Following the trail of missing Adeptus Mechanicus explorators, a trio of Deathwatch find themselves embattled and endangered when the necrons attack.
READ IT BECAUSE It's a tense and creepy tale with a fantastic twist.
THE STORY A trio of Deathwatch – Cassiel of the Blood Angels, Tanaka of the White Scars and Var'myr of the Mortifactors – lead a team of Inquisitorial troopers to an ice-bound moon in search of missing Adeptus Mechanicus explorators. Following their trail into ancient caverns, the Deathwatch find something far older and more sinister than they were expecting – warriors of the necrons, determined to destroy the intruders!
Anthony Reynolds was a Games Developer and manager at Games Workshop in the UK. Since then he's written freelance for a number of companies, including Black Library Publishing, Mantic Games, THQ, Bandai-Namco, Behaviour Interactive, and River Horse Games. He currently lives in California.
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A necron-tinged Deathwatch short story, available as a standalone e-short or within the Deathwatch: Xenos Hunters anthology (or indeed Deathwatch: The Omnibus), The Infinite Tableau sees a small Deathwatch squad investigating the disappearance of an Adeptus Mechanicus mission on a remote, ice-locked moon.
On the face of things it’s a standard Deathwatch story, albeit one that reduces the normal mixture of chapters down to three from the usual five. There’s certainly plenty of the usual Deathwatch elements, but straight away the reduced cast gives the main characters room to breathe, helped by a careful pace that gradually builds as the story progresses.