The Ventros Crusade

[thecapn226]

So after a break I have decided to start a Black Templar army. I painted up a 500 point force for a small Fate of Konor tournament and fell in love with how the models looked on the battlefield. The time spent researching the fluff a couple weeks before the tourney was the most fun and obsessive thing I have had with 40k in several years. So, every good story needs a starting point, here is my crusades story. (bit rough, still fleshing out the details)

 

 

 

The Ventros Crusade, led by Marshall Alderic

Jamil Ventros is a rogue inquisitor responsible for the Cartalu VII massacre. A backwater world, Cartalu VII's population was massacred over the course of two weeks in an attempt by Ventros to gain favor with the Chaos gods. It was by happenstance that Marshall Alderic's ship received a faint distress signal and investigated. After receiving no word from planetary defense forces a small force of 50 crusaders was deployed to the planet surface. The force was decimated, tortured, and sacrificed to the Chaos gods. One initiate was able to escape and send word back to Alderic, before succumbing to his wounds. Alderic immediately moved to engage Ventros' ship. After a brief firefight Ventros was able to escape into the warp without Alderic's forces able to pursue.

Alderic then declared that the Ventros Crusade would bring vengence to this rogue inquisitor. Due to Ventros' willingness to sell many Imperial secrets and his psychic ability for prescience he has evaded the Crusade for several years and never seems to find a lack of soldier be it foul xenos or heretics. Marshall Alderic is closing in though, and vows that he will slay this enemy of the Emperor and show that heresy will never escape justice.

 

Edited August 11, 2017 by thecapn226

[thecapn226]

 

 

Pic from my first tourney with the Black Templars and Ventros crusade. 500pt patrol list, took first place with max points for the tourney.

[Marshal_von_Speer]

Ah! another crusade! Very good, very good indeed!

 

Welcome Brother!

[Honda]

Welcome Brother to the Eternal Crusade.

 

I became enamored of the Templar in a very similar fashion. I started this journey by painting a dreadnought.

 

And the rest is history.

 

You are here because this is where you belong. Now your duty begins, for Sigismund and Dorn.

 

IMPERATOR VULT!

[thecapn226]

Painting update: painted for week 2 of Fate of Konor. The ancients go to war.

 

http://i346.photobucket.com/albums/p421/capn226/Mobile%20Uploads/20170808_185729_zpsedq25kj1.jpg

[thecapn226]

Ok, try this again

 

http://i.imgur.com/YhGhwcq.jpg

And here are the tanks from week 3

 

http://i.imgur.com/8REy8o5.jpg

[obsidian quacker]

Nice cleanly painted dreadnoughts and the little additions to the contemptor's shoulders nicely fill up those blank spaces. The numbers on the rhinos are a touch that I wouldn't have thought of doing that seem practical and fit in.

 

In my opinion it's a nice start . (except the librarian dreadnought sarcophagus, it makes me twitch)

Edited August 17, 2017 by obsidian quacker

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Good job on the tanks and Dreadnoughts.

[thecapn226]

Thanks for the comments. The lib dread is what I use as my chaplain dread. I tried to scrape off as much dirty psyker stuff as I could lol.

[thecapn226]

Painting had been slow but I got a game in using all dreads in our Tanksgiving event. I failed to have enough zeal though a 4 of my 6 dreads exploded causing massive damage to themselves

 

https://i.imgur.com/l2BolAD.jpg