So I was rummaging through my boxes of plenty in the loft looking for this and that and came across a Tupperware box full of Emperor’s Children Chaos Space Marines. When I say full of Emperor’s Children Chaos Space Marines what I in fact mean is numerous sprayed black or unpainted Chaos Space Marines that I decided several years ago to put to one side to create a force of Emperor’s Children that I since forgot about when I moved house a couple of years ago. Also in the box of arm-less, backpack-less, weapon-less figures are numerous second edition figures armed with Sonic Blasters or Blast Masters, which was back in the day when the Blast Master had a smaller barrel than a Sonic Blaster. I also dug out two of the very first edition Noise Marines armed with electric guitars – from their paint scheme I can only presume that I acquired these bad boys from E-bay in some distant past.
I have decided to build an Emperor’s Children/ Noise Marine force because I have never faced one in battle previously which means none of my gaming group have one either or have faced them and I see them as a challenge to play in 5th edition, 25 point models (with Sonic Blaster) that die as easily as their 15 point counterpart. Also did I mention that I have already sprayed a number of them black? Their colour scheme of pink and black brings back memories of the best there was, the best there is, the best there ever will be – Bret “the hitman” Hart, oh and will be simple to paint/ highlight and still look effective on the table.
The current Chaos Codex makes reference to the fact that not all Emperor’s Children Chaos Space Marines are Noise Marines, and also that not all Noise Marines are Emperor’s Children. With talk of a possible game of Apocalypse later in the year, the first in nearly two years for me I have decided that I want to play the Legion of Excess if this game goes ahead. I have plans for generating Noise Marine armies based on armies listed in White Dwarf from over six years ago. I will be converting them from the Chaos Codex version 3.1 to the newer 4th edition list and then seeing how they manage in the 5th edition environment, whilst I am not hopeful that they will be competitive I will be making necessary changes to rectify this.
With no Legion rules in the latest Codex, Emperor’s Children are handicapped by not being able to swap out Blastmasters for Autocannons (I am avoiding the pain of mentioning the 40 point upgrade in Noise Marine squads, no pain no gain), Bolters and Combi-bolters for Sonic Blasters (although they are more reasonably priced in Noise Marine squads) and Rending. Rending hurts the most as it is a tool that can be used to iron out any other weaknesses in the army but being unable to take Daemonettes or upgrade Possessed Chaos Marines with Daemonic Talons hits the army hardest in my opinion.
I will have to re-read all the fluff I have in the various codices from Slaves to Darkness onwards, to try to gain an insight into what makes them what they are and to see if I can create a list that is both competitive and accurate. I seem to remember in the Chapter Approved rules something about them not having many resources and limiting the army to one Dreadnought, Predator and Land Raider…
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