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Hey everyone first official post here on Dakka just thought id start it off with a short narrative as a preview. Enjoy!

Trooper Locke kicked a pile of rocks over , bored from doing his third pass the area his scouting posts sensor had picked up. He and 3 other imperial guard troopers of the Alloran 3rd guard regiment were investigating what came as a sudden blip on the sensor auspex . ' Just my luck ' he thought to himself . He turned to guardsmen Choy 'I bet you a bottle of amasec we don't find a Damn thing out here '
Choy snorted 'Hell I bet you 2 bottles we dont' they both shared a laugh before giving up on the search and turning back towards the coolness of the bunker.

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'Was it just me or had they almost caughten on to his recon teams approach?' Varo's Kane thought to himself . He turned and motioned in two swift hand gestures to 10 burnished steel giants crouched further down the rocky promontory to move into position . The 3 troopers were approaching the rear door of the bunker , the first one finished putting in the code for the door it began to open releasing a cool breath of air from inside the bunker. 3 bolts flew from the darkness and swirling clouds of dust, three headless bodies toppled to the ground in unison as 2 dust stained giants took position on either side of the door tossing 2 steel canisters filled with death and destruction through the open rear maw of the concrete structure. Two loud thumps and a hail of screams came from within. Varo's and his men quickly entered the bunker putting bolts and blades alike through the broken bodies of the dead and dying for good measure.
He finally broke vox silence to send a message to the rest of the Iron Warriors 7th company waiting on the edge of the system. All preparations had been completed the listening posts secured, landing and orbital bombardment beacons placed now all that was left was for the invasion to commence.

Nice. I'd love to read more!

Alright ill be playing the first battle tommorow the campaign will be between iron warriors and a few chapters of space marines guarding a fortress housing weapons, vehicles and a large amount of gene seed of the red scorpions chapter. pics and more narrative on the way!

alright played the first battle today it was 750 points space marines vs iron warriors ill post pics of the two armies and will be doing each batrep as a narrative. here ya go!

Brother Captain Cavestus Savin had been put in charge of manning the defenses and placing charges on the bridges leading to the twin fortress's of Allanor the first indication they had received that an attack was imminent was the disapearance of the listening posts surrounding the area. it was just a precaution to place charges on the base of the bridges supports, but a necessary precaution it would be. through the blowing dust clouds he noticed the slightest glint of something silver he ordered the men in the squads he commanded to halt their work and train weapons on the area. without warning a warcry deep and terrifying cut through the dust as 20 steel giants sprinted their way down the slope towards the first bridge support followed by an array of chaotic vehicles bedecked with the familiar yellow and black hazard stripes of the iron warriors.

savin called for his men to stand fast knowing that the battle to come would be hard won if it was won at all, realising that the entire balance of the siege would be thrown off course if he could hold the area long enough for the technicians to blow the bridge.

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Varos sprinted from cover to cover as bolts and balls of plasma whipped overr his head and the head of his men. taking position in a firing position and humkering down while his rhinos moved up filled to the brim with assult troops in the following of khorne. Those bloodlusted souls intent on doing anything to feel the hot steaming blood of their enemies pour across their blades and armour.

He was torn from his thoughts by the sounds of battle, 4 shots pinged from the cover he was crouched behind 'snipers' he cursed under his breath. he ordered squad 2 to move into positions on the right side of the slope to fire on the snipers. on their way firing their two meltas in the squad at an incoming landspeeder stunning the drivers for a few moments.

a gleaming golden armoured foe stepped out of a razorback transport 20 metres in front of varos and he knew that this was the leader of these men here today he sprinted from cover towards the captain. To his left a helbrute collapsed a molten orange hole through his armoured chest. He vowed to avenge the veteran warrior encased within. to fill its spot the berzerkers began piling out of their transports but before they could even begin their rampage they were assaulted by the captain and his men. varos swore to himself hoping there would be a fight left within the captain before the berzerkers tore him to shreds. he pushed harder arriving at the edge of the combat watching as more of the space marine squad were hacked and slashed to pieces. he came upon the captainjust as he beheaded a wild berzerker. they both shared a look of hatred at one another before joining combat in a series of clashing blades each on taking damage until it came down to the last of the dizzying dance of swords. the captain thrust his blade towards his enemy but it was thrust aside by Varo's expert swordsmanship skills he swung cutting the captain deep but he was unable to deliver the death blow as he disappeared in a flash of irrdescant light realizing that the captain had teleported back to safety he was outraged striking down 3 fleeing soldiers in quick succession. He strode back to his command land raider radioing his success back to the eagerly awaiting troops on the front line of their siege army. he vowed to end the captains life personally for having cheated him of his victory...

The battle had all but been won as the remainder of the enemy forces were being cleansed from their cover by ferocious berzerkers and his troops alike. the bridges were secure they now had to fronts with which to assault the forts. the next step ws to open the third by capturing the landing pads at the back of the island. He knew that his fellow warsmith zarion krell would do his duty in capturing the landing pads.

Nice! I wanted to start something like this with my Iron Warriors too, heh. I'll definitely be following this

Yeah its fun so far! good competition but my iron warriors seem to be fairing well! just played the second game so here's the narrative for that!

The squad of scouts ran to the relative safety of the corner bastion, hellfire raining from the sky as the ships of the Iron Warriors unloaded their barrage of raining death down upon the starports outer defenses. they knew that what would come next would be far worse than the missiles... Dread Claw drop pods.

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Warsmith Zarion Krell looked around the cramped red lit interior of the drop pod, he used to hate the feeling of freefall but after 10,000 years he had grown accustomed to it and barely registered it anymore. he gazed on as if there was a window looking out to the sky where dozens more drop pods were rocketing towards the space port on plumes of white hot flame, firing retro thrusters before slamming into the earth and disgorging his men to open battlefield they so longed to fight on. it had been a long six months of waiting and reconing the planet waiting for the bulk of the loyalist space marine fleet to move on from their resupplying. now all that was left were no more than 600 space marines of varying chapters and 30,000 imperial guard defending the fortresses. between his company and Warsmith Varo's their numbers totalled over 2000 iron warriors and 80,000 slaves and renegade soldiers. it would be a hard won battle but if all the preperations went as planned they would be able to capture the fortresses within a month long before reinforcements could arrive from another sector.

his drop pod landed its doors opening, his vision dissapeared entirely for a moment as his autosenses adjusted to the daylight. He rose shouting to his brothers 'today we take the first steps to razing this once mighty fortress to the ground!'

he charged toward a nearby crater taking cover as the defenses of the starport fired across the open killing field the iron warriors had landed in. he ordered a squad of men to run from cover to cover as a distraction while he moved helbrutes armed with meltas and lascannons into positions to break the walls and bastions. they did as order taking light casualties. the plan was good the helbrutes fired destroying the corner of the first bastion in a grand explosion of ceramite and plasteel. seconds later the multimeltas opened fire vaporising the interior of the bastion. he did not wait charging and ordering his men to follow into the molten hell of the bastion. this was their foothold to taking the port. dozens of marines were taking up positions in and around the bastions opening fire on the retreating imperial forces. the outer walls had been breached they knew that it would not take long to rout the rest of the enemy forces.

enemy bikes and razorbacks came roaring from the smoke of destroyed vehicles and buildings intent on destroying a few helbrutes before fleeing back to the walls of the fortress with their cowardly brethren. Flashes from the muzzles of their meltas appeared taking down 2 helbrutes and searing the leg from another. it let off a burst from its lasconnon vaporising one bike and destroying another with a lucky hit from his rocket launcher. the bikes turned and rode back to the safety of the walls the day was won!