Log Of Commander Stubs Imperial 713 Kerentian Mechanized

Log of Commander Stubs Imperial 713 Kerentian Mechanized

Meeting the 713

After the initial push, the Inquisition was repelled and the outer planets were secure. For many years after that the Hammond Sector heard nothing from the Imperium.  A few years past and an interesting thing happen on the outer edge of the sector.

  15 years ago, in orbit over Maevyn 4, a ship appeared.  The ship, packed with Imperial Guardsman and refugees, crashed into the dense jungle.  The 713th Mechanized Infantry Regiment spilled out of the crashed ship and began to set up camp.  Other Hammond sector ships in the Maevyn system called the Brotherhood to investigate.  

A rapid response detachment was dispatched from the Second Company.  Captain Michael and Echo Squad arrived with Alpha and Bravo Squads to see the veterans of the 713.  The Brotherhood attacked.

They charged the 713 and the 713 opened fire with everything they had.   A Leman Russ, Old Ironsides, rained fire down on the advancing Echo squad.  The bikes roared as they attempted to get into close combat range.  Alpha and Bravo dropped in behind enemy lines to get closer to the enemy.  

The commander, a short man called Stubs, cried "FIRST rank, FIRE! SECOND rank, FIRE!" and Alpha and Bravo were met by a wall of lasgun fire.  Bravo squad was brought down by the fire of this Imperial Guard regiment.  Alpha charged the command squad and engaged them in close combat.  The command squad surprised Alpha by taking all but one of them out of the fight. Echo squad continued to take fire from Old Ironsides, and Hyro, the only remaining member of Alpha squad weathered fired from all sides.  Hyro then took it upon himself to charge Old Ironsides, in an attempt to take it out.  He failed, but it took all the remaining fire power of the 713 to bring down Hyro.

Reinforcements from the Brotherhood, and the 713 soon arrived, and talks began.  The down warriors of the Brotherhood were pulled from the field and many of them were able to be saved, including Hyro who was promptly awarded the Heroism Medal for his courage in the of overwhelming odds and his refusal to die.

This is Hyro, he carries a flamer for Alpha Squad.  Later I will tell the story of how he earned a name and his heroism medal (the blue trim on his shoulders).  The reason that he is here is because Assault Marines do not come with flamers and I had to make my own.

Here Goes

I play Blood Angels in Warhammer 40K and I like to tell stories.  This Blog will have two "sides", a Fluff side where I will tell the stories of the many battles I will be fighting and a not fluff side where I will explain the numbers behind the battles and probably talk about the painting I am doing and the models I am adding. 

Here we go.

This is my Sanguinary Guard.  They are fun and I like 'em.  Base coated in silver, then used a green wash and brought them back up.  Layered the power swords/axes and I think they came out pretty well.

Winged Brotherhood squared off against Ashfire Cadre We fought I lost.  The Winged Brotherhood faced the Ashfire Cadre, the game was the Scouring, 1000 pts.  The game started off well, my vanguard veterans took down his riptide.  The Tau then created a perimeter around my bikes and sanguinary guard and shot at them until the finally failed enough saves to die.  My MVP was Captain Micheal and my first priest, they took an entire turn of shooting from nearly the entire Tau army before finally dying.  In the end I held a three point and a four point objective, while he sat on a two and a three point objective, however he killed two fast attack, my warlord and got first blood.  In the end the Winged Brotherhood had 7 and the Ashfire Cadre had 8. Tau win.