Blood Rain - Part 2

 Part 1 here

"Hold him still."

Brasalion's eyes popped open as a surge of pain ra through his body. Over him loomed Mardil with blue warp fire coursing over his arms and flowing into Brasalion's body while two other marines held him down.

"There," the sorceror muttered, "that should do it." He held out his hand to Brasalion as the other two let go and pulled him back to his feet. 

"Report."

"We have secured the area around the power conduits and the guns remain operational." Brasalion could hear the thump of the guns' firepower in the distance as confirmation. "But Lord Helixian has sent ordered for us to move west to fortify the high ground there. It appears the Aquilons have not abandoned the fight and are going to try and land there to use the high ground to launch SAMs at our fuel transports."

Brasalion frowned at their audacity. "They will not be landing in good order. We'll move double time to get there first. Can everyone keep up?"

Mardil sighed. "Your injuries were easily healed by Quintara's graces, and Jogcest needed only mechanical repairs," he said as he indicated the heavy gunner holding the reaper chaincannon. "But Nadum was truly nothing but ash, not even the geneseed could be retrieved."

Brasalion picked up his weapon and started moving to the west. "No matter, contact Davok and tell him to send us some backup." He climbed up and over some rubble. "Squad 3, move out!"

* * * * *

Tinqiu and I got together for the send mission of the three part narrative campaign from the Hive Storm dossier, Scrambled Drop.

The mission map combined with the rules looked like a really tough one for the Aquilons on offence, but I was prepared for surprises.

I set up primarily in the central stronghold with 4 marines, and only two near the top stronghold, with minefield and razor wire making the approach of the main one difficult and under fire.

These three with the heavy gunner on the high vantage. The Chosen lord is ready to go out the door and remove heads from shoulders.

The Aquilons had only 2 drops they controlled out of 10, and most of them landed in zone 1, the farthest from the action. Not to mention a few got the injuries on the way down. Terrible luck for Tinqiu.

Landing in cover far from the action.

The death corridor.

The Aquilons try to form up in cover under the watchful eye of the reaper chaincannon and the Balefire Acolyte.

The Chosen moves out of the stronghold to kill a human with plasma fire that had the audacity to move too close.

Using cover to keep out of line of sight of the firebase, the Aquilons take down the plasma gunner and butcher that charged forward to clean up the top sector.

The Chosen comes under fire but does not die. Not good for the imperials.

The combined firepower of the marines is daunting to overcome.

The Chosen charges, kills two humans healing all his damage. Then he gets charged by two more, eventually kills them and heals a lot more damage. Healed something like 20 points of damage. Insanely OP. 

With the Chosen having dispatched half the Aquilons by himself and still going, they had one operative securing the top stronghold but was alone in facing down four marines. 

This mission is unbalanced a thte best of times, but with the currently overpowered Legionaries defending and some bad drop rolls, it made for a massacre. We had fun, but definitely agreed some balancing issues need to be addressed. To finish out our little narrative campaign, we agreed next time to do 3B which seems more equal instead of 3C which seems to be another turkey shoot.