Embarrassing Family Photo's, who needs 'em eh?
The Plague Marines
Did I say it was a good army, well not really?
Here's the damage:
- HQ: Huron Blackheart [170]
- HQ: Chaos Sorcerer - Terminator Armour, Mark of Slannesh, Lash of Submission, Combi weapon (plasma) [145]
- Elites: 5 Chosen - Chump w. PF, 4 meltaguns, icon [175]
- Elites: 5 Terminators - 2 Chumps with Lighting Claws, Chainfist and Combi-melta, PF and Heavy Flamer, PF and combi-flamer, Mark of Slaanesh [265]
- Elites: Dreadnought - Plasma Cannon and Heavy Flamer [110]
- Troops: 9 Alpha Marines: Icon, Flamer, Rhino [185]
- Troops: 9 Alpha Marines: Icon, Flamer, Rhino [185]
- Troops: 7 Plague Marines: Icon, Chump with PF, 2 Plasmaguns, Rhino [271]
- Troops: 10 Lesser Deamons [130]
- Fast Attack: 5 Raptors with Icon and 2 meltaguns [130]
- Heavy Support: Greater Deamon [100]
- Heavy Support: 2 Obilterators [150]
Chapter Background
The Alpha [Huron] leads his Alpha Marine legion into combat
The Swords of Alpharius are a chapter seeded within the Eastern fringe. As an autonomous splinter of the greater Alpha Legion, this new chapter was born of the nefarious deeds of the Alpha Legion on Ghorstangrad. Over near to three centuries the Alpha Legion seeded subconsciously en scribed rites and indoctrination on the sects and gangs of Ghorstangrad. Such was the pervasive success of their infiltration that many of these gang members were wholly unknowing of their hidden corruption as they aspired to inception in the Emperor's Swords loyalist Chapter on Ghorstangard.
Chesney Hawkes leads the Chosen in another burst of "I am the one and only", much to the chagrin of the terminators...
When the Alpha Legion struck, it was with complete skill and utter destruction. Utilising all their subconscious and indoctrinated triggers, they turned loyalist marines on each other. Ghorstangrad fell as the Swords of the Emperor were divided and conquered. The Emperor's Swords were destroyed, Ghorstangrad razed and the geneseed stolen.
...but with all aspects of the most secretive of Legions, the end of the Swords was not obvious.
The Terminators and Raptors lead the charge, backed up by Obliterators and the Dreadnought called 'Relic'...
The Swords Reborn
One hundred years later, reports came of a new Renegade Chapter sporting the colours of the Alpha Legion but separate heraldry. The Swords of Alpharius had been embedded deep within an enveloping nebula and had been biding their time. Infiltration specialists from the Alpha Legion had twisted and reworked the rigid regime of the Swords. They were now a guerilla force in every aspect as potent as their master chapter.
Infiltration into the Imperiums upper echelons had resulted in the wholesale capture of materials, slaves and even intergalactic starships to further their unknowable goals.
The lot so far, a few smurf-boxes and lesser deamons to go...
The Leftovers
As you'll notice from the photo's, I'm missing 2 Rhinos (to be built), 10 Deamons (under construction) and 9 Alpha Marines (basecoated and so near completion). So a few more posts to follow.
