40K Campaign

In an attempt to give some structure and variety to our games the Gaming Heir and I have embarked on a campaign.

We're using the excellent "Little War in the Borderlands" campaign structure from Avian's website though obviously with a 40K rather than WFB theme.

The small out of the way planet of Turtus VII lies far from the main centres of the Empire of Man. It's only footnote in the annals of history is that Rogal Dorn once spent a week of reflective solitude on the planet as respite from the ceaseless war of the Horus Heresy.
Since when the planet has returned to peaceful isolation, a sparsely populated planet of no significance.
The fierce warriors of the Black Templars regard the planet as a shrine, and over the millennia it has not been unheard of for Chapter Masters to follow Dorn's example and spend a short period of reflection alone on the planet, living simply, unburdened by thoughts of constant war.
Doubtless Turtus VII would have continued in this peaceful manner had not a fissure opened in the warp and ejected the ships of Waaagh Gruzzkup unexpectedly into orbit around the planet. Orks, being Orks, made landfall on the planet and with a will have set to burning and rampaging around as Orks are wont to do.
The Templars keep discrete watch over the planet, and learning of the desecration have dispatched a force to ensure the greenskins are obliterated and the planet may once more return to being a place of quiet reflection.

We generated a map using Mighty Empires plastic tiles, and have begun to play.
This is the map. The dice (which we'll replace with some sort of tokens, probably) represent the armies.

In the second turn our armies came in to conflict in a couple of hexes and we played a game based in the hex occupied by Templar army 1.

The result was close, but the marines triumphed and the Orks of army 3 were pushed back a hex.

We still have another game to fight this turn (4v2 at the top of the map) before we update the map.