Post by Hetfiltrator on Oct 14, 2010 10:03:49 GMT -5
Blood Dragon codex
The Blood Dragons were once Battle-brothers of the Red Shadows chapter. The Red Shadows were masters of guerrilla warfare matched only by the Raven Guard but they’re fate was twisted as they combated the force of the Tzeench’s loyalists. Something strange happened on that world that left the chapter scarred and hated. The warriors of Chaos had been the bait for a trap. In a last ditch battle to stop the lynch pin of the trap, a ritual designed to destroy the planet.
During the battle a stray bolter shell from unknown origins pierced the skull of the head warlock disrupting the ritual and causing reality of the planet to warp. When the Remnants of the Red Shadows awoke they discovered that not a trace of Chaos was left on the planet. But the cost was great. Many of the Red Shadows had been merged with the Saurian inhabitants of the planet. Their bodies scaled and their tongues forked. Their sanity on the verge of shattering. They fought their way to the nearest space port. it was their but uninhabited. After that the acting Chaptermaster made a fateful dicision. “We will ask the Tau for protection.”
The Tau graciously accepted the newly christened Blood Dragons into their force. While still faithful to the Emperor, the Blood Dragons are still loyal to their Tau allies.
Why play a Blood Dragons army?
Blood Dragons combine the hard hitting power of most marines with the stealth and speed of Dark Eldar.
Army special rules;
Dragon's Blood: It is the fate of all Blood Dragons to succumb to the Dragon’s Blood. While bolstering their courage it also makes them delusional.
All models with the Dragon's Blood special rule are Fearless and suffer from rage.
Guerrilla warfare experts: The Blood Dragons are infiltrators and spies without peer. They stalk even the most wary of foes without them noticing.
All Blood dragon infantry may take infiltrate for +3 pts per model.
H.Q.
Lord Dragon Susano Firestorm
Master of the Scales Izanagi Heavyhand
Specter Captain Orochi Whitearrow
Blood Captain Nagi Holyspear
He-who-speaks-of-Fire
Captain
Mind-warden
Rite master
Elites
Dragon-guard
Drakekin
Blood-shield Phantoms
Blood-shield Berserkers
0-1 Tau Battlesuits(XV-8 or stealth suits)
Troops
Clan Retainers
Hatchlings
Tau Firewarriors
Fast Attack
Dragon’s Wings
Clan Retainers mounted
Windstrikers
0-2 Piranha squadron
Heavy support
Dragon’s Fire
0-1 Land raider (any variant)
0-2 Predator
Whirlwind
The Blood Dragons were once Battle-brothers of the Red Shadows chapter. The Red Shadows were masters of guerrilla warfare matched only by the Raven Guard but they’re fate was twisted as they combated the force of the Tzeench’s loyalists. Something strange happened on that world that left the chapter scarred and hated. The warriors of Chaos had been the bait for a trap. In a last ditch battle to stop the lynch pin of the trap, a ritual designed to destroy the planet.
During the battle a stray bolter shell from unknown origins pierced the skull of the head warlock disrupting the ritual and causing reality of the planet to warp. When the Remnants of the Red Shadows awoke they discovered that not a trace of Chaos was left on the planet. But the cost was great. Many of the Red Shadows had been merged with the Saurian inhabitants of the planet. Their bodies scaled and their tongues forked. Their sanity on the verge of shattering. They fought their way to the nearest space port. it was their but uninhabited. After that the acting Chaptermaster made a fateful dicision. “We will ask the Tau for protection.”
The Tau graciously accepted the newly christened Blood Dragons into their force. While still faithful to the Emperor, the Blood Dragons are still loyal to their Tau allies.
Why play a Blood Dragons army?
Blood Dragons combine the hard hitting power of most marines with the stealth and speed of Dark Eldar.
Army special rules;
Dragon's Blood: It is the fate of all Blood Dragons to succumb to the Dragon’s Blood. While bolstering their courage it also makes them delusional.
All models with the Dragon's Blood special rule are Fearless and suffer from rage.
Guerrilla warfare experts: The Blood Dragons are infiltrators and spies without peer. They stalk even the most wary of foes without them noticing.
All Blood dragon infantry may take infiltrate for +3 pts per model.
H.Q.
Lord Dragon Susano Firestorm
Master of the Scales Izanagi Heavyhand
Specter Captain Orochi Whitearrow
Blood Captain Nagi Holyspear
He-who-speaks-of-Fire
Captain
Mind-warden
Rite master
Elites
Dragon-guard
Drakekin
Blood-shield Phantoms
Blood-shield Berserkers
0-1 Tau Battlesuits(XV-8 or stealth suits)
Troops
Clan Retainers
Hatchlings
Tau Firewarriors
Fast Attack
Dragon’s Wings
Clan Retainers mounted
Windstrikers
0-2 Piranha squadron
Heavy support
Dragon’s Fire
0-1 Land raider (any variant)
0-2 Predator
Whirlwind
