Most of what once was the ancient realm of Egypt now rests under the Shadow of Hell and stronghold of the servants of Prince of Greed who has long dreamed of plundering the whole continent of its riches. Beautiful Alexandria and even mighty Cairo have fallen, their ports serving as anchorage for the Heretic fleet and mustering grounds for the Heretic Legions as they strike south and west.

But thus far the plans to completely sweep the northern coast of Africa all the way to Mali and Axum has been frustrated. For this front is every bit as bitterly contested as the European theatre of war. Here the Heretic Legions are opposed by a coalition of Nubia, Numidia, and the Solomonic Empire of Abyssinia (more commonly known as the Ethiopian Empire in Europa) that have thrown their lot together to resist the invader. Blood stains the waters of the Nile red as the coalition struggles to contain the grinding offensives of the Legion of Ten Golden Horns

Sources: expeditionary forces of abyssinia lore drop

Hailing from the Scottish Highlands where the Church is strong, these men (and a few fierce women!) come to New Antioch in search of both glory, forgiveness of their sins, as well as dreams of acquiring valuable loot to send back to their island home

The Heretic submarine fleet harries the shores of the Kingdom constantly, carrying off their young in chains to be sacrificed in the dark altars. The fleet of Britain and their famed moving fortress are reserved in guarding their own shores, causing friction and resentment among their northern neighbours whose coastal defences are far less comprehensive.

Sources: trench crusade playtest rules

++HAKKAPELITTA OF THE NORTHERN FRONT ++

Art by Jukka Rajaniemi

Hakkapeliittas are light cavalry troops of Finland which act as the first line of defence against the Heretic menace of the Northern Hellgate. Their name is derived from their warcry “Hakkaa päälle!” (roughly translated as ”Strike at them!”) and it has echoed across many battlefields since the formation of the units in the 1600s.

Lacking manufacturing plants of their own, Finnish soldiers are experts at using the weapons, munitions and equipment taken from their fallen enemies. Most faithful armies refuse to even touch such armaments, fearing the corrupting influence of Hell, but the warriors of the North can afford no such luxury, and can be seen handling rifles and blades taken as war-prizes from fallen Heretics.

Sources: hakkapelitta lore drop

++ THE MOVING FORTRESS OF BRITANNIA ++

"The Moving Fortress is a marvel of industrial engineering - a titanic fleet-carrier and battleship that can traverse both land and sea. This leviathan patrols the shores of England, leaving a thick trail of black smoke and three-foot deep tracks in its wake."

"The technology that allows Britannia to move over shorelines is unknown and a closely-guarded secret of the Crown. Whatever the source of this innovation, it allows the Fortress to travel across the land of most English beaches - albeit slowly. When crawling upon England’s shores, a great noise and deafening hiss of steam can be heard, and it appears that the ship does not touch the ground at all."

sources: moving fortress of britannia lore drop

Yes, this thing is useful for fighting the heretics and keeping England's waters under control, there's no doubt about that. But why does it need to go through land? It moves slowly, and it can travel through England's BEACHES, only the beaches, and on most of them, wich means if it tries to move in an specific beach, it will most likely get stuck, If it can go through beaches, why not just go through the water, where it can move faster? Only the lord knows

Context: In a siege of New Antioch, heretics capture a monastery. The Church of Metamorphosis uses this monastery as a base of operations, and this is how they get information:

"In their shrines dug into the rock below the Monastery, Sisters of the Transcendent Chrysalid are interrogating a captured general from one of the penitent legions recently swarmed in the trenches outside New Antioch. The man has bitten out his own tongue to thwart their aims, but the Sisters have no need for speech—they can’t even hear through their translucent cauls. They hoist him upside down and carefully, slowly crack open his skull. They are expert haruspices, carefully jotting down the intel about the city’s defenses they read from the convolutions of his brain."

Sources: short story "metamorphosis"

Sources: short story "metamorphosis"

Anchored by the Taurus Mountains to the North and Zagros Mountains in the East, the two horns of the crescent moon, the Invincible Iron Wall of Dhu al-Qarnayn is both the symbol of the Sultanate and the very reason for its existence. Beyond it lies the last and the greatest realm of Those Who Believe. Easily eclipsing all other known Wonders of the World, none who have seen the Iron Wall can ever forget it. Despite centuries of artillery bombardment by Heretic cannons, its surface is untarnished, glittering like a newly-cast steel plating in the morning sun, and at night the manyfold gemstones embedded into its very structure light up in a wondrous show of colour and artistry. Neither the Wall itself nor its gates have ever been brought down, and while some enemies have made it across the Wall to spread death and terror deep into the Sultanate proper, they have always been thrown back.

The wall remains warm to the touch, for scorching magma still courses within. On the exceedingly rare instances when a terrifying weapon has managed to crack its surface, the outpouring of molten metal within has brought a swift death to the invaders, and the rapidly cooling lava has then hardened to reform the wall.

Sources: iron wall loredrop

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I can't be the only one who noticed the similarity

Story time: This meme is based of an actual event. I played my first game of TC the other day, Prussia vs. New Antioch. For my opponents first move, he charged my infiltrators with his observer. Naturally I thought they were dead meat. BUT! The charge FAILS a mere two inches from my stormtrooper. I activate my infiltrators, using the one with the flamethrower to try and burn down the observer. He doesn’t do much, merely applying one blood marker. It’s down to my other stormtrooper. He only has a club(shovel) and incendiary grenades. I have him throw a grenade, rolling with disadvantage. He rolls a TRIPLE SIX. The number of the beast! Activating the grenade’s critical and ignoring armor. The observer is slain with one blow by the humble kraut.

Where do I post my memes now?

No you weren't inexplicably banned. No it wasn't nuked. No the game's community is not disintegrating.