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The Sons of Jaghatai

November 2004·p. 76

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Chris Blair’s Chapter contrasts dark purple armour with bone shoulder pads and markings, demonstrating the article’s colour-discord principle. A crescent-and-alpha emblem repeats as a larger squad symbol, while a knee number carries company identity, showing how a small graphic vocabulary can organise an entire force.

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Games Workshop News

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