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Cities Of Death - Sunday June 6 - First Battle With Allied Forces
Excerpt from Dragon Lord Rohnan Prynne's War Journal


Dawn broke early as the forces of the Imperium of Man set out to reclaim an honored sanctuary. Battle plans were laid out, stratagems were set in place, and objectives were mapped. Scouts had laid traps the night before, just to keep out any unwanted guests.


With no enemies in sight, the deployment into the city commenced. Plans were simple, clear out the buildings that surrounded the Sanctuary, and reclaim it in the name of the Emperor. As our forces rumbled into the city proper, traitorous legions were observed advancing on the site as well. What could the traitor legions be searching for? And why have they aligned with the Xenos Tau? That will have to be investigated at a later date.

As soon as the first shots were fired, all communication between friendly units was broken. Chaotic fighting broke out in small pockets throughout the cities streets and alleyways. The communication break down must have been the result of something that vile pit-scum of Nurgle, Nirazu, had planned. Nevertheless, we trudged on.

After a full days fighting, both sides slowly pulled out of the theater of war, my thoughts on this were that they, as well as we, could see that this Sanctuary was to be controlled by no one at the particular moment. But never fear, that Sanctuary shall be ours.

For The Emperor!

Any warrior worth a grain of salt will take this battle and learn from the outcome. I see it as an Imperial victory that a foul Daemon Prince of Nurgle was sent screaming back to the Eye of Terror where it belongs. As for the communication problems, I see that an engineering team should be sent out into the city and set up Vox boosters to bolster the frequency bandwidth inside the city, but that will have to be discussed with our new allies on this planet. As for the stalemate, as I said before, that Sanctuary shall be returned to the Emperor of Man as sure as my name is Rohnan Prynne, Dragon Lord of the Shadow Dragons 3rd Company.

Planet Strike - Sunday June 27 - Second Battle With Allied Forces
Excerpt from Dragon Lord Rohnan Prynne's War Journal

Our objectives were clear, assault the enemy held fortress and shut down the missile battery that was hounding our allies advancement across a fortified beach emplacement; second, recapture a critical landing platform with which vital supplies and re-enforcements could be dropped in to bolster our lines.

We were to ride the wave of a Firestorm that was to Scorch the Skies, and as soon as the dust and debris settled, our forces would begin deep striking and take the held objectives, or destroy them if need be.

Our faith in the Emperor was unyielding, and he granted us favor by Cursing the main weapons batteries of the Fortress, as well as the missile battery that was to be used against the allied forces on the beach. That boon proved to be a miracle, as the missiles were never fired by enemy forces. The Emperors gesture came right before fire rained from the sky and the earth trembled and quaked from the orbital bombardment. Then we struck!

Our Termination Squad blinked into existence right beside the landing platform, which was the roost for a corrupted chaos war machine, with the plans to shut down the defense shields, and take the Defiler apart with the righteousness of the Emperor. Eventually the Defiler would receive too much battle damage standing in the open, and tried to take the Terminators in brutal close assault fighting, by charging them from the loading ramp on the platform. Eventually, the Terminators would take the Defiler apart and extinguish the flame in whatever it called its black heart.

The assault squad was deep striking behind the aegis defense screen in the hopes of coming to grips with the squads of pitiful Nurgle marines cowering helplessly behind the barricades. Their teleport telemetry was off by a few meters, but by the luck of the Emperor, put them in striking distance of an accursed Daemon Prince of Nurgle. They assaulted over a defense line, and after a quick exchange of blows, which felled two brother marines, sent the Prince screaming back to the warp, then searched for more opportune targets, albeit two brave brothers down. They would eventually launch over the Fortress proper, and land in the midst of another squad of the foul Traitorous Marines, and after two bouts of bloody close combat, the remainder of the squad bravely gave their lives in the service of the emperor.

Tactical Squad Seamus also teleported behind the aegis defense screen, but on the opposite side of the fortress. Their plan was to form a pincer maneuver with the assault squad and crush the Traitorous Legion in between, but interference from the Firestorm must have played havoc with their telemetry, for they too missed their mark. Again the light of the Emperor shone down on our forces, and the squad blinked into existence right beside the door to the Fortress itself! With the help of Librarian Arden Kavann , they were able to gain access into the fortress to claim the missile battery. They would remain in the complex, and hold it for the remainder of the battle.

Librarian Arden Kavann had followed Tactical Squad Seamus, and helped draw fire so that the squad could ingress safely into the complex. Shrugging off bolter shells, he unleashed the awesome powers of the warp in the form of a vortex that swallowed some of the Traitors. Then launched himself at a few remaining Nurgle Marines, and dispatched them with impunity.

The remaining Tactical Squad and I held ourselves in reserves waiting for a lost Predator Tank to find its way to the Battle. In the meantime, I sent our Land Raider, Rhett Corvis, our revered Dreadnought, and Scout Squad Raines in from the Drop Zone to try to pick off any targets that presented themselves.

The Land raider had found a target in the form of a foul Defiler, and after the landing platforms shielding had been shut off, it used its lazcannons to tear the weapons off the multi-legged creature, but ultimately it failed to kill the offending beast. It finally turned it's attention towards an enemy held Bastion that was harassing our troops in the missile battery complex, however it also failed to deliver the killing blow to the enemy within. Once again the favor off the Emperor was on our side when an explosion on the enemy Bastion, in the form of an ancient Stasis Bomb, trapping the building and its occupants in time.

Scout Squad Raines and Brother Corvis had crippled one of the defense guns and trained their weapons on an advancing squad of Terminators, melting one to slag, and sniping yet another. However they failed to stop them all and the Scout Squad suffered for it. In hellish close combat, the scout squad was ripped apart save Sergeant Pierce Raines, who stood valiantly around his fallen brothers before he himself had received grievous wounds and fell. He would later recover with the help of the imperial apothecaries. Corvis would continue on destroying or disabling each defense gun he came apon so that they could not be used against our forces.

The remaining Traitorous Terminators headed into our drop zone as soon as they saw our lost Predator rumble into view. they summarily executed it before it could fire a single shot.

I and the Final Tactical Squad beamed into open ground between the enemy held Bastion and the Fortress, and chased down a Traitorous Squad that had been harassing the our Terminators, before the Defiler came into view. The minions of Nurgle , who had been focusing on the Terminators, turned their attention towards us and through a hail of bullets and flames that had felled a few brave Brothers, were finally defeated in close combat.

At the end of the day, we had succeeded in taking all of the objectives set out in front of us, with the added bonus of taking back the whole of the Fortress itself, which was a major victory for the Imperial Forces, but we were informed of the stalemate on the beach, where our allies had held their ground but failed to take the mountain stronghold.

Hopefully this landing platform and the supplies that it can bring to the surface will benefit us in the taking of that stronghold, and launch us further inland so that we can wrench our lands free form the clutches of the hated enemies of mankind..........For The Emperor!