From Band of Brothers to SAS Rogue Heroes: Inspired Kill Team Missions

There’s something timeless about small squads of soldiers through a larger conflict — tense, personal, and filled with moments of heroism and chaos. That’s what makes shows like Band of Brothers and SAS: Rogue Heroes so compelling. These are exactly the kind of stories that Warhammer 40K: Kill Team excels at telling.

In Kill Team, every operative matters. You’re not moving faceless troops around a battlefield — you’re guiding a handful of specialists, each with their own role, personality, and fate. Which makes it the perfect sandbox to reimagine iconic World War II small unit missions with a sci-fi twist.

Let’s look at how you can take inspiration from Band of Brothers and SAS: Rogue Heroes and turn those classic moments of grit and brotherhood into thrilling tabletop missions.

1. Brecourt Manor Assault (Band of Brothers)

Theme: Tactical problem-solving under fire.
The Scene: Easy Company (episode two) assaults a heavily fortified German artillery position, using initiative and teamwork to neutralize each gun in turn. In fact, this assault was so successful that they still teach it to officer candidates at West Point today.

Kill Team Mission Hook: Your squad must disable a chain of heavy weapon emplacements. Each emplacement requires a different skill test or demolition action to destroy.

  • Objective: Destroy all three artillery emplacements before the end of the battle.
  • Faction Fit:
    • Attacker: Veteran Guardsmen, Intercessors, or Pathfinders.
    • Defender: Traitor Guard, Heretic Astartes, or Necrons.

It’s a mission that rewards smart use of cover, movement, and individual heroics — exactly what Kill Team is built for.

One thing I like about this mission is that you can set up the terrain to reflect the real engagement. Do away with the balanced terrain set ups suggested in the rulebook and give this a go. You don’t have to go with Normandy bocage either, why not set up your more grim dark terrain in a similar configuration.

If you’re worried about balance, why not play the game twice. Switching attacker defender roles each time will a fun experience.

Why not set up your battlefield to reflect the real engagement?

2. Desert Airfield Ambush (SAS: Rogue Heroes)

Theme: Guerilla warfare and improvisation.
The Scene: The SAS (episode 6) raids enemy airfields deep in the desert, using speed and shock tactics to devastating effect.

Kill Team Mission Hook:
One team is guarding a space port with specific objectives (spaceship, fuel depot, pilots building), while the other launches a hit-and-run ambush.

  • Objective: The defender must prevent the attacker from destroying 2/3 of the objectives.
  • Special Rules: Limited visibility due to sandstorm reducing ranged fire; fuel dump and spaceship can explode spectacularly.
  • Faction Fit:
    • Attacker: Ork Kommandos, Kroot Farstalkers, or Ratlings.
    • Defender: Astra Militarum, Adeptus Mechanicus, or Blooded.

This mission brings cinematic chaos to the tabletop — explosions, last stands, and desperate retreats.

There is a great opportunity to make a themed desert table here. Build it out like an airfield/spaceport. If you have a spaceship model, why not place it front and center. Open spaces, palm trees, pilots mess hut, you get the picture.

This Bolt Action battlefield provides a good suggestion for the table layout. You can find more pics from the Warlord website.

3. Operation Market Garden (Band of Brothers)

Theme: Holding out against overwhelming odds.
The Scene: Allied paratroopers seize Eindhoven only to find themselves isolated and outnumbered as German counterattacks close in.

Kill Team Mission Hook:
A beleaguered squad must hold a key structure (like a comms tower or reactor junction) until reinforcements arrive.

  • Objective: Survive for a set number of turns while preventing the enemy from capturing the objective.
  • Special Rules: The attacker’s numbers increase each round; the defender may receive one small reinforcement drop midway through.
  • Faction Fit:
    • Defender: Imperial Navy Breachers, Inquisition Agents, or Deathwatch marines.
    • Attacker: Chaos Legionaries, Ork Kommandos, or Fellgores.

This setup should create those tense, cinematic moments where every dice roll feels like life or death.

It could be played best as a joint ops mission, with two players fighting off waves of attackers. Why not create a densely packed board to replicate the close confines of the town. Narrow streets will create the need for desperate close combat actions, adding to the difficulty of completing the mission.

Bringing It All Together

By translating these real-world (albeit hollywoodised) operations into Kill Team missions, you blend the historical tension of WWII storytelling with the gothic sci-fi of the 41st millennium. You get all the things that make Band of Brothers and SAS: Rogue Heroes so gripping — camaraderie, courage, chaos — but with plasma rifles and occasional daemon incursions.

Basing your maps on these real engagements and creating asymmetric mission objectives will help add something different to your Kill Team games. So next game night, don’t just roll for missions — tell stories. Steal from history, tweak the details, and create moments that feel like they belong in both Normandy and Necromunda.

Kill Team Narrative Mission: Dinosaur Hunt Challenge

Kill Team is a fun, balanced skirmish game, with very thematic teams to choose from. Space Marines play like tough super soldiers and Orks are very anarchic. It also has a cooperative mode where players work together to beat NPOs (non player operatives) and achieve a shared objective. The range of available teams, 42 at the last count, and stats for various NPOs fills a very nice toolbox for the creation of narrative scenarios. This coupled with the fact that I’ve always wanted to play a big game hunt with dinosaurs since playing 40K as a kid has inspired me to build a kill team narrative mission. Of course there needs to be various twists and turns in there too. After all, no narrative mission is complete without secret objectives.

This mission is for six players plus a GM.

Mission Context

The Imperial Governor of Neblar Prime is celebrating his 150th birthday. Tradition dictates that he host a big game hunt as a core part of the festivities. Being useless with a gun, the Governor has engaged the famed Imperial hunter Thaddeus Ravenwick to bag a few dinosaurs for the feast. Of course, the hunters exploits will be televised across the planet so that all the citizens can share the excitement of this momentous occasion. It will be good for the morale of the workers.

However, the Governor should be more worried about the morale of the workers. Even now rebellion is fermenting, aided by a nefarious genestealer cult. The locals, who revere the dinosaurs are being stirred up and have been convinced that disrupting the hunt will spark an uprising that will overthrow their uncaring overlords once and for all!

The Imperial Hunter confronts the Young blood in thick jungles of Neblar Prime.

Factions and Objectives

This game is set for six players split into two factions, the imperial hunters and the zealous rebels/cult. A third faction, consisting of three dinosaurs will be run by the GM.

To win the imperials must kill more dinosaurs than the rebels can save. Five points each respectively. In addition each player will score three points for completing their secret objective.

Characters

Each player gets one character and one to two support operatives. I have listed them below including the equivalent Kill Team stats for each as well as their secret objective. All the Kill Team operative stats are free to download from the Warhammer website.

Team Imperial

Big Game Hunter:

  • The famous Thaddeus Ravenwick (Angels of Death Eliminator).
  • His trusty manservant Djeeves (Exaction Squad Vigilant).
  • Secret Objective: Keep your legend alive, kill at least two dinosaurs.

Long Suffering Security Detail:

  • Lt Salazza (Rogue Trader Void Master)
  • Shadowy guard (Rogue Trader Death Cult Assassin)
  • Secret Objective: Do your job, make sure Thaddeus is alive at the end of the scenario.

Imperial Scouts:

  • Lead scout Ragman (Space Marine Scout Sgt)
  • Scout (Space Marine Scout Hunter)
  • Secret Objective: Had a bar fight with the Rebel Gunna last night and need to finish what he started, make sure he is dead by the end of the scenario.

Rebels (Sneaky Genestealer Cult!)

The Boss:

  • Rebel Leader Vispoz (Wyrmblade Kelemorph)
  • Cult Brother (Brood Brother trooper)
  • Secret Objective: Make sure Thaddeus is dead by the end of the scenario and fuel the fire of the rebellion.

The Heavy

  • Gunna Bigarms (Brood Brother with grenade launcher)
  • Buddy (Brood Brother trooper)
  • Secret Objective: Had a bar fight with the Scout Ragman last night and need to finish what he started, make sure he is dead by the end of the scenario.

The Young Blood

  • Falco Soarer (Wyrmblade Primus)
  • Buddy (Brood Brother trooper)
  • Secret Objective: If The Boss doesn’t make it out alive you’ll get promoted. Make sure he doesn’t.

Kill Team Dinosaurs

The GM will control three mega fauna (dinosaurs) that the hunting party are stalking. These will be set up together in the designated area. Kill team stats as follows:

Grand Lizard (x1):

  • APL 3, Move 6″, Save 4+, Wounds 30
  • Melee Claws and Teeth Attack 6, 3+ 5/6 Relentless
  • Ignore piercing (tough hide), can attack twice per activation.

Sub Lizard (x2):

  • APL 2, Move 7″, Save 5+, Wounds 20
  • Melee Teeth Attack 4 3+ 4/5

The kill team dinosaurs operate in a simple way.

  • If they can see an operative – Charge and attack the closest.
  • If they cannot see an operative move in a random direction.
“I’m sure the lizard is around here somewhere”

Game Set Up

For this Kill Team narrative mission place thick jungle terrain across the board. Feel free to add ruined temples, abandoned hab blocks etc. Make the terrain denser than a normal Kill Team battle. A jungle stream with 2 bridges is also a fun addition. The dinosaurs start in a clearing to the right of the board. Make sure to have no firing lanes between the Imperial deployment and the dinosaur clearing.

Kill Team Narrative Mission map – play around with the set up to make something that looks thematic with limited firing lanes.

Terrain Rules

Some suggested rules for the terrain are:

  • Stream – minus 2″ to movement when crossing.
  • Jungle – blocks line of sight and gives light cover.
  • Ruins etc – heavy cover and blocks line of sight.

Playing The Mission

Players position themselves around the table in alternating order: Imperial-Rebel-Imperial-Rebel etc. Roll for initiative and play moves in the above order.

No tac ops, no crit ops. The sole mission is that described above.

Play lasts for 4 turns.

Final Thoughts

Although I’ve designed this narrative mission with Kill Team in mind this could very easily be ported to Space Weirdos or 5 Parsecs from Home. In fact I’m aiming to run this at the local club using Kill Team and Space Weirdos for the next Marty Con. I’ll write up a battle report when the dust has settled.

I’d love to hear if anyone uses this scenario. But if nothing else I hope I’ve shown that Kill Team can be used for some different narrative style missions. There is so much scope here. Lots of inspiration can be drawn from WW2 commando actions and I’m looking at how to create a 40Kified Battle of Termoli.

You can see more about the narrative Kill Team Campaign I ran here.

Saints Fate: A Three Player Skirmish Report

In last weeks post I described a recent three player skirmish scenario I designed. You can check out the details here. A couple of friends and I played it through one evening the other week to see how it actually worked. In short, it was amazing fun. But I’m always interested in what I can learn from the experience to take into future games.

The Scenario

A miraculous manifestation has occurred on the planet of Helios Magna. A Saint touched by the power of the God Emperor, has manifested among the ranks of the Adepta Sororitas, but her fate is uncertain. The Inquisition, ever wary of uncontrolled power, has dispatched a team of Lancet Hereticus Space Marines to capture her for interrogation. Meanwhile, a force of Chaos Plague Marines, the Ferrymen, seeks to claim the Saint for a dark ritual, hoping to summon a daemon of the Warp into realspace.

The Sisters of Battle, unaware of what forces are closing in, have fortified their shrine compound to protect the Saint. What follows is a brutal three-way battle where each faction must act quickly to achieve victory.

The protagonists included:

Order of the Veiled Light: crack team of battle sisters tasked with protecting the Saint at all costs. Comprised battle sister and flying assault troops. (Played by Marty)

Lancet Hereticus: Inquisition sponsored space marine fire team sent to capture the Saint to check for heresy and research. Comprised regular marines and a heavy weapons specialist. (Played by Sean)

Ferrymen: Small plague marine raider unit intent on capturing the Saint for the nefarious aims of the ruinous powers. Comprised plague marines and a mutated brother twisted by the rot of Nurgle. (Played by me)

The battlefield from the Battle Sisters side of the table.

How it Played Out

The aim of the three player skirmish scenario was to get the action happening quickly and make sure all three players were engaged throughout. All three factions entered the fray on turn one with frantic positioning as well as shots being exchanged. Initial casualties were quite light.

There was some difficult decision making for all players around how aggressively to go after the scenario objective vs protecting your team. Excitingly, all three factions had control of the Saint at one point in the game only to lose her to an opponent. This meant that the outcome of the game was always in question.

A cinematic brawl involving all three leaders culminated in the Ferryman captain sneaking the Saint away at the last minute to claim victory at the start of turn 6. A win for the nefarious forces of chaos!

Lancet Hereticus gunner observes the battlefield.

What Worked?

We used the One Page Rules skirmish ruleset: Grimdark Firefight, and it worked a treat. Fast, simple gameplay that had all three of us in the swing of things after the first move. With each player taking it in turns to activate a model this kept the game moving fast with no downtime for participants.

The victory conditions and time limit forced all three factions to engage with the objective pretty much immediately. It also kept each player battling on two fronts, no one was left out or ganged up on.

Finally, emergent play. All three players have some understanding of the 40K lore and got behind their faction and it’s aims. This definitely added to the immersion and I think colored some of the decision making as well. The cinematic three way duel by the captains at the end occurred completely emergently adding an awesome conclusion to the battle.

Mad scramble to secure the Saint in the alley next to the shrine compound. Marines, Plague Brothers and Battle Sisters all in attendance.

What Could Have Gone Better?

To be honest, not much. The battle flowed well and kept everyone engaged. The one thing I could have explained better at the start was the victory condition. There was a little confusion about how we achieved the win. We smoothed it out after turn 1, but clarity on this before we started would have helped.

Final Thoughts on Three Player Skirmish

All in all I succeeded in my goal of creating a fun, engaging, equal sided three-person skirmish scenario. The most important part was that we had fun playing. But I’ll be looking to see if I can come up with more three player scenarios in the future.

Of course, this battle now forms part of the Mordax Prime canon, my narrative setting for my 40K inspired gaming. With this victory for the ruinous powers, how will the Imperium authorities react? Will they mount a rescue mission? Or will the Saint become a tool of Chaos? We’ll find out in the next instalment…

Mordax Prime: Worldbuilding for an Immersive 40K Campaign

One of things I love about Dungeons and Dragons campaigns is the worldbuilding. Particularly when the world advances and changes through the player actions and creativity. My long standing Salkire campaign evolved from a ruined city to a huge world with kingdoms, factions and villains vying for attention. All formed through gameplay and collaboration between my players and me, as DM. Over the last couple of years I have rediscovered sci fi wargaming with a particular focus on Warhammer 40K lore. I discovered the incredible Corvus Cluster, a long running blog tying together a groups games into one long running and immersive campaign. Ultimately, not too dissimilar to a long term D&D campaign really. Using this as inspiration I wanted to do similar worldbuilding for my own 40K inspired games. Mordax Prime is the result.

What is Mordax Prime

Mordax Prime a sector of space in the Warhammer 40K universe that I have developed as a narrative backdrop for my 40K inspired games. While I have retrofitted some of my previous games into this Sector, future games will be informed by and change the setting. My hope is that the setting begins to take a life of it’s own. Dictated by the outcomes of games and player actions. As mentioned previously this is narrative focused, providing colour and setting to our games. Players will know that game outcomes will have impact and I hope that this will add flavour not present in a normal game.

Star chart of Mordax Prime. A good starting place.

The Mordax Sector begins the campaign under Imperial control. Of course, this is likely to change as the narrative progresses.

Current Worlds

These were easy to develop using AI prompts as well as additions from my own imagination. I knew that I needed Luthca IV and a jungle death world, based on previous skirmish games I’d run. Other than that I was open to other 40K tropes like the forge and hive worlds. The last addition was the navy watch station. As I’d had pirate captain Mad Claw make an appearance in a game I want to explore this narrative a bit more. An Imperial naval port is exactly the location needed to help it play out in an exciting way.

So far, Mordax Prime comprises the following worlds. Of course new worlds and clusters may appear over time as the narrative dictates. As you can see from the descriptions below there is plenty of scope for conflict already.

Helios Magna (Hive World and Sector capital)

Description: A sprawling, industrial hive world teeming with millions of souls and the Administratum center for the system. Its vast manufactorums supply weapons and armor for the Imperial Guard. The towering spires of the hive cities are hotspots for intrigue and rebellion, making it a critical point of interest for both Imperial and Chaos forces.

Strategic Importance: Helios Magna’s output is vital for sustaining Imperial war efforts. Control of this planet secures supply lines and access to vast manpower resources.

Challenges: Frequent underhive uprisings and the ever-present threat of Genestealer Cult infiltration.

Verdantia Prime (Death World)

Description: A lush, verdant world filled with dangerous flora and fauna. The thick jungles are a perfect hiding place for renegades and xenos. It’s rumored to be home to ancient artifacts of great power.

Strategic Importance: Control of Verdantia Prime offers access to rare resources and strategic defensive positions. It’s also a key site for potential xeno-archaeological discoveries. Thought to house a top secret Dark Angels training facility.

Challenges: Navigating treacherous terrain and dealing with constant ambushes from Tyranid bioforms or feral Chaos cultists.

Aetherion V (Forge World)

Description: A heavily fortified forge world, Aetherion V is known for its production of advanced weaponry and vehicles. It is a linchpin in the sector’s defenses, equipped with formidable orbital platforms and ground-based macro-cannons.

Strategic Importance: Control of Aetherion V ensures a steady flow of high-quality wargear and defensive capabilities. It’s also a prime target for sabotage by the Chaos Space Marines.

Challenges: Infiltration by Chaos cults and the risk of large-scale conflicts breaking out in its production facilities.

Luthca IV (Industrial World)

Description: Highly productive factorium world built over ancient ruins. Supplies nearby sectors with manufacturing and agricultural machinery. Caches of archaeotech are thought to lie hidden deep within the Cinder Desert and in the roots of the hive cities.

Strategic Importance: While of lower manufacturing importance than Luminara Secundus, Luthca IV is the focus of many expeditions looking for ancient artefacts thought to provide great power..

Challenges: Both Chaos cults and Xenos vie with Imperial and Mechanicus agents in the search for forbidden tech. It is also rumoured that a Chaos gate lies buried deep beneath Hive Secundo.

Watchpoint Epsilon (Imperial Port)

Description: Key naval station providing patrols of nearby warp lanes.

Strategic Importance: Home of Watchfleet Epsilon, key in the defense of the Sector and nearby warp lanes.

Challenges: Seen as a backwater posting has led to dissatisfaction and potential heresy amongst some of the officer cadre.

Luminara Secundus (Pleasure World/Trade Hub)

Description: Known for its beautiful landscapes and luxury, Luminara Secundus serves as a retreat for the sector’s elite and a bustling trade hub. Its relative tranquility makes it an ideal location for diplomacy or covert operations.

Strategic Importance: Though less militarized, control of Luminara Secundus provides economic leverage and a base for Rogue Traders. It also serves as a critical node for intelligence gathering.

Challenges: The planet’s affluence attracts both political machinations from Imperial Nobles and covert infiltration by Chaos agents.

Active Factions

A number of factions are thought to be active within Mordax Prime. These are listed below with significant personalities coming from previous games and player invention.

  • Inquisition: Rooting out heresy and maintaining order.
    • Inquisitor Jaegermann: Ordo Hereticus seeking out daemonic influences with the Imperial hierarchy.
  • Rogue Traders: Seeking profit and ancient relics.
    • Benedictus Sixtus: notorious Rogue Trader known to play all sides. Fond of tall tales.
  • Imperial Nobles: Defending their estates and political power.
    • The Duchess: Leader of the most powerful family on Helios Magna.
  • Sisters of Battle: Purging heretics and xenos.
    • Enclave of the Veiled Light: Located on Helios Magna.
  • Space Marines: Responding to major threats with precision strikes.
    • Dark Angels: Secret training base in the jungles of Verdantia Prime.
    • Lancet Hereticus: Elements of this Inquisition controlled chapter thought to be active in this sector.
  • Imperial Guard: Garrisoning key locations and mounting large-scale defenses.
  • Tyranids: Emerging from hidden bio-ships, consuming everything in their path.
    • Possibly identified on Verdantia Prime. Thought to be connected to the researches of the late radical Inquisitor Tiberious Glaze.
  • Genestealer Cult: Sowing rebellion from within.
    • Heralds of the Star Children: active on Luthca IV, threat level high. Currently being investigated by Dark Angels and agents of the Inquisition.
  • Forces of Chaos: Undermining Imperial control and seeking to bring the sector into the warp.
    • Acolytes of the Red Mist: active on Luthca IV threat level unknown.
    • Mad Claw Crew: notorious pirate currently working from a secret location in the Starfire Shallows.

Plenty of scope for interesting battles, with room enough for additional factions as play progresses.

Current Campaign Log

This was a really fun part of the worldbuilding for me. Placing past games into the sector started uncovering links between factions and planets. Consequently, Mordax Prime is beginning to feel more than a map with some planet names. Life has been breathed into it.

356.658.M41 Unrest on Luthca IV

During a period of unrest on Luthca IV an Inquisitor, Enforcers, Planetary Guard, Acolytes of the Red Mist, Mining Guild and Infractionist gangs fought a vicious skirmish. Each group was making the most of the unrest to pursue their own agendas. Ultimately, Inquisitor Jaegermans retinue won the firefight retrieving the infamous Chaos artefact “Belial Goblet”.

Gangers face off in the streets of Luthca IV

357.020.M41 Echoes of Xenos

Located in the nearby Lupin Sector, Rogue Trader Benedictus Sixtus competed with various Inquisitors and Adeptus Mechanicus to retrieve heretical research of the late Ordo Xenos Inquisitor Tiberious Glaze. The battle raged over a number of sectors and moons as the warbands pursued the trail of clues. Despite battling an emergent Xenos threat Sixtus escaped with the research and fled to the Mordax Sector intent on finding a buyer.

Gun servitor covers an Inquisitor as he explores the depths of an orbital gun platform

357.125.M41 Jungle Hunt

Imperial troopers of the navy and guard pursued the downed vessel of the notorious pirate captain Mad Claw into the jungles of the death world Verdantia Prime. A vicious firefight broke out between the renegades and the brave Imperial patrol. The noise of the firefight awoke some xenos terrors of the jungle, who grabbed combatants from both sides from the leafy darkness. Those lost were never seen again. Unfortunately, Mad Claw and his allies applied superior tactics and fought their way to freedom. The Captain and his crew are thought to be hiding in the Starfire Shallows nursing their hunger for revenge.

It is rumoured that some of the research uncovered by Benedictus Sixtus has made its way to the planet surface. But how or why is unknown.

A brave naval trooper hides as a xenos monster stalks the jungle

357.450.M41 Potential Heresy on Helios Magna

A small but lethal force of suspected Dark Angel space marines assaulted an Ecclesiarchy compound on Helios Magna. The garrison of Adepta Sororitas (Order of the Veiled Light) scrambled quickly to defend. However, could not match the firepower of the marines and their formidable dreadnought. By the time reinforcements arrived the Dark Angels had disappeared as mysteriously as they had appeared, their objective unknown.

Dark Angels capture the objective under the heavy yet ineffective fire from the Sisters of Battle

357.556.M41 The Heist: Luthca IV

On the edge of Hive Secundo a multitude of gangs competed to retrieve a dangerous xenos artefact from the convoy of a Mechanicus expedition. What started as a tense standoff erupted into extreme violence as the hivers made and broke alliances while mercilessly blasting one another. Before order could be restored the artefact was opened releasing a powerful daemonic entity onto the planet. Few survivors lived to tell the tale. Yet, the Planetary Governor has requested aid to eliminate the creature.

Tense standoff before the firefight erupted
The warp daemon materializes causing mass panic!

357.790.M41 Verdantia Prime Ambush

A Dark Angels patrol was ambushed by an unidentified xenos threat whilst on a training exercise in an abandoned outpost on Verdantia Prime. The space marines fought with characteristic courage obliterating the opposing force. Needless to say, agents of the Inquisition are currently investigating the source of this surprising incursion. It is rumoured amongst those who know that the xenos threat is connected to the research purloined by Benedictus Sixtus and his crew. This incident has been linked to the Xenos discovered during the pursuit of Mad Claw and his gang.

A group of unidentified xenos approach the Dark Angel position

357.800.M41 Heralds of the Star Children Bomb threat

Local enforcers on Luthca IV uncovered a plot to destroy the primary administratum building on Hive Primus. Members of the Heralds of the Star Children placed a large explosive device with the vicinity. Fortunately, it wasn’t set properly giving a small Dark Angels detachment the chance to intercept.

A vicious firefight erupted within the shadowed streets below the administratum. The Heralds employed a psyker of note giving the space marines a difficult time of things. Fortunately, the heroes of the Imperium killed wiped out the xenos heretics and diffused the bomb, saving the Hive from a terrible fate. Inquisitor Mattias Criese has been assigned the investigation of the rogue psyker and this cult, which are both now more than just minor annoyances.

Children of the Star Children advance through the empty streets intent on reaching the bomb first

357.850.M41 Xenos Hunt

Following the recent thwarted bomb threat on Luthca IV by Dark Angels Forces, Inquisitor Criese has been actively investigating the Heralds of the Star Children. In an effort to prevent any further insurrection the Inquisitor has dispatched a crack team of agents to take out Magos Drevender the revered leader of the cult.

The kill team tracked him down into the depths of Hive Primus. But before they could raid the xenos cult an unseen sentry alerted the Magos. Cult members frenziedly assaulted the agents trying to buy time for their illustrious leader to escape. However, Drevender couldn’t quite get there. Instead, he was gunned down by two agents in a hail of bolter shells.

So ended the uprising of the Star Children. The next battle will explore a different narrative from Mordax Prime.

Drevender flees round the corner towards a battle hardened agent of the inquisition, and ultimately his own doom!

Final thoughts on Worldbuilding

This exercise in worldbuilding has been a lot of fun. Tying together the battles into a narrative was much easier than expected and the sector began to take on a life of its own. Are the remnants of the Star Children thirsting for revenge? Will teh Sisters of Battle start investigating the Dark Angels? Where will Mad Claw and his pirates raid next? Is the chaos gate open and what came through? Will the Tyranid presence on Verdantia Prime summon a larger invasion fleet? So many options for exciting games ahead.

Spending a bit of time developing a campaign world for your games is a fun exercise and adds a fantastic narrative aspect to your games. I highly recommend.

How have you had success developing campaign backgrounds?

A big shoutout to Corvus Cluster as an amazing source of inspiration!