Inspirational Friday 2018: Winter Warfare (until 2/2)

[Kierdale]

For those who do not know it, Inspiration Friday is a (generally) fortnightly event within its home in the Chaos Space Marines forum (but open to all members of the B&C), in which a topic is set for members to write short (or long if the muse takes you) fluff/fan-fic pieces about their war bands, characters and models.

I generally only make IF posts in the CSM and FanFic forums (and the forum of another faction if they are the subject of the IF that time) but I’m posting this here too as we some of the best entries for the Desert Warfare theme came from IG-regulars. You like it hot, huh?

How do you like it when the temperature is turned down?

And here begins our second challenge of Inspirational Friday 2018:

Winter Warfare

Combat in cold conditions, be it snow, ice or thawing, presents combatants with new obstacles and concerns, be it on land or at sea. The cold saps strength and takes lives. Those lucky enough to live risk trenchfoot, frozen supplies and war gear.

New tactics are required and the advantage lies with the defender provided that logistics are maintained and protected.

And upon the nightmare battlefields of the 41st millennium who knows what additional horrors stalk through the blizzards and the dark night?

In the past we have have IF challenges on the subject of Aquatic Combat and Desert Warfare and with the northern hemisphere of Terra now in the grip of winter tell us this time a tale of winter warfare.

IF2018: Winter Warfare runs until the second of February.

Let us be inspired.

The winner of IF2018: Winter Warfare shall claim the Octed amulet:

And the honour of judging the next challenge.

What loyal guardsman would want such an accursed bauble? Why, to deny the heretics from getting their claws on it, of course!

As an ex-commissar of the IG forum I must point out that should you win, please immediately report your trespassing in the chaos form to the nearest commissar and hand over the Octed. You will be receive posthumous honours.

Please submit your entries (and any questions you might have) in the main IF thread linked to above.