Signalling his troops into their assigned positions, Kaddar Prentis triggered his armor’s na-cybel infusers. The Kaigus had been shadowing his patrol for a week now, never coming close enough to trigger a fight, but always there on the edge of scanner range. Their twisted mockery of the human form could not be allowed to pollute the coming Ascension. Here and now, the Karist patrol would punch through their lines, putting an end to the vile creatures and cutting off their avenue for reinforcement.
A Maelstrom’s Edge V2 battle report, using the Kaigus Pact and Karist Enclave Faction Starter Sets in a 50 point Forward Unto Victory mission! Check it out on the Maelstrom’s Edge website here!
One of my side-projects lately has been slowly working through updating the original Maelstrom’s Edge online assembly instructions to a more functional PDF format with proper step-by-step illustrations, and adding instruction documents for those that didn’t previously have them, which included the plastic PDG Gaming Gun Carriage – you can find that document on the Assembly Guides page of the Maelstrom’s Edge website here. Working on those instructions reminded me that I had always intended to add a rules page for the gun carriage to be looted by Broken forces, and so I took some time to throw something together, and add in a few other ‘missing’ models at the same time!
So, on the V2 Rules Downloads page of the Maelstrom’s Edge website, you can find a section down the bottom with the current versions of my various homebrew rules docs for each faction. These rules cover various conversions or kitbashes I have assembled over the years using miniatures from the Maelstrom’s Edge and/or other miniature ranges, and are intended as a fun way of getting these onto the table, rather than being an ‘official’ part of the game. If you want to build your own versions of these models to use in your games, by all means do so, but make sure your opponent is ok with you using them!
Most of these were rules previously available, but I have made the following changes:
The Broken
Gnolti Longhorn – added the Forsaken designator so that he fits into the subfaction command structure.
Broken Thunderbolt Team added – a unit added to use the PDC Gun Carriage. While the Epirian version is a self-piloting drone, the Broken strip out the drone core and use it as a manned artillery unit with different weapon options!
The Epirian Foundation
Hornet Drone added – heavy add-on for Firefly units.
Contractor Pathfinders added – a unit of stealthy Contractor scouts.
Aurochs Automated Transport added – drone-controlled transport vehicle built from the Mantic Mule.
The Karist Enclave
Kaddar Noctis added – a new priest unit, fusing Karist tech with Angel DNA.
New Shadow Walker variants added – the Shadow Stalker, Shadow Dancer and Shadow Weaver.
The Kaigus Pact
A new addition to my unofficial rules collection, that I couldn’t resist because the models are so fun to build! I previously shared a Muharis Sentinel conversion, equipped with shields taken from the Orakan Shield Thrall kit and an Alpha staff made from a Proctat Genostaff and Orakan legs, that looked like this:
Muharis Sentinel Bulwark (Previously known as a Sentinel Spearhead)
Obviously, this left me with a few Orakan models with missing shells, and so I threw together some oversized combat thralls using Muharis Ripper Claws and Proctat Genostaff heads!
Dromakin Combat Thralls
Rules for both of these units are now available in the new Kaigus Pact document, which can be found along with all of the other rules PDFs in the V2 Rules Downloads section here!.
I have been slowly working through adding back some old content on the site that had been missing since the last facelift, and have also been spending my weekends dusting off some lapsed projects. As a result, in the shiny new Downloads section, you can now find a bunch of printable cards for 2nd edition Warhammer 40,000 (part of my Oldhammer 40,000 revamp project) and some custom cards for enhancing WotC’s Star Wars Miniatures game.
Oldhammer 40,000 Psychic Power Cards and Warp Cards
Oldhammer 40,000 Warp Deck
The Warp Deck is a redesign of the original 2nd Edition deck, just prettied up and printable, as the originals are increasingly difficult to find.
The Psychic Power deck is a revamped compilation of the original Dark Millenium cards, a couple of additions from Citadel Journal, and my Psychic Scream power from my WIP Necron Codex included just for good measure.
Oldhammer 40,000 Psychic Power Deck
On the Star Wars side, I have dusted off and redesigned some old Mission Cards and Random Event Cards that I first put together back when the game was still in full swing. They’re obviously not going to be of interest to as many people these days, now that the game is dead and the miniatures increasingly collectible… but I thought it would be nice to put them back out there on the off-chance that they were of use to someone.
You can find all of these card decks in the Downloads section here.
I recently shared some pics of my 120 point Koritanii force, as used in the ‘Enter, The Pact’ battle report. You can check them out now on the Maelstrom’s Edge website here!
