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The Doom of Vilius: Force Deployment and Objectives

October 2007·pp. 76–77

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The organisers divide an L-shaped battlefield into three sectors with different missions: defending the Imperial city foothold, closing a warp rift and taking the desert bridge and wall breach. Each sector receives themed forces and reserves, while tunnels connect two areas. Narrative deployment replaces the usual bidding procedure, and the rift counts as two of the six objectives, making the central struggle disproportionately important to the result.

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