Games Workshop re-released the first edition (titled Rogue Trader) of Warhammer 40,000 to celebrate the game's 30th anniversary. I purchased it upon [re]release, and I'm reviewing it chapter by chapter. This post covers the first section of the very long Chapter 3: The Age of the Imperium.
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Games Workshop re-released the first edition (titled Rogue Trader) of Warhammer 40,000 to celebrate the game's 30th anniversary. I bought a copy to taste the nostalgia that, as someone who started out in 40k in the 2000s, I never got to experience. I'm reviewing it chapter by chapter, and this p...
Within any gaming tradition, there emerges a myth that a "perfect" example of a game exists. A perfect game doesn't exist, of course, because we all have a unique definition of perfect. That said, if a game is close to being perfect, it's Firefight by Mantic Games, and here's why.
I'm a fan of...
Games Workshop re-released the first edition (titled Rogue Trader) of Warhammer 40,000 to celebrate the game's 30th anniversary. (I'm not sure about their maths. The book was released in 1987, and the re-release was announced in 2023 and shipped to customers in 2024.) What little nostalgia I hav...
In the third battle report of the Tran'Lo Tribute campaign, the Adeptus Mechanicus team plundered the archeotech vault of the heretical Vo family. When the emerge from the tunnels, however, they find that the city they just left behind is already in ruins. It seems that once they understood they...
I've been building a Vindicare Assassin for Warhammer 40,000. I have the rules for Assassins in the Imperial Agents 10th edition codex book, but by chance I saw the 3rd edition Assassins codex at a second-hand bookshop. It's only 12 pages long, so I picked it up, and this is my review of it.
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When you hear the term "wargame", you probably think "big" because a war is big. It's not a skirmish, it's not a battle, it's not an operation or a sting or astrike, it's a war. Because a war is big, there's a general admiration and excitement in the wargaming community for an expansive game board...
In the second battle report of the Tran'Lo Tribute campaign, the Adeptus Mechanicus team escaped from prison and made its way into the secret archeotech vault of the Vo family.
Having gained access to the vault, the Skitarii have discovered access back to the surface. Through this access port,...
My introduction to miniatures was through D&D. When I started out, miniatures weren't generally found in board games (or at least, not any I'd been exposed to) and I didn't know about wargaming, so miniatures were a thing for "pen and paper" RPGs. By the time I started buying them for myself, the ea...
In the first battle report of the Tran'Lo Tribute campaign, the Adeptus Mechanicus were defeated by loyalists to the heretical Family Vo. In the actual game all but 1 Fulgurite Electro-Priestess died. Through the magic of the limitless storytelling that can happen between game sessions, however,...
Tran'Lo is a forge-world in the Macharian Sector of the Imperium of Man. It gets but a passing mention in the Warhammer 40,000: Imperium Maledictum RPG rulebook, but I borrowed it as the setting for a wargame campaign.
Tran'Lo was originally ruled by House Vo. When the family was declared Hereti...
Despite using miniatures in roleplaying games for years, it wasn't until I started playing wargames that I learned about miniature bases. And boy was I not prepared. A miniature base is the little plastic disc (or square or hexagon) that wargamers glue to the bottom of their models. To my great surp...
Popular wargames like Warhammer and Frostgrave and Deadzone have specially designed miniatures for them. This allows rulebooks to refer to a specific and exact miniature, alleviating any confusion about what size that model is meant to be, what uniform it's meant to be wearing, what weapons it...
Battle at the Farm is the first Warhammer 40,000 scenario ever published, way back in 1987 as a sample adventure in Rogue Trader. Back then, it was assumed that you'd have a Games Master (GM) running the game, and the game system was basically just Warhammer Fantasy dressed in space suits. To...
If you'd told me years ago that LEGO sets and wargaming modelling were in many ways the same hobby, I wouldn't have believed you. But a few years ago, a weird thing happened and I stumbled into wargaming, and I started building models and painting and playing the game, and yes, they're basically the...
In previous blog posts, I've lamented the lack of historical miniatures where I live and how that forced me to use a Carthaginian army as my Romans, and an Ancient Egyptian army for my Ptolemaic army. Very recently, a local mini reseller added a proper Roman army, so I sent my Carthaginians back to...