Janner's Tale 4-Cheating

“Karn, 5 minutes until the attack” “Ok, get the squad leaders, platoon commanders and Bane-blade commanders here” said Karn to the sergeant. “Yes sir” he replied before leaving to find them. About 1 minute later, Karn, Jurgen, Karn’s command squad, the 16 squad leaders, the 8 platoon commanders and the other tank commanders were agreeing on a final plan of action. “Holy Death and Orkbane will go with the Bane-blades to the tree line and set up a forward base. After that, Jurgen will move the Bane-blades into the forest and head towards the Ork fort. Once they have opened fire, the Chimeras will move up and offload 3 squads at the opening, each one with at least two flame units. After the breach has been secured, my Chimera will move into the breach and offload me and my command squad and will then support the ground forces as they move towards the centre of the fort. I will also move up with my command squad to support the men but also clearing any buildings we encounter along the way. When we have established a foot hold, Orkbane will enter the breach and open fire on the Ork HQ. Once the HQ is destroyed, the ground forces will secure the Ork vehicle bay to ensure no Orks can escape or launch a counter-attack. You have your orders, now commence any final preparations.”

As the attack was beginning, Karn was unaware that the Orks were testing a new weapon. They called it a ‘Tred-Stoppa’, it was designed to paralyze a tanks treads, leaving it immobile for a long amount of time unless attended by a Tech-Priest. It was only by chance that the Orks managed to create this, as they were originally trying to fix one of there artillery pieces.

“This is Orkbane, we are in position” “Roger that, we are moving up now” said Jurgen, before telling his driver to move up. “Commander Karn, this is Orkbane, we are waiting for the Bane-blade’s arrival” “Roger, Orkbane, we’re mounting up now, good hunting out there” replied Karn “You too sir” said the tank commander before switching of his vox-link. “Squad’s Bravo through Delta, move up to the Bane-blade’s position and prepare the forward base. Platoon commander Grest, make sure all the men at base are ready to move out once given the all clear”.

The Bane-blades opened fire as soon as they reached their position. The amount of fire laid down was deafening, with each one firing as fast as possible with all weapons. The demolisher cannons and Bane-blade cannons decimated large portions of the wall whilst the Heavy bolters, Lascannons and auto-cannon cleared the trees from the path. Jurgen was, as always, enjoying their barrage. Once the wall had been destroyed, the three Chimeras moved into the gap, their weapons slaughtered any Orks who stood in the way and ones who didn’t move got crushed beneath the treads. “This is Bravo squad, disembarking now” “Charlie squad disembarked, setting up firing line!” “Delta squad here, still moving into position, we had an Ork weapon wedged in the treads”

When all three squads had disembarked, Karn’s Chimera moved into the breach and as soon as it had reached a mere 5 metres into the fort, Karn disembarked with his command squad and moved into the surrounding buildings. Karn kicked the door of the first one down with such force it ripped it out of the frame. He already had his weapons un-holstered and dismembered one of the Orks who ran at him. The other Orks in the building put up more of a fight, as one of the troopers were shredded as he went through one of the doors. Karn quickly dispatched of the Ork with heavy weapon and rolled into the room and before the Orks even realised what was happening, he was among them. The first Ork he killed too easily, with a shot from his Bolt pistol, as a Plasma pistol would kill every living thing within a foot, which would include him. The next fell headless out of a window, being killed by a swift strike from Karn’s Chain sword. The other Orks were felled quickly by the rest of his squad as they charged through after. “Sergeant, get Orkbane to move up and clear a hole in the next building” “Already on it sir”.

After 10 minutes, the final part of the assault was underway. Jurgen had somehow managed to fit his Bane-blade through the gap and manoeuvre it through the Imperial forces to get to the front. Despite this, the plan was still going how Karn had expected it to go. Then the Orks used the Tred-Stoppa. It hit Orkbane head on, the impact causing it to lose its pintle-mounted heavy bolter. “What the hell was that!” yelled the tank commander down the vox. “I don’t know, but it’s screwed up our movement!” replied his driver. “Commander Karn, can you see what the Orks are using from there?” asked the tank commander. “Negative on that, Orkbane. It seems to be coming from the HQ” “Whatever it is, we need to take it out, those bastards are cheating! We’re sitting ducks!” “Jurgen, commence fire on the Ork HQ, they have some sort of new weapon that ruins your treads. Its hit Orkbane and now they’re stuck.” “Roger that, commencing fire now. Check if there’s anything left after the smokes cleared, will ya’?” “Do you normally joke about that?” asked Karn “Nine times outta’ ten”. After Jurgen had finished firing, all that was left was a smouldering pile of scrap metal, “Nice shooting Jurgen, give your gunners a week of celebration for this”.

All that was left to do now was to clear the last remaining parts of Ork resistance in the areas surrounding the forest and vehicle bay. The vehicle bay was nowhere near as hard to capture, mainly due to the fact that most of the Orks had been inside of the HQ. With nowhere to fall back to, the Orks were quickly routed from the planet. Orkbane was successfully repaired and added another 48 reasons to why they have their name the day after.