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Issue 2 Summer 2012

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Includes

Resources and

Information

on the Occulis

Terribilis

The Nemean

Campaign

With

Index Astartes

Articles for

the Steel

Dogs, the

Lions of Alba,

and the

Heralds of

Light

Painting and

Modelling

Articles

And

An Interview

with Author

Aaron

Dembski-

Bowden

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Introduction & Contents

This is the second issue of the Legio Imprint, the

B&Cs semi-regular attempt to show the board members all the stuff they miss by hiding in their

particular corners of the forum and show off some new stuff into the bargain.

This issue focuses around the Eye of Terror, the centre

for so many of the events of 40K (especially power-

armoured events). Theres a lot to the Eye of Terror, and no e-zine could really be up to the task. Still, the

B&C did its best, with fluff articles, modelling

tutorials, painting tutorials, special rules, and a fully

realized campaign with background, scenarios and

advice for adapting it to your needs. Theres also an exclusive interview with Black Library luminary

Aaron Dembski-Bowden, where he talks about the

inner workings of the Black Library.

The issue is divided into two major sections. First is

the Eye of Terror section, which provides background

information on the Eye and many of its denizens.

Theres an exploration of just what the Eye of Terror is, overviews of the Black Crusades and the Astartes

Praeses, and a variety of Eye-related modelling

articles. There are also three different sets of special

rules one for the various Chaos Legions and one each for the Exorcists and Iron Hands Chapters both of whom make their homes near the Eye.

Second is the Nemean Campaign section, which covers

a B&C-created campaign around the Eye of Terror a war prompted by honour, pride, and vengeance. Heady

stuff and all created on the B&C. In addition to the background articles on the Chapters and the campaign,

theres also a complete set of scenarios, a battle report, and a guide to adapting the campaign for your

purposes.

Theres lots of original fluff, original ideas, original interpretations and original artwork, and even what

youve already seen before has been polished and added to. Hopefully youll enjoy reading it as much as the team enjoyed producing it. Thanks to everyone

who worked so hard on this and to all of you who will

now read it.

Octavulg Editor

THE EYE OF TERROR

Introduction & Contents 1

Interview: Aaron Dembski-Bowden 2

THE EYE OF TERROR

An Introduction to the Eye of Terror 6

The Black Crusades 12

Beast Marines Tutorials 17

A Guide to Creating Mutations 23

Renegade Chapters 26

Paths of Glory: Chaos Legion Rules 34

The Making of Magmatrax 41

The Astartes Praeses 47

Codex: Exorcists 55

Codex: Iron Hands 60

THE NEMEAN CAMPAIGN

The Steel Dogs 68

The Heralds of Light 79

The Lions of Alba 88

Going on a Lion Hunt:

The Nemean Campaign

97

The Battle of Jamshyds World 105

Aftermath 112

Credits & Acknowledgements 115

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What is the process of

writing and researching a

novel for the Black Library? Um. I'll cover that later. If I do it

now, I'll have to write "See Question

1" about four times.

Youve mentioned a GW Archive in the past. Could

you explain it to us? Sure. On a practical level, dealing

with the archive goes a little like this:

To:

[email protected]

From:

[email protected]

Dear whomever gets this email,

I need X information for novel Y. Can

you send everything they have in the

archives about it? Ta.

Then, the very next day you get a

chunky A2-sized envelope with a

whole bunch of colour photocopies

relating to everything you asked for.

I'm usually aware of exactly what I'll

need, so I'll list off specific references

like "I know Slaves to Darkness has

some jazz on the old units Chaos

Marines used in the 80s... Can you

send me a copy of those pages?"

Essentially, the archive is everything

Games Workshop and its subsidiaries

(Black Library and Forge World)

have published. Frex, for the novel I'm working on right now, I wanted to

see what Forge World had done on

the Marines Errant - because there's a vague subplot where the Night

Lords are essentially hanging out

with the Red Corsairs when Huron

has a crack at killing the Chapter off

[Yes, this interview was a while ago.

Sorry, A D-B Ed]. A day later, colour photocopies from Imperial

Armour 9 landed on the doorstep.

It occasionally includes stuff that's not

yet published, though you tend to have

to be in GWHQ to get a look at that.

But I saw the Blood Angels codex ages

before it hit the shelves, for example.

And I saw the photocopied pages of the

next codex release, like, months and

months ago. That's a rarity, but it's nice

to pretend you're as cool as the Design

Studio guys for a few minutes while

you read that stuff.

Are Black Library novels

included in the Archive? Yeah. Though we get all of them for

free, anyway don't usually need to ask.

Does the archive give you

access to super-secret

background material no one

else sees? Not so much. It gives you access to

stuff no one has seen in a long time

(Black Legion Chaplains and

Techmarines with Spawngoads...

Dreadnoughts called 'Chuck'...), and it

gives you an occasional glance at

something unreleased if it pertains to

your project.

That said, the Horus Heresy meetings

are the exception that proves (okay,

completely breaks) this rule. In those,

we're sat around a table with Alan

Merrett, the overseer of Games

Workshop's entire intellectual property.

And he's not just the IP manager; this

is also the guy that invented most of

the Horus Heresy's events as we know

them today. So at HH meetings, we're

able to see any relevant new codices

while they're still basically printed

Word.docs, and we're the ones

deciding the Imperium's history.

That's... I mean, Jesus, even typing that

to explain it feels cool. When you're sat

in the room, it's absolutely killer. The

Legio

Imprint

Interview:

Aaron

Dembski-

Bowden

by

Librarium

Staff and

A D-B

One of the Black Librarys most popular authors and one of the

B&Cs most prolific luminaries, A D-B graciously agreed to answer

some questions after the application of sufficiently gratuitous flattery.

His answers are interesting and provide insight into both the Black

Library and Games Workshop.

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other guys are a bit cooler and more

collected about the whole thing. I can

barely remember my name at the time,

though.

How much older material is

contained in them (like the

Starchild theory, for

example)? Everything, ever.

Though, as I recall from my tender

youth, the Starchild cra uh, theory, wasn't exactly widespread.

Could you walk us through the

editorial process on a Black

Library novel? The full deal goes like this:

1. Synopsis pitch.

2. First draft.

3. Editor feedback, usually storyline-

based and typo catching.

4. Second draft.

5. Copy editor gets it; catches typos

and stuff.

6. Lore reader gets it; sends back

feedback on any background

discrepancies.

7. Production turn it into a formatted

.pdf file.

8. Final edit, where you check it over

again yourself. The most boring

part. You're usually sick of the sight

of it by now.

9. Print.

Does a negative or positive

reaction to a book get noticed

at the Black Library? Okay, now I need to tread carefully.

Like any career situation, what you

know isn't always what you can safely

say. I'll try to be brief and to the point.

My gut instinct answer is that Yes, it's

noticed, and No, it doesn't really have

that much impact. Online reviews are

often not exactly well-considered or to

the standards once kept by professional

critics. That's not to say they're

worthless I spend an insane amount of time reading my own reviews (very

unprofessional of me), and on forums

discussing the (thankfully,

almost always very positive)

reviews I get there. But a lot of

writers really don't much care,

and they're probably right in

feeling that way. Reviews by

your Average Joe can range

from 'insightful' to 'missing the

point by a ball-aching mile', and

all too often, it's the latter.

Again, while I've been more

fortunate than luck should allow,

it's a general thing inherent in

the semi-anonymous and

opinionated nature of online

reviews. Look at any Amazon

review of a TV show, book or

movie that you like. Now check

out all the people that missed the

point by a bajillion miles.

Yeah, exactly. It's not always

sane, let alone valid.

Black Library is like any other

publisher, in that its editors and

staff have opinions of their own.

You've got mass-marketed,

hugely advertised stuff that a lot

of them might think simply

sucks, and you've got lesser

known authors that they really

wish would break out of the pack.

I will say this: in the past, BL haven't

had a great record with heavily

advertising certain authors. In recent

memory, they made a fuss out of a

couple of authors in particular who've

ended up receiving very mediocre

reviews. They do notice that, but they

also know reviews are fleeting. Give

something an amazing cover and a

great blurb, and it'll attract a lot of

interest no matter what previous novels

the author has done. That's just the

nature of the game in any publishing,

but especially licensed fiction. The

fanbase orbits the concepts, not the

authors. At least, that's how it goes at

first.

So, yeah, they notice. But no like any other publisher things sell whether they're great or just average; it's

marketing that decides as much as

anything. They work hard to ensure

everything is as good as it can be, but

it's not exactly a disaster if it's not.

That has nothing to do with Back

Library's production, really. It's

inherent in all types of media.

You might be reading this and thinking

I'm very sceptical. I'm really not. I'm

just honest.

How detailed a plot/concept

are you given to work with? I assume it's the same for all the other

authors, but I'm never given anything

to work with in that sense. I pitch ideas

and wait for a reply. The notable

exception was Helsreach, when the

first few releases for the Space Marine

Battles series were loosely chosen by

editors. Nick Kyme briefed me on that

by saying "How about a novel focusing

on Helsreach?" and left it at that.

I always choose what I want to do, in

the sense that I'll email my editor Nick

Our subject in both his forms

DaemonPrinceDargor

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Kyme and say "I wanna do this", and

he'll always say "Finish what you're

doing first, then send me a synopsis."

Is there any official instruction

for what to do when you run

into really big gaps in the fluff

(like how Chapters are

founded, or what colour Ork

blood is this week)? This is a tough one.

I guess this is different for every

author. I consider myself bound to the

codices, but I don't consider myself

beholden to any other author's work.

Like, it's my choice if I want to

acknowledge their work in mine (and

vice versa), and if I do it, I think it's

because their perception of the setting

matches mine, or they add something

great to the shared universe. But I've

run across a few instances where I

could've referenced another author's

novel and chose not to, because I didn't

like the work, or I felt it wasn't really

in-line with my views on 40K. And

that's something that, to a degree,

everyone involved in the Intellectual

Property will do. In codices, it's called

retconning. The erasing of former

ideas, or simply not mentioning them

again.

What you've got to bear in mind is that

love it or hate it Games Workshop's attitude to the setting really is that

"Everything is true and nothing is

true". When gaps or clashes occur in

the sourcebooks, some people will

consider it lazy, while others will 'get

it' in the sense that a lot of the time,

this is simply how GW want things to

be. My 40K isn't going to be exactly

the same as your 40K, and that's a

statement that every single 40K fan can

say to another fan with absolute,

complete, 100% surety. Some people

consider that a flaw. Others, like GW,

a feature.

Canon doesn't really apply to 40K the

way it does to Star Wars, because the

setting itself is founded to give people

the chance to make their own stories,

battles, crusades, wars, and so on. It's

not canon in that sense, which is why

the imaginary distinction of "Codex

Canon" being a different tier of truth to

"Black Library Canon" and "Forge

World Canon" is a fallacy. GW brass

don't see it like that. It's all just people

telling stories in the setting, whether in

a novel or on the tabletop the difference is that the Dev Studio will

often give more of a framework for the

setting as a whole, and the novels offer

more specific, focused frameworks on

certain factions. But canon is... well,

it's not what it is in other licenses.

In my less witty moments, I call it

"loose canon".

Yeah, I'm priceless.

But there's a consensus, of course.

Sometimes, something is established

and shouldn't be conflicted. Something

I'm pretty proud of is the feedback I

tend to get regarding my attitudes to

the established source material. I stick

to it because I love it, and I know it

from 20 years of reading and playing

it, since I was a tiny little goober with a

copy of Space Crusade.

Ultimately, the fans can judge what

they like, and what they consider

"truth". Sometimes it'll be Forge

World's consensus that becomes the

main one; sometimes the Dev Studio's;

sometimes Black Library's. It all

depends on the topic and how it's

presented.

To what extent do the authors

work together? We don't, really. No more than any

other authors all working for the same

publisher. I have nothing but love for

Chris Wraight and Matt Farrer, and we

talk over email, but we don't work

together in the sense that we're always

going over our facts as a pack. Projects

are rarely related enough to make it

necessary, and we're all confident in

our respective grasps of the setting.

The guys I talk to most are Dan Abnett,

Nick Kyme and Jim Swallow, and it's

not usually about work with any of

them. When work comes into it, it's

almost always Horus Heresy related.

We have a pretty active group email

thing going on, too. Though it's usually

just used to congratulate Graham on

whatever award he's won that week.

Does the Black Library

discourage you from exploring

certain themes, such as

religion, romance, or the full

depths of the horror of the 41st

Millennium? We're not allowed to show explicit sex,

obviously. You have to be verrrrrrry

cautious with some aspects of

romance, too, and I once got in trouble

for a daemon saying "My kind will

rape your holy world, mortal", or

something like that.

I'm using 2011 to shop my non-40K

work around (if I can find the time)

and while I'll always love writing for

40K, it's great not to be second-

guessing every scene where something

mature happens. GW has a varied

demographic (which falsely translates

as "BL fans are mostly kids", which is

wrong), and although I hate it,

sometimes BL seems to cater for the

lower age range of that demographic.

That said, legally, they probably have

to. It can feel a bit stifling sometimes,

yeah.

What inspires you to write

about the armies you have? Write what you love. Luckily, I love a

lot.

I try not to write what I play, though.

There's an immensely annoying and completely invented trope where sometimes authors of licensed fiction

will big up their favourite factions just

to make them look better than X, Y and

Z other factions. It's patently nonsense,

but it makes a great soundbite, and it's

something instinctively childish,

malevolent, and plausible if you have

no respect for the person you're

insulting when you say it. We tend to

think the worst of people we dislike,

after all. So I try to avoid that by

simply not writing about the Black

Legion.

That'll change in time, and I'm sure my

reviews will say "OMG ADB made BL

5

the best when really Failbaddon is a

loser", but whatever. I'd argue that if

you use that many capitals in a

sentence, you need to be punched in

the spine, anyway. And don't put 'Fail'

in anything like that. It's chimpish.

What aspects of the Heresy

would you most like to write

about? I wanted to detail how it all began, and

show a different perception of Lorgar

and the Word Bearers at their lowest

ebb, before they became the

charismatic crusaders of the Heresy. I

was lucky enough to do that when I

pitched The First Heretic. I'd also like

to carry on with that, showing the

Word Bearer Legion really coming into

its own with the assaults on Calth,

Terra, and whatever else they did in the

Age of Darkness. I'd love to do a novel

about the War in the Webway, though

if I ever do, it'll be a million years

away (I'm just saying I like the

concept, not that I have plans). My

next HH novel will almost definitely

be a World Eater novel, and that's

something I've always wanted to get a

hold of. Doing that is almost a dream

come true. It should go without saying,

but I'm saying it anyway, that I'd like

to do a Night Lords novel at some

point. But the series is young. There's

plenty of time.

In less local news, obviously I'd love to

have done something big in the sense

of either one of the big events or the

most popular legions (Blood Angels at

Signus Prime; Space Wolves at

Prospero) but I joined the team very

late, and they were understandably

taken by then. But getting to do a

Blood Angel, Dark Angel or

Ultramarine novel would be absolutely

amazing. I doubt that's specific to me it's surely the kind of thing any 40K

fan would say.

Whats your favourite Black

Library book? Why? Legion, by Dan Abnett.

Quite simply, it's brilliant, brilliant sci-

fi. The revelations meant nothing to me

(and really, I think people place too

much importance in them as truth,

when they don't really seem to be at

all), but it was beautifully written, and

I love the characters. It also bled a 30K

feel, rather than a 40K one, and I don't

think it's unfair to say that not all of the

HH series has necessarily nailed that.

It's an important part of the theme, and

one that can end up pretty difficult to

do. The characters were unique and

fascinating, the prose was awesome,

and the storyline was killer. Really,

you're not going to get much better

than that.

Ultimately, I like human characters in

40K, and I love how they contrast to

the Astartes. That's what makes Space

Marines in this setting so rich and

interesting for me: their strange,

awkwardly loyal distance from the

humans they were never given a

chance to be. There wasn't a lot of that

in Legion, but enough to tease and

make for great reading.

Will you be including a Squat

in your next book, or are you

saving it for a special

occasion? This may not be a popular opinion, but

I always thought they were a bit stupid,

anyway. Those trikes, man. Gah.

I miss Genestealer cults, though. Those

were rad.

And on that suspiciously pro-Hive

Mind note, the interview concluded.

My eternal thanks to A D-B for doing

this, and I hope you all enjoyed it. A D-

Bs novel Void Stalker is out now, and I dont know why you havent bought it yet.

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What is the Eye of Terror? The Eye of Terror dominates the

north-west of the galaxy. It is the

heart of Chaos in our universe.

Twenty thousand light years across,1

and visible from ten thousand light

years away,2 it was born in the final

years of the Dark Age of Strife,

heralding the birth of the Imperium,3

brought into being by the Fall of the

Eldar.

The Fall of the Eldar Explanations vary for the Eldars fall. Some sources say they fell into Chaos

worship when they discovered it

through their use of warpgates.4

Others say that they turned to the

worship of Chaos when they grew

complacent and bored in their

supremacy over the galaxy.5

Whatever the reason, across the Eldar

Empire, those who felt the pull of

Chaos in their souls fell dead and their

souls were subsumed into the being

known as Slaanesh.6 This catastrophe

blew the Warp Storms around Earth

away and reshaped the Warp,

allowing humanity to return to the

galaxy.7 Slaanesh, meanwhile,

annihilated the majority of the Eldar

pantheon Khaine survived as scattered fragments at the core of

Craftworlds,8 the Laughing God

survived by concealing himself in the

Webway where his Harlequins lurk to

this day,9 and a few sources say Isha,

Goddess of Healing, was taken as a

prisoner and bride by Nurgle, trapped

in his garden forever as a victim of his

various plagues and pathogens.10

1 Codex: Chaos Space Marines, Third

Edition, Mk II 2 Warhammer 40,000, Fourth Edition

3 Realms of Chaos: Slaves to Darkness

4 Ibid

5 Codex: Eldar, Fourth Edition

6 Realms of Chaos: Slaves to Darkness

7 Ibid

8 Codex: Eldar, Fourth Edition

9 Ibid

10 Codex: Chaos Daemons

Geography The Eye of Terror was the result of this

tumult.11

A rupture at its very heart

spews forth raw Warp energy into our

universe,12

and this energy makes the

region violently unstable. Daemons can

safely manifest within the confines of

the Eye,13

and the reality-twisting

effects of the Warp have resulted in

space and time being deformed in alien

and terrifying ways.

There are a variety of different worlds

within the Eye. The Crone Worlds are

the original core worlds of the Eldar

Empire, and the Eldar must still mine

them today in order to build soul

stones.14

They also hold many artefacts

of pre-Fall Eldar Civilization.15

Some,

like Belial IV, are inhabited only by

ghosts.16

Others have become daemon

worlds, where screeching warpspawn

caper through the graveyard of a great

civilization.17

Many of the inhabited worlds within

the Eye of Terror are Daemon Worlds,

found toward the heart of the Eye of

Terror.18

Daemon Worlds have been

corrupted by Chaos, and are now

shaped by the whims of whatever

Chaos power controls them, heedless

of physical laws.19

Worlds with

surfaces of living flesh; flat worlds;

night worlds where no light is ever

seen;20

worlds with fire for skies;

oceans and rivers of blood or where the

moons and stars scream.21

Tales of

11

Codex: Chaos Space Marines, Third Edition, Mk II 12

Renegades, Space Marine Second Edition 13

Codex: Chaos Space Marines, Fourth Edition 14

Codex: Eldar, Fourth Edition 15

Ibid 16

Codex: Eye of Terror 17



Codex: Chaos Daemons 20


Warhammer 40,000, Third Edition

The Eye of

Terror

An

Introduction

to the Eye of

Terror

by

Octavulg

8

these horrors are brought back to the

Imperium by the crews of Inquisitorial

null-ships,22

or dragged from captured

prisoners and tomes by the Ordo

Malleus. Daemon Worlds are as varied

as the powers of Chaos the only constant is the insanity behind them.

The Fringe Worlds along the edge of

the Eye lead a precarious existence.

The Eye of Terror is not stable, and so

they may be drawn in or expelled from

it without warning. Worlds closer to

the edge of the Eye may even be

something observers might recognize

as normal, though often they are

simply dead worlds, uninhabited even

by the creatures of Chaos.

Eldar Craftworlds are even known to

be drawn into the eye by physical or

metaphysical forces Maugan Ras home world of Altansar was drawn

into the Eye itself,23

and Ulthw is

trapped in its orbit.24

What Lives There? The inhabitants of the Eye are no

better, as twisted and malformed as the

worlds they live on. Billions of mutants

inhabit various daemon worlds,

screaming tormented praises to gods as

mad as their worshippers.25

Perhaps the most infamous of the

Eyes inhabitants are those who once served the Imperium. The Eye of

Terror provides a haven for the

treacherous and the black-hearted.

Most prominent of these are the Traitor

Legions, who fled there in the wake of

the Horus Heresy. The twisting

influence of the Warp twists time such

that many of the original Legionaries

still survive to nurse their hatred of the

Imperium.26

Indeed, ships fleeing

Horus defeat at Terra still arrive in the

22

Warhammer 40,000, Fourth Edition 23




Codex: Chaos Space Marines, Fourth Edition

Eye to this day.27

They are bolstered by

more recent traitor Space Marines,

formerly of the Adeptus Astartes,28

fallen Imperial Guard regiments and

cultists,29

and the arcane forces of the

Dark Mechanicus and Traitor Titan

Legions.30

But the Eyes most numerous inhabitants are Daemons, and to

understand them, one must understand

the Warp.

What is the Warp? The Warp is a parallel reality to our

own Chaos is the Warp, and the

Warp is Chaos.31

Human ships travel

across the galaxy by entering the Warp,

where the distance to their destination

is shorter, then returning to realspace.32

The natural ebb and flow of the Warp

can make travel easier or more difficult

by speeding or slowing ships.33

Warp

storms are created by these natural

movements and tides, coming together

and breaking apart over time.34

Older

sources suggest that warp storms are

the powers of Chaos, accumulations of

power grown large enough to achieve

sentience.35

As powers grow larger,

they can protect themselves from the

natural flow of the Warp and maintain

their existence.36

Emotions also feed

the powers of Chaos,37

and the use of

psychic powers creates disturbances

and currents in the Warp.38

Indeed,

much of the ebb and flow of the Warp

27




Adeptus Titanicus 31

Realms of Chaos: Slaves to Darkness 32

Warhammer 40,000, Fifth Edition 33

Warhammer 40,000, Third Edition 34


Ibid 36

Ibid 37

Realms of Chaos: Slaves to Darkness, Codex: Chaos Space Marines, Third Edition, Mk II 38

Codex: Chaos Daemons

may be a response to emotions and

actions in our universe.

Daemons are created from the

accumulated energy of a Chaos power

more capable and larger powers can

thus create more daemons.39

Some

small Chaos powers elect to stabilize

themselves by taking daemonic form,

trading the chance at more power for

the certainty of continued existence.40

Daemons are reflections of the powers

that created them Khornes are bloodthirsty, Slaaneshs depraved, Nurgles pestilent, and Tzeentchs

mercurial.41

The gods most favoured

servants will be rewarded with more

and more power indeed, on some worlds, Greater Daemons are

worshipped as gods themselves.42

Most of the time, Daemons do not

concern themselves with humanity.

They are occupied participating in wars

between the Chaos powers and other

daemons within the Warp and the Eye

of Terror, wars prompted by obscure,

incomprehensible or even ridiculous

motivations.43

The Chaos powers can

reclaim the energies committed to a

particular daemon at any time,

ensuring the loyalty of their followers

(though, treacherous as such creatures

are, betrayal is still possible).44

Daemons cannot generally manifest

themselves in our universe the walls between universes must be weakened

by a warp storm or the beliefs and

rituals of cultists in order to allow a

daemon entrance to our world.45

Alternatively, daemons can possess

mortals, committing a portion of their

power to controlling the mind and

spirit of their host.46

Some mortals

succumb to this willingly, while others

39


Ibid 41



Ibid 44



Ibid

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are left trapped as witnesses to the

horrors their body commits.47

Talented psykers such as the Librarians

of the Adeptus Astartes can project

their minds into the Warp in the form

of a subtle body or mist flesh, like the mirror of a daemon projecting its

psychic existence into our physical

realm. Such a journey is hazardous in

the extreme, for injury to the subtle

body is suffered by the physical body

and to die whilst in the Warp is to be

condemned to damnation and torment

at the claws of daemons.48

Just as daemons struggle to maintain

their physical form in our material

realm, the immaterial realm is

anathema to mortal beings. For an

ordinary man to even look upon the

Warp is to jeopardize his sanity.

Starships are encased in protective

shields known as Gellar fields

generated by ancient engines from the

fabled Dark Age of Technology, and

these fields are all that prevent Warp

creatures from consuming those who

sail the swirling energies of the

Immaterium.49

Even the best Gellar

fields have been known to fail without

explanation, leaving crews to be turned

into gibbering maniacs and devotees of

dark and terrible influences.50

It is only thanks to the mutants known

as Navigators that mankind can travel

the Warp. Navigators possess a third

eye in the centre of their forehead

which enables them to look upon the

Warp.51

Every Navigator perceives the

Warp differently and any attempt to

describe what they see is futile for it

requires colours and shapes beyond

mortal comprehension.52

Navigators

are treated with fear and suspicion for

it is said that to look in a Navigators Warp Eye is to invite madness and

death.53

47

Codex: Chaos Daemons 48 Graham McNeill, A Thousand Sons 49

Warhammer 40,000, Fourth Edition 50


Space Fleet, White Dwarf #140 52


Space Fleet, White Dwarf 140

Conclusion Thus is the Eye of Terror a twisted realm of twisted creatures serving

twisted purposes. It is here that the

death of mankind waits, and here from

which our darkest urges march forth to

destroy us.

Notable Worlds and Sites Agripinaa An Adeptus Mechanicus Fortress World located south-east of

Cadia,54

Agripinaa produces munitions

for the Cadian Gate.55

Altansar This Craftworld is home to Maugan Ra, Exarch of the Dark

Reapers.56

He guided them in an

escape from the Eye of Terror during

the 13th

Black Crusade, though they are

now mistrusted by other Eldar due to

their lengthy time within the Eye.57

Altansar is now located near Terra.58

The Arx Gap An alternate exit from the Eye of Terror in the north-east,

59

the Arx Gap is less stable than the

Cadian Gate.60

Abaddon escaped

through here to start the Gothic War.61

Belial IV A Crone World in the east of the Eye on which can be found an

Eldar relic a black crystal sword

forged from the energy of death.62

Belis Corona A dead world on the Imperial side of the Cadian Gate which

supports massive naval dockyards.63

The Benighted A Daemon World in

the western Eye of Terror.64

54




Ibid 58




Battlefleet Gothic 62


Ibid 64

Warhammer 40,000, Fifth Edition

Cadia The Fortress World that secures the eponymous Gate. Home to

the famous Cadian regiments, and the

site of much of the action of the 13th

Black Crusade.65

Caliban (Ruins) The destroyed former home world of the Dark

Angels,66

on the northern edge of the

Eye.67

Chincare A rogue system68

where a

creature of Chaos was destroyed by

Inquisitor Eisenhorn.69

Citadels of Flesh A Daemon World

in the eastern Eye of Terror.70

Cylia A Daemon World near the

centre of the Eye.71

Dhegh A Daemon World near the

centre of the Eye.72

Eidolon A world in the northern Eye

of Terror.73

A former Eldar Maiden

World, now the site of constant battles

between the four Chaos powers.74

Fools Paradise An Imperial Guard

world of note,75

but also apparently the

site of Alpha-grade Daemonic

encounters.76

The Forbidden Vault A Daemon World in the western Eye of Terror.

77

Fulgrims World Daemon World of the Emperors Children Primarch and

65


The Unforgiven, Index Astartes I 67


Ibid 69



Ibid 72

Ibid 73


Bloodquest 75

Codex: Imperial Guard, Fifth Edition 76


Ibid

10

the goal of questing Emperors Children. Location unknown.

78

Helix A Daemon World near the centre of the Eye of Terror.

79

Il-Kaithe A Craftworld near the south-west of the Eye of Terror.

80

Constantly battling against the forces

of Chaos, their colours are purple and

green. They are famous for the talents

of their Bonesingers.81

Infinitum A Daemon World near the centre of the Eye.

82

Kathalon A Daemon World ruled by Vangashhagash the Ever-Bloody, it takes the form of a burning lake

crossed with bridges of iron and bone,

and is the site of an endless battle

between the forces of Khorne and

Tzeentch.83

78

Children of the Emperor, Index Astartes I 79


Ibid 81



Codex: Chaos Daemons

Kdasks Labyrinth A Daemon World in the south-west of the Eye of

Terror.84

LOquis A Crone World in the western Eye of Terror.

85

The Loathsome Orb A Daemon

World in the southern Eye of Terror.86

Mahrdouk A Guard world of note to the south-west of the Eye.

87

Medrengard Home to the Iron Warriors, Medrengard is a bleak slave

world in the north-east of the Eye88

and

is dominated by physically impossible

fortifications.89

It lies close enough to

the edge of the Eye that it can

sometimes be mapped as outside which may just be a product of the

Eyes unpredictability90

84


Ibid 86

Ibid 87



Bitter and Twisted, Index Astartes I 90

Warhammer 40,000, Fourth Edition

Medusa The home world of the Iron

Hands,91

Medusa lies on the north-west

edge of the Eye.92

Nemesis Tessera Site of a fortress built to guard against the denizens of

the Eye of Terror. Nemesis Tessera is

now under the control of the

Inquisition.93

The Perilous Stair A Daemon

World near the centre of the Eye.94

Plague Planet The new home of the Death Guard, it was remade in the

image of Barbarus by Mortarion.95

Sickness and pestilence are the norm,

and the clouds bring death, prompting

the population to pray to Nurgle for

relief.96

Planet of Sorcerers New home of the Thousand Sons. Saturated with

magic and volcanically active, it is

91

The Iron Hands, Index Astartes III 92




The Lost and the Damned, Index Astartes III 96

Codex: Chaos Space Marines, Third Edition, Mk II

The Eye of Terror Colrouphobic

11

covered in monolithic sorcerers towers, the tallest of which is the

Tower of the Cyclops.97

From the

Tower, Magnus can peer through the

Warp across the Imperium, directing

the raids of his Legion toward targets

which particularly interest him.98

Purgatrex A Daemon World in the north of the Eye of Terror.

99

Rubicon Straits An anomaly.100

Scelus A Dead World in the west of the Eye, Scelus is the former home of

the Sons of Malice.101

Sentinel Worlds Anomalous worlds in the south-west of the Eye,

quarantined due to alien artefacts.102

Sicarus Daemon world base of Lorgar and centre of Word Bearer

operations.103

97

Masters of Forbidden Knowledge, Index Astartes IV 98




Ibid 102


The Dark Apostles, Index Astartes IV

Skalathrax A freezing daemon world covered in black cities.

104 Site of

the battle of Skalathrax, where Khrns actions shattered the World Eaters and

Emperors Children and earned him the title The Betrayer.105

Thracian Primaris A Hive World of twenty-two billion with five Ramilies

Star Forts and eight million PDF

defending it.106

Capital of the Helican

sub-sector.107

Titan of Pain Daemon World near

the centre of the Eye of Terror.108

Tzix Daemon World in the south of

the Eye of Terror.109

Ulthw An Eldar Craftworld that wears the colours of mourning (black

and yellow) due to being trapped in

orbit around the Eye of Terror.110

Currently located near the western

edge of the Eye.111

104


Ibid 106




Ibid 110



Viest Plague world in the northern

Eye of Terror.112

Volscar A Guard world of note, almost within the southern Eye of

Terror.113

World of Immortal Sorrows Crone World ruled by Slaaneshi Daemon

Prince Elyssarsirath, where daemons torment the souls of fallen Eldar in a

massive golden forest beside rivers

made from the tears of Eldar

children.114

Xana II Renegade Forge World.

Produces the Hell Talon, Hell Blade,115

and the Idolator-class escort.116

Yme-Loc Eldar Craftworld near the

Eye of Terror.117

Known as talented

artists, they frequently make use of

heavy grav-tanks and Titans. Their

colours are grey and orange.118

112




Imperial Armour: Apocalypse 116



Ibid

12

Introduction It is the nature of Chaos that infighting

and rivalry keep the Chaos Space

Marines from permanently uniting.

However, once or twice in a

millennium, a truly great Champion of

Chaos arises in the Eye of Terror.

Through his implacable will and the

favour of the Ruinous Powers, this

Champion welds together an unsteady

alliance between the infernal regions of

the Eye of Terror and sallies forth

against the Imperium.

How the Champion brings such a

Black Crusade together will depend on his nature and his patron God. Some

use manipulation, others extortion,

while others dominate or intimidate.

Whatever the method, the Champion

must use all of the considerable powers

at his disposal.

Unsurprisingly for the servants of

Chaos, a Black Crusade can vary

wildly in terms of the size and

composition of Traitor forces.

Depending on the Champions goals and objectives, such a force can range

from a few hundred renegade Astartes

to a dark tide of countless thousands of

Chaos worshippers.

The Black Crusades of Abaddon the

Despoiler are some of the most

momentous events in the history of the

Imperium and yet, other than his two

most recent, relatively little is known

of these cataclysmic wars. Below is a

time line recording the known

Crusades of both Abaddon and several

other mighty chaotic war leaders.

The Death of a Primarch

c.30.M31 An unnamed Black Crusade that

threatened to engulf Cadia. Before the

Crusade could properly begin, Rogal

Dorn and three companies of Imperial

Fists assaulted the Chaos anchorage in

the Pelenos Belt and did enough

damage to avert the attack, with Dorn

making his last stand on the bridge of

the Chaos Battleship Sword of

Sacrilege.1

If this account refers to a general Black

Crusade, or specifically to one of

Abaddon's Black Crusades is unclear,

but a date is not given other than it was

'soon after' the disappearance of

Corax.2 The Primarch of the Raven

Guard is known to have disappeared

approximately one year after the 2nd

Founding (ca. 21.M31).3 Even if one

allows 50 to 60 years to be 'soon' in

Imperial terms, this would still place

this Black Crusade 700 years before

the date given for Abaddon's First

Black Crusade, suggesting that it must

have been a separate event.

Abaddons First Black

Crusade 781.M314 After years of inactivity following the

Scouring, Abaddon suddenly erupted

back into the Imperium at the head of a

diabolical horde.5 Since the Imperial

defences at the Cadian Gate were not

yet established he was able to easily

rampage around Imperial space.6

During this time Abaddon assaulted the

Tower of Silence on Uralan and, after

being led into the crypts below it by a

golden-skinned stranger, recovered the

daemon sword Drach'nyen.7 Abaddon

was eventually forced to withdraw

after a bitter battle against the

1 Emperors Fist, Index Astartes

Volume II 2 Ibid.

3 Claws of the Raven, Index Astartes

Volume IV 4 Codex: Chaos Space Marines, Third

Edition, Mk II 5 Ibid

6 Codex: Chaos Space Marines, Second

Edition 7 Ibid

The Black Crusades are the fury of Chaos unleashed upon the

Imperium. Led by fell champions, they strike down the

righteous and harry the godly. In this article, Strike Captain

Lysimachus unearths information on known Black Crusades

and provides some thoughts on their general nature.

The Eye of

Terror

The Black

Crusades

by

Strike

Captain

Lysimachus

13

combined strength of several Titan

Legions and Space Marine

Chapters.8

After this the Cadian Gate was

fortified, and the naval port of

Bellis Corona and the fortress on

Nemesis Tessera were created.9

Further to this, the Astartes

Praeses program was begun and

the Liber Astartes, compiled in

M.37, listed twenty Chapters that

were founded over the following

centuries.10

Abaddons Second Black

Crusade 597.M3211 This war lasted only five years,

but was stymied assaulting Cadia,

the path of attack reaching fewer

than 1000 light years from the Eye

of Terror.12

The Host of Tallomin

Undated13

This apparently took place during

the Age of Apostasy (though the

exact date is unknown) and was

led by a Daemon Prince named

Tallomin. The "Wolf Warriors"

were involved in Tallomins defeat and destruction.

14

Abaddons Third Black

Crusade 909.M3215 A longer campaign than

Abaddons previous Crusade, Traitor forces went about three-

quarters of the way from the Eye of

Terror towards Armageddon.16

8 Ibid

9 Ibid

10 Ibid

11 Codex: Chaos Space Marines, Third

Edition, Mk II 12

Ibid 13

Liber Chaotica: Khorne. Though undated, the Crusades mentioned in Liber Chaotica are presented in chronological order. 14


Ibid

Abaddons Fourth Black Crusade The Devastation of

ElPhanor c.001.M3417 Abaddon attacked and destroyed the

Citadel of Kromarch on El'Phanor.18

The Citadel only had a single gate three meters thick and made of

16

Ibid 17

Ibid. The Second Edition and first Third Edition Chaos Codices imply that this occurred during the first Black Crusade, but this source specifically dates it as the fourth. 18

Codex: Chaos Space Marines, Second Edition

adamantium. Impervious to

bombardment, it was destroyed by a

single blow from Drachnyen when Abaddon led a charge against it.

Though the Citadel fell in less than a

day, nine-tenths of Abaddons forces were killed in the attack and Abaddon

was repelled by the Imperial

counterattack.19

The Tide of Blood Undated Led by the Daemon Prince,

Doombreed, this Crusade was basically

a declaration of war against the

Adeptus Astartes.20

The Warhawks and

19

Ibid. 20

Liber Chaotica: Khorne

Black Legionaire Firenze

14

Venerators Chapters were "lost" as a

result of the Black Crusade, though

Doombreed was defeated.21

Its date is

unknown.

One source does date a Bloodtide to 034.M38,

22 but this may be a

recurrence of the phenomenon

associated with the Bloodthirster

Kajagganath,23 and its placement in the Liber Chaotica would suggest

otherwise.

The Black Crusade of Jihar

the Lacerator 599.M3624 Jihar the Lacerator was a follower of

Slaanesh whose very presence caused

the Warp to scream, driving those who

heard it insane.25

Jihar slipped through

21

Ibid 22


Codex: Grey Knights 24

Tactica Imperialis 25

Ibid

the Cadian Gate with only a small

retinue,26

but the swarms of mutants on

the worlds he targeted in Adriadas Gloom (to the south-west of the Eye)

provided him with many new recruits.

Forty-three Imperial Guard regiments

were involved,27

and the Crusade

ended only when the 13th

Mordant

Regiment slew Jihar in battle only to be subject to Exterminatus due to

concerns of Chaotic taint.28

Abaddons Fifth Black

Crusade 723.M3629 This attack reached approximately

15,000 light years from the Eye.30

26

Ibid 27

Ibid 28

Ibid 29


Ibid

Abaddons Sixth Black

Crusade 901.M3631 This Crusade took a similar path to the

Fifth, and came even closer to Fenris.32

Abaddons Seventh Black Crusade The Ghost War

811.M3733

Chaos fleets flooded out past Cadia but

then disappeared, giving the Crusade

its name. Raids continued for years,

and Abaddon succeeded in reclaiming

the artefact known as the Hand of

Darkness.34

Imperial records of this Crusade are

somewhat confusing. One star map

shows the attack path going almost due

east from the Eye, out to as far as

20,000 light years away, the furthest

31

Ibid 32

Ibid 33

Ibid. 34

Codex: Chaos Space Marines, Second Edition

Marines Exemplar engage Hellaynneas Horde Lord Tybault

15

from the Eye that Abaddon ever struck,

but this same source includes the Battle

of Mackan, a planet south of the Eye.35

At Mackan, Abaddon led a charge of

Khorne Berzerkers into a heavily

fortified Blood Angels position and

although only a handful of Berzerkers

survived, they overran the position and

the Blood Angels were unable to

recover the bodies of their comrades.36

Abaddons Eighth Black

Crusade 999.M3737 Little is known of this Crusade except

that it only reached about 500 light

years south-southwest of the Eye.38

The Dominion of Fire Mid-

M3839

Angron led an army of fifty thousand

Berzerkers out of the Eye of Terror and

they rampaged over three dozen star

systems for nearly two hundred years.40

They were followed by numerous other

warbands and it took four Space

Marine Chapters, two Titan Legions

and over 30 Imperial Guard regiments

around seven centuries to cleanse all

the worlds across the 70 Sectors that

fell during this time.41

Abaddons Ninth Black

Crusade 573.M3842 The only known engagement of this

Crusade is recorded as taking place in

35


Codex: Chaos Space Marines, Third Edition, Mk I 37


Ibid 39

Codex: Chaos Space Marines, Fourth Edition. This campaign is not specifically titled a Black Crusade, but is significantly larger than the the First War for Armageddon, which is titled as such, suggesting it should be included. 40

Ibid 41

Ibid 42


165.M37,43

when Abaddon ravaged the

world of Antecanis in order to deprive

the Imperial shipyards at Cancephalus

of workers.44

Abaddons Tenth Black Crusade The Conflict of

Helica 001.M3945 The tenth Black Crusade flooded out

on the opposite side of the Eye to the

Cadian Gate, attacking Helica and the

capitol world, Thracian Primaris.46

The

Chaos assault was fatally delayed when

the Iron Warriors attacked the Iron

Hands on Medusa.47

Abaddons Eleventh Black

Crusade 301.M3948 This attack headed east of the Eye, but

failed to make it as far as the

Seventh.49

Abaddons Twelfth Black Crusade The Gothic War

139-160.M4150

Abaddon and his forces sneaked out of

the Eye of Terror via the Arx Gap,

after a three year campaign of raids to

silence Imperial monitoring stations.51

He then attacked the Gothic Sector

from his flagship, the Planetkiller.52

Using the artefacts the Hand of

Darkness and the Eye of Night,53

he

was able to capture and corrupt

Blackstone Fortresses, of which three

in concert were able to turn the

43

Warhammer 40,000, Fifth Edition. Since it is contradicted by at least one source, which is consistent with several other sources itself, this date may well be in error. 44

Ibid 45


Ibid 47

Ibid 48

Ibid 49

Ibid 50

Ibid 51

Ibid 52


Ibid

Tarantis star nova, destroying the

whole system.54

The Black Crusade ended at

Schindelgeist, although Abaddon fled

with two of the Blackstones.55

It took

eight years to finally cleanse the

Gothic Sector of the last raiders and

traitors.56

The First Armageddon War 444.M41

57

This Crusade was led by Angron and

was repelled only by the combined

efforts of Logan Grimnar of the Space

Wolves58

and a full Company of the

fabled Grey Knights.59

Abaddons Thirteenth Black

Crusade 999.M4160 The most recent of Abaddons attacks on the Imperium opened with an

outbreak of plague zombies spread by

derelict ships launched from the Eye of

Terror.61

These were followed by

Chaos Space Marine raids, growing in

force and coupled with an outbreak of

heretical cults lead by a figure

matching the description of Cypher.62

The full force of the Cadian Regiments

was mustered on Cadia in preparation

for what seemed an inevitable

onslaught. This assembly turned into

open warfare when the Volscani

regiment attacked their brothers, killing

much of the Cadian command

structure.63

When the Chaotic forces finally arrived

in strength, the Imperial Navy fought a

54





Liber Chaotica: Khorne 59



Ibid 62

Ibid 63

Ibid

16

desperate battle which only

delayed the inevitable. The

Chaos forces established

themselves in the Cadian

system, and have yet to be

dislodged.64

The forces of Chaos came

close to breaking the

Cadian Gate and devastated

the surrounding systems,

including the total

destruction of Macharia, a

world in the Cadian system.

This Crusade is still

ongoing, in that the games timeline has not yet

advanced past 999.M41.65

The Black Crusade of

Vulkarth Undated This crusade evidently

involved the Adeptus

Astartes and multiple

incursions, but beyond that

nothing is known.66

Analysis There are five general

points of interest which can be drawn

from what we know about Black

Crusades (some of which Games

Workshop has been kind enough to

explicitly tell us).

First, and most obvious, is that not all

Black Crusades are led by Abaddon.

Indeed, they do not always seem to be

led by people (or things) of particular

influence or note sometimes a bunch of Chaos adherents just decide to go on

a rampage.

Second, the Crusades vary in scale.

The First War for Armageddon and

Abaddons Tenth Black Crusade targeted single systems, while the

Dominion of Fire and several of

64

Ibid 65


Codex: Space Marines, Third Edition

Abaddons Black Crusades ravaged massive tracts of the Imperium.

Third, the Black Crusades vary widely

in type. The Gothic War was chiefly

focused on naval engagements, and

seemed to rely mostly on raiding rather

than attempting to seize territory. The

First War for Armageddon focused on

attacking a single planet on its surface.

And many of the other Black Crusades

were total wars involving planetary and

interplanetary warfare.

Fourth, the Black Crusades can vary in

composition Angrons excursions seem to be dominated by the forces of

Khorne (unsurprisingly), while

Abaddons Crusades are more

cosmopolitan.

Finally, the Black Crusades seem to

vary in organization. The Dominion of

Fire was as much an infestation as a

coordinated military campaign.

Meanwhile, the 13th

Black Crusade

was dedicated to pursuing specific

objectives. Even the organized

campaigns have disorganized hangers-

on along for the easy ride out of the

Eye. Of course, this is Chaos.

Organized and under the control of one

leader would defeat the point.

Strike Captain Lysimachus is a much-

noted presence in the Liber Astartes,

and serves as a Lexicanium in the

Librarium.

Achaeus the Kinslayer, Warlord of Khorne Cheexsta

17

Introduction There are two tutorials in this article. Despite their marked similarities, there are

some notable distinctions, so both have been included. horrains tutorial seems to produce Beastmarines with an emphasis on the marine (as befitting his loyalists), while Firefighter Xs produces ones with an emphasis on beast (as befitting his Khornates). Firefighter Xs uses more tools and parts and is somewhat more complicated, while horrains is simpler. And, of course, it is very possible to blend both approaches.

Beastmen, for those unfamiliar with them, are genetically-divergent humans who

are fiercely loyal to the Imperium, but due to their appearance are treated

with suspicion. And, of course, there are enough renegade Beastmen to further

confuse matters. Though not very bright, loyalist Beastmen are dedicated and

tough (much like Ogryns), driven to atone for their deformities through service to

the Emperor. They are technically not mutants, since their genetic quirks breed

true, but rather are abhumans like Ogryns or Ratlings. However, they are still more

variable in form than those two subspecies.

Beastmen were originally available as part of Imperial Guard armies, and were

(briefly) available again thanks to a White Dwarf article in third edition that

offered alternate doctrines to represent genetically enhanced (or deviant) Guard

regiments. They also made appearances in the ranks of the Lost and the Damned

(as goat-headed mutants).

As horrain put it: Basically, these are Beastmen in power armour, but due to the nature of their existence they have to salvage the majority of their war gear and

thus look pretty beaten-up. Glad we got that clear.

horrains Tutorial For this you will need:

-A complete Beastman model, either a Gor or Bestigor

-A complete Space Marine from the belt up (head, torso halves, arms and

backpack).

-Additional gubbins for added excitement and character

-A razor saw, knife or other cutting implement and plastic cutters

The Eye of

Terror

Beast

Marines

From the

Work of

Horrain

and

Firefighter

X

Beastmen may have fallen into obscurity in modern 40K, but many

older players still remember them, and they still loom large in Fantasy.

In this series of tutorials, horrain and Firefighter X created excellent

techniques for making power-armoured Beastmen surely some of the

most fearsome denizens of the Eye of Terror.

Horrains Beastmarines do their best to look intimidating. And succeed.

18

Step 1: Once you have your sup plies collected, you need to cut the Beastman in half, just below the nipple (see

picture).

When I do this step I like to use a razor saw, since it lets

me be quite accurate about where I make the cut. If you

use a knife, be careful the plastic is pretty thick and

you risk doing yourself an injury. [Firefighter X used a

Dremel cutting blade. An effective option, if riskier

Ed].

Step 2:

Once you

have the

top of the

torso cut

off, you'll

want to remove what remains of its overly-

pronounced shoulders. For this I used a pair of

plastic cutters.

Step 3:

Next you want to start shaping the back of the body

section. The basic goal is to round off the back so

from the models belt it goes straight up, and curves in to meet the front of the model toward the top. The

idea is to make a rounded ball joint similar to that on

the standard Space Marine legs. Leave the front of the model

alone for now.

Step 4:

Next up is to grab a standard marine torso, both front and

back. We need to cut off the belt and the stomach, but leave

the chest. This is because the Beastman model already has a

belt, and two looks weird. [But so stylish Ed]

The front of the torso should end up looking like

the image to the left. Note that youll need to cut the back torso part as well as the front.

Once you have your torso shaped you can start

trimming the body's front section to match the torsos shape. This step is pretty hard to capture in photos the process is basically trimming the body until it fits

smoothly with the torso. The end result should look

something like the image to the right.

Step 5:

Now once that's all done you can go ahead and glue

the body to its base and glue the torso together and

then to the body. Because the marine torso

is largely untouched, the standard Marine arms and

backpack should fit with no issue. For this model, I used regular arms from the Space Wolves

sprue, but you can also use arms from either the Gor or Bestigor kits, as the scale between the

two sets of arms is pretty much identical.

Step One: Before (L) and After (R)

Step Two

Step Three

Step Four

Step Four

Step Five

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Once you have attached your arms and backpack your model should look similar to this.

Step 6:

Now we run into our first problem you'll notice a large gap between the models spine, and the backpack. We can't leave our Beastmarine in this state, because its pretty ugly (and/or comical, depending on your outlook on life). This is where the extra credit gubbins come in handy.

Personally I like to glue a shield in this gap, as it looks pretty cool, and helps bring them back to

their Fantasy roots. One of my Wolf Guards is

carrying his combi-weapon in this void. You could

also use a variety of pouches or grenades.

In this case I have used a square shield from the WFB

goblin kit.

Step 7:

Now the last stage, here we need to give this guy a

head. On the Gor kit you'll notice a bunch of different

horns, unfortunately using all of them is pretty tricky,

as there are two main types, the straight horns, and

the ones shaped like rounded goat horns.

The problem with the rounded horns is that they are tricky to fit due to the marine

shoulder pads, so I tend to not use them unless the pose allows. You'll more

than likely need to only use the straight horns.

This guy is the leader for my Long Fang squad, so I have used Bestigor parts over

the standard Gor.

You should now have a Beastmarine. Congratulations, and thanks for reading.

horrain maintains a website at www.horrain.com. This was his first tutorial.

Step Six

Step Seven

horrains Beastmarines

20

Firefighter Xs Tutorial My idea originally came from horrains tutorial. I took his ideas and expanded on

them, changing some things and making

them my own.

Tools:

- Dremel with cutting blade, grinder, &

sander wheel.

-Super glue & Zap Kicker

-double sided file (flat/rounded)

-clippers/cutters (heavy and normal)

-pin vice (for drilling)

-pin rod

-X-Acto knife with new blade

Parts: -Bestigor Champion body (any Bestigor

body will do)

-Bestigor arms & axe haft

-Berzerker torso, shoulder pads,

backpack, & bolt pistol.

-Ork Nob Choppa arm

-Ravenwing Banner flag

-Wooden toothpick (glaive handle)

Step 1: Using the Dremel, saw the

Bestigor body in half, about

1-2 mm above the belt line.

It should end up looking

like this:

Step 2:

Using your clippers, file,

and knife trim down the

rest of the waistline. Be

careful here get it as close to the top of the Bestigor's

belt as you can. Also remove any fantasy items from the model that you don't want

(like pouches and weapons that are moulded onto the mini). Pay special attention to

the Bestigor's leg and armour details. You want to preserve them.

Tools

Parts

Step One

Step Two

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Step 3:

Glue the Berzerker torso together and, using

your knife, remove the entire "belt" from the

model. Leave the round Khorne icon at the

front of the model.

Step 4:

Use the Dremel grinding bit to dig out the

rest of the Bestigors waistline and dig a groove in the front of the belt buckle (to

make room for the Khorne icon you saved

on the Berzerker torso earlier). Follow this

up with the Dremel sander bit. The goal here

is to get the waistline smooth and flat.

Step 5:

You should be left with two halves that look

similar to this after you clean up the mini.

[Firefighter Xs original tutorial suggested

choosing either Marine arms or Beastman

arms. This tutorial assumes you will use

Beastman arms the procedure for Marine

arms is identical to that in horrains tutorial

Ed.]

Dryfit the Beastman arms to make sure they fit,

then drill out holes in the Bestigor hands and

clip away the axe handle.

Step 6:

Position them on whatever you will be using for

use for the new glaive handle. Use clippers or a

Dremel sanding bit to cut away the shoulder pads to make room for attaching the Berzerker pads. Follow the mould line on

the inside of the Bestigor arm when trimming.

Step Three

Step Four

Step Five (A)

Step Five (B)

Step Six

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Step 7: At this point use your clippers and remove the ponytail from the Bestigor head.

Step 8: Clip the chainaxe head and pommel away from the hand,

preserving the finger details. Drill out a hole for the

toothpick to slide through the whole hand. Attach the

pommel to the end of the new handle.

Step 9:

Position the axe arm & the bolt pistol arm where you

want them. Glue on the

axe head. Drill the pistol

barrel holes out (it

pleases Khorne, and you

dont want a cranky Blood God). If you have

an uneven join between the Berzerker torso and the

Bestigor legs, use some bitz (such as pouches or

holsters) to mask it. Glue the horns to the Bestigor

head, attach the backpack, attach the head, and go

collect some skulls!

Firefighter X is a keen World Eaters player. He

reconciles killing, maiming and burning with

firefighting through a firm separation of his work and

home lives.

Step Seven

Step Eight

Step Nine

Some Other Beastmarines

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Introduction Blessings of the dark gods or the

stigmata of the damned; many and

varied are the gifts that those in the service of Chaos may find bestowed

upon them, either as a result of

exposure to the Warp in places such as

the Eye of Terror, or more directly as a

sign of their patron gods favour.

Dangerous are the roads these men

walk, for while the gifts of the gods

may seem bountiful, the denizens of

the Immaterium ultimately care not for

their mortal playthings. One mutation

often leads to more, and they are often

as random as they are beneficial.

Countless aspiring champions of Chaos

have ended their existence as one of

the pitiful, mewling messes of flesh

known as Chaos Spawn, their bodies

overcome by the changes wrought

upon by their patron.

Nevertheless mutations are signs of

favour and promise, and for the most

part are welcomed. To the servants of

the Emperor of Mankind, however,

there is no clearer indication of how far

a man has fallen from His light than

the mark of the mutant.

Gifts of the Gods Mutations are generally purely

cosmetic in current editions of 40K,

and so with a few exceptions they will

have no influence on the way

miniatures are used in game. However

they are still a great way to

individualise the miniatures in your

army as well as allowing you to let

your imagination, converting and

painting skills shine.

For those looking for the quickest and

easiest ways to model mutations, kit-

bashing and cut-and-paste converting

are probably the best ways to go.

Quick and easy should not be

interpreted as less impressive, though,

as it is now quite easy to combine kits

from various armies in both the 40K

and Fantasy ranges produced by

Games Workshop. For example; the

Chaos Mutations sprue, the Possessed

Chaos Space Marine sprues and even

parts from the Chaos Spawn kit can be

used to bestow heads, arms, tentacles

and even legs and torsos touched by

the Warp upon your models with

minimal effort.

Some cool mutations garnered from a variety of sources are described below,

as an indication of how easy they will

be to create; they have been given

difficulty ratings using the following

scale:

Easy: These mutations are generally

quick and easy to create and require

little modelling skill to achieve.

Intermediate: These mutations require

a little more time and patience to

produce, generally due to the

involvement of green stuff or painting

techniques. As with all hobby

techniques, using green stuff may take

a little practice to get right.

Advanced: These mutations are likely

to be the most labour intensive or

complicated ones, although that

shouldnt dissuade you from giving them a try.

Safety Note: Creating many of these

mutations require the use of a hobby

knife, sculpting tool, razor saw or

hobby drill. Care should be taken when

using sharp tools of this nature and all

cuts should be made on a stable,

protected and level surface, away from

the body.

Crusty Armour Easy often associated with the followers of Nurgle, even ceramite

plating is not immune to the corrosive

The Eye of

Terror

Mutatis

Mutandis:

A Guide to

Creating

Mutations

by

Pig of

Sparta

Mutations are the gifts and curses of the Chaos Gods. However,

the infinite variety and twisted imagination of daemonically

inspired physical deformity can be somewhat tricky for mere

mortals to accurately portray. Pig of Sparta takes on this

challenge with a collection of mutation tutorials and some

discussion of inspiration for great mutations.

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and decaying effects of his virulent

contagions.

This is a very easy mutation to show:

apply small amounts of super glue to

the miniature in a random pattern,

before dipping it in some modelling

sand. Tap off the excess sand and

allow the glue to dry before

undercoating.

Horned Armour Easy Many a Champion of Chaos has been pleased to find bestial horns

emerging from his body.

To recreate this mutation on your

miniatures, take the part of the

miniature you desire to have a horn

burst forth from and drill a hole in it

using a pin vice. Score the edges of the

hole using a modelling knife, before

inserting a trimmed down horn of your

choice.

Skull Head Easy disturbing to say the least. This warriors flesh has peeled from his face and head, leaving nought but a

grinning skull exposed. All the better

to terrify his enemies.

A very easy mutation to effect, simply

select a skull you like the look of and

using guitar string, green stuff, parts

from the Tomb Kings or Undead

fantasy ranges or even scrap sprue,

create a spinal column neck to join the skull to the torso of your miniature.

Alternatively you could use green stuff

to sculpt a hood or cowl to allow the

skull to float disconcertingly in mid-

air. You could also use small balls of

green stuff to add eyeballs for a truly

disturbing look. If youre confident with green stuff you could try sculpting

flames coming from the eye sockets or

even the whole head.

Boils and Sores Intermediate those who are infected by Nurgles plagues often exhibit symptoms of their maladies in the form

of weeping sores and boils.

Both of these mutations begin as small

balls of green stuff, placed on the area

of the miniature that you wish them to

erupt from, but they are made using

different methods.

For boils, use a sculpting tool to divide

the ball of green stuff into three parts.

Then blend the edges of the green stuff

into the surface below, before using a

paper clip or other thin, pointed object

to poke a small hole in roughly the

centre of each boil. You can even

burst some or all of the boils by using the paper clip to open them up from the

hole in the centre.

To make sores, smooth the green stuff

onto the surface below before using the

paper clip to make uneven holes in it.

Soul Armour Intermediate while not strictly a mutation, suits of armour worn by the

followers of the dark gods have been

observed to contain what appear to be

the bound souls of those slain by the

wearer, allowing him to enjoy their

torment for as long as he lives.

To bind souls into a suit of armour, begin by smoothing a layer of green

stuff onto the areas you wish them to

be visible. Once you have done this,

use a pointed sculpting tool, paper clip

or the tip of a hobby knife to create a

pair of eyes, followed by a mouth in

suitable tortured expressions. Simply

repeat until the whole of the area is

filled with tortured souls.

Daemonic Visage Intermediate either through possession or exposure to the warping

nature of Chaos, the faces of many

warriors take on aspects, features and

skin tones of their patrons daemons.

This mutation can be achieved either

using a head from one of the various

types of daemon miniatures

(Bloodletters or Daemonettes will be

Skull Head GooseDaMoose

Skull Head Pig of Sparta

Sores Fallout1983

Boils Fallout1983

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the easiest to use) or using the heads

from the Possessed Marine sprue.

Alternatively you could use one of the

many helmetless Space Marine or

Chaos Space Marine heads, or possibly

even those from the Warriors of Chaos

or Chaos Marauder frames. Simply

paint the desired head to reflect the

miniature's allegiance. For example red

tones would signify Khorne, pallid

tones Slaanesh, rotting greens for

Nurgle and blue/grey tones for

Tzeentch.

Bejewelled Armour/Flesh Intermediate most commonly associated with the followers of

Slaanesh, dazzling gemstones emerge

from armour plates and flesh.

Place a small ball of green stuff in the

place where you want the gem to be.

Then, using a sculpting tool; smooth

the edges of the ball into the surface

beneath to create a bump.

Next, using the tip of a sharp hobby

knife, draw the shape of the gem into the green stuff. Hold the knife at an

angle from the centre of the gem

outwards so that you push the

surrounding armour up slightly, this

also helps to produce a rounder shape

to the gem as well.

Finally, use the knife to make some

cuts into the armour or flesh to make it

look as though the gemstone is

bursting through it.

Beast Marines Occasionally the body of a Chaos

worshipper may be completely

reformed by his patron god, taking on a

twisted parody of both beast and man.

horrains Beast Marines have been discussed elsewhere in this issue, but

they arent the limit of the possible mutations available.

The Fantasy Skaven range holds some

interesting possibilities Stormvermin and Rat Ogres both have potential.

Likewise, the Lizardmen range has

Sauruses, Kroxigors and Salamanders.

The Ork and Goblin range can provide

deformed and twisted arms by the

score, and the various Undead ranges

can provide lots and lots of rot and

putrefaction.

In 40K, the Dark Eldar range is also

adding more strange and twisted

creatures to serve the Haemonculi, and

those could serve equally well as

mutated servants of Chaos. Kroot are

sufficiently alien, and Vespids even

more so both would provide good mutation fodder, especially the Vespids

with their insectoid features. The

Tyranid range also offers possibilities

(especially older Tyranids).

Sources of Inspiration The above examples are but a tiny

fraction of ways you can personalise

your Chaos Space Marines with

mutations. Further inspiration can be

found in a variety of places: from the

novels of the Black Library, to the

Warhammer 40,000 Rogue Trader

Rulebook (with its notorious random

mutation tables); from the hallowed

halls of the Bolter and Chainsword to

an internet image search.

Many feel that for sheer alien

twistedness there has been little to

match the models of the Rogue Trader

era. While they can be hard to come by

in these times, the Stuff of Legends

website provides pictures from old GW

catalogues that can provide inspiration.

Old White Dwarfs are also a good

source of ideas.

One thing to remember is that

mutations dont have to be big no-eyes is just as effective a mutation as a

giant daemon head or a tail. Another is

that mutations dont just have to be organic becoming living metal or stone is still weird and chaotic. A

remarkable amount can be done with

colours alone bright yellow people simply arent normal.

Keep your mind open and youll be amazed at how much you can do with

simple concepts, skills, and tools.

Ultimately, by its very nature Chaos is

random but inspired. The only real

limit to mutating models is your

imagination.

Pig of Sparta is a noted modeller and

painter on the B&C. He lives in the

UK, and enjoys long walks on the edge

of the abyss in which the Devourer of

Worlds dwells.

Bejewelled Armour John Thompson

Daemonic Visage Pig of Sparta

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Introduction In the wake of the successes of the

Great Crusade the Imperium of Man

was born. It seemed like an age of new

hope, and yet it very nearly died in its

infancy as it was torn apart by the civil

war that would become known as the

Horus Heresy. Under Warmaster Horus

fully half of the Adeptus Astartes, the

Emperors champions of mankind, fell to Chaos. In the aftermath of the

almighty siege of Terra the battered

remnants of the Traitor Legions fled to

the great Warp storm known as the Eye

of Terror.

Seven years after the death of Horus, in

accordance with the Ultramarine

Primarch Roboute Guillimans teachings in the Codex Astartes, the

old Legions were broken into Chapters.

Each would be limited to one thousand

marines and would be completely

autonomous. Even if an individual

Chapter was corrupted, any internecine

struggle would be weighted in favour

of the Imperium since the vast majority

of Space Marines would be untainted.1

The galaxy is a vast place and the

lumbering mechanisms of the Adeptus

Administratum have been known to

misplace records of entire armies and

planets for years or even centuries. For

many in the Imperium the notion that

an entire Chapter of the celebrated and

heroic Space Marines could renege on

their oaths of allegiance is virtually

unthinkable. When it does happen, no

doubt the Inquisition and other Space

Marine Chapters swiftly limit the

spread of information. For this reason

no complete records exist, but secret

Inquisitorial archives suggest fully 50

Chapters of the Adeptus Astartes have

1 Codex: Space Marines, Fifth Edition

succumbed to Chaos since the Heresy.2

This suggests that almost five per cent

of marine Chapters have turned

renegade. Whilst this is a huge

improvement on the Heresy, it still

seems surprisingly high. Given that

Marines are meant to be heavily

indoctrinated, the resources invested in

their creation and the threat that they

pose if they turn renegade, it may seem

surprising to some that the Imperium

continues to support the existence of

Space Marines when approximately

one Chapter in twenty will rebel.

Enemies Within What must be borne in mind is the

extent of the threat of Chaos and its

corrupting influence. We have no solid

figures but, given their far lower level

of indoctrination and discipline plus

their wider experienc

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