Post by fullmetaljacket on Nov 30, 2013 11:04:07 GMT -5
Make sure you read the preaction report ( commissar.proboards.com/thread/17872/dkok-bugs-preaction-report-narrative )
Section 3
The Attack
After a failed attack on the mountain, Inquisitor Baleus pulled his men back and led a defensive Campaign. Attack after attack, the Tyranids hammered the Death Korps Lines. Again and again the Tyranids were beaten back. By now there were larger bugs emerging Large with thick carapace armour on their backs and giants talons that can tear a Leman Russ in two. Some bugs were even seen to have wings and would swoop in and attack the Krieg troopers from above. Every battle emerged a new bug, usually bigger, faster, stronger, and more deadly. Due to this the War for Hectum V was not marked entirely by victory for the Imperium. The Bugs were able to break through on several occasions. Trench lines had to be redrawn, troops moved, and priorities changed. The front line was driven back to the outskirts of the Capitol city. Once one of the few populated areas that had buildings that weren’t old storage units was now reduced to rubble. The streets were littered with corpses and barricades left behind. Guns and rifles that once were fired in the name of the Emperor now sleep in silence. This was a war of attrition by both sides, but to the dismay of Inquisitor Baleus, the remaining number of Tyranids was unknown.
The 11th assault Korps was still holding strong, most of its forces gathered near the west side of the Capitol in the city outskirts. Commisar General Brack, and Colonel O50 and what was left of his company now stood here in the center. Inquisitor Baleus now had many forces at his disposal. First off the 11th Assault Korps had two tank regiments the 61st and the 66th, supported by the 101st line regiment and the 497th artillery company. Along with the 11th assault Korps Inquisitor Baleus acquired elements from the 13th and 94th super heavy tank company. The most prominent support Inquisitor Baleus was able to get a hold of was the use of a Reaver Titan, a God of War, Dominatus was its name and it was being armed and prepared for battle as soon as it arrived on Hectum V. Soon Death rider scouts reported a buildup of Tyranid forces in the area just ahead of Colonel 050 and his Company, the buildup was larger than all the previous attacks earlier in the war.
Colonel 050 gathered up the intel from all the different scouting reports and sent it back to General 101 who the relayed it to Inquisitor Baleus. Seeing the large buildup of forces, Baleus focused the majority of his forces including himself to the defense of the oncoming attack. The expected field of battle stretched from barricades in the city on the right to the barren wastelands on the left flank.
Baleus and Colonel took position on the right flank in the along with most of the artillery, engineers and grenadiers. He also had a platoon of Krieg troopers move out in front of the lines to scout enemy strength.
In the Center Commissar Brack stood inside an Anti-Air fortification supported by the super heavy detachments including a Shadow Sword and two Macharius heavy tanks. In front was the Aquila fortress with a destroyer weapon and a trench that extended across the entire wasteland to the far left flank.
At the front of the left flank was another Aquila fortress with another destroyer weapon, behind that was leman russes and Dominatus the Reaver Titan, to make sure the left flank will hold.
The Tyranid attack came at 0300, in the blink of an eye the Tyranids were already on top of the Death Korps lines. On the right flank, the Kreig Platoon was all but wiped out by several large flying bugs including a Haridin, a massive winged beast that’s biocannons tore gaping holes in the Death Korps lines and melted the armour of a Leman Russ like it was ice in the sun. Behind the flying beast were hundreds of smaller flying bugs and on the ground huge carapaced armoured beasts that spawned smaller bugs from their bellies. Not only was there a threat to the front but all over the city, gene stealers four armed bugs with sharp claws emergered from the ruble and walls. Squads of death riders held most of them off and protected the artillery. Two thunderbolts flew in to meet the flying beasts but a shield made of spores and gas protected much of the creatures including the Haridin. Baleus instead turned most of the fire from the artillery to the left and center of the field.
In the Center there were more flying beasts and one huge bug that rushed forward and took out the Aquila fortress. Before it could do more damage, the shadow sword and several other leman russes brought it down. Along with the bugs on the ground spore pods fell from the sky. Commissar Brack had the anti-aircraft guns fire at the pods and managed to destroy one before it could reach the ground. The rest that reached the ground opened up and unleashed hundreds of bugs that gunned down many Krieg troopers along the front line trench. As Commissar Brack pushed men forward to the front to stop break through, and destroyed the threat to the front, the ground began to rumble and huge holes opened up to the rear of the Commissar’s anti-air fortress. Out came Trygons and other huge bugs that destroyed leman russes from below, showing no mercy, behind the huge beast came slithering monsters that open fired on the tanks left vulnerable to the flanking attack. The leman russes responded with a hail of plasma fire and artillery shells, severely wounding the larger bugs but killing the majority of the smaller ones.
To the far left flank more pods fell but they were overwhelmed by a counter attack led by Lt. 053. The Reaver Titan opened up on a large force of the large carapaced beasts in the rear of the tyranid force that filled the waste land. Its apocalypse missile launcher took created a huge hole in the swarm of winged bugs that was swooping forward in the center of the line.
By 0600 on the right flank, the spore/ gas shield was down and the winged beast flew in destroying more tanks, killing more guardsmen and even bringing down one of the thunderbolt fighters with their venom cannons. Baleus realizing the shield was down had all his men open fire on the beast, and wounded them to the point where they were forced to land , making them easy prey for awaiting heavy weapons and grenadier squads. One of the beasts that was brought down, Inquisitor Baleus himself charged in and engaged in hand to hand combat After receiving a severely wounding blow he managed to gather his strength and psychic powers to finish off the Beast. Another flying beast was killed by Inquisitor Baleus’s personal assassins, both sitting high up atop of a building zeroed in their sniper rifles on a single target. With precise marksmanship, they brought down the beast with little trouble.
In the center more Tyranids rushed out the holes behind the Death Korps lines. Firing more shots into the leman russes exposed armour. As they tried to rush the commissar and the Anti-Air fortification Commissar Brack called in an orbital Barrage at Danger close range. Thank the Emperor for their accuracy and precision, because the entire threat was wiped out, and Commissar Brack continued to fight! Due to the heavy casualties on the right flank the Haridin had turned and moved into the center, firing away from above with exposed Leman russes at its mercy, But on its tail was the thunderbolt close behind, firing everything it had into the huge beast, though the fighter did much damage, it could not bring the beast down.
On the left flank a hoard of the 4 armed creatures moved in and destroyed 3 russes while the horde of armoured beast closed in. Two thunderers rushed out to meet the foe,and other russes formed a stell shield around the titans feet. The Titan Opened up on the approaching horde and killed all the 4 armed bugs but due to another spore shield it could do no harm to the approaching horde of giant armoured beasts.
Past Nightfall around 1100 Baleus continued to push forward charging into more giant beast ahead. Death Korps trooper squads pushed farther out following behind him. One chimera carrying a Grenadier squad took a direct hit, and as the grenadiers clambered out, they were met by the acid weapons of nearby bugs. Baleus attacked one of the beasts spawning smaller bugs, but as he tried to generate his psychic powers he fell unconscious to the floor, due to his already severe wounds. His servitors and priests rushed forward to defend his body and with eviscerators and power fist they brought down the giant beast.
In the center more beast continues to rush out the holes in the center, Commissar Brack ordered the leman Russes to focus their fire at that point and called in artillery, devastating the area, to the front the Haridin dropped troops that were clinging to its belly and they opened up on the Commissars position, the Commissar ducked for cover but was too late. Taking several hits in the chest, he fell to his death. Leam russes nearby, avenged the commissar and clensed the area of the xeno filth. After dropping its troops the Haridin turned its guns to the rear, and brought the Thunderbolt fighter chasing it. The Krieg troopers on the ground opened up on the Haridin above them and managed to bring it to the ground. Once down the Shadow Sword aimed its main gun and blasted a hug hole in the beast, leaving a large hollow carcass.
On the left flank, the Huge hoard of Armoured beast rushed through Lt. 053’s troopers and smashed into the wall of leman russes, tearing them to shreds like paper, the thunderers that rushed out were met by the Tyranid warlord, and were also made into scrap metal, but the combined fire from the kriegsmen arriving from reserve and the titan Dominatus, the Tyranid warlord and his bodyguard were brought down. At that moment, the Tyranid forces began pulling back, the hive mind had been weaken to a point where it could not function as normal. Victory had been achieved, Colonel 050 had taken over command and moved men and armour forward to fill the gaps. Thunderbolts and death riders chased down fleeing bugs and showed no mercy. The war for Hectum V may soon be won!
Pictures can be found in my gallery on Dakka Dakka, ( same username ) im still trying to firgure out how to upload pics from my phone onto here, ( i have a smartphone)
Over all score:
Tyranids: 2
Death Korps: 22
Thanks for reading
Tony A
Section 3
The Attack
After a failed attack on the mountain, Inquisitor Baleus pulled his men back and led a defensive Campaign. Attack after attack, the Tyranids hammered the Death Korps Lines. Again and again the Tyranids were beaten back. By now there were larger bugs emerging Large with thick carapace armour on their backs and giants talons that can tear a Leman Russ in two. Some bugs were even seen to have wings and would swoop in and attack the Krieg troopers from above. Every battle emerged a new bug, usually bigger, faster, stronger, and more deadly. Due to this the War for Hectum V was not marked entirely by victory for the Imperium. The Bugs were able to break through on several occasions. Trench lines had to be redrawn, troops moved, and priorities changed. The front line was driven back to the outskirts of the Capitol city. Once one of the few populated areas that had buildings that weren’t old storage units was now reduced to rubble. The streets were littered with corpses and barricades left behind. Guns and rifles that once were fired in the name of the Emperor now sleep in silence. This was a war of attrition by both sides, but to the dismay of Inquisitor Baleus, the remaining number of Tyranids was unknown.
The 11th assault Korps was still holding strong, most of its forces gathered near the west side of the Capitol in the city outskirts. Commisar General Brack, and Colonel O50 and what was left of his company now stood here in the center. Inquisitor Baleus now had many forces at his disposal. First off the 11th Assault Korps had two tank regiments the 61st and the 66th, supported by the 101st line regiment and the 497th artillery company. Along with the 11th assault Korps Inquisitor Baleus acquired elements from the 13th and 94th super heavy tank company. The most prominent support Inquisitor Baleus was able to get a hold of was the use of a Reaver Titan, a God of War, Dominatus was its name and it was being armed and prepared for battle as soon as it arrived on Hectum V. Soon Death rider scouts reported a buildup of Tyranid forces in the area just ahead of Colonel 050 and his Company, the buildup was larger than all the previous attacks earlier in the war.
Colonel 050 gathered up the intel from all the different scouting reports and sent it back to General 101 who the relayed it to Inquisitor Baleus. Seeing the large buildup of forces, Baleus focused the majority of his forces including himself to the defense of the oncoming attack. The expected field of battle stretched from barricades in the city on the right to the barren wastelands on the left flank.
Baleus and Colonel took position on the right flank in the along with most of the artillery, engineers and grenadiers. He also had a platoon of Krieg troopers move out in front of the lines to scout enemy strength.
In the Center Commissar Brack stood inside an Anti-Air fortification supported by the super heavy detachments including a Shadow Sword and two Macharius heavy tanks. In front was the Aquila fortress with a destroyer weapon and a trench that extended across the entire wasteland to the far left flank.
At the front of the left flank was another Aquila fortress with another destroyer weapon, behind that was leman russes and Dominatus the Reaver Titan, to make sure the left flank will hold.
The Tyranid attack came at 0300, in the blink of an eye the Tyranids were already on top of the Death Korps lines. On the right flank, the Kreig Platoon was all but wiped out by several large flying bugs including a Haridin, a massive winged beast that’s biocannons tore gaping holes in the Death Korps lines and melted the armour of a Leman Russ like it was ice in the sun. Behind the flying beast were hundreds of smaller flying bugs and on the ground huge carapaced armoured beasts that spawned smaller bugs from their bellies. Not only was there a threat to the front but all over the city, gene stealers four armed bugs with sharp claws emergered from the ruble and walls. Squads of death riders held most of them off and protected the artillery. Two thunderbolts flew in to meet the flying beasts but a shield made of spores and gas protected much of the creatures including the Haridin. Baleus instead turned most of the fire from the artillery to the left and center of the field.
In the Center there were more flying beasts and one huge bug that rushed forward and took out the Aquila fortress. Before it could do more damage, the shadow sword and several other leman russes brought it down. Along with the bugs on the ground spore pods fell from the sky. Commissar Brack had the anti-aircraft guns fire at the pods and managed to destroy one before it could reach the ground. The rest that reached the ground opened up and unleashed hundreds of bugs that gunned down many Krieg troopers along the front line trench. As Commissar Brack pushed men forward to the front to stop break through, and destroyed the threat to the front, the ground began to rumble and huge holes opened up to the rear of the Commissar’s anti-air fortress. Out came Trygons and other huge bugs that destroyed leman russes from below, showing no mercy, behind the huge beast came slithering monsters that open fired on the tanks left vulnerable to the flanking attack. The leman russes responded with a hail of plasma fire and artillery shells, severely wounding the larger bugs but killing the majority of the smaller ones.
To the far left flank more pods fell but they were overwhelmed by a counter attack led by Lt. 053. The Reaver Titan opened up on a large force of the large carapaced beasts in the rear of the tyranid force that filled the waste land. Its apocalypse missile launcher took created a huge hole in the swarm of winged bugs that was swooping forward in the center of the line.
By 0600 on the right flank, the spore/ gas shield was down and the winged beast flew in destroying more tanks, killing more guardsmen and even bringing down one of the thunderbolt fighters with their venom cannons. Baleus realizing the shield was down had all his men open fire on the beast, and wounded them to the point where they were forced to land , making them easy prey for awaiting heavy weapons and grenadier squads. One of the beasts that was brought down, Inquisitor Baleus himself charged in and engaged in hand to hand combat After receiving a severely wounding blow he managed to gather his strength and psychic powers to finish off the Beast. Another flying beast was killed by Inquisitor Baleus’s personal assassins, both sitting high up atop of a building zeroed in their sniper rifles on a single target. With precise marksmanship, they brought down the beast with little trouble.
In the center more Tyranids rushed out the holes behind the Death Korps lines. Firing more shots into the leman russes exposed armour. As they tried to rush the commissar and the Anti-Air fortification Commissar Brack called in an orbital Barrage at Danger close range. Thank the Emperor for their accuracy and precision, because the entire threat was wiped out, and Commissar Brack continued to fight! Due to the heavy casualties on the right flank the Haridin had turned and moved into the center, firing away from above with exposed Leman russes at its mercy, But on its tail was the thunderbolt close behind, firing everything it had into the huge beast, though the fighter did much damage, it could not bring the beast down.
On the left flank a hoard of the 4 armed creatures moved in and destroyed 3 russes while the horde of armoured beast closed in. Two thunderers rushed out to meet the foe,and other russes formed a stell shield around the titans feet. The Titan Opened up on the approaching horde and killed all the 4 armed bugs but due to another spore shield it could do no harm to the approaching horde of giant armoured beasts.
Past Nightfall around 1100 Baleus continued to push forward charging into more giant beast ahead. Death Korps trooper squads pushed farther out following behind him. One chimera carrying a Grenadier squad took a direct hit, and as the grenadiers clambered out, they were met by the acid weapons of nearby bugs. Baleus attacked one of the beasts spawning smaller bugs, but as he tried to generate his psychic powers he fell unconscious to the floor, due to his already severe wounds. His servitors and priests rushed forward to defend his body and with eviscerators and power fist they brought down the giant beast.
In the center more beast continues to rush out the holes in the center, Commissar Brack ordered the leman Russes to focus their fire at that point and called in artillery, devastating the area, to the front the Haridin dropped troops that were clinging to its belly and they opened up on the Commissars position, the Commissar ducked for cover but was too late. Taking several hits in the chest, he fell to his death. Leam russes nearby, avenged the commissar and clensed the area of the xeno filth. After dropping its troops the Haridin turned its guns to the rear, and brought the Thunderbolt fighter chasing it. The Krieg troopers on the ground opened up on the Haridin above them and managed to bring it to the ground. Once down the Shadow Sword aimed its main gun and blasted a hug hole in the beast, leaving a large hollow carcass.
On the left flank, the Huge hoard of Armoured beast rushed through Lt. 053’s troopers and smashed into the wall of leman russes, tearing them to shreds like paper, the thunderers that rushed out were met by the Tyranid warlord, and were also made into scrap metal, but the combined fire from the kriegsmen arriving from reserve and the titan Dominatus, the Tyranid warlord and his bodyguard were brought down. At that moment, the Tyranid forces began pulling back, the hive mind had been weaken to a point where it could not function as normal. Victory had been achieved, Colonel 050 had taken over command and moved men and armour forward to fill the gaps. Thunderbolts and death riders chased down fleeing bugs and showed no mercy. The war for Hectum V may soon be won!
Pictures can be found in my gallery on Dakka Dakka, ( same username ) im still trying to firgure out how to upload pics from my phone onto here, ( i have a smartphone)
Over all score:
Tyranids: 2
Death Korps: 22
Thanks for reading
Tony A