2 December 2011

2 December 2011:  The Uradeln 21^st Regiment has remained on planet Rhaegar for some time training and indoctrinating the Rhaegar Planetary Defense Force in the vicinity of Hive Targaryen.  Recently we hosted a joint training exercise along with Imperial Astartes of the Space Wolves Chapter.  Uradeln Officers and NCOs paired with their counterparts in the Rhaegar PDF as advisors and won a resounding victory over the Space Wolves OPFOR (Opposing Forces).  We have added many new Basilisk artillery guns to our regiment from the forges in Targaryen.  We used to have just a token amount of artillery so we kept them far from the front lines but now we are practicing fielding some of the guns nearer to the front, where they can provide more accurate fire support.  There is one thing that darkens the holiday feeling within the regiment, as well as darkening the spirits of the rest of the humans of Targaryen: a large space hulk has been spotted on Imperial Navy scanners and it is heading towards Rhaegar.  There’s no telling what could be in it.

28 October 2011: Conscripts, the one with the lasgun shoots!

28 October 2011:  Due to disturbances in the Warp, Astropath messages have been unable to reach the Imperium from planet Rhaegar for some time.  For a long time there have been few real battles to speak of in the war against the cultists of Khorne, though there have been some skirmishes. Most of the cultists have been slaughtered, such as in the battle on 28 October in Hive Targaryen, and many citizens of planet Rhaegar have been pressed into service as Conscripts by the Imperial forces to assist the latter in hunting down the last vestiges of the Cult.  The Uradeln 21^st Regiment, tasked with securing Hive Targaryen, the capital of Rhaegar, has conscripted the most citizens, and many of the most fit have been used as replacements within the ranks of the Uradeln 21^st.  On 28 October, no less than four platoons of Rhaegar Conscripts were sent charging against the Enemy in multiple waves while one HUG platoon of Uradeln Guardsmen held the line.  This final battle in Hive Targaryen was bloody for the Imperium, but the last of the Khornate cultists in the hive city were slain. Imperial forces are mopping up on planet Rhaegar and the Uradeln 21^st Regiment may be shipped out at any time to go to their next planet and their next conquest!

26 August 2011

26 August 2011:  Glorious victory for our valorous Uradeln guardsmen!  Alpha Company, 3^rd Battalion, under Captain Kipton Burba smashed the Chaos foe on the outskirts of Targaryen Hive, preventing the Enemy relief force from making any headway.  The Enemy attempted to roll over our stalwart infantry using their infernal metal boxes, and Commissar Medovich momentarily lost control over 2^nd Platoon (HUG) on the left flank, despite executing a sergeant on the spot in an attempt to maintain discipline.  Fortunately, Captain Burba intervened and ordered them back into the fight, and this time the men did their duty and charged into close combat and slaughtered the traitor Astartes to the last man, though not in time to save their platoon leader, Lieutenant Swanson, who died heroically.  Meanwhile, 3^rd Platoon (HUG) under Lieutenant Sibel, fought a frenzied battle in the center.  All of the men died but their sacrifice prevented the enemy from reaching our armor, artillery, and command units.  Our vehicles and flying machines destroyed all of the foe’s metal boxes and laid waste to the enemy infantry.  Victory for Uradel and for the Imperium! 

12 August 2011

12 August 2011:  Glorious victory for Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, under Captain Ratliff!  While pursuing a villainous traitor north of Targaryen Hive, the Uradelns located an enemy defector working his way to Imperial lines.  Chagrined at this, the Enemy launched a brutal attack to both slay him and protect the traitor!  The battle opened with Chaos Sorcerers conjuring up devious Warp rifts close to Imperial lines to allow their Warp Spawns to close into melee range quickly.  Seeing this, Captain Ratliff ordered a brilliant counter-attack, the 'Red Queen,' and another vendetta supporting the attack moved up and deployed Bravo's veterans, while 1st Platoon HUG, under Commissar Raege advanced at full pace. Both Warp rifts were shut down, with only a single unit of Spawn able to slip through.  These Warp freaks were swiftly crushed under Imperial boots!  With their devious plans thwarted, the enemy had no choice but to attack Bravo through the outlying settlements.  Their march, unorganized and slow, was subjected to relentless bombardment from Bravo's Masters of Ordinance and the near legendary 'Roaring Ovation.' Their monsters and brutal close combat elites managed to reach the lines in strength, but heavy weapons and 2nd Platoon HUG HW slaughtered them in a vicious melee!  After a lascannon barrage that reduced a vehicle to a smoking heap, Captain Ratliff spotted the traitor crawling from the wreckage. With a word, a second Lascannon team spread him across twenty meters of rockcrete. The only losses of the battle were a number of Bravo veterans who had heroically given their lives to close the rifts, and the vendetta 'Sacred Duty,' whose wing was sheared off by Warp energies just after depositing its veterans.

Captain Nathaniel Ratliff has now been promoted to the rank of Major and Colonel Sir Zeller has requested the Departmento Munitorum that Major Ratliff be awarded The Macharian Cross for his numerous displays of tactical and strategic brilliance over the course of many campaigns!

5 August 2011: Street Fighting in the the Workers' Hab Blocks

5 August 2011:  Imperial Forces have claimed the Workers' Hab District of Targaryen Hive after driving the Traitor Rhaegar PDF back during heavy street fighting.  The Workers' Hab District lies just inside the ruins of The Dragon Gate, which our valiant soldiers recently breached in order to begin the conquest of Planet Rhaegar's principle hive city.  Our forces had to contend with minefields, tank traps, and barricades.  An armored spearhead, followed by infantry, delivered a glorious victory!  Elements of the Uradeln 21st Regiment, the Night Hawks Space Marines, and the Vostok 19th Regiment participated.  The Uradelns lost 11 Guardsmen, 1 Leman Russ, and 1 Hellhound (a flamethrower tank).  The Night Hawks lost 6 Space Marines and the Vostok lost 1 Leman Russ and 1 Vendetta gunship was damaged and later repaired after the battle.  We killed over 90 Traitor Rhaegar PDF, 1 of their few Leman Russ tanks, and sent their remnants to flight!  The Traitors poured all of their reinforcements into their left flank because the Uradelns drove relentlessly into them and blasted them apart!  Additionally, once Night Hawks Assault Marines took the Communications Tower on Hill 17 they eliminated the scrambling code and their ships sent down a massive orbital bombardment that annihilated many of the Traitors that the Uradelns were facing.
"Glory for The Emperor!"

23 July 2011: Breaching The Dragon Gate of Hive Targaryen

23 July 2011:  Colonel Sir Zeller personally led the Uradeln 21^st Regiment to a Glorious Victory in securing entrance to Hive Targaryen by blasting through The Dragon Gate in the northeastern sector of planet Rhaegar’s principle hive city.  The mighty gate, built long ago in The Dark Age of Technology, withstood heavy punishment before finally collapsing under the guns of no less than our Regiment’s Super Heavy Tank, the Malleus ira Dei, as well as from the guns of numerous Leman Russ Battle Tanks and Basilisk artillery pieces from the Uradeln 21^st and the Vostok 19^th.  The venerable Malleus ira Dei led a mighty armored spearhead, crushing the puny tank traps that had been thrown up by the cowardly PDF(Planetary Defense Forces) troopers who now fight for The Enemy.  A strike force of Imperial Space Marines from the Blood Angels Chapter also took part in the assault, using their jump packs to leap over the city walls and assault the vile traitors.  Their vanguard elements penetrated deep into the outer city blocks where they discovered and killed five Chaos Space Marines of the Black Legion who had been manning one of the wretched AA guns that laid low our Vendettas and Valkyrie.  If there were more Black Legionnaires in the vicinity, they must have fled ahead of our victorious forces.  The traitor PDF commander kept feeding squads of reinforcements into the meat-grinder, determined to stop us at the gate, but the Malleus ira Dei blasted the traitors into oblivion as she emerged, wounded but vital, through the wreckage of The Dragon Gate, and into Targaryen Hive. 

“Hellhammers, for when you are finally sick of just Holding the Line.” – Colonel Sir Zeller

Cleaning up planet Scelus and moving on to planet Rhaegar

24 June, 1 July, 4 July 2011:  The mighty and righteous Uradeln 21^st Regiment crushed the last of the enemy forces on planet Scelus in battles on the 24^th and the 1^st.  First, the last of the cultists were annihilated in a woodland battle.  The following week, the last of the Traitor Black Legion on Scelus were hunted down and slain within an urban ruin. 

As soon as victory was achieved, the Uradeln 21^st began boarding Imperial Navy transport.  Their destination is very near: planet Rhaegar.  The 13th Black Crusade of Abbaddon the Despoiler has engulfed Rhaegar.  The hive world has largely fallen to Chaos following an uprising of cultists of Khorne who were native to the planet.  They have been joined by a small number of Chaos Space Marines from the Black Legion, who typically assume individual leadership of groups of cultists.  Unfortunately, a large portion of the Rhaegar Planetary Defense Force, the PDF, have also turned traitor, taking whatever war machines they had with them over to the enemy camp.  Rhaegar, like Scelus, is very near the Eye of Terror, where Warpspace meets real space and where the Forces of Chaos hide. 

On 4 July, the Forces of the Imperium began the reclamation of Rhaegar by landing Imperial Guard reinforcements to aid the beleaguered and greatly diminished loyal Rhaegar PDF, who still hold out within districts of some of the Hive cities.  Elements of the Sons of Sajuuk Space Marine Chapter cleared a landing zone by knocking out anti-air defenses in a strongpoint in the eastern hemisphere, near Targaryen Hive, which is the principal Hive city on Rhaegar.  The Uradeln 21^st is even now on its way to Targaryen Hive and other Imperial forces have already begun landing in the vicinity.  This includes a full company of the Sons of Sajuuk, a half company of Blood Angels, half a company of the Order of the Lady Adeptus Sororitas, one battalion of the Vostok 19^th Imperial Guard, and rumor has it that a handful of stormtroopers from the Caladan 101^st have arrived, and they usually accompany a certain Inquisitor…