Chapter Summaries

The Crimson Tide Chapter answered the Lamenters’ distress call and arrived in force to rescue the remaining humans and fight the Nurgle-corrupted world. As the two Chapters began clearing the planet, Maturio realized the reinforcements represented an entire Chapter fleet.

• Evan read the Lamenters’ history and learned how their crusade had left them stranded near a Nurgle-infested world.
• Larior told Maturio that a Chapter had answered their distress call, while the Lamenters struggled to hold their fortress and evacuate the last humans.
• The Crimson Tide Chapter arrived with warships, aircraft, troops, Terminators, and Titans, then attacked the corrupted forces with heavy firepower.
• William introduced himself to Maturio and agreed to help evacuate the survivors and purify the world.
• Maturio asked whether the Crimson Tide Chapter were Sons of Sanguinius, and William said they were not as orbital bombardments cleared the skies and Maturio recognized the scale of their fleet.

Evan and the Crimson Tide helped Maturio and the Lamenters evacuate a corrupted world, then destroyed it with a Cyclonic Torpedo. With the Lamenters reduced to 119 warriors and their ship needing repairs, Evan considered recruiting them into his forces as they traveled toward an Adeptus Mechanicus world.

• Evan contacted Maturio, learned the Lamenters planned to evacuate the remaining humans and declare Exterminatus, and sent weapons, fighters, and other support to aid their defense.
• The Crimson Tide and the Lamenters fought back Nurgle’s forces while evacuating the survivors, and William rescued the Mad Wolf as the Lamenters gathered their fallen and withdrew.
• Maturio approved the use of a Cyclonic Torpedo, and the weapon shattered the corrupted planet and set its atmosphere ablaze.
• Maturio revealed that the Lamenters had only 119 warriors left, including 61 Death Company, and said their chapter needed time to recover.
• As the fleet headed toward an Adeptus Mechanicus world, Evan discussed the Lamenters’ next steps with Maturio and considered lending them a ship in exchange for their service.

Evan and Maturio agreed that the Lamenters would fight alongside the Crimson Tide in exchange for Terminator Armour, but a Warp collision immediately drew them into battle with the Disciples of Blood. The Crimson Tide and Lamenters trapped the Chaos warband across both ships, and the surviving Disciples began teleporting back to their battleship.

• Evan offered Maturio a temporary flagship and cooperation, then convinced the Lamenters to join the Crimson Tide by displaying fifteen suits of Terminator Armour.
• The fleets collided in the Warp with a Gothic-class battleship carrying the Disciples of Blood, who launched boarding assaults against the Righteous Vigil.
• The Crimson Tide's defenders held the ship's corridors with layered defenses, while Sisyphus, Kazhaniv, and other warriors fought the attackers.
• Kazhaniv defeated a Khorne Berserker in close combat, and the Crimson Tide's forces surrounded the Disciples of Blood's assault spearhead.
• The Lamenters boarded the enemy battleship in Terminator Armour, while the Crimson Tide's reinforcements disabled its propulsion.
• The surviving Disciples of Blood began using Warp teleportation to escape back to their warship.

The Disciples of Blood teleported back to their warship, where Arnos, the Lamenters, and the Crimson Tide fought to contain them. Evan dragged the Battleship out of the Warp, the warriors killed the possessed Barto and a blood daemon, and they emerged beside a Chaos-held world controlled by Red Corsairs.

• The Lamenters and Arnos's warriors attacked the Disciples of Blood aboard their warship, and Barto the Never-Dying battered Arnos before dueling a Lamenter consumed by the Black Rage.
• Evan ordered an emergency jump and had the Battle Barge grapple the enemy Battleship so it would be dragged out of the Warp with them.
• A daemon possessed Barto's armour, but Crimson Tide assault-bike riders and a Black Rage Lamenter worked together to bring him down.
• The Crimson Tide warriors surrounded the remaining daemons with Psybolt fire, and Librarian Sisyphus destroyed the blood daemon with his Gourd Hammer.
• Evan discovered that the fleet had emerged near a Chaos world serving as a base for the Red Corsairs.

Evan and the Lamenters attacked a Red Corsairs base, where they fought through an orbital station and landed on a heavily defended planet. The assault exposed a deadly Nurgle toxin and ended with Chaos Astartes ambushing Vlorus’s advancing troops.

• Evan approved Maturio’s attack on the Red Corsairs base and ordered the fleet to seize its ships and plunder its supplies.
• The fleet battered the orbital station, while Lamenters led by Maturio broke through the Iron Warriors’ defenses with the Coiling Dragon Staff and heavy weapons.
• Vlakhos unleashed a corrosive toxin that killed a Primaris Lamenter, but the dying warrior resisted Nurgle’s vision and fought on in the guise of Sanguinius.
• Evan ordered the fleet to orbit the planet and capture its fortified sites before Red Corsairs reinforcements arrived.
• Vlorus advanced with Imperial and militia troops toward a fortress, but Chaos Astartes in fast vehicles burst from the dust and attacked the column.

Commissar Vlorus and his mortal soldiers fought off a Chaos Astartes before the Titan force smashed through the fortress gates and drove into the enemy stronghold. Mororis led the assault against Iron Warriors and their Terminators, and the defenders withdrew after failing to stop him.

• Vlorus charged an Iron Warrior, and his soldiers pinned the Chaos Astartes long enough for a shy gunner to kill him with a precise two-round burst.
• A Bullhorn Vehicle charged Vlorus, but a Dreadnought intervened as Mororis led the Titans toward the fortress.
• The Reaver Siege Titan battered down the fortress gates, and Vlorus led the army inside as the Titans moved on to attack another base.
• Mororis and the advancing soldiers broke through the fortress defenses, killing a Chaos cultist ambush in a narrow passage.
• Iron Warriors dropped through a hole above Mororis to attack him, but his missiles, psychic shields, and Waaagh! Lightning thwarted them.
• Mororis defeated the Iron Warriors' close-range assault, and the remaining attackers withdrew through the hole.

Vlorus fought bravely against the Iron Warriors and earned the Chief Librarian’s recognition, while Evan’s forces looted the Abyssal Fortress and withdrew before reinforcements arrived. As the Crimson Tide prepared for its next move, the Lamenters debated what kind of Chapter they had joined and concluded that it followed ancient Astartes traditions.

• Vlorus helped bring down an Iron Warrior and refused Power Armour, insisting he had failed to protect his mortal soldiers; the Chief Librarian praised his courage and told him he had earned a suit.
• The Iron Warriors discovered an escape route from the Abyss, but White Scars riders pursued and attacked them while the Lamenters followed through the Secret Passage.
• Evan ordered his forces to seize the planet’s resources and withdraw, and the Crimson Tide departed just before several Iron Warriors warbands arrived.
• Maturio confronted Evan over the retreat, but Evan pointed out that the Lamenters were depleted and that enemy reinforcements had arrived soon after the fleet left.
• The Crimson Tide held an assembly about adapting to guerrilla warfare, while the Lamenters discussed whether the Chapter was heretical and decided it upheld ancient Astartes traditions.

Evan reorganized the Crimson Tide Chapter around rapid recruitment, raids, and dispersed fleets, then secured repairs and supplies at a Forge World before taking his force to the galaxy’s edge. There, he seized the slave world of Mofrass and began exploring its crystal-filled fissure, where an unexpected storm trapped the expedition.

• Evan held a Chapter meeting that set new training, recruitment, raiding, fleet, and inter-Chapter policies, including treating the Lamenters as valuable but dangerous allies.
• Annos and Malakim arranged repairs for the Mother of Tears and other ships at a Forge World by trading Mapus’s technology, while the Chapters gathered minerals and recruited civilians as Primaris candidates.
• Evan split the fleet, lent a ship to the Lamenters, and took the Eternal Mountain into the Warp toward the galaxy’s uncharted edge.
• The Eternal Mountain emerged into a battle between independent worlds, and Evan attacked Mofrass, defeated its defenders, and ended its slave system.
• Evan led Ina, Cancero, and Astartes guards down Mofrass’s crystal-filled fissure to investigate its resources, but an upward gale drove them into shelter from a deadly crystal storm.

Evan’s forces uncovered an ancient Necron installation and accidentally released Krork, the formidable ancestors of modern Orks. As the Krork poured out and overwhelmed the defenders, Evan urgently summoned reinforcements, but even larger enemies remained beyond the breach.

• Enke’s reconnaissance found a magnetic boundary and an ancient power source beneath the crystal storms, prompting Evan to order bombardment in search of the installation’s entrance.
• Annos and Enke helped breach a mysterious wall, and the opening revealed an imprisoned Ork psyker and a contained ecosystem.
• Krork charged through the breach, striking down Astartes and growing stronger as they entered the outside world.
• Sisyphus sensed a grave crisis and fought the emerging Krork with his Gourd Hammer, while Evan recognized that he had broken an ancient seal.
• Evan recalled his scattered troops and called the Lamenters for aid as his warriors struggled to hold the line against the Krork.
• Reinforcements arrived, but the defenders saw even larger Orks roaring farther inside.

The Crimson Tide and the Lamenters fought Krork emerging from a Necron prison, using heavy weapons and a slow advance to contain them. As the Krork unified under a second-in-command and built stronger armor and weapons, Evan’s forces prepared fixed defenses for the growing threat.

• The Emperor's Fist and the Astartes struggled to hold back Krork pouring through the opening, and the Lamenters arrived under Maturio with the Tear Banner.
• Evan identified the enemies as ancient Krork, and Annos brought the Roscoe Ground Sweeper, whose main gun cleared the opening for Maturio and Kazhaniv to lead an assault inside.
• Sisyphus found that psychic energy remained confined within the prison as the Astartes fought Krork bosses, scavengers, and Lootas; Evan ordered a steady advance and had his forces strip the ground of resources.
• The Krork scavenged armor and weapons from fallen Astartes, forged super armor, and united their tribes under one second-in-command, while the Astartes regrouped with more than two hundred warriors.
• The Techmarine installed longer-ranged Promethium Flamers behind the frontline, and Evan's forces prepared fixed defensive positions as the Krork assembled their bosses and improved weapons.

The Astartes fought a growing Krork horde as Boss Unique led the Nobz into battle, forcing the defenders to retreat and reorganize. Cancero joined the fight with Bars’s psychic support, and the chapter left him at the center of a Metal Storm as he recognized the cavern as a place where psykers could wield their power freely.

• The Krork Nobz assembled under Boss Unique, who named himself and charged the Astartes with his Green Dragon Crescent Blade.
• William ordered a steady retreat while Maturio argued for attacking the Ork boss, and Evan sent Cancero to reinforce the cave entrance.
• Boss Unique advanced through the defenders’ fire, while Cancero’s metal attacks failed to pierce his armour and the Orks broke through the Terminators’ line.
• Bars used telekinesis to carry Cancero into the cavern, allowing him to fight without being overwhelmed by the heat.
• William directed the Astartes to concentrate fire on the Orks’ legs, while Cancero formed a Metal Storm that deflected incoming weapons.
• Cancero stood within the Metal Storm and sensed that the cavern’s Warp was quiet, making it a place suited to psykers.

Cancero, Bars, and the Astartes battled Da Only Boss and his Krork until Kazhaniv received the Emperor’s power and killed the Ork leader. With the enemy’s waaagh energy collapsing, the Imperial forces launched a counterattack and drove the Krork into retreat.

• Cancero and Bars wounded Da Only Boss with a concentrated attack, while Evan’s forces blasted open the cavern entrance to draw the Ork boss outside and separate him from his guards.
• Da Only Boss broke free of the psychic suppression, grew into a Warlord, and withstood Cancero’s spear formed from the Imperium’s metal Emperor icons.
• After Kazhaniv prayed beneath the Tears of Sanguinius Banner, the Emperor empowered him, and Kazhaniv charged Da Only Boss and cut him down with his Power Sword.
• Kazhaniv charged into the cavern and sealed the Krork’s retreat, while the terrified Orks scattered after their boss’s death.
• Maturio led the Astartes in a counterattack as the White Scars, Iron Hands, and Imperial Fists joined the rout of the Krork.

Evan led a bike assault into the Krork rear camp, where he discovered a psychic boss imprisoned by the Necrons and confronted the Orks’ Mekboy leader. After the Astartes killed the Mekboy and destroyed the camp, the imprisoned boss remained a threat.

• Evan mounted his assault bike and led the Astartes’ final push, using speed and promethium to cut through the Krork ranks.
• Evan led twelve bikes toward the rear camp, where the Orks were building reinforcements and a new leader had taken power.
• Evan and the warriors found an eleven-meter psychic boss chained inside the central pillar and confronted the Mekboy boss and his followers.
• The Astartes fought through the Orks as Evan maneuvered around the Mekboy’s blade and struck his helmet.
• A warrior rammed the Mekboy, allowing Evan to cleave his helmet and kill him; the Astartes then annihilated the camp and its royal court.

The Crimson Tide and Lamenters finished purging the Orks, captured the Weirdboss for study, and began planning the planet’s future as Evan renamed it Langjuxu. After returning to the Forge World for supplies, the Chapters became the focus of an Inquisitor’s investigation and a new, questionable equipment deal with the Adeptus Mechanicus.

• The warriors defeated the Orks, contained the weakened Weirdboss in the Necron device, and hunted down Boyz and Gretchin emerging from the soil.
• The mortals freed the slaves and tried to guide them with Evan's Sayings while Evan and Maturio agreed to keep the Weirdboss alive for study and guard the site.
• Evan decided to transform the world and renamed it Langjuxu, while the depleted Crimson Tide and Lamenters returned to the Eternal Mountain for a feast that left much food uneaten.
• Inquisitor Iselena and Kafka set out to find the two Chapters, but their fleets entered the Warp after the Chapters had already returned to the Forge World.
• Evan’s Techmarine presented an expensive supply order, and the Adeptus Mechanicus agreed to sell the Chapter Power Armour made from materials later deemed suspect.

The Crimson Tide Chapter rescued Rogier, the last known survivor of the Space Wolves’ Wild Wolf Great Company, from a devastated Forge World. Evan persuaded Rogier to become a Wolf Lord and build a new pack with the Chapter’s help, and they discovered a relic shield made from a Sister of Silence’s remains.

• The Crimson Tide Chapter resupplied with armour, vehicles, and other equipment before departing as pirates, while the Lamenters guarded their recovery site and the Light of Dawn.
• Evan sent a reconnaissance squad to investigate a distress signal on a world devastated by orbital bombardment, where the White Scars scout Sukh encountered Rogier.
• Rogier explained that Abaddon’s fleet had destroyed the Forge World and killed the Wild Wolf Great Company, leaving him alone among his fallen brothers.
• Evan told Rogier that the Fang was safe, then argued that Rogier should lead a new pack rather than set out alone to find the Space Wolves.
• Evan offered recruits, Apothecaries, and training support so Rogier could rebuild his Great Company and take worthy warriors to Fenris for its traditional trial.
• Evan found a shield made from the skeletal remains of a Sister of Silence among the Space Wolves’ relics.

Evan’s Crimson Tide Chapter gained Rogier and the Space Wolves’ gene-seed, then answered a distress call to a world consumed by rebellion and Khorne’s corruption. As the Astartes fought to retake its orbital station, Evan prepared to join the advance with a relic shield.

• Rogier agreed to let the Crimson Tide recruit from Fenris and use Space Wolves gene-seed, provided the Chapter publicly declared itself descended from the Space Wolves.
• Evan appointed Rogier captain of the Sixth Company, accepted the Space Wolves’ relics for emergencies, and recruited prospective wolf cubs on Langjuxu.
• Evan’s fleet answered a plea for help in the Arion Star System, where oppressive taxes had sparked a prolonged war between rebels and Imperial loyalists.
• The White Scars attacked the orbital station and discovered Khorne cult symbols among the fanatical defenders, while chaos-tainted mortals fought from the command room.
• Evan ordered the Astartes to clear the station and put on a Space Wolves relic shield before joining the fight.

Evan’s Crimson Tide Chapter crushed a Chaos rebellion, evacuated supplies, and withdrew before the Bronze Claws arrived, while the fighting left the planet vulnerable to another Chaos power. He then led his warriors to a pleasure world and found a neglected cave that seemed to hide the anomaly they had been searching for.

• A soldier’s diary recorded the escalating revolt, the collapse of Imperial defenses, and the arrival of strange Xenos before the account ended.
• Evan led the Crimson Tide Chapter in retaking a space station, where mortals overwhelmed by remorse killed themselves and the Imperialis Militia seized the warehouses’ supplies.
• The Crimson Tide Chapter landed on the war-torn planet, broke through the rebel headquarters, and withdrew when the Bronze Claws Chapter was due to arrive.
• A daemon of Nurgle took interest in the planet’s corpses as Evan’s warriors departed and continued their search for another target.
• Evan brought his warriors to a lavish pleasure world, where he searched its attractions for an anomaly despite finding no obvious signs of corruption.
• Evan detected a psychic beacon near a neglected valley, followed a moss-covered path to a dark cave, and entered expecting to find treasure.

Evan and the Crimson Tide rushed to reinforce the Bronze Claw, whose campaign had spiraled into a war between Khorne and Nurgle. The Crimson Tide broke the enemy’s air advantage and advanced on the Hive City, while battles against the Venomous Banshee and Nurgle’s forces continued.

• Evan recovered a heavy sealed case, then Sisyphus exposed a Slaanesh-corrupted noble; Evan left the local officials to handle the corruption after receiving the Bronze Claw’s urgent distress signal.
• The Bronze Claw’s forces became trapped between Khorne’s Bloodletters and Nurgle’s plague forces, while the Venomous Banshee Warband drove the Bronze Divine Soldier away from orbit.
• The Eternal Mountain arrived and joined the space battle, as the Shadow Wasps, bombers, and allied ships attacked the Venomous Banshee.
• Evan led a Land Speeder counterattack that devastated Khorne’s aerial forces, while Divine Might’s lance strike inflicted further losses on both Chaos factions.
• The Crimson Tide deployed tanks and Titans to relieve pressure on the Bronze Claw, and Thunderhawks supported Khorne’s forces against Nurgle’s zombies and flying creatures.
• The Land Speeders continued hunting Khorne’s scattered daemons, which attacked the formation individually instead of regrouping.

The Crimson Tide and Bronze Claws Chapters fought their way into the underground factories, where the Poison Banshee Warband wielded weapons coated in Nurgle’s metal-corroding poison. Sisyphus and the Astartes broke through the Warband’s defenses and Chaos-corrupted territory, but the battle continued underground.

• Bars used air pressure and psychic lightning to support the hunt, while Land Speeder crews destroyed Khorne’s daemons with melta fire.
• Anthony joined the Bronze Claws’ armored forces with the Crimson Tide, and mixed units advanced on the underground factories.
• Nurgle delivered a vat of refined Tyranid-derived poison to the Poison Banshees, who used it to coat their wooden swords.
• Evan’s Blank shield concealed his force from the Warband’s psychic surveillance, while Kazhaniv’s squad and the Bronze Claws engaged the Poison Banshees in the passages.
• The poisoned wooden blades corroded Power Swords and Terminator armor, but Sisyphus protected Kazhaniv and fought the Chaos Sorcerers.
• The Astartes burned through the Warband’s sorcery-corrupted area, and Sisyphus destroyed the sorcerer controlling its vines.

Bars and Wilson led an assault on the corrupted factories, where Sisyphus foiled a Chaos ambush and Evan trapped the retreating Venomous Banshees. Elsewhere, William’s forces attacked a Genestealer fortress after the cult defeated the human coalition, while Mororis argued doctrine with the Bronze Claw’s technical experts.

• Bars accompanied Wilson’s Bronze Claw force through a grain transport passage and joined its advance against Nurgle’s forces.
• Sisyphus detected twelve unusual Warp signatures in the Venomous Banshees’ ambush and guided the Astartes’ concentrated fire against them.
• Evan positioned his force in a narrow passage, trapping the fleeing Venomous Banshees between his warriors and the attackers behind them.
• William’s force exploited the Genestealer cult’s pursuit of the defeated human coalition to storm its fortress, while the cult prepared Aberrants to counter the assault.
• The Genestealer Cult defeated the human coalition in a frontal battle, and its Chief Chaplain urged the cult to prepare for Ascension.
• Mororis held a heated technical symposium with the Bronze Claw’s experts, and Evan and Wilson emerged from the underground complex to find both sides’ warriors looking disheveled.