This is the third part in the story about Carvilia Optata, an Warhammer 40k campaign we are playing in the club. Where each game drives the narrative forward.
Part one: https://kampgruppe-engel.blogspot.com/2018/08/40k-battle-report-imperial-guard-vs-orks.html
Part two: http://kampgruppe-engel.blogspot.com/2019/09/40k-aar-imperium-vs-orks-on-planet-of.html
With the added reinforcements from the Astartes to the Lord Governor Alpus Eburio forces, he felt confident and after a war council with his closest advisers he had decided that the Imperial forces under his command would try out a new tactics.
The ebb and flow of the warfare on the planet of Carvilia Optata had up until now mostly been about the extreme seasons of the planet and the flow of the orkish warbands. The extreme heat forced the Orks to move from one hemisphere to the other during the late spring or beginning of the summer. To plunder and refit and bolster their numbers on the planets winter hemisphere. Leaving a trail of destruction behind them as they travel to the greener pastures.
What Lord Governor Alpus Eburio now wanted to do was to hit the Orks before they were ready, before they were ready to move out and thus make an pre-emptive strike against one of the larger clans before the raiding seasons begin on the Imperial bastions as the Orks passed them by to the other hemisphere.
If this tactics would be successful the Lord Governor Alpus Eburios jurisdiction would be must stronger then the surrounding Governors jurisdictions and he could move in on them during the rebuilding and grab up some of their land with diplomatic persuasions...
Marshal 031.003 Baptiste Rousselot commanding the Death Korps of Krieg element in this Imperial jurisdiction and Lord Commissar Kiril Sokolov commanding the Vostroyans had been tasked with conduct the attack. To assist them a special team of Astartes from the Ultra Marines chapter had been promised.
The Ork clan chosen for the strike was a rather problematic clan that had caused much destruction as of lately. The ork clan led by none other then the mighty Warlord Doombrakah-Titan-Flippah.
For the third game we had decided it was the Imperial forces turn to attack and we tested the "Storm the line" scenario.
Some pictures from the deployment. Click on any picture to see a larger one.
Onto the battle...
I was forced to dismount my infantry from the Crassus transport and move it backwards.
The Conqueror cannon on my Leman Russ had to work hard here.
Granted it was damaged before but I can still claim the last couple of wounds with my Leman Russ...
My second Crassus (due to special rules of this scenario) drives forward...
Taking it out...
And with this the Astartes main objective was secured and they were pulled back from the warzone, having deemed their presences more important elsewhere. ( The Ultra Marine player had to go..)
Ok ok, maybe I should shut up now. The Ork got some friends close by in extremely heavy armour and fielding powerclaws and all manners of nasty close combat weapons...
Finding their favourite prey... Grots...
Granted, they are about as tough.
We trew everything we got at them but could not take them all out...
And with that the centreline was taken, a minor victory for the Imperial forces...
Damn... That was a bloody game... Untold guardsmen paid with their life in this assault but we are pleased to report to Lord Governor Alpus Eburio that his tactics is going according to plan.
Had we not had the resurrecting rules scenario this would have been a short assault indeed..
Granted, the Astartes forces redeployed elsewhere but still..
But in true Imperial Guard tactics... Just throw Guardsmen at the problem until it disappears.
A mighty (minor) victory for the Imperial forces.
For more pictures from the battle look at Markos excellent Instagram posts:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B3EyjZmHYTr/
https://www.instagram.com/p/B3Ey0L1nEJm/
https://www.instagram.com/p/B3Ey3oanHAP/
https://www.instagram.com/p/B3Ey57an7nl/
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