The open plains

[Angrons_son]

intro

 

The agri world Hellgar VI was quite world with open plains of rich farm land, that was until the forces of the arch enemy arrived, and in a tide of blood and death they drove back the local PDF mile by bloody mile until over half the world was in the grip of chaos.

Hellgar VI orbit

The ships of battlefleet invictus duelled with the ships of the arch enemy at high anchor as they covered the bulk transports full of imperial forces, the void war was brutal and silent, void fields flickered and collapsed armour bubbled and ruptured voiding crew and atmosphere like life blood, the chaos murder class cruiser dark eye took a full salvo amid ship splitting its bulk in two in a powerful silent explosion.

Hellgar VI spaceport Hellion

Lord commander strax watched as the first regiments of his army filed down the landers boarding ramps, "order the praetorian 3rd light infantry to secure the port and surrounding city, I also want the 14th mordian recon force to being long range patrols out on the plains until we have established this base of operations" Strax said to his numerous aids and vox operators who obeyed without a word.

Lt conel Johnson of the Mordian 14th recon looked at his orders and frowned, "pass the orders on I want patrol units out within the hour" he stated with a sigh of annoyance, "yes sir" replied his company captains as one before heading off to carry out his orders.

Edited September 14, 2015 by Angrons_son

[Angrons_son]

The encounter

 

Lt Davison stood watching the land go by as his command salamander drove up the road towards a agri village designated V186, his patroling platoon was the furthest out of the spaceport some 50 miles northeast, the PDF reports were grim total retreat along the front even reports of whole regiments being wiped out or turning to join the arch enemy. Lt Davison looked up seeing V186 just up the road "all units prepare to clear buildings, scout sentinel 106 patrol the perimeter" Davison spoke calmly into the vox and received the affirmatives. Davison watched the scout sentinel stalk off ahead its boxy heavy flamer underslung on its cockpit as it out skirted the buildings his scout salamander and two chimeras moved to the middle of the collection of buildings of V186 his Mordians disembarked the chimeras and moved to clear all buildings he had 30 men under his command including his command squad which were still in the scout salamander awaiting his orders. After a few terse minutes the all clears were given and V186 was secure Lt Davison stood talking to his sergants when he noticed the distant growl of engines heading towards their position causing him to snatch at the vox "Sentinel 106 report" he shouted into the vox awaiting for a reply, "two tauros attack buggy's and several heavy trucks with the markings of the Arc..." Vox went dead as a loud explosion rocked the village signaling the sentinels death. Davison cursed and looked up prepare for battle looks like a enemy scouting party is here, to his credit his troops responded instantly running to find good firing positions he watched as one of his rocket teams clambered onto the roof of a building for a better vantage point and smiled as he saw his men use the buildings.

 

The first Tauros came ploughing round the outer buildings its mounted weapon was a heavy flamethrower it looked like it would flip as the maniac driving it did a sharp turn towards the village the gunner howling with glee, the Salamander gunners saw the Tauros and opened fire sending a torrent of heavy bolter and autocannon rounds streaked towards the light armoured attack buggy each hit sparking as it struck armour or puffs of dirt as the rounds chewed up the ground, one heavy bolter round struck the wheel on the front right quarter ripping it from its Axel in a shower of shrapnel and sparks. Suddenly relieved of its wheel the Tauros front dug into the soft ground before being flipped by the impact its gunner and driver both looking shocked as the buggy spun through the air just as a crimson beam from one of the chimeras hit the flamethrowers promethium tank rupturing it and igniting the fuel turning the tarous into a fireball.

 

"Tarous destroyed" reported the chimeras gunner via the vox bead in Lt Davison's ear. Davison looked about from his command point in the village hall he could still hear the other Tauros and trucks coming but much slower, "sir the enemy are disembarked from the trucks we estimate about 20 traitor guard and 30 cultists" his spotter reported from the roof. Lt Davison thought of a plan of action as two migraine bright beams slashed across from the enemy gouging down the flank of one of his chimeras melting the track and holing the armour crippling it. "That damn Tauros has a Lascannon" yelled the crippled tanks gunner as he traverse his turret to fire back. A whoosh of noise told Lt Davison that one of his missile teams had fired followed a few moments later by a large explosion, " Enemy transport truck destroyed" reported missile team one as they reloaded the missile launcher. "Enemy troops are charging sir" his spotter yelled down as another migraine bright beam struck the chmera again this time hitting its ammo hopper causing an internal detonation that blew the turret clean off killing all three crew members and knocking down half of the hab unit next to it. Lt Davison turned to his main vox operator "tell command that enemy probing force encountered at V186 will hold until further orders or enemy become to numerous." The vox operator nodded and relayed his message.

Edited September 14, 2015 by Angrons_son

[Angrons_son]

Scout sergeant Draco watched the guards forward patrol engage the forward elements of the chaos main probe into imperial held territory through the scope of his stalker bolter, he was able to see that the guard force would be able to hold its own as a second missile struck the Tauros blasting it to ruin with a dull crump, Draco and his scouts were all hidden in a wooded area just east of the skirmish, his armour was a mist grey with black trim a black hawk upon his right paldron, he had arrived planet side with the 5th company mist hawks, experts at stealth and ambush tactics and not even their allies the guard knew they were here, the thought mad Draco smile as he looked to his five man scout squad "rember we are not to engage unless we have a good target, let the guard deal with the cultists and traitor PDF and guard." His scouts acknowledged his orders with nods of their heads and at Draco's signal they moved further north unseen towards enemy territory.

[deathspectersgt7]

Cool stuff so far. Mist Hawks looking forward to hearing more on this Chapter.

[Angrons_son]

Thanks for your comments Im going to add a bit more as it is I have a lot more to add.

[Angrons_son]

It had been two hours since Lt Davison's patrol had engaged the arch enemy forward elements at V186, now as Davison looked about the village looked more like a old ruin most of the buildings had suffered damage in the battle, Davison hself sported a nasty cut above his left eye his sigh sounded frustrated as he herd his casualty reports both chimeras were destroyed as was his sentinel he only had 8 men at full readiness another 12 were wounded and 10 were dead including both rocket teams and his second they were down to two charge pacs each but they had wiped out the first assault force all fifty men and all trucks and Tauros's so wasn't a disaster that's for sure he thought grimacing.

 

Smoke rose over the village designated V186 suggested a battle and a half had been fought there or that's what it looked like to conel Harris as he brought up his 18th Marcobian Rifles they were all mounted on flat bed trucks and he had approximately 2,578 men under his command and his orders were to start building defence works until the 10th Carltel Pioneers could be brought up.

 

With nightfall coming the 18th Marcobian rifles built bulk ward's and gun positions turning the ruins of V186 into a small fortress, the messed up Mordian patrol was sent back for debriefing, the scouts had reported more enemy's massing for an assault in the morning but they were ready it will be brutal struggle but they would drive the arch enemy back and allow more guard forces to reinforce there position.

Edited September 20, 2015 by Angrons_son

[deathspectersgt7]

[Angrons_son]

Sector 3 (Mist Hawks Strike)

 

Cpt Damos checked his visors display looking at the countdown to target his scouts had spotted a large supply base with traitor Astarte's from the cursed orbs chapter confirming this chaos warband to be the orb of change, the thought made Damos growl "be ready brothers strike hard strike fast as our lord Corax teaches." He looks at the other mist grey power armoured bodies as they all nodded there understanding his whole company was with him in 4 thunderhawks with silent engines designed by there own techmarines, they won't be herd until it was too late.

 

Draco watched through his scoup as the first of the thunderhawks flew over head and unleashed a barrage of hellstrike missiles blowing a gaping hole in the fortified wall tumbling down a sentry tower with the concussive force of the blast, Draco grinned and sighted his first target a traitor marine in the teal blue with purple trim of the cursed orbs chapter firing his boltgun at the passing thunderhawks, with a steady release of breath Draco squeezes the trigger of his stalker bolter causing a cough sound as it fired its deadly shot strait into the visored eyelense of the traitors helm causing the back of his head to explode in blood and gore dropping the Astarte's instantly, this caused Draco to smile as he sought a new target.

 

Cpt Damos landed with a thud in the dirt with the rest of his squad, his inferno pistol snapping up and incinerate a traitor marine in a blinding beam of nucleonic fusion his power axe crackling to life as he quickly assessed the situation, he could see the traitors were on the back foot and smirked, "Brother Loki suppressive fire on the command tower." He subvocalises to the squads heavy bolter and was rewarded by its thudding report as it rippied into the command towers command center killing the dark mechanicum adepts stationed there.

 

Draco moved closer to the complex the sounds of battle were still going on he watched as a sentry tower was struck by a hellstrike its entire top section disappearing in a ball of fire, he would stop every so often to take out a target of opportunity his kill score was up to 30 by the time he reached near the breach in the wall his other scouts reported similar kill scores this made him grin the scouts of the mist hawks were considered the elite of there chapter them and there vanguard assault veterans, Draco calculated the kill score a full combat squad of traitor marines and at least a company strength of traitor guard good kill score he nodded to himself.

Edited September 26, 2015 by Angrons_son

[Angrons_son]

Cpt Damos hacked into the gorget of a traitor marine that had charged him with a growling chainsword, with a flick of his wrist he ripped the axe back out in a spirt of crimson blood his incinerator pistol fired into a group of guard vaporising most of them and set the last few on fire with its intense heat, "Sgt Draco scouts to maintain overwatch for enemy reinforcements" Damos sub vocalised, he received a blink click confirmation from the scout sergeant, Damos looked around seeking more targets but found none the base was secured all traitors were dead.

 

Sgt Grimm stalked up to captain Damos "no losses brother captain" he reported once he was level with his captain. Damos nodded his head before looking at his warriors "Squad Trekos plant melta charges throughout the complex rig them to blow when traitor reinforcements arrive". Trekos saluted with the sign of the aquilla and signaled his squad to carry out the orders as the thunderhawks came in to land and extract the mist hawks from the battle zone one of the thunderhawks  spotted 2 vulture gunships heading in their direction

 

"extraction order 227a gamma" Cpt Damos voice crackled across the vox as Sgt Draco and his scouts fled to the woods, a moving extraction risky but needs must not only were the 2 gunships spotted but a entire traitor regiment with armour and traitor astartes were approaching and would be there within the hour.

 

The thunderhawks flew in low picking up there charges before powering the engines to take back off, the first thunderhawk launched two hellstrike missiles straight at the 2 vulture who couldn't react in time were blasted to pieces turned into 2 fireballs that crashed to the ground in ruins before it pulled away with the others towards the distant mountains as sgt Dracos scouts melted into the woods

 

SSgt Draco and his scouts came across a ruined village several miles from the the enemy supply depot before feeling the tremors and violently loud detonation turning back towards the depot seeing a mushroom cloud lifting into the air black as night Draco wondered how many more traitors died in that blast and smirked.

Edited February 26, 2017 by Angrons_son

[Angrons_son]

Day 44 of the Hellgar VI liberation war

 

Cot Damos listened to the vox chatter from the imperial guard forces losses were high but they were beginning to push the enemy back having liberated the planets third city in a brutal siege thanks to the help from a mist hawks surgical strike team unknown to the guard forces. "Brother captain" Sergant Draco approached with Apocthery Varis. "Yes sergeant Draco?" Damos turned frowning as he saw Varis "Brother Fellini has succumbed to his wounds my captain that makes seven dead" Varis stated as he looked at the captain. Demos sighed and shook his head "we need to find the whip of Corax to return to Deliverances and our Raven guard brothers" he stated as he looked about his remaining members of his company