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Agreed.
Blood Pact somewhat fills the void, but even then lore wise they are more of their own organic force that just-so-happens to superficially resemble IG than an actual "traitor guard" regiment.
Either way, Chaos soldiers that aren't either Chaos Marines or just rabble cultists are always interesting to see.

Hopefully we'll see something interesting in the future, GW do actually seem to be making strides to expand things. Hopefully they develop Helot Cults in Necromunda a little as well... I'd really like to put together a little Alpha Legion cultist force I could use for something. Is Kill Team actually any good? It sounded rather simplistic from what little I know, which really put me off.
 
First attempt. I don't hate it, but I could stand to learn how to highlight. The green glow didn't really give the desired effect either.
Those are totally table-ready and gtg. If I was pushing closer to "parade ready", I'd have progressively highlighted the upwards-facing and mostly vertical edges of the bronze parts with a brighter gold and then point highlighted everything with chrome/bright silver. As for OSL/glow effects, an airbrush goes a long way for those, and I'd have left the gun barrels bronze with the green just in the dots with greenish edge highlights around those dots. If you don't have an airbrush and are feeling spendy, I like my Iwata Eclipse HP-CS, but Madworks offers a perfectly good .3 brush for like 1/3 the cost.

In all seriousness, I'm a bit jealous of 'cron players. Prime them black, heavy drybrush with a bronze/copper color, layer on some gunmetal colored bits to break up the monochrome and follow that with a Nuln Oil wash, a couple of quick highlight passes and then do the green glowy parts. Batch painting nirvana.
 
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First attempt. I don't hate it, but I could stand to learn how to highlight. The green glow didn't really give the desired effect either.
Try this for green glows. paint it over white of course. https://www.amazon.com/Vallejo-Green-Fluorescent-Paint-17ml/dp/B000PH9JC8

Example: a model I did for a friend.
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They're probably slower like orks/crons and maybe shootier since they have ionic weapons like Tau but at this point it's really hard to tell what their thing's supposed to be.
From what I've heard massive amounts of close-range firepower backed by choppy goodness. Don't let the muscle-headed midgets waddle up to your lines if you can help it. The fact those exo-suit TEQs have Volkite Volkanite weapons should probably be an indicator of what to expect.
Agreed.
Blood Pact somewhat fills the void, but even then lore wise they are more of their own organic force that just-so-happens to superficially resemble IG than an actual "traitor guard" regiment.
Either way, Chaos soldiers that aren't either Chaos Marines or just rabble cultists are always interesting to see.
Okay, you've triggered my 'tism. The Blood Pact resemble the IG by design, as one day a Chaos warlord looked around at everything around him, asked himself "With all these wonderful servants of the Dark Gods, why do we keep losing so badly whenever the Imperium finally pulls its head out of its ass?" and came to the conclusion that having a bunch of cultists armed with nothing but loot and scraps is a pretty terrible way to win any sort of long-term campaign like the sorts the Imperium likes to get into, and so he decided to recruit everyone he could that had a brain to set up an organized, drilled, professional military force complete with things like supply lines and standardized kit, which of course included plenty of traitor Guardsmen.
 
Okay, you've triggered my 'tism. The Blood Pact resemble the IG by design, as one day a Chaos warlord looked around at everything around him, asked himself "With all these wonderful servants of the Dark Gods, why do we keep losing so badly whenever the Imperium finally pulls its head out of its ass?" and came to the conclusion that having a bunch of cultists armed with nothing but loot and scraps is a pretty terrible way to win any sort of long-term campaign like the sorts the Imperium likes to get into, and so he decided to recruit everyone he could that had a brain to set up an organized, drilled, professional military force complete with things like supply lines and standardized kit, which of course included plenty of traitor Guardsmen.
Fair enough. My point was that Blood Pact (mostly) weren't IG regiments who turned traitor, they were organic recruits (mostly) rather than turncoats who fell to Chaos.
 
Fair enough. My point was that Blood Pact (mostly) weren't IG regiments who turned traitor, they were organic recruits (mostly) rather than turncoats who fell to Chaos.
Yeah, that's a fair argument. Having actual traitors would be cool since the last one we got was... Vraks? And that wasn't even IG but some weird PDF thing that went traitor.
 
The CSM Codex is so much good with one huge omission that keeps me from loving it: warbands are gone.

I run the Purge. What do you guys think I should run them as? I'm thinking either Iron Warriors or Night Lords.
 
Does this leaker have any credibility at all?
Chapter Master Valrak commented on it at B&C:
Some of this list makes sense. The Genestealer thing could work into the stuff I've heard about them relaunching Space Hulk.
There's also this:
This is a burner acc.

The next codex is Votann.

Then Kill Team - set on a space hulk, it’s new kasrkin vs Genestealers (old kit with upgrade sprew)

Then guard codex.

Then world eaters with Angron.

After that we are getting space marine 2.0 with chapter supplements (no new chapter specific models) in 2023. This launch will be with Primaris “terminators” (gravis marines with classic load outs and a take on the classic helmets), missile Primaris devastator (not their name) squad, and melee oriented dreadnought.

The launch of 10th will be nids with a range refresh like the necrons saw. Opposite them in the launch box will be generic space marines with jump pack assault troops and a jump captain (there is likely more units in the box)

The confusion is that the generic marines are painted as blood angels as they’re going to poster boy the launch, along with Dark Angels and both will see large Primaris centric updates (including a lion model). It’s going to be a launch focussed in imperium nihilus with “angels of death” codex nostalgia

Edit: typo

Edit 2: Obviously I know Demons exist, I just personally haven’t seen anything specific about their release. They’ll probably be out before space marine 2.0
Again, Valrak:
Not to yank my own chain, but this post seems like he's been watching my streams and I've even said the stuff about the DA are not from a source who I 100% trust.
 
Is it really that point where all the epic leaks are coming again. I suppose 2021 did fly by extremely fast and GWs release schedule is still screwy due to world issues.
 
If they are real that's great, always glad to get more assault infantry but somehow something about this triggers my plebbitor alarms.
 
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