Exploring the Eastern Fringe: Warzone Sovarra Panghar

Sovarra Panghar shattered but holds fast

M40.161.228 - Capital City of Sovarra Panghar V controlled and fortified by Imperial forces

Months of siege warfare have ended in a stalemate of colossal dimension as multiple Imperial Guard armies hold the Capital City of SP-V with support of Astartes and Sororitas forces.
The situation looked grim in recent times as the planetary army forces were pounded again and again by Chaos forces, whilst seemingly losing cohesive structures.

Suspicions were verified when a landing party of Sisters of Battle confronted supposed-heretic Guard forces, who then were unexplicably supported by a covert force of Tau warriors. The Sisters held their belief of the Emperor high though, and punished heretic and xenos alike for their ignorance.


Battle Sisters confront the renage Guardsmen

Outflanking sisters purge the heretical lines with holy imperial fire

Meanwhile, a mighty force of Chaos Space Marine warriors was stopped in their assault on the Capital City at the latest hour when reinforcements from the Cathedral of Destruction Chapter freed the under siege Astra Militarum infantry positions.

Guardmen fire round after round of their lasrifle ammunition into the charging Chaos hordes

When all things looked dire, with the Guardsmen facing masses of Chaos Kultist brutes and the bone-wrenching roar of mad khornate butchers known as Berzerkers, the Angels of Death land in their midst.

Slaaneshi cultists bathe the Astra Militarium position in flames while screaming in excess.

More and more reinforcements from both sides turn the city sector into a smoking cauldron of burnt flesh.

Slaaneshi bikers surprise the Tactical Dreadnought armoured Marines.

Slaaneshi cult hordes and bikers arrive, in ecstatic excitement over the upcoming slaughter.

Chaos bikers charge into the funneled Terminators.

Soon all the firearms silenced and screams of gore and violence took over as prevalent sounds of battle as the Chaos forces finally forced the Imperial positions into bloody close quarters action.

The Slaaneshi Lord chases his cult following onwards into the fray.

In the end, the combined powers of Marines and Guardsmen led into a sound Imperial victory, holding their fortified positions to put Mankinds defenders into a good strategical position for the overall planetary battle.

Adepta Soritas forces then swung wide from their foothold position, outflanking the Chaos forces and forcing them into a battle on their flanks in the open fields.

A Slaaneshi Land Raider covering the battle plains with unimaginable sounds of excess.

Slaaneshi bikers give throttle to charge full-speed into the Sisters positions

This caused the dark forces to retreat their forces from the city siege, but little effect did this relocation of forces have on the outcome as the Imperial push into Chaos controlled zones ended in a victorious way.

As the Imperial forces pushed forward to fortify the outer reaches of the macropolis area, small skirmishes of urban warfare occured with Imperial scout troops meeting retreating Tau and Imperial renegades. Mostly, the Imperium kept the upper hand and secured the newly gained control over the city sectors.

Legion of the Damned appear to smack down any renegade uprising.

Tau soldiers sprinkled all over the wrecked city, sniping away patrols left and right

The sterner the grasp of mankind on the Capital grew, the more this alliance saw itself forced into a two-front war against renegades and Chaos forces, the former trying to evade punishment of Imperial law, the latter driven by the pure rage of ten millenia of hatred.

After trench warfare and orbital bombardment turned the outer suburbs of the city into a barren wasteland, the counter-Imperial forces felt their time running short. The ever-increasing presence of Imperial forces in strategical positions helped secure the voidway passage, enabling a superior supply structure to carry out a war of atrition in a superior position.

The city centre, controlled by the Imperium of Mankind

Guardsmen sit in their trenches, waiting for the enemy forces to come

After 1823 days of siege, judgement day arrived. Coming from the eastern landing zones, Chaos hurled their forced in amassed numbers into barrage after barrage of bombardement from the city-side trench dugouts and artillery lines, whilst a massive Tau army opened its deadly long ranged fire potential from the southbound borders of the city. How this occured at this same point in time will never be understand, but little does it matter, when the effect on the Imperials was all the same: they had to hold of these two aligned charges or perish in streams of their own blood.