The Raven Guard stealth ability is not overhyped in the slightest - Captain Aethon Shaan and a squad from his 4th company appeared out of nowhere in the middle of Ultramarines fortress monastery on Macragge during a war council - and spooked the hell out of all of legends of Ultramarines gathered there by announcing themselves. (book: The Chapter's Due)
They're BOTH fast and sneaky, because at the end of the day their chapter doctrines evolved in parallel toward a heavy emphasis on raiding The thing is that White Scars are warriors but the Raven Guard are *soldiers* and that distinction comes to the foreground when they're together
For my Raven Guard, I've making a band that decided to help their dad bring the milk home. So they foolishly ran off into the Eye of Terror with a half cocked plan and are paying some chaotic consequences. I'm calling them A Feast for Crows (but nobody says all that, they're Crows' Feast). Really awesome to see what you did with this one! Giving me some ideas about trying capes myself.
I've never played Warhammer 40K, or any army battle game. But, I have a great time watching Jay get excited about it all, even though I usually have little idea what it all means. I got sucked in by his interesting and creative modelling and paint jobs. Using the mask for a cape here was fantastic! I also love the not-so-little little raven skull as well.
haha... same. I painted some minis 20 years ago and I have no clue of the lore but Jay is by far my favorite youtuber .. i hardly understand what hes talking about but I love his honest enthusiasm. I can just enjoy him and his videos for him being happy ^^
Animals named "Common ..." usually have a duplicate scientific name because it is also the subspecies/group name. I literally just went digging around looking at Latin names last week because of Corvus Corax lol
9:33 "This stuff is the color of gun." I didn't know I needed Ratling Grime Contrast in my paint collection before today. Thanks for the tutorial. Raven Guard is my pick for the Phobos Kill Team.
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore- While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. “’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door- Only this and nothing more.”
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a clapping, as of ass cheeks gently clapping, clapping at my chamber door. “Tis a visitor,” I muttered. “Dummy thicc, and nothing more”
That cape worked out so well! Nice job, I'm tempted to pick things up again after 30+ years away from it all, I guess the main advantage is the models are that much bigger from my day, I took a look at some of my old mini's and wondered how I ever managed to get any detail on them!
Jay, I've had good luck with paper towel (texture) and thin super glue. The process can be challenging, but exhilarating. Start with setting the hood by holding and drip the glue (let it soak in). Then work your way down the cloak, pressing and dripping glue. Pointy tweezers help. You can cut or tear paper towel as needed. If you come up short, you can add bits of paper towel for a more 3D camo effect. Good Luck and thanks for all the work you guys do!
The latest warhammer community article seems to be a sly wink of confirmation that your guess about emperor's children was right. This ought to be pretty cool!
You missed the grenade. Some chapters I'd be interested in you painting: Black Dragons - 21st (Cursed) Founding - Their bone blades should be cool to see on your models. Blood Angels - 1st Founding - Wonder how you'll make your take on vampires. Plus, they're the chapter that got me most interested in Space Marines. Blood Ravens - Unknown Founding - Mostly just a DoW ask. Crimson Fists - 2nd Founding - The first chapter to ever be seen, having been on the cover art of Rogue Trader. Dark Angels - 1st Founding - The 1st Legion, and their primarch is apparently back. Deathwatch - Ordo Xenos - You can basically use whatever chapter you want with this one. Flesh Tearers - 2nd Founding - A more vicious form of the Blood Angels chapter. Plenty of opportunities for chain weapons. Also, Gabriel Seth's take on the Primaris Marines is based. Grey Knights - Ordo Malleus - Can you do this without any of the special parts? Or will you cave? Iron Snakes - 2nd Founding - Out of all art of space marines, one of my favourite will always be that one Marine with the respirator with a grill like that of a snarling beast, and the giant, thick, slab-like pauldrons. It's such an evocative image. Lamenters - 21st (Cursed) Founding - The checkered pattern on the pauldrons will give you a good challenge. Plus, we gotta love these boys. Mantis Warriors - Possible 8th Founding - Stealthy Samurai Marines. Storm Wardens - Unknown Founding - Mostly because I love the idea of Scottish Space Marines. White Scars - 1st Founding - You have the Storm Lords, but not the White Scars. This must be corrected.
Something I just want to add as a gaint Raven Guard fanboy is that, lorewise wraithslipping (at least in 30k) is more than being completely silent, it is more akin to the most experienced of them having a small psychic ability that enables them to be out of sight of most opponents (robots and scanners can still detect them) appearing like they literally merged with shadows. Yes, I know, they are that edgy
Go on dude, start a Raven Guard army. You already have Black Templars but do Raven Guard too. That way you have a codex compliant chapter and one that likes to do its own thing. I feel there's enough differences there to set them apart. I myself have both Space Wolves and Scythes of the Emperor for that very reason!
I will NEVER forget the Raven Guard. I love them. I really don’t even get why I just think they’re cool and they’re also my favorite chapter. WH Space Marine 2 cosplay is gonna be really clean!
I would love to see Jays interpretation of some veteran Dark Angels. Either robed or Deathwing (probably robed). So many little bits and bobs you can stick on them to really emphasise their monastic / knightly take on things. Robes. Robes. Robes. Do it Jay!
The ones I forget are the Space Wolves. Several times I've tried to name all 18 legions by heart, and I end up naming 17, and the 20 minutes later finally recall the Space Wolves.
I did a similar trick for capes on some kitbashed Corsair Voidscarred with actual paper towel, but then I put a thin layer of Miliput thinned with IPA to harden them up.
I'm getting into Space Marines with Raptors, so it's great to see your take on their parent chapter! I'm glad that I'm actually not feeling the beaky helmets for these green successors, although I would like to 3D print some feather trinkets similar to the ones in the Raven Guard pack. I'm starting with a Phobos Strike kill team and I'd like to name all my operatives after birds.
I love the raven guard, their stealth, the helmets, and I love that they lean into the grunge emo aesthetic to the point of it being funny. A lot of people hate shrikes haircut but I love it, it just fits lol.
The Wraith Slip thing is their Primarch's gift - Corvus Corax had an ability to make himself unnoticeable in plain sight thanks to his warp connection, and some of his sons were able to exhibit a weaker version of that ability - they were assigned to Mór Deithan (The Shadowmasters) and carried out surprise strikes.
I’d love to see your take on legion of the dammed Great work btw been following this channel a long time now and you just keep going from strength to strength
I bought the first Horus heresy box just for my Raven Guard, and in the lore they are one of the smallest of space marine chapters. The assault HH marine box works well too.
Getting back into the hobby after a hiatus of over 15 years (was 11 then, now 26 and can better appreciate the art as well as the game). Would love if you did some blood angel videos! Much love!
I'd like to see a sandy marine! With some sort of desertic camo, but from the future. Tome Keepers are neat, they all have a book and when a marine dies, a brother picks it up and write an heroic last chapter for the book before sealing it
Jay I know you might just be doing really popular first founding marines, but it would really make me happy to see some less well known ones, maybe the Executioners ? Either way good job on the vid it looks great !
Love getting a new vid for the morning commute! Here’s hoping I win the terrain this month. Want to stage my Spacewolves saving a Kasrkin kill team from being held captive in a mine. Plllleeeeaaaase paint a Wolf captain with more primal hounds bits!
I did a ghillie suit cape for a zaku sniper gunpla using gauze. It looks very close to that kind of netty camouflage that you see draped over military vehicles.
I do love how the Raven Guard have one cool thing about their gene seed with being totally silent and whatnot… and then they wear a ton of Phobos armor which is already silent on its own lmao
6:03, Please everyone, don't use a saw on that direction, towards the hand. One day, you might regret it, trust me. Or at least, wear some protective gloves while doing it. Some very good protective gloves.
White scars bikers are such a cool vibe. The old sculpts with the ponytails n swords n spear raised up are great posing, maybe 3 on the custodes floating bikes would be amazing. Also another underrated underutilized chapter from GW
The Kill Team Salvation box came with Raven Guard transfers, and so does the new Scout Kill team which you will want anyway if you are playing Raven Guard. So RG players do have options for transfers these days. Also Scouts are really good for any chapter so if you have a RG player in your area, trade them the RG transfers for ones you want.
The 19th is one of my favorites. Currently I’m trying to turn the space marines I’ve collected through starter sets into a cohesive army, my favorites are the Imperial fists, Iron hands and Ravenguard I’m leaning to either the imperial fist or ravenguard since a friend of mine got his hands on both battle forces and is offering to sell me one.
Very nice, but he would have been *perfect* if you had pulled out a Devastator beaky head, one of the ones that have a bunch of lenses and scopes and targetting thingies built into the helmet, so he could have YET MORE SCOPES. As for what Legion to paint next, my favorite is always Thousand Sons, if you want to do some Traitor Legions!
4:15 it isn't imperial propaganda. In one of the meetings between the raven guard + Corax and the night lords + Kurze, the night lords were surprised because the raven guard power armour made no noise, and they came out of shadows as if the materialized from thin air. They're that stealthy.
Fun fact that Wraith slipping is a toned down version of what Corax could do which eas basically invisibility. In 30k its explained that RG can erase their presence from not only humans/astartes but also machines. Corax's was so extreme he could sneak up on primarches.
There are some successors with great colors and themes, like the metallic armor of the Minotaurs, the teal of the Dragon Spears or the "tattooed" armor of the Carcharodons
You forgot to mention the Corvus is currently an imperial raven daemon terrorising Lorgar and his hyper religious nut jobs! I stand corrected, you mentioned it at the end, I would love to see Covus and Jaghatai return.
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... what ar eyou talking about, the Ravenguard have been pushed a ton lately?
1:42 "u see ivan when u attach 3 scopes to your gun ur gun becomes 3 times as accurate"
Don't S.Marines already have targeting in their helmet?
Have you tried painting lamenters ??? They are nice
Would also love to see Minotaurs. And if you’re feeling chaos, some alpha legion!
Ravenguard a chapter so stealthy that even GW forgets that they exist
Good. Anything gw touch in recent years turns to shiet
I don't know... not enough scopes :/
Like 5??? Those are rookie numbers
Needs at least 10 more
Their Raptors decedents would be proud
Plus at least 2 of those backpack camera/lenses lol
The Raven Guard stealth ability is not overhyped in the slightest - Captain Aethon Shaan and a squad from his 4th company appeared out of nowhere in the middle of Ultramarines fortress monastery on Macragge during a war council - and spooked the hell out of all of legends of Ultramarines gathered there by announcing themselves. (book: The Chapter's Due)
Could it be Raven Guard propaganda? XD
@@shinkiro403 They are too edgy and cool to boast so i believe it
That's Ork Kommando levels of "speshul gitfinda teknologee" on the Bolter.
Minotaurs up next! Bronzed Space Spartans!
id love to see him do minotaur's
Another trait of the Raven Guard: their commanders have to hold back from trying to show the White Scars how being sneaky is better than being fast.
They're BOTH fast and sneaky, because at the end of the day their chapter doctrines evolved in parallel toward a heavy emphasis on raiding
The thing is that White Scars are warriors but the Raven Guard are *soldiers* and that distinction comes to the foreground when they're together
For my Raven Guard, I've making a band that decided to help their dad bring the milk home. So they foolishly ran off into the Eye of Terror with a half cocked plan and are paying some chaotic consequences. I'm calling them A Feast for Crows (but nobody says all that, they're Crows' Feast). Really awesome to see what you did with this one! Giving me some ideas about trying capes myself.
I've never played Warhammer 40K, or any army battle game. But, I have a great time watching Jay get excited about it all, even though I usually have little idea what it all means. I got sucked in by his interesting and creative modelling and paint jobs. Using the mask for a cape here was fantastic! I also love the not-so-little little raven skull as well.
haha... same. I painted some minis 20 years ago and I have no clue of the lore but Jay is by far my favorite youtuber .. i hardly understand what hes talking about but I love his honest enthusiasm. I can just enjoy him and his videos for him being happy ^^
We almost got ya!
Corvus Corax is also the scientific name of a Raven
Raven raven, "the raven" of the raven guard.
Its like Ferrus manus, “Iron hands” of the Iron hands who has Iron hands and is upon the flagship the iron hands.
Yes, like rat is ratus ratus I believe?...
Vulpes vulpes
Red Fox
Ummm.... space foxes?
Animals named "Common ..." usually have a duplicate scientific name because it is also the subspecies/group name. I literally just went digging around looking at Latin names last week because of Corvus Corax lol
9:33 "This stuff is the color of gun." I didn't know I needed Ratling Grime Contrast in my paint collection before today.
Thanks for the tutorial. Raven Guard is my pick for the Phobos Kill Team.
as new raven guard player. I couldn't be more happier than you pick this chapter up!
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore-
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
“’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door-
Only this and nothing more.”
Lorgar trying to ignore Corvus in the Eye of Terror, M42 colorized
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a clapping, as of ass cheeks gently clapping, clapping at my chamber door.
“Tis a visitor,” I muttered. “Dummy thicc, and nothing more”
Ha I get it. Junior year of high-school etched this into my brain.
Quoth the raven, "are you sure?"
That cape worked out so well! Nice job, I'm tempted to pick things up again after 30+ years away from it all, I guess the main advantage is the models are that much bigger from my day, I took a look at some of my old mini's and wondered how I ever managed to get any detail on them!
Any day that the Raven Guard get some love is a great day
As a new Crimson fists player, i have also come to see the greatness of simple paint schemes
Nice job Jay. Gonna steal that stealth cloak idea. Also SPACE SHARKS!
Jay i really love your videos, and they always make me happy. They have helped me through some tough times and i appreciate your channel a lot.
Honestly the spider-man comparison is pretty much the Raven Guard
Especially when you look at their face sculpts. Yikes.
Pity they're not quite as funky as Bad Peter. Lol!
the most emo legion are the Nightlords
@@mostcomplicatedman8115 you misspelled sadistic.
You should do a space shark kit bash. The Carcharodons are badass.
Recommendation for fabric when making capes: Dry Baby Wipes. They are a bit thicker but take the glue beautifully.
Raven Guard are the best chapter. Please paint more of them!
I love how in your projects, every bit of conversion is thoroughly thought with lore in mind
Jay, I've had good luck with paper towel (texture) and thin super glue. The process can be challenging, but exhilarating. Start with setting the hood by holding and drip the glue (let it soak in). Then work your way down the cloak, pressing and dripping glue. Pointy tweezers help. You can cut or tear paper towel as needed. If you come up short, you can add bits of paper towel for a more 3D camo effect.
Good Luck and thanks for all the work you guys do!
The latest warhammer community article seems to be a sly wink of confirmation that your guess about emperor's children was right. This ought to be pretty cool!
YES!! RAVEN GUARD!!! This is so awesome!! please!!! I would love to see your take on a RG Kill Team!! 🙏
You missed the grenade.
Some chapters I'd be interested in you painting:
Black Dragons - 21st (Cursed) Founding - Their bone blades should be cool to see on your models.
Blood Angels - 1st Founding - Wonder how you'll make your take on vampires. Plus, they're the chapter that got me most interested in Space Marines.
Blood Ravens - Unknown Founding - Mostly just a DoW ask.
Crimson Fists - 2nd Founding - The first chapter to ever be seen, having been on the cover art of Rogue Trader.
Dark Angels - 1st Founding - The 1st Legion, and their primarch is apparently back.
Deathwatch - Ordo Xenos - You can basically use whatever chapter you want with this one.
Flesh Tearers - 2nd Founding - A more vicious form of the Blood Angels chapter. Plenty of opportunities for chain weapons. Also, Gabriel Seth's take on the Primaris Marines is based.
Grey Knights - Ordo Malleus - Can you do this without any of the special parts? Or will you cave?
Iron Snakes - 2nd Founding - Out of all art of space marines, one of my favourite will always be that one Marine with the respirator with a grill like that of a snarling beast, and the giant, thick, slab-like pauldrons. It's such an evocative image.
Lamenters - 21st (Cursed) Founding - The checkered pattern on the pauldrons will give you a good challenge. Plus, we gotta love these boys.
Mantis Warriors - Possible 8th Founding - Stealthy Samurai Marines.
Storm Wardens - Unknown Founding - Mostly because I love the idea of Scottish Space Marines.
White Scars - 1st Founding - You have the Storm Lords, but not the White Scars. This must be corrected.
Love the energy of every video. Infectious! Keep up the good work.
Blood angels next?
4:38 will anybody take it to notice Jays bee siscors
dark angels giving a really good conversion to make the standard intercessor look like a dark angel
Something I just want to add as a gaint Raven Guard fanboy is that, lorewise wraithslipping (at least in 30k) is more than being completely silent, it is more akin to the most experienced of them having a small psychic ability that enables them to be out of sight of most opponents (robots and scanners can still detect them) appearing like they literally merged with shadows. Yes, I know, they are that edgy
Brother Tacticool is like "Red dot, check. Thermal sight, check. DMR range optics, check. Long range, optics check. infrared sight, check. Caw caw motherfuc...."
You mentioning Culver’s makes me remember when I lived in Kentucky and we ate Culver’s for Sunday lunch brings back memories
Go on dude, start a Raven Guard army.
You already have Black Templars but do Raven Guard too. That way you have a codex compliant chapter and one that likes to do its own thing. I feel there's enough differences there to set them apart. I myself have both Space Wolves and Scythes of the Emperor for that very reason!
I love this model the most out of this series of painting different chapters
I will NEVER forget the Raven Guard. I love them. I really don’t even get why I just think they’re cool and they’re also my favorite chapter. WH Space Marine 2 cosplay is gonna be really clean!
They are also part of the scattered legions. One of their boys gave Lucis his true death before "lol noped" by Salannash
Nykkona Sharrowkyn
Awesome vid! I'm old enough to be getting 90s Rob Liefeld vibes from all the scopes and pouches.
I would love to see Jays interpretation of some veteran Dark Angels. Either robed or Deathwing (probably robed). So many little bits and bobs you can stick on them to really emphasise their monastic / knightly take on things.
Robes.
Robes.
Robes.
Do it Jay!
I love the hobby. But I almost love the way that Jay sits at the table even more! it's cozy.
The ones I forget are the Space Wolves. Several times I've tried to name all 18 legions by heart, and I end up naming 17, and the 20 minutes later finally recall the Space Wolves.
3:13 you gotta have the cheese curds on the side too or it’s no deal
Awesome job, and love the "series" on one space marine per chapter. I hope you do chaos space marines as well :)
I did a similar trick for capes on some kitbashed Corsair Voidscarred with actual paper towel, but then I put a thin layer of Miliput thinned with IPA to harden them up.
I mean for the name of a primarch... Iron Hand of the Iron Hands, whose flagship is the Iron Hand.
And they literally have bionic hands.
In my head cannon. Raven guard are purple, the sneaky color!
Really enjoying this videos with the different chapters!
fun fact about the raven guard, the wraith slipping is often achieved by marines shoving dirt and sand in between armor plating to muffle the noise.
I'm getting into Space Marines with Raptors, so it's great to see your take on their parent chapter! I'm glad that I'm actually not feeling the beaky helmets for these green successors, although I would like to 3D print some feather trinkets similar to the ones in the Raven Guard pack. I'm starting with a Phobos Strike kill team and I'd like to name all my operatives after birds.
I love the raven guard, their stealth, the helmets, and I love that they lean into the grunge emo aesthetic to the point of it being funny. A lot of people hate shrikes haircut but I love it, it just fits lol.
as a raven guard player this makes me happy to see them getting some love
The Wraith Slip thing is their Primarch's gift - Corvus Corax had an ability to make himself unnoticeable in plain sight thanks to his warp connection, and some of his sons were able to exhibit a weaker version of that ability - they were assigned to Mór Deithan (The Shadowmasters) and carried out surprise strikes.
Please do a Crimson Fists one. The OG-Poster boys need some love!
I absolutely love this series! I hope he does popular successor chapters after he finishes the main 20.
I’d love to see your take on legion of the dammed
Great work btw been following this channel a long time now and you just keep going from strength to strength
I bought the first Horus heresy box just for my Raven Guard, and in the lore they are one of the smallest of space marine chapters. The assault HH marine box works well too.
Getting back into the hobby after a hiatus of over 15 years (was 11 then, now 26 and can better appreciate the art as well as the game). Would love if you did some blood angel videos! Much love!
you gotta do Tyberos of the Space sharks man would be so cool
I'd like to see a sandy marine! With some sort of desertic camo, but from the future. Tome Keepers are neat, they all have a book and when a marine dies, a brother picks it up and write an heroic last chapter for the book before sealing it
Jay I know you might just be doing really popular first founding marines, but it would really make me happy to see some less well known ones, maybe the Executioners ? Either way good job on the vid it looks great !
Could you paint some Crimson Fists or Striking Scorpions? Thanks for amazing and consistent content!
Love getting a new vid for the morning commute! Here’s hoping I win the terrain this month. Want to stage my Spacewolves saving a Kasrkin kill team from being held captive in a mine.
Plllleeeeaaaase paint a Wolf captain with more primal hounds bits!
I did a ghillie suit cape for a zaku sniper gunpla using gauze. It looks very close to that kind of netty camouflage that you see draped over military vehicles.
They're so sneaky they make people forget they exist
I'm very impressed by the "scope" of that first build.
Looks incredible good!
Could you make the Dark Angels next?
I think Jay secretly hates Dark Angels. :)
@@sbeaberthen he must repent
Fianlly, Ive been waiting for this. Caw Caw brothers. Finally our moment in the darkness.
I do love how the Raven Guard have one cool thing about their gene seed with being totally silent and whatnot… and then they wear a ton of Phobos armor which is already silent on its own lmao
My favorite legion and chapter! Thanks for doing them justice brother!
6:03, Please everyone, don't use a saw on that direction, towards the hand. One day, you might regret it, trust me.
Or at least, wear some protective gloves while doing it. Some very good protective gloves.
Most decent looking primaris I have ever seen, well done!
1:42 "u see ivan when u attach 3 scopes to your gun ur gun becomes 3 times as accurate"
White scars bikers are such a cool vibe. The old sculpts with the ponytails n swords n spear raised up are great posing, maybe 3 on the custodes floating bikes would be amazing. Also another underrated underutilized chapter from GW
5 scopes Malone had be rolling. Great vid.
The White Scars so forgotten .... we even lost our joke of being forgotten and overlooked....
OOOF, MY HEART
I would love to see this series expanded to the traitor legions. Either as alternated legionaries, or as loyalist versions of the chaos legions.
I love the idea that the Mechanicus refuse to make variable magnification scopes, so the space marines are forced to just use like 4 scopes 😂😂
11:03 Danggg Homie. That Plate is *Dope AF*
His helmet would look epic in the same color as the bird skull
The Kill Team Salvation box came with Raven Guard transfers, and so does the new Scout Kill team which you will want anyway if you are playing Raven Guard. So RG players do have options for transfers these days. Also Scouts are really good for any chapter so if you have a RG player in your area, trade them the RG transfers for ones you want.
For Beakies, definitely recommend getting the Mark VI Heresy kit. Plenty to go around, there
That cloak was really cool, I need to try that one out.
"A nice meal at Mc Donalds -Contradictio in terminator armor"
He makes the arrow an outline because they wanna be sneaky. Meanwhile that biogas’s white helmet is just sitting there
White scares would be cool to see next they deserve more love
I love it! My favorite, and I wish corax were to come back soon!
The 19th is one of my favorites. Currently I’m trying to turn the space marines I’ve collected through starter sets into a cohesive army, my favorites are the Imperial fists, Iron hands and Ravenguard I’m leaning to either the imperial fist or ravenguard since a friend of mine got his hands on both battle forces and is offering to sell me one.
Very nice, but he would have been *perfect* if you had pulled out a Devastator beaky head, one of the ones that have a bunch of lenses and scopes and targetting thingies built into the helmet, so he could have YET MORE SCOPES.
As for what Legion to paint next, my favorite is always Thousand Sons, if you want to do some Traitor Legions!
Nah nah. Ravenguard really can wraith slip. Well. Some of them can.
Great idea about the mask. I have been using other things for cots and bed sheets.
Excellent work 👍 2 things - should be 'six scope steve' and REALLY don't like the outline tactical symbol, looked so much better before 😢
4:15 it isn't imperial propaganda. In one of the meetings between the raven guard + Corax and the night lords + Kurze, the night lords were surprised because the raven guard power armour made no noise, and they came out of shadows as if the materialized from thin air. They're that stealthy.
You make painting look so easy.
Fun fact that Wraith slipping is a toned down version of what Corax could do which eas basically invisibility. In 30k its explained that RG can erase their presence from not only humans/astartes but also machines. Corax's was so extreme he could sneak up on primarches.
That Vibrant base is slick!!
There are some successors with great colors and themes, like the metallic armor of the Minotaurs, the teal of the Dragon Spears or the "tattooed" armor of the Carcharodons
Anything can be bought and sold for a succulent Culver’s meal.
You forgot to mention the Corvus is currently an imperial raven daemon terrorising Lorgar and his hyper religious nut jobs!
I stand corrected, you mentioned it at the end, I would love to see Covus and Jaghatai return.
Would love to see more RG content. I actually convert templars into RG units.