u/Calgacusaur

The supplement for you Ordo Xeno Deathwatch enjoyers is here.

This was a massive piece of work that took me about 4 months to complete. It is still open for feedback and could be adjusted as people use it, but I've been playing with drafts of the books since January (you can see all the models I painted for this).

This is one I'm pretty passionate about. The Inquisition are probably my favourite faction. The Daemonhunter and Witch Hunter books are my favourite books. We never got that third book 20 years ago, so I feel like this fan version should scratch the itch for a lot of people.

There's a lot of new things to capture the Ordo Xenos aspect, from new psychic powers, acolytes, and lobotomised Xenobeasts. I added some skirmish rules for spooky missions (I personally intend to use Shadow War Armageddon rules) as well as rules for alien enemies, which both the original two other books had.

I had so much fun with this. You can see my art abilities improve over it, as it's during this book I pushed myself to move beyond tracing towards trying traditional art and playing around with different techniques both digital and traditional.

As usual, I quite strictly don't republish rules - so you will need a copy of Codex: Space Marines 4th edition and a copy of either Codex: Daemonhunters or Codex: Witch Hunters.

I hope people enjoy it!

You can read and download it for free here: https://wh35k.com/alien-hunters/

I've been working on a bunch of homebrew things to add to r/35k and the setting. This supplement adds a bunch of new units, characters, and rules for making your own minor clans/kulturs as well as giving your Warboss more of a clan identity.

It's a bit of a silly time to release this, immediately prior to Orks getting new stuff, but it gives me a lot of time to playtest and get feedback on how the supplement plays so we can see what comes out after the release.

I also added the Grot Rebel army out of pure love of the game.

I'm posting all the 35k books and supplements to our website: https://wh35k.com/orks/

I've been trying my best to clear out projects that have sat nearly completed for a while and, funnily enough, the one I started most recently is finished first!

This is the pre-11th edition version of the Ork Supplement. The plan is that once 11th edition has arrived, I can hopefully add changes to this rather than wait and wait on producing a new book.

I've absolutely loved researching this (and hated spellchecking it). I've tried to draw on stuff going back to Rogue Trader and 2nd edition, such as the Squig Catapult and Madboyz.

I've also tried to give armies more identity. There was an issue, clearly, in 3rd/4th ed around how you incorporate clans. I think they had it mostly right, which is why I broadly adopted the approach, of giving clans and kulturs their own rules. What I did, to allow you to stick to the tribe system dating back all the way to Rogue Trader, is that it's the clan of your Warlord that decides what you can and can't take. So, in effect, you can still have a tribe of lots of clans - your Goff warboss just won't let sneaky gitz in!

I've added in minor/custom clans and kulturs. I'm not sure how people will respond. Canonically there are minor clans in existence, so I've tried to advise how you would do such a thing. I just know some people might not like this different interpretation of that lore, even though I've kept it as consistent with the official lore as it could really be. There are canonical minor clans after all!

For Grot-enjoyers I put together a Grot Rebel army list for the fun of it. I've always wanted to run an army like that but will probably never get round to it. I know there are many like me, but who actually might get round to it.

The only thing I'd say is that I haven't had masses of time to play-test it, as I wrote it by myself and play about once a month. So feedback is always welcome on the Discord and would fit in with the post-11th edition version perfectly!

Link to the PDF: https://wh35k.com/orks/

(Note: this is my fourth attempt to get this uploaded properly! The image won’t load! Apologies for deleting the previous attempts!)

So this year's campaign is the Fall of Tigrus and, given Orks are the main aggressor, I have decided to do some Orks. Doing Orks is also convenient in helping me have more things to put in the Alien Hunters Book, which I'm still trying to make art for.

In doing this, I wanted to do a short article on my custom clan. The idea has evolved a bit with the Ork book (which is pretty much done), where before I was writing rules like WD 290 to run an army from one clan - now the idea is the clan rules represent the instincts and tastes of your Warlord/Warboss. So if you have a Goff leader, he probably prefers bashing enemies.

I wanted to allow people to customise their Orks so ran with the idea of minor Ork clans (which are a thing) and also sub-kulturs. There are a bunch to draw on in the new book, which almost makes me sad I picked one before I started writing it because I do love the Black Hornz now! I suppose the clan rules means I just need a Black Hornz warboss and a few Boyz to add to my Kaboomaz.

The draft supplement is on our Discord, as I like to let people have input whenever I can and putting it there before release is a nice chance to get more people who don't follow the forum section to have a chance to have a say.

Finally, I've been oddly worried about putting this one up and offending Ork fans somehow! I haven't found much on minor clans so hope it's not seen as heresy! I've put a lot of effort in making it clear that if you do one of these, put effort into explaining why they are a minor clan - maybe they blow themselves up regularly or are too weird for other clans to cooperate with.

The PDF of the Index is available here https://wh35k.com/526-2/

I have been adding Orks to the setting, thinking about how to make them distinct (minor clans, the Blood Axes being the dominant clan) and also to set up the Fall of Tigrus campaign. This is Starsmasha, an Ork warlord mentioned in canon but without any real lore, so I’ve put him as the most famous of the Kabooma clan.

Tried out some new Ork toys against some relatively new Admech rules. All draft rules are on our Discord.