Three blocs collapse into two final causes. The war is no longer about old loyalties, but about what Malik's Damnation should become.
Phase 3 Faction
Those that seek to end the dread hulk's influence over the Calixis Sector by pushing Malik's Damnation into the Hazeroth Abyss.
Their cause is simple: break the hulk's hold over the sector forever, even if that means consigning every secret and relic within it to the void.
Phase 3 Faction
Those that want to use Malik's Damnation for greater purposes by pushing the hulk toward Mara and Threnos.
They see destiny, weaponry, prophecy, profit, or revelation in the hulk's continued advance and will not allow it to be erased in the Abyss.
Two Boarding Actions missions are available inside the hulk. Mara and Threnos each provide a Strike Force mission pool with two missions available on that world. This means a total of four games will count toward the crusade: two Boarding Actions and two Strike Force games. The Strike Force games that count toward the crusade may be played on the same planet.
Primary scoring is control of the hulk, and individual planetary control. The interior war and the fate of each world both matter to the final outcome.
Secondary scoring is Priority Targets: score 1 point for each Vehicle, Monster, and Character over 10 wounds of starting strength that is destroyed.
In Phase 3, the surging energies of the Abyss cast shadows over every battlefield.
Phase 3 Battlefield Effect
At the start of each battle round, the player going second rolls a D6. On a 4+, no stratagems of any kind may be used for the entirety of the battle round.
This can only be triggered once per game.
The hulk remains the central prize, but Mara and Threnos now stand in the path of whatever fate the new factions choose for Malik's Damnation.
The interior war turns vicious. Breached decks, sealed arteries, and void-blasted junctions become the fulcrum on which the hulk's fate turns.
Boarding Actions Mission
Forces smash into compromised compartments and ruptured plating, fighting to secure the opening before the enemy can widen it or seal it behind them.
Winning here is a step toward deciding who truly controls Malik's Damnation.
Boarding Actions Mission
The battle tightens around a vital junction of corridors and systems where command access, movement, and sabotage all converge.
Hold the artery, and you shape the direction of the wider hulk war.
Mara is a hotbed of warp-tainted activity. Xenos and Chaos elements seek to harness the ancient energies of the forbidden world for their own purposes and manifestations.
Threnos has been the target of activity that seems to grow as the hulk approaches. Intercepted communiques and clandestine observations show a dangerous energy eminating from a forbidden lattice of unknown origin.
Strike Force Mission
Forces clash to send word of what they have found on Threnos.
Strike Force Mission
Old allies become new enemies, seeking to cut the heart out of the opposition.