Derp, forgot mah trip.

ALPHARIUS?

OH SHIT

I BET WE'RE OMEGON

>>8866605

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

Weren't we also going to distract them with a fake frontal assault?

>>8866667

Yes, as I recall that was going to be ALpha Legion's job.

As the Thunderhawk enters the planet's atmosphere, the ship begins to shake - Nothing unusual, but unnerving all the same, knowing that if something were to go wrong, there's no way you'd be able to influence your fate. Alpharius grins at you, as Fal pulls on his helmet.

>>8866699
Righto. Sounds good. Do we have Silencers placed with every squad in order to ensure encrypted communications?

>>8866750

You've got 500+ Silencers preparing to deploy on the planet's surface, I think it's a safe bet you'll have enough for just about anything.

You can feel the turbulence declining, as the Thunderhawk prepares to land. Within half a minute, the ship has settled down in the deployment zone, and you can hear the other gunships landing nearby. Unstrapping himself, Alpharius stands up and punches in the code to open the rear bay doors. As the ramp descends, Alpharius motions to you and Fal to follow him.

Have we leaked our 'plan' outside of silencer range yet?

>>8866846

Nope.

>>8866875
Check with Alpharius about when his men will strike, then let's see about getting our men ready to SPIDER TUNNEL.

>>8866875
Alright, once we get it ironed out with the men, motion for Alpharius to move with us away from the silencers, and talk about a frontal assault in a low whisper.

>>8866927
We're also a null, derp.

Send Alpharius off to inspire the men by discussing our valiant frontal assault that's due to start any minute now.

>>8866914

You follow Alpharius down the ramp, where an Alpha Legionnaire with black armor is awaiting you. Your brother turns to you at the base of the ramp. "So, Rachnus, where do you need my men and I to begin our assault?"

>>8866980
What's the disposition of the enemy forces? We need to hit somewhere that we would actually normally attack. Like a weak point or vital power plant. Make talk as if our own Legion is getting ready to reinforce the assault, then burrow and attack the place they pull forces from in response.

How can someone even hope to accurately make role playing decisions equal to that of a Primarch. They are perfect in every way, direct clones of the Emperor himself.

>>8866980

I thought Alpha Legion's colors were blue and green.

>>8867090
Alpha Legion changes their colors as necessary. Omegon's team, the Effrit Stealth Squad wears all black, for example. So the Legionnaire we see now is either Omegon or one of the men in his team.

>>8867079

Except for, you know, THE ENTIRE HERESY. That's the whole point - They were just as fallible as your average Imperial Citizen, they just had access to a lot more knowledge and power.

>>8867077

The marine in black hands Alpharius a map of the city, which he displays to you. "There appears to be a rail-line leading out of the city - It's a weak point in their walls. We'll attack there, which should hopefully distract them enough for your ruse to succeed."

>>8867176

As you say brother, anything else you need?

>>8867176
Sounds good. Now as long as he's ready to capatalize on our success as soon as their center of power falls, everything should be fine.

>>8867220

He nods. "I'm going to need 20 or so of your SIlencers, brother. One for each of my squads, you see."

>>8867251
Whatever works.

(Of course, now that they've worked with the Alpha Legion we will never be able to completely trust those marines again, ahaha.)

>>8867251

So be it brother, Glory and Luck in battle. *pat on shoulder*

>>8867263
>>8867266

Alpharius nods, and directs the black-suited marine to gather the nearest 20 Silencers, as he strides off through the trees surrounding the landing zone - Towards his own Legion's base, presumably. As he disappears, the black-clad marine and 20 of your Silencers following him, Fal joins you at your side.

"The augmented Sandlegs are ready, lord. How many squads, and of what size, do you require for the assault?"

>>8867263
Now that we've been on campaign with the Alpha Legion there's no one in our Legion that we'll ever be able to trust again, including ourselves. Cost of doing business I suppose.

>>8867251
Easily done. Do we have any of our normal marines ready to pour through the tunnels with us, btw? I'd feel better if we weren't betting our entire Null force on this.

>>8867332

We need to send in our silencers ahead of the sandlegs, keep them in close reserve.

>>8867332
Say half a dozen Assault Squads, half a dozen Tactical, and 3-5 Silencer veteran squads. Make sure to have plenty of melta bombs/guns and blasting equipment.

>>8867372
This is good.

>>8867366
>>8867346
>>8867372

"How many Silencer/Sandleg squads do you want tunneling beneath the city to create passages for the rest of the marines, lord?"

can we get an idea of our forces over all?
as in how many taticals do we have on our battle barge at any one time?
how many dreds, tanks, vets, termies, etc

>>8867465

Well, at the moment, you have 480 Silencers, a good number of Tunneling-augmented Sandlegs, and essentially whatever weaponry a regular power-armored marine could wield.

>>8867490

That's just on the ground - Obviously your battle-barge contains more than 500 marines, equipment and giant spiders, but you don't have access to what's up there currently.

>>8867510
well in that case it sounds like we can bring an honor guard of about 8 silencers, but not the best tho, we should keep the best for leading the squads.

>>8867447
Alright. Split every tunneler into pairs. Then evenly divide our entire force between each pair. A third of the division advances directly behind the Sandlegs while the rest linger back a ways in case the tunnels collapse while we burrow. Just before we break free, the other guys move up and then we bum rush them en mass.

>>8867556

Fal nods. "Shall I accompany you, or lead one of the back-up squads?"

>>8867601

Fal, I trust you lead. Pick your squad.

>>8867601

I leave you in overall command of all of the backup squads. I trust you.

>>8867610

He nods, and begins relaying the orders to the marines. Within minutes, 15 10-man squads, each with its own burrowing Sandleg, are assembled at the edge of the treeline closest to the capital, with a sixteenth squad accompanying you and another Sandleg. As one, the spiders begin to burrow, and within minutes, the sixteen squads have vanished, the beasts of burden digging rapidly towards the city's underbelly.

>>8867610
>>8867660
>I trust you

Just wait till the heresy...

>>8867682
Eh, if he's a silencer then he should be a null, and therefore pretty immune to the call of heresy

Did we scan the spacelanes for any possible alien threats? Getting caught in the middle of a corsair raid would fucking suck.

>>8867682

Hah, with all those null marines, I'd wager we have a lot less about from chaos heretics and a lot more about Necron heretics.

As the Sandlegs continue to tunnel, there's not much for you to do but follow the arachnids and wait. From above, you can detect the tremors of heavy artillery peppering the city, but there's no sign that you've been detected yet. Your honor guard remains silent, periodically checking their bolters to make sure they're in full working order.

Do we have any schematics of the sublevels of the city with us?

rolled 26 = 26

>>8867799

Say some inspirational shit.

>>8867801

No, but your suit's auger arrays are slowly managing to pick up the forms of subterranean passageways.

>>8867818

Like what?

>>8867818
Pfft. We're the fucking DESERT FANGS. We don;'t need no stinking inspirational speeches. Besides, they might pick up our vox with normal listening.

>>8867849

Talk about how kickass we are, how it is our job NAY purpose to fight back vile sorcerers who corrupt humanity. Talk about how we are the second legion and we have spiders, together with our brothers in the alpha legion we will send these backwards warp loving assholes back to the warp.

>>8867945
This. Remember our battlecry.

>>8867961
>>8867945

While you're debating whether or not to deliver a rousing speech to your troops, the Sandleg begins chittering - You've broken through to the city's lower levels.

>>8867984
Excellent.Locate and hook up with our other squads and begin scouting the enemy tunnels.

>>8868010
Add, have the Sandlegs crawl along the corridor roofs for maximum surprise/shock factor

>>8867984
Infiltrate that shit
Find their socery stuff, and kill it
or something like that

>>8867984

Well, no speech, a quick fist pump then and off we go.

>>8868010

You vox for the other squads to converge on your location once they break through, and set out. The tunnels are odd... They seem to shaped like ovals, and bear no toolmarks. The air itself seems to glow a faint, blue light.

Are the other tunneling crews coming out in the same area? We need to link up and strike as one. We cannot give away our presence before the time is right.

>>8868051
Try to avoid contact and get the lay of the land while waiting for the rest of our strike team. Make sure everyone is alert and ready, weapons charged and locked.

When we approach their den of sorcery and heresy, we need to burst through the walls kool-aid man style and give a rousing SURPRISE, FUCKERS.

>>8868051
So? Can we tell it there is any sorcery going on?

>>8868097

After three minutes or so, you can see the runes indicating the other squads drawing towards your position. Above, you can still feel the impacts of heavy artillery. Suddenly, your vox sparks to life. "Rachnus! Rachnus, there's a problem!" It's Alpharius.

>>8868142
Go ahead

>>8868142
i doubt its him but go on.

>>8868148

The vox crackles with static, and you're only able to hear part of your brother's message. "They've... some sort of new weaponry... never... like this before... gigantic bird... tore apart... not sure... time we can buy you!"

>>8868197

Oh shit son! Move forward double time! If it isn't us or alpha legion, kill it!

>>8868197
Bird?
......
OH SHIT ITS A TZEENCH DEMON

>>8868197
Sounds like it's time to fucking hustle. Can we determine where under the city we are? We need to get to that center building STAT, regardless of what's in our way.

And if we're already there, can we determine the thickness of the ceiling above us? I want to meltabomb our way through.

The question is, do we proceed slowly and carefully now, given that we won't get backup? Or do we attack quickly to take advantage of the little time Alpharius is buying us?

>>8868197
Crap. Vox back that he should take action as he sees fit. Double time to link up with our squads.

>>8868221

You're approximately three miles from the center of the city. As you move out, heading towards the objective, you can hear bolter fire coming from up ahead.

Do the oval passageways get wider in any place? Keep following the wider passageways and we may get to the center of the city.

I say we find something to sabatoge(quickly), then pop out and help Alpharius.

>>8868262
Noises are irrelevant. Tactical squads to the fore, assault squads get ready to charge once the enemy has been supressed.

SURPRISE, FUCKERS!

>>8868262
Check it out. Have the Sandlegs hug the ceiling and try to keep concealed from whomever is shooting

>>8868288

This. They won't be expecting gigantic spiders to be above them.

>>8868283
>>8868288

As you press forward, you can hear unearthly shrieks, and can see flashes of what looks like multicolored flame. Eventually, the shrieks begin to diminish, as the sounds of bolter fire grow less and less frequent.

>>8868322
Well that sounds great. Keep moving on.
Question: As a null, can we sense when the warp is being used?

Damn, I hope Alpharius is okay.

Also, have the null marines in our squads ready to deploy warp-suppressing fields if we encounter any warp-technology.

>>8868358
THis

>>8868358
Nulls don't deploy anything. Nulls are always nullifying.

>>8868407

Can they project it in some way though? Like at a Tzeentch baddie or a psyker?

>>8868348

Unfortunately, you cannot. Thankfully, that means that whatever daemons you may encounter are going to have difficulties gaining control over you.

Finally, you round a bend, and are greeted by a large room. You can see the corpses of strange, multifaced creatures lying on the floor, which seem to be dissolving. Standing in the center of the room is a squad of black-clad Alpha Legionnaires, led by the Legionnaire that was waiting for Alpharius upon arrival.

>>8868496
"Well hello there. Why don't you step closer with your guns facing away so I can be sure you aren't a daemon in disguise, because how else would my Alpha Marine brothers be here before my own?"

Hug them. If daemon, this might be fatal to them. If not, bros.

>>8868535

The leader motions for his men to lower their weapons. As you and your men make your way into the room, you notice that the corpses of the creatures on the floor seem to sizzle and spark, degrading much more quickly.

>>8868584
That's nice, we're still going to get within Null range of them before asking how they got here.

>>8868496
frikin Alpha legion. Guess we better try to learn some stealth tactics from them.
For now do this
>>8868535
Also, try to get them within our null field of effect to see if they are using some sort of warp disguise. Non verbally signal our squad to remain on alert.

>>8868496

Alpha marines, report at once. What is going on on the surface? How did you get here? Where is Alpharius?

>>8868576

This.

>>8868584
Yeah, its Omegon.

It's probably Omegon.
Let's get closer, anyways.

>>8868605
>>8868604
>>8868606

They're unaffected by your Null field, as far as you can tell. The leader speaks, his voice distorted by his vox. "Alpharius is doing the best that he can do distract them above - Myself and my squad used the opportunity to sneak into the city. They're using something we've never seen before - We're not sure whether they're some sort of bizarre Xenos life-forms or mutated warp-sorcerors, but there's a lot of them and they're tough."

>>8868701
Ask for a description of the lifeforms and any troops or other information they observed on the way in

>>8868701

We need to find the source of this, leadership or sorcerer. It is pointless to just keep fighting them as we are.

>>8868701

Very well brother. Follow us as we make our way into the bowels of this place.

>>8868701
Well, lets get to kicking some domonic arse, shall we?
Also havent we seen him before? Just WHO is this guy anyways?

>>8868729

"Their human troops seem to be no better trained than the Imperial Guard, just better armed... But we've seen a number of Xenos creatures, from the foul things that lie before you -" He points to the multifaced corpses on the floor, "To a tremendous humanoid avian, clad in robes and wielding some sort of staff, that appeared out of nowhere when Alpharius began to push into the city."

>>8868701
Well damn. Give him a tunnel's worth of men and have him lead them to the largest concentrations of warp beasts. We can carry on without them and be safe in knowing that Alpharius won't get his ass kicked.

>>8868751
No, once we have the info from them, send them off to raise hell separately. It should create another distraction to help our strike force make it in, and we don't really need the extra manpower

>>8868784

This could lead to some of our men getting ambushed(we still cant be sure about these marines). And if alpharius needs null support most of our silencers are still on the surface and can back him up.

>>8868784
Alpharius can't get his ass kicked.
Remember, he has to live to take part in the Heresy.

>>8868778
Bird creatures who seem to predict the future. Yep, it's Tzeench.

Well, Alpharius does have a few of our Nulls with him, so he should be okay.
What we need to do is to find the dark heart of this problem and cut it out.

So, do you wish to team up with this Alpha Legion squad, or split up and head for the city center seperately?

>>8868796

This.

Alpharius is fine; if anyone can out-just as planned a greater daemon of Tzeentch, it's him.

Ask Omegon if he can direct us towards the center of the sorcerous disturbances.

>>8868818
Why can't we be sure? They aren't burning in our presence and we know the Alpha Legion is a bunch of sneaky bastards. And all of our Silencers are DOWN HERE. WITH US. There's only five hundred in the whole Legion and we only sent 20 with Alpharius to secure communications.

>>8868897
Split up. Tell them to hit targets of opportunity and raise hell. Get our strike teams moving

>>8868917
We only brought 16 squads total with us. Even if their all silencers that leaves ~340 with the alpha legion forces

>>8868918

He nods, and the Alpha Legion squad heads down another corridor, as you and the 160 Nulls you have down here with you continue on towards the city center. As you draw closer to the target, the light in the corridors seems to be pulsing more and more noticeably, almost like a heartbeat.

>>8868943
Bah. Alright.

Bring them with us. Let one of Alpharius' men see first hand our might.

>>8868963
...or not. Well, why'd you stop typing? Not like there's anything to do except keep going.

>>8868963
Crap. I just realized that with our entire strike team being made up of nulls the enemy can probably track us by the massive area around us that can't be sensed through the warp. O well, too late now

Have the marines ready to fan out if/when we hit a big room ahead.

>>8869001
Yep, just make sure everyone is still alert and ready and keep going

>>8869021

Indeed.

Finally, you round a corner, and before you lies a massive cavern, at least two miles in diameter. At the center, you can see what looks like a vast, pulsating heart, blue fire arcing across its surface. However... Standing between you and it is a vast swarm of gibbering creatures of every shape and color, constantly changing forms and hues.

>>8869077
Aw. How cute. They think they can stop us.

"SURPRISE, FUCKERS!"

>>8869077
Introduce them to our bolters.

>>8869077
They're Tzeench demons, arnt they?

>>8869077
>>8869094
Yep, SURPRISE FUCKERS!. Maximum firepower , hit hard and keep moving, don't let these warp abominations slow us down

Well that's the source of the warp energy on this world.

Shut that down and Alpharius will have an easier time of it.

Then again, this thing may be shackling the daemons against their will. Wouldn't it be amazing if they figured out tech to control the daemons?

>>8869077

We're close combat specialists. Have the tactical squads set up positions along the walls and start firing. Then charge into the breach with your assault marines and sandlegs.

Get into close combat, see what those null fields do.

>>8869094

As your men call out their warcry, the creatures shriek something as well, in a language not meant for the ears of men, as they charge forward towards you. However, once they come within ten meters of you and your SIlencers, they stop in their tracks, hissing and shrieking furiously, as those closest to you begin to melt.

>>8869248
Woohoo, keep pushing towards the heart. Direct our firepower to break up any formations of the creatures before they can reach our lines

>>8869248
Oh daemons, never change. Have the jet pack squads jump over the front ranks and into the middle of them. Accelerate their deaths and run through them.

Oh cool, our greatest weapon is the tackle! CHARGE MOTHERFUCKER!

>>8869248
ITS GO TYME

asdfg, my connection is shit tonight.

Someone, please archive this, and we'll resume on the morrow.

Someone shoot the heart.

>>8869332
Aww, no more?

>>8869332
Also, we need to become Bros with legion 11 ASAP. Seeing as how they are also a lost legion. But will they end up as friend or foe?

>>8869281
this

>>8869429
But clearly we are not a lost legion, we're just waiting for the right moment to shout "Surprise Fuckers!" and strike the enemies of the Imperium from ambush. And with 10,000 years to prepare, it's going to be a heck of an ambush

>>8869429

I would imagine they'll be on the opposite end of the Heresy as us.

>>8869527
That just makes it all the more tragic! And our secret doctrine will remember our former history with them, and out of respect for the past we will avoid conflict with them as much as we can.

>>8869567

In the last thread, when we had that flashback with Maloris telling us about the future... What was he talking about when he mentioned a difficult decision ahead, or whatever? I mean, if we have to choose between the Emprah and Chaos, that's not a hard choice - We couldn't go over to Chaos if we wanted to.

I think we might have some problems with 'Necron heresy' in the lower ranks. Given the fact that the null gene was introduced by the Necrons, they might set designs on us as their advanced force. Of course they won't succeed.

>>8869589

Yeah, I've noticed a common thread with gobbo's quests - nulls/null-based tech + warp = angry, pissed-off daemons.

>>8869589
It most likely has to do with the fate of the human race race as a whole. And weather our closest non-Null allies turn to chaos.

Like our bro Alpharius.

>>8869657

Wouldn't we be closer to Horus, given that we were the second Primarch to be found (Assuming our legion number corresponds to the order in which we were found, at any rate.)