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.


Image hosted by Photobucket.com


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.


The Workshop:

 

 

 
The Interrogator-Chaplain's Wargaming Sanctum

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

The Darkwatch

I thought "Angels of Wrath" as a Dark Angels Successor Chapter name does not appeal that much to me. It doesn't sound right when bellowed on the battlefield (at least for me). So I'm changing it to the "Darkwatch".

A salute to that brotherhood in Game of Thrones that guards the Northern Wall (i.e. the Night's Watch). It is also a word play reference to those diminutive aliens that roam around the halls of the Rock, known to the Dark Angels as "Watchers in the Dark".

There's an air of typical Dark Angels enigma to the sound of it. And it fits their fluff as guardians of the Maelstrom from any presence of the Fallen.

A Darkwatch Cavalcade led by Interrogator Yriel

Inscribed by Interrogator-Chaplain Randel on 6:24 PM              

******************************************************************************

Never forgive! Never forget!