Crusade

Automated 40K Crusade Roster upgraded to V1.3

Crusade is awesome, but does entail a lot of bookkeeping. Back in September 2020 I made an automated Crusade Roster to mitigate this. It's designed to suit tracking your Crusade force on your mobile phone using Google Sheets. As...

White Dwarf #460 Flashpoints: Charadon, Phase 1 Review

In the Narrative Forge, we talk about playing games with more of a storytelling focus in mind. From bespoke missions to Crusade armies to sweeping campaigns, we cover the ways to add flavor to games. In today's article, we're...

Little Wars: Crusade Edition

In the past we've covered Combat Patrol and Incursion gameplay and missions for the Core Book and Chapter Approved: Grand Tournament 2020 as it relates to semi-competitive mission gameplay. This is all well and good, but another small game...

White Dwarf 459 Review: The Argovon Campaign, Phase 3

Between the Core Rules and Beyond the Veil, there are plenty of missions for your Crusade campaign to play through. But what if you wanted something different? The Argovon Campaign is the first of Games Workshop’s new Flashpoints, which...

Crusade Focus: Codex Supplement: Blood Angels

Welcome back, Narrative Players! Codex Supplement: Blood Angels is releasing this weekend and if you happened to read our review of the rules last week, you’d have noticed that we teased an upcoming Crusade Rules review - we’ll be...

White Dwarf 458 Review: The Argovon Campaign, Phase 2

Between the Core Rules and Beyond the Veil, there are plenty of missions for your Crusade campaign to play through. But what if you wanted something different? The Argovon Campaign is the first of Games Workshop’s new Flashpoints, which...

Codex: Deathwatch Crusade Rules review

With the release of Codex Supplement: Deathwatch, the faction has now been folded into the big umbrella of Codex: Space Marines, with access to all of the faction's units and most of its rules. I say "most" because one...

White Dwarf 457 Review: Flashpoint and the Argovon Campaign, Part 1

White Dwarf 457 is out and it introduces a new ongoing series called Flashpoints, which explore specific warzones and regions within the 40k universe, with new backstory and rules. Based on this initial entry, they seem like an interesting...

Crusade Focus: Necrons

Similar to the Imperial forces in Codex: Space Marines (whose Crusade rules we reviewed earlier this week), Necrons got their own set of Crusade rules in their new codex, fleshing out the faction with new agendas, relics, traits, and...

Hammer of Math: Expedited Martyrdom

This week's Hammer of Math takes a look at the narrative side of 40K and examines some of the numbers behind the Crusade system and getting your Astartes interred in a Dreadnought as quickly as possible. I'll freely admit; as...