Try to find the rest of the Loyalist survivor.

How are the men and I armed?

>>5950279

Sweet! You're back!

>>5950279
Alright, status check.

How are the men? Did any of Squad #2 survive?

Did we lose any of the heavy weapons during the bombardment?

>>5950307
>>5950323

You look around and call for muster. Over the battering of shoulders against the reinforced door down stairs you hear the voices of 6 tired soldiers.

You doubt the men downstairs heard you. If there are any other suvivors in the room they are either buried too deep to be heard, already dead, or too injured to say anything.

Platoon Strength!
Command Section
You (Shotgun)

Squad 2
5 Rifles, 1 Sniper

You are all armed with frag, krak and smoke grenades

It is possible to search for further survivors either on this floor or the rooftop above. However, any survivors down stairs will likely require your leadership in order to get out of this situation.

>>5950351
Regroup all the survivor and start shooting.

>>5950351
Search for survivors on both floors.

Have the surviving members of Squad #2 fire down at any of the horsemen below. Keep thinning their numbers.
Rally the men on the first floor, brace the reinforced door and prepare an ambush.

Meanwhile, find the vox-operator and get command on the line. Inform them that the arch-enemy has reared it's ugly head. We'll be needing flamers, meltas and LOTS of promethium before the day's through. Ask if they've got any reinforcements they can spare that are equipped as such (anti-armor is a plus).

>>5950396
Note that informing command of the appearance of Bob the Most Vile Pretender is of utmost importance.

That should get them on their toes.

>>5950373

(Since the last few threads have been relatively slow to start, I'll be taking one post suggestions for actions seriously.)

You tell Squad 2 to resume fire on the rebel forces beneath. The crack of lasgun fire is a most welcome addition to the sounds that still assault your senses.

You see several members of the diseased rebels go down. You congratulate yourself on this minor victory. As if on cue, more rebels round the corner in the distantance, advancing on the building at steady pace. With just 7 men, it is unlikely that you can hold that many men off. You need to gather the rest of the survivors in the building and get out.

I suggest we have a few men refrain from thinning the horsemen numbers and watch the door, so that they can alert us if the door gives free, hopefully there is some cover they can use if the door does indeed come down.

>>5950430
I suggest having two of the men come down with us to rally the others on the ground floor.

We may need the help if some of them are trapped underneath rubble.

>>5950396

You head downstairs and find several men already up and about, barricading the door to the governmental building.

They look at you with relief.

"We thought you were a goner sir."

You smile gently. You give them orders to account for themselves.

Platoon Strength!
Command Section
You (Shotgun)

Squad 2
5 Rifles, 1 Sniper

SONS OF SAMPSON (named veteran squad)
-3 Rifles, One RUSTY VENTURE (grenade launcher operator) with TOUGH SHIT and LUCKY SOB

Squad 1
-One Flamer

You signal someone to relate your situation to command. As your men continue to barricade the door command chirps in over the vox line.

'Sergeant, you are not the only platoon currently under heavy assault by rebel forces. All our reserves are currently commited to other breakthrough areas. Hold until reinforcements arrive!'

They cut off before anything else can be said. Deep down, you know that you have to get out. One of your men upstairs has reported that they have spotted ad-hoc armour in the distance.

You need to search for an escape route.

>>5950485

I suggest we merge the Flame trooper into Squad 1, and have the Veteran Squad search for a backdoor of sorts.

>>5950471
>>5950430

In your expert estimation, the current barricade at the door will hold the horsemen outside for some time yet.

(You have time for one of the three actions, Look for an Escape route, Gather Survivors, or Reinforce the Door. Reinforcing the door will grant you time for more actions, more time spent gathering surviors will see you acquire the gear of the fallen or find more soldiers. The first one is fairly self explanatory)

Reinforce the door, as well as merge the flame trooper please.

>>5950505

(ugh, I have terrible timing)

You merge the flamer man with squad 2. He heads upstairs to help his new teammates thin out the horde below.

You tell your Veterans to start looking for a way out.
(One action used, two left)

>>5950528
>Reinforce the Door

>>5950485
>'Sergeant, you are not the only platoon currently under heavy assault by rebel forces. All our reserves are currently commited to other breakthrough areas. Hold until reinforcements arrive!'

Predictable. But were they at least informed that we've encountered a Chaos Sorcerer?

>>5950558
Reinforce the door and then gather the survivors.

>>5950539
>>5950547

You and your men being to pile rubble in front of the door. The sound of the rebels outside subsides. It appears they will be looking for another way to break in...

(You spend another action to reinforce the door.)

You now have 4 actions to spend and an additional option to search the building. You cannot reinforce the door anymore. More time spent on an action will make it more effective! Once all your actions are used up, your time is up!

>>5950581

Seconded, seems the best order of actions. Definitely search for more advanced gear among the bodies/survivors. We want to be as well armed as possible.

status on the Veterans looking for a way out?

>>5950583
Where are the mortar and heavy bolter squads?

I recall them being directed to be setup on the building adjacent to us.

If they're still there we need to re-establish contact and keep them from falling to the enemy group below.

>>5950594
>>5950602

You search among the smoking ruins, sifting through the wreckage...

(First Floor Searched, One Action Used)

You move among the various rooms, looking at the displaced paper work among abandoned ministerial desks and the bodies of men who could have fought for either side. Their state of decay indicates that this rebellion may have been going on far more than you previously thought...
(You have found enough grenades to resupply you for a full combat action)

Your veterans report that have found a basement level to the building you are stuck in. There only seems to be one entrance. They haven't yet fully explored it yet... (Action Ongoing)

(You have three actions left! Remember, you can do a search action for gear or survivors again!)

find the escape route first.

search for survivors

>>5950645
look for beer and weed... if we're going to die we might aswell get hammered and have fun first

Find the escape route first, we can find it without using it, but if we find it too late we may lose men or equipment on the rush out of the building.

>>5950279
Mortars don't thunder. They sound a little like a fart and a pop.

Artillery marked buildings survive very well unless the bombardment is overwhelming or contemporary US precise.

>>5950645
We seriously need to get our heavy weapons back.

Check if the heavy weapons squads survived. Maybe the basement entrance leads to some underground network connecting the adjacent buildings.

Also, if the mortar survived, get the spotter to start directing fire on that makeshift armor.

>>5950667
a fart and a pop is not GRIMDARK you idiot

>>5950675
Also, get the heavy bolter to thin the enemy ranks.

>>5950621

Your mortar team was on the rooftop. Remembering the big fat x painted on top, you doubt they are anything less than big bloody meat chunks. You never know unless you go look though...

Your heavy bolter team is missing. You have no idea if they are alive or dead...

Your Veterans have found an old elevator shaft that heads down into a deep abyss in the basement. It seems to have run out of power ages ago and the previous inhabitants have already jury rigged it to run by hand crank. Your veterans start to look for an alternative power source. (Action Ongoing)

(You have Two Actions Left)

>>5950685

(That's meant to say Three Actions Left)

search for the heavy bolter team, if they're dead, loot the bodies.

As much as I think going down is nothing but suicide it's probably our only way out without getting slaughtered...

With two actions left it's best if we spend one actions searching for equipment, the other survivors, and then getting the fuck outta there.

>>5950677
Thus GRIMDARK uses all HOWITZERS.

Hush, I hear a whizzbang.

If we find it then it has to go to squad 2, Sons of Sampson's only 4 men.

>>5950703
>>5950716

You start sifting through the rubble for survivors. You find the heavy bolter team slumped over their weapons, a falling block having crushed the head of the firer. The loader seems to have died of blood loss, his mouth open in a silent scream.

The weapon itself, however, is perfectly pristine. You wonder if you could fit it on the lift...

(Two Actions Left!)

(I have to go, unexpected business in this usually anti-social house, but if the thread is still here when I'm back I'll repost, otherwise, I'll start a new one)

>>5950716
On the other hand, abandoning our post is in direct violation of our orders.

I suggest having SOS squad continue attempting to salvage to elevator as a last resort, but we SHOULD hold the sector.

Rush up with the grenades. Make bundles of frag grenades and throw them at the enemy below. we need to take them out quickly before the armor get close. Also search for the heavy bolter team.

Fuck, wonder how big the lift is? we got 12 men including yourself.

sector is all but lost, we're holed up in a building.

Besides, I'm now curious what's so important down there that they'd repair the elevator....

Guess we should try and hold, but if we need to run we could be jumping from the frying pan to the fire.

Think we got time to leave booby traps?

>>5950742
I suggest getting the bolter to the roof and wiping out the last of the cavalry using it and the grenades. We do this with Squad #2.

Have the surviving flamer attached to SOS squad and have them scout the basement exit. If it lead to the sewers (where Nurgle Chaos Sorcerer's hand was last seen crawling into) we may be in a bit of trouble when or if we decide to retreat.

>>5950774
Good idea.

Maybe after using the frag grenade bundles on the crowd outside we can rig a couple of krak grenades some distance from the reinforced door so that they go off once they're in.

>SOS squad

As an outsider to this thread, I have to say I got the completely wrong image from this at first. Well, at least they're not a brigade.

Give any fatally wounded a painkiller, and a krak and frag grenade. Tell them they've fought hard, but there's one more job to do for the emperor.

wonder if that sniper knows where they went after they left the front door.

No sound for a while, a tank or some form of artillery wouldn't surprise me and we don't have much to fight it with.

we got some grenades for an escape though so, im not worried. Would love to know the size of that elevator though.

some smoke grenades that is

Bug out.
Get first squad down, see what's there. Hope it can be operated from below.
Get everyone else down, rig a krak nade to it and send the elevatus back upstairs. Hopefully a tripwire will take out both elevator and some guys.

just as effective to leave nades in a hallway and the elevator at the bottom of the shaft with the ropes shot

But we don't wanna do that, what if being down there is WORSE than running our asses back up?

>>5950860
Before we bug out, I suggest we go back and get Squad #2, grenade bundles in hand.

Let lose some of our grenades and take out as many of the enemy group as we can. (We may also want to check how many of them they've killed while we were downstairs.

The a couple of remaining grenades ought to be used for a booby trap adjacent to the doorway.

maybe we should take an action to send some men down.....

Ya, I agree. Love to know how squad #2 is and I'm dam curious what the enemy decided to do when we barricaded the door.

Got plenty of grenades so tell someone to trap the door while we go upstairs and lob some off.

Good idea's people.

>>5950885
That would be wise, I think.

Let some other bastard deal with them. We need to link up with someone and restore strength.
Uncertain death better than certain.

Don't forget whom we pledged our life to, the Emperor helps those loyal to him unto the end.

I'm sure we all agree on the fact that OP could easily writefag the rest of the quest alone.

If we send some men down early should we leave instrucions and go down with, or whom should we send?

(Back to it then)

The sniper and riflemen of Squad 2 report that the mob has dissipated but other wise have left a substantial amount of men at the door. The rebel reinforcements now fill the town square. The are carrying rifles. Squad 2 has had to stop returning fire but has continued to recon the area for you. It says the ad-hoc vehicle had drawn closer. It seems to be an armoured bull-dozer...

You instruct your men to booby trap the door by bundling your grenades together. The men ask you which grenade type they should use? (they will be out of this type of grenade for the rest of the combat op, choose wisely!)

Your men continue to look for a power source. They've found an adjacent generator room but will require additional manpower to get it working again. (Action Complete!)

(You have Two Actions left! You can continue searching, booby trap the building, get ready to evacuate in the lift or prepare for a last stand. It will take one action to power the generator.)

>>5950975
>armoured bull-dozer

Is that all?

Call up Rusty and have him lob krak grenades at the vehicle. That ought to do it.

Also, use frag grenades on the booby trap. And toss one krak grenade at the men near the door.

Send three of the men from Squad #2 down stairs to help with the repair. The last two plus Rusty and the sniper on the roof to try and take out the bulldozer. Give Rusty covering fire while he attacks the bulldozer. Prepare to rush back down.

From here on we have two options:

Either we retreat back down the elevator shaft, in which case we need to figure out if we can salvage the heavy bolter and bring it with us.

Alternatively, we could set up a position overlooking main door. We can set-up an ambush and use the door as a choke point, cutting down the enemy with las and bolter fire. As a last resort we can fall back to the elevator.

>>5951162
Note that the stand and fight plan all depends on whether or not we can take down that bulldozer. If Rusty can't do it we need to retreat down the elevator shaft because it'll rob us of our only choke-point if it just smashes it's way in.

>>5950273
> Save the English language: http://www.anonta[removethis]lk.com/ICARE
I saw this posted on AT. Must be copypasta.

Bump.

Should have rigged entire building to blow/collapse.

>>5951510
I doubt we have enough explosives to do that.

>>5951777
Kraks on the support, no worries mate. Too late now, though.