Game 3: Khorne v Guard 1500 pts, random scenario 9th ed

Prologue Transition Narrative

The collected souls and warp energy of the deaths of so many gsc and common hive city citizens in the Mechanicus levels, flowed together into the wreckage of the three superheavy shadowsword tanks. After the battle, all of the even-minimally psy sensitive imperium and other people, could sense the powers radiating from the wreckiage. The Callidus Assassin Scydriel, under cover as the Governor's Castellan and Facilitatrix general, knew the importance of them when she sureveyed her victorious battlefield, and decided not to pursue what she now hoped was the REAL Progenitor, who fled again before her and the Emperor's Wrath, which guided and empowered her.

Scydriel immediately called the new Ordo Mechanicus Inquisitor Saskia-Ardens, who had joined Scydriel in distinguishing themselves with their heroic victories, to secure and analyze the vast, long, ridged pile of the wrecked superheavy tank column.

Working with the geniuses of ForgeWorld Caldus, they all worked together to take pieces from all three of the destroyed hulls of the column of shadowsword tanks, and combine the parts that still worked into a single superheavy tank chassis! The ArchMagos and Mechanicus Inquisitor knew that their efforts would be ultimately judged by the success of the strong Imperium Men who would be piloting and fighting within the the restored baneblade dull, and their ability to cooperate with the unified and reformed machines spirits from the destroyed GSC shadowswords, held together around the core machine spirit and sensor core of one of the tank commanders, whose hull had been smashed by the Tyranids just before the King's Own Chimeras had been transported to Astheneia Prime.

During the training and tuning phase of the production of the Baneblade from the not-vaporized and less smashed parts of the Shadowswords, they brought the engine spirit of the rebuilt tank fully awake and aware for the fist time, after raising the reactor cores of the tank to full power and powering up the las cannons-

A portal opened! Reality split asunder like skin tearing, and flesh parting, and maybe at first just a bit like a latex seam bursting apart, under the impossibly tight tension of stretched Materium, spreadding apart and then torn by the excessive flow of Warp Energy attracted by the horrible deaths and vast slaughter of the whole Revolutionary War of Astheneia.

For the first time in the war, Khorne daemons burst out! Drawn and concentrated by the extensive slaughter, and finally manifesting through the wreckage of the smashed and rebuilt tank parts, and the combined newly manifesting machine spirit. The machine spirit was recombined and then trained by the finest and most brilliant Mechanicus minds, including Saskia Ardens, and the ArchMagos of ForgeWorld Caldus, It had learned to be a fighting spirit alongside, and with it's controls under the reassigned hands of men of the Tank Core of the Jungle fighters, promoted from the Kings Own Chimeras regiment and trained by the Mechanicus to pilot and fight the rebuilt superheavy tank!



The tempestus plasma praetorians narrowly failed to kill the Greater Brass Scorpion, but the empty flamer chimeras, the three techprient engineseers, and the remaining tank commander they accompanied held the line of the the charging Khorne deamons and were eventually slaughtered so that only the last few tempestus men, and two of the sealed power armor techpriests, and the nearly fully healed Baneblade.

On T3, the survivors fellback from the nearly-dead Khorne monsters, and the seeming hailing-rain of varied fire from the baneblade finally cleared all the Khorne Daemons they had fallen back from, leaving the few surviving models suddenly in control of the whole area around where the now-closed-again portal had opened this time, in an eerie silence as the blood-master and skull cannon retreated, rather than sacrificing themselves to raise the already-gloriously high count of blood and skulls that had spilled during the incursion...

The surviving, and banished-back-into-the-war-during-the-battle Khorne daemons retreated back through the warp, and started gathering energy to themselves, and plotting their next incursion...