TheGM: Although the Cold Wars gaming convention is sponsored by the Historical Miniatures Gaming Society (HMGS), the Corvus Cluster hosted three Shadow War: Armageddon events. I opted to stay away from historical games because (1) I’d done all that work on the Shorehammer skirmish table and wanted to […]
A new year has begun, and with the turning of the calendar, the Corvus Cluster enters 740.M41. This is an exciting advance of the narrative campaign, as we are now just two years away from the momentous Damocles Crusade. (Shh! Don’t tell anyone. That’s a spoiler.) As this […]
Dar Sai also settles into uneasy status quo As the winter of 738-739.M41 turned to spring, Imperial forces on the agri-moon of Dar Sai launched an attack on the Tau-held Hawi Plantation, a large settlement north of the strategic Port Aruna. On 3 061 739.M41, In a river […]
Nowhere is safe in the Corvus Cluster. Scores of worlds must deal with war, civil unrest, and other horrors of the galaxy . . . News from other worlds AN’GEL III—Although illegal to discuss xeno activity, rumors spread that the Tau Empire is making progress in its three-and-a-half-year […]
“The Mystery of the Necrons” is one of eight narrative games that the Corvus Cluster is hosting at the Shorehammer Convention in Ocean City, Md., Nov. 21-24. These narrative hames are being offered as an option for attendees who have a few hours to kill during the convention […]
To help broaden the narrative story of the Corvus Cluster, I’m going to host a series of 40K narrative battles at Shorehammer 2019 in Ocean City, Md., Nov. 21-24. I wrote about this sci-fi/fantasy convention last December. It was a delightful little get-together, with great people. But I […]
One of the more delightful aspects of a narrative campaign is that your gaming adventures go in directions you never expected. So, while I am going to make some predictions of what may happen in the next year, the fact that I’m TheGM doesn’t mean I “know” what’s […]
The calendar of the Corvus Cluster is linked to the “real” year. So, with the passing of 2018, we bid farewell to the year 738.M41—the fourth full year of our narrative campaign. It was a year that saw only a few major battles, as real-life demands limited our […]
Necron activity increases in Dryilian Quarantine Zone On 6 450 738.M41, the Imperial warship, Litany of Hate, is patrolling the edge of the newly quarantined zone encompassing the Dryilian shipping lanes. Sensors detect an unidentified vessel shadowing the warship. The ship cannot be identified (at this time, knowledge […]
Imperial Navy fights battles on many fronts Early in the year, Fleet Corvus is stretched thin dealing with multiple xeno threats in the Sculptor System. Taking advantage of the Imperial Navy’s woes, a small Tau task force attacks and seizes a huge mining base floating on the edge […]
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