As a grand tragedy of epic proportions, the Horus Heresy novels are notorious for the diverse array of themes woven into the narratives, not least of which is the burden of command and the horrific choices faced by leading characters as the galaxy descends into the madness of civil war. When I originally envisaged my…
Volkite
The iconic armament of the Great Crusade and the Horus Heresy, Volkite has become a symbol of the lost technologies of the Imperium’s golden age. Ranging in size and application from the Serpenta sidearm, all the way up to the formidable Carronade mounted on the Glaive super-heavy special weapons tank, the background cites Volkite weaponry…
Ash-Maker
One of the great things about Forgeworld’s Horus Heresy setting is the number of unique units and character types it introduced to the setting, none more beloved than Moritats and Legion Destroyers. Naturally then, when I began my Dusk Raiders hobby project, I wanted to include a unit of Destroyers (just not in Mk.IV warplate)…
Hobby Project: Dusk Raiders
In October 2012 Forgeworld re-introduced the Horus Heresy to the tabletop with the publication of the first in a series of Imperial Armour books dedicated the period called, Betrayal. At this point, the novel series of the same name, which started with Horus Rising, had already been running for six years, but the Heresy had…
Rebranding
Greetings Readers, It has been a considerable amount of time since I last checked in on my weblog, and five long years since I first started this website – Originally, I had intended to use it as a promotional vehicle for a science-fiction novel and general, long-form literary rambling, but due to a range of…
Stress vs. IBS
Greetings Readers, This morning I find myself living the age-old adage that there is nothing more stressful in life than having nothing to be stressed about. I know it sounds oxymoronic, but the unexpected thing about living with stress as an accepted factor of your daily existence is the curious absence it leaves in your…
Retrospective: Warzone
Greetings Readers, Instead of looking to the future and talking about lofty gaming aspirations, we’re going to kick off the New Year by peering back into the murky past of wargaming and examining a franchise for which I have a great deal of fondness, but which remains at the periphery of the mainstream consciousness, considered…
Indeterminate
Greetings Readers, It’s time we returned, however briefly, to exploring some of the themes which underpin Memoirs of Conquest. It’s an open secret that certain elements woven into the narrative, draw heavily from UFO culture. Unfortunately, however, that admission comes weighted with a significant amount of pop-culture trivialisation which presents a very real risk of undermining…
Illiterati
Greetings Readers, Strap yourselves in, because this is likely to be a bit of a rant. It is an inescapable fact that we are in the midst of one of those moments in history, which occur all-too-often, whereby the seething masses of humanity begin to buck against the intellectual gains of the previous generations. We…
Faithless
Greetings Readers, So, I am an atheist. There, blog post done: We can all go home now… All joking aside, whilst I have been an atheist for practically my entire life, I’ve never really sat down to talk, in detail, about what that means to me. One of the reasons for this, as far as…