White Scars Legion Destroyer Assault Squad

With the planet of Xhorik Prime now lost to the vile traitors, the Brotherhood of the Broken Blade continued their transformation from a heroic force focused on the liberation of mankind to a warband fixated only on vengeance and the death of their enemies. No longer did they think of saving the planet or its populace from the desecrations of the Warmaster's forces. Their only goal now was to kill as many traitors as possible, especially their leaders. It was at this final desperate point when they opened up the sealed containers storing the weapons of last resort, such as the dreaded rad grenades, toxiferran flamers, and phosphex bombs. If the planet had to die to save it from the traitors, so be it. There could be no consideration for mercy, honor, or innocence.

The few remaining White Scars would don the ancient, battle-scarred armor of their Legion Destroyer Squads, not used since the earliest days of the Great Crusade. They would take the oaths of the Sagyar Mazan and seek to atone for their failure with their lives... and the destruction of as many enemies as possible until the release of death should be given them.

I spent a long time modeling each of these guys, trying to generate unique and dynamic poses to make it feel like they were really swooping down to attack, using their jump packs to leap into combat. Given how chunky and generally static the marine models are, I was pushing for all I could do to open them up and give them some sense of motion. I raided the bits box quite hard for the variety of pieces and used a lot of non-GW bits to ensure they really stand out from the rest of the army on the battlefield. I also wanted to show all their equipment: dual pistols, chain swords, grenades (frag, krak, rad, and phosphex), as well as the obvious weapon upgrades.

In game terms, I fear they will be underwhelming for their exorbitant cost. They have lots of neat weapons and rules, but at the end of the day, they are WS4, 1W, 3+ save so will die as easily as a ten-man tactical squad, but cost a cool 275 points kitted out. I just hope they get one awesome attack in before they wiped out!