+Chaplain Matthias+

They have purple eyes from living so close to the eye of terror. You can even see this disgusting mutation in the Space Marine 2 trailer.

You know you're a Black Templar when you're angry that the Leagues of Votann are listed under 'Xenos' on GW but the new Cadian models probably won't be. An ab-human is an ab-human, brothers. Suffer not the unclean to live!

Neither is Grimaldus’ helmet. It used to bug me a little bit I learned to like it Eh at least that's a stylized face what with the "teeth" of the mouth grill. Yeah that's why it grew on me. I might even paint mine bone colored. So excited for it to get here. I always used that dark angel's FW helmet with the brazier in the mouth piece as my crusaders helm. https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-US/Dark-Angels-Legion-Heads-Upgrade-Set The incense wafts across the battlefield and enrages the initiates haha

Neither is Grimaldus’ helmet. It used to bug me a little bit I learned to like it

Man I can’t handle these threads. We got everything we wanted. And I thought we already had the most goodies out of every chapter aside from the ultramarines. Most pages of lore, most named characters, we even had our own unique troop and elite choice. And that was BEFORE this release! We’ve always had the best upgrade sprues and this time that hasn’t changed. No one else has their relics modeled out. Every new thing in this update emphasizes the play style we want. Run up and hit things really hard, and never fall back. Are we THE VERY BEST army now? I actually have no clue. Probably not. I don’t think about it. I also don’t think about how this little rule or that little rule might encourage or discourage me from running my guys on foot to the middle of the board to hit stuff really hard. I just do it. You already said you don’t play super competitive. You can play the way you want! :D you don’t need permission from the meta.

Just made this for y'all.

Thanks guys! I finished some troops recently. Can't wait to post them too

I don’t understand the question.

My primaris crusade badge uses a holy grail icon. The lore behind it is that they are on a crusade into the imperium nihilus to make contact with other black templars that were cut off by the great rift. Their mission is to see if any of them survived and if so, to share the knowledge of the new primaris gene seed, represented by the holy grail on their banners. So yes, I definitely think it fits.

I've been working on my word bearers and slaves to darkness for a while. But with the release of Indomitus, I am diving back into my crusade. To celebrate, heres some lore. To read the first 3 parts, go to the first post in this thread. You'll find them all there. INCOMING ASTROPATHIC TRANSMISSION =][= + + + + + + +TRANSMITTED: Vaud, Valais System, Calixis Sector + + + + + + + + +RECEIVED: Inquisitor Lord Valec, Ordo Hereticus + + + + + + +DESTINATION: Scintilla, Calixis Sector + + + + + + + + + + + DATE: 9.340.059.M42 + + + + + TELEPATHIC DUCT: Karina Aeshma, Personal Astropath to Inquisitor Raum. + + + + + + + + + + + + REF: INQ//530551.25//OH + + + + + + + + + +AUTHOR: Inquisitor Raum, Ordo Hereticus + + + + + + + + + SUBJECT: New leads regarding cult activity in the Calixis Sector. + + + + + + + + + THOUGHT: "No sacrifice is too great. No treachery too small." Greetings Lord Valac, It has been years since my last writing. Communication on this side of the great rift is difficult, as you are well aware. The fleet has been on constant crusade. The Black Templars have been scouring the stars in search of the Word Bearers battle barge known as "Voidgazer' and have yet to make any contact since the first encounter during the fall of Valais IV. I feel it was a lifetime ago that I joined the crusade. So much has transpired in that time. We have made contact with many desperate worlds who had no idea that the Imperium survives. We found many dead worlds as well. Some were abandoned; the debris of every day life lay in the streets as if the populace dropped what they were doing and fled, or vanished. Some worlds showed the signs conflict on an apocalyptic scale which stole my breath away. And some worlds, when we saw what had become of them since the sundering of the Imperium, we consigned them to the flame ourselves. There were times when I suspected that our quarry had left this region of space. But each time that suspicion began to take root, a new lead would present itself. It was as if the heretics were toying with us; always staying just beyond reach, just beyond sight. We found evidence of their cults everywhere we went. On many worlds, it is referred to as "The Cult of Ixxaas." The Black Templars have not allowed captives aboard any of the ships in our crusade fleet. Not even when I invoke my authority as an inquisitor will they relent and allow me to conduct an interrogation aboard the Volsung, therefore I have not been able to discover much more about this "Cult of Ixxaas." After years of constant hunting, our losses have begun to eat away at the effectiveness of the crusade. And so, we have returned to the Valais System to re-stock and re-arm. Valais IV, the world where the Calixis Crusade was born, is still a shell of it's former self. However, the Black Templars left a small garrison on the world to secure it, and if possible, to recruit new neophytes from among the survivors. I await in orbit while the astartes make planetfall to check in on their garrison. They hope to return with fresh recruits. Tomorrow, they will return and we will set course for Vaud, the 5th planet in the Valais system. There we will spend 3 days re-arming and re-supplying and making ready for our next voyage. Two weeks ago we received credible evidence that the Voidgazer has been active in The Periphery subsector and may be operating out of some region in the Halo Stars to the galactic north. And so the Crusade prepares to delve deeper into the darkness than we have yet dared to go. This may be the last time I am able to write to you for many years. We will be alone, beyond any hope of contact or communication of any kind. We will leave behind the human militia units and a small garrison of Black Templars to defend the Valais system, and then we bring the Emperor's Holy Retribution to the heretics we have hunted for so long. In His Holy Name Inquisitor Raum, Ordo Hereticus. >>ATTACHED TELEMETRY DATA DOWNLOAD<< >>PROCESSING...............................<< >>DOWNLOAD COMPLETE<< 6736887//INQ =][=

Thanks! Go for it! He makes an awesome base. Especially if you’re running true scale marines. He’s still intimidatingly large. Here’s a scale reference next to an aggressor captain.

I finished! I'll post better pictures and more angles shortly.

I'm working on the warlord for my army now. A terminator lord. Here's the body so far. Lots of things left to do. I'll reveal the head once it's finished. He's massive, as is appropriate. Here are my other HQ's while I'm at it!

Oh thank you! And You definitely nailed it. I wanted the cultist to look like he’s afraid for his life but trying to hold it together. He’s leaning and taking a step backwards but his arms are up in praise.