13 - Galrisian - Apocalypse at the forges of Ruhr, The VI° Legio Metalica Battlegroup, escorted by a cult mechanicus legion of Piombus, at the head of the CCXLIII° imperial regiment faces the ork assault on the lost factories of Ruhr.
Immense war engines advance inexorable, shaking the incalculable tons of rusty steel of the sector. Tanks, men, orks, titans and gargants. The air, stretched to the spasm, is pregnant with death and horror, sacrifice and glory. the first dawn lights filters over thick, dense black clouds like coal, a planet too battered to undergo all this again. But, today, the army of the imperium advances inexorable. No remorse. No retreat. The turning point is here and now. And for those about to Rock, we salute you!
The imperial infantry regiment perched on the abandoned nuclear power plant prepares an overwatch fire, and the same do the NapoleOrk boyz, deployed forward behind the rocky hill. Silence is a fuse ready to explode, few, endless minutes, seconds. And then: a thunder. From the imperial realine two of the three manticores open fire, a salvo of missiles fly to the sky and with a bow of death overfly the rusty sector, crashing over the orkish blitz brigade. A firestorm that destroys one tank and creates havoc among the tanks column.
The explosion instantly pushes the orks to action, and the huge bad moon warhorde quickly advances into the space harbor, running forward.
<< Ophelia Cruiser coordinates acquired: Ork Big Krawler class war engine. Let begin to love a little this beast. For the Omnissiah, ready to launch! >> Princeps James Draco on warlord titan Lux Vindicta
++ Warp missile launcher ready ++ ++ Warp warhead ++ ++ Inquisition launch approved ++ ++ Coordinates acquired ++ ++ unlock codes entered ++ ++ unlock codes accepted ++ ++ Fire at 3 ++ ++ Fire at 2 ++ ++ Fire at 1 ++ ++ For the Emperor! GO! ++
The missile over the warlord titan Lux Vindicta's carapace emits a bold blaze, while all around flashes and bows bend time and space. The missile moves forward, pushed by human propulsion force for shortly break the warp and vanish from this plane of existence. But it's a moment, another blaze in the materium and the missile reappears over the power fields of the Big Krawler, impacting on the hull of the immense war engine. Full plates and blocks of the warengine vanish into the warp, sucked by a short as devastating vortex.
A few minutes after the explosion on the big krawler, the battle has now begun, and slowly the armies begin to conquer the territory. Move forward, far beyond the space harbor, four ork death koptas, scouting in vanguard the area, while on the opposite side the legio cybernetica advances with six colossus robots to the rocky hill. The claws of the imperial eagle and the fangs of the orcs move forward, ready to fall into their eternal, unshakeable, endless struggle.
On the right ork flank, the speed freaks outriders hide in an abandoned hangar behind the rocky hill, warming the engines, ready for the imminent conquest.
Nobody knows who is in command today, among the damned orc rows, but certainly not a shameless one. The Great Gargant dominates the left flank of the orcs, and right from that side start the first pincer maneuver. While the bad moon has conquered the space harbor, ready to go beyond, a massive kult of speed from the heart of the battlefield advances rapidly and passes through space harbor, followed shortly after by the blook axes warhorde mounted on battlefortress, a formidable assault army, ready to surround the ordinatii minoris and the warlord titan Nuntius Fragor.
The macharius "Lucius Pattern" super heavy tanks advance, and with their multi-vanquisher cannons unleash a deadly firestorm against the incoming kult of speed, destroying half dozen trucks.
The rest of the legio cybernetica fearless advances, creating a thin steel red line on the rocky hill: six colossus, three castellan and three cataphract robots.
The arch-magos at the head of the cult mechanicus moves his demi-century, and occupies a complex of buildings and ruins, their primary objective. A few minutes later, even the imperial supreme commander on the HQ mechanized infantry regiment advances to his side, but the first of the Gargants, a massive Gargant of NapoleOrk, advances in retaliation, and picks up the opportunity to unleash its two deadly gatling cannons against the sons of Piombus. A storm of death kill a dozen Hypaspists and five secutors in a rain of bullets.
Around the damn rocky hill, the opposing armies are approaching, cautious but ready to slay each other. The ork speedstas, protected by a miraculous dragster, advance rapidly opening a bizarre and lethal fire against the castellan heavy robots, which hold the bump.
Retaliation, against retaliation, against retaliation, now are three hydra flak tanks, who, by finding a line of sight alongside the skitarii demi-century, that open fire against the speedstas, knocking down one of the many power fields generated by the dragster to the entire mob.
The battle thunders begin to fill the air, and the earth shakes when the Snakebite Gargant march behind the rocky hill, a few tens of meters away from the cybernetic legion.
The whole ork army, crazy of conquest, leaps forward. An evil sunz speed freaks warband moves behind the enormous structure of the crane, rail crossing; but it's immediately reached by the fire of the first ordinatus minoris, armed with a vulcan mega-bolter, which breaks out a rain of death upon their heads, killing half a dozen warbikes.
The first regiment of leman russ tanks advances, NapoleOrk Gargant is in line of sight. The battlecannons begin to hammer uninterruptedly, while the Gargant's power fields begin to collapse under the storm.
<< I'm advancing guys, I have a target now! Ha! Ha! Moderatii, Fire at Will! >> Princeps Fabius Faber on reaver titan Portae Custos
The reaver titan advances, and without delay unleashes its Gatling cannon and Plasma Cannon against the gargant, knocking down the last power fields. A black breach, molten steel, smokes now from the chests of the monstrous steel giant.
But more the imperial forces open fire without mercy, the more the orks' impetus becomes unstoppable. Two monstrous, immense scars: huge tracks tear the ground when the big krawler gargant also moves behind the rocky hill, forming an army ready to roll in a fiery massacre. The NapoleOrk warhorde is ready, all the boyz, in overwatch.
The Soopa Zzapp fortresses advance behind the speedstas, forming a formidable platoon of fire. A shadowsword super heavy tank, advanced shortly before opening fire ineffectively to NapoleOrks Gargant, is targeted, and under the mighty orks' heavy weapons detonates in a spectacular explosion.
On the orks left flank, the blitz brigade moves fast them too: following the strategy of the orkish pincer on the left flank they hide among the huge rails.
<< Do you dared to put off your rusty ass, bastard? I'll send you back to Fungus at kicks in the ass! Ordinatii minoris, follow me. >> Veteran Princeps Julius Zar on Warlord titan Nuntius Fragor
The warlord titan Nuntius Fragor, followed by two ordinatii minoris, advances, bringing the NapoleOrk Gargant in line of sight. Few moments of dense wait, and then all guns blazing! The warlord titan unleashes its Plasma Destructor and its volcano cannon, while one of the two ordinatus, the one armed with the volcano cannon, also opens fire. The Gargant, already hit, is now wrapped in a swirl of flames and explosions, and when the clouds dissipate, a fire out-of-control is devouring it from inside, but yet it still holds, furious.
On the ork right flank, the soopa stompa big mob advances beyond the grand canyon, vaporizing the only colossus robot in range. In front of them, the second leman russ tank company stay firmly in overwatch, protecting with this action the legio cybernetica, the warhound titan and all the external front.
Four sentinels mars pattern quicly advance, protecting the legio cybernetica. The blood axes speed freaks warhorde move against them, but are able only to destroy one sentinel, the other three still hold and hold the forehead.
<< Hey Dudes... here the situation begins to get glowing, I put myself in the midst of those abandoned generators, ready for retaliation! >> Princeps Bill Hudson on warhound titan Ardens Lupus
The warhound titan advances and hides itself among the huge energy generators, out of the contact line, too hot to face it frontally now.
The battle rages without mercy. A Gargant is already in flames, but this doesn't stop of one step the devastating fury of the orks. On the right side, the rocky hill is a watershed, but the assault is now imminent. The legio cybernetica is the first line against the orks war engines.
On the opposite side of the abandoned nuclear power plant, Nuntius Fragor warlord titan leads the super heavy war engines army, slow but inexorable, in front of the threat of the Great Gargant and kult of speed's pincer.
Crawl in the bowels of the sector small bands of outcasts, cultists and ghosts, while above their heads immense war machines contend the sector, the war and victory.
TURN 1. End turn. ORKS WAAAGH: 2 (defend the flag, they will not pass) ARMY OF THE IMPERIUM: 1 (defend the flag)
