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We know that each of the Mortal Realms has their
own realmstone with their own unique properties.
Hysh has aetherquartz, Shyish has grave—sand, and
so on. But what about the Realm of Chaos? The
skaven have a thing for warpstone, and varanite
comes from the Eightpoints, but do the domains of
each Chaos God have their own realmstones?
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torso and head and cooler tones the further away you
The Horns were a 1:1 mix of Skrag Brown and Abaddon
Black, and I used Ushabti Bone for highlights, followed
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used Tuskgor Fur as a basecoat and built up the metal parts were painted using mixes of Balthasar Gold,
highlights using Bestigor Flesh and Ungor Flesh. For the Liberator Gold, Seraphim Sepia and Nihilakh Oxide. The
blue hair, I used a basecoat of Incubi Darkness and trick here was going back and forth between the shades \x
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Hello! My LGBT pride-themed Space Marines Chapter —
the Gate Crushers — is basically a story of happy
discovery.
It all started with a gift for a friend: a Tyranid that I
painted using the trans pride flag colours. At first, I
thought it wouldn’t end up looking all that great with the
colours being so unconventional, but the meaning
behind it mattered to my friend, so I went for it anyway.
I was so wrong — the colour scheme turned out pretty
V incredible and made me realise that I shouldn’t dismiss
unconventional ideas straight away and to try things out.
Seeing as I’m a huge Space Marines fan, I tried out the
same scheme on a Reiver (second row above), and it
came out just as well as the Tyranid. So, I thought, if it
worked that well with one pride flag, why not try some
of the others? After all, it would be challenging, fun and
a meaningful nod to communities dear to me.
So, that’s what I did, and 12 miniatures later, the Gate
Crushers were born. I’m happy to say that none of the
colour schemes based on those 12 flags were a
disappointment. One even ended up being my absolute
all-time favourite — the non-binary one.
If you want to reproduce these colour schemes, I’ve
made all of them freely available on my Instagram:
@cerberusxt_figurines.
Benoit “Cerberuth” Bartkowiak
Chateau-Thierry, France
What an awesome collection of models you’ve painted,
Benoit, and what an exceptional tribute you’re paying
to all the many LGBT communities out there. It’s
incredible how good all the flag colours look on Space
Marines. We’re all about inclusiveness here in the
White Dwarf Bunker. We’re also all about creativity.
And your project clearly ticks both of those boxes and
more besides. Gold stars all round, we think!
Incidentally, are there any Citadel colours you didn’t
use in the creation of these models?
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colours and techniques used in the painting of the coming thick and fast now! Fortunately, the ’Eavy
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models so we can help inquisitive artisans such as
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Nottingham, UK the different Starborne skin tones and scales.

BLUE SKIN SCALES

I Basecoat: NightLords Blue
I Glaze: Night Lords Blue &
Thunderhawk Blue 1:1
I Glaze:Thunderhawk Blue
I Basecoat: Abaddon Black, Night Lords
Blue & Naggaroth Night1:1:1
I Highlight: Night Lords Blue &
Naggaroth Night 1:1

I Highlight: Kantor Blue

I Highlight:ThunderhawkBlue &
Deepkin Flesh 1:1 I Highlight: Alaitoc Blue
I Highlight: CaledorSky I Highlight: Fenrisian Grey
WHITE SKIN Highlight: White Scar

Baseooat: Grey Seer &

Pallid Wych Flesh 1:1
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I Basecoat: Night Lords Blue
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WARHAMMER
Taking [un]civi| war to the battlefield
arhammer Age of Sigmar is defined
by climactic struggles between
bitter foes with ample reason to
want to tear each other to pieces.
But how can we make narrative sense of
those stranger engagements on the tabletop,
when supposed comrades are set against each
other in a fight to the death?
NICK The grand saga of the Age of Sigmar is based
As a background writer in around a central conflict that we all know
the Age of Sigmar team,
very well: the forces of Order are locked in a
Nick spends much of his
time creating new lands, brutal struggle against the servants of Chaos,
stories and heroes in the who wish to see civilisation destroyed and the
Mortal Realms. Most of the realms reshaped in the vile image of their
time, the A08 team works
harmoniously, but internal ruinous masters. Nagash sends forth his
conflict has been known to legions of Death to serve his own
occur when someone megalomaniacal lust for power, while the
takes 'the best biscuit!
violent tribes of Destruction are obsessed
with violence for its own sake and will take
on any foe that promises them a good fight.
These classic conflicts make total narrative
sense on the tabletop. Your army of gleaming
Hammers of Sigmar is taking on your friend’s
horde of slavering Khorne-worshippers?
Well, it’s pretty obvious why those two
factions might have a bit of a bone to pick
with each other. But things aren’t always that
straightforward.
We’ve all been there: you want to settle down
for a rich narrative game of Warhammer, but
your opponent is fielding an army of the very
same faction as yours. A Stormcast-versus-
Stormcast battle royale is a lot harder to parse
from a storytelling point of View. Harder, yes,
but it is not out of the question! The Mortal
Realms are a vast and magical arena in which
almost anything is possible, including coming
up with a perfectly valid reason for a bit of
internecine violence. Let’s take a look at some
of our factions and examine how we might
justify an outbreak of (un)civil war within
their ranks.
Attention, captain of the Bringarumm. This
aetber—gold seam has been claimed by Barak—
Urbaz, and by mining here, you are in direct
contravention of the Code. If you do not leave
this zone immediately, I will invoke my rights as
detailed in sub—section one thousand and thirty-
six and blow that outdated rust bucket ofyours
out of the sky. You’ve been warned, bozdok.’
— Admiral Kygli Harmundsdottr of
Barak- Urbaz
STOBMCAST ETERNALS
Okay, so admittedly the God—King would
take a bit of a dim View of his anointed
champions kicking lumps out of each other.
Yet it’s important to remember that long
before they ever took to the battlefields of the
Mortal Realms, the Stormhosts trained for
war by fighting one another. The magnificent
Gladitorium of Azyrheim — a gift from the
always trustworthy Malerion — allowed the
Stormcast to hone their skills upon every
imaginable kind of battlefield. The
enchantments laid upon the Gladitorium
ensured that come the battle’s end, everyone
was restored to fighting shape without the
need for costly Reforging. Most Stormkeeps
possess similar training grounds, albeit on a
less spectacular scale. Perhaps you and your
opponent’s fighting chambers are testing each
others’ might in just such an environment,
with the bragging rights going to the victor?
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All Seraphon slavishly seek to fulfil the Great Seraphon society manage to smooth over any E
Plan, the cosmos-spanning project of the potentially violent disputes. Yet sometimes,
absent Old Ones. This is their sole imperative, even their guidance is not enough to prevent ii
and anyone who interferes with it can expect bloodshed. Whose interpretation of the Great
Plan is correct? Whoever emerges alive.
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a celestite war—mace blow to the back of the
head. Even other Seraphon. It is a very, very
rare occurrence, but it is not unknown for BLADES 0F KHOBNE
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one Seraphon constellation to attack another. This one is really pretty simple. Khorne cares
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beyond any mortal’s ability to understand, boots. Last one to get their head hacked off is E
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FLESH-EATER COURTS
When you’re capable of wearing a set of
floppy innards as a stylish wig, you’re capable
of anything. The Flesh-eater curse is a strange
and unpredictable phenomenon, and it
affects different courts in different ways.
More than once, rival armies of ghouls have
come to blows over the correct way to
worship their master, Ushoran.
DAUGHTEBS 0F KHAINE
Given that the bloody—handed flock of the
divine Morathi-Khaine enjoy a slice of
murder and betrayal for breakfast,
engineering a scenario in which two Khainite
temples slaughter each other should be fairly
straightforward. The freshly deified Morathi
actively encourages a certain amount of
discreet infighting amongst her sistren, for it
provides a convenient way for her to keep
suspicious eyes away from her own actions,
and it allows her to dispose of any
troublesome acolytes without dirtying her
own perfectly manicured hands.
SONS 0F BEHEMAT
Ever eager to prove themselves as mighty as
their long-dead progenitor, the Sons of
Behemat compete against each other in
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various oafish pastimes, from throwing
livestock over church spires to seeing how
many ‘stunties’ they can squash with their
gnarled feet. Disagreements about who ‘won’
each challenge are common, and they are
solved via the only medium that gargants
understand: brutal violence. Anything in the
vicinity when a bunch of angry titans start
clobbering each other had better scarper
quickly, lest they find themselves crushed to
paste by the hollering hooligans.
CITIES 0F SIGMAB
It is regarded as a terrible sin for any faithful
Sigmarite to spill the blood of their kin.
Unfortunately, humans are humans. Just
because there are no officially recorded
accounts of Freeguild formations opening fire
on each other does not mean that this has not
happened, and not every such incident can be
blamed upon the meddling of the Dark Gods.

Good old-fashioned spite, suspicion and
enmity form a powerful cocktail of their own.
FYRESLAYEBS
Fyreslayer society is dominated by incredibly
rigid social hierarchies, with a lodge’s
Runefather and their family at the top of the
pile. However, despite their duardin fondness
for order, it is not unheard of for a
magmahold to collapse into vicious infighting
in the wake of a succession crisis. If a
Runefather dies before naming a prime
inheritor from amongst his bellicose
offspring, the resulting battle to claim the
throne can drag in neighbouring Fyreslayer
lodges, many of whom are all too keen to
accept a contract for a bit of mercenary
axe-work.
In the wake of Grungni’s shocking return to
the realms, a further rift has opened between
those lodges who welcome the Smith God’s
meddling in their plans and those who see
him as a traitor who abandoned duardinkind
during his long absence. This schism has led
to many broken noses and ripped-out beards
already, and who is to say the violence might
not escalate even further?
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perfecting his conquests, and it is common
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have now been condemned to hate and
despise one another and to partake in 3
endless, pointless spectral battles that neither
can ever win. That’s a level of spiteful cruelty
that would undoubtedly give the Great
Necromancer a chuckle or two.
MAGGOTKIN 0F NURGLE
Call that a cyst, mate? That’s barely a pimple.
Grandfather Nurgle favours me above all
others. Just look at all these suppurating sores
and lesions and that trio of Nurglings
nibbling on my lower intestines. Still can’t
accept that my gifts are more deliciously
repugnant than yours, eh? Right, that’s it. I’m
going to round up two dozen of my most
bloated and bilious lads, and we’ll settle this
on the battlefield.
While the examples above represent only a
fraction of the potential inter-faction rivalries
that can occur in Warhammer Age of Sigmar,
hopefully they will help you rationalise a
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Warhammer? Let us know
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he Crusade campaign we’re playing in
the studio is proceeding nicely, and
we’ve now completed the second
phase. How is your Crusade campaign
going? If you’re playing as well, you can turn
to page 16 to see the new relics that are ready
to be claimed by phase 2’s top players.
But while the Crusade campaign is our own
LYLE satellite club’s main focus, there’s actually a lot
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SERGEANT 43 POINTS
Underworlds league. Some of us are
concentrating on painting units for the
Bunker challenges, and some of us spend
most of their playing time on the scenarios of
the month. And others are beginning to
muster new armies for Armies on Parade.
All this is to say that as a satellite club, the
leagues and campaigns offered here in Access
Granted are a great starting point, but they’re
not prescriptive. We offer them as a structure
to help make setting your club’s agenda easier
and also to give us a way to share in a
collective experience. But if you want to run a
campaign or league or tournament of your
own devising, more power to you! Go ahead
and tick that box oflf on your Bunker rank
tracker or your Bunker Bingo card. They’re
still Bunker events, but even better, they’re
your Bunker events! We do it too.
We design our leagues and campaigns to be
as flexible and accessible as possible, but
tailoring something to your own club’s needs
can be even better. Tell us about your own
events at team@whitedwarf.co.uk!

BUNKER CHALLENGES
What better way to celebrate your hobby feats than
with a scoring system that lets you earn achievement
points and gain ranks within the White Dwarf Bunker?
LEAGUES AND CAMPAIGNS
' Gaming clubs often run leagues and campaigns. The
White Dwarf Bunker is no different, and wherever you
are in the world, you can take part!
SCENARIOS OF THE MONTH
Every issue, you will find two scenarios of the month —
one each for Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer Age
of Sigmar.
SKIRMISH EVENTS
We’ll be producing regular content for our various
skirmish games. This material will cycle through every
few months, providing all you skirmishers out there
with regular content.
BASIC TRAINING
Here you will find tactical advice on all aspects of
Warhammer Age of Sigmar and Warhammer 40,000.
On top of that, you’ll also find game-state puzzles to
tickle your brain and test your knowledge!
HOBBY HANGOUT
Hobby Hangout focuses on helping you paint whole
armies, not just single models. You’ll be fielding an
army to be proud of in no time!
SATELLITE UPLINK
This is the place where we connect with Bunker mates
and satellite clubs all over the world! Why not write in
and let us know how your club is getting on?

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BUNKER 0N CRUSADE
The Bunker’s Crusade campaign uses the Crusade campaign rules found in Crusade: Tyrannic
War or crusade: Pariah Nexus, with the following additions.
RECONNAISSANCE IN FORCE
As part of this campaign, players may play
and score points for Combat Patrol games in
addition to Crusade games.
Games of Combat Patrol use the existing
Combat Patrol forces rather than units from
your Crusade Order of Battle. You don’t have
to use a Combat Patrol of the same faction as
your Crusade force, though you certainly can
(and to do so would be thematic). You also
don’t always have to use the same Combat
Patrol from game to game. These are smaller
skirmish actions by separate forces that
happen to benefit — however directly or
indirectly — your main army and the team it
belongs to.
At the end of each Combat Patrol game, both
players score 1 Campaign point for their team
for playing the game. In addition, the player
who won may add 1 Requisition point to
their Order of Battle.
FORGES OF WAR
Collecting, building and painting miniatures
is as much a part of taking part in the
Warhammer hobby as playing games.
Equally, churning out new materiel and
training up fresh waves of warriors for the
ongoing war is vital to the continuation of
any conflict.
As such, each time a player builds and paints
a unit for their Order of Battle during this
campaign, they earn 1 Campaign point for
their team.
If the unit they build and paint is worth 250
points to 499 points, they instead earn 2
Campaign points for their team.
If the unit they build and paint is worth 500
points or more, they instead earn 3 Campaign
points for their team.
INFIGHTING
Players from the same team may play games
against one another. However, as armies from
their campaign team are fighting each other
rather than the enemy, this doesn’t help
anyone all that much.
As such, if two players from the same team
play a game of Combat Patrol or Crusade
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during this Crusade campaign, during each D
of the three campaign phases there are several <
individual player awards up for grabs. At the
end of each phase of the campaign, the player
who has earned one of these awards also
earns a unique Crusade Relic to give to one of
the characters in their Order of Battle. Note
that no character can be equipped with more
than one of these unique relics, and a
character equipped with such a relic increases
their Crusade points total by 1.
Note that no player can earn more than one
award during each phase of the campaign —
these are rare and potent artefacts scattered
thinly across the stars, and the likelihood of
discovering more than one of them in close
proximity is virtually nil (if one player has
earned more than one in a single phase, they
will choose which they wish to keep. The
other(s) Will then be awarded to the player
that came second in that category, and so on).
The three awards are:
Head Hunter — the player who slew the most
enemy Warlords during their Combat Patrol
and Crusade games during this phase.
Arch Logistician - the player who scored the
highest total of Victory points from their
Combat Patrol and Crusade games during
this phase.
Conqueror — the player who won the most
Combat Patrol and Crusade games during
this phase.
Turn to page 16 to see the Awards and
Relics for the second phase of the
campaign.
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CHALLENGES
Track your Bunker racking your White Dwarf Bunker
achievements and achievements is a fun way to motivate
h and inspire you to paint more of your
see 0W you models and play more games. It also
compare to Other gives you an easy way to see how you stack up
CiUb members to other club members here in the
around the world! Warhammer Studio satellite club and other
satellites around the world.
journal spaces to the right. This will turn
Each month, there are five challenges to
complete, worth one point each. The points
you accumulate will correspond to your
Bunker rank. How high will you rise? Track
your progress on the included White Dwarf
Bunker Challenge card, which is conveniently
sized to carry along with your gaming
supplies wherever you go.
If you want to keep a journal of all your club
achievements, you can write it into the blank
your White Dwarf collection into an
impressive record of your hobby adventures
in their own right!

PAINTING CHALLENGE OF THE MONTH: PSYKERS, SORCERERS AND THE SUPERNATURAL

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Each month we present a themed ‘ V ‘ ' \'

painting challenge. Send us
photographs of your challenge entries
to team@whitedwarf.co.uk, and we’ll
display some of our favourites when
the challenge comes around again! Post
them to social media with the hashtags
#WhiteDwarf and #Bunker to engage
with other club members around the
world. Check out the table below to see
all the future challenges and when you
need to submit your photos for
possible inclusion in the magazine.

CHALLENGE SEND US PHOTOS BY:

JANUARY Rank and File 31 July

FEBRUARY Leaders and Heroes 31 August

MARCH Elite Units 30 September

APRIL Psykers, Sorcerers and the Supernatural 31 October

MAY Monsters and Machines 30 November

JUNE Gods of War 3] December

JULY Rank and File 31 January

AUGUST Leaders and Heroes 28 February

SEPTEMBER Elite Units 31 March

OCTOBER Psykers, Sorcerers and the Supernatural 30 April

NOVEMBER Monsters and Machines 31 May

DECEMBER Gods of War 30 June

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BUNKER

HE CRUSADE
CAMPAIGN
Warhammer AISE HIGH THE BANNERS! intent on seizing the riches of abandoned
40,000 background Ferocious fighting has raged through vaults and forsaken laborataria. At the same
. dB HOI' the Bastior Sub-sector as Imperial war time, the invading xenos tides push recklessly
writer _an as hosts dug in and stood firm against into fortified Imperial kill zones or turn upon
campalgn the invading hordes and piratical raiders other attacking factions, and so they find
coordinator Andy rampaging through Imperial space. Alien themselves steadily weakened.
joins us once again hosts have hurled themselves at Humanity’s
t0 129" US about the beleaguered defences, cutting down countless As the conflict throughout the Bastior
second stage of warriors and reducing Imperial fortifications Sub-sector grinds on, the Imperial defenders
the studio's to blazing ruin. Heretical war parties have exploit these weaknesses amongst their
_ broken into precious vaults or exploited the enemies. Defence lines are dug in and
crusade campa'gn' impact of the Tyranids’ invasion to seize reinforced. Isolated enemy hosts are
Victories of their own. surrounded and slaughtered. City by city,
world by world, Imperial forces drive their
However, infighting has plagued the raiding enemies back and reconsecrate the ground in
factions as many turn upon one another, the name of the God-Emperor!

AWARDS AND RELICS - PHASE 2

"lhe unique relics awarded during phase 2 of this
campaign are as follows:
HEAD HUNTER - THE PREV-TAKER'S PORTAL
Thought to have been seized from a prolific Drukhari
pirate during a bloody realspace raid, this malevolent
orb of darkness acts as a sort oflocalised teleportation
device. When roused, it wreathes its bearer in crackling
arcs ofdark energy that draw them into the webway
then spit them back out, poised to pounce upon their
wrong—footed prey.
Once per battle, at the start of your Movement phase,
the bearer can use this relic. When they do, until the
' end of the turn, the bearer’s unit is eligible to shoot
and declare a charge even if they have made a Fall
Back move this turn.
ARCH LOGISTICIAN - MICROTELEPDRTATION CDWL
Originallyfashioned by the war artisans ofthe
Tesrmach Confluence, this peculiar alien device skips
its wearer across the weave of reality like a stone
skimmed over water. It allows them to swiftly stalk
dangerous quarry or avoid monstrous threats with
utmost haste.
INFANTRY model only. The bearer has the Lone
Operative and Stealth abilities but cannot be attached
to any unit. In addition, add 2 to Advance and Charge
rolls made for the bearer (this is not cumulative with
any other positive modifier).
CONQUEROR - THE QUICKSILVER FANG
This strange silvered blade emits a deeply unsettling
aura and looks more like a talon or task somehow
reforged in living silver than any conventional weapon
ofsentient manufacture.

INFANTRY model only. The bearer’s melee weapons gain

the [Precision], [Twin-Linked] and [Lethal Hits]
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PHASE 2 IN WAR ZONE BASTIOR

The second round of the Bastior
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Defenders once again victorious, though
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played Dan and his Adeptus Mechanicus
first, which proved a tough matchup. His
Kastelan Robots tore out the heart of my
force, but my Howling Banshees waded
through his infantry to give me a 50-30
victory. Another game was against Lyle's
Insidious Infiltrators Combat Patrol. My
jetbikes got eaten by Von Ryan's Leapers,
but the star of the show was my
Wraithlord, which duffed up the Leapers,
then a Lictor, then a Neurolictor! I'll be
adding more jetbikes to my army next.
You can see them elsewhere in the issue.

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HIVE FLEET KARKINOS BY STEVE
Hive Fleet Karkinos have descended
planetside to devour biomass and spawn
even more bioforms as their seemingly
never-ending swarm grows! Insects and
shelled creatures inspired the
naturalistic colours I used on my
Tyranid Crusade force. I used Ratskin
Flesh to fully cover their carapaces
before using Catachan Flesh: to add
varied lines. Then, where the two colours
meet, I used small dots to merge the two
sections into a pattern that hides the
divide between the two. It's a quick
technique that achieves great results.

ALIEN FLESH BIO-WEAPON TUBES

Undercoat:WhiteScar - Wash: FleshTearersRed
: Wash: Seraphim Sepia PSYCHIC PARTS
CARAPACES I Wash: Frostheart
Basecoat: Ratskin Flesh CLAWS

I Layer: Catachan I Wash: BIackTempiar

Flesh (pattern)

TENTACLES BASES
I Basecoat:Astrogranite
I Wash:Volupus Pink
I Drybrush: Hoeth Blue
Drybrush: Lucius Lilac

3RD SEPSIS COHORT OF THE PALLID HAND

BY NICK
My Death Guard, led by Lord of
Contagion Pustus Gloathe, have done
me proud in the Crusade campaign so
far, but I'm intending to add a Chaos
Rhino or two to the force to help them
get to their destination without being
mulched by my opponent’s heavy
ordnance. For the colour scheme, I
wanted something quick and easy but
also efi'ective enough to capture the filth
and decay of Nurgle’s chosen. You can
see the paints I used below, which I then
covered with weathering powders.

- OFF-WHITE ARMOUR BUSTED BRONZE

Undercoat:Wraithbone n Basecoai: BalthasarGold
Recesswash: " Wash: Agrax Earthshade
Seraphim Sepia . .
. _ Highlight: Stormhost
Layer: thnox Hide Silver
(battle damage)
I Wash: Nihilakh Oxide
GREEN ARMOUR
- Basecoat: Caliban Green
I Wash: Agrax Earthshade
I Layer: Caliban Green

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Grinding attritional warfare has depleted the belligerents' most elite units,
Leaving only battle—hardened line troopers to repel the foe and carry the day.

0 MUSTERARMIES
First, players will need to muster armies based on the
battle size they have selected, as described on pages
55—56 of the Core Rules. This mission is designed for
Incursion and Strike Force battle sizes.
0 RESOLVEPRE-BATTLERULES
Starting with the player taking the first turn, players
alternate resolving any pre—battle abilities their
army has.

6 CREATETHEBATTLEFIELD
Players now create the battlefield, as shown in the
mission map opposite, and set up terrain features
using the guidelines on pages 49—52 of the Core
Rules. The minimum size of your battlefield should be
44" X 60".
DETERMINE ATTACKER AND
DEFENDER
Players roll off and the M'nner is the Attacker — their
opponent is the Defender.
0 BEGINTHEBATTLE
The first battle round begins. Players continue to
resolve battle rounds until the battle ends.
6 MISSIONRULES
Limited Resources: At the start of the battle, for
each datasheet included in a player’s army (excluding
BATTLELINE and DEDICATED TRANSPORT datasheets), if
that player has included more than one instance of
that datasheet in their army, their opponent scores
SVP for each instance of that datasheet beyond the
first that was included. A player cannot score more
than 40VP from this rule.

DECLARE BATTLE Battle—hardened Soldiery: Each time a BATTLELINE

FDRMATIDNS
Starting with the Defender, players alternate declaring
each of the following, in the order stated below:
model makes an attack, if that model is within range
of an objective marker or the target is within range of
an objective marker, add 1 to the Hit roll.

I Which of their Leader units will start the battle

attached to which units.
I Which of their units will start the battle embarked
within TRANSPORT models.
I Which of their units will start the battle in Reserves
(including Strategic Reserves).

0 DEPLDYARMIES
Players then alternate deploying their units, one at a
time, starting with the Attacker. Models must be set
up wholly within their controlling player’s deployment
zone. Continue setting up units until both players
have set up all the units from their armies or you have
run out of room to set up more units. If one player
has finished setting up their army, their opponent
continues to set up the remaining units from
their army.

If both players have units with abilities that allow

them to be set up after both armies have deployed, the
players must roll off after all other units have been set
up and alternate setting up those units, starting with
the winner.

DETERMINE FIRST TURN

Players should roll off again, and the winner takes the
first turn.
Q MISSIONOBJECTIVES
SECURE THE BATTLEFIELD
HOLD THE LINE
8nd Game Objective

Ceaseless combat has forged both armies’ core soldiers

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into relentless killers. They will strive to achieve their

Progressive Objective
No more reinforcements remain for either side to call
upon. With few viablefortifications remaining, the last
survivors of both armies fight to establish control over
the battlefield.
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objectives with dead—eyed determination, oblivious
to the cost in lives. Those who endure the longest will
secure victory.
At the end of the battle, for each objective marker on
the battlefield, the player with the most BATTLELINE

SOMTCEHN
models within range of that objective marker
(excluding Battle-shocked models) scores 5VP if they
From the second battle round onwards, at the end of
also control it.
each player’s Command phase, the player whose turn
it is scores SVP for each of the following conditions
they satisfy:

I They control one or more objective markers.

I They control two or more objective markers.
I They control three or more objective markers.

In the fifth battle round:

I The player who has the first turn scores VP as

described above.
I The player who has the second turn scores VP as
described above, but does so at the end of their turn
instead of at the end of their Command phase.
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BATTLEPLAN

GATHERING OF ‘MIGHT
Vast numbers of warriors line
up against each other. Few will
walk away from this battlefield,
but those who do will forever be
regarded as heroes to their kin.
. set up an appropriate number of
. If possible, set up an improvised
THE ARMIES
The players agree a points limit for
the battle of at least 3,000 points.
Each player then picks an army that
does not exceed the agreed points
limit. Each player can pick up to
3 artefacts of power to be given to
HEROES in their army.
THE BATTLEFIELD
The players roll off and the winner
chooseswho will be the attacker
and who will be the defender. The
defender sets up the terrain features
for the battlefield. First, they set up
the objective markers. Then, they
terrain features. Each terrain feature
must be more than 3" from the
battlefield edge, more than 6" from
all other terrain features and more
than 3" from all objectives.
DEPLOYMENT
The attacker picks which territory is
their territory.
barrier such as a hanging bedsheet
across the centre of the battlefield
so neither player can see their
opponent’s deployment zone. If this
is not possible then you can skip
this step.
Both players then have 3 minutes
to set up their units at the same
time. Any units that are not set up
within the time limit (not including
those that were placed in reserve)
are destroyed.
FIRST TURN
The attacker takes the first turn in
the first battle round.
LIMITED MAGIC
Each WIZARD can only attempt
to cast or unbind 1 spell or dispel
1 endless spell in a hero phase. If
that WIZARD would normally be
able to cast or unbind more than 1
spell in that phase, the controlling 3
player can add 2 to the casting or 2
unbinding roll for that WIZARD l
for each spell after the first that ..
they would normally be able to cast
or unbind.

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Attacks made in the combat phase
are resolved simultaneously,
meaning that slain models will only
be removed once every eligible
unit on the battlefield has made
their attacks.
Starting with the player whose turn
must pick 1 enemy unit within 3"
of that unit to be the target of that
unit’s attacks. All of the models
in that unit are considered to be
in range to attack with all of‘their
melee weapons.
VICTORY POINTS
BATTLE LENGTH
The battle lasts for 5 battle rounds.
GLORIOUS VICTORY
The player who has the most
victory points at the end of the
battle wins a major victory.

it is, each player takes it in turns to
pile in 1 friendly unit that is eligible
to do so. Once all eligible units have
piled in, starting with the player
whose turn it is, that player resolves
the attacks of all of their units that
are eligible to fight, 1 at a time.
Then the other player resolves all
the attacks with their units that are
eligible to fight, 1 at a time.
When resolving attacks, the
commanding player picks 1 of
their units to attack. Then, they
SMOTCEHN
Each player earns victory points Ifthe players are tied on victory
at the end of each of their turns points at the end of the battle, then
as follows: if only 1 player completed their
grand strategy, that player wins a
. Score 1 victory point for each minor victory.
objective wholly within your
territory that you control. Any other result is a draw.
. Score 2 victory points if you
control the objective on the
boundary of your territory.
. Score 4 victory points for
each objective wholly within
your opponent’s territory that
you control.
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GENERATOR
The Sundered Scales is an unpredictable,
unfathomable tract of land surrounding
the Scales of Talaxis, where even the most
skilled trackers and pathfinders can become
lost in its boggy swamps and sucking
marshes. No small number of warbands
have disappeared without trace into its
gloomy depths.
This battleplan generator can be used in
any Warcry game, and it is designed to
be even better when used in conjunction
with the Scales of Talaxis Terrain
Ravaged Lands set, the rules for which
are available from the Warcry downloads
on wwwwarhammer-community.com.
To use this Warcry battleplan generator, set
up the terrain using the normal rules. Then,
one player determines the Deployment
Map, Victory Condition and Twist by
rolling a D66 and consulting the tables
over the following pages. How will your
next Warcry battle in the Sundered Scales
pan out?

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Designer's Note:
Reroll results of
60+ if you are not
using the Scales of
Talaxis scenery and there are no swamp board features on the battlefield, drawa '
fromfliedorkharvatflmtfollm
victory card. ,
terrain rules. 1% whollywithina swampboardfeatureandnotwithin chere are no swamp board features on the battlefield. dnw¢
any enemy fighters can use the following ability: ’ victory card.

lDtedye: Roll a number of dice equalto the value

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combining Twist ' taunt 1 critical hit scored from the first attack action may ' does not have the initiative, each player rolls a dice for eadr
each fighter in each battle round as a hit instead. friendly fighter on the battlefield. Add 1 to the roll if that‘kfi‘fihtu
Tables A and B.
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draconic beastsflashes through the air, the water and even the
After the initiative phase, change the value of each ability to 6.
surrounding architecture

After the initiative phase, the player that has the initiative must
roll each of their singles. For each 4+, they must pick a friendly
fighter on the battlefield. Allocate 3 damage points to that' ‘
fighter.

SMOTCEHN
TWIST TWIST

CURSEDRUINS AGERWOUNDS ”Tm...“ _

Vilerunes,enigmaticSeraphonglyphs,strangeeldritchlights Wounds that might have had little impact on a warrior

in the air— those that battle within thesefell ruins are likely to suddenly tear themselves open, almost desperate to vomitforth
become enraged, possessed by evil spirits or worse. vital fluids

At the end of each battle round. starting with the player that At the end of eadi battle round, starting with the player that has
has the initiative, each player rolls a dice for each fighter in the initiative, allocate 3 damage points to each fighter who has 1
their warband on the battlefield and 1 additional dice for or more damage points allocated to them.
each friendly fighter'in a swamp board feature. For each setof
matching results, the other player can pick 1 friendly fighter:
Eachofthosefriendly fighters can make a bonus melee eleeottack
. melee attaclc '

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This swamp isfilled to the brim with dangers that lurk just beneath Any who linger for too long'in these swampsfind that sinking
the surface of the water, waitingfor fresh prey. becomes an inevitability.

Ifthere are no swamp board features on the battlefield, draw a lfthere are no swamp board features on the battlefield. draw a
new twist card. new twist card.
Roll a dice for each fighter that ends a move action or that is Subtract 1 from the Move characteristic of fighters for each
placed after falling within 1“ of a swamp board feature. On a roll ‘ subsequent activation they end wholly within a swamp board
of 4+, that fighter is allocated D3 damage points. A feature, while they are within that swamp board feature. If
_fighter’sMovecharacteristic' isreducedto 0 in thisway,that
fighter“is taken do.wn

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invigorating them further.
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new twist c‘ard.
Gnarloaks on the battlefield are elder gnarloaks, in additi
to eir other gnarloak types (see the Scales of Talaxis rul ‘
. download on www. warhammer—-community. corn).
The life-givmg powers of the spawningpools are so energised that even
the most shattered of corpses mayfind life once more.
Ifthere are no swamp board features on the battlefield. draw a new I
twist card.
At the end of each battle round, each player, starting with the player that
has the initiative, picks a friendly fighter that has been taken down d
rolls a dice. On a 6+, that player sets up that fighter on the battlefi '
Wholly within a swamp board feature and more than 3" from each
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The bubbling much that makes up these swamplands causes
metal to swiflly erode and rust.
Ifthere are no swamp board features on the battlefield, draw a i
new twist card
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characteristic and Strength characteristic of melee attack actions
of fighters wholly within a swamp board feature.
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locked swamps of the Gnarlwoad mysteriously swell andflood
their banks. ..
Ifthere are no swamp board features on the battlefield. draw a :'
new twist card.
' The player with the initiative must roll a dice at the start of f '
combatphase. Ifthe result'is equal to or lower than the worlds
umber, until the end of the battle round the en ‘ battlefi
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 BASIC TRAINING
Getting your priorities right

elcome to another instalment of
our tactics series, where we provide
you with knowledge and strategies
to help you become a better player,
be it on the war—torn battlefields of the 4lst
Millennium or the Chaos-tainted landscapes
of the Mortal Realms. In this issue, we’re
looking at the very first dice roll of a battle
round — the priority roll.
choice as you get to hit the enemy first (or get
yourself out of a potentially tight spot).
Indeed, it may seem counterintuitive to give
away the first turn in a battle round, but there
are many factors that can make this the better
option, even if it means giving your opponent
two turns in a row — a situation commonly
known as the double turn!

JIMBO In this article, we’re going to look at how to

As a Warhammer Age of
Sigmar games developer
and a keen tournament
player, Jimbo can often be
found with his head buried
in a battletome looking for
devilish rules combos.
Where the rest of his body
is, however, is a mystery.
We had to draw in his
shoulders inthe pic above.
I 60, YOU GO... THEN YOU GO AGAIN?
The priority roll is an important and super
fun part of Warhammer Age of Sigmar that
can change the course of a battle. Being able
to weigh up the advantages and disadvantages
that come with a player choosing to take or
cede priority go hand in hand with victory at
any eve 0f the gam e.Takin g the first turn in
1 l
a battle round often seems like the obvious
plan for a shift in priority, how to capitalise
on things when they go your way and how to
plan effectively for when they don’t,
particularly when it comes to mitigating the
effectiveness of your opponent’s double turn.
When is giving priority to your opponent the
best tactical decision? 'Ihere’s even a little
rules conundrum at the end to test out what
you’ve learned. Now, whose turn is it?

BATTLEPLANS
Before a game, check if the battleplan
you are playing has rules that benefit
the player who takes or loses/cedes
priority, as this may affect your overall
strategy. For example, the Lines of
Communication battleplan in the
General’s Handbook 2023-24 has a rule
called Disruption, which, if successful,
can force your opponent to use extra
command points to issue their
commands.

Given that command points are a

valuable resource that can be crucial to
a player’s strategy, should you win
priority in any battle round, it might be
better to give your opponent the first
turn and use the battleplan rule to
confound their plans. Your army might
take some damage from enemy attacks,
but that could be a better option in the
long run rather than taking the first
turn and finding your own cunning
plans cruelly disrupted.

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force the survivors to flee. The Lancers will )
then be exposed to a countercharge from
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the Cavaliers, and the Seraphon player will
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ultimately lose control of the objective (2).
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Even if the Seraphon player takes the first
turn in the next battle round, they will be
stuck in combat. Their only other option
would be to retreat to recapture the
objective. However, they would then be
exposed to another countercharge. If the .‘
Cities of Sigmar player gets the double turn . ' .- A, ,
and goes first in the next battle round, they
will maintain control of the objective while
dealing damage to the Aggradon Lancers.

Instead, the Seraphon player could set up

screening units. ‘Screens’ are units that are
positioned to receive an enemy charge but,
by doing so, protect a player’s more
valuable units. Typically, units used as
screens have a low points value, a high
Move characteristic and a decent number of
models, often 10 or more. The Skinks
should be positioned so that they are not in
combat but are protecting both the
objective and the Aggradon Lancers (3).
The Steelhelms are too slow to manoeuvre
around the Skinks, so they will have to
charge and fight them. The Skinks will
likely die, but the Steelhelms won’t have
moved very far on the battlefield, so even if ' '
the Cities of Sigmar player has the first turn 4 v
in the next battle round, the second unit of . ~. I ., -. ‘ ‘
Skinkswillactasanotherscreen,ensuring c“k“GE‘.a: ; :1}:
that the Steelhelms can’t contest the . . ‘" 7 '7 \ ‘
objective or charge the Aggradon Lancers. '' "' j j'

The Cavaliers can charge the Skinks on the

right (4), but the Skinks are positioned so
that the cavalry can’t get onto the objective
even if they destroy them. By positioning
their units as shown, the Seraphon player
has mitigated the impact of the Cities of
Sigmar player’s units regardless of who
wins the next priority roll.
@BIINKIER

WE GOT THEM. BOSS!

If you have a particularly resilient unit,
such as Rockgut Troggoths, Immortis
Guard or Putrid Blightkings, rather
than using screens to protect your
army, these units can be charged into
combat with multiple enemy units to
soak up attacks over consecutive
combat phases. This is often referred to
as ‘tagging’ an enemy unit. This tactic
can be particularly effective against
units with powerful ranged attacks, as
they will be forced to shoot into combat
rather than at a unit that isn’t so tough.

In this scenario, the Gloomspite Gitz

player is going first in this battle round.
By charging the Rockgut Troggoths
into both Lumineth Realm-lords units,
they are able to protect their grot units . ‘
that can then be positioned to surround '
the objective. The Lumineth Realm-
lords are unlikely to destroy the
troggoths, but if they do get the double
turn and somehow overcome their foes,
the grots are protecting the objective,
so the Gloomspite Gitz player will
maintain control of it. If the
Gloomspite Gitz player wins the
priority roll for the next battle round, it
would likely be a good tactical decision
to give the first turn to the Lumineth
Realm-lords player. Not only will their
effectiveness have been neutered ‘
through being tagged by the troggoths,
but the Gloomspite Gitz player will
then have a chance of winning a double
turn of their own later in the game.

BATTLE TACTICS
In matched play games, you must pick a , ,
battle tactic in each of your turns. Some
battle tactics, such as Seize the Centre,
are the perfect pick if you know you are
going first in that round, while
Conquer may require your opponent to
go first so that you can then steal an
objective from them. Bait and Trap
(from the General’s Handbook 2023-24)
is another battle tactic that benefits
from letting your opponent take
priority. If they charge into your lines
with multiple units, in your turn you
can retreat two of your units and charge
with two others to complete the battle
tactic.

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MAGICAL MISCHIEF =
Let’s say an enemy wizard knows a spell m
with a range of 12" - a spell that you
really don’t want your opponent to cast.
If you take the first turn in the battle
round and move your units closer to
the enemy (to fight, take objectives, and
(D
so on), they may end up within 12" of
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that wizard and the potential victim of
some serious magicking. However, if
you let your opponent go first, they
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spells are cast before models are moved
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and they won’t be in range to use it.

There are abilities that can get you

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around these limitations. Skaven Grey
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Seers, for example, can cast Skitterleap
co
on a Verminlord to move it pretty much
anywhere on the battlefield. It can then
cast spells of its own! The Translocation
prayer for Stormcast Eternals has a
similar effect and can also be attempted
before spells are cast. Some battle
traits, such as the Ironjawz’ Mighty
Destroyers, also enable you to move a
unit in the hero phase. Very sneaky!

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HOBBY HANGOUT
Choosing a colour scheme for a new army - part II
EMILY
As a painter in the
magazines team, Emily can
often be found, brush in
hand, working on all
manner of exciting
projects. At some point or
other, most of them are
described as 'cute' or
’sweetf Yes, even the
blood-frenzied, skull—
taking psychopaths and
all-devouring aliens.
mily: Last issue, I explained the
process I go through when deciding
upon a colour scheme for a new army.
In a follow-up to that article, I’ve come
up with a stage-by—stage guide to show you
how I paint my Tyranids, including the
freehand pattern I’ve come up with for their
carapaces.
A COUPLE 0F USEFUL AIIMY PAINTING TIPS
Having painted models and armies for work
for a few years now, I’ve found I often need to
revisit colour schemes or explain to others
(like those nosey people in White Dwarf!)
how I painted something. Writing out your
scheme in steps can really help map out what
you’ll be doing on your first models and stop
it from feeling overwhelming. You can then
use it like a checklist on future projects to
ensure you don’t miss any steps.
Painting new units for your army is great fun,
but it can be challenging, as you might need
to adapt your colour scheme. For example, a
Termagant’s tongue is a lot smaller than that
of a Trygon, so you might need to add extra
highlights or shading to make it look right.
Similarly, I’ll probably want to change the
scale of the carapace markings on larger
Tyranids, as really small dots won’t show up
and would take forever to apply! Again, it’s
worth noting down your painting ‘rules’ in a
journal somewhere (or on one of the White
Dwarf painting recipe cards).
Here’s a stage-by-stage guide for my new
Tyranids. They have a name now, too, which
is exciting: Hive Fleet Agadza. I find giving an
army a name adds so much to the
background and feel of the force. Long may
they devour their foes!

STAGE-BY-STAGE GUIDE
There are 14 stages to this painting guide for the newly grown Hive Fleet Agadza. You’ll notice that several stages
mention highlighting, which you can easily leave out if you don’t feel confident using a small brush.

UNDEBCOAT
My Tyranids have a bright
colour scheme with warm
tones, so I decided to
undercoat them with
Wraithbone spray. This will
help set the tone for all of
the miniatures.

Prime

Wraithbone

Stage 1
Wash all the areas of skin with Seraphim Sepia. This is applied Highlight the skin with Pallid Wych Flesh. This can be applied as
I Wash: Seraphim Sepia directly over the undercoat. a layer or as a drybrush.

Stage 2

Highlight: Pallid
Wych Flesh

Stage 3

I Basecoat: Lugganath
Orange

Stage 4

I Wash: Fuegan Orange

Apply Lugganath Orange as a base colour for the carapace. This Carefully wash the carapace with Fuegan Orange, being sure to
will probably need two full layers to get even coverage. get plenty of the Shade paint in the recesses.

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 Stage 5

I Highlight: Dorn
Yellow

Stage 6

I Basecoat: Kantor
Blue
@
Stage7

I Wash: Nuln Oil l—

[t
Stage 8 =
Highlight the carapace with Dorn Yellow. Again, this can be Basecoat the fleshborer with a layer of Kantor Blue. Use a small I Highlight: Fenrisian D
Grey
applied as a layered highlight or as a careful drybrush. brush so you don't get any blue on the model's hands. (D
Stage 9
Z
I Basecoat:Abaddon
Black <
Stage to I
I Highlight: >-
Thunderhawk Blue
m
Stage 11

2}I Highlight:
m
Gryph-charger Grey D
Stage 12 I
I Highlight: Volupus
Pink

Wash the fleshborer with Nuln Oil. Again, a small brush (such as Highlight the fleshborer with Fenrisian Grey, being sure to catch Stage 13
an M Glaze brush) is ideal forthis little job. all the raised edges.
' Highlight: Fulgrim
Pink
Stage I4

I Basecoat:
Astrogranite

I Wash: Drakenhof
Nightshade

Highlight: Grey Seer

If you are happy with the

model, you can stop
painting at stage 14. Or, if
you want to go that extra
Highlight all the areas you just painted Abaddon Black with little step, you can add
Apply a basecoat of Abaddon Black to all the 'claw' areas,
including the claws, hooves and the fleshborer's carapace. Thunderhawk Blue. some extra details as
shown over the page.

Apply a wash of Gryph-charger Grey into all the joints, the heat Use a small amount of Volupus Pinkto pick out the eyes. Don‘t
vents on the limbs and the tongue. forget the one on the gun!

Carefully highlight the pink areas with a thin dot or line of Paint the base using a layer of Astrogranite, followed by a wash
Fulgrim Pink. of Drakenhof Nightshade and then a drybrush of Grey Seer.
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CARAPACE MABKINGS
To make my Tyranids stand out and give them a unique feature, I decided to add a simple pattern to their
carapaces. Here's how I went about applying it.

BLUE...onGREEN? [I
i chose blue for the
carapace markings on my
Termagants because blue
and orange are
complementary colours.
However, you could always
try a different colour such
as green, replacing the
colours below with
Warpstone Glow and Moot
Green. The first stage is to map out where the pattern will go and the Fill in the shape and clean it up where you need to. The nice
basic shape. Don't worry if it's not perfect. it's more about getting thing about doing a shape like this is that It doesn‘t need to be
the placement and shape that you want. perfectly symmetrical - this is an alien, after all!
Stage I

I Kantor Blue
Stagez a
- KantorBlue [l
Stage 3

- KantorBlue
Stage 4

I Fenrisian Grey

Using a small brush, stipple little spots around the shape. Add Stipple lighter spots all over the dark blue pattern and some of
more, bigger spots close to the centre and fewer, smaller ones as the larger spots. You can also add highlights with the same
you move out. This will create a fade effect. colour to the edges of the carapace to give it some sharpness.

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HOBBY HACKS

@HAOBNHG
This little box features useful hobby tips from members of the studio and hobbyists out there in the wider
world. This issue, we look at how to achieve even more contrast on your models!

STRIKING A POSE
Writer Dan shares this
useful piece of
knowledge about large
'walker' kits.

Dan: Walkers such as the

Riptide, Slormsurge,
Wraithknrghl, Gorkanaut
and Redemptor
,. l Dreadnought olten have
If you like using Contrast paints but want more definition from then apply a medium to heavy drybrush in a brighter colour Iocntor pegs on their arms
the start, prime in a light colour such as Grey Seer... such as White Scar. and legs to help you put
the kits together, However,
ii you snip those pegs oil,
you can thou posrhoh the
model llllU u huge range ol
exciting new posos'

You'll end up with much lighter highlights on the raised edges which will enhance the effect of whichever Contrast paint
of the model”. you apply overthe top. Here we used Blood Angels Red.

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SATELLITE UPLINK
Showing off your Pyskers, and club news from around the world
BUNKER OF THE MONTH: BEDDITCH TABLETOP GAMERS
This month’s satellite club is the Redditch
Tabletop Gamers. Vice Chairman Matt
Purdie tells us what they’ve been up to.
Matt: Redditch Tabletop Gamers (formerly
Redditch Wargaming Society) was founded
h”‘18; “ "“1 " ‘” u“-M in 2011 and provides a recreational space for
‘ , ' (I ‘ gamers of all stripes from the West Midlands
tabletop area.Theclub hasexpandedgraduallyover
:1”1‘(a {M Q" “fl the years, and our current home at the
"‘" L l Windmill Centre in Redditch suits us well,
with space for 16 six-foot tables. Look us up
if you live locally! Our club prides itself on
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by Michael Watts
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our friendly, welcoming atmosphere and our
love and attention for the painting and
modelling side of the hobby. On the gaming
side of things, some of our members are more
tournament-minded, attending events such
as Battlefield Birmingham or the UK Games
Expo. The majority are more casual gamers
who simply enjoy fielding their fantastically
paintedmodelson thetableeachweek, some
of which you can see here.
Our most popular gaming system is
Warhammer 40,000. The arrival of tenth
edition heralded a new wave of enthusiasm,
aided immensely by the presence of smaller
scale games such as Boarding Actions and
Combat Patrol. We had many greybeards
return to give the new edition a try and
plenty of new players looking to give it a go
too. Aside from 40K and Age of Sigmar, we
also have enthusiastic groups who play Kill
Team, Blood Bowl, Necromunda, Adeptus
Titanicus and Aeronautica Imperialis, each of
which has been supported by well-designed
campaigns.
We recently ran a map—based campaign called
the Taphros Crusade that involved 20 players,
and we used the War Zone Charadon books
to run a more points—based contest called the
Obolis Invasion Campaign. We’re very proud
of our Boarding Actions league, which
involved 24 players and seven sets of terrain,
culminating in an enormous multiplayer
battle (see opposite).
Currently we’re running a Combat Patrol
league inspired by the same scoring system
used by the White Dwarf team, and this will
be followed up by a Fourth Tyrannic War tree
campaign. We’re also considering starting a
dedicated hobby night, encouraging members
to bring their models down for group
building and painting sessions where we can
easily swap tips and tricks.
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Black Orc Blood Bowl Team
by James Rousseau

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BOARDING AN ULTRAMARINES STRIKE CRUISER

Wanting to finish our Boarding Actions league with a
bang, I designed a huge multi-board, multiplayer
battlefield to represent an Ultramarines strike cruiser
named the Lion of Calth. The game ended up being
nine players a side, Loyalists versus Traitors, with
Abaddon leading a force of over 4,000 points against
Roboute Guilliman and his defenders. Emperor-
worshippers will be pleased to hear that the Imperial
forces triumphed, and though both Guilliman and
Abaddon fell in the conflict, the Loyalists were able to
retake the bridge and expel the Chaos forces. Picking
boarding action maps that could realistically re-create
different parts of the strike cruiser (enginarium,
teleportarium, armoury, and so on) was a fun
challenge, as was devising some crazy, unique one-off
grand stratagems. The boarding action map-building
article in issue 489 proved immensely useful for this
as I tried to combine seven boards together.

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The players ponder their next moves as the
Traitors head for the bridge. Amusingly, both
Abaddon and Guilliman were taken out of
f action, but not by each other"

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THE WARHAMMEH STUDIO'S SOHCEHOUS SPAWNINGS

This month’s painting challenge is Psykers, Sorcerers and the Supernatural, which means it’s time to show off our
best wizards, warlocks and otherworldly wonders. This article’s intro was brought to you by the letter ‘W’.

CELESTINE. THE
LIVING SAINT
‘ BY ROBIN
I continued experimenting
with Contrast paints on my
version of Saint Celestine
and her Geminae Superia.
This time, I applied
Basilicanum Grey (thinned
a little with Contrast
- Medium) over the
! Retributor Gold basecoat.
' The result was a deep,
slightly bluish tint to the
recesses of the armour. I
then finished off the
armour with an edge
highlight of Liberator Gold.
It's a simple but effective
technique.

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THE HEADSMEN'S CURSE E

BY STEVE E
For the Headsmen's Curse warband, I decided to contrast the models’
darker cloth with bright ethereal blues and lighter, warmer colours on
their bases. Seraphim Sepia is a great colourfor sandstone paving, with
Snakebite Leather adding shadows to the crevices and gravel. A quick
drybrush of Tyrant Skull later, the bases really help these ghostly
models stand out! SENGEANT

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i wanted to add an ally and monsterto my Askurgan Trueblades
warband (featured in the previous issue!). The monster involved
melding a Vargskyr with the Vengorian Lord model, while Cado
Ezechiar made for a fine Vampire Lord. I painted them in similar colours
to the Askurgan themselves, but I made Cado a bit more vibrant to
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I painted this Warlock Skyrunner so I could add it to the unit of
Windriders in my Aeldari Crusade force. The Warlock makes them
33POINTS THE DECEIVER
BY LEWIS
significantly more powerful in a game, as his Runes of Battle give the To create my molten metal
unit Stealth when being shot at (Conceal!) or the ability to ignore C’tan, I started by spraying
cover when shooting (Reveall). He also has the Destructor psychic it Corax White. I then
power, which is basically a flamer, and his witchblade gives the unit a
bit of punch (well, stab) if I need to get them into combat. SERGEANT washed it with Imperial
Fist, followed by a 1:1 mix
of Magmadroth Flame and
Baal Red. Next, I painted
the base with Mordant
Earth to add some texture,
then drybrushed the
model with the same paint
to make it look like the
living metal was cooling
down and solidifying. I
added patches of
Magmadroth Flame to the
base to tie it to the model.

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YOUR PSYKERS, SORCERERS, & THE SUPERNATURAL

Each month in Satellite Uplink, we take a look at what our readers around the world have been painting. This

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I DarkApostle Scinari Calligraye and Scinari Cathallar .-

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 THE BATTLE OF
THE PIPES
Beneath the streets of Hammerhal, something hungry stirs...
‘ he air down here, lad,’ Gollac said, as he fixed
his lantern to the pole strapped across his
shoulders. ‘You can chew it. Chew it, say 1.
That’s Hammerhal for you. Symbol 0’ defiance,
symbol 0’ reconquest, and its guts still smell like a
mountain of dung left out to bake.’
Ratsnagger barked in answer. The small but vicious
mastilf had Thondian blood, which went some way to
explaining his constant pace and low, hungry grumbles.
The dog remained oblivious to the ropes of drool that
sagged over his lips. Behind his leather filtration mask,
Gollac nodded towards him with a gap—toothed grin.
It was rare for a lowly sewer jack to own such a fine beast.
But then, sewer jacks were becoming a scarce sort.
Hammerhal Aqsha’s bowels had long bloated beyond
reckoning, and most of the city’s capable ‘Undercrofters’
had been swallowed up by the Twin—Tailed Crusade.
Gollac had avoided service in the grand venture only due
to an old wound from a grot knife that left him limping.
He couldn’t keep a march any more.
‘Of course,’ Gollac went on. ‘We were fool enough to take
this job — 56th Wildercorps to the bone. Real waste~
waders the pair of us, eh? When a pump—channel starts
spewing up sludge and some Azyrite’s wastrel gets the
mindrot, who comes and investigates? Old Gollac and his
faithful hound, that’s who.’
The sewer jack sighed, his lantern swinging. Yellow light
panned across walls ofcurved basalt, the squeak of
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rusting metal like a knife whittling at the rock of silence.
The quiet was nearly total, though the yawning ofthe
duardin-carved tunnels seemed to generate a low rumble
of its own.
‘Won’t do itself, though,’ Gollac mumbled. Patting the iron
rungs of the ladder he had clambered down, he flicked the
grime from his fingers before stooping to scratch
Ratsnagger behind a half—torn ear. ‘Come on, lad. Them
faulty pipes ain’t far. Then to the Toil’s End and a flagon of
blackmalt to wash out the taste.’
Ratsnagger trailing at his feet, Gollac limped off along the
tunnel. Sweat beaded across his bare forearms, each
laboured and gulping breath echoing in his ears.
Hammerhal’s guts hoarded heat as readily as the rest of
the city, fuming like an open blast furnace — something
about ‘magmic channels’ or ‘thermic convection’.
Gollac wiped some ofthe moisture from his skin, wincing
as the motion saw his lantern swing and squeak. Its bright
beam swept over clefts in the brickwork that led into the
catacombs and walls marked with guttersnipe graffiti.
Crude Sigmarite iconography competed for space with
strange triangular glyphs and unflattering depictions of
Conclave members.
It was in pausing to appreciate the latter that Gollac
realised the squeaking had continued, even after his
lantern had fallen still. The ice dumping into his guts was
an unwelcome balm to the sweltering closeness.
Ratsnagger growling at his side, he looked down. His
fingers curled around the rough stock ofthe snub~nosed
pistol.
A rat stared up at him. its eyes bulged, froth leaking from
itsjaws. it looked drunken, and like a belligerent drunk at
that. Nearby, several other rats twitched and hissed in
aimless fury. A meaningful snarl from Ratsnagger caused
the vermin to glare at them both. Then, the rats turned
and staggered into the shadows.
Gollac wasn’t fool enough to release his grip on the
weapon. From somewhere in the darkness, he thought he
detected the cunning tap ofclaws. But not too many. He’d
killed ratmen before, as the notched dirk at his side could
attest. He would have been more comibrtabie with a
couple of sturdy Undercrofters at his back, but no point
wishing for the impossible.
‘Hammerhalians don’t run,‘ he grunted, glancing at
Ratsnagger. The hound’s ears were raised and alert.
‘Quickiy now. Not far.’
Gollac’s breathing deepened as he listened for any bump
or skitter in the dark. The blackness beyond his lantern’s
glow rippled in a heat haze. Ratsnagger’s occasional
warning barks elicited no response. Even so, the sewer
jack did not miss the occasional smears of red across the
walls. Whether left by fingers or claws, he couldn’t
discern.
By the time he arrived at a cluster ofcorroded brass
plumbing, Goliac's gasping was like the pumping of
bellows. Bulging from the walls and disappearing into the
vaulted gloom, the plumbworks connected to the
subterranean reservoir stations that delivered purified
water to the city wells above. These particular brass
arteries trembled with rapturous seizures, their creaking
sounding like sighs. Or groans.
‘Pressure might be getting too high. Dragging up sludge
from the innerworks,’ Gollac muttered, slipping a wrench
from his belt. ‘We’ll let it breathe a bit. Keep watch, lad.’
He set the tool at a joint in the piping, let its teeth catch,
and twisted.
Gollac drew back, braced for an overeager gout ofsteam
or hissing water. Instead, a turgid gloop gurgled from the
crack. Steam rose as it was vomited onto the age—eaten
flagstones. So pungent was the odour that it seemed to eat
through the leather of Goilac’s mask. There was a moment
where, through eyes squinted by reflexive watering, Gollac
could have sworn the thick fluid glinted a holy gold. Then
his lantern caught it, and he saw.
Blood. It was blood, viscous and raw. There were. . .bits in
it. Bits of flesh.
Ratsnagger had approached the liquid with a sniff before
starting to lap at it. Biting down on the stench trickling
into his mouth, Gollac called for the bound to back off.
That was when he glanced back into the surface ofthe
piping and spied a glint of beady red eyes clustering in the
dark behind him. 'ihey kept low to the ground, an ambush
predator's stance, muttering and hissing as they dodged
beneath the lantern light.
Quick as his old injury would permit, Gollac lurched
round. He ilailed for his knife and pistol, clutching the
former in a street—brawier’s backhand grip and levelling
the latter with a scowl.
‘Poison my city then, you rodent filth? Come on, then.
Fiftyrsixth Wildercorps!’
With a piercing wail the first predator skittered closer.
dragging itself forwards with its arms. Gollac pulled the
trigger. His pistol’s muzzle-bark briefly vanquished the
blackness. The things shriek cut oti‘suddenly as the bullet
tore out halfits throat. it flipped in the air, carried by
momentum to land in a heap at his feet.
For the second time, surprise seized Gollac. The body was
no ratman. it was emaciated, with a swollen head.
overlong arms, and a blood—caked mouth. But it was
clearly human, even before one considered the scraps of
Hammerhalian colours that still citing to it.
The distraction prevented him killing another ghoul
before the pack charged as one screaming mass. ignoring
how his bad leg protested, Gollac crouched and drove his
blade through the ribs of a pouncing wretch. He yanked it
free in a red spray and thrust again to make sure before
hurling the creature back and dragging the dirk across the
throat of another ghoul. its kin shied away, their hisses
wary now.
Fangs suddenly tore into his thigh from behind. Goliac's
scream was strangled as a claw of pain seemed to rip his
lungs out. The sewer jack toppled, blade and pistol
skidding from his grip. The gauze of shock over his
thoughts was shredded as the teeth began ripping at the
meat of his arm. Even as he fought for strength to gasp,
Gollac saw Ratsnagger tearing at his flesh in a wild furore.
Crimson froth was leaking from the mastiif's mouth.
The ghouls crawled closer. One of them ripped away his
mask, bombarding Gollac with a blended reek of gore and
faecal foulness. Amidst the pipes that reached into the
sewers vaulted ceiling he thought he spied a larger figure,
its eyes glowing a sanguinary scarlet. The thing lifted its
arms, just as the sewer jack found breath enough to bowl.
His wail became a gag as the ghouls cupped the bloody
residue leaking from the pipes and poured it into his open
mouth. Warmth spread through him like a virus. Yet even
as his body attempted in vain to retch it back up, Gollac
felt his senses come alive at the taste. it was sweet. As rich
and sickly as summer wine.
Before long the sewer jack was laughing, even as the
ghouls began eating him alive.
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RULES OF
ENGAGEMENT
Counting down our top 10 most narrative rules

elcome back to the Mortal Realms!
In this issue’s Rules of Engagement
column, I’m going to share with
you my top 10 favourite Age of
Sigmar warscroll rules. However, there is a
twist: I’m going to be picking the rules that I
think fit their narrative most accurately.
These are rules so brimming with flavour that
they instantly conjure up the Mortal Realms
re-create the skills and psychology of a
particular faction or unit. We also work in
tandem with the miniatures team so that the
rules reflect What the models look like they
should do on the tabletop.
With this in mind, lets get ready to launch
into my personal top 10 picks. But, before
reading further into this column, perhaps you

JIMBO
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article in this issue (see
Basic Training), Jimbo is
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with Rules of Engagement.
Having written two rules
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and provide some of the most memorable
gaming moments as a result. They are rules
so synonymous with their unit or faction that
they make perfect sense to anyone who
knows anything about Age of Sigmar and the
factions that inhabit the Mortal Realms.
When the Age of Sigmar games developers
are writing rules, we work closely with the
background team to ensure that our rules
would like to scribble down your own top 10
personal favourite rules that perfectly fit their
narrative and see if we agree on any. If you do
have some different ideas, feel free to let us
know by posting on our Warhammer Age of
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rule. Brutes are, as their name suggests, massive see a Maw-grunta? Unstoppable and momentum.
brutal warriors, so the idea that their mere presence would Nothing else could so accurately describe a hulking great U)
intimidate other smaller warriors to not contest a strategic part porcine beast thundering full tilt at the enemy. Just the name I.I.l
of the battlefield when they are unfortunate to be close to these Unstoppable Momentum paints a vivid mental tapestry. _l
orruks is absolutelyflawless.
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on sense swiftly wither under thefurious gaze of gains more momentum, which means that it gains more and
ofiuk 3% who has marked his territory. more buffs to its Move, Bend and Damage output. If you can get
the Maw-grunta to its top momentum profile, it has a Move of 12",
Bend -3 on its Kill-choppas and a Damage characteristic of 03+3
‘1Enemy models with a Wounds characteristic of 1 that
on its Mighty Tusks! To me, that all sounds pretty unstoppable.
are within 3" of this unit cannot contest objectives.

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The Nighthaunt Scriptor Mortis's Sentenced to Eternal something, and as its speed1ncreases, it becomesever-
Torment rule is a bit of a long one (it needs to be to more deadly. .. gj
explain all the mechanics ofthe rule), so as a summary, the
Scriptor Mortis can judge an enemy Hero, and if found wanting, This unit has a momentum score that affects the
that Hero is condemned to an eternity of torment (prior to which values represented by a 1* for this unit as shown on
they suffer a significant number of mortal wounds). the momentum table above. At the start of the battle,
The mechanics of Sentenced to Eternal Torment work in harmony this unit has a momentum score of 1. Each time this
with not only the lore of the Scriptor Mortis but also the design of unit finishes a run or charge move, add D3 to its
the miniature itself. Hunched over their gigantic tome, the momentum score. This unit’s momentum score can
miserable work of the Scriptor Mortis is brought to the tabletop never exceed 6. At the end of each battle round,
for all to see. in my opinion, it's a masterpiece of miniature subtract 1 from this unit’s momentum score (to a
sculpting, background writing and rules design all coming minimum of 1).
together in perfect blend.

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fajudged soul15 recorded, it is a race against t1mefor
victim to banish the Scriptor1n order to escape
\ndingpunishment.
I 11 your hero phase, you can say that this unit is going
" to record the name of a judged soul. If you do so, pick
'le enemy HERO that does not have the DEATH
.{3 keyword and that is visible to this unit to be the
_ judged soul. At the start of each of your subsequent
hero phases, if the judged soul and this unit are on
the battlefield, you must make a judgement roll for
the judged soul, and this unit cannot record the name
of a different judged soul in that phase. In addition, if
the battle would end and the judged soul and this
gym: are on the battlefield, then before the battle ends,
"you must make a judgement roll for the judged soul.
To make a judgement roll, roll a dice. If the roll is less
than the number of the current battle round, the
judged soul suffers 2D6 mortal wounds. The same
unit cannot be picked to be a judged soul more than
once in the same battle.
DISEASED
lfl were to say to you that I have been Diseased by Nurgle (don't worry, I haven’t!), you would
assume that I have been standing near someone infectious, and I will rapidly succumb to a vile
and deadly malady. Well, that's exactly what happens in the Mortal Realms to those unfortunate
enough to get too close to one of Grandfather Nurgle's favoured children, and without swift treatment,
they could soon join his ranks of Plaguebearers.
My favourite part of this ability is that once a unit is infected, it is permanent unless they, or one of their
kin, can use a healing ability to remove the effect.
Diseased: Each of the Maggotkin is a walking vector of disease, a willing incubator for
maladies that ravage the body and spirit with horrific virulence.
At the end of the movement phase and at the end of the combat phase, give 1 disease
point to each enemy unit that is within 3" of any friendly MAGGOTKIN 01: NURGLB
units. A unit can have a maximum of 7 disease points at any one time (it cannot be
given any more until the number of disease points it has is reduced to less than 7). 3:
At the start ofthe battleshockphase, for each diseasepoint that anenemyunitha
you must make 1 dice roll (called a disease roll). For each 4+, ' .
1 mortal wound. At the end of the bartleshockphase, redgc‘e
points each enemy unit has to 1.

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The Longshanks ability is shared by all the
Mega-Gargants of the Sons of Behemat and is essentially
a mechanical representation of their enormous size. Their huge
legs clearly allow them to stride across (or even through — I
mean, what could stop them?) the tiny humans, aelves or orruks,
for example, that go unnoticed as they are squashed underfoot.
Just reading the name Longshanks evokes a strong sense of
what the rule will be about, and anyone simply looking at a
Mega-Gargant will instantly understand that unimpeded
stomping around the Mortal Realms is what the Sons of Behemat
do best.
I LOngshanks; A Mega—Gargant towers high above the
battlefield, and with their long, powerful legs, they can
step over most obstacles.
When this unit makes a normal move, runs or
retreats, it can pass across other models that are not
MONSTERS and parts of terrain features that are less
than 4" tall in the same manner as a unit that can fly.
ANCESTBAL GBUDGEBEABEB
We‘re halfway through the countdown, and it's our first
ability from an Order faction. In this case, it's the Warden
King's Ancestral Grudgebearer ability. The duardin of the free
cities are led by their Warden Kings, who are responsible for
preserving the legacy of the Dispossessed and ensuring that if
the opportunity presents itself to enact retribution against an
individual that has committed wrongs against their father's
father's father's father, it is not passed over.
Unfortunately fortheir enemies (and to be fair, their friends),
virtually everyone in the Mortal Realms has committed some
slight against the Dispossessed at some point in history, and so
the Warden King can regularly strike off one of the grudges long
held by their clan.
Ancestral Grudgebearer: Every Warden King knows
the names of those who wronged their forebears. As
they march out to defend or reclaim their holds, they
seek the settle those grudges.
If this unit is picked to be your general, at the start of
first battle round, you can pick 1 enemy unit to bear a
grudge against. If you do so, until the end of the
battle, if the unmodified hit roll for an attack made
with a melee weapon by a friendly CITIES 0F
SIGMAR DUARDIN unit that targets that enemy unit
is 6, that attack automatically wounds the target (do
not make a wound roll).
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NOBLE DEEDS
Just outside the podium places, we go back to the Death
Grand Alliance, but this time it's the turn of the
Flesh-eater Courts and one of their battle traits: Noble Deeds.
While it might feel counterintuitive that these deranged.
cannibalistic ghouls could do anything that could be considered
noble, the key to this rule is within that horrifyingly warped place
,. that the Flesh-eater Courts call their minds.
They believe, without any shred of doubt, that they are
honourable warriors — noble, bold and dignified.
This mania is so entrenched in their psyche that the horrific feats
_ of the Flesh—eater Courts leaders are acclaimed by their
“ underlings as heroic acts. The mechanic of the rule re-creates
this through the earning of noble deed points that a Hero can
use to buff nearby friendly units or even summon more loyal
subjects to the battlefield.
Noble Deeds are a brilliant reflection of the mass delusion of the
ghouls of the Flesh-eater Courts.
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anch time a friendly FLESH-EATER COURTS HERO
successfully casts a spell that is not unbound, give 1
noble deeds point to that HERO.
. Each time a prayer chanted by a friendly
FLESHEATER COURTS HERO is answered, give 1
noble deeds point to that HERO.
. Each time a friendly FLESH-EATER Coonrs HERo
fights, after all of its attacks have been resolved, give
that HERO a number of noble deeds points equal to
the number of wounds and/or mortal wounds
caused by that HERO in that phase that were
allocated to enemy units. Do not count wounds and/
or mortal wounds caused by that HERO’s mount.
Each FLESH-EATER COURTS HERO can have a
maximum of 6 noble deeds points at any one time (it
cannot be given any more until the number of noble
deeds points it has is reduced to less than 6).
 3 CRIMSONHAZE
Wrathmongers are, as their name suggests, blessed with a frenzied need to maim and
slaughter any unfortunate nearby. The Crimson Haze is a berserk rage that emanates
from them so powerfully that other Khorne worshippers are driven to fight even harder. More
blood for the Blood God! More skulls forthe Skull Throne! Oh dear, I can see the Crimson Haze
LIFEBLOOM
Alarielle the Everqueen, the goddess of life and the embodiment
of the wrath of nature. How fitting it is that her Lifebloom
ability renews her form when she has been damaged, healing the
wounds inflicted by her enemies, and in the most dire of
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myself now... I’d best sit down for a moment. circumstances, bringing her back to life if she is slain. What I
particularly love about this ability is that the name, Lifebioom, conjures
Right, I’m okay now. On top of Crimson Haze being an awesome rule, it also holds a lot of an incredible image of a reborn Everqueen sprouting from the ground
nostalgia for me. Back in the first-edition Khorne Bloodhound Battletome, the Wrathmongers in a crescendo of pure Ghyranite magic.
Bloodfury rule meant that when a Wrathmonger was slain in combat, a nearby enemy unit could '—
be overwhelmed with a blood-maddening frenzy, resulting in it eitherfighting itself or another I don't think another ability could so accurately reflect the life-giving
enemy unit within 2" of it. Combined with Crimson Haze, this became a brutal but thematic powers of the Queen of the Radiant Wood. Z
combination, and it was hilarious to watch events unfold on the battlefield such as Archaon the LIJ
Everchosen killing himself with Slayer of Kings or Alarielle the Everqueen murdering an allied Lifebloom: Alarielle calls upon the overflowing restorative
Celestial Hurricanum. energies of Ghyran to heal her wounds, no matter how grave E
they may be. I.”
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would have likely put it as my top pick.
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In your hero phase, you can heal up to 2D6 wounds
allocated to this unit. In addition, once per battle, at the <
Crimson Haze: A frenzy-inducing vapour of blood and gore fills the air wherever end of your hero phase, if this unit has been destroyed, you (D
Wrathmongers swing their flails. can roll a dice and add the number of the current battle
round to the roll. On a 6+, you can set up this unit on the
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I Add 1 to the Attacks characteristic of melee weapons used by friendly Blades of battlefield wholly within 12" of an overgrown terrain LLI
Khorne units while they are wholly within 8" of any units with this ability. This feature or friendly Awakened Wyldwood, more than 9"
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ability has no effect on Wrathmongers. from all enemy units and with 8 wounds allocated to it.
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So there we have it: my top 10 picks for rules
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SCURRY AWAY that best fit their narrative. I find each of —I
And here we are at my top pick. Skaven are renowned for these rules to be particularly powerfully
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their self preservation at all costs, so what could be more evocative recreations of the lore they are
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thematic than a rule which allows them to run away representing on the battlefields of the Mortal
from combat? Realms, but there are loads of other rules that
I could have picked, as they also resonate
For me, Scurry Away is a perfect blend of the mechanics of the deeply with their models and lore.
rule, fitting the lore of not just one model but the entire faction.
The idea that when confronted by the possibility of their demise, So, back to the list you scribbled down before
unless they are certain of victory, skaven would prefer to retreat we started the countdown. Did you pick any
rather than engage in honourable combat against the odds for of the same rules as me? Is there a faction
the benefit of their kin is completely embodied within this rule. that didn’t make my cut that should definitely
have been in my top 10? Most importantly,
As a battle trait, it can be used by any Skaven Hero, reinforcing should I have picked a different number one?
the selfish and cowardly nature of all of the Great Horned Rat’s
children, regardless of their position in their society. For now, I’ll leave it with you to discuss my
list with your friends, club-mates and other
-, . . "My.“ hobbyists to see if you can come up with your
.g, _ . ', KW:*T0 the skaven, prudent cowardice is a virtue, and their own definitive list of rules that rule the
_ 35% not think twice about scamperingto safety when thegoing narrative.

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 DEATHGORGE
BLADEBORN
Adventurers, midst the ice-rimed depths of the
Deathgorge, mighty warriors engage
mercenaries and
each other in desperate battle. Many
ne'er-do-wells
fight for glory, while others do battle
enter the for wealth or personal gain. Some simply revel
Deathgorge as we in slaughter and bloodshed. Though many will
bring you even perish, unsung and unremembered in this icy
more Bladeborn place, others will survive and thrive to become
renowned fighters. They are the Bladeborn.
fighters to use in
your games of
Warcry is a fast-paced skirmish game, replete
Warcry. with cinematic moments set in the Mortal
Realms during the Age of Sigmar. Within
Warcry are storied warriors called Bladeborn
fighters, who are themselves iconic
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champions from their factions. These fighters
are powerful allies for your warband. They
have additional rules to represent this, and
they have unique abilities to help tilt the
scales of war in your favour.
In this issue, we bring you new rules for a
whopping six Bladeborn warbands: Cyreni’s
Razors, The Thricefold Discord, Daggok’s
Stab-ladz, Zondara’s Gravebreakers, Brethren
of the Bolt and The Skinnerkin. We also
present the rules you’ll need to incorporate
Bladeborn fighters into your battles (see
opposite) along with the fighter cards and
abilities for these unique fighters.
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What follows are the rules you need to
use these warbands in games of Warcry,
due to their unique status as Bladeborn
fighters. You will need a copy of the Core
Book to use all of the rules shown here,
especially those that relate to
narrative games.
If your warband’s faction runemark is -. heyourally@ coufi‘algainclude H :
not the same, Bladeborn fighters with the othei'fighter th The Thrfcefola ¢
Hero (4*) runemark can instead be Discord ( runemark as an ally fir
included in your warband as an ally, warband. Note that l'b runlll three I
provided that the Bladeborn fighter’s fightersfrom Thefiricefold Discord, y“
faction runemark belongs to the same would need to use a Hedonites of Shark?
Grand Alliance (page 80 of the Core warband, and each of three available
Book) as your warband’s faction places in your warband for a fighter with

BLADEBORN FIGHTERS
- WHAT ARE THEY?
Bladeborn fighters are elite warriors as
varied as the Mortal Realms themselves,
with skills and missions that set them
apart from even their closest allies. Some
Bladeborn fighters belong to small
warbands made up of fellow Bladeborn,
whilst others are mighty individuals who
can even battle an entire enemy warband
alone and emerge triumphant!
Bladeborn fighters who are closely tied to
one another in the story of Age of Sigmar
share the same Bladeborn runemark. For
example, Vexmor and Lascivyr, the
Bladed Blessing, each have The
Thricefold Discord (d)
Bladeborn runemark.
INCLUDING BLADEBORN
FIGHTERS IN OPEN PLAY
AND MATCHED PLAY
In open play and matched play, when
picking your warband for a battle, you
can include any Bladeborn fighters if
their faction runemark is the same as the
one chosen for your warband.
FACTIONS
Each of the fighters in a Bladeborn warband belongs to a faction.
runemark. Rules on how to include allies
in your warband are found on page 76 of
the Core Book.
If you add a Bladeborn fighter with a
Hero (#0 runemark to your warband as
an ally, you can add any other fighters
that share the same Bladeborn runemark
as that fighter. Fighters included in your
warband in this manner (i.e. those that
do not have the Hero (3}) runemark) do
not count towards the total number of
allies you can include in your warband,
but they do cost points like any other
fighter. Additional fighters from a
Bladeborn warband that have the Hero
Hg?) runemark do count towards the
total number of allies you can include in
your warband, as in the case of The
Thricefold Discord.
You cannot add the same type of
Bladeborn fighter more than once to your
warband roster.
For example, in open and matched play,
you can include up to 2 allies in your
warband. If you were to choose Vexmor to
BLADEBORN
the Hero (ix) runemark would be taken
up by each of those Bladeborn fighters.
INCLUDING BLADEBORN
FIGHTERS IN NARRATIVE
PLAY
In narrative play, you can add Bladeborn
fighters to your warband roster if their
faction runemark is the same as the one
chosen for your warband.
In addition, Bladeborn fighters with the
Hero (fl) runemark can be added to
your warband roster as an ally when you
complete the ‘Secure a Powerful Ally’
quest (page 117 of the Core Book). You
must still spend the glory required to
do so.
If you include a Bladeborn fighter with
the Hero 0*) runemark as an ally in
your warband, in the Manage Your
Warband step of the aftermath sequence
(page 112 of the Core Book), you can add
any other fighters that share the same
Bladeborn runemark as that fighter.
Fighters included in your warband in this
manner (Le. those that do not have the
Hero (‘39?) runemark do not count
towards the total number of allies you
can include in your warband, but they do

The fighters of Cyreni’s Razors have the Idoneth Deepkin (Q7) faction runemark in cost points like any other fighter, and you

addition to the Cyreni’s Razors (W) runemark. must still spend the glory required to
do so.
The fighters of The Thricefold Discord have the Hedonites of Slaanesh: Daemons
(if ) faction runemark in addition to The Thricefold Discord (d) runemark.
You cannot add the same type of
The fighters of Daggok’s Stab-ladz have the Kruleboyz (a) faction runemark in Bladeborn fighter more than once to your
addition to the Daggok’s Stab-ladz (t) runemark. warband roster.
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The fighters of Zondara’s Gravebreakers have the Soulblight Gravelords ((9) faction
runemark in addition to the Zondara’s Gravebreakers (¥) runemark. AFTERMATH SEQUENCE
In the aftermath sequence, the following
The fighters of Brethren of the Bolt have the Castelite (W) faction runemark in
addition to the Brethren of the Bolt (fl) runemark. rules apply to Bladeborn fighters:

The fighters of The Skinnerkin have the Flesh-eater Courts (#5) faction runemark
1. Do not make injury rolls for
in addition to the The Skinnerkin (\) runemark.
Bladeborn fighters.

GRAND ALLIANCE 2. Do not make renown rolls for .

Each of the fighters in Cyreni’s Razors belongs to Grand Alliance Order ($3). Bladeborn fighters Bladeborn fighters -
Each of the fighters in The Thricefold Discord belongs to Grand Alliance Chaos Hi ). cannot gain renown. ‘ '

Each of the fighters in Daggok’s Stab-ladz belongs to Grand Alliance

Bladeborn fighters cannot bear artefag,
Destruction (W ).
of power, but a Bladeborn fighter she
Each of the fighters in Zondara’s Gravebreakers belongs to Grand Alliance as your leader can have 1 heroic tra
Death (W). (which they begin with automat'
Each of the fighters in Brethren of the Bolt belongs to Grand Alliance Order (fit).
Each of the fighters in The Skinnerkin belongs to Grand Alliance Death (W).

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[Reaction] Ink let: A fighter can make this reaction after they are targeted by a melee attack
& action but before the hit rolls are made. For each hit roll from that attack action that misses,
after that attack action is resolved, you can move this fighter up to 2". In addition, if all of the hit
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rolls missed, that enemy fighter cannot make attack actions until the end of the battle round.

§ [Double] Hurl Lanmari Blade: Add the value of this ability to the Range characteristic of
the next melee attack action made by this fighter this activation. After that attack action, this
fighter cannot make melee attack actions for the rest of this activation.

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[Triple] Hammertide: Pick a corner of the battlefield and draw a straight line 1mm wide
3 between the centre of this fighter’s base and that corner. Enemy fighters whose base touches
that line cannot jump, fly or climb until the end of this battle round. In addition, roll a

at) number of dice equal to the value of this ability for each such enemy fighter. Allocate 1
damage point to that fighter for each roll of 3+.

[Quad] Crushing Wrap: A fighter can only use this ability before it would make a melee
attack action. R0118 dice. For each roll of 3+, add 1 to this fighter’s Strength characteristic

[3(jS {0 for that attack action and allocate 2 damage points to the target of that attack action. If the
taget is taken 0153f action, the melee attack action has no effect.

ABILITIES

[Reaction] Fade from Memory: A fighter can make this reaction when an enemy fighter
finishes a move action within 3" of them. If there is another friendly fighter visible to that
enemy fighter and within range of at least one of that enemy fighter’s melee weapons, for the

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rest of the battle round that enemy fighter cannot target this fighter.

[Double] Low Tide: A fighter can only use this ability if it is the first battle round. This
fighter can make a bonus move action up to a number of inches equal to the value of this
ability.

[Double] Sweeping Blow: Roll a dice for each visible enemy fighter within 2" of this fighter.
On a roll of 5, allocate 1 damage point to the fighter being rolled for. On a roll of 6, allocate a
number of damage points to the fighter being rolled for equal to the value of this ability.

[Triple] High Tide: A fighter can only use this ability if it is the third battle round. Add 1
to the Attacks and Strength characteristics of melee attack actions made by friendly fighters
while they are within 6" of this fighter.
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[Reaction] Triumphant Tittering: A fighter can make this reaction without forfeiting one
of their actions in that battle round, and can make this reaction even if they have already
activated this battle round.’ A fighter can make this reaction after another friendly fighter
with the Thricefold Discord runemark (d) is slain. This fighter makes a bonus move action
or a bonus attack action.

[Double] The Coiled Lash: Until the end of the battle round, enemy fighters cannot make
disengage actions while within 1" of this fighter. At the end of the battle round, allocate a
number of damage points equal to half the value of this ability (rounded up) to each visible
enemy fighter within 1" of this'fighter.

[Triple] The Bladed Blessing: 'Ihis fighter makes a bonus melee attack action. Subtract 5
from the Toughness characteristic of the target of that attack action, to a minimum of 1, for
that attack action.

[Quad] Undignified Effort: Add 2 to the Attacks characteristic of the next melee attack
action made by this fighter in this activation.

ABILITIES

[Reaction] Shared Pain: A fighter can make this reaction after they are targeted by a melee

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attack action but before the hit rolls are made. For each hit roll from that attack action that
hits, allocate I damage point to the attacking fighter. For each critical hit, allocate 2 damage
points to the attacking fighter instead.

[Double] Lithe and Swift: Add 3 to this fighter’s Move characteristic for their next move
if action this activation.

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Attacks characteristic (to a minimum of 1) of attack actions made by enemy fighters while
they are within 6" of this fighter.
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[Triple] Locus of Excruciation: Until the end of the battle round, add 1 to the Strength

a??? characteristic of melee attack actions made by visible friendly fighters while they are within
6" of this fighter.
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a [Double]LeaveYaBleedin’:A fightercanonlyusethisabilityifanenemyfighterwas
allocated damage points by an attack action made by them this activation. Roll a dice for
a SQ; eachwoundallocatedtothatenemyfighterattheendofthebattleround.Foreach4+,
allocate l damage point to that fighter.

[Double] Hookin’ Your Guts: Until the end of the battle round, after an enemy fighter
makes a disengage action that began within 3" of this fighter, allocate D6 damage points to
% thatfighter.

[Triple] Roar of Kragnos: Until the end of the battle round, add 1 to the Attacks
characteristic of melee attack actions made by visible friendly fighters while they are within
2' 6" ofthis fighter.

‘_ a [Quad]Stealin’YourFinks:Afightercanonlyusethisabilityifanenemyfighterhasbeen
I 3 I. j m Y Y takendownbyanattackactionmadebythemthisactivation.Gainanumberofwilddice
‘" ' - )Q’k equal to the value of this ability, then this fighter makes a bonus move action.

I ABILITIES
[Reaction] Kunnin’ Trap: A fighter can make this reaction after an enemy fighter finishes a
a moveactionvisibletothisfighterandwithin3"ofthisfighter.Pickanotherfriendlyfighter
. within 3" of this fighter. 'Ihat fighter makes a bonus attack action that must target the enemy
j- I I. '3 l ‘ fighter that made the move action.

a : [Double]Venom-encrustedWeapon:Untiltheendofthisfighter’sactivation,add1tothe
damage points allocated to enemy fighters by each hit and critical hit from attack actions
made by this fighter.

[Quad] Kunnin’ Attack: A fighter can only use this ability if there are more friendly fighters
7$,( withtheWarriorrunemark(‘0)within6"ofthisfighterthanthereareenemyfighters
9 )~ 4 within6"ofthisfighter.Thosefriendlyfighterscaneachmakeabonusmoveactionora
bonus melee attack action (some can make a bonus move action and others can make a
bonus melee attack—action).
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[Reaction] Lost Love: A fighter can only make this reaction if they have the Hero (49%) runemark or the

499$ Agile (Q’) runemark, in addition to the Zondara’s Gravebreakers H») runemark, after another fighter
with two of those runemarks is taken down. When this reaction is made, add 1 to this fighter’s Move
characteristic and 2 the Attacks characteristic of this fighter’s weapons until the end ofthe battle.

[Double] Gravebreaking: Each friendly fighter with the Minion (:9) runemark and the Zondara’s

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Gravebreakers runemark (in) that is within 3" of an objective can make a bonus attack action. Each
other friendly fighter with the Zondara’s Gravebreakers (at) runemark and the Minion (+) runemark
can make a bonus move action.

[Triple] Devoted Strike: Add 2 to the Attacks and Strength characteristics of melee attack actions

$9"? made by this fighter in this activation while that attack action targets an enemy fighter within 3" ofa
friendly fighter with the Zondara’s Gravebreakers (in) runemark and the Hero (it) runemark.

[Quad] Blind Devotion: This fighter and a friendly fighter with the Zondara’s Gravebreakers (4;)

fl’at runemark and the Agile (Q’ ) runemark can each make either a bonus move action or a bonus attack
action.

[ ABILITIES
[Reaction] Unfeeling Flesh: A fighter can make this reaction when they are targeted by a melee attack

4%? action but before the hit rolls are made. Subtract 1 from the damage points allocated to this fighter by
each hit from that attack action (to a minimum of 1).

(Q1 [Double] Vampiric Agility: Until the end of this fighter’s activation, do not count the vertical distance
moved when this fighter is climbing.

[Double] Shambling Horde: A fighter can only use this ability if they are within 6" of a visible friendly
fighter with the Hero runemark (it). This fighter can make a bonus move action up to a number of
inches equal to the value ofthis ability.

[Double] Necrotic Siphon: Pick a Visible friendly fighter with the Minion runemark (4») within 6" of
this fighter. Allocate a number of damage points equal to the value of this ability to that fighter. Then,
remove a number of damage points allocated to this fighter up to double the value of this ability.

[Triple] Summon Undead Minions: Pick a friendly fighter with the Minion runemark (4*) that has
been taken down. Set that fighter up on a platform or the battlefield floor, wholly within 3" of this
fighter, That fighter no longer counts as being taken down and has no damage points allocated to it.

[Quad] Vanhel’s Danse Macabre: Pick a number of visible friendly fighters with the Minion runemark
(49>) up to the value of this ability within 6" of this fighter. Those fighters can each make a bonus move
action or a bonus attack action (some can make a bonus move action and others can make a bonus
attack action).
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I ABILITIES

[Reaction] Ultimate Resistor: A fighter can make this reaction when they are targeted by
a melee attack action but before the hit rolls are made. Subtract 1 from the damage points
allocated to this fighter by each hit from that attack action (to a minimum of 1).

[Double] 'Ihunderous Blast: Pick a visible enemy fighter within 3" of this fighter and roll 3
dice. For each roll of 3+, allocate a number of damage points to that fighter equal to half the
value of this ability (rounding up). You can pick an enemy fighter within 3" of another visible
friendly fighter with the Brethren of the Bolt ( Q) runemark if that friendly fighter is within
6" of this fighter.

a [Triple]FuriousAbandon:Thisfightercanmakeabonusmoveactionuptoanumberof
inches equal to the value of this ability. Then, they can make a bonus attack action.

[Quad] Unleashing His Fury: This fighter makes a bonus ranged attack action. When that
attack action is made, you can pick another friendly fighter that is visible to the attacker to
be part of a chain. Then, you can pick a third friendly fighter that is within 6" of and visible
to the second fighter to be the next part of the chain, and so on. Once the last fighter in the
chain is picked, you can measure the range of that bonus attack action from the last fighter
in the chain. Add 1 to the Attacks, Strength and Damage characteristics of that weapon for
each fighter in the chain. Each fighter in the chain must have the Brethren of the Bolt (fl)
runemark.
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ABILITIES

[Reaction] Back to the Kitchenslz A fighter can make this reaction after they have been
allocated damage points by a melee attack action. This fighter makes a bonus disengage
action.

[Double] Get out of My Larderlz Pick a visible friendly fighter with the Skinnerkin (\)
runemark that is within 6" of this fighter and has not activated this battle round. This fighter
and that fighter can each make a bonus move action up to the value of this ability. You can
activate that fighter immediately after this fighter’s activation ends.

[Triple] Plated Banquet: A fighter can only use this ability if an enemy fighter has been
taken down by an attack action made by them this activation. Place a banquet token at the
\ centreofthespaceoccupiedbythatfighterbeforeremovingthatfighterfromthebattlefield.
At the end of the battle round, after determining control of objectives, you can remove up
to 3 damage points allocated to each friendly fighter within 6" of the centre of any banquet
tokens.

[Quad] Precise Filleting: The next melee attack action made by this fighter scores critical
hits on a 3+ regardless of the Toughness characteristic of the target.

ABILITIES

[Reaction] Baffling Parley: A fighter can make this reaction after they are targeted
by a melee attack action but before the hit rolls are made. Subtract 1 from the Attacks
characteristic of that attack action, to a minimum of 1.

. l [Double]FeedingFrenzy:Afightercanonlyusethisabilityifanenemyfighterhasbeen
taken down by an attack action made by them this activation. Remove a number of damage
points from this fighter up to the value of this ability.

a Y ‘( [Triple]BringerofDeath:Untiltheendofthebattleround,addhalfthevalueofthisability

I A:‘ thatstartswithin6"ofthisfighter.
(rounding up) to the Move characteristic of friendly fighters while they make a move action

i l [Quad] TheRoyalHunt: Thisfightermakesabonusmoveaction. Then,theycanmakea

bonus attack action. In addition, add 1 to the Attacks characteristic of that attack action if
this fighter is within 1" of a visible friendly fighter.

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Warhammer 40,000 edition of A Tale As with previous years, we encourage you at home to join in with
of Four Warlords 2024! It’s been a long A Tale of Four Warlords. The timeline below shows you the path
and emotional journey that has seen that our series of articles will follow and roughly what challenges
an impressive 105 games played and 153 our warlords can expect to face in each of the six bimonthly
units painted, totalling an incredible 489 instalments. Let us know how you’re getting on by emailing us at
models — the most ever painted in a series of team@whitedwarf.co.uk.
A Tale of Four Warlords! Some other fun
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he painted another bigger tank. Then he
painted two more even bigger tanks. And — as <
is becoming customary — some other models
to go with them. Lastly, Joe changed tack
entirely and decided to paint a force of
Tyranids led by a Norn Emissary. And why
not, eh? Oh, and they also constructed a huge
Showstopper model, which will be featured in
the final Battle Report. It’s not painted yet,
but we’ve seen video evidence of its existence. CHALLENGE 5 - APRIL
At around 3' long, we’re going to need some Goal: To complete your collection by adding new units to one of your existing A Tale of Four
Warlords forces OR to paint an additional Combat Patrol set Bonus pornts are awarded based on
big deployment zones. Turn the page to see
victory points scored in the gaming event that will conclude the series.
the warlords’ latest creations and their final,
humongous collections!

THE POINTS SCORING SYSTEM

THE POINTS SCORING SYSTEM - THE FINAL BATTLE!
Every two months, we’ve counted up how many units our warlords
- l point per enemy unit destroyed
have painted for their collections and how many games they’ve - l pornt per enemy warlord slain
played, awarding them points for each. With the final stage of the - l point per objective secured
- Additional bonus pornts will be awarded at the llr’llllt‘ [ltt’jll‘l
challenge complete, Joe has jumped ahead of Rhu thanks to
team’s discretion (for the Most lragir, Death or . '
playing a colossal number of games. But will they be able to claim Overkill Kill: for example),
victory in the final climactic battle?

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THE PALE KING APPROACHES

hat a journey! Early on in this
project, I promised I would build a
mainly Terminator-armoured army
with lots of cultists and no vehicles.
I have produced, at the end of this, almost the
willing to put my brushes down when I didn’t
feel up to painting. I worked on these models
little by little and often between other parts of
my life, and I always felt creatively fresh when
I came to them.

RHUAIRIDH opposite of that. However, I’m sure you’ll

There’s an ominous
creaking coming from the
other end of the office.
Some say it's the wind in
the rafters. Others say it‘s
the knee joints of the
infirm. We know the truth
of the matter: it's Hhu's
desk straining under the
weight of over 150 Death
Guard miniatures!
agree that I’ve produced rather a lot of ‘the
opposite of that’! I think if I had any advice
following this project, it’s to start with a
strong plan and be willing to deviate from it
the very second you have a better idea. I’ve
followed my heart with this project, painting
the models I was most interested in or that I
wanted to try out in games. One of my secrets
for never losing momentum was being
I’ve wrapped up the army with some final big
pieces. The first and foremost was, of course,
Mortarion (see below). I also added some
heavy armour to the collection in the form of
three Predators and a Land Raider. I didn’t
mutate my tanks too much, instead focusing
on giving them a hollowed out, battered
appearance. I imagine Typhus doesn’t care
too much for vehicular assets!

PRIMARCH OF THE DEATH GUARD

No Death Guard army would be complete
without Mortarion as a centrepiece! I’ve
been terrified of painting him due to his
massive wings, so I came up with an
alternative to make me feel more
comfortable with such a big project.
Instead of the wings, I equipped him with
a huge turbine jump pack converted out of
a trio of Foetid Bloat-drone fans. It’s got a
real Horus Heresy feel to it. I also gave
him a double-bladed sword taken from
the classic Nurgle Daemon Prince kit.

ROTTEN SKIN
Undercoat: Wraithbone

I Wash:Aggaros Dunes
I Wash: Carroburg Crimson
CRIMSON ROBES
I Wash: FleshTearers Red
I Highlight: Wazdakka Red ,
I Highlight:Zandri Dust
PLAGUE GLOBES
I Basecoat: AverlandSunset
I Wash: Seraphim Sepia
I Drybrush:YrielYeIIow
I Stippie: Mechanicus
Standard Grey (weathering)

WHITE ARMOUR
I Basecoat: Mechanicus
Standard Grey
Airbrush: Wraithbone

I Wash:Agrax Earthshade
Stippie: Wraithbone

I Wash: Mortarion Grime

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THE RED ANGEL DESCENDS

ith a bellow of rage, Angron arrives been entirely transformed by the union of the
to lead the slaughter! I decided at eight Khornate daemons within them.
the outset of this challenge that the
Daemon Primarch would smash I’ve amassed almost 4,000 points of Chaos
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challenge, drawn to the sizeable bloodletting though it’s far from being the largest force, JAMES D:
force the Gore—forged have now become. I and I’m trailing the pack in terms of gaming Rage: 100%
Anger: 100% O
always imagined him in the midst of a points, I’m really proud of my achievements. _I
Bloodletting:100%
frothing mass of Eightbound and Exalted It’s also been an extended experiment in Skull reaping: 100% I
Eightbound, so it’s been great to realise that fitting hobby time around a young family Devotion to Khorne:100%
Red paint left: 0%
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Invocatus and Forgefiend thrown in just to early in the morning), and I want to dedicate That’s it! James has
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dial up the violence. The Exalted Eightbound this army to all readers who manage to find completed Khorne! He's
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with Angron’s head and its attached <
cabling. I wanted to give the impression
that his anger is so volcanic that it blazes
visibly from his mouth and eyes and
heats his Butcher’s Nails white-hot. This
also helps to highlight his head as the
focal point of the miniature.

ANGRON'S SKIN
I Basecoat: GalVorbakRed
I RecessWash: Nuln Oil
I Glaze: Khorne Red
I Highlight:TuskgorFur
BRASS ARMOUR
Basecoat: Screaming Bell

U Layer: FulguriteCopper
I Wash:Agrax Earthshade
- RecessWash: Bloodfor
the Blood God
Highlight: Canoptek Alloy

THE BUTCHER'S NAILS

I Basecoat: RhinoxHide
I Layer: Mephiston Red
T Layer: Evil SunzScarlet
Layer: Troll Slayer Orange

Layer: Yriel Yellow

Layer: Dorn Yellow

Layer: Screaming Skull

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t’s been a heck of a hobby journey over the
last few months. I have painted so much
Warhammer and played so many games;
this series has reinvigorated my hobby!
Gaming has been particularly crazy lately. I
I’m going back to tournaments, I’m painting
armies again — not just single models — and
I’m being more creative and social. To say I’m
reinvested in my hobby is an understatement.

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We’ve got another xenos
infestation! Last time, Andy
went rogue and painted
some Tyranids. This issue,
Joe's done exactly the
same thing. The Hive Mind
is clearly getting into their
heads! However, they have
got some wise words to
say about being distracted
(not necessarily by aliens).
played in three tournaments, one of which
was a doubles event. I think I managed to go
every week with at least one game.
I’m primarily a painter — that’s my jam — but
A Tale of Four Warlords has got me back into
playing games, and it has resulted in me
rekindling old friendships, making new ones
and reminding me that sometimes there’s
nothing quite like rolling dice with a friend.
Sometimes we impose restrictions on our
hobby, but I’m learning to do this less and
less, and it’s very liberating. This is a hobby;
it’s supposed to be fun. It should ease stress,
not add to it. So now, if I want to play a game,
but I haven’t finished painting my models, I
just do! If I want to paint Dante’s left leg
instead of highlighting Intercessors, I will!
Don’t let the act of doing the hobby get in the
way of enjoying it — that’s what I’ve learned.

UNLEASH THE KBAKEN!

I got entirely distracted by Tyranids this
month and painted a small force from
Hive Fleet Kraken. Painting them was a
very different experience to Space
Marines and Kin, and it was a welcome
change of pace. The skin colours were
achieved by applying watered-down
washes straight over the Wraithbone
undercoat. I then painted the carapace in
a similar way, building up the colour
with progressively fighter washes while
leaving the previous colour in the
recesses to create a smooth gradient.

ALIEN SKIN
Undercoat: Wraithbone

I Wash: Dreadful Visage

I Wash: Guilliman Flesh
I Recesswash:Volupus
Pink (joints and vents)

RED CARAPACE
I Wash: BlackLegion
I Wash: FleshTearers Red
I Wash: Baal Fled
I Highlight: Evil Sunz
Scarlet

I Highlight: Flayed
One Flesh

DETAILS
I Layer: lyanden
Yellow (eyes)

I Wash: Striking Scorpion

(glowing bits)

I Wash:VolupusPink
(raw flesh)

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ALL RISE FOR THE LORD MILITANT GENERAL

wise Imperial commander once said perfect for spearheading any armoured
that big guns never tire. For the final assault. Why settle for just one armoured
deadline, I wanted to put that to the behemoth when you can have two, eh?
test. I wanted to finish the series with
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a bang! How many tanks is too many tanks? This series has really let me flex my hobby
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muscles with lots of converting and a chance ANDY I
I painted three more Leman Russ Battle to push my painting under some tight Apparently Andy's brief
foray into worshipping an O
Tanks this month, all converted with recessed deadlines. It showed me what I can get done
extragalactic alien deity _l
sponsons and some alterations to weapons. I when I stick (relatively closely) to a plan. I’ve was all a terrible mistake! n:
then painted a Rogal Dorn Battle Tank. That also had a chance to reacquaint myself with He has renounced his faith
in the Four-armed Emperor <
all felt like a nice foundation, but I wanted using an airbrush, as well as try out some
something super-heavy. So I painted a different weathering techniques I’ve only
and returned to the light of
the two-armed Golden
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Baneblade, the quintessential Astra really used on small projects. I can’t be more Throned one. The
Inquisition are watching
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him very carefully indeed. :3
more rarely seen Stormsword, which will be 4,600 points of miniatures and 142 models!
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to convert the warlord commanding
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General Antonin Kursveil, whom I’ll use
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his life ward are the House Greim <
Military Attaché from Necromunda,
while the half-track is a combination of a
Jackal Alphus’ bike and some spare
Kataphron Breacher tracks. The Rogal
Dorn, 331 ‘Praetorian’, was painted in
the colours of the rest of my tanks — the
Narmenian Armoured regiment.

CADIAN MIST
- Basecoat: Castellan
Green

I Drybrush: Nurgling
Green
Drybrush: Krieg Khaki

IST NARMENIAN
I Basecoat:Zandri
Dust

Airbrush: Morghast
Bone

l Wash: Agrax
Earthshade,
Mortarion Grime &
Contrast Medium 1:1:2

Drybrush: Ushabti
Bone

Drybrush: Screaming
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Delve into the obscure world of the techno-sorcererous Necrons

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he Necrons are rightly feared across
the galaxy for their technological
might. When they march to war, their
legions unleash the most fundamental
forces of the universe, weaponised in ways so
inconceivable to the younger species of the
galaxy that they appear as dark sorcery. All
this is thanks to the boundless knowledge
and sinister ambitions of the Crypteks.
. The Crypteks are ancient techno—sorcerers of
great power. They are present throughout
everyNecrondynasty,actingasadvisors, fillnderstandingandupkeepofsuchvast
viziers, soothsayers and techno-savants to
their Royal Courts. Thanks to the rigidly
hierarchical nature of Necron society, most ' i$uch knowledge, in’turn, renders its
Crypteks occupy roles subservient to the
ruling nobles of those courts — however
resentfully. The fact remains, however, that
without the expertise of their Crypteks, the
mighty dynasties would soon grind to-a baht?!
Asagult, manyCrypteksenjoy CLlief." oneessentiallyloyalto theirdynastyand
consi rable influence and powerful p'atrons
that aid them in fulfilling their own
ambitions. .
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Most such schemes involve the pursuit of
‘ scientific knowledge and the advancement of
the Crypteks’ esoteric might. Though many
Crypteks flit from one discipline to the next,
altering their focus - and even their living
metal bodies — to suit their latest studies,
others embrace their peoples’ trend for
monomania by devoting their aeons—long
existences to the study and perfection of a
particular facet of cosmic science. In some
cases, a desire for familiarity may see them
hold to whatever area of study they
specialised in before biotransference. In
others, it may be an enforced obsession,
pushed upon the Cryptek via the command
protocols of their noble masters or thrust to
the forefront of their personality engram
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during the messy process of revivification.
. same disciplines — such as technomancy,
plasmancy or chronomancy — have many
adherents amongst Royal Courts throughout
Necron society. These are typically the most
obviously useful of the disciplines.
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Whatever their motivations, most Crypteks (I)
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fashion incredible artefacts of techno- E
sorcerous potency. They delve into esoterica
, forbidden by the younger species or
considered the province of beings beyond
mortal ken. They labour to create ever more
magnificent weapons and war engines with
which their overlords can assert dynastic
dominance over the galaxy at large. Even as
generation upon generation of organic
scholars, scientists and artificers come into
their power and then wane and decay, still the
timeless Crypteks continue their sanity—
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THE TECHNOMANTIG ARTS
Since biotransference, the Necrons
have been utterly reliant upon
technology. From the android
bodies their consciousnesses reside
in to the fortified tomb complexes
‘ in which they revivify and plot
their campaigns of domination, the
very foundations of their continued
existence are built upon it. It is,
therefore, unsurprising that one of
the most commonplace Cryptek
disciplines is that of technomancy.
In some ways, these cunning
manipulators of high technologies
are as close as the Necrons come to
engineers as the younger species
might recognise them.
It is within the gift of a
Technomancer to fashion
Canoptek constructs. Many of
these in turn aid the Crypteks in
repairing damaged Necron
technologies and structures. Others
may act as bound familiars that
carry their masters swiftly from
place to place, swarm over their
living metal bodies to effect repairs
and project defensive force fields,
or burrow into the technologies —
or even the nervous systems ~ of
their foes to shackle them to a
Technomancer’s will. Many
Technomancers also surround
themselves with retinues of larger
and more powerful Canoptek
entities to serve as labour units and
bodyguards both.
Most Technomancers create their
own tools, though to use such a
word to describe these implements
of creation is reductive in the
extreme. Glittering things of
delicately ticking quantum
clockwork, nano-engineering and
harnessed force fields, the
implements of the Technomancers
channel the powers of creation to
reconstruct and revivify their
fellow Necrons at a molecular level.
A single talented Technomancer
can stiffen the backbone of an
entire Necron battle line as they
play their nanoscarab beams across
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fallen or damaged warriors and Plasmancers are ever-eager in the ,
send them lurching back into the application of their nightmarish
fight with their limbs and bodies creations. Typically accompanied
reforming layer by layer. It is not by small retinues of Cryptothrall
hard to see why the Necron bodyguards, they delight in taking
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nobility put great stock in the arts to the field of battle and testing -
of the Technomancer, and why few or witnessing the deployment of —
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without at least one of these skilled devoted to their craft even attach
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It is felt by many Crypteks that to indulge the Plasmancers’
there is something wrong with unbridled appetite for destruction I.“
those of their number who focus and supremely untroubled by how :I:
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upon the discipline of plasmancy. many dictats of the Triarchal Codes 9
Certainly, these destructive such apocalyptic weaponry flouts. LI-
individuals exhibit certain D
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find alarming. Plasmancers are E
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them — as far as command
protocols will allow, at least — and E
are viewed by Crypteks of a more
intellectual bent as crude, ill—
tempered and often little better
than murderous vandals.
Such stereotypes are, of course, far
from universally true. Yet it cannot
be denied that of all the Cryptek
disciplines, plasmancy most lends
itself to violent destruction. These
techno-sorcerers eschew subtlety
in favour of channelling the raw
power that flows from the most
violent cosmological phenomena.
They hurl blasts of star-hot plasma
from weaponised staves. They
modify their android bodies to
project arcing storms of energy
that reduce nearby Victims to
charred corpses in moments. They
fashion colossal energy cannons,
neutrinobaric concussion
munitions that can reduce cities to
blasted glass from orbit, and
thrumming blades of esoteric
energy whose merest touch can
burn out the nervous systems of
living victims.
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 TEMPORAL ENGINEERS
To control the linear flow of time closing hatchway might be shunted far from their target world, these
seems a fantastical notion to many out of synch with temporality so insidious weapons project
amongst the younger species, and that it moves with glacial speed. overlapping entropic fields that
yet to the Chronomancers it is a cause all upon that planet to age
science as real and multifaceted as Such applications are amongst the and decay at a subtly accelerating
any. 'Ihese Crypteks employ most obvious ways that time can be pace. If the effect is not detected
techno-arcane foci to manipulate employed as a weapon or tool. quickly enough, and its source
localised timestreams and achieve Wielding the strange devices of pinpointed and eliminated by the
many startling and powerful their discipline and applying the foe, entire worlds can be reduced
effects. Allies may be lent haste, full breadth of their cunning and to wastelands of crumbled dust in a
sliding without entropic inertia intellect, Crypteks can also use matter of decades — a mere
through accelerated linear flows temporal energies in far stranger eyeblink by the standards of the
that carry them swiftly along their and grander ways. Some dynasties’ Necrons. In this nightmarish
timelines into futures none around tomb ships, for example, benefit fashion have the dishonourable
them have yet reached. The from chronotronic nodes built into Nekthyst Dynasty conquered
opposite effect may also be their superstructure that hasten several enemy worlds without a
achieved by the Chronomancers’ their self-repairing capabilities — shot being fired.
arts. An enemy champion might be though reckless overuse of such
paused momentarily in the act of power by nobles amid battle has THE SCIENCE OF FEAR

striking a blow, like an insect occasionally seen a vessel knocked If they consider them at all, most

caught in amber. Individuals can out of sync with linear time and Necrons view the sentient organic
be anchored to a single repeating lost forever. Then there are the life forms of the galaxy as little

moment to hold them in a form of sinister entropic accelerator more than troublesome vermin to

preservative stasis or imprison and satellites employed by the Nekthyst be eradicated. Psychomancers,
torture them. A falling structure or Dynasty. Placed in the deep void however, are fascinated by them —

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psychological makeup. The reasons
for this fixation vary. More
militarily minded Crypteks simply
wish to undermine the morale of
the many foes who stand against
'the Necrons’ reconquest of the
stars, weaponising fear just as
others might harness powerful
energy sources or martial
might have led the Necrontyr down
the road to biotransference.
Whatever the basis of their studies,
Psychomancers are invaluable to
any Necron dynasty. On the
battlefield, their sinister arts cause
waves of atavistic terror to ripple
through the enemy ranks,
weakening the resolve of even the

technologies. Others practise this
art with compulsive sadism,
enjoying the fearful responses of
their victims and revelling in their
sense of superiority over what they
see as primitive, instinct-driven
savages. Some Psychomancers
pursue stranger goals: efforts to
refine extreme emotional energy as
a power source, esoteric studies
into the link between sentient
organic entities and the
immaterium and even — in a few
COTMRYSHTPE
staunchest battle lines and sending
lesser foes fleeing for their lives.
With the merest flick of their dark
technologies, they cause focused
hyperadrenal terror spikes to burst
the hearts and minds of enemy
commanders. Meanwhile, hard«
light phantasms conjured by the
Psychomancers’ arts spread panic
through the enemy by making it
appear that they are outnumbered
or outflanked at the crucial
moment.

taboo cases ~ clandestine

investigations into what inherent
weakness of organic sentience

APPRENTEK ASSISTANTS
It has been noted that while most Crypteks work alone,
those who lead Hierotek Circles often make use of
assistants (designated: Apprentek). These modified
warriors appear to act as conduits — perhaps even HEAD SURROUNDED BY ‘
magnifiers ~ for their master’s powers. A CONTROL COLLAR,
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HERALDS OF THE INFINITE COSMOS

Just as the sprawl of the galaxy is
immense and complex beyond any
mortal’s true understanding, so too
are the arts of the Crypteks
Virtually infinite. For every
widespread discipline scattered
amongst the dynasties, there is
another stranger or more niche
avenue of science sorcery to be
pursued.
Ethermancers, for example, delve
into the myriad energistic fields
generated by meteorological
patterns, living creatures and
cosmic phenomena. These they can
turn against their enemies or
channel to empower incredible
engines of creation and destruction
both. Geomancers and
Alchemancers ~ whose disciplines
are sometimes conflated under the
title Harbingers of
Transmogrification - harness the
powers of transmutation to alter
the fundamental makeup of
material reality. In this way, they
can instil animus into that which
should remain inert, or they can
twist the chemical and molecular
makeup of anything from
planetary bedrock to the walls of
enemy fortifications or the hulls of
the foe’s war engines.
Photachromancers, atomancers,
prokaryomancers, astromancers,
paradomancers — these and
countless others delve into stranger
and more niche disciplines. By the
arts of such learned Crypteks do
the Necron dynasties fashion
technologies unimaginable to other
species. The Crypteks give their
rulers access to the powers of the
cosmos, yoked and turned to arts
that have seen many primitive
civilisations name the Necrons as
gods and worship them with
fearful awe. All they ask in return
is the freedom to follow their
endless and obsessive curiosities
and ~— more often than their
supposed betters may realise — the
leeway to politick, manipulate and
assert their own overweening
genius at every opportunity.
GROWING POWER
The Crypteks — and by extension
the Necrons as a whole — mastered
myriad superscientific disciplines
during their conquests of the
young galaxy and the subsequent
nightmare of the War in Heaven.
Some have been forgotten or lost to
their practitioners thanks to the
damage wrought by the Great
Sleep. Others await rediscovery or,
in the rarest of cases, are disciplines
as yet unknown and unexplored
even by the Necrons. As more and
more Necron tomb complexes
surge back to wakefulness, fresh
conclaves of Crypteks are

TIIE ANTITIIE'I'IK DISCIPLINES NO. FlLE//NEC//TR|ARCH_PRAETURIAN

Even the Necrons - supremely arrogant and entitled

though they might be — view certain scientific studies as
pushing the boundaries of what is permissible. Typically
these are areas of exploration that butt up against the
strictures of the Triarchal Codes. In most cases, it is less
that these so-called Antithetik Disciplines are utterly
taboo. Rather, Crypteks are expected by Triarchal tradition
to gain the permission of their Overlords, the Triarch
Praetorians or — in just two explicit cases — the blessing of
the Silent King himself before engaging in their pursuit.
The study of the origins and deeper mysteries of the C’tan
is one such discipline and one that led in time to the
refinement of the energy shackles that bind C’tan Shards
into Necron technologies such as Tesseract Vaults. Another
such discipline — doubtless rendered uncomfortable by the
Necrons’ collective memories of the ruinous Wars of
Secession - concerns the quantum sociopolitical
mechanisms of intemecine conflict and their
weaponisation. Crypteks who master this art can advise
their rulers on methods by which enemy civilisations and
military structures may be destabilised on levels so subtly
fundamental that their insidious methods are nigh-
irresistible. However, these same Crypteks are watched
carefully by the mm lest they turn their
techniques upon the already-fractious Necron dynasties.

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unleashed upon the galaxy. Some
swell the ranks of those already
studying the most fundamental
disciplines of techno-sorcery. Some
flit from one area of study to
another as the whim takes them,
' enraptured by the esoteric
opportunities offered by the dark
and war—torn galaxy into which
they have awoken. Then there are

COTMBYSHTP
those who stir back to life with the
secrets of entirely new and terrible
powers locked within their
labyrinthine mental architecture.
As the Necrons rouse in ever
greater numbers and their
dynasties set out upon fresh wars
of galactic reconquest, who can say 'THERE ARE THOSE WHO WOULD DRAW FALSE COMPARISONS
what dread forces — be they new or BETWEEN THE RIGHTEOUS TECH-MAGI OF THE ADEPTUS
horribly, unimaginably ancient — MECHANICUS AND THE PERVERSE XENOTECHNOLOGISTS OF THE
they will set loose upon the NEORONS. THERE CAN BE NO MERCY FOR SUCH HERETICS.’
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TEMPUS PURBATUS
The Adeptus Mechanicus come under attack from a xenos foe
agos- echnicus Tathyk S on
hesitated. Despite the urgency of
the situation, her need to act was
overridden by an uneasy blurt of
contradictory data from her internal
augmetics. She paused in an open hatchway,
gripping its frame with one metal hand to
steady herself. Her Skitarii halted with her, a
few glancing at one another, crimson optics
fizzing with unease in the gloom of the
poorly lit corridor. Distant screams carried to
them from some lower deck, flesh—voices and
binharic wails entwined.
The portions of Magos Shon’s face that were
organic twisted in consternation as data
spooled through her cortex, insisting she had
suffered a terrible wound when all evidence
was to the contrary. Plasmembrane sheaths
WIIITE WIMP
nicti ated across heil‘ri.'|”lw ' crises as 'she
isolated and purged the erroneous data. She
examined and then impatiently excised
several more data-artefacts: a corrupted
timestamp; impossible energy readings; and a
secondary cortical alarum.
I have no time for such nonsense, she thought
and goaded herself into motion. The lumens
studding the corridors of the explorator
barque Savant were flickering as though the
ship’s machine spirit were distressed. Smoke
drifted in thin runnels along the ceilings,
flowing from somewhere deeper where
Violence had doubtless been done. Yet Magos
Shon did not fear harm at the hands of the
xenos that had boarded her vessel. Rather,
she felt the need to punish them for their
presumption in setting foot upon this blessed
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barque of the Omnissiah. If she feared
anything — as much as so heavily augmented
a being as she still experienced base Human
emotions — it was the risk that the alien
boarding party might imperil the Device.
That was why she made haste through the
passages and chambers of the Savant,
accompanied by her Skitarii clades and
hulking Kastelan Robots: to reach the vault
that contained the Device and ensure it was
secured against hostile alien threats.
the deck where the Device languished in its
vault. She also knew, thanks to the constant
inload stream of her advanced augmetics,
that xenos contacts were reported
approaching the vault from the opposite
direction.
Time is our enemy here, she thought.
Binharic hymnals rang out as the Skitarii
Vanguard Alpha of Omega-Primus-Rho

PTUERMGPAT
completed his interface abasement with the
And then, she thought with fierce satisfaction, bulkhead door’s machine spirit.
to unleash its sacred might upon the xenos
filth. ‘CLEAR TO ADVANCE, MAGos,’ heblurted
toher.
Magos Shon had brought the Device all the
way from the deep vaults of her forge world. ‘DISPENSATION, SKITARII ALPHA

Stygies VIII harboured many such ancient ONE-ONE-EIGHT RHO,’sherepliedin

treasures of the Omnissiah and — though
perhaps she should have sought more explicit
permission from her superiors before
liberating this one — Shon was certain that the
Machine God would not begrudge her the
use of one in so holy a crusade as this. To
strike at the heart of the Pariah Nexus, to
comprehend the twisted uses the deviant
xenos had found for precious noctilith and to
reclaim that vital substance for the use of the
Omnissiah’s servants, such was surely holy
work. It was also — as this present situation
demonstrated all too neatly — perilous. Hence
Magos Shon’s choice to liberate the Device
and its auto-reliquary, and bring it with her
in secret. She did not doubt that such a gift of
the Omnissiah would prove its worth when
unleashed upon the heretical androids that
had boarded Savant. She just needed to reach
it and unshackle it from its bonds first.

The Skitarii Vanguard of Clade Omega-

Primus-Rho led the advance. They tramped
along corridors of brass and brushed steel,
and clattered down spiralling iron stairways.
Their radium carbines swept every hatchway
and shadow. Their optic lenses burned with
purpose in their ironclad helms. Such loyal
protectors would allow nothing to harm their
mistress, Shon knew. For all that, she was
glad of Clades Omega-Secundus—Rho and
Omega-Tertius-Thetus stiffening her force’s
numbers, and for the trio of massive
Kastelans that surrounded her protectively
while their Datasmith, Hyng, scurried in
their wake.

Reaching the bottom of another stairwell, the

Skitarii of Omega-Primus-Rho reordered
themselves smoothly, preparing to push
through the heavy cog-shaped bulkhead door
before them. This portal, Shon knew, led onto
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binhariccant.‘5ERVE HITH ALACRITY
AND OFFER THE MERCY OF THE
MACHINE.’
She received a fierce blurt of acquiescence. It
was a popular sentiment within the Skitarii of
Stygies VIII, the mercy of the machine. Shon
supposed it constituted a form of humour.
Machines, after all, performed their function
without compunction. There was no mercy to
be found within their relentless iron hearts.
The bulkhead door cycled open amidst the
tolling of brass bells and fanfare of screeching
binharic choristry from cherubic servitors
wired into alcoves above the doorway. The
carmine strobe of emergency lumens spilt
through, limning Omega-Primus-Rho for an
instant as though drenching them in gore.
Then they advanced, guns up, and the rest of
Magos Shon’s force followed them through.
The Magos sensed at once that something
was awry in this portion of the ship. The
Savant had been part of a small Adeptus
Mechanicus flotilla attempting to travel from
the Myrtika System to reinforce the Imperial
defenders at Vertigus. The deleterious effects
of the Nephilim Anomaly had turned their
journey into a gruelling trial as the vessels
had dropped unexpectedly out of the warp
time and again, suffering more attritional
damage each time. Yet the empyric
disjunction that had hurled Savant out of the
warp had been an order of magnitude more
violent and damaging than anything else the
flotilla had experienced. It was why their
sister ships had been forced to abandon them
in their race to reach the Vertigus System,
and why Magos Shon had become
acclimatised to seeing damage wrought
throughout the ship’s corridors. All she had
done for the past five Tempus-Indomitus-
Standard days was work at repairing that
damage.
There was something else at work on this
deck, however. Shon saw the depressingly
familiar buckled deck plates and burst
conduits caused by the emergency translation
from the warp. Yet she also noted tendrils of
what appeared to be corrosion furring
consoles and stanchions. She vid-captured
images of the corruption using secondary
optics as she swept down the corridor and —
upon analysing the playback through one of
her three backup cortices — was surprised to
see that the rust was visibly spreading. Part of
her consciousness watched with growing
disquiet as fingers of corroding corruption
spiderwebbed across a console, extinguishing
indicator bulbs one by one. Each delicate
glass oblong flickered crimson then turned
black as it was touched, glass cracking with
sharp little clinks.
Magos Shon reached out with her
Omnissiah-given senses, her disquiet
growing as she tasted unnatural energies at
work within the fabric of the ship. Whatever
was happening, it involved mysteries of the
Omnissiah that lay outside her own areas of
study. Yet she could sense its effects well
enough. The visual corruption was only one
aspect of a creeping entropy that burned out
bundled wires and corroded data-matrices
deep within Savant’s systems. Yet laced
amongst these deleterious effects were
stranger anomalies still. Shon’s flesh—face
twitched again as her data—senses touched
upon a conduit amidst the damaged sections
that instead seemed in perfect working
condition. She interrogated its monitoring
spirit with a thought and frowned more
deeply at the unexpected answers it provided.
It was impossible that this data conduit could
have been installed this very day, fresh from
the forges of Stygies VIII, yet all indicators
asserted that such was the case.
Shon was dragged away from investigating
the anomaly further by the sudden fierce
clamour of gunfire from up ahead. With a
binharic curse, she refocused her primary
attention upon her surroundings. One-
hundred—and—seventeen feet further along the
corridor, Magos Shon’s internal auspex
detected xenoform energy signatures. The
strobe-lit murk of the corridor curdled
further there as flashes of emerald light
silhouetted the Skitarii of Omega-Primus-
Rho who stood in close firing ranks and laid
down a hail of radium rounds at the
approaching aliens. One of Shon’s devoted
warriors was blasted from his feet, layers of
metal and flesh billowing away from his body
under the flaying energies of his killer’s gun.
Through the gap left by the fallen soldier,
Magos Shon got her first look at the android
xenos advancing down the corridor. Killing
light glinted in the artificial eyes of the
Necrons. The ghoulish machine creatures
shambled closer by the moment, their guns
spitting beams of vivid green energy into the
exposed Skitarii. Omega-Primus-Rho closed
ranks and the enemy was lost to Magos Shon’s
sight again.
Her followers were suffering, she knew, yet
their sacrifices would be worthwhile. They
had pushed far enough along the corridor
before engaging the foe. Just fifty-five feet
ahead of her, the Magos saw the armoured
door of the vault set into the corridor wall.
Sending a swift blurt to her followers and
commanding them to protect her at all costs,
the Magos deployed her mechadendrites in a
writhing halo and all but fell upon the access
panel.
(ENEMY NUMBERS INCREASING, MAGOS,’
blurted Skitarii Alpha One—One-Eight Rho to
her as she worked.
‘ACKNOWLEDGEMENT,’ she sent back
distractedly. The vault had been sealed with
thrice-sanctified data—wards and would not
be opened swiftly.
‘ENEMY NUMBERS INCREASING, MAGos,’
blurted Skitarii Alpha One-One-Eight Rho to
her once again.
‘REPETITION Is UNNECESSARY,’ she sent
back, tagging irritation against her tonal
indicators. She received a query-response.
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Increasingly annoyed by the unwanted CD
distraction at such a crucial moment, Magos 0‘:
Shon went to sample the Skitarii Alpha’s D
repeated query and exload it to him by way of D.
a response. She paused when she realised
that, according to her conversational chrono- U)
log, he had indeed only blurted once. =
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Impossible she thought, experiencing an E
unpleasant moment of deja vu. As with the I.I.l
previous anomalous readings, Shon I—
dismissed and purged them. She would not
risk anomalous data corrupting her cortices.
Yet even as she bent back to her labours,
Magos Shon harboured a swiftly cohering
theory. I
The Necrons have unleashed some techno-
heretical weapon upon my ship, she thought,
the idea causing her to suffer a digital churn
equivalent to nausea. There is temporal
distortion here and it is not natural.
The thought only made her work quicker. At
last, the vault’s huge doors groaned open.
Frozen vapour spilt out, dissipating to reveal
the dark space beyond. Sat in a pool of frosty
light was an ornate auto-reliquary larger than
an Onager Dunecrawler. Within it, Shon
knew, the Device slumbered. As the sounds
of battle intensified she swept into the vault,
mechadendrites coiling with anticipation. She
would release the machine from its bondage,
ally it to her will, and then she would make
the Necrons pay for setting foot upon her
vessel.
‘IN THE OMNISSIAH'S NAME/blurted
Magos Shon, as she set to work.
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ABNORMALITIES
Six new Boarding Actions missions with a time-bending twist
ime is relative — that’s how the saying
goes. And nowhere is this more
evident than in the 4lst Millennium,
where time distortions, temporal
anomalies, psychic powers, stasis fields,
esoteric weapons and the horrific powers of
the warp can all turn time inside out, upside
down and back to front. It’s a mystery how
anyone knows what day it is. Or even what
year! It is fully possible for a battleship to
leave Terra, travel through the warp and
arrive at its destination before it departed the
Solar System.
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And that’s what makes this series of six
Boarding Actions missions so exciting,
because they all feature an element of time
manipulation. In essence, you play two games
on two identical boards - one set in the past
and one set in the present. Actions that take
place in the past can affect the present and
vice versa, so you might send a unit to take
an objective only to find that it has moved
somewhere else. Or exploded! You may even
find your units travelling back in time. Be
prepared for some hilarious, outrageous
temporal shenanigans!
SETTING UP THE BATTLEFIELD
Each mission map only shows a single game board and half the amount of scenery you would expect to find on a typical Boarding
Action battlefield. This is because you will actually set up two identical instances of this map layout, each representing the same U)
area but at two different time periods. One of these will be called the Past game board and the other the Present game board. Unless 2
otherwise stated in these rules, it is not possible for models on one game board to interact with those on the other.
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. First player takes their turn, but when doing so can only
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entire turn in one go, moving and fighting with all their models or set up their units on the Present game board.
on both game boards, the battle round will be split into two
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stages — the Past stage and the Present stage — as shown below. - The second player takes their turn with the
same limitations.
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. First player takes their turn, but when doing so can only
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set up their units on the Past game board.

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SEOUENCE
1. MUSTER BOARDING PATROL
The players must first select their Boarding Patrol, as described in
Arks of Omen: Abaddon. Players must then provide a copy of their
army roster for their opponent to read through. If, when players
compare their points total, one player’s is at least 30 points less than
their opponent’s, then the player with the smaller points total is the
Underdog, and they may receive an Underdog bonus as detailed in
the mission they are playing.
2. DETERMINE MISSION
Players determine which mission will be used for the battle; they
can choose from the Boarding Action missions below. Players can
either simply agree which they will use with their opponent, or they
can roll a D6 to randomly select a mission using the table.
BOARDING ACTION MISSIONS
DB MISSION
1 Chronomantic Sabotage [pg 96]
2 Temporal Echoes [pg 98]
3 Temporal Connections [pg 100]
4 Crystalline Regeneration [pg 102]
5 Adriftin the Warp [pg 104]
5 Chem Harvest [pg 106]
3. READ MISSION BRIEFING
Each mission has a mission briefing that will detail the aims of the
battle. Each mission will also list one or more additional mission
rules that will apply for the duration of the battle, as well as a
series of primary objectives that award Victory points (VP) to
players. Players should read and familiarise themselves with these
before proceeding,
4. DETERMINE ATTACKER AND DEFENDER
Players roll off and the winner decides who will be the Attacker
and who will be the Defender. The Attacker’s and Defender’s Entry
Zones are labelled on the deployment map.
5. CREATE THE BATTLEFIELD AND PLACE
OBJECTIVE MARKERS
Players now create the battlefield and set up terrain features. As
described on page 93, instead of a single map, made by placing two
gameboards adjacent to one another, each of these missions uses
two identical copies of the same map that only use one gameboard
each. Set both of these gameboards up next to each other, but not
touching, and decide which will represent the Past and which will
represent the Present.
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Each unit in your Boarding Patrol that has a Unit Strength of 10
must now be split into multiple units, each containing 5 models.
When splitting a unit, make a note of which models form each of
the two new units. From this point onwards, these split units count
as independent units for all rules purposes.
7. GENERATE STARTING COMMAND POINTS
Each player starts with 1 Command point.
8. DEPLOYARMIES
The players alternate setting up their units one at a time, starting
with the Defender. For each of a player’s Entry Zones (as shown
in the mission map), that player sets up one unit within that
Entry Zone.
If a unit has a pre-battle rule that allows it to be set up anywhere
on the battlefield, that unit is instead set up wholly within 6" of its
Entry Zone. That Entry Zone is then considered to have had a unit
set up within it and cannot have another unit set up within it before
the start of the battle. If one player finishes deploying all their units,
their opponent then deploys the remainder of their units until
either both players have set up one unit per Entry Zone or all units
have been deployed.
If both players have units with abilities that allow them to be set up
after both armies have deployed, players must roll off after all other
units have been set up and alternate setting up these units, starting
with the winner.
ENTRY ZONES
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deployment yones called linlr} /.ones. lathtiliie.it1|iitlroiii
a player’s Boarding l’atrol is set up, it must he set up wholly
within one otthat players Illill')' '/.one.s. 11 a unit will not [it
wholly within an linti'y Zone, all of its inotlels must he .set up as
elose to the eentre olithnt linti'y [one as possible.
Players cannot set up a unit within an lintry [one il'any other
unit is in that linti‘y /,one. However, when setting up a unit at
the start ol‘the battle, players tan set up their \\'arlortl alongside
that unit as it it was a part of it. using the same lantry Zone.
Rules that prevent a unit from being set up within a speeitie
distance ol'another model or unit cannot pi em a unit from
being .set up within an Entry Zone.
9. DETERMINE RESERVES 13. DETERMINE VICTOR
Any units in a player’s army that do not start the battle on the At the end of the battle, the player with the most VP is the winner. (D
battlefield will start the battle in Strategic Reserves. If players are tied, the battle is a draw. Z
In the Reinforcements step of a player’s Movement phase (starting Each player can score a maximum of 90 VP from mission ‘2
from the first battle round onwards), that player can select one of objectives (any excess VP awarded are discounted). If every model I—

their Strategic Reserves units for each of their Entry Zones that has in a player’s army was painted to a Battle Ready standard, that O
no models within it and set those units up in those Entry Zones. player is awarded a bonus 10 VP. This gives players a maximum
total score of 100 VP.
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Strike ability, then in each of that player’s turns (starting from the
second battle round onwards), one of those units can be set up on
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set up within an Entry Zone. Any Strategic Reserves units that During the battle. players can earn \'I" by achi “mg n:
have not arrived on the battlefield by the end of the third battle
round count as having been destroyed (this does not apply to units
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has started). ‘Ihere are two types otmissinn objectives: Progressive and lind a:
(lame. I"I‘t\gl‘C>\l\'C mission objectives are scored during the
10. DETERMINE FIRST TURN battle (exactly when is detailed on the nbieetive itseII'I and can
Players roll GIT and the winner takes the first turn.
be achiued. and 1 ice award \'I’, several times. llnd (lame
mission objectives are scored .11 the end otthe battle,
11. BEGIN THE BATTLE
The first battle round begins. Players continue to resolve battle
rounds until the battle ends.

12. ENDING THE BATTLE

The battle ends after five battle rounds have been completed. If one
player has no models remaining in their army at the start of their
turn, the other player may continue to play out their turns until the
battle ends.

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1. CHRONOMANTIC SABOTAGE
MISSION BRIEFING
Caught within the binds of a temporal anomaly, the opposing
hoarding parties seek to use the shifting tides of time.
Manipulating them with esoteric technology or warp sorcery, they
aim to deny their opponents access to invaluable archeotech and
secure these treasures for themselves.
OBJECTIVES
ANOMALOUS ACOUISITION
End Game Objective
Recovering archeotech from temporal anomalies is fraught with
risk and complication. Any item drawn out of its own pocket of
time may cease to exist due to conflicting causalities.

DEPLOYMENT MAP At the end of the battle:

See opposite.
- Each player scores 25VP for each objective marker they
control on the Present game board.
- Each player scores 10VP for each objective marker they
MISSION RULES control on the Past game board.
Set Temporal Charges: In each player’s Command phase on
the Past game board, for each objective marker on that game
board, the player whose turn it is can select one unit from
their army (excluding Battle-shocked units) that is within
range of that objective marker. If they do, and they control that
objective marker, timed explosives (see below) are set on the
corresponding objective marker on the Present game board.

Temporal Detonation: At the end of each player’s turn on

the Present game board, for each objective marker on that
game board, if timed explosives are set on that objective
marker, roll one D6: on a 3+, those explosives go off. When
timed explosives go off on an objective marker, it is no longer
considered to have timed explosives set on it, and roll one D6
for each unit within range of that objective marker: on a 2-3,
that unit suffers 1 mortal wound; on a 4-5, that unit suffers 2
mortal wounds; on a 6, that unit suflers 3 mortal wounds.

Underdog Bonus: If one player is the Underdog, at the start

of the first battle round, that player can select one unit from
their army that is on the Past game board; that unit can make a
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2. TEMPORAL ECHOES
MISSION BRIEFING
Doing battle within darkened corridors, opposing combatants
seek to confound one another in their attempts to secure
astropathic receiver-nodes. Hatches and bulkheads open and seal
as if at will, manipulated by those cast out of their own timeline.
DEPLOYMENT MAP
See opposite.
Designer’s Note: When creating the battlefield, objective
markers are only placed on the Present game board; do not place
any on the Past game board.
MISSION RULES
Temporal Causality: Each time a Hatchway is opened on the
Past game board, if the corresponding Hatchway on the Present
game board is closed, open it. Each time a Hatchway is closed
on the Past game board, if the corresponding Hatchway on the
Present game board is open, close it unless this would result in
a unit no longer being in Unit Coherency.
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OBJECTIVES
NO TIME LIKE THE PRESENT
Progressive Objective
Those who remain within their own timeline rush to navigate
corridors and plunder salvage, all the while contending with the
actions of opponents cast into the past and the guns and blades of
those present in the here and now.
In the second, third and fourth battle rounds, at the end of each
player’s Command phase, the player whose turn it is scores
SVP for each of the following conditions they satisfy:
. They control one or more objective markers.
- They control two or more objective markers.
. They control three or more objective markers.
In the fifth battle round:
o The player who has the first turn scores VP as
described above.
0 The player who has the second turn scores VP as
described above but does so at the end of their turn
instead of at the end of their Command phase.
SECRETS OF THE PAST
‘End Game Objective
Even those cut adriftfrom their own time
of sorts. By establishing control of es
intelligence and insight may be pl
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3. TEMPORAL CONNECTIONS
MISSION BRIEFING
Stockpiles of ancient Human weapons, xenotech and other
plunder await opportunists within the belly of a derelict vessel
trapped within a temporal anomaly. These treasures continue to
vanish and reappear as they are caught upon the tides of time
and hurled along them in increasingly entropic patterns. The
combatants must navigate escalating chronomatic disturbances
in order to secure these prizes.
OBJECTIVES
SALVAGED E PH EM ERA
End Game Objective
As the derelict’s hidden bounty slides along timelines, so is it given
permanence. Materiel drawn from scattered temporal packets is
insubstantial by comparison, its worth immeasurably reduced.

At the end of the battle:

D EPLOYM ENT MAP - Eachplayerscores15VPforeachobjectivemarkerthey

See opposite. control on the Present game board.
. Each player scores 5VP for each objective market they
control on the Past game board.

MISSION RULES
Entropic Dispersal: Each time a unit from a player’s army
on the Past game board is selected to make a Normal or Fall
Back move, if it is within range of one or more objective
markers controlled by that player, that unit can take one of
those objective markers with them. That player can move that
objective marker up to 6" as if it were a model in that unit.
A unit cannot move more than one objective marker in the a
same turn, and each objective marker cannot be moved more :
than once per turn. The objective marker must end that move
more than 2" away from every other objective marker. Once
the objective marker on the Past game board has been moved,
move the corresponding objective marker on the Present game
board to the corresponding new positimon that game board.

Underdog Bonus: If one player is’the; I briefing; at the start

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4. CRYSTALLINE REGENERATION
MISSION BRIEFING
The decks of this ancient vessel are encrusted with aeons of
grime and formations of shimmering chronometric crystals,
the artificial origins of which are lost to time. As the opposing
forces battle to secure the crystal formations for analysis, some
combatants find themselves cast out of time, presenting an
opportunity to manipulate the eldritch technology responsible for
creating these outcroppings.
DEPLOYMENT MAP
See opposite.
MISSION RULES
Crystal Seeding: At the end of each player’s turn on the Past
game board, the player whose turn it is can select one unit from
their army within a Chronocrystal Zone (excluding Battle-
shocked units and those within Engagement Range of one or
more enemy units). If they do, they can place one objective
marker anywhere on the Present game board, wholly within
6" of the corresponding Chronocrystal Zone and not within
3" of any other objective markers or any Walls or Hatchways.
Those Zones, on both game boards, no longer count as
Chronocrystal Zones.
Underdog Bonus: If one player is the Underdog, that player
starts the battle with 1 additional CP.
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CRYSTAL HARVESTING
Progressive Objective
The chronometric crystals may hold within their shimmering
depths the ability to unravel the vagaries of time itself. They must
be secured and analysed at all costs.
In the second, third and fourth battle rounds, at the end of each
player’s Command phase, the player whose turn it is scores
IOVP for each objective marker they control.
In the fifth battle round:
. The player who has the first turn scores VP as
described above.
- The player who has the second turn scores VP as
described above but does so at the end of their turn
instead of at the end of their Command phase.
TECH-SALVAGE
End Game Objective
By securing the technological remnants left within the derelict, it
may prove possible to unlock the secrets behind the creation of the
chronometric crystal fields.
At the end of the battle, if one player has more units from their
army on the Past game board (excluding Battle—shocked units)
than their opponent, that player scores 20VP.
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the battlefield and roll one D6 for each model in that unit, then
MISSION BRIEFING consult the table below to determine which of those models
Rival factions seek to plunder the datahanks of a stricken void suffers 1 mortal wound. That Zone is no longer considered a
ship caught within a warp rift. The empyrean plays havoc with Warp Rift Zone.
reality, degrading crucial data. As battle begins, some warriors
seek to exploit miniature warp rifts, manipulating time in order 1 MORTAL WOUND SUFFERED ON A
BATTLE ROUND
to extract the last fragments of data from the dying vessel. ROLL OF:

DEPLOYMENT MAP
See below.

MISSION RULES
Empyric Tides: In the Movement phase on the Present game
board, each time a unit ends a Normal, Advance or Fall Back
move, if every model in that unit is within a Warp Rift Zone,
that unit can travel through it. If it does, remove that unit from
Then set back up that unit anywhere on the Past game board
that is more than 3" away from all enemy models. Until the end
of the turn, that unit is not eligible to declare a charge.
Underdog Bonus: If one player is the Underdog, that player
starts the battle with 1 additional CP.

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Progressive Objective to result in victory.
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6. CHEM HARVEST
MISSION BRIEFING
A cargo vessel loaded with biochemicals has been caught in
the gravitic embrace of a black hole. Exposure to the temporal
anomalies wrought by the singularity has warped the ships
cargo, lending it strange and powerful properties. The brave and
foolhardy seek to enter the vessel’s decks, traverse the anomalies
and secure samplesfor further study.
OBJECTIVES
CHEMICAL ANALYSIS
Progressive Objective
The biochemicals stored within each of the vessels cargo
containers have been warped in various strange manners. By
collecting as many samples as possible, the chances of recovering
a substance of value are increased.

DEPLOYMENT MAP Each time a unit from a player’s army harvests a biochemical
See opposite. sample using the Chem Sample Tactical Manoeuvre. that player
scores 10VP.

- MISSION RULES RESIDUAL CONTROL

Chem Harvest: At the start of the battle, all objective markers
have biochemical samples to collect. For each objective marker
with biochemicals to collect, one unit from the army of the
player whose turn it is can perform the following Tactical
Manoeuvre if it is within range of that objective marker and
that player controls that objective marker:
End Game Objective
Securing control of the biochemical holds to monitor their
degradation or daring to tarry so as to collect every scrap of
temporal residue before the singularity rips the vessel apart, those
with the most wide-ranging data could reap the greatest benefits.

Chem Sample: At the end of your next Command phase At the end of the battle, each player scores 5VP for each
or the end of the battle (whichever comes first), if the objective marker they control.
unit performing this Tactical Manoeuvre is still within
range of that objective marker and is not Battle—shocked,
it harvests the biochemical sample from it, and that
objective marker is no longer considered to have
biochemical samples to collect. Ifthat objective marker
is on the Past game board, the corresponding objective
marker on the Present game board is also no longer
considered to have biochemical samples to collect.

Container Rupture: At the start of each player’s turn on the

Present game board, for each objective marker on the Present
game board that does not have any biochemical samples
to collect, roll one D6: on a 5+, that objective marker is
considered to have biochemical samples to collect again.

Underdog Bonus: If one player is the Underdog, at the start

of the first battle round, that player can select one unit from
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NECR 0N DYNASTIES
Modelling and triding forth from ancient tombs, the
Necrons seek to reclaim a galaxy that
painting inspiration
they once ruled over 60 million years
for the armies of
ago. Taking the form of humanoid
the 41st metal skeletons, these undying soulless
Millennium. This androids have become a twisted mockery of
issue: Necron the proud species they once were. The
dynasties. command protocols of their warriors have
become broken and corrupted from aeons of
degradation, while the minds of their rulers
having descended into madness. Yet despite
these flaws (or perhaps because of them), the
Necrons are still terrifying foes. Nigh
indestructible and wielding weapons that can
obliterate worlds, they march implacably
across the galaxy intent on reconquest.
THE DVNASTIC RULERS
Every Necron belongs — whether through
lineage, conquest, servitude, politics or some
other interweaving of fate — to a regal
dynasty. These dynasties have their own
quirks and idiosyncrasies, many of which
were exaggerated during the Great Sleep. The
Necrons of the Mephrit Dynasty, for example,
are masters of stellar destruction but are
troubled by paranoia and in-fighting. The
Nihilakh Necrons are arrogant and proud but
prefer isolation to expansion. In contrast, the
warriors of the Novokh Dynasty are brutal
butchers who can switch from emotionless
automatons to frenzied slaughterers in the
blink of an eye.
This article celebrates Necron dynasties in all
their ancient, undying glory. Opposite, you
will find some useful guidance on how to go
about building an army from a particular
dynasty or even create one of your own. This
is followed by a selection of models, units and
collections painted by members of the
Warhammer Studio. We hope they provide
you with the inspiration you need to create a
Necron dynastic army of your very own.
AWAKENING OF A DYNASTY
Useful advice for creating your own Necron dynasty

Coming up with a colour scheme and a name DYNASTlES OF THE NECRONS

for a Necron dynasty is enough for many
hobbyists, but there are other aspects of their
creation to explore. Here are a few ideas that
might help you forge of your new force.
Give them a name. Necron dynasties
normally have harsh—sounding single-
Every Necron dynasty has its own heraldry, iconography and
symbolic cartouche (shown below), the colours of which are
often represented on the dynasty’s military assets. For example,
warriors of the Charnovokh Dynasty will often have midnight
blue shoulder armour, while Phaeron Thoekh’s necrodermis is
entirely blue. Their energy fields, as shown by the icon, are green.

GWAHAOLSC
word names, often featuring a hard ‘ekh’
or ‘akh’ at the end. A ‘fuh’ sound is also
common, appearing in the form of a ‘ph’.

Territory. Tomb worlds can be found all

over the galaxy. Perhaps yours is located
in a well—known region like the Nephilim
Sector. Maybe it’s hidden in a far-flung ,3 l

corner of the Segmentum Pacificus. Sautekh . Nihilakh

Write some background. When did your

Necrons awaken from their slumber? Are
all their protocols intact or corrupted?
Has their world been invaded by a lesser
species? Do they have an unusual quirk
such as radiation-powered weapons,
glowing eyes or failing self-repair codes?

Who’s your leader? Is your phaeron a

cool and calculating military genius, an
unpredictable but deadly butcher, a host
to the madness-inducing Flayer virus or,
potentially, all of the above?

Create a colour scheme. A Necron’s

necrodermis is commonly silver or brass,
but they often display dynastic colours on Nekthyst Mephrit
shoulder pads, cartouches and weapons.

NECRONS OF THE THOKT DYNASTY

The Thokt Dynasty is a great example of
an iconic Necron dynasty. Using the
format above, they have the following:

Name: 'Ihokt Dynasty.

Territory: Meghoshta — the Cradle of
War. Located in the I-lyrakii Deeps,
Segmentum l’acificus.
Background: The dynasty harnesses
radiation from void rifts, which
gives their weapons a blue glow.
Commander: Phaeron ()nryx,
Indestructible Lord of Stars.
Colour Scheme: An oily silver
necrodermis embellished with teal
armour panels to denote rank.
Weapons are an eerie blue.

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My Necrons hail from a lesser tomb world
that has sworn allegiance to the Silent
King. The force is led by a couple of
converted characters, including my
Plasmancer, who has gained a pair of legs
, from the Royal Warden, and my phaeron,
who has been given arms from the
Overlord model. One of my objectives
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and painted the whole force in a month!
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translates as ‘forgotten’ in Arabic — was
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MARTIN WALLER
Martin is well known on
the painting circuit, having
won 11 Golden Demon
awards, a Slayer Sword
and countless other
painting accolades over
the years. What many
people don't know is that
he is also a keen gamer
and has several beautifully
painted armies.
Captain Cor‘Vah of the Raven Guard
oversees the deployment of his
Deathwatch strike force.
124 WIIIIE DWARF
artin: I got into the hobby in the
mid 1990s when I spotted a copy of
White Dwarf (issue 175 to be
precise) at my cousin’s house. It
featured the Vibrant second-edition artwork
for Codex: Orks on the cover, and I was
instantly drawn to it. Not so much the Orks
but what they were stood on — a dead Dark
Angels Space Marine! The more I looked into
the hobby, the more I fell in love with it. I got
the second-edition starter set for Christmas,
and it blew my mind. The books, the models,
the cardboard dreadnought. .. it was
awesome. I enjoyed gaming, but I really fell in
love with painting. I spent my weekends at
the local Warhammer store honing my craft,
learning from the staff who would show me
different techniques. These were pre-internet
days, so the only way to learn was to speak to
others, copy the step-by-step guides in White
Dwarf and muddle your way through.
I ended up being a dab hand at painting, so I
was asked if I would like to paint the new
releases for the store cabinets. It was around
that time that another model was added to
those cabinets — Matt Parkes’ Slayer Sword~
winning diorama from the 1995 Golden
Demon. I stared at that diorama for hours. I
was gobsmacked. I’d never seen anything like
it. I think that’s where my interest in
competition painting stemmed from.
My favourite army of all time has to be the
brave warriors of the Adeptus Astartes. To me
they are the iconic 40K faction, and ever
since I spotted that dead Dark Angel on that
White Dwarf cover, I was hooked. Over the
years I’ve collected Grey Knights, Dark
Angels and Blood Angels, which were
featured in Warhammer Visions a few years
back (issue 12 from 2015).
One Chapter that always caught my attention
was the Deathwatch. The idea of a hyper—elite
xenos-hunting special ops force was just too
cool to pass up. I decided to paint a unit of
Deathwatch following the release of Kill
Team as I wanted to take a break from
painting Golden Demon entries and focus on
something purely for gaming. I converted a
few models using Primaris Intercessors and
found that the backpacks, arms and weapons
from the Deathwatch Veterans fitted the
Intercessors perfectly, as did all the packs,
pouches and leg holsters. I put together that
initial five-man squad, but then the bug got
me, and I ended up buying a whole army!
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 I initially just painted what I thought looked
cool and wasn’t overly worried about
gameplay. Then, about a year into the project,
I was lucky enough to be offered a place at
the No Retreat X tournament. It’s a really
exclusive event that takes place in sunny
Gibraltar. They receive hundreds of applicants
every year for only 26 places. This focused my
mind somewhat and made me think about
how the army would work on the table and
how the units would interact with each other.
I started playtesting potential army builds,
but I always came back to the models I liked
the look of over how good they were in a
matched play setting.
I’m not really a competitive gamer, but I do
enjoy the matched-play format. Once I got
my head around how secondary objectives
worked and how my army interacted with
them, I became a big fan. I’ve only played in
two tournaments so far, one being No Retreat
and the other being Confrontation in
Portsmouth. Although these are classified as
tournaments, they put a lot of emphasis on
the way players’ armies look and how they are
presented. This is often known as the ‘soft
score’, which awards points for the effort that
has been put in to your force. I was really
all
I
happy to get the best army award at
Confrontation and an award for my army at
No Retreat, which I was particularly pleased
with as the standard was so immensely high.
I prefer to play games that are visually
immersive and tell a great story but also have
a structure. It doesn’t necessarily inform what
I add to my force, but if a unit is particularly >-
powerful alongside looking really cool, that’s
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always a bonus!
Lu
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I don’t play as often as I would like. I’m _|
married with two young children, so a lot of <
my time is taken up with them. Thankfully, c)
the kids are now both at school, so that’s
>-
opened up more opportunities for hobby
time when I’m not at work. I’m a police E
officer, so the last few years have been really a:
challenging both physically and mentally, but <
I’ve found the hobby is a great way to unwind
and decompress. I love nothing more than to
sit down with an audiobook or podcast on
and paint. Once I’m in the zone, that ‘quick
15 minutes after work’ does often turn into a
few hours. On the subject of work, I’m trying
to set up a wargaming club at work, as there
seems to be an appetite for it with people
wanting to get back into the hobby. I think
another trip to Warhammer World is needed!
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 A FAMILIAR WATCH MASTER
My Watch Master is not just converted
from Marneus Calgar; in the background
for my army he is Marneus Calgar. I know
it’s not canon, but considering his
experience fighting the Tyranids and the
fact that he once fought and defeated an
Aeldari Avatar in single combat, the
Deathwatch could probably learn a lot
from him. The conversion work was pretty
simple — I left off the Gauntlets of
Ultramar and replaced them with regular
Primaris arms. I covered the left arm with
a Deathwatch pauldron and painted it
silver like the rest of the army. In his right
hand, he wields an axe (with built-in
storm bolter) taken from the Allarus
Custodians kit.

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I wanted to use a neutral black for my
models rather than anything too cold or
warm. I used Abaddon Black as a base,
then edge-highlighted it with Eshin Grey,
Mechanicus Standard Grey and finally
Administratum Grey. The whole army is
I Basecoat:Abaddon Black
I Highlight: Eshin Grey
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I Highlight: Administratum Grey
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I Wash: Nuln Oil
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lots of very fine edge highlights! For larger

areas like vehicle panels, I used thinned
Rhinox Hide in the recesses to add a bit of
weathering. I also thinned down some
Mournfang Brown and washed it into the
recesses of each model’s boots to tie it into
the base.
To speed up the painting process, I
painted most of my models in sub-
assemblies. For example, I would leave off
the left arm (which could then be sprayed
separately with Leadbelcher) and also the
Chapter-specific pauldron so I could
undercoat it with a lighter colour if
required — like for Imperial Fists.
GOLD DETAILS
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 STREETS OF
DEATH
The battle for ob: Cinderak City, built upon the
ruins of Hive Meridian, sits across the
_ Cinderak City
vital trade artery connecting the
reaches its climax
Palatine and Mynerva Clusters. The
as Gorshiv seizure of the city by House Escher (backed
confronts Athera in by the rebel lord Lady Credo) during the
the city’s ruins. Great Darkness presented a threat to that
trade that the Imperial House could not
afford to ignore.
Thus, while House Goliath’s ultimately
unsuccessful attack on the Riftways
surrounding Hive Primus was being launched
by Axon Hammer, Gorshiv Hammerfist led
an attack on Cinderak City. There he would
come up against Matriarch Primus Adina’s
personal champion, Athera, as she led House
Escher’s defence of the city.
In this final instalment of our ongoing series,
we are concluding the Succession Campaign
from Necromunda: The Aranthian
Succession — Cinderak Burning. This issue, we
present the campaign scenario Street Fight, a
narrative scenario that covers the chaotic
battle for control of Cinderak City between
the House of Blades and the House of Chains.
We then reveal the Triumphs for the end of
the campaign!
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ASSAULT 0N 'CINDERAK CITY
Battered by months of Ash Waste Nomad
raids, the people of Cinderak City were
ill-prepared for the Goliath assault. With the
bulk of House Escher’s forces dedicated to the
defence of the Riftways, Matriarch Primus
Adina dispatched her personal champion and
gene-sister, Athera, to lead the defence.
Arriving mere hours before Gorshiv and his
fellow Forge Tyrants, Athera quickly took
stock. No help was to be found from many of
the inhabitants of the settlement, most
preferring to stay out of what they saw as
inter-clan conflicts. Even the Merchants
Guild were huddled behind the walls of their
compounds, warning away any who
approached with threats of violence.
However, all was not lost as the Road Boss
Arkansus Hammer and House Mistress
Elvera Kayne had gathered together all of the
Orlocks and Escher within the city. They had
brought with them every willing scummer,
bounty hunter and outlander who could
stand and carry a gun — together, it might just
be enough...
When the assault came, it was with terrifying
brutality. With their Maulers and ash rigs
smashing through the defences of the city,
which had already been weakened by
repeated Nomad attacks, the Goliaths made
quick progress through the city outskirts. The
defenders were forced to engage in a running
battle, moving from building to building or
fighting from atop their own vehicles while
the invaders crushed people and destroyed
the ramshackle shanty buildings with equal
disregard.
The Goliath attack was not as random as it
first appeared — Gorshiv was systematically
cutting the city into segments that could be
cleared of enemies one by one, and the
stockpiles placed within claimed for the
attackers. Realising her only chance was to
cut off the head of the attack, Athera set her
Escher fighters to bait Gorshiv out into the
central market square where she could deal
with him personally.
Unwilling to be drawn out immediately, the
Goliath Forge Tyrant tightened the noose
around the city until just a few pockets of
resistance remained. Only then did he finally
acknowledge Athera’s challenge. With the
remaining forces of both Houses watching,
the two fought to decide the fate of Cinderak
City. . .
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STREET FIGHT
During the sixth and final campaign cycle,
the battle that everyone is playing is Street
Fight from Necromunda: The Aranthian
Succession — Cinderak Burning. This scenario
is designed to represent Gorshiv leading the
House of Chains against Athera’s hastily
drawn defences. ROB
Games developer Rob and
his gang — the Dustblind
In this scenario, the two gangs fight through Divas - upheld the honour
SATURCHN
the streets of Cinderak City, where space is of the imperial House until
the very end of the
limited and vehicles struggle to manoeuvre.
Aranthian Succession
The objective is simple: to be the last gang campaign. As such, he
standing! eagerly awaited a reward
for his loyalty. It came in
the shape of a beautiful
MURDER DOLLS (ESCHER) - VS - DUSTBLIND bouquet... of grenades!
DWAS (ESCHER) Why, Helmawr... why? ~
The two Escher gangs squared off against
each other, uneasily eyeing up their opposite
number. The first couple of rounds were a
cagey affair with both gangs reluctant to fully
commit, trying to bait their opponents into
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making a mistake. The Dustblind Dyvas
blinked first, sending their mounted fighters
down a narrow street on their left side to try
to outflank the Murder Dolls. After a furious
couple of rounds, the Dyvas stood
triumphant, though they did have several of
their gang die in the Doc’s care after the
battle.
IRON FIST CLAN (ORLOCK) - VS - THE END IS NIGH
(CAWDOR)
Despite their numerical advantage in each of
their battles, The End is Nigh had been
struggling to win decisive Victories for Lady
Credo’s Rebellion. Facing off against the Iron
Fist Clan, things began much better as the
Orlocks’ Arms Master was brought down by a
gaggle of Bonepickers and Zealots. The Iron
Fist Clan never recovered from the initial
onslaught and quickly Bottled, leading to
much of the gang fleeing the battlefield and
leaving the Cawdor triumphant.
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Being one of two undefeated players in the
campaign, Anthony had his eye on the Leader
of Men Triumph, and with only Dan’s Dune
Wraiths in his way, battle was joined. The
Dune Wraiths caused lots of damage to the
Wasteland Deadheads, with their Arthromite
Duneskuttler ‘Blackclaw’ felling an Ambot
and a Wolfquad before finally being brought
down by the Goliath’s Stimmer. However, as
the battle progressed and Nomad casualties
mounted, it became clear that it was a lost
cause for the Dune Wraiths, and so they
faded back into the wastes, leaving the
Goliath Victorious.
THE LOST PATROL (BAOZONE ENFORCERS) - VS -
THE DUKES FAMILY (OHLOCK)
The Badzone Enforcers of Andy’s Lost Patrol
decided to bring justice to the Orlocks of the
Dukes Family. Captain K—5991 ‘Caesar’ led
the Lost Patrol from the front, making a
beeline for their Outrider Quad. The
Outrider got one chance to drop him,
opening up with its heavy bolter. Three hits!
Three wounds! Caesar needed 6s to save...
Three 6s! To add insult to injury, the Captain _
managed to drop the Dukes Family’s
Outrider with a lucky autopistol shot. Despite
these initial heroics, the Dukes Family
gradually won the ensuing bloody war of
attrition, and the rest of the Lost Patrol were
eliminated.
THE FRICHT KNIGHTS (UNOEIIHIVE OlITCASTS)
- VS - FOHTIS FOHMIOO (BADZONE ENFORCEIIS)
Despite making a name for themselves within
the depths of Hive Primus during the first
half of the campaign, The Fright Knights had
since been on a losing streak. Hoping to turn
things around, the Brat gang challenged the
Enforcers of Fortis Formido. Unfortunately,
the opportunity to attack scions of the Noble
Houses without repercussions was too good
for the Enforcers to pass on, and they did
quick (and bloody) work putting them down.
THE SOMNUS FELLOWSHIP (CHAOS HELOT COLTS)
- VS - THE ANATHEMA (CHAOS HELOT COLTS)
With two Helot Chaos Cults in the campaign,
it felt inevitable that they would fight each
other to determine who was more blessed by
the Dark Gods. The battle started with the
Anathema’s Ambot infiltrating in order to
disrupt the Somnus Fellowship. However, the
Rustwarren Horror rolled forward and
claimed its third Ambot of the campaign, this
time scoring a Memorable Death! Rich got
his revenge though, running the monster
down with his Ridgerunner’s wheel scythes.
With both their vehicles and Chaos Spawn
soon lost, the Anathema’s Cult Witch, Rain,
proved critical, manifesting the Terrify Wyrd
Power every round, and holding back Jesse’s
gathering cultists. With their bottle lost, it
was only a matter of time before the Somnus
Fellowship were routed and Rich’s gang left
victorious.

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Squaring off against the Akai Suna Syndicate,
the Van Saar of the Night Stingers quickly set
themselves up with their advanced las
weaponry, covering multiple fire lanes across
the battlefield, and waited for their foes to
advance. Knowing that they were just going
to get picked off one by one if they tried to
exchange long—range fire, ‘Gorgeous’ George
led his Orlocks in a charge across the
battlefield, hoping there would be suflicient
numbers left to take down the Night Stingers.
It was a costly decision that left many of his
brothers and sisters dead in the dust behind
him. The gamble paid off, though, as with just
one wound remaining, George managed to
take down the Night Stingers’ leader in
combat, leading to the rest of the gang fleeing
and leaving George as the only remaining
' model on the battlefield. Ever the gent
though, he gifted the Van Saar 60 credits with
his-Too Pretty For Primus Legendary Name!
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atrocities she has and gives tips for
committed on pages speaking to drudges.
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THE TRIBUNE IS
DAMOCLES NOW HIRING
CLUSTER FALLS Do you have the
TO THE REBELS tenacity to chase
The Tribune has the truth down,
received reports that whatever it might be,
the entire Damocles and report it without
cluster have declared fear? If so, then don’t
themselves for the delay! Due to sudden
Rebel Lord, Lady vacancies within
Credo. We have been the Tribune’s senior
instructed to inform editorial team, we are
all loyal citizens to urgently seeking new
stay away from the reporters to get the
cluster. They must stories that no-one
not travel there and else can. Full details
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At the end of any campaign comes the issuing
of Triumphs. These awards are given to
players whose gangs have proven themselves
exceptional in one way or another. The
Triumphs for the Succession Campaign are
presented in Necromunda: 'Ihe Aranthian
Succession — Cinderak Burning. Presented
here'are the winners of each Triumph along
with their Most Valued Ganger (MVG) from
the campaign.
LEADER OF MEN: ANTHONY - WASTELANO
DEADHEADS
The Triumph is awarded to the gang who
controlled the most Territories at the end of
the campaign.
Anthony: My MVG is my Stimmer, Kal’raz
‘Daemon-slayer’. The moniker ‘Daemon—
slayer’ was earned when he first met the
Wasteland Deadheads’ leader, Arr-rok, where
Kal’raz purportedly defeated an incarnation
of pure rage! Although no other witnesses
saw this event, it is a foolish ganger who dares
question the truth, at least within Kal’raz’s
hearing. Due in part to his superior gene—
smithing, Kal’raz never went into Recovery
and so managed to take part in every
battle — eliminating the deadliest threats on
the battlefield, including single-handedly
taking down an Arthromite Duneskuttler
with his paired ‘Pulverizers’!
CHAMPION OF THE HEBELLION: LUCY - FOHTIS
FORMIDO
This Triumph is awarded to the gang who
won the most battles on behalf of Lady
Credo’s Rebellion.
Lucy: My MVG is my gang’s Leader,
Subjugator Captain Bucky. Initially, Bucky
was deployed in a support role so that he
could stay safe in the backline whilst the gang
acquired XP and credits. Once he obtained a
power fist and a Hardcase Cyber—mastiff
companion, though, he became a real threat
on the battlefield, able to take the fight to
enemy Leaders and Champions.
HOABOEH OF COIN: RICH - THE ANATHEMA
This Triumph is awarded to the gang with
the highest Wealth at the end of the
campaign.
Rich: Without any doubt my MVG was my
Cult Witch, Rain. Throughout the campaign
she pulled more than her weight with her
Wyrd Power, Terrify, succeeding at every
psychic test she made throughout the entire
campaign! This made Lady Haera flee before
firing a single shot, terrified gangers into
falling back through walls of fire and was the
key to any battle plan. I suspect the Dark
Prince may have their eye on this one!

SURVIVOR: ADAM - IRON FIST CLAN
This Triumph is awarded to the gang who
had the fewest number of fighters die
LEGENDARY STATUS: DOMINIK - THE DUKES
FAMILY
This Triumph is awarded to the gang with

during the Great Darkness phase. the highest Reputation at the end of the
campaign.

Adam: My MVG is my Road Sergeant, Dakka

Daisy. With the True Grit skill and armed Dominik: Everest ‘Big Bro’ Duke, my Arms

with a heavy bolter mounted on suspensors, Master, was without a doubt the true hero of

she was able to be impactful in every game, my gang during this campaign. Not only was

often acting as the de facto leader because my his Rule of Iron ability crucial in keeping my

Road Boss kept going into Recovery! One of gang from bottling out during tough

the most memorable battles she took part in missions, but he was also an almost
unstoppable killing machine, knocking out

SATURCH
had her hold the flank against a horde of
Chaos cultists, seriously damaging the heavy nearly a dozen enemies with his arc hammer.

vehicle sent in to clear the area!
One time he was rushed by several Cawdor,
each one failing to wound him — in part
thanks to his Legendary Name ‘Blade
Breaker’ - with each crushed by his return
strikes. It took a Warp Horror in a later
scenario to hurt him enough to miss a game,
but this didn’t keep him down for long. He
was later joined by his loyal Cyber-mastiff,
Rex, a dangerous weapon in its own right.

CHAMPION OF HOUSE HELMAWR: ROB -

DUSTBLIND DWAS
This Triumph is awarded to the gang who
won the most battles on behalf of the
Imperial House.

Rob: The MVG for my gang was Nyliaa the

Wyld Runner. Upon her cyber-hound mount,
she was frequently at the vanguard of my
gang, denying the enemy’s movement with
her wide variety of grenades (by the end she
had scare gas, smoke, choke gas and photon
flash grenadesl). With her penchant for using
the Grenade Bouquet gang tactic, she was
able to acquire enough advancements that if I
include her in a future gang she will quickly
be promoted to a Gang Matriarch!
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TOME KEEPEBS
LEGACY 0F
DEFIANCE
VOLUME IV
By Jon Flindall
The last defenders of the All-vault face an ancient foe
shizar freed his axe from the crown of the fallen
Word Bearer’s helmet with a grimace. Blood marked
his own forehead, where he had turned his enemy’s
killing blow into a glancing one. The corridor was
thick with the scent of gore and weapons discharge, but
beneath that was a fouler odour — the acrid tang of
corruption. His pupils dilated as adreno-stimulants restored
his combat reactions. ' Ushizar could see eight other brothers of the Tome Keepers
The latest wave of Heretic Astartes had been defeated — fresh
corpses were strewn along the barricades. As Ushizar
stepped onto one of the Tome Keepers’ makeshift
fortifications, he saw the dead and dying lay strewn behind
them too.
Roshal stood with his back to the corridor’s wall, leaning on
his sword’s cross-guard. His head was bare and he stared at
the bodies around him. He was badly wounded; Ushizar saw
a thick crust of dried blood at the lieutenant’s waist. He
moved to his side.
‘We cannot hold, Ushizar.’ Roshal spoke through gritted
teeth, his golden eyes fixed upon the Librarian. ‘Hazeer
estimated their total strength at fifty Astartes and upwards of
a hundred mortals. We barely survived against a quarter of
that? Roshal turned his gaze down the corridors, towards the
Cloisters. Firelight flickered in those archways, and shadows
danced on the walls. ‘The rest are waiting for something. We
have only as long as they allow us.’
To Ushizar, the distant archways seemed for a moment like a
pair of burning eyes. He blinked away the vision. A bitter
fury replaced his melancholy, and he turned back to Roshal.
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‘Then this wave of glory-hungry curs wasted their strength,
lieutenant. We killed two for every one of us who fell.’
Roshal smiled, though the expression didn’t reach his eyes.
‘Aye, we certainly did. It will not be enough, alas. Too few of
us remain now.’
amongst the defenders, the remnants of three different
squads. A score of pages and serfs remained, working in
pairs to clear the fallen from the barricades. Bodies in
Chapter livery lay in lines before the vast silver doors of the
All-vault, immediately behind the defensive position.
Ushizar was relieved to see Ilum helping to move a fallen
Chapter initiate — he had lost sight of the neophyte during
the carnage.
The barricades could be moved back no further without
ceding control of the entryway to the traitors.
Ushizar glanced up at the All—vault’s doors, which towered
above them — great walls of silver plate over plasteel. They
were set with dozens of intricately engraved scenes, each
several feet in width. A fallen serf’s blood had sprayed across
one of these panels, and drew the Librarian’s eye. It was an
artist’s interpretation of the Last Stand at Fornedar — a battle
in which two squads of Tome Keepers had held a pass
against an ork horde for nine days. The Space Marines had
fallen in the end, but their sacrifice bought time for the
evacuation of the city they protected. An apt allusion,
Ushizar thought.
He reached out with his mind, touching the psyches of the
mortals and transhumans around him. The Space Marines

were bastions of steely determination, with no hint of fear,
but their thoughts were nonetheless besieged by the
adversity of their situation. The serfs and neophytes
experienced more human responses to the days of relentless
attacks: their exhausted minds railed against the inevitability
of their imminent deaths.
Ushizar had overtaxed his psychic strength in the recent
fighting. The Librarian summoned his will with effort, using
it to bolster the fortitude of the defenders. Battle-brothers
experiencing doubt at the despoilation of their Chapter
fortress felt their disbelief turn to renewed wrath. Mortals
found their roiling fears quieted, replaced by a grim resolve.
They would not abandon this legendary place or their
honoured masters.
Ilum caught Ushizar’s eye and nodded, recognising the gift
the Epistolary had granted the defenders. Ushizar called the
neophyte to his side.
‘We can do little more here, Ilum. Let us make one last effort
to avert the fate that seems laid out for us.’
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In the long hall behind the All-vault’s doors, Ushizar led
Ilum to a lectern lit by hovering glow-globes. The neophyte
lowered himself gratefully onto a sturdy bench.
‘Let us re-examine what we know, Ilum.’
Ilum reached for a stylus and tablet as Ushizar continued.
‘This band of heretics are not here by coincidence. They
attacked our Chapter fortress sixty-four hours after the fleet
departed for the Asmodiox Sector. They seem in little hurry,
but they move closer and closer to the All-vault? Ushizar
looked around the chamber. ‘There is something here that
they want.
‘I interrogated one of their cultists and read the words
“Honour the Truth” in his mind. I believe it was wretches
from the same warband who attempted to destroy a great
portion of the Chapter’s strength half a century ago, by
taking control of an Imperial Navy battleship on approach to
Surox VII, as the same words were found outside the ship’s
bridge. The traitors’ commander that day was slain by
Brother Nazid bal Kingu. Before the traitor died, he called
out a phrase we do not know the meaning of. A phrase
which we have since identified in two older tomes — those
belonging to Sennac bal Shuriash and Mardas bal Sin.
Sennac heard this phrase uttered by a group of ork psykers
on Thyriar nearly seven centuries ago. Mardas heard it five
hundred years ago, from the mouth of an aeldari witch, who
also said our Chapter was doomed.’
‘The aeldari are'notoriously untrustworthy} Ilum said, his
stylus still scratching, ‘but that creature’s prediction seems all
too accurate now.’
BLI RACR
Ushizar raised a finger to indicate a new point. ‘All three of
the brothers whose records the phrase appeared in are ones I
knew well. It may be coincidence, or it may not. Nor can I
ignore the fact that I also recognised this mysterious phrase
on first reading it, though I know not why. There must be a
reason...’
Ilum nodded, his eyes showing his weariness. ‘Was there
anything else in your brothers’ testaments that we might
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follow up on?’
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‘No. .. None had any idea of the phrase’s meaning, beyond
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suppositions.’ Ushizar reviewed his recollections of the three LI-
records, his eyes narrowing. ‘It is probably nothing, but LU
Sennac and Mardas both witnessed what appeared to be D
references to the Istrouman System’s star — Sennac in the
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performance.’
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Ilum shook his head. ‘That was well seen, Epistolary — I wish O
I had your memory. Does it get us closer to their objective, <
however?’ CD
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Ushizar’s hand rested on the leather pouch at his waist that _l
held his sister’s tome as he felt a moment of sudden clarity.
He recalled her affectionate mocking. You are so fond of the
past that you risk losing sight of today. ..
‘That’s it.’
‘Brother?’
‘I understand why I already knew those words when I first
read them in Nazid’s tome.’
‘You remember where you heard them?’
‘Not exactly. I only know I must have read them before I
received the gift of an eidetic memory. When I was new to
the Chapter, as you are.’
Ilum’s eyes were wide. ‘Of course! You told me you were
granted access to some of the All-vault’s records early in
your training. Do you remember whose tomes you read?’
Ushizar spoke as Ilum noted his answers. ‘Mardas, of
course — but he would have recalled the phrase if he’d
encountered it before. I am sure I read some of Chief
Librarian Eshuh’s rememberings also.’
‘I scoured Eshuh’s chronicle myself,’ Ilum said. ‘No such
phrase was present.’
Ushizar’s eyes wandered as he attempted to recall his distant
youth, settling on a banner embroidered with the Chapter’s
star-on-book symbol. ‘Viator,’ he said. ‘I wished to know
everything about the Tome Keepers, so I began with the
records of our founder?
“The words couldn’t have been in his own writings, or we’d
have found them,’ Ilum said.
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‘He made extensive reference to the works of his
contemporaries: Ushizar replied, remembering. ‘I was a
diligent student and read widely.’
He started towards the ward-stacks and their precious
records, calling over his shoulder. ‘We begin there!’
Many copies of Viator’s tome existed — it was common for
neophytes from other planets in the Istrouman System to
make their own copy of a Tome Keepers luminary’s journal,
to inculcate in them the practice of writing their own record.
Ilum had quickly found a well—made version bound in red
leather, with gilt page—edging. This neophyte, he had
checked, had especially clear handwriting. In the stillness of
the scriptorium, Ushizar and Ilum read together.
I, Caelus Viator, make this testament.
I sit in an arming chamber ofi‘the great hall — one ofthefirst
rooms completed in this fortress, which will be home to the
Chapter I will lead. Through the Chamber’s window I can see
fields offoundations — in days, this room will be enclosed by
others, cutting of the sight of the encircling peaks.
The people of this world call these the Zaatos Mountains. I will
ask the origin of the name.
Today I met again with the planetary council. I spoke at length
about my plans for this planet and the Tome Keepers Chapter.
I have been here for two weeks now, and the council have
recovered from the initial shock of treating with a son of
Guilliman; we now learn a great deal from one another.
Kudussa bin Zabada, the First Speaker of Works, impressed
upon me the value of ‘building this edifice’ — the Tome
Keepers — ‘upon the bedrock of Istrouma’s heritage’. She was
adamant that as recruits from across this sector begin to be
added into our ranks, we should encourage rather than
suppress the practices which define Istrouman life. I explained
that as warriors of the Adeptus As‘tartes, we cannot aflord to
spend any time in acts that do not further our service to the
Imperium. That every day of our existence is a weapon to be
turned against the encroaching darkness.
She gave me a frank look. Kudussa is old by the standards of
this world, her skin sallow and her limbs frail. ‘1 near my end,
lord,’ she said. ‘I am twenty—five years old and have served the
Oflice of Works for most of that stretch. We Istroumans are no
more granted the luxury of time than you are.’
It is at her urging that I begin this chronicle. She suggested that
at this nascent stage in the Chapter’s existence I record
everything that strikes me — an approach that I confess sits ill
with the honed efficiency which is my birthright. I may not
recognise the immediate value, but perhaps these words will
one day form a useful reference point for another newly made
Chapter Master.
As I look at the empty plinths and flagstones ranged across the
mountaintop, I recognise that I and the brothers I brought
with mefrom Dornak IV are building more than a fortress
here. The fledgling columns and doorways are cut from the
bedrock of Istrouma itself an unyielding granite well suited for
such purpose. For now, the walls around me are austere,
unadorned by statuary or ornament; in due time, they will
honour the Chapter’s history and achievements, just as the
walls of the Fortress of Hera are a record of the Ultramarines’
glorious legacy.
In the same way, the initiates from the Istrouman Sector join
the Chapter as uncut stone — they are of worthy, well-chosen
material, possessing the ideal qualities, but must be shaped
and directed to fit their task. In time, so long as the Emperor
wills it, they too may reflect the proud heritage of our
primarch.
At council today, Samsu bal Marduk, the First Speaker of the
Tome Keepers order — the order which I took as my Chapter’s
name — spoke of the long-standing relationship this sector has
with the Angels of Death. When we made planetfall on
Istrouma, those mortals we met recognised what we were — to
them, we were akin to the heroes of ancient legend. I have
tasked Samsu with identifying where these legends began. Did
Guilliman himself once walk this world, perhaps? Niveneh’s
record-keepers have few details from this distant era, only tales
passed down from generation to generation. Samsu has
granted one such artefact into our care — a set ofpainted stone
tablets broughtfrom the agri world of Thyriar, which tell of the
‘sky warriors’, the name by which we were recognised when we
first arrived here. The tablets have been placed in the annex
that houses our burgeoning library while the vault itself is—
‘The Thyrian tablets,’ Ushizar said, closing Viator’s tome. ‘I
am sure I read Samsu’s translation?
'I saw them,’ Ilum said. ‘When you showed me the White
Book. They are in the same chamber, off the Dominus
Locus.’
The two quickly reached the tablets’ location, carrying them
to the nearby scriptorium with none of the ceremony that
would normally be afforded such honoured relics.
There were six in total — fist-thick slabs of Thyriar’s flaking
white stone nearly a foot square. Their upper surfaces were
covered in intricate lettering in deep red ink turned brown
with age.
‘Sennac saw the cavern these tablets must have come from,’
Ushizar said. ‘There was a pool of crimson algae at its centre.
Perhaps that formed the ink for these writings. This has to
be the connection?
‘Samsu’s translation wasn’t included in our Chapter’s battle
records,’ Ilum said. ‘It has not been considered by our
search.’
The introduction to the mortal’s translation - a stack of
curling parchment pages - noted the tablets had been cut
from the wall of a chamber filled with writing similar to that
which they bore. These six blocks held the elements that
mentioned the Space Marines, and had been brought to
Istrouma to honour Chapter 28'1"s arrival.

Ushizar quickly scanned Samsu’s overview. The second and
third tablets focused on the period when the transhuman
warriors had walked upon Thyriar; the others dealt with the
prophecy that preceded their arrival and the practices they
established which were maintained after they left, so he set
them aside. Ushizar turned to the text of the second tablet.
He was of the sky warriors; he came from the stars and carried
their power with him. Fierce was his temperament, mighty his
stature. He had skin of iron and blood offire. He bore death
with him; death walked at his command.
He was taken up; his masters honoured him, and all the gifts
which betoken the favoured were showered upon him. He held
the power to break men, to command the spirits. His life was
to have no ending.
Unto him was granted a name in perpetuity. And that name
was Nemh Tal Vorgael Hukh an Bakh Shu’kafael Ghorvael.
‘Poetic descriptions of this Space Marine’s abilities,’ Ilum
said. ‘The people of Thyriar were cut off for many centuries —
it’s little wonder they were impressed on meeting one of the
Adeptus Astartes.’
‘The name is strange,’ said Ushizar. ‘And no rank or Chapter
is given. Perhaps the many elements are a local tradition,
rather than the warrior’s given name... But the syllables are
those we found in other records.’ Horror dawned on Ushizar
as he looked at llum. ‘Rather than a servant of the Emperor,
could this distant figure have been one of the Seventeenth
Legion? It could even be the fiend responsible for the attack
we face today.’
‘Samsu was cautious in dating this record,’ Ilum replied, ‘but
surely that would make our foe tens of thousands years old?’
‘The foul sorcery of the Archenemy makes possible many
things that should not be... Let us examine the next tablet.’
He hath commanded a tithe of the people of Thyriar and he
hath administered justice. He hath heralded the coming of a
new era.
He bringeth knowledge of many things; for this he is honoured.
Every citizen sings his name, for such he hath decreed.
His angels number nine. They are feared, for they shareth his
might.
He hath made mighty demands; and yea, the worthy were
forfeited unto him. Many are the sacrifices made in his name.
‘The text supports your supposition that this “sky warrior”
had turned from the Emperor’s path,’ Ilum said. ‘Samsu
presumed the sacrifices it referenced were the administrative
demands the Imperium made upon Thyriar, but they could
have been literal.’
Both of them paused as they thought of victims being
slaughtered in the cavern deep beneath Thyriar’s surface, of
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the red pool the tablets’ ink had been drawn from.
‘A heinous testament indeed...’ Ushizar paused. He was
missing something. ‘But there is something more here. I am
sure of it.’ He recalled the aeldari witch’s words to Mardas.
How she had implored him to remember the traitor’s name,
as if it was the only thing that mattered.
Ilum was flicking through the pages of Samsu’s translation, I.”
his brow furrowed. ‘Here. .. I think Samsu missed o
something. The tablets are marked with planetary phases, z
indicating the passage of time. These two tablets have the
wrong symbols — they have been switched.’
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Istrouma became swollen with daemonic power centuries :1:
ago, on Thyriar. Its followers there made a record of its r5
achievement. . .’ III
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Distant gunfire echoed through the vault, and Ushizar’s vox
chimed. The final attack had begun. He took up his axe.
‘You have done a great service this day, Ilum. Your efforts
may yet save our Chapter. Now, let us turn this discovery
against the foe?
As Ushizar ran into the All-vault’s entrance chamber, the
defenders were retreating through its doors. Bolt-shells and
las-rounds pursued them. Roshal was the last through,
harrying their attackers with his pistol.
‘Vanital, third precept,’ called the lieutenant — an exhortation
to retreat no further.
Two battle—brothers pushed the All-vault’s great doors
closed, but at that moment they were slammed back on their
hinges by some titanic force.
Ushizar knew the creature, for he had seen it in the dying
Sergeant Makhot’s helm-feed. From that footage, however,
he had misunderstood its size.
It stood more than twice the height of a Space Marine upon
backwards-jointed legs, its form encased in a swollen
mockery of Legion power armour, bedecked in crimson
with glowing runes etched upon its every surface.
It pushed through into the All-vault, its pauldrons filling the
great doorway for a moment. Above these, the arms of its
backpack curled, each holding a burning brazier from which
greasy black smoke licked. Its arms ended in long, gnarled
talons worked in silver.
BLACK LIBRARY
The creature’s face showed little evidence of the legionary it
had once been. Its mouth was drawn in a wide rictus grin,
and its eyes... Ushizar did not wish to look at its eyes. He
had the impression of ever—burning pits of flame in a
war—ravaged landscape. The animus behind them was a
tempest of malefic entities. Ushizar’s psychic strength was
like a candle against it, and the Librarian knew he would
need to choose his moment.
The Tome Keepers were falling back in good order, their rate
of fire barely slowing. The Word Bearers spilled from the
doorway around their master, corrupted warriors in
blade-edged power armour leading a tide of robed and
masked cultists.
The monster stalked forwards, brushing off a hail of
mass-reactive rounds that exploded around it. Its claws
caught a Chapter-serf, tearing the mortal in half.
Roshal lunged at the monster, his blade licking out to pierce
its armoured greave. Black fire spilled from the wound. The
lieutenant desperately attempted to parry the claws that
came at him in response.
‘I have what you came for, beast!’ Ushizar roared his
challenge and raised the tablet aloft.
The creature fixed its awful gaze upon him, directing its
forces to halt with a wave of its claw. None of those veteran
warriors dared defy its command. For a moment, the hall
was silent, save for the sound of burning parchment.
‘Begone from this place! You will not claim what you sought,
Liturgarch,’ Ushizar spat, slamming the tablet onto the
Chamber’s flagstone floor and crushing it beneath his
armoured foot.
The ascended traitor stared at Ushizar for a moment. Then it
laughed — a cruel, scraping sound which echoed in the entry
hall. ‘For all your hoarded wisdom, you see nothing of the
truth.’ It spoke with an abyssal register, and yet Ushizar
detected some hint of the electrifying oratory that the
warrior had once commanded. ‘In your blindness, you have
completed the task that brought me here.’
Ushizar’s ruse had done its work, yet there had been no
opportunity to apprise his battle-brothers of his intention.
Roshal had circled around behind the monster — now he
- struck. His blade stabbed downwards into the meat of its
waist, driven by both of Roshal’s hands.
The ascended traitor spun around and gripped the injured
lieutenant in one claw, lifting him up to its eyeline. The hilt
of Roshal’s power sword still protruded above its left hip.
‘Brave,’ it said. ‘See how that mettle serves you when you
face the scouringflames.’ Its claw squeezed, crushing
Roshal’s body with horrific force. The lieutenant screamed in
fury as he died.
A cacophony erupted as warriors on both sides opened fire
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once more. Ushizar was charging, his axe wreathed in
corposant. ‘Asura, the Hunt,’ he shouted.
The Tome Keepers knew that reference. The Telling of Asura
was an epic poem of ancient Istrouma which related how its
hero, Asura, had overcome diverse perils to win her
freedom. In the Hunt, she had trapped a gargantuan
cave-thirster by presenting herself as bait.
Ushizar swung at the corrupted creature’s leg, leaving a deep
gash across its greave. He used his axe’s haft to block a swing
of the silvered talons; sparks sprayed where they clashed.
The creature lunged towards him, its hooves cratering the
flagstones. Ushizar stepped backwards, evading its grasp.
‘You will suffer for your presumption, little seer. I saw the
birth of your Tome Keepers. Before you die, you will
witness your Chapter’s end. When your precious records
burn, you will be nothing.’
The creature swung with its taloned hand again — Ushizar
could not dance back quickly enough, and a crater was
scored across his breastplate. The next blow struck his left
shoulder, tearing away his pauldron. The towering daemon
crushed Ushizar’s fallen plate beneath its hoof, shattering the
icon of the Tome Keepers that it bore.
Shots came at the creature from those of Ushizar’s brothers
who still stood, but they shattered against the corrupted
ceramite it wore.
It leant in close, as if to encircle the Librarian in its steel
claws. When he swung his axe towards the creature’s wrist, it
tore his weapon from his hand, hurling it away.
Ushizar took another step backwards, seeking some
weakness he might exploit.
He saw Ilum charge in, wielding Ushizar’s axe in a two-
handed grip. The page’s eyes were wild with emotion, the
enhanced muscles of his arms standing out like cords.
Without turning from Ushizar, the creature threw a lazy
backhand blow that flung Ilum against the Chamber’s wall
with a resounding crack
Ushizar roared, lightning pouring from his mouth. He leapt
at the ascended traitor, clamping his hands to its breastplate
and releasing what psychic might remained to him in an
empyric blast that violently wreathed them both in
corposant.
The traitor blinked, its pupils contracting to points. The fire
behind its eyes dimmed for a moment before bursting forth
once more. Ushizar had wounded it, but its hate drove it on.
‘You would turn the eternal torrent against me?’ It gripped
Ushizar, holding him at arm’s length. He was forced to
confront its maiefic gaze.
‘I am their herald, fool. The Blaéing Ones have made their

might mine to wield. Let me introduce you...’ The traitor
raised a talon and placed it against Ushizar’s brow.
There was agony, such agony as he had never known. After
an eternity, he became aware of faces watching him — lean,
hungering faces, formed of tooth and flame and blood. They
drooled syllables of some foul tongue, which escaped their
maws as curls of black smoke. They swam towards him in
the brimstone haze, until all he could see was their teeth,
their lascivious tongues, the balefire in the throats that
would consume him.
There was something he had to remember. A phrase... No, a
name.
As the jaws closed on Ushizar’s soul, he roared the daemon’s
name with every ounce of his remaining strength.
The chamber was silent but for the whirring of an air
scrubber. Ushizar sat at a metal desk worked with a
repeating helix pattern. Running a hand over his smooth
scalp, he raised his stylus and continued to write.
The traitor had invited malefic spirits into itself gaining dark
powers but shackling itself to the constraints of a daemon. I
knew from my studies that such a creature’s name could hold
power over it, but in that moment I could only guess at what
would result. My memories of what followed are
fragmentary — the result of the spirits’ attentions, no doubt.
My brothers relate that the name had a deleterious effect upon
the warp-swollen horror — it reeled, allowing me to fall to the
floor. My vital capacity was severely impaired, but I was able
to retrieve my axe and decapitate the traitor before it
recovered.
My brothers and the remaining mortal complement had
continued to defy the Heretic Astartes’ assault; with the
destruction of their leader, a new page was turned. The
traitors’ will was broken and they abandoned their attack.
Leaving their fallen where they lay, they retreated towards the
empyric portal they had opened in the upper cells. Hazeer and
those battle-brothers still abroad in the fortress ensured that
fewer than a dozen of the renegades escaped. We paid a heavy
price for our victory, but in so doing ended a monstrous threat
to our Chapter.
Ushizar stood, picking up his tome carefully so as not to
smear the ink. His limbs ached, his wounds still fresh. The
mental injuries would take even longer to heal.
He walked from the side chamber down a long corridor of
the apothecarion. On either side of him, injured battle-
brothers and pages were attended by chirurgical servitors
and medicae serfs.
The End
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He paused briefly at a votive shrine, paying his respects
before a skull-faced depiction of the Emperor before
continuing on his way through the apothecarion. Too many
of the Tome Keepers’ number had not made it to these halls.
Too many pages had fallen before their stories had even
begun.
He stopped by a station over which incense-skulls hung,
shooing the constructs away. LLI
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of recent events.’
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duties in a week. In three more, I will be fit to receive the
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in particular have been noted.’ CD
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‘Perhaps I will have joined the Companies of Reserve by _l
then, Ushizar. I will tell Lord Saargon about it as we fight
shoulder to shoulder against the Leviathan!’ Ilum winced as
he pulled at the sutures in his flank. A servitor moved to
check the chiming diagnostic console beside his station.
Ushizar placed a heavy hand upon the page’s shoulder,
soothing Ilum’s pain with his mental touch. ‘Emperor
willing, you will.’
‘I doubt we could have found that tablet without His aid,
brother.’
‘Indeed. Regardless, it seems it was coincidence that the
traitor’s name appeared in the records of several brothers I
knew well.’ He paused. ‘I confess, I had worried that I might
somehow be at the eye of this storm.’
Ilum gave Ushizar a level look. ‘Through your insight, you
were able to slay a traitor who has blighted the Imperium for
millennia, Ushizar. I do not see coincidence at work.’
‘Perhaps you are correct, brother? The Librarian thought
again of the aeldari seer’s prophecy. She had been certain
that doom hung over his Chapter. Had Ushizar denied that
doom, or only deferred it? The mythic performance that
Mardas had observed had played out in cycles. For a
moment, he felt the burning eyes upon him once more.
He forced a smile. ‘Let us hope so.’
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