Jornath: The Storming of Eckard Lane

Petyr clutched his lasgun tightly, the sounds of fighting echoed out across the town. The fat forms of xenos aircraft screamed by overhead like revolting bloat flies of scrap. The guild master had to scream over the enormous barrage of noises.

"Keep your heads down lads! The Crater Cohort will be here soon and then we'll retake the city!" 

Petyr peaked up over the lip of the shattered building, another handful of civilian vehicles was rocketing down the body-strewn street. Orks with crude jump packs tailing them closely, they let out perverse jeering calls in their bestial tongue as they fired heavy slugs towards the fleeing cars. 

From the second story of the antique shop, the platoon's heavy bolter kicked into life, barking out a short burst of gunfire...

The Stormboyz, scream forward towards the Imperial lines, seeking to hamper the human's firing to allow for the rest of the force to close. 

Nobz bound from cover to cover to avoid the withering hail of las and bolter fire pouring out from the Imperial blockade

The Orks close and take a considerable few guardsmen before the close of the final turn, curiously the gretchin do a not insignificant amount of damage on their own, firing from cover within the garage, making them particularly hard to hit. 

The Imperial town of Usamilplatz falls to savage Ork raiders, its militia buying precious hours to allow for portions of the civilian population to withdraw into the countryside in an attempt to find refuge from the vengeful aliens. This scrappy militia and their families would go on to form the backbone of the human resistance in the Usamiljen mountains for several months. Called Partisanii, these troops would hold out, striking at the aliens, as they created infrastructure across the region, eventually aiding the Mechanicus' Reconquest Campaign when it began in the weeks after Operation: Gray Jewel.

Thanks for reading, stay tuned as always for more battles from Jornath, particularly from the Mechanicus' push onto the Ork held mountains, and for a major lore update in the next few weeks.

-Your Favorite Madman-