When I first started Pandora Prime Recon, my goal was to create a historical record for the Warhammer 40K CCG: to show people what the game was like and to safeguard this small piece of history in trading card games and the Warhammer 40K universe.
Last year, I was approached by YouTuber and content creator Zarthbenn to help with his project of creating a high-res image database of the entire 40K CCG. Zarthbenn has worked on similar projects with other out-of-print card games such as the World of Warcraft (WOW) TCG and Quest for the Holy Grail CCG. Kudos to him for his tireless efforts in immortalizing so many other card games!
I worked to provide roughly 80% of the card scans for the Warhammer 40K CCG, using my own collection. Although it was a decent amount of work, Zarthbenn did far more work in managing the project and processing every single image.
I’m happy to write that the project is now complete: every unique card in the 40K CCG is available in high resolution on Zarthbenn’s website. Zarthbenn has also created a Tabletop Simulator mod for people who want to play the game online.
With the completion of this project, the Warhammer 40K CCG will be preserved in perpetuity. We have lost a lot of valuable information to the mists of time, but the game itself will be complete and available for anyone who wants to play and learn more about it.
Thank you to Zarthbenn for running this project and to mephias for helping finish the card database. Additional links below:
Pandora Prime Recon 
4 replies on “A Permanent Record”
Hello,
Thank you very much for your blog and all the work!
I’ve gone back to this game over the past two years and started collecting the precon decks. For the purpose of completion and in case you don’t know about it yet, you might be interested in what Sabertooth Games and partners did for publishing the game beyond the USA/UK. I know I am ^^.
What I know for sure is: the French Pandora Prime block had an additional eldar box with an aspect scorpion warrior for art (I have a physical copy, although a pretty beat up one). The French Battle for Delos block also had an additional imperial guard deck (still sourcing a physical copy but I have a picture of it where the box has the art of the Ork Hunters from that block). As to why these exist (fakes, test prints, merging of different blocks, etc.), I don’t know.
Bests,
Q
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Cool to hear about all the product variations outside of North America! I would love to see photos of these boxes.
I also believe there are some artwork discrepancies between regional printings. For example, in North America, Squad Damocles and Squad Faustus share the same artwork, but I’ve seen a foreign (French or Spanish? Definitely European) printing of Squad Faustus with different artwork.
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I’ll snap some pictures later this week of what French stuff I have (I should also be getting the Imperial Guard delos deck around next week)!
Beyond the squad Damocles/Faustus, let me know if other potential variants comes to mind.
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Hello,
I unfortunately couldn’t verify the art of the Space Marines cards you mentioned (I don’t have the French Pandora Prime variant of the SM deck).
However, here are the pictures of the French Pandora Prime Eldar and Delos V Imperial Guard decks:
The reason why the IG deck exists is that the French Battle for Delos V block is a merger of the Coronis Campaign and Delos V blocks (see the booster box on the left).
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