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I am a fan of the "acid etched" steel details. A great work indeed. Care to tell us how you did it? From the looks it appears as a layer of Ironbreaker and the details in the brighter Runefang Steel.

The paint would be Xereus Purple, the wash would be Druchii Violet. I like the tone of both. Thanks for the reply. I am on the lookout for a good and deep purple with which adorn my Stormcast army. PS: I often see the mention of the Lhamian Medium. Which purpose it has in your paint recipe? Do you use it to make a wash of your own or to dilute the GW standard paint?

Care to share the recipe for that nice purple on the Havoc? Thanks

Well I was thinking of an Desolator-Class Battleship which served the 8th Legion during the Horus Heresy as a hospital ship. I like this class of battleship due to its ranged role and because it seems to be such an archaic ship of war that this controversy fits well the Night Lords. It is just about typical of them to use such a hallowed design as a corpse cart, a shrine to the dead and the lost of so many battlefields. The name I am considering is an altisonant Gothic one but the ship is most commonly known by the 8th and their cousins as the "Carrion Bird" due to its unsavory role of collecting the dead and the wounded, due to its massive apothecarion decks reeking of blood and offal and due to the screams of the dying filling its dark halls. Since the Desolator-class are intended to blast everything and everyone apart with their massive firepower it is logic that just such a ship would be a hospital ship. By keeping all sorts of enemy vessels at arms length due to its firepower it is safe to assume that the ship can easily be participant in a fight from afar whilst it is also able to scatter incoming enemies in a few broadsides from its massive long-range cannons. This ship in M41 has an interesting role in my head canon. The warband drops from the warp above warzones where things have gone really bad for Chaos and offers relief in the dark halls of its hospital ship. Once the corpses of foes and allies are gathered, rescued or stolen away, the warband then levies its release in return for tribute. The apothecarions do actually deliver the gene-seed of the fallen and restore those warriors who can fight again but all this is done once the tribute or price is agreed upon. It is a very vicious form of blackmailing but I find it much in character with the legion. At the end of the day if the other warbands cannot deliver the demanded a choice is offered to the wounded and the dying. Serve my warband or die. I assume that when a marine is filled with tubes, stimms and his chest is wide open he has little to argue the cruel demand.

Looking through the index on the first page (btw. the picture links are broken), would it be cool if I take custodianship of the 88th Company?

Greetings fellow Night Lords. I am a new frater here and I want to join the ranks of our dread legion on this forum. At this stage I have yet not figured how should I call my warband or from which company they hail, but I was hoping for some feedback to help me with the decision. What I know is that I see my warband as hailing from one of the smallest companies, maybe a reserve formation, a second line company or an auxiliary outfit. I think that due to the legion being so large such minor units were always present, in all actions, though were never much deserving of glory, honorifics and tributes. I like my astartes being the working part of the legion, manning ships, protecting the infirmaries, serving as guards for the legion war machines, you know, the kinda guys who cut the spikes which were then used to impale people... For my lord I usually use my Terminator Lord with the Kai Gun, one of the most prized parts in my collection and I envision him as being a capable naval commander (I have a thing for the Chaos battleships) but his personal achievements are not noteworthy but they played a part in many a minor or major offensive. He is the guy you put on that task that must be completed at all costs and in a legion of backstabbing cowards he is usually counted upon to complete the task. It is speculation if he is plain stupid or unambitious but I find it interesting that someone has to be that little guy who maybe gets mentioned in the end credits. The modus operandi for my warband is somehow standard for the legion. Either go all in when you have the upper hand or you get the hell out of there if someone jumps on you. If my marines go down they go down with curses and spits, laughing at the irony and the stupidity of it all, but mostly at their ill fortune. I tend to see them as smart marines in a way that they try to not overextend themselves or to play hero when the odds are against them, but this usually entails in them turning tail all too quickly. Personally I love Chaos Terminators and I love Chaos Raptors. Those are some of my favorite models and I would love to have a company which features them. Alongside that my warband, at least in my head canon, is nothing special save that they have a capital ship (an old BFG model) and a base on a mining world in the outskirts of the Eye of Terror. That capital ship was once one of the hospital ships for the legion and it is noteworthy because it still has a vast apothecarion on it. A cause for much conflict, raids and treaties with fellow Night Lords warbands (and others), and it is perhaps more worth than the entire warband put together. In short, I have not yet decided the name for my warband and former Night Lords company. I am not that good when comes to names, especially in High Gothic. I would also love some feedback on the ideas above and maybe some counseling when comes to naming my ships and my characters. Ave Dominus Nox!

Can someone of you bat-people provide me with the exact chronology for the Black Library books about the Night Lords, audio-thingies included? Thanks

Not really. If there is a preference noted in an otherwise generalist legion, is a preference for massed infantry assaults. Read human wave assaults supported by astartes shock troops and linebreakers. There is an instance of a Word Bearers recon squad in the old HH artbook but in general there is no clear preference for the use of this unit. Bear in mind that in the olden days PA marines usually did the recon as well as Jetbike units so Bikers were something of a support unit and not set in the role that they are nowadays, as fast raiding units. On the other hand it is the Word Bearers and they made extensive use of every imaginable legion formation or unit so you can bet that they had entire companies full of bikers which they used to hunt down apostates and heretics back in the olden days.

Gentlemen and not so gentle ladies, the new FW book, HH: Tempest is out. There is a lot going on in that book and there are a lot of new information about the Word Bearers. I now officially open the discussion about the newly revealed lore of the XVIIth legion.

http://shrani.si/f/17/bI/39W1JBnM/1/2014-07-19-163713.jpg Ancient Modras. An older model of mine but still one my favorites. I have followed the How to Paint: Alpha Legion guide and the result was actually on spot with the ones in the gallery. Nothing special in itself but I hope it qualifies.

On a side note, I suggest you to begin a new thread when you hit 100 pages. The mods will lock this one and create a link in the new one. Would that be ok with you?

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