A daring raid against an enemy transit terminal is a superb way to acquire valuable resources for your own war effort and deny them to the foe. - Boarding Actions Book (p. 158) Welcome back to another Friday on The Art of Caesura! Last week we read my short story "The Cost of Knowledge" which was based on a game of Boarding Actions that two friends and I played a couple months ago. Today, I want to share some photos and some fun moments from that game. This being the first game of Boarding Actions that any of us had played, we chose quite a straight-forward mission [The orange objectives were worth 5 points and the Supply crates were worth an extra 5 if you controlled more than your opponents, they also gave the chance to gain an extra Command Point (a valuable in-game resource)], we went through all the usual pre-game activities of choosing a board edge, determining first turn etc. Boarding Actions is played at 500 points each, I brought all melee Black Templar...
Welcome back to The Art of Caesura! A month or so ago, two friends and I played our very first game of Boarding Actions. As you know , I have been very excited about this game mode, it emphasizes all the things I love about Warhammer 40k: smaller scale, troop-heavy forces, strategic play, and it is dripping in atmosphere! We used one of the multiplayer missions from the Boarding Actions tome, a free-for-all between my Black Templars vs. Tyranids vs. my friend's currently unnamed Space Marine Chapter (which I have created a place-holder name for for the purposes of this story). As I have done a few times in the past , I have had a blast writing a short story inspired by our game. Please enjoy! *** The Cost of Knowledge The void-ship His Eternal Vigil drifted through the cold abyss, a shattered hulk of its former self. An ancient relic of the Dark Age of Technology, it had re-emerged from the warp with its hull cracked, engines dead, and augur arrays flickering like a dying candle...