A Pause for Breath

 

With tenth edition almost upon us, I found myself thinking about which were my favourite games of 40k since I got back into the hobby back in late 2018. 

A Grey Knight's Tale: Part 3 - Night Lords

My final game in the Skypehammer campaign - Grey Knights vs the Night Lords!

It's a good knight from me, and it's a good night from him.

A Grey Knight's Tale: Part 2 - Militarum Tempestus

The Grey Knights continue their campaign over Skype - this time we exterminate the hated Imperium!

Wait, what?

A Grey Knight's Tale: Part 1 - Chaos Daemonkin

The gospel of Skypehammer continues to spread!

This time I, Stylus, was a participant, trying out the heroic Grey Knights!

A View T'au a Kill: T'au vs Chaos Space Marines

The Crypt Angels vs T'au

This battle happened back in April, but we never got round to writing it up. Just before 8th Ed disappears, here it is for posterity.

Escape to Reality: Thousand Sons vs Chaos Daemons

The Hunt for Ahriman campaign concludes tonight! Does that slippery little Exile have one more trick up his sleeve?

Free!

Ahriman fell into a spiralling hell of colour and noise as he fell through the warp rift. For several seconds, neither time nor space had meaning. Everything was mutable - distance, physics, his own identity, the eventual destiny of the galaxy, everything. 

But he had been here before. Giving into this malleability would make everything that came before meaningless. A few hastily spoken wards stabilised him as he needed himself, and allowed a moment of reflection. 

Merely by having a will to express, he was already shaping the warpstuff around him. Whatever its true form, it was focussing itself into locations, physical places that his mind could understand. Fragments of a broken empire, hanging in space. Much like the reality he knew lay beyond, and also like that, his for the taking. No, that temptation wasn't worth giving in to. He had too much staked in reality. Hurriedly, he moved on.

As he moved, he searched. And before long, he found what he was looking for - a way out. A hanging oval, spinning around a point disconcertingly off-centre, with a hazy vista of broken rock and asphalt barely visible. Whatever benighted planet it was on, it would be safer than here. 

Moving towards it, he could hear the hoots and shrieks that justified his haste. He was not alone. Perhaps some of the denizens of the warp would serve him, for a time. But not all would be aligned with his goals, nor his expressed allegiance. 

Time to escape. 

The Rotfast Club: Death Guard vs The Purge

The Purge have heard tales of a lethal biotoxin accidentally made in an imperial manufactorum. The toxin killed everyone in the area and the facility has long been abandoned. The Purge want to find the toxin and spread it indiscriminately. 

Meanwhile, the Death Guard prefer a more measured approach than planet-wide slaughter and want to take possession of the biotoxin themselves to analyse it.

I, Pootle, will continue leading The Purge after the fun I had during the Averment Campaign, and I, Stylus, will take command of the Death Guard.

Skypehammer Round 12: The Bitter End

We got there in the end - our epic Skypehammer campaign ends tonight!

Space Wolves & Imperial Guard vs Black Legion & Adeptus Mechanicus!

Never Send a Boy to do a Mantis' Job: Mantis Warriors vs Alpha Legion

In a break from our regularly-scheduled campaign - the Alpha Legion are at it again!

Hallowed Imperial relics have been discovered in the shattered remains of an ancient fortress. Early winter frosts have isolated the dig site, but as the Mantis Warriors move to secure the relics for their chapter, they discover a sinister truth. 

Could the relics have been placed there deliberately, as bait for a trap?

Bludteef's Return: Ultramarines vs Evil Sunz

Three centuries ago, the Imperial world of Bagot Prime was attacked by an Ork Warlord, Bludteef. Beaten off and thought long-dead, all signs are pointing to his re-emergence. An Ultramarine strike force assembles to crush this growing menace before it can get out of control. But is it already too late?

Skypehammer Round 10: You Know My Name

The campaign for Averment speeds towards its climax, but there's one more twist in the tail, and a few more heads as well ...

Imperial Guard vs Alpha Legion!

Skypehammer Round 9: Unto The Breach

This is the penultimate battle of the campaign, and in the tradition of building to a crescendo, we're going to be playing doubles!

The Purge & Nurgle Daemons vs Thousand Sons & The Scourged!

Skypehammer Round 8: A Rune Priest's Tail

The campaign for Averment tilts dangerously in favour of The Cabal ... only one loyal army stands before them and total defeat. 

Space Wolves vs The Scourged!

Skypehammer Round 7: A Stitch In Time

The Cabal's internecine struggles continue. This time, it's the Neverborn who decide they've had enough of colouring inside the lines...

Thousand Sons vs Tzeentch Daemons!

New RoMantisism: Mantis Warriors vs Alpha Legion

Workers in the eastern industrial sectors have downed tools and are refusing to work. Someone's defaced an Aquila near the foreman's hut. Disgruntled workers, or something more sinister? The Mantis Warriors have been sent to find out...

Skypehammer Round 6: Kingslayer

So far in the campaign, The Cabal have had the run of things, but who could trust a traitor?

It's the Black Legion versus The Purge!

Skypehammer Round 5: Civil War

The campaign for Averment continues, but a schism has developed in the Imperial lines...



Adeptus Mechanicus vs Imperial Guard!

Possession is 9/10ths of the Score: Alpha Legion vs Militarum Tempestus & Inquisition

The Scions are springing an ambush, but Alpha Legion are planning a trap. Also the Inquisition are up to something, and someone saw a lamppost that looked like a Callidus.

Something's about to kick off...

In the midst of the campaigns, there is always time for a quick sidebar. With new gear for the Alpha Legion, it was time for a scrap, so Stylus and I met once again on the field of battle. 

Skypehammer Round 4: Ill-Met By Enlightenment

The final combatants of the Skypehammer campaign kick off by renewing an old grudge...

Space Wolves vs Thousand Sons!

Skypehammer Round 3: Upon The Wings of Night

With the campaign gathering pace, the masterminds of The Cabal swoop in to make their presence felt...

Black Legion vs The Scourged!