The trio of axe-wielding men gawk openly as the beast on the horizon unleashing a keening cry, its inhuman chattering threatening to ice their emboldened hearts. But to the standard Krussian troop, every citizen who has been downtrodden, kicked around, and threatened with life and limb while upon this planet...this is it. This is the final straw, the last charge, the crescendo of a clamoring militant symphony. They charge, not because they are unafraid, but because they will accept no other fate than victory over what has plagued them for so very, very long.

They sprint headlong against their foe. "Viva Kruss! Viva humanity! Viva my fucking axe!"

>Viva Squad sprints ahead accordingly, setting their shields forward.

>Move 2 East!

rolled 1, 4, 4 = 9

>Charge the bug!

"FOR KRUSS!"

"FOR COMRADES!!"

"TOO VALHALLA!!!"

"COME BROTHERS! WE MUST NOT BE LEFT BEHIND!"

"..but it's a gi-"

"WHAT ARE YOU PANSY COWARD! CHARGE SERGEI CHARGE!"

"....."

>>Vorkuta charges as indicated in VISUAL AID

"CHARGE FOR VICTORY SONS OF KRUSS"

>Sprint as per diagram and shielding. If possible prone as well.

10 minutes before turn is over.

rolled 1, 3, 5 = 9

>[R4] Run 6 East

>[N1] run 6 East

>[N2] sit tight and wait of distance to close.

enemy phase.

X3 wasn't moved.

rolled 5, 4 = 9

"FOR KRUSS! FOR THE 13TH! AND THIS IS FOR MY BOY!"

The Grafin roars out a vengeful declaration as she again steps down on the accelerator pedal hard. The aXeman who has left the Salamander is showered with gravel, again, as the vehicle jumps into the gap the artillery fire has left on the bug's carapace.

"Now I sear your flesh-" The accusatorial is rudely ended with a loud boom as the main cannon of the Salamander spits out a gout of flame straight onto the bug's gut.

> Move/ram 2 SW, straight into bug body, first roll to breach into damaged armor
> Fire flamer into wound, second roll
> Spread out the fire radius in the best way to cook said bug

TIME WILL NOT BE STOPPING FOR YOU !

25 MINUTES OR THE GRIP OF FEAR WILL DEVOUR YOU

>>13489509

Grafin you got botted last turn. but hey at least you are still of being alive

rolled 7 = 7

>Called artillery shot, are you MAD!?!?
>Yes I MAD, called shot to the scorpion thingy's head!

Iven looks through the scope as the giant xeno turns his way. Spotting an odd red flashing area on it's face he yells, "BEINK ATTACKING THE WEAK SPOT FOR GREAT DAMAGE! FIRE!"

rolled 5, 3, 8, 6 = 22

[S1] and [S2] will be shooting at the blasted creature. Aiming for the head.
>First two dice are for S1, and second two are for S2.

"Come on woman! This is where we make our stand for Kruss!"

"For Kruss, and all it's children!"

rolled 7, 1 = 8

>>13489589
"FOR FATHER SABATON! FIRE THE TWIN CANNONS! GUNMEN, FOCUS FIRE ON A SINGLE POINT, PEIRCE CARAPACE, YES?"

>>13489686
ALSO FULL REVERSE AFTER THAT

rolled 3, 2, 10 = 15

"VICTORY OR DEATH. FOR KRUSS, FOR ME, FOR THE NEW AXE I AM GOING TO RIP OUT OF THAT THING"

>Charging/jump attack. Whatever it's really called.

rolled 2, 2, 10 = 14

Viva Squad breaks formation, smelling the sickly sweet stench of the bug-daemon's blood, an opening for revenge, for victory!

>Viva Squad sprints ahead as shown in the picture, jumping upon the creature's wounded claw and seeking to gouge their axes deep into its already weeping wounds.

>Roll is for jump attacks and clambering onto the beast.

>OMG, it's still going!

rolled 1, 3, 5, 3, 3, 2 = 17

>move 3w, called shot xenohead
Alpha doesn't even notice the casualties, and moves wordlessly to continue their harassment of the beast

>>13489635
Iven follows the shell as it goes wide of it's intended target and tears a claw clean off!

"YES! I REMOVE IT'S WEAPON, JUST AS I MEANT TO!"

>>13489589
> Repeat of prior post then, but with minute differences

rolled 5, 4 = 9

The Grafin shakes her head, tasting metal in her broken lips. The Salamander got tossed aside like her grandchildren's puny toy cars. The rest of the soldiers... Crushed.

"FOR KRUSS! FOR THE 13TH! AND THIS IS FOR THE BOY!"

The Grafin roars out a vengeful declaration of war as she again steps down on the accelerator pedal hard. The soldiers near the vehicle gets showered in gravel and dirt, again, as the vehicle accelerates near around them. It crashed headlong, metal bumper first into the the bug's unwounded pincer.

"Now I sear your flesh-" The accusatorial is rudely ended with a loud boom as the main cannon of the Salamander spits out a gout of flame straight onto the bug's pincer joints.

> Move/ram 2 SW, straight into bug pincer, trying to break open its carapace
> Fire flamer into wound, second roll
> Spread out the fire radius in the best way to cook said bug

>Stablize

"Hurlbat.....Francisca......Wait for me"

>>13489741

>It is, but we're all about to die!

>>13489589
The light was just as bright as it had been that day.

"Croix!"
"Borislav!"

The light nearly blinded and for a moment everything was silent. She found see stars behind her eyes as she looked to the side. Everythign was in order. Every limb was in place. Gun? Right new to her. Volnerowich turned towards the spot she had just escaped from, a destroyed heap. She tried to call for her partner, but she couldn't hear herself.

And it was only after the afterimage dissipated that she saw the splatter of blood that as covered a decent part of her body. She hiccuped in surprise looking to her partner, her team mate who was nothing more than a haphazardly painted blood smear on the war torn ground. She was spared but at what cost?

>Take remaining ammo and reload.
>Loop around vehicle 2 spaces for cover.

The battle wasn't over yet.

>>13489780
> Forgot to specify the change in directions: S 2, SE 1, S 3

rolled 5 = 5

>PA for Md2
Move forward and attack
>PA For R4 Aim and shoot
>PA N1 moves to N2's Position both fire

rolled 8, 1, 8 = 17

>>13489805
>the rest of the dice rolls

>>13489756

See

>>13489720

So please specify which claw or else you'll be swarmed by very, very mad axemen!

>>13489741
>>13489782
>What Comrade Polaski means is we are about to have glorious triumph!

>>13489782

"Commander, what trouble have you gotten yourself into while I was away?"

>Seriously! What happened!?

>>13489756

If indeed the busted claw is lopped off, swap those rolls to the damn thing's head. Hackedy hack hack.

rolled 5, 1, 4 = 10

>>13489589
"THIS IS IT BROTHERS! FOR GLORY! FOR KRUSS!"

"For the women!"

"THAT IS SPIRIT SERGEI!"

"...for mother."

The two Vorkuta's looked in shocked at their normally silent brother. Then, grinning at each other, they hefted their axes and shields, taking up his cry as their own.

"FOR MOTHER!"

>>>Charging jump attack straight line. Aiming for legs.

>>13489853

"Is, giant bug? Is needing better explanation?"

>We bombed the crap out of everything, then that showed up. Feel free to scan it. I would like that actually!

(Just came back from work)

Squad runs SE, around the hole in the bridge, to end up standing South of X3

>>13489890

Zephyr shook the sandwich at the monitors.

“Vonny, what have you done while I was away?”

Slabs of gelatinous grey protein threatened to shake their way out between slices of durawheat as Zephyr started to break out into a full-fledged fourteen year-old tantrum. The other staff held their breath. The last time she had thrown a fit, every bulb within 50 feet of the command room had exploded, and due to storages there were still dark places in the halls. Upon the commander’s brief explanation, the little girl regained composure and sat down.

“Commander Polaski, you only sound that calm when you have no idea what you are fighting. Very well, I shall investigate further.”

>Scan HUEG BUG

"Hans."

"But..."

"HANS!"

>Full speed ahead East!

>>13489969

"The...blood loss....is being helping.....Zeph...Hurlbat and Francisca......They have finally reached Valhalla.....

>Also I spent the last 3 points to reinforce Alpha.

Blitz looked on at the situation. At the joy and pride and sheer intensity of unity that these people felt. He was a marooned Spacey but he cant help but feel his heart stir for these simple people.

He knew the battle was won, the nightmare soon to be over.

He could feel it.

No need to hit the gas, girl. He stayed his position while the MULE loaded him up.

Let's just sit back and watch....

GLORIOUS.

>>13490019

“They did!? I am going to be very cross with you two, do you hear me?”

“Don’t worry, Polaski, I will heal you soon. Just don’t you go dying on me, or I shall get so angry, I shall drop my sandwich.”

>>13490053
"HAHA! FATHER SABATON WILL BE MOST PROUD. TIE THE CLAW TO THE TANK, WE GO HOME HEROES!"

>>13490054

"Is not being problem. Zeph, I have been already putting organs back inside. And do you hear that? Bug is dead. No need for you to lose sandvich."

Mission Complete.

>Thank you for playing.

"GLORY TO KRUSS. Now we go about oldest Krussian Tradition. I'm going to find a good peice to make a new axe or shield out off."

>>13490101

"Good job soldiers, today you have made all of Kruss proud. Remember to scavenge the bodies and then burn them. We leave nothing for the enemy.”

"To all of you who died, I will be having words with you now."

"WHAT ARE YOU ALL CHEERING FOR!?" Polaski roared as he stood to his feet, "THIS ONLY BEING TINY BUG! CONTINUE CHEERING AND WE FIND BIGGER ONE! THEN WE CAN ALL BE JOURNEYING TO VALHALLA! GATHER WHAT YOU CAN! WE ARE RETURNING TO COMMAND FOR NIGHT SLEEP AND NEXT MISSION!"

rolled 7, 9, 1 = 17

>>13490053

Sergei shook beneath his armor, tears running down his eyes as he realized he was alive. Dimitri was laughing axe raised to the sky in victory. Dorcas, back to his normally stoic self, stood a silent vigil over them both.

The Vorkuta Brothers had not gone to Valhalla this day, but that was just fine. Today they had slain a giant bug. Today they had made their mother proud.

>The men of Viva Squad wrench their axes from the ginormous creature's head, riding it unsteadily as its legs gave way and it fell to the ground. Dead at last. Now there would be peace for a time. And much, much liquor.

Watching the massive creature be destroyed by the might of Kruss the Spring twins stand up as they watch the chitin burn across the ditch. The smoke rising into the fading sun.

"Well sis, it looks like we've survived another battle. We live to serve Kruss another day."

The sister sits silently for a little bit, "But once again many have died in the mother's name. We dwindle every battle."

"But we will prevail. We have survived this long and we will continue. Now come, let us celebrate with the rest of the men. They'll be pulling the choosest bits from its corpse. We shall not want to miss out chance for a good trophy."

The brother extends his hand and helps his sister to her feet. They set off down the ditch to enjoy the trophy of their newest victory.

The Salamander lets out a sigh as the Grafin toggles off the ignition control. There are tiny plinks of cooling down engine, flamer barrel, and carapace. The whole frontal viewing slits of the vehicle is all cherry colored carapace, rapidly turning black as it cools down.

The Grafin glances at the detonation cap, and closes it down. Not today, she mouths, and raises her rosary from behind her vest and gives it a kiss.

"I am not coming today, dearest."

"D'here ist no reason to celebrate. Not until ve kill every last vone." The remaining sniper from squad 4 responded, dragging the butt of her rifle along the ground, hands shaking from a combination of anger and shellshock.

"I vill be needink new partner, mine ist quite dead."

Good job comrades! Today, you wins GLORIOUS victory over bug scum!

I vill uploads recordings to the interspheres now, yes? All of Humanity shall see your glory!

>>13490136

“Commander, I am afraid you are mistaken. You are to hold and advance the line, you cannot do that by retreating to a bunker. While you cannot get a hot meal made by loyal Krussian workers, I have heard xenos are quiet tasty. Just make sure to take your anti-radiation pills first.”

“Also, you may wish to dig in and seek cover. An ion storm is coming, and acid rain is not the worse of it.”

Zephyr takes a bit of her sandwich.

>>13490281
"Delusional civi, the Federation, if it even existed, must have been overrun long ago! We are alone out here."

>Hey OC, wouldn't it make sense for the artillery to have farther range then 10+? Snipers have 8+, you would think artillery could shoot much farther then them than 2 hexes.

>I feedback!

>>13490389

"Vat? I am speaking of glorious Kruss Interspheres! Has the heat cooked your brains? What other Interspheres would there be, comrade?"

>>13490285

"Ah, of course, what was I thinking. Thank you comrade Zeph. Blow to head must have knocked somethink loose. GOOD NEWS COMRADES WE GET TO STAY THE NIGHT AND TOMORROW WE MARCH!"

>>13490418

You're right I was thinking of measuring his firing range by LENGTHS. Im gonna go with the standard AW measurement and say 6L ? [your vehichle is 3 long so its 18 hex]

>Well, I'm not playing DVA again. Too slow to get anywhere, outclassed entirely by artillery and infantry in equal measure, it doesn't feel like there's much of a point to it. Yeah, sure, I'm armored, but when the entire battle is twelve hexes away, it's just not fun to be constantly too late to help with much of anything.

>>Sorry, it's just not fun to be a DVA.