Assault on Zybos

The Assault on Zybos was a battle between the Black Legion and the Imperial Fists on the industrial world of Zybos.^[1]^[2]

Overview

The Assault on Zybos.^[3]

The industrial world of Zybos has fallen to the Black Legion, its colossal foundries slaved to the production of countless foul Daemon Engines.

The Imperial Fists have vowed that the corrupted world will be purged and its hideous creations destroyed. But the traitors will not give up their prize lightly and as immense exchanges of weapons fire rock the planet's surface, they unleash a tide of heretical war engines, eager to annihilate the loyalist Space Marines.^[1]

Diorama

There is also a diorama of the same name exhibited at Warhammer World.^[1]^[2]

The Warhammer World Studio collaborated with the Army and Battlefield Painters to create this corrupted forge for the 2019 Warhammer 40,000: Apocalypse book. In the book, the board was used to represent Nemendghast, a world in the Vigilus System attacked by the Ultramarines.

The Warhammer World Studio team wanted to include the Imperial Fists on a diorama, so a new narrative has been created. To turn it from a photography setting into a diorama, the Warhammer World Studio team added more Chaos-themed details, the trenches and battle-scarred landscape, and all of the miniatures. This was the team's first opportunity to use Citadel Contrast on a diorama's forces. Using Contrast on the Imperial Fists' armour, and on details such as the glow effect of their plasma weapons, helped speed up the painting process - a big difference when painting so many models!^[1]

When the Warhammer World Studio team saw the Noctilith Crown scenery kit, they knew its shape could put it to a lot of different uses. Across this Chaos corrupted board parts of Noctilith Crowns are flying buttresses, monorail supports, spiralling defences...^[3]