Deathwatch: Ark of Lost Souls

by Nathan Dowdell, Andy Hoare, Tim Huckleberry

he Space Hulk Mortis Thule drifts silently through the void of the Jericho Reach, and with it comes devastation, ruin, and woe. Do you dare breach its hull and uncover its sanity-shattering secrets?

This unique tome is both a three-part adventure set onboard an infamous Space Hulk, and a Game Master’s guide to Space Hulks in general.

Told over thee gripping chapters, Ark of Lost Souls’ included adventure will take your Kill-team to the brink of both sanity and survival. In Peril on the Horizon, the Kill-team is waylaid and met with a terrible fate while en route to break a siege at a newly-founded Watch Station.Then, Survival sees the Kill-team stranded and alone; they must find their way to salvation, locating unexpected allies along the way. Finally, in Darkness at the Core, the Kill-team must overcome the horrors of the Mortis Thule and make their escape, but it may cost more than they are willing to sacrifice.

What’s more, GMs can use the included Space Hulk Generator to create unique adventures set in the forlorn corridors of their own cursed Space Hulks!

Genres: Gaming

144 pages, Hardcover

First published February 8, 2013

Reviews

[Brian · Rating 3 out of 5]

This work is a Deathwatch adventure in three parts. Each takes place on the same space hulk, the Mortis Thule. It is valuable for any GM who wants to play aboard the iconic space hulk setting, or even as an adventure with different challenges than more standard missions.

It is not without its mistakes and issues. First, while any space hulk is constantly changing in its layout, the published adventure could have been improved with several maps. Maps both laying out the sites of major conflicts, as well as a cursory map of the hulk that might give a basic idea to players as to the scope and confusion of navigating a space hulk. Furthermore, the background information has a number of inconsistencies between it and other published texts. For example, there is reference to the representatives of the Lathes and Lords Dragon investigating the Mortis Thule in M33, while the Lathes were not founded until the Angevin crusade millennia later. Finally, Mortis Thule is in italics, yet only part of the word is so emphasized. In rare cases, the italics are applied to the entire name.

I am glad to have it in my library; however, I am also glad to have acquired it in FFG's yearly sale.

[Taddow · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was a mixed bag of useful encounters, adversaries, and elements that could be inserted into a Dark Heresy, Deathwatch or Rogue Trader adventure, but it was also partly a pre-made Deathwatch mission, which had some potential but was not over amazing. I think that a GM's bets bet would be to use the information contained in this tome to develop his own mission, taking those encounters and elements that best suits them. I used some of these myself to create a mission for my long-running Dark Heresy/Deathwatch campaign. If you are interested, you can check it out on Obsidian Portal: https://faith-and-betrayal.obsidianpo...