How i play tactics quest part deux?

You reach into your belt for your helpful HELP manual. The pages are covered in white sticky liquid, but the current situation makes it easy to ignore.

-Input suggestions for squad action, organization or drills! Normally I'll try to streamline the game by giving you hints as to what sort of orders you can give but right now anything goes!
-In the spirit of the above, remember your objective!
-You can die. Act smart!
-People in your Platoons Carry Over to the next Combat Operation! Keep them alive for Bonsuses and Advancements! (like BROCK SAMSON as chosen by the last group that played)

You put the help manual away and SURVEY THE SITUATION.

Your men are awaiting orders pending an ambush by necrons on the way to Betty Crocker's Hill. You have anhilated the warriors but a squad of Destroyers threatens to annhilate you and your platoon with their long ranged weapons!

Commands Needed,

ENGAGEMENT DRILL (What you want your men to do during a fight!)

ADVANCEMENT DRILL (What you want your men to do moving between and just before fights!)

Deploy Mortar Squad to cover and engage the destroyers! Squads 1 and 2 bounding advance to better firing positions under Mortar and Chimera cover fire!

>>5775273

Your mortar squad piles out of the Chimera and begins to set up in an abandoned crater.

Squads 1 and 2 pick themselves out of their cover at your panicked behest, you point them in the direction of the Destroyers.

Your Chimera stays in place, laying cover fire down by the bucket!

Results,
-Men closing with Destroyers across light terrain!
-Mortar Set Up!
-Chimera Laying Cover Fire!

Combat Post Next,

ROLLING

Your men pick up the pace as the steady thump of mortar rounds entering and leaving the tube reverberates in the air. The first few rounds scatter wide of their target!

The Autocannon on the chimera continues to fire at the distant Destroyers but fails to down any!

In response, the Destroyers finally draw a succesful bead on the exposed Chimera. Three bright green lances pierce the front of the hull and come out the back, igniting the fuel tank.

Results,
-Chimera Destoyed!
-Men have successfully entered lasgun range and can now engage the Destroyers
-Mortar deployed and rounds dropping on approximate Destroyer position.

What do you do?

POUR IT ON!!

>>5775417
i call in the deathstrike missile

>>5775683

Thats good too.

This is foxtrot zero niner, requesting orbital bombardment on my position over...

>>5775417

I presume I have a vox-caster and communications with the mortar team. My squad will find cover and lay down suppressive fire while I use the vox to walk the mortar rounds on to the destroyers. Squad 2 will flank.

The chimera crew will be mourned later. By the way, did any of the crew survive?

Can we salvage anything from the Chimera, namely the heavy bolter

>>5775715

While that would be cool, I have a feeling we're too far away from the Chimera to be sifting through wreckage. Particularly while under fire.

Also, what are the destroyers up to?

>>5775732
Sorry, I wasn't aware that we were that far away from it

What's the terrain like around our current location? Anything that could offer some protection from ZOMBIE ROBOTS.

>>5775758

Well, yeah, we bounded forward while it got blowed up.

Good to see there are two tactical brains here!

>>5775712
>>5775732

You do not have vox communication headsets. The men from the armoured fist squad that saved you in the first place do, but they are evenly split between Squad 1 and Squad 2 (the previous players did not think to split them evenly)

The Destroyers are now taking pot shots at your advancing squads. No one has been hit, just yet.

>>5775683
>>5775691

You tap your ear and begin to speak when you realise that you are part of a light infantry company and are at most, a corporal. No one in the navy would piss on you, let alone give you an orbital bombardment.

>>5775715

There might be items salvageable from the Chimera, were you not so far away. The flames make it hard to see. You can't tell if anyone made it out. You wish you had asked them to move themselves into a better firing position.

INFORMATION phase over, ACTIONS will now be accepted!

I pray to the god emperor of mankind to guide my aim as i take a shot at the head of the nearest destroyer.

>>5775803
What is the terrain like at our current position, and how far away are the Necrons?

Also, what is the range of the flamethrower?

>>5775803

Scratch what I said earlier. Let the mortars do their thing. Squad 1 with myself and BROCK SAMPSON will flank, while squad 2 lays down suppressive fire with their grenade launcher and rifles.

We will flank around/through the nearest piece of decent cover that allows us to approach at a near-right angle to the enemy firing at our suppression squad.

Damn, 38,000 years in the future, you'd think they would equip squads with light automatic weapons.

Also, tell us what the Destroyers are doing?

>>5775872
>>5775865

Listen to both of us; suppose we're alternating trains of thought in one guy's head.

Though, I can answer the flamethrower question. Perhaps it's time to fix bayonets. ;-)

ALL SQUADS, POUR IT ON!!

>>5775865

You pop your head over the crater your huddling in as the Destroyers let off round after round. You can hear the violent expulsion of air from the vents of the floating bodies from the destroyers from here.

Cracks from lasrifles echo around you as men pop up and down from cover loosing pot shots as they go but nothing substantial. You make a quick measurement and estimate a charge by BROCK SAMSON has a 25% chance of getting up there and torching ONE destroyer.

>>5775826

You pray and unsheath your shotgun. BROCK SAMSON tackles you down as a lance shot zooms past over head. He shakes his head.

(BROCK SAMSON has used NOT ON MY WATCH, saving you from ONE MISTAKE)

Results from ACTION,
-Men moving slowly from crater to crater but gaining good ground
-Mortar Rounds falling closer and closer to the Necron Destroyers, given time, you will kill them but at what cost?
-BROCK SAMSON feels HUNGRY FOR ACTION. You tell him to shut the fuck up.

ENGAGEMENT DRILL
>>5775872

Your second in command squawk your orders to Squad 2. The corporal nods his head and they rise in unison to unleash a facade of red hot lasfire. The grenade launcher man rises timidly and lets loose a grenade.

The Destroyers turn to face Squad 2. They shrug the lasgun fire off with ease but with a krak and a boom, a Destroyer goes down! A lucky Krak Grenade Hit!

Squad 1 begins to flank, BROCK SAMSON leading the way!

Results from ACTION,
-Squad 1 flanking!
-Squad 2 suppressing, the Destroyers have now turned their full attention to Squad 2.
-Mortar Squad Laying Down the Hurt
-One Destroyer Down, 2 more to go.

Right, i think its best if we huddle down in these craters and keep as low a profile as possible, perhaps send BROCK and ourself round to an area from which the flank of the necrons will be vulnerable. I would also say its time for the grenade launcher man to start firing

So if I get this right- we have squad 2 flanking while squad 1 lays down a base of fire. Huh. What anti-tank weapons does squad-2 have?

As you begin your flank, the Destroyers take note of your movement and begin to fall back. Covering fire from the Destroyers forces the majority of Squad 2 to duck for cover. The Grenade Man is still in the open, fumbling with the release catch.

You realise if the Destroyers successfully withdraw, they will be able to pelt you from long range, far beyond the range of your lasguns and it will turn into an artillery duel between the Destroyers and your Mortar.

A burst of speed might see you catch up to the Destroyers for a close range volley or even for some close combat but even the limited time you've spent fighting these mechanical horrors tells you this would not be bloodless on your part.

The Destroyers continue to put distance between you and your platoon as you ponder the next course of action.

What do you do?

I think that we should have squad 1 charge while the opportunity is ripe and pummel the destroyers with krak grenades.

how far is squad 1 from the destroyers?

we should signal the mortars to cease fire as the charge is mustered of course.

>>5776078

FOR THE EMPRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!

>>5776078

Actually have mortars lay fire behind the destroyers (where they are backing away into) to discourage their movement backwards

>>5776046

Do we have smoke grenades to cover an assault? Also, FIX BAYONETS.

Tell the Squad 2 corporal to tackle his retarded grenade launcher man. We don't want to lose that weapon.

>>5776078

Both Squads are in range for a charge if that is what the emperor requires.

You wave frantically at the mortar to get them to stop. You hope that they saw.

NOTE - I realise none here have probably played before so the way taking actions works is I pick
a) the one that is most popular (e.g. ACTION suggestions followed by a post either going DO THIS ONE or FUCK YEAH)
b) the one that was posted fastest (in the case that several anons can't choose something over their own ideas)

Actually yea, do that too. That way we don't charge into our own mortar fire. The shifting mortar fire might distract the necrons for a second as we charge too.

Don't forget to hurl those grenades as we go!

>>5776144

DO THIS ONE or FUCK YEAH

>>5776133

do this while both squads charge

ENGAGEMENT DRILL
>>5776117
>>5776133
>>5776152

There's no time to send a runner back to communicate with the mortar crew. You decide getting them to stop will have to do.

You signal squad 2 to let loose a cover of smoke grenades. Squad 1 follows suit.

COMBAT POST NEXT

ROLLING

We MUST have smoke cover before we initiate a charge. Without that, we're boned.

Is there any cover we can utilize to keep pressing the assault without a full-on charge?

Definitely have both squads charge with smoke cover.

As the smoke covers you advance you pump your shotgun. With a hearty yell to the heavens you lead squad 1 and squad 2 through the smoke!

The Necrons pour fire through the smoke wall but to no avail. All around you the battlecries of your men ring out undiminished!

You have caught the Necrons FLAT FOOTED.

Your first shotgun shell slams into the first destroyer, shearing off its pulsing gun arm. The next few guardsmen to emerge through the smoke pour rifle fire onto the downed destroyer with merciless abandon. Under the relentless fire, it goes down!

Corporal charges the last destroyer with his chainsword. Now caught in close combat, none of your men risk shooting. Everyone charges!

The Chainsword clangs off the metal hide of the Necron with a terrible certainty and with a swing of its long barrelled cannon it sends the corporal flying.

BROCK SAMSON takes this opportunity to jump on the back of the Destroyer. Sticking his flamer to the back of its head, he pulls the trigger.

'BURN IT ALL' He yells enthusiastically.

This causes the Destroyer to go haywire, shrugging SAMSON off as it spins erratically. The rest of the riflemen engage with rifle butt and bayonet.

It takes a while, but you manage to get the Destroyer down. It whirs and clicks down to oblivion, the light finally leaving its eyes.

CONGRATULATIONS, YOU HAVE SUCCESSFULLY SURVIVED THE AMBUSH

>>5776287
Burn. The. Bodies.

>>5776287

FIRE MY SHOTGUN INTO THE AIR IN CELEBRATION!

Alright, now have everyone pull 360 security. I want LACE reports from both squads! Is the corporal okay?

Once we get situated, send squad 2 down the hill to recover the mortar team and search the chimera wreckage for survivors/weapons/equipment.

>>5776287
Deal some extra damage to the bodies, just in case. No idea if the floaty Necrons can stand back up, too.

Check squad for casualties. Make sure that both squads have someone with a vox. Go recover any weapons or equipment possible from the hulk of the Chimera.

Then advance towards the hill we're assigned to take.

And someone redistribute the AF squads commbeads to NCOs and the Mortar Squad...

>>5776328
I second this

Congratulate my men for being seriously hardcore motherfuckers.

>>5776384
They're infantry. It's what they do.

>>5776307

BROCK SAMSON has already shaken off his tussle with the Destroyer and has already moved among the fallen, twitching necron bodies flamer in hand and passion in his eyes. He melts them down to slag. (Congratulations! MISTAKE averted!)

Taking stock of the situation you look around you. The Corporal lies crumpled in a heap of flesh, his spine shattered from the swing of the Destroyer. He's already gone to the Emperor's Side.

Two more Guardsman have joined him, one with a caved in skull and the other having been caught at point blank with the Destroyer Gauss Cannon.

Platoon Strength!

Squad 1
-You with Shotgun, BROCK SAMSON, 6 Riflemen.
Squad 2
-3 Riflemen, 1 Grenade Launcher Operator (he can also operate a flamer, but this ambush has taught him how to use the Grenade Launcher at an amateur level)
One Mortar Squad
-2 Crew

Your soldiers take a break from their exertions. You can hear the renewed sound of gun fire up ahead. You know the Leman Russes must be tackling the opposition on the hill. How long they will last, you don't know.

One of the men recieves a crackle on the vox. It appears he has picked up the signal of other first wave survivors in the area. However, he can only isolate one of them at a time. You can gather some of them to you, but not all of them.

REINFORCEMENTS INBOUND, to be chosen like ACTIONS between,
-Vehicle
-Heavy Infantry
-Light Infantry
-Scouts

What do you do?

>>5776359
Seconding getting the mortar squad a commbead. No more of that "can't redirect their fire" crap; that's a nasty mistake we shall not make again.

>>5776392
I choose Heavy Infantry. We have demonstrated an inability to effectively use vehicles, and we need some more firepower.

And if there's fighting on the hill, we must move to reinforce them immediately, before the servants of the Emperor there are slain. Order two of the Squad 2 riflemen to loot the Chimera while everyone else advances.

>>5776392

I can not believe I am going to say this, but: Fuck vehicles! They are poorly equipped. For this we need light infantry.

>>5776392
My vote goes for Vehicle or Scouts, we desperately need some range

>>5776392

Trade BROCK SAMPSON for the grenade launcher operator, and place BROCK in charge of squad 2. Send another rifleman to squad 2.

As for reinforcements, I vote for the heavy infantry or vehicles, but I'll let someone else make that choice.

Make sure every squad has a commbead or whatever it's called. Also, pick up the corporal's chainsword/laspistol for my own personal use.

What's the terrain like between us and the hill?

Heavy infantry plz. Suicidal charges against heavy weapons is not my cup of tea. It worked once, but I don't want to try it twice.

Regroup the closest Non Vehicle Unit.

Also transfer 2 Riflemen to Squad 2 from Squad 1.

Is there anyone in the force suitable for a field promotion to take command of Squad 2?

>>5776392
Scouts or heavy infantry!
Vehicles are easy meat for the necrons. At least scouts might be able to give us some range or spot for mortars/rest of platoon ( assuming they have vox). And heavy infantry is self explanatory, more numbers= more killy.

>>5776454
DO THIS ONE or FUCK YEAH

>>5776443
Seconding recovery of armament. Chainswords and pistols are nice.

>>5776443

What are you? Stupid? Brock would charge his squad all the time! That crazy fuck needs a supervisor.

We need to see if we can salvage anything from the chimera, move 1 guy from squad 1 to squad 2, and see if there are any candidates for a field promotion.

>>5776476

Apparently not against Necrons... keep the shotgun.

>>5776492

He's the best choice we've got! The grenade launcher guy is all "lol I'm going to stand here and play with my jammed weapon while in full sight of the enemy". The rest of our men are just faceless privates.

Unless storyteller man has a private who's ready for the job, BROCK SAMPSON is our only choice.

>>5776508
there's few enough of us now we could just become one squad, temporarily.

>>5776521
If we did that we'd lose the versatility we get from having 2 smaller squads.

I also just noticed that we are the 46th Light Infantry, maybe choosing heavy infantry is a MISTAKE waiting to happen.

>>5776521

You fool! Guardsman squads can't have two special weapons!

>>5776533

Mans got a point. Light infantry or Scouts pls, whichevers closest.

Also, second to keeping BROCK SAMSON where we can see him... one of the FACELESS PRIVATES must have something going for him...

>>5776533
How much versatily does 4 guardsmen really provide against necrons? Especially when weighed against the cost of them being leaderless or worse: poorly led. Anything we're going to fight is likely going to take all the men to take down anyway and when reinforcements arrive we'll hopfully gain that versatility back.

You have promoted BROCK SAMSON as Squad 2 Leader

Note - Promoting a Grunt to any form of substantial leadership position will grant him the TOUGH AS SHIT trait (gives him PROTAGONIST ARMOUR, making them as tough as you are) Since BROCK already has this, he does not get it again. However, granting him Leadership gives him opportunites to excel and learn new abilities.

HEAVY INFANTRY CHOSEN

You manage to reach the survivors of 11th platoon and tell them to gather at your position. While you scavenge the wrecks and bodies around the area, they accumulate together to form the following,

Squad 3
-5 riflemen, one with magnoculars who's designated himself leader. You assume he's trained in their use.

Heavy Bolter Team
-2 men, bringing one rifle to the party. That and a Heavy Bolter!

You reorganise the men, making sure designated leaders and weapon teams have at least one vox bead each.

Platoon Strength!
Squad 1
You with Shotgun and Chainsword, 5 men with Rifles, One Grenade Launcher Operator

Squad 2
BROCK SAMSON (Named Character, Flamer armed, TOUGH AS SHIT, BURN IT ALL and NOT ON MY WATCH traits) leading 5 riflemen

Squad 3
-5 riflemen, one dedicated spotter within

Heavy Bolter Team

Mortar Team

Scavenged Equipment List
-Laspistol, additional Frag, Krak and Smoke grenades.

SAVE POINT

CONTINUE PLAYING?
Y/N

>>5776604
FUCK YES

FOR THE EMPORERRRRR!!!

>CONTINUE PLAYING? Y/N
Y

ACTION: Advance towards the hill that's our objective, keeping an eye out for any Necron forces. Hope that not everyone there is dead.

Y

Can we name the Magnoculars guy?

Also, anychance we can lump the Heavy Bolter into Squad 3?

>>5776604
Y

Also, wouldnt it be better to put the magnoculars with the heavy bolter or mortar team, as they have range

I say combine squad 3 with the mortar team. This way our mortars have an effective spotter and also vox communication.

Disperse squad 3 riflemen into squads 1 and two

Move out, squads 1 and 2 take point, mortar and heavy bolter behind. Keep good spacing to avoid being smoked all at once by artillery.

Attempt to hail leman russes on our vox communications

What we really need to do is find out all that we can about the distribution of our forces as well as the strong/weak points in their defences, even with the 2 heavy weapons teams we can hit a weak point and maybe get behind their lines and wreak havoc.

So contact high command and ask for information on the distribution of our forces and their forces.

Y Chosen!

Next Combat Op Start!

Also, as a little out of character aside, I apologise for slow posting! I do try to read everyone's post before making ACTIONS and answering INFORMATION.

In addition, naming characters is an EARNED ADVANCEMENT.

I try to grade you on the intelligence of your actions. For example, it was possible to survive the ambush without losing your Chimera or those men.

It would've earned you a NAMED CHARACTER and the reinforcements as well.

Take note, BROCK SAMSON was once a faceless flamer operator the previous players used their NAMED CHARACTER advance on.

***

Your men look happy under your command despite the growing death toll. You hope the leaders don't start to feel as apphresive as you do.

You pull the map out gained during OP 1. The road to the hill seems pretty clear from here, but precautions should still be taken. As the first necron engagement on your part, you don't know if they're prone to trickery.

POST CONTINUED

>>5776790

>>5776642

You look at the fresh arrivals from 11th platoon. Despite your best efforts, a witty nick name eludes you. Perhaps later?

You start to weigh in on the advantages of merging squad 3 with the heavy bolter team. It would grant them more protection as well as offering you a solid fire base and reduce micro management (you can and will suffer penalties for having too many 'squads' under your command, don't worry though, you guys haven't reached it yet) but would make it harder to give different targets between the riflemen and the Heavy Bolter team.

You consider merging Squad 3 into Squads 1 and 2 while keeping two men as a spotter team to act for the Heavy Weapons. (requires confirmation)

Your attempt to raise high command only has them repeat their orders at you. You cut the link in disgust. Attempts to reach the Leman Russes ahead is only met with the sounds of static.

(take your time gents, the next combat op is meant to be the BOSS STAGE and will consist of two COMBAT ENCOUNTERS and one BOSS ENCOUNTER)

Please input,
ENGAGEMENT DRILL (What you want your men to do upon meeting the enemy)

ADVANCEMENT DRILL (will dictate how favourable your position is at the beginning of any engagement and careful advancement might save you a man or two, get you an ABILITEH or even garner some interesting equipment)

I'm BACK!

Sweet, nice to see our response was positive enough last night.

Congrats on the fa/tg/uys getting us through the ambush safely. (Shoulda backed the Chimera up though)

Lets do this... FOR EMPRAH!

Note - The engagement and advancement drill only applies to a single COMBAT OP.

Changes can be made to either drill to take account of new information before I make a ROLLING post. Anything after is too late! (I do actually roll some of this shit out)

I vote for a larger firebase. Heavy Bolter is primarily an anti-infantry weapon so there shouldn't be much of a problem with combining it with Lasfire.

Recomend deploying Squads 1 and 2 on point, 1 on left side of the track 2 on the right, keeping nice and spaced, followed by Squad 3 (with heavy bolter) and Mortar team.

On contact Squads take cover and lay down suppressive fire.

Advance in a V formation, with somebody unimportant taking point. Keep the heavy weapons towards the rear, in the center of the V.

Fellow fatguys, Y/N?

>>5776887 cont

Squads 1 and 2 break right and left respectively to flank while squad 3 forms firebase to suppress with Mortars. Advise mortar team to keep an eye on our 6 too.

Engagement wise we should for sure have the Heavy Bolter be our base of fire and put the hurt on those xenos machines.

We'll have to play it like a WW2 German Infantry squad until we get more men, so our other squads (barring the mortar) should act in support/protection of the heavy bolter team.

Squad two with BROCK SAMSON should be our manuever element, ready to charge and get dirty when the time is correct (should we give them extra grenades).

Squad one can be the fire team and press home with the grenade launcher and allow us to get a good picture of the battle and lead it.

>>5776887
I think that works good for a deployment and can easily roll into my battle plan if the others like it.

>>5776802
STAY OFF THE ROADS

we don't need another ambush, since we don't have vehicles we should be able to foot it through whatever cover is available

I'm repeating my previous request
>>5776681
to give the mortar team the spotter and bolster the numbers of squads one and two with the leftover grunts from squad three.

I say advance in a T formation:
Squad 1: top left
Squad 2: top right
Heavy Bolter: middle/middle
Mortar: middle rear

Also, would we have the ability to give some sort of short motivational speech/prayer to our troops to give them a sort of morale bonus or something? (Dunno if that's applicable in this setting)

Also, might want to test comms and weapons to make sure we have functioning equipment with all platoon elements, don't want to find out our shit doesn't work when the ROBOT ZOMBIES are pie-holing us

>>5776887
Seconding this.

>>5776915

So treat the Heavy Bolter as a machine gun, and roll it in with the Mortars? Not a bad idea. The mortars can fire from behind fire since they've got the benefit of the spotting team, which means we don't have to risk losing all our heavy weapons by bunching them up in one group (the bolter will require LOS, of course.)

>>5776887
>>5776915
>>5776936
>>5776943
>>5776953

I believe we are in agreement.

>>5776982

FUCK YEA or DO THIS ONE!

>>5776982

I believe we are... thats strange :D Normally we have like 3 conflicting ideas... but thankfully NAQF is reading through everything to give us all a fair chance :D

/me hopes the rolls come out good.

I would say that we advance in a flying V formation a la the mighty ducks with the heavy bolter team on point and the mortar team in the middle, squads 1 and 2 on the flanks and squad 3 providing protection for our rear and the mortar squad.

>>5777023
have faith in the emperor's glory brother

Times up Gents.

***

ENGAGEMENT DRILL
>>5776887
>>5776915
>>5776936

ADVANCEMENT DRILL
>>5776943
>>5776936
>>5776915
>>5776910
>>5776887

Platoon Strength!
Squad 1
-You, and 7 men, 6 rifles and one grenade launcher operator

Squad 2
-BROCK SAMSON, 7 men, 7 rifles. Additional Grenades issued (allows you to use them 'twice' in a single COMBAT OP)

Artillery Squad
-4 men, 2 rifles, One Mortar Operator, One Spotter (one man needs to accompany the spotter, the other needs to load the mortar)

Heavy Bolter Team
-2 Men, One rifles, One Heavy Bolter (one Heavy Bolter Operator and One Loader)

>>5776943

You feel the time is right to make an inspirational speech. However, words fail you at the moment. The men take heart however at your stoic silence!

ORDERS GIVEN

FINALISE?

>>5777023

They will be whatever the Emperor wills.

>>5777023

Yeah, tell me about it. But I must say, you pegged it when you said we need to play it like a WW2 German Infantry squad.

Hell, I almost wish we WERE a German infantry squad- at least they tended to have a few panzerfausts per unit. The way it's going now, it reminds me of playing Combat Mission and being up against 6 T-34s with naught but a few grenade bundles, anti-tank mines, and moltov cocktails.

>>5777053

Finalize that shit, my good man.

>>5777053
looks good to me, I vote finalize

>>5777053

Whoah Whoah Whoa- does Magnocs not have a Rifle?! Someone pass him the Laspistol at least!

>>5777053
>You feel the time is right to make an inspirational speech. However, words fail you at the moment. The men take heart however at your stoic silence!
Words don't need to fail us. Stick to the classics.

"For the Emperor, men. Let's move."

threads like this need to happen more often

I take a glaring moment to take a second to calm myself and my brain which is rattling faster than I can imagine and look at the men arrayed before me.

"SOLDIERS of the EMPEROR! NOW is the TIME to not FALTER! Our objective may loom ahead of us, but so does GLORY! Our enemy is SOULLESS! And there is where we can TRIUMPH! They do not THINK, they do not FEEL, and for that we will be VICTORIOUS, we are the BLADE of HIS SWORD, and with the STRENGTH of the EMPEROR behind us, we will PREVAIL!"

(Morale Restored?)

>>5777151
You know, I pictured us as less prone to LARGE HAM.

COMBAT OP 3 - Taking that Damn Hill

Your men advance in a steady v formation. BROCK SAMSON feels the urge to advance faster but it would deny you the use of your heavy bolter in an immediate engagement. You tell him to shut up.

Avoiding the worn road, you and your men advance steadily down the trees on the side. Here, the war seems to have taken less of a toll. Amongst the careful stride of your foot you take a moment to admire the whisper of wind beneath the branches and the sun through the still standing trees.

The crackle of the vox interrupts your peaceful reverie.

'Hey, sarge. Spotted movement down the road.'

Your men halt and hunker down between the leafy boughs. You remind yourself to reprimand that man, your not a sergeant yet.

Your Heavy Bolter sets up behind a cooling Chimera wreck in the middle of the road, giving it plenty of good cover and a good firing position. Your men take up positions on either side of the road in the trees. The mortar sets up some way back from the heavy bolter.

You can all see the Necron Warriors advance this time. Their once sleek and shiny metal armour now tarnished. Behind them, a trio of destroyers equally battle scared. They advance down the road in a routine column, all marching to a single unheard beat.

You've got them walking right into you and they don't even know it. (MISTAKE averted due to ADVANCEMENT DRILL, well done!)

I hand out some MOTIVATIONAL PAMPHLETS, if y'know what i mean ;)

>>5777186
How many Necron warriors are we talking here?


Discussion: We may wish to take out the Destroyers first. Ideas on method? Mortar fire might work.

>>5777166

Damnit I had to try :D

Ambush... Here we go. Do we have time to setup any large explosives.

Also lets not get jumpy, we need to set up a kill zone so we can pump maximum grenades/heavy bolter into the Necrons, so we need them all IN the kill zone and not trigger the attack no sooner.

>>5777218

Yeah, I'd put the grenade launcher and mortar on the destroyers, and the rest on the warriors.

What we have here gentlemen is an opportunity to Ambush, if we play it right.

Recomend squads hold fire until targets are in range of Squad 3. At this point, they open up, and Squad 2 doubletimes it quickly and quietly down the flank (keeping cover between them and the targets) to cut off the enemy line of retreat.

As soon as squad 2 are out of squad 1s Line of fire squad 1 open up too to distract necrons from squad 2s movement.

With any luck, the necrons should get caught by the bolter team infront, squad 1 on there flank and squad 2 behind them, ready to hit them if they try to fall back.

>>5777186

Your men follow your engagement drill to the letter!

The heavy bolter starts to fire at the advancing column, rounds spitting out with a fiery promise of destruction. 6 Warriors are down before their column even begins to change shape.

The men open fire from either side. Accurate, concentrated fire sees another 6 go down. Grenade Launcher Operator lets one fly and plinks another Destroyer, watching with an open mouth in amazement as it sinks to the road as its hover body gives way to the damage.

The mortars let loose its first rounds.

The Necrons are slow to recover. The surviving 8 warriors return fire but to little avail.

The two remaining Destroyers are faster to recover and begin withdrawing. You've seen this before.

Results from ACTION,
-12 Necrons Warriors and One Destroyer MASSACRED

What do you do?

>>5777286
There's a weakness of this plan- Necron warriors are damned tough. They might move quickly into the woods and engage squad 1 in melee, and then we'd be completely boned. We can't afford to lose the firepower that squad 2 can provide. Grenades in particular are essential, since we're mostly using flashlights.

cunt to it- ALL UNITS, POUR IT ON!!

You had best double time it to some forward firing positions in good cover, whilst being covered by the mortar and bolter, then lay down a hail of small arms fire at anything you can see (las rounds are plentiful right?) then get the heavy weapons up behind you and into good solid cover again somewhere they can shoot at the retreating crons

How many WARRIORs left?

>>5777295

Hit them with grenades and smoke, then move to one side of the road with moderate cover- a flanking advance. Let THEM guess for once.

Mortar fire and grenade launcher continue to target the destroyers. Everyone else, keep focusing fire on the warriors. If they attempt to move into melee with either squad, use grenades to hasten their destruction and keep them at range. When all the warriors are destroyed, blast them some more to make sure they don't get back up.

If the destroyers manage to reach range and begin long-range fire, move everyone out of their field of fire and attempt to flank with the infantry, then destroy them with close-range swarming.

Heavy Bolter and Grenade Launcher should try and hit the Destroyers but stop firing once things are too much.

Mop up the bodies, we've seen these infernal machines come back to life before.

You yell through the vox screen, and you Heavy Bolter replies. It changes its fire towards the retreating Devastators.

The high explosives ram into it with all the force of an avenging angel. It's not too long until its nothing more than scrap metal.

The remaining warriors are pelted with krak grenades. Your men would move to the side of the road with more heavy cover, but there's no need, the combined volley of 16 krak grenades has absolutely demolished the 8 warriors.

The last Destroyer is grazed by an incoming mortar round. Engines destroyed, it nevertheless manages to hover above the ground and attempts to 'limp' away as best it can.

One of the spotter men in the artillery team takes careful aim.

Do you wait to let him see what he does?

Results on ACTION
-Both Necron Warrior Squads OUT OF ACTION
-Destroyer Squad OUT OF ACTION

>>5777451

>One of the spotter men in the artillery team takes careful aim.Do you wait to let him see what he does?

If he's got naught but a lasrifle and he's not pointing it at us, sure.

>>5777491

Qualify that- that doesn't mean we don't continue to hit that last enemy with whatever we've got.

This still moving, so its a threat. Take that shit out.

>>5777166

>less prone to LARGE HAM.

>Warhammer 40k

>>5777451
Sure, let him shoot, but if he misses back him up with mortar/grenade launcher/heavy bolter fire.

Regardless of what is being done about the retreating destroyer, blast the damn bodies until there's no chance that they'd move again.

We need to take that out so we can destroy any remains with the flamer BROCK carries around. We do not want any of them rolling a 6 and getting back up.

>>5777451

Eh, if waiting for the spotter man means we'll lose our only chance to destroy the Destroyer, then plaster it. Otherwise, let the soldier try his hijink. He might perform a feat of divine brilliance (HA HA!) but we really don't need the Necrons knowing where we are.

>>5777502
>>5777505

You don't look behind you to see what he does, but you do know what's in front.

With no emotion you point a single finger at the retreating Destroyer.

The men answer the gesture with enthusiasm.

Results,
-20 Warriors, 3 Destroyers ANNHILATED, no losses! (well done! Well on your way to the next advancement!)

Your men begin to mop up the bodies at your command. You note that BROCK SAMSON has taken care showing his own squad exactly how to keep a robotic horror down. (BROCK SAMSON has gained the AND STAY DOWN trait, enemies with regeneration will be less likely to come back when taken down by him or any squads led by him)

You look at your map ahead to the road ahead. There seems to be a small town just before you can reach the summit of the flat hill top. Reports indicate it of imperial origin but you doubt there are any friendlies there any longer. The cluster of buildings will make such a tight formation impossible though it might still work.

Chance to change,
ADVANCEMENT DRILL

ENGAGEMENT DRILL

What do you do?

>>5777451
Let him take careful aim at the knackered destroyer. If he takes it out from that distance, he might earn a nice shiny SNIPER ability or something.

>>5777581
Is the town small enough that we can go around it? The hill is our objective.

...go round?

LET'S GET SOME URBAN COMBAT UP IN THIS

>>5777573
>>5777588

NOTE - I rolled just to see what would've happened if the first two hadn't so quickly anhilated it. (which would've been a MINOR MISTAKE so that wasn't a bad thing either) It was in your best interest not to let him take that shot by the way.

Going round is a bad idea. Though Necrons don't really use snipers, having a tomb spyder suddenly spawn scarabs into our rear sounds bad enough.

>>5777643
>>5777640

GO THROUGH.

Dear OP, what our are options concerning leveling the town?

In that case call in Arty to flatten the town?

That said, we should Vox the place and see if theres any freindlies holding up there.

>>5777640
>>5777643

Unfortunately not, the town runs right around the smoothest path up to the summit and the observation post at the top. However, it would be possible to take a less cluttered path and cling to the outskirts of town, though your not sure which is safer.

Clearing the town would be safer for Imperial Forces following from behind while attempting infiltration would better allow you to reach the summit intact.

Send a scouting party, if they get fired on/report back seeing enemies level it with mortar?

>>5777581
Sweep around the side of the town while remaining in cover and set up squad one, the mortar team, and the heavy bolter team in position to provide fire support. Subsequently, squads two moves into the town stealthily, attempting to identify any enemies before drawing them out into the open so that they can be brought down by concentrated fire.

>It was in your best interest not to let him take that shot by the way.

Yikes. Caution FTW!

>>5777709
Let's get to house clearing! Necron doctrine doesn't dictate sniping, so we shouldn't be too worried about that. What is the town made out of, rock, wood, concrete? Will Necrons be able to shoot through cover? On the outskirts of town, is there sufficient approaches under cover (walls, hedges)?

>>5777674

Having Scarabs suddenly burst through walls doesn't sound much better, if you ask me.

In that case...

Forward to edge of town. Form skirmish line in cover at outskirts (S1 Left, S3 Centre, S2 Right, MS Centre Rear), have Magnocs observe the shit out of the nearest building for movement/gunmetal skeletons, and move in and occupy it with S1 & 2, with S3 + MS covering. Once secure S3 move up and occupy same building, then start clearing buildings with S1 & 2, one building at a time, while S3 covers.

>>5777682
>>5777707

You call in to HQ for a possible Basilisk strike. You confirm co-ordinates and location as well as identity as an Imperial Soldier. However, when you tell them your rank, the line goes silent and cuts. (You are, officially at any rate, only a corporal. You don't have any outside support except that with follows Section Strategy and Battle planning)

You consider levelling each building with the one mortar you do have. A few moments later and you shake your head at your own question.

Clearing the town
Pros:
Less likely to get bitten in the ass later
Might earn us some shiny new medals
KILLING IN THE NAME OF (the emprah)

Cons:
We've not exactly got the manpower or weaponry (only one flamethrower) to take an entire town.
Likely to house an ambush or booby traps

Infiltration
Pros:
If done right, we won't lose any men or expend any ammunition

Cons:
If done wrong, we could find ourselves facing down the barrels of a load of gauss flayers.
Our available guys aren't specifically trained or experienced in infiltration

Tough one...

>>5777643
>>5777640
agree on bypassing the town

narrow city streets will severely limit our mobility and the heavy bolter's field of fire.
Make sure magnocs looks the town over real good, checking for snipers/ambush/friendlies/any weapons laying about

Attempt vox call to command, request intel, ask if mission has changed, give sitrep

stay off road and in the trees as much as possible, stay on outskirts of town

>Clearing the town would be safer for Imperial Forces following from behind while attempting infiltration would better allow you to reach the summit intact.

If we reach the summit while leaving hostiles at our back, it makes holding the hill kind of tricky.

I suggest deploying the heavy weapons squad in a position of advantage (that can also serve as our rear-guard,) along with squad 2. Leading squad 1, I shall lead them in a stealthy advance to a position of good cover where we will open fire on the outskirts of town, attempt to draw some sort of response (even if it's just scattered enemy fire) then withdraw quickly, hoping to draw the enemy out of the town.

I have two possibly stupid tactics to suggest for general consumption:
1: Necrons don't move fast. We scout around, engage then fall back rapidly, striking from multiple angles. If there's an equal number we have the advantage of being able to throw grenades into any mass of Necrons which they won't be able to evade.

Tactic 2: Have one guy run screaming through the town then back again, see what pops out. Necrons want to kill us, they come out to do so and we oblige them. Hopefully the running guy will survive as well.

You signal the Artillery Team forward and ask the spotter to look into town.

While he gets to work you talk to your squads about the possibility of infiltrating pass the town. The men nod their heads in agreement. Any firefight not fought is another firefight survived!

BROCK SAMSON nods his assent.

This will require a radical shift in ADVANCEMENT DRILL and ENGAGEMENT DRILL. While in infiltration mode your HEAVY BOLTER and your MORTAR will not be able to fire at once if an engagement is entered into!

You consider leaving them behind...

Awaiting,

ADVANCEMENT DRILL

ENGAGEMENT DRILL

>>5777846

Actually the bait and trap seems like a good idea. Just lets make it a bit more military.

Or should we clear the town as normal. I'm pretty sure the Necrons aren't adept at Urban fighting, its kind of a stompy/shooty kill type of fighting for them, they are like "immortal" machines that can come back after all. In the least they don't think "human."

Guy that posted >>5777837 here.

>>5777779
>>5777785

You gentlemen have said it. We suck at melee, Necrons rule at melee, we don't have the kind of firepower we need to go toe-to-toe in an urban environment. Skirt the town, advancing by squads- we have enough firepower to level any one building we take fire from, but not enough to systematically sweep the area. My plan to draw out Necron hostiles will work just as good from the OTHER side of the town, if need be.

>>5777837
>>5777753
These seem to be a similar plan. Squad 2 is probably better for moving in, if only because they've got melee weapons and grenades, but either way could work.

NOTE - I haven't finalised anything yet. If you want to assault the town, just vote so. The tone of the next five posts will help choose which one you want to do (or merely specify the ADVANCEMENT DRILL AND ENGAGEMENT DRILL for which ever method you want)

I don't think the Necrons are stupid enough to be drawn out of such a tactically beneficial position...

Dig a fall back position near the town, but out of fire range. If we have enough time, set up auxillary spots all around the town. Sit tight there and send a scouting party up. Have the heavy bolter sneak into an advantageous building and keep the mortar back in the support trench. See if any enemies of the empire show their heads, prepare to assault the town from all sides if they do.

I'm favouring bait and trap. Get Squad 1 and 3 to set up on the outskirts, have Squad 2 advance, and on contact fall back to preassigned position through cover to draw out the enemy who don't seem to use it that much.

>>5777913
If they refuse to be drawn out, we can still bypass the town instead of sticking around. But leaving them to hit us in the ass while we might whatever's been taking on our tanks on that hill is not a good option.

>>5777883

Advancement drill- have each squad assign their two best throwers to grenadier duty, keeping the most explody grenades they have in hand (at the cost of quick lasfire.) If they take any fire from any building, apply grenades instantly, pop smoke, and put sustained fire on the building(s) in question until it catches fire. The squad not fired upon will advance past them to a flanking position, whereupon it will engage in cover fire and allow the first squad to advance.

The mortar and bolter should focus on not getting shot at, at all costs.

>>5777956
We've got mortars. If there ARE necrons in a particular building, we CAN level it given time. Which we seem to have, considering command's not giving us fuckall support.

Mortar and bolter to set up outside grounds, and have squads 1,2 to advance slowly, but to fall back while covering each other and try drawing out the Necrons?

zero the mortar on the center of town
set up heavy bolter on outskirts
set up squad 1 in support position for squad 2
have squad two advance into town slowly, poke their heads in, standing orders are to fall back into covering fire at first contact with enemy

If they follow, bolter/squad 2 shreds them
if they hunker down, mortar brings the town down on top of them, or at least pins them while squads 1 and 2 can work flanking tactics

My brothers, it is an affront the the honor of our immortal Emperor to let any xenos filth occupy one of His towns.

>>5777912

Well my dear OP, everybody seems to like my bait/trap idea better then I did. I shared the reservations of the Necron's stupidity, but then again I don't know 40k very well and I guess Necron's don't really dig the cover. Also, our swift action probably means the enemy doesn't know we're here.

Go with the bait/trap, add the suggestion to dig in a bit (as time allows,) and use the advancement drill I suggested for the following infiltration.

>>5778017
here

as a side note, the time we spend in a static position siegeing/assaulting this town may give more of the Emperors glorious guardsmen time to catch up to our exemplary advance and bolster our ranks

You change your mind. Better a xeno dead than a xeno ignored.

You tell your men to set up. You are going to kill every one of those emperor damned mechanical abominations!

ADVANCEMENT DRILL
>>5777920
>>5777951
>>5777975
>>5777989
>>5778017

ENGAGEMENT DRILL
(see above)

Your men move into position.

Grenade Launcher Operator looks happy to have some company for once. The other Grenadiers do not share his enthusiasm.

FINALISE?

>>5778022

This. Also if we ever want any support from command to get to us on the hill they need a clear route.

>>5777989

Specifically, let them have scattered lasfire coupled with a swift withdrawal to give the impression of a lonely trigger-happy IG unit. Any enemy worth their salt will try to press the advantage.

>>5778054

FOR THE EMPEROR

>The other Grenadiers do not share his enthusiasm.

:D

Personally, I finalize.

>>5778054
Tell Grenade Launcher Guy to hang back and only aim for windows or doors in buildings that no-one's entered yet if he sees Necrons emerging from them. Let's try avoiding TK in this thing.

Otherwise, let's do this.

>>5778054
IN HIS GLORIOUS NAME
ADVANCE!

IN HIS NAME, MEN!

Lets do it!

COMBAT OP 4 - FUCKING THE BRICK PLATONIC

Squad 2 advances under the watchful eyes of their comrades. Darting into the city streets, the air falls eeriely quiet, the sound of distant cannons oddly reassuring.

One minute, then 5 then 10 pass. The tension is unbearable.

Suddenly the vox bursts into life. BROCK's booming voice can be heard swearing and the roar of fire threatens to drown his voice even over the mike.

'I DON'T THINK YOU REALISE EXACTLY HOW MANY ARE IN HERE.'

You'd ask him what he means but the link is suddenly cut.

The members of Squad 2 can be seen running away from the town at speed. The Heavy Bolter Team clacks into action and you order squad one to ready weapons.

The Mortar begins to lay rounds into the town.

As BROCK emerges, helping a fellow soldier limp away the gleam of gunmetal bodies begins to fill your sight.

As you take stock of the numbers and the thump of mortar fire and heavy bolter chatter increases, you realise...

This isn't a patrol, its a whole damn battlegroup!

Results on ACTION
-NECRON BATTLEGROUP STIRRED
-5 WARRIOR SQUADS SIGHTED
-TWO SQUADS OF DESTROYERS
-ONE TOMB SCARAB

WHAT DO YOU DO?

>>5778054
just a question

Does our mortar team receive any bonus if they have their range and fire zone mapped out prior to the engagement, rather than figuring it out on the fly in combat?

>>5778222

Too late for that I'm afraid.

Call it in! CALL IT IN!!

>>5778219
Fucking leg it.

>>5778219

Grab our people, organise covering fire from heavy weapons teams, begin a slightly faster than the crons can walk retreat?

Also tell them your an officer you know is dead then say later he got killed in the field.

>>5778219

Oh fucking hell, keep the bolter fed and pick targets!

The scarab and destroyers should be our prime targets here. I think the Heavy Bolter should work the scarab and destroyers while we attempt to put mortar shells into the whole mess of them CAREFULLY to avoid the Sq2.

Sq1 can cover SAMSON and his remnants from the warriors until they regroup with us.

Also vox the damn basilisks, and tell them just how many mothersons there are in this town and could their seargant/colonel please get on the line?

>Does our mortar team receive any bonus if they have their range and fire zone mapped out prior to the engagement, rather than figuring it out on the fly in combat?

I'll bet they do.

>FUCKING THE BRICK PLATONIC


LULZ.

>This isn't a patrol, its a whole damn battlegroup!

All right, then. Deploy for an IMMEDIATE fighting withdrawal. Have squad 2 get their asses to a flanking position where they can help us put down a good crossfire. Our heavy weapons are already sited well, so we don't have to sweat that.

And get on the horn to command again, and this time tell them that there is an ENTIRE STONKING BATTLEGROUP here and that a swift airstrike might secure the hill. Requesting an airstrike is different then giving the location of a tight concentration of valuable enemy units- and more to the point, without some sort of heavy support, our only option here is to make the Necrons pay dearly for every inch of ground, then pull out. Even if we'd skirted the town, a hilltop held with an enemy battlegroup on our ass is not a secure hilltop.

Grenades into the damn swarm! Bolter on the destroyers! Mortar the footsloggers! Everyone else buckle down and focus fire on the destroyers!

>>5778242

You radio in to HQ.

'Support is on its way, 10 minutes!'

>>5778258

You consider running, emperor forgive you, but common sense reminds you that they would simply gun you down. A few of you would escape in to the woods but your survival is not guranteed.

Fire errupts along your line as men open fire from their prepared positions. Squad two forms up along Squad one in a line stretching between both sides of the road.

Everyone is behind heavy cover.

A small voice in your head tells you you can do this!

NOTE - Your mortar is essential. Finding a way to maximise its potential will help you survive!

Results of ACTION
-Heavy Bolter has cut down 5 Necrons from distance. Lasgun Fire has taken another 2.

>>5778291

Now thats what i'm talking about! And tell them your your Lt!

The Tomb Spyder isn't too dangerous at range, so ignore it for now. Order Grenade Launcher Dude to keep his eye on it, and if it becomes a threat it is his first target priority.

The Destroyers can rape from long range. Our bolter matches them for range, but we only have one to their two squads. Still, the bolter team should do its best from the best cover it can find.

Squad 1 should try to attract the battlegroup's attention from a position of relative safety and give them everything they've got. Squad 2 should keep on the down-low until they've managed to regroup with us and are in good cover.

Emperor save us, indeed.

MORTAR TEAM! Concentrate all high on the squads! They are too close to get out of the way!

RIFLE MEN: Pop smoke if we haven't already, take out ANYTHING that comes within range, concentrating all fire on one target at a time to both maximize damage and to spend as little time on teach target!

HEAVY BOLTER: I want those Destroyers taken out!

GRENADIERS: KRAK THAT TOMB SPIDER!

>>5778320
Okay... they're emerging from between buildings, right? Have the mortar target a gap which will be channeling the necrons as they emerge, and pop rounds there regularly so as to destroy as many as possible as they emerge.

>>5778308

Raise BROCK on the com and tell him that since he's Hardass McAwesome, if any enemy tanks start closing to tight range, to form an anti-tank squad team of him with his flamethrower and two grenadiers with krak grenades that should advance to attack the tank(s) if prudent. The flamer and his competence will negate Necron skill at close range, and the krak grenaes will krack those tanks wide open HAR HAR.

>>5778219

Maintain courage in the face of the enemy men

squads one and two deploy smoke

mortar bring fire in danger close, we need a screen to stop potential advancement since they have superior numbers

have squads one and two alternate falling back, one provides cover while the other withdraws, then switch, etc
Fall back to the trees when the smoke screen is thick enough, run for a bit and set up new ambush point once we find heavy cover

>>5778399
Using the mortar as a screen won't ensure the maximum number of kills. We need as much of its fire as possible to be falling upon the enemy.

>>5778399

I don't think this is a force we can ambush...

DO NOT POP SMOKE. Necrons are advancing through open terrain, we are in cover. Smoke just give THEM cover.

Grenade launcher to take potshots at groups of necron warriors, especially at alleys the necrons are emerging from. Mortar to do the same - maybe we'll get lucky and collapse a building on them. Bolter to open up on them all, focusing on the destroyers first.

>>5778320
OK, we're holding our ground for at least fifteen minutes then. I want that mortar firing as fast as is physically possible into the largest mass of warriors that presents itself. The heavy bolter needs to rake the destroyers (is it possible to pin necrons? Nvm).

Squads 1 and 2 fire their lasguns at the warriors, and keep krak nades handy for in case the Spyder gets too close for comfort.

Maybe we could force a phase out...

Using smokes to blind the advancing enemy worked last time! Pop some in the enemy's midst, and use that as a target for the mortar team.

WE NEED TO TAKE OUT THOSE DESTROYERS!

What I wouldn't do for some rocket launchers....

>NOTE - Your mortar is essential. Finding a way to maximise its potential will help you survive!

We're all in heavy cover and we're focusing fire on enemies trying to charge us through an open space and bottlenecks. I.E. don't use the mortar on the necron infantry, use it on the Destroyers.

IMMEDIATELY pull an infantryman from my own squad and assign him to the mortar team to help with loading, if we can. Make sure our spotter is in the best position (good vantage point and LOTS OF COVER) and that he has real-time communications. If they're lacking a commo bead, then pull another soldier to establish a command relay line where they shout fire corrections back to the gunnery team.

What are the chances we could use our flashlights to set afire the foliage near the Necrons and further complicate their LOS?

>>5778430
>>5778431
just saying
if they see us turn tail and run, they may get sloppy in their pursuit

I'm worried about the two squads of destroyers, smoke will negate their range (for a time), mortar fire will hold them back unless they want to throw away soldiers, which given their numbers they may do, and that would be great

Also, if we can use the mortar to hold them in the town until air support arrives, it'll be an emperor-blessed massacre

>What are the chances we could use our flashlights to set afire the foliage near the Necrons and further complicate their LOS?

Disregard my faggotry, listen to Subprocessor.

>>5778352
No point in using smoke, we arent moving, it will just hinder our ability to see them and allow them to get into melee range quicker.

>>5778464
>don't use the mortar on the necron infantry, use it on the Destroyers.

Do you even know what a mortar is

Are the necrons advancing through a narrow street?

If so, the mortar and bolter pour everything into two opposite buildings on that street. With luck, they'll collapse and the rubble will buy us some more time as the warriors clamber over it. Won't stop the destroyers/spyder, obviously...

Is magnocular man spotting for the mortar?

>>5778464

Mortar team has RT Comms. Fire mission sounds good.

Think Lasguns should concentrate on lead necron warriors.

>>5778464
Mortars are anti-infantry frag grenade dispensers. Unless we have AP rounds and are VERY lucky, they won't mobility-kill a destroyer, especially hovering ones. Taking down warriors is our best bet.

First two posts were FIGHT so fall back is now not an option.

***

The gauss fire is accurate and deadly but the cover has saved you from most of it, You watch as two riflemen are flung back from their posts in the 'wall', large gaping oozing green holes in their bodies were flesh should be.

No need to check, two more names no one will remember.

The rest throw smokes down range, obscuring a majority of the necrons from sight. However, the length of the open field they must cross at a mechanical shuffle and the fire arc of your heavy bolter means that the two men can easily strafe the line from here.

The heavy bolter picks off the necrons as the straggle out of the town, taking out 6 in one long burst. A grenade launcher hit takes out a Destroyer and a mortar round sends 4 warriors to the ground as their legs are fragmented by shrapnel.

In the chaos, your heavy bolter only hears the change in target after the fact, their barrel still hot from the long burst.

Results from ACTION
-A further 10 Necron Warriors Out of Action for a total of 17 (out of 50)
-One Destroyer down out of 6.
-The Necrons are closing! Though they are being cut down at the choke points, they will soon be past such murder alleys and be in the wide open, making it harder for the mortar to inflict casualties.
-The Tomb Spyder is gaining speed!

What do you do?

>>5778494

Yes, it's something that has already proven effective against Destroyers before:

>The last Destroyer is grazed by an incoming mortar round. Engines destroyed,

This is Warhammer 40k, not real life, where mortars are light weapons effective against infantry but not armoured vehicles. And right now, we are desperately short of weapons that are effective against armor.

If we can put smoke on the Destroyer squads but not on the Necron infantry, let's do that, but otherwise it's best not to set ourselves up for close-range faceraep by superior enemy bayonet charge.

Destroyers are fast, and they can scoot through mortar explosions all day. It'll take a direct mortar hit (very unlikely) or a few krak munitions to take them out. There are two squads (I presume three per squad) of destroyers. We have one grenade launcher. They are dead shooty, dead choppy, dead hard and dead fast. We're fuxed, divine intervention notwithstanding.

Should have gone round the town.

...Everyone to throw Kraks in a continuous barrage as the destroyers charge?

Focus all fire on destroyers, have Brock and S2 take down the Tomb Spyder, mortar on the infantry. The Emperor protects!

>>5778534
hold the line

what . . . do you men want to live forever?


Seriously though, we're inflicting a very good casualty ratio (17 warriors and a destroyer for only 2 losses on our end)

Have the men ready grenades for when the crons get close enough
Have grenadier focus on the advancing tomb spyder

Do heavy bolter barrels overheat? If not, we keep up the sustained fire into the choke points.

>>5778534

Keep up the fire on the ones still in the murder alley. They are easier targets, and a barrage can take down more.

That Tomb Spyder is getting too close! KRAK IT!

Make sure that all squads are ready with grenades for when the necrons are in range, before that just continue pelting them with las fire and shots from the heavy weapons squads. Any chance of BROCK and his squad getting to a flanking position?

>>5778578

We're going to run out fast. We don't have unlimited amounts.

We can only chop up as many as we can at this point. If our decision was wrong then we stick it out.

Remember in less than 10 minutes we'll have reinforcements.

Yea, we're fucked

Keep the mortar focused on choke points as long as the Necrons are still in them.

Focus on the destroyers with the heavy bolter and grenade launchers.

When the spyder or destroyers close range, hit them with grenades from everyone and pray to the Emperor that your chainswords and flamethrowers work His miracles.

>>5778598
All guns focus on the destroyers, with Krak grenades when they close. Everyone stay low, though.

Mortars to continue firing at the warriors.

The necrons will take more than 15 mins to cross to our position, and if we can take out the destroyers, we can fall back through cover when the airstrike hits.

Is it possible to use the mortar to bring down some rubble into their path? Maybe we can create a choke point or something.

ORDERS ALL GIVEN

COMBAT MODE

AWAIT INSTRUCTIONS FOR INPUT COMMAND

***

A direct mortar hit sends another destroyer down into the ground. A second sends 4 necron warriors sprawling. The Heavy Bolter nets another Destroyer as it struggles to float out between the buildings. It's corpse blocks out a destroyer behind it.

Lasgun fire and the grenade launcher rake the advancing necrons. Unfortunately, only netting 3. The break from the confines of town into the outskirts has left them room to spread out.

The last two destroyers, seeing what engaging at range is doing to their comrades have taken it upon themselves to charge.

The Tomb Spyder is getting closer!

COMBAT POST

ROLLING

Keep up the fire until the 'crons are about to reach open ground. Then throw the rest of our smoke and beat a hasty retreat until we find another place to set up shop.

>>5778628
Fall back BEFORE the airstrike. That's important. If we've got live necrons on top of us, we know the aircraft will not hesitate to blow us all up. How long has it been since we called in the strike?

>>5778616
>Any chance of BROCK and his squad getting to a flanking position?
Without leaving cover and growing a few new holes? Unlikely.

>>5778534

Well, the destroyers are under smoke, so we may as well put our mortar fire on the infantry.

Honestly, I'm not sure if there's anything more we can do. We've got the best cover, excellent arcs of fire, and we're inflicting the maximum casualties possible while not getting range raped by a massive number of enemy tanks.

The only thing I can think to do is have BROCK's team advance a bit to make sure the Necron's will reach them first, while our squad moves a bit to ensure we keep complimentary arcs of fire. Brock's team has the flamethrower and some men with grenades ready, so they'll fare the best at close-range.

Our only other option is an aggressive advance to push the Necrons back into the town. They're taking fire from heavy cover and multiple directions; they don't know that they outnumber us.

Suggestion for a general order: at eight minutes, pack up heavy weapons.

At nine minutes, pop signal flares and smoke, then run like fuck.

>>5778598 here

we should keep our men together so we can concentrate volume of fire

if we get spread out too much, their superior numbers will make our maneuvers pointless, as we wont be able to muster enough firepower at any point to do significant damage. We're also trying to keep them as massed as possible, so our air support has maximum effect.

If they close to melee range we need to fucking run, I don't want our hardass guardsmen blown to bits by friendly air support after all their valorous hard work

also, can we vox for update on ETA of air support? I'm not sure how much time has passed since they confirmed inbound and the current moment.

>>5778641

Grenades! Throw grenades! If we can do it without losing our crew, displace the bolter team to a safer position. Have the mortar screen the units, brace for impact, hope help arrives soon.

>>5778649
We didn't call an airstrike, we were told we would get reinforcements.

>>5778648
DO THIS ONE or FUCK YEAH. With luck we'll time it so that as the necrons reach our previous firing position, we'll have some friends to counterattack with us.

We need to contact HQ and check on the status of reinforcements.

Remember guys, Command said support, not specifically an airstrike. Either way, we're going to die, we might as well die like the heroes we are...

NOT ONE STEP BACK, COMERADES!

>>5778674

Running is not an option. They will gun us down as we bolt for the woods, and those who survive will be killed for cowardice.

We must make this stand count.

Continue laying down heavy fire, let nothing get within twenty feet of us. The moment they due, order BROCK MOTHERFUCKING SAMSON to lay down a swath of fire.

>The last two destroyers, seeing what engaging at range is doing to their comrades have taken it upon themselves to charge.

Right into our Grenadiers ready with krak grenades, fuck yes. Damn, we REALLY fucked up those tanks!

As for the swarms of Necron infantry- they had to spread out to avoid our fire, but that means they'll reach our battle line in less then a massed charge, reducing the OOMPH of their attack. That's the only good thing. May as well ask the bolter to focus on the Necron infantry; the Destroyers are going to be in grenade range soon anyhow.

The roar of gauss fire grows louder as the necrons arange themselves into a firing line.

Three of your riflemen are pitched off their feet by the volley of gauss fire.

Return fire from your line nets you another 3 warriors. Mortar rounds dropping into the spread gets 6 as two lucky mortar hits send yet more necrons into the tumbling dirt.

BROCK SAMSON and his remaining men unleash a volley of krak grenades at the advancing Destroyers (2) Unfortunately their speed lets them plow into them without any harm.

SQUAD 2 IS NOW ENGAGED IN CLOSE COMBAT.

The Tomb Spyder is almost upon you!

Results of ACTION
-24 Necron Warriors in Total Out of Action
-3 Destroyers Gone
-SQUAD 2 IN CLOSE COMBAT, NEED ORDERS
-TOMB SPYDER IMPACT IMMINENT
-4 MINUTES TILL REINFORCEMENTS

What do you do?

Whoops, should have checked. Thought it was an airstrike. Oh well, forget falling back, then.

I personally act as a good example to the rest of the men, hurling curses at the necrons, firing my shotgun and offering praise to the Emperor for every necron that falls.

>>5778722

And have the Grenade Launcher aim at that fucking Tomb Spider.

>-SQUAD 2 IN CLOSE COMBAT, NEED ORDERS

PUNCH SHIT, OVER

it is important not to try and micromanage the guys fighting. they know how to shoot stuff, dont keep yelling at them to do it, it isn't helping.

your best bet is to sit here, krak the spyder and pray.

>>5778728

KRAK THE TOMB SPYDER! Every guardmen not in CC throw their grenades!

BROCK SAMSON is ordered to purge the Necron and his squad if he must to keep our flank from being over whelmed!

Grenade Launcher! Target that Tomb Spyder!

Everyone else in Squad 1, Countercharge Destroyers! IN HIS NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAME!!

>What do you do?
Die, probably.

Squad 2 should focus on one destroyer at a time with everyone available. Try to bring it down, then if still living take the other.

Heavy bolter and mortar should rake the infantry, and keep shooting them. If we somehow make it past the heavies, we'll be boned facing 26 warriors unless they've been thinned out much more.

Tomb spyder is a problem. Yeah.

rolled 98 = 98

Brock has flamer right?

Perhaps we could explode the tank on a destroyer or sort of action.
CC for IG is not good.

>>5778728
>-SQUAD 2 IN CLOSE COMBAT, NEED ORDERS
When the Tomb Spyder hits, tell them to scatter, and anyone with a Krak ready (including squad 1 members) to throw, regardless of whether anyone's still in blast range. Hope they move fast.

>>5778722
>>5778739
>>5778750
>>5778754
>>5778755
>>5778757

COMBAT ORDERS RECIEVED

COMBAT POST IMMINENT

ROLLING

>>5778728

squad 1 grenadier and heavy bolter engage tomb spyder
mortar focus on enemy infantry
squad 1 ready grenades and continue dropping xenos scum in his glorious name

Whilst a few guys are normally no match for a pair of destroyers in close combat, BROCK SAMSON knows more than usual about putting them down. I'm confident in his flamer abilities.

Mortar, continue to pin the warriors. All other units, target the spyder with absofuckinglutely everything we have.

>>5778728

FOCUS ALL FIRE ON THAT FUCKING TOMB SPIDER.

Once the tomb spider is down, have the heavy bolter + mortar continue suppressing the enemy firing line, then advance as best as you are able towards SQUAD 2's position and join them in CLOSE COMBAT.

SQUAD 2 cannot disengage without getting fucked up, nor can they advance. Tell them to FIGHT LIKE HELL because help is on the way.

>>5778783
jesus I'm so nervous
>edgeofmyseat.jpg
Emperor bless his holy servants

>we'll be boned facing 26 warriors unless they've been thinned out much more.


At that point they have lost HALF of their infantry and ALL of their armor, and they don't know how many soldiers we still have in cover.

Also, reinforcements should be there by then.

Moar Dakka right now would be nice.

SAMSON can handle his men, they are engaged they only have one option, to keep engaging, if they disengage the destroyers will just run them down.

Now, I agree put the grenade launcher on the spyder and hope for the best.

SAMSON will have to just do his best.

Nice if we had a Chimera right now doncha think?

>CC for IG is not good.

CC against tanks isn't terribly bad, though. Tanks are huge armored boxes with limited visibility; infantry can swarm their ass and often put hurt on them with grenades, flamethrowers and other things. There's a reason they try not to advance without infantry support.

I don't know how true that is for 40k, though.

>>5778833
Aren't Chimera's boned vs tomb spyders? They don't exactly have good CC qualities..

>>5778852
Destroyers are skimmer bases with a necron+bigass gun on top. They can swivel, and are pretty small, so they're quite hard to take. Two IG with krak grenades should in theory be able to take it at close range, though - can't shoot them both.

>>5778852

Problem is a destroyer is not a tank.

Any none melee oriented is boned against a Tomb Spyder. If only we had a Dreadnaught to help us....

>>5778882

Ah, thank you sir. No protection for the driver, then? Sucks to be them, since SQUAD 2 has the flamethrower.

>>5778896
We need to give it a krak grenade delivered by guardsman hug.

>>5778867

The point being the autocannon and heavybolter could have exacted some damage before they closed. It could have beat a hasty withdrawl to a supplemental position before the destroyers closed, or we could have put it in a nice hull down type setup.

Nuff about what we ain't got.

Anyways, lets see what happens.

You can see Squad 2 dealing with the destroyers. It's not going well. Already the crumpled form of yet another soldier can be seen. BROCK SAMSON has dealt with one Destroyer personally, it's body a smoldering ruin, its one good iron hand reaching up for something just out of reach even as it bubbles into liquid metal.

BROCK SAMSON has broken his arm! (Characters can sustain specific body injuries in the place of death!)

It's too late! The Tomb Spyder has reached Squad 2!

It crashes into the body of Squad 2 with all the force of a battle tank. The remainder of the men are thrown onto the ground like leaves in the wind. They are shown no mercy as the Tomb Spyder cracks in claws over them, splitting one in each crab hand.

BROCK SAMSON roars in defiance and takes a krak grenade in each hand. He jumps into the remaining destroyer and tomb spyder. The explosion is deafning and you are forced to look away.

Elsewhere, the heavy bolter and your own rifles are failing to make much of an impact against a now spread out necron line.

RESULTS
-SQUAD 2 OUT OF ACTION
-6 WARRIORS OUT OF ACTION
-5 DESTROYERS OUT OF ACTION
-TOMB SPYDER STATUS UNKNOWN
-2 MINUTES LEFT

WHAT DO YOU DO?

>>5778904
...It's made of METAL. Metal doesn't burn THAT easily.

>>5778904
see
>>5778890

the tank is a sentient being, so the "driver" IS the necron on top with the bigass gun

refreshing at LIGHTSPEED

THE TENSION OH GOD

>>5778915

Centralize around the heavy bolter, hold the line for two more minutes, hurl grenades.

>>5778915

BROCK! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Heavy Bolter! Fire on Squad 2s Position!!

Everyone else keep pouring it on those Warriors and Pray to the Emporer our backups not late!

Brock? BROCK?! BROOOOOOOOOOOOCK!?!?

YOU WILL PAY YOU XENOS BASTARDS!

We need to find some better covered positions to put at least some distance or maybe get the Necrons back into a chokepoint again. Hopefully they don't have any fast movers left, we can out range them and get another position set up.

Or we can go out with a bang... I don't care :D

>>5778915
Well, fuck. We're boned. Basically, pour everything into the tomb spyder. Bolter to shoot it's face off. All lasguns concentrate on it. Grenade launcher take easy shots at it. Hell, lay the mortar flat and have it direct-fire on it if we can. Kill that thing dead, we can worry about being flanked by the warriors later on.

>>5778915
Heavy bolter should attempt to destroy the spyder, just in case. If it's alive we are completely boned.

Everyone else shoot the oncoming infantry. For the Emperor.

>>5778915
mortar that fucking tomb spyder
squad 2 is fucked anyway, and we can't let Brock die for nothing

where is squad 1's grenadier? Smack that fool, he should have been firing at the tomb spyder ages ago

concentrate ALL fire on the tomb spyder, I mean everything. Flashlights, 'nades, heavy bolter, morter, insults about it's mother, the kitchen sink. Every. Effing. Thing.

Personally, I say have squad one snap off a volley of nades at the spyder and immediately charge. With only two minutes left we should be able to prolong death long enough for support to arrive, and I'd rather die on my feet in a charge than hiding in a hole.

>[BROCK SAMSON] jumps into the remaining destroyer and tomb spyder.

Aim a shot at BROCK's fuel tank. With a bit of luck we'll catch them in the conflagration, making sure they stay down.

>>5778915

BROCK has achieved EPIC.

ALL ENEMY ARMOUR IS DOWN. Enemy infantry is reduced to half their number. Let's see if we can't break their morale (if Necrons have such a thing.) Consolidate around our heavy weapons, dig in as best we can, and go wild.

On my part- I'm going to scream at the Necron's and let them know how fucked they are. I'm going to let them know that they just got corn-holed. I'm going to disparage their lineage back ten generations, ask them why they suck so much, and tell them where they can buy some nice dresses to go with their big mug of chickenshit they've been drinking from.

Brock's dead, I'M PISSED.

Where words failed you before, they come to your rescue now. As the men's morale falters at the annhilation of squad two your roar into the heavens.

"FOR THE EMPEROR, IF THEY INTEND TO DRAG ME TO MY MAKER, I WILL DRAG THEM WITH ME"

Your words galvinise them. With a shout as one they lose all fear.

They are close enough for your shotgun now. You let loose two shells in rapid succession. You see a Necron Warrior go down.

You can't see the Tomb Spyder through the smoke, BROCK'S krak grenade set off the rest of them on the bodies of SQUAD 2.

Allied Fire sees a further 4 Necron Warriors go down.

COMBAT POST CONTINUING.

ROLLING.

You wont last two minutes in melee with those bastards. stay in the damn holes, focus anything AT on the spyder, the HB on the crons and any rifles without krak on the crons.

Yell obscenities into voxcaster.

>>5779016
>BROCK SAMSON roars in defiance and takes a krak grenade in each hand. He jumps into the remaining destroyer and tomb spyder. The explosion is deafning and you are forced to look away.
>a krak grenade in each hand.
>The explosion is deafning and you are forced to look away.

I'm pretty sure that the fuel tank is gone...

>>5779036
We don't have to last two minutes, support should be here by then.

GLORY TO THE FIRST MAN TO DIE! CHARGE!

>>5779034
'crons are too close for mortars (friendly fire), mortar team needs to abandon their mortar and join the firing line with with their flashlights

The time for glory is now

FOR THE EMPRAH! FOR BROCK!!

REFRESHING AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT

As soon as this is over we need to reccomend Brock for a commendation and request that his record indicate that he was given a field promotion to lance corporal and became a squad leader.

I'm pouring one out for you now Brock.

f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5

I... I fear this thread may be auto saging....

>>5779108

BRB, I'm actually going to go make a screwdriver and toast him.

The necrons have reached the line!

The axe blades they brandish are wielded to devastating effect. The Heavy Bolter Loaded is cut apart before anything can be done!

In retaliation Krak Grenades go off amongst the charging line, taking down 6.

The Mortar inflicts its final piece of damage, taking out another 2 necrons. The crew prepare for a melee charge.

Your men are empowered with the desperation of your situation, fighting to the best of their MANLY capabilities.

4 men succumb to the iron grip of the alien scum!

COMBAT POST CONTINUING

ROLLING

The Artillery Crew enters the fray! The energy of their charge brings two necron warriors to their feet.

You discharge your shotgun pointblank into another necron warrior. As you turn to face a new foe you notice how much bigger it is than you.

The Tomb Spyder survived!

COMBAT POST CONTINUING

ROLLING

>>5779108
Brock Samson
9/8/09
nevar forget

>>5779129

HOOLY FUUUCKING AAAAAAHHHH

>>5779128
Already got a beer, time to drink fa/tg/uys.

Tomb Spyder is still there...

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF!!!!!1one

>>5779159

DEATH OR GLORY

>>5779159
STOP, DROP AND ROLL
Roll under the necron spyder, shotgun blast to the underneath. Then get the fuck out from under it.

Hopefully, it won't be expecting that.

>>5779159
OH SHI-

>>5779108

Brock Samson. An Hero for our tiem.

*salutes*

We need a drawfag.

You feel fear. The overwhelming trembling of your knees threatens to send you to the ground before the mortal blow is dealt. But then you remember Brock. Can you not die like a man, like he did?

You scream in the face of the robot horror, unwilling to bow even in defeat. You unleash shell after shell into its metal facade as it floats slowly towards you.

Then, as you run out of shells and its crab claw arm raises in triumph...

COMBAT POST CONTINUING

ROLLING

>>5779186
If it fails, the spyder will grab your leg and remove it.

If it succeeds, the spyder will fall on you and crush you into a red dust.

It's lose/lose.

>>5779206

Pull mah bayonet and stab, stab eyes, stab its head, whatever, just stab and don't stop until either its dead or I'm ripped to shreds.

>>5779206
bracing for last-minute ass saving from the support reinforcements that should have arrived
20 FUCKING MINUTES AGO

Use chainsword

An amazing thread, I feel bad for brock but know he is now basking in the light of the emperor!

Good luck on this final charge,

>>5779216
It's faster than being hit with a gauss beam.

>>5779206
Does our support arrive in the shape of a Leman Russ and blast the Spyder's arm off with a well-timed lascannon shot?

SLAM.

The solid tang of metal on metal threatens to drown your ears in a tidal wave of numbing sound. You are thrown to your feet at the impact as a Sentinal Slams straight into the Tomb Spyder.

It struggles feebly, the krak blast having made it slow and cumbersome. The Sentinel gets to work, brandishing its chainsaw before gutting the spyder like an animal.

It wriggles, once, twice, and then dies, the light in its eyes fading. Forever.

Around you soldiers rush past to help your comrades deal with their own problems. You realise its over. You allow yourself to sink to your knees.

CONGRATULATIONS.

>>5779206
>Dodge left

>>5779251
Look around to see if there are any necrons intact (including downed ones).

If there are not, take out a loh-stick (or whatever those cigarette analogues are). You deserve it.

>>5779251
THE EMPEROR PROTECTS

Headcount and prayer.

So is this the end of the thread? Would be good for me as I have to get up early today. Oh and yay us!

Damn, forgot we had a chainsword.

Oh well... Deus Ex Machina :D

What next gents (maybe gals?)>

>>5779251

FUUUUUUCK YEEEEEEEESSSSSS

EAT THAT YOU NECRON PUSSIES

IMPERIAL GUARD > YOU

>>5779220 here

>calledit.jpg

cliche ending OP, but don't let that stop you.
This was such a fun experience. Threads like these are why I waste so many hours lurkin /tg/

Manly tears for Brock and those lost, glorious salutations for His Holy name, and great quest all around. Epic ness.

Search for any survivors, go look at the remains of squad 2 and then do what I said in >>5779108

GLORY BE!

>>5779251
Reload shotgun.

>>5779251

Retrieve what's left of Brock's equipment and form makeshift grave in his honour (with a u, because he deserves it)

Head count, prayer, proper burial for all those who fell in the name of the Emperor. If ANY higher ranking officers object to you spending any time not packing up and heading out to the next mission, say with indignate rage "These were good men. They do not deserve to lie in the sun and rot."

Find Brock's body. Take his teeth, and give one to each of the surviviors. A grisy trophy so they never forget the awesome of BROCK MOTHERFUCKING SAMSON!

>>>5779291

DO THIS or FUCK YEAH!

Go on then OP, tell us what we did well and where we sucked.

Thank you for playing along with this little exercise!

You have successfully held off and defeated the main necron battlegroup in this sector. Expect many medals and rewards on return to HQ.

The next Tactics Quest will resume sometime tomorrow and will see you take command of a truely persistant company (one that will hopefully last you many, many COMBAT OPERATIONS)

Until then, good luck and tip your hats to the men who gave their lives, imaginary or not, for YOU.

Thanks again /tg/!

>cliche ending

What defines a cliche ending, in my opinion, is how unwarranted it is. If we had been railroaded into it, yeah, it would have been cliche.

But, we DID call for reinforcements, and our brutal face-fucking of the enemy DID roughly coincide with the timeframe for receiving reinforcements. Once it got close to the end, there, there was only one way for it to end, and OP took it there.

>>5779319
thank you OP
Fellow fa/tg/ents, I'll see you at muster tomorrow

>>5779328
yeah, I didn't mean to sound derogatory.
I was pleased that what I felt was going to happen actually did go down.

>>5779328
Awesome story OP, thanks for the fun and long live BROCK SAMSON

Sadly I will probably not be here tomorrow for awesome (work), but I will peruse the threads and maybe I will find:

TACTICS QUEST III!

>>5779319
>Expect many medals and rewards
We haven't died for the Emperor yet, we aint worth shit.

>>5779306

Not to make you guys feel bad, you did great!

However, you failed to consider the nature of necrons as an enemy. The minute they saw any element of you in the city they would have rushed to engage. En masse. Their directive is the destruction of life remember?

Who knows how the thread might have gone had you decided to take on a lightning blitz of the city, storming necrons one position at a time and eliminating them before they could consolidate into that one deadly battlegroup?

>>5779353
awwww come on, roughly 20 lowly IG holding off and (mostly) destroying an entire Necron Battlegroup?
That's got to at least earn some shiny new wargear for our nameless hero, maybe he'll be promoted to commissar or something?

>>5779375
We didn't expect so much heavy troops supporting them. If we'd have charged, we would have not been able to use our heavy weapons, and trying to close with the destroyers would have been suicidal, even in close quarters.

>>5779413

Also true.

To be fair, you guys were rolling fairly outrageously.

Kept rolling 6's for mortar hits (e.g. Killing/Crippling Hit, Level 2 Opponent)

>Who knows how the thread might have gone had you decided to take on a lightning blitz of the city, storming necrons one position at a time and eliminating them before they could consolidate into that one deadly battlegroup?

Veeery interesting! I didn't know the fluff of 40k, so... still, the fight was STILL pretty satisfying, as you say- look at the casualty ratio! FUCK YEAR.

>>5779426
Hey, it worked. Enemies advancing on us through open ground when we had cover was one way of doing it, even though it cost us. I think we'd have taken heavy losses in any scenario, really.

>>5779382

Sergeant or Lieutenant would be nice :D

At least maybe someone will listen to us when we call on the fuggin' Vox.

Closet Drawfag, doin mah duty. For Brock.

Manly Tear.

Is Brock a confirmed KIA then? Last I heard he broke his arm, then charged with two anti tank grenades. Perhaps we could find him somewhere, barely alive, with no arms?

Someone say Bionics? Ironhands Samson?

>>5779479

THANK YOU DRAFAG, SO FUCKING MUCH.

>>5779456

>think we'd have taken heavy losses in any scenario, really.

You got it, Subprocessor. Against those odds, there's no avoiding it. In every wargame I've ever played- computer or tabletop- when you've got an outnumbered infantry force with few heavy anti-tank weapons against liberal amounts of enemy infantry and armor, pinning their infantry at range and then using your AT weapons as liberally and as often as possible is your best shot.

>>5779479
Thats awesome, thanks

Can we get a tech priest named Dr. Venture to clone brock samson? Heretical yes, but badass!