Welcome to game 38 of our campaign. Imperial forces have mounted a search and destroy mission against the Xenos presence in theatre.
The Eldar reinforcement point has been identified, and a strong force of Salamanders, Sons of Gord and Deathwatch have been dispatched to end the Xenos threat.
The Eldar have their own agenda on Triskelion, and are unlikely to allow the meddling Mon-Kiegh to interrupt their plans.
The stage is set for a bitter battle between forces largely ignorant of each other’s true motivations.
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Captain Gordus Maximus affixed the last Oath of Moment to his armour and stepped onto the teleporter dais alongside his terminator guard.
Arcane machinery began to hum and spin all around as the ancient teleportarium awoke and its machine spirits began their arcane tasks.
Gordus could feel the familiar prickling at the back of his neck as the barrier between realspace and the warp began to thin. Tendrils of frost crawled across his armour.
By now, the lead elements of the armoured force planetside should be closing on the coordinates provided to them by the Inquisition.
He suppressed a scowl at the thought of the Ordos involvement. He had good reasons to distrust the secretive organisation and relying on their intel was far from ideal.
Still, if the elusive Eldar were present, then perhaps he would be a little more willing to trust in the future. Perhaps.
“Power at 95% capacity. Translocation in 5..4..3..2..” intoned the machine priest operating the teleport equipment, safely ensconced behind layers of ablative shielding a hexagramatic wards.
Gordus pushed further thoughts of the Inquisition from his mind and prepared to meet the enemy in the fires of battle. With a wind that came from nowhere and everywhere at once, the
telepotarium flashed white and Gordus was flung into the madness of the warp.
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The field of battle
Eldar forces take position, having been alerted to the Astartes attack in advance by their Farseers
Eldar armour prowls the woods
With a roar of promethium fueled engines, the combined Astartes force attacks
Protect the Gateway at all costs!
The Eldar reinforcement point on-world must not fall
The Sons of Gord and Deathwatch push up the left flank
The Salamanders move up the centre and right
Eldar tank fire flickers out
A Storm Talon strafes the Dire Avengers, moving down half the squad
The Salamanders dismount and begin their infantry assault
Purge the Xenos!
The battle is joined in earnest
Eldar armour moves up to stem the marine attack
Falcons and Fire Prisms concentrate their fire
The Sicaran is knocked out
But marine heavy units continue to advance
Including a powerful ally in the form of a Freeblade Knight
Marine counter-fire begins to take a toll on the Eldar
Assault cannon, bolters and flame weapons further degrade the Xenos infantry
Eldar Heavy infantry push forwards
But the Astartes quickly flank the threat with a teleport assault
The marine assault is ferocious, putting the main Eldar force under pressure
The Eldar are hard pressed across the field
As the Salamander Captain destroys another Falcon, the Eldar appear on the brink of defeat
Suddenly, a huge pulse of eldritch energy bursts from the webway gate, and as the glare fades, an Eldar Revenant Titan stands before the foe
The Eldar rally around the new arrival
The marines react immediately – tactical squads and Deathwatch kill teams deploy
More Eldar armour is destroyed
Fire Dragons disembark to stem the Mon-Keigh armour
The Imperials press the attack
But the Webway gate pulses again, this time with a brilliant nova of energy, revealing a true god of war to the shocked marine forces
The true purpose of the artifacts unearthed by the mechanicus and subsequently seized by the Eldar in previous battles is now revealed -
The lost Phantom Titan 'Dawnbringer' walks again
Suddenly, the Freeblade feels very small…
“Die, Mon-Keigh!”
The Knight is reduced to a smoking crater
The tide of battle has swung decisively back to the Eldar
But humanity’s finest will not be cowed – the marines respond with a mass teleport attack and terminator assault
By His Will – the combined power of three First Company squads and a Chaplain cannot be denied, and the Revenant is felled
For the Emperor!
The marine force continues to battle with the Eldar line forces
Deathwatch terminators arrive
And quickly join the combined attack on the Phantom Titan
Hammertime!
After 30+ terminators and characters have attacked, the total damage to the Phantom is…...zero.
The mighty construct shrugs off the puny attacks and casually deletes more marine armour.
Captain Gordus assesses the tactical situation and does not like what he sees.
“All forces withdraw – there’s no future in this!”. The terminators initiate an emergency teleport as the marine forces disengage and quit the field.
Victory Eldar!
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Captain Gordus Maximus stomped off the teleport dais with post-translation hoar frost still fuming off his armour.
He tossed his storm bolter onto a nearby arming table and came to a halt, his armoured fists pressing on the bench.
“Two titan class engines – there’s something it would have been good to know about. Light infantry and some armour they told us!
I see Ordo intelligence is a good as ever.”
Picking up his storm bolter he turned to a nearby tech priest.
“Get me the Inquisition conclave on the vox – they have some explaining to do.”
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Well, that certainly showed those pesky marines. Two titan class super-heavies is enough to ruin anyone's day.
Great fun though - the Eldar were getting a pasting before the big boys showed up. The marines did well dealing with the Revenant,
but the Phantom was a whole other level. The terminators didn't even scratch the paint!
Newly empowered with their long-lost titan, who knows what schemes the Elder have yet to reveal?
Next game: Rise of a Daemon King - an ancient evil emerges.