Post by mpendl on Oct 14, 2015 22:43:38 GMT -6
hi everyone- just a note that this is episode four because i don't have episode three done yet. Sorry about this.
The Hunt for the Drone Beacon
a NGC40k Mission in Two acts
AFTERMATH
of the Hunt for the Drone Mission
a Mechanicum vs. Marines Errant Battle Report.
500 points a side.
Techmarine Barthus rounds up two available combat squads with a small unit of Scouts to enter the ruins to search for a Tau Transmitter device.
The Techmarine entered into the dilapidated remains of the Eastern Mining Facility. Lathekin artisans had vacated these buildings over 120 years ago, and their age was showing. Three servitors assisted with turning over stones that the two forceps from servo-harness did not. This building was quickly searched.
On the horizon, Mechanicum Thallax approach, their engines wheezing as they leap over terrain. The Techmarine notes that he was not informed in any briefing that Mechanicum forces would be assisting in the search for the drone transmitter. Odd. He began a refresh of incoming transmissions from HQ.
Sgt. Soolo and Combat Squad Tahn enter into the ruined Quartermaster Warehouse 7 on Vergon Avenue. Trademark Lathekin tile flooring has been fractured by tanks rolling across it during the second Klaeser uprising. The transmitter is not found in this building.
The combat squad led by Sgt. Azull enters into the empty ferment cistern. Dried precipitate still crunches underneath their heavy footsteps. The transmitter is not found in this building, but it is close. They embark upon their rhino transport and head toward a pile of bricks.
Success. The transmitter is found, evidently it had crashed into the cabbage holds and demolished it upon impact. Sgt. Azull alerts the field in a Imperial (public) channel, and commands his men to embark the rhino again.
Sgt. Soolo and combat squad Tahn exit the Quartermasters and get on board their Rhino. The Thallax that were waiting on the bridge immediately open fire upon the rhino and tear it asunder with lightning arcs and melta weapons.
Another squad of Thallax has deep-struck into the zone and assault Sgt. Azull after destroying their Rhino. The combat squad performs a tactical fusillade of bolter fire, emptying two clips and laying low two of the Thallax before being assaulted. Sgt. Azull spars with the robot and eventually dismembers its cogs and pinions. It lies twitching on the ground.
A Battle Automata is also striding down Vergon Avenue. Scouts, stationed in the animal holds sprint out to distract the giant robot and pay dearly with their lives. One sniper remains to flee back into the barn.
The Techmarine, faced with lightning and melta fire performs a textbook fallback manuver with his one remaining servitor. This disallows an assault from the Thallax.
The Automata closes in on combat squad Tahn. Sgt. Soolo has been critically injured from his own plasma pistol. The Automata open fire with his shoulder-mounted cannon and power armor begins to ricochet against the tank traps.
The Automata closes in on the remains of squad Tahn, who are helpless against the armored hide of its battle armor. The one remaining Thallax opens up with a few final rounds into Sgt. Azull's squad. The transmitter is badly damaged in the firefight. It begins to billow smoke. Sgt. Azull drops the transmitter in the confusion and falls back.
Sgt. Azull returns to the transmitter, but is faced down by the Automata and the Thallax. Here the encounter ends, as everyone suddenly realizes that the transmitter has caught fire. It is now useless.
The lone surviving scout continues to enter back lines. What is this mysterious symbol on the wall? Certainly this is more important than participating in the firefight.
The end of the scenario:
Mechanicum scored First Blood, Slay the Warlord, and Linebreaker.
Marines Errant score Find the Relic, Linebreaker.
Score was 3-2 in favor of mechanicum. What happens next will involve the reaction of both forces...
The Hunt for the Drone Beacon
a NGC40k Mission in Two acts
The Narendra Mining Companies have fallen to all but ruin, a few fragments of independent contractors remain. When patrolling the Mercian debris belt in the Jordaan-Yarr-Lathekin-Narendra Cluster a captain might be surprised to find a Narendra Combing Tug still operating in the belts. These tugs were once a quite common sight in these areas as they used massive machined arms to pluck resources from spinning asteroids in the vast belt of planetary remains. Currently, most local ship operation units take it as common knowledge that almost all of these NCTs have been stripped of any operational machinery and set adrift as a part of commercial austerity enacted by the Narendra Corporation 150 years ago. Gangs of rebels from both Lathekin separatists and the most industrious Jordaan sometimes have acquired transport to these scuttled hulks and eek out an existence aboard these freezing echo chambers. During a recent encounter with some of these pirates, the Marines Errant from JYLN-55 discovered one such Tug inhabited with some remnants from the Klaeser uprising holding out on hopes of a full-scale rebellion against the Imperium. The Klaeser loyalists had raided a few shipping lanes heading out from the Tau systems surrounding Bor'do and had accumulated a small cache of Fire Caste weapons and technology they had little hope of using correctly. These sad creatures, starved to the point of almost ritualistic cannibalism, had no knowledge of the downfall of the Tyrant Klaeser and the subsequent takeover of all governmental operations by House Ecale, and were rightfully surprised when boarded by three tactical squads clad in void-hardened armor. Before detonation of the Tug with all of its inhabitants subdued, incarcerated or incinerated, the Marines secured as much Tau technology as possible.
One particular Klaeser loyalist, Dern Hacke, was a 48 year old male from a long line of Jordaan brawlers. He activated a tau distress device in a vain attempt to contact his fellow rebels (which he had been misled to believe were numerous and strong) and stowed the three-foot radius disc into a pod jettison hold. Dern Hacke then ran to the cargo holds where the Marines had entered the airlocks and subsequently suffocated in the access tunnels when the Errants drained all the docks of all breathable gases into space.
Upon detonation, the pod jettison hold automatically opened and burst forth the KTR-72 Tau Signaler like a pustule, spilling trash and the signaler into the debris field. It was fully an hour later that the Errants detected the single pulse being sent from the Tau device and started in pursuit. Due to the complexity of the field and a small amount of bad luck, the captain of the Entract sent a communication to JYLN-55 Command: the device was plummeting to the surface.
The signal was like a blinking light in a field of darkness. It must be recovered quickly.
Little did the Errants know, someone else had also detected the signal. Someone who had already been looking for the Tau, someone who cared little for local politics, drawn lines or territories. When the Errants and their unannounced visitors encounter each other, they initially ignored each other, focusing on the mission at hand.
One particular Klaeser loyalist, Dern Hacke, was a 48 year old male from a long line of Jordaan brawlers. He activated a tau distress device in a vain attempt to contact his fellow rebels (which he had been misled to believe were numerous and strong) and stowed the three-foot radius disc into a pod jettison hold. Dern Hacke then ran to the cargo holds where the Marines had entered the airlocks and subsequently suffocated in the access tunnels when the Errants drained all the docks of all breathable gases into space.
Upon detonation, the pod jettison hold automatically opened and burst forth the KTR-72 Tau Signaler like a pustule, spilling trash and the signaler into the debris field. It was fully an hour later that the Errants detected the single pulse being sent from the Tau device and started in pursuit. Due to the complexity of the field and a small amount of bad luck, the captain of the Entract sent a communication to JYLN-55 Command: the device was plummeting to the surface.
The signal was like a blinking light in a field of darkness. It must be recovered quickly.
Little did the Errants know, someone else had also detected the signal. Someone who had already been looking for the Tau, someone who cared little for local politics, drawn lines or territories. When the Errants and their unannounced visitors encounter each other, they initially ignored each other, focusing on the mission at hand.
AFTERMATH
of the Hunt for the Drone Mission
a Mechanicum vs. Marines Errant Battle Report.
500 points a side.
Techmarine Barthus rounds up two available combat squads with a small unit of Scouts to enter the ruins to search for a Tau Transmitter device.
The Techmarine entered into the dilapidated remains of the Eastern Mining Facility. Lathekin artisans had vacated these buildings over 120 years ago, and their age was showing. Three servitors assisted with turning over stones that the two forceps from servo-harness did not. This building was quickly searched.
On the horizon, Mechanicum Thallax approach, their engines wheezing as they leap over terrain. The Techmarine notes that he was not informed in any briefing that Mechanicum forces would be assisting in the search for the drone transmitter. Odd. He began a refresh of incoming transmissions from HQ.
Sgt. Soolo and Combat Squad Tahn enter into the ruined Quartermaster Warehouse 7 on Vergon Avenue. Trademark Lathekin tile flooring has been fractured by tanks rolling across it during the second Klaeser uprising. The transmitter is not found in this building.
The combat squad led by Sgt. Azull enters into the empty ferment cistern. Dried precipitate still crunches underneath their heavy footsteps. The transmitter is not found in this building, but it is close. They embark upon their rhino transport and head toward a pile of bricks.
Success. The transmitter is found, evidently it had crashed into the cabbage holds and demolished it upon impact. Sgt. Azull alerts the field in a Imperial (public) channel, and commands his men to embark the rhino again.
Sgt. Soolo and combat squad Tahn exit the Quartermasters and get on board their Rhino. The Thallax that were waiting on the bridge immediately open fire upon the rhino and tear it asunder with lightning arcs and melta weapons.
Another squad of Thallax has deep-struck into the zone and assault Sgt. Azull after destroying their Rhino. The combat squad performs a tactical fusillade of bolter fire, emptying two clips and laying low two of the Thallax before being assaulted. Sgt. Azull spars with the robot and eventually dismembers its cogs and pinions. It lies twitching on the ground.
A Battle Automata is also striding down Vergon Avenue. Scouts, stationed in the animal holds sprint out to distract the giant robot and pay dearly with their lives. One sniper remains to flee back into the barn.
The Techmarine, faced with lightning and melta fire performs a textbook fallback manuver with his one remaining servitor. This disallows an assault from the Thallax.
The lone scout, fleeing Vergon Avenue and ducking behind the animal holds.
The Automata closes in on combat squad Tahn. Sgt. Soolo has been critically injured from his own plasma pistol. The Automata open fire with his shoulder-mounted cannon and power armor begins to ricochet against the tank traps.
The Automata closes in on the remains of squad Tahn, who are helpless against the armored hide of its battle armor. The one remaining Thallax opens up with a few final rounds into Sgt. Azull's squad. The transmitter is badly damaged in the firefight. It begins to billow smoke. Sgt. Azull drops the transmitter in the confusion and falls back.
Sgt. Azull returns to the transmitter, but is faced down by the Automata and the Thallax. Here the encounter ends, as everyone suddenly realizes that the transmitter has caught fire. It is now useless.
The lone surviving scout continues to enter back lines. What is this mysterious symbol on the wall? Certainly this is more important than participating in the firefight.
The end of the scenario:
Mechanicum scored First Blood, Slay the Warlord, and Linebreaker.
Marines Errant score Find the Relic, Linebreaker.
Score was 3-2 in favor of mechanicum. What happens next will involve the reaction of both forces...