Tournament short story winning entry

The story that I entered in the tournament that won the 'best story' award.

Golden sunlight bathed Governor Jarmal’s private stateroom. The sun just starting to dip lower in the sky was casting long shadows across the room. Kiervan Jarmal stood, letting the warmth of the sun fall across his face. A great many things troubled him, the arrival of the Ork fleet most of all, with the woeful weakness in numbers of his PDF adding to his worries. He reached down and picked up his cigar from the ashtray, raising it to his lips and breathing in the wonderful taste deep into his chest. The heady aroma and the almost sensual caress of the smoke going a little way to easing the fears he harbored. True, Forlorn Hope’s own defense would not hold against such a mighty foe but the impending arrival of the Emperor’s own warriors, the astartes, made his hopes soar and his determination galvanize. Though he had never seen any in action personally, he had heard many tales of their heroics and deeds in battle. It would be the greatest honour of his life to be in the presence of such mighty weapons of the Emperor’s might.

Local game store tournament 2012

Just a quick post to congratulate everyone who went to the tournament at our LGS this year. Specially to Sam and his Grey Knights/Henchmen list that placed 3rd and Caz and his Nurgle daemons/plague marines army that won 'best army'. I won 'best background/story' but that's by the by.

It was a great weekend of games that was marred only by one person that brought loaded dice and engineered two wins before being called out and asked not to return. He didn't really seem to argue his case and just took his dice with him and left.

Lastly, this was the final time the old chaos codex was being used as it was too soon between tournament and release of the 6th ed. chaos codex to use the new one. So, fair well 4th ed. chaos codex you served us well!

Louis' 1st Legion: 3rd Company

Army shot of what I've painted so far, borrowing the cool piece of terrain from FA's collection.... enjoy!

Ethrion - please help me stick this to the Army section, thanks mate!

Campaign Day: Sunday 14th October

The Myrddin Crusade

Start time is 10:00am so be there for 9:30am - 9:45am
Points limit of 1500
Named characters are allowed
Allies are allowed

What was initially a small scale operation by the Dark Angels to oust the corrupted planetary governor turned sorcerer Myrddin Wyllt quickly escalated into full blown crusade.

As the war progressed, the extent of the corruption and influence that Myrddin had over the local systems and surrounding sectors of space became clear. The situation was dire indeed and soon other Adeptus Astartes chapters and Imperial forces started to gather to the Dark Angels banner.

Under the overall command of Chapter Master Azrael, planet after planet was recaptured or purged. The crusade force began what would ultimately become a 20 year campaign to cleanse the region of Myrddin's evil.