12 March 2011

12 March 2011:  Elements of Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, under Captain Oelschlaeger (Valour Medal, 3rd Class, Posthumous), have encountered a fast moving Ork raiding party in the Tointon wilderness near a derelict Eldar webway portal.  We devastated the majority of their 'truks,' killed and dispersed the majority of their 'boyz,' and harassed their nobz, killa-kans, deth-koptas, and grievously wounded their warboss.  Unfortunately, the greenskins' lust for loot knew no bounds and they greedily looted a weapons cache before fleeing the area.  Commissar Mailloux (Valour Medal, 3rd Class, Posthumous) had the misfortune of leading Aurignaci conscripts, who have been noted for their unwillingness to fight at close quarters.  Despite the Commissar's heroic example and his summary execution of a cowardly sergeant, the Aurignaci attempted to flee from the enemy and were butchered in the pursuit.  The Vendetta pilot apparently got lost and was a late arrival.  He was shot down immediately, careened out of control, managed to blow up, and the melta-gun veterans were lost.  Lieutenant Rezner (Valour Medal, 3rd Class, Posthumous) and his command squad made a good account of themselves with their flamethrowers, burning an entire squad of Ork boyz from their chimera transport and then charging bravely into close combat with Ork nobz in a heroic attempt to rescue Captain Oelschlaeger and his beleaguered command squad at the weapons cache site.  Our ordnance also devastated the enemy, but once again, the enemy values loot over their own lives.