The Battle for Warzone Octarius is about to commence.

 After my break from hobby blogging, I thought I would be getting back into a more competitive mindset.

Nope.

It seems that with the completion of painting Ghaz, the Narrative bug has struck again! Not that I can use him in Crusade games. Damn!

Anyway, I've gotten Warzone Octarius into my hands, and decided a 3 stage invasion of the Octarius sector by the Orks and Tyranids was in order, with various Imperial forces as defenders.

So here's the setup. Orks and Tyranids and Tau are the Attacking Alliance, but they are not friendly to each other.

The Defending Alliance will be two different forces of Imperial Fists, since unfortunately my Krieg force is nowhere near table top ready.

Here's the layout of Stage 1.

So that's what's on the near horizon. We'll see how long the Crusade bug lasts. It might depend on how much extra work and record keeping the additional campaign rules invoke.

As you can see above, we are starting small, and working our way up, in terms of Power Level. Let the Heroes have a chance to truly shine before the forces start to get too big for their heroics to matter as much.

That's it for now. Until next time, happy gaming!

The Long War Campaign: A Guide

Campaign Guidelines

Here's the outline for this campaign.

It will only involve Loyalist and Chaos Marine armies. 

Games will be 2000 points.

The winner of each scenario must keep his army the same, no changes may be made except in the case of a named character being removed from play. In that case, the named character must miss as many games as he has wounds.

The loser of each scenario can change as much or as little of his army as he wishes, including tailoring to specifically defeat the foe who just defeated him.

Following each battle, the next scenario will be determined based on the outcome of the just finished game.

Hopefully, any of our miniatures that aren't painted will be painted by the next battle. But no promises!!

We are using the scenarios from the Battle Missions book, and adjusting them as we see fit. Also, some of the scenarios will be taken from the Cities of Death book.

And that's pretty much it. Here's hoping there's much carnage in the near future!!