WIZY has made its first book for tabletop wargamers: Crusade Journal: Narrative Campaign Logbook for Grimdark Sci-Fi Miniature Wargames. It's a 354-page fill-in paperback for players who run narrative "Crusade"-style campaigns, where your army gains experience, honours and scars from game to game. Here's what's inside and why we made it.

Why a campaign journal?

Anyone who has played a long narrative campaign knows the problem: the army roster lives in an app, the battle results are on a scrap of paper, and by game six nobody remembers who earned which battle honour. I collect and play Ultramarines myself, and I wanted one book that keeps the whole story of a campaign together, written by hand, the old-school way.

Crusade Journal cover: an armoured warrior with a torn banner overlooking a burning city
The cover, an original painting.

What's inside

  • 8 complete campaigns, each opening with an original ink illustration.
  • Army sheet and order of battle for supply limit, requisition points, your warlord and campaign tally.
  • Campaign log and 12 battle logs per campaign: opponent, mission, result, experience, agendas and a short battle report.
  • A warlord record and 30 unit records per campaign: profile, wargear, an experience track, rank, battle honours and battle scars.
  • A campaign tracker for alliances, phases and strategic points, plus a dot-grid campaign map and notes.
  • Spare unit records and battle logs at the back.

A look inside

Unit record page with profile, wargear, experience track, battle honours and battle scars
Unit record.
Battle log page with three battles: opponent, mission, result, experience and agendas
Battle log, three battles per page.
Campaign tracker page with alliances, phase results and strategic points
Campaign tracker.
Black and white ink illustration of a war-torn battlefield from a campaign divider page
One of the eight original ink illustrations.

Price and where to buy

The Crusade Journal is a paperback, 8.5 × 11 in, 354 pages, for $21.99 USD (CA$29.99, with Prime two-day delivery in Canada) and it's available now on Amazon. Other Amazon stores (UK, Europe, Australia) will follow within a few days. Big pages, black and white, with plenty of room to write.

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A gift for wargamers

If someone you know spends their weekends painting armies and rolling dice, this is a Christmas or birthday gift they'll actually use, campaign after campaign. For more ideas, see our best gifts for tabletop wargamers and painters.

As an Amazon Associate, WIZY earns from qualifying purchases; buying through these links supports the site at no extra cost to you.

The Crusade Journal is an independent, unofficial journal; it is not affiliated with or endorsed by Games Workshop. All artwork is original.

My take

This one is personal: it's the journal I wanted for my own campaigns. If you run narrative campaigns with your group, I'd love to hear how you track them today. Paper, app, or a messy mix of both?

Sources

  1. WIZY: Crusade Journal product page holywizy.com

Written by the WIZY creator

An independent builder on Monad, working on the WIZY project and the WIZY RPG game. I write about crypto in plain English and about the games I care about, and I check every fact against its source.

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