The Outer Line Defense

[Rhellion]

Early before dawn, the Command Bunker picked up a faint transmission...

 

translation[drop troops ready........ dawn strike............... elite force ready to........ take control of command center.... open up the planet's defenses.....] end transmission

 

 

 

 

The small Space Wolf force dug in to their trenches as the glint of sunlight just touched the horizon. The friendly transmission came over the communication lines as the Long Fangs anxiously awaited contact from within their bunker, "This is Rune Priest Víglundr. Hold tight, our force is preparing to drop to your location. We have Tau ships incoming on your position and we should arrive as they do. We must hold that Command Bunker!"

 

The Wolfguard, Skadd, spit in response, and commented to his squad of veteran marksmen, "They better get here soon. We have but a small force to battle what sounds like an elite battle suit formation. We've seen this type of attack before, Fangs. Just stay true to your senses".

 

As the morning sun rose, the first salvo hit. The orbital strike blasted around the Command Bunker, and destroyed an automated gun emplacement. Blasts peppered the tanks around the bunker, shaking their crew but ultimately doing no damage to the rest of the compound. Then the first enemy Crisis Suits dropped, along with heavy weapon support.

 

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Helm Trueblood, last of his pack and now titled Lone Wolf, roared into the voice communicator, "There they are men! Leave the glory to me, and you just try to stay out of my way!" as he saw the suits ready to engage. They fired a salvo of plasma that tore at his armor, and wounded him even in his battle frenzy, and vaporized one of his trusted Fenrisian Wolf companions. "Bastards!" Just as the heavy Broadside battle suits fired their heavy railguns into the bastion that housed their compounds turreted battle cannon. The bastion came crumbling down. Another unit of battle suits dropped next to the Vindicator and fired of more plasma rounds. Before it could turn and blast them, the suits jumped onto the tank, and unleashed their grenades, disabling its cannon and destroying the tank treads.

 

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"We're inbound now!" claimed Víglundr, as his drop pod crashed into the dense earth before the Crisis Suits. "Out and don't leave a single tin can standing!" he ordered as he activated the runes on his massive axe, their energy pulsing. His squad disembarked from their pod and rapid fired into the suits, cutting them down in a hail of Boltgun fire. Then the Long Fangs unleashed their version of Hell on the remaining Tau, and blasted them off the face of the planet. "AH! You didn't leave any scraps for me, dammit!" shouted Helm, denied the glorious combat he deserved. Squad Beta's drop pod landed in front of the heavy battlesuits that had destroyed the bastion just moments ago. The Wolf Guard second in command of the defense of the Command Bunker, Mornstar, left from the pod and THREW his thunder hammer at the closest Broadside. A shield drone intercepted his hammer and exploded. "Don't just stand there you pups, show them what you've got!"

 

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All around them, more teams of Crisis Suits were dropping from the sky, shooting into their ranks. Víglundr was struck twice as his unit began to fall to the massive amounts of plasma fire taken by his unit. "By Russ's beard these scum have a lot of plasma!" As Mornstar smashed through the remaining suits, he turned to see Víglundr gunned down by a massive Tau battlesuit of unknown design. "Dammit, no!"

 

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As a Devilfish troop transport raced through their lines, undoubtedly with a deadly payload, another squadron of battle suits dropped in their lines, aiming at destroying their command bunker. "More pods coming in! Lets go boys!" Skadd shouted to his squad, and let loose with his Cyclone missile launcher. The drop pod reinforcements landed just within their compounds walls, and unleashed it's fierce cargo of the Grey Hunter squad within. As another pod dropped nearby, the wolves began pouring it on, and more tanks were rolling over the hills.

 

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The firepower of the long awaited reinforcements proved too much for the Tau elite strike force, and they began to fall one after another. Mornstar ripped through suit after suit as he led his squad to the center of the enemy drop zone, and towards where Víglundr fell. Before him, the giant Tau suit rose up and fired off a few rounds, before it jetted straight for him with retinue in tow. "So you want to play, eh?" he mused, and then cleaved the suit in two with the might of two normal Wolf Guard! "Heh, no game at all".

 

As the remains of their force were run down and blown to pieces, one remaining squad of Broadsides unleashed their railguns again, striking into the command bunker. As it began to crumble, Skadd leaped from the nearest firing port to safety, and his power armored squad brothers followed.

 

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As Mornstar made it to the wreckage of Squad Alpha's drop pod, a pile of Tau and Space Wolf bodies began to .. As he readied his hammer, Víglundr slowly rose to his feet and laid his brothers down who had died honorably in battle. He surveyed the battlefield and annoyingly looked hard at the ruins of the command bunker. "Hey, we didn't lose it" Skadd joked as he walked up to his commanding officer. Mornstar let out a bellowing laugh.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Full size pictures on my blog.

 

*Mornstar = counts-as Arjac Rockfist

 

Víglundr, (my Campaign Hero special character)

 

5 Wolf Guard, (Arjac, power fists, and a cyclone terminator)

Lone Wolf, th/ss, 2 wolves

Lone Wolf, cf/ss, 2 wolves

 

7 Grey Hunters, drop pod

8 Grey Hunters, drop pod

9 Grey Hunters, drop pod

10 Grey Hunters, drop pod

 

Land Speeder, mm/hf

Land Speeder, mm/hf

Land Speeder, mm/hf

 

Vindicator

Vindicator

Long Fangs, 5 missile launchers, razorback

Long Fangs, 5 missile launchers, razorback

Whirlwind

Predator

[Wolf Guard Nostromo]

Nice report - enjoyed both the writing and the photos - whats the nature of your 'special character' Viglundr?

[Rhellion]

Nice report - enjoyed both the writing and the photos - whats the nature of your 'special character' Viglundr?

 

Our club is country-wide and is running a large scale campaign. Each player can create a special character with the club's Hero Creation Rules. The details are all on my blog, but here is my special character:

 

Víglundr, Son of the Bear, Slayer of Daemons

 

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Víglundr was a massive man even by Space Marine standards when he was discovered by the Wolf Priests in his home village. He was the Village Seer's son, but as a great warrior he lead war parties in defense of his village against the warring factions of Fenris. While going through the trials of the Space Wolves, he was singled out because of his attunement to the Rune's, and his ability to harness their powers specifically for hand to hand combat. He became a Rune Priest while his other brothers became Blood Claws, and as they all because Space Wolves together he stood not in the rear commanding the powers of lightning and storm, but in the front line swinging his force weapon and slaying the enemies of the Chapter.

 

His attunement to the runes and martial prowess with his runic axe, Kjonir, earned him place on expeditions to the fringe of the Eye of Terror in defense of the world there from Daemon and Chaos Cultist raids. On one such defense mission, Víglundr was at Brom Wolfheart's side when a great Keeper of Secrets was summoned to the battlefield and began to lay waste to the Space Wolves before it. Víglundr stepped forward and took a mighty blow from the Daemon that would have cleaved a normal Space Marine in two, and stepped forward and sundered the Greater Daemon in turn. Instantly the Chaos warband's resolve left them, their battle lust gone, and they fled. Víglundr just stood and led the howl of victory, with a gaping hole in his side.

 

 

 

Rune priest

 

Wargear: Runic Weapon, Terminator Armor, Wolftooth Necklace

 

Psychic Powers: Jaws of the World Wolf, Murderous Hurricane

 

Galus Upgrades: +1 Initiative, +1 Wound, Force Weapon, Eternal Warrior

 

Points: 220

 

[The Force Weapon upgrade allows him to cause instant death even if the enemy is immune to instant death.]

[TiguriusX]

Nice report - enjoyed both the writing and the photos - whats the nature of your 'special character' Viglundr?

 

Our club is country-wide and is running a large scale campaign. Each player can create a special character with the club's Hero Creation Rules. The details are all on my blog, but here is my special character:

 

Víglundr, Son of the Bear, Slayer of Daemons

 

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_htwvK3s_n0I/S2UYM1kjQbI/AAAAAAAAArY/X2PZr6NRjqA/s320/IMG_1101.JPG

 

Víglundr was a massive man even by Space Marine standards when he was discovered by the Wolf Priests in his home village. He was the Village Seer's son, but as a great warrior he lead war parties in defense of his village against the warring factions of Fenris. While going through the trials of the Space Wolves, he was singled out because of his attunement to the Rune's, and his ability to harness their powers specifically for hand to hand combat. He became a Rune Priest while his other brothers became Blood Claws, and as they all because Space Wolves together he stood not in the rear commanding the powers of lightning and storm, but in the front line swinging his force weapon and slaying the enemies of the Chapter.

 

His attunement to the runes and martial prowess with his runic axe, Kjonir, earned him place on expeditions to the fringe of the Eye of Terror in defense of the world there from Daemon and Chaos Cultist raids. On one such defense mission, Víglundr was at Brom Wolfheart's side when a great Keeper of Secrets was summoned to the battlefield and began to lay waste to the Space Wolves before it. Víglundr stepped forward and took a mighty blow from the Daemon that would have cleaved a normal Space Marine in two, and stepped forward and sundered the Greater Daemon in turn. Instantly the Chaos warband's resolve left them, their battle lust gone, and they fled. Víglundr just stood and led the howl of victory, with a gaping hole in his side.

 

 

 

Rune priest

 

Wargear: Runic Weapon, Terminator Armor, Wolftooth Necklace

 

Psychic Powers: Jaws of the World Wolf, Murderous Hurricane

 

Galus Upgrades: +1 Initiative, +1 Wound, Force Weapon, Eternal Warrior

 

Points: 220

 

[The Force Weapon upgrade allows him to cause instant death even if the enemy is immune to instant death.]

 

Are you open to some constructive criticism?

 

Sounds like you put a lot of thought into your background and character and would like it to be accurate but I don't want to spout off and make it sound like I'm trying to whizz in your cheerios so to speak.