Chapter Summaries

Ghazgitz introduced the Waaagh Upheaval Team and defending champions Gork Grin Team before their brutal squigball match began. The Nobs fought instead of pursuing the ball until they finally chased down and crushed the Bitey Squig, prompting the organizers to send in another.

• Ghazgitz introduced the Gork Grin Team as reigning champions, intensifying the rivalry with Copperhead and the Waaagh Upheaval Team.
• Clever Git told Hynth that the teams were evenly matched, then promised he would win the betting so he could afford meat.
• Copperhead and the other Nobs began the match by fighting, while the Bitey Squig wandered around the pitch untouched.
• After more than twenty minutes of fighting, the Bitey Squig ran toward the Gork Grin Team's goal, drawing both teams into a chase.
• The Nobs piled onto the Bitey Squig and crushed it, so the organizers tossed a second Squig onto the field.

A Super Bowl match spiraled into a stadium-wide Big Brawl after Ghazgitz released Bitey Squigs and fled with the prize teef. Cheng Mingrui arrived searching for Hols and found Clever Git riding the transformed Hynth through the fighting.

• After a Nob fell, Ghazgitz released ten Bitey Squigs to make the match more exciting, but both teams scored at once and the game remained unsettled.
• Ghazgitz escaped with a sack as the prize chest burst open, prompting the Greenskins to abandon the match and fight over the scattered teef.
• Clever Git persuaded Hols that joining the chaos was only playing, then sent him charging toward the chest while his lackeys collected teef.
• Cheng Mingrui learned the Super Bowl had collapsed into a brawl and teleported to the stadium to find Hols.
• Cheng Mingrui spotted Clever Git riding Hols, transformed into a War Beast, as they charged through the crowd.

Cheng Mingrui let the Greenskins’ Big Brawl continue, then spent the following days building ships and strengthening the Orks. When the Tyranids launched an invasion of Number 4, he easily defeated the first attackers and challenged the Bio-ships to send a stronger swarm.

• Cheng Mingrui gave Hols a life-saving device and let him and Clever Git return to the Big Brawl, hoping Hols would accelerate the Greenskins’ gene awakening.
• Cheng Mingrui organized Mekboys to build a Gargant and Boss Slick’s Ship while promoting Blood Bowl Squigball; the Greenskins grew larger, but their growth began to slow.
• The Tyranid Fleet attacked Number 4 with a first wave of a hundred million warrior bugs, aiming to overwhelm the Orks and recycle the battlefield’s biomass.
• Cheng Mingrui fought off Termagants, Hormagaunts, and a Tyranid Warrior, then called on the distant Bio-ships to send a stronger swarm.

The Tyranid Fleet launched a second wave on Number 4, targeting Ork leaders and overwhelming the Mushroom Farms. Cheng Mingrui slaughtered elite Tyranids, but the Orks emerged from underground in force, and the green tide clashed with the Tyranid swarm.

• The Tyranid Fleet sent another hundred million warrior bugs to attack Number 4 and target powerful Orks.
• Cheng Mingrui met three Haruspexes on a ridge and killed them and many Tyranid Warriors with his Phase Greatblade and Krakka Teleporter.
• The Tyranid swarm consciousness ordered its forces to keep attacking Cheng Mingrui, believing its vast numbers could wear him down.
• The swarm consciousness received reports that many decapitation strikes had failed against Ork Warbosses stronger than those on Octarius.
• Mekboys sent modified Big Diggas through tunnels, and Ork troops burst from underground to collide with the Tyranid tide.

The Tyranid Swarm committed nearly all its warrior bugs to stop the Orks on Number 4, but the Orks’ underground forces, Battle Fortresses, and mechs shattered its lines. After an Ork Warboss split the Hive Tyrant’s head with one blow, the swarm consciousness abandoned its body and dispersed across the planet.

• The swarm consciousness committed all but around fifty million warrior bugs to the fight and planned to defeat the Orks within seven days.
• For three days and nights, the Tyranids and Orks fought without shifting the battle lines as the Orks poured from underground tunnels.
• Boss Slick’s Speed Freeks fielded red Ork Battle Fortresses, and Ork mechs joined the attack, breaking through the Tyranid front.
• The swarm consciousness took control of a Hive Tyrant and led Tyranid behemoths against the Ork armored formations, but they suffered heavy losses.
• An Ork Warboss with a copper-plated skull fought the Hive Tyrant and cleaved its head in half with a single blow.
• The swarm consciousness abandoned the Hive Tyrant’s body and dispersed throughout the swarm as battlefield reports flooded in.

The Tyranid Swarm’s losses mounted, so its Swarm Consciousness sacrificed part of its fleet and prepared a new unit to kill Cheng Mingrui, the strongest Ork Warboss. Cheng Mingrui slaughtered the Tyranid attackers, but a Zoanthrope disrupted his teleportation and left him surrounded.

• The Swarm Consciousness calculated that the Tyranids were losing biomass and had a falling chance of victory, then devoured a tenth of its Bio-ships to contact the Great Devourer.
• The Swarm Consciousness identified Cheng Mingrui as the most dangerous Ork Warboss and sent his combat data to a Tyranid warship preparing a Norn Brute.
• Cheng Mingrui continued fighting after killing over a million Tyranids, while the swarm tried to pin him down with Hormagaunts and Termagants.
• Ten high-tier Tyranid units surrounded Cheng Mingrui, and he killed a Hive Tyrant before teleporting past two others and taking its head as a trophy.
• A Zoanthrope disrupted the dimensional threads and prevented Cheng Mingrui from teleporting, while the other Tyranid behemoths surrounded him.

Cheng Mingrui struggled against the Tyranids’ psychic suppression until Clever Git and Hols killed the giant Zoanthrope, letting him unleash his full strength and turn the battle around. He warned Clever Git and Hols that the Tyranids were targeting him through their shared swarm consciousness.

• The Zoanthropes trapped Cheng Mingrui inside a psychic barrier and slowed him while Hive Guard and other Tyranids attacked him.
• A disguised Hols carried Clever Git into the giant Zoanthrope’s reach, where Clever Git threw a grenade into its exposed brain and destroyed it.
• With the psychic suppression gone, Cheng Mingrui joined his Phase Greatblades, powered them up, and cut through the Hive Guard and surrounding swarm monsters.
• Hols transformed into a Squig Beast and charged through the Tyranids, while Clever Git called out to Cheng Mingrui from atop a dead Haruspex.
• Cheng Mingrui teleported to Clever Git and Hols and warned them to keep away because the Tyranids’ swarm consciousness was targeting him.

Cheng Mingrui lost Clever Git to a Norn Brute ambush and, consumed by grief and rage, ordered his forces to attack the Tyranids without restraint. He personally killed one Norn Brute as Ork reinforcements arrived and began crushing the swarm.

• Clever Git warned Cheng Mingrui of the ambush, but the Norn Brutes' tentacles killed Clever Git and badly wounded Cheng Mingrui while Hols escaped by teleporting.
• Cheng Mingrui tried to collect Clever Git's data for resurrection, but the Norn Brutes' psychic blasts erased every trace of him.
• Cheng Mingrui roared in grief and ordered Kuka to summon Kidd, the Boyz, and all their firepower to kill every Tyranid.
• Cheng Mingrui killed a Norn Brute by driving its severed claw through its brain, then took its Bonesword to free himself from the other Brutes' tentacles.
• Ork troops teleported onto Number 4, where Rambo's Kommandos attacked the swarm and Kidd's Gorkanaut blasted hundreds of thousands of Warrior Bugs away.

Cheng Mingrui and the Greenskins crushed the Tyranid ground forces, prompting the Swarm Consciousness to retreat and evacuate biomass. Enraged by the fleeing fleet, Cheng Mingrui launched the unfinished Boss Slick's Ship into space to pursue it, but the ship nearly broke apart on arrival.

• Dio unleashed the Zzap Guns while Kuka channeled waaagh energy to strengthen the Greenskins, and Big Blade and the Painboys patched up wounded Orks for battle.
• Cheng Mingrui killed the last Norn Brute, and Greenskins across the planet roared as the Swarm Consciousness’s chance of victory fell to zero.
• The Swarm Consciousness split its remaining forces between resisting the Orks and turning themselves into biomass for the Bio-ships as the Tyranid fleet began to withdraw.
• Cheng Mingrui teleported to Boss Slick's Ship, activated its Inertialess Drive, and called Kidd and Dio to bring the Mekboys and fight the fleeing bugs.
• Kidd warned that the unfinished ship might explode, but Cheng Mingrui ordered the launch, and Orks crowded aboard before the ship jumped into the planet’s sky and nearly disintegrated.

Cheng Mingrui and the Mekboys repaired Boss Slick's Ship just before it fell apart, then teleported it into the Tyranid Fleet and unleashed its guns. The Tyranids split their forces to retreat and sent roughly two hundred Bio-ships and swarms of corrosive locusts to hold off the Ork warship.

• Cheng Mingrui used Structural Mechanics to assess the damaged warship and ordered the Mekboys to repair it while he worked on the engines and hull.
• Cheng Mingrui and the Mekboys ignited Boss Slick's Ship's engines, and he activated the Inertialess Drive to teleport it into the Tyranid Fleet.
• Boss Slick's Ship burned Tyranid Bio-ships with its engines and destroyed many more with its guns as it rammed through the fleet.
• The swarm consciousness ordered the Tyranid Fleet to retreat, splitting it between a group heading for Number 3 and roughly two hundred Bio-ships surrounding Boss Slick's Ship.
• The remaining Tyranid Bio-ships charged Boss Slick's Ship while swarms of acid-filled locusts descended on it.

Cheng Mingrui and the Orks repelled the Tyranid attack, but the retreating fleet escaped and his battle wounds forced him to seek treatment. Meanwhile, Pex woke from a dream in which the Four-Armed Emperor warned him to flee, leaving him confused about the faith of his church.

• Cheng Mingrui’s Necron-inspired orbs and the Orks’ guns destroyed Tyranid attackers, while the armored Boss Slick's Ship endured the bio-ships’ ramming and boarding assaults.
• Boss Slick's Ship’s damaged engines prevented Cheng Mingrui from pursuing the retreating Tyranid Fleet, and he collapsed as his battle injuries caught up with him.
• Cheng Mingrui gave two Big Meks orders to continue the battle and resume shipbuilding, then teleported to Big Blade and passed out after demanding treatment without unusual modifications.
• Big Blade prepared to operate on Cheng Mingrui and considered how to follow his instructions while still making modifications.
• Pex woke from a nightmare in which a green-lit Four-Armed Emperor had pointed toward escape, and he feared telling his followers about the vision.

Pex learned that the Tyranid Swarm would never accept the Four-Armed Emperor Church’s consciousnesses into its Core Consciousness Group and that he was destined to become biomass. After falling into despair, he was reminded not to abandon the brothers and sisters who trusted him.

• Pex contacted the Swarm Consciousness, which blamed his misjudgment for the Tyranid Swarm’s heavy losses on Number 4 and ordered him to help coordinate its next attack.
• Pex explained that the exposed church could not seize the spaceport or ammunition depots, so the Swarm Consciousness ordered him to guide its assault and praised him for gathering living beings as biomass.
• Pex eagerly spoke of joining the Core Consciousness Group, but the Swarm Consciousness told him that the church’s consciousnesses were too impure and would be used only as biomass.
• The Swarm Consciousness offered Pex a route to a new world as a reward, while warning that resisting the Tyranid Swarm would only make his death more painful.
• Pex spent the day in despair until a message reminded him not to betray the church’s brothers and sisters or forget his promises to them.

Pex committed himself to finding a way to seize the spaceport while the Astra Militarum fought an immense Ork assault. Commissar Kester learned that the Orks had devastated the Tyranid Fleet over Number 4, and the recording ended with a gigantic Ork ship appearing among the Tyranids.

• Pex vowed to help his church seize the spaceport near the equator so they could escape the planet.
• A Banshee Bomber attacked an Ork Trukk Tank but was hit by a melta beam and crashed.
• Commissar Kester assessed the growing Ork assault and worried that Governor Cornwall had positioned himself by the spaceport to flee.
• Kester received an urgent report that the Tyranid Fleet was heading toward Number 3, then learned the Orks had defeated it and destroyed at least half its Bio-ships.
• Kester watched the transmitted footage as an enormous Ork ship appeared amid the Tyranid Fleet above Number 4.

Kester learned that an Ork warship had crippled the Tyranid Fleet, but the Tyranids were still heading for Number 3, forcing him to prepare an interception. He then discovered that Ghazghkull had launched a surprise attack on Capello, leaving half the city fallen, while Ghazghkull’s assault continued to crush Imperial defenses.

• Kester watched the Ork warship devastate the Tyranid Fleet and called an emergency meeting with Hanks and the ship captains.
• Hanks reported that the fleet and modified transport ships were ready, and Kester ordered the fleet to intercept the Tyranids above Number 3.
• Kester learned that Capello was under attack, half the city had fallen, and Ghazghkull was alive and leading the offensive.
• Ghazghkull drove Crooked Mouth's Ork Battle Fortress through Astra Militarum lines after Goldtooth and his Sneaky Boys attacked Capello from underground.

Iron Claw’s Orks pushed deeper into Capello while Cornwall prepared to aid his mysterious master. After waking, Cheng Mingrui linked into the Waaagh! field and surveyed the planetwide battle against the Tyranids, where the Orks were surrounding the remaining swarm.

• Iron Claw sent the Nasty Boyz and Goldtooth’s Sneaky Boyz raiding through Capello as the Orks’ assault threatened to overwhelm the city.
• Daft reported that his air raid destroyed a humie convoy and a tank, but he failed to take out the Titan and planned to try again.
• Cornwall told his master that preparations were going smoothly and continued supporting the daemon while seeking power and immortality.
• Cheng Mingrui woke before Big Blade could modify him, crushed the chainsaw, and warned the Painboy not to do anything extra.
• Cheng Mingrui asked Kuka to link him to the Waaagh! field and saw that Orks were dividing and surrounding the five to six hundred million Tyranid warriors remaining on the planet.

Cheng Mingrui directed the Orks to crush the Tyranids on the planet and in space, then reorganized the Greenskins and their machinery to finish Boss Slick's Ship quickly. He set a one-month deadline, with only the four hundred million Greenskins earning the most points allowed aboard for his Great Crusade.

• Cheng Mingrui used the Waaagh! field to coordinate Ork Bosses, who surrounded and wiped out Tyranid Warrior Bugs attempting guerrilla warfare.
• Cheng Mingrui teleported aboard Boss Slick's Ship, used Machine Deconstruction to locate the Tyranids, and brought unfinished Gargants into space to destroy the surrounding Bio-ships.
• Cheng Mingrui ordered Kidd and Dio to prioritize finishing Boss Slick's Ship, promising them the Gargants they built afterward.
• Cheng Mingrui repurposed Gargant frames and Titan Weapons into construction platforms, cranes, and welding tools to speed up the shipbuilding.
• Cheng Mingrui announced a one-month work contest across Number 4, allowing only the four hundred million Greenskins with the most points to join his Great Crusade.

Cheng Mingrui enforced a team-based work-point system to speed up construction of Boss Slick's Ship and prepare for a Great Waaagh. He moved his Workshop aboard the warship and began painstakingly repairing Hols, whom he now regarded as a companion and child to protect.

• Cheng Mingrui promised selected Orks a place in his Great Waaagh if they fairly tallied team work points, then threatened them against cheating.
• The Work-Point Board drove the Mekboys and construction teams to work harder as Boss Slick's Ship took shape, while Orks cleared hidden Tyranid Warrior Bugs from the ship.
• Cheng Mingrui defeated protesting Ork Bosses without docking their work points, accepting their resentment so he could take revenge on the Tyranids sooner.
• Cheng Mingrui moved his Workshop aboard the warship and treated Hols in a Medical Pod, using preserved genetic samples and mechanical arms to repair his shattered gene chain.
• After Clever Git's death, Cheng Mingrui stopped viewing Hols as a tool and vowed to protect him as a child and companion.

Cheng Mingrui completed Boss Slick's Ship and settled a dispute over who could board by promising the remaining Greenskins they could build Gargants and follow him into a Great Waaagh. He departed Number 4 for Number 3, where the Imperium's fleet was facing nearly five hundred Tyranid Bio-ships.

• Cheng Mingrui finished Boss Slick's Ship with powerful weapons, layered shields, and three stored teleportations.
• Cheng Mingrui limited boarding to the top two-thirds of the five hundred strongest Nobs and the Boys they led, prompting the disappointed Greenskins to protest and prepare for a Big Brawl.
• Cheng Mingrui checked the work point tally, calmed the Greenskins, and urged those left behind to build Gargants and catch up with him.
• Cheng Mingrui pointed Boss Slick's Ship toward Number 3 and activated the Inertialess Drive as the Greenskins roared after him.
• The Imperium of Man's warships formed a battle line above Number 3 against nearly five hundred Tyranid Bio-ships, whose swarm consciousness wondered why the human fleet included so many transports.

General Hanks led the Imperial fleet against the advancing Tyranid Fleet, following Kester’s battle plan of wearing the enemy down with torpedoes, Stasis Bombs, and Nova Cannons. After the Tyranids suffered losses but remained overwhelmingly strong, Hanks kept to the planned withdrawal, while the enemy reorganized and activated stealth mode.

• Kester entrusted General Hanks with defending the skies, and Hanks took command as the Tyranid warships entered the designated area.
• The Imperial fleet launched over a thousand Space Torpedoes, killing several smaller Tyranid Bio-ships and boosting human morale.
• The Tyranid Fleet accelerated past the first Stasis Bomb, then scattered to reduce the effects of later bombs.
• Hanks ordered Nova Cannons to fire, and the salvo destroyed twenty Tyranid bio-ships and damaged more than ten.
• Hanks proposed attacking, but the Harbinger of Doom's captain warned that the fleet would be wiped out, so Hanks followed the original plan and withdrew while firing at long range.
• The Tyranid Fleet reorganized into smaller, dispersed groups and activated stealth mode.

The Tyranid Fleet overwhelmed the human fleet and began landing on Number 3, while a ritual at a Planetary Defense Force camp opened a portal for Slaaneshi daemons and Chaos Space Marines. Losek, now backed by the invading forces, prepared to carry out his master's task.

• The Swarm Consciousness used stealth and suicide locusts to approach the human fleet, then pressed its attack as the humans retreated and sacrificed ships.
• Hanks watched Tyranid bio-ships replace their losses and recognized how badly the battle was going, though the human fleet kept the enemy near the planet's southern hemisphere and equator.
• Tyranid spore pods struck Number 3, and Losek killed Planetary Governor Cornwall as a blood-soaked ritual unfolded in the corrupted defense camp.
• The ritual's violence opened a portal, bringing a horde of Slaaneshi daemons into the material world.
• Several Chaos Space Marine warbands emerged with the daemons, including Lucius, Slaanesh's favored and undying champion.