r/40kObscurechapters

Art by iblksamo - Story by u/Aromatic-Area1252 and u/DatBoyBlue

Original Forgefathers Seekers post: https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkKrakens/s/radZXGJbkO

What I mean is what chapters would you be surprised to see. As an example, I know not a soul expected to see the Masters of Protelus or the Angels of Fury at Armageddon. One that I'd like to see is the Imperius Reavers or the Dark Hands.

I will preface that White Dwarf chapters are dubious in their canonicity, with the soul exception of the Penumbral Talons, since they appear on Armageddon.

The Sun Guardians were created by Giorgio Bernard and this is the only image of them that I found!

It was publish in the Collector's guide: Space Marine pt. 2. There's no site that we can learn something about them. No Chapter's badge clues...i only see that they have a white right pauldrons and the left one is black. The miniature in the middle (captain or chapter master?) Has a tunic with a black laurel wreath on a white field. The only sun reference that we have is the golden armour. Seems that all of the miniatures wield xenos' weapons. What you think about them?

The Angel Guard are a Successor Chapter of the Dark Angels, created during an unstated founding.

Video how to create them in Space Marine 2:

https://youtu.be/ckNecLeVYBU?is=8MYGAuxEH5vMVRhj

Their Homeworld is named Radenna Prime, a planet in the Segmentum Obscurus.

When waging war the chapter utilise a large amount of vehicles, both for rapid troop deployment and supporting assaults. They relay on a quick crippling blow, to leave the enemy stranded. They have even been known to use underhanded tactics.

The Angel Guard was created by Tapio Miettinen, from Finland, for the UK White Dwarf's Create A Space Marine Chapter Competition. It won 1st place and was featured in White Dwarf 304 and in Best of Chapter Master.

NOTES:

- In the vid, you can see my choice about the chapter's badge that you can swap with the furry left pauldron if you want.

- Dark angels champion' chest armour piece fit very well if you don't like the one that I choosed. (Image 3)

- i choosed to try the champion (miniature in the middle) but I think the others are little bit easy to recrate in SM2.

These guys looked like they are ready to play backward baseball to me, but they’re still kind of endearing.

Their old colorscheme was quartered dark green and blue and honestly, it was bad, like really really bad, so despite not having any lore this wardrobe change really helped them out.

Anyway, I think these guys have a very literal name.
They are fleet based and move from planet to planet and start to bombard the living hell out of them, or just straight up commit exterminatus.

They usually do this in the harshest environment possible, stirring up forces much bigger than them.

At that point they usually bring the fight on the planet’s surface as the chapter tries to rally any glory hungry faction and mercenary willing to join in in the fight.

They keep bringing in new people and escalating conflicts to ridiculous degrees

But there’s a catch, as the enemy is busy in the ever escalating conflicts, their scouts would infiltrate other unguarded planets and take over key positions with ease since a majority of them are too busy with the ensuing war that the Warmongers have started.

The Warmongers would even send messages to other enemy faction, increasing the scale even further to keep the fornace running. At the end of the day everyone is so busy killing each others that the chapter’s losses are fairly maneageable to replace.

Naturally the chapter is more than happy to assist in any other conflict where an allied faction is involved, where they proceed to do the exact same thing, having everyone focus on a big loud conflict while they cut off the main foe from the supply Line.

This might lead to a bigger foe to come knocking, but in the milky way, for every big fish, there are thousand of smaller ones ready to feast on it’s carcass

How would you embellish the Warmongers?

Next in my run of under-represented chapters. The White Dwarf staff came up with the Astral Hounds in 2020 as a candidate for the magazine's mascot chapter, but they went with the Tome Keepers and reused some of the Hounds' background for them. Outside of the official color scheme there's almost nothing out there for the Hounds, so I pulled them off the Hit List on 40K Gallery. Went dark with this one: a lone Marine with his chainsword up, purple armor, the black hound on his shoulder, and some red eyes in the shadows behind him.

https://40k.gallery/astral-hounds/

Only painted the base with troll Slayer orange, i plan to use fleshshade as a wash and fire dragon bright as highlight, let's see how it turns out...

Introduced only in name in the 3rd edition Codex, The Angels of Purgatory haven’t seen much love since then, so let’s change that

The Angels of Purgatory are a chapter of unknown founding that specializes in prisoner escort and interrogation.

They use their Librarians to inflict psychic torture to their prisoners, literally forcing their secret out of their heads.

Prisoners are reduced to shambling husks, just sentient enough to remember that they are a person, but not nearly enough to remember who they are.

These Prisoners are then turned into meat fodder for the Angels of Purgatory to throw at their foes, with bombs implanted in their stomach that their techmarines can detonate at will.

They often visit penal colony to take the most hardened criminals they can offer to ease the facilities of “dead weight”

If a Prisoner could be possess by a demon they don’t even risk entering their head, they just strap them all together in a Cage and turn them in a “Warp bomb” to use against the Xenos.

These warp bombs unleash an amalgamation of Demons and Gore that spread corruption through the enemy lines, giving them another problem to deal with while the suicide troupes and the Marines advance.

These warp bombs are a dangerous and questionable practice that the chapter make sure to keep as a well guarded secret.

Their Symbol could be a caged skull

How would you color the Angels of Purgatory?