Gorzods Bad Moons

Hello everyone, 

It’s time for the Bad Moons to show off their 50 power level for the beginning of the crusade set in the Cassalaian Sector and the planet of Catharn...

I’m not completely familiar with the terminology used in the Crusade section of the rule book but here’s the starting 25 power level list out of the 50 for Gorzods Orks.

A Bad Moon Warboss Gorzod is going to be portrayed as a more intelligent Warboss for an Ork at least who’s favoured deity is Mork. 

Although with his battlefield decisions being made by me some mistakes will definitely be made regarding his tactics in the heat of battle. 

We then have Gorzods Boyz, which will be the first boyz to travel to the surface of Catharn with him in a big unit of 30. 

This is try and give them some survivability as their lifespan will be particularly short especially against the Tau! 

The Ardboyz stratagem may be used in order to give these a 5+ save to again save a few of them where possible. 

To back them up we then have the Stormboyz to provide some deep striking movement in the early stages. Although Tau overwatch may mean these guys struggle and possibly not get in at all if they fail a charge. 

Finally it’s Gorzods Uva Boyz. Just a unit of ten these will have to try and stay out of the way and claim an objective. 

I’m wanting to try going infantry focused initially but we’ll see how this goes with the shooting they’ll face, including a Trukk would have been nice but at 25 Power it’s not really possible. Unless I go for smaller units of boyz.

So there you have it, Gorzods initial scouting force who will be making planetfall. 

It’s going to be hard playing against the Tau with Orks so there will be a lot to learn and I think we may have to adapt the force as things progress to having some transports and some shooting but we’ll see! 

I’ll be providing some initial narrative for why Gorzod is at Catharn soon in another post and then I’ll also show the full 50 power level roster. 

Thanks again for reading, 

Aveinus Kaane 

Crusade and the Cassalaian Sector

Hello everyone, 

It’s been a while due to Covid-19 with a few of us having been working through the lock down it’s meant there hasn’t been a lot of progress! 

However, after what really is years we’ve finally reached a point where we all have playable armies for 40K. I personally did manage to make some decent progress on my days off during lockdown and now the Bad Moons are ready for their first foray into galactic domination!

As a group we are quite mixed in our preferences whether it’s matched play or narrative. However, with the recent Crusade rules coming out with ninth edition, we’ve found a system that we think will work brilliantly along side our plans for a campaign.

So, what are we planning? 

We have all really wanted to run a set of campaigns over the past few years involving a particular part of space that can be a sandbox for our leaders and their armies to fight for dominance. 

It’s early days though so to begin with we’ll be playing right out of the box and will then probably add house rules in and campaign mechanics as we gain more experience with the rules or decide the campaign is missing something important. 

How will it be presented? 

We don’t really have the time or equipment to film and edit our battle reports and campaign progress so we’ll be keeping it simple in order to keep us releasing regular enough updates. 

There will be battle reports on the blog which won’t be blow by blow but they will give you an idea of how the battle progresses and how the key moments unfolded.

We will be letting the games tell the story and working the narrative around that so you can follow the campaign. Crucially the crusade system will help to improve the narrative and the character progression of our armies as the games unfold.

We’ll see if any house rules need to be brought in for this though! 

Finally we’d like to create a running history of our sector of space so we’ll have a chronology to the campaigns and battles so if you find us at a later date you can revisit the past victories and defeats of the sectors inhabitants. 

How will it all start? 

We’ll be posting over the next few weeks to give more detail on the campaign including the Cassalaian Sector itself, with a pretty cool map of it so you can place armies and campaigns. 

Initially the first two armies to invade this somewhat peaceful sector of imperial space and in particular the planet of Catharn will be the Orks and the Tau. 

You’ll hear more on these two forces in upcoming blog posts. But it certainly will be a tough adversary for the Orks to deal with! 

Future campaigns may then involve other armies we’ve been working on but we’ll leave that for now! 

So look out for an overview post on the Cassailian Sector and the two armies to first appear from the warp. 

There was no bias in which generic pictures were chosen for this post. 

But Green is best! 

Thanks for reading, 

Aveinus Kaane