Personal Notes 101

Having taken practically a year and a half hiatus from 40k and miniature wargaming I've started to dive right back into it and I'm remembering everything about this hobby that made me love it so much.  In fact I'm enjoying even more of it, for I was the type of person that absolutely abhorred painting mini's and so at most all I had was a 1k point list painted of Tau (my primary army, or so it was when I played 40k regularly).  Having returned though I've started to paint practically daily however, and a significant portion of that is simply from inspiration.

Raiding Iothas - Part 3

The tension was palpable among the squad of chosen, the silence the choice that they had all unanimously agreed upon - unspoken at all costs.  Nervously they walked forward, knees bent, crouched in the shadows as much as possible.  This served two purposes: first of all, it would hopefully allow them to approach the Eldar position unnoticed and allow them to take the filthy xenos by surprise; the second function kept them out of the attention of the two commanders in their midst.  Sorcerer Yurfalk's foul mood tainted every move he made, facial expression, grunt and curse uttered.  He jerked around as he talked to himself, muttering about authority and some other things about orders and hierarchy.  Lord Bontav smoldered, his eyes an inferno, his bearing overwhelming, every step seeming to leave cracks in the concrete.

Raiding Iothas - Part 2

Reman tucked his bolter into its holster and sprinted with his squadron, making a beeline towards the heart of the battle, where Orks and Eldar and Chaos were converging.  Even sprinting as he was, Reman could see the Nurgle Bikers roaring past just to his left, the engines almost overpowering the crashing of the entire unit of Terminators moving full throttle, the solid tons of metal hurtling at otherwise impossible speeds.

These three units were to engage not only the Orks, but also the Traitor Guard and the incoming Eldar forces.  The remainder of the strike force still had the original task to accomplish; but now 3 units were to fight not just one army, but three.

Raiding Iothas - Part 1

A world of grey and black.  That is what the world seemed like to Champion Nyrtus.  Ash billowing everywhere, swept for miles from the carnage of the battlefield, creeping into filters and vents.  Some cultists nearby coughed as their low grade oxygen masks were overwhelmed in their attempt to create clean air out of the tons of waste flying above the ground at all levels.

It wasn't supposed to go this way.

Campaign Construction 102: Ground Rules

When designing a campaign there are a few basic ideas that you want to set aside in order to develop it as much as possible, this article attempts to bring several themes of these to light.

List Construction (A small tangent)

In this post creating a list is the central topic, touching upon planning, commitments, and working towards the final product.

Lysander Returns from the Immaterium (Campaign Construction 101) - Logistics

Finally the warp storms have cleared and I have reemerged better than ever.  In this post the opening phases of planning a campaign are discussed.  Thanks for hanging in there team!