Hive Fleet Gorgon - Ferron Splinter Fleet

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If you're in the UK there's a small independent tournament that has been around for 5 or 6 years called Blog Wars. Orignally it was a tournament for bloggers but it evolved into a more inclusive event until it reached it's peak at Blog Wars X. The event aimed to be unique in that army choice HAD to include a Special Named Character, it was also famous for the raffle prizes which everyone is entered into and is often worth more than winning the tournament - I won a Deathwatch Overkill box! Anyway, I went repeatedly with Deathleaper as my Special Character and one year actually painted the model!



He was universally rubbish, I think in only a couple of games out of nine he justified his inclusion, invariably because he hid for the entire game eventually scoring an objective. I'd also take him as my Warlord, and he'd be killed before utilising his trait until I stopped, nominated another model as Warlord and in the subsequent game he actually killed a character which finally would have confered the benfits from his trait!



I've not got around to using him in 8th yet, I think he's equally hit-and-miss but I do like the model and the [URL="http://www.darkartminiatures.com/40mm_Urban_Hero_base/p1768314_12506459.aspx"]base in particular[/URL] was fun to do with my dubious freehand skills picking out the blogger logo on the banner to celebrate the tournament.



If you wish to see more pics point your cogitators here: [url]http://www.40kaddict.uk/2015/05/nids-part-169-deathleaper-to-done.html[/url]
If you wish to know more about the upcoming Blog Wars replacment - Nevermind the Blog Wars, point your cogitators here: [url]http://fromthefang.blogspot.com/p/nevermind-blog-wars-11th-november-2017.html[/url]

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The Free Radical Collective is a seemingly benevolent techno-cult operating out of the Ferron Proxima badlands. Their agenda is presented as a free transfer of technology mainly to the masses and in the process decrying the traditional values and oversight of the Adeptus Mechanicus.



With the co-operation of members of the Dark Angels a surgical strike into the heart of the Free Radical Collective's HQ discovered various materials of a Heretical nature. The involvement of the Dark Angels may suggest that their hunt for a member of 'the Fallen' was close to success and evidence would support there was some depraved chaotic links. However, more worrying was the forensic biology reports that some of the Collective were not tainted by Chaos but were in fact some obscene Xeno/human hybrid.



Inquisitor Ephion Rook has called for support from the Ordo Xenos in confirming his suspicions, that the recent appearance of Hive Fleet Gorgon may have been not the first incursion onto Ferron Proxima but in fact a later stage that has been infecting and conspiring in the dark recesses of the red planet for decades or even millenia.




What is even more disturbing in the evidence secured by the Inquisition/Deathwing strike team that teleported into the Collective's HQ was that there are clearly more of these bases hidden within the rusting hills that dot the Ferron landscape. This was in fact only a small cell and those members that were captured, which were few compared to the many killed by the heroic efforts of the combined force, may well not be the leaders or even the hunted 'Fallen' the strike force had hoped to find.



More datastreams are available. point your cogitators here for pictviews of the more tainted xeno/human hybrids: [url]http://www.40kaddict.uk/2015/06/nids-part-172-genestealer-cultists-to.html[/url]

Or here for the full background on the Free Radical Collective: [url]http://www.40kaddict.uk/2013/12/flufftastic-free-radical-collective.html[/url]