Recaps

The Star Space Marines teleported aboard the battle barge and overwhelmed the Iron Wall Chapter’s defenders with their superior weapons and armor. After a failed charge cost the Astartes many lives, Chapter Master Shino ordered them to scatter and seek close-quarters combat.

• Ten Star Space Marines emerged from the teleportation beacon and opened fire on the Astartes guarding the weapons compartment.
• More Star Space Marines teleported aboard, pushing the Astartes back as both sides exchanged fire through the battle barge.
• The Iron Wall Chapter’s First Company Captain ordered his Space Marines to charge, but the Star Space Marines kept firing and killed many of them.
• Chapter Master Shino told the First Company Captain to stop the charge and acknowledged that he had no effective way to counter the Star Space Marines.
• The First Company Captain ordered the Astartes to withdraw and scatter so they could fight the Star Space Marines in close quarters.

Commander Dorak ordered the Star Space Marines to pursue the retreating Astartes through the battle barge’s corridors. As brutal fighting spread through the ship, a hidden red-helmeted Astartes ambushed a Star Space Marine with a plasma pistol.

• The Astartes withdrew from the weapons bay, and Commander Dorak ordered his battalion to split up and hunt them through the corridors.
• A five-man Star Space Marine squad encountered and killed an Astartes carrying a Vortex Bomb, then fled before it exploded.
• The squad leader warned a recruit to stay vigilant on the battlefield, and the group continued its advance.
• A blue-armoured, red-helmeted Astartes hid on the lower deck and ambushed an approaching Star Space Marine, piercing his Terminator Armour with a plasma shot.

A red-helmeted Space Marine ambushed a Star Space Marine squad, killing its leader before being driven off by their superior equipment. Kanas led an elite squad and an Earth Dreadnought toward the battle barge’s bridge to kill the Iron Wall Chapter Master as fighting spread throughout the ship.

• The red-helmeted Space Marine killed a Star Space Marine squad leader with a point-blank plasma shot, then failed to overcome another Star Space Marine in close combat.
• The Star Space Marines drove the attacker behind cover with rifle fire, and he escaped while reporting his discovery to his battle-brothers.
• The surviving Star Space Marines confirmed their squad leader’s death, appointed a new leader, and pursued the fleeing attacker after teleporting their fallen comrade back to the warship.
• Kanas led an elite combat squad and an Earth Dreadnought toward the battle barge’s bridge to confront the Iron Wall Chapter Master.
• Bloody fighting spread throughout the battle barge as both sides relied on their respective strengths in equipment and combat experience.

Kanas led the Star Space Marines toward the Iron Wall Chapter’s bridge, overwhelming the defenders with their numbers and firepower. After three Astartes died trying to halt the advance, Chapter Master Shino left the bridge with his remaining guards to face the attackers.

• The Star Space Marines advanced toward the bridge while the outnumbered Astartes and battle barge personnel fought back.
• Kanas’s squad encountered three Astartes in heavy exosuits, who charged to keep the attackers away from their Chapter Master.
• Kanas ordered more than twenty Star Space Marines to fire, and their Ripper Rifles killed all three exosuit-clad Astartes.
• Kanas led his squad onward toward the bridge, while Shino grieved for the fallen defenders.
• Shino declared that he and his guards would give their lives for the Imperium, then led them out of the bridge.

Shino confronted Kanas aboard the battle barge, hoping to learn more about the heretics before the Imperial fleet’s defeat. After discovering that Kanas served a force worshipping the Lord of the Stars, Shino ordered an attack, and the two sides began fighting in close combat.

• Kanas used a signal jammer to cut communications between Shino’s battle barge and the rest of the Imperial fleet.
• Shino and Kanas met in a conference hall, where Kanas mocked Shino’s armour and praised the Lord of the Stars.
• Shino learned that Kanas was not the heretics’ leader and that their followers worshipped the Lord of the Stars.
• Shino ordered his Space Marines to attack after Kanas insulted the Emperor, and both squads charged with Power Swords.
• Kanas overwhelmed Shino with powerful strikes, forcing Shino to struggle to block him.

Kanas killed Casilia and Shino during their battle aboard the battle barge. Shino’s surviving guards charged Kanas in grief, leaving themselves open to the Star Space Marines.

• Shino struggled against Kanas until Casilia intervened, but Kanas killed the Iron Wall Chapter Champion with a kick and a plasma shot.
• Shino charged Kanas to avenge Casilia and his fallen battle-brothers, but Kanas punched through his chest with a power fist.
• Kanas tore Shino’s head and spine from his body and threw his corpse to the ground.
• Shino’s surviving guards charged Kanas, and the Star Space Marines shot them down as they exposed their backs.

Kanas killed the Iron Wall Chapter Librarian after the Space Marines had wiped out Chapter Master Shino and his guards. He reported the heavy casualties to Mo Tuo and ordered his officers to prepare for extra training as the battalion finished securing the battle barge.

• The Iron Wall Chapter Librarian rushed into the hall, saw Shino's head in Kanas's hand, and lost control of his psychic powers in grief.
• Kanas shot the Librarian with a Daemon-Slaying Incendiary round, killing him and burning a hole into the next deck.
• The Dreadnought pilot complained that he had missed the battle, and Kanas contacted the Second Battalion squads for casualty reports.
• Kanas learned that the battalion had suffered more than thirty dead and over forty seriously wounded, then ordered the officers to prepare for extra training.
• Kanas reported the battalion's losses to Mo Tuo, who praised its speed, accepted the result, and reminded him to clear the ship of hidden dangers.

The Defense Force began boarding the Imperial Navy fleet, and Regiment Commander Tis joined the battle aboard an Avenger-class cruiser. After ordering his troops to expand the teleportation foothold, Tis led them into the fight against the Imperium’s defenders.

• The Defense Force began teleporting regiments into Imperial Navy warships while the Space Marines attacked the Adeptus Mechanicus and an Astartes Space Marine Chapter.
• Tal’s First Army attacked an Avenger-class cruiser, where Su Nuo’s battalion held the teleportation point against Imperial Navy and Astra Militarum forces.
• Tis teleported aboard with his guards and reviewed the cruiser’s layout after Su Nuo sent him the scan.
• Tis ordered the thousand soldiers in the weapons bay to join the battle and clear space for incoming troops.
• Tis’s soldiers advanced behind shield-bearing troops as combat robots charged the Imperium’s defenders and killed the attackers.

The Defense Force’s combat robots overwhelmed the Astra Militarum’s 173rd Regiment in the warship’s corridors, despite Commissar Locke’s desperate charge. Commander Yilin learned the regiment had been wiped out and was told the 183rd and 196th Regiments’ defensive positions were nearly complete.

• Tis’s combat robots advanced under heavy fire, destroyed the Imperium soldiers’ weapons, and forced them to retreat.
• Commissar Locke shot the regimental commander for complaining, then led the surviving soldiers in a charge and was killed.
• The combat robots killed the charging soldiers, wiping out the entire 173rd Regiment of more than sixty thousand men.
• Commander Yilin asked whether the 183rd and 196th Regiments had finished their defenses, and a communications officer reported the positions were nearly complete.

Inquisitor Lena and the Sisters of Battle joined Commander Yilin’s defense of the warship, while Tis’s assault force waited for reinforcements. Tal took command of the Defense Force’s attack on the Avenger-class cruiser and sent its regiments forward to seize the ship.

• Lena asked Yilin to assign her Sisters of Battle to the front, and he welcomed their support and gave them a defensive sector.
• Lena led two hundred Sisters of Battle from the bridge to fight alongside the Astra Militarum.
• Su Nuo reported that the combat robots had eliminated the corridor defenders at a cost of five hundred robots, and Tis chose to wait for reinforcements.
• Three Defense Force regiments, totaling three hundred thousand soldiers, and more than two million combat robots gathered in the weapon compartments.
• Tal took command, assigned the regimental commanders to lead the attack, and stayed with the reserves to coordinate the battle.
• Tal and the troops shouted their allegiance to the Lord of the Stars, and Tal ordered them to move out.

Su Nuo’s Defense Force fought through a macro-cannon firing bay, using timed grenades, field shields, and sustained fire to eliminate the Imperium defenders. After clearing the chamber and reporting more than a dozen casualties, Su Nuo ordered the battalion to advance toward the next weapons chamber.

• Su Nuo led the Defense Force toward a weapons chamber and ordered soldiers to fire timed grenades into it.
• The grenades exploded, and Defense Force soldiers charged behind their field shields as the surviving Imperium forces returned fire.
• Defense Force reserves rotated forward when the first row’s shields were nearly depleted, while the soldiers kept up their attack with rifles and heavy weapons.
• The Defense Force killed every Imperium defender in the chamber, then checked the battlefield and finished off the wounded.
• A company commander reported the chamber cleared, and Su Nuo noted that his battalion had lost more than a dozen recruits before ordering the advance to continue.

Tis’s Defense Force company encountered a heavily fortified hall packed with Imperial troops aboard the Avenger-class cruiser. After a probe with combat robots failed, Tis ordered a bombardment to distract the defenders while his soldiers planted explosives on the walls for a breach.

• Tis learned that more than a hundred thousand Imperial troops were inside the hall and ordered a thousand combat robots to test its defenses.
• Imperial close-in defense cannons destroyed all the robots at the hall entrance, prompting Tis to reject a direct assault.
• Tis ordered heavy weapons to bombard the hall and draw the defenders’ attention while his soldiers prepared to breach the walls.
• The commissar urged the Astra Militarum soldiers to hold their positions as Defense Force troops attached timed explosives to the hall walls.

The Defense Force breached the Imperium’s first defensive line in the warship’s hall, using combat robots and rocket fire to overwhelm the defenders. Judge Lena approved sending the Battle Sisters into the battle as the fighting spread through the barricades.

• Combat robots burst through blasted walls and attacked the Imperium soldiers, who redirected their close-in defense cannons to fight them.
• A veteran warned that more combat robots were entering through the main entrance, where the defenses had been weakened.
• A Defense Force rocket operator destroyed the cannon and anti-aircraft emplacements guarding the entrance, then ordered the soldiers to charge.
• Defense Force soldiers and combat robots breached the Imperium’s first line and fought inside its interconnected positions.
• A Battle Sister company commander urged Judge Lena to join the fight, and Lena approved the Battle Sisters’ deployment after they prayed.
• A Defense Force soldier threw a grenade into an Imperium barricade, and his squad captured the position by killing the wounded defenders.

The Defense Force advanced through fierce fighting as Pilgrimage Crusade zealots used suicidal bomb attacks to slow their progress. A Sister of Battle fought a combat robot but was overwhelmed by its reinforcements, leaving her pinned down by a barrage of fire.

• A Pilgrimage Crusade believer charged the Defense Force with a Meltabomb, but soldiers shot him before it exploded and destroyed nearby cover.
• Zealots continued launching bomb attacks, and one killed five Defense Force soldiers with a close-range Meltabomb blast.
• A Sister of Battle arrived at the front and exchanged fire with a combat robot, whose armor withstood her Bolter shots.
• After her Bolter ran empty, the Sister of Battle drew her Chainsword and charged while the combat robot retreated and requested support.
• Five Defense Force soldiers and ten combat robots arrived, and their combined firepower stopped the Sister of Battle from advancing.

Lena fought through the battlefield and challenged Defense Force soldier Wumu Weien, but her rage drove her into a reckless assault. His teammates opened fire and killed Lena, then teased Wumu Weien for needing their help.

• A Sister of Battle was killed by concentrated fire from combat robots and Defense Force soldiers after attempting to fight at close range.
• Lena destroyed three combat robots and clashed with Wumu Weien in a duel with their Power Swords.
• Wumu Weien blasphemed the God-Emperor, enraging Lena and prompting her to attack recklessly without defending herself.
• Wumu Weien called for help as his teammates teased him but rushed toward his position.
• Wumu Weien's teammates shot Lena as she dodged their fire, killing her after a bullet wounded her leg.
• Wumu Weien thanked his teammates as they explained they had meant to teach him a lesson.

Gray and his guards teleported aboard the Adeptus Mechanicus flagship and fought off the Servitors defending the landing zone. More Space Marines and Earth Dreadnoughts arrived, wiping out the attackers as the chamber was left in ruins.

• Intelligent Wingmen breached the Adeptus Mechanicus warship and activated teleportation beacons, allowing Gray and his guards to teleport aboard.
• Gray ordered his guards to attack the Servitors charging into the landing chamber.
• Gray’s guards and the Intelligent Wingmen fired on the Servitors, while the Servitors’ attacks failed against the Intelligent Wingmen’s Void Shields.
• More Space Marines and several Earth Dreadnoughts teleported in and joined the fight against the Servitors.
• The Space Marines and Dreadnoughts wiped out the Servitor horde, then the Dreadnought pilots replaced their nearly empty ammunition magazines.

Gray ordered the Space Marines to continue their assault on the Adeptus Mechanicus flagship and led his guard toward the bridge to kill Archimonde, the Dominus. Archimonde, the Dominus, deployed his three hundred Kastelan Robots and ordered the Tech-Priests to join the battle as the invaders pushed deeper into the warship.

• Gray told Nack to resume the attack and warned him that the Adeptus Mechanicus fighters were formidable.
• Gray ordered two thousand Space Marines to advance through the Dictator-class Heavy Cruiser in squads.
• Gray led his guard and ten Earth Dreadnoughts toward the bridge to kill the Adeptus Mechanicus commander and disrupt command.
• Archimonde, the Dominus, watched the invasion and identified the Space Marines' forbidden technology, including their miniature Void Shields.
• Archimonde, the Dominus, approved the Datasmith's proposal to deploy all three hundred Kastelan Robots.
• Archimonde, the Dominus, ordered the Tech-Priests to stop repairs and attack the invading Space Marines.

Star Space Marines fought the Adeptus Mechanicus aboard a Dictator-class Heavy Cruiser, overpowering combat servitors and Electro-Priests while Archimonde, Dominus, called for Kastelan Robot support. The Space Marines pushed toward the Tech-Priests’ positions, forcing them out of cover with melta grenades, but heavily augmented survivors remained protected by their energy shields.

• Star Space Marines and Adeptus Mechanicus forces clashed in a hall, where the Space Marines’ shields blocked attacks and their Ripper Rifles destroyed charging combat servitors.
• An Electro-Priest attacked with lightning, but a Star Space Marine dodged his bolts and cut him and his energy pack in half with a Power Sword.
• A Tech-Priest asked Archimonde, Dominus, for reinforcements, and Archimonde, Dominus, ordered Datasmiths to send Kastelan Robots to support the defenders.
• The Star Space Marines charged the Tech-Priests and threw melta bombs at their cover, killing some and leaving heavily augmented survivors shielded.

Twenty-five Star Space Marines killed the Tech-Priests and kept their heads as trophies. As they regrouped, an unidentified force approached, and the captain ordered everyone to take cover.

• The Tech-Priests fought back, but the Star Space Marines pushed through their fire and killed them in close combat.
• A Star Space Marine crippled a Tech-Priest with a plasma shot, removed his head, and burned the body while preserving the head for the Lord of the Stars.
• The twenty-five Star Space Marines killed several dozen Tech-Priests and hung their heads from their waists.
• The Space Marines reunited, and the captain laughed along with them about looking like barbarians.
• The captain detected approaching enemy reinforcements and ordered the Space Marines to take cover.

A Space Marine squad was discovered by a Datasmith and ten Kastelan Robots, whose firepower and defenses resisted the Marines’ ranged attacks. The squad captain led the survivors in a charge to fight the robots in close combat.

• A Datasmith entered the hall, spotted the hidden Space Marines, and ordered the Kastelan Robots to attack.
• The Kastelan Robots fired their Incendine Combustors as the Space Marines scattered and shot back, but the robots’ Repulsor Grids deflected the rifle rounds.
• A Space Marine’s meltabomb knocked one Kastelan Robot down, but its return fire blasted him into a wall; protected by his force field shield, he recovered and rejoined the battle.
• A Space Marine told the captain that ranged attacks were ineffective, and the squad agreed to try close combat.
• The squad captain charged the Kastelan Robots, and the other Space Marines followed, shouting for the great Lord of the Stars.

The Star Space Marines destroyed ten Kastelan Robots and killed the Cybernetica Datasmith in a fierce battle aboard the warship. The squad captain ordered the recruits to keep their distance after a reactor explosion killed two Space Marines, then praised the team once the fighting ended.

• The Star Space Marines dodged the Kastelan Robots’ attacks, hurled Meltabombs at their feet, and slashed their armour with Power Swords until the robots collapsed.
• The Cybernetica Datasmith charged the Space Marines with a Melta Gun, and the captain sent two Space Marines to deal with him.
• The remaining Space Marines attacked the fallen robots from a distance, but one robot’s reactor exploded and killed two Space Marines who had approached it.
• The captain rebuked the recruits for getting too close and ordered the squad to maintain a safe distance as they destroyed all ten Kastelan Robots.
• The captain stopped the recruits’ fire, and a Space Marine returned with the Cybernetica Datasmith’s mechanical head.

Gray and his forces fought through the Dictator-class Heavy Cruiser as ten Earth Dreadnoughts smashed through the Adeptus Mechanicus defenses. After the Dreadnoughts annihilated the Skitarii and Tech-priests guarding the route to the bridge, Gray praised their pilots and urged them to become qualified soldiers.

• Gray led his guards and ten Earth Dreadnoughts through the cruiser, where the Dreadnoughts blasted apart obstacles and Adeptus Mechanicus forces in their path.
• Tech-priests ordered several thousand Skitarii to attack Gray’s approaching group near the bridge.
• The Dreadnoughts’ Void Shields absorbed the Skitarii’s fire, and their heavy machine guns tore through the defensive position and its troops.
• The Dreadnoughts annihilated the Skitarii and Tech-priests while Gray and his guards advanced behind them.
• Gray praised the Dreadnought pilots and advised them to keep working toward becoming qualified soldiers.

Gray led his squad into the bridge, where Archimonde, the Dominus, confronted him for betraying the Imperium. Gray defended his choice by condemning the Imperium and Adeptus Mechanicus for exploiting ordinary people and withholding technology, leaving the two sides in a dispute before battle.

• Gray ordered the Dreadnoughts to break through the bridge doors and led his squad inside.
• Gray found Archimonde, the Dominus, waiting with Tech-Priests, Kastelan Robots, and elite Skitarii.
• Archimonde accused Gray of betraying the Imperium and demanded that he face the Adeptus Mechanicus's judgment.
• Gray said the Imperium had failed to protect him and described how crushing tithes had driven his family toward slavery.
• Archimonde defended the Imperium's sacrifices for humanity, while Gray blamed the Imperium and Adeptus Mechanicus for oppression and withheld technology.

Gray rejected Archimonde the Dominus's attempt to make him abandon his faith, and the two commanders ordered their forces into battle aboard the Dictator-class Heavy Cruiser. As the fighting raged, Gray charged Archimonde and swung his Power Sword at the towering Adeptus Mechanicus commander.

• Archimonde the Dominus urged Gray to return to the Imperium, but Gray mocked him and vowed to destroy the False Emperor's followers.
• Archimonde the Dominus and Gray ordered their forces to attack, and both sides exchanged heavy fire across the bridge.
• The Dreadnoughts and Kastelan Robots clashed, with a Dreadnought destroying one Kastelan Robot's reactor and heavily damaging another.
• Gray led his guard through the incoming fire and charged Archimonde the Dominus.
• Gray reached Archimonde the Dominus and slashed his Power Sword toward the commander's waist.

Gray battled Archimonde on the bridge, dodging his many weapons while trying to close the distance. After Archimonde summoned a Kastelan Robot, a Dreadnought blasted it down, and Archimonde seized Gray’s momentary stumble to fire his gravity gun.

• Gray and Archimonde clashed with their Power weapons, then Archimonde unfolded eight weapon-equipped mechanical arms and fired at Gray.
• Gray dodged Archimonde’s attacks and returned fire with his Plasma Pistol, but Archimonde’s shields blocked the shots.
• Archimonde sent a message ordering a Datasmith to dispatch a Kastelan Robot to support him.
• A Kastelan Robot charged toward Gray while a Dreadnought pursued it and Gray told the Dreadnoughts to finish the robots quickly.
• The Dreadnought blasted the Kastelan Robot with its Melta Cannon, and the explosion nearly knocked Gray down.
• Archimonde took advantage of Gray’s stumble and fired his gravity gun at him.