Individual fluff?

[CylonDorado]

Ok, so I've been thinking. I know if you want to make your own fluff for Tyranids you can easily create your own hive fleet colors and story. Or for your own personal Eldar you can create a new craftworld. And you could always use the forgotten primarchs to make your own Chaos/Loyalist space marine chapter. Plus there are countless ork hordes and gaurdsmen regiments. But to me at least some of the rest start to get a little harder...

For instance, it seems like all daemons tend to work towards the same goal: wanton slaughter and killing regardless of the composition of the army (mostly one god or another, or mixed).

And the Grey Knights are all part of one big organization. Pretty much any variation on the codex chapter space marines (Space wolves, Templars, ext.) are all included in the codex, so where's the room for crativity?

And most of all the Necrons. I've never seen them depicted as anything but black zombie robots working for one of the two C'tan.

I was just wondering how any of you would fluff up your own personal army if it didn't leave as much room for customization fluff-wise.

[hereticfire]

I saw a vid on youtube of purple Necrons, dont know the fluff, but it was probably cool. I would say, make something up. If people don't like it, it doesn't matter cause it isn't their army. I brought some of my painted nids today to get opinions on, and some hated them, others loved it. It just depends.

[Hyper Kinetic]

All armies are pretty easy to fluff up.

My Necrons, for example, were accidentally awakened on an Agri World. This in itself is easy to fluff to the hilt as all you need is a farm themed base... but the back story is better:
Their favoured C'Tan, as with all but 4 of them, is dead... but as they entered stasis before it did, they do not know this and so they are now on a galaxy wide hunt for it.
As such, i will never have a C'Tan in my army. Fluffy!

Their colours are dark blues and greens to fit in to the darkness of the deep forests on this world... and hopefully they also look a little like they are glowing (radiation!). I wanted to "change" the fluff so that they weren't Gauss guns, but Radiation cannons. Seems to fit the current Gauss better, especially with the Glancing nerf. It is sort of 50-50... this is not terribly concerning to me though. The rest of it is more the story of the army and that is more what it is about.

[zzapper]

I have excellent Nid fluff (hence the award), but haven't put much thought towards my Necrons yet.

[The Tomato]

I've seen a... mecanic... something army that used the necron rules. they had evil marine robots and everything.

Although i cant seem to find it, i believe it was posted on work in progress

Still, no worries?

[Hyper Kinetic]

Yep, it was a Renegade Adeptus Mechanicus army:
Linky

[AMMacBride]

Fluff doesn't have to be taken straight up either. The codex's and rulebook are rules made for playing with models, not the other way around. I like that adeptus mechanicus army a lot. Also, their is a guy I play with in a league who plays with lizardmen. His whole army is WYSIWYG for IG.
Also, he's been reworking his Genestealer cult to use the Witch hunters codex.

I don't think there are enough models by GW, but I've been looking around for models I can convert into angels. I've been working on how to run the fluff, I'm not sure how it'll all work, but I'll probably run it as a daemons list to represent them flying onto the battle field since you can't do all-jetpack space marines anymore.

[Deleted]

I've had a Necron force planned since the codex was first released - I build armies around the background and mythos I write for them.

The essence of my Necron narrative is this;

In the early days following the War in Heaven, when the Deceiver began manipulating his brothers, many of the C'Tan were still at large in the galaxy. One such being was known as Anak N'Tah; the fox headed god.

All C'Tan were seen as gods by the deluded Necrontyr, yet Anak N'Tah was possessed of a hubris unlike any other. Whereas it's brethren were content to abuse the false worship the Necrontyr invested in them, the Fox was vanity embodied - he wanted to be a god, to be worshiped for eternity. Yet what good are mindless automatons as worshipers? Mere shells that can neither comprehend nor appreciate his magnificence.
In this vain, Anak N'Tah left his servants with their minds intact so that they might worship him forever.

Despite his hubris, Anak N'Tah was cunning - and whilst his foresight could not match that of the Deceiver, he saw the approaching devastation that would be wrought upon his kin. His own destruction at the hands of the Outsider was unavoidable, yet the Fox could not allow his existence to be snuffed out. Gathering his Lords, the High Priests of Anak N'Tah, he instilled a fragment of his essence within each of them; although his divine form would be rent asunder, he had ensured that he would live on within his servants, never to be forgotten, to be worshiped forever more.

Sending his Necron followers to their stasis tombs, Anak N'Tah prepared for the approach of the Outsider. Already twisted and insane from devouring his brothers, the Fox's smug certainty in his continued survival was lost on the mad god.

Eons later the first of the Fox's High Priests are stirring from their slumber. The greatest of his Lords is known as Amun'Ra. Possessed of a fragment of his vainglorious god, the newly awakened Amun'Ra has begun to amass his legions.

However, in the passing of ages something happened that the Fox did not foresee. Still possessed of the personality, charisma and mind he held whilst alive, the sleep of eons has affected Amun'Ra in a most unexpected manner; humans often say that 'time heals all wounds', and this certainly holds to some extend with this most powerful of Anak N'Tah's followers. Through the slow grind of time, the fires of his hatred for life have burned out. Awoken to find that his master is dead, that he has no purpose, and that a cold and incomprehensible objectivity has replaced the furnace of his loathing, Amun'Ra sets forth to carve his own empire from the ashes of his master's.


So there we go... please don't steal it, it took me a long time to come up with something original for my Necrons, but I thought I'd finally share it with people. I wanted something that would allow me to break from the standard 'kill everything' attitude of the Necrons. Amun'Ra is something of an aristocratic Lord - bringing primitive human settlements into his empire, protecting the inhabitants in return for their fealty, etc. It seems that perhaps the legacy of his master may eventually push these lordly desires to divine proportions (quite literally). I also wanted to create a C'Tan that was fundamentally flawed, not to mention one that would have the foresight to avoid complete destruction - the traits we commonly associate with the fox in myth and fable seemed perfect foundations on which to build my C'Tan... and thus the Fox Headed God was conceived.

There's a lot more than I've written here, including information on forbidden constellations, ancient conjunctions, and cycles of time that allow Anak N'Tah to take a hand in the galaxy once again.

Be Good

-Fox- (Not possessed of inconceivable hubris

[CylonDorado]

Now that is some good Necron fluff ;D. From everybody.

[Hyper Kinetic]

Nicely done, Dusty
My various shades of Necron Fluff can be found Here, Here and Here.

[Psychichobo]

That's the best thing about fluff - you can do absolutely whatever you like and no-one can stop you! Mwuhahahahahahahaha!

Sorry. But yeah, I have a Dark Eldar Raider force that sometiems hires Kroot and spends its time stalking their quarry through jungle and alien environments - Kabal of the Burnt Forest. The Dark Eldar I admit are pretty easy to make fluff for - they're just a big gang really.

Daemons aren't too bad though - you just have to remember that there's more to the Gods than initially perceived. Khorne is a master tactician and can live by a strict code of honour at times, for example.

[Hyper Kinetic]

I wonder... do the Kroot know that they are going to shortly end up on the torture tables?

[CylonDorado]

Feb 18, 2009 0:00:57 GMT Hyper Kinetic said:

I wonder... do the Kroot know that they are going to shortly end up on the torture tables?

It's part of their fee if they're S&M kroot.

[Aux]

Feb 15, 2009 23:00:23 GMT hereticfire said:

I saw a vid on youtube of purple Necrons, dont know the fluff, but it was probably cool. I would say, make something up. If people don't like it, it doesn't matter cause it isn't their army. I brought some of my painted nids today to get opinions on, and some hated them, others loved it. It just depends.

haha thats one of my vids


My tyranids have fluff, although i never posted it. The was a inquisitior with a cool name and everything....

[Psychichobo]

Feb 18, 2009 3:00:35 GMT CylonDorado said:

Feb 18, 2009 0:00:57 GMT Hyper Kinetic said:

I wonder... do the Kroot know that they are going to shortly end up on the torture tables?

It's part of their fee if they're S&M kroot.

There is a Kroot on a reaver jetbike and another manning a raider's lance. Also, one has found employment as a Homunculus! Not the best of conversions, but still... no pic, sadly.