Alpha Legion Sorcerer

This is an independent sculpt from a small company that I can't now find. I bought it on eBay and thought it a great model for my small Alpha Legion Army of infiltrators.

This army consists of a few Legion elite marines, some operatives,and cultists/gangers.

The original came with a staff in his left hand but I swapped this for a plasma pistol.

I painted the model's armour with Mr Colour metallics: a base of metallic blue-green, highlighted with metallic blue.

Great model

Recommended, if you can find one.

Alpha Legion Warband

Finished my Alpha Legion Warband. They will serve as the core for cultist rebellions.

I though I might take some group photos of all my Chaos warbands.

Flash photos only, unfortunately.

Alpha Legion Operatives

The Alpha Legion is different from other Chaos Marines. My take is that it consists of small numbers of elite marines backed by human 'operatives' fillinging the troop slots.

They specialise in subversion and surgical strikes so they should mostly be used in small fast hit scenarios: assassinations, sabotage, retrieval etc. Where they fight large scale battles they should be simply the elite core of an allied Cultist or Imperial Guard (renegade) force or possibly be supplementedby other Chaos Warbands.

Alpha Legion: Hellbrute

And so, the evil grows, mwah, ha ha ha....

Alpha Legion Core: More conventional Pics

More conventional pics of my Alpha Legion core force of Warlord, Dark Apostle, and six Chosen. I envisage an infiltration army with lots of 'operatives' and 'cultists'.

Sorry about the thin depth of field. It is very dark here on the roof of the world with snow laden skys and a sun that barely makes it over the horizon. Roll on summer.

Alpha Legion: Night Fight

Alpha Legion marines bringing terror to the feeble minions of the corpse emperor: mwah, ha, ha, ha....foam, gibber.

Alpha Legion Dark Apostle

Citadel Fine Cast model of a Dark Apostle painted as a member of the Alpha Legion, the Hydra Lads. The base is a resin model from an independent that I have had laying around for some years waiting for the right model.

Praying to the Dark Gods.

Arkos The Faithless, Alpha Legion

I have an extensive Vraks army and have meant to model the warband of Arkos the Faithless for some time. The Alpha Legion uses operatives and cultists so fits the new Chaos Codex well. Purchasing Dark Vengence finally gave me the spur.

Here is the first model, good 'ole Arkos himself. The Alpha Legion uses basic metallic blue washed with green and trimmed with silver. I have added bright metallic green to give a splash of complimentary colour and given him a matching purple cloak.

The stats for Arkos are given in one of the Vraks books: see below. They are now obsolete but are easily modified. I assume that the S+2 from the dark sword are already included in the stats line as he has a Strength of 6, the same as a daemon prince. Eight would be ridiculous. The DV model has a plasma pistol instead of a combi melta but that's OK. No doubt Arkos had access to various weapons.

Next up an Alpha Legion Dark Apostle.

 Edit: Addition

New Arkos Rules
Arkos the Faithless, Scion of Alpharius (IA7: The Siege of Vraks – Part Three, p199)..............................................................................170 points
WS BS S T W I A Ld Sv
Arkos 6 5 4 5 3 5 4 10 3+ (5+)
Unit Composition
• 1 (Unique)
Unit Type
• Infantry (Character)
Wargear
• Power armour
• Combi-melta
• Dark blade
• Frag grenades
• Krak grenades
Special Rules
• Independent Character
• Daemonic
• Son of Alpharius
• Warlord
• Counter Attack
Warlord: If Arkos the Faithless is your army’s Warlord then he does not roll on the Warlord Traits table, but instead receives the following unique trait:
Devious Tactician: A player using Arkos the Faithless as his Warlord may re-roll the dice when determining which player will select a table half to deploy in and when attempting to Seize the Initiative.
Son of Alpharius: Any squad joined by Arkos gains the Counter-attack special rule. If Arkos leaves the squad or is removed as a casualty then he no longer provides them this benefit.
Dark blade: The Dark blade is a power sword that adds +2 to its wielder’s Strength score.
Arkos the Faithless is a HQ choice for a Codex: Chaos Space Marine army or Renegades and Heretics army.

Chaos Sorcerer

I have been going through my Bitz Box and assembled this from spare bits: the left arm is made up of components from three seperate models.

I have in mind to pait a new army for the Alpha Legion so have painted this model so it would blend in.