The Upilion Crusade

One of the nice things about Killteam is the focus is on the individual characters rather than the overall army as a whole. In addition, you need to be able to distinguish between similar models to know who is armed with what. This means, I need to name everyone. Up to now, I’ve been pulling out vaguely Germanic sounding names, so my power sword wielding lieutenant is called Leopold while the comms specialist is Gunter.

Last weekend I finished up another 7 models, 3 new Reivers and my Chaplain, Captain with power armor, Emperor’s champion, and my marksman.

Lesser known Knights of the Round table:

• Geraint, Bors, Lamorak, Kay, Gareth, Gawain, Bedivere, Tristan, Palamedes, Aban, Abrioris, Adragain, Aglovale, Agravain, Aqiff, Bagdemagus, Baudwin, Brastius, Bredbeddle, Breunor, Caradoc, Calogrenant, Constantine, Degore, Daniel, Dinadan, Dornar, Ector, Elyan, Galehaut, Galeshin, Gingalain, Griflet, Lionel, Lucan, Mador, Maleagant, Mordred, Morien, Pelleas, Pinel, Safir, Segwarides, Tor, Ulfius, Uriens, Yvain

Knights from movies:

• Godfrey, Edward, Balian, Reynald, Tiberias, Baldwin, Ulrich

Sinister sounding chaplain names:

• Charon, Mordred (the reclusiarch before Grimaldus), Samael, Uriel

I quite like Godfrey and Tiberius from Kingdom of heaven. Historically, Godfrey of Bouillon was the leader of the first crusade in the holy land. Let’s then make the new Captain with powerfist Godfrey. In the Black Templars he will be a Castellan making him a company captain over a ‘Fighting Company’ which can be wonderfully vague. Above him we will have a Marshal who will be the overall leader of the Crusade, that is probably going to be my Captain in Gravis Armor. The High Marshall is the overall leader of the Black Templars at the time and will not be appearing unless GW make a primaris version of Helbrecht.

Looking at the make up of the first crusade army we can see a bunch of additional names.

• Godfrey, Baldwin, Fulcher, Ruthard, Baldric, Heribrand, Walter, Stableo, Adelof, Geoffrey, Matthew, Miles, Winrich, Robert, Werner, Giselbert, Hugh, Gervaise, Franco, Conon, Theoderic, Peter, Arnold, Aldo, Heribrand, Roger, Arnulf, Adam, Dodo, Peter, Gotmann, Fulbert, Drogo, Reinhard, Airard, Gunter, Lambert, Philip, Albert, Arnold, Henry, Gerard, Gosuin.

My Chaplain will be Charon, the Greek ferryman which I feel is somewhat apt.

The Emperor’s champion will be Primus as a nod to the Helsbreach book. In that Primus is a self proclaimed ‘blade master’ and I always felt he was gunning for the position of Emperor’s champion.

My marksman will be Constantine, although I balk slightly at having to write such a long name on the base.

The 3 Reivers will be Balian, Lucan, and Safir.

I’m reminded I also have 3 Hellblaster marines waiting names. Last night one who was proxying as a normal maring with plasma gun rolled and rerolled a 1 on his first shot in killteam. I can only assume the lack of name was the issue. They are now Ector, Brastis, and Malador.