Descending Darkness in Hive Sturgis-a fire and vengeance crusade game

 

Gorash III- Hive Sturgis- With the gates of the hive fallen the Khornate horde thundered in like scavengers to a carcus. Kurgan the cruel led his band with a purpose greater than slaughter.  He would entice the warp and the eyes of the gods not just with slaughter but terror.  The souls reaped would be hysterical in terror, their emotions echoing in the warp as they died creating a greater warp resonance.  His warband would strike for the power plants and plunge the hive into darkness before the great cull.

The Apocalypse Angels formed up a front in front of the power stations then advanced to meet the horde lashing them with fire.  Elements of the horde raced ahead only to be cut down by the grim Angels of death, who then waited the rest of the horde.  A Apocalypse Angels storm talon roared down the streets pumping fire into a khornate knight and sending it staggering backwards.  Flames both natural and warp driven spilled from the dread war machine and yet still it stood.

Bellowing a warcry Kurgan urged the horde on.  Dark lightning flashed and a group of exalted led by the Flensing feind appeared on the Apocalypse Angels right flank tearing into ancient Elijah and leaving the dreadnought smashed and smoking.  The horde surged into the Apocalypse Angels lines.  On the left flank chaplain Janus surged to meet the onslaught crushing the traitors and turning them back even as the vindicator blew apart warp spawned daemon engines in the center.  On the right flank berserkers hacked at a razorback until it blew apart.  The air was filled by a heldrakes hunting cries as it swooped in on the storm talon raking it apart and sending it plunging into the streets below.  The storm talon erupted in flames with ordinance cooking off filling the area with fire, smoke, and the battle cries of frenzied berserkers.

As the right flank continued to fall Captain Dravin rallied his marines and moved to stop the horde from rolling up his line.  Vanguard veterans leaped in to his aid.  With cries of fealty and vengeance the Apocalypse Angels counterattack slammed into the horde in the center.  Desperate fighting ensued as the two sides hacked and hammered into each other.  The burning khornate knight shattered the vanguard veterans.  All eyes were now upon the swirling melee in the center of the battlefield.  Victory would be decided there.

Kurgan the cruel slammed into the melee a horde of berserkers infected with his rage with him.  More Apocalypse Angels joined the fray which swung back and forth in a bloody and brutal no quarters fight.  The heldrake bombed the power station and slowly the lights began going out as the heldrake strafed a Devastators squad.  In the growing darkness amidst the flames and fighting Kurgan cackled.

With the hive plunged into darkness and the still burning khornate knight advancing the Apocalypse Angels were forced to withdraw.