World Eaters Commanders.

 

The assault had begun, Astartes brother fought Astartes brother, combat upon a superhuman level, the contingents of mortal troops had no effect other then attrition numbers.

This was the thinking of Centurion Argus Brond of the World Eaters legion as he surveyed the initial push.

The smoke from the orbital bombardments was hanging lazily, mixing with the dust and fire-sorched earth which their Dreadclaw Assault Pods had kicked up when landing.

His counterpart, Centurion Khaggort was already advancing by himself, no doubt looking for a combat to embroil himself in.

Some of the World Eaters gave in more easily to the Nails then others, no matter their rank.

Brond fought the thumping ticks in the back of his head as he sought clarity to order him men into combat. He'd always felt that having the Nails implanted was a mistake, but their father had ordered it, so they complied.

He shook his head and bit his lip, motioning for Ancient Tyche and his chosen to attend him with the company banner acting as a rallying point.

Tactical, Despoiler and Breacher squads all looked forwards to his position, being given curt commands to filter through the ruins into firing positions.

He looked for their Dreadnaught support but it was nowhere to be seen as yet. But Orbital drop assaults were notorious for scattering troops over the target area, even with their locator technology, there were ways to throw that off.

With a grunted command, Argus Brond took a step through the ruins and further into damnation as he led his company into battle against his former brothers, he had a moment of clarity as he realised that, here on the cradle of mankind, they had started the last great war.

For this war would never end, and in the future there would only be war.

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Greetings, welcome to the second post of the Horus Heresy World Eaters force I am currently building.

This post features two of the HQ choices, the third being Kharn himself who has already been completed.

Both of these models are Centurions, originally the Terminator was a Praetor, but as Kharn is already a Praetor, you can't have two in the second edition rules, so he got demoted.

They're painted in the scheme discussed in the Chieftain Squad post with additions like the tassels and cloak of the terminator being red and tan and simple to do.

Terminator Centurion Khaggort is made from an old metal Terminator Champion model which was released around 2005/6 for the "Fall of Medusa V" campaign.

He had a perfect brooding, "come get some" pose, so with the addition of some cataphractii arms I thought I was good.

The the madness kicked in, as I wanted him to have a Chainaxe, a suitable Khornate weapon!

The problem is that the Cataphractii don't come with chainaxes. 

Off to the bits box.

The axe head is made from an Ork Nob Chainchoppa, as this is a suitable size, and the arm from the elbow down is a Space Wolf Terminator arm, a lot of chopping and dry fitting took place, but the result is suitably imposing for a commander I think.

Centurion Argus Brond is made from Chaos Space Marine and Khorne Berzerker parts to get that mixture of armour look I want for the force.

He has a power Axe and shield as originally he was going to be a company champion using the 5th edition rules for 40k, but got co-opted into the Heresy force and his load out was legal, so I left it.

His helmet has been converted by adding a spare set of Khorne "bunny ears" onto one of the Chaos Champion helmets in place of the horns which were cut off and saved for later.

A skull on a chain was added hanging from his belt as a trophy as well.

This shield is a Fantasy Chaos Warrior child, dinged up a little with the hobby file.

I chose the chaos star, as I didn't have a Khorne shield spare, but also it adds a little variation.

Yes the World Eaters fell to Khorne, but I felt that they wouldn't quite have full worship of the blood god going on yet and still be finding their way through the chaos powers, so the occasional other symbol would appear in their ranks.

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On with the tally of completed stuff, and you'll note between this post and the last that the list has changed slightly.

I figured we may as well work to HH2.0 as other people we know are playing those rules and we can get more games in when the force is completed.

Also this lot if now 2,000 points, not 2,500 points like in HH1.0.

HQ:

Kharn the Bloody.

Terminator Centurion.

Centurion.

Elites:

Red Butchers Squad.

Dreadnaught Talon.

Apothecarion Detachment.

Troops:

Tactical Squad.

Despoiler Squad.

Breacher Siege Squad.

Fast Attack:

Heavy Support:

Leviathan Dreadnaught.

Heavy Support Squad.

Bodyguard:

Command Squad.

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I've gotten a few more things to post before I run out of finished stuff yet, so I'll carry on with those every couple of days.

Until next time, have nice day...