Penal Legionionare Stories

[Sguighunter]

Hey guys

I am starting and Imperial Guard army which I have been working on for the past like year without any progress but I am going to start getting stuck into them now.

I am going to build an army with a high concentration of penal legion squads at least 3 possibly 4 and I wanted to give a name to every single one of the penal legion troopers including the custodians handling them.

If you guys have any ideas of a cool name and a backstory to go with it it would be really helpful, if you look up schaffers Last chancers there are a few examples there.

Thanks loads, any ideas are welcome (It just allows me to slightly convert each model and I am going to paint there names on the bases so the games become more characterful).

Kind regards Luke

[Sguighunter]

I am asuming you are all a very creaitve bunch of people here so any stories would be welcome

[Erebus]

what about a big daddy character with a few 'slaves' you know, "welcome to jail, you belong to me now"

or

a junkie thats real strung out and pale, red eyes, rolled up sleeve with track marks.

or

have three or four in one squad as mongrol mob and some in a different squad could be Black power. (got to keep them seperate you know ) this could be as easy as having the headbands and scarf coloured.

and theres always an old man with his books. grey hair, stooped over, carrying a book?

the dodgy prison gaurd who is selling stuff to the inmates.

maybe have some of the arian brotherhood (skinheads) (seperate unit to the other gangs i guess)

there has to some with tattoos, good ones and green scummy prison ones too.

watch prison movies, lots of ideas there.

[Sguighunter]

GOod ideas man you are the first one who has actually helped me with this

[Erebus]

its my favourite unit in the army, its so something you could picture the empire doing. though i wouldnt want to be there prison guard.

what about. theres always a group of body builders. you could paint your ogryns in prison uniforms and and have them as these guys all muscle no brain 

thats a non penal prison unit, there might be others too. if you paint everyone except the leader of any unit in prison uniforms then they could just by serving out there sentence by serving the empire. with the squad leader as there guard. surely a heavy weapons team thats skilled would be better utilised on heavy weapons would be left there (under guard) until the battle was over then shot or whatever. 

dont forget to put shanks in some of there hands.

how many guys you doing? umm..

some of them would be ex-guard only just put into the units so they would still have some if not all of there uniforms pending courtmarshal. no stripes or medals or ranking marking as these would be stripped. maybe still helmets?

you could put barcodes on there right hands (so its visable) for identification, as well as number on chest or whatever

[Sguighunter]

I am building an army of guard who ahve fought a war and who have won but have very little numbers left they have then been forced to relly upon penal troopers for help with survival

[bloated corpse]

You could theme your surviving non-penal units as Arbite/Law enforcement types who are in charge of the prisoners. The normal guard units have been wiped out and it's down to the Arbites and their prisoners to repulse the Chaos/Dark Eldar/Space Smurf (insert enemy here) invasion.

Use the more uniform Cadians as the law and the plastic Rambos as the penal units.

Lots of potential for Mounted cops (rough riders), SWAT teams (storm troopers), Snipers (Ratlings)

[Sguighunter]

Yep the whole story seems to be coming together thanks for your help guys

[daemion]

have one dude with no head as his explosive collar has just blown it up due to his minder creating an example. and leave the fig  in place if they ever bugger off.

[Sguighunter]

Lol good idea I will just have a line for his name that could be an awesome model

[Big D]

You may also want to check BoLS Adeptus Arbites Minidex http://belloflostsouls.net/2008/11/play-aid-adeptus-arbites-mini-dex-from.html for ideas on converting cadians into Arbites.

[Sguighunter]

thanks a lot

[kittenslayer]

You need the *wise guy* who speaks in a New Jersey accent, pops his collar and has the last name of "Bonadochi".

[Sguighunter]

lol he would be the first to go wiht casualties then

[Erebus]

there is usually a priestly type (born again empirean) with his bible and holding his cross (?) out in front of him. often nicknamed 'father'

what about 'lefty' who lost his arm when he tried to steal something (they wouldnt waste empire tech to repair a crim). . maybe stuck his arm somewhere stupid.

[kittenslayer]

There would probably be a "lefty" guy who's against imperium politically as well!  "Why are we dying for this dictator regime anyway?!  Lets rebel!!!"

[wouster7]

Any of the stories translated into picture form yet sguigy?