Mature Ahsoka

 

Ahsoka showed up again in the Boba Fett series so I decided to start the original trilogy star wars project with her. Since her mandalorian outfit is more contemporary with Luke and co than the Rebels suit I went with that rendition for the galaxy's best girl. 

Since she is mostly black samuraiesque dress painting was pretty quick

The coming of the Crusader

 

After some further turns of manoeuvring another naval battle erupts over the penal world of Vorga Torq

The massive Eternal Crusader has arrived to bring the Templars to victory

The battle begins with all imperial vessels firing on the Planet Killer

Lowering her shields, and almost crippling the heretic vessel with a single salvo

Next turn both flagships come side to side, while in the background the smaller templar ships engage a devastation class cruiser

After weathering two turns of lethal fire it is a massive wave of thunderhawks that finishes off the world anihilator

Leaving her a burning hulk

With that battle comes to an end

And the templars claim orbit over the embattled world

Gloriana Battleship

 

The Eternal Crusader is the mobile chapter monastery of the Black Templars. A venerable relic of the Imperium's earliest days, this Gloriana class vessel houses the chapter's most holy relics such as the banner of Captain Navarre, the helm of castellan Adamus and the tomb of  Sigismund. It is also the personal warship of the high marshal, from where he directs the crusades of wrath that cleanse the galaxy in the Emperor's name.

More than 20km long, the Crusader is festooned with weapon batteries, lance turrets and torpedo tubes

The holiest part of the ship is the massive Temple of Dorn behind the bridge, a kilometres long cathedral were the Templars celebrate their greatest victories and make penance for the bitterest defeats. It is there also that new leaders of the chapter like reclusiarch Grimaldus are invested

One of the few Glorianas still in the Imperium's service, the Crusader brings death and damnation on all the spaceborne foes of the Master of Mankind

BFG heresy rules
battlefleet imperialis
Legendary ships

Edit: the gloriana has 5+ armour
Relic space marine vessel: you can include legendary ships in a chaos or space marine fleet but limited to only one of every type for each 1000pts of your navy. Imperial fleets can include a 0-1 gloriana following the limitations of battleships, doesn't have space marine rules and costs 610pts.
Phalanx, tribune class: only space marine fleet. Abyss class: only chaos.

The scouring of Deimos

 

After defeating the fleet orbiting the forgeworld of Deimos the knights of Dorn launch a massive assault on the planet, clashing with masses of cultists and two heretic warbands

The Hemidel crusade assembled in full

-Marshal Gheidon

-5x assault terminators

-Emperor's Champion

-Chaplian Grimaldus

-Devastator squad Pious

-Devastator squad Puritas

-Devastator squad Ignis

-Intercessor squad Baldouin

-Crusader squad Bohemond

-Ancient Tankred

Hordes of cultists form the bulk of the chaos force, but soon fall to the massed marine firepower

Safely hidden in a corner the heretics score several victory points

Gatling and laser cannons pummel the blasphemous foe

Suddenly a drop pod crases into the battlefield, disgorging a zealous crusader squad led by the Emperor's Champion himself

A bloody combat erupts in the ruins, and when the dust settles all the bersekers and most of the havocs have fallen to templar blades

Next turn Kharn and the Chaos Lord proceed to wipe out most of the crusader squad

While the chaos sorcerer and his buddies teleport into a crater

The Betrayer engages the Champion, but his fury is no match for the blademaster and is swiftly killed by the Emperor's chosen (again)

Marshal Gheidon and his sword brethern then show up

Then the dreadnought explodes, taking out most of the units within the ruin

Gheidon smushes some poor cultists

While the Champion slays the chaos lord

After such a holy slaughter of traitors the battle is won, praise be to the Emperor!

Having taken the forgeworld the Templars steel themselves for the inevitable heretic counterattack

Khorne bersekers

 

The second installment of  chaos filth heretic astartes is a bunch of world eaters led by none other than Kharn himself. Again these models were lent by my good friend Albert, and some have been waiting a paintjob for 20 years or more

Kharn is a really detailed mini that has stood the test of time well

Not so these monopose bersekers, hailing from the nebulous times of 2nd edition

Alpha legion

 

The Black Templars needed some baddies to square up against and luckily for mye a good friend has lent me part of his chaos marines to form the bulk of the army.

The first batch of heretics is an Alpha legion warband led by two chaos lords

Then we have a squad of terminators

Followed by some scrounged up havocs

And a heavily converted dreadnought