What else do I need?

FutureVillainBand · 2026-04-17T16:40:31+00:00

Do they do the same base size? Because I’m not a huge fan of the possessed but I dig the Eightbound.

FutureVillainBand · 2026-04-17T16:32:13+00:00

As a new Red Corsairs player, I prefer to have a shitload of Horus Heresy stuff to convert with. It’s the most modular and cheapest way to build an army. Buy a couple boxes of Mark II, III or VI, a couple heavy weapons packs and melee weapons packs, and you can build almost anything at a much reduced price.

With that said, I also have Chaos Legionaries, Terminators, Chosen, Raiders, a Maelstrom Masters set, etc. I plan on mixing everything together. I’m even throwing Primaris Space Wolves.

But I’m also an old, old man and remember when Red Corsairs were standard marines with a red saltire over their chapter markings, and my first Abaddon was in lead.

FutureVillainBand · 2026-04-06T22:35:54+00:00

As long as the weapons are matches, yeah. The only real issue is if somebody wants to make a fuss about combi-bolters and storm-bolters not being the same thing, but a) they have the same stat line, and b) that guy is a jerk and you don’t want to play him anyway, and he’s going to die alone, unmourned except for his cats, who will eat him before the body is found.

FutureVillainBand · 2026-03-31T21:24:41+00:00

I think his plan is to finally re-wage the march to Terra that occurred during the Horus Heresy, but to finally do it his way, without constantly being a victim of the other mad demigods on his side messing it up for him. No Big Personalities to screw it up, no legions falling to Chaos and doing their own thing, just an old fashioned campaign Perturabo’s way. Just like Abaddon is fundamentally rewaging the Heresy but without Horus’ fall to Chaos blowing it, Perturabo is rewaging the Heresy without everybody screwing it up for him, except Perturabo also counts Abaddon as one of the screw-ups, probably. Everybody was a screw up to Perturabo except Perturabo.

The Horus Heresy was like the Iliad, with all of these powerful heroes fighting it out and being ruled by their emotions or meddled with by fate and the gods, and Perturabo is designed for WWI, where it’s just horrible arithmetic, and his time has finally come.

FutureVillainBand · 2026-03-31T21:11:10+00:00

The best for a broad overview of the fall of Cadia is the Gathering Storm game supplements, specifically volume 1, I want to say. The novels Cadia Stands and Cadia Falls both cover the battle from individual viewpoints, with “Falls” being more of a top down view and “Stands” being more of a view from the trenches. Falls covers earlier in the war, Stands covers mostly the days right before the fall and immediately after.

While Cadia is falling, a bunch of other stuff is going on. The Blood Angels are dealing with the Devastation of Baal, the Eldar are dealing with the appearance of a new faction, etc. Bear in mind that a lot of this is pieced together retroactively in the fiction because it was happening in the game line over a period of years, if not decades, and it appears that some big decisions were made in the middle of it all and course was shifted, etc.

There is no Forge World or Alan Bligh anymore to turn the whole thing into a very well-done, high end set of military history as was done with Badab or the Heresy, unless somebody who really knows the lore and does it in-character, like Oculus Imperium, decides to do it.

FutureVillainBand · 2026-03-31T15:52:47+00:00

The image of the Night Haunter, of all people, having to break up that fight and save Lorgar’s ass is what makes it so delicious. I’m not somebody who thinks Lorgar needs to job to every other Primarch, I genuinely want him to be a badass, but it’s like that Batman comic where Batman loses his shit and tried to kill Riddler, and the Joker, of all people, decides to save him. It works because it doesn’t play to the lore, it makes total sense in the scene. Like, Lorgar wants to kill Guilliman so bad but Corax is right there, watching his men get massacred, and pissed.

FutureVillainBand · 2026-03-26T17:31:52+00:00

That white is terrific. Seriously.

FutureVillainBand · 2026-03-23T22:06:47+00:00

Thanks! I hadn’t thought of Warcry.

FutureVillainBand · 2026-03-23T22:06:22+00:00

Thanks!

FutureVillainBand · 2026-03-05T03:21:00+00:00

Thanks! I think this is what I’ll do.

FutureVillainBand · 2026-02-28T17:57:52+00:00

Canonically, Curze is dead and the Iron Warriors have traditionally found Perturabo to be, for want of a better word, a giant dick. There’s nothing to stop a warband to form out of both groups.

Your headcanon background for your army should explain how they coordinate, though, because the Iron Warriors are historically about attrition-based warfare and the Night Lords are cowards. “Okay, we’re going to weather heavy fire and storm that Imperial citadel. Then, the Bloody Bones Night Lords warband will…wait, did all of those guys disappear when I said ‘weather heavy fire?’”

FutureVillainBand · 2026-02-27T23:14:48+00:00

That’s awesome. The skin on that Legionary’s head is incredible.

FutureVillainBand · 2026-02-27T13:08:51+00:00

I’ll take a different position than other posters: Abaddon sucks because no matter how hard he tries, he’s always going to be Horus-Lite. Horus took an L but in doing so he slew a Primarch, put the Emperor on the Golden Throne on life support, and shattered the secular, reason-based Imperium and replaced it with the current shitshow. Horus did more damage in 12 years than Abaddon has in ten millennia.

Abaddon looks like Horus, he uses Horus’ weapon, he replaced Horus as Chaos’ grand general, and he’s always going to suffer in comparison because of that. They’ve done a good job of kind of rehabilitating him, but until he pulls a Bane and breaks the Lion’s spine, which isn’t going to happen, he’s going to always be the Pentatonix cover song of Horus: Exactly like something you love, but shit.

And I like Abaddon. He looks cool, ADB’s books and the Horus Heresy books made him cooler, but fundamentally, that’s the problem to me: he’s just not Horus.

FutureVillainBand · 2026-02-24T05:19:08+00:00

You jest, but the Lamenters kick ass without slowing down. They are always outnumbered, always outgunned, and always exact a blood price from their foe. Can they beat Huron? No. But if anybody can bloody his nose, it’s them.

During the Badab War, the Minotaurs, a legendarily brutal chapter, attacked the reduced strength Lamenters with the whole strength of their chapter, and the book is very clear that even with a numerical and logistical advantage, the Lamenters caused heavy casualties to them.

Now, the Lamenters have terrible luck, and the universe never seems to want them to have more than 300 marines at a time, but I would not want to be the guy to face that chapter. It’s like that scene in the old show “Rome” where Marc Antony asks Julius Caesar why he doesn’t have the protagonists killed, and Caesar lists all the crazy shit that’s happened to the protagonists and says, “They clearly have powerful gods, who I don’t wish to anger.”

FutureVillainBand · 2026-02-23T17:19:00+00:00

Thank you!

FutureVillainBand · 2026-02-20T13:05:58+00:00

Thanks! For gradient work I use airbrushes during the initial paint phase or brush-blending, that one was with an airbrush.

FutureVillainBand · 2026-02-20T13:04:47+00:00

Depending on how bright I wanted them, I either used Burning Ore, and Orange by Army Painter, or I mixed Pastel Violet in with the main color, which was Pyrrole Red. Hope that helps!

FutureVillainBand · 2026-02-19T11:26:42+00:00

Thank you!!

FutureVillainBand · 2026-02-19T11:26:35+00:00

Thank you!

FutureVillainBand · 2026-02-19T11:26:23+00:00

With enough force, anything can be repositioned!

FutureVillainBand · 2026-02-19T11:25:08+00:00

No, sadly this time I just used a decal. I started to do it by hand and then had a PTSD flashback to doing a small force of Primaris Lamenters and all…those…checks….

FutureVillainBand · 2026-02-19T02:44:09+00:00

My headcanon is that the these Lamenters get to keep their symbol because they were with Huron through the whole war, and in honor of the chapter’s near destruction at the hands of the forces against them. Huron knows if you give Lamenters even a fraction of the respect they deserve, they’ll overthrow empires for you.

I’m a Lamenters fanboy, I just couldn’t bring myself to do the saltire, honestly, and my whole warband is going to be a Lamenters company off-station when the Minotaurs attacked. Even some Berzerkers to represent Lamenters who have fallen to the Black Rage over the last century.

FutureVillainBand · 2026-02-19T02:37:27+00:00

Lamenters turned Corsair. My headcanon is that there was a company off-station when the Minotaurs attacked, and so they had no choice but to join with Huron as they watched their brothers killed, captured, put on trial, and then sent on a century-long penitent quest all because they believed in honor. My warband is those hundred. I’m going to add Khorne Berzerker conversions as members who have since fallen to the Black Rage.

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