Recaps

Boss Slick and the Greenskins crushed the Great Devourer’s assault on Octaria, then expanded their power as new conflicts gathered around the Nachmund Gauntlet. The arc leaves Hols defending the Flames of Vengeance from a Drukhari boarding attack.

• Hols left the Orks to explore the Aeldari Craftworld, where Ovisus chose to protect him after foreseeing his influence on every race’s destiny.
• Boss Slick built the Psychic Power Convergence Tower and used a galaxy-spanning Waaagh to break the Thousand Sons’ ritual and wound the Great Devourer’s projection.
• Boss Slick and the Orks destroyed the Tyranid forces around Ork IV, while Kidd’s Ork Battle Star helped shield the fleet from the star’s eruption.
• Goldtooth and Grom attacked the Eustali Subsector, where Grom killed the Emperor’s Champion and Duncehead led the Orks against the Shard of the Void Dragon.
• Duncehead shattered the Void Dragon Shard, and Boss Slick absorbed its mechanical authority before turning to repairs on the Skull of Gork.
• Pex prepared the Four-Armed Emperor Church’s uprising against Mathieu’s forces, while Cornwall and other factions positioned themselves for conflict in the Nachmund Gauntlet.
• The Flames of Vengeance encountered Drukhari near the Octarius Sector, and Hols saved Ovisus and the Aeldari defenders by turning the Incubus’s scimitar against him.

Boss Slick pursued Ork technology and experimented with a Squig-built Webway Gate, while Cheng Mingrui prepared the Yellow Turban Army for war against the Imperium. Hols helped save Ulthwé from the invading forces, and Boss Slick entered the Squigball tournament as Little Slick, winning two matches as the gate responded to the crowd's Waaagh!.

• Yriel helped Ovisus get Hols to the boarding points, where Hols killed the Drukhari attackers, and Parker Pan found a Spirit Stone emptied of its soul.
• Boss Slick learned from Nurgle that Hols was safe, then planned to study the captured World Engine and Webway gate while preparing Ork forces for war.
• At Orvisgle Mining Planet, Cheng Mingrui rallied the crowd around Yellow Heaven, and Khorne revealed his plan for Cheng Mingrui to become the God of Battle.
• Cheng Mingrui ordered the Yellow Turban Army to take its ideals toward Terra and remain behind to defend Ovisgral, while Veronica and the officers prepared the battle plan.
• Boss Slick and Big Blade found that squig flesh could imitate wraithbone but that a soul might be needed to activate their replica Webway Gate, so Boss Slick organized the Sneaky Cup Mighty Super Blood Bowl Squigball.
• Yriel exposed the Reaper Host and Ynnari plot against Ulthwé, and Hols helped the Aeldari escape before Yriel merged with the Craftworld and its Spirit Stones were seized.
• A Harlequin sacrificed the souls hidden in Ulthwé’s Infinity Circuit, Slaanesh sent daemons against the craftworld, and Lucius pursued a way to capture Hols.
• Boss Slick entered the Webway tournament in an artificial Warboss body as Little Slick, then used his skill to help the Gork Grin Team defeat Kundra’s team and Crooked Mouth’s Mekboys.

The Orks expanded through the Webway while Boss Slick pursued the Hrud queen and sought to secure her system terminal. Across the galaxy, Cheng Mingrui’s battle at Ovisgral ended in a clash with the Emperor, while Aeldari and Chaos forces entered the Webway and Parker Pan prepared to travel to Commorragh.

• Little Slick and Boss Copperhead fought through the Webway alongside the Orks, established a Forward Base, and killed a Hrud Norn Queen.
• Cheng Mingrui’s Yellow Turban Army resisted the Imperial assault on Ovis Fortress, and Cheng Mingrui’s battle with the Emperor destroyed the fortress and two Imperial Navy cruisers.
• Boss Slick expanded Ork territory, investigated Tyranids disguised as Squigs, and followed the faith of Adeptus Mechanicus converts to Vashtorr, who fled into the Warp.
• Rambo contacted Boss Slick with Norn Queen Ils’s help, and Little Slick led the Orks through the Webway to kill a Hrud queen and rescue Rambo.
• Ils offered her allegiance and the location of her system terminal, while Boss Slick used her sphere and the Screw Clan’s maps to locate the queen and plan an infiltration.
• Eldrad agreed to help Parker Pan return to Realspace, then sent him toward Commorragh with a Seer Council and Ovisus as escorts.
• Lucius opened Korota’s Webway Gate for Miriael and the Chaos forces, who attacked an Aeldari city as Lucius left to seek his own troops.
• Boss Slick sent Little Slick and several hundred Kommandos to infiltrate the Hrud queen’s territory, where a Male Bug caught up with their disguised party.

Little Slick and the Orks broke through the Hrud Hive and fought Jaghatai Khan and the Duke of Shadow Blades in the Webway. As the Ork invasion spread and the Imperium faced threats across the galaxy, Little Slick led the Orks into a battle against the Duke’s forces.

• The Male Bug mistook disguised Orks for starving survivors and admitted them to the Hive, while Little Slick tracked him through the Webway with hundreds of Special Operations Bosses.
• Little Slick’s squad fought through the Hrud swarm, defeated the Hrud Queen, and seized the main terminal, allowing Ork forces to pour into realspace.
• Jaghatai Khan fought Boss Copperhead in the Webway, awakened his Warp essence, and was transformed into a giant eagle before Tzeentch intervened.
• Boss Slick resumed control of Little Slick and helped lead the Orks against the Duke of Shadow Blades, whose forces repeatedly redirected them into Webway traps.
• Across the Imperium, the Yellow Turban Army headed for Terra, Khorne set Cheng Mingrui a trial against Rogal Dorn, and Guilliman weighed the Ork and Tyranid threats while rejecting Tzeentch’s offer to activate Men of Iron.
• Little Slick ordered the Orks to prepare for flight in a vast Webway chamber, but they mistook his orders for a competition and built flying machines, including a Gorkanaut.
• The Orks drove their vehicles toward the Webway exit and battled the Duke’s skimmers and aircraft, while a Drukhari weapon created a destructive black sphere that killed Orks near Little Slick.
• Little Slick charged into the battle in the Gorkanaut and shot down Drukhari bombers as Hrud dragonflies joined the fight and the Duke’s hired Kabal leaders complained about their losses.