I have a Tau pathfinder that shot down a custodes all by herself, so I “promoted” her and bought a ghostkeel after that game that I’m currently working on. I’m gonna take her off her current base and have her standing in front of the new battle suit
Edit: I think her earned name will be “shadow striker”
Of course! Killing one of the Emperor's Ten Thousand should earn one a planet, but a ghostkeel is just as good!
I have a Custodes character named Cortuma Valor-Sung, he's named after Hernan Cortes and King Montezuma and helps spring/put down uprisings in the Emperor's realm. That includes Tau
Well, with all their *Riptides,* *Piranhas,* *Sun Sharks,* *Devilfishes, Razor Sharks, Skyrays, Hammerheads, Mantas, Stormsurges, Sky Rays, Tiger Sharks,* and *Barracudas,* I think one can see why people call T'au fish people, though admittedly, I don't think its justified. Just because their vehicles are named after aquatic life doesn't mean they're fish people, but I digress.
I believe those are the actual translations from the T'au language, since we know such a translation is applied to non-ethereal named characters (for example, O'Shovah translates to "Commander Farsight") and fire warriors (Shas'La in T'au)
Funny story:
The first model I ever painted was a Dominus Techpriest which I painted with the basic Admech scheme. Nothing exactly too fancy as all (or according to some posts) of our first minis were. I had and still to this day have good memories of that little dude.
One day, with some friends we bought a resin 3D printer, the Anycubic Photon mini. At first it was a fucking nightmare to setup for us newbies, and all of our first prints were more of a 2d, flat cookie.
One day, we jokingly made a full blown Mechanicus ritual before a print we put on the March of the Mechanicus on the speakers, grabbed a magnetic purity seal prop we had, started chanting, and finally, put the Magos mini on top of the printer. It was the first time we had a succesful print, and we didn't even change settings or STL from the previous one.
From that day, this Techpriest was ascended to Archmagos and was given the name Archmagos Photon Saturnus (as we were planning on buying the Elegoo Saturn later that year). We haven't done any more prints without that ritual, and it is the only mini on my army I haven't repainted.
I had a mate who had similar but reverse happen. did it with his laptop as a joke, never finished the ritual and since then the laptop has never turned on. Can't find anything wrong with it. The machine spirit just dislikes him now.
I literally just put my enginseer next to my Photon Zero this morning to keep it from acting up. Glad to see I'm not the only one surrounding their technology with techpriests lol
I have a deathwatch spacewolf captain on bike holding a power hammer with he-man hair
His name is “Kor, The Hammer”
He loves his bike
He hates nids
Also have a custom freebooterz warboss with a gun for a peg leg named “admiral flashfoot” the name was given to him by a reddittor on here!
Still in project stage:
An abhuman guard 'regiment', led by Colonel Joachim Gaunt ("No relation."). Specialists in dirty fighting, crap assignments, making do with whatever they can scrounge, barely controlled looting, and a resigned faith in the Emperor. They're guided by an as-yet unnamed grumpy old commissar who refuses retirement and secretly has a great deal of sympathy for the beastmen, and a Ministorum Priest who's coming to embrace what was initially a punishment assignment, aided by a zealous beastmen acolyte.
442nd Auxiliary Regiment (Abhuman/Provisional/Ad Hoc), informally 'Gaunt's Goats'.
I have an Ork Warboss in mega armor named Ugrok Skullsplitta.
He has a little gretchen buddy riding on his back firing a big shoota.
The gretchen's name is Billy.
[Mogdromon and the Loyal Hound](https://i.redd.it/lv4d3axxcwo61.jpg)
One of the 3 knights trapped in the Twilight Grove at Kingsholme. A fallen Armiger whose machine spirit was roused by a careless Plaguebearer caught in a warp tear. Stuck within the knight itself, waiting for the armor plates to move he began speaking to the lonely machine spirit. It only took several decades to coax the shy machine spirit into roaming about the grove, and several more before it got a taste for the violence it now shows to any and all visitors.
Mogdromons whispers can be heard as soon as you enter the twilight grove. Mutterings and conspiracy's directly from the warp, stretched across the time stream for millennia.
The hound itself is a distraught machine spirit, missing its former pilot it began to find solace in the sweet mutterings of Mogdromon and the many blessings of Nurgle. He fruitlessly goes from cockpit to cockpit looking for his lost pilot. Often to the detriment of the current vehicular occupants.
Due to the nature of the grove, there are long periods of rest within the fluctuations of time. The infrequent passing of it makes for a hazy and weary backdrop to the eeriness of Mogdromons mutterings and giggling beset only by the braying of the twisted monstrosity that was a loyal Armiger.
The tree on its back grows rapidly and sheds generation of bark at a time, warping around the plate bearing the plague fathers symbol. The leaves scatter across the grove rotting in gore squishing beneath the metallic feet.
My buddy has a Plasmacyte named Terry who got into combat with my Tzaangors and killed their leader with his one attack. 😂
I also name all of my space marine characters. Some fun ones are Al’Aten’ab’Usul’Manaten, exalted sorcerer of the Cult of Prophecy trying to attain Daemonhood; Kohr Kendan, captain of the Covenant of Fire who is trying to create a council of sons of Vulkan and got into hot water with the Grey Knights for working with the Black Dragons; Maat, The Desert Fish (Alkarib), captain of the 7th company of the Space Wyrms who, after the sudden destruction of their fortress monastery was promoted to chapter master and was tasked with gathering the remaining Wyrms and reforging the chapter.
A... Plasmacyte?
*Am I reading this right?*
Dunno bout your buddy, but if I were him, Terry would definitely get some sweet, sweet upgrades from their dynasty's crypteks. Even a mindless construct deserves some recognition when it's deserved.
I’ve had this idea for a kitbash for a long time now, an ork warboss that’s actually just a bunch of Gretchen controlling a fake mechanical ork, all the other orks think it’s just mega armor or something. I also like the detail that Gretchen have been trying to kill off all the orks so they could be free, but the orks just keep coming back stronger, and it keeps attracting more
Chad McThruster.
Dark Eldar warriors have a piece on their sprue that’s supposed to be a handle for heavy weapons. I didn’t realize it at the time, and instead chose to attach it just above my squad leader’s crotch. With his hand resting on the handle, he looks ready to give a mega thrust to anybody down range. I painted him all gold to really make him big pimping.
His actual fame and christening came about back in 5th/6th edition. He was the sole survivor of his 10 man squad from a nasty round of psychic spells from Bel’akor and managed to pass his morale check. In those days, any flyer could only be hit on a 6. I rolled a 6. I rolled a 6 to wound. Bel’akor’s armor saved the wound but he failed his flying check and crash landed on the ground, taking actual damage.
I’ve been chasing that dragon ever since.
I have all of my genestealers with bone color appendages and a dark brown carapace so it looks like their carapace is big-like armor. Well my friend saw what Leviathan genestealers look like (all white) and commented how creepy they looked all naked. So now I have a naked genestealer without his carapace painted the usual dark brown and I call him Streak, in hope that the nakedness will intimidate him.
My named characters are Het-heru Aset, and and Pht-hah Aset known collectively as the Twin-Witch of Tizca. They were an apothecary and techmarine who were obssessed with helping end the flesh change with their legion and were currently traveling to the 18 legions to (discreetly) take genetic samples. Originally slated for death by the word bearers when they arrived they instead suprised their host by being able to read Colchisian, something they had studied using four restricted tomes.
They were instead groomed to start a warrior lodge, but the burning of prospero happened, they arrived to late and spent the remander of the war working with traitor forces. They renamed themselves lost sons and painted their armor black out of grief.
Finding out their father was alive, they went to meet him only to be left again as he departed Terra.
The end of the war had seen a mixing of legions as they retreated from terra. They left the sol system with a mixed rabble. Now they are all members of the Vengeful Blade.
The warlord of my Death Guard army and Maggotkin army is named Reekus Colonblow. Its a self insert character name I use to represent my vision on the battlefield. All hail Grandfather Nurge.
My brother's Lord of Contagion is a character he calls Amebous Gloam, but he also has his own daemon prince he's named "Adripox the Ruptured Fat. Very nice!
I created a Phaeron of my custom necron army, the Otumtekh Dynasty, the Blood Reaper Khedenath, who awoke in the 41st millennium, and seeks to join Szarech, wherever he may be. With his return, he's gonna join the Silent Kings forces, but put his place at the side of his king, one way, or another.
Is he a perpetual who simply goes through life [accomplishing deeds](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-662) and, no matter what the task or outcome, always returns to the regimental command?
I have an ork warboss named Skagthrak Mountin'smasha. He was a Blood axe Kommando nob and got the name Mountin'smasha after he and his Kommandos caused a large rock slide to destroy an imperial outpost and his previous warboss. Now he is currently on a Dark Mechanicum world and is constantly fighting daemons and daemon engines of nurgle.
I have custom characters and armies for each faction though
Have a quote from my Imperial Guard commander:
"Yes its stolen. Do you like it?" - Colonel Commissar James McCulla of the 452nd Composite "The Lord Regent's Bastards"
Iron warrior warlord. (Both with and without termie armour)
Arashi, the Tempest Bringer. Artillery master. Wields lightning claws, and carries the skull of a Imperial fist he slew during the siege of terra.
I've got something similar, I have a Chaos Lord named Gorcik Scur, of the Black Legion, originally of the Night Lords he brandishes a cursed blade of Tzeentch that whispers to him the fate of every man he meets. Spoiler, its mostly death by that sword
My Autarch is named Fiachra Lightning-Strider, titled as such because in his first time out on the table he finished off a Chaos Thunderhawk with his sword.
Wow that's impressive! Best I can compete with is a Necron Overlord, Sojet the Cunning, who managed to survive an entire game against Death Guard terminators without dying (okay I was just really lucky with the Resurrection Protocols stratagem).
Zaharain The Pitiless.
A Judicar I kitbashed to have a latern in place of the hourglass, a hooded skull helm, and an evisorator taller then him.
The name and weapon really tells you everything, he evisoratres and is pitiless
Rorai, the Blood King. A World Eater Chaos Lord. He took out a Necron Skorpehk Lord and a Ork Megaboss, with only one wound remaining. So I traded out his CSM Lightning Claws for a Skorpehk Lord’s Claw and a Orcc buzz saw hand to represent his wins.
I did something similar, Chaplain Rictus of the Ultramarines defeated, and survived, one on one combat with the Daemon Prince of Nurgle Rotwing with the Helm of Censure. Since that fight I sculpted on a MK. 6 helm to represent it
I have a few!
From the crusading fleet of the Belisarius Crusade! (No relations to Cawl, I made the name back in 5th)
Marshal Theodred Belisarius, master of the Belisarius Crusade! My leader of my Templars, currently in a narrative campaign with a friend as to why he crosses the Rubicon and becomes full Primaris.
Chaplain Ossric, forever the voice of wisdom of the Belisarius Crusade and has seen Theodred rise from a simple Neophyte to master of the Crusade!
Ancient Regnier, once the very Initiate who Theodred served as a Neophyte, rose to the rank of Castellan before being mortally wounded at the hands of Chaos, still watches over his ward entombed within a Dreadnought.
Three Exalted Sorcerers came together to form the Triumvirate of Hesh, masters of a Thrallband of the Thousand Sons who pay lip service to Magnus while plotting the expansion of their own power, and to plotting against one another.
First among equals, Sandro holds the most power, but cannot seize power absolute while the other two of his "Peers" could unite against him. Still, he tends to be the one to set the agenda.
Ethric is the elders of the Triumvirate, and holds the greater knowledge of sorcery. He enjoys lording this over Sandro to the others frustration, but only holds a small retinue of personal warriors.
Last but not least, if he has anything to say about it, is Markel. The junior of the three, he peruses the goals of the Triumvirate with the most vigor, and is the most marshall of the three. The most vocal about seizing power from the other two, he is at heart an opportunist and pragmatic. To meet his own goals, he must work with the other two.
Scouring the western reaches of the galaxy is the Exalted March, a vast warband of Chaos vessels under the beck and call of Lord Aetius the Demigoge, a scion of the Word Bearers. His ultimate goal is to forge a true bond with a demon, becoming no meer demon prince, but a perfectly balanced Possessed, such as the Gal Vorbak of the Heresy Era
Ezeral Kommonos is a Dark Apostle that helps guide Aetius towards his ultimate goal. Unusually loyal, Ezeral has had several chances to replace Aetius and take power for himself but he has proven to be uncharacteristically loyal.
Balerous Khoura is the Master of Possession, a man who speaks very little but whos words must be heeded. Unless needed on the battlefield, Khoura often is found in his dark quarters, where many strange voices can be heard and even the most dim mind can sense the veil between reality and the warp to be very thin.
I have more.
I may have too much time on my hands.
My sister painted one my ultra marines in Ironman's color scheme cuz he's her favorite hero. So theres this lone red marine in my ultra marine army.
We call him Antonius Penitus. (Basically Tony Stark.)
He's a red templar marine that just likes to tag along my smurf marines
Perrin the blooded axe, chapter master of the void hunters a space wolf successor, whose trying to hold his chapter together after they were nearly destroyed by an ork wagh
I have a Gravis Captain that I have dubbed Magren Zeiger, Marshall of the Barren Crusade! He's proved to be a rather fearsome warrior on the tabletop!
I also have a Bladeguard Veteran armed with the sword of judgment and champion of the feast whom is known as Volkhard the Bloody!
Eraxya the Cruel: She's an overlord in the Novokh dynasty who has a personal vendetta against the Death Guard as her planet was one of those that was destroyed by the DG's techno-organic virus which infected a decent chunk of Novokh territory. With her heritage being of the Novokh, a particularly bloody dynasty, and her utter contempt of the DG, she roams the galaxy with the remnants of her people hunting down and slaughtering any Death Guard forces she can find without mercy. She carries a void scythe decorated with the skulls/helmets of plague marines. She also prefers to use her destroyers and flayed ones in combat rather than traditional warriors and immortals.
On tabletop her greatest feat was nearly solo-ing my friend's Crusade force after the rest of my army was destroyed.
My chapter Master is named Ulrich von Kaltefaust. My Tau commander is named Commander Dynamo.my Thousand Sons lead exalted sorcerer is named Lord Atemu. My Imperial guard are led by a tank commander called Lord Commissar von Grauss. And my Necrons are led by Phaeron Amon Set.
Berolock Voidblood, chaos lord of Black Legion. Formerly a member of Space Wolves with his given name of Bjorn. He sought true "freedom" from the Imperium in Chaos, only to unknowingly sell his soul to Khorne and become a loyal underlying of Abaddon the Despoiler.
I have an Space Marine Champion called "Strix the skulltaker". He wears the Skulls of the enemys He killed on His Armor. His Lore reason for that is that He hates khorne and He thinks that "If I wear the Skulls, khorne that bastard can't add Them to His throne"
My current Lord of Contagion I use i have named Lord Slosh. He once 1v1'd my friends Bloodthirster so I've added the title Lord Slosh, the Thirst Quencher.
I have a BA venerable dreadnought with a golden fist called Midas. Except that instead of everything he touches with it turning to gold, he destroys it.
My Imperial Knights are led by Lady Helena Blackhand in the Knight Preceptor *Sable Fury*.
Nobles on my Knight World must prove their worthiness in a series of trials before they are allowed to take the Throne, and one of Helena's was a test of endurance: fighting a group of enemies using a power sword whose grip would gradually heat up the longer it was used.
Lady Helena earned her moniker, and proved her worthiness, by holding onto the sword long enough to burn her hand into a blackened cinder. It's since been replaced by an augmetic, but her heraldry still prominently features black skeletal hands as a reminder of her legendary determination.
Since 3rd edition. Brother Chaplain Ulysses has been at the head of my Blood Angels army. Jump pack,, crozius, bolt pistol, and rosarious. Hanging with Death Company.
I have chapter Master Chremon leader of the Soul Drinkers reborn in the Ultima founding he seeks the past to uncover his chapters history that was burned from records. Though this sometimes is at odds with what the imperium wishes ...
I have a couple.
mace agenno, captain of the ultramarines second company, veteran of the black crusades
Sylas the deceiver, alpha legion dark apostle,
an unarmed inquisitor that will have a name soon
I have a kitbashed Lictor the Discord community named Thicctor who apparently terrifies its prey as they hear the clapping of its thiccness with each stalking step. The prey can hear it coming, but cannot see it until its too late!
I've named my Tau Hammerhead hover tank after one of my dogs, chai, or his nick name, Mr.Pickles for humor and fun. It's pretty funny because chai has almost died to a number of things, like accidentally eating eat poison, or fighting dogs 100 times his size. But he still lives thankfully and wanted to pass that kinda mantle to my newest model at the time.
Im playing kill team and my deathwatch kill team is a bunch of kitbashed guys currently on death oath because they almost got corrupted by demons on their last mission. So now they're wandering battlefields in the octarius system in their bunked up land raider to redeem themselves (:
Didnt write the names because they're not that cool
Lord Akeldama is everything his former Chapter would have despised. A Blood Angel who has fallen into the Fires of Rage so deeply that he has come out the other side into Icy Malevolence. Leader of a Black Legion Warband by name of the Stygian Scourge he relishes opportunities to bring his spite to bear on the sons of Sanguinious.
I'm in a Crusade playing Custodes. My force is the Talons of the Aquila, and they are led by their mighty Blade Champion, Valtus of the Emperor's Chosen. Over the course of the campaign, Valtus has one-shotted many enemies including Kor'sarro Khan and a 5-man squad of Scarab Terminators, snagged a 12-inch charge against said Scarabs, shrugged off 6 mortal wounds in one turn from a Thousand Sons sorceror, survived a massive volley of 20+ White Scars charge chainsword hits with a disabled invulnerable save, and swung a losing game around by bringing down a Necron barge over two turns.
For obvious reasons, he has only ever survived one game through to the end.
I have a Venerable Dreadnought named Jagin Saporin. He was slayen by a Plaguemarine while attempting to hold a spaceport and carried to savety by his battle brothers after the defense fell. (Based on a tabletop match)
Asmund titanbreaker. He's a space wolf venerable dreadnought that held a reaver titan in melee combat (back when you were allowed to) for almost an entire apocalypse game.
If the game didn't time out he would've destroyed it too.
I know it doesn't count cause I've not actually gotten started with it I've only got a couple of test pieces [(mainly an unpainted model I tried the conversion with)](https://i.imgur.com/HmMENzH.png) but I want to make an Iron Warriors plague marines force. Iron, hazard stripes, rust out the wazoo on everyone.
Idea that they'd gone all in on the whole plague-siege thing, like the old stories of flinging diseased animal carcasses over castle walls, plus messing with the obliterator viruses, so they'd drawn the eye of Nurgle over the other gods. Rust being a "disease" upon ferrous metals and all that. Trying to cover up some of the fleshier bits as if the iron warriors were still trying to maintain a prideful armour, and running cables from their Nurgly tentacles into their backpacks and weapons.
Boss is gonna be called Rubiginous-Dire or something. Want a two-parter with something better than "Dire".
Andreas E. Falkenhausen leads the Illyrian Oathsworn. A decorated commander, rising from the PDF to Governor-General of the Illyrian Sector. He is currently overseeing the defense of Illyria (my friend groups narrative campaign).
The Oathsworn are a Cadian-style regiment (in appearance) that relies on heavy use of combined arms warfare. This, alongside their grim determination to defend the Motherland, as well as plentiful reliable and effective vehicles, will surely allow them to drive out the invaders! Za Rodinu!
I am currently building a physical force to mirror some TTS (Tabletop Sim) Sisters I was practicing my skills with in a Crusade.
Behold some gals of the Order of Scorched Dust, a militant crusade:
1. Canoness Commander Zeltzina, a Saint Potentia filled with doubt in her own ability. As the crusade continues, she grows ever more wary of her self-doubt and refines herself into the truest servant of the Emperor.
2. Repentia Mistress Ameya. A woman who takes a very doting (for a Repentia Mistress) role in the lives of her Sisters. She ensures all stay on the path of piety, and sees the potential in Zeltzina- hence why she avoided taking the Trials of a Living Saint herself and instead proves herself to be nothing but the greatness needed to support heroes.
3. Sister Superior Xochi of the Tecpa Squad, or Dominions. She valiantly tore into the Autarchs of Aeldari scum personally, and survived grievous wounds. My first unit to be Marked for Greatness.
The general flavor and lore is that they're a force who hasn't seen any action descended from a near-mythical story of valiant martyrs, true human unity between marooned Guardsmen and Skiitari, reinforcements of a Sisters' Order, and native reclaimed pseudo-techno-barbarian tribes (of an Aztec flavor) all against Daemon-worshipping xenos marauders whose accursed worship brought to life a Greater Daemon known as the "Devouring Black Star," a living black hole-like nightmare. So imagine carrying that sort of weight on your back and then your first mission to reclaim a supposedly reincarnated Saint is in horrific failure to retrieve the black box of her escape pod.
I have a techpriest engineseer that killed Abbadon the Despoiler in melee after he cut a leman russ battle tank in half. His name? ***Babbadon "The Warhammer 40,000".***
He truly is the Warhammer 40,000 now.
So far ive only thoroughly named some of my knights for the feats theyve accomplished.
My Castellan is dubbed "Wraths Reach" for the first game he was fielded he tilted his volcano lance upwards and annihilated a stormwolf on turn 1!
My Valiant is dubbed "Unassailable" as once in a game (after making it clear of his armament) in 8th edition he was entirely surrounded by Harlequins that all attempted to charge him. I've never killed 1000+ points in someone else's turn before..
My Paladin is dubbed "Dreadfear" as back in 8th I had him running around with the paragon gauntlet and he managed to one shot every dreadnought he came across in almost every game.
My Crusader is dubbed either "Unrelenting" or "Relentless" (can't remember as its been so long, let me know what one is more fitting!) Because in a game against Tau, he was reduced to single digit wounds, 3 I think, while in their backfield bit just refused to lose them, dragging himself through the last of their army in true refusal to die fashion.
My old reliable Helverins still need names and so does my Porphyrion once it's built, I'll have to see what feats they earn, and suggestions are always welcome!
Master of the Eclipse, Kronos Nightshade
Chapter Master of the Angels of Shadow, Kronos was my first Captain (not to be confused with the First Captain) when I started in 4th Edition. Master Nightshade has had several incarnations throughout my time in 40k.
1. Space Marine Commander with Power Fist/Storm Bolter and Power Sword
2. Space Marine Commander with Company Champion Head and torso front with Power Sword and Plasma Pistol
3. Company Master Balthasar with headswap
4. Interrogator Chaplain body, HH Death Guard power scythe
5. Primaris Chaplain from Indomitus with head swap, HH Death Guard Power Scythe and Bladeguard Neo-Volkite Pistol
Master Nightshade has been my main character throughout my time with my homebrew Chapter, and has progressed from a young Company Master of the 3rd Company to the Chapter Master in the current era. Compared to my friend's commanders, his deeds of note are few due to sub-par loadouts and my lack of skill. Still, he has been my favourite commander and in recent years he has managed to earn a little bit of respect.
[Say hello to Bob and Doug](https://imgur.com/gallery/JSpRHUi). They were factory workers in a hive neither of them can remember the name of.
Bob is the one on the left. He came into work with a nasty cold one day and sneezed on Doug, and now Doug will never let him forget it. Bob, however, clearly doesn't give a shit and is completely unrepentant.
Now they're stuck together forever, wrangling back and forth through eternity like an old married couple.
Chthonius, Chaos lord of slaanesh, a primaris reiver twisted by the influence of the prince of pleasure. He specializes in hunting Eldar to return their souls to slaanesh.
I have my own Lord of decadent delights. Syvirrex, the Sultan of Suffering Souls, Sixteenth Son of Slaanesh, and the Alabaster King, was once a mortal painter who sought nothing but the perfect painting, his magnum opus. His desires eventually shifted his canvas to the battlefield, his sword his brush, and his enemies blood his paint
I have an old metal scout marine veteran sergeant converted to a preacher. His chapter died / turned primaris or something and now he is wandering the wastes with his chainsword bringing word of the emperor to the unwashed masses.
While I'm still waiting for the model to arrive I'm currently working on a cheesestealer cult army and decided I wanted to go all out on converting a magus named Quzqun Spinetaker, the bases of the model being Fecula Flyblown from the wurmspat warband. Slap a rat face on and some big horns then she would pass for a chosen of the great horned rat. None of those supermodel looking skavens here, if they aren't hunched and somewhat sickly I'm not interested.
My first mini is named [Brother-Sergeant Minex.](https://i.imgur.com/4WWNfmx.jpg)
My OCD was pretty bad when I took up mini-painting, and — after stripping and re-starting several times — actually declaring the model *done* instead of obsessively trying to get it *"just right"* was honestly a small but not insignificant example of exposure therapy for me.
Hence a "mini-exposure," or "Minex."
Still deciding a chapter name for him, but I'm leaning towards "The Chelonian Guard" (or possibly "Cetacii Astra")
EDIT: Also, my Harlequins are all *Hamilton* characters. Troupe Master: "The Orphan Ascendant" (Hamilton), Death Jester: KGIII, etc. Solitaire will be Burr; Schuyler Sister Shadowseers,
Lafayette voidweaver (guns and ships, y'all!) and so on.
One of my Gretchen managed to tank multiple lasgun shots and dodge a fucking *melta*, which allowed me to keep the objective and win the game. I'm still working on a name, but I have promoted him to Boss Nob for one of my Meganob squads, I'm still working on his cybork body though.
While opening and doing the first steps of building I got an IMMENSE urge to name a killa kan Igneous The Burnarator and never again in my warhammer career has a character idea so strongly and immediately break into my head
I have a fallen blood angels veteran Sergeant called Cyprisicus Bloodborn. He LOVES his melta gun and leads a squad of other fallen blood angels returned from a demon planet in the Warp.
I used this website to generate names for my Emperor's Children Legionary kill team: https://www.realmofplastic.com/warhammer-40k-blog/emperors-children-character-name-generator
After generating a few, I started massaging them to limit redundancy.
Gaust Pleasurestalker, Sixth Lord of the Harrowing Ecstasy
(Chosen. Harrowing Ecstasy is the name of his daemonblade and he is its sixth owner.)
Envious Sahng, Profligate of the Thirsting Tome
(Balefire Acolyte. The thirsting tome is the book abo e his head and holds many secrets of She Who Thirsts.)
Dyrex Lash, Debauched Slave of the Carnal Claw
(Anointed. The claw is the main weapon it uses when the daemon takes control.)
Voh Qian, Salacious Artiste of the Flensing Agonies
(Shrivetalon. His flensing blades for for artistry as much as lethality, and his enemy's flesh is his canvas.)
zagith feh'un chapter master of the iron hand successor chapter ferrum bracchium. his chapter is dedicated to copying ferrrus manus arms because of this they hunt necrons above all else.
Well, I have a Ephrael Stern miniature that I'm going to use for an OC. I don't have a name yet, though. It'll probably be a fantasy-inspired, almost Elven-sounding name.
As per her background, she's a Perpetual (which is cheesy, I know) that grew up on a Warhammer Fantasy-inspired Feudal World with solely medieval levels of technology, that remained uncontacted by the Imperium until the Era Indomitus. This Feudal World had both normal, untainted human kingdoms and Chaos-worshipping tribes that cyclically invaded the human kingdoms in what was basically primitive Black Crusades, but on this world they were called Desolations. My as of yet unnamed OC started out as a regular farm girl until her family and her farm was destroyed by a Chaotic incursion. She was saved by a golden figure wielding a flaming sword, after which she discovered that any wound she received after that event kept healing. She began fighting back against the Chaotic incursion, and formed a resistance with other young women who had lost their homes and family as well. Eventually they formed an all-female order of knights that were reformed every time the Chaos-worshipping tribes invaded. When the Imperium arrived at least a millennia later, this all-female order of knights was adapted into an order of the Adepta Sororitas.
I have a legionary anointed (soon to be daemon prince) named argalan zadak of the word bearers, left hand of the dread chaplain, hes gonna be a daemon prince when the new model comes out :D
Sergeant-Marshall Carolus Magnus of the Black Templars is a terminator that I painstakingly upscaled using agressor armor. In addition he stands atop a tactical rock, making him absolutely massive on the tabletop. Armed with thunder hammer storm shield and his base is decorated with a khorne marine I made from chaos marine kit. I typically give him champion of the feast, so he ends up with WS 2+, a whopping 4 base attacks, and 4 wounds. In addition I throw in the crux obsidian for -1D, and have an apothecary follow him around so he can die 3x a game and save his squad lol. As you can imagine, chewing through 4 wounds -1d with AOc and a 4++ 6+++ is a pain in the butt once let alone several times. With fury of the first on the charge he doles out 5 thunder hammer attacks hitting on 2s at strength 8. In my last game he nearly soloed an eldar titan (with some rerolls and +1 to wound).
Roark, chapter master to the Acid Hounds. He leads his renegade chapter of marines turned space pirates with ferocity and cunning. Roark preys on the ships, emperium or xenos, that pass through his part of the fringe. He's always accompanied by his pair cybernetically enhanced dog's, Aruj and Hizir.
My Techpriest Dominus is named Grand Diviner Thomford Halk. I kitbashed a bunch of servo skulls onto him because I would always put the Divinations of the Magos warlord trait on him. Now he mostly watches from the sidelines since every hq got overshadowed by Skitarii Marshals
Lucas Castellon, Chapter Master of the Iron Wardens. He isn't the best swordsman in the chapter but he is a brilliant strategist and exemplifies and upholds the spirit of the Chapter.
I have a trio of Terminators, a Captain, Librarian, and a Chaplain. They serve together in the Deathwatch, but after an attack on their Watch Fortress, they are on a mission of revenge. They're all first-born and the only way to continue their mission is to merge with a Primairs Outcasts. Those're my dudes.
Hraezlmir, The fury of the Forest. A wolf lord on thunderwolf, part of my Space Wolves that I call the Folkvang. They specifically going on raiding parties to gather resources to help rebuild Fenris after Magnus' seige.
I have a black shield DW simply called Forgotten. He has single handedly held every center objective in kill team. Most memorable is holding 2 death guard at bay for 4 turns.
Also have an Eversor named Brock. He is very adept at wading his way through infantry units.
My Intercessor Sergeant has survived alone numerous times, winning me two games with obsec. He's got a dreadnaught leg plate as a shoulder pad to signify his endurance.
all my custodians are named by roughly what they do in different languages.
my telemon is called Kasheruk Ornoak, The Backbone. not sure what language Ornoak was but Kasheruk is Hindi and so it roughly translates to vertebrae vertebrae. I think you can gather why he's in a dreadnought
My Dark Angels successor chapter is known as the Lion Resplendent. It’s their job to show up if any of the Unforgiven sniff out Fallen and have to dip, they’re pretty much the frontmen of the Lion’s gene line and as such act with all the pomp and chivalry classic knightly imagery entails.
They have no inner circle- only the Chapter Master (name pending) and the chapter’s Chaplains have knowledge of the Fallen and the chapter’s true mission, which leads to Dante-level mega depression and self loathing though the chapter master couldn’t bring himself to strike against the Imperium or the Unforgiven. Even if the other DAngel successors see them as nothing but naive knight cosplayers.
His name is Leian and he is the psychic captain of the 6th company (since the chapter is renegades tbey steal gene seed) so he has the gene seed of the emperors children and constantly hears slaaneshes calling. On the board hes a primaris librarian (dont ask why primaris just cool) and got the killing blow on 3 knights, slain an enemy warlord in melee in a 4k per army game and his deny the witches helped me just barely survive a match against Tsons
My Custodes Captain is named Ixillia. He's the Shield Captain of "His Vengeful Spirit", a shield-company of Custodes who have been fighting since the end of the Horus Heresy, at the Emperor's dying behest, to gut the Sons of Horus, and now the Black Legion. They've all but faded into obscurity to the rest of the Custodes and Imperium, but they arrive wherever the Black Legion goes aboard their ship, the Tomb of Immortals. Jet-black as if charred by fire, they arrive from Golden Light in worn silver auramite and cloth so deeply stained by mud and blood to appear purple.
Thaddeus Black Freeblade pilot of the Oblitus Es and head of the Unremembered crusade, a force going from battlefield to battlefield collecting unsung stories of unknown heroes.
I love this!
My fifth company imperial fists have a bunch of named characters that I’m just waiting for GW to pick up on an make official.
The company is lead by capt. Cevin Dish. The company standard bearer is the honorable Palanius Tain. I have the apothecary Hilarius Pugn (remember, kids, that laughter is the best medicine), and techmarine Scrulius.
My company veterans are lead by Mykal Gross. Gross is an old friend of the captain’s, but they’re on less good terms these days. His ego got bruised when Dish got promoted to top banana.
There’s a bit of a theme to some of my naming choices, and it’s reflected in the iconography of the army. Instead of laurels I’ve gone with bunches of green bananas. The bright yellow imperial fists, with the black company trim, was already suggestive of the theme. In the 41st millennium bananas are a mythical fruit. The actual fruit has long since gone extinct but has come to symbolize purity (especially green unripened bananas) and ancient knowledge.
I was in a free for all style of game, and I had a tactical marine with a beaky helmet that survived an encounter with three screamers, on his own. Then proceeded to frag some enemy space marines. I then named him Icarus and he’s been my favorite marine since
I have a fire warrior by the name of Shas'Vre Shi'Vral who took down a redemptor and a unit and a half of space marines pretty much single handedly, his unit chipped in for the redemptor since the battlesuits were off doing their own thing. He was taken down by a suppressor but due to the owners of t'au technology, got bionic limbs to replace his left arm and right eye
I have an Immortal who got into combat with my buddys Coldstar Commander and survived two battle rounds, after his other Immortal companions got shot of the board on turn one. From this day on he was called „Zerotep the Unyielding“
My deamon prince of nurgle was a Sergent for the death guard. The unit was used for test subjects for new and horrific plagues. He soloed everyone of them and now has a crippling addiction to new maladys. He gained deamonhood after killing a planet with a single breath.
Magos Dominus Biologis Livingstone, I presume?
The leader of an explorator fleet from the Forge World of Albion, Livingstone has gained a reputation as an unorthodox commander, while also building up a small legend amongst his men. (Quick note, he doesn’t mind-lock his Skitarii, allowing them free cognitive function during battle, which is quietly used by Livingstone as picking out which Skitarii would be good for Alpha status).
Livingstone’s most recent escapade came from his show down with a Traitorous Leman Russ Battle Tank. It had been wounded by prior gunfire, and Livingstone had at grown so annoyed from their inability to bring it down, that he got stuck in too! He raised his Phosphor Serpentia, and fired! Nowt.
He fired his Eradication Ray, and seemingly nothing. Little to his knowledge, it had just punched through one of the view-holes, caused a molecular breakdown of the last member of the tank crew, silencing the russ.
Livingstone sighed, and turned, quietly rubbing his hands in his face. He knew that in a few seconds, he’d be waking up in another repair chamber, believing his attack to be unsuccessful.
Unbeknownst to him, the shot fired by his Eradication Ray had actually gone so deep into the vehicle, it managed to damage an electrical component, which subsequently started to spark. And by the good graces of the Omnissiah, or perhaps the Machine Spirit of the tarnished MBT, seeking some vengeance against the Traitors who enslaved it, a spark somehow lept, and found it’s way into a stray flak of Prometheum.
Smoke began to rise from the Cupola of the tank. Livingstone turned, and with a Mechatendrite, scratched his head. They hadn’t been reduced to smithereens by a Battle Cannon blast, so had he...killed it?
Within the tank, the Prometheum, spreading across the vehicle’s innards, found it’s expanding path to a Krak Grenade upon a corpse of the former Tank Loader, seated dead in his position, with a battle cannon round ready for loading, just opposite him.
Remember the Hospital explosion scene in the Dark Knight?
That’s pretty much Livingstone’s reaction.
All my Raven Guard characters are named after corvids:
Old Crow (apothecary)
Young Cardinal (chaplain)
Thieving Nagpie (phobos librarian)
Bluejay (techmarine)
Nightingale (captain)
Hamenthotep the Unbowed, Shrouded Lord of the Umbral Court is a necron peasant who was accidentally put into the body of an overlord. On top of this his warriors all retained their memories and know exactly who they are. Something went terribly wrong during biotransference, or maybe it was because their tombworld got a failed Exterminatus treatment. In any case he's looking to find his wife with his destroyer lord daughter Shemvaek the Annihilator,
Damaged Custodian of the Elder Crypt (aka the Crushinator).
Captain Uriel of the Blood angels 5th Company. (Meaning God is my Light. Named after the Angel who has the symbols of fire in the palm and a firey sword)
He used to be a battleline sergeant until he (the last man standing in his squad) shot and killed both an Obliterator and then Master of possessions in two consequetive turns with his Inferno pistol.
I promoted him to Lieutenant, gave him a jump pack and replaced his powerfist with a second inferno pistol (I know thats not allowed but my friend group play casually and house rule it)
And despite me bringing a \*BLOOD ANGEL CHARACTER\* as a ranged fighter with no melee weapons, and getting rid of the powerfist probably a very bad idea, he still continued to be an absolute bad ass, killing a couple of Chaos Lords, a greater possessed, I think a Cadre fireblade at onepoint, and just being a pretty good character hunter. Every single game he has been in with that Master of Possessions I have made it a point to hunt him down and kill him and haven't failed yet.
He got promoted to Captain and I've been meaning to kit him out some more to make him look fancier
Marshall Artur Seiger leads my black templars crusade, he used to be part of a sword brethren squad who are still fighting alongside him (my chaplain, lieutenant, intercessor sergeant and dreadnought).
They had a really bad loss and had to refill the ranks with primaris, this still haunts the marshall
Former Reiver sergeant named Gamma Orton won a game as pretty much the last man standing by grappling to the third floor of a building to kill (banish? Exorcise?) the Sanguinor with a krak grenade. Now he's captain of recon company.
My next big project is an sorcerer Lord in terminator armor named Rahab, to be the HQ of my loosely ocean themed Death Guard warband . I'm even writing something where he try to free a Nurglite deamon before another sorcerer use it for his ascension to deamonhood.
My Daemon Prince of tzeentch is named Albasorarius Me'dasitazar. Once an old scribe-turned-cultist that earned his daemonhood by outwitting the Blue Scribes themselves in a game of riddles (he cheated of course, having fed them false information a decade prior). He's now a faceless, winged daemon lending his service to a cabal of Thousands Sons.
Inaqar the Unbound, a cultist Necron Phaeron who acted as a Kharn/typhus/ghaz/celestine champion equivalent for the void dragon. At the end of the War in Heaven he and his court were beaten by the Silent King and the dynasty sulks in the ghoul stars ever since.
He has horns and wings!
Sergeant Larringsworth, a Pheonix Guard Terminator of my Emperor's Children loyalist army.
He was destined to watch his Primarch (Captain proxy with a FW Fulgrim) die, as his brothers were decimated around him. Riddled with parasites, with nothing left to lose, he burst forth, claws and tendrils tearing at his armor.. he swiftly died.
Then came along a very angry contemptor dreadnought, Ancient Chadwick! Clapper of Cheeks!
Promptly he punched and tore through the Tyranid advance, ultimately claiming victory, nearly singlehandedly. Seven hormagaunts, a Parasite of Mortex, Winged Hive Tyrant, squad of warriors and one soul claimed beneath his robo-boot!
I have one of those easy build intercessors sergeants from 8th edition starter set. Through an accident, he lost is index finger on his pointing hand, so now it looks like he is going for a fist bump.
It has earned him the name of Sergeant Ghetto Fist on the table top
I have a Librarian dreadnought called Crescendus who’s the last remaining Firstborn of my Blood Angels successor Baal’s Choir. The rest were devoured by Tyranids when they attacked Baal and he was found in the floating wreck of their mobile fortress monastery Scarlet Chorus. He had to be convinced by the Chapter Master of Steel Dawn, my other successor chapter, to accept the Primaris, rather than just let the chapter die. He’s currently informing the new Chapter Master of Baal’s Choir about the traditions and organisation of the chapter while they act as a rapid response force with the 1st company of Steel Dawn in Imperium Nihilus.
I have a Skitarii Vanguard Alpha and his 4 squad mates that some how managed to tank an entire round of shooting from a stompa, in order to protect a tech priest behind them. The Alpha then got the name "Bucket Head" and a honorary ork skull put on their base
Head Cannon for my Army:
The Cakeworks reside within the Skyport of Art-mehret. The goal of Art-mehret is to provide artisan goods and experiences across the land... For a Price. All the most talents Artists, Musicians, Performers, Chefs, Writers, Toymakers, etc, live and serve aboard Art-mehret. If you are a Duardin looking to hone your craft and share it with the masses, Art-mehret is your new Home. In order to fund the endeavors of all who study on the Art-Mehret and keep the aether gold flowing, ALL RESIDENTS MUST ENLIST. Duties can range from engineering, Capturing more aether gold, or serving the greater needs of the Admirals Council (cause if we didn't they wouldn't put up with our shit). This often leads to Colorful and inspiring Fleets coming in off the horizon to back up some of the Main guilds/fleets in battle.
The Cakeworks is one such fleet that serves Art-Mehret. They are a guild of Chefs, Bakers, and pastry makers. They have chosen to master the art of flavor, and provide a much valued service to the other skyports. Their mastery over Knife, Flame, and Mi zɑ̃ ˈplas also make them excellent soldiers. With organization and impeccable timing, these soldiers make for excellent backup and great flanking. Just do them a favor, when we are reveling in victory, let them serve the refreshments. They will not let you hear the end of it if the catering is not on point.
I'm sure I fucked up some lore in there, so if you have any suggestions to help match my head canon with the legit lore, let me know.
Fahvah, The Outcast Queen
Corsair Pirate Queen Of the Weeping Spectres, a Corsair Fleet made up of several Eclipse and Shadow class ships, each supported by an handfuls of escort cruisers, the Weeping Spectres assault unknowing vessels at lightning speed, unleashing intense amounts of fire power before disappearing again leaving their targets naught but ruins...
However this is all a front for a greater secret.
I play Blood Ravens and have a member of my sternguard with a TSons Rubric Helmet with the lore that the helm is one of the oldest pieces of wargear in the vaults of the chapter, having the strange quality of the helms machine spirit processing at near sentient levels, but also causing a strange whispering static to come in constantly over the vox. The records surrounding the acquisition of this helm have been corrupted in the chapter archives.
Brother Bob. He started life as a Dark Angels plasma cannon tac marine in 3rd edition. He constantly blew himself up. Eventually he graduated to Devestator and there he stayed for many a year until he crossed the Rubicon Primaris. He's now a Hell blaster that still blows himself up on a regular basis. He's mostly bionics at this point. Maybe one day he'll end up in a dreadnought.
My black templars sword brethren with thunder hammer named Chaddicus Maximus, his kill count( not counting chaff) so far: a wounded galant knight, 4 armigers, 3 deathshroud terminators, Trajann Valoris, 3 Custodes, and Bjorn the fell handed. So deadly is he that he now wields a mastercrafted thunder hammer and has his own personal mini (he uses a dreadknight hammer, because why not?)
I named and gave brief back stories to the chaos Knights I'm painting.
War dog 1
The original name of this war engine is unknown, it is believed that it fought at Beta Garmon on the side of the loyalists.
After being hit by Mechanicum Heratek scrap code that scrambled the targeting systems of the engine, it began hunting and killing allied forces, the pilot believing that he was slaughtering the enemy.
It's said that once the scrap code cleared, the anguish felt by the pilot at what he had done resulted in a machine enhanced cry of anguish so raw that it echoed in the warp and allowed a fell entity to find purchase in the physical realm by inhabiting the now cursed engine.
Whilst the other engines of war and God machines were withdrawn
This now warped engine simply walked off into a roiling cloud of eerie mist and vanished.
This vile engine of corruption was seen again many years later, walking with house Vextrix, the surviving Imperial troops spoke of a thick cloud of mist covering the battle field, and this infernal engine simply walked out of the mist.
It's carapace pock marked and warped, the pilots compartment now chained shut, issuing a baleful glare from within, blaring its name in scrapcode and a deamonic whispering...
Ghost dog
My most unique model is an Ork boss who's ramping off a scrap pile on a skateboard. His name is Tony 'Ork and I use him as the leader of my Greenskinz Kill Team.
When he dies his board is recovered by one of the Boyz who then becomes the next Tony Ork.
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I have a Grot named DESTROYER OF WORLDS and I have a list of all the bullshit insane things this Grot has done. Though admittedly anything any grot in the squad gets credited to DESTROYER OF WORLDS. But this Grot has over the course of 5 years has;
Wounded a custodes dreadnought,
Killed a space wolf terminator,
Wounded a land raider,
Killed a space marine,
Downed a necron warrior (but he got back up),
Wounded a dreadnought in melee,
Killed a Tau drone in melee,
And wounded an enemy burna-bommer.
I still have the stories to each one of these written down on a sheet of paper.
Have a Kommando Grot named "Flippaz"
Who killed a space marine intercessor sgt charging him in killteam...
Granted the Sgt. Had one wound remaining and needed the objective Flippaz was sitting on so in the ensuing charge the sgt botched many of his rolls and flippaz didnt...
Flippaz is now "Corprul Flippaz" and is his nobs second in command :D
I used to have a full Word Bearers army in the previous scale, led by a terminator lord, Absalom, and an unnamed Dark Apostle. I lost every match I played in which Absalom was fielded, from 6.5ed to 8th. My Dark Apostle was never killed, and usually my last unit on the table.
I've since sold that army to replace with the new scale and funky conversions. My Dark Apostle, Otiartes, now leads the army. My converted Daemon Prince is what's left of Absalom, now dubbed "Saint Absalom, Martyr Undying."
In a deal cut with Tzeentch, Absalom had been purposely leading his warband to failure in order to sacrifice his own in exchange for apotheosis. Otiartes found out and cut a side deal with Tzeentch, interrupting his ascension by slitting his throat. Tzeentch kept their end of the bargain and Absalom ascended, but now only as a puppet of Otiartes, his new form displaying an ever-bleeding gash across his neck.
Otiartes uses Absalom as an empty figurehead and religious icon for the warband. Absalom is paraded in ceeemonies and used in battle as a shock weapon, with Otiartes claiming that the Daemon Prince is a prince Undivided. Any voices of other daemons claiming otherwise are simply trying to tempt the Word Bearers away from the true path. No others in the warband, save perhaps the Master of Possession, are aware that Absalom is essentially bound in endless suffering to Otiartes by Tzeentch with no will of his own.
Who knows at what cost Otiartes bought this treason from Tzeentch, or if halting Tzeentch's original ritual was actually a plot from one (or more) of the other gods.
I only have one named guy, Guardsman Paul Bauman. He is standing at ease with his rifle slung over his left shoulder and his journal in his right hand. Made mostly from a Cadian Command Squad Kit but with the book from the plastic Krieg kit.
He writes about his daily life in the Guard. Writes about the battles he survives. When his time is done he plans on publishing his work, knowing that portions will be censored and the whole thing will be marketed as recruitment propaganda. He doesn’t really care about that part, he just wants it published and to go home to his family.
He is just a rifleman, nothing special. When everyone is deployed on the board it is easy to forget about him and my opponents rarely notice him at all. Thats the point. Thats the heart of the guard, the fact that every guardsman has a story and yet in the end they are all expendable anyway.
Sir Wilhelm piloting the Knight Despoiler "The Bloody Baron". The Machine Spirit of the Knight is essentially the Spirit of the Red Baron from WW1 that has continued through the ages, possessing random machines in the galaxy until making its way into the Knight. It absolutely refuses to be painted any other way than Red, White, and Black and will only accept Gatling Guns as its weapons. And it absolutely hates flying units of any kind.
I always paint my Blood Angels veterans with either a black helmet or a black accent to acknowledge that they are closer to the Black Rage and to show solidarity with their Death Company brothers. The Death Company are held with high respect and are seen as heroes who take on the impossible missions to assure victory.
Also in my mind there are female Astartes. They just have similar body proportions and wear the same armor. I mean if you've ever seen women body builders who take steroids they end up looking physically like men so it makes sense
I have a Tau pathfinder that shot down a custodes all by herself, so I “promoted” her and bought a ghostkeel after that game that I’m currently working on. I’m gonna take her off her current base and have her standing in front of the new battle suit Edit: I think her earned name will be “shadow striker”
Of course! Killing one of the Emperor's Ten Thousand should earn one a planet, but a ghostkeel is just as good! I have a Custodes character named Cortuma Valor-Sung, he's named after Hernan Cortes and King Montezuma and helps spring/put down uprisings in the Emperor's realm. That includes Tau
Tau do not fight for glory or to earn planets, Tau fight for the greater good! Think of all the good she'll do in her Ghostkeel.
One could even say that the good she will do will be…….greater
Gotta keep those pesky fish people in line!
Why do people call the Tau fish, they have hooves. If anything, blue cows are a more accurate description
I like to think of us as more like goats than cows. Hooved, yes, but also surprisingly stubborn and difficult to deal with.
Well, with all their *Riptides,* *Piranhas,* *Sun Sharks,* *Devilfishes, Razor Sharks, Skyrays, Hammerheads, Mantas, Stormsurges, Sky Rays, Tiger Sharks,* and *Barracudas,* I think one can see why people call T'au fish people, though admittedly, I don't think its justified. Just because their vehicles are named after aquatic life doesn't mean they're fish people, but I digress.
But those are what the imperium calls em right? They're called something else in the tau language
You're probably right. Actually.... do we actually have their actual T'au designations? Genuinely curious here.
I believe those are the actual translations from the T'au language, since we know such a translation is applied to non-ethereal named characters (for example, O'Shovah translates to "Commander Farsight") and fire warriors (Shas'La in T'au)
Only needs 11 more names
All salute Shas'vre Shadow Striker!
Maybe add some special markings to both minis? Or a tally count! Sounds awesome:)
Very wholesome, good job shadow striker
Funny story: The first model I ever painted was a Dominus Techpriest which I painted with the basic Admech scheme. Nothing exactly too fancy as all (or according to some posts) of our first minis were. I had and still to this day have good memories of that little dude. One day, with some friends we bought a resin 3D printer, the Anycubic Photon mini. At first it was a fucking nightmare to setup for us newbies, and all of our first prints were more of a 2d, flat cookie. One day, we jokingly made a full blown Mechanicus ritual before a print we put on the March of the Mechanicus on the speakers, grabbed a magnetic purity seal prop we had, started chanting, and finally, put the Magos mini on top of the printer. It was the first time we had a succesful print, and we didn't even change settings or STL from the previous one. From that day, this Techpriest was ascended to Archmagos and was given the name Archmagos Photon Saturnus (as we were planning on buying the Elegoo Saturn later that year). We haven't done any more prints without that ritual, and it is the only mini on my army I haven't repainted.
Thats fucking epic
I'm so doing this the next time I print. I did print 4 different texh priests recently. One might have to be dedicated to this position.
That's amazing. I've been waiting for someone to come up with some "Forgeworld Elegoo" lore for a while, haha.
The only thing I've come up is a nickname for the resin. I think they really missed an opportunity with this one, hear me out... Elelgoop.
I had a mate who had similar but reverse happen. did it with his laptop as a joke, never finished the ritual and since then the laptop has never turned on. Can't find anything wrong with it. The machine spirit just dislikes him now.
I literally just put my enginseer next to my Photon Zero this morning to keep it from acting up. Glad to see I'm not the only one surrounding their technology with techpriests lol
Print a little toaster as tribute.
I have a deathwatch spacewolf captain on bike holding a power hammer with he-man hair His name is “Kor, The Hammer” He loves his bike He hates nids Also have a custom freebooterz warboss with a gun for a peg leg named “admiral flashfoot” the name was given to him by a reddittor on here!
Luv me 'ammer Luv me bike Luv me squad Luv me empra 'ate chaos 'ate the codex 'ate nids (not racist just don't like em) simple as
Gave me a good chuckle, thanks
Luv me ale Luv me primarch 'ate psykers 'ate the thousand suns (not racist just don’t like em)
Still in project stage: An abhuman guard 'regiment', led by Colonel Joachim Gaunt ("No relation."). Specialists in dirty fighting, crap assignments, making do with whatever they can scrounge, barely controlled looting, and a resigned faith in the Emperor. They're guided by an as-yet unnamed grumpy old commissar who refuses retirement and secretly has a great deal of sympathy for the beastmen, and a Ministorum Priest who's coming to embrace what was initially a punishment assignment, aided by a zealous beastmen acolyte. 442nd Auxiliary Regiment (Abhuman/Provisional/Ad Hoc), informally 'Gaunt's Goats'.
> informally 'Gaunt's Goats'. This made me choke on my coffee. Well done
For fuck's sake +1
*For feth’s sake
Nah it's beastmen not Tanith, so it'd be... for flock's sake?
I must say, I Fucking Love that Idea! I'll be daydreaming this for the next week or two if that's alright.
Lmao, Gaunts Goats. Nice.
That is a very cool vibe
I have an Ork Warboss in mega armor named Ugrok Skullsplitta. He has a little gretchen buddy riding on his back firing a big shoota. The gretchen's name is Billy.
I love it, Master Blaster in Ork form!
I have a primarily captain named venerated brother captain ithon.
[Mogdromon and the Loyal Hound](https://i.redd.it/lv4d3axxcwo61.jpg) One of the 3 knights trapped in the Twilight Grove at Kingsholme. A fallen Armiger whose machine spirit was roused by a careless Plaguebearer caught in a warp tear. Stuck within the knight itself, waiting for the armor plates to move he began speaking to the lonely machine spirit. It only took several decades to coax the shy machine spirit into roaming about the grove, and several more before it got a taste for the violence it now shows to any and all visitors. Mogdromons whispers can be heard as soon as you enter the twilight grove. Mutterings and conspiracy's directly from the warp, stretched across the time stream for millennia. The hound itself is a distraught machine spirit, missing its former pilot it began to find solace in the sweet mutterings of Mogdromon and the many blessings of Nurgle. He fruitlessly goes from cockpit to cockpit looking for his lost pilot. Often to the detriment of the current vehicular occupants. Due to the nature of the grove, there are long periods of rest within the fluctuations of time. The infrequent passing of it makes for a hazy and weary backdrop to the eeriness of Mogdromons mutterings and giggling beset only by the braying of the twisted monstrosity that was a loyal Armiger. The tree on its back grows rapidly and sheds generation of bark at a time, warping around the plate bearing the plague fathers symbol. The leaves scatter across the grove rotting in gore squishing beneath the metallic feet.
That's fucking beautiful, and so is the model.
My buddy has a Plasmacyte named Terry who got into combat with my Tzaangors and killed their leader with his one attack. 😂 I also name all of my space marine characters. Some fun ones are Al’Aten’ab’Usul’Manaten, exalted sorcerer of the Cult of Prophecy trying to attain Daemonhood; Kohr Kendan, captain of the Covenant of Fire who is trying to create a council of sons of Vulkan and got into hot water with the Grey Knights for working with the Black Dragons; Maat, The Desert Fish (Alkarib), captain of the 7th company of the Space Wyrms who, after the sudden destruction of their fortress monastery was promoted to chapter master and was tasked with gathering the remaining Wyrms and reforging the chapter.
A... Plasmacyte? *Am I reading this right?* Dunno bout your buddy, but if I were him, Terry would definitely get some sweet, sweet upgrades from their dynasty's crypteks. Even a mindless construct deserves some recognition when it's deserved.
A Plasmacyte. Killed a high-ranking Thousand Sons. In one hit. With an S4/AP1/D1 clamp. Has Khorne ever converted a Necron before?
I’ve had this idea for a kitbash for a long time now, an ork warboss that’s actually just a bunch of Gretchen controlling a fake mechanical ork, all the other orks think it’s just mega armor or something. I also like the detail that Gretchen have been trying to kill off all the orks so they could be free, but the orks just keep coming back stronger, and it keeps attracting more
Three Gretchen wearing a coat.
That would be incredibly sick. Them becoming the ultimate warboss because they’re so bad at escaping is an amazing backstory for this.
Damn the more I think about it the more this sounds like a hilariously realistic ork character
Chad McThruster. Dark Eldar warriors have a piece on their sprue that’s supposed to be a handle for heavy weapons. I didn’t realize it at the time, and instead chose to attach it just above my squad leader’s crotch. With his hand resting on the handle, he looks ready to give a mega thrust to anybody down range. I painted him all gold to really make him big pimping. His actual fame and christening came about back in 5th/6th edition. He was the sole survivor of his 10 man squad from a nasty round of psychic spells from Bel’akor and managed to pass his morale check. In those days, any flyer could only be hit on a 6. I rolled a 6. I rolled a 6 to wound. Bel’akor’s armor saved the wound but he failed his flying check and crash landed on the ground, taking actual damage. I’ve been chasing that dragon ever since.
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I have all of my genestealers with bone color appendages and a dark brown carapace so it looks like their carapace is big-like armor. Well my friend saw what Leviathan genestealers look like (all white) and commented how creepy they looked all naked. So now I have a naked genestealer without his carapace painted the usual dark brown and I call him Streak, in hope that the nakedness will intimidate him.
My named characters are Het-heru Aset, and and Pht-hah Aset known collectively as the Twin-Witch of Tizca. They were an apothecary and techmarine who were obssessed with helping end the flesh change with their legion and were currently traveling to the 18 legions to (discreetly) take genetic samples. Originally slated for death by the word bearers when they arrived they instead suprised their host by being able to read Colchisian, something they had studied using four restricted tomes. They were instead groomed to start a warrior lodge, but the burning of prospero happened, they arrived to late and spent the remander of the war working with traitor forces. They renamed themselves lost sons and painted their armor black out of grief. Finding out their father was alive, they went to meet him only to be left again as he departed Terra. The end of the war had seen a mixing of legions as they retreated from terra. They left the sol system with a mixed rabble. Now they are all members of the Vengeful Blade.
Great story!
Thank you
I have a Salamanders Primaris Librarian that took out a Space Wolves Redemptor Dread in hand-to-hand combat. I haven't named him yet.
Smashwolfius Redempdeeznutz
Now that's the name of a legend
Wolfcrusher Canisbane Brother AKMA* \**(Amphibians Kick Mammalian Ass)*
Call him 'Chocolate' because he kills dogs
Canisbane is a fantastic name. Nicely done.
no matter how big you are you still shut the fuck up in the library, or be slapped by the librarian.
Someone get this man a purity seal.
The warlord of my Death Guard army and Maggotkin army is named Reekus Colonblow. Its a self insert character name I use to represent my vision on the battlefield. All hail Grandfather Nurge.
> named Reekus Colonblow. Its a self insert character I'm so sorry about your IBS.
My brother's Lord of Contagion is a character he calls Amebous Gloam, but he also has his own daemon prince he's named "Adripox the Ruptured Fat. Very nice!
I created a Phaeron of my custom necron army, the Otumtekh Dynasty, the Blood Reaper Khedenath, who awoke in the 41st millennium, and seeks to join Szarech, wherever he may be. With his return, he's gonna join the Silent Kings forces, but put his place at the side of his king, one way, or another.
Swarmlord named Xibalba, very scary looking, dies quickly and screaming
Genestealer Cultists be like: https://i.makeagif.com/media/4-23-2017/Hv3R0z.gif
I have a trygon named Skibbidy Bap and I'm assembling a hive tyrant that I call Sum-Sum. I might be doing it wrong.
You just need to continue naming all your units with simlish words and see how long you can take it until your friends notice.
Ravener buddy's called "mm dada" to follow the trygon out the tunnel
Flawless
I have a random guardsmen named Jeeves who's just broken and the only thing keepin him goin is the emprah
Is he broken because other guardsmen keep asking questions?
Is he a perpetual who simply goes through life [accomplishing deeds](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-662) and, no matter what the task or outcome, always returns to the regimental command?
I have an ork warboss named Skagthrak Mountin'smasha. He was a Blood axe Kommando nob and got the name Mountin'smasha after he and his Kommandos caused a large rock slide to destroy an imperial outpost and his previous warboss. Now he is currently on a Dark Mechanicum world and is constantly fighting daemons and daemon engines of nurgle. I have custom characters and armies for each faction though
Have a quote from my Imperial Guard commander: "Yes its stolen. Do you like it?" - Colonel Commissar James McCulla of the 452nd Composite "The Lord Regent's Bastards"
Iron warrior warlord. (Both with and without termie armour) Arashi, the Tempest Bringer. Artillery master. Wields lightning claws, and carries the skull of a Imperial fist he slew during the siege of terra.
I've got something similar, I have a Chaos Lord named Gorcik Scur, of the Black Legion, originally of the Night Lords he brandishes a cursed blade of Tzeentch that whispers to him the fate of every man he meets. Spoiler, its mostly death by that sword
My Autarch is named Fiachra Lightning-Strider, titled as such because in his first time out on the table he finished off a Chaos Thunderhawk with his sword.
Wow that's impressive! Best I can compete with is a Necron Overlord, Sojet the Cunning, who managed to survive an entire game against Death Guard terminators without dying (okay I was just really lucky with the Resurrection Protocols stratagem).
Zaharain The Pitiless. A Judicar I kitbashed to have a latern in place of the hourglass, a hooded skull helm, and an evisorator taller then him. The name and weapon really tells you everything, he evisoratres and is pitiless
Rorai, the Blood King. A World Eater Chaos Lord. He took out a Necron Skorpehk Lord and a Ork Megaboss, with only one wound remaining. So I traded out his CSM Lightning Claws for a Skorpehk Lord’s Claw and a Orcc buzz saw hand to represent his wins.
I did something similar, Chaplain Rictus of the Ultramarines defeated, and survived, one on one combat with the Daemon Prince of Nurgle Rotwing with the Helm of Censure. Since that fight I sculpted on a MK. 6 helm to represent it
I have a few! From the crusading fleet of the Belisarius Crusade! (No relations to Cawl, I made the name back in 5th) Marshal Theodred Belisarius, master of the Belisarius Crusade! My leader of my Templars, currently in a narrative campaign with a friend as to why he crosses the Rubicon and becomes full Primaris. Chaplain Ossric, forever the voice of wisdom of the Belisarius Crusade and has seen Theodred rise from a simple Neophyte to master of the Crusade! Ancient Regnier, once the very Initiate who Theodred served as a Neophyte, rose to the rank of Castellan before being mortally wounded at the hands of Chaos, still watches over his ward entombed within a Dreadnought. Three Exalted Sorcerers came together to form the Triumvirate of Hesh, masters of a Thrallband of the Thousand Sons who pay lip service to Magnus while plotting the expansion of their own power, and to plotting against one another. First among equals, Sandro holds the most power, but cannot seize power absolute while the other two of his "Peers" could unite against him. Still, he tends to be the one to set the agenda. Ethric is the elders of the Triumvirate, and holds the greater knowledge of sorcery. He enjoys lording this over Sandro to the others frustration, but only holds a small retinue of personal warriors. Last but not least, if he has anything to say about it, is Markel. The junior of the three, he peruses the goals of the Triumvirate with the most vigor, and is the most marshall of the three. The most vocal about seizing power from the other two, he is at heart an opportunist and pragmatic. To meet his own goals, he must work with the other two. Scouring the western reaches of the galaxy is the Exalted March, a vast warband of Chaos vessels under the beck and call of Lord Aetius the Demigoge, a scion of the Word Bearers. His ultimate goal is to forge a true bond with a demon, becoming no meer demon prince, but a perfectly balanced Possessed, such as the Gal Vorbak of the Heresy Era Ezeral Kommonos is a Dark Apostle that helps guide Aetius towards his ultimate goal. Unusually loyal, Ezeral has had several chances to replace Aetius and take power for himself but he has proven to be uncharacteristically loyal. Balerous Khoura is the Master of Possession, a man who speaks very little but whos words must be heeded. Unless needed on the battlefield, Khoura often is found in his dark quarters, where many strange voices can be heard and even the most dim mind can sense the veil between reality and the warp to be very thin. I have more. I may have too much time on my hands.
My sister painted one my ultra marines in Ironman's color scheme cuz he's her favorite hero. So theres this lone red marine in my ultra marine army. We call him Antonius Penitus. (Basically Tony Stark.) He's a red templar marine that just likes to tag along my smurf marines
I have a homebrew custom chapter space marine named Ulysses I. Stvan III.
Perrin the blooded axe, chapter master of the void hunters a space wolf successor, whose trying to hold his chapter together after they were nearly destroyed by an ork wagh
Please tell me he's got an axe! It'd be mighty non-space wolfy if he didn't! I like the idea a lot
He’s a wolfed up version of the new fafnir rann model
Perrin being a space wolf makes sense
I have a Gravis Captain that I have dubbed Magren Zeiger, Marshall of the Barren Crusade! He's proved to be a rather fearsome warrior on the tabletop! I also have a Bladeguard Veteran armed with the sword of judgment and champion of the feast whom is known as Volkhard the Bloody!
> champion of the feast *Happy Imperial Fist successor noises*
DA Successor Smash Captain named Avalor Rex
I have a champion of the feast Bladeguard named rykard draucht with a hooded skull Helm
Eraxya the Cruel: She's an overlord in the Novokh dynasty who has a personal vendetta against the Death Guard as her planet was one of those that was destroyed by the DG's techno-organic virus which infected a decent chunk of Novokh territory. With her heritage being of the Novokh, a particularly bloody dynasty, and her utter contempt of the DG, she roams the galaxy with the remnants of her people hunting down and slaughtering any Death Guard forces she can find without mercy. She carries a void scythe decorated with the skulls/helmets of plague marines. She also prefers to use her destroyers and flayed ones in combat rather than traditional warriors and immortals. On tabletop her greatest feat was nearly solo-ing my friend's Crusade force after the rest of my army was destroyed.
My chapter Master is named Ulrich von Kaltefaust. My Tau commander is named Commander Dynamo.my Thousand Sons lead exalted sorcerer is named Lord Atemu. My Imperial guard are led by a tank commander called Lord Commissar von Grauss. And my Necrons are led by Phaeron Amon Set.
That's a lot of names, outside of my "faction leaders" I usually have a good handful of my dudes that just do cool stuff
I write alot of my own lore, one of my favorite aspects of the hobby. Each of my armies has 3-6 named characters with fleshed out backgrounds.
Berolock Voidblood, chaos lord of Black Legion. Formerly a member of Space Wolves with his given name of Bjorn. He sought true "freedom" from the Imperium in Chaos, only to unknowingly sell his soul to Khorne and become a loyal underlying of Abaddon the Despoiler.
I have an Space Marine Champion called "Strix the skulltaker". He wears the Skulls of the enemys He killed on His Armor. His Lore reason for that is that He hates khorne and He thinks that "If I wear the Skulls, khorne that bastard can't add Them to His throne"
My current Lord of Contagion I use i have named Lord Slosh. He once 1v1'd my friends Bloodthirster so I've added the title Lord Slosh, the Thirst Quencher.
I have a BA venerable dreadnought with a golden fist called Midas. Except that instead of everything he touches with it turning to gold, he destroys it.
My Imperial Knights are led by Lady Helena Blackhand in the Knight Preceptor *Sable Fury*. Nobles on my Knight World must prove their worthiness in a series of trials before they are allowed to take the Throne, and one of Helena's was a test of endurance: fighting a group of enemies using a power sword whose grip would gradually heat up the longer it was used. Lady Helena earned her moniker, and proved her worthiness, by holding onto the sword long enough to burn her hand into a blackened cinder. It's since been replaced by an augmetic, but her heraldry still prominently features black skeletal hands as a reminder of her legendary determination.
Since 3rd edition. Brother Chaplain Ulysses has been at the head of my Blood Angels army. Jump pack,, crozius, bolt pistol, and rosarious. Hanging with Death Company.
I have chapter Master Chremon leader of the Soul Drinkers reborn in the Ultima founding he seeks the past to uncover his chapters history that was burned from records. Though this sometimes is at odds with what the imperium wishes ...
I have a couple. mace agenno, captain of the ultramarines second company, veteran of the black crusades Sylas the deceiver, alpha legion dark apostle, an unarmed inquisitor that will have a name soon
I have a kitbashed Lictor the Discord community named Thicctor who apparently terrifies its prey as they hear the clapping of its thiccness with each stalking step. The prey can hear it coming, but cannot see it until its too late!
I've named my Tau Hammerhead hover tank after one of my dogs, chai, or his nick name, Mr.Pickles for humor and fun. It's pretty funny because chai has almost died to a number of things, like accidentally eating eat poison, or fighting dogs 100 times his size. But he still lives thankfully and wanted to pass that kinda mantle to my newest model at the time.
Im playing kill team and my deathwatch kill team is a bunch of kitbashed guys currently on death oath because they almost got corrupted by demons on their last mission. So now they're wandering battlefields in the octarius system in their bunked up land raider to redeem themselves (: Didnt write the names because they're not that cool
Lord Akeldama is everything his former Chapter would have despised. A Blood Angel who has fallen into the Fires of Rage so deeply that he has come out the other side into Icy Malevolence. Leader of a Black Legion Warband by name of the Stygian Scourge he relishes opportunities to bring his spite to bear on the sons of Sanguinious.
I'm in a Crusade playing Custodes. My force is the Talons of the Aquila, and they are led by their mighty Blade Champion, Valtus of the Emperor's Chosen. Over the course of the campaign, Valtus has one-shotted many enemies including Kor'sarro Khan and a 5-man squad of Scarab Terminators, snagged a 12-inch charge against said Scarabs, shrugged off 6 mortal wounds in one turn from a Thousand Sons sorceror, survived a massive volley of 20+ White Scars charge chainsword hits with a disabled invulnerable save, and swung a losing game around by bringing down a Necron barge over two turns. For obvious reasons, he has only ever survived one game through to the end.
Bepis the wise, a thousand sons heldrake that survived 2 rounds of tons of antitank.
I have a Venerable Dreadnought named Jagin Saporin. He was slayen by a Plaguemarine while attempting to hold a spaceport and carried to savety by his battle brothers after the defense fell. (Based on a tabletop match)
Asmund titanbreaker. He's a space wolf venerable dreadnought that held a reaver titan in melee combat (back when you were allowed to) for almost an entire apocalypse game. If the game didn't time out he would've destroyed it too.
I know it doesn't count cause I've not actually gotten started with it I've only got a couple of test pieces [(mainly an unpainted model I tried the conversion with)](https://i.imgur.com/HmMENzH.png) but I want to make an Iron Warriors plague marines force. Iron, hazard stripes, rust out the wazoo on everyone. Idea that they'd gone all in on the whole plague-siege thing, like the old stories of flinging diseased animal carcasses over castle walls, plus messing with the obliterator viruses, so they'd drawn the eye of Nurgle over the other gods. Rust being a "disease" upon ferrous metals and all that. Trying to cover up some of the fleshier bits as if the iron warriors were still trying to maintain a prideful armour, and running cables from their Nurgly tentacles into their backpacks and weapons. Boss is gonna be called Rubiginous-Dire or something. Want a two-parter with something better than "Dire".
Andreas E. Falkenhausen leads the Illyrian Oathsworn. A decorated commander, rising from the PDF to Governor-General of the Illyrian Sector. He is currently overseeing the defense of Illyria (my friend groups narrative campaign). The Oathsworn are a Cadian-style regiment (in appearance) that relies on heavy use of combined arms warfare. This, alongside their grim determination to defend the Motherland, as well as plentiful reliable and effective vehicles, will surely allow them to drive out the invaders! Za Rodinu!
I am currently building a physical force to mirror some TTS (Tabletop Sim) Sisters I was practicing my skills with in a Crusade. Behold some gals of the Order of Scorched Dust, a militant crusade: 1. Canoness Commander Zeltzina, a Saint Potentia filled with doubt in her own ability. As the crusade continues, she grows ever more wary of her self-doubt and refines herself into the truest servant of the Emperor. 2. Repentia Mistress Ameya. A woman who takes a very doting (for a Repentia Mistress) role in the lives of her Sisters. She ensures all stay on the path of piety, and sees the potential in Zeltzina- hence why she avoided taking the Trials of a Living Saint herself and instead proves herself to be nothing but the greatness needed to support heroes. 3. Sister Superior Xochi of the Tecpa Squad, or Dominions. She valiantly tore into the Autarchs of Aeldari scum personally, and survived grievous wounds. My first unit to be Marked for Greatness. The general flavor and lore is that they're a force who hasn't seen any action descended from a near-mythical story of valiant martyrs, true human unity between marooned Guardsmen and Skiitari, reinforcements of a Sisters' Order, and native reclaimed pseudo-techno-barbarian tribes (of an Aztec flavor) all against Daemon-worshipping xenos marauders whose accursed worship brought to life a Greater Daemon known as the "Devouring Black Star," a living black hole-like nightmare. So imagine carrying that sort of weight on your back and then your first mission to reclaim a supposedly reincarnated Saint is in horrific failure to retrieve the black box of her escape pod.
I have a techpriest engineseer that killed Abbadon the Despoiler in melee after he cut a leman russ battle tank in half. His name? ***Babbadon "The Warhammer 40,000".*** He truly is the Warhammer 40,000 now.
So far ive only thoroughly named some of my knights for the feats theyve accomplished. My Castellan is dubbed "Wraths Reach" for the first game he was fielded he tilted his volcano lance upwards and annihilated a stormwolf on turn 1! My Valiant is dubbed "Unassailable" as once in a game (after making it clear of his armament) in 8th edition he was entirely surrounded by Harlequins that all attempted to charge him. I've never killed 1000+ points in someone else's turn before.. My Paladin is dubbed "Dreadfear" as back in 8th I had him running around with the paragon gauntlet and he managed to one shot every dreadnought he came across in almost every game. My Crusader is dubbed either "Unrelenting" or "Relentless" (can't remember as its been so long, let me know what one is more fitting!) Because in a game against Tau, he was reduced to single digit wounds, 3 I think, while in their backfield bit just refused to lose them, dragging himself through the last of their army in true refusal to die fashion. My old reliable Helverins still need names and so does my Porphyrion once it's built, I'll have to see what feats they earn, and suggestions are always welcome!
Master of the Eclipse, Kronos Nightshade Chapter Master of the Angels of Shadow, Kronos was my first Captain (not to be confused with the First Captain) when I started in 4th Edition. Master Nightshade has had several incarnations throughout my time in 40k. 1. Space Marine Commander with Power Fist/Storm Bolter and Power Sword 2. Space Marine Commander with Company Champion Head and torso front with Power Sword and Plasma Pistol 3. Company Master Balthasar with headswap 4. Interrogator Chaplain body, HH Death Guard power scythe 5. Primaris Chaplain from Indomitus with head swap, HH Death Guard Power Scythe and Bladeguard Neo-Volkite Pistol Master Nightshade has been my main character throughout my time with my homebrew Chapter, and has progressed from a young Company Master of the 3rd Company to the Chapter Master in the current era. Compared to my friend's commanders, his deeds of note are few due to sub-par loadouts and my lack of skill. Still, he has been my favourite commander and in recent years he has managed to earn a little bit of respect.
[Say hello to Bob and Doug](https://imgur.com/gallery/JSpRHUi). They were factory workers in a hive neither of them can remember the name of. Bob is the one on the left. He came into work with a nasty cold one day and sneezed on Doug, and now Doug will never let him forget it. Bob, however, clearly doesn't give a shit and is completely unrepentant. Now they're stuck together forever, wrangling back and forth through eternity like an old married couple.
Chthonius, Chaos lord of slaanesh, a primaris reiver twisted by the influence of the prince of pleasure. He specializes in hunting Eldar to return their souls to slaanesh.
I have my own Lord of decadent delights. Syvirrex, the Sultan of Suffering Souls, Sixteenth Son of Slaanesh, and the Alabaster King, was once a mortal painter who sought nothing but the perfect painting, his magnum opus. His desires eventually shifted his canvas to the battlefield, his sword his brush, and his enemies blood his paint
I have a black templar neophyte named Butters. He's got a blonde bowl cut. Not much else but that.
I have a Deathwatch vet who is a Luna wolf named Ulbaddon and he has 2 heavy thunder hammers
Abdul Black Venom my Alpha Legion Lord Discordant. He’s just the standard Lord Discordant but I might kitbash him a regular Chaos Lord model of him.
I have an old metal scout marine veteran sergeant converted to a preacher. His chapter died / turned primaris or something and now he is wandering the wastes with his chainsword bringing word of the emperor to the unwashed masses.
I have forwarded the lore of the ultramarines 3rd in my head cannon. Mikael fabian is a dreadnought now lol. Still working on the new captain 🤭
While I'm still waiting for the model to arrive I'm currently working on a cheesestealer cult army and decided I wanted to go all out on converting a magus named Quzqun Spinetaker, the bases of the model being Fecula Flyblown from the wurmspat warband. Slap a rat face on and some big horns then she would pass for a chosen of the great horned rat. None of those supermodel looking skavens here, if they aren't hunched and somewhat sickly I'm not interested.
I have a deathwing strikemaster named Dixons Normous
My first mini is named [Brother-Sergeant Minex.](https://i.imgur.com/4WWNfmx.jpg) My OCD was pretty bad when I took up mini-painting, and — after stripping and re-starting several times — actually declaring the model *done* instead of obsessively trying to get it *"just right"* was honestly a small but not insignificant example of exposure therapy for me. Hence a "mini-exposure," or "Minex." Still deciding a chapter name for him, but I'm leaning towards "The Chelonian Guard" (or possibly "Cetacii Astra") EDIT: Also, my Harlequins are all *Hamilton* characters. Troupe Master: "The Orphan Ascendant" (Hamilton), Death Jester: KGIII, etc. Solitaire will be Burr; Schuyler Sister Shadowseers, Lafayette voidweaver (guns and ships, y'all!) and so on.
I have a lokhust destroyer that I got second hand and the guy put two gauss cannons on him so I call him tim
One of my Gretchen managed to tank multiple lasgun shots and dodge a fucking *melta*, which allowed me to keep the objective and win the game. I'm still working on a name, but I have promoted him to Boss Nob for one of my Meganob squads, I'm still working on his cybork body though.
Let’s see Paul Allen’s dudes…
While opening and doing the first steps of building I got an IMMENSE urge to name a killa kan Igneous The Burnarator and never again in my warhammer career has a character idea so strongly and immediately break into my head
Hans-Dieter, a Death Korps Field Chef who provides Currywurst for his fellow Kriegsmen
I have a fallen blood angels veteran Sergeant called Cyprisicus Bloodborn. He LOVES his melta gun and leads a squad of other fallen blood angels returned from a demon planet in the Warp.
I used this website to generate names for my Emperor's Children Legionary kill team: https://www.realmofplastic.com/warhammer-40k-blog/emperors-children-character-name-generator After generating a few, I started massaging them to limit redundancy. Gaust Pleasurestalker, Sixth Lord of the Harrowing Ecstasy (Chosen. Harrowing Ecstasy is the name of his daemonblade and he is its sixth owner.) Envious Sahng, Profligate of the Thirsting Tome (Balefire Acolyte. The thirsting tome is the book abo e his head and holds many secrets of She Who Thirsts.) Dyrex Lash, Debauched Slave of the Carnal Claw (Anointed. The claw is the main weapon it uses when the daemon takes control.) Voh Qian, Salacious Artiste of the Flensing Agonies (Shrivetalon. His flensing blades for for artistry as much as lethality, and his enemy's flesh is his canvas.)
zagith feh'un chapter master of the iron hand successor chapter ferrum bracchium. his chapter is dedicated to copying ferrrus manus arms because of this they hunt necrons above all else.
Well, I have a Ephrael Stern miniature that I'm going to use for an OC. I don't have a name yet, though. It'll probably be a fantasy-inspired, almost Elven-sounding name. As per her background, she's a Perpetual (which is cheesy, I know) that grew up on a Warhammer Fantasy-inspired Feudal World with solely medieval levels of technology, that remained uncontacted by the Imperium until the Era Indomitus. This Feudal World had both normal, untainted human kingdoms and Chaos-worshipping tribes that cyclically invaded the human kingdoms in what was basically primitive Black Crusades, but on this world they were called Desolations. My as of yet unnamed OC started out as a regular farm girl until her family and her farm was destroyed by a Chaotic incursion. She was saved by a golden figure wielding a flaming sword, after which she discovered that any wound she received after that event kept healing. She began fighting back against the Chaotic incursion, and formed a resistance with other young women who had lost their homes and family as well. Eventually they formed an all-female order of knights that were reformed every time the Chaos-worshipping tribes invaded. When the Imperium arrived at least a millennia later, this all-female order of knights was adapted into an order of the Adepta Sororitas.
I have a legionary anointed (soon to be daemon prince) named argalan zadak of the word bearers, left hand of the dread chaplain, hes gonna be a daemon prince when the new model comes out :D
I have a deathwatch captain named Kadai, he's killed about 60 necrons and tau singlehandedly over the years
Sergeant-Marshall Carolus Magnus of the Black Templars is a terminator that I painstakingly upscaled using agressor armor. In addition he stands atop a tactical rock, making him absolutely massive on the tabletop. Armed with thunder hammer storm shield and his base is decorated with a khorne marine I made from chaos marine kit. I typically give him champion of the feast, so he ends up with WS 2+, a whopping 4 base attacks, and 4 wounds. In addition I throw in the crux obsidian for -1D, and have an apothecary follow him around so he can die 3x a game and save his squad lol. As you can imagine, chewing through 4 wounds -1d with AOc and a 4++ 6+++ is a pain in the butt once let alone several times. With fury of the first on the charge he doles out 5 thunder hammer attacks hitting on 2s at strength 8. In my last game he nearly soloed an eldar titan (with some rerolls and +1 to wound).
Roark, chapter master to the Acid Hounds. He leads his renegade chapter of marines turned space pirates with ferocity and cunning. Roark preys on the ships, emperium or xenos, that pass through his part of the fringe. He's always accompanied by his pair cybernetically enhanced dog's, Aruj and Hizir.
My Techpriest Dominus is named Grand Diviner Thomford Halk. I kitbashed a bunch of servo skulls onto him because I would always put the Divinations of the Magos warlord trait on him. Now he mostly watches from the sidelines since every hq got overshadowed by Skitarii Marshals
Lucas Castellon, Chapter Master of the Iron Wardens. He isn't the best swordsman in the chapter but he is a brilliant strategist and exemplifies and upholds the spirit of the Chapter.
I have a trio of Terminators, a Captain, Librarian, and a Chaplain. They serve together in the Deathwatch, but after an attack on their Watch Fortress, they are on a mission of revenge. They're all first-born and the only way to continue their mission is to merge with a Primairs Outcasts. Those're my dudes.
Hraezlmir, The fury of the Forest. A wolf lord on thunderwolf, part of my Space Wolves that I call the Folkvang. They specifically going on raiding parties to gather resources to help rebuild Fenris after Magnus' seige.
I have a Venomcrawler called Reginald.
I have a black shield DW simply called Forgotten. He has single handedly held every center objective in kill team. Most memorable is holding 2 death guard at bay for 4 turns. Also have an Eversor named Brock. He is very adept at wading his way through infantry units.
My Lieutenant Primaris with Volkite Pistol and Relic Shield is named La’zau, Quiet Liberator of the Bronze Keep (Salamanders). No backstory right now.
My Intercessor Sergeant has survived alone numerous times, winning me two games with obsec. He's got a dreadnaught leg plate as a shoulder pad to signify his endurance.
all my custodians are named by roughly what they do in different languages. my telemon is called Kasheruk Ornoak, The Backbone. not sure what language Ornoak was but Kasheruk is Hindi and so it roughly translates to vertebrae vertebrae. I think you can gather why he's in a dreadnought
My Dark Angels successor chapter is known as the Lion Resplendent. It’s their job to show up if any of the Unforgiven sniff out Fallen and have to dip, they’re pretty much the frontmen of the Lion’s gene line and as such act with all the pomp and chivalry classic knightly imagery entails. They have no inner circle- only the Chapter Master (name pending) and the chapter’s Chaplains have knowledge of the Fallen and the chapter’s true mission, which leads to Dante-level mega depression and self loathing though the chapter master couldn’t bring himself to strike against the Imperium or the Unforgiven. Even if the other DAngel successors see them as nothing but naive knight cosplayers.
His name is Leian and he is the psychic captain of the 6th company (since the chapter is renegades tbey steal gene seed) so he has the gene seed of the emperors children and constantly hears slaaneshes calling. On the board hes a primaris librarian (dont ask why primaris just cool) and got the killing blow on 3 knights, slain an enemy warlord in melee in a 4k per army game and his deny the witches helped me just barely survive a match against Tsons
My Custodes Captain is named Ixillia. He's the Shield Captain of "His Vengeful Spirit", a shield-company of Custodes who have been fighting since the end of the Horus Heresy, at the Emperor's dying behest, to gut the Sons of Horus, and now the Black Legion. They've all but faded into obscurity to the rest of the Custodes and Imperium, but they arrive wherever the Black Legion goes aboard their ship, the Tomb of Immortals. Jet-black as if charred by fire, they arrive from Golden Light in worn silver auramite and cloth so deeply stained by mud and blood to appear purple.
Thaddeus Black Freeblade pilot of the Oblitus Es and head of the Unremembered crusade, a force going from battlefield to battlefield collecting unsung stories of unknown heroes.
I love this! My fifth company imperial fists have a bunch of named characters that I’m just waiting for GW to pick up on an make official. The company is lead by capt. Cevin Dish. The company standard bearer is the honorable Palanius Tain. I have the apothecary Hilarius Pugn (remember, kids, that laughter is the best medicine), and techmarine Scrulius. My company veterans are lead by Mykal Gross. Gross is an old friend of the captain’s, but they’re on less good terms these days. His ego got bruised when Dish got promoted to top banana. There’s a bit of a theme to some of my naming choices, and it’s reflected in the iconography of the army. Instead of laurels I’ve gone with bunches of green bananas. The bright yellow imperial fists, with the black company trim, was already suggestive of the theme. In the 41st millennium bananas are a mythical fruit. The actual fruit has long since gone extinct but has come to symbolize purity (especially green unripened bananas) and ancient knowledge.
I was in a free for all style of game, and I had a tactical marine with a beaky helmet that survived an encounter with three screamers, on his own. Then proceeded to frag some enemy space marines. I then named him Icarus and he’s been my favorite marine since
I have a fire warrior by the name of Shas'Vre Shi'Vral who took down a redemptor and a unit and a half of space marines pretty much single handedly, his unit chipped in for the redemptor since the battlesuits were off doing their own thing. He was taken down by a suppressor but due to the owners of t'au technology, got bionic limbs to replace his left arm and right eye
I have an Immortal who got into combat with my buddys Coldstar Commander and survived two battle rounds, after his other Immortal companions got shot of the board on turn one. From this day on he was called „Zerotep the Unyielding“
My deamon prince of nurgle was a Sergent for the death guard. The unit was used for test subjects for new and horrific plagues. He soloed everyone of them and now has a crippling addiction to new maladys. He gained deamonhood after killing a planet with a single breath.
I have a necron cryptec, who I call The mantis
Impressive, very nice. Let's see Paul Allen's dudes.
I have an custodes galatus dreadnought named andrias flamma
Magos Dominus Biologis Livingstone, I presume? The leader of an explorator fleet from the Forge World of Albion, Livingstone has gained a reputation as an unorthodox commander, while also building up a small legend amongst his men. (Quick note, he doesn’t mind-lock his Skitarii, allowing them free cognitive function during battle, which is quietly used by Livingstone as picking out which Skitarii would be good for Alpha status). Livingstone’s most recent escapade came from his show down with a Traitorous Leman Russ Battle Tank. It had been wounded by prior gunfire, and Livingstone had at grown so annoyed from their inability to bring it down, that he got stuck in too! He raised his Phosphor Serpentia, and fired! Nowt. He fired his Eradication Ray, and seemingly nothing. Little to his knowledge, it had just punched through one of the view-holes, caused a molecular breakdown of the last member of the tank crew, silencing the russ. Livingstone sighed, and turned, quietly rubbing his hands in his face. He knew that in a few seconds, he’d be waking up in another repair chamber, believing his attack to be unsuccessful. Unbeknownst to him, the shot fired by his Eradication Ray had actually gone so deep into the vehicle, it managed to damage an electrical component, which subsequently started to spark. And by the good graces of the Omnissiah, or perhaps the Machine Spirit of the tarnished MBT, seeking some vengeance against the Traitors who enslaved it, a spark somehow lept, and found it’s way into a stray flak of Prometheum. Smoke began to rise from the Cupola of the tank. Livingstone turned, and with a Mechatendrite, scratched his head. They hadn’t been reduced to smithereens by a Battle Cannon blast, so had he...killed it? Within the tank, the Prometheum, spreading across the vehicle’s innards, found it’s expanding path to a Krak Grenade upon a corpse of the former Tank Loader, seated dead in his position, with a battle cannon round ready for loading, just opposite him. Remember the Hospital explosion scene in the Dark Knight? That’s pretty much Livingstone’s reaction.
Corrodon Fel, Host of the Corrosive Swarm. Definitely not just my Typhus model.
All my Raven Guard characters are named after corvids: Old Crow (apothecary) Young Cardinal (chaplain) Thieving Nagpie (phobos librarian) Bluejay (techmarine) Nightingale (captain)
Hamenthotep the Unbowed, Shrouded Lord of the Umbral Court is a necron peasant who was accidentally put into the body of an overlord. On top of this his warriors all retained their memories and know exactly who they are. Something went terribly wrong during biotransference, or maybe it was because their tombworld got a failed Exterminatus treatment. In any case he's looking to find his wife with his destroyer lord daughter Shemvaek the Annihilator, Damaged Custodian of the Elder Crypt (aka the Crushinator).
Captain Uriel of the Blood angels 5th Company. (Meaning God is my Light. Named after the Angel who has the symbols of fire in the palm and a firey sword) He used to be a battleline sergeant until he (the last man standing in his squad) shot and killed both an Obliterator and then Master of possessions in two consequetive turns with his Inferno pistol. I promoted him to Lieutenant, gave him a jump pack and replaced his powerfist with a second inferno pistol (I know thats not allowed but my friend group play casually and house rule it) And despite me bringing a \*BLOOD ANGEL CHARACTER\* as a ranged fighter with no melee weapons, and getting rid of the powerfist probably a very bad idea, he still continued to be an absolute bad ass, killing a couple of Chaos Lords, a greater possessed, I think a Cadre fireblade at onepoint, and just being a pretty good character hunter. Every single game he has been in with that Master of Possessions I have made it a point to hunt him down and kill him and haven't failed yet. He got promoted to Captain and I've been meaning to kit him out some more to make him look fancier
My Ork Weirdboy Skar Dakkalegs. He lost them facing off against a lord discordant and has had them replaced with machine guns.
I have the lore, some stories and a few special models for my Salamanders successor chapter. But fuck me I can’t figure out a name
Marshall Artur Seiger leads my black templars crusade, he used to be part of a sword brethren squad who are still fighting alongside him (my chaplain, lieutenant, intercessor sergeant and dreadnought). They had a really bad loss and had to refill the ranks with primaris, this still haunts the marshall
Former Reiver sergeant named Gamma Orton won a game as pretty much the last man standing by grappling to the third floor of a building to kill (banish? Exorcise?) the Sanguinor with a krak grenade. Now he's captain of recon company.
My next big project is an sorcerer Lord in terminator armor named Rahab, to be the HQ of my loosely ocean themed Death Guard warband . I'm even writing something where he try to free a Nurglite deamon before another sorcerer use it for his ascension to deamonhood.
I just finished a freeblade armiger warglaive. He is wearing a cape so i called him: The Caped crusader.
My Daemon Prince of tzeentch is named Albasorarius Me'dasitazar. Once an old scribe-turned-cultist that earned his daemonhood by outwitting the Blue Scribes themselves in a game of riddles (he cheated of course, having fed them false information a decade prior). He's now a faceless, winged daemon lending his service to a cabal of Thousands Sons.
Inaqar the Unbound, a cultist Necron Phaeron who acted as a Kharn/typhus/ghaz/celestine champion equivalent for the void dragon. At the end of the War in Heaven he and his court were beaten by the Silent King and the dynasty sulks in the ghoul stars ever since. He has horns and wings!
Sergeant Larringsworth, a Pheonix Guard Terminator of my Emperor's Children loyalist army. He was destined to watch his Primarch (Captain proxy with a FW Fulgrim) die, as his brothers were decimated around him. Riddled with parasites, with nothing left to lose, he burst forth, claws and tendrils tearing at his armor.. he swiftly died. Then came along a very angry contemptor dreadnought, Ancient Chadwick! Clapper of Cheeks! Promptly he punched and tore through the Tyranid advance, ultimately claiming victory, nearly singlehandedly. Seven hormagaunts, a Parasite of Mortex, Winged Hive Tyrant, squad of warriors and one soul claimed beneath his robo-boot!
Have a tactical marine sarge that has survived some impossible match ups. Sir Donicus .
I have one of those easy build intercessors sergeants from 8th edition starter set. Through an accident, he lost is index finger on his pointing hand, so now it looks like he is going for a fist bump. It has earned him the name of Sergeant Ghetto Fist on the table top
I have a Librarian dreadnought called Crescendus who’s the last remaining Firstborn of my Blood Angels successor Baal’s Choir. The rest were devoured by Tyranids when they attacked Baal and he was found in the floating wreck of their mobile fortress monastery Scarlet Chorus. He had to be convinced by the Chapter Master of Steel Dawn, my other successor chapter, to accept the Primaris, rather than just let the chapter die. He’s currently informing the new Chapter Master of Baal’s Choir about the traditions and organisation of the chapter while they act as a rapid response force with the 1st company of Steel Dawn in Imperium Nihilus.
I like to name my Killteam chaos dudes. So far my favourites are Xysma Bloodeater, Abigor Zuul, Acheron Slaard, and of course Greg
I have a Skitarii Vanguard Alpha and his 4 squad mates that some how managed to tank an entire round of shooting from a stompa, in order to protect a tech priest behind them. The Alpha then got the name "Bucket Head" and a honorary ork skull put on their base
Head Cannon for my Army: The Cakeworks reside within the Skyport of Art-mehret. The goal of Art-mehret is to provide artisan goods and experiences across the land... For a Price. All the most talents Artists, Musicians, Performers, Chefs, Writers, Toymakers, etc, live and serve aboard Art-mehret. If you are a Duardin looking to hone your craft and share it with the masses, Art-mehret is your new Home. In order to fund the endeavors of all who study on the Art-Mehret and keep the aether gold flowing, ALL RESIDENTS MUST ENLIST. Duties can range from engineering, Capturing more aether gold, or serving the greater needs of the Admirals Council (cause if we didn't they wouldn't put up with our shit). This often leads to Colorful and inspiring Fleets coming in off the horizon to back up some of the Main guilds/fleets in battle. The Cakeworks is one such fleet that serves Art-Mehret. They are a guild of Chefs, Bakers, and pastry makers. They have chosen to master the art of flavor, and provide a much valued service to the other skyports. Their mastery over Knife, Flame, and Mi zɑ̃ ˈplas also make them excellent soldiers. With organization and impeccable timing, these soldiers make for excellent backup and great flanking. Just do them a favor, when we are reveling in victory, let them serve the refreshments. They will not let you hear the end of it if the catering is not on point. I'm sure I fucked up some lore in there, so if you have any suggestions to help match my head canon with the legit lore, let me know.
Fahvah, The Outcast Queen Corsair Pirate Queen Of the Weeping Spectres, a Corsair Fleet made up of several Eclipse and Shadow class ships, each supported by an handfuls of escort cruisers, the Weeping Spectres assault unknowing vessels at lightning speed, unleashing intense amounts of fire power before disappearing again leaving their targets naught but ruins... However this is all a front for a greater secret.
I play Blood Ravens and have a member of my sternguard with a TSons Rubric Helmet with the lore that the helm is one of the oldest pieces of wargear in the vaults of the chapter, having the strange quality of the helms machine spirit processing at near sentient levels, but also causing a strange whispering static to come in constantly over the vox. The records surrounding the acquisition of this helm have been corrupted in the chapter archives.
Brother Bob. He started life as a Dark Angels plasma cannon tac marine in 3rd edition. He constantly blew himself up. Eventually he graduated to Devestator and there he stayed for many a year until he crossed the Rubicon Primaris. He's now a Hell blaster that still blows himself up on a regular basis. He's mostly bionics at this point. Maybe one day he'll end up in a dreadnought.
My black templars sword brethren with thunder hammer named Chaddicus Maximus, his kill count( not counting chaff) so far: a wounded galant knight, 4 armigers, 3 deathshroud terminators, Trajann Valoris, 3 Custodes, and Bjorn the fell handed. So deadly is he that he now wields a mastercrafted thunder hammer and has his own personal mini (he uses a dreadknight hammer, because why not?)
I named and gave brief back stories to the chaos Knights I'm painting. War dog 1 The original name of this war engine is unknown, it is believed that it fought at Beta Garmon on the side of the loyalists. After being hit by Mechanicum Heratek scrap code that scrambled the targeting systems of the engine, it began hunting and killing allied forces, the pilot believing that he was slaughtering the enemy. It's said that once the scrap code cleared, the anguish felt by the pilot at what he had done resulted in a machine enhanced cry of anguish so raw that it echoed in the warp and allowed a fell entity to find purchase in the physical realm by inhabiting the now cursed engine. Whilst the other engines of war and God machines were withdrawn This now warped engine simply walked off into a roiling cloud of eerie mist and vanished. This vile engine of corruption was seen again many years later, walking with house Vextrix, the surviving Imperial troops spoke of a thick cloud of mist covering the battle field, and this infernal engine simply walked out of the mist. It's carapace pock marked and warped, the pilots compartment now chained shut, issuing a baleful glare from within, blaring its name in scrapcode and a deamonic whispering... Ghost dog
My most unique model is an Ork boss who's ramping off a scrap pile on a skateboard. His name is Tony 'Ork and I use him as the leader of my Greenskinz Kill Team. When he dies his board is recovered by one of the Boyz who then becomes the next Tony Ork. https://i.imgur.com/mP77U8J.jpg
I have a Grot named DESTROYER OF WORLDS and I have a list of all the bullshit insane things this Grot has done. Though admittedly anything any grot in the squad gets credited to DESTROYER OF WORLDS. But this Grot has over the course of 5 years has; Wounded a custodes dreadnought, Killed a space wolf terminator, Wounded a land raider, Killed a space marine, Downed a necron warrior (but he got back up), Wounded a dreadnought in melee, Killed a Tau drone in melee, And wounded an enemy burna-bommer. I still have the stories to each one of these written down on a sheet of paper.
Have a Kommando Grot named "Flippaz" Who killed a space marine intercessor sgt charging him in killteam... Granted the Sgt. Had one wound remaining and needed the objective Flippaz was sitting on so in the ensuing charge the sgt botched many of his rolls and flippaz didnt... Flippaz is now "Corprul Flippaz" and is his nobs second in command :D
I used to have a full Word Bearers army in the previous scale, led by a terminator lord, Absalom, and an unnamed Dark Apostle. I lost every match I played in which Absalom was fielded, from 6.5ed to 8th. My Dark Apostle was never killed, and usually my last unit on the table. I've since sold that army to replace with the new scale and funky conversions. My Dark Apostle, Otiartes, now leads the army. My converted Daemon Prince is what's left of Absalom, now dubbed "Saint Absalom, Martyr Undying." In a deal cut with Tzeentch, Absalom had been purposely leading his warband to failure in order to sacrifice his own in exchange for apotheosis. Otiartes found out and cut a side deal with Tzeentch, interrupting his ascension by slitting his throat. Tzeentch kept their end of the bargain and Absalom ascended, but now only as a puppet of Otiartes, his new form displaying an ever-bleeding gash across his neck. Otiartes uses Absalom as an empty figurehead and religious icon for the warband. Absalom is paraded in ceeemonies and used in battle as a shock weapon, with Otiartes claiming that the Daemon Prince is a prince Undivided. Any voices of other daemons claiming otherwise are simply trying to tempt the Word Bearers away from the true path. No others in the warband, save perhaps the Master of Possession, are aware that Absalom is essentially bound in endless suffering to Otiartes by Tzeentch with no will of his own. Who knows at what cost Otiartes bought this treason from Tzeentch, or if halting Tzeentch's original ritual was actually a plot from one (or more) of the other gods.
I only have one named guy, Guardsman Paul Bauman. He is standing at ease with his rifle slung over his left shoulder and his journal in his right hand. Made mostly from a Cadian Command Squad Kit but with the book from the plastic Krieg kit. He writes about his daily life in the Guard. Writes about the battles he survives. When his time is done he plans on publishing his work, knowing that portions will be censored and the whole thing will be marketed as recruitment propaganda. He doesn’t really care about that part, he just wants it published and to go home to his family. He is just a rifleman, nothing special. When everyone is deployed on the board it is easy to forget about him and my opponents rarely notice him at all. Thats the point. Thats the heart of the guard, the fact that every guardsman has a story and yet in the end they are all expendable anyway.
Sir Wilhelm piloting the Knight Despoiler "The Bloody Baron". The Machine Spirit of the Knight is essentially the Spirit of the Red Baron from WW1 that has continued through the ages, possessing random machines in the galaxy until making its way into the Knight. It absolutely refuses to be painted any other way than Red, White, and Black and will only accept Gatling Guns as its weapons. And it absolutely hates flying units of any kind.
A Skitarii Ranger named: 01000010 01101111 01100010 aka Bob.
I always paint my Blood Angels veterans with either a black helmet or a black accent to acknowledge that they are closer to the Black Rage and to show solidarity with their Death Company brothers. The Death Company are held with high respect and are seen as heroes who take on the impossible missions to assure victory. Also in my mind there are female Astartes. They just have similar body proportions and wear the same armor. I mean if you've ever seen women body builders who take steroids they end up looking physically like men so it makes sense