In this series, we showcase armies used by your humble Jungle Guides. By detailing how the army was collected, how the background and color schemes were developed, and how the army is used on the battlefield, we hope that this series will provide inspiration for those interested in collecting similar armies.
First Sergeant Jeremiah Zumwalt had seen—and killed—many foul xenos over his decades of service to the Imperium, but he had never before seen these: purple reptilian humanoids accompanied by a variety of green monstrosities, and towering over all of them, a charcoal-gray beast with jagged dorsal spines, whose plodding footsteps actually made the ground shake beneath Zumwalt’s feet, and whose roars threatened to burst the eardrums of him and his men.
Not that First Sergeant Zumwalt knew why these aliens were here. As on almost every other terrestrial planet in the galaxy, nickel was a common metal here on Esmarkka IV, used mostly for making steel. The bastions and the small garrison of troops here were in case of raids by wandering human barbarians on this sparsely-settled world, and even so, they had not been necessary for several years.
Yet now, this mine was under a determined attack by a horde of xenos, cloaked in swirling green gas that made shots go wide, and a living nightmare large enough to blot out the sun.
