Winged Brotherhood, Second Company, Bravo Squad. They Are Led Into Battle By Sergeant Carter. They Are

Winged Brotherhood, Second Company, Bravo Squad.  They are led into battle by Sergeant Carter.  They are swift death with chain sword and bolt pistol.

As with Alpha, they are awaiting reinforcements to bring them up to full battle strength.

The Hammond Sector

After the end of the Heresy, the Winged Brotherhood was sent to Hammond Sector, a small distant piece of human space.  A group of five stars relatively close to each other through the warp, with nine habitable planets between them.  Chosen for the chapter planet of the Brotherhood was Kerentia 4, a forge world.  Because of the lack of free space on the planet, a space station was re-purposed to become their fortress monastery.  They were equipped with a standard group of space ships, battle barges, strike cruisers and other small vessels appropriate for a fledgling chapter.  Kerentia 3 and 5 were also habitable planets, agri-worlds that primarily support the forge world in their system.  

During their first years in the Hammond Sector, the Brotherhood fought desperately to hold that sector against enemies on many fronts.  In addition to that warp storms began to appear around the sector, cutting them off from Terra.  For nearly 10,000 years the Hammond Sector was cut off from Terra by storms in the Warp and enemies on all sides.  The Brotherhood defended the sector from all enemies, but with no reinforcement and enemies pushing in, the Chapter soon found that they need more and more marines to hold the line.  The need did not lessen as the years past, so the Chapter grew to meet the demand.  Eventually it became a Legion of Space Marines instead of just a Chapter.  

Psykers became a danger for the Hammond Sector.  Soon it fell to the Librarians of the Brotherhood to deal with them.  The Brother Librarians chose to teach them and keep them separate from most of the population.  Some of them become Brother Librarians themselves, others become pilots, and others still just stay and study in the fortress dedicated to their protection.

Fifteen years ago the first ships from the Imperium arrived in the Hammond Sector.  It started with refugees on Kerentia 5, but soon ships of the Inquisition followed.  As they learned more about the practices of the Hammond Sector, the Inquisition began to distrust the inhabitants and eventually chose to attempt to re-take control of the sector by force of arms.  The first battles were fierce and deadly, but the Inquisition forces were no match for the Brotherhood.

Hey sorry for the long wait, those of you that care, but summer is my busy season.   This is the fruit of my weekend.  I think he came out pretty well.   Thoughts and comments are welcome.

Now that I have batteries, here is my priest.  I feel that he came out REALLY well.  Also my three priests together, they are a huge part of the awesome that is in my army.

This is Hyro, he carries a flamer for Alpha Squad.  Later I will tell the story of how he earned a name and his heroism medal (the blue trim on his shoulders).  The reason that he is here is because Assault Marines do not come with flamers and I had to make my own.

The Tau Incursion (Numbers)

We fought two battles, both 400 pts combat patrol.   Tanner brought a Tau list, three squads of fire warriors and two crisis suits. I brought my Blood Angels, one squad of assault marines and one squad of Sanguinary Guard. Nick brought Imp Guard, two veteran squads in Chimeras.

Tanner and I fought first, I tar pitted Tanner's crisis suits with assault marines, and then cleaned up with the Guard.

Tanner and Nick fought later, the Chimeras prevented the Tau from getting access the Guards squishy bits.