Atalan Jackals are fourth generation Neophytes who form the outriders of their gene-sect. They roam the corners of the host planet in search of new regions for their cult to infest.
The Nachmund Gauntlet – a relatively stable realspace corridor through the tumultuous warp storms of the Great Rift – is one of the most strategically important locations in the Imperium. It would be a dangerous place even without the countless millions of pirates, criminals, heretics, and traitors of a dozen and more species fighting relentless wars for supremacy and wealth. Among these are the Heretic Astartes – traitor Space Marines in thrall to the Chaos Gods – and the Corsair coteries – Aeldari who seek a life of independence and freedom and care little for others.
The Voidscarred are hardened veterans of a life of piracy. These Corsairs have travelled the stars for centuries, and they have seen the worst and the best the galaxy has to offer. Many have developed unique skills and fighting styles over the years, carrying specialist wargear into battle.
Not even the Space Marines are safe from the lure of Chaos. Whether they hail from the dark days of the Horus Heresy or turned traitor more recently, these baleful warriors combine their gene-given gifts with dark blessings and malefic sorceries, transformed by years of battle into fearless, superhuman reavers.
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The Genestealer Cults erupt from the shadows in a tide of xenos-worshipping acolytes, employing ambush and subterfuge to outmanoeuvre their enemies. Utterly immersed in Tyranid gene-taint, the cult's Neophyte Hybrids and more mutated Acolyte Hybrids rise up against their oppressors, armed with a variety of repurposed industrial equipment – from powerful mining lasers to heavy machinery like the Goliath Rockgrinder. Guided by the insidious psychic presence of a Magus, the misshapen Aberrants lope from the shadows to reinforce their kin, swinging crushing mauls to deadly effect.
The Aeldari are an ancient and dying people, their fractured factions each finding ways to survive in a hostile galaxy. All depend on the insight of their seers, the skill of their warriors, and the sleek superiority of their weapons of war.
For ten thousand years, the Chaos Space Marines have waged near-constant war on the galaxy that cast them out. Once the defenders of humanity, the Heretic Astartes have pledged themselves to the Dark Gods. Led by maniacal leaders such as the fanatical Dark Apostle, bitter warbands of Chaos Space Marines roam the battlefield, armed with an array of vicious weapons. Barricades and defenders alike are torn asunder by the devastating heavy armaments wielded by Havocs – and the frenzied swipes of a lumbering Helbrute.
The Astra Militarum are the backbone of the lmperium's largest armies. Their massed infantry and tank regiments form a bulwark that stands between Humanity and a nightmarish galaxy of horrors.
The Warmaster’s own Legion are unleashed on the field as dark exemplars of the Astartes, cursing the Emperor’s name. Show your loyalty to Lupercal with this set of Sons of Horus-themed dice.
Tactical Squads are the mainstay of the Space Marine Legions, highly versatile infantry units that can attack or defend at will, assault heavily fortified positions, and take and hold strategic objectives – or simply slaughter the enemy – in almost any terrain or situation. All 18 Legions make heavy use of Tactical Squads in different ways – it is by the fighting power of thousands of superhuman warriors such as these, armed with deadly bolters and armoured for battle in the harshest of war zones, that the Imperium has beat a bloody path across the galaxy at the head of the Great Crusade.
Prideful and impetuous, Geigor Fell-Hand is a Thegn of the Space Wolves with a long record of valorous deeds. Yet despite his skill and fury as a warrior, Geigor's record as a commander is marred by a number of battlefield reversals – most notably the loss of his entire war pack while fighting alongside the Thousand Sons, after his allies retreated in the face of an Ork onslaught. Geigor harboured a bitter grudge against the XV Legion for this perceived betrayal – and leapt at the chance to punish them in the Censure of Prospero.