Warhammer 40,000
Warhammer 40,000 or simply Warhammer 40K is a miniature-based tabletop game. It involves building and painting your own miniature army and pit them against others' on a dioramic 6x4 or 4x4 feet table using a standardized set of game rules. Miniature armies come in various factions, from Imperial commandos to space-faring orks, each with its own background stories (what 40K players call "fluff") and combat units.

My army, a sub-faction of the Adeptus Astartes or the Space Marines, is of the so-called Dark Angels Chapter - one of thousands of regiments of bio-enhanced supersoldiers created by the Emperor of Man to impose his will throughout the grim universe of the 41st millennium.


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Dark Angels of the Adeptus Astartes
The Dark Angels Chapter is first among legions of Space Marines bred by the Emperor from his own genetic imprints. Enhanced physiologically for combat operations, they are literally Angels of Death in the battlefield, sowing fear to anyone who dared oppose their mandate. Their homeworld, Caliban - now reduced to a barren asteroid after an epic battle against their traitorous Brothers - holds the Chapter's mobile fortress-monastery called the Tower of Angels. Here, deep within the labyrinthine pathways to the underground caverns, lies the key to their monastic nature. The Dark Angels hides a millenia-long secret that compromised their honor. It is with this reason that they and their Successor Chapters are called the Unforgiven.


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Friday, December 16, 2005

The Phantom Wing

I've posted this in the Oberon Sector forum, inside a thread asking for your army's fluff. Here's mine:

I call my Dark Angels strike force the Phantom Wing.

They are a splinter group composed of Space Marines from the 4th Battle Company, landspeeders and bikes from the Ravenwing, and Dreadnoughts and Terminators from the Deathwing.

Formed through the collaboration of Interrogator-Chaplain Kiel and Epistolary Methuselah, these personally hand-picked warriors and advocates of Chaplain Kiel's aggressive, unorthodox methods of hunting down the Fallen went on a rogue crusade aboard a commandeered Battle Barge... their mission: to track down and eradicate (on the spot) all of their traitor brethren - no taking prisoners, no rites of penance! Death for repentance!

As if to emphasize their divergence, the Dark Angels of the Phantom Wing wore the light green trims - Codex color for the 4th Company - and stormcloud purple shoulder pads - believed to be the color of the burning eyes of the Lion Primarch, as he appeared on an apparition to Chaplain Kiel.

This vision of the Holy Progenitor was the reason for the Master of Sancity's formation of the Phantom Wing.

Inscribed by Interrogator-Chaplain Randel on 1:58 PM              

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