Vox incoming.......Vox incoming....... origin battlebarge Resilient, Phalona system, Ultima segmentum, set recorders
He woke with a start, squinting his eyes against the bright light, the harsh medicinal smell of antiseptics clashing with the metallic tang of blood. Gently he rose from the bed the sharp stab of pain from his chest made him wince, he looked down at the ugly red scar that ran down his chest just slightly offset to the right, he pondered, was it deliberate by that sarcastic cigar chomping
Ignoramus, his head snapped to the right at the musical voice "You have a nearly identical scar on your back" he grunted in response admiring the full red lips and shining blue eyes of the woman leaning her shapely hip on the astartes sized medicae bed next to him, he swung his legs off the bed as he sat up "He caught me by surprise, next time he won't walk away" he growled
Vanessa uncrossed her arms withdrawing her silvered right hand from under her cloak and with a slightly saddend look on her face held a datapad out to him "Captain Vorenous led the Ultramarines 1st against a fully assembled armoured company, the report says Chaplain Andronicus struck down a special forces operative that matches the one that nearly killed you, sorry"
Carlos grabbed the pad, read the entry Vanessa had highlighted and turned and lay the datapad on the bed, his other hand traced the scar on his chest
"There is no way he is dead"
Somewhere on Phalona Reach
The night was quiet, the only sounds were the distant thump of explosions which was the new norm on Phalona Reach and the crackling of flames from the once proud tanks of the Phalona Reach Defence force. A sharp intake of breath broke the quiet, a shadowy figure moved on the ground, a bloodied hand gripped the wire fence tight and then heaved it's body up to lean against the fence. A flame flickered like a firefly and a cigar was lit. The figure drew a deep pained breath , a cloud of cigar smoke filled the air around the figure,"Guess these guys are serious then"
Recon - 1000pts
2pts - Killing a unit
3pts - killing a character
3 Objectives - 5pts if an action taken, extra 5pts if that unit makes it off the board.
Last nights game was another in the Phalona Reach campaign. A smaller game 1000pts, I went full theme and brought what I thought would be a good recon force. Infantry, chimeras and sentinel's. My opponent thought the same with transports and outriders.
I advanced my force and got one one objective but the kasrkin could not hold on to complete their action and were killed.
White feather the assassin and Dutch battled again, Dutch using his speed hit the sniper but didn't take him out and had to hide from the sights of the deadly assassin.
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| The recon forces advance towards each other |
Outriders and a Razorback surged onto the one flank, while my units pushed forward. Another chimera emptied infantry out who made another attempt at capturing the centre objective.
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| Outriders surge forward towards the Guard lines |
Eventually my chimeras were destroyed, intercessors jumped out of a razorback and secured the flank objective covered by the outriders. In the centre a squad of intercessors fell to a hail of fire. Dutch (Sly Marbo) moved in and killed a space marine Librarian
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| Dutch charges in with his envenomed blade |
Space marine terminators teleported onto the last unsecured objective, I did not have the fire power to shift them and despite my best efforts they made it off the board. Under a weight of fire the remaining intercessors boarded a besieged (Ogryns banging on the doors!) Razorback and with the valuable intel they retreated off the board. With the Razorback retreating the Ogryns turned their anger towards the sniper White Feather. Surviving a flurry of blows the sniper wisely put some distance between him and the angry giants. The battle was done the space marine forces taking 2 objectives and the guard 1.
Space Marine Win 28 VP to Guard 14 VP
Phalona Reach VP total for Victory: 1000
Phalona Reach Defence Forces: 52
Ultramarines :111
This is going to be a hard battle for the guard to hold onto this planet but that fits canonically. The imperium does not take kindly to planets wanting freedom.
