Jornath: Firelight Parallel

With 10 Wing JSOB's highly successful Raid on Urzagz Shack, the rest of TF Crimson Pendant scrambled to support the PDF strike team as it moved through the outskirts of the Stabheelz to intercept the closest ammunition convoy bound for the Xenos Flakk Rokkit Tower.  With Ork mobs beginning to swarm, an understrength Sons of Medusa force reconnaissance asset was able to link with 10 Wing, and together the force made a desperate push through the last block of Xenos held positions. 

With a larger concentration of Imperial forces present in the area, and with the alert already raised Ork warriors fall upon the beleaguered special forces in significant numbers. Though whether this was an intentional attempt to delay the attack on the convoy or just typical Ork gusto to get to grips with the enemy is difficult to say. 

The arrival of the Ork ammunition convoy into the killzone coincided with a wave of Ork warriors falling upon 10 Wing JSOB bogging them down and preventing the force from engaging the Ork vehicles effectively.  Surging forward to prevent the Xenos vehicles escaping the Sons of Medusa blitz forward into the last vestiges of the Ork left flank. 

With a great effort the Sons of Medusa attain the roadway and begin their attack on the convoy, as the men of 10 Wing start to withdraw towards the Astartes Predator in an attempt to disengage from the waves of Xenos warriors pouring into the AO from the west. 

In a flurry of violence, all other members of the Astartes tactical squad are laid low by massed ork weapons fire, leaving only the squads sergeant, who blessed powerfist ripped apart the alien's vehicles like paper. In the smoke and flame of cooking off ammunition stacks and ignited fuel tanks the handful of Imperial survivors consolidate back onto their armor. Their vehicles destroyed, and many of their number slain the xenos beat a hasty withdraw for a time.  

With the Ork convoy destroyed, it will only be a matter of time before direct close air support strikes can neutralize the Ork Flakk Tower with impunity, and the Hunt for Blakkstaff can begin in earnest. 

I hope you enjoyed this post, in the game we utilized a rough set of home brew rules to spawn in "AI" controlled Ork warriors, allowing for a joint player controlled operation, which yielded some truly interesting results. If you'd like to check out the rules you can click on the link 

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-Your Favorite Madman-