Board Thread:Warhammer 40k Roleplay/@comment-4948356-20130719024255/@comment-7232811-20130719224520

(aboard the Hydra's Teeth, Sakro & I are in the midst of discussing what our next move shall be, when an ugly thought occurs to us. Neither of the remaining titans were picked up from the warzone, & the 'Chaos Overlord' has not given any word of what he intends to do with them. The situation is becoming quite serious...)

What do you think we should do?

Sakro: The 'Chaos Overlord' was the one who delivered the titans to our position, by all rights I expect him to go & pick them back up.

Yes, but he has not spoken to us about picking up the titans. We cannot afford to take the chance that he won't. Besides, he might not be aware of how we have already left the battlefield.

Sakro: *sigh* I guess. Prepare four thunderhawks & secure the use of three titan-grade bulk-landers. Ready one hundred of our borrowed troops to secure the site where the titans fell back to. & ensure that there are sufficient tech-priests, servitors, & transport vehicles to secure the titans & get aboard the toppled reaver & whatever's left of the fallen warhound. Now, what is our next move?

(in less than half an hour, four thunderhawks, each carrying twenty five astartes, shriek out from the hangar bays of the Hydra's Teeth, & hurtle their way down to the planet below. In their wake are three massive bulk-landers, each laden with servants & tools of the machine-god. After having breached the atmosphere, the thunderhawks peel off in the direction of the titans, who are desperately trying to hold their ground against a veritable tide of greenskins. The gunships begin with strafing the ork-infested ground with their heavy bolters & hull cannons. Two of them fire a volley of hellstrike missiles into a cluster of ork vehicles, while the other pair perform a bombing run over a mass of ork troops, sufficiently clearing the ground for them to make landfall & deploy their complement of astartes, who set about purging the area of nearby greenskins, allowing the other two thunderhawks to do likewise.)

(the astartes form a ring of troops around the two remaining titans, who in turn are trying to protect their fallen comrade. The reaver is too large to bring its powerfist to bear on any of the conventional ground targets, so is limited to sporadic bursts from its apocalypse missile launcher, & stamping upon anything foolish enough to try & get too close. By contrast, the warhound is relentlessly running backwards & forwards, shoring up the battleline wherever it is weakest with plasma bursts & the occassional gout from its inferno cannon. Both titans are also offering cover for the ground troops with their massive bodies & void shields. All the while the thunderhawks streak back & forth across the sky, tearing up masses of orks with their weaponry.)

(eventually, the bulk landers arrive in the clearing & deploy their contingent of tech-adepts & servitors to try & retrieve the fallen reaver & the remains of the destroyed warhound. After a great deal of effort, their remains are dragged aboard one of the landers, which heaves itself into the sky, so that the other two may land to carry off the reaver, which only pauses to obliterate the head of a stompa & empty its last remaining missiles into the horde before boarding, & the warhound, which also empties both its weapons before embarking. As the landers & thunderhawks escape into the atmosphere, the much-depleted astartes are formed into a tightly-packed ring, before being teleported to the Hydra's Teeth. Though they take heavy weapons fire & are badly damaged, all of the landers & gunships succeed in escaping to the cruiser.)

Mission accomplished, lord.

Sakro: Well done Sindri. You have ably commanded my warriors, ravaged the forces of our foes, & have won us many more troops than we started off with. Now, which planet should we head off to next...