Chewie's Stargrave

Mission 2: Echoes in the Void The ruined relay station rose from the ash-choked plains like a broken fang, its vox-spire split and half-collapsed, cables swaying in the ion wind. Once it had carried astropathic whispers and merchant signals across the sector; now it pulsed with stolen energy, its remaining transmitters blinking in stubborn defiance. Auspex ghosts danced across Jalen Varr’s display as the joint crew of Tau Pathfinders and Aeldari Corsairs crouched among the blasted hab-blocks overlooking the site. Pathfinders advance under fire Captain Voss of the Corsairs adjusted his helm and watched the squat silhouettes move below—abhuman mercenaries in heavy armour, disciplined, deliberate. Varr whispered to the mixed crew “ We strike cleanly. Retrieve the data. Withdraw. The Greater Good is served by precision, not pride .” Voss gave a thin smile beneath his helm. And with that, they fell upon the relay station. The joint Tau-Aeldari crew struck like lightning from a cloudles...

Now that we're starting off the Stargrave campaign it's an excuse to buy a bunch of new miniatures and terrain to fit a grimdark futuristic universe rather than Western Europe in the 1940's which has been the focus of all of my hobby efforts for the last 4 years! I need a bunch of cronies for us to fight throughout the campaign bu the 40K kits and prices are just so hard to justify. I was recently impressed by the quality of terrain I got from Temu ( check out my review here ) and so I thought to look again and see if there's anything out there with a 40K theme.  Well wouldn't you know that Temu is absolutely crawling with not only 40K adjacent terrain but 3D prints of actual miniatures that are heavily 'inspired' by existing GW kits. The prices are phenomenal and the pictures looked good enough so I took the plunge and ordered a squad with my terrain.    In the grim dark of the future there is only cataclysmic warzones. The squad I purchased were listed as ...