30K: What You Need

As 30K, also known as The Horus Heresy, gained a lot of popularity in the last few months, I thought it might be a good idea to give people a few pointers as to where to start, etc. – and seeing that I'm only interested in painting 30K miniatures right now, this might be a good time to start expanding this blog into the 31st millenium. So yeah, you can expect to see more articles like this one in the future.

Say you want to start with 30K. What would you need?

Stompa Da Gitcrusher

A proper Waaargh! needs Gargants, and this is the Grin Scorcherz first foray into these giant walkers. Build by Big Mek Magshak Nobgrot (who often hitches a ride in its belly), Da Gitcrusher is an unmistakeable sign for a forming Waaargh!

Da Gitcrusher is still pretty much untested and hasn't seen much action. Still, Magshak and Skumsnaga both have high hopes in this titanic war machine, and Da Gitcrusher will surely become a staple of the warband's front line.

Ironclad Dreadnought Tarlow

A former Sergeant of the 3rd Company, Robert Tarlow was killed in action fighting the Orks of the Audacia Sector. The Captain clinged to live, however, and was promptly transferred into a Dreadnought sarcophagus.

Tarlow is usually deployed via Drop Pod, mainly to disable enemy artillery and similar entrenched positions. Thus far he has only suffered minor damage despite frequently being part of the vanguard.

Audacia Sector: Demophon

Encircled by three warp storms at the same time which formed in a matter of days in 646.M41, travel to and from Demophon is at some times highly dangerous and at others literally impossible. In addition, the planet is not at its recorded place, but rather appears in different systems at seemingly random times, not unlike a Space Hulk. This is the reason Demophon is not recorded on the sector map.

The status of this world is uncertain. While rumors exist that the former Imperial World has turned into a Daemon World, all accounts of this are highly suspect. The Adeptus Mechanicus of Hephaes has been chasing after Demophon for years, but has thus far been unsuccessful in examining the mysterious world, as it's impossible to get reasonably close by warp travel thanks to the three warp storms around Demophon.

The few reliable sightings over the centuries tell of no obvious signs of change to the world; from afar Demophon looks like an ordinary world.

As of 996.M41, Demophon seems to have returned to the Audacia Sector for good – but it's not the same planet that vanished in 646.M41 … it's a much older version of the planet! For some reason and in some non-explicable way the planet has returned to the early days of the 31th Millenium, more precisely: back to the latter days of the Horus Heresy. A large contingent of the Death Guard was tasked with storming the original recruitment planet of the Imperial Fists in this sector, to cut off any potential reinforcements for the besieged forces on Terra. The Imperial Fist's fortress on Demophon was only minimally staffed, as most forces have been ordered back to Terra to defend humanity's home world already, and the Death Guard was about to wipe the Imperial Fists from this planet. A sudden Exterminatus-like event seemingly eradicated all life from the world in an instant, and the world was left unpopulated for millenia. The state of the world seems to have returned just prior to this event, leaving both Imperial Fists and Death Guards to continue their fight. 

As of yet it's uncertain what this sizable force of Death Guards, ripped from the 31th Millenium, will do in the 41th Millenium ...

Audacia Sector Wikia

While this blog remains active, we've also opened a Wikia for the Audacia Sector. In the future we will post all new articles in both places – the wikia might be easier to navigate, though.

Updates and changes

Just a quick note, because there hasn't been that much new content:

There are many new characters and units ready, they just need proper photos. Among those are: the rest of the Imperial Fists and Ork armies (including a Stompa), and the foundation of an AdMech army (including an allied Imperial Knight).

Furthermore, we've recently started collecting and painting 30K Legions: Space Wolves (of course), White Scars, and Death Guard, the latter of which already has three Contemptor Dreadnoughts and roughly 40 Marines ready.

With that, we'll also talk about the Audacia Sector in the 31st Millenium – and a way to bring at least some Legions to the 41st Millenium ...

So stay tuned, we're on it.

Hephaes

While Hephaes is classified as a Dwarf Planet, it nevertheless sports nearly Terra-like gravity, thanks to its massive lead core. Why this barren world has an atmosphere nobody knows, and the initial Explorator fleet tasked with solving this mystery in M34 soon grew to a full-fledged Forge World, albeit a minor one under the direct control of Mars.

As long as the Adeptus Mechanicus has controlled Hephaes, the Orks of the sector have remained a constant nuisance. Recently the threat has grown more dire, and the various Chaos incursions in the sector also showed an interest in gaining Hephaes abundand metallic ressources and production facilities.

Hive Fleet Leviathan has ignored Hephaes thus far, as the Tyranids have attacked more plentiful bounty, because the planet lacks biomass. The local AdMech command is nevertheless preparing for an all-out Tyranid attack, because the Hive Mind won't ignore Hephaes strategic importance forever.

To combat the various threats, the Skitarii and Cult Mechanicus forces have been bolstered by Imperial Knights of House Taranis.