Fun with Space Hulk

Hey guys, I hope everyone had a nice weekend.  So this weekend, as Halloween is approaching, our store manager organized a little event called Haunted Hulk. Utilizing the Space Hulk boxed game board and a few of the rules, basically, each person had a 6 man warband comprised of 1 unnamed HQ character, and 5 models from various unit entries in their codex. The idea was for each warband to have a different insertion point on the space hulk, and scavenge lost STC data from different computer terminals on the Hulk.

Forge World Rules updates

Hey guys, looks like Forge World have finally released some updated PDFs for their Space Marine stuff for 6th Edition. I've posted the links below for you to check them out. One is just the chapter tactics for the chapters, and the other is all Badab War Characters updated for 6th edition. Makes me pretty happy as i find myself more and more likely to use my Pellas Mir'san model for my Salamanders now. Definitely like most of these updates, and now with Chapter Tactics being available for some of these Chapters, maybe more people will start to use these armies more. They are all pretty cool thats for sure :) Links are below for anyone interested.

Forgeworld Updated Chapter Tactics (6th Ed)
http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Downloads/Product/PDF/F/FWchaptertactics.pdf

Forgeworld Updated Characters (6th Ed)
http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Downloads/Product/PDF/C/Charcterupdate.pdf

Everything Old is New Again, Pt 2

So it has been a busy two weeks, thanks to work and a move, so I apologize for the delay in part two.

What follows will be a battle report with me using 3.5 edition Chaos Space Marines and my fellow blogger, Hazon, using 6th edition Salamanders Space Marines.

The basic premise behind our game was that I would use the old Chaos codex as-is, with few exceptions. Any Universal Special Rules found in both 3.5 and 6th would used as though they were from 6th.The exceptions to using it directly as is from the book this were:

• Feel No Pain (FNP): Since its nonexistent in this older edition, I kept it as a 4+. 
• Khornate Chainaxes: This was a funny one. For the first few rounds, we used the old rules (no save can be better than a 4+, so a Terminator hit by one gets a 4+ instead of his 2+), but we found that this was a bit insane given how strong Berzerkers are (and given that anything Khorne in 3.5 basically becomes a Berzerker).
• Mastery Levels: We assumed any Sorcerer Lord was mastery level 3, Lieutenants were level 2, and anything else was level 1. I stuck with the normal rules for the codex, however, and I didn't generate any new powers, just bought 'em like the good ole days. 
• Demonic Resilience: Treated exactly as modified toughness is in the 6th edition.
• Chaos 3.5 Restirctions: 0-1 Limit removed from the Lord for better functionality in a larger list, 0-1 demon weapon restrictions for coolness.

With that in mind, here are the 5000 point lists:

Eternal Crusade Forums are now Live

For those of you who perhaps haven't been following this future MMO endeavor by the team at Behavior Interactive, their forum servers are now up. :) There is already a lot of people active there, and the Developers at Behavior Interactive are pretty good about checking in and having communication with their future players also. Here's a quick link to the site if anyone is interested: http://forum.eternalcrusade.com/

New Horus Heresy Units

 

With the release of Book 2 of the Horus Heresy, some of the Gamesday release models are surfacing for sale in full release now on Forge World. The Emperors Children Kakophoni and the Word Bearers Ashen Circle units are both now available. These two units happen to be two of my favorite releases of the Heresy models so far as regular units go. the level of detail and character in each model is amazing, and i could easily see plenty of justification of these being fielded in regular 40k games as Noise marines and Raptors respectively.

Fire Raptor Rules Revealed

Looks like Forge World has released the first rule-set for the newly released Fire Raptor gunship. I for one am definitely picking one of these up. Even more exciting is the applications for a chaos player. This flyer, along with the Storm Eagle is a great addition to any Chaos army, particularly for players who are not fans of the Heldrake models. I will be very curious to see how many of these we start seeing on tables in the near future. Link to the rules is below.

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Downloads/Product/PDF/F/fire-raptor.pdf

Ultramarines Supplement Rumor

Hey everyone, I hope all had a nice weekend. first new rumor of the week. Apparently theres a chance that the next supplement after the Iron Hands: Clan Raukaan book is potentially set to be an Ultramarines one. Rumor follows below.