Brother-Sergeant Valorum

Thanks a lot! I’ll check that out. Much appreciated.

Brothers, I have a problem. I’ve recently started painting up a batch of Adjudicators—my DIY Chapter—and am in a bit of a pickle. I’d like to paint the lighter parts of their color scheme—the arms, the backpacks, the lower legs and the pauldrons—in Administratum Grey, but I’ve been struggling with figuring out what color to use for the edge highlights. I’m going for a light grey, but a grey nonetheless, and I’m planning to shade it in Nuln Oil. Any ideas would be very much appreciated! For the Lion.

Then I'll leave it up to Brother-Sergeant Valorum. I suppose these marines could be a test group for another method of Primaris upgrading, if we need justification. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= So I'm wondering - should this brief timeline we're working on be the final hundred years of M41 (According to the Liber Conclave's calendar)? Or should it be later than that? Once I've figured out a start (or end) date, I'll post the Big Event and we can start throwing other ideas around. If it's cool with you guys, I'll have them be Primaris. The Rubicon, as I recall, has about a 60% failure rate, which works for me if that's cool with you guys. As to when, I'm more in favor of it happening later, but I'm not dead set on it.

Ok, round two. I here present: the Headsmen. GENE-SEED (PREDECESSOR) – Adjudicators (Dark Angels) FOUNDING - Ultima CHAPTER MASTER – Grand Master Remiel HOME WORLD/BASE OF OPERATIONS – Blade of the Favored Son, battle-barge OBSERVED STRATEGIC TENDENCIES – spearhead assaults, drop pod insertion, dismantling enemy command structures BATTLE CRY - “Let the stroke fall!” CURRENT STRENGTH – 1,000 KNOWN DESCENDANTS - None When the Ultima Founding was decreed, a great many Chapters composed entirely of the new Primaris Marines were established. The Headsmen, whose geneseed was drawn from the storied Adjudicators of the line of the First Legion, were one such. The battle-brothers of this genetic line were initially scattered among the Unnumbered Sons of the resurrected Primarch and his Indomitus Crusade, but when the crusading forces made contact with the badly-mauled Adjudicators a decade after the beginning of the Crusade, many of them were incorporated into their parent Chapter to replace its losses. Those who were not continued to fight alongside their brothers for some time after, learning much of their progenitor's methods in the process. By the Crusade's end, these battle-brothers had adopted many of the strategic and cultural tendencies of the Adjudicators. Nevertheless, they were not Adjudicators, and upon the Crusade's end Grand Master Akraziel requested that the Headsmen embark on a crusade to the far side of the galaxy to bring justice to a particularly evasive group of Traitors known as "the Red Offering." The new Chapter would not be going alone, however. For reasons of his own, Akraziel attached a five-man squad of veteran Adjudicators--newly converted to Primaris status--to the Headsmen's fleet, ostensibly to guide their Successor Chapter to Red Offering's base of operations. Many within the new Chapter have looked askance at this, however. They had, after all, acquitted themselves nobly alongside their progenitors. This move by Akraziel has led some of the Headsmen to believe that, perhaps, the Lord of the Adjudicators had not told them all they needed to know about the Red Offering. Perhaps there was more at stake than simply traitors to be punished. Whatever the case, Grand Master Remiel has accepted these new advisors courteously, but cautiously. He and his inner circle of high-ranking officers have agreed to keep a close eye on their guests to ensure that, whatever their purpose, it does not go undiscovered. Battle Doctrine: Like the Adjudicators, the Headsmen excel at high-risk assaults against an enemy's command structure, cutting the head off the snake in one fell swoop. Keenly aware of their lack of numbers in comparison to many of their foes, the Headsmen take great pains to ensure that they go to war on their own terms as much as possible. They make excellent use of reconnaissance and Imperial intelligence to pick the time and place of battle, and they always seek to minimize their own casualties while maximizing the damage inflicted on the foe. On the rare occasion that they are brought to battle against their will, however, they never fail to remind enemy and ally alike of the folly of facing His Angels of Death in open combat. The Headsmen can be as immovable in defense as any Chapter of the Adeptus Astartes, as deadly at range as they are in melee combat. While they prefer to fight in their own way, they are masters of all the arts of battle, and the greatest of their warriors are marked by the silvered skulls of potent foes slain in single combat with which they adorn their armor and banners as trophies of war.

Hey there! Sorry to be a bother, but I recently changed the color scheme for my Adjudicators, and was wondering if it’s possible to reflect that change on the 1000 Chapter Project. Again, sorry for the trouble.

They've already got an IA and are fully fleshed out, whereas the idea for Liber Cluster Chapters is that they're developed bit by bit, by all of us. That said: What about a successor Chapter for the Adjudicators, assigned to the Liber Cluster? They can be looking for the Red Offering on the quiet, (as Dark Angels are inclined to do ) and it saves you having most of your Chapter killed and randomly reassigned to the Cluster. That's a really great idea, and one I hadn't even considered! I dig it. I'll get on that ASAP. Any ideas for a name? I'm thinking something like "the Headsmen" or "the Knights Executioner" but I'm open to any suggestions!

Well, I'll post. If I need to take it down, I will, but I thought I'd get something on the table. With that in mind, here are the Adjudicators: GENE-SEED (PREDECESSOR) – Angels of Absolution (Dark Angels) FOUNDING - Fourteenth CHAPTER MASTER – Grand Master Akraziel HOME WORLD/BASE OF OPERATIONS – Judgement’s Shadow (Chapter Barque) OBSERVED STRATEGIC TENDENCIES – precision raids, surgical strikes, combined arms, ruthless pragmatism, combating other Astartes BATTLE CRY - “Repent! His Justice is Come!” CURRENT STRENGTH – 1,000 KNOWN DESCENDANTS - None A Fourteenth Founding Successor of the Angels of Absolution, the Adjudicators are a Chapter back from the brink. The opening of the Cicatrix Maledictum caught them in the midst of a grueling campaign against the Orks of Warlord Gitgutta. The appearance of the unnumbered hordes of Chaos caught both factions by surprise, but the Adjudicators, withtheir characteristic grim determination, saw the war against the Orks through to a successful conclusion before retreating into orbit and subjecting the world below to Exterminatus. The campaign took a heavy toll on the Chapter. They had lost their Grand Master, Kriav, and were reduced to a mere 250 Marines. Into the void of leadership stepped Third Master Akraziel, a veteran of the Deathwatch who had orchestrated the ultimate victory against Gitgutta. Akraziel knew that, with his Chapter so terribly weakened, they would be unable to confront the armies of the Great Enemy directly. Instead, he leveraged the still-significant power of the Chapter fleet to harass enemy supply lines and way stations. This continued for a decade, with the Grand Master winning a number of decisive naval battles against the forces of Chaos, before the Adjudicators happened upon forces of the Indomitus Crusade. With so few of the original Astartes left, Akraziel gladly accepted the Primaris Marine reinforcements. Indeed, once the Primaris Marines had proven their viability over the course of the following decades, he ordered those few remaining standard Astartes to undergo conversion to Primaris status. He himself was the first to make the transition, but the rest of his brothers soon followed, making the Adjudicators an unofficial “Primaris” Chapter. With their numbers restored and their Chapter stabilized, the Adjudicators set about restoring their old traditions. Custom holds that, upon the election of a new Grand Master, an Executioner’s Crusade is declared against a specific target which had eluded the Emperor’s Justice in the past. But Akraziel’s tenure had been marked up to this point by the rebuilding of the Adjudicators’ fighting strength; his Executioner’s Crusade had been postponed. Now, however, with the Chapter back at full strength, the time was right for the Adjudicators to return to their roots. Grand Master Akraziel and the Chapter Council, after careful consultation, decided that the Nineteenth Executioner’s Crusade would be launched against the Red Offering in the Liber Cluster. Following years of preparation, the entire Chapter fleet of the Adjudicators has arrived at long last in Cluster and is making its way towards the Gyrron System to cut out the heart of l’Offrande Rouge. Chapter Beliefs: The Adjudicators recruit from a number of feudal, feral and hive worlds, focusing their efforts on criminals or organizations operating outside of Imperial law. Aspirants taken from these groups are heavily indoctrinated, educated in law, justice and repentance, and subjected to two particular trials unique to the Adjudicators: the Purgation and the Blooding. Though the details of these rituals are known to few outside the Chapter, the Purgation is known to be a confrontation with one’s inner guilt and daemons, and the Blooding, the slaughter of an aspirant’s former partners in crime. As successors of the Angels of Absolution, the Adjudicators are also unusual among the Unforgiven for their belief that the Emperor has already granted them his forgiveness for the sins of the Fallen. To the Adjudicators, however, this forgiveness imparts upon them the sacred duty to take others to task for their own treacheries and violations of the Emperor’s law. The Chapter sees itself as the instrument of the Emperor’s Justice; though the xenos is a hated foe who must be purged, and the daemon, an existential threat, the traitor is a personal enemy of the Emperor himself, and must therefore be brought to task for his many crimes before anything else. I've written an IA on these guys that's much more fleshed out, but I wanted to stay within 700 words. The link is in my sig.

Welcome to the Cluster! We've got plenty of room for Primaris Chapters, so feel free to come up with one if you like! Thanks man! Good to be here. Quick question before I get stuck in: I recently developed a Chapter with the intent of using them in the Cluster, but since it didn't seem active, I wrote an IA of them in the Liber. Is it appropriate to use them here too? Also, they were once a "standard" Chapter, but have undergone Primaris enhancement. Do they still count as a Primaris Chapter?

I'm here too! Excited to be a part of this, and if possible, to throw another Primaris Chapter into the mix.

Too bad; it would be cool to get involved. If it comes back up...

Hey guys! Sorry for the thread necromancy, but I’ve got to ask: is this still going? If so, is there room for one more Primaris Chaoter/contributor?

http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/topic/303938-the-lost-sons-relentless-and-unstoppable-the-helios-guard/?p=3961405 My Helios Guard. I have a painter image and an IA. I hope this is still happening!

Well, the Helios Guard are officially on the Tabula! Thanks to everyone who helped me make it happen!