So it is getting closer. Most of the marines I already had is repainted and some new reinforcements have been made.
For their own mysterious reasons, The guardians of the Covenant, are searching the galaxy again.
The guardians is a successor chapter of the Dark Angels. They are even more monastic and secretive than their progenitors. The guardians very much considers themselves warrior monks and hold scholarship to as high esteem as they do battle prowess.
This is the fluff shortened down as written in the Dark Angels codex. I will be using the DA codex and not codex SM.
My guardians
This is my rantings on how I am thinking. I will try to stick to the fluff and make them themed. Any comments will be appreciated.
HQ:
As a HQ I will use a librarian, it seems fitting that the force searching for hidden knowledge are lead by a librarian.
There will be a captain too, with command squad. But when modelling and painting these Hqs I will make sure it is shown that the Captain plays second fiddle to the librarian.
The Captain will get a book modelled upon him to make sure the scholar within him are shown.
Army build:
The guardians will be predominantly infantry based. At least two full squads with Missile and flamer.
After that I will use mainly plasma weapons as for me DA and plasma weapons come together like, chainswords and ork flesh.
One squad will get a melta gun, and a sgt with powerfist. They will be put in a Rhino and be my "secret" AT weapon.
I reckon I want to build atleast three Predators in the end. But the first will be autocannons and HB sponsons.
I reckon it will be good against anything middle/light vehicle and Heavy infantry my troops can't handle.
As dedicated AT there will be a razorback with twinlinked LC and carrying a devastator squad (outfit will come later).
I also plan to incorporate ten men assault marines with two plasmapistols. Either two 5 man squads with one plasma each or merged together.
As of scouts I am biased. I have 10 of them, 5 CC and 4 snipers, 1HB. But I am not really sure how to fit them in and if they are worth it. I'll figure it out when I get closer to actually making a list.
Terminators...oh yes. 5 man assault and 5 man firesupport. I'll see if I can fit both in to the list. But I will modell and paint them because I really like the models.
Sternguard, Vanguard veterans and special characters are out since they are not in the Dark Angels codex. But a veteran squad will be snucked in somewhere.
But, what of the Land Raider?
Most likely there will be none. I don't have place for the model in my home.
There will be Dreadnaughts but as of now I am not sure how they will be equipped, but I will solve that as the list is growing.
And as of Bikes and Landspeeders. I don't know. I'll see. They are an important part of the DA so they should be in there somewhere.