The biggest change is the addition of a Menace tracker to add a sense of urgency to your endeavours – as you play through missions, the enemy grows stronger and resources become more scarce. Ambulls and Borewyrm Infestations are perfect for narrative or open play, though we’ve included points if that’s how you like to balance your games. With the exception of Port Maw, each sub-sector was based upon the location of a Blackstone Fortress, which functioned as the primary naval base for the sub-sector. These wrecks themselves are a tempting prize for scavengers, as they contain ancient wonders and weaponry. The port of Precipice has been set up close to the fortress and it’s from here that adventurers launch their quests.

His older brother Dorg broke him out of his cell and they made their way to the Blackstone Fortress where they have both been in high demand as bodyguards. Indeed, surviving reports indicate that one of the Blackstones that appeared in the Cadia System during the initial phase of the 13th Black Crusade was inhabited and controlled by a daemonic presence of a magnitude far greater than anything yet encountered. Abaddon the Despoiler first learned of the existence of the Blackstone Fortresses and their potential power at some point in the 40th Millennium. If you’re looking to make some killer combos and fancy getting two explorers in one, pick these guys.The Blackstone Fortress is more than just a weapon, however, it is a cache of archeotech and artefacts from bygone ages. One of these massive battle stations, the Will of Eternity, was used by the Despoiler as an artificial meteor to destroy the defences of the Fortress World of Cadia in a massive kinetic strike at the height of the 13th Black Crusade. Thus perished the Taranis System, its defenders slaughtered just as surely as if by a blow from the Dark Gods themselves. The colossal Blackstone Fortresses represented a pinnacle of technology never since equalled by Mankind. A single Blackstone had the power to obliterate a planet; three working in concert possessed the raw might to destroy a star.

After starting his career writing about music, films and video games for various places, Matt spent many years as a technology, PC and video game journalist before writing about tabletop games as the editor of Tabletop Gaming magazine. He’s also able to ‘motivate’ any Traitor Guardsmen that are nearby with his unique action Execute the Weak. It became the site of fierce fighting between the Primarch's troops and the forces of Chaos when the Fallen Angel Cypher and the Harlequin Shadowseer Sylandri Veilwalker freed Guilliman and his remaining forces and led them into the interior of the fortress where a gate into the Webway allowed the Imperials to escape.These points are usually generated by slaying enemies – Grekh is more likely to gather them than any other explorer, representing his ability to consume foes and gain their knowledge! Attempts to date them vary massively between seventeen thousand years old and three hundred thousand years. As mentioned above, during Abaddon's 12th Black Crusade, the Gothic War, all six known Blackstone Fortresses controlled by the Imperium were lost, with two captured by the servants of Chaos and four destroyed utterly. It was during the horrors of the Gothic War -- the twelfth of Abaddon the Despoiler's notorious Black Crusades -- that the Blackstone Fortresses were awoken and their hidden capabilities as weapons of mass destruction made manifest. You’ve got the guns, you’ve got the close combat units, but your army is still missing a certain something – panache.