Every 40K force needs its background fluff and the random assortment of stuff that is my Apocalypse force certainly does. Part of my problem is that I like tanks, so I have a lot of them, but I also like experimenting, so they have lots of different paint schemes. So the answer is a brigaded force of the remnants of other formations, which fits well with the endless war theme of 40K. So this is a kampfgruppe for what we shall call the Lernean Crusade, essentially made up of the remnants of 3 different formations from different planets, each formed round a centrepiece super-heavy vehicle.
The first force is from a standard agri-world. The centre piece is the Baneblade, camouflaged with a Cream and Light Green large blob pattern washed with brown ink and aged. The infantry will be standard Cadians in the same colour scheme. Vehicles will be all of my PzIV conversions, so that will be the standard chassis for everything other than the Baneblade. At the moment that is 3 Leman Russ (one with autocannons) and 2 Basilisks.
The second force is from a hive-world. The colour scheme is very dark green-grey. Infantry will be Death Korps types, but using the new Wargames Factory shock troop figures – the head with the coal-scuttle helmet and the gas mask. Centrepiece is the baneblade with the 4 sponsons and the short-barreled main gun. The standard chassis will be the Chimera chassis – currently 1 Basilisk and a Chimera, which is unfortunately well painted in force 1 colours, so that might be loaned over for the mean time, as they probably don’t need transport vehicles.
The third force will be from a desert world and will have the Stormsword as the centrepiece. Haven’t decided on colour scheme yet but rather than earth style yellow desert I will try and go darker into dark-red and brown so that they fit better into the dark grey apocalypse city-scape. Vehicle chassis will be Rhino – so Rhinos as Chimeras and Predators as Leman Russ (the predator is my fave 40K model). Infantry will be Wargames Factory again, but with the helmets with the integrated visors (the very Star-Warsy ones).
Thats the thoughts so far, just need to start realising them.