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Bunker Challenges: Rank and File

July 2023·pp. 14–15

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The new Bunker challenge system awards monthly achievements for playing scenarios and event games, painting for club activities and completing themed models. Readers record progress on a portable card and advance through ranks, while journal spaces preserve their hobby history. The inaugural rank-and-file painting theme sits within a repeating schedule that also includes leaders, elite units, supernatural subjects, monsters and gods of war.

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Readers share therapeutic painting, custom Imperial forces and enthusiasm for several generations of Warhammer games. Ian Balzer links Space Wolves and his Sisterhood of the Wolf through their colours; Fiona Gosschalk’s rainbow Skink Oracle combines bright blends, non-metallic gold and tiny galactic patterns. The replies explain a pale Death Guard recipe and briefly place the major alien species in the era of the Horus Heresy.

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Access Granted! Welcome to the Bunker

Lyle Lowery presents a worldwide hobby club whose satellites can be established clubs, a few friends or individual players. The monthly section combines achievement cards, leagues and campaigns, two large-game scenarios, rotating skirmish events, Basic Training, Hobby Hangout and community reports. The introduction explains how these regular activities let readers participate in a shared project without requiring a new physical club.

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The Warhammer Studio Combat Patrol League

The studio’s first month starts with queues at the tables and a flurry of introductory games. John Bracken leads with his T’au and describes using frequent small battles to learn the rules and test deployments against varied opponents. Matt Hutson’s orange Telennar Aeldari provide the hobby spotlight, showing how painting an existing collection’s missing patrol and maintaining a public leaderboard support the league.

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