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Legion of the Damned; Building a new Fluff Army
Topic Started: 13 Mar 2011, 07:41 PM (333 Views)
Brother Milner

Good evening guys,

I just joint this forum and would like to ask some questions.

I'm actually an ork player. I played some Iron Warriors some years back but want to start a Legion of the Damned army. So I'm looking for some advise. How would you put a Space Marine army together to represent a LotD army? How would you equip your squads? Do you have any flulff that I can read up to make my army more believable. I think of using at least to Lotd Squads in the Elite slots.

I would really appreciate any advise or views on this topic.

Regards

Brother Milner
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Will you be using the LotD minis?

My suspicion is this would be difficult to do mainly as they don't seem to field any vehicles. There will be a few along more knowledgeable than I though......

Welcome to AB ;)
Edited by Digits, 13 Mar 2011, 07:53 PM.
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From what I remember fluff wise about legion of the damned is that they arrive from no where and lay their firepower into the enemy then dissapear again, leaving no trace. For this I guess using marines like terminators who can use teleportation to enter battle would be quite fluffy.

Also as digits said they don't use vehicles.

Here is a link to lexicanum, it tells you about them a little, what little is known anyhow.

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Legion_of_the_Damned

the key bit i lifted out for you, for modelling purposes and a cool bit of background.

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The Fire Hawks' Fate

From the data contained in the recorder the Administratum was able to determine exactly what had happened to the lost chapter. Following their warp-jump the entire fleet had been caught within a warp-storm of terrific intensity and forced to endure the attacks of powerful warp entities. Ship after ship was destroyed. Soon only one craft remained. By a daring warp-exit manoeuvre the craft burst out of warp-space, emerging far in the galactic east, thousands of light years off-course and beyond even the psychic light of the Emperor.

The original survivors numbered two hundred brethren. All gene-seed had been lost, all initiates killed, and most of the chapter's masters were gone. None of the ordinary human staff have survived at all. To make matters worse the brethren had changed. This change became more obvious over the next few months. Skins began to blacken and blister, flesh began to fester and putrefy. Slowly they began to die. Within days of the transition into normal space it became obvious that the chapter had been exposed to some form of dangerous mutation or disease. It took many years to navigate a way back into the Imperium, during which time almost half the brethren succumbed to the malady. Those who remained were no longer sane. Pain and despair had driven even their hardened minds beyond the point of rationality. Doomed to agonising deaths, they gradually became obsessed with their fate. Now they only wanted to die. But they were still marines, still loyal to the Emperor and humanity. They would not die without a purpose.

So began the unstoppable war of the Legion of the Damned! The marines elected to remove all insignia from their armour. Instead their armour would be black, decorated by each brother with whatever emblems of death he chose. Most brothers employed a similar theme - skeletons, bones and skulls.

All ranks and companies were abolished, most of the chapter's officers were already dead and the remaining warriors were too few to make up a fully functioning chapter hierarchy. All brothers were to be equal before death - levelled by the certainty of their assured extinction. The warriors decided to expend their lives attacking enemies wherever they could be found. The disease had robbed them of their sanity, but not their loyalty!1
Edited by Varas Mortez, 14 Mar 2011, 12:13 AM.
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Weather this helps or not model wise I would use Blood Angel Death Company cheaper then the Metal LotD minis and they fit the fluff well.
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