The Liberation of Fuschal ~ The Last Wave

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Campaign Detail

Date Commenced: 901.010.M31
Date Concluded: 901.010.M31
Outcome: Ongoing
Sub-Sector: Kaerimon Sub-Sector
System: Fuschal System
Location: Fuschal


Forces involved in the Battle:

Loyalists Involved In The Conflict

Army:L-VII-2023

Army:Q-KNT-5543


Traitors Involved In The Conflict

Army:I-ARMY-3365

Army:L-XVII-2572



Battle Summary

The final clash between Sigismund, champion of the Imperial Fists, and the vile Word Bearer traitor Norek Ull - a battle mostly distinguished by the complete failure of most of the combatants to even engage, and the bulk of the casualties caused by the seismic disaster unfurling at and around the Larack Fortress.

The entrenched forces, led by Norek Ull and a traitor Navigator, were limited to a lascannon support squad, numerous militia, a Baneblade and a Sicaran Venator, a Mhara Gal dreadnought, and pre-existing fortifications built to protect the docks adjacent to the fortress. Ull apparently intended to deep strike his elite Gal Vorbak troops into the battlefield, but these never actually arrived. Ull, like the coward he was, spent the entire game concealed in a ritual bunker towards the eastward edge of the docklands, protected by a grenadier unit. The Navigator, likewise surrounded by mortal troops, tried to delay his inevitable punishment in a bunker at the southern tip of the island, surrounded by rings of tank traps and tanglewire, and two Battlecannon batteries. Elsewhere, the Baneblade, Venator, and lascannon squad prepared to hold off the loyalist assault.

Sigismund's troops, including a Knight Magaera and a Knight Crusader, Breacher Squads and Templars, techmarines and a Achilles-Alpha Pattern Land Raider, entered the table from the north and west. The tall industrial stacks, canals running diagonally across the battlefield, and exposed bridges did present some tactical problems, but still placed Sigismund in good position to fall upon the traitors and occupy the bridges and the courtyard the traitors intended to use as a landing pad for their escape vehicles.

Unfortunately for Sigismund, he and his squad of Templar Brethren were charging across one of the footbridges when the first tidal waves began to scour the island. Only a handful managed to keep their footing, and reach the Navigator’s bunker on the far side. And once there, the bunker proved almost impervious to melta grenades, even as the grenadier’s melta guns, plasma weapons, and the Navigator’s baleful Third Eye, murdered the rest of his squad.

At least that put them outside the blast radius of the Magaera. The Knight had been stopped dead by tank traps placed across the southern arterial bridge, when it came under heavy lascannon and neutron laser fire and exploded catastrophically. At the northern end of the battlezone, much the same fate greeted the Baneblade, caught before the guns of the House Hawkshroud’s Knight Crusader.

But of all the troops on the battlefield, only Sigismund ever achieved close combat, and that after the bunker finally collapsed. Every other unit that tried, such as the Word Bearers tainted dreadnought, the breacher squad, and the Crusader, were either gunned down before they reached the enemy, or killed as walls of water and debris swept across the docks, and earthquakes made cargo cranes collapse, manufactora explode, and entire docks sink into the sea.

The fate of the Knight Crusader was particular sorrowful - having finally reached the building occupied by the traitor’s heavy weapons squad, and obliterating most of them with her thermal cannon, the entire section, buildings, bridges, and all, collapsed into the sea as the island began to disintegrate. No doubt Norek Ull considered this carnage a sign of divine favour, despite pinpoint accurate mortar fire from the Land Raider in the last few minutes. But even if Ull survived the battle, he lost most of his troops, and the Fists had successfully cut off his preferred escape route.

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