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Barbarus Burning

October 2022·pp. 118–121

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A historical account turns the tabletop battle into a record of the Lion’s campaign of vengeance. Fighting around the crash site, bastion and void shield echoes the report’s decisive incidents, then broadens into planetary destruction as surviving defenders and attackers withdraw, leaving the shattered Death Guard home world behind the departing Loyalist fleets.

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