I have mentioned the Rat Marines before, and there have been occasional requests for an accounting. Well, here it is:
You’ll notice as you go through that the Rats prefer beaky helmets (their noses fit), plasma guns, flamers, meltas, and lightning claws. Not surprisingly, when they were played, they used a Salamander list. More surprisingly, they were loyal (there’s a story there) but that’ll last as long as an Inquisitor doesn’t get a good look at them. (Though the Space Wolves have been known to comment, “They’s hairier than us.”) Until then, the Force’s psychics envision the Emperor as a big horned rat.
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- The Rat Marine group photo. They’re painted in a Silver Skulls scheme, and fielded using a Salamander list.
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- HQ: This is Shrike, as the Chapter Master. Coming with beakie, claws, and a cloth to cover his tail, he needed no conversion.
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- HQ: This is the usual Force Commander. Yes, that’s an old Doom Wheel pilot on that bike.
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- HQ: The Chaplain looks kind of fierce, doesn’t he? He’s a Mordheim Warlock on a bike.
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- HQ: The model that started it all, the original force commander. Basically, a beakie with a tail and a Horned Rat back banner.
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- HQ: The Dreadnaught. Kind of a simple conversion, actually.
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- Elite: I wouldn’t normally have two Terminator squads in a force, but GW put out plastic terminators after I’d put together the metal ones.
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- Elite: The original Terminator squad, made with metal figs. (They don’t come with beakies, so those were added.)
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- Troops: The first Tactical Squad with their Rhino.
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- Troops: 2nd Tactical. The Razorback-mounted squads are “move” teams and armed with flamers and meltas.
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- Troops: 3rd Tactical, mounted in a Razorback.
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- Yes, the Lascannon gunner marks his kills on his gunshield.
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- Troops: 4th Tactical. The Rhino-mounted squads are “Shooting” Teams with missile launchers and plasma rifles.
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- Troops: Scouts with sniper rifles.
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- Troops: A force’s replacements, organized into an ad hoc Tactical squad.
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- Fast: the force’s one land speeder, complete with daring pilot.
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- Fast: 1st Assault, a jump team.
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- Fast: 2nd Assault, on foot.
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- Heavy: the force Whirlwind. Don’t leave the battle barge without it.
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- Heavy: The Devastator squad’s sargeant.
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- Heavy: The Devastator squad’s multimeltas.
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- Kill Team: Eshin. This features the first, and only, heavy-duty lightning claw conversion.
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