Nomad - 11/28/2017
Rangers AAR, Pre-Season 2
Operation - Dying Dogs (part 1)
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Prelude: Present aboard Imperial Govenor Rogue Trader Marston voidship, Manifest Destiny in orbit above New Arpprez. For the past week the regiment has been dealing with small teams of Chaos Reavers who fled from their damaged ship which had traveled through the system and close by the planet. A number, estimated to be just a few hundred Chaos Reavers both crash landed and hid in various places on the frontier of New Arpprez in shuttles. The newly created regiment having been reformed from the surviving 6th Rangers after an extended conflict against Tau colonists, and were itching for something to do. Teams of Rangers were sent to comb through the frontier training ground they grew up on to hunt down the chaos pirates which had landed there.(edited)
Squad had been sent on three wild goose chases at this point already, settlers were calling small cyotes evil reavers in the paranoia. They were rushed to drop not sure what to expect one afternoon rotation aboard the Rogue Traders voidship, given photovisor mission assignment gear, and dropped from high altitude for an inconspicious drop. The secluded townsfolk had used their vox caster to send a signal that the reavers were taking prisoners, shooting at them. The squad went in with the orders to kill any reavers they saw and save the civilian prisoners. Two of the squad made controled descents, accurately landing on the town square, with the rest of the squad variously scattering outside the town in varrying degrees. The heavy specialist and close quarters specialist made short work of the 12 defenders, surprising them and making them the target of the would be criminals guns. The reavers leader had pulled a missile launcher, blowing off the foot of the heavy trooper Fred Saggins. The squad weapon specialist Julius Kage made short work with a deadly frag grenade, destroying the insides of the building the reaver leader had used as cover, bits of flesh and metal flew out of every window as Julius destroyed his foe. The squad had done minmal property damage, with only one civilian dying to a reavers gun in the fire fight, and the only squad casualty being one foot.
December 6, 2017
Nomad - 12/06/2017
Rangers AAR, Pre-Season 2
Operation - Dying Dogs (part 2)
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Squad sent along with 100 other Ranger squads to sweep wide swathes of the Arpprez frontier to root out the remaining chaos reavers. The majority of the reavers have been accounted for and dealt with, along with their Arvus Landing Shuttles. The short brush war was quickly coming to a close and the Rangers wanted the homefront secured before they were shipped to another conflict on the Imperium's frontier, probably a system in the sector against the Tau once again.
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The squad was given their mission specifically assigned gear of a pack of Bones Loh Sticks each and once again dropped from high altitude. They landed in a deserted desert, a rocky hill terrain and began to search for signs of any chaos reavers. The squad searched for a few hours before finding tracks, tracks of what appeared to be voidsuit bootprints. After following the tracks for 30minutes Sanctioned Pysker Teodor detected signs of chaos taint and alerted the squad of an approaching tainted threat. A mutated space dingo fearlessly charged the party as they let down a hail of lasgun fire, with the squad heavy weapons specialist Trooper Saggins annihilating the mutated beast with his light lascannon. After engaging another two of the beasts on rocky desert trails the party stumbled upon a stripped Arvus Shuttle. As Trooper Julius breached the broken ship he noticed at the last minute a booby-trapped grenade in the cockpit and quickly disabled it. Thereafter a single space coyote puppy hid in the locker of the shuttle, and upon being revealed darted out of the ship leaving the party in its wake.(edited)
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The party followed the tracks for some time more before they could hear the sounds of an aircraft in the distance, they had found two Arvus lander shuttles hovering in the distance setting down. Quickly they made the decision to shoot them down while they were mid-air, with Specialist Saggins firing several times to down the two shuttles from the squads elevated position some several hundred meters away. After determining that nothing was likely to survive the wreckage the squad fanned out and approached the position the shuttles were landing at. Thanks to the squad's paranoia they managed to avoid an ambush, quickly descending into a firefight with a reaver squad. In the haze of the firefight Julius's brother Nick Kage was obliterated in a wave of explosive psychic energy. They had engaged a chaos psyker, the probable reason for the local wildlife mutations. Acting quickly the young sanctioned psyker Teodor stepped forward declaring that the "Emperor would judge the sins of this heretic", before letting loose a volley of extreme psychic lighting that which made both squads dive for cover. The two pyskers opposed willpowers for several moments before the loyalist won out vaporizing the renegade in a bloody display of sacred power. The clash of power had created some foul backlash, and in an attempt to save his own life the renegade pysker contacted a foul warp demon, a bloodletter. The warp portal was slow to form, as the squad cut down and surrounded the last of the chaos reaver squad who began to retreat. Teodor was still reeling in exhaustion from the immense use of his power as the squad began to surround the warp manifestation. Terror was all Teodor could think of as his senses returned to him only managing a "get away from it!" as the bloodletter formed into realspace.
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December 20, 2017
Nomad - 12/20/2017
Rangers AAR, Pre-Season 2
Operation - Dying Dogs (part 3)
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The squad reacted in horror, several of them immidiately fled the demon which tore its way into real space. The hellish beast screeched in a nightmarish way as it trotted along the hill which it was summoned upon, las cracks and shot gun blasts breaking up the dirt and flora around the creature. As it lept high in the air Sanctioned Psyker Teodor let loose a powerful torrent of warp lightning at the demon, "Back to the warp with you beast!" he shouted in a deep tone which boomed throughout the desert hillside. The demon landed shakily still screeching and now singged. Burned flesh left a trail of emperan ash and smoke from the creature in a trail as it ducked under lasbeams and charged the Psyker which injured it. Teodors best friend in the squad, Zepher was sadly closest to the creature and in the last moment Teo used his power to push her out of the way, she flew rolling into cacti and tumbleweed. The beasts sword hit dirt, then flung up into the air at Teodor who battered it aside with his staff and powers. Sparks flew in all directions from the two's weapons and the demon, who obviously appeared crippled from the earlier smite pressed on. The hellish beast made a sweeping blow with its blade sending a trail of crimson over itself as it tripped Teodor cutting his thigh. Teodor cried out in pain, and the demon raised its blade when two large bursts a shrapnel from the shotgunner Julius blasted through the beast. Its ribcage flew open and face distorted as it rolled a few meters away. The day was done.
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The squad demanded to know what the creature was, and Teodor explained that it was just a xenos, he implied heavily that if they had said otherwise they would be likely tp end up on the wrong side of a commissars bolt pistol. They all nodded in agreement and thanked the Sanctioned Psyker for crippling the beast and Julius for slaying it with his boomstick. They voxxed command and reiterated the mutant hounds, their afternoon went quickly as they were sent one squad of reinforcements and swept the countryside for the varmints. With two squads they tracked the mutant dingos, surrounded them, then executed them with practiced actions. They made it home by sundown.
Nomad - 12/20/2017
Rangers AAR, Pre-Season 2
Operation - Westward Destiny (part 1)
"Go West, young man"
The squad had been dead quiet after facing down mutants and an actualy demon. They refused to speak about it, no one had brought it up and some probably were repressing the engagement, acting like it had not actually happened. Julius was himself cold, he had just lost his brother to a chaos witch and slain a demon. They had handed a loosely agreed upon mission report to their Lieutenant, Crowder, that failed to mention a demon calling it an "unexplained xenos". Crowder comforted Julius, telling him that although his brother was lost, he still had thousands of other brothers in the 7th New Arpprez Rangers. "Go West, young man. Go west and take lands for the God Emperor. Thats what I always tell my men when they begin to question what we fight for, we fight for a just future." Confused Julius left. He would later attempt to speak to medical staff about suicidal thoughts, where he was given illegal drugs(obscura) to cope. Teodor was helped to the Manifest Destiny's(Rogue Traders flag ship) medical bay, where his lady friend Zepher and squadmate brought him gifts to show her thanks for saving her as the sanctioned psyker recorperated.
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The week rolled on and reports of chaos reavers being rooted out of forests and farmsteads continued on, until Colonel "Blondie" himself announced that the last of the insurgents had been dealt with. He further announced a few days of a dual victory celebration and goodbye party for the newly formed 7th Rangers. Slowly the whole of the regiment had met up at Hubers Hill, where countless homes and bussiness were open 24/7 to treat the Rangers. Appartment buildings were converted into saloons to aid the mass number of troops that had rolled into town, with more being used discretely as brothels to thank the thousands who would be soon risking their lives on a distant planet for the greater good of the realm of the Imperium of Man, which by the Emperor included the frontier settlers of New Arpprez. Games were being played in the street such as five finger fillet, horseshoes, boxing rings had even been propped up occasionally. But the most common entertainment was drunken group dances and cardgames, always with the drunken celebration and cardgames. The vast majority of the regiments weapons and gear was checked at the Manifest Destiny's loading docs, so that no danger would fall on the citizens of Hubers Hill in a drunken accident.
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Still the squad partied the nights away. After some time most of them were gathed by messangers of high command of the regiment, the orders were urgent. From out of card games and dances they were pulled, and brought to meet with Colonel "Blondie" and a regimental assigned Commissar by the name of "Rattle". The two superiors eyed down the boys individually, they questioned Teodor the sanctioned psyker the most. Showing him what had happened to their sargent who mysteriously never left the medical bay after their last mission. The sargent had bloody hands in his cell, with the brick wall being damaged, it appeared as though the mentally unstable man had carved something into its wall. Although he wasn't an artist by nature or trade Teodor could clearly tell what the sorry sargent Duke Marmalade had done, he had depicted a demon, the demon they encountered in their last mission. Teodor attempted to explain this away before Colonel "Blondie" stopped him, explainin that if this were to get out that it would lead to bad consequences for the squad, and Teodor would be himself repormanded. The Colonel used airquotes frequently to describe the "unexplained xenos" when speaking to the pysker. He declared that this would be thankfully covered up, and the young sanctioend psyker Teodor would take temporary command of Eagle Squad pending review of his future success or failure. At this point it was revealed to Teodor that some forces of the dark gods would be present in their next warzone and he would be an interesting asset to the regiment considering he was the only pysker they had in their midst.
Nomad - 12/20/2017
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The regiment in a collective hangover was shuttled up back to the Manifest Destiny after one hell of a party that would be remembered at least for a generation. Over the course of the next month the regiment found themselves in the long process of moving from planet to voidship to warp travel. The experience was enlightening to be humble. Voices would occasionally speak to the squad, and it secretly shook them even though they were warned by Teodor and they refused to show it. It was layover after layover as they docked at a station they never bothered to learn the name of. They met with stale massed voidsmen workers and serviors who went to work accomadating the entrance of dozens of Imperial Guard regiments from the amassing Crusade Fleet Redemption. Time passed as it is prone to do, and the group found themselves back on the Manifest Destiny once more, now tied at the hip with the Crusade Fleet which was beginning its final jump to the Tsargrev system.
January 4, 2018
Nomad - 01/04/2018
Rangers AAR, Season 2
Operation - Stormbreaker(part 1)
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Riding in the Manifest Destiny, a ship of their worlds Rogue Trader the New Arpprez prepared by making drop dummies en masse to cover their drop over any targets they would be ordered to. The fleet battle continued with the men getting regular updates, the Navy was doing its job and the troop void carriers were moving in quickly to unload their soldiers. Some few thousand of the Arpprez Rangers formed up in front of a single old hologram emitter which fluttered and flickered between battle plans and intelligence reports. The regimental commander Colonel Blondie flipped through images of possible Xenos, as the Rangers were used to fighting on the frontier against various minor Xenos. Eagle squad, assigned to Bravo Platoon of the Arpprez Rangers sometime later gathered with their platoon and its leader, Lieutenant Crowder and he quickly explained the tier 1 asset the Rangers were going after, a north hemisphere spaceport caught in a deadlock by both factions. The Rangers would be sending a large portion of their forces in a halo drop to destroy any and all AA guns stationed in the immediate vicinity of the spaceport.
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Hidden away in private voidsmen quarters Sanctioned Psyker Teodor Guevera Prayed to the God Emperor. His divine tome christened in the Astra Telepathica Black Ships flipped its own pages in front of him at a slow rate, which exponentially increased. The book showed him a brief glimpse of the New Arpprez Rangers drop on Tsargrev VI, more specifically it focused in on his squad's actions in the coming battle. He saw where exactly the AA guns would be placed, who would defend them, and how to safely guide his squad to the surface.(edited)
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As the void capable Valkrie launched en mass out of the Manifest Destiny voidcraft, they dove at the planetside into the jaws of hell. Inside their Valkyrie, Eagle got ready to jump, triple checking their gear, each of them holding a dummy to drop with. The craft broke into the upper atmosphere and the pilot simply gave a thumbs up, that was the signal. Its backdoor dropping the squad along with dozens in view lept out of their birds along the horizon, they could still see the void battle overhead as they left their crafts. Zooming at terminal velocity towards their target site, the force of hundreds soon to be thousands communicated with their advanced listening devices, each of them was to pick a quadrant of the spaceport or its surrounding facilities and either secure ground or destroy an AA station.
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Eagle squad barreled down at breakneck speeds as at least 4 AA guns whipped around surprised to see them, not expecting a mass airdrop over their base. It looked like along with Eagle, a second squad Desert was assisting them in taking their station. Desert squad wound drop on one flank of the AA station, sitting in the top of an old factory office suppressing the Xenos around them, they had solid cover and their squad support heavy shotgun watched the stairway. Eagle squad(players) dropped on the opposite side of the large AA station which was some 200meters wide, they unfortunately landed in the midst of two hostile vile hrenian xenos squads, whether it was luck or skill they managed to survive my cooking frag grenades and using them prior to landing to clear their landing site. They were flanked in short order by two more hrenian squads before they could even leave the immediate landing site. In addition, a tarellian sniper popped shots off at them and a single large tarellian with a glowing sword lept off a ledge to surprise them, jumping into the midst of the squad. The squad's weapon specialist blasted the chest cavity of the sword after ducking under one of its wild swings, psychic warp lightning burned the tarellian sniper to a crisp and the rest of the squad largely handled the hrenians with plentiful use of frag grenades. Eagle squad, lightly wounded moved to the base of the AA guns using their lascutters to destroy them while Desert squad who had also made progress burned other AA guns successfully.
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~50 hrenians and 5 tarellians, along with the 8 AA guns of the xenos AA station were destroyed. 4 KIA, 16 men remaining of the drop force on the single facility.
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After only minutes of taking the station, the two squads only remaining medic had a lot of work on his hands. Askook worked tirelessly to put burn oitment on soldiers, and patch gashes with any available cloth. 15 minutes after taking the station Eagle squad was voxxing the rest of Bravo platoon, who had dropped on a nearby AA station, and had also taken it. Bravo Platoons Lieutenant Crowder communicated that the lot of the platoon was to push on, and to reform, ralley and assault a nearby Chaos held AA station. The lot of the two squads, Eagle and Desert picked up their weapons and moved on. They walked with weapons at the ready whilst checking corners through the spaceports urban streets, these streets were lightly flooded and the light rain wasn't making it any better. The two squads entered an old subway station to avoid having to get shot at by any forces present on higher buildings. Upon entering the subway station Eagle squad was attacked by a hidden small hrenian squad, where upon they managed to end them in short order. The ensuing battle in the close quarters subway station was short and brutal, Desert squad was destroyed by a suicide hrenian squad as well as one of Eagles members. Some six tarellians engaged the squads in the midst of the battle along with but two morralin deathsworn, and largely thanks to the squad support weapons of the lonora pattern lascannon, and vox-legio combat shotgun, were downed.(edited)
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~20 hrenians, 6 tarellians, 2 morralin destroyed, Eagle successfully had made it to Bravo Platoon. 7 KIA, including all of Desert squad and 1 of Eagle squad.
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Eagle squad formed up with the remainder of Bravo Platoon, who where taking shelter in a few warehouses a couple blocks away from two towering buildings. 41 of the original 60 men of Bravo Platoon remained, hiding beneath at least 7 squads of heretic Chaos soldiers, hiding in buildings and around the AA station the men of Bravo needed to destroy.
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January 9, 2018
Nomad - 01/09/2018
Rangers AAR, Season 2
Operation - Stormbreaker(part 2)
Eagle squad formed up with the remainder of Bravo Platoon, who were taking shelter in a few warehouses a couple blocks away from two towering buildings. 41 of the original 60 men of Bravo Platoon remained, hiding beneath at least 7 squads of heretic Chaos soldiers, hiding in buildings and around the AA station the men of Bravo needed to destroy.

Bravo Platoon led by Lieutenant Crowder launched a timed assault upon a Chaos help AA station. The station consisted of several surrounding warehouses and two three-story adjacent office buildings with a total of 4 AA guns atop. The buildings were scouted by specialists in the platoon and found to have several squads of heretics in them, and the two towers each had a saber platform with a twin-linked autocannon aimed down at the small storage section of the spaceport. Crowder's plan was as follows, he had ordered a single available veteran special weapons squad to take one of the tower roofs, destroying the saber atop it. When that squad arrived it would be the signal to suppress heretic opposition. Thereafter the platoons lonora light lascannons would target the sabers and any dug in heavy weapons. The squads themselves would assault each smaller building generously using frag grenades. The platoon would rinse and repeat up until they would reach the base of the two three-story towers, where then the best able-bodied squads would take the point and march up each tower to clear it. Once atop the buildings, the AA guns would be burned with the various carried lascutters.(edited)
The plan went off largely without a hitch, several hiding gross mutant warriors were found during the assault and slain without hesitation. The platoon itself assaulted and tallied 60 cultists and 5 mutants confirmed KIA. Notably, Close Quarters Expert Julius slew 18 cultists and a single mutant, damn near taking one of the towers himself. Unfortunately the Rangers of Bravo Platoon confirmed 8 KIA of their own in the battle.

While the Lieutenant congratulated the young boy on his zeal, underneath the helmet Julius had not been so happy he survived. Shot maybe dozen time today Julius's body was giving out after the Stim was wearing off. He couldn't help but think of the fact that he lost his brother a month before the drop to a freak psyker accident, and Louie in the subway tunnels to the Chaos AA station. He kept hearing their voices, seeing their faces everywhere he would look.

Bravo Platoon and all of the four companies assigned to destroy the AA guns of the Spaceport were ordered to bunker down and hold for a counter attack of unknown strength from either faction. The other regiments would touch down within the day, and the thickest fighting would be waiting for their reinforcement. Ammo would begin to get strained and support from any vehicles would have to wait until they came down from upper orbit, having waited until the AA guns were destroyed.

Destruction of the Spaceports various AA guns: Major Success
Loss of Life: Below expected parameters
Supply Drops: Scattered, will have to wait for reinforements before they may be scavenged(edited)
January 21, 2018
Nomad - 01/21/2018
Rangers AAR
Operation - Stormbreaker(part 3)
Now having destoyed three AA sites as a platoon in the thickest of the fighting, 2nd Company Bravo platoon is rallied by Lieutenant James Crowder back to one of the inital AA sites for more defensible terrain. Apparently there are more of 2nd Company rallying at the taken AA site, and there is a large building the Rangers can fall back into should the situation go truly to hell. The Rangers of Bravo platoon all funnel through the broken subway tunnels and onto Eagles inital drop site. Many of the Rangers commented, kicking dead xenos bodies as they hurried, but then they saw it. A whole mess of enemy aircraft were beelining straight for their section of the Spaceport in the distance... It was terrifying. Here it began for Eagle Squad, but is here where it would end?
In the ensuing battle Auxilary drop ships would land overhead to let loose their dozens of enemies which would descend on Bravo platoon. Among which were, 3 Auxiliary Drop Ships, 2 Nagi, 6 Tarellians, 40 Hrenians, and a single Auxiliary Plasma Tank. Largly due to the platoons two light pattern lascannons, and excelent marksmanship from Heavy Trooper Fred S., Bravo Platoon was able to damage the 3 drop ships enough to ward them off, destroying one in the process over the course of the battle. Heavy Trooper S. would go on to destroy the single enemy Auxiliary Plasma Tank as well from his bunker. Throughout the battle the rest of the platoon did good work fighting tooth and nail against the assaulting Aux troops, with a brave act of heroism from a single marksman by the name of Vera. Vera planted a krak grenade to destroy one of the bulky enormous Nagi by planting a krak grenade in a slot of its neck armor after it had breeched the Rangers fireing line, where it seemed unstoppable.

The platoon had shrunk to but 21 alive with fewer combat effected post battle. In the post haze of the battle additional drop ships were seen approaching when they were encountered by the fast response Air Assault Valkrie mounted regiment, the Kuopio. More Rangers were quick behind them in Imperial Navy craft of their own,  blowing the smaller force of xenos aircraft out of the sky. It seemed like the tide was turning for Eagle Squad.(edited)
January 29, 2018
Nomad - 01/29/2018
Rangers AAR
Operation - Stormbreaker(part 4)
The Rangers of Bravo and more specifically Eagle Squad hunkered down for the next hour as they watched a series of innumerable dogfights taking place overhead. That was before the dozens of dropships broke through the cloud cover, the grand Devourer dropships being the largest amongst them there only being several of the larger dropships. The smaller dropships flanked by fightercraft or Kuopio and Ranger valkries would land first on the large landing zones or runways, with their soldiers disembarking to be gunned down brutally by terrifying AUX forces surrounding them. Through greater numbers, the Imperial Guardsmen would swarm the beasts and secure the landing zones. As the Rangers of Eagle squad watched this unfold in the distance from their elevated landing platform, they witnessed a single Devourer dropship land on top of the huge building they were defending, the building doubling as a single large landing platform. Within several minutes their surviving lieutenant, Lt. Crowder had voxxed command and was told reinforcements were coming from the Rangers which had just landed to relieve them from a frontline combat role.(edited)
After making their way into the huge loading facility, some type of massive air control tower which was filled with broken down rust buckets of Imperial and Tau tech and vehicles. Eventually, the surviving men brought them and their wounded to the lower levels of the facility, now named Ranger Base Primaris according to the buzz around the vox channels. The lower levels connected to some maze of car parking lots, full of compact transport trucks and civilian cars which had mostly fallen into disrepair. 20 hours of rest followed, with NAR medics coming to assist Askook with the tending to the men of Bravo platoon. This time was filled with crude jokes, cries of pain and agony, as well as a number of thousand yard stares for these soldiers had seen the hell of war for the first time. During this period young Sanctioned Psyker Teodor was meditating in front of the survivng men, hidden away deeply within the bunker like depths of the facility. A number of instruments would glow with purple highlights around the boy, with his tome like book fluttering endlessly through its pages at an ever increasing pace. Teodors eyes rolled into the back of his head with light leaving the windows into his soul, this led to various reactions as would be expected. No one exactly liked it, some understood he was probably using his powers for good, asking the light of the Emperor for aid, others expected him to errupt into blood and a demon to pop out and kill them all. Teodor was gazing over a number of possible futures which could be, he then focused his gaze on a troop aircraft of higher quality that HWS Fred had shot down in the distance in the last battle, one where they did not have the time nor ability to search. The craft crashed, but landed without being destroyed, and a number of actual Tau species escaped into the battletorn city only minutes into the landing. One of them looked as if a veteran, Teodor had guessed it was some type of commander, but had no idea of its rank.
An hour later Teodor would inform Lt. Crowder of his vision, telling of a located enemy Tau commander somewhere in enemy territory who could organize some type of action if he was allowed to live. Crowder had already some small amount of evidence that Teodors visions tended to have a degree of accuracy, and was a pragmatic man. He would tell them to get geared up for a mission as the number of men under his command was limited until a mission report could be filed, as well as the Rangers of Eagle squad looked largely able to fight. Crowder requisitioned a single standard Ranger Valkrie and a crate of recaf at askooks insistance. Within the hour they had departed to track down the commander, Teodor was becoming increasingly hesitant in telling his commanders of his visions, for they kept sending him on dangerous missions for it.
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February 5, 2018
Nomad - 02/05/2018
Rangers AAR
Operation - Stormbreaker(part 5)
Eagle squad and their Valkyrie flew over the massive battle which was underway across the Spaceport. The majority of the massive landing zones had now been secured and massive landing ships had already disgorged thousands of guardsmen who were swarming the streets with bodies now burning out all opposition through pure numerical supremacy. The casualties were growing of course which was to be expected with any landing in a no man's land. Bodies of guardsmen littered streets in front of the landing zones, soldiers used their regimental cousin's corpses for cover as they met a wall of fire with an ever-increasing amount of opposing fire. Above head, Eagle Squad was just happy that the Imperials seemed to have won air superiority several hours ago now. They flew overhead at breakneck speeds realtively close to the ground to scan for their target and Julius would occasionally lay down a hail of multilaser fire. Teodor's memory kept wandering back to every perceptible and infinitesimal detail of his vision, time was thinking, he only now had a location due to the time which had passed. The enemy Xenos Auxiliary commander was going underground somewhere... And they were approaching. He ordered the aircraft to tilt several degrees from angle to angle before Teodor announced they were nearly at the location of the target.
The battle was fast and brutal, with a burning wraith and a squad of Tarellians left in their wake. A number of hrenians also perished at Eagle's hands. They had flown in and blasted the enemy AUX tank with Hellstrike Missiles from he Valkrie, dodged a blast from the beast and Heavy Trooper Fred destroyed it with a direct blast from his Lonora Light Lascannon while leaning out of the hovering VTOL aircraft. Enemy small arms fire rained down into the open side doors from several angles before Fred and Sanctioned Psyker Teodor fell having to utilize their gravchutes from a few stories up. The firefight continued with the squad letting the Valkrie pull fire, as it hovered only a meter above the ground to pick up squad members a hidden Tarellian lept into the bay of the aircraft and stabbed through the backseat of the pilot, killing him. The squad and aircraft skid to the ground now being shaken, thrown to the walls of the craft, before copilot Julius blasted through the Tarellian with his squad support Legio-Vox shotgun. They managed to pull up and land the craft with relatively little damage to it.
Eagle squad fought through the dark sewer system minutes later, the aboveground was behind enemy lines and their damaged aircraft could be discovered any second. They needed to destroy this commander ASAP, and as they heard the sounds of fleeing xenos in the dark corridors, their job wasn't being made any easier. A number of other hrenians hid around coners waiting to suicide themselves, but Heavy Trooper Fred having acquired a Voss Auto Grenade Launcher was quickly clearing the tight corridors of the fragile light infantry in their way. Julius banked around a corner in the darkness and was grazed with some powerful energy beam, knocking the wind out of him and causing him to stumble into a close quarters scamble with a strange looking Tau warrior. The Tau stepped back, Julius striking at him with the butt of his shotgun but was too slow. Another beam struck his helmet, melting plastics and metal onto the side of his temple, causing him to throw off his own helmet. Eagle squad had caught up by this point saving their squadmate. A series of other close actions followed before a larger Tau firing a larger rifle was encountered, he shouted low gothic at them. "Lay down your arms!" Medic Askook shouted back into his squads combeads, "Bastard speaks gothic take him alive! Command will reward us for what he must know!".
The Commander fled down corridors before being flanked by Sniper Vera, he narrowly dodged the massive rifle round but was blasted by a few grenade rounds from Fred. The squad then smoke grenaded his corridor and ran in with the intention of beating him unconscious. In close quarters combat the commander appeared to be no slouch, but due to the superior numbers and Fred's quick thinking of disarming his sidearm, he was overwhelmed in a short matter of time. Medic Askook administered a personally concocted knock out serum. Askook ordered the man quickly brought to the Varlkie, stealing a number of xenos gear after the rest of Eagle squad had left.
Eagle squad dragged the mumbling body of the large Tau commander out from the dark chambers of the sewer complex they cornered him inside of, lugging him into the floor of the damaged Valkrie they had flown to attack his position. The sounds of friendly gunfire were growing near as stray phased plasma shots flew overhead, the position was becoming overwhelmed and surrounded on all sides by a much larger AUX counter attack of what could be a hundred xenos. Julius flipped switches and turned nobs, having mostly already warmed up the engines before the squad got to the craft. Everyone had been invloved in the last assault on the shopping complex they were fleeing with their quarry from, it was just another battle they were making it out by the skin of their teeth from and it was waring on them heavily both physically and mentally. Askook was the last one to the Valkrie with a number of phased plasma rounds flying past him, he was stumbling attempting not to drop more recaf from his overstuffed suit while similtaniously stuggling to carry a large dufflebag he had found in the market. Julius was already taking off when Ranna reached out to grab the dufflebag from Askook, attempting to aid his friend. Fred fired a charged beam from his lonora lascannon out of one of the side doors of the aircraft, the beam striking the side of of builing and causing rubble and debris to block off part of the street for approaching AUX forces. At the last moment Askook lept from the edge of the building he ran atop, gripping onto the dropped metal door ramp with the tips of his fingers. As Askook slipped to fall, a number of recaf packets dropping off of him in the process, he felt a metal grip on his arm. Vera used all his strength with a number of the squads comrades holding onto him on the door ramp and pulled Askook into the aircraft by his augmented cyber arm.