Read Up On The Exploits Of The Last Chancers Once More
June 8, 2013 by brennon
Black Library are putting together another one of their omnibus editions and this time it's for The Last Chancers by Gav Thorpe. Take a look at the rather nice cover below...
"Under the command of the mysterious Colonel Schafer, Lieutenant Kage and his comrades – murderers and psychopaths all – are sent on the most dangerous missions, with little chance of survival. From the tyranid-infested plains of Deliverance to the war-torn hives of Armageddon, Kage and his fellows seek their Last Chance at glory…"
A great idea for a story and it has some brilliant models to go with it too if you can scrounge back through the annuls of eBay.
This collection contains Thirteenth Legion, Kill Team, Annihilation Squad and the short stories Deliverance and Loyalty.
I have just had an amazing idea for an Only War role-playing session. Make them all Penal Legion soldiers and have them fight their way out of a worse-than-bad situation!
Don't be stealing my ideas (even though I'm stealing this one from Thorpe!)!
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I first heard of the last chancers in 3rd ed with the rules from White Dwarf
And I loved the idea, it’s the dity dosen IN SPAAACE
Then I picked up the first book and was severely disappointed, sure it was a good IG novel but it was not as interesting an idea as the one I read in white dwarf. (Less colorfull and tongue in cheek fun)
And now I got disappointed again as they use the image from the interesting last chancers as cover to the other group.
That said I will probably give the novels a last chance (pun not intended)
This might be the first, yes my first GW novel I’ll buy. I was always reluctant to buy books about a game as most would be handcuffed to not be to creative in that they break cannon what the game has set in place. Such as you’ll never get a story like a Khorne Berzerker repenting and redeeming himself with the Empire or a love story about a Sister and a Eldar.
Is there a link to that White Dwarf?
I don’t know anywhere to find the white dwarf online but it is #241 or 240 in the US
January 2000, told you it was old;)
The article can also be found in the second Chapter Approved book
The article is called “unlucky for some” and is written by Jervis Johnson
It includes the rules, a short story, a short word from Jervis Johnson and the white dwarf also have a battle report with the “unit”
I think I might have it somewhere. If I can dig it out I’ll try and get a snap of the pages for you.
BoW Ben