Winged Brotherhood, Second Company, Bravo Squad. They Are Led Into Battle By Sergeant Carter. They Are

Winged Brotherhood, Second Company, Bravo Squad.  They are led into battle by Sergeant Carter.  They are swift death with chain sword and bolt pistol.

As with Alpha, they are awaiting reinforcements to bring them up to full battle strength.

This is Captain Micheal of the Second Company astride his mighty steed Teacup. Basic Captain on a bike with a power sword and storm shield. Little bit of kit bash here.  Torso, head and sword from the Sanguinary Guard box, Bike and legs from the Space Marine Bike box, and a few added bits from both the Sanguinary Guard and Attack Bike box.   The storm shield is home made.  Green stuff and a little bit of wire, I think it came out quite well.   

This is my Sanguinary Guard.  They are fun and I like 'em.  Base coated in silver, then used a green wash and brought them back up.  Layered the power swords/axes and I think they came out pretty well.

The Hammond Sector

After the end of the Heresy, the Winged Brotherhood was sent to Hammond Sector, a small distant piece of human space.  A group of five stars relatively close to each other through the warp, with nine habitable planets between them.  Chosen for the chapter planet of the Brotherhood was Kerentia 4, a forge world.  Because of the lack of free space on the planet, a space station was re-purposed to become their fortress monastery.  They were equipped with a standard group of space ships, battle barges, strike cruisers and other small vessels appropriate for a fledgling chapter.  Kerentia 3 and 5 were also habitable planets, agri-worlds that primarily support the forge world in their system.  

During their first years in the Hammond Sector, the Brotherhood fought desperately to hold that sector against enemies on many fronts.  In addition to that warp storms began to appear around the sector, cutting them off from Terra.  For nearly 10,000 years the Hammond Sector was cut off from Terra by storms in the Warp and enemies on all sides.  The Brotherhood defended the sector from all enemies, but with no reinforcement and enemies pushing in, the Chapter soon found that they need more and more marines to hold the line.  The need did not lessen as the years past, so the Chapter grew to meet the demand.  Eventually it became a Legion of Space Marines instead of just a Chapter.  

Psykers became a danger for the Hammond Sector.  Soon it fell to the Librarians of the Brotherhood to deal with them.  The Brother Librarians chose to teach them and keep them separate from most of the population.  Some of them become Brother Librarians themselves, others become pilots, and others still just stay and study in the fortress dedicated to their protection.

Fifteen years ago the first ships from the Imperium arrived in the Hammond Sector.  It started with refugees on Kerentia 5, but soon ships of the Inquisition followed.  As they learned more about the practices of the Hammond Sector, the Inquisition began to distrust the inhabitants and eventually chose to attempt to re-take control of the sector by force of arms.  The first battles were fierce and deadly, but the Inquisition forces were no match for the Brotherhood.

Drugs and Failure Numbers

Drugs and Failure

My Sanguinary Guard got tar pitted by some wytches and she ate everything else up.  Elsewhere my assault marines met with some of her other troops, against the Kabalites my marines did well, other than getting shot a LOT.  However my marines were not match for the archon and her unit, and got torn apart.  My Captain and bikes did however rock her reavers and another venom.  When the guns of the Kabalites and the Archon’s wytches turned on the bikes they were toast.  In the end, Captain Michael charged the Archon out of spite and she attacked first, and he failed ALL of those armor saves.

Here Goes

I play Blood Angels in Warhammer 40K and I like to tell stories.  This Blog will have two "sides", a Fluff side where I will tell the stories of the many battles I will be fighting and a not fluff side where I will explain the numbers behind the battles and probably talk about the painting I am doing and the models I am adding. 

Here we go.