Recaps

Dominic’s defenders and Lynn’s intervention brought down Ragnar, but the Ork warlord survived through the Stew God and led his fleet away to Dorito. Lynn and Dominic then weighed the threat on Dorito against their own depleted forces and agreed to prepare before attacking.

• Ragnar overwhelmed the defenders until Renix and Ralfa delayed him at the bridge, where Dominic’s forces blasted him into a crater.
• Ragnar healed by devouring corpses and wreckage, then killed Dominic’s bodyguards, severed his arm, and killed Ralfa when she used the Annihilation Spirit Box.
• Sorine rescued Dominic from the blast and defended him from Blood Axes, while Lynn and Rena annihilated Ragnar after he regenerated and charged toward the bridge.
• Lynn and Rena killed the Blood Axes attacking the bridge, and Dominic announced that the Gemstone was safe as the fleet prepared to face the remaining Orks.
• Though Lynn believed Ragnar had been destroyed, the Stew God saved his soul, and Ragnar emerged transformed from his throne-cauldron and ordered the Ork fleet to retreat to Dorito.
• Lynn learned that Nurgle’s plague had spread across Dorito, ordered Rena to establish a concealed hive, and returned to Carl II to help defend against the Orks.
• Lynn’s Expeditionary Force harassed the Orks at Carl II until the Tithe Fleet’s bombardment and cleanup killed over 3.2 million of them at the cost of 315,217 Imperial casualties.
• Dominic proposed attacking Dorito, but Lynn argued that Ragnar might still be alive and urged him to rest, secure supplies, and consolidate their forces before facing five billion Orks.

Dominic’s fleet battered Dorito while Lynn turned Toothy into a rival claimant and helped him lure Ragnar to his death. Toothy gathered three hundred million Orks and escaped with them to Dead World A, while Lynn remained behind as Toothy’s body turned to ash.

• Dominic abandoned a premature pursuit, repaired and resupplied at Carl II, and prepared to attack Dorito while growing closer to Lynn.
• Ragnar’s Orks destroyed three plague-ridden Blight Arks, while Luna watched and ordered her followers to monitor Lynn and the Orks.
• As Dominic prepared to invade Dorito, Toothy advised Ragnar to spread out his forces and secretly arranged a raid on Carl II.
• Dominic broke through the Ork defenses and bombarded Dorito, but Ragnar’s forces trapped his fleet in orbit until Dominic and Gus defeated the attackers at Carl II.
• Lynn discovered a Necron pyramid on Dead World A, then offered the tortured Toothy rule over the Calixis Orks in exchange for his loyalty.
• Lynn empowered Toothy, who became Soundboss Fang, gathered tens of millions of followers, and challenged Ragnar to a duel at Horseshoe Mountain Valley.
• Dominic’s fleet bombarded the valley, destroying Ragnar and collapsing the Waaagh Field, then began the campaign to cleanse Dorito.
• Toothy gathered three hundred million Orks and sent them toward Dead World A aboard stealth transports, while Lynn watched him turn to ash.

Lynn used the Plague Cleansing Cult to contain Brevis’s plague and supply the Imperial Tithe, while Dominic investigated the cult’s Genestealer ties. As Lynn and Leo launched an assault on Luna’s underground stronghold, Dominic chose to tolerate the cult temporarily and demanded its destruction after the recruits were handed over.

• Lynn sent Toothy to Dead World A to establish an Ork base and fight Rena’s swarm, while warning him to avoid the black pyramid and underground ruins.
• Dominic’s forces cleared Dorito of Orks, and Lynn arranged for the planet’s farmland to be restored.
• When a Chaos-linked plague spread through Brevis’s Underhive, Lynn ordered Rena to form the secret Plague Cleansing Cult and conceal it from Dominic.
• Lynn expanded the cult to screen civilians, isolate the healthy, and burn the infected, while Dominic began investigating it after cult members appeared among the Tithe recruits.
• Dominic infiltrated the cult’s operations and discovered its fourth-generation Genestealer hybrids, its psychic influence over survivors, and its role in containing the plague and providing recruits.
• Lynn and Leo launched an assault on Luna’s underground stronghold, where the attackers battled cultists and daemons before Guyu led the Genestealers into the Warp labyrinth.
• Dominic halted his investigation and waited for Lynn’s next move, while Lynn admitted that he had allowed the cult to help with the plague and recruitment.
• Dominic accepted the first six hundred million recruits, agreed to tolerate the cult temporarily, and ordered Lynn to destroy it after the remaining recruits were handed over.

Lynn fought to rescue Rena from Luna’s barrier while Dominic investigated the Dragon of Frost and found Genestealers among its followers. The discoveries left Dominic demanding that Kerry Von explain himself aboard the Gemstone as Lynn prepared a new assault on Luna.

• Guyu’s assault force was ambushed on the warped staircase, but she and the survivors used psychic powers and the Armiger Knight to survive the fall and defeat the daemons and Helbrutes below.
• Luna trapped Rena and the remaining Vanguard soldiers behind a barrier guarded by Chaos Knights, so Lynn rallied tens of thousands of troops and attacked Saint Garus Castle to reach them.
• Dominic investigated the forbidden valley and tribal accounts, then learned that Kerry Von and the Dragon of Frost had helped the ice tribes defeat the Orks.
• Dominic infiltrated the Ice Fang Clan’s City of Teeth and discovered a hidden hall of sleeping worshippers beneath a blue-flamed ice lotus.
• Divine Envoy Four attacked Dominic and the Sisters of Silence, killed Cassandra, and was slain by Dominic, who escaped with Elaine through the City of Teeth.
• Dominic identified Four’s blood as Genestealer material, while Divine Emissary One recognized that Luna’s scheme was intended to turn Lynn and Dominic against each other.
• Dominic received test results confirming that the Dragon of Frost’s followers and the Plague Cleansing Cult’s apostles were Genestealers, and ordered the starports sealed while summoning Kerry Von to the Gemstone.
• Lynn learned that Dominic had issued an ultimatum and ordered Sen'er to feign retreat while elite troops attacked the barrier’s flank.