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Lastly, for those in the Chicago area looking to play more Shadow War and 40k, Greenfire Games is supporting both and they are being played on Monday and Tuesday evenings at one of the cleanest and friendliest game shops in Chicagoland.

It's 4 pages are a bit more comprehensive than you will need, but if you have the first page at hand and leave your rulebook open to the weapons list on the penultimate page of the Shadow War rulebook you'll rarely have to consult anything else. Secondly, the STAWK's "Shadow War Cheat Sheet" is a very nice Quick Reference sheet. I was able to quickly create a warband and print off the army list above. Three more bits of helpful information for present and potential Shadow War players.įirst of all, the warband list builder at Shadow War Zone is super easy to use. The Guardsmen advance across the transit station: Here's two shots I took to give a different perspective of the battlefield. Though we only used about half of the table, I always enjoy the chance to get my urban terrain on the table. with one force being made of vintage Squat miniatures and the other GW Cadians with Pig Iron Productions helmeted gas mask heads. Oops.īoth teams used an identical Astra Militarum (Imperial Guard) lists that you can read here. Astute players will note that I managed to completely forget about half the rules related to morale and leadership tests.

If I'd been thinking, I would have certainly played another game immediately after this one. I suspect that further games could easily be completed in that amount of time, maybe considerably less. You can be the judge of how well that was accomplished.įor a first game, it was over reasonably quickly, in less than an hour. As we played I attempted to explain the basics of the game, a bit of strategy, some comparisons to 40k, etc. Greenfire asked to live stream our game, hence the video below. Last Thursday I grabbed a few crates of terrain and 2 kill teams and headed down to Greenfire games to give the game a try. So, we were quite excited to hear that Games Workshop was using the Necromunda ruleset as the basis for their 40k-setting warband skirmish game "Shadow War Armageddon". A number of CSW members have a long-term love for the classic game Necromunda.