Planet Skyren is host to extremely various climates, from thick jungle on its equator belt to deserts and Ice Polar regions. It has been unaware of a small Chaos presence hiding in the jungle regions. In fact, a squad-sized Krieg patrol has disappeared. A search team consisting of four squads is dispatched to locate the men. It will contain one squad each of Catachan, local PDF, and two squads of Cadians...
A view of the battlefield, looking over the Chaos positions towards the Imperials opposite. The ruins at bottom represent the Chaos staging area. The jungle is extremely thick Moving off trail one must roll 6d for a movement of 1-6")..
The Cultists are discovered asone scout tears into some mutants...
The second column of Catachan warriors locates the missing Krieg men...theyve been turn into walking nightmares...the dead! The scout here dispatches numerous monstrosities before he too is wounded...
His fellow Catachan wade into the former Krieg, destroying them utterly...
Returning to the first group, the scout here finishes off the mutants but has taken two of his three wounds...
Cultists appear before the Catachans but are swiftly dealt with...
With the other column, more cultists take down the wounded scout, but an Imperial Psycher, in turn dispatched them...
The Catachans are attacked by a band of Chaos Marines and they take serious losses! They do eliminate numerous Marines in a hard fight...
With intelligence gained of the loss of Krieg but the discovery of a serious Chaos presence, the remaining Catachan sell their lives dearly, enabling the rest of the column to withdrawal successfully back to Imperial lines...
The fight for Skyren will continue!
