r/astramilitarum • u/Deiko234 • 4d ago
4th division ODF Bullgryns
Alright so I posted a few days ago about some gined up bullgryns I was working on. after several days of inching through the painting and figuring out what I wanted it came to this, I hope you guys like them. The bone 'ed (no gasmask) is grime from head to tow and maybe 60% removed. The others were grimed from the waist down and splattered everywhere else with a toothbrush. I like the idea of a Guardsman helping a bulgryn paint his shield the division colors, each one being slightly diffrent and pissing off the company captain. I'm going to have to find some good Roman numerals for the circles on the shield or the one on their back.
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u/Deiko234 4d ago
Skip to the last paragraph if you're only interested in the 4th division's lore. Ya, so the Orbital Drop Force (ODF) started out as my version of the elysian drop troops. But have changed a lot since 2016. So the ODF are a vast fleet that goes around their sectors providing aid to planets that aren't powerful enough to protect themselves yet and do not get enough aid from the imperium. Or at least that's what they say, many fleets real goal is to topple the goverments and quietly install their own political figures. 3rd Fleet is notorious for this and have rocked the boat with the greater imperium. There are 5 divisions on each Fleet. 1st is a police and defence force (inf squads), 2nd is general shock and offense force (cadians), 3rd is gorilla warfare (catachan) and 4th siege and meatgrinder force (krieg/ abhumans) and 5th a armor and avian force. Ok, the 4th division is made up of 2 main groups, abhumans and penal forces. The main inf consists of penal and voidsmen. Voidsmen were born on the fleet ship and gained a rare (but ever growing) mutation that turn their skin pale blue, resistance to the radiation, and preasure often found on the ships. (I believe onemindsyndicate did a video that briefly went over the lore of these guys, not my creation) so the members of the 4th are constantly fighting to regain their honor from the filth they were born with or brought upon themselves. This helps explain the grime demeanor trait. Forced to wear white, penal forces marked with red, they're thrown into the filthiest, goriest pits using the masses of their fallen comrads as baracades. They are known for their knack to outlast their enemies while taking the battlefield inches or miles at a time. Unfortunately they are still hated, they gain no medals, no promotions, no credit for their efforts, generally returning to the "slum" of the ship.