Marneus Calgar and the Emperor's Disciples

Last year I received Marnus Calgar as a present and while I don't collect Ultramarines as rule but the new Calgar model is a very nice centre piece model and I'm looking forward to painting it up. Now, I'm not going to do anything out of the ordinary here, he'll be painted as standard along side his standard retinue plus a couple of other units.

Now when I started this post (it was quite a while ago) 9th was still just a whisper in the wind and so Calgar was just going to form a small Supreme Command detachment with a couple of other primaris units to act as a Captain and Lieutenant's, with an old school apothecary in the elite slot. Now with the changes to 9th, he will form part of a patrol detachment and the basis for the new Emperor's Disciples chapter, who unsurprisingly will be an Ultramarine successor chapter. 

I know that this means that Calgar won't actually be painted as a Smurf and will have a different name but seeing as he won't face the table top very often and when he does it will be in the local gaming group, I very much doubt anyone will care. 

Who are the Emperor's Disciples I hear you ask? Well they were one of the chapters I use to have on here before I cut back to just a couple of core chapters, namely the Knights and Guardians. With 9th, the points hikes and Combat Patrol, I have decided to rebuild my forces and bring back some.of the old chapters, for a bit of fun and flavour. This will require a fluff rewrite, taking the Disciples from Fists successor to Ultramarine successor, but the main lore will remain. Part of this rewrite will include a new paint job, not aassive change but a noticable one none the less. 

New, simpler cleaner colour scheme. 

The old scheme, a bit more detailed and fiddly. Plus I didn't like the test model I painted up a long time ago. 

So what will this little force contain? Well, Calgar obviously and his Victrix Guard. Together these boys form around 300 points! There will also be a Primaris Ancient, because what Commander wouldn't travem with there standard. Then there will be the honour guard, which in this case will be comprised of between 5 to 7 Intercessors. I would liked to have brought another unit instead of the extra Intercessors but there is only 40 points left over with 5 of them, so there are not many options that fit that gap. The general idea with these is to form a basic command retinue with commander and guard. There's isn't any particular specialisation for this army and when combined with the other forces will just form a command core and additional troops. 

This will be one of the first armies built and painted, as I have all the units now and have a chunk of them built, they will have to wait until I have finished my guard project however.