SPOILER ALERT – 40k’s story is finally progressing! Come see the top 10 secrets that happened to both sides in the Kauyon expansion during the latest installment of the Damocles gulf conflict!
If you haven’t had time to read the fluff side of the new two book Kauyon set, we got you covered! Big things are happening on the imperial planet of Prefectia that will shake the Imperial forces to their collective cores.
There are tons of new rules to be had too, along with the third installment of the Damocles gulf conflict in the new Kauyon TWO book set.
Both the Raven Guard and White Scars both received new detachments, and rules that really up their power level in game.
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- The Coldstar battlesuit was discovered to be invisible to Imperial armada scanners, and aircraft sensors. One brazen commander ascended into orbit and mag locked himself to the bridge of the ship Duty’s call uncovering secrets to several warzone.
- On a hunch Shadowsun sent scout vessels to look for Imperial ships translating from reality into local space. One such vessel managed to take readings of such an occurrence, but never was received back at Tau high command… or were they?
- Shadowsun used the tau ramparts as mobile traps or Kauyons as they called them, being the art of the patient hunter, to literally surround attacking Imperial Forces as they drew near into a deadly crossfire.
- Imperial forces held Shadowsun to a deadlock for quite sometime, and it was not until Aun’va the supreme Ethereal announced he was coming to the warzone that Shadowsun’s hand was forced. She would have to use herself as bait in an attempt to lure the Astartes commanders out into the open on her terms.
- Shadowsun lures the Raven Guard’s Chapter master Severax to Denechai the site of many battles over the long months on Perfectia. After locating and engaging a cloaked Shadowsun in combat Severax succeeds in wounding and then landing several killing blows into the xenos war queen.
- Her death is not as it seems when Severax let out a victorious laugh that lingered in the air to long, as a Ghostkeel battlesuit piloted by the real Shadowsun shimmered into existence next to him. A single shot separated Severax from his legs before the follow up incinerated his upper torso.
- The Raven Guard are sent reeling by the death of their chapter master, and eventually rally with new found oaths of allegiance with Khan of the White Scars, and Astra Militarium.
- The Shadow Captains collectively vote Captain Shrike to be the next Chapter Master of the Raven Guard.
- A newfound momentum shift from this new allegiance, and the intervention of House Terryn knights is blunted by the arrival of heavy Tau assets such as the Stormsurge and Ghostkeel to which the Imperial forces has little answers for.
- The Obsidian Knight’s rampage is eventually halted as well when a host of tau battlesuits target the ground beneath him, and send him tumbling into roiling magma.
Thought the Imperial forces are once again forced to withdraw from a conflict let directly by Shadowsun, they are still engaging Tau forces elsewhere. The Tau may have won this battle, but the war is far from over.
Episode 25 – Horus Heresy, Kickstarter, Adepticon OH MY
About the Author: Rob Baer
Rob Baer
Job Title: Managing Editor
Founded Spikey Bits in 2009
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About Rob Baer: Founder, Publisher, & Managing Editor of Spikey Bits, the leading tabletop gaming news website focused on the hobby side of wargaming and miniatures.
Rob also co-founded and currently hosts the Long War Podcast, which has over 350 episodes and focuses on tabletop miniatures gaming, specializing in Warhammer 40k. and spent six years writing for Bell of Lost Souls.
Every year, along with his co-hosts, he helps host the Long War 40k Doubles Tournament at Adepticon and the Long War 40k Doubles at Las Vegas Open, which attracts over 350 players from around the world.
Rob has won many Warhammer 40k Tournaments over the years, including multiple first-place finishes in Warhammer 40k Grand Tournaments over the years and even winning 1st place at the Adepticon 40k Team Tournament.
With over 30 years of experience in retail and distribution, Rob knows all the products and exactly which ones are the best. As a member of GAMA (Game Manufacturers Association), he advocates for gaming stores and manufacturers in these difficult times, always looking for the next big thing to feature for the miniatures hobby, helping everyone to provide the value consumers want.
While he’s played every edition of Warhammer 40k and Warhammer Fantasy (since 5th Edition) and has been hobbying on miniatures since the 1980s, Titans of all sizes will always be his favorite! It’s even rumored that his hobby vault rivals the Solemnance Galleries, containing rulebooks filled with lore from editions long past, ancient packs of black-bordered Magic Cards, and models made of both pewter and resin.
