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Yano and his squad were pinned on the outskirts of Aurelia's Capital. On a routine patrol on the wrecked landscape of the surrounding area around the capital, a small platoon was sent to act as vanguards against Chaos cultists who were on the offensive.
A sudden burst of accurate heavy bolter fire from hidden positions mowed down most of Yano's squad, including Sergeant Hobbs, and the attached Commissar. The few remaining men of Yano's squad huddled behind the wreck of a Chimera, unable to retreat from the suppressive fire from the Chaos Havocs that were now in well entrenched positions.

Martes fear landed on the planet and set up a small camp with his 20 plague marines and 50 cultists.
He spoke a dark chant "To nurgle the the father of all grant me your powers and disease."

But his chant was intorupted by lasgun fire, Martes fear turned and ordered his troops to return fire it lasted 20 minutes before the las fire stopped.

Martes fear walked over to the location of the of the las fire and saw 2 guardsmen injured praying for the emperors protection. Martes fear said "Your souls are going to the dark god and your false emperor will not protect you" he slashed at a guardsmans chest with his manreaper and shot the other one with his bolter.

Martes contiued his chant and the dead guards rose and walked, Martes walked back to his small base and prayed to his dark god.

black templar wrote:Martes fear landed on the planet and set up a small camp with his 20 plague marines and 50 cultists.
He spoke a dark chant "To nurgle the the father of all grant me your powers and disease."

But his chant was intorupted by lasgun fire, Martes fear turned and ordered his troops to return fire it lasted 20 minutes before the las fire stopped.

Martes fear walked over to the location of the of the las fire and saw 2 guardsmen injured praying for the emperors protection. Martes fear said "Your souls are going to the dark god and your false emperor will not protect you" he slashed at a guardsmans chest with his manreaper and shot the other one with his bolter.

Martes contiued his chant and the dead guards rose and walked, Martes walked back to his small base and prayed to his dark god.

Oh man.. Am I dead already? Serves me right for choosing to be a guardsman.

Oh man.. Am I dead already? Serves me right for choosing to be a guardsman.


its ok you will die quick and last or join the dark god nurgle .

He was death incarnate, a tower of Wraithbone filled with dedication and purpose. Crushing the ape-like Mon'keigh beneath his great feet, Kieren fired a stream of monomolecular disks at a group of traitor Astartes running for cover, scything them down with the hail of fire, dropping them to the earth with wet thuds. A Rhino lumbered near the Wraithlord, firing at the god of bone with it's Havoc launcher, the rockets failing to scratch the surface of his armour. Bringing his great sword to bear, Kieren plunged it deep into the human transport, bisecting the pilot with the Wraithsword, and halting the tank's movement as the passengers bailed out. The crimson armoured Word Bearers opened up upon the Eldar gholem, their bolt shells failing to damage him. Taking aim, Kieren fired his Starcannon, unleashing the fury of a thousand suns in a bright beam of blue light, which utterly destroyed the Astartes.

Kain and several Marines cut down the Word Bearer Cultists in the area clearing the ammunition depo for a further attack and take over , the Cultists had hastily formed a weak willed defence and had fallen under a hail of bolter fire. Others mounted despret counter attacks against Hunter and his retinue of Chaos Chosen as they broke through the lines of the Cultists and Guardsmen , decapitating those who begged for mercy. After several small scale fire fights the remaining Cultists retreated and left the Ammuntion Depo clear for a full scale take over.

The Aspiring Champion tore his Power Axe from the chest of a Chaos Cultist who had attepted to bargin with Kain , a foulish and pathetic mistake. Kain had no use for Word Bearer Zealots in his War Band and realied on the pure skill of his Warriors. As Kain cleaned the Ancient Axe's blade two green armoured Marines bowed to him
"Champion Kain we have news of Death Guard forces in the Area , a smaller force made up of Zombies and Plague Marines. They apper to be lead by a Champion of Nurgle and have established a camp not far from here."

With the situation rapidly deteriorating, Onjage and members of the first company begin rallying PDF forces in the hives, and simultaneously request additional support. A large detatchment of PDF, with a few veteran marines among them, are sent to the surface to deal with eldar forces.

Onjage and a select group of veterans head below, to deal with reports of Nurgle Worshipers.

OOC my champion has just landed and hes popular

BIC
Martes fear has been on this planet for a week and his camp is now a stronghold with the powers of nurgle protecting it, large tenticles and claws attack any of nurgles enemys that pass.

Martes fear was worshiping nurgle with a sacrifice, the sacrifice was a space marine scout try to get a good look at the plague champion but got grabbed by a tenticle.

A cultits come running in "My lord are enemys know we are here what should we do?"

Martes replied "Dont panic nurgle will protect us and i know are enemys have detected us, by the time they find will will have a full army and when they fall in battle their corpses will rise and fight for us."

"My lord way dont you offer them to join us and a question what happens when we fall in battle?" said the cultits.

He was replied by a slash from the champions manreaper then the cultits body rose from the dead and the champion spoke "We could offer them to join us."

The plague champion walked out of the room.

The ork encampment burned. Marines patrolled the area between the ork dead, ending the life of any that was two dumb to die. The 3rd company banner flew high above the camp, Ancient Niven stood by its side, preventing anyone from approaching it. Guardsmen chucked orks onto a pyre by the corner of the camp, the smoke blocked the sun. Varn smiled beneath his helmet.

Yet another warboss slain.Yet another waaaagh! prevented.

Kain sat in his Command centre with his Sorcerers and Techmarines constantly checking the Communication of the enemy forces for any new activities or events, little more than infighting and desperate attempts at moral boosting.
“Check the Imperial Air waves now and incinerate any bodies and take ammunition dropped by or left by the enemy. Set traps and security devices everywhere and record any important information! Sabotage any vehicles in the area and have patrols hourly and deploy our infiltrators into the Imperial Forces and begin spreading our rumours and turn the Imperials on one another. Block communications and prepare the Herald for its departure and using our stolen Blood Raven Codes send them to the planned locations.”
Sindrith nodded to Kain’s orders and continued typing the many orders to the War Band and sending messages to the small clocked fleet in orbit preparing for its decent.

Snarky wrote:

black templar wrote:Martes fear landed on the planet and set up a small camp with his 20 plague marines and 50 cultists.
He spoke a dark chant "To nurgle the the father of all grant me your powers and disease."

But his chant was intorupted by lasgun fire, Martes fear turned and ordered his troops to return fire it lasted 20 minutes before the las fire stopped.

Martes fear walked over to the location of the of the las fire and saw 2 guardsmen injured praying for the emperors protection. Martes fear said "Your souls are going to the dark god and your false emperor will not protect you" he slashed at a guardsmans chest with his manreaper and shot the other one with his bolter.

Martes contiued his chant and the dead guards rose and walked, Martes walked back to his small base and prayed to his dark god.

Oh man.. Am I dead already? Serves me right for choosing to be a guardsman.

No no one gets to kill anyone yet!

Sgt. Moody trudged down the trenchworks, where the dust was worse than the mud that he generally fought in, towards the command bunker where he and the rest of his company's leaders had been called for a briefing.
The fighting was pretty boring. Sporadic raids by units from both sides, accompanied by sporadic casualties, and more f***ing dust!
Gunner Bates, turret gunner on Moody's Chimera "Steel Fist", rushed past towards the motor pool, a large can of oil in his hand. Moody threw him a wink as he passed, getting a grumpy scowl in return, causing him to laugh. Everyone in the company was fed up. Due to the sudden advance of Ork units they were all doing what tankies hate...sittin' heavy!
His next meeting was with young Commisar Darr. Moody grunted in acknowledgement before trudging past - as the least ranking commisar in the company, Darr was not privvy to tactical meetings.
"Sargent!"
Moody turned.
"Are you not meant to salute the commisarate as you pass?"
Moody stood, dumbfounded, for a moment. "B***** off Darr!"

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Snarky wrote:

black templar wrote:Martes fear landed on the planet and set up a small camp with his 20 plague marines and 50 cultists.
He spoke a dark chant "To nurgle the the father of all grant me your powers and disease."

But his chant was intorupted by lasgun fire, Martes fear turned and ordered his troops to return fire it lasted 20 minutes before the las fire stopped.

Martes fear walked over to the location of the of the las fire and saw 2 guardsmen injured praying for the emperors protection. Martes fear said "Your souls are going to the dark god and your false emperor will not protect you" he slashed at a guardsmans chest with his manreaper and shot the other one with his bolter.

Martes contiued his chant and the dead guards rose and walked, Martes walked back to his small base and prayed to his dark god.

Oh man.. Am I dead already? Serves me right for choosing to be a guardsman.

No no one gets to kill anyone yet!

i wont kill him ..................... well not untill you tell me to

They rode back in the Chimera in silence. Of the thirty Guardsmen sent to patrol the outskirts, only a handful returned to the command center. Yano had managed to commandeer a Plasma gun from a dead guardsman, and relieved the corpse of two plasma flasks, a ration pack and a water canteen. It served the dead guardsman no good now, who was blown apart by an autocannon shell.

The ambushing marines were barely recognizable, covered in camouflage and dulled livery, although the surviving junior officer recognized them well from his battles with Chaos on Cadia during the last Black Crusade. They were unmistakably Alpha Legion marines. However, there was no intelligence from command about Alpha Legion being present on Aurelia. What were their motives? The junior officer could only speculate as the Chimera returned to base.

Yano disembarked from the Chimera, he looked back at the column of armour that had been sent to support them. It seemed that while the majority of the men sent to fight had died, most of the armoured support had made it back safely. There was little action at base, the area was heavily fortified, with Sabre defence platforms and Tarantula Sentry Guns littering the ruins that surrounded the area.

There was little time to rest for the guardsmen in the area. It was sentry duty followed by routine inspection by the Commissariat. Due to his newly acquired firearm, Yano found himself reorganized into a squad that had been on Aurelia for some time, who knew the enemy well after multiple close (and often brutal) engagements. This meant extra heavy equipment and more dangerous duties, but to refuse was to meet the end of the Commissar's bolt pistol.

For their next mission, Yano's team had been assigned to monitor the main road leading from the former industrial area of Aurelia to the capital. The base was situated in between, and any large spearhead would have to pass through that road. It meant that cameleoline, rations, vox networks and extra explosives to create snare mines and traps were required to maintain effective sentry duties.

The requisition store was busy as usual, with the ratling chief passing on equipment, rations and the general contraband to those who were willing to risk it. It was Yano's duty to collect the gear, the sergeant had ordered him, as it was the "new guy" who should carry the heavy equipment back to the squad. Even a relatively "fresh" guardsman such as Yano knew the fickleness of plasma weaponry, destructive yet potentially very dangerous for the user, but was prized by the tech adepts and commanders for the sheer power from such a flexible weapon. It took some hard bargaining, but Yano managed to haggle alternative equipment for the squad, also acquire the "Chef's Special", an ornate power sword belonging to the late Commissar-General Kafe, during her ill fated command in the Doman campaign. Among the extra equipment alongside the power sword were two meltaguns, fresh from the machine forges of Accatran, a sniper rifle using the rare Triplex multiple setting lasgun base, the cameleoline cloaks, several mines with proximity settings and various contraband items (including nitro inhalers and the latest issues of exotic magazines that Yano couldn't quite make out)

It was dusk when they set out, this time, his squad had the privilege of riding in an Imperial Navy valkyrie instead of walking. It would take them two hours to reach their drop zone.

It became abundantly clear that Nurgle's followers had taken the advantage in the brief firefight. Blood and puss was everywhere, but the bodies had vanished. It reeked of Chaos.

"Less bodies to burn..." Brother Jern muttered, his Terminator Helmet attunuating his voice.

"I wouldn't be so sure of that. Emperor knows what they've done with them." Onjage replied, examining the carnage.

A hanger door was ominously ajar, and trails of filth and refuse gathered near it. The lair was that way. Each Marine sensed this simultaneously, and no order to advance was required. Jern activiated his heavy flamer.

Reaching the door was no struggle whatsoever. No one was there to stop them. Always a bad sign, Onjage mused.
Almost as soon as the thought formed in his head, fire and light erupted.

A great slithering tentacle had emerged seemingly out of nowhere, and had lashed out at the party. Brother Huez was impaled immediately, but had enough time to call the creature, "Scum!" before being ripped in half. Jern was already at work, trying to burn away the flailing monstrosity.

Bolter fire filled the room, and the creature continued its rampage. Marines were being grabbed, flung and tossed about like toys. One of which was not let go. Brother Omnio had stabbed the thing with his combat blade, and was promptly blasting away with his bolt pistol. He would not last long.

Onjage loosed a ferocious cry and rushed the demon. Seeming to sense the new threat, appendages suddenly burst from its girth, and lurched towards him. 4 of 10 Onjage removed swiftly, but the ones that remained grappled and held his arms. Onjage snarled, and spit upon his axe arm, the tenctacle grasping it instantly recoiling. With his arm free, Onjage slashed out wildly at the thing, spilling foul ichor all over himself and the floor. He did not stop. Angrily and brutally he continued, untill a gaping wound was prevelant.

"Jern!" he called out, before being silenced with more blood from the creature. Jern immediately understood the strategy, and approached the Honor Guard. The remaining smaller tentacles attempted to stop the terminator, but its bulk was immovable. With a shout to the Emperor, Jern thrust the flamer into the hole Onjage had created, and pulled the trigger.

The creature convulsed and spasmed, but it was too late. A horrible screech reverberated through-out the entire chamber, and suddenly silence. The tentacles holding his bolt pistol firm dropped. Omnio hit the floor abruptly; the beast appeared to have forgotton him. Jern continued to burn its insides, untill the shuddering beast finally lay still.

5 of 30 Brothers lay dead. There was little time to mourn, however. Such was the life of a Space Marine. Onjage nodded, and they entered the dark room beyond.

"Sir the codes have been broken , we are ready to send the messege"
The Chaos Cultist carried a strange device and bowed before Kain in fear of being decapitated or shot but was simply told to leave.
"Sindrith send the following messege to all Blood Ravens in the area, make sure the code reaches all of their combat units."
[To alll Blood Raven Combat Units disingage and prepare for combat with Ork freebotters. Leave the area now to face Ork Freebotters in the area and divert attention to Ork combat under orders of Gabriel Angelos , prepare for combat with Ork units.]
"Sir we have begun uploading the codes to all Blood Raven private Vox channels."

The Journey was terrible. Even in his mobile command Razorback 'Emperor's Fury', the ride was uncomfortable.

He had received orders directly from chapter master Angelos, to disengage, move to this area and prepare for combat with ork freebooter units.

He sighed. His entire company was there, withdrawn from there missions and brought to this area to engage with an unknown ork freebooter threat.

He changed vox channel so he could speak with the entire company.

"Blood Ravens dig in and secure the area. If the orks want this area they can come and get it, while feeling the bite of our bolt guns. None shall find us wanting brothers."

A cheer sounded over the vox.

"Our brother tech marines shall deploy tarantulas to support you. With aegis defense lines for you to take cover behind and bastions to fell the orks at its walls. Knowledge is power brothers, guard it well"

(P.S Anyone in for a game of planetstrike? )

A brother plague marine ran into the chamber of Martes fear.

"My lord space marines have entered one of are hangers not far from here what should we do my lord ?" asked the Plague marine.

"Dont panic my follower these sad marines dont know what they are walking into. Are the zombies in place?" said Martes.

"Yes my lord, how did you know of the enemys actions my lord?" Replied the plague marine.

"Nurgle showed me, Send some cultits to to check that hanger to see how the emperors puppets are doing and you can led them and nurgle will grant you the power to raise the dead. Go offer the space marines to join us if not kill them and raise their corpses." Said Martes.

The plague marine ran out and ordered 10 cultits to follow him to the hanger they arrived at the hanger 30 minutes later they saw some of nurgles tenticles destroy but the space marines had moved on.... But they left their dead the plague marine asked nurgle to grant him to summon the dead corpse as he spoke they rose.

The space marine would not be happy to see their dead brothers in this form the followers of nurgle walked on following the space marines deeper and deeper.

OOC: Goddard mine and your character sound like we will see eachother soon

Moody whooped with delight as he rode in the cupola of "Steel Fist", Bates, sitting next to him, legs swinging from the turret, grinned.
"This is the life isn't it sir?" the young crewman called across to him.
"Oh yes!" replied Moody, a great feeling seeping into his body from the reverberating Chimera around him. They were on the move, the order had emerged that the 85th mechanised were to assault into the ruins of the capitol, crushing all ork resistance in their path.
Bates shouted another question to him. "Why are we moving now? We've been sitting heavy for weeks!"
"Does it matter?" Was Moody's reply, though inside he shared Bates concern- the Astartes now sent to garrison the flank against ork free-booters were meant to be souring the cities, so that factories could be put back into production. Why were they being tasked with menial garrisoning?

As the outer habs of the city hove into view Moody forgot his fears, they'd get to grips with the enemy at last. With a curt nod to Bates to prep his turret weapon and side-arm Moody retreated into the tank to address his squad.

not going to be on in a while guys dont know when ill be back on sorry guys

"Contact the Orks now I want the plan to go as smoothly as possible."
Sindrith begins to opean a vox channel
"Wat do you want ya gitz wait itz you ya spikey boy! I got my boys in position and weze awaiting your orders."
"Hold position and attack the Blood Ravens when I give the order."

OOC: I'm gonna be honest...this is becoming quite similar to the origional Dow...

It was night when they arrived. Yano could feel the engines of the Valkyrie begin to power down as they began their descent. As soon as they jumped from the Valkyrie, it had already blasted off into the distance.

It would take the squad several hours to finish setting up the surrounding booby traps and sentry posts to monitor the area.

After several days of routine sentry duty, it appeared that a small movement of Chaos Cultists had began to move, taking with them a significant number of former Imperial tanks. Among them were Astartes Rhino transports which appeared incredibly rusted and oozed dark ichor.

The vox channel flickered to life as Yano powered the vox network. "This is squad theta, Chaos forces detected at sector 273-89, co-ordinates 28-31, grid reference G, requesting fire mission, over".

"Request granted, over and out" Several minutes later, a thunderous barrage from basilisk batteries rained down on the road. Although accuracy was difficult to achieve from such a distant bombardment, the sheer quantity of the shells managed to disrupt the column, forcing them to dig in to avoid the worst of the bombardment. Using his range-finder, Yano could see the wreckage of Chimera and Leman Russ tanks covered with chaotic graffiti. Black smoke oozed from these vehicles, making it difficult to get a clear view, however none of the Astartes vehicles were hit. Yano could see however that the majority of the vehicles had managed to swerve off road, and the heretics were now entrenching their position until reinforcements arrived, and they could safely attack the base, and finally force the Imperials out of the capital. It would be some time before the forces of Chaos would make their move....

OOC: got a couple of days on the computer before its put away thank the dark gods lol.

BIC:Matres was waiting for work from his plague marine and cultits, he stud in the courtyard when a group of chaos marine walked over and spoke "We pledge are loyilty to you." these marines were word bearers.

Martes spoke "where are you from?"

The Aspiring Champion spoke "We came from the capital we have news about the imperial guard they are setting traps for other chaos followers, and we bring 20 marines and 30 cultits as a gift."

Martes looked down at this small group of followers his army was growing.

"We will send a small force to push back these weak guardsmen some will join and some will fall." spoke Martes.

The Aspiring Champion spoke "My lord we heard a message from a guardsman who sounds like he is incontrol his name was Yano we saw him to when we pulled back."

Martes laughed and said "You retreated from guardsmen?"

The Aspiring Champion replied "They called in fire support and we wont do it again my lord we can prove ourselves"

"You need to prove yourselves, you will take your men back and fight the guardsmen back when you do bloke communications so they cant call in fire support now go and fortify your position when you get there." Order Martes fear....

"Sir our Wolves have made some rather intresting information about the Death Guard forces they seem to have recruited new allies from the Word Bearers Warband , I suspect the Death Guard plan to use the population of Meriden as a army to take the sector. But I sence the wispers in the warp wishing to knaw on his bones and devouer his soul. The dark screams of daemons and warp beasts wish to be unleashed on this world , they could be a grand assistance in our conquest of the planet i you wished but they would require a sacrifice great enough to feed them."
Kain laughed sinsterly and sighed
"I trust no Daemon Sorcerer you know this perfectly well but after I have dealt with the main threat shall they be summoned. The Creatures shall not feast on my bones again... Prepare for the orbital bombardment of the Death Guard Base!"



Plus black templar you seem to get more forces with every post...

My storyline post was designed to give an excuse for lack of action on Aurelia, looks like you won't need it though!

blood reaper wrote:"Sir our Wolves have made some rather intresting information about the Death Guard forces they seem to have recruited new allies from the Word Bearers Warband , I suspect the Death Guard plan to use the population of Meriden as a army to take the sector. But I sence the wispers in the warp wishing to knaw on his bones and devouer his soul. The dark screams of daemons and warp beasts wish to be unleashed on this world , they could be a grand assistance in our conquest of the planet i you wished but they would require a sacrifice great enough to feed them."
Kain laughed sinsterly and sighed
"I trust no Daemon Sorcerer you know this perfectly well but after I have dealt with the main threat shall they be summoned. The Creatures shall not feast on my bones again... Prepare for the orbital bombardment of the Death Guard Base!"



Plus black templar you seem to get more forces with every post...

i will recruet some more and that will do

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
thats no fun dont bombard me

As the word bearer troops set up position in the capital waiting for the imperial guard the Aspiring Champion spoke "we will slaghter these guardsmen in a haill of fire." as he spoke some dark shapes walked around the corner the Aspiring Champion yelled "FOR THE DARK GODS!" and a hail of fire sprayed the battlefield and both sides took heavy loses in the end the chaos marines were victorious, the enemy they slayed were space marines and guardsmen. The Aspiring Champion walked around the corner and saw a guards man shaking in the corner whispering "the emperor protects.." other and other he looked up at the dark warrior and the dark warrior spoke "DEATH TO THE FALSE EMPEROR" as he implaed the guardsman.

At Martes's fortress martes walked out of his command room into his worshipping area and he started to pray to nurgle after his chant he walked out to order his warrior.

"What is the report?" asked martes.

The plague marine replied "The word bearers lost 7 marine and 12 cultits and no reply for the others in the hanger, but we have had reports of the alpha legion not far from here and they a lead by a Aspiring Champion called Kain My lord."

Martes fear replied "I will go talk to this fine warrior see if he will join are cause." Martes walked to the enterince of his fortress and his plague marines ran to him and said "We will come with you my lord." martes noded his head and walked out his fortess with his bodyguards their destination the alpha legions camp.

"Lord Kain the Death Guards Plague champion and a small group of his followers have departed from their base camp and apper to be head here , I have guards and troops ready to defend the base with ease and their are Orks not far from here to stall the Death Guard." Sindrth eagerly awaited Lord Kains answer as he did not wish to meet the Warriors of Nurgle in combat.

"Alow them pass but keep my guards ready and the Serpents Spine preapered to fire on the enemy , we must see if this Champion can truley bargin with me and my forces. Tell the others to be ready for a fight and prepare all weapon systems." Kain turned his chair towards the view screen and watched as it flickered to life

"What iz it now Kain? Me an ma Boyz Iz pleazed with the Dakka ya gave us but were iz does Bloody Ravens!"
Kain sighed and chuckled

"Ork please understand you have to go to the Blood Ravens they are already preparing themselfs."