Death Guard invades Ingollara

Heretic Astartes enter the Ingollara system

M40.170.415 - The defense of Ingollara becomes unlikely with Mortarions sons appearing

As if a full blown hive fleet weren't enough to deal with, the Death Guard made its presence known, gunning down remnants of fleeing elements on Ingollara IV in the aftermath of the siege. Where the terrorized humans crumbled with ease, the Tyranid invaders engaged unimpressed, fearful to lose biomass to unholy desecreation.
A brutal and vicious encounter occures, where the winner is unclear, but the loser is certainly humanity...

Genestealers pour out of cover

The Death Guard march

Their smell of decay carries way before them. Any opponent but the tyranid swarm may have fled already.

The men of the XIV advance

Tervigon and Terminators smashing into each other with shattering force

Vol'Yar under siege

Tau and Aeldari forces struggle for Vol'Yar

M40.170.305 - Tau forces engage Eldar outpost

After their undetected patroling collision, the Tau gather a swift strike force to deny the Aeldari an outpost position in the suburbs of the minor shrine city of Curara. The Eldar forces being unprepared, they were unable to utilize their long range fire support, being caught off guard and stuck in disadvantageous positions and forced on the move. The emergency nature of this engagement forced the Eldar pilots into hectic maneuvres, ending in multiple immobilization of vehicles. In the end, Eldar forces had to retread and give up their outpost.

Kroot on the advance

Falcon hull burning out

Fire Prism firing his Pulsar

Tau taking control over the area

The siege of Ingollara

Hive Fleet Marnassus invades the Eastern Fringe

M40.170.106 - Tyranids land on Ingollara IV

Past are the days when Ingollara IV was known as a peaceful, prospering hive world and economical centre of the subregion. Billions of administratum scribes, aeronautica logisticas, flotilla personnel and arbites worked together as an impossibly massive, neverending clockwork of orders, transportations, loadings and clearing, tonnage and toll controls.
But no more...on third sun's dawn of the second day of the third month of the year M40.170.105 of the emperor, the xenos invasion began...

The first distress signals were picked up by a nearby contingent of Imperial fists, changing the course of their escort ship to deploy a relief contingent to the planetary system of Ingollara.
When they arrived, it was clearly apparent that the former busy hive world was in dour need of defense. Little did the newly arrived force know whether it arrived in time.
The Adeptus Astartes strike force made planetfall immediately...

Tyranids intrude the outer suburbs of Curathnia, a major space cargo bay in the southern hemisphere

Imperial Fists reconnaisance forces discover a genestealer invasion

The tide turns when the genestealer patriachs makes his presence known

Warned Astartes deploy the First Company

Veterans in tactical dreadnought armour wade through the enemy forces in unstoppable motion

A winged hive tyrant leads his forces for a flanking maneuvre

The winged monster surges from the sky, shrieking and firing

Terminators hold a chokepoint against the charging mindless xenos

One by one, the space marines have to give in

Armoured support fires bombardement shells into the xenos creatures

Explosions shatter the ground of Ingollara as Devastators unleash their deadly missiles

After a year of fierce combat, the lines are drawn, the positions fortified, but the position of the Astartes are challenged as their supply lines are cut of by the masses of biomassive ships the Great Devourer brought, hovering in orbit over Ingollara.

The Death Guard marches

Fear the Sons of Barbarus

The Death Guard pants and marches, an aura of death and decay heralding their presence, as they escape their long travel from the warp started in a long forgotten time where the Siege of Terra was yet to happen.

WIP Chosen

WIP Heresy Era Veterans

WIP Heresy Era Cataphractii Terminators

WIP Legion Veterans

WIP before weathering and basing

Finished Death Guard

Finished Death Guard Captain

Finished Legion Veteran

Finished Legion Heavy Weapons

Finished Legion Heavy Weapons - Back View

The Vol'Yar incident

Eldar invade Vol'Yar settlement

M40.161.229 - Tau expansion to Vol'Yar is disturbed by Eldar expedition forces

Eldar intrusion into the Tau expansion to Vol'Yar was seemingly apprehended as significant misdemeanour as recon forces stumble into each other in the darkness of the planetary night. Unbeknownst to each other, Eldar and Tau surprised the opposing scout troops, however the Eldar were quickly overwhelmed and unable to signal a distres call.

Eldar Guardians surprised by the sudden discovery of Tau forces in the area

Kroot and Tau snipers take out the Eldar scouts

 Unprepared and blind, Eldar cargo crafts were attacked and shot down in a Tau ambush.
The resulting firefight of the Eldar Aspect forces and the Tau Recon forces was carried out swift and bloody.

After grounding an Eldar aircraft, Tau forces advance on the crash site.

Aspect warriors ready themselves for the ambushers.

Tau vehicles advance through the swamps.

Fire Dragons blast open the approaching Devilfish

Fire Warriors empty their payload into the swamps, hoping for a lucky hit on the approaching Striking Scorpions.

Swooping Hawks outflank the attacker and land in their midst.

Striking Scorpions cut through their prey with ease.

The king Baharroth is dead...long live the king

On the brink of victory, the Eldar forces faltered and were vaporised by the overwhelming firepower of the Tau positions.

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.

The battle for Sovarra Panghar V Capital begins...

Only the dead have seen the end of war...

...and a lot of souls saw the end of war that day

And so this battle rages on and on, back and forth, with no clear victor but the harvester of souls.