Hello all!
Iif you've ever visited [URL="http://s3.zetaboards.com/The_Ammobunker/index/"]The Ammobunker[/URL] or [URL="http://bolterandchainsword.com/"]Bolter and Chainsword[/URL], you may have come across this army. If you haven't, may I introduce my Chaos Space Marine army:
The LEGION OF TAURUS
I've been working on this army since December 2007, and though it has been slow developing, I'm taking my time because a) I want an army that is painted to the best of my abilities, and b) they have a very detailed back story that I've been developing as I've slowly been putting the army together.
[URL="http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c274/firestorm40k/Legion%20of%20Taurus/Marine_16208.jpg"]A Legion of Taurus marine.[/URL]
I'll start by saying that the colour scheme, and the motif of having the down-turned, forward pointing horns, was not my idea - several years ago I used to play regularly against one of my best mates who was an awesome painter with a Chaos Marine army. It was a mix Khornate units and Undivided stuff, and the latter was painted in a lustrous Brass/Bronze type scheme. He only converted one of his marines to have down-turned horns, but this colour scheme and this conversion sruck me as the awesome basis for a unique Chaos army...
I started off by making a Combat Patrol size force, as a way of developing the conversion and painting techniques that would be a central part of making this army. I also added a couple of spawn (dubbed 'The Thing of Madness' and the 'Spinesect') - pretty useless for gaming, but lots of fun to make!
As I was making this army, and devloping their story, I had the idea of using it as a basis of a 40k campaign at my local gaming club. A Narrative-lead campaign, 'The Xergev Prosecution' had an Imperial force hunting the Legion of Taurus to a deserted mining world in order to destroy them. By the time the Campaing started earlier this year I'd got just over 1,000 points painted:
The campaign was an Imperial victory, but in terms of the Legion of Taurus' story, this didn't matter: they had instigated the war on Xergev as an ellaborate ritual to revive their true Master - an ancient and powerful Daemon that had once ruled an Empire before the time of the Imperium: TAURAN.
By the time the campaign had ended I had added some more units to it, but not had the time to paint them all. Here's a group shot I took a few weeks ago:
I'm nowhere near finished with this army - eventually it'll have converted Plague Marines, Thousand Sons, Obliterators, and Raptors.
But currently I am working on two more squads of Terminators (Planetstrike here we come!), and a BFG fleet to accompany this army.
Thanks for looking!