Almost May!?!?

Sweet Jesus!

So its nearly May, Its Snowing, and I haven't been here in over a month. Sorry for the late update.

To begin this entry, I just say April sucked.. My Father in law has Surgery and needed assistance around the house. and my Mother in law went to the ER for Congestive Heart Failure/Complicated with Cellulitus of the legs. I have basically started doing my old job as a Caregiver/PCA again in my In-law's home. Definitely, a morale crusher.

I haven't gotten as much as I would have liked done. The Chaos Dwarfs changed in list slightly, removed the Bull Centaurs, Hobgoblin Hero and the Leadbelchers. Picked up Maneaters, A CD Hero, and a Death Rocket. That's Right 4 Rockets! I also figured out my Great Taurus.. I used a Great Stag from the Wood Elf Line and added cut down Balrog wings to the model and added bull horns from an old pewter Doombull. It looks pretty ace. It just needs to be finished and I need to get some magnets for the rider. I played a pretty Tough list of Dark Elves and managed to hold a Tie. We did end a turn early though.. but I don't see in hindsight the conditions changing much to give either play a victory. We played the QCR Heat Wave Scenario... It didnt really effect either army.

My Orcs and Goblins and on hold waiting for the new River Trolls. I also need to get/convert some fanatics. Otherwise its complete.

The Beastmen at this point after a few games are pretty much set in stone. I just have to build the last 6 Harpies in the list and do some green stuff filling and it will be ready for the brush.

I did a kind of Spur of the moment purchase in April.. I started a new Space Marine Army.. Blood Angels of course.. But I wanted something I would have fun playing and painting. But that would also look outstanding as a Shelf army..
I decided on doing a Sanguinary Guard Based Army. I'm writing fluff for the forgotten chapter "Exsanguinators" The only fluff I have yet found on them is that they were a 4th Founding Chapter made up from both the Blood Angels and the Blood Drinkers Chapter, and that they are a dead chapter that finally fell to the curse of Sanguinius.

As far as the Fluff I am doing, basically the chapter was formed from the a group from the Priesthood of the Blood Angels and inducted 2 Reserve Companies of the Blood Drinkers. The hope was that the Priests could harvest next to EVERY geneseed and discover the defect and drive the geneseed evolution to weed the defect. Obviously this failed. non the less.. The idea is that the Chapter's highest position is that of the Grand Priest of Sanguinius who not only leads the chapter but is the Head of the Chapter's Priesthood as well. The Chapter also began training elite members of the chapter to strengthen the Priesthoods initial numbers. Soon the decision was made that in order to fully see the fruits of their labors they need to have Sanguinary Novitates in not only the Command Squads of the chapter but in the Squads themselves. It was decided that each squad sergeant would recommend one of his Squad to be trained as a Novitate. within 3 Centuries this practice would be giving much information into the evolution of geneseed.

As the the 40th Millenium of Man came to a close it was decided by the newly ascended Grand Priest Ditalei, that enough information was gleened in their centuries long experiment, and that more direct measure be taken to remove the defect. it was decided that geneseed would be altered to remove what they thought was the defect. Within a generation experiment seems a success. Those who succumbed to the Red Thirst were less than 1% and even so the effect were much milder than those of other chapters. The accomplishment was noticed by Commander Dante, Dante was so joyed to discover that a cure to the Thirst had been found he sent Astorath to witness and Brother Corbollo to collect geneseed samples so that all the Children of Sanguinius could prosper from this.

Over the near 40 years in route to Pavari IX, the true face of the"Cure" shown through. as in record numbers Exsanguinators fell to the Thirst and nearly immediately the rage. It began with the youngest Neonates and worked its way back through the generations at this time only the Highest of the Priesthood and majority of the Sanguinary Guard and 1st company remained with unaltered geneseed. by the time Astorath had arrived there was nearly 1400 Exsanguinators in the grips of the Black Rage. So many that the Chapter Reclusium had become unable to handle the situation. many were being sedated by whatever means and placed into stasis to await the Redeemer's arrival. Such a disaster had not been seen by a chapter in the history of the Imperium of Man. within the lifespan of a mear mortal the entire Exsanguinators chapter had been laid to waste. It was found that the alterations instead of removing the curse simply made it lay dormant until a time in which it would return 3 fold. Attempts by the remaining priesthood were made to rebuild the chapter but all failed leaving the chapter to dwindle into extinction.

This entire list has Feel No Pain and Furious Charge and has a good redundancy in the latter. It does have two Special Characters... But in 0k thats less of a deal.. Dante for the Tactical Strike and Sanguinary Guard as Troops, and Astorath mostly just to give the Honor Guard some more hitting power. but his Shadow of the Primarch rule is worth having him. I would love to run the Sanguinor, but Being as I am a chapter that at some point fell to the curse, and i field basically the entire Sanguinary Guard of the chapter it could be said that these are the last remains of the chapter to survive and Astorath is there to ease the remaining Chapter's Suffering. I may at some point remove the Honor Guard in lieu of a small unit of Death Company. But having the Death Company AND the Sanguinary Guard just seemed a bit much seeing that the only difference in my color scheme for the Sang Guard is the wings being black instead of white.

Otherwise thats about all that is going on with me currently..