.14 Months Since the Fall of Usmilplatz.
The Mechanicus launches its main thrust towards Usmilplatz from the south, with a diversionary task force striking from the west earlier in the same week to divert Ork warriors away from the main body's axis of advance. Reconnaissance units still present in the wilderness areas around the AO redouble their efforts and attack xenos artillery positions and communications outposts to confound the Ork's (already less than stellar) command and control capabilities.
The Easternmost column of the main body's advance will be the first to hit a major population center, the town of Korsnokrat. While local partisan and militia forces moved house-to-house clearing out the xenos, and liberating slave encampments, the Skitarii maniples would be moving to one of their first primary objectives of the campaign, a data-tethering compound, in Korsnokrat which houses huge amounts of backup information and ancillary servers for Prima Jama.
The battle concluded quickly, massed fusillades of high-powered weaponry proved the better of the data-tether's occupiers. The Orks, as is typical of their race gave a hearty effort, but lacking effective armor or transport could not approach the sons of mars to bring their savage strength to bear, and thus before nights end, the street outside the compound was piled with the charred corpses of Ork bully-boys, and the crude sheet metal glyphs and heretical alien technology which had been rammed haphazardly into the priceless equipment within. A day on and a small army of newly freed lay-adepts and noncombatant mechanicus personnel had brought data-tether Ignatius back into the operational fold of Prima Jama.
The Liberation of Usmilplatz was having good success thus far, but could it be sustained?
-Your Favorite Madman-
Dem boyz could 'av brought some dakka to 'um, but dey couldn't spot dem cog-boyz cuz dey was kunninly deskyzed in dey urban cammo.
ReplyDeleteThe trouble with campaigning against the Ork is that it's soooo hard to predict what they will do next because, generally speaking, they don't know what they're going to do next.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, that can sometimes result in unexpected opportunities to seriously degrade their combat power and/or inflict worthwhile strategic damage.