+ Year Nine +

+ Straight Outta 2nd Edition +

+ The +Death of a Rubricist+ Facebook node is nine years old today, so with that flimsy excuse, out come the Blood Angels – the Ninth Legion – for a spin in the sunshine. +

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+ Armageddon Once More +

Well, well; what's old is new again! #New40k has been announced, and we're on our way back to Armageddon. An excuse – if ever I needed one – to exload about this seminal setting, and why I like it so much.

The stakes of Armageddon are huge, but at the same time human. This is not – or at least in the past was not – a galaxy-defining conflict like Cadia or the appearance of the Tyranids or Necrons. However terrible losing Armageddon would have been for the Imperium, the loss of a single planet is not existential.

As a player and hobbyist, I like that sense of overall inertia. 40k is already overblown in terms of drama, and let's face it, a planetary system should be enough of a battlefield to give a sense of the stakes.

But more importantly than that, it'll offer new opportunities and ideas for gaming on the planet; whatever the scale and whatever the army. Orks, Steel Legion, Space Marines and more!