CAMPAIGN: The Phoenix campaign

I'm back from my trip away so I'll be trying to get some posts up over the weekend. Most of them will revolve around the campaign I've just started with my long term gaming buddy (and nemesis) Gary. I'll be using my Exigators Chaos Space Marines while Gary will be playing the enigmatic Eldar. My first posts need to explain the background and campaign rules, then I'll be writing each battle report up on my dedicated site - I'll link them all from here of course.

I'm desperately trying to get all of my remaining Chaos models painted so I can use them in the campaign. To that end I've started painting my Plague Marines and I'm trying to paint a unit per week so that they'll all be finished by Christmas. I'll keep you all updated on my progress.

So my first real contribution to The Phoenix Campaign will be an Exigators campaign roster. While we aren't using fixed army lists as such, this campaign will be set solidly in the background we have both developed for our armies. We're both using experience points so our units will remain the same for the whole campaign.

Here's the entire list of units I have to choose from, and more importantly, their names. The units in italics are still to be painted. I've had to mess about with some units (bold) because I chose the army list for my first game without checking this master roster. I simply won't play them again in the campaign, or change them around so that they match the established ones.

HQ

• Bellicus - Daemon Prince
  
• Tchoi Guerez - Chaos Lord, Terminator armour, Lightning Claw, Combi-plasma
  
• Sebastian Jaxx - Chaos Lord, bike, lightning claw
• Forax Tork - Chaos Lord, mark of nurgle, daemon weapon
• Chaos Lord, mark of nurgle, palanquin of nurgle, daemon weapon
  
• Evomere Incursus - Sorceror, mark of nurgle, nurgles rot
• Ppbhuln'naks - Greater Daemon (Great Unclean One)
• Areoakirsh - Greater Daemon (Keeper of Secrets)
  

Elites

• Squad Surculus (The Gene Cursed) - 5 Possessed
• Atrocitor - Dreadnought, twin linked lascannon
• Squad Myre - 8 Chosen, 2 plasma guns, aspiring champion with powerfist
  

Troops

• Squad Krall – 10 Chaos space marines, plasma gun, lascannon, aspiring champion with powerfist, icon of chaos glory
• Squad Brakar – 10 Chaos space marines, plasma gun, lascannon, aspiring champion with powerfist, icon of chaos glory
• Squad Profuge - 6 Chaos space marines, plasma gun, aspiring champion with plasma pistol, icon of chaos glory
• Squad Hotep – 9 Thousand sons, Sorceror with warptime
• Squad Putid - 7 Plague marines, melta gun, flamer, aspiring champion with power weapon
  
• Squad Pestis - 7 Plague marines, plasma pistol
  
• Squad Odoratus - 7 Plague marines, 2 plasma guns, aspiring champion with powerfist
• Squad Contagio - 6 Plague marines
• Squad Kanker - 7 Plague marines, 2 plasma guns, aspiring champion with power weapon
• Squad Axhote - 8 Khorne Berzerkers, aspiring champion with powerfist
• Hhakuuoohlaoks - 9 Lesser daemons (Blood Letters)
  
• Iideommae - 6 Lesser daemons (Daemonettes)
• Arableuerakiar - 8 Lesser daemons (Furies)
• Uuandearzao - 9 Lesser daemons (Plague Bearers)
  

Fast Attack

• Squad Scrementor – 8 Raptors, 2 flamers, aspiring champion with power weapon
• Mirescab and Witherpuke - 2 Spawn

Heavy Support

• The Machine Cursed - 3 Obliterators
• Torius - Predator, twin linked lascannon, heavy bolter sponsons
• Squad Imber - 6 Havocs, 4 heavy bolters, icon of chaos glory
• Squad Abraxar – 6 Havocs, 2 autocannon, missile launcher, icon of chaos glory
• Squad Infractis – 7 Havocs, 2 melta guns, flamer, aspiring champion with plasma pistol

That's quite a list to choose from. I doubt I'll use them all in the campaign but that largely depends on how fast Gary's Eldar keep killing them!

I better get off now as I've lots to do. Before I go, here's a link to another old battle report where, funnily enough, my Chaos Marines fought against Eldar.