An Ork Offensive Begins

 As Commissar Yarrick was attempting to blunt one Greenskin offensive, another wave located further east commenced. A weakly held picket line was gravely threathened by waves of Orks, and so a task force was quickly put together to evacuate the three squads of Krieg troops back to the main line of defense. Three Chimeras were escorted by a force of the Raptors' Chapter, consisting of 10 Jetback equiped Marines along with three Outrider Bikes and a single Attack Bike. The Orks were lead by four Grot Tanks, and two trukks loaded with two Boyz Mobs. They were supported by a GunWagon with the WarBoss and his Nob bodyguard and two Mek Gunz, a BubbleChucker and a Shock Attack Kannon.

The initial viwe of the battlefield from behind the Ork  advance towards the Imperial lines. One of the trukks took some hits while one Krieg was brought down...

An Imperial Chimera reaches the first building housing the Krieg, while the Bikes move with another  towards the second building. The Raptor JetPack Marines are moving up as fast as you would expect...

The GunWagon moves past two Grot Tanks that have been hit and destroyed...

The initial Chimera takes some hits as they load up a squad to evacuate...

Boyz unload, only to be completely annihilated by the charging Raptors...

But then the GunWagon slams into the melee, taking down numerous Raptors...

A Chimera picks up a second squad but one trooper falls to Ork fire...

The Melee continues as the WarBoss and his Nobs unload as well. The Raptors are nearly overwhelmed...

But the other Boyz are in their turn overwhelmed by the Raptor's Bikes...

Grot Tank fire finishes one of the Bikers...

The Nobs finally destroy the Raptor Jet Marines...

The Bikers countercharge and take down all the Nobs and put a hurt on the WarBoss...

While the remaining Grot Tank and the GunWagon eliminate the Bikers, the AttackBike finishes off the WarBoss and then escapes. The three Krieg squads were all saved at some loss, at the coast of one Chimera and virtually all the Raptors so a heavy cost.

The Struggle for Death Mire Begins

 In command of the Hive City Death Mire, Commissar Yarrick has learned that an advancing Ork force is approaching the outer environs of the City. Yarrick personally leads a force to smash these Greenskins before the main force arrives and hoping to limit their intelligence. 

The probing Orkish force consists of two feral Boyz Mobs from the Snakebites; a group of eight Squighogboyz led by the Warboss Killkrump on his Suigsuar; a herd of squigs and a Wierdboy; supported by his ally Buzzlug Kogcrasha with Killa Kans, Grot tanks, and a Mek with a Shokk Attack Kannon. 

Squig herd on the left lead by the Weird Boy along with one Boyz Mob. To the right is the Squighog Boyz led by KillKrupp...

On the right Kogcrasha follows his Grot tanks with the Killa Kans to the right...

Facing off against the Ork's leftwing, is a Cadian squad backup by a group of Ogryns. Just in view in the uooer right, you can see an Imperial Armored Car...

Taking up a high position is Yarrick himself with the platoon section. Below him on the street to the left is a LemanRuss and on the right a second AC...

The Runthearder and his squigs take loss from the Ogryns...

The LemanRuss chews up some Squighog Boyz..

The Imperial AC puts three hits of the Grot tanks...

But the Cadians pay the price..

The surviving Squighog Boyz slam into the LemanRuss (note two squigbombs between the tank and the building about to inflict four points of hits!)...

The Cadians on the left take a hit from the Weirdboy...

While some Kaskrin move up, the Ac on the right is demolished by the Killa Kans...

The Ogryn tear the Squigherd to pieces...

Meanwhile, the Kaskrin make their appearance felt to the dismay of the Squighogboyz...

The remaining SquighogBoyz tries to stop the Kaskrin...

The last Squig and its Herder take down one Ogryn, but are destroyed...

The SquighogNob keeps fighting the LemanRuss, while a Snakebite Boyz Mob take on the Kaskrin. Two Grot tanks go up in smoke....

The Boyz are nearly destroyed, by the Nob takes down the LemanRuss...

One Cadian squad is wiped out by the Killa Kans...

The Ogryns are becoming the savior of the Imperial forces as they annihilate the second Boyz Mob...

The Kaskrin are finally destroyed, but the Warboss is brought down by Yarrick and his platoon detachment, forcing the orks to withdraw!

 

 

The New Morkanaught

 

The Fate of St. Jowan's is Decided

 The Surviving Sword Brethren charge into another group of Killa Kans and they nearly destroy two but one Brethren is lost...

The remaining two Boyz of the original Mob are taken down...

More Killa Kans charge the weakened squad from the rear and eliminate several Initiates...

The remaining Brethren quickly destroy the two wounded Killa Kans...

The Brethren pay the consequences of failing to take down the last Kan...

Reinforcements arrive in an attempt to save the weakened squad and smash two of the Killa Kans...

And the third Kan is eliminated...

Now freed from the Killa threat, the two surviving Initiates from the nearly destroyed squad fall back while the second squad charges a new Boyz Mob...

The Templars tear up the Boyz...

Just as the Templars believe victory is at hand, new threats appear, again in the rear. The remaining Killa Kan and the Warboss charge...

In face of their losses, the Templars destroy the Boyz and concentrate on the Killa Kan...

With victory down to this, the Brethren kill the Warboss! The Imperials have retaken the orbital dockyards of St. Jowan's. With the Masters of Proteus squad; a Crusade Squad; and a Brethren Squad eliminated. the Imperial Player is forced to make possible Scar rolls (roll of 1 on 6x die). The result is bad for the Crusade Squad as they take a Deep Scar which will follow them into the campaign.

Operation Imperator Commences!

As the Imperial Fleet of Retribution descends on Armageddon, the Naval Docking Facility on and above St Jowan's becomes a target. Commander Calgar of the Ultra-Marines discusses the need to break the Ork siege of that critical facility. Marshall Helbrecht of the Black Templars agrees to dispatch his forces, with support from 7 cos of the Master of Proteus Chapter, to do just that.

The High Orbit Docking Yards are targeted first. The actual Docks are seen to the right, with the Gantry Towers seen from top to bottom. The large hangars and such would be off board to the left. Two 20-man Crusader Squads from the Black Templars along with one squad of their formidable Sword Brothers (seen at bottom of photo). Each of the two squads contains 8 Neophytes, 11 Initiates, and one Sword Brethren as commander. In addition, there is one squad of the Masters of Proteus who are deployed at the top of the battlefield.

First we see the M/P advancing down a corridor towards a Boyz Mob...

They shoot down two of the Orks and take one wound in return...

The first BT squad, lead by their Neophytes, slam into another group of Boyz with both taking losses...

And finally, the Sword Brothers tear into some Beast Snagga Boyz...

Beginning the second round, the M/P exchange losses...

Two Neophytes are lost to one Ork...

Following the withdraw of the Beast Snagga Boyz, three Killa Kans charge the Sword Brothers and inflict some casualties...

The Greenskins holding their barricade against the M/P (seen at left edge)...

The fighting here is bloody!

The fighting in the second corridor is just as brutal...

The Killa Kans take down another Sword Brother...

MegaNobz have slipped around behind the M/P and have taken them in the flank. Attacked from two sides, the Marines lose heavily...

Only two Neophytes remain here...

These Neophytes are making the accursed Xenos pay...

While one Killa Kan is destroyed, more Sword Brothers are lost...

But then, a big turn of events and the two Killa Kans are eliminated...

Only one brave Neophyte remains...

But he and the Initiates destroy this particular Boyz Mob...

One of the MegaNobz are taken down, but the M/P are hard pressed...

And then, only one remains...surrounded...

The Neophyte is lost as an Initiate is wounded, but they nearly destroy this Mob...

Initiates redeploy to assist the remaining M/P...

The Initiates here destroy yet another Mob...

The Beast Snagga Boyz reenter the fight and lay low the wounded Sword Brother...

While taking losses, the Initiates here destroy the two MegaNobz...

The three surviving Sword Brothers finish off the Snagga Boyz...

Time runs out for the M/P...

Game Time also runs out, so there will be a Part Two!!!