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To the OP, you might be interested in these rules my club maintains for Kill Team style games:

http://rocketshipgames.com/40k/recon-squad/

We also have a campaign book with a bunch of different...

I've posted a 40k skirmish campaign guidebook we've used in my club for several events: Legacies.

http://rocketshipgames.com/40k/legacies/

The campaign is lightweight but has a solid narrative...

Deathwatch: Overkill is definitely a pretty sweet box of models. Game looks solid too.

I made PDF patterns to make tuckboxes for the two card decks and keep them organized in the box:
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I wrote up a quick guide on taking quality photos:

http://www.rocketshipgames.com/blogs/tjkopena/2016/03/sergeant-tolek-shows-how-to-photo-minis/

Using a new sergeant I painted for my...

Out on patrol, a small exploratory force of Eldar are startled by a bulbous daemon schlubbing its way nonchalantly across a clearing in an abandoned Imperial town. With no reinforcements of their own...

Registration for this year's NOVA Open tabletop wargaming convention goes live tomorrow, Feb 1, 8pm! I'd like to call out attention to the new and hopefully improved 40k Trios Team Tournament. As...

A good game last night prompted a short battle report, with photos, a map, and some observations:

http://www.rocketshipgames.com/blogs/tjkopena/2016/01/40k-battle-report-necrons-vs-kingbreakers/

I hope you can join us! Our narrative events over the past year have been a lot of fun.

My club in Philadelphia is organizing a new 40k narrative event this summer. If you're in the region, I hope you'll join us!

LibertyHammer, a 40k narrative tournament
June 25 + 26, 2016 (sign-up...

Thanks!

There's a detailed writeup of the mechanics here:

http://www.rocketshipgames.com/blogs/tjkopena/2015/01/the-campaign-for-solypsus-9/

At some point I hope to make a clean PDF writeup,...

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Saturday our club had the fifth event of its Solypsus 9 campaign, a 16,000 point Apocalypse match pitting Chaos...

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Yesterday our club had the third event of its Solypsus 9 sequence, with 16 players competing as eight teams in a...

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Our club/shop just held the second event in its Solypsus 9 campaign. Ten players in an Imperium+Necrons alliance...

Quick battle report from last night pitting a Grey Knights force relying heavily on the Vortex of Doom against my Space Marines in a 1750pt Maelstrom mission:
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My club just started its latest campaign, the battle for Solypsus 9. The first day had eight players in an...

That move's understandable as an anal forum organization thing, but it's worth noting these aren't particularly more "homebrew" than most tournament rules and mission packs. The core mechanics and...

My club and I are happy to post our 40k skirmish variant: Recon Squad.

http://www.rocketshipgames.com/blogs/tjkopena/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/banner.png

It's very similar to traditional GW...

I tend to find a lot of the current-timeline 40k books pretty hit or miss. That's true of the Heresy books as well, but they seem to have a higher proportion of quality reads, though I admit at this...

My club just battled out its annual winter 40k Apocalypse, now expanded to include a skirmish campaign. Full report with photos:
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A writeup on the finale of our just-concluded campaign tournament series:

http://www.rocketshipgames.com/blogs/tjkopena/2014/12/40k-the-cataclysm-on-caldor-iv/

Some friends and I have started running the regular 40k events at our local shop, and I think we're doing some interesting things blending tournament and narrative play. Here's the writeup of our...

That's really interesting. I have not seen a scheme like that before, thanks for posting. The TO here was talking about some schemes in the future based around percentages of an army killed, which...

Report from this weekend's super fun Berks PA Doubles Tournament:

http://www.rocketshipgames.com/blogs/tjkopena/2014/10/40k-berks-pa-doubles-railyard/

Raukaan + Kingbreakers (Salamanders) face...

These are very very nice! Probably my favorite markers other than the ones I've made [1, 2]. Thanks for sharing.

As part of the run-up to my club's semi-annual Apocalypse winter grudge match I've started writing up some of the design notes behind our very successful execution of these mega-battles. First up is...