in the opening I pressed a foot against his torso and pushed, my nails dug into his flesh. Two more catastrophic crunches, I pushed him to the dirt with my foot holding to one arm. I wrenched against wrecked flesh and bone till I had a trophy, I tore out his throat with but a quick movement from my clawed boot to end the duel.

I raised the severed arm to the sky, my roar could be heard for miles. This kingdom fell today.

None were stronger than me.

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So heres the last bit about the campaign against the Ivraxian tech guild

While they fought valiantly, the Blood Wolves were being slaughtered at the landing sites, choking on their dissolving lungs and peppered with plasma fire and the lasfire from the guns wielded by the Ivraxian militia, nicknamed hellguns by their Imperial counterparts. Hearing his brothers dying over the vox, Legion Master Beiran decided upon a desperate stratagem to bring the Ivraxian tech guilds into compliance. With the 1000 Blood Wolves he had held in reserve, he launched a desperate drop pod assault at the fortress city identified as the capital. The drop pods went crashing through the armoured plating of the fortress and disgorged dozens of Blood Wolves, furious at the slaughter being wrought upon their brothers. Slaughtering their way through any resistance they found, they eventually found both the centre of communications across the whole of Ivrax Secundus as well as the Tech Lords and their personal guards. Hurling themselves into combat, they fought with fury unmatched by any in the legion since the last XI legion proto-astartes had died in battle. While each of the Tech Lords guards was easily taller and stronger than a space marines, they couldn’t match the Blood Wolves unrelenting fury. Even so, as the two sides fought, it soon became clear that the XI legion had found it’s match. The Legion Master Beiran ordered much of his strike force to withdraw, keeping himself and the oldest veterans as a rearguard.
 
                            Outside, the Tech Lords forces had become disoriented. The Flame Knights had turned on the militia and the enemy artillery had stopped firing. With the enemies cohesion collapsed, the XI legion exacted a bloody price for the slaughter that had been wrought upon them mere hours before. Slaughtering their way through the great fortress city, they eventually came upon the site of their Legion Masters last stand. Nothing remained of the two forces who had clashed save one near critically wounded marine, on his knees but still holding the Legions banner high. Following the conclusion of the campaign, the XI legion encased the Tech Lords heads in silver and hung them from their Blood Wolves banner. Compliance had been achieved but at a heavy price. Nearly two thirds of the legion lay dead on battlefields all across the Ivrax sector, along with its legion master and many of its most veteran marines. None the less, the Blood Wolves continued with the Great Crusade, drawing recruits from both Terra and many of the more feral worlds in the Ivrax sector. This expanded recruitment pool as well as improved gene seed implantation techniques and a stable gene seed allowed the XI legion to re build rapidly and it was soon as large as legions such as the Luna Wolves and Imperial Fists. 
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The Union of Iron.

 

The red planet sat under a shadow, a show of force. A shadow meant to bring unity.

It had been many years since his father first stepped upon Mars to arrive the Omnisiah. But now a new reason had occurred, Daer'dd required a meeting, a treaty.

 

In his home of the Three Fires, Demiurge clans had long become masters of ancient forgeworlds, this had caused unnecessary spite and bloodshed in the Imperium, to see such a thing broke Daer'dd's heart.

Without hesitation he pleaded with his father and brothers, the Demiurge had such talent and could be a great ally, as arguments and counter arguments were shared in the Imperial Palace. The Forge Giant, the Iron Bear himself lost his temper for the first time in a century. His fists slammed down rending the adamantine table as if it were paper. He bellowed with such authority and might all but his father were caught off guard as plasteel windows cracked and shattered

"ENOUGH!" The giant roard flecks of blood and spittle came betwixt hus gilded fangs.

 

"Please! Brothers, Father! Can't you see? The Demiurge are amongst the finest smiths humanity has! And they are just that HUMANS! Evolution changed them but they are still of our blood, they are still our kin! They've served me unerringly since I came to power, let us build a treaty of them and the Fabricator General and the Crusades will become exponential!"

 

In the hushed room, all that was needed was a silent nod from the most powerful being in existence and few words to achieve what was needed

"Agreed, it will be done" The gravitas of the Emperor's words sent chills even down his united sons spines.

 

The shadow over Mars was of black Tungsten and burnished Copper, the massive ships The Dragon of Autumn and The Emperor's Leviathan looked like aquatic titans surrounded by shoals of fish. The entire might of the Iron Bears legion showed itself today. But they were not alone ships of Purple and Crimson, Pearl and Blood, of Maroon and Gold, of Storm grey, And amongst them all a hulk of pure Gold aquiline in shape.

 

The conclave of Giants followed by countless bodyguards, were acting as an envoy. In hundreds strong a perfect formation, of men broad and stout, clad in armor of steel and golden artwork, robes of maroon and beards given great attention

The Demiurge kneeled before the fabricator general.

"A gift to you fabricator"

 

The sea of bodies parted and in the massive hall four knights strode, each of a different house. Between them they lowered a massive dias of flawless gold, in the center a palatine Aquila, surrounded by the various marks of the Imperium, The Mechanicum skull, the Titan Legios T, twenty Legion markings, the shield of the Demiurge and so many more.

 

The Demiurge king rose and extended a hand to the Fabricator General, "may humanity have peace for a thousand millennia" Kelbor Hal took his hand and the treaty was done.

 

Just a fluff piece hope you find it enjoyable.

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YEAH ! you guys have got some really nice stuff happening here !
 
Sorry, Chief Captain Redd, but when you say the Demiurge, do you mean the Squats ? Because I believe that in official continuity the Demiurge really are Xenos, and they pretty much only live in mining or commerce star ships, and don't have planets.

 

Also, I'm not too sure I understand why the Squat/Demiurg King is giving his gift to the Fabricator General rather than the Emperor ?

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Hmmm, that's a good question, Thorn. Another, if they are xenos, can the Emperor be convinced to allow them to join the Imperium? *glances at the Jokaeros*

After all, we do have several Primarchs interested in giving some xenos a more reasonable deal besides Exterminatus.

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Yeah, Demiurg definitely is nicer than Squat, but I think that later art if the Demiurg (principally from FFG) has them looking mineral-based I believe (can't for the life of me remember where to find those though)

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Ohh and the reason is the gift was to end a fued as the Demiurge/Squats had taken over more or less abandoned forgeworlds in Daer'dd's subsector which upon reentering the Imperium the Mechanicum wanted their worlds back. Daer'dd didn't want to displace billions of loyal followers, so my thought is the Emperor sides with Daer'dd and the big E convinces the Fabricator General to come to a treaty with the Demiurge clans. If that makes sense. So it's just peace offering ultimately.

 

This is one of tge sketches I was thinking of.

https://www.google.com/search?q=jes+goodwin+demiurge+sketch&safe=off&prmd=iv&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAWoVChMIl92NmK7CxwIVBU2SCh3qWwNz&biw=360&bih=511#imgrc=X8SCxdbPkq-YYM%3A

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