Kitbashing UNIQUE Squad Korsan, The Black Legion’s Void Reapers.
Veteran Sgt Korsann – Bolt Pistol, Chainsword, Daemon Haunted armour.
‘The rarest of creature amongst the nine – an honest soul’
Legionnaire Maulthurien – Gore blessed Chainsword, Combi Bolter (melta).
‘Rage suffocated with the shroud of abomination.’
Legionnaire Vausten – Multi melta, melta charges.
‘Every solution looks like a nail when you hold a hammer.’
Legionnaire Caliban – Bolter, Chainsword, Legion Knife.
‘He holds the past like a miser hoards gold.’
Legionnaire Zhageddon – Bolter, Legion Knife
‘Not all our sins are outwardly worn.’
Legionnaire Kereddax – Bolter, plasma grenade.
‘A sense of humour is often the first thing we leave behind upon an astartes ascension. If only this held true.’
Legionnaire Ghreddob – Heresy Era Plasma Gun. Tentacle mutation.
‘The gods gift vileness to their truest servants.’
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Subject: Squad Korsann
Warband: Scions of Seleenar
Allegiance: Black Legion
Classification: Extremis – Void Assault Specialists
“Stars are just holes punched in the dark. Whatever’s behind them isn’t meant for us.”
-Common Naval saying
Squad Korsann is a veteran tactical element attached to the Black Legion warband known as the Scions of Seleenar. Their operational history is concentrated in void warfare: boarding assaults, orbital dock seizures, derelict hulk purges, and Zone Mortalis actions conducted in confined and structurally compromised environments.
Armour pattern irregularities and gene-markers suggest multiple Legion origins. XVIth and IVth lineage is probable; VIIIth indicators are present in helm configuration and sensory augmentation. Prior heraldry has been systematically removed. The only consistent marking is the sable field, and Lighting marked Death’s Head, framed by a crescent moon. Individual identity appears intentionally suppressed in favour of functional cohesion.
Doctrine & Method
Korsann employs disciplined breach tactics supported by controlled, overlapping bolter fire within restricted corridors. Movement is economical, target prioritisation is efficient and a propensity for high-energy weaponry. Survivors consistently report compartment neutralisation within minutes of hull penetration.
Armour shows extensive void adaptation: reinforced seal couplings, radiation pitting, mag-lock greaves, and helm optics calibrated for low-lumen and particulate-heavy atmospheres. These modifications indicate prolonged fleet-based campaigning rather than planetary warfare.
Assessment
Their lethality increases in enclosed structures where manoeuvre is limited and panic spreads rapidly among unaugmented defenders. Engagement records suggest experience measured not in years, but in void campaigns.
Squad Korsann represents a mature and specialised asset within the Black Legion’s fleet operations. Drawn from many Legions yet operating under a single banner, they prosecute war in the narrow spaces between bulkheads — where pressure fails, light dims, and faith proves insufficient.
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The Chaos Space Marine...who are they? What do they want?
I have a very partciluar image of what a space marine should look like. I'm a big lover of the base plastic kit GW sells. They nailed the aesthetic of a Chaos Space Marine - it's very Blanchesque, great call backs to earlier kits, and art. But I've never been quite been able to shake the feeling that these represent what an Imperial would think a Chaos Marine would look like. The kit is pure, inquisitoral propoganda.
Reading the books, especially the excellent Night Lords series by ADB, I’d envision warriors in creaking, ancient armour. Canibalised armour marks, mismatched, bastard machine spirits warring with the incumbent Legionnaires. Marines that constantly harp on about the good ol’ days, rooting thier legend within the Siege of Terra (side note of internal lore – I imagine most Chaos Marines are full of shit, and weren’t at the siege – most would have been created afterward, but need to locate themselves in a mythology not of thier own. You can tell which models within my force are Heresy Era Marines on whether they use Forge World legs or not. If they have Forge World, they were present at Terra.)
These marines, this entire project, is an attempt to create the marines of these stories. Thankfully, this mindset is shared by some of the best 3-d sculptors on the market! These miniatures have been created with a kaleidoscope of bits, from K0rdhal miniatures (the severed head) to Racluse to DMS. The legs are from the Justerin Terminator set with bits from the basic plastic Chaos Marine set. Unfortunately, most of these kits are no longer for sale after some nasty e-mails from big corpo.
This is the first basic squad I’ve done for the Black Legion project – an attempt to collect and paint an army for 10th edition 40k. With 11th on the horizon I look forward to painting another unit for the advent of 12th ed! I wanted to push the melting pot feel of the legion, and present the viewer a quetion – what is the parent legion of this warrior? There are suggestions, like the Blood Angel helmet, which reminds me of a piece of lore where Abaddon took the geneseed of the dead of Mackan to create new Black Legion. Or the unusual humour of Kereddax, jiggling a severed head, repeating the idiot refrain: ‘the planet broke before the guard.’
You have to find humour in the everyday things, or you’ll go mad.
I turn my eye to the remainder of my collection. What would an elite, void assault force be without a unit of terminators to spear head it’s assaults? Or a dreadnought to rampage through enemey and ally lines? What do you think I should add next?
You can find out how to paint these bad boys via the Liber Chaotica Tutorial series below.
