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Forge World can proudly announce that Imperial Armour Volume 9: The Badab War Part I should be available in limited numbers as a Games Day U.K. exclusive pre-release!
The year is 903.M41 and Lugft Huron, Chapter Master of the Astral Claws and self-styled Tyrant of Badab, declares the secession of his domains from the Imperium, taking four entire Chapters of the Adeptus Astartes with him into rebellion.
The scene is set for an epic clash of arms that will see armies crushed, fleets shattered and entire worlds reduced to lifeless cinders in one of the most dangerous internecine conflicts the Imperium has known in a thousand years.
History will call Lugft Huron a madman and a traitor, and condemn him as a pawn of Chaos or a Xenos puppet, but history is written by the victor, and in the grim darkness of the far future the truth is seldom so simple…
Inside this book, the first volume in Forge World's two-part exploration of the infamous Badab War, you will find a detailed account of the shadowed origins, terrible secrets and savage birth of the Tyrant's rebellion. You will also find information on the malevolent Warp-storm of the Maelstrom itself as well as the dangerous and forlorn worlds that border it.
Also detailed are full histories and dispositions of the nine Space Marine chapters that played the most significant part in the Badab War's early stages - the Astral Claws, Fire Hawks, Marines Errant, Red Scorpions, Raptors, Novamarines, Fire Angels, Howling Griffons and Lamenters are each illustrated with extensive colour profiles.
This volume also contains a complete army list, The Tyrant's Legion, representing those forces that defended Huron's conquered realms from the Imperium's wrath, and a purpose-designed campaign system for you to re-fight your own Badab War. Also included are five unique campaign missions and a special Boarding Assault mini-expansion for Warhammer 40,000 that allows you to fight brutal ship-to-ship combats on the tabletop.
The full-color, 208-page book contains 15 color pictures, 120 full-color Space Marine infantry and vehicle profiles and ten detailed color star maps, as well as three new Apocalypse formations and twelve new special characters representing mighty warriors from the Space Marine chapters featured in this book. Forge World's book production team and Imperial Armour writer Alan Bligh have done sterling work adding fantastic new depth to the Warhammer 40,000 universe. The book also contains a full-color, double-sided poster containing a detailed Badab Sector map by Sam Lamont, and brand-new Space Marine artwork by Paul Bonner.
To whet your appetite, we've put together a gallery of sample page spreads, and our Games Day lorry-load of stock will contain as many copies of this eagerly-awaited new book as we can manage to plunder from our printers. The book will be priced at £45.00 GBP, and because we don't yet know exactly how many copies we'll have available, we recommend that you send us a reservation order as soon as possible! We hope to announce a general release date for shipping worldwide very soon.
Forge World Studio Stand
Our entire Design Studio team of miniatures designers, Imperial Armour writers and the book production team will be on hand at Games Day U.K., displaying future projects, work-in-progress miniatures, and original artwork, as well as surrounding themselves with a dizzying array of beautifully-painted Forge World models for you to admire.
Imperial Armour Volume 9 writer Alan Bligh will be supplied with a whole box of pens to autograph your brand-new copies of the Badab War Part I, and you'll be able to quiz him on his plans for the concluding part of this exciting expansion, and maybe even get a few hints of his dark plans for future Imperial Armour books.
Graphic Artists Sam Lamont, Kenton Mills and Ian Strickland will be proudly showcasing the fantastic color profiles and artwork that they have produced for the Badab project, as well as explaining the stages that a book goes through before printing. Kenton might even be persuaded to let slip a few tidbits about the range of forthcoming decal sheets and etched-brass symbols that he's been working on.