What is the rendezvous point?

>>5796371
Any walls to set up behind? Hell, are the piles of bodies large enough to offer some protection from fire?

What do we see OP? Any cover?

Is this 40k on earth in Dresden with the imperial guard and planetary defence force? Using feudal tactics?

Or I'm just retarded.

Or a building we can fortify?

Get the heavy bolter into a building, anything with good line of sight. Get everyone else behind hard cover and order the snipers to harrass and delay the approaching rebel forces if it isn't too dangerous.

There is one main street that leads down towards the main city centre. Apart from the slaughtered bodies of imperial citizens, it is entirely empty. Alleys and cross ways run across the plaza you are in but aren't large enough to move whole bodies of men through.

The Heavy Bolter men are now set up and among the men watching the city road. You take your position among squad 1, shotgun ready. In the distance, you hear the rapid clatter of hooves on cobble stone.

Here they come...

Pick up any weapons or useful tools on the ground.

Set up a position to ambush the enemy forces and have the stormtroopers flank them once the fight begins.

>>5796413
I tell one of my men to keep an eye out, and signal us with their numbers, I want to know if we have an even match.

ROLL FOR COMBAT

>>5796413
Is it possible to get the squad with sniper rifles into a tall building and shoot out of the windows? What direction do the enemy sound like they are coming from? The main street?

Tell RUSTY VENTURE to fire first for maximum effect before they scatter

>>5796390
>>5796397
>>5796385
>>5796407

There are buildings all around you but you risk your heavy bolter team if you move them now. Right now squad 1 and the heavy bolter team are set up in a circular wall surrounding the town square and its fountain. You would admire the architecture if the sound of charging rebels wasn't so loud.

The SONS OF SAMSON have taken position with you and squad one, the SOS Artillery team set some way back. The spotter has squawked back to you over the vox, he can see movement between the buildings...

>>5796401

You've never been to earth. You consider visiting there one day. You realise that these thoughts are best reserved for later.

>>5796447

This. And make sure he doesn't kill himself. Can we give ourselves NOT ON MY WATCH in regards to that poor kid?

>>5796459
I say we stay in cover until we have a better idea of what we're trying to blast.
Maybe we can use some tactical genius and sneak a man or two to a more advantageous position?

The sound grows unbearably loud and you can't believe you can't see them yet. That is, until the round the bend.

Emperor's Balls, it's all cavalry!

COMBAT POST

ROLLING

>>5796459
Put the sniper squad on the second floor of a building on one of the flanks of the heavy bolter team.

>>5796488
"MEN, THEY CAN OUTRUN US, BUT WE CAN OUTGUN THEM, STAY IN COVER AND DONT SHOOT UNTIL YOU SEE THE WHITES OF THEIR EYES!"

/me plays the Conan the Barbarian soundtrack.

Fitting music for a battle of BROCK SAMSON proportions.

I think our disposition is good, they seem to be charging headlong into our position without knowing our strength.

I 2nd the move to put the snipers in an overwatch position (preferably high up)

I think we should radio Platoon 2 and have them carefully make their way to our position, keepin us appraised of any movements from our enemy, they can get into position to counter attack any forces catching us (either from the flank or rear).

>>5796505

Yeah let's get 2nd over here to block a retreat. Don't let the fuckers get away.

Blast the shit out of them.

>>5796488

Cavalry? Haha! They are fucked! Get the flamer up front!

The Heavy Bolter Team springs into life. The Heavy Grenade Rounds tear into the charging Rebels on horse, sharpnel sending mounts and riders alike tumbling to the ground. Due to the mass of horse men, they are swiftly trampled to death by their impetuous collegues.

The riflemen open up. Man after man tumbles off his horse. The SONS OF SAMSON have used THEIR OWN INITIATIVE, letting loose a flurry of frag grenades! The Mortar team has started firing!

RESULTS OF ACTION
-Regiment size Horse Rebels spotted, 100 and counting.
-Heavy Bolter has managed to take down 8!
-Frag Grenade Volley has stopped them from entering close combat and killed a 6!
-Lasgun fire accounts for 4!

Your spotter tells you he can see movement inbetween the alleys. If they are enemies, your position will be flanked!

What do you do?

>>5796534
try and take out the buildings in a way it will collapse on or in front of the men, Kill their advance! do we have any heavy explosives?

>>5796534

Can you mspaint us a birds eye of our situation?

Let's get the other platoon in here to lend a hand. We can't last long if flanked.

>>5796505
HAve the snipers move when the enemy is not coming in head long into our position. I say every one start blasting unaimed shots. Fill the street with bullets

>>5796534
Ask the stormtrooper squad and Squad 2 to confirm their position, tell everyone to get ready to throw grenades when they are in range.

>>5796534

Mortar needs to put denying fire on these "flankers" if they fire enough maybe they can keep this rabble at bay. Advise Platoon 2 to take positions to attack the "flankers" from their rear.

>>5796534
Use the heavy bolter to keep the mass of them back- with cavalry, the horse bodies should effectively make charging impossible fairly quickly. Order the sniper rifles to cover the flanks. Riflemen should move into buildings if possible to avoid their mobility and mass advantage.

>>5796534
>>5796531

This should let the horses panic.
Get the mortar firing while the SONS OF SAMSON shift to cover our flank.

>>5796559
Just realised that squad 2 got dropped behind enemy lines and they are the ones with the sniper rifles

>>5796534
Vox our other platoon. We desperately need to know where they are, both for coordination and so that we don't accidentally drop mortars on their heads.

Let the men fall-back to a narrow side-street if they are being overwhelmed, use the choke point as an advantage

Do we have any flamers?

>>5796604

I point those just joining us here:
>>5795889

>>5796618
Flamers against horses? One man could break the charge alone! If they threaten to close, open up suppressive fire-style.

>>5796555

Arrows indicate avenue for enemy (or your own) advance.

Black is where the mortar team have set up (on an upraised square)

The Circle is where your men have dug in. The large street is the main avenue of advance.

Your first mortar round lands among the frayed cavalry, their horses whinnying in fear as yet more riders tumble to the ground. The Heavy Bolter tears up another block of cavalry, turning the area into chunks of bloody meat. The rifles continue their good work.

RUSTY VENTURE lets fly! His grenade disappears into the back of the charging cavalry. A few moments after it explodes, a corpse comes flying forward. It lands in front your position most uncermoniusly, an officers cap still attached to its charred head. (RUSTY VENTURE has gained the trait ONE LUCKY SOB)

RESULTS OF ACTION
-Horse Rebel Regiment has been stalled by sheer weight of fire. 75% are now on foot and without horses. 50 men left.
-Spotter tells you the movement in the alleys is growing more frequent!

What do you do?

>>5796652
Move the bolter up on the square with the mortar! Make sure it can pivot to cover both our front and our flank. Focus mortar fire on our front, shift a minority of our rifles to the flank.

>>5796652
Head into the alley, flamer up front, heavy bolter slowly coming up from the rear.

>>5796652
Vox our other squads and ask their location. BEFORE firing on the approaching flankers.

>>5796652
Tell some rifleman to keep an eye on our flank, if possible, they should try to outflank the... well... flankers. Rusty, the bolter, and the mortar team are doing a damn fine job as is.

>>5796676

And this! Avoid a mistake! Try to get some comm with our separated team.

"CORPORAL! YOUR MEN NEED TO BE HERE.... NOW!"

Is our fucking vox working?

We need to make sure none of those men coming towards us are our soldiers.

>>5796652
Did we manage to contact the stormtroopers and squad 2 about their position? Keep the heavy bolter and the mortar on the Horsemen, but take ourself, 2 riflemen from SOS Rifle Squad and 2 from Squad 1 to cover the alleyways if the Stormtroopers and Squad 2 confirm that its not them, with the rest continuing to fire upon the Horsemen.

>>5796676
This, before we commit a flamer burst down one of the alleys roasting our own troops.

rolled 90 = 90

>>5796652
Flamer to cover alleyway flank.

Mortar team to continue on horses.
Make men keep their formation and draw bayonets.
Heavy bolter to reposition to easily be able to turn against alleyway if needed.

>>5796671
>>5796673
>>5796676
>>5796677

You scream at your men to relocate while the enemy reels. The Heavy Bolter Team is in the process of relocating up to the square with the mortar.

The SONS OF SAMSON unleash a suppressive volley of rifle fire and grenade launcher as squad 1 shifts to cover the alleyways.

Your Vox squawks in.

"We see the behind of your attackers sir, request permission to engage!"

The few horse men left that aren't pitched to their feet or wandering dazed among the blood and guts of their comrades are still charging! Some will reach close combat!

RESULTS OF ACTION
-Flankers will now be dealt with appropriatly
-45 Horsemen left, 10 mounted and closing, 10 on foot and closing, the rest under suppressive fire.
-Platoon 2 requesting permission to hit Horse Regiment from behind.

Now that i think about the possibility it *could* be our guys, what about local PDF forces or other peeps from our own unit?

If they are a rabble then we'd certainly be taking fire from them since they'd lack the discipline to wait and engage us when they had massed firepower.

rolled 80 = 80

>>5796721
2 should hit them hard, tell our men in the circle to start drawing bayonets and keep the suppressive fire.

>>5796721
Proceed, but tell the snipers to try and pick off any commanding officers

>>5796721

Let platoon 2 hit them from behind. Be sure to tell RUSTY this so he doesn't kill any of our boys. Everyone that can't get a shot with 2nd platoon in the fray should cover the alley.

>>5796721
Squad 2 hits them from behind.

Flamer opens up as the attackers come into close combat. Target the remaining mounted forces to mess with the horses.

Wait for Flankers to engage, and if they do, catch them in a crossfire. Tell the riflemen to focus on the mounted cavalrymen, and if possible, make a charge of their own with Bayonets affixed.

Permission granted! For the Emperor!

>>5796721
Permission to engage, platoon 2. POUR IT ON!

Guise, mortar fire needs to be redirected somewhere if we are going to have the Second come charging in...

Redirect mortar fire to keep the suppressed rebels in hiding, but to make sure our boys aren't hit.

>>5796762

To deny our flankers? (yes suggesting it again) put a killing field in front of them to slow them down.

Take cover so that our flanking Stormtroopers dont hit us with straight shots.

From prone positions, fire into the alleyways at the enemies trying to flank us.

If they are massed together, grenade them.

rolled 58 = 58

>>5796762
Tell them to conserve ammo, and to reposition to target the openings of the alleyway.
They are to only fire when alleyway is confirmed hostile.

>>5796762
Squad 2 had better not be planning close combat when they're perfectly well armed with rifles and sniper rifles.

The crack of Hotshot lasguns and sniper rifles ring from nearby. You can see the rear most horsemen being pitched from the feet by the accurate fire. Seeing a sense of desperation in them, you realise you've forced the rest to rush your position.

Your hear the sound of a flamer going off. You hear screaming and swearing in a language that isn't quite imperial gothic. As you turn to look, you see men running and screaming out of the alleys. They drop their pitchforks and other improvised weapons as they attempt to put out the flames.

Rifle fire continues to pick off the Horse Rebels still charging, but a few made it through!

Results of ACTION
-31 Horse Rebels Left, 4 Mounted and IN CLOSE COMBAT, 7 on Foot and Charging.
-15 Mob Rebels spotted and engaged. 7 have already been killed due to the quick shift of Squad 1.
-Platoon 2 has broken the Horse Rebels! However, there is no avenue to escape! You have forced the enemy into you!

COMBAT POST

ROLLING

>>5796775
There's stormtroopers mixed in with them. They're not penal legionaires.

Set up like this, Red is us, green is SOS Riflemen (the one with the cross is Rusty) have us and the mortar continuing to fire at the horsemen and stop the horsemen once the stormtroopers charge, yellow is squad one and the blue is the heavy bolter with what i think is their arc of fire, ready them to fire down the alleyways.

>>5796785

Its fine, they can get pushed into us, it'll only be a slaughter if they are panicking. By the way... we forgot to tell the men to fix bayonets...

>>5796785
Dehorse the men in close combat, quickly! Then the charging rebels. Take out the most threatening foes first.

Platoon 2 fall back to ground floor of building. Heavy bolter and snipers provide cover, execute those horsemen already in ccw.

>>5796809
A bit late to tell them that now. At least, we can't very well do so until we've disposed of our current close combat problems. THEN tell them to fix bayonets if there's time before the charging enemies arrive.

>>5796805

Now look what you did... you got me all motivated by drawing up a fire-team fireplan...

If we still have that chainsword, let's brandish it. If not, I mourn the loss.

A last ditch shotgun round sends another mounted horse man tumbling down before they impact your lines.

One SOS rifleman is caught standing and is pitched from his feet by an ornate lance.

The other two are quickly speared by the riflemen with bayonets as they attempt to bypass the wall.

SONS OF SAMSON RIFLE SQUAD AND YOU ARE IN CLOSE COMBAT WITH ONE HORSE RIDER AND 7 UNMOUNTED HORSE RIDERS

YOU ARE UNABLE TO GIVE ORDERS DUE TO MELEE FIGHTING

Results of ACTION
-Platoon 2 has killed a further 10, bringing the horse regiment down to 19.
-One Flanker has made it into close combat with Squad 1!
-Heavy Bolter and Mortar have stopped firing due to enemy's proximity to friendly soldiers!

COMBAT POST ROLLING

>>5796828

Hence why I said we "forgot" to tell them.

Horses are smart to know that pointy things are bad, hence why the square was so effective. A man on the ground with the right training can take a cavalryman if he's smart and if he's got friends and is in some type of defense, they may just have it made.

>>5796805
The yellow dot with the cross was supposed to be the flamethrower dude, MARVEL AT MY ARTISTIC ABILITY

A lucky shovel hit sends a riflemen from Squad 1 down! The offender is quickly stabbed to death by his comrades.

The SOS riflemen and you manage to dispatch the remaining horse rider and 3 unmounted guys, murderizing them with brutal ease. Enthusiastic these rebels may be, but they're no necron. RUSTY VENTURE has manged to club another to death with his Grenade Launcher.

The others, seeing what you've done to their comrades decide to cut and run. Squad One flames the cowards down.

CONGRATULATIONS.

WE JUST FUCKED THE BRICK PLATONIC

I like penis

>>5796909
...wut

57-1 ain't a bad KD ratio, even though they were just heretic scum Well done, lads!

Lets check on our one SON who went down, maybe that lance was a fleshwound?

We need some Medicae up in this bitch!

>>5796888
Check our casualties. Did we lose the two guys who were listed as taking hits, or are they recoverable with medical attention?

Have our forces all regroup. The strike from behind was good, but best to get together now.

COMBAT OP RESULTS

-One SOS Riflemen lost
-One Riflemen Lost
-115 Enemies killed.

Platoon 2 links up with you and hands are shaken and laughs shared. Then the bodies are dealth with. The Corporal informs you that though they made it here unscathed, they spotted more movement coming down the road. There will be more here in minutes!

The bodies of your enemies litter the streets. You spy lances of obvious craftsmanship and many well worn cavalry sabres among them. That officers hat looks mighty nifty.

What do you do?

They are the SONS OF SAMSON!

They can not be killed by such amateurs as this

>>5796934

The lances can be used as obstacles, if there's more cavalry to come.

>>5796934
Anchor the spears in the corpses of the fallen horsemen, deployment image incoming...

Take the officer's hat as a trophy.

Set up snipers in high positions for long range.

Set flamers up at strategic chokepoints.

Quickly equip the Stormtroopers and Squad 1 with Sabers, they should be our Counter-Assault groups.

Possibly gather up lances for use against the horses ala Braveheart.

And of course that Nifty Ass Hat should be RUSTY's!!!

>>5796934

Make a belgian gate out of the lances and the dead horses. We should find a building to use as a command post/aid station now. Take the officer's cap and give RUSTY a sabre, the guy has deserved it.

YES!

The hat now belongs to RUSTY VENTURE!

THE HAT

TAKE IT


Also, any way we can jury-rig a barricade with those lances? Spikes on our wall will be really handy if more cavalry show up.

>>5796977

Axe this. Give RUSTY the hat!

rolled 71 = 71

Tell all men to be ready for enemy artillery.
If we get zeroed to get some god damn cover.

>>5796977

I go with this too.

>>5796961 >>5796968 >>5796978
Not that I don't love a good nifty hat as much as the next anon, but doesn't that kind of mark him as a target? And also possibly violate Imperial regulations.


Is it possible to collapse the buildings on one or more sides of the alley? What are they made of?

What kind've officer's hat is it? Like, a peaked cap, or a hussar's fuckoff huge hat?

SNIPERS IN HIGH POSITIONS

FLAMER(S) IN STRATEGIC CHOKE POINTS

LANCES+BODIES+HORSES AS BARRICADES

RUSTY GETS SABER AND HAT

>>5796977
>>5796986
Seconding creating a wall of dead horses and/or spikey things. The enemy is clearly equipped for close combat and we must deny it to them.

Have our snipers and spotter keep a careful eye out for incoming enemies and warn us in plenty of time.

>>5796999

We're going for the flamboyant here...

Else we wouldn't have had a flamethrower guy named BROCK SAMSON who jumped onto a Tomb Spyder with Krak Grenades...

Nor would we name our squads after him.

Just let us have our moment please? :(

Be sure not to wear the hat. The last thing you need is a long las peircing your skull just because you poked your head a little too high over a wall. The Emporer protects, but not against his servants only doing their duty.

Orders for the snipers.

Primary target: In the unlikely event any heavier infantry show up (eg a bolter of their own) , target those first.

Secondary targets: Any officer, or men in an apparent leadership position.

If none of the above are available target isolated soilders, and leave the masses of troops for concentrated fire, mortars, etc.

>>5797030

Tactical sensibilities want to win over want of awesome...

Internal struggle commencing!

(NOTE - Ingame stats see the horsemen as having 3 attacks, so you are bound to lose a couple of men if even one impacts your small platoon! All precaution should be taken to stop them from charging! A SOS member is a veteran and is easily equal to 5 Mob Rebels but even he has to fall to a lance charge)

You dust the fallen officer's cap off. Your head is mighty cold but RUSTY VENTURE is shivering a little.

You tell the men to equip themselves with whatever melee weapons they can and to spike the road with the fallen cavalry lances.

(drawing picture for extended combat OP area)

>>5797030
>Be sure not to wear the hat. The last thing you need is a long las peircing your skull just because you poked your head a little too high over a wall. The Emporer protects, but not against his servants only doing their duty.
This suggests a new plan: Put the hat on one of your fallen comrades, and stand him up somewhere to draw out sniper fire. He'd want to protect his squad, even in death, right?

>>5797023
>>5797030
Yeah, guys. It's a MISTAKE waiting to happen... OP is baiting us into being dumb.

Deploy like the picture, Red is us, Yellow is Squad 1 with the X indicating the flamer, Blue is the Bolter, Light Blue is Squad 2 with the X's representing the snipers, purple is the stormtroopers with the X being the sergeant and Green is SOS with X as Rusty.

>>5796977
Also this belgian gate thing and put more spikes around the circle bit and the raised platform the mortar is on.

>>5797048
Leaders, THEN heavy weapons, then medics, then targets of opportunity.

Snipers always have been known to go for leaders first, that heavy weapon team does them fuckall when they are panicking or have no one to accurately direct their fire.

>>5797071
change of plan, put squad 2 in assorted second floor windows

WAIT!

If we put this hat on one of our guys, we can act like we're got him prisoner.

>>5797059

Good point there. Well in any case we need to quickly place the lances, and find cover. Getting caught by horsemen in the open is a bad idea.

>>5797105
Too complex.


A charge will already probably be disrupted somewhat by all the bodies, but we really should get ourselves a wall.

Behind the stage is a giant governmental building, a town hall of some sort. It looks perfect as serving as a spotter emplacement and platoon HQ. The roof is flat but open.

The spotter has marked buildings on the map to you. Those with a line across cannot be entered by your own troops without major inconvienience.

You can hear the sound of galloping hooves again...

>>5797135
Mortar+heavy bolter the cavalry as soon as they start showing themselves.

>>5797135

Heavy Bolter in that leftmostcorner house. Send a couple rifles in there to cover them if they reload. Mortar stays on the platform. Snipers get in the town hall. If we have a head-radioman put him in the town hall too.

Equip bayonets. Request an armor column. I have a bad feeling about this...

>>5797135

which direction are the hooves coming from? the area seems open to attack from every side.

>>5797135

Your men have set up spike traps with the broken lances all across the road. Any cavalry charging now will now have to urge their horse to jump or fall right into the spikes!

Initial Recon of the building behind the podium states it clear and that it is intact and good for use by Squad 2. However, the roof has been marked with a big red X, as spray canned on. There are scorch marks around the X. You can't tell if it was put there by rebels or imperial forces.

The vox squawks in.

'74th platoon was just broken in! Additional enemies heading towards you! Hold at all costs!'

Over the line you can barely hear the screams and shouts of fellow guardsmen over the whinny of horses. Just before it cuts, you think you hear the sound of heavy track...

DEPLOYMENT PHASE, PREPARE FOR ASSAULT

>>5797171

Blue is bolter.
Green is snipers.
Red is rifles.
Yellow is mortar.

>>5797180

You look at the divisional battlemap. the 74th stationed in front of you, dropped in with a heavy sentinal detachment in order to disrupt enemy supply depots behind the line. Whatever broke them is capable of taking down sentinals. If you survive the next wave however, it is possible stragglers from the 4th may reach you...

>>5797183
I don't like the X. Let's not mess with that building.

Discussion: Guys, what the hell do we have to use against tanks?

>>5797135
Red is us, Yellow is Squad 1 with the X indicating the flamer, Blue is the Bolter, Light Blue is Squad 2 with the X's representing the snipers, purple is the stormtroopers with the X being the sergeant and Green is SOS with X as Rusty.

Call in armor support! Meltas! Anything!

(I'm giving you guys extended planning time instead of rushing you. This combat OP has two more phases and you will be fighting both in this town square)

>>5797183

Place flamer near the lance barriers! The cavalrymen will jump into perdition!

Also, do we have a spotter deployed on the townhall building? What are those sounds of tracks?

>>5797183

Dare I say

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUU!!!!

Okay we can handle this, we've done with worse, and in these tight quarters if we can catch a vehicle from above its toast. Krak Grenades would make short work of the deck armor of a vehicle.

I'm afraid I can't follow this, and have to leave, really, but I'd just like to say that I approve of this concept SO much.

OP, you're pretty cool.

As long as we are loyal servants of the Immortal God-Emperor.
Ave Imperator.

Send a runner to find us some support! There's got to be Spess Muhreens somewhere around here!

>>5797203
Solid, except I don't like the stormies sitting out on point on their own. Rather have them in the fountain or on the platform behind, as it looks like they could easily be isolated in that forward position. Even worse, if they're firing into the main road flankers might get into the building from the alleyway unnoticed.

Don't put the flamer in open ground. Put him in a mostly concealed location where he can strike one of the spiked barricades. Hopefully in a entrance that is expected to be used.

IN FACT!

Have the flamer set fire to the bodies!

BURN THE BODIES AND THE HORSES!

You can run over a dead body. Running over a flaming body is harder!

SET THE BODIES ON FIRE!

We need to get all our men out of the open and into cover. That said, it seems like all the available buildings will substantially reduce our arcs of fire, so I don't like them. While we still have time, let's pile bodies to make a basic wall.

Inquire of our vox as to the availability of supporting fire and/or air support, as we anticipate coming under heavy attack in short order and it seems 74th platoon was gutted.

>>5797203

I'm liking this. Don't we have barriers made up though?

>>5797263
Burning bodies...
>>5797265
Wall of bodies...

Wall of flaming bodies!?

>>5797275
Stacks of flaming bodys to create chokepoints!

>>5797262
Maybe one of the small buildings in the top left? That way they can lock down the northernmost alley or provide fire support into the plaza as neeeded.

Actually now that I think of it, flamers are great AT weapons IRL. If the burning oil doesn't burn up rubber seals and leak into the tank, it can possibly burn on top of an intake and suffocate an engine or if there is a good liberal coverage, it can suffocate the crew or at least force them to bail. Lets get our flameman put somewhere safe yet useful.

>>5797279
THIS!

Stack some bodies and set them on fire. Create routes that the enemies will have to go through. Pick them off with laser fire and grenades if needed.

>>5797292
Or if he could fire into the barrel of the main gun.

>>5797222

You've heard the sound of tanks before. You know what tracks sound like as they grind Imperial Guard to dust. Then again, given your situation, who knows what kind of vehicle it may be...

Platoon Strength!
Command
You!

SONS OF SAMSON Rifle Squad
-3 Rifles, One RUSTY VENTURE (grenade launcher) with TOUGH SHIT and LUCKY SOB

SONS OF SAMSON Artillery Squad
-1 Mortar Team, One Spotter.

Stormtrooper Squad 1
5 Rifles (armed with Hotshot Lasguns)

Squad 1
3 Rifles, One Flamer

Heavy Bolter Squad 1
Heavy Bolter Team

Squad 2
8 Rifles, Two Sniper Rifles

All men are armed with three types of grenade, krak, frag and smoke.

>>5797279

Those could be used for the alleyways.

Can't wait to see how we'll be slaughtered. Or slaughter, hopefully.

>>5797280
The top left seems like a solid position. I'm a bit concerned about flankers taking them out no matter where they are, but I suppose that can't be avoided.

The only serious weakness of this formation is that that building might blow up, get hit by artillery, or similar- hinted at a MISTAKE by the red X's- and then we'd be completely boned.

>>5797268
I assumed we had them set up at the alleyways and the main road

If we equip the stormtroopers with krak grenades they could do a shit ton of damage to the side/rear armour of any vehicles if they wait until they pass, infantry will most likely be behind the heavy stuff anyway.

>>5797203
I like this.

But as a suggestion: How about leaving the stormtroopers out of site, and surprise armor if it come in, and hopefully take it out. If need be, we can have the other troops fall back and take cover from armor until it is dealt with. After all, I don't see how their vehicles are going to effectively traverse an area were the corpses of dozens of men horses, and debris are strewn all about.

STACK THE BODIES INTO STRATEGIC LOCATIONS! SET THEM ON FIRE!

HAVE THE RIFLEMEN GET INTO SECURE POSITIONS, POSSIBLY IN BUILDINGS, KEEP SOME IN WELL DEFENDED OPEN AREAS THOUGH, WITH LINE OF SIGHT TO HIT THESE CHOKE POINTS, AS WELL AS OTHER AREAS IF THE BODIES DONT WORK AS A DETERRENT.

SET UP HEAVIER WEAPONS IN HIGHER LOCATIONS IN BUILDINGS FOR A GOOD VANTAGE POINT.

>>5797304

It doesn't sound like the enemy we're fighting would have tanks, that's why I was asking. Maybe an improvised vehicle, then...

Either way, we have an observer posted right? Keep us posted.

>>5797296

You tell the men to stack the bodies of your opponents high. They are now lying infront of the stakes, a small thick compact wall of dirty rebels. You nod you head. The flamer in squad 1 sents them on fire.

You don't know how long it will burn but the stakes and the wall of flaming men will keep anybody at bay for a while.

ADOPTING DEFENSIVE POSITION
>>5797203

This is your last chance to change operational strategy! (e.g. what to do in the case of melee combat, rolling tanks, a breakthrough cavalry charge)

>>5797311
>>5797312
Stormtroopers with extra grenades for antivehicle use in a forward building, initially hidden? I could go for that.

>>5797304

Ok guys.
In the case of armor, we smoke the thing to high heaven, and then krak it. Mortar fire on the thing and even RUSTY can also lend a hand.
Get everyone on bayonets, make the best roadblocks out of the fallen enemies, and brace for it.

>>5797292
Sort've. Most modern tanks are sealed against this sort of thing. Whether or not 40k tanks are is up to debate, especially some militia rustbucket either captured from the backwater PDF or cobbled together by the locals. Either way, the metal hull should still conduct heat well enough to turn into an oven. It gets a little trickier if the tank is covered in improvised armor, as it'd burn slower and dismounted crew/supporting infantry might be able to dislodge anything on fire. But then they're not shooting at us, so still a win.

Yes.

Stormtroopers inside one of the buildings alongside the main entrance, which we assume they'll use.

They don't start firing until that area is filled, then they barrage them with grenades.

like dropping firecrackers into anthills.

(NOTE you only have enough promethium to set two walls of corpses alight, one of the alleywalls will have to settle for normal wall of corpses)

>>5797331
Equip the stormtroopers with extra krak grenades from Squad 2, and tell them to wait until the vehicle is next to them them to use the kraks, if the cavalry charge first just wait until they are parallel and start firing.

>>5797331
>This is your last chance to change operational strategy! (e.g. what to do in the case of melee combat, rolling tanks, a breakthrough cavalry charge)
TANKS: Stormtroopers in forward positions hit them with krak grenades to attempt a takeout.
CAVALRY CHARGE: Attempt to fend off the charge with grenades and heavy concentrated fire.
MELEE: Stab them. A lot. That's all I've got.

>>5797360
Would that mean we are entirely out of promethium then? We cant waste that much

>>5797360
Save it for the fight. Regular corpse walls blocking off the alleys should buy us enough time to shift fire.

>>5797369

Well hopefully we don't need to do melee at all. If we do we're kinda screwed. Against a cavalry charge we will need very concentrated fire.

Your stormtroopers are good to go. They have set up in ambush in the first house.

The men have reinforced the town square wall with debris and the Heavy Bolter team is in place. From your position in the governmental building you and your spotter can see the enemy moving ever closer, your snipers ready to pick off important looking officers.

ENGAGEMENT DRILL
>>5797369
>>5797363
>>5797351
>>5797335

FINALISE?

>>5797380
>>5797389

You decide to save the promethium and only set the wall in front on fire. The corpse walls in the alley will slow down any flank advance and you now have enough promethium for this combat op.

>>5797396
Also tell the men in the circle to attach bayonets, unless that grants some sort of accuracy detriment.

>>5797396

Lets do this!!!

FOR BROOOOOOOCK!!!!

>>5797396
Start picking off leaders ASAP

>>5797396
Finalized.

Fight well, men. The Emperor protects.

FOR BROCK SAMSON. AND THE EMPEROR.

>>5797415

Watch it, guardsman. The other way round.

>>5797428
This. Really, we named our damned squad after that crazy badass, what more does he need? Prayers and warcries are the Emperor's.

You and your men can see the shuffling hordes moving forward. Strangely, this lot seem to be in a much worse state compared to the enthusiastic attackers from before. Rags and flea ridden coats are the order of the day and flies dance around the men like black halo's.

The spotter reports that some even have wounds that have been left to fester, forming hugh horrible scabs that pulse and writher as if something underneath was trying to get out. From here their putrid stench overpowers even those of your corpse walls. Something is terribly wrong.

There is something behind them but you can't see them just yet...

No time for contemplation, the shambling mob is upon you!

-Shambling Mob 150 strong!

COMBAT POST
ROLLING

>>5797435
THIS IS HERESY!

BROCK SAMSON IS THE ONE TRUE GOD!

>>5797445
If we didn't need every man who could hold a rifle at the moment, you'd be serving the Emperor as part of our corpse barricades for that.

Your spotter cannot differentiate leaders, your snipers have begun to pick off men one by one!

Lasfire fills the mob, taking men down left right and center. The Heavy Bolter opens up! The carnage is appaling, the heavy grenade rounds tearing into the tightly packed rebels.

Instead of red mist and bloody chunks however, your greeted by green clouds and hordes of flies, so much so that they threaten to block your view! Some members of the mob erupt like explosion of putrid waste as more are cut down.

The mortar starts firing!

You can't help but wonder, what sort of man sends men with pitchforks to fight headon an entrenched MG position...

RESULTS of ACTION
-60 Mob Members Dead
-The strange nature of the shambling mob and their deaths have produced an unnatural looking green cloud of flies and waste. (acts as a smoke screen)

>>5797458
I honor the one true BROCK SAMSON, and for that he protects me.

>>5797440

I sense nurgle. This is not good.

>>5797477

Shit! Do we have any protective gear? Gas masks etc?

>>5797477
I know we're guardsmen but do we have any kind of CBRNE protection?

>>5797477
Mortar fire on the mob. They don't need precise targeting to cause slaughter. Continue raking with heavy bolter. Stormtroopers stay hidden; melee with THAT would be very bad if they decided to go into their house.

Should we vox in this phenomenon? Command might want to know...

The first mortar rounds close in on the slow moving mass. RUSTY VENTURE lets off a trio of frag grenades in quick succession! It appears he's modified his grenade hatch...

The entire mob goes down in the furious fusilade. As far as you can see, not one of them has survived. That was too easy...

#Stormtroopers here! Goddamn flies are getting in our respirators and we can't see a damn thing! Request Orders!#

Your spotter waves to you hurridly. It seems another wave of cavalry looks to take advantage of the smoke screen left by the Shambling Mob.

What do you do?

-Results of ACTION
-Shambling Mob down!
-Infested Cavalry moving in through Screen of Flies! While the Screen of Flies is up, your men will have a hard time hitting the cavalry!

Can our spotter see okay? If so he can tell the stormtroopers when to use their krak grenades otherwise tell them to use them when their corporal or whatever he was says so, also any protective gear would be a godsend right now.

SET FIRE TO THE NEW CORPSES!

A CARPET OF FIRE, NO MAN CAN CROSS

AND SINCE THERE ARE FLIES AND GAS THERE, THE CAVALRY WONT SEE IT UNTIL ITS TOO LATE

>>5797519

Our men are still in cover, right? No matter what we do we cannot leave cover yet!

So long as the cavalry themselves can't see properly, they are just as disadvantaged as us (...right?) Tell the stormtroopers to stay put and fire only as they see fit.

All men must stay put or we may kill each other!

Burn down the flies with what's left of our promethium?

>>5797537

You notice the cloud of flies has stopped its slow advance to your position, the flaming wall of bodies seems to keep them at bay (MISTAKE AVERTED)

Your stormtroopers seem to have recovered but have been discovered by the advancing Cavalry as they struggled to deal with the flies on their own terms!

>>5797519
Is the smoke screen settling or rising?

>>5797553
Chuck some frags down when the cavalry pass, but stay hidden and in cover until we see any heavy vehicles.

Lay down covering fire with the incinerator units and have the Stormtroopers fall back to our position?

>>5797553
Have our stormtroopers fall back, away from the advancing enemies and into the alley, where we can get them some covering fire, and then into one of the houses on the left where they can use their lasguns to cover the riflemen in the square. There's no point in having them in a forward position if they don't have the visibility to hit tanks, and they'll just get slaughtered if we leave them there.

>>5797543
They are rushing to melee, so this does give them more of an advantage.


The fire could help disperse the flies

>>5797569

This. We still aren't sure what they're throwing against us, and grenades are better in poor visibility.

>>5797519
Grenade launcher, heavy bolter, and mortar will have to do the bulk of our damage here, I guess. Hopefully it will be enough.

OP, YOU HAD BETTER HAVE SOME OF THE ENEMIES CATCH FIRE

WE'VE GOT SO MUCH STUFF BURNING IN THEIR PATCH IT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE FOR SOMETHING NOT TO CATCH

>>5797569
This applies to the stormtroopers, also what floor are they on?

rolled 43 = 43

Over vox, all men to deploy gas masks?

>>5797564

see >>5797553

Some infested cavalry have entered sight! Your heavy bolter has opened fire! Mortar rounds going out! Your snipers begin picking the riders off horses! Lasrifles firing into the Screen of Flies!

Your Stormtroopers are back to fumbling with the flies!
They are too preoccupied to deal with the cavalry threat!

Even as the cavalry are blown into chunks, those few that survive dismount infront of the house your stormtroopers are fucking around in.

Results of ACTION
-Flies have mark-targetted Stormtrooper Squad 1! Cavalry are dismounting to take them out!
-6 ICavalry killed!
-Numbers unknown!

Those bodies are on fire man, some of the enemies have to catch it. They aren't fireproof.

>>5797614
Needs moar fire, use the vox to warn the stormtroopers that they have incoming hostiles.

>>5797614
Stormtroopers, use frag grenades! Don't let them close!

Everyone else continue supporting fire.

>>5797614
Stormtroopers cover building entrances!! Mow them down at the natural choke points.

>>5797660
Preoccupied, remember?

>>5797612

You will have to remember to reprimand command for such poor equipment.

Even as rounds continue to pour out, the advancing infested cavalry press on towards the house!

One dismounted Infested has managed to reach the house! The wall of flaming bodies has given him a moment of pause and he now stands outside as if waiting for orders from some higher level.

The men from the stormtrooper squad fire on the hapless infected even as he forces himself to move through the flames. His body is pitched backwards and soon adds to the wall of flaming corpses. The Stormtroopers rush out of the house!

Results of ACTION
-There are now Infested blocking the stormtrooper escape!
-4 more Infested taken down!
-Infested have recieved orders to move through flame wall!
-Stormtroopers in withdrawal!

As action packed as it is, I must retire...

I will enjoy reading about the rest of the battle in the dataslate archives.

FOR BROCKnEMPEROR /tg/!

>>5797689

Stormtroopers, throw frag grenades in to clear out the building before withdrawing!

Your Stormtroopers dash through the flies and jump over the wall of flames! They arrive in the town square with a huff.

The Infested Cavalry seem to have gathered in strength on the other side of the wall. They are beginning to dismount. They look as if to climb the wall on foot!

Heavy Bolter rounds continue to rake the position as the first mortar rounds come down!

The Screen of Flies seems to have recieved new orders...

Results of ACTION
-Stomtrooper Squad now in square!
-Infested Cavalry Regiment Dismounting and now advancing on foot!
-59 Infested Cavalry Men left!

Combat Post

ROLLING

Good luck guys, its 6.30 in the UK, for the Emperor and the glorious memory of BROCK SAMSON

Suddenly one of the men in the stormtrooper squad convulses and falls to his knees. You move to help him up.

His helmet bursts off in an erruption of blood, a steam of flies coming out of his helmet!

The Screen of Flies screams through the wall of flames! You see thousands of the tiny creatures fall to the ground but hundreds more have survived the sucidal charge!

Your flamer looks confused, should he tackle the oncoming Fly Screen or torch the Infested Storm Trooper?

(NOTE - This is a SNAP JUDGEMENT Scenario! First relevant post will taken as ACTION)

>>5797718

Order the stormtrooper squad to take cover somewhere... after lobbing a few frag grenades over the wall.

Bombard them with grenades and mortars.

Time for Rusty to pull his weight.

Infested Storm Trooper

>>5797753

Torch fly screen. Stormtroopers shoot the infested comrade.

>>5797753
FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRE!

>>5797753
FLAMES AT THE FLIES!!!

You've got a shotgun, dispatch the stormie yourself.

>>5797790
>>5797775
>>5797773
The flies around the storm trooper could infest other people within our squad. Better to destroy it at it's roots.

Glad I chose the infested guy

>>5797770

You grab the flamer from the dumbstruck squaddie and put torch to the Stormtrooper, his vox link still filled with the buzzing of a thousand tiny wings.

The Fly Screen has stopped just short of the line and is flying around a spot like a singular insect whirlwind. As the heavy bolter continues firing the men and you look in horrorstruck awe as a figure ingrained in the memories of all imperial guard steps from the fly cloud.

Plague Marine!

(we'll stop there! Thanks for playing /tg/! I'll post again some time tonight)

>>5797806
Thanks for running this quest; it's excellent.

thanks