Player Factions

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Starting with 500 points in October? | If you selected 'No' regarding joining the campaign, please let us know why (optional). | Are you available to play on the 2nd Thursday of the month? | If you selected 'No' for playing on the 2nd Thursday of the Month, please let us know why and what is better (avoiding weekends). | Which army will you be playing in The Aeternum Sector? | Loyalist or Traitor? | | **9/2/2025 17:36:19** | **[email protected]** | **Bryan Fischer** | **Yes** | | **Yes** | | **Alpha Legion** | **Traitor** | | **9/2/2025 18:44:40** | **[email protected]** | **James Stearns** | **Yes** | | **Yes** | | **Alpha Legion** | **Either** | | **9/2/2025 17:21:40** | **[email protected]** | **Walker** | **Yes** | | **Yes** | | **Emperor's Children** | **Traitor** | | **9/2/2025 16:13:32** | **[email protected]** | **Zach Thomason** | **Yes** | | **Yes** | | **Imperial Fists** | **Loyalist** | | 9/2/2025 16:19:07 | [email protected] | **Swan** | **Yes** | | **Yes** | | **Iron Warriors** | **Traitor** | | 9/2/2025 16:20:08 | [email protected] | **Brennan Maynard** | **Yes** | | **Yes** | | **Iron Warriors** | **Traitor** | | 9/2/2025 16:28:34 | [email protected] | **Brian Kaeser** | **Yes** | | **Yes** | | **Mechanicum** | **Loyalist** | | 9/2/2025 17:46:35 | [email protected] | **Jason** | **Yes** | | **Yes** | | **Mechanicum** | **Traitor** | | 9/2/2025 16:42:20 | [email protected] | Matthew | Yes | | Yes | | Militia | Loyalist | | 9/2/2025 17:53:46 | [email protected] | Bryan Sheffield | Yes | | No | I’ll be available some thursdays. I work law enforcement so my work schedule sometimes has me working on thursdays. | Militia | Traitor | | 9/3/2025 0:26:16 | [email protected] | Aaron Adams | Yes | | Yes | | Night Lords | Either | | 9/2/2025 18:17:41 | [email protected] | Tony I | Yes | | Yes | | Salamanders | Loyalist | | 9/2/2025 16:41:30 | [email protected] | Andrew Nicolaou | Yes | | Yes | | Salamanders and Solar Auxilia | Loyalist | | 9/2/2025 17:17:45 | [email protected] | Austin/Phyrexia (discord) | Yes | | Yes | | Solar Auxilia | Either | | 9/2/2025 17:29:57 | [email protected] | Jake | Yes | | Yes | | Thousand Sons | Either | | 9/2/2025 16:27:22 | [email protected] | Matthew Hyatt | Yes | | Yes | | White Scars | Loyalist | | 9/2/2025 16:20:01 | [email protected] | Marti | Yes | | Yes | | World Eaters | Either | | 9/3/2025 10:58:48 | [email protected] | Brandon Patton | Yes | | Yes | | Sons of Horus | Traitor | | 9/3/2025 11:59:51 | [email protected] | Michael Allen | Yes | | Yes | | Iron Warriors | Either | | 9/3/2025 20:26:13 | [email protected] | Relm | Yes | | Yes | | Blood Angels | Loyalist | | 9/3/2025 20:28:40 | [email protected] | Jeremy Gaudreau | Yes | Will try my best. | Yes | Will try my best. Not Monday or Wednesday. | Word Bearers | Traitor | | 9/3/2025 20:29:35 | [email protected] | Sean | Yes | | Yes | Depends on travel schedule for work. Will make them as available. | Iron Hands with Sallies or Mech Allies later in the campaign | Loyalist | | 9/3/2025 20:31:21 | [email protected] | Austin/ Phyrexia ( Discord) | Yes | | Yes | | Thousand Sons | Either | | 9/3/2025 22:39:39 | [email protected] | Daniel Wootten | Yes | | Yes | | Space Wolves | Loyalist | | 9/5/2025 0:55:06 | [email protected] | Chris Werner | Yes | | Yes | | Blood Angels | Either | | 9/5/2025 1:43:42 | [email protected] | Jake Sheffield | Yes | | Yes | | Raven Guard | Either | | 9/6/2025 14:18:37 | [email protected] | Bk | Yes | | No | I unfortunately work at bgs on Thursdays, but I've talked to some people in the campaign about getting games in late on Thursday after close or on my days off | Salamanders | Loyalist | | 9/6/2025 18:13:53 | [email protected] | Ben Cook | Yes | | Yes | I'm unsure of my schedule in the future, but I will try to keep an open line of communication SHOULD anything change | Iron Hands | Loyalist | | 9/7/2025 18:52:07 | [email protected] | Chris Porter | | Not sure yet | | I should likely be available then | | | | 9/8/2025 17:46:04 | [email protected] | Zach Grizzle | Yes | | Yes | | Dark Angels | Loyalist | | 9/8/2025 20:32:00 | [email protected] | Daniel Wootten | Yes | | Yes | | Space Wolves | Traitor | | 9/8/2025 21:48:02 | [email protected] | Nick Vass | Yes | | Yes | | Dark Angels | Loyalist | | | | | | | --------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ | -------------------- | 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| | What is your name? | Which army will you be playing in The Aeternum Sector? | Loyalist or Traitor? | Tell me more about your army | | Bryan Fischer | Alpha Legion | Traitor | Narratively, they are starting out as a small group of hardcore Alpha Legion combatants in legion colors who put out the call to their more covert brethren in other legions and as the army grows, they'll start showing up from those other groups. | | James Stearns | Alpha Legion | Either | The Coils of Hydra 121st Operative Cell – Alpha Legion “Hydra Dominatus.” Sector Deployment Record: Aeternum Designation: 121st Covert Assault & Reconnaissance Cell Known Alias: The Coils of Hydra Sector of Operation: Aeternum Sector, Segmentum Tempestus Campaign Phase: Early Horus Heresy Loyalty Status: Classified – Data Conflicted Commanding Officer: "Altheus Kord" (identification unverified) Unit Structure: Harrowing Doctrine \| Combined Arms Mobile Force As the Heresy erupted, the Aeternum Sector was far from Terra’s direct influence, yet of vital strategic importance—rich in industrial assets, warp-route nexuses, and nascent Forge Worlds. The 121st Alpha Legion cell—designated The Coils of Hydra—was already present in the region before Horus declared open war. Operating under deep cover as part of The Harrowing strategy, the Coils had embedded operatives across Aeternum’s key military and administrative structures. When open conflict began, they activated sleeper agents, sowed misinformation, and began executing a mobile campaign of disruption, deception, and precise destruction. Notable Operatives: "Altheus Kord" – Command Node Alpha: A master of layered identities, Kord may in fact be a rotating persona used by multiple Legion officers to conceal the true leadership. Often appears under the guise of a Raven Guard or Ultramarine Praetor. Seraphon Vyle – Saboteur & Demolitionist Operative Once registered in the Legion under a different name (long since purged from the records), Seraphon Vyle is a master of battlefield sabotage and destructive infiltration. Unlike the Moritats of other Legions, Vyle’s skill lies not in gunslinging but in the patient, surgical placement of multi-vector demolitions, infrastructure tampering, and the timed destruction of key war assets. Often deployed days or even weeks ahead of mainline Alpha Legion forces, Vyle inserts himself behind enemy lines, disguised as a mechanic, a local militia member, or even a Tech-Adept. When the Coils of Hydra strike, Vyle’s explosives bring down hangars, fuel reserves, vox towers, and ammunition depots in perfect synchrony. Field Signature: Sequential demolitions, corrupted machine-code in power grids, use of locally sourced materials to mask Alpha Legion tech. Status: Presumed active in northern Aeternum warzones. Regarded as a high-priority threat by Loyalist Mechanicum forces. Hexa-29 – Master of Signals & Strike Coordinator Originally a remembrancer technologue attached to the 121st Expeditionary Fleet, Hexa-29 was inducted into the Legion during the Isstvan prelude campaigns. Extensively modified through clandestine Mechanicum procedures, Hexa now functions as the nerve-center of the 121st Cell’s battlefield communications, strike timing, and data warfare operations. Operating from a secure data-cortex chamber aboard a stealth-modified Stormbird or ground facility, Hexa-29 coordinates precision strikes, relays covert communications between dispersed Alpha Legion teams, and disrupts enemy command protocols mid-battle. Hexa can mimic or overwrite vox-channels, redirect automated defense systems, or blind auspex scanners during surgical raids. It is believed that Hexa’s data-mind is wired directly into the sector-wide Blackout Grid, an invisible network of corrupted Mechanicum relays seeded throughout the Aeternum Sector, allowing near-instantaneous coordination across vast distances. Field Signature: Vox interference patterns before Alpha Legion strikes, sudden blackouts in targeting systems, and the use of falsified IFF signals to confuse automated defenses. Status: Unconfirmed sightings in the Vel-Karn Subsector, though at least one instance of battlefield command was issued from the Forge-Ruins of Gallica Theta—across the sector—at the same time. Tyrus Konn – Chameleon Sergeant: Specializes in false-flag operations. Maintains multiple suits of modified power armor painted in the heraldry of other Legions—used for infiltration and misdirection during planetary assaults. His most notable actions have lead to much distrust and chaos within the traitor ranks of the Aeternum Sector, leading to multiple squads of traitor asartes being led into killing fields for loyalist forces to wipe them out. The serpent coils tighter each cycle. The truth is hidden not in what they destroy, but in what they choose to preserve.” — Excerpt from a recovered transmission, origin classified, Aeternum Sector | | Walker | Emperor's Children | Traitor | Summary: Terran born Astartes of the III Legion. Wary of Chemosian debauchery they were not present in the Isstvan system during the betrayal. Despite their loyalty to the Emperor, Terra and the Imperium they are forced to fight against his forces. A fate bestowed upon them by their genefathers actions. Full lore snippet: Forged in the fires of the Unification Wars and tempered in the darkest theaters of the Great Crusade, His Harbingers are the last of a dying breed. Terran-born Astartes all, they were among the mere 200 remaining Legionaries who kneeled before Fulgrim on Chemos. They bear no illusions of glory, only the scars of attrition and the cold discipline of duty. Cut off from reinforcement, their campaigns stretch for years without relief. Supplies dwindle, gene-seed falters, and still they endure. There is no glamour here, no theatrical perfectionism or artistic pretension, only the perfection of the kill. They practice war as an artform not of beauty, but of finality: each strike measured, each battle a lesson in ruthless efficiency. Their armor is worn, often unadorned save for the sigil of the III Legion and the battle honors etched by hand into ceramite. Their purple has faded to the color of dried blood and ash, yet their standards still bear the Palatine Aquila, the mark of their early triumphs and unflinching loyalty to the Emperor. Where Fulgrim’s newer sons seek enlightenment in sensation, His Harbingers find it in cold resolve. They do not speak of the Primarch with reverence, but with the guarded detachment of soldiers who remember a time before him. They march not for adoration, but because the war is not yet done. Perfection, for them, is not a painting. It is a war without end, fought without flaw. | | Zach Thomason | Imperial Fists | Loyalist | FISTS MAYBE OTHER THINGS | | Swan | Iron Warriors | Traitor | I like Phosphex more than I should | | Brennan Maynard | Iron Warriors | Traitor | Not sure. Wanted to know more about the setting before writing a narrative | | Brian Kaeser | Mechanicum | Loyalist | | | Jason | Mechanicum | Traitor | 44th Legio Cybernetica Cohort led by the Archmagos-Archimandrite, Ursa Carnifex. | | Matthew | Militia | Loyalist | Whisperings have made it to the core that elements of the 7-3 Geno were seen among traitor forces. This is obviously false, as the old one hundred have never faltered in their duty. But just in case, elements of the 5-3 Geno Chiliad mechanized division have been sent in to bring Marshal Quintus in for questioning. In chains if necessary. | | Bryan Sheffield | Militia | Traitor | The Balmorran Blackguard, an Imperial Army regiment, hail from the planet of Balmorra - officially designated as 63-13, being the 13th planet brought into compliance by the 63rd Expeditionary Fleet. Balmorra is itself a hive world, known (for better or worse) for its weapons manufacturing capabilities, mining industry, and overall crime-ridden streets and gang violence. Life was cheap, and many of the criminal gang chiefs often had far more power than the actual legitimate governors of the hive cities, despite the latter’s best efforts to maintain control. While life under the criminal gangs was somewhat stable, it was equally as harsh and brutal, and a fair amount of Balmorrans would go on and form their own vigilante groups, in which they would stain their crude uniforms a dark black. Eventually, this practice would become known as ‘taking the Black.’ Later, when the 16th Legion of the Emperor’s Astartes arrived to Balmorra, harsh fighting would break out between the Luna Wolves, the various Governors’ own private armies, and the underworld overlords, all for control of each independent hive city. While mortals are no match for one-on-one combat with an Astartes, the fighting was grueling due to the nature of hive cities themselves; And it was only through the efforts of the black-clad vigilante militias that the Luna Wolves would bring the hive world of Balmorra into compliance in record speed. As a reward for their loyalty to the Astartes, these vigilante groups would go on to form the basis for a new Imperial Army regiment, dubbed in Imperial records as the ‘Blackguard.’ Being directly attached to the 63rd Expeditionary Fleet itself, this new Army regiment would go on to serve with relative distinction throughout the Great Crusade. Back home on Balmorra, however, the criminal gangs would continue to rise in force, leading to many Balmorrans to join the Blackguard as a means of escape, thus continuing the phrase, ‘taking the Black.’ At the outbreak of the Horus Heresy, however, would come the regiment’s truest test. Feeling far more of a connection and loyalty to the Legion they were attached to and had fought alongside for as long as any of them could remember, rather than some ‘Emperor’ they’d never seen on some far flung world they’d never set foot on, the commanders of the Balmorran Blackguard would side with the Warmaster, and join the March to Terra. Having purged the regiment of any lingering loyalist sentiment amongst its ranks, the Blackguard would go on to serve as grueling trench diggers and bloodied shock troopers. Eventually, they would succumb to the bloodlust of battle, and fall to the worship of the War God, Khorne. Despite retaining some of their military discipline, this final act would destroy connection to the Regiment’s previous distinguished history. (Writers note: While my main army will be Militia, I’m planning to ally in token 1st Company Sons of Horus as well. I also have loyalist Iron Warriors I can play, depending on needs.) | | Aaron Adams | Night Lords | Either | 103rd Company, Battle of Sotha Veterans under the command of Captain Vrandin Maksym. After the massive casualties at Sotha this Splinter Fleet has arrived in thr Aetrunum Sector due to a misjump through the Ruinstorm. | | Tony I | Salamanders | Loyalist | Not lore accurate but my squad was on their way to Istvan to take out some heretics but stopped on the way to pick up some celebratory Adeptus Blue Ribbon kegs for their anticipated victory. Unfortunately, they got lost on the way and ended up in the Aeternum sector. They are lost and angry but they have beer. | | Andrew Nicolaou | Salamanders and Solar Auxilia | Loyalist | Salamanders - 164th Independent Company, XVIII Legion Solar Auxilia - 519th Cohort, “The Sunborn” | | Austin/Phyrexia (discord) | Solar Auxilia | Either | The 77th Chimeric Dragoons hail from the planet Phyerion, a warp corrupted planet where monsters seep from deep inside the planet to the surface. The citizens of the planet have formed fortified city states to fight these horrors which is where the 77th come from. Now with a few battles under there belt they leave for another system where there talents can be of use for whatever side needs the greater need of monster slayers. | | Jake | Thousand Sons | Either | The psychic death throes of the Bellatoris system rippled across half of known space, the attuned feeling it the most acutely. Black, terrible dreams haunted the sleep of even the warp-dampened nulls in systems hundreds of light-years away. Terrible visions of burning corpses, laughing Gods, and an eternity of war plagued the minds of billions. Astropaths seized and dropped dead at their stations, eyes bleeding dark.blood, almost black. It is said that the Emperor himself winced at the aetheric backlash, almost as though he were suffering a mild headache that passed as quickly as it came. To some, this was merely a blip, a mild inconvenience. The newly formed Council of Terra viewed this event as a small footnote on their morning briefing readouts. Dead astropaths were hoisted from their thrones by servitors and replaced so that the astral choir never went silent. To others, however, this event was unprecedented and the stuff of nightmares and omens. Few understood the implications such an echoing scream as the sons of Prospero, the Thousand Sons. ~ The sorcerer strolled down the cool marble hallway lost in his thoughts. His tutelary familiar, Nuut, scuttled along by his side. Its tiny avian legs pumped furiously to keep up with the Astartes' casual, but still post-humanly long, booted tread, steps echoing off the clean marble walls. Kahun Mehtu, Magister of the Ibis Cult, was pondering his latest observations. The subject's essence had had such a strange aura that he just could not quite put his finger on. It was as if, in the moment of death, the man's soul was trying to flee away, into the warp. So peculiar. The poor, dying mortal had experienced such terror in his last moments that went far beyond the typical fear of death and the unknown, even despite Metu's calming presence. "The poor wretch," he thought, "I could not ease his pain, even in death." Despite the techno and psycho biological wonders present in the City of Light, there were some illnesses still beyond the talents of the Legion. This man had been brought to Mehtu's clinic by his wife, quite baffled. He had fallen into a deep sleep and nothing could awaken him, almost as if he were comatose. But none of the sorcerer's normal techniques and manipulations had helped. Gazing into the man's mind, he has seen that his malady was one of mind, not of body. Distraught, the wife had wept as Mehtu described the man's soul slipping away, quite inexplicably. The medicae had done what he could to ease the man's soul pain, at the life stripped so cruelly from him, but then that aura... "Most pertubatory..." Mehtu mumbled aloud. So lost in thought, he hadn't even noticed that the scrabbling click of Nuut's claws against the floor had ceased. Pausing and turning, he saw the small tutelary frozen in place, quivering. "Come along, Nuut." he said, and then prodded with his mind. The tutelarys normally affable but flitting mind had gone quiet and tense. Mehtu became aware of a quiet whine at the edge of his consciousness, almost like faint tinnitus in the ear. Suddenly, the whine grew to a piercing screech, deafening and driving all thought and reason from his brain. It drove the Magister to one knee, his hand flying to his head, his teeth bared in a snarl of pain from the aetheric feedback. Nuut's shape fizzed and bucked, like water on a hot plate, it's head thrown back in a silent scream. The spike of agony in Mehtu's mind grew and grew, spilling across his thoughts like thick, black blood. Grunting with the effort of staying upright, and just as he began to think that surely he must be dead, the scream ebbed. Though still a background squeal, the psychic lash retreated. The pain subsided, but the wail remained, though at tolerable levels. Rising to his feet again and glancing at his familiar, Mehtu said aloud, "Well, that was unpleasant..." Nuut shook itself and returned to Mehtu. The Magister Templi's voice floated into Mehtu's mind. "Brother, did you feel that?" asked Uthizzar. "Of course..." Mehtu sent back, "do you know what that was, Magister?" "No, but someone might. We are summoned by Amon to attend to the council..." "I will be there within the hour." "There will be some discussion about this, I am sure..." Mehtu said aloud. ~ "I have never felt anything like that!" Cried Hathor Maat, "whatever that was brought half the city to its knees! I have never felt such a current in the Great Ocean!" Murmurs of agreement floated around the chamber. "What we know for sure," rumbled Phosis T'Kar, "was that was not normal. What are our augurs saying about a source?" Ahriman spoke up, clearing his throat cooly, "We know that the wave originated in the galactic South East, out past the inner system in the Dominion of Storms. From our sources and my Cult's divinations, we are told that ripples have been felt as far as Terra itself. I suspect that it was in the Aeternum Sector, but it really is too far to know for sure," finishing with a sly smile. "With such a momentous event, surely we must investigate," murmured Amon, "for who but we will be able to ascertain the truth? I will commune with our Father in his meditation, for surely he knows more of this than we. But in the meantime, I believe the path ahead is clear. We will select a contingent of the various Cults and see what we might learn of this catastrophe." "We don't know that it was a catastrophe..." stated Maat. "What else could it have been, brother? Could you not feel the terror and...cold nothingness in that cry?" retorted Uthizzar. "I will go," said Mehtu, standing, head deferentially bowed, "I wish to know about this event, first-hand. Call it...professional curiosity." Maat, glowering, spat "This is of the utmost importance, Athanaean. We do not have the time for you do indulge your sick fantasies. What will you do, Kahun, torture the answer from ash?" "Perhaps...if there is any left to bear witness," Mehtu replied serenely, turning to stare into Maat's face with his cool grey eyes, "though I will state again that you seem to woefully misunderstand what I do." "You dare---!" Maat began, snarling. "Enough!" cut in Amon. "We will send Magister Mehtu to seek out the source of this cataclysm," turning to look pointedly at Maat, "as he seems to be the most qualified to lead the investigation, does he not?" "I concur," responded Uthizzar, "while I am loathe to send him away and lose his valuable insight, I know of none better." Sounds of assent echoed around the hall, Maat returning to his seat and glowering at the First Captain. "It is settled. Mehtu, assemble your squads, you will depart at once." "Oh, one more thing Chief Magister, if I may" asked Mehtu, "I wonder if I might requisition some assets from the Legions reserves? I do not know what I will find when I locate the source of this anomaly, and I would not want to be caught...unprepared..." A stunned silence fell across the chamber, Maat beginning to rise, hissing. "WHAT," replied Amon, cutting Maat off, "did you have in mind, Magister?" ~ Gazing from the viewport of the Khepera's Hand, Mehtu stood with Nuut skittering around his feet, Fu'kayna Set, his most senior Lieutenant standing with him. "I fear for what we will find, Set..." stated Mehtu. "You do?" Set responded, eyebrow raised, "that does not seem like you." "Hmm, perhaps I misspoke," replied Mehtu. "What I mean to say is that I sense that there is nothing left to find of this anomaly, or that we will not find any answers beyond the echoes of destroyed souls or the gaping maw of oblivion. I fear the loss of such an opportunity. To make such a monumental discovery, Set...what we could learn! To lose it would...bring me much disappointment." Smiling, Set replied, "Well there is only one way to find out, brother. And surely, there will be something we can learn, even if there is nothing left. The Great Ocean will provide, as it always does." Taking a deep breath, Mehtu sighed, "Indeed, you are right. I apologize for my outburst." Set snorted. Mehtu continued, "Hopefully this trip will be worth me stepping back from my work. But," he said, glancing down at the data slate in his hand showing the diagnostic readouts he had requested of the suits of Saturnine armor sitting idle and cold in the armorium chamber, "perhaps I will be able to find more either way." - Cult of the Ibis, an off-shoot of the Athanaean temple in which the chief Magister, Kahun Meh'tu, seeks to study the relationship between pain and the soul by use of his telepathic and biomantic abilities. Having an affinity for the wounded and maimed, Meh'tu also worked a great deal with the Osiraean temple in the maintenance of the legion's venerable dreadnoughts and with the development of the Saturnine terminator armor alongside the Vth and XVIIIth legions. Meh'tu discovered that amputees connected directly with their terminator suits as pseudo-dreadnought sarcophagi held an increased psychic affinity for the exosuits rather than after receiving bionic prosthetics. However, many of his fellow researchers found the practice of interring the mutilated legionnaires within the suits of terminator armor barbaric and cruel, condemning the practice. Viewing the other's revoltion as pedestrian and narrow-minded, Meh'tu abandoned the larger project instead returning to Prospero with several suits of the prototype armor to continue his research alone with the guidance of his Magister Templi, Baleq Uthizzar of the Athanaean temple. Alongside the Numerologist cabals and Biomancers of the Pavoni, Meh'tu comtinued to study the psychic soul bonds the sometimes quadruple amputees developed with their Saturnine war plates, though his methods attracted the ire of the Pavoni's Magister Templi, Hathor Maat. Unable to persuade the Arcane College at large to condemn Meh'tu's experiments, Maat harbored a deep contempt for the Magister and his, in Maat's mind, sadistic toying with honored brothers of the legion. | | Matthew Hyatt | White Scars | Loyalist | Not sure if you want lore, which I am still working on or composition, which will be mostly speeders, jet bikes. | | Marti | World Eaters | Either | I’m fair new I would like to be involved in narrative part | | Brandon Patton | Sons of Horus | Traitor | Working on narrative update. Will be posted asap | | Michael Allen | Iron Warriors | Either | My Iron Warriors are the 262 line company under the 19th grand company. They are lead by Captain Khyr Falkos, a young leader looking to proof his worth to his Warsmith Norros Vhaxxan. The 19th grand company has been stuck on the planet Alekxeez Prime since Perturabo first rejoined the legion, slowly building back their strength after a brutal campaign against the Orks. More information can be provided by request. | | Relm | Blood Angels | Loyalist | Religious zealotry and fervor pushes to it's absolute maximum. "The crusades didn't work because we didn't stack enough bodies" is the goal and vibe I'm attempting. All in the name for the holiest thing to exist. | | Jeremy Gaudreau | Word Bearers | Traitor | Former Iron Warriors who have seen the light. | | Sean | Iron Hands with Sallies or Mech Allies later in the campaign | Loyalist | Korrus Varron, leader of the Iron Hands Strike Cruiser, Iron Hearted, was one of the few to make the escape from Istvaan after recovering forces from the ground from shattered legions devastated during the massacre. Able to escape with the system with an emergency warp jump the Iron Hearted ended up in real space close to the Aeternum Sector where reinforcements from the minor Forge World Novatum provided the shattered ship and crew much needed repairs and supplies before answering distress calls in the sector. Korrus Varron, along with Salamander Champion Amfell Jurr and Magos Lho Drax prepare to bring the fight to Horus and his traitors once more. | | Austin/ Phyrexia ( Discord) | Thousand Sons | Either | Knowledge does pick sides for morality of right and wrong. With the Devastation of our home and the warp destroying our bodies we leave in pursuit of knowledge. Our mission is simple, find a way to preserve pur bodies or at the least slow down the degradation, or die with our minds still intact. | | Daniel Wootten | Space Wolves | Loyalist | Part of the 11th Great Company, known as the Sea-Flame's Bearers, this force lead by Wolf Lord Magni Wyrm-Breaker were part of the survivors of the Censure of Prospero. During the Alpha Legion ambush following the departure from Prospero, sabotage caused a malfunction in the warp drive of the Barge "Ice Wolf's Roar" and flung them through the immaterium, and emerging in the Aeternum Sector. Detecting that other Astartes were in the system as well, they set out to one of the nearby planets to lock into orbit and attempt repairs. While in orbit the company learns of potential Thousand Sons and Alpha Legion activity in the system, which grants a righteous fervor to the brothers of the 11th and their Wolf Lord, for now they can seek out vengeance and retribution against 2 of their sworn enemies until they can find a way to contact the rest of the fleet. | | Chris Werner | Blood Angels | Either | My army is a Crusade fleet that entered the Warp just before news of Horus's betrayal spread. They were transiting near the Aeternum Sector, got knocked out of the Warp by the Bellatoris disaster, and were able to limp to the nearest inhabited system (Solarae) just in time to be embroiled in all of this mess. They're newcomers to the Heresy, having missed the first year or so while stuck in the Immaterium. The core of the army is the 298th Company of the Blood Angels. Small elements of a couple other Legions are present and may make an appearance later in the campaign. The Archein of the 298th was one of the earliest inductees of the Revenant Legion. He remembers the Emperor, the first decades of the Great Crusade, and being united with Sanguinius. Or are those someone else's memories? Sometimes it's hard to tell which memories you've lived and which ones you absorbed by eating your dead commanding officers. Battlefield promotions hit differently in the IXth, and absorbing someone else's knowledge tends to mess with one's brain a bit. That and coming to grips with the unfathomable idea of the Warmaster's betrayal may have affected his sanity in ways yet to be seen. He's a Loyalist at the start of the campaign, but there's no guarantee he'll end that way. If the story you're telling requires an army to change sides, I'm willing to consider it. | | Jake Sheffield | Raven Guard | Either | "After the massacre on Istvaan 5, the Raven Guard were left beaten bloody and battered. Low legion numbers, massive amounts of equipment lost, and resources scarce. It was a terrible loss, but many took no time to mourn. Some were filled with such rage and vengeance for their fallen brothers, and their fellow kinsman. The Legion, while now small, had smaller cells pocketed from Corax’s own main force. The objective? As with any other set of marines from Istvaan 5, they would create a bloody campaign of vengeance and wipe the traitors from the galaxy. One survivor, and Captain of the Raven Guard, Allax Veil, got his Primarchs blessing to split from mainline forces, in search of traitor forces to eliminate. Veil, seeing so many of his brothers slaughtered by Iron Warriors and Word Bearer forces, took an express hatred to the two legions, seeking them out over all to utterly annihilate. This sentiment spread through his forces, as his loud but few battle hardened veterans reiterated points to newly recruited Astartes. Through battles and small infiltration campaigns, Veil’s forces took the outside view of the legion to new levels. Favoring extreme speed and stealth, striking fast and violently bloody. They would leave no survivors, and if their carnage was witnessed, may have been mistaken for the work of the World Eaters. Eventually, the vengeance fleet would slip into the darkness of the Solarae System. Veil’s warriors hungry, in search of a traitor force to pick clean, as they had done in many systems before. The fleet had no plans of securing control for Loyalist forces, no way of rebuilding from their vast wave of destruction. Only one goal in mind, vengeance, and that meant the removal of EVERY Iron Warrior and Word Bearer. The rest were just part of the clean up, something to sharpen their blades on." (I will expand on this more and change fluff of course if needed, and I had to be edgy just because lol.) I have never played Heresy before, been an observer, I have some clue of what I am doing army wise watching vids over the years. Thank god for narrative cause I will just be playing what I think is cool, fun, and fits with what I have planned. That means mostly speeders, bikes, close quarters dreads, melee units, jump assault, maybe some flyers. I don't want to get big ground vehicle heavy but we will see what I do. I chose "Either" just because the story background but I will probably just play loyalist because of the amount of traitors. | | Bk | Salamanders | Loyalist | I plan on taking the herald as my first character and building around the idea of survivors of istvaan, my herald would have been a normal tac marine that saw the legions banner fall on the killing fields. Then dropped everything and disregarded all personal safety to raise the banner. He now holds the stained icon as a beacon to all other surviving salamanders to rejoin his force in making the traitors pay | | Ben Cook | Iron Hands | Loyalist | The first 1500 or so points of it are going to be cobbled together from the 2e Age of Darkness box and from there it will branch into some tank-heavy fun. Ideally. | | Chris Porter | | | No army yet | | Zach Grizzle | Dark Angels | Loyalist | Very in progress, my lore is still being fleshed out, along with the models | | Daniel Wootten | Space Wolves | Traitor | The 10th Great Company "The Crown , Breakers" Comprised mainly of light and heavy assault units with heavy armored support. Command ship - Battle Barge "The Ice Wolf's Howl" High Command - Jarl Magni Drekkenbane Notable Command: Forni Ruarc -Caster of Runes, Einar Volund - Legion Champion Meant to be a part of the Prospero Censure force, the 10th was delayed due a malfunction with the warp drive. They arrived in the system just as Prospero was being dragged back into the warp. They assisted in the recovery and support for the rest of the fleet but felt dejected and ashamed to have missed the battle itself. Then on the return flight, the fleet was ambushed by Alpha Legion forces and the 10th jumped into the fray as they were still at full strength. They fought ferociously, fueled by the their desire to regain some honor and and glory from their absence in the Battle of Prospero. The Alpha Legion took notice of this and committed a large force to board the Howl and either destroy or sabotage it. They succeeded in the later as they managed to cause another malfunction in the warp drive which shunted them into the warp and across the galaxy into the Aeternum Sector. They managed to deal with the remaining Alpha Legion forces, but their ship was seriously damaged and would not be able to leave the system for the foreseeable future. As they limped into the orbit of a nearby planet, the y detected numerous signals from various legion frequencies. Two in particular refueled spirits of the 10th survivors, as the picked up what appeared to be Thousand Sons and Alpha Legion transmissions. They felt they could finally make up for their failure to participate at Prospero and also claim some vengeance against the sons of Alpharius for their treachery. For the Wolf King! for the Emperor! | | Nick Vass | Dark Angels | Loyalist | This is my first time doing a 30K army but I play Dark Angels in 40K so I figured why not keep it up in 30K. FOR THE LION! |