Victory Honor Guard

Chapter Masters do not walk into a war zone alone. An honour guard is the handful of long-service veterans who stand at that shoulder, handed the best the armoury can spare and one standing order: the commander leaves the field alive. This is a single figure posed for that duty rather than for a firing line. The bearing is upright and deliberate, half parade ground and half working soldier, carrying the heavier plate and ornamented wargear the posting implies. Retinue models tend to be the most decorated things in a marine force, and this one is drawn on that understanding. It serves as a proxy for elite bodyguard and honour guard entries in grimdark tabletop games at wargaming scale, and it is worth the extra hours at the painting desk. Anyone assembling a command tableau around a named commander gets a figure that does not simply read as a battle-brother in better armour.