Previous Campaigns

Phase 6, Week 1:

Current modifiers in play

Palace

Brutal corridor fighting, opening to the occasional large open space.

• If the defenders lose this phase they lose the campaign. 
• Insanely dense cityscape.

Momentum and Desperation

• Attackers:
• Defenders:
  Increase Munition Supplies – The defenders damn the logistical cogitators’ predictions and draw deep on their reserves.
  
  At the start of each battle round, the defensive player gains 1 extra CP. This CP does not stop the player from earning additional CP. You can use a CP Reroll twice per game for 0CP in each game. Each player receives +1 Req. Note that this bonus Req can only be applied once. Further uses of Increase Munition Supplies will not trigger this benefit.
  
  Hail the Fleet –
  The relief fleet arrives 1 phase sooner in the campaign.

Phases: There are 2 to 4 phases remaining

Phase 5 Week 2 Final
Warzone Scores
Chaos – 17 Imperial – 4

With the forces of chaos breaking against the Imperial walls, the warlords of the eight powers paused.

Army Creation

• Starting Crusade Roster will be 50PL but games will be played using Points.
• Psychic powers can be taken and cast multiple times (open play style) but the cast value goes up like smite.
• One of your HQ or LOW slots can start with 6xp. This represents the leader of your crusade force.
• Special Characters are allowed, keep in mind they don’t get xp and gain Battle Honours etc. Any relics and warlord traits still increase your Crusade Points for that battle where appropriate.
• WYSIWYG Close Enough is Good Enough. Remember to brief your opponent before the game
• Multiple armies are welcome, feel free to bench a team and try something new.
• Starting games ideally around 500-750 points.

Army Upgrades

• All Battle Honors (upgrades) will be rolled where possible. On D6 tables, roll 2d6 and pick what you like, on D3 tables, roll once.
• If you roll a trait you already have or have the same result on both dice, reroll the affected dice.
• If you roll a pair of traits that is totally useless, ask the campaign organisers for a reroll.
• Battle Scars – roll 1 die. If you have an idea that suits you, talk to the campaign organisers.
• When/if your codex drops, you get a free one off re-spec for your entire army allowing you to use the new stuff from the book in question. You keep your current XP for every unit and reroll all Battle Honors, Battle Scars and Crusade Relics etc.
• If you wish to do something drastic like swapping a unit for a new option in the codex, ask the campaign organisers.
• Spend 2RP to re-spec a unit/character’s Battle Honours and they must miss your next game as they are off training/meditating etc. Their XP is also reset back to the beginning of their current rank. ie Blooded Rank is 6-15 XP, Steve is 9XP, respeccing drops Steve back to 6XP.

Errata

Crusade isn’t perfect. Sometimes there will be edge cases not handled by the rules. You can find the ones we have found so far and the fixes applied here.

Underdog Status

For every 5 Crusade points your opponent has over your current points, your units gain an additional xp for taking part in that battle.

Example: Dave plays against Terry. Dave’s Crusade points for the army he is fielding is 4, Terry’s is 24. At the end of the game, each of Terry’s units gains 1+4 XP for taking part.

Giving Your Army Some Narrative

The Crux stars have been deliberately made to accommodate just about any force, Imperial, Chaos, Xenos or otherwise.

Read on to find out more about the sector. Below is a living document that will chronicle the wars waged in this sector of space. If you have lore for your army, let me know and I’ll add it to the site.

Current Season: The Siege of Nipaluna

Kickoff date: August 6th

End Date: See rules

Marshall your forces.

• 2 major alliances, Defenders and Attackers.
  • Chaos will be attackers, while Imperium defends. 
• You can use an old crusade roster or a new roster. 
  • Existing rosters may be played but must be at most 4 crusade points more than their opponent’s army for 1 phase of the campaign and 8 points in phase 2.  This represents the lag of more experienced forces rushing back from whatever warzone they were currently deployed in, also to give newer rosters a fighting chance.

Player	Alliance – Main Army – Faith
Jacob	Imperium – Astra Militarum – Death Korps Of Kreig
Andy	Imperium – Adeptus Custodes – Shadowkeepers of Darian Caligus
Pete	Imperium – Adepta Sororitas – Order of Wrathful Sacrament
Jake’s Bro	Imperium – Grey Knights
Bob	Chaos – Death Guard
Tyler	Chaos – Chaos Space Marines – Sons Of Horus, The League Of Imperium Veritas
Gav	Chaos Daemons – Tzeentch – Ushriak the Pyresworn
Jake	Chaos – Chaos Space Marines – Word Bearers

Onwards to victory

This campaign is a race against time to secure the Hive City before Imperial reinforcements arrive.

• Each of the alliances will aim to secure the palace by the end of the fleet timer.
  • The attackers will need to drop from their fleet in orbit, then slog through the layers of defenders and take the palace. 
  • The defenders will have to hold out till the timer hits 0 or through some kind of miracle, take out the attacker’s capital ship.
  • Each player will be trying to find their niche in their faction, securing legendary tiles and increased spoils of war! Will you be a champion of your alliance, slaying all in single combat or will you become a master of devastating orbital drops?

Playing a game

• After playing a game of 40k, Kill team, Necromunda, BFG, AT or AN, use the table below to tally up your warzone points.
• After 2 weekends of games, the campaign organizer will tally up the results and move the alliance’s desperation tokens as per their wishes and moves the attacker’s progress forward or back. More on that in the Strategy Layer. 
• The attacker/defender Planet Strike Stratagems, Agendas and Battle Traits from the Containment Mission Pack are active for all games. Chaos players are always considered the attacker while Imperial players are the defender.
• If a player wins more than 3 games in a row, the next time they play their opponents may trigger one of the following missions, with the opponent choosing attacker/defender: Ambush, Cut Supply Lines, Lying In Wait, The Lure.
• The current CP changes for chapter approved will be followed.
• Extra points given by the various warzones or by desperation/momentum, can be spent on units from your Crusade Roster as normal as they effectively increase the size of your force.
  • The one exception of this is for the defender. When they gain additional points to be spent on fortifications. These must be spent in the same manner as the Defender’s Free Fortifications from the Containment Mission Pack, 3. MUSTER ARMIES.

• Instead of using PL, use the following table for Defender’s Additional Fortifications:

Battle Size	Maximum Points of Defender’s Free Fortifications
Combat Patrol	200
Incursion	400
Strike Force	800
Onslaught	1200

• After each game, apply the following table and figure out your total warzone points for playing the game.

	Kill Team	Aeronautica	Combat Patrol	Incursion	Strike Force	Onslaught
Play a game	1	1	1	1	1	1
Draw a game	1	1	1	2	3	4
Win a game	2	2	3	4	5	6
Used Warzone Mission Pack	N/A	N/A	1	1	2	2
Fully painted	1	1	1	1	2	2

If you are playing a game using the Tempest Of War cards, roll on the following table before the game starts to determine the Crusade Victory Bonus:

D3	Crusade Victor Bonus Table – Tempest Of War Cards
1	The victor can select two units from their army to be Marked for Greatness after the battle, instead of just 1.
2	The victor of this mission gains 2 Requisition points after this battle, instead of just 1.
3	After the battle, the victor can select one unit from their army that has a Crusade card (this must be a unit that can gain Battle Honours) — that unit gains a Battle Trait of your choice (make a note on the unit’s Crusade card and increase its Crusade points accordingly)

A Fair Fight Is A Good Fight

“It’s pretty shithouse to the other team if mid match you pick the soccer ball up with your hands and throw it into the goal. It’s even worse if you argue that it should win you the grand final.”

When wrestling with the combined complexity of crusade, balance dataslates, FAQs, mistakes will and can happen and are in fact a good thing, provided that we learn from them.

If they are found during the game, talk it over with your opponent to figure out a fair result to both players. If you cannot do this, call over Tyler or Bob to get a ruling. It can also be a good idea to post some of the trickier ones to the group chat in discord as they might be catching out other players as well.

Good examples of this are Bob reminding us all about the CP increase for battle honours on PL11+ units being 2 rather than 1. This caught a few of us out and was an easy fix.

The example also highlights why it’s a good idea to skim the crusade rules every now and then. When I read into this fix I found that legendary relics also similarly bump the CP points more than a regular battle honour and had to adjust my roster. Again, the in-game effect was minimal.

If mistakes or lapses in the rules are found after the game, once again talk it over with the person you played. For the most part, it is suggested that it is looked at as a learning experience for both players.

However, if the mistake is particularly bad, there are a number of fixes you could agree to, such as reversing the result of dividing the winner’s bonus between the two of you, if you do this, let the GM’s know asap. Again if no agreement can be reached, forward the details to Bob or Tyler. If a pattern of repeated problems emerges or if the incident looks like a violation rather than a slip, lapse or mistake, warzone points will be awarded to the other side.

An example of a violation would be changing relics mid-game to suit the current conditions or multiple repeated crusade roster errors that directly impacted the games being played.

The Strategic Layer

The Strategic Layer is divided up into a number of areas and generally runs the campaign outside of the games.

The Warzone Points Tracker

Each game scores points, as detailed above. 

• Every two weeks if the attacking side has more points, they can move the campaign’s current warzone forward once. 
• The lower-scoring alliance can then move both desperation tokens one space. Note that you can only move the others sides token to the higher level of desperation by rolling a 5+ on a d6.
  
  

If one side has 2x the amount of warzone points, the following Overrun condition applies: 

• If the attackers gain the Overrun condition, they can move the current warzone twice. Note that this cannot bypass the Palace or Invasion Fleet warzone.
• If the defenders gain the Overrun condition they can move the warzone once.
• The other alliance can move their desperation token one additional space.
  

In the event of a draw:

• The attackers win in the following warzones: The Invasion Fleet, No Mans Land, Outer Wall, Outer Ward.
• The defenders count as winning in the other warzones barring the Palace.
• The losing side does not move desperation tokens.
• The attackers may move their desperation token one step.
• When fighting in the Palace warzone, a draw will result in the current warzone staying as the palace. Both sides may move their desperation tracker one step.

Phase Tracker

The current phase and warzone. 

The amount of phases the relief force is away from the planet. This is a ticking clock for the attackers. 

At the start of the campaign one player from the attacking alliance will roll a dice:

• 1~2 – The campaign will last 7 phases
• 3~4 – The campaign will last 8 phases
• 5~6 – The campaign will last 9 phases

This result will be sealed in an envelope. The other players will never be 100% sure if the campaign is going to end on phase 7 or 9. The player that knows the correct amount of turns cannot move the desperation token. 

It is possible to adjust this number via The Momentum and Desperation mechanic.

The Warzones

The Warzone map is mostly used for tracking the attacker’s progress in the siege.

There are 7 warzones. The starting warzone for the campaign is No Mans Land. Each warzone affects the type of games recommended and additional effects to be played during that phase.

The Invasion Fleet
The attacker’s home base. Taking the fight here for the defender is risky.

• ZM/space hulk or insanely dense terrain boards are recommended.
• The attacker alliance has 15% more points than the defender alliance.
• The defensive alliance will always be the attacker in this warzone.
• The attackers need to lose No Mans Land twice in succession to allow the defenders to attack the fleet.
• If the attackers lose this phase they lose the campaign.

No Mans Land
The landing zone for the attacker fleet, is mostly open and allows manoeuvre warfare and rapid attacks.

• Planet strike games using the Containment mission pack are heavily suggested for this warzone.
• The attacker alliance will have 15% more points than the defender and will always be the attacking player.

The Outer Wall
The first major defensive network for the defenders.

• The defending alliance player has 10% more points which may only be spent on fortifications. This bonus no longer applies once the attackers take the Outer Wall for the first time.
• The attacking alliance player has 10% more points.

The Outer Ward
Brutal city fighting in the ‘commoner’s area’ and the planet’s major spaceport.

• Regular games.

The Inner Wall
Bristling with void shields and redoubts, this is the most challenging defensive point on the planet.

• The defending alliance player has 15% more points which may only be spent on fortifications. This bonus no longer applies once the attackers take the Inner Wall for the first time.
• The attacking alliance player has 10% more points. This bonus no longer applies once the attackers take the Inner Wall for the first time, from that point on, they have 5% more points during the Inner Wall phase

Inner Ward
Wide streets and major buildings of governance and defender’s long-term stores.

• Regular games, with heavy terrain coverage.

Palace
Brutal corridor fighting, opening to the occasional large open space.

• If the defenders lose this phase they lose the campaign. 
• Insanely dense cityscape.

Momentum and Desperation

Both the attacking and defending alliances gain bonuses depending on how desperate their forces are. 

This is tracked in the chart above. Each alliance has their own desperation token, which they can move around the chart, granting them bonuses to aid them in their games. The bonuses are cumulative.

Both sides start with Even Momentum. Each level of the tree away from Even Momentum is a higher level of desperation.

You may only move vertically, picking one branch at a time. I.E the attacker may not have New Attack Plans and Orbital Dominance at the same time. 

When moving the others side’s token you can freely move to a lower level of desperation. If you wish to move it to a more desperate part of the tree, roll a +5 on a d6. If you succeed and the level branches, the other side picks which branch takes effect. If you fail the roll, you may still move the counter down a level.

Attacking Alliance Bonuses:

Orbital Dominance –
The attacker’s orbital dominance allows them to out-manoeuvre the static defenders. 

• Each time the attacker alliance plays a game, at the start of the first battle round, they can select up to three units from their army. Remove those units from the battlefield and set them up anywhere on that battlefield that is wholly on their deployment zone.
• One unit of the attacker’s army can be set up anywhere on the battlefield that is more than 9″ away from the enemy deployment zone and any enemy models.

New Attack Plans –
The attackers change up their tactics, changing their avenues of attack.

• The attackers may reroll their dice to determine who goes first.
• Attackers may reroll the mission.
• You can use a CP Reroll twice per game for 0CP in each game. 

Increase Orbital Defence –
Seeing the defender’s tenacious defence, the attackers call on their allies to spoil the relief fleet.

• The relief fleet arrives 1 phase later in the campaign.
• Note that this can only be applied once. 

Level Nipaluna –
Furious, the attackers begin to level the planet in a hideous rage.

• The attackers gain an additional 4 Firestorm Attacks or if the mission does not have firestorm attacks, they may make 4. Note this will incur narrative consequences….

We Will Bury Them –
The attackers send in *all* of their reserves.

• The attackers gain 20% more points in their games for one phase.
• The relief fleet arrives 1 phase sooner in the campaign.  Note that this can cause a sudden death condition. If so, the attackers can ignore the palace/invasion fleet’s Overrun protection.
• In addition, if the attacker alliance wins a phase in the sudden death condition, they may continue the campaign until they lose a phase, keeping the 20% more points bonus active. In each of these following phases, the attacker will lose 10% of pts each continued phase.  (ie, they win the phase, next is at +10% extra points, then 0%, -10% and so on.
• Each attacking player gains +2 Req.
• Note that this bonus can only be applied once.

Defensive Alliance Bonuses:

Increase Munition Supplies –
The defenders damn the logistical cogitators’ predictions and draw deep on their reserves.

• At the start of each battle round, the defensive player gains 1 extra CP. This CP does not stop the player from earning additional CP.
• You can use a CP Reroll twice per game for 0CP in each game. 
• Each player receives +1 Req. Note that this bonus Req can only be applied once. Further uses of Increase Munition Supplies will not trigger this benefit.

Dug-In Zealots –
The valiant defence against the odds whips the populace into a religious fervour. Every street is contested by partisan guerrillas who spend their lives freely to stop the attacker’s advance.  

• Each time a morale test is taken for the defensive alliance, you can ignore any or all modifiers to that unit’s Leadership characteristic.
• You can re-roll failed Morale tests taken for Defensive Alliance units.
• You may use the Insane Bravery stratagem for 1CP three times in each game. 

Hail the Fleet –
The defenders commit an act of true desperation. Sacrificing half their astropaths, they hail every friendly fleet in the sector, beseeching them to save them before it’s too late.

• The relief fleet arrives 1 phase sooner in the campaign.
• Note that if this ends the campaign, it instead causes a sudden death condition. If so, the attackers can ignore the palace/invasion fleet’s Overrun protection.
• Note that this can only be applied once. 

Rats of Nipaluna –
Endless bombardment and savage assaults push the defenders into the underground. The attacker’s propaganda belittles them as “rats”. Standing stalwart against the tide, a commander and his troops elect to turn an insult into heroism. 

• Each time the defender’s alliance plays a game, at the start of the first battle round, they can select up to three units from their army. Remove those units from the battlefield and set them up anywhere on that battlefield that is wholly on their deployment zone.

• One unit of the defender’s army can be set up anywhere on the battlefield that is more than 9″ away from the enemy deployment zone and any enemy models.
• The defenders gain one extra MoG per game played.

Desperate Push –
Every man is thrown into the grinder, and blocking parties are stationed behind defending troops. Not one step back will be tolerated.

• The defenders gain 25% more points in their games.
• The defender rerolls successful morale checks. Note that Dug In Zealots will cancel this out.
• When the defender rolls Combat Attrition, roll twice, pick the lowest result and -1 from the dice roll.
• Units destroyed by failing morale checks or combat attrition must reroll successful Out Of Action tests.
• This will have narrative consequences.
• Note that this can only be applied once.

Winning the city

At the end of the campaign, once all results are applied and the relief fleet arrives:

• If the defenders push the attackers back off their fleet, they win.
• If the attackers fail to take the palace the defenders win.
• If the attackers take the palace, they win.

Heroic Achievements

The war for the Nipaluna and the Hive City of Unending Dawn is epic in scope, with mighty battles fought across countless fronts. Heroic – and infamous – deeds are performed by those blessed with talent, courage and luck. While those mighty deeds might not always be enough to win a battle, they inspire fellow warriors with tales worthy of record.

The list of Heroic Achievements below are active for the duration of the campaign. At the end of each battle, each player can select one Heroic Achievement they completed during that battle.

They then select one of the following rewards:

• Receive 2 additional war zone points for their alliance.
• If the campaign is using Crusade forces, a player can receive that Heroic Achievement’s reward

Each Heroic Achievement’s reward can only be received once per player (in subsequent battles, they must select to receive 2 additional war zone points).

At the end of each campaign phase, the alliance that completed the most Heroic Achievements during that phase earns additional war zone points equal to the total number of players in the opposing alliances.

Heroic Achievements and their rewards are as follows:

BITTER STRUGGLE

At the end of the battle, each player adds up the total Power Rating (or, if your game is using a points limit, the points value) of the units from their army that has not been destroyed. This Heroic Achievement is completed if the total for each player’s remaining army is 10% or less of their starting total (they cannot achieve this if all of their units have been destroyed), and the difference in victory points between both players is no more than 10. Note that this Heroic Achievement would be completed by both players.

Reward: After the battle, each player can select up to three units from their army that have not been destroyed to be Marked for Greatness, instead of just one.

MIGHTY DUEL

This Heroic Achievement is completed if an enemy WARLORD is destroyed as a result of a melee attack made by your WARLORD.

Reward: 

• Your WARLORD gains one Battle Honour.

ASSASSINATION

This Heroic Achievement is completed if an enemy WARLORD is destroyed by your WARLORD (excluding as a result of a melee attack).

Reward: 

• Your WARLORD gains 4 experience points.

SECURE AT ALL COSTS

This Heroic Achievement is completed if, at the end of the battle, there are a minimum of four objective markers on the battlefield and you control every objective marker on the battlefield.

Reward: 

• For each objective marker you control, select one unit from your army within range of an objective marker at the end of the battle to gain 1 experience point.
• You gain 1 Requisition point.

ALL BUT ONE

This Heroic Achievement is completed if, at the end of the battle, a unit from your army with a Starting Strength of 10 or more models has one model remaining, and that model is within your opponent’s deployment zone, within range of an objective marker that is not within your deployment zone, or within Engagement Range of any enemy units.

Reward: 

• Select one unit in your army that completed this Heroic Achievement.
• That unit gains a Battle Honour.

FORTUNE FAVOURS THE BRAVE

This Heroic Achievement is completed if an enemy unit is destroyed as a result of an attack made by a model in your army, and that attack’s strength was half or less than the enemy unit’s toughness.

Reward: 

• Select one model in your army that completed this Heroic Achievement. That model’s unit gains 5 experience points.

PSYCHIC DOMINATION

This Heroic Achievement is completed if two or more enemy units are destroyed as a result of psychic powers manifested by one PSYKER unit from your army.

Reward: 

• Select one PSYKER unit in your army that completed this Heroic Achievement. That unit gains a Psychic Fortitude.

DEATH BEFORE DEFEAT

This Heroic Achievement is completed if every unit in your army has been destroyed, but you scored more victory points from the mission objectives (other than secondary objectives if you are playing a matched play game) than your opponent.

Reward: 

• After the battle, select D3 units from your army. Those units automatically pass their Out of Action tests from this battle.

• Each unit that was part of your army list gains 2 experience points, instead of 1.

REAPER

This Heroic Achievement is completed if four or more enemy units are destroyed during the battle by one unit (excluding TITANIC units) from your army.

Reward: 

• Select one unit in your army that completed this Heroic Achievement. That unit gains 4 experience points.

BLOODIED BUT UNBROKEN

This Heroic Achievement is completed if, at the end of the battle, a CHARACTER unit from your army with one wound remaining is on the battlefield, and that unit destroyed one or more enemy units during the battle.

Reward: 

• Select one CHARACTER unit in your army that completed this Heroic Achievement. That unit gains 4 experience points.
• You can use the Warlord Trait Requisition on that unit for free, even if it has not gained a rank.

TACTICAL MASTERCLASS:

This Heroic Achievement is completed if a player achieves 90 victory points from the mission objectives.

Reward: 

• After the battle, you can select three units to be marked for greatness, instead of just one.

OVERRUN

At the end of the battle, this Heroic Achievement is completed if every unit from your army (excluding AIRCRAFT units and units with the Fortification Battlefield Role) is within your opponents deployment zone and there are a minimum of four units from your army within your opponents deployment zone (excluding AIRCRAFT units and units with the Fortification Battlefield Role).

Reward: 

• Every unit from your army within your opponent’s deployment zone gains 1 experience point.
• You gain 1 Requisition point.

Legendary Titles

After you have played your first battle in a Seige Of Nipaluna, you can select one unit from your Order of Battle (you can only select a unit that can gain Battle Honours). Keep a Seige Of Nipaluna Achievements tally for this unit. Add 1 to this tally if your army completed one or more Heroic Achievements during that battle. Once this unit’s tally reaches 5, it gains the Legend Of Nipaluna keyword and its tally is removed from its Crusade card.

At the end of a Charadon Aflame campaign, for each Legend Of Nipaluna unit in your Crusade Force, you can select one of the Legend Of Nipaluna titles listed below, provided that unit has both the correct Faction keyword and the selected titles Heroic Achievement has been completed by your Crusade force during the campaign. That unit then gains the title’s associated ability, and its Crusade points are increased by 1. A Legend Of Nipaluna title is a Battle Honour, but does not count towards a unit’s limit of six Battle Honours. A Crusade force cannot contain two units with the same Legend Of Nipaluna title.

SERVANT OF DARKNESS
Heroic Achievement: Mighty Duel

The terror, fear and death this warrior has spread in their wake, as well as their devoted service to the dark gods, has been rewarded most handsomely.

CHAOS DAEMON or TRAITORIS ASTARTES unit only. This title cannot be given to a unit that contains any models with a Wounds characteristic of 10 or more.

• Each time an enemy model shoots, if this unit is not the closest eligible target or within 18″ of that enemy model, then that enemy model cannot target this unit.

THE MORTARION’S CHOSEN
Heroic Achievement: All But One

This Warlord has been blessed by Mortarion himself for playing an instrumental role in the infection of Hive City Nipaluna.

DEATH GUARD unit only.

• Add 1″ to the range of any Contagion abilities this unit has.
• At the end of each battle in which this unit was part of your Crusade army, if you won the battle, roll one D6: on a 5+, you gain one Virulence point.

RAVAGER OF HIVE CITY UNENDING DAWN
Heroic Achievement: Reaper

The Hive City Of Unending Dawn has been left in tatters, a wasteland of ruin, horror and bloodshed, due in no small part to the campaign of destruction you have personally spearheaded.

CHAOS unit only.

• Add 1 to the Attacks characteristic of models in this unit.
• Once per battle, if this unit is an INFANTRY unit, at the end of the Fight phase, if this model is within Engagement Range of any enemy units, it can fight again.

BATTLEGROUP KALLIDES LIBERATORS
Heroic Achievement: Tactical Masterclass

This warrior was instrumental in the Siege Of Hive City Of Unending Dawn. They have been honoured accordingly by Groupmaster Marran himself.

IMPERIUM unit only.

• Once per battle, if this model is on the battlefield, when you use either a Battle Tactic or a Strategic Ploy Stratagem, that Stratagem costs 0CP. This cannot be used in conjunction with any other ability that reduces the CP cost of a Stratagem.

JURTEN’S LEGACY
Heroic Achievement: Bloodied but Unbroken

“In life, war. In death, peace. In life, shame. In death, atonement.” -Final litany of the Litany of Sacrifice, recited by Krieg Korpsmen when entering battle.

ASTRA MILITARUM model only.

• Once per battle round, you can change the result of one hit roll, one wound roll or one saving throw made for this model to a 6 (that roll counts as having been made with an unmodified roll of 6).

UNTAINTED AND UNBOWED
Heroic Achievement: Bitter Struggle

The Grey Knights strike force tasked themselves with dealing with the Word Bearers and Tzeentchian threat. Each of their battles in the siege ratcheted up the desperation, with both sides taking grievous casualties, However, despite these odds, the Grey Knights secured and sanctified the battlefield.

• Sanctic Astartes unit only. If this model is included in your Crusade force, when you are selecting Agendas you can select one additional Agenda; this must be the Cleanse Ground agenda from Codex: Grey Knights. This can be selected even if you have selected another Grey Knights agenda.

SALVAGER
Heroic Achievement: Secure At All Costs

Amidst the rubble and corpse piles of the siege are buried countless archeotech wonders. This warlord has salvaged an impressive stockpile of such artefacts.

• At the end of each battle in which this unit was part of your Crusade army, if you won the battle, you can use the Relic Requisition once without spending any extra Requisition points.

AGGRESSIVE LOGISTICS
Heroic Achievement: Overrun

Amateurs study tactics while professionals study logistics. Masters simply take their enemy’s supplies and turn them on their former owners.

• At the end of each battle in which this unit was part of your Crusade army, if you won the battle, increase your Supply Limit by 1.
• At the end of each battle in which this unit was part of your Crusade army, roll one D6, adding 2 to the result if you won the battle: on a 6+, you gain 1 Requisition point.

AND THEY SHALL KNOW NO FEAR
Heroic Achievement: Fortune Favours the Brave

Oh God Emperor, Overseer who makes all things right. Whose power none can resist. Grant me the strength to defeat thine enemies. Grant me the will to defeat the beast. From your grace, I shall know no fear.

• At the end of each battle in which this unit was part of your Crusade army, roll one D6, adding 2 to the result if you won the battle: on a 6+, you can select one additional unit from your army to be Marked for Greatness.

Phase 2, Week 1:

Current modifiers in play

The Outer Wall
The first major defensive network for the defenders.

• The defending alliance player has 10% more points which may only be spent on fortifications using the rules for free fortifications in the Containment Mission Pack. This bonus no longer applies once the attackers take the Outer Wall for the first time.
• The attacking alliance player has 10% more points.
• Regular games from any mission pack are recommended.

Momentum and Desperation

• Attackers:
  Nil
• Defenders:
  Increase Munition Supplies – The defenders damn the logistical cogitators’ predictions and draw deep on their reserves. At the start of each battle round, the defensive player gains 1 extra CP. This CP does not stop the player from earning additional CP. You can use a CP Reroll twice per game for 0CP in each game. Each player receives +1 Req. Note that this bonus Req can only be applied once. Further uses of Increase Munition Supplies will not trigger this benefit.

Phases: There are 6 to 8 phases remaining

Warzone Scores
Chaos – 0 Imperial – 0

The week started the same as any in the last two months of build-up for most of Hive City Of Unending Dawn’s sprawling population. Kreig guardsmen of the toiled in the field, building row upon row of fortifications and bastions, the Sisters of Battle of Order of Wrathful Sacrament preached hymns of sacrifice and their Emperor ordained mission of repelling the soon-to-be arriving sinful traitors. The Custodes continued to ‘ensure’ that the Kineheart family was very, very well aware of their obligations to the city, it’s people and the Imperium, while the secretive Grey Knights remained stationed on their sensor baffled rapid strike craft, hidden deep in the system’s gas giant.

The forces of Chaos struck without warning and with brutal force. Keen to be seen emulating the heyday of their namesake, the Sons of Horus of Imperium Vertias, led by the Warpsmith Svarog and the ‘newborn’ Captian Adonai stuck hard against the Death Korps of Kreig positions, successfully establishing a landing zone for heavier equipment, despite a valiant rearguard action by Kreiger artillery groups.

To the east, the Word Bearer drop was met by Battle Sisters. Canoness Commander Lucina Asperitus was gifted with a vision of the traitor Astartes drop site and exploited this knowledge to repel them in a battle of brutal close combat on the city outskirts.

With the initial invasion faltering, Svarog led an armoured blitz of newborn Astartes and armour to the Sister’s position. Both sides paid dearly, with inexperienced and overconfident Astartes falling in droves to Sortiatus’s fury. Still, the momentum was with the attackers and carried the day, allowing the forces of Chaos to advance to the first set of walls of the hive city and establish their landing sites.

With the initial opening stages underway, it is only a matter of time before the forces of the Death Guard, foul Tzeentchian daemons enter the fray. This will surely trigger a response in kind from the Imperial defenders, who have reacted to the Chaos advance by unleashing their munition stocks and reserves.

Warzone Scores
Chaos – 6 Imperial – 7

The Imperials retired to the first of the city’s two walls, leaving the forces of chaos to secure their landing sites.

Seeking to press their advantage, Svarog pushed his forces towards the walls secured by the Order of Wrathful Sacrament. Seeking to season the newborn Captain Adonai, he ceded operational command for the next operation. This would prove to be a mistake that Canoness Commander Lucina would brutally exploit.

The veteran warrior understood that pure military might was not the only path to victory. Seeking to galvanise the population, The sisters led the city in a blood-soaked prayer of sacrifice, whipping themselves and the defenders into a righteous fury that stopped the Sons of Horus armoured push cold.

Svarog, a Khornate warrior that started his lifelong dedication to the study of war and fabrication during the siege of Terra, saw the dark and bitter humour in his forces being pushed back by what appeared to be a blood sacrifice in the Emperor’s name. Knowing that momentum would be key and attacking the Battle Sister’s position again would be suicide, he sent out his scouts.

The scouts found a gap in the Imperial line, a malfunctioning gateway that had stuck open during Imperials fallback action from the landing site that couldn’t be closed. Taking command he sent an armoured thrust, breaking through to the city with the objective of disabling the defender’s supply lines. It was at this moment that the Adeptus Custodes chose to enter the fray.

The battle was vicious with the Custodes reaping a tally of nutritious bodies and eventually pushing the forces of chaos back from the wall. However, Svarog achieved his objective, with vindicator siege tanks and raptor cult Astartes wreaking havoc behind the Imperial lines. Despite this, the presence of the Emperor’s guardians gave the Chaos war council pause, with Siege of Terra veterans all too aware of the ability of the Custodians to hold the line and delay.

With the forces of chaos semi-stalled, the next week of fighting would prove to be critical for them to maintain momentum.

Phase 2, Week 2:

Warzone Scores
Chaos – 6 Imperial – 7

Phase 3, Week 1:

Current modifiers in play

The Outer Ward

Brutal city fighting in the ‘commoner’s area’ and the planet’s major spaceport.

• Normal games

Momentum and Desperation

• Attackers:
  Nil
• Defenders:
  Increase Munition Supplies – The defenders damn the logistical cogitators’ predictions and draw deep on their reserves. At the start of each battle round, the defensive player gains 1 extra CP. This CP does not stop the player from earning additional CP. You can use a CP Reroll twice per game for 0CP in each game. Each player receives +1 Req. Note that this bonus Req can only be applied once. Further uses of Increase Munition Supplies will not trigger this benefit.
  
  Hail the Fleet –
  The relief fleet arrives 1 phase sooner in the campaign.

Phases: There are 4 to 6 phases remaining

Phase 2 Week 2 Final
Warzone Scores
Chaos – 25 Imperial – 17

While the Sons of Horus started their pillaging of the Imperial’s rearguard, the Word Bearers started a hideous demonic ritual to empower their lord, Agrax, Herald of Pestilence. The Grey Knights rode out to stop this or die trying. Hordes of Possessed and Santic Astartes clashed outside the city walls, with the Word Bearers narrowly achieving their foul goals.

Further afield the Sons of Horus ran rampant behind Imperial lines, clashing with the Death Korps of Kreig. A fire brigade of Kreig armour narrowly missed out on stopping the armoured push. It would take a force Adepta Sororitas to once again push the heretic Astartes back.

Further afield, juiced with powers of their ritual, the Word Bearers finally overpowered the Sisters and guardsmen held wall, earning Agrax divine ascension to Deamon Prince.

With the wall properly breached, the fighting has now moved to the outer ward and commoner areas. The Kineheart family has panicked and ordered astropaths at gunpoint to not only hail all Imperial support in the area but to also draw on less than above-board resources and contacts. This act of desperation brings the relief fleet ever closer but at a high cost.

Phase 4, Week 1:

Current modifiers in play

The Inner Wall
Bristling with void shields and redoubts, this is the most challenging defensive point on the planet.

• The defending alliance player has 15% more points which may only be spent on fortifications. This bonus no longer applies once the attackers take the Inner Wall for the first time.
• The attacking alliance player has 10% more points. This bonus no longer applies once the attackers take the Inner Wall for the first time, from that point on, they have 5% more points during the Inner Wall phase

Momentum and Desperation

• Attackers:
  Nil
• Defenders:
  Increase Munition Supplies – The defenders damn the logistical cogitators’ predictions and draw deep on their reserves. At the start of each battle round, the defensive player gains 1 extra CP. This CP does not stop the player from earning additional CP. You can use a CP Reroll twice per game for 0CP in each game. Each player receives +1 Req. Note that this bonus Req can only be applied once. Further uses of Increase Munition Supplies will not trigger this benefit.
  
  Hail the Fleet –
  The relief fleet arrives 1 phase sooner in the campaign.
• Rats of Nipaluna –
  • Each time the defender’s alliance plays a game, at the start of the first battle round, they can select up to three units from their army. Remove those units from the battlefield and set them up anywhere on that battlefield that is wholly on their deployment zone.
  • One unit of the defender’s army can be set up anywhere on the battlefield that is more than 9″ away from the enemy deployment zone and any enemy models. – The defenders gain one extra MoG per game played.

Phases: There are 3 to 5 phases remaining

Phase 3 Week 2 Final
Warzone Scores
Chaos – 21 Imperial – 13

The Outer Wall contained most of the slums and working class of the hive city. It was here that the desperate city fight would enter an entirely new stage of depravity for the attackers, desperation for the defenders and ingenuity for both.

With a sicking ritual, powered by the deceased defenders, the ascension of the Word Bearer Kagor tore a hole in reality and the cohesion of the attackers, with the Word Bearer’s seeking to wrestle further claims of resources and dark pacts away from the Sons of Horus. 

The two armies met in a brutal brawl of half daemon, half Astartes and worse. By the skin of his teeth, Warpsmith Svarog saw off Kagor’s challenge.

This moment was seized on by the defenders, with the Death Korps of Kreig rushing their armour forward in an attempt to push the heretic Astartes back. Instead of meeting power armour, they were waylaid by the forces of Ushriak the Pyresworn, who is possibly one of the greater daemons in the Tzeentchian court.

The fighting was fierce and while initially surprised by the daemons, the guardsmen went into a wild rage, tearing them limb from limb, caring not for the insanity of psychic hell that the daemons unleashed in wave after wave of ever-changing power, with literal crystals of psionic power dropping from the bruised heavens.

Yet despite this, the artillery still boomed, the tanks still advanced and the bayonets remained ever fixed. The sorcerous fire increased in intensity and yet the guard still refused to back down. One by one the crystals were destroyed. Ushriak, who may have been howling in simultaneous delight and rage, withdrew from the fight, perhaps to pursue other endeavours. The breakthrough was successful. The hole in the wall beckoned closer.

It fell to Warpsmith Sarvog to close it. Spotting a rampaging Kreig command tank named ‘Mephisto’, he spied a chance to break the offensive. Commanded by the aging legend Ludenkorff, the tank had outrun its escorts and thrown a track. The Sons of Horus raced to claim it and seize the secrets inside it, the Kreig, realising this after Ludendorff’s company comms cut off, also reacted. The simultaneous search and firefight erupted, with the Sons of Horus managing to secure Ludendorff early and ‘escort’ him and the intel contained in the tank back to friendly lines. They did not do this unscathed, the Krieg held and pinned them down, raining indiscriminate fire ontop of Ludenkorff’s position, caring little if they killed the man if the result lead to more dead traitors.

Additionally, a folk hero emerged among the Kreig. Major Gordarian led the assault on Ludenkorff’s position and managed to almost slay the Warpsmith himself, driving off and even killing scores of Astartes troops and stopping the Sons of Horus counterattack from fully exploiting the intel they retrieved. The normally cool-headed, logical and practical Sarvog swore blood revenge, his forge hammer could be ceaselessly heard raining blows on ruined Sons of Horus war machines and Imperial defences alike as reason fully gave way to rage.

The Grey Knights would seize this. Working with the guard they counter-attacked, their leader Grand Master Greymane first drove back the Sons of Horus armoured push with savage effectiveness before turning his terminators onto the Word Bearers. Both fights showed exactly why the Grey Knights are the mailed fist of the Ordo Malleus. The Grand Master strode out, his retinue of Paladins a shining sliver arrow to the heart of the chaos forces, crushing all that opposed them. 

The guard took yet more losses but defended with no less zeal than the post humans amongst them. Every meter the traitors took was savagely defended with Kreig officers and NCOs alike freely calling bombardments onto their positions as they fell, seeking to slay their attackers with artillery fire in their last moments. 

They lured the Sons of Horus into a trap, with leaked intelligence documents from Ludenkorffs tank leading the Astartes to a warehouse complex that held nothing. Despite the horrors unleashed by the Word Bearers they countercharged with bayonets. 

The forces of chaos were taken aback, they still advanced but the second wave of fortifications of the inner wall beckoned, and the Kreig, Custodes, Grey Knights and Sisters of Battle would seek to sell them dearly.

The fate of the city is held in balance. Would the attacker’s momentum break? Would the defenders take back the initiative? 

Only time would tell. 

Phase 5, Week 1:

Current modifiers in play

The Inner Wall
Bristling with void shields and redoubts, this is the most challenging defensive point on the planet.

• The defending alliance player has 15% more points which may only be spent on fortifications. This bonus no longer applies once the attackers take the Inner Wall for the first time.
• The attacking alliance player has 10% more points. This bonus no longer applies once the attackers take the Inner Wall for the first time, from that point on, they have 5% more points during the Inner Wall phase

Momentum and Desperation

• Attackers:
  New Attack Plans –The attackers change up their tactics, changing their avenues of attack.
  
  The attackers may reroll their dice to determine who goes first. Attackers may reroll the mission. You can use a CP Reroll twice per game for 0CP in each game.

• Defenders:
  Increase Munition Supplies – The defenders damn the logistical cogitators’ predictions and draw deep on their reserves.
  
  At the start of each battle round, the defensive player gains 1 extra CP. This CP does not stop the player from earning additional CP. You can use a CP Reroll twice per game for 0CP in each game. Each player receives +1 Req. Note that this bonus Req can only be applied once. Further uses of Increase Munition Supplies will not trigger this benefit.
  
  Hail the Fleet –
  The relief fleet arrives 1 phase sooner in the campaign.

Phases: There are 2 to 4 phases remaining

Phase 4 Week 2 Final
Warzone Scores
Chaos – 18 Imperial – 30

The fighting over the Inner Wall would form a massive turning point in the siege of Nipaluna.

It began with the Adepta Sororitas repetitively savaging the Sons of Horus assaults on their sector. The Imperial Guard tore down the Crystal Fortresses of Ushriak the Pyresworn with savage and unrelenting tank and artillery fire.

The traitors panicked and committed reserves. Captain Adonai, leader of the freshly ascended ‘newborn’ Sons of Horus tried to appeal to the chaos gods for more power, only to receive the ‘gift’ of spawndom. The Word Bearers struck out at the Sister’s fortified lines, pushing them back and stopping the vengeful Sisters of Battle from routing the Chaos forces from the Inner Walls.

The Sons of Horus attempted to capitalise on the Soroitas’s attention turning to the Word Bearers, sending an armoured thrust to the Death Korp lines. Thanks to the incredible sacrifice of guardsmen and the steely determination of the tankers, the Astartes were held to a bitter stalemate.

Barley resisting being totally pushed back, the Chaos commanders licked their wounds and planned new avenues of attack, while the defenders celebrated. They had performed a miracle and stemmed the tidal wave advance. Generals on both sides looked to the stars above the city, knowing that the ticking clock of Battlegroup Kallides arrival drew ever closer….

The Light Of Canoness Elma

This symbol of faith, blessed by Saint Elma herself, glows with a bright and holy light. When grasped, its light springs forth, finding the faithless and heretic alike, no matter where they hide.

Imperial Alliance model only. Once per battle, in your command phase, the bearer can use this Relic. If it does, until the start of your next Command phase, it gains the following ability:

The Light of Saint Elma (aura): While an enemy unit is within 9” of this model, each time an attack is made against that enemy unit, it does not receive the benefits of cover against that attack.

Sanctified Gan’da’mu Targeting Array

Despite months of campaigning, the Gan’da’mu are reluctant to understand the ‘miracles’ taking place in the Jai system, causing friction with local PDF forces. This stalemate was broken by a canny water caste member who realised that the Tau could “bless” the targeting arrays of the Imperial forces allied with them, while secretly upgrading the software, sighting mechanisms and refining, balancing the blades of the “faithful”.

These “sanctified” arrays caused havoc in chaos forces in the system. Vehicles and champions alike were gunned down by disturbingly accurate fire or cut down blades balanced to impossible edges. These enhancements and the efforts of the Gan’da’mu forced the Heretic Astartes to draw on the foulest of warp powers to bring some kind of balance to the conflict.

Imperial Alliance model only. In your command phase select one friendly unit within 6” of the bearer. Until the start of your next Command phase, each time that unit is selected to shoot or fight, you can re-roll one hit roll, you can re-roll one wound roll and you can re-roll one damage roll when resolving that unit’s attacks.

Ashes Of Chaplain Stefan’s Phalanx

There is no tougher warrior in the Crux than Chaplain Stefan of the Black Templars, who’s exploits of stamina while attached to Saint Elma’s forces became legendary in the Crux.

Chaplain Stefan’s right foot was blown apart by enemy fire early in the conflict while he single-handedly held back hordes of chaotic warriors, fighting on despite his injury. Each bone of his divine foot was recovered and turned into ash by the faithful that followed Elma’s crusade.

Phalanx by phalanx the ashes were handed out to the worthy, shielding them with Stefan’s immense faith and durability and lashing out with his fury.

Imperial Alliance model only. Once per turn, when a friendly unit within 6” of the bearer passes a Morale test, the bearer can use this Relic. If it does so, the closest enemy unit to the unit that passed the Morale test, if it is within in 9” of that unit, suffers 2D3 mortal wounds.

The Davidian Cross

Awarded by Imperator Davide himself, these crosses are made of melted down warblades of slain foes during the first Ellinikós war. Cross winners are unfathomable horrors that won glory on a scale that even Davide himself couldn’t claim to be his. In order to ensure his political supremacy, Davide therefore awards them a Davidian Cross, therefore smartly sidestepping their own achievements and making them his own.

Despite this trickery, the forces in the Crux quickly figured out that encountering a cross winner is to encounter death itself.

Chaos Alliance Model only. The bearer gains the following ability:

The Davidian Cross (aura): While an enemy unit is within 6” of the bearer:

• Subtract 2 from the Leadership characteristic of models in that enemy unit.
• Each time that enemy unit fail a Morale test,the bearer regains 1 lost wound (to a maximum of 3 regained wounds per phase).

Shards Of The Sanakht’s Atherstride Armour

The “Great Immutable but yet ever-changing Sanakht” claims to be the fastest Astartes alive, moving at impossible speed on the battlefield and unleashing the hell of the warp itself to his unsuspecting foes. Over the centuries his armour drowned in his warped time energy as he hunted arcana across the galaxy while casting evermore complex webs of trickery against his foes.

On the battlefield of Wellesley IX, Sanakht was finally caught by the brutish Kaytuk whose mace shattered Sanakht’s armour as the Thousand Son’s won victory over the Sons of Horus.

Shards of Sanakht’s armour were saved, each of them psychically charged with malignant warp energy, it became a mark of honour for each army’s artisans, warp smith’s or dark mechanicum members to enrich armour with the power of the shards, giving the armour’s a measure of Sanakht’s unnatural prescience like speed and hunger for warp charged energy.

Chaos Alliance model only.

• The bearer has a 4+ invulnerable save.
• Each time the bearer would lose a wound as the result of a mortal wound, roll one D6: on a 4+, that wound is not lost.
• Each time the bearer suffers Perils of the Warp, subtract 1 from the number of mortal wounds suffered. (to a minimum of 1).

The Bloody Shroud Of Valkyrion

During the Jai system war, the Fallen Angel Valkyrion cut a bloody arc across the battlefield, slaying warlords, beasts and champions alike with his Heavenfall blade. With the tide turned against Chaos forces, Valkyrion pledged to Khorne in an effort to gain more power. He would then face the Emperor’s Champion of the crusade on Wellesley IX, defeating him in single combat.

A number of bloodied shrouds claimed to be covered in Valkyrion and the champion’s blood arose in the latter part of the Faith Wars. Each of them protected the bearers against the foul attacks of the enemy, allowing them to close with their opponents and defeat them in bloody, single combat.

Chaos Alliance model only. Once per battle, in your Command phase, the bearer can use this Relic. If it does, until the start of your next Command phase:

• Each time an attack is made against the bearer, subtract 1 from that attacks’s hit roll and subtract 1 from that attacks’s wound roll.
• Each time an attack is allocated to the bearer, subtract 1 from the Damage characteristic of that attack (to a minimum of 1).

The Spirit Armour of Sivis, The Joy Of Paradise

During the faith wars, the Eldar rediscovered this ancient suit of armour forged during the war of heaven for the heroic Eldar Sivis.

Known as the Joy Of Paradise, Sivis blended immense psychic might with being a warrior beyond comparison. This coupled with his quick wit and blissful demeanour frustrated the necrontyr beyond belief while reaped a bloody toll against them during the darkest days of the war

How Sivis was defeated was a mystery that spawned a thousand myths. Some say he fell against a mighty C’tan, others say he died during the birth of Slannesh or walked away from the depravity of the Drukhari or the overly ridged paths of the Asuryani. There is one common thread to all of these tales, his legend’s last moments have Sivis laughing, taking on death with the same spirit that he lived in life.

Found by his rumoured ancestor an Iyanden spritseer on Eden IV, Sivis’ rediscovered suit of armour remembers his exploits well, enhancing the suit’s new wearer’s abilities so they may live up to his name, greatly aiding Autarch Yranar and Farseer Ashenel’s secret war.

Eldar alliance model only.

• The bearer has a 4+ invulnerable save.
• Each time the bearer would lose a wound as the result of a mortal wound, roll one D6: on a 4+, that wound is not lost.
• Each time the bearer suffers Perils of the Warp, subtract 1 from the number of mortal wounds suffered. (to a minimum of 1).

Wisdom of the Subordinate Minds

Before he became the flayer king, mighty Oltyx’s five ‘wise’ subminds saved his life on more than one occasion. Now contained in a scarab, they continue to disburse wisdom to those lucky enough to hear it, frequently saving the recipient’s life at the last possible moment.

Necron Alliance model only. Once per battle, in your Command phase, the bearer can use this Relic. If it does, until the start of your next Command phase:

• Each time an attack is made against the bearer, subtract 1 from that attack’s hit roll and subtract 1 from that attack’s wound roll.
• Each time an attack is allocated to the bearer, subtract 1 from the Damage characteristic of that attack (to a minimum of 1).

These are a bit unbalanced but are in the book. I cannot stress enough how optional they are. If they prove totally useable they will be tweaked.

Each warzone has a unique Warzone Ability that you can elect to use in your games:

Ōtautahi

Ōtautahi’s warrior culture harkens back to the Age of Strife, famously resisting The Great Crusade for 3 months until a diplomatic solution was found at the cost of massive amounts of bloodshed on both sides. The hive world supplies workers and prospers off the bounty of Wellesley IX’s mining network.

Imperial Alliance:

Guided by the Ōtautahi warrior cult, your forces reach untold levels of fury and skill.

Once per turn when an Imperial Alliance unit within 6” of an enemy unit is selected to shoot or fight, each time a model in that unit makes an attack, you can re-roll the hit and wound roll. 

Chaos Alliance:

Bloodsoaked plains make for rampant fuel for warp based power, on Ōtautahi  Daemons claw at thin veil of reality seeking to reap mortal souls.

Once per turn, during the Chaos Alliance player’s command phase, that player can select one Imperial Alliance unit that is not within the Imperial Alliance deployment zone. Roll one d6, on a +2 apply the following effects:

• That unit sufferers 1 mortal wound
• Until the next Chaos Alliance command phase, that unit has -2 leadership. 

Wellesley XI

The resource-rich mining world of Wellesley XI has been stripped mined and tunnelled for millennia. This greed has left it a planet of massive tectonic instability. Riven with Adamantium, a metal often used in conjunction with plasteel and ceramite to produce items that require incredible tensile strength, such as in the structure of power armour, Terminator Armour or the construction of Imperial Titans.

Tectonic Instability

If you are using this war zone ability, at the end of the Creating the Battlefield step, players should setup two sets of markers and number them 1-6 as shown on the map below. these are known as tectonic locations. Each player has 6 tectonic locations. Imperial players markers are blue, Chaos players red.

At the start of each battle round, the player who is taking the first turn rolls one D6. On a 5+, a tectonic event has been triggered. If a tectonic event is triggered, each player randomly determines one of their tectonic locations by rolling one D6. Once both tectonic locations have been determined, draw a line between those two points on the battlefield. For each unit this line passes over (excluding AIRCRAFT units):

• That unit suffers D3 mortal wounds.
• Until the start of the next battle round, halve the Move charactistic of the models in the unit.

Eden IV

The paradise world of Eden IV is one of the jewels in the Crux Star’s crown. A resort world of Imperial nobility and retired generals, it is, for the privileged few, one very few outright ‘nice’ places in the Imperium. Valued beyond measure by local aristocrats expect it to be fought for tooth and nail.

Imperial Alliance:

Desperate to protect the beauty of this world and more importantly, not be sent away from it, Imperial forces fight tooth and nail.

Each time a combat attrition test is taken for an Imperial Alliance unit, add 1 to that test.  

Chaos Alliance:

The forces of chaos seek to despoil this gem of a world and rob the Imperial leadership of their prized retirement world. 

Each time a Chaos Alliance unit makes an attack against a CHARACTER unit, add 1 to that attack’s hit roll.