[Troops] Tactical squads

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   The first thing to paint when you start a new army is the two tactical squads you need in any army. It allows you to fix the painting scheme and some details.

   At the beginning, I wanted to have a successor chapter from the Dark Angels, founded after the Great Heresyand named the Doom Angels. This army will have colors based on the old Dark Angel codex, W40k second edition.

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   Their armor are painted in Orkhide Shade, with red stripes in Baal Red. To mark the difference between the Dark Angels and the Doom Angels, the sword in the DA symbol will be painted in red, so will their guns. I added a three colors tag on every left leg or knee pad. These three colors are black, red and green. The black represents the Dark Angels origin, the red the Horus Heresy and the green their chapter.

   Having Dark Angels army allows you to play with beautiful minis like the Dark Angel sergent with a bolt pistol and an energetic blade. I added him a DA banner et voilà.

   The tunic was painted in Foundation Khemri Brown, darker than the Bleach Bone from the Deathwing. I added a skull on the base to show that's a commanding mini.

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   The second tactical squad was created on the same philosophy: having cool minis to play with. I bought spare parts from the Iron Hands vets to convert some marines and add some  more variation.

   The last DA codex and the 5th Space Marines codex edition introduced a big modification in the tactical squads: you can split them in two. But while the sergent goes with one part, who commands the second one?

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   That's why I created the "half squad sergents". These minis aren't sergents, they don't wear a red  helmet and a tunic. They just have a loosy t-shirt DoA symbol on the top of their backpack.

   The second Sergent was based on another cool DA sergent mini. The banner was differently painted. I chosed to emphasize the three colors tag and added a winged skull. The chainsword is a bit damaged, because Doom Angels are a fighting army :-).