The Cadian relief force led by Colonel Murton attempts to break the Ork blockade around the besieged Hive Tempestora on Armageddon. The Imperial player deploys along the city ruins edge and the Ork player deploys two troops units and an HQ further back. Over 6 turns, the Imperial player aims to escape off the board while the Ork player aims to destroy or flee the Imperial units to maintain the blockade. Special rules allow rolling for reserves and regrouping even with heavy losses to represent the desperation of the Imperial forces.
The Cadian relief force led by Colonel Murton attempts to break the Ork blockade around the besieged Hive Tempestora on Armageddon. The Imperial player deploys along the city ruins edge and the Ork player deploys two troops units and an HQ further back. Over 6 turns, the Imperial player aims to escape off the board while the Ork player aims to destroy or flee the Imperial units to maintain the blockade. Special rules allow rolling for reserves and regrouping even with heavy losses to represent the desperation of the Imperial forces.
The Cadian relief force led by Colonel Murton attempts to break the Ork blockade around the besieged Hive Tempestora on Armageddon. The Imperial player deploys along the city ruins edge and the Ork player deploys two troops units and an HQ further back. Over 6 turns, the Imperial player aims to escape off the board while the Ork player aims to destroy or flee the Imperial units to maintain the blockade. Special rules allow rolling for reserves and regrouping even with heavy losses to represent the desperation of the Imperial forces.
The Cadian relief force led by Colonel Murton attempts to break the Ork blockade around the besieged Hive Tempestora on Armageddon. The Imperial player deploys along the city ruins edge and the Ork player deploys two troops units and an HQ further back. Over 6 turns, the Imperial player aims to escape off the board while the Ork player aims to destroy or flee the Imperial units to maintain the blockade. Special rules allow rolling for reserves and regrouping even with heavy losses to represent the desperation of the Imperial forces.
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STOP DA BREAKOUT
As the Orks crashed onto the surface of DEPLOYMENT
Armageddon they quickly established a 1 – The Imperial player deploys his force along the stranglehold on many of the great hives. On board edge with the city ruins. All models should Armageddon Secundus the ash wastes were be placed within 12" of that board edge. dominated by the Kult of Speed, warbands of incredibly fast and mobile Orks who would 2 – The Ork player deploys two Troops units (including ambush, encircle and destroy any who attempted any accompanying transports) and an HQ unit. to break out from the besieged hive cities. These are deployed anywhere on the board more than 24" from any Imperial units. The remainder of The annals that tell of the Third War for Armageddon the Ork force is held in reserve and will become are replete with examples of how the Imperial Guard available for use later in the scenario. fought desperately to defend the hive cities from the endless depredations of the greenskins. As Ghazghkull’s FIRST TURN Waaagh! gained in strength, essential supply lines were The Imperial force takes the first turn in this scenario, choked out by the swift and savage Orks who unless the Ork player can seize the initiative on a D6 dominated the Ash Wastes. Vast warbands of Orks, score of 5 or 6. mounted in buggies, trukks and upon powerful bikes roared across the toxic dunes, hunting down supply GAME LENGTH convoys and picking off Imperial task forces. The mission lasts for 6 turns, after which both players calculate the victory conditions to determine who is The Cadian relief force, led by Colonel Murton attempt to run the Ork blockade around Hive Tempestora. Entrapped within the walls of the hives there was little the winner. that the Imperial Guard could do to stem the roving STOP DA BREAKOUT DEPLOYMENT MAP Ork bands. Battlegroups, formed up of troops mounted OBJECTIVE in Chimeras and supported by battle tanks and other Break Out: The Imperial Guard are attempting to armoured vehicles would attempt to break out – if escape from the entrapped hive to lend to the war successful, safe supply lines could be established once effort elsewhere. The Imperial player scores a point for again and the tide of the war could be reversed. each Imperial Guard unit that manages to move off of the board, and the Ork player scores one for each that This scenario recreates just such a breakout mission. One is destroyed or fleeing. Imperial Guard units still on the side (suggested here as the Imperial Guard, but by all board at the end of the game are worth half a point to means substitute the forces for models that match your the Imperial Guard player. own collection) must quickly push out of the city and head Imperial Ork Deployment for the open plains. The Orks, meanwhile, have to cut SPECIAL RULES Deployment Zone Zone them off before they can fight clear – victory will go to the Waaagh! the Outriders: Starting from Turn 1, the Ork 12'' 24'' force that remembers its goal. player should begin rolling for his reserves. Units that become available can move on to the board from any TABLE SET-UP edge, so long as they do not enter within 12" of any This scenario takes place on the outside of one of the Imperial Guard units. besieged hive cities of Armageddon – one board edge should have a scattering of buildings to represent the Fight for Freedom: The Imperial Guard are acutely industrial outskirts of the city, with the rest of the aware that to flee into the Ash Wastes is to fall into the board representing the beginnings of the ash wastes. hands of roving Ork bands or to die of dehydration in Consider using low hills, rocky outcrops, dead trees and the blistering heat. Any Imperial Guard unit may patches of wreckage to convey the dry, lifeless plains of attempt to regroup, even if it is below 50% of its Armageddon Secundus. starting size. THE FORLORN HOPE Knowing that to win the war for Armageddon, FIRST TURN he would need to dominate the hive cities, The attack is set and ready, the warriors committed to Ghazghkull made encircling them and the forlorn hope have dedicated their souls to the overrunning them his first priorty. In short order Emperor (or Gork and Mork). The attackers take the some fell, such as mighty Hive Tempestora – first turn. there, some of the greatest heroes of the Blood Angels fought to recapture the city. GAME LENGTH The duration of the game is determined by the In some places, Ghazghkull’s plan to capture the major casualties suffered by the attacker. If at any point there hives of Armageddon were quickly successful. Hive are no Viable Units (see below) in play, the defenders Tempestora was overrun by the cunning of Orkimedes win the game. and his fleet of submersibles. In other places, the fighting was harder still, dragging on for months and OBJECTIVE: costing each side tens of thousands of lives as Orks Into the Breach: The attackers are willing to risk all to forced their way through curtain walls and into the gain a foothold in the city. The attackers win if at the corpse-choked streets. end of any turn there is an unengaged Viable Unit touching either of the Critical Objectives. To crack open a hive city and push the occupying force out is a monumental task, the kind of meat-grinder SPECIAL RULES that eats men and resources with unremitting cruelty. Viable Units: The forlorn hope is all about pouring Gripped by the black rage, Captain Erasmus Tycho leads the forlorn hope against the Orks in Hive Tempestora. To spearhead this assault is to partake in the forlorn men and resources into the breach in the hope that hope, the slaughter-make where only the bravest will they can crack open the defences. Rank is of no THE FORLORN HOPE DEPLOYMENT MAP dare and only the most fortunate can hope to survive. consequence and survival is unlikely. A viable unit is any squad or monstrous creature that is unbroken or any TABLE SET-UP vehicle that is mobile and has a Weapon Skill This scenario is the battle to gain a foothold back into characteristic (so you can’t whizz in and steal the one of the critical hive cities of Armageddon, and the objective with a Trukk or super-charged Rhino). board should represent the outer defences of the hive. Approximately half of the board should be heavily The Bombardment: As the attack is launched covered in terrain with lots Imperial ruins providing command will fire a vast quantity of ordnance at the cover for the defenders. defenders in the hope of forcing them to keep their heads down. In the first attacker Shooting phase, the Finally, the defender places two objectives (these need controlling player should first resolve the Attackers Defenders only be a counter or similar-sized item) between 6" and bombardment. Place D6+1 small blast markers on the Deployment Zone Deployment Zone 12" of the hive-edge of the board. battlefield and scatter them as normal (Ballistic Skill 2). 12'' 18'' Models touched by the blast markers suffer a Strength DEPLOYMENT 5, AP 6 hit. Any units that suffer casualties must 1 – The attacker places all of his forces within 12" of immediately take a Pinning test. his table edge. No units may be held in reserve unless they enter play via deep strike. The Withering Hail: Advancing into breach is tantamount to walking into the jaws of hell – the 2 – The defender then places all of his troops on the defenders will pour firepower onto the foe, desperately board. He may place his models anywhere on the poking guns over parapets and firing wildly in the hope board providing that they are more than 18" away of whittling down the foe. Before the attacker takes his from any attackers. The defender may keep models in first turn, every model in the defending force may fire a reserve, see the special rules for more details. single weapon with a Ballistic Skill of 6. THE ANGELS OF DEATH Whenever the battle for Armageddon was at its surroundings. It’s perfectly fine to use some fiercest and the forces of the Imperium recoiled fortifications such as bastions and defence guns ready to break, the Adeptus Astartes were there. amongst your terrain too (the Orks are always ready for In a thousand battles or more the champions of a scrap, after all), but the most important thing is that humanity faced the greenskin hordes and the board looks like a ramshackle encampment. conquered insurmountable odds to attain the victory. Their presence was a beacon of hope to DETERMINE OBJECTIVES be beleaguered defenders and their arrival as the In this scenario the Space Marines are hoping to crash coming of the angels of death to their foes. into the defenders with such overwhelming force as to utterly break the morale of the defenders. Terror tactics Although the Space Marines always made a heroic such as these are the hallmark of the Adeptus Astartes, impact wherever and however they fought there is no and a highly effective method of combating the Ork. denying that their greatest effect and most striking The attacker wins in this scenario if he can kill all of the presence was when they unleashed a terrible orbital HQ and Troop units in the defending force. offensive – for then they were angels of vengeance unleashed upon the greenskins. The fear of attack from ATTACKER PREPARES INVASION above, of streaking Drop Pods and the ozone-crackle of Whilst it is expected (and frankly looks more thematic) teleportation assault was a constant fear for the Orks. if the attacker deep strikes into play with all of his models, it’s not always possible to do with your whole During the Third War for Armageddon, amongst the army. As such, the attacker can nominate any board many Chapters that distinguished themselves the edge to be the attacker’s drop zone as is normal for Salamanders earned themselves a reputation for games of Planetstrike. THE ANGELS OF DEATH DEPLOYMENT MAP exemplary assaults carried out in this manner. Under the supervision of Chapter Master Tu’Shan strike teams DETERMINE STRATAGEMS would crash without warning into the midst of Ork Because there are no specific bastions in this scenario, armies or encampments and pulverise the foe with we have set an arbitary number of 3 for the number of bolter and flamer. Ork Warbosses were cut down and strategem points that either player may spend. hordes of Boyz were slaughtered. These tactics not only destablised the command structure (such as it was) by DEFENDERS DEPLOYS FORCES removing many of the most powerful Ork leaders, but The defender may place his forces anywhere on the they also forced the greenskins to act with a caution board (and even hold some models in reserve). The only that they would normally disdain. condition is that all HQ and Troop choices must start in play – there’s no hiding off the table and hoping for Ork Deployment This scenario simulates a shock assault by the Adeptus the best. Zone Astartes, the Space Marines plummeting into battle from above (although you could use any two forces). ATTACKER LAUNCHES FIRESTORM As such it is best to fight it using the rules as found in This is no true orbital invasion, but rather a shock the Planetstrike Expansion. The key difference is that attack – the attacker only recieves D3 blast markers instead of victory being determined by the attacker following the Firestorm rules. seizing objectives, he is instead attempting to cause casualties on the defending force. LAUNCH THE PLANETSTRIKE As per the usual rules for Planetstrike, the attacker PREPARE THE BATTLEFIELD receives the first turn. The table should be set up to resemble the heart of an Ork base camp. Set up plenty of buildings and MISSION SPECIAL RULES wreckage to represent the Orks’ ramshackle This scenario uses the Shock Tactics and Scramble! Attacker Drop Zone