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More than anything else, 4. K stands out from other tabletop wargames because of its extremedarkness. Set roughly thirty- eight thousand years in the future, the most basic summation of the game's plot is that our galaxy has been twisted into a unfathomable hell where an eternal, impossibly vast conflict occurs between several absurdly powerful genocidal, xenocidal, and (in at least one case) omnicidal factions, with every single weapon, ideology, and creative piece of nastiness imaginableturned. Up to Eleven.. and even ithas a Hell.    open/close all folders      More about the setting In the distant past, humanity held immeasurable power and glory, but no longer.

In the waning years of the 4. The Killing Movie Watch Online. Imperium of Man, is a paranoid, fascisttheocratic state which spans the galaxy but is struggling mightily to maintain its grip on its territory. Its messiah was laid low by his most beloved son and has been locked up on life support for more than ten millennia, physically dead yet psychically conscious. The incomprehensibly vast Ecclesiarchycommits horrible atrocities in his name (but against his philosophy) on an almost- daily basis. The Space Marines, capricious, fanatical, genetically engineered. Knight Templar. Super Soldiers and the Sisters of Battle, equally fanatical, pyromaniacalbattle nuns serve as the Imperium's special forces, while the Imperial Guard, its trillions- strong regular army, takes disregard for human life to new and interesting extremes.

A futuristic Inquisition ruthlessly hunts down anyone with even the slightest taint of the heretic, the mutant, or the alien, even going as far as destroying entire planets, just to be sure. Science and technology have scarcely progressed for ten thousand years, partly because they are treated with fear, ignorance and magical superstition, and partly because the Adeptus Mechanicus, the secretive, derangedmachine cult that maintains the Imperium's technological base, by and large sees innovation as blasphemy against the wisdom of the ancients. The Warp, the Imperium's only means of Faster- Than- Light Travel, carries with it a good chance of being ripped apart by daemons in more ways than one, and the souls of psychic humans are consumed in the thousands per day to not only power the Astronomican, the psychic navigation aid used to negotiate Warpspace, but to fuel the Emperor's life support mechanism. As bad as the Imperium is, however, all the other major factions are just as bad, if not far worse. The Eldar, an ancient, mysterious and manipulative race nearly destroyed by the fallout from their ancestors' decadence, are best known for contriving wars that see billions from other species dead to spare merethousands of their own that fate, while their depraved cousins, the Dark Eldar, happily perpetuatemass slaughter and Cold- Blooded Torture, both trying to stave off the hellish afterlife looming over their entire species.

The Tyranids, a mysterious, ever- hungeringextra- galactic race guided by a malevolent but highly intelligent. Hive Mind, are rampaging across the galaxy, consuming planets'biospheres to evolve and become stronger.

The Necrons, The Remnant of an ancient alien civilization transformed into vast legions of incredibly advanced, undying, living metal warriors, are awakening after millions of years of slumber to reclaim a galaxy they see as rightfully theirs and scour away the taint of organic life. The Orks, a genetically- engineered warrior species infesting every corner of the galaxy, cheerfully battle anything that might give them a good fight — including each other, if nothing better presents itself — because it's literally hard- wired into their genetic code to do so..

The T'au, a comparatively small and young race with an insurgent cross- species empire on the galaxy's fringe, readily seek new allies through diplomacy, but are reputed to absorb those who refuse through orbital bombardment, concentration camps and possibly mindcontrol, all to furthertheir philosophy of the "Greater Good". Worst of all are the forces of Chaos, which live and thrive in the Warp, are sustained by the emotions of living beings, corrupt everything they touch and are the root cause of much of the setting's darkness.

Led by the fourgreat Gods of Chaos, they're known for ripping holes in reality through which countless Chaos Daemons and Chaos. Space Marines periodically emerge to attempt to bring the universe to further ruin, the most recent of which now stretches across the entire galaxy and has split the Imperium in two.    How the game is played The game is played on a table top or similar flat surface with added terrain, obstacles, and other objects; the standard play area is 6' x 4'. The essential tools for gameplay, aside from the models, are: the main rulebook; codices for the various armiesnote with rules for all armies that as of yet don't have their own codices summed up in indexes as of the release of the eighth edition rules; a tape measure, as everything is measured in inches; objective cards and markers which are used in some game variants; and lots of six- sided dice (D6s)note seriously..

You can pick these up separately, but for each edition of the rules GW has provided a starter kit allowing new players to get started immediately. The current starter kit is Dark Imperium, containing enough miniatures to field two small armies, the main rulebook and a separate list of the core rules, special rules pertaining to the armies in the kit, a 1. The models are divided into nine distinct categories: Lords of Warnote exceptionally powerful, even legendary figures, HQsnote powerful leaders, Elitesnote exceptionally strong units and war machines, Troopsnote basic infantry, Dedicated Transportsnote vehicles specifically meant to be infantry transports, Fast Attacknote speedy units and light vehicles, Heavy Supportnote heavily armed vehicles and units, Fortificationsnote specific types of terrain that work in an army's favor, and Flyersnote strictly airborne units. The 8th edition rules allow players to build their armies either as Open Play (basically bring whatever you want), Narrative (recreating historical battles from the fluff or themed campaigns), or Match Play (building armies along an organized structure with specific numbers of certain model categories, determined by a Force Organization Chart).

There are six default FOCs, each with a set number of HQ and Troops slots as base requirements and varying numbers of slots for other model types. Match Play armies also get bonuses that the other play styles do not, and give the player certain amounts of Command Points which can be used during the game in various ways. For each army, the models available in each category have both a Power rating and a base point value relative to their worth in gameplay, which covers the # of models and their default weapons and armor. The Power rating is generally geared toward Open and Narrative games while the points values are geared toward Match Play.

The rules give the player specific options to change the weapons, armor, and other bonuses depending on the category and model or unit in question, and to add models to certain units.