Hi, does anyone know if there’s a list of narrative 40k events that have happened over the years?
I don’t mean these LARP events that seem to be what google thinks I mean with every permutation of the above question. What I’m looking for are the events run by GW like recently with the release of Leviathan “battle for baal” Or the Battle for Armagedon that was done back in 96ish? When I used to play.
I presume that most major changes to 40k have had one of these month long events across all the stores and I’d like to go through them one by one both to catch up with lore and maybe play a few of these games at home
Hey Phirst,
One thing that has been done since the start of 8th edition is GW will run a narrative campaign at the start of the edition that is framed around the two factions in the starter set. The winner does get acknowledged as such in the lore and gets their codex and main releases shown first of the two.
The first of these (The Konor Campaign) is perhaps worth a look as it covers several planets in the Konor system and had a few bespoke missions surrounding it, as well as some regimental standard (the warhammer teams in-universe imperial propaganda) articles.
The other campaigns Games Workshop have made have had pre-determined endings (like the Battle for Baal) but impact the lore harder. Currently these books revolve around a larger warzone impacting multiple planets and serve to add more to the stakes and allow campaign masters to write in their own campaign lore, i.e. "this sector is in danger but I'm going to focus on this one planet with just a name and vague description"
These warzones include:
* The Pariah Nexus, where the Necrons are re-establishing their old empire and fixing the chaos rift at the expense of organic wills
* The Nachmund Gauntlet, where the Imperium is fighting the forces of chaos to control the only stable route through the great rift (This is the longest series so far, start with Vigilus Defiant and work from there)
* Warzone Octarius, where Hive Fleet Leviathan and the Orks are locked in a stalemate.
* Warzone Charadon, where Typhus invades Mechanicum Forgeworlds being eventually backed up by Be'lakor (white dwarf ran a lot of articles surrounding this warzone if it interests you)
* The Chalnath Expanse, which isn't touched on in mainline 40k, it's more of a kill team thing, but revolves around a border war between the Imperium and the Tau in the Imperium Nihilus (the Tau managed to create a stable warp portal and can expand to one area outside the eastern fringe). It's pretty decent lore where you can find it, and it opens up the tau encountering Genestealer Cults, always fun.
usually that stuff is in a google search.
