The story here is, for 30k content, forgettable in the extreme, reading much more like a battle report than anything else, feeling at points like the author was given the task of name dropping every unique unit, piece of equipment or ability for both Legions. As the protagonists, the Night Lords eventually claim victory, with Siakaar learning the price of hubris from his Atramentar ‘bodyguards’ so generously loaned to him by his rivals. Mindless of the follies of arrogance in his Legion, he willingly took under his command Atramentar loaned to him by other, more cynical, commanders, and struck out at Sothopolis, a coastal city near Mount Pharos defended by the Ultramarines. Here we follow Zaar Siakaar of the VIII Legion, the Night Lords, an up and coming and/or soon to fall Claw Master boastful of his imminent and inevitable victories at Sotha. This particular battle occurred during the events of Pharos and, like the Battle for Pluto last month, covers an engagement that didn’t get any real time in the Black Library novel. Sotha is the key setting for Guy Haley’s novels Pharos, where Night Lords attempt to take control of the planet and the mysterious Pharos device itself, and Belisarius Cawl: the Great Work, where we learn what powered the device and what made it so truly special. I’m all for spicing things up with a bit of nominative determinism and future history, but could we make it all at least consistent? Anyway. As an aside, Games Workshop, can we please tone it down with the excessive naming? This is the Exemplary Battle the Defence of Sotha: Aegida’s Lament, including the Legendary Mission Sothopolis Burns, which isn’t even the name of the mission (Honour in Duty), and the whole pack is referred to as the Battle of Sotha in the Warhammer Community article. This month’s Exemplary Battle is Aegida’s Lament from the Battle for Sotha – don’t ask me why it’s Aegida’s Lament, when the Aegida was an orbital platform which plays no part in this story. It seems like we might be getting one of these every month, because last night Games Workshop dropped a second Exemplary Battles pack: The Defence of Sotha.Ĭredit: Robert “TheChirurgeon” Jones Battle for Sothopolis Last month Horus Heresy players were graced with a grand surprise: a mini-campaign pack featuring the Alpha Legion and Imperial Fists clashing in the Battle of Pluto, including rules for Imperial Fists Huscarls.

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