Clash at Desmonds Folly-Fire and Vengeance campaign

 

Desmonds Folly outpost eastern ash waste Gorash secondus, Gorash III, Imperium Nihlis.

The Khornate Blood crusade force made it's initial landing at Hive Secondus.  Still reeling from the bombardment of warp fused lunar orbital debris and the resulting chaos the hives defenses fell within a day.  Planetary defense forces swarmed to the scene alongside the Apocalypse Angels to cordon off the hive and erect defenses while the blood crusade sated their thirst for slaughter.  For three days the forces of the blood crusade butchered and enslaved the inhabitants of Hive Secondus.  The PDF tried setting up defenses but were hindered by random attacks of rage infected and warp stone twisted mutants.  Even had this not been the case, three days was no where near enough time to create a defensive barrier in depth and strength for what was coming.  Reading of the Emperors Tarot indicated that the Khornate Blood crusade would attempt to push out into the eastern ash waste.

The Apocalypse Angels deployed to Desmonds Folly and took up concealed positions.  The plan was to ambush and annihilate the blood crusade vanguard.  The deserted settlement was riddled with warp stone acting as a magnet to the mutants and spawn created by their presence.  It was not long before the blood crusade came advancing through Desmonds Folly with a Wardog knight leading the way.

The khornate warband spotted a group of mutants and broke ranks unable to contain their blood lust and in a fury of chain axe swings butchered the mutants.

The Apocalypse Angels used this moment to spring their ambush.  Apocalypse Angels vehicles rumbled up disgorging Marines in front of the blood crusade advance.  The wrath's gaze devastators poured lascannons and missile fire into the helbrute blowing it apart.  The chaos Wardog staggered under the shelling of Vindicator Alpha.  The Khornate war machine staggered forward engulfed in flames and trailing burning fuel a red ectoplasma that evaporated into screaming red shades as it hit the ground.  Librarian Gabriel and his squad poured fire into a horde of berserkers that surged forward into them.  A vicious melee erupting with both sides exchanging blows.  A vox howl challenge rose above the melee as the ancient dreadnought Ezekiel slammed into the fight stomping a number of berserkers to red ruin and his fists obliterating others.  Gabriel slashed a berserker across the chest with his force sword.  They were holding back the tide.

More mutants stumbled on to the battlefield drawn by the carnage and chaos.  A spawn charged the berserkers with mindless fury only to be hacked apart by the devoted of khorne.  The berserkers then advanced as a bolt of lightning struck the soil in a horrific crimson flash that revealed a trio of eightbound.  The chaos Wardog blasted Vindicator Alpha one with a thermal lance setting it ablaze. But as the wardog charged to finish the job the vindicator fired blowing the chaos war machine apart.  However the advancing berserkers charged their axes and grenades ripping into the burning tanks armor a shearing off it's tracks.  Gabriel and his squad cut down the last of the berserkers and rushed to reboard the rhino.  Ezekiel turned around and the dreadnought began lumbering towards the stricken Vindicator.

The devastators poured fire into the mutants who stormed through to engage them in vicious hand to hand fighting.  Captain Draxis led his marines forward pouring fire into the eightbound cutting one of them down before charging into the berserkers hammering the vindicator.  Despite cutting down a number of berserkers of the blood crusade the berserkers grenades knocked out the Vindicator tank.  A sudden discordant vox scream echoed across the battlefield as a second chaos Wardog knight arrived to bolster the attack.  The devastators engaged in brutal close combat were unable to provide fire support.

Ancient Ezekiel the dreadnought stormed out to meet the wardog.  It's multi melta blasting into the warp spawned war machine badly damaging it while Captain Draxis and squad Bravo cut down the last of the berserkers.  Captain Draxis thrust his relic sword through the khornate warlords breastplate all the way to the hilt.  Behind him the lone eightbound possessed slammed into Rhino Bravo- 2.  It's massive chain blade propelled by daemonic strength severed the tracks and cut through the hull knocking out the apc.  The wardog blasted ancient Ezekiel with it's thermal lance blowing off the dreadnoughts multi melta before slamming into it.  A huge swipe of the massive chain blade sending the dreadnought slamming into the dirt.  Bellowing a scrapcode binaric war horn that left those that heard it with unnatural headaches and dread, the chaos construct charged into Captain Draxis cutting apart a trio of Marines.

Librarian Gabriel and squad Alpha leaped out of the rhino as Captain Draxis pulled back from the chaos war machine.  As they withdrew they poured melta gun fire into the dread walker staggering it.  Gabriel drew deep from the immaterium with the warp stone fragments amplifying the power until it threatened to overwhelm him and burn him to ash.  Gabriel extended his sword pointing at the chaos Wardog and sheets of warp lightning flashed out.  The chaos war machine staggered under the impact then shivered and toppled over with it's pilot a electrocuted husk.  The lightning still flashing from his sword and screaming canticles of banishment Gabriel charged the lone eightbound and cut him down even as the devestators finished off the mutants.  Captain Draxis surveyed the battlefield.  They had crushed the blood crusades first vanguard but he knew they had no hope of stopping the follow up wave.  The fighting was drawing in mutants and rage infected from every direction.  It was enough that they had stalled the enemy for a time.  He ordered the retrieval of his force and prepared to fall back.  Desmonds Folly would fall to the enemy as a burning corpse filled ruin.