One amusing little quirk of the way the Eye of Terror campaign was organised: The space "regions" of each system were affected by Battlefleet Gothic games specifically. This, oddly, led to numerous systems where the ground war was won by Chaos, but the void war was dominated by the Imperium, given how popular Imperial Navy fleets were in BFG around that time. As a personal anecdote: I was 18 at the time, playing regular games in GW Reading at the time. One weekend, Reading and the other GW stores in the region (Oxford, Slough, Basingstoke, and Maidenhead, I think) had all been assigned a particular city on one world that they were all contributing to. I brought my Eldar Corsairs BFG fleet that Saturday, and fought a staff member's Slaanesh Chaos fleet in the orbital space above the planet, and managed to break through his lines to bombard the planet. The manager decided that the bombardment would hit a random city from amongst those being fought over, and he phoned up the other stores to resolve the plasma fire raining from the skies from my ships onto battlefields below. I've never before or since managed to kill enemy models in six separate games simultaneously.

I remember that GW came out with a "mutant kit" that was literally a spire of fantasy zombies, ork boyz, catachans, and a chaos mutation sprue. It was a stupid good bargain and I miss that GW.

Codex: Eye of Terror, or as I like to call it: Whacky Dabby Abadaddy's Apocalyptically Armed Adventure

Regular codex: People shoot people, your guys are standing on something Eye of Terror Codex: 🎵 He's got the whole world, In his hands! 🎵

You missed out on what happened to the Scarus sector and the Tau: The ork players were expected to 'ally' with chaos, but a couple of ork forum big bosses rallied the ladz and stomped scarus sector flat, fighting ANYONE and scoring it for scarus, which resulted in the sector being renamed 'Skar-Uz'. At the same time, the Tau players took the opportunity to give everyone a kicking and did so well GW started the 3rd sphere expansion! And yes, there was LOTS of forum drama, and hats of to the chaos players, they definetly ran a tighter, more organised campaign than the Imperials, which was proved pretty conclusively in the Medusa V campaign, where despite massive numerical disadvantage, they did really well again.

He's got the whole world in his hands.......

Everyone looking at Wolf part of the books: "Finally, I will have more wolves in my wolves"

This is the return of the respectful request that you cover GorkaMorka. I'd you do I'll tell mighty tales of this one bloke that rewrote the rules from the ground up and made eight different kinds of ork clans. One of them were only made up of the old ork minis that only had a poseable shota arm.

Help! Im 14 Again and Playing In a hot Games Workshop during the middle of summer! Good times.

Babe, wake up there's a new codex Compliant video.

There was a great WD article at the time in which 4 or 5 GW designers were given a Mutation sprue from the chaos space marine box, a catachan sprue, a fantasy zombie sprue and an ork sprue and were told to kitbash mutants with them! The things they came up with were so cool, unique and inspiring!

I am a Veteran of this Campain. My 2nd Companie Ultramarines helped to secure a Imperial victory at the store in Bremen/Germany. Courage and Honour.

Oh I remember the howling on how this campaign was quietly swept under the rug when Chaos decisively won.

I've been hoping you'd do this, LOVE IT. I remember my 13th Company army very fondly even if it did look absolutely terrible paint job wise

Aaaaand we're back

I have super fond memories of this era of 40k. I helped run many of the Eye of Terror events in my area and even won a Rogue Demon trophy from when GW held a painting competition in our area at the time.

I never new I wanted to be called a ravenous little nerdling....

Because I watched all the Codex Compliants way too many times, everytime I watch this video again, I will edit this comment. I watched this episode 4 times.

I love the Lost and the Damned. All the mutant scratch building and kit bashing was so cool... and it's never made sense to me that Chaos is treated as the most major threat to the Imperium, but 99% of the focus of chaos is placed on the couple of hundred thousand (at most) chaos space marines spread comically thin over a galaxy and not on the billions of rebels, PDF runaways, underhivers, mutants etc that canonically fall to chaos all the time.

The amount of oversized plushies grows

It's official now abaddons nickname is now Abby

13:48 holy smokes those barrel holes!

Snipe's comment about their mental health this year was very relatable. Hope both you are doing well, stay safe.

I played in this campaign at the L.A. Battle Bunker when that was still a thing. We were heavily into Inquisitor and had campaign jump off points that lead into bigger 40k games. It was a lot of fun! My modern armies are still really heavily influenced from those events. It was a hell of a time to be in the hobby, one of the Golden Ages in my opinion.

Oh wow! The entire story of the disputes between the two factions of players sounds absolutely fascinating. They sound like they squabbled the way the factions do in the fiction XD

Pete Hains? I used to do a bit of "Viking" battle re-enactment with him. He was truly a giant of a man, and interesting to talk with. I think that I prefer the old Wolfen models to the new ones.

Once again the Eldar look at the lesser races and think “can we not leave you alone for five millennia without you all killing each other?”

30th episode on my 30th birthday... Today is good.

Cool note with the mutants - GW sold a plastic film sprue pack for them with (iirc) a catachan sprue, an ork boyz sprue, zombie sprue and one or two chaos mutation sprues to convert up your own lads similar to the ones in the rulebook! Really interesting little release that's insanely expensive to find new in the bag today.

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It’s weird seeing so many current chaos models in a book from 2003

yesssss i’ve been waiting for this one. i love my lost and damned army even if it is now actually lost and damned by GW

I had a Lost and the Damned army back in the day mostly made out of plastic Catachans. My big mutants were made out of all sorts of stuff, though.

The production quality in this episode is *chef's kiss* (this is not saying that prior episodes had lower quality, i just want to say that over time each codex compliant episode gets better and better)

All this video did was make me want a new Lost and the Damned faction. Full of heretics, Beastmen, mutants, and zombies that can fight alongside the Chaos Space Marines.

"Reports of Chaos players cheating" Nooooo, say it isn't so.

3rd and 4th editions were by far the best of 40k. 3rd brought us this masterpiece. 4th brought us the best Eldar codex to date and also gave us doctrines for Imperial Guard.

Pretty sure my campaign poster from White Dwarf is still up in my old room at my parent's.

8:30 for a moment I thought that Wulfen on the top right was holding a fish. Love these campaign books really gets the creative juices flowing

I... I feel so seen... I'm almost never acknowledged as a [MYSTERIOUS CADIAN PYLON]

Is it just me who is also breaking out these old books to 'read' along?

I happened to be introduced to 40k sandwiched between two of the big GW campaigns: when the Eye of Terror had just ended, and Storm of Chaos was ramping up--one really good, and beloved by fans; the other eventually reviled. I was 12 at the time, and I could see the influence of all of these things in the local GW store, with the EoT, Armageddon, City Fight, and other great books still on the shelves, and fabulously painted armies on display. There was this feeling that I just missed the biggest party.

This is literally the only series on KZfaq I stop doing whatever I do at the moment to watch immediately... Good job!

Maaannn the Eye of Terror Campaign happened just about when I started playing 40K at school.

My brain has been transposing the s and r in Kasrkin for 17 years (Dawn of War’s release) and so today I learned that it’s “Kas-er-kin” not “Kar-skin.” Thank you for this invaluable service.

Oh wow huh just noticed ABD is a patron of theirs. Man, he's hella rad

I've still got this from back then, also the old metal Chaos possessed lol

I own this book and I played in the GW campaign back in the day. I still watched the whole video and thoroughly enjoyed it.

Regular day: too many videos uploaded from too many channels I love. Choice paralasis. *Snipe and Wib upload* Problem solved! *instantly clicks*

You two have come a long way from being just another let’s play channel on KZfaq. It felt like only yesterday I was watching you play a game about kids showering with their parents and Snipe screaming "incorrect parental figure!" lol.

The cover art for this book was my first time seeing anything from 40k and damn did it leave an impression!

3E of 40k and 6E of Fantasy were the best ❤️

Lost and the Damed was sooooo much fun to build. Was terribly sad when GW didn’t continue it into future editions. 😢

Honestly guys these videos have made my past year a little more enjoyable, so thanks for that! Hope you guys are doing well!

Great episode y'all! I just want to say that seeing new Codex Compliants from y'all has been a real boon during covid. Your videos have a really fun quality that just makes me happy to see more. It's been a bright spot in a garbage year so you have my sincere thanks.

the Necron home base map in DoW: Dark Crusade features a couple of blackstone pylons near the starting point. Just a fun surprise I stumbled upon revisiting the game...

this is the finest channel in all of youtube

Ah, the good old days. When the writing was good, the army lists were fun and the campaigns made sense... How times change...

I wish the Lost and Damned got a new Codex...

I was very young when I played with this. The Seer Council was absolutely amazing to run, and the Black Guardians just felt so much like how Ulthwé are described. I loved it so much that after falling out of love with 8th and 9th I've gone back to it and just reacquired the books. Thank you for a wonderful video.

This can't have been 2003...thanks for making me feel so old...especially as one of the shots of players in store is from my local Games Workshop

Another fab video, folks! I love the kitbashed dudes - using an ork shoota sight as a wheel was a genius move on the builder’s part!

My favourite bit of 40k was this campaign, and then GW just booted it out of canon, and it's sadly most well known for the massive real-world scrap that the players had, which some, myself included, believe was a deliberate attempt to mimic the setting. Such a shame.

Sadly I missed this one back in the day, it was right about the time of my first break from 40K

I remember GW releasing a kit which allowed you to make Lost and the Damned Kitbashes which was super useful and fun

That last image is used in the Risk 40K edition. Abaddon lives.

That opening just gets me

Id kill to have an actual lost and the damned model line and codex. I just settled on buying a few boxes of the blackstone ones for now.

Oh hey, I had a cameo in a way I'd never thought I would. Maaaan the old aesthetic for the Wulfen was so much better :'(

Every day with a new Codex Compliant is a good day. Bless you both in what you do!

I have been anticipating this one. Loved the episode guys. I remember playing a giant game in the Birmingham store for the eye of terror campaign I think there was like 10 players each with 500 points. I was using my home brew sm chapter, fighting on the imperial side. Choas won. My only surviving model was my captain.

I'm sure it's my teenage nostalgia talking but Eye Of Terror era art was absolutely fantastic

My half price books has a lot of the codexes they've reviewed it was cool to pick up a few after seeing the videos I enjoyed the most

Me and my gaming buddies were at "peak 40k" around then, and a lot of fun was had fighting battles and checking the website as the campaign progressed. Good times!

You are so funny and cool you two guys, I follow you since a long time, and I will continue following and supporting you

the guy who scoots himself along on a funky little wheel is made out of an ork boy torso, an ork boy right arm, an ork boy left arm, an ork boy pauldron, an ork shoota sight (the "wheel" he scoots on) and a human-esque head. That's a lotta ork bits for a non-ork character

Every episode you out my book collection grows!

Even on my hiatus from warhammer I'll always come back for codex compliant 🥰🥰

'.' I was playing a tiny Dark Angels army back then, felt neat feeling like a part of one of the only narrative setbacks chaos had through the whole campain

So many fond memories of making my mutants out of imperial guard, zombies and chaos mutation sprues. 😍

The Lost and Damned list was sooo good and fun to convert and play. I was gutted when they lost support in 4th and ended up leaving them in the boxes and picking up Orks then.

At that time, I played a Salamanders army at the GW store in New Zealand. It was a great time for a young player like me. Great video :D

I took part in that campaign as an Ork, mostly I posted my BFG games because, unlike GW, I recognise that it's the best game they ever made.

The mutants for the Lost and the Damned list, weren’t just any old conversions, there was an actual kit produced for them. And by actual kit I mean a bag containing sprues of Catachans, Ork Boyz, Zombies and the Chaos mutation sprue. Those original Wolfen minis were so much better than the current ones, hope any Space Puppy players here snapped them up while they could. The whole nothing changed in the timeline then years later GW did a do-over that actually moved the timeline on and was more devastating is like what happened in Fantasy with the Storm of Chaos campaign (although at least 40k didn’t get its whole setting nuked in the do-over). Also, probably worth mentioning both did actually have a small timeline progression, which GW promptly forgot about and set things back to the pre-EoT/SoC state with the Medusa V and Nemesis Crown campaigns respectively. Regarding the cover art, I always thought it’d be kinda neat to replicate it by taking the Abaddon min, orientating the Talon of Horus the other way up and bending its fingers around a marble.

Wonderful as always

The summer of 2003 was such an insane blast for me. I loved participating in the summer campaign and the long nights getting my, at the time, new Death Guard built and battle ready in time. To be 19 again. Funnily enough, I managed to avoid all the drama of the campaign. I only played with randos and friends at my local GW store and never went near the site for Eye of terror myself. I'm still sad about lost and the damned. By the time I had made a legit playable force of mutants and corrupt guard and played maybe three games with them, the codex wasn't considered valid anymore

Love the vids a lot

Still one of my favorite CC videos, now with an even cooler thumbnail

Excellent. One of my favourite codexes

One of the best codex covers, ever.

I'm pretty sure this was the exact time I got into the hobby. I remember looking at the website frantically, so engrossed. I didn't even play any games, it was just cool to watch!

good work as always

Awesome campaign. The tabletops my GW store put together were so big I had to have someone older than me help measure and move for my models because I wasn't tall enough to reach the center at the time.

Awsome vid guys!

The way he called me a ravenous little nurgling makes me feel funny

Another banging installment. I'd love to see you guys do a codex compliant on the Legion of the Damned.

I don't know how in the Warp I've missed this channel over the years, but that's not important bc I have found you now.

As someone who was really into the campaign when it started, I can say without a shadow of a doubt that basically no one played their 3 battles a week, the main strategy was picking which planet or part of space to attack. Yahoo groups at the time was the main place to organize and it would often be by legion (I was in the Iron Warriors one). The final newsletter does try to explain the campaign from an in universe perspective, with it basically saying "the Imperium lives because it still rules the space lanes but Chaos has a foothold on most of the planets", which is basically what happened, with Imperial players seemingly just spamming on the space lanes while Chaos players had specific targets.

“Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized.” -Sir Terry Pratchett.

Fabulous as always.