On the outside of the Western Fringe there is a section of war-scarred space. Once known as the Phasian System, the Phasian Cloud spins around a warp storm which has taken residence within its star. Several planets stay caught in the magnetic pull of the storm, orbiting through interstellar ruin.
And I will leave you with a (blurry) picture of my map (before any hex-mapping, etc). I hope that helps with your campaign thinking,
Good day associates and adversaries!
It has different terrain types and major locations marked out. (This is the First Dominion, in nWo.) The maps will be made digital, with a hex grid applied, and 'Waypoints' (ways to get from one map to another) set out. Mapmakers will receive 'free' area on the map they make that they control (others might have to fight for a foothold, we will see). The other campaign-related stuff you will need is an army name and possibly an army objective.
Inquisitor Bacardi loaded up and headed into the chaos-held industrial zones. She was determined to deflect the chaos horde at the oil line.
Contact was made immediately, her ground forces opened fire and air support was called in. The Invincible, and both russes began a terrible toll on the traitor marines.
Veterans and stormtroopers advanced in their transports. The enemy seemed to be made up of many killer robots who were becoming a problem for the Imperials.
The punisher held the central line, pouring shots into the center, but it could not stop the obliterators from melting the Inquisitor's transport. Daemonhosts and aircraft were arriving everywhere.
The field of battle was choking with smoke and craters. The russes and vultures were holding, but not much else. The veterans were still alive, but not the stormtroopers, and there was still lots of chaos left.
The daemonhuntress, after killing a deamon prince, went after a greater deamon. She killed it (as Inquisitors do), but was then smashed by a dreadnought. Both sides took great losses, leaving the heretics with no objectives. Only the drop-vets were able to hold an objective, which they took from some havocs (with the help of meltas and shotguns).
"Son of a bitch!!"
The tech-adept was almost astonished, the captured walker seemed to be communicating in High Gothic, his meant that the machine spirit was indeed interactive. The machine's code was complex and secure, but eventually the holy viral programs of the Mechanicus sunk into IKE's mainframe, control was subverted to the tech-adept. Even after the programs took effect the machine refused to acknowledge its holiness or even that it was a machine spirit.
(More pics.)
The overall scores from GottaCon are up on the Chaotic Order forum. How did the Rabbit Hole do?
Now that GottaCon is over (I miss it too), plots and plans begin to form. The first is Warchallenge, the first Warmachine/Hordes Rabbit Hole event. As far as I know, there are 5-6 hobbyists who are taking up the challenge, I wish them all the best of luck, I can't wait to see what they come up with.
If 40k is your thing, and you like to play games, we will be starting a campaign. On Sunday, Feb 20, come over (with an army, say 1000 points) and we can discuss politics, cartography and experience. If we can 'create' four different zones/worlds/warzones, (such as Hive Tempestus, Daemon World, ?catland?)...
In an infected industrial zone the forces of Mr. Huggy and Hive Fester clashed. The first turn saw the Triplets lance the Quadruped and the bugs passing cover saves.
The Hive Mind sent the gaunts to swarm Mr. Huggy, hoping that poison would bring him down, but the daemon prince was too armored.
The Ankle-Biters scaled the wall to assault the right flank, but after multiple rounds of combat they were destroyed.
In the center, Frankie was being pummeled by the havocs , so he went over to stomp them. Life is good being a carnifex.
Fester assaulted the chaos marines who killed the rippers. Being a combat monster, the chaos marines were shoved in his throat-hole. mmmmmm....
The titanic battle in the center was heating up. Frankie had one wound left, lurking in the digestion pit (hot tub), and Mr. Huggy was assaulting having only taken a single wound. They struck at each other.....and fluffed. The next turn, the warriors attempted to put a barbed strangler shot into the chaos marines behind the two giants, and the shot scatters. Both of the monsters are hit and both are wounded. Mr. Huggy saves, Frankie did not.
It seems that all good things come to an end. Sadly, due to my brain exploding, I did not get too many pictures from Sunday. But here is a shot of Jason Dyer's Inquisition defending Death Mountain. His with-hunters are a very nice looking army, and combined with being an excellent player, I'm sure it stayed in Imperial hands.
As far as my games went, the Unassyn took down many marines but failed to take any victories. The first game was against the Ultramarines, a very enjoyable game with a great player, and a high body count. The second game of the day saw my Eldar fighting Chaos Marines, a game that saw more wacky dice rolls than the rest of the weekend. The farseer exploded first turn, the autarch called it quits mid game and went home, my guardians charged berserkers and killed them, and the war walkers failed to shoot down a defiler (killing it in close combat). There was much wtfing and laughter.
Terrain by Ricalope and swimming eagle
David Green - Blood Angels
Jason Gauthier - Deathwing
Douglas Gordon - Tyranids
John Calvert - Space Wolves.