Inquisitor Ravos and his grey knight force are travelling through the warp in response to several reports of daemonic activity in a nearby system, suddenly there is confusion amongst the navigators and in the ensuing chaos the inquisition fleet falls out of the warp and re-emerges in real space. As inquisitor Ravos awaits status reports of what has happened he looks through the viewport at a world that seems lush and green except one area that looks dead, and seems to be growing in size. The captain of the ship appears and reports that the navigators were effected by the Shadow in the Warp that accompanies Tyranid hive fleets and the inquisitors fleet has been scattered throughout real space which will take some time to regather the forces, the captain also plays a vox recording from the planet below asking for any assistance against the tyranid creatures that are attacking the world. Ravos looks at the data and realises this tyranid force is not currently very big and there isn’t any noticeable space borne presence so he decides to take a force of his henchmen, strike marines, and nemesis dreadknight along with his grey knight terminator retinue to stop the alien menace before it could grow to become a bigger threat. As he discusses this with the librarian who leads the grey knights force they decide to bring the Knight Castigator that they requisitioned for the daemonic investigation in case the tyranid threat is bigger than first realised.

Landing of the inquisitorial forces is uneventful and they start heading towards the last known area of activity, there are reports from the local PDF that were manning the bastion and weapon emplacements before being overrun that there was a giant winged beast that seemed to be leading the tyranid broods. While moving through the area that has been abandoned they start picking up enemy signals, as they continue moving through ruined imperial buildings they see a mass of tyranids advancing through the now barren wilderness towards them. The grey knight force set up in amongst the ruins and prepare for battle, including the librarian making the castigator invisible to the oncoming menace. The tyranid army emerges from a grove of dead trees, while others trample through the local graveyard which further hardens the resolve of the imperial forces to see such desecration.

The hive tyrant notices the knights force and recognising the distance is too far for shooting it urges it’s forces forward faster while it takes to the sky, it heads towards the enemy commander and launches a volley of brainleech worms towards it’s foe, the voracious hungry worms burrow through the armour of a terminator and feast on the marine inside. Before the tyrant can make it’s next move it gets fired upon by the transport vehicles and a few heavy shots cause damage which makes the beast pause. It isn’t sure where the heaviest fire came from, but it can see a large shimmer behind a bunker, it directs it’s forces to continue running, while itself flies back to the main group to oversee the upcoming battle.

With the main force of Tyranids running down the left flank inquisitor Ravos and his terminator bodyguard hunker down the on the right flank behind some storage tanks, suddenly rippers appear from the undergrowth and a fusillade of spines shot out from the critters, most bounced harmlessly off the dense armour of the terminators, but one terminator wasn’t so lucky as a couple of spines managed to punch their way through killing the marine and Ravos himself took a spine to his left bicep. The Nemesis Dreadknight gearing up to assist the beset inquisitor hears a boom from above, when he looked up he witnessed a tyrannocyte falling from the sky, it slammed into the ground and a screamer killer carnifex appeared from the innards of the pod. With an escalating scream from which their famous name is derived the carnifex unleashed a blast of bio-plasma at one of the henchmen chimera’s, parts of the hull melt away from the heat but stays intact. The screamer killer then notices the castigator and turns it’s attention to bringing it down. Meanwhile the tyrannocyte reinflated and is now floating in the field of battle, it’s deathspitters unleashed on the same chimera which again managed to stay intact to protect the henchmen. The Dreadknight evaluates these new threats and moves to take it down the screamer killer, first it lights it and the tyrannocyte up with the incinerator and then charges in to finish the threat with his sword, the carnifex doesn’t seem to notice that it is now on fire and it turns to face this new enemy which gives an opening and a massive sword is thrust between the neck and carapace of the beast, killing it instantly in a spray of alien ichor. As the dreadknight withdraws his sword and wipes xenos filth from the blade, the tyrannocyte continues to burn while spitting death into the now critically damaged chimera, seeing the armour of chimera is about to fail the dreadknight springs to action and chops down the tyrannocyte in quick time saving the chimera and it’s occupants.




The strike marines disembark from their razorback and fire into the oncoming mass and incinerating a brood of rippers, little do they know that they have attracted the attention of an underground threat. Feeling the vibrations of the marines running down the ramp and the heavy thump of weapons, the mawloc burrows up towards the area and emerges in a choking cloud of dust. As it emerges it clips the razorback and weakens the hull, it then skewers two marines on its scything talons while a third is consumed in its huge maw. The remaining pair of marines lose their footing in the sudden attack and fall into the hole made by the creatures emergence, the mawloc dives back into the hole to finish off the unlucky marines while the razorback hangs precariously over the attack site. Suddenly there is a squealing of tearing metal as the mawloc tears through the bottom of the razorback and attempts to get in far enough to finish off the crew, the crew react quickly and attack the head of the monster with pistols and a shovel and manage to kill it, however they spend the rest of the battle trying to soothe the machines spirit and removing the dead mawloc wedged in the vehicle.

Meanwhile as the hive tyrant flies over the forces it’s directing towards the prey, it gets confirmation of the presence of a Knight Castigator through the screamer killers link in the synaptic web. Although all that can be seen is the large shimmer still behind the bunker, the tyrant urges it’s broods to continue running, and the tervigon to spawn more termagants to assist with the fight to come. As if on cue, huge amounts of heavy firepower from the shimmering shape come booming through the air towards the swarm smashing into the shrouded area where the venomthrope has been creating a cloud of spores and toxins to obscure the swarms advance, the venomthrope shrieks in pain as it is grazed by one of the oversized bullets however the nearby synapse creatures exert their control and it remains in position. The tyrant fires into the enemy transports and causes some more damage and then it swoops forward to get behind the gunline that the prey has created, it hears more booming fire from the knight and feels the venomthrope’s presence in the synaptic web disappear, knowing there is no more cover it urges it’s broods to run and spread out. Bio cannons start firing in response and more damage is done to the prey’s transport vehicles.

After having one of the bodyguard downed by the flying beast during initial contact and then having rippers appear from nowhere killing another terminator and wounding himself, Ravos turned and watched in horror as a squad of marines were devoured and a razorback crew fought for it’s life. Squad Ravos head back towards the razorback to see if they could help in anyway, when they get to the scene they see they could be no more use to the crew who were still busy trying to remove the pulped mawloc from the floor of their vehicle. Suddenly one of the terminators voxs “contact” and the squad open fire into a brood of termagants that have changed direction suddenly, three of the beasts are blown apart and the return fire of flesh boring beetles manages to penetrate yet another set of terminator armour to allow the beetles to feast on the flesh inside. Squad Ravos get out of the open and take cover behind the storage tanks again. While they are getting their bearings they can hear what seems to be a roar of frustration and shuddering footsteps from the plasma beast as it moves out from behind the abandoned bastion to try and get it’s weapon into range, the inquisitor notices that floating behind is a zoanthrope which is obviously keeping the exocrine in check, suddenly over the storage tanks comes several massive bone spikes which hit the terminators armour hard and are deflected, the hive guard have found their range. Ravos decides they will take the fight to the enemy and they leave the cover of the storage tanks and start charging towards the exocrine, during the charge the inquisitor skilfully throws two grenades at the beast. The psychotroke grenade detonates first and distracts the exocrine enough that the bio plasma streams miss the squad, the radiation grenade explodes second and Ravos smiles as he see the weakening effect the radiation is having on the exocrines living tissue, he ducks under a clumsy swipe from a scything talon and spins into range of the monstrosity’s head and with a smooth motion plunges his force sword through the eye and into the brain, the exocrine falls down dead and the squad look across the field of battle to see that the tide has turned in the Grey Knights favour, the squad then butcher the lone zoanthrope with ease and look to join the mop up on the other side of the battlefield however there is a bestial roar from above and the last thing Ravos will see is the image of a flying hive tyrant firing brain seeking worms towards him.



The pilot of the castigator takes a small moment to celebrate as the obscuring cloud of spores dissipates after killing the venomthrope, the xenos are exposed and they start scattering left and right, the pilot sees the tyrant fly past but the chimeras start shooting skyward so he turns his focus to the lynchpin of the swarm in form of the tervigon and the spawn she has created. Along with the dreadknight the castigator charges and they make short work of the puny gaunts with cleaves of swords and gleefully stomping on the ones left alive soon there is a path opened to the tervigon and the gun beasts around her. The knight charges the tervigon who is slow to react along with the hive guard which join in the desperate fight for their survival. The tervigon tries to smash the castigator on two occasions, but both times the hits are easily absorbed by the blessed armour, the pilot uses the sword with consummate skill and stomps, and when the dust settles there is one hive guard that has somehow survived. The dreadknight meanwhile saw the battle between the castigator and tervigon going well, so took his time finishing off the remaining termagants and when the tervigon was slain there was some sort of backlash with the termagants and several fell down dead, the dreadknight freed himself from the pulped termagants and opened fire on the warriors, destroying them completely. The dreadknight turned in time to see the castigator finish off the last hive guard and go striding off towards the wilderness to check for any other tyranid threats, the dreadknight pilot also saw the inquisitor’s squad finish off a zoanthrope, but before any celebrations could be had a bestial roar echoed around the battlefield and the flying hive tyrant reappeared from its rampage through the back line in which several of the transports were wrecked and it fired upon Squad Ravos, riddling the inquisitor with worms and as the body twitched in his death throes the hive tyrant flew off to lick its wounds and regather it’s strength.

The battle had been won and not without causalities’, but with the escape of the hive tyrant how long would it be before the threat returned? Several kill teams have been dispatched to try and locate the tyrant before it can regrow it’s army and the Grey Knights have continued on their mission to investigate and deal with chaos incursions.