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He PM'ed me.

Magnus, few problems.

1. The enemy aren't inside of the city yet.

2. Your arty can crack the crust of the planet if firing earthshakers, real good writing available there.

3. Stormtroopers would've seen an astartes before.

Edit: Ignore this post, by verdict of the Imperial palace.

I asked and sorry for not informing you all.

 The glass ninja wrote:
He PM'ed me.

Magnus, few problems.

1. The enemy aren't inside of the city yet.

2. Your arty can crack the crust of the planet if firing earthshakers, real good writing available there.

3. Stormtroopers would've seen an astartes before.

I can change it, however, you said that there were smaller transports such as Valkyries, what are they supposed to do, just sit there? Also, Storm Troopers easily could not have seen an Astartes before. Storm troopers could easily have fought Eldar, cultists, Orks, or Chaos in other forms. It is very easily possible that Astartes are legends to them, especially depending upon their age.

Thanks for the tip about the Earthshakers.

 Lord Magnus wrote:

 The glass ninja wrote:
He PM'ed me.

Magnus, few problems.

1. The enemy aren't inside of the city yet.

2. Your arty can crack the crust of the planet if firing earthshakers, real good writing available there.

3. Stormtroopers would've seen an astartes before.

I can change it, however, you said that there were smaller transports such as Valkyries, what are they supposed to do, just sit there? Also, Storm Troopers easily could not have seen an Astartes before. Storm troopers could easily have fought Eldar, cultists, Orks, or Chaos in other forms. It is very easily possible that Astartes are legends to them, especially depending upon their age.

Thanks for the tip about the Earthshakers.

A valk explodes if it smashes into void shields, its the only reason you're not all sitting in a giant crater.

Also, stromtroopers get there by fighting everything, from Astartes to orks, its very rare for someone that elite not to have fought astartes.

Damn work takes me away for a little bit and things start up here! Nicely I might add.

Information is coming across a littl fragmented. What's the status of enemies in the city? Kain is holding the main gate but I see others engaging the enemy, how far in could they be? I want my post to not screw up what's established so far. Also would the enemy have any vendettas?

i definitely found this thread interesting lol

 DeathRex wrote:
Damn work takes me away for a little bit and things start up here! Nicely I might add.

Information is coming across a littl fragmented. What's the status of enemies in the city? Kain is holding the main gate but I see others engaging the enemy, how far in could they be? I want my post to not screw up what's established so far. Also would the enemy have any vendettas?

The enemy are assaulting the main gate and the wall around it, aircraft are buzzing around the city, but can't really get in due to void shields and anti-air guns.

 The glass ninja wrote:

 DeathRex wrote:
Damn work takes me away for a little bit and things start up here! Nicely I might add.

Information is coming across a littl fragmented. What's the status of enemies in the city? Kain is holding the main gate but I see others engaging the enemy, how far in could they be? I want my post to not screw up what's established so far. Also would the enemy have any vendettas?

The enemy are assaulting the main gate and the wall around it, aircraft are buzzing around the city, but can't really get in due to void shields and anti-air guns.

Ah thanks. Posted, tell me if I did anything wrong since I didn't really have this information when I wrote it. It's 3am and I'm getting off work so I'll check in ASAP and change anything I need to then if it's lacking.

TGN... just a suggestion, with these battles perhaps "overviews" should be posted at start, during key moments and the end of each battle, displaying total forces still remaining on each side and some key info.. might make it much clearer to have the tactical analysis laid out in the IC thread. Similar to how it's done in our Nations games and the Hive city battle in Deathwatch, as opposed to discussing all this in OOC where information is fragmented and interpreted differently.

 Darkvoidof40k wrote:
TGN... just a suggestion, with these battles perhaps "overviews" should be posted at start, during key moments and the end of each battle, displaying total forces still remaining on each side and some key info.. might make it much clearer to have the tactical analysis laid out in the IC thread. Similar to how it's done in our Nations games and the Hive city battle in Deathwatch, as opposed to discussing all this in OOC where information is fragmented and interpreted differently.

^^ Sorry for the misunderstanding TGN, I will edit my post and do fun things with magma >: D

(Can i save what I wrote for later?)

 Lord Magnus wrote:

 Darkvoidof40k wrote:
TGN... just a suggestion, with these battles perhaps "overviews" should be posted at start, during key moments and the end of each battle, displaying total forces still remaining on each side and some key info.. might make it much clearer to have the tactical analysis laid out in the IC thread. Similar to how it's done in our Nations games and the Hive city battle in Deathwatch, as opposed to discussing all this in OOC where information is fragmented and interpreted differently.

^^ Sorry for the misunderstanding TGN, I will edit my post and do fun things with magma >: D

(Can i save what I wrote for later?)

I imagine you can save it, maybe change the storm troopers to just normal guardsmen/drop troops - if you use it when they breach the shield and land en masse it'll make more sense than just an elite squad on their own (who would most likely not be wasted as part of the main assault).

TGN won't be able to answer anything for another hour or so I imagine, knowing his usual schedule.

I have edited to just bursting a bit of rock, honestly, the only reason I chose Storm Troopers was for their hot-shot lasguns, so they actually DID something, but I suppose troopers can also overcharge their lasguns, which is probably what they are told to do when facing enemies with heavy armour on their own.

In any case, thanks for the bit of info, and the post is edited appropriately, I hope.

 Lord Magnus wrote:
I have edited to just bursting a bit of rock, honestly, the only reason I chose Storm Troopers was for their hot-shot lasguns, so they actually DID something, but I suppose troopers can also overcharge their lasguns, which is probably what they are told to do when facing enemies with heavy armour on their own.

In any case, thanks for the bit of info, and the post is edited appropriately, I hope.

Looks good to me.

Yes, overcharged lasguns will be quite likely, especially on the frontal waves of the assault. They'll also most certainly be carrying special weapons such as plasma guns and meltaguns of course which pose a large thread to Astartes and battle tank alike. Besides, you're writing as a hulking, power-armoured chaos marine.. you're allowed to get in a few scraps and come out the other end just fine.. ceramite and some hard-as-metal bones are very useful like that.

Glad to see lots happening! I'm traveling back from AdeptiCon/resting and I'll be back at it with Kal'urek tomorrow

The Skitarii will have troops with Hellguns, maybe a breaching squad or two.

Thanks for the advice, Dark, I'll be sure to take it into account.

Magnus, sure. It was good work, it'll be good to see it used later.

So I'm guessing the Skitarii are a fairly powerful threat?

Skitarii are worth several Imperial Guard regiments unit for unit but they are somewhat predictable I'd wager.. most tactics likely based on logic and sheer brute force. They lack cunning and initiative that truly living forces possess. Though they are adaptable and incapable of fear.

Skulls for the skull Throne????

And thus, the gate is breached, the enemy are within the walls.


Let them tremble, for the spider has brought the fly within its parlour.

Tactical info:


The enemy are now within the walls, the main gate has been pretty much demolished. The void shield is still up, but Stitarii who've breached from the drills are moving to attack the generators. There are also Skitarii moving to strike each of the points you were sent to and the Tech Magos at the main gate is going to take some Killing.


There are several thousand cultists throughout the city fighting for the Chaos side, the Skitarii are in twelve platoons of sixty (Those that came with the drills), plus about four companies (120 men) supported by Light Tanks, Gun servitors, Thallix troops, Thunderfire cannons and Tech-magi.

School's restarted, so don't expect me to post every day and feel free to post in my place. I should be able to post every two or three days at the least, though.

Hey, blood, you're at the main gate, right? You've got that Tech Magos to deal with.

Im in the districts near the generator glass

Aye, you've got a platoon of Skitarii and a dirill to deal with.

Im still satnding watch for the moment, Ive got a trap planned out for when the Skitarii get towards the only still-salvagable yet partially collapsed Manufactorum within the city block where I am

I was just there lol shame I didn't see you

If you were there, you probably wouldve pissed off the 'guard dog'

Must be a different one then.

Guys this hive is huge! There will likely be hundreds of manufactorums still operational and far more inoperable... without factories the city loses quite some tactical value. There 's plenty of manufactorums to go around.