The Graildark Nebulae

 So the Ork rise to greatness campaign kind of stalled out. Why? Because Da Boyz just wanted to stay Boyz. I.E. We just wanted to play various orky mini games and not progress into Warhammer 40K.

Alright so onto the next thing. Battle Fleet Gothic! We just finished a monthlong campaign between Imperium, Chaos and of course, Ork Pirates. 

1st Place was Imperium, Subsector Commander John with 12 renown. Second was Orky Big Nob, Captain Rotear with 8 renown, and last place was Chaos Champion Felix, with a miserable 5 renown. (Chaos played by me or course)

The campaign was played out on a super small custom 5 planet subsector called the Graildark Nebulae, which is part of the Gothic Sector. The campaign takes place in 160 M41, years after Abaddon's defeat in the Gothic war. Despite the Imperial victory however the Imperium still has not liberated this part of the sector from Chaos domination, until now. 

During the campaign the players were restricted to raid and big raid scenarios only. Despite an early loss to the Orks that resulted in a demotion, the Imperial player rallied with two stunning victories as the attacker in "The Raiders" scenario, racking up a respective win against the Chaos and Ork player respectively. 

With the campaign resolved as an Imperial Victory, the Imperium is ready to go on the offensive to re-take the remaining Graildark worlds and maybe destroy the ork's secret planet as well. 

So this sets the stage nicely for our next 40 K campaign, which will be an Imperial invasion of a chaos held world. Since the Imperium has the "strategic advantage" for routing the chaos fleet, the Imperium will only need to win two games out of a possible 3 game campaign to win a major victory. A chaos win of two games will be an Imperial minor victory, and if Chaos runs the board with 3 wins, then it will be a minor chaos victory. 

Meanwhile, the orks are going to hire themselves out as free booters and try to help the chaos player out and maybe engage in more BFG piracy as well. 

Here are some pictures from the campaign. Note the "kustom" orky kroozer made from Epic 40K and Mordheim parts.