I've sort of accidentally built up an Astra Militarum army for Warhammer 40,000 over the past few years. I'd been playing them mostly as [unofficial] add-on units to other armies, because I like to mix and match my 40k armies. I purchased the physical data cards for the army because I think I didn...
Do you dread being caught diceless when someone unexpectedly proposes a game? Are business meetings fraught with anxiety for fear of a client suddenly asking you to teach them D&D, but then realising you didn't bring a d20? Is your home life suffering because you're accusing your loved ones of steal...
I'm playing through the missions in the Pariah Nexus Crusade book, in order of appearance. The eighth mission is called Amidst the miasma.
In this mission, there are 5 standard objectives (1 in the centre, 4 at equidistant orthogonal points around it). There are penalties to all Hit rolls due...
It can be fun to play the "tank" sometimes, charging into battle with no thought for your own safety and clearing a path with a wave of your hand. A walking tank is essentially what a space marine is in Warhammer 40,000, or at least it is in the lore. The way a space marine plays in the game is de...
I'm playing through the missions in the Pariah Nexus Crusade book, in order of appearance. The seventh mission is called Polarising Energies.
In this mission, there are 4 objectives in No Man's Land, 2 with positive polarity and 2 with negative polarity. Each round, the polarities reverse. A u...
I'm playing through the missions in the Pariah Nexus Crusade book, in order of appearance. The sixth mission is called Unstable Archeotech.
The goal of the mission is to claim an objective, and then to sacrifice your shooting and charging phases to move the objective into the enemie's deployme...
I'm playing through the missions in the Pariah Nexus Crusade book, in order of appearance. The fifth mission is called Overwhelming dread.
Another typical capture-the-objective mission, this one adds in an environmental effect as a complication. I'm not convinced the complication is as severe...
I'm playing through the missions in the Pariah Nexus Crusade book, in order of appearance. The fourth mission is called Outflanking.
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The Blood of the Omnissiah regiment has broken through the defenses of a combined Tyranid and Genestealer Cult. After making their way to a dig site...
I'm playing through the missions in the Pariah Nexus Crusade book, in order of appearance. The third mission is called Quantum siege.
This is an interesting mission, with 3 objectives (including one within the Defender's deployment zone.) Each objective is the control panel for a quantum shiel...
Well I bought the Raumjager Infantry kit from Wargames Atlantic. They're soldiers with ill-fitting trousers and jackets, stunted guns, and awkward poses. This is my review of the product.
There's no easy way to say this, but I dislike this model kit. I bought it because I needed a bunch of raide...
I'm playing through the missions in the Pariah Nexus Crusade book, in order of appearance. The second mission is called Dig site raid, and it's a testament tothe Pariah Nexus crusade book that I was excited for this mission by the second paragraph of the mission briefing. The reason is simple....
I first started my Tyranid army tenuously, with 10 Termagants here, a Winged Tyranid Prime there. I just wanted enough to proxy the Tyranid Combat Patrol as released in White Dwarf 497. However, as I painted my models I was surprised to discover that Tyranids were actually, puzzlingly, impossibly...
I'm playing through the missions in the Pariah Nexus Crusade book, in order of appearance. The missions don't have to be played in order, and in fact the book provides random tables for selecting a mission to play. I want to play through each one, though, so I'm just starting at the first in print...
I needed some generic monsters for a campaign I was running. I was running campaigns back to back, and I wanted to make them feel distinct from one another. I didn't want to re-use the same 2 enemy armies I'd already used, and I'd already used an army that normally is an ally as an opposing force. I...
I ran a Warhammer 40,000 Halloween campaign using a custom detachment of zombie miniatures from Zombicide. There were 3 scenarios, with a failsafe scenario in case the Astra Militarum detachment falters. In the campaign, the Astra Militarum survived each scenario, so there wasn't a need to play...
I'm running a Warhammer 40,000 Halloween campaign using a custom detachment of zombie miniatures from Zombicide. There are 3 scenarios, with a failsafe scenario in case the Astra Militarum detachment falters. The third scenario takes place within and around an air purification station.