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Raven Guard Heraldry
 A lot of people have been posting about heraldry this week in the Raven Guard subreddit, because they’ve just booted up Space Marine 2, have fallen in love with the greatest Chapter in the Imperium,...
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Thatos Terrain Done Unreasonably Quickly
Who's got John Williams on in the background? Just me?Fast terrain projects seem to be becoming a bit of a specialty of ours. About a year ago, Charlie, Drew and I went in for a pair of boxes of...
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The Beard Bunker is temporarily switching to monthly posts
I am here today on behalf the management* to make an announcement to all Beard Bunker readers, and instead of burying the lead, I've put it in the title. Regrettably, for while, we are going to have to...
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The 31st Nightfall Ranger Regiment: An Imperial Guard Love Letter
 For the first of the Beard Bunker’s temporarily monthly offerings, I thought I’d write about something dear to my hobbyist’s heart: The Imperial Guard. Specifically my Imperial Guard collection, the...
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Project Capstone: Thunderhawk Build Log 2
After an unexpected interlude, here are the continuing adventures of building a Thunderhawk Gunship. For further context please see previous articles in this series.  Day 15My regular roleplaying...
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We could have done more in 2024...
As Charlie mentioned in October, 2024 has not been a great year for many at the Beard Bunker. Nevertheless, hobby sure has hobbied, maybe less hobby for some of us than previous years, but as is our...
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Sons of Baal
A disturbingly long time ago, I was very excited to finally be owning an army I had wanted since I was ten years old. The full story of my adoration of this army is contained in that link so feel free...
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Back to Battlefleet Gothic
Way back when in 1999, Games Workshop dropped Battlefleet Gothic on my tender teenage self. I’d come to the hobby just too late to get into Epic, and didn’t know anyone playing Necromunda, so it was...
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Refenestration: Adding windows to 40K terrain
Charlie: We’ve all imagined having actual glass in the tiny plastic windows of our ruined dollhouses. What a fun idea! How utterly impractical! The idea is sensibly consigned to the most conceptual of...
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New Chaos Army: The Order of the Iron Ring
I started a new army this year, and it's definitely not a Chaos army. How could it be? They don't worship Chaos. Sure, they use Chaos, but so do some radical Inquisitors. They're not an Imperial army...
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Easy Storm Speeder turret conversion
There are many big, difficult issues in the world. War, famine, corruption, ecological collapse, the Storm Speeder's turret design. I could go on. Today's post holds an answer to one of those issues....
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Modular Urban Board Project Log 8: the End Result
What is an adult? Ordinarily I'd say it's a person of any age who has both empathy and responsibility. What is an old person? I'm starting to suspect it's someone for whom the passage of time has...
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Doubles Campaign Weekend: Whose Mine Is It Anyway?
Sometimes it’s hard to know where to start when trying to make narrative campaigns happen, but today’s post will walk you through the Beard Bunker’s most recent campaign weekend, and honestly the...
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The Beard Bunker is returning to its weekly format
We shifted to monthly posts in October 2024 amidst what I nebulously referred to as "spectacular real life events" for a number of the Bunker's contributors. The monthly posts let the Bunker maintain a...
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Homebrew Gravis Characters
A long time ago in a 40k edition far far away, the game was a different beast. Unlike today’s highly constrained options based entirely on what models are available from GW, and distinct datasheets for...
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Back to Battlefleet Gothic: 5 months later
Charlie: I've been running a campaign for Tom and Drew in which each of them plays a Space Marine officer with a strike cruiser and some escorts. Confrontations are fought in a mix of Battlefleet...
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The Tabletop is No Place For Camouflage
Never is the distinction between painting for realism and painting for the tabletop more obvious than when it's time to paint some camouflage. Miniatures need to be readable from four feet away;...
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When to Kill Off Your Own Characters
Populating an army with characters who have names and personalities really brings miniature battles to life for me. But five years into using my Cobalt Scions Space Marines on the regular, it was...
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The Four C'Tan of the Apocalypse
One wouldn't expect the coming of the apocalypse to be something that could just pass you by, but judging by the swift disappearance of 2019's ruleset for Warhammer 40,000 Apocalypse, that's exactly...
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Shred 'Til Yer Ded
When Krug was a young ork, a runtherd took him into Mek City to see the Goff Parade. He said, "Krug, when you grow up, will you be a really fighty Goff boy, a killer of our foes?"Krug said, "Yeah...
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Book Bunker
The Beard Bunker is all about narrative wargaming. But the games we play ourselves are not the only source of 40k narrative, GW has been making major bank from our collective narrative thirst for...
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Forged in Blood (and sweat, and tears): Bringing my Blood Angels to 1,000 points
We have a guest post for you today from Pete, one of our group's newest nerds. He first featured in our 2024 roundup, and has since been hard at work bringing his Blood Angels up to 1,000 fully armed...
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Is Game Balance Really a Good Thing for Narrative Players?
They say a balanced game is good for both competitive and narrative players. This is true, conceptually, but as with all things it depends on the execution. With frequent balance updates, Games...
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Super Easy Miniature Photography
A simple little guide for taking relatively good quality photos of your minis with minimal effort and resources. This isn’t a guide for photography experts, it’s for anyone and everyone using only...
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The War for Lachesis: One Year Later
For the last year or so, we've been conducting an experiment: to what extent is it useful to have an ongoing warzone that enables an easy narrative context for games without having to come up with a...
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