Now that I have a new set of terrain coming I may have to seriously think about magnetizing the terrain. I found a great video on it as well as following a thread on the Shadow Wars Facebook group asking about magnetizing. One of the guys that magnetized his set created a tutorial and posted is as well.
WiP – Espandor Team Tau
I am nearly done with my Tau team for the test run of the Espandor Shadow War / 40K campaign that I am running with Bob. I just need to paint some of the magnetized weapons and possibly the 3rd Recon Drone. I have 3 of the Pathfinders magnetized with two Rail Rifles, a Pulse Pistol, Pulse Carbine, and an Ion Rifle. I also have 2 Recon Drones painted and one assembled in case I want to go with all Recon Drones. I am still debating whether to use the Pulse Accelerator Drone though. To the right are the Special Operatives: Ethereal, Cadre Fireblade, and an XV25 Stealth Suit.
The Espandor Campaign Missions
After looking at the missions in several of the supplements I decided to just use the ones in the basic rule books (SW:A and 8th edition BRB).
The Shadow War missions will consist of two Shadow war games using missions that are either rolled randomly or chosen by both players.
New Shadow War / 40K Campaign Test Run
My idea for the next campaign is to combine Shadow War: Armageddon games with Warhammer 40K games. The campaign will be based on Espandor in the realm of Ultramar. This is in the far Eastern reaches of Ultramar and is near the Konor system where there was a massive battle between the forces of Chaos and the Imperium.
Each player will play one race/faction for both their Shadow War and 40K games. For example, the Dark Angles will put together a team of Space Marine Scouts for their Shadow War special reconn/special forces team, while they use their other models for their regular 40K games. This means that a player cannot play Harlequins for Shadow War an then play Tau for their 40K games.
The 40K portion of the campaign will be an escalating campaign starting with a Combat Patrol Detachment for mission 1. The army construction rules will be the same as the Renegade Mission Packet 1.0.4 except that we will start with 500 points.
Tonight I need to look through the SW:A missions and the 40K missions in the BRB. I also have plenty of the psuedo-narrative missions from the Burning Dawn/Shadow Force Solaq/Battle for MacCragge Supplements.
Tips on Shadow Terrain
I was looking through the Shadow War Armageddon Community on Facebook and there was a comment from Tom Joyce pointing out Ray’s Twitter feed that had some very handy tips putting the terrain into different configurations.
WiP – SW Ferratonic Furnace
Sector Mechanicus Ferratonic Furnace worth of Shadow War: Armageddon terrain almost done. Just need to wash the body and dry brush the silver (maybe).
WiP – Shadow War Terrain
Spurred on by the painting drive created by the Flames of Konor paint submissions I have finally started to work on the Shadow War box set terrain. I am still hoping to get some done to turn in by the end of day tomorrow, but don’t hold out hope. I have made more progress than this picture shows, but since I am busy tonight.
Won Some Scatter Terrain
I didn’t win a game toay, but I did win some cool 3D-printed scatter terrain made by Dustan. 3 Small cargo containers and 12 crates of assorted sizes. Yay for more terrain for Shadow War. Now I need to get my SW:A terrain painted for the Konor campaign.
Space Marine Scouts – EH1
Scouts vs Harlequins, all the Harlequins have to do to tie in the campaign is win, roll at least a 2 for prmethium AND win the second game.
With Collino out and the Scouts at full force, plus a Terminator Special Operative, the Harlequins lost on the mission roll; I rolled kill team allowing the Scouts to bring their entire squad, 10 Scouts + Terminator Spec Op. My leader was out leaving me with 5 guys. The shear weight of numbers took me down to 1 guy before failing a bottle test.
I played as carefully as possible but the Scouts managed to take out my Specialist in the second turn. Eventually I managed to take 3 of his guys out / down. He made his two bottle checks and I failed my 4th or 5th to lose. To add insult to injury, my best Specialist died and I lost one guy to a head wound. The fun thing was thing was that Charlie fired into close combat with his heavy gunner and fired 5 shots. 4 requiring ammo checked (all passed) but 4 of them it his own guy. Thinking that he couldn’t do worse he fired the other heavy gunner in. Hit his guy 3 more times and me once, it wasn’t until his sniper shot in that he too that he put me down.
I had to spend the promethium just to recruit a
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Game 2 Charlie rolled….. yep, you guessed it – Kill team
This game went a little better, I managed t get in to close combat in round and take out his heavy weapons guys. My Leader consolidated into another guy, but Charlie charged all of his remaining marines. Leaving my leader surrounded by 5 marines ( only because battlefield terrain prevented the 6th). My leader managed to kill 4 guys before being slain. But Charlie failed his bottle test and I won.
Terry 15 (17 actual)
Charlie 13
Multiplayer Battle for Shadow War: Armageddon
I just found this post on the Warhammer 40,000 community site where GW gave an official multiplayer mission for Shadow War. They suggest that you can use this new mission for a “great start and climax to a Shadow War campaign.”
