Hello folks, sometimes I want to be creative, but I have nothing to paint or I'm not in the mood for painting. I'm not made of money. So even though I love building models, I can't justify going out and buying whatever I want. What's a creative wargamer to do?  Another hobby of my back in the day was Dungeons and Dragons. I don't play much currently, I still get the itch. When I did play D&D with my friends, I was the Dungeon Master 80% of the time. So I got a knack for building worlds and settings for my players to play in. Given these two things. I have decided to make my own setting or warzone within the Warhammer 40,000 universe as a writing project. I know, not the most original idea. Thousands of people have/are doing this. But I want to be creative.

Where to start? Back in the 2021 the book WarZone Octarius came out and like most Tyranid players I got it for the Crusher Stampede Army of Renown (remember those?). But I also read through the lore and fell in love with the conflict of the Octarius war. I like it because its involves xenos as it primary combatants and the Imperium is a bit of a sideshow, but the imperium has to deal with the consequences of this war. This was my jumping off point. I picked a sub-sector that was mention in the book, but had nothing written about it. I picked the Greygar Sub-Sector.

So I had my playground, now I need my players. So I first pick my Space Marines project, The Loxodon Guard. If you want a deeper dive into them click here. But to make a long story short. The Loxodon Guard are an Ultima Founding Space Marine Chapter tasked to patrol and to maintain the Cordon Impenetra in the Greygar Sub-Sector. I then needed a location and antagonists.

The location for my narrative is The Dengamar system. Its a backwater system, where life is hard. The reason why they are there was due to a mistake. But the people of Dengamar carve out a living in spite of this. But then the Octarius War happens  a flood the refugees from systems across the Greygar Sub-Sector and Octarius head to Dengamar  as these systems were being attacked by Orks and the Tyranid menace. This stresses Dengamar to the brink and a chaos led coup d'etat. Enter The Blood Greys and their Leader Gul Dumir  who have been influenced by a cult  know as The Bloodspeakers 

I have more details coming down the pipeline. But feel like to post any comment or notes that you might have. Click on the links if you want to read more about the conflict i'm brewing. This is just this start!