Haera, 13th daughter of Lord Helmawr

In the succession campaign the side of the imperial house is represented by Haera, the most psycopathic of lord Helmawr's children, and heir to the throne after wipping out all of her siblings. As I couldn't wait for the official model I converted the one that looked closer to her artwork: the genestealer magus

She is armed in-game with a powerspear and a xenos phase-sword

I've retained the sheated pistol to use her as another character in future campaigns, a guilder lady perhaps?

 

Lady credo, rebel noble

The new Necromunda campaign is all about the nobles; with the planet embroiled in a civil war between house Helmawr and the rest of the aristocracy, it is the mysterious Lady Credo the one that rises up from the depths of the Underhive to become the head of the rebellion against the status quo. The model comes from Forgeworld and is pretty nice to work with if a bit fiddly, while the original paintjob has her in a red gown I decided to go for a more regal feel combining white, gold and purple as seen in the 30k emperor's children.

 

Primus crusade: Aquarium

 

And so it came to be that a great darkness engulfed the blessed planet of Necromunda; the light of the Astronomican was snuffed out like a wind-blown candle and the entire planet fell to chaos and infighting as hordes of heretics rose up in blasphemous riot. Not all was bleak in those darkened days, and the Emperor smote down the corrupt Gerontius Helmawr, a declared enemy of the faith that had unjustly persecuted the Redemption for centuries. Blessed Klovis, of glorious memory, saw a chance at purifying the world once and for all during that time of trial, and after sealing a pact with house Ko'Iron he launched an all out crusade to replace the cancerous leadership of Hive Primus.

The first target of the Redeemer's wrath was the main water recycling plant of the hive. For too long had its bloated guilders grown fat with the toil and suffering of the masses, no longer. Their water hoarding days would come to an end severed by our eviscerators, and the precious liquid would fall at last into the hands of the faithful

The plant was guarded by a gang of brutish goliaths, who following their slave mentality had thrown in their lot with the parasitic Helmawrs

As ever the Redeemer led us from the front, dispensing justice with his Sword of Persecution

A highborn lady joined our efforts, closely guarded by one of the most recent converts to our cause: sister Celestine

The crusade traded long range fire with the foe, moving ever closer from cover to cover

Prescient as efer the Redeemer had secured the services of Alpha, a reliable bounty hunter that had proved instrumental in furthering the cause of the church in many a past purge

The first foes fell under Klovis' fiery wrath, paying in pain their errant, and sinful lives of heresy

Ever at his side I engaged the monstrous enemy, pitting true purity against the unwholesomeness of their genecrafted bodies. And lo behold, the light of the Emperor descended upon me and surrounded my weapons in holy fire, flames divine that engulfed the goliath bully in a fire that burned more than any earthy conflagration: devouring his flesh and eating away at his sin-riddled soul

Alpha was eager to join the fray, and pushed by her frenzon collar charged into the infidel lines, blasting them with accurate bolt pistol fire 

Launching a rage-fuelled scream of hate, she pounced on their prone forms, ending their lives with savage blows from her mastercrafted powersword

With the goliaths set ablaze, the templars advanced into them, liberating the chests that contained the pay of the plant workers

And one by one were they hunted and brought low, their muscled-up frames and brutal weaponry proving useless against the sword and shield of the one true faith

It was Alpha the one that gave them the killing blow, securing the last chest and with it the loyalty of the misguided workers of the plant, that threw down the chains of their oppressive overseers to embrace the divine light of the Redemption. Praise be

We moved in to secure the great reciclators for house Ko'Iron, who bestowed many a blessing on the crusade. And with this first blow came Necromunda closer to becoming a gilded orb of faith, in eternal service to the Master of Mankind, to whom we devote our lives and our souls

Sisters repentia

 

I needed some warriors equipped with eviscerators to round up my Necromunda collection, and what better models than the sisters repentia released for codex witch hunters back in 2003? 

Two of them ara painted in the bloody rose habit, the only sororitas order to keep a presence in the hiveworld. Their novices are sworn to spend one year of their novitiate serving the pious nobles of Ko'Iron as a test of faith and skill before joining the ranks of their sisters. It will be as henchmen for une such lady that they will appear in our games

The models come without flamers, so I cobbled some together from leftover redemptionist bits

Devout warriors of the faith they are heavily inked with sacred motives and the red roses that make up the symbol of their order

The third model is an ex-escher ganger that was converted to the path of Redemption by Klovis and now wields an ornate eviscerator to cleanse the underhive from sinners

Flames, aquilas and sacred texts cover the entire body of this zealous crusader

After renouncing her live of sin and embracing the truth of the Redemption, she changed her name to that of the most popular female saint of the Imperium and took up the garb and weapons of the faithful

The secrets of Mortis: Hive Rush

 

I, deacon Malakev, was there when rumours reached holy Klovis of a great treasure hoard hidden in the abandoned hive of Mortis. Loath to let such a bounty fell into the hands of the heretics he led an expedition into that forgotten metropolis, to secure such bounty for the holy cause of Redemption

Despite the purity of our cause we weren't alone on that sacred pilgrimage, and the miscreant enforcers of the bloated lord Helmawr had sent an excavation robot to get first into the city

That band of inmoral mercenaries wasn't far behind, rushing through the poisoned land aboard an unholy convoy made of ramshackle vehicles

Klovis himself joined the race to the gates aboard the blessed Pulpitek, that magnificent chariot of purity that has conveyed us in many a purging

Third on the trail was a noisome gang of goliaths, too doped up on stimms to realize the error of their ignorant ways

The day began badly for us, the sinful oppressors of the cancerous establishment unleashed a blasphemous weapon on the crusade, throwing several zealots from the Pulpitek and gravely injuring me, the Redeemer however was miraculously spared by the Emperor's grace

But fear not pious reader, soon it was time for us to unleash His vengeance on the unbelievers, and a holy torrent of flame from the weapons of the faithful scoured the fighting deck 

Ablaze with the fire of their sins, the enforcers kept driving towards the hive

But soon more exterminator shots punished them for the effrontery

And lo behold, the purifying flame of Redemption did surround their reprobate bodies, cleansing them of taint through the holy ordeal of pain

The fire of victory in our hearts we jumped into their midst, slicing cancerous flesh with the sharp blades of our blessed eviscerators

While Klovis led us further towards the prize we noticed the goliaths keeping and uncommon low profile, cravenly rushing ahead instead of engaging in holy combat with the heretical policemen

As we traded shots with the abominable foe...

... some zealots stood behind, all the better to give the coup de grace to the heretics that had fittingly fallen by the roadside

Even their thecnoheretical bikes weren't safe from our wrath, consumed by righteous fire 

Despite our victory it was too late to stop their blasphemous scout from entering the city, and through such unworthy, cowardly means was the crusade temporarily thwarted

Soon our vehicles reached Mortis, and so began the great quest to uncover its secrets and preserve them for the Master of Mankind (blessed be His name).