[DW/SM] Spectre of Ullanor (IC)

[Mazer Rackham]

Ork Horde 4:

WP Passed, with Insane Bravery!

 

With jeers and ribald calls even as their number dwindles, amid the explosions and torrent of fire, the Orks find steel, enough to keep slinging lead. Whether this is crude Orkish bravura, simple stupidity or asinine obstinacy is anyone's guess.

Spoiler

Mag is now 10 or less, so 10 to Hit 'em:

FAB: MISS

Free Actions: 

1 x D6 Stikkbombs: 4 (They auto miss - they're just tossed over - Scatter 1D10 + direction)

1: AoE no effect, explodes harmlessly (throws up grit and ash)

2: AoE no effect, explodes harmlessly (throws up grit and ash)

3: AoE catches Leyuun

4: AoE catches Kur-Dawa

 

Kur-Dawa:

Dam: 2D10+2, Blast (4)

Body: 12

Leyuun:

Dam: 2D10+2, Blast (4)

Body: 17

 

Dodges Available

 

[ ] Uldyssian

[ ] Leyuun (Dodge: Pass, barely)

[A.T.]

Uldyssian

 

The greenskins initial attack was all but broken, but the survivors would report their position and more may yet come. As the others picked off the remaining forces Uldyssian set about reinforcing the nearby terrain into a more defensible barricade.

[Mazer Rackham]

GM: I'll allow Ikka an opportunity to change his Actions because of the 'Brace' rules mix-up.

 

Players who passed the Perception Test:

 

Against the background of clamour and deafening - even for your audio circuits - noise of Marines at war, comes the rumble of engines firing up and lurching off. However, the direction dictated by your incredible physiological advantages within the Lyman's Ear, appears to be away from you, the growling engines of light vehicles rapidly withdrawing from both Map East and West directions.

 

The Orks are taking to their heels, whilst the thinning mob keeps you busy. The Celebrant's words ring strangely prophetic.

 

GM: Note that Players who passed the Test can act in pursuit immediately. Other Players will be required to 'get into position to respond'. You're not idiots, you're Marines, and you'll know or suspect they're bugging out, or you're convinced of further attack. One way or another, you had your hands full, or not used to working with these warriors, etc etc.

 

GM: You'll be able to viscon when you move out of the wadi, so there's no need to hide it - there are three buggies. Two are heading map East/SE, and the other is heading West/SW. The western wadi wall is low, and is a simple climb, so no test is required, or you can of course just jump up there, with +10 if you take a Full Move. The Eastern wadi wall requires a Challenging (+0) Climb Test, or a Full Action Run to clear the Wadi basin.

 

GM: This is MMBD: Miles and Miles Of Bloody Desert. Range is king. Having said that, I will require one Player to roll 1D10 + AG Bonus, and another to roll 1D6+AG Bonus and post the results below. These will be the number of Turns (respectively) the enemy groups have until they reach help. Initiative Order will be re-listed in Round Four (it's the same, but obviously, the setup is different).

 

ROUND TWO ENDS.

 

ROUND THREE BEGINS.

 

Initiative Order:

Spoiler

Enkush: 17

Kur-Dawa: 14

Incario: 11 (Ag 5)

Kurkov: 11 (Ag 3)

Hierax: 10 (Ag 5)
Nolites: 10 (Ag 4)

Ork Mob 4: 10 (Player Priority) (Down to 5-ish Mag).

Uldyssian: 9

Leyuun: (GM Discretion)

 

MAP - is as previous, only Horde 4 remains.

 

GM: Questions, complaints and shouting in the OOC.

 

[x] Enkush

[x] Kur-Dawa

[x] Incario

[x] Kurkov

[x] Hierax
[x] Nolites

Edited yesterday at 12:29 PM by Mazer Rackham
Round 3 Completed

[Lysimachus]

Incario:

 

So, at least some of the beasts had some backbone? If they wanted to die in battle, Incario was very happy to oblige them.

 

Actions: FAB at Ork Horde 4
BaS52 +20(FAB) +10(Short) +10(Motion Predictor) = 92
Roll: , 59 - Hit with 3DoS
= 4 Hits +1 Hit for X
All Hits cause Dam
+d5(2) for Unrelenting Devastation
Total: 7 Mag Dam inflicted

 

 

 

Edited Monday at 05:34 PM by Lysimachus
Removed +10 to Hit from Horde Size

[Mazer Rackham]

Horde Four:

Horde Four is hit by chuntering clatter of bolts, detonating the scarp-scrape with detonations.

 

Horde Four is destroyed.

[Machine God]

Enkush

 

The running Ork horde remnants were extracting under power, eventually he could make out vehicles.

 

Gunning his engine he drove out of the wadi to the west, where it was level he sighted three buggies toe-cutting like road-warriors in a split.

 

He waited for Kur-Dawa to arrive.

 

++Target preference, Cousin++ he asked.

 

++My Sire was a gambler, he'd go Sierra Echo. Near the Yurt of the Rising Sun++

 

He waited for a response.

 

 

 

 

MMBD 1D10 +AGL Bonus. Result: 10 +6 = 16

 

 

 

 

 

[Trokair]

Kur-Dawa

 

With the Orks broken and running it was time to do as the Storm Lord had suggested, run them down so that they could not summon reinforcement. Indeed Enkush was already manoeuvring his bike out of the wadi.

 

++Then I shall take the other direction, if you think you can handle that one. Securing the ERV is priority and as you said, we cannot let any of them summon more greenskins.++

 

Turning to the other marines present Kur-Dawa added.

 

“My cousin and I will hunt down those in flight, if we don’t return you can take it as said that even more of them will flock to the ERV.”

 

Not wanting to delay he spun around on his bike to begin the hunt while the Celebrant reduced those that had lingered to unlife.

 

Spoiler

MMBD

1d6 + AG = 4 +6 = 10

 

Full Action – Tactical Manoeuvring (move up to twice Tactical speed (20m)) to get into position for the pursuit.
If any drive tests are needed on acount of terrain let me know and I can add them in.

 

Edited Monday at 09:18 PM by Trokair

[grailkeeper]

"Right, well whilst those two polish off the Xenos, I'm going to have a shufti round that tank" 

 

Thought Nolites.

 

You never know what you might scrounge up.

[Mazer Rackham]

GM: With Enkush going SE, he's got two buggies to kill in max 16 Turns, and Kur-Dawa has one to kill in 10, going SW. Let me know if anyone else is engaging in the OOC.

 

Edited Monday at 10:26 PM by Mazer Rackham

[Machine God]

Enkush

 

So it was a split, the White Scar going for the lesser threat.

 

 

Watch the jangle jangle start to shine

 

 

Speed with caution, he took off in pursuit of the two ramshackle Ork Buggies.

 

 

With a laugh he thought about the others in the Wadi.

 

Those Boots are made for Walking.

 

 

 

(Full Action) Tactical Manoeuvring (move up to twice Tactical Speed) [20m]) to get into position for the pursuit.

 

 

 

 

 

[Mazer Rackham]

Orks:

 

Heavy revving in the middle distance establishes the Orks are on the move.

 

[ ] Uldyssian

[A.T.]

Uldyssian

 

A break in the fighting, enough perhaps to determine the purpose of this outpost. Uldyssian turned towards the sable armoured warrior, "Well met brother, by what purpose have you been positioned here and how might we assist?"

[Necronaut]

Hierax

 

Heavy bolter fire lanced through the rest of the chaff, reducing them to a bloody ruin upon the ridge, and in the sudden stillness, Hierax realized there were more above yet trying to escape. A ruthless instinct took hold of him and he leapt out from behind his hiding place and sprinted up the side of the wadi, reaching the crest just as the last surviving orks reached their war buggies. There were three, each pulling away in different directions, naturally.

 

Curses.

 

His newly acquired cameleoline cloak billowed around him in the wind like a Terran desert bandit’s serape as he knelt and mag-locked his bolter to his power pack. Hierax calmly drew his long rifle, Whisper, from over his shoulder and started dialing in the advanced targeting system mounted upon its upper rail, searching for a clear weak point he might exploit on the nearest buggy or an exposed occupant to kill.

 

 

Full Action: Run up SE wadi escarpment

 

Bonus Half Action: Half Aim @ Wrecka B

Edited yesterday at 12:12 AM by Necronaut

[Mazer Rackham]

ROUND THREE ENDS

 

ROUND FOUR BEGINS

 

The swiftest amongst you watch as the Ork Wreckas lurch into action and tear away into the desert.

 

GM: Since the Party is split 3 ways, I will not be providing maps as it triples my workload. The Orks have successfully passed/performed the Floor It! action this turn, (Hierax acts before them) adding 32m to the distances given above. I will place a cumulative distance below. The Players in the wadi are in Narrative time, and may act as they wish. I will be rounding off to keep things simpler.

 

GM: For further simplicity, I will be relabelling the Ork Wreckas along the lines of their previous Init order from past Rounds, so we have consistency. A will follow B, follows C, just for ease of reference. The Wreckas should now correspond to the mobs who broke, and will effect the distance over Rounds played that they fled.

 

Conditions:

Sand - all Drive Tests are Difficult (-10)

The Wreckas are not in cohesion - meaning they are more than 2m apart.

The Ork passengers/crew can either be attacked with Called Shot, or will be struck by every 3rd shot which hits the vehicle (as per Vehicle Combat rules in RoB).

The Orks do not form Hordes in the vehicle (you broke them, so they're a group).

Floor It: The Vehicle imposes -20 to Hit (refer to the Data thread or other details).

 

Initiaitve Order:

Spoiler

Enkush

Kur-Dawa

Wrecka A (the one Tro is chasing) (Distance 65m) heading South-West.

Wrecka B (Distance 75m) heading South-East.

Hierax

Wrecka C (Distance 65m) heading South-South-East.

 

 

[ ] Enkush

[ ] Kur Dawa

 

GM OOC: Narrative Players may post freely.

Edited yesterday at 03:45 PM by Mazer Rackham

[Trokair]

Kur-Dawa

 

 

The silence from Enkush was confirmation that the Storm Lord did indeed think he was able of hunting down Orks fleeing south easterly. Kur-Dawa therefore set of in pursuit of the south westerly truck, perhaps,once he had run down his initial quarry, and if need be, he could circle round to form a pincer with the Storm Lord.

 

Spoiler

Full Action: Floor It

Drive Test: AG61 – 10(Floor It) – 10 (sand) + 15 (Manoeuvrability) = 56

D100: 39, Pass, 1 DoS

Move 2x Tactical Speed (20m) + 5m +5m for each DoS = 50m

All shoting by/from and at bike/Kur-Dawa is -20 to Hit

 

[Lysimachus]

Incario:

 

As the last of the approaching Orks was blasted apart, Incario grinned viciously. There was little more satisfying than taking a charging foe down before they could even reach your line. Then Hierax moved suddenly, racing towards the top of the scarp. For a fraction of a second Incario wondered where the Raptor was hurrying off to, then he heard the unmistakable sound of Ork engines. The Celebrant grunted a quick curse, then lumbered after the lighter Marine, holding Drumroll one-handed so that he could use the other to pull himself up the slope.

 

 

Full Action: Move/Run/Climb to top of wadi wall.

 

As he reached the top, he could see rising dust trails spreading apart. Three vehicles, each heading in a different direction. The two Astartes riders were following, bikes throwing up slightly smaller sprays of sand and dirt. Incario frowned. Not out of range yet… but it wouldn't be long.

 

The Raptor had already raised his boltgun and Incario moved to stand beside him, taking a two-handed grip on Drumroll and getting ready to fire another volley.

 

++Brother Storm Lord,++ he voxed, ++live fire warning. With your permission we will target the vehicle heading South-east?++ (OOC: Wrecka B)

 

Edited yesterday at 04:05 PM by Lysimachus

[Machine God]

Enkush

 

He sped off in high speed pursuit of the Ork Wrecka.

 

If you are going    

 

the Omnissiah sang. His attention was diverted from the song by a Vox transmission.

 

 

++Brother Storm Lord, live fire warning. With your permission we will target the vehicle heading South-east?++

 

++That's a big Ten-Four good buddy. Fill your Boots!++

 

 

be sure to wear some flowers in your hair

 

Perhaps there are Space Wolves nearby, he thought.

 

He let the throttle out and drifted to the left, to both give the Celebrant a clearer shot and to show off his red livery to the Orks he pursued.

 

 

 

 

 

(Full Action) Floor It

Drive Test: AGL 60 +10 (Talented: Drive Ground Vehicle) -10 (Floor It -10 (Sand) = 50. Result: 05, Pass 4DoS

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited yesterday at 07:27 PM by Machine God
Clear Arcs of Fire

[Necronaut]

Hierax

 

The ork wrecka lurched forward in a cloud of oily exhaust and churned ashen sand, and went bouncing off across the dunes away from the others. Hierax followed it through the advanced gyroscopic optics furnished by his chapter’s artificers with the detached intensity of a hardened professional and drew a bead on the driver of the smoke belching contraption.

 

The brightly armoured Celebrant lumbered up the slope behind him, making half as much noise as an armoured column unassisted, but he paid the devastator no mind, so consumed was he by the hunt. Incario’s voice crackled over the vox, informing the bikers of his intent to fire upon the same vehicle as Hierax, and he heard the heavy gunner charge his weapon.

 

It wasn't like he required the permission of these sods to kill orks. His sergeant was dead, and while the Ordo Xenos could claim whatever dominion over him it wished, he had not sworn the Apocryphon Oath.

 

Still, professional courtesy did at the least necessitate that he also voice his intent.

 

He muttered over the vox to his new colleagues, +Driver is mine. Stand by…+

 

He inhaled.

 

The buggy shook and juddered with tooth-jarring impacts in the distance as it bounded away over the rugged terrain, and he subtly adjusted the angle of his boltgun’s long barrel to account for crosswinds and flight time.

 

He had the ork dead-to-rights.

 

There you are... Now…

 

He exhaled and squeezed Whisper’s trigger.

 

THWIP

 

 

OOC: I'm posting this slightly early so as not to hold anything up. Hopefully this doesn't screw up Mazer's action order.

 

Full Action: Called Shot vs Wrecka B Driver (Head)

BaS45 + 5 (armour) + 10 (half-aim) + 10 (laser tracer) + 10 (Bolter Mastery) + 10 (accurate) - 20 (called shot) - 20 (Floor It) = 50

D100: 09; 4 DoS -> 2D10 bonus damage (accurate)

Hit location: Head (declared)

 

Stalker Boltgun Damage (standard ammunition): 1D10+9X, Pen 8 (Focal Targeter), Accurate, Tearing

10 (2D10 Tearing: 10, 4), + 9X + 17 (Accurate 2D10: 10, 7) = 36X damage, Pen 8

RF confirmation D100: 65; failure, bummer…

Edited yesterday at 07:57 PM by Necronaut

[Mazer Rackham]

Wrecka A

 

The sight of a motorbike tearing out after them, chewing up the desert and pattered with grit gets the Orks agitated. They're too far away to make out any discernible blasphemies of the human tongue but rude gestures of one, or two finger salutes, are easily understood.

 

They lurch forward again, keeping up the speed, rocks and shale hammering backwards in a shotgun blast, and follow it up by twisting around to shoot.

Spoiler

Floor It! Test: Pass, no DoS

Move: 30m (now 45m from Kur-Dawa)

BaSK (Passengers 1D5 = 3) (-20 from Floor It, - 20 from Kur-Dawa flooring it)

MISS

MISS

MISS

 

Wrecka B:

The driver's head pops off, unprotected by the flanks of his vehicle. (I forgot to add their facing to you, so I will say they turned and presented the flank). The Trukk slews around (Scatter D10: 5, 7m) and jerks to a stop. The Orks quickly establish who will be unlucky enough to be the next driver, but it will take a few moments for him to clamber into the seat. (They lose half an action due to 'Mount' required'.

 

The other Passengers fire back waywardly, albeit ineffectually.

 

Wrecka C:

 

As Enkush thunders up, close enough almost to leap aboard, the Wrecka moves in front to stop him from passing, and a heavy Ork boot spurs it on while his passengers hurl more than abuse, but all it does is create more noise.

 

Spoiler

Floor It: PASS plus 3 DoS

Move: 45m away from Enkush

BaSK: (Passengers 1D5: 4) Auto miss Stikkbombs.

Scatter (Assuming Direction 1 for Enkush moving to the left): 

MISS

MISS

MISS

MISS

 

Dodges not required.

 

ROUND FOUR ENDS.

Edited yesterday at 08:04 PM by Mazer Rackham