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Made in us
Bonkers Buggy Driver with Rockets





Houston, TX

My brother and I had a great game last weekend as part of our ongoing campaign, The Xhorik War, chronicling the war for Xhorik Prime. I really did have good intentions of uploading all the files to Dakka since it seems most users prefer that, but it was just too time consuming for someone with three young kids to manage. Hopefully you don't mind heading over to my blog to take a look. Thanks!

Here is the latest battle, complete with annotated overhead shots. If you like photo battle reports, you will enjoy it.
http://xhorikwar.blogspot.com/2017/02/bat-rep-11-red-brotherhood-vs-da.html



Here is a rough summary of the story so far (with links to the relevant battles and photos) or you can just read the text version without links below. I recommend going to the blog with links if you want to learn more about the planet, its history and combatants and the campaign so far.
http://xhorikwar.blogspot.com/2017/02/the-campaign-so-far-orks-and-marines.html



Filgakk Skullsplitta and his Blitzdreg Boyz made planetfall during one of the frequent meteor storms that punish the interior of the northern continent of Xhorik Prime. After contact was lost with several outlying mining and drilling operational posts, the planetary government of Xhorik Prime assumed it was the usual raids of feral orks and abhuman scavengers that have plagued the interior of the planet since the climate-changing destruction of the ork rok in close orbit at the end of the Second Xhorik War many years ago. The planetary government dispatched patrols of the Planetary Defense Force (PDF) and also requested assistance from the small, permanent garrison of Red Brotherhood space marines due to their superior mobility and response speed. The Imperium designates Xhorik Prime as a Level II planet of significant strategic importance due to abundant mineral and gas deposits, most notably the rare kleinhaurker ore, which can be refined and combined with other rare metals to create some of the strongest and most durable alloys known to the Imperium. The destruction of the rok left the planet with a low atmosphere of radioactive storms that was impenetrable to surveillance from space or high altitude and garbled most long-distance communication, making scouting operations a requirement for any reliable information.

In the first early skirmishes and encounters the marines mostly drove back the isolated groups of orks, but as the reports were fed back to Commander Kain, captain of the second company and commander of Brotherhood forces on Xhorik, he surmised that these were not just the usual feral ork raiders. Their weapons and vehicles were more sophisticated and their rapid movements were more coordinated. He quickly mustered a larger force of defenders and set out to deny the ork invaders from resupplying at the expense of the Interplanetary Heavy Industries (IHI) mining and drilling camps and to keep them from spreading widely over the continent by driving them back to their landing sites.

Initially, the speed and ferocity of the ork invaders was beyond what even the savvy Commander Kain expected and his forces were driven back as the ork forces captured key supplies of fuel and ammo that allowed them to keep pushing farther across the vast, barren surfaces of the interior of Xhorik toward the population centers on the coast. Kain knew he could not get caught in a war of attrition with the hordes of xenos so he chose to inflict what damage he could and fall back to preserve his limited manpower. The only consolidation for the Imperial forces was that Kain and his men had been able to strike down several of the ork leaders, known as bosses, creating disarray and slowing the ork advance enough that he could regroup his battered forces into a concentrated defensive block that finally routed and drove off one thrust of the ork invasion, but not before some of the cunning ork kommandos made off with a small container of partially-refined, high-grade kleinhaurker, which the devious ork meks would soon put to good use.

Shortly after, a small patrol of Brotherhood marines was able to rescue an officer of the Planetary Defense Force that was shot down over the ruins of one of the many cities of the interior that were destroyed in the Second Xhorik War and turned to frozen desert by the destruction of the ork rok. The rescued officer had more dire news for Commander Kain and the planetary government: Filgakk Skullsplitta had managed to subdue the largest of the feral ork tribes of the Xhorik badlands, the World Wrecka tribe, descendants of the ork invaders of the Second Xhorik War many years ago. Although the feral orks lacked vehicles and heavy weapons, they brought additional numbers and a detailed knowledge of the geography and the human positions. From the native orks, Filgakk learned of the massive and rich cities along the coast and he immediately set his sights on this new prize.

Filgakk's quickly massed together a few of his raiding parties into a stronger warband and began driving west toward the coastal cities. From the rescued PDF officer, Kain knew where the ork column was headed and set out to intercept the orks in a ruined city along their path. If he could not destroy the orks, he needed to slow them down long enough to for Imperial reinforcements to respond to his distress signals and he knew if he could kill their leader, the orks might very well turn on each other as various bosses vied for command. But Filgakk had some new tricks to show the humans: mega armor for his best nobz that his meks cobbled together from the kleinharuker and World Wrecka tankbustas that were skilled at hunting large game in the rough terrain of Xhorik Prime. The orks made good use of their new weapons and defeated the marines, driving them from the ruins.

Now that Filgakk had seen the impressive power of armor made from kleinhaurker, he knew he needed more of this alloy to build the devastating war machines that would allow him to crush the human population of this planet. He dispatched a trusted lieutenant to secure additional supplies from the IHI mining operations. Commander Kain decided to take advantage of this splitting of the ork force to achieve two objectives simultaneously with his smaller force: deny the orks the kleinhaurker while destroying the orks and eliminating their leaders, if possible.



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Xhorik 87th Drop Troops P&M blog https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/775655.page

Project log and campaign featuring Orks, Imperial Guard, Marines, Tyranids: http://www.xhorikwar.blogspot.com/
Currently focused on our Horus Heresy campaign with White Scars, Death Guard and Imperial Militia.  
   
Made in nz
Rough Rider with Boomstick






Off the shoulder of Orion

Good stuff - nice to see fully painted armies in a photo batrep.

The Orks and White Scars were very well painted. Good to see the Orks holding on for a draw despite some rum luck!

My Collected Narrative Photo Battle Reports

http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/Gordy2000%27s_Battle_Reports

Thanks to Thor 665 for putting together the article
 
   
Made in us
Bonkers Buggy Driver with Rockets





Houston, TX

 Gordy2000 wrote:
Good stuff - nice to see fully painted armies in a photo batrep.

The Orks and White Scars were very well painted. Good to see the Orks holding on for a draw despite some rum luck!


Thanks, Gordy. As I've said, your group sets the bar for photo battle reports and engaging campaigns. The rest of us are just trying to get to your standard one day!


I appreciate the kind words. The White Scars are mine. My brother and I are just starting Horus Heresy, but I had him use my first few painted models in this 40k battle just so I could use more of my painted orks!

Xhorik 87th Drop Troops P&M blog https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/775655.page

Project log and campaign featuring Orks, Imperial Guard, Marines, Tyranids: http://www.xhorikwar.blogspot.com/
Currently focused on our Horus Heresy campaign with White Scars, Death Guard and Imperial Militia.  
   
Made in hr
Regular Dakkanaut



Slavonski Brod-Croatia

Great batrep .Love the narative behind it

Nice looking armys .
Terrain is nice to.
Love the orks .Will pinch some ideas for conversions from them
This is the first picture battle report that i read all of it . Great job.

Keep them comming
   
Made in gb
Small Wyrm of Slaanesh





Britain

A well presented and easy on the eye battle report! big fan of the terrain as well.

   
Made in gb
Growlin' Guntrukk Driver with Killacannon





Hererford, leo

Sweet good read, hopefully read the rest when I get the time.

 
   
Made in pl
Been Around the Block





I really enjoyed this report - the story and characters are great. The mission was also interesting, armies well themed and well painted.
All in all - great job!
   
Made in us
Bonkers Buggy Driver with Rockets





Houston, TX

Thanks for the feedback and encouragement, everyone. I really appreciate hearing your thoughts so we can continue to make better reports. We had a lot of fun with this game and we plan to continue the campaign when we get together next (which might be a while since my brothers and I live a few thousand miles apart currently).

Xhorik 87th Drop Troops P&M blog https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/775655.page

Project log and campaign featuring Orks, Imperial Guard, Marines, Tyranids: http://www.xhorikwar.blogspot.com/
Currently focused on our Horus Heresy campaign with White Scars, Death Guard and Imperial Militia.  
   
Made in si
Hardened Veteran Guardsman




Ireland

I really enjoyed that batrep. Two fully painted armies and classy terrain really make it a joy to read. I will try to read them all.

   
Made in ru
!!Goffik Rocker!!






great, i loved it. GOGO boyz!
   
 
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