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TITHI worked on building some dollar store fueled terrain for a Shrine World table. I may have a terrain addiction.

TITHI played in my flgs' Kill Team tourney. Only won one of four games, but my Harlequins were voted best painted for a small prize, which I'm pretty proud of.

I use the 25mm Necromunda bases for that purpose. They match well enough for my tastes to mix and match as needed.

TITHI got in my first game of 40k in awhile, and my first with my murderclowns. It was actually 2v2 with it being both Harlequin players' first outing. Narrowly lost but had a lot of fun. Also painted 3 more Players to complete my first fully painted squad :)

That's great progress! Now finish those last thirty so you can start on the next hundred!

Usually just the whacking side, unless the other side is very prominent.

TITHI decided, as I always do, that my latest Kill Team will become at least a 1500pt 40k army, my first Xenos army, the murderclowns™. I picked up some more bikes and a transport and started assembling everything. This confirms that I am a glutton for difficult paint schemes.

TITHI painted a death jester, and had a game fall thru. Spot the parts: axe head I think is from an AoS bloodzerker dude, as I think are the legs. Head is a standard csm I think, and backpack I know I have somewhere but can't for the life of me place...

Well, in 40k belief is power, even among non psychics. So if you have who knows how many Astartes, plus who knows how many chapter serfs, plus anyone on a planet they've saved, and anyone who's heard those stories all legitimately believing that the Champion is one of the best swordsmen ever, then whomever is the Champion could end up being one of the best swordsmen ever, regardless of what skills he possessed going into the role. It may be fortuitous that the title is simply Emperor's Champion. In essence the player loses their self and becomes the role, and throughout the Imperium the role is huge.

Thats very wrong. There are a lot of Chapters with different names. Raven Guard (Shadow Captain), Charchadons (Reaper Prime), Celestial Lions (Warleader), Dark Angels (Company Master), Space Wolves (Wolf Lord), Red Scorpions (Commander), Iron Hands (Iron Captain), White Scars (Khan).... You're correct. I'm just positing that perhaps there's a standardized rank used for clarification in the wider Imperium. Like, if a quote is being included (just an example) in a tactical guide from Marshal Smith. Perhaps he's called "Captain Smith" because anyone unfamiliar with the chapter wouldn't have a clue what a "Marshall" means. Maybe it means Sergeant, maybe Chapter Master, but it's impossible to know without a reference. So while Shrike is a "Shadow Captain" within the chapter, outside the chapter he'd be Official Astartes Rank ABCXYZ, so people would know what his rank is even if they're not an expert on Astartes. Otherwise why would an Astra Militarum Commander hand over command to an Astartes Grand Poobah if that could just mean "Sergeant who carries the mighty stick of whooping".

When you swear to limit yourself to 1,000 Astartes, but you insist the bionics mean you count in fractions. When you lose your head over every little thing. When you join the Deathwatch just for a break from peer pressure to get more bionics. When you can't tell the difference between the sacred nutrient paste or the sacred oil anymore.

It's probably a variant honorific. Kind of like how Garro was, iirc, a "Commander" which was identical in rank to a Captain but was used just because of tradition. It could also be possible that Chapter's unique ranks get standardized when being used outside of the Chapter, so while the BT call someone a Marshall they are officially recognized by the Imperium at large as a Captain, otherwise nobody would know exactly what "Marshall" meant without further context? The official rank is probably something like Alpha-Two-Astartes or something silly for comparing rank between organizations.

Goodness I painted 5 bikes and thought it would never end. Good luck.

TitHI got in two games of Kill Team, including my first game of Commander, and fought to a very hard earned draw versus Grey Knights. They're no joke in KT. I also discovered the lighting at my FLGS highlights every little mistake in my Lamenters team, so I have a ton of little things up go back and correct now.

I actually think it makes sense for "the spirit of Sanguinius" so to speak to occasionally aid the BA and other successors. We know that believe translates into power in this setting, and Sanguinalia is the most commonly celebrated holiday in the Imperium. Nowhere near what Big E gets, but I'd bet it's enough for Sanguinius to have a warp presence and to act occasionally in his children's interests. Not a full fledged consciousness, but probably the number two in power after The Emperor. That aside, I do kind of think that he could be the warning example of the dangers of the Rubicon. After it kills off the longest lived hero of the Imperium it's bound to add a little tension.