Elements of the 5th Company of the Night Watch were aboard Strike Cruiser 'Artermis' when they received a distress signal from the remote Styx system. Even as Brother Captain Brontes sought clearance to investigate the source of the call for help, it was cut off abruptly.
With his Chapter Master's blessing, Brontes set the 'Artemis' on course for Styx, leaving instructions for the rest of his battle company on Silence, their home world, to follow as soon as they had armed for war.
Unbeknownst to the Night Watch, the Dark Angels had also picked up the distress call. Unlike the Night Watch, the Dark Angels had a better idea as to who had engineered the fall of Styx. To let the Night Watch, with its close links to the Grey Knights of the Ordo Malleus, uncover their terrible secret would be a catastrophe. An armada with the Dark Angels' finest on board leaves the Rock, hell bent on protecting the secret they had kept for eons...
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Campaign Players:
Andy v Dylan
Armies:
Space Marines v Dark Angels
Night Watch: The Night Watch is one of the Astartes Praeses, a group of 20 Chapters whose sole purpose is to guard the Eye of Terror. The Astartes Praeses are founded on the geneseeds of the Primarchs who did not fall to Chaos during the Horus Heresy. The Night Watch has maintained close links with the Grey Knights on Titan since their inception for reasons unknown, and the Grey Knights in turn, have a small but permanent detachment on the Night Watch's homeworld, Silence. In the 13th Black Crusade, the Night Watch fielded 11 companies against the forces of Chaos, making many suspect that they do not adhere strictly to the Index Astartes. However, unknown to all but themselves, the '11th company' was actually an entire company of the fearsome Grey Knights, sent to aid the Night Watch in their fight against the daemonic hordes tearing out from the Eye of Terror.
Dark Angels: The Dark Angels are considered among the most powerful and secretive of the loyalist Space Marine Chapters. Though they claim complete allegiance and service to the Emperor of Man, their actions and secret goals at times seem at odds with that professed loyalty, as the Dark Angels strive ever to atone for a secret crime committed long ago in the time of the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy.
4 comments:
details please? How many missions for this campaign ??
I'd advise:
1) Mission 1 - Scouts ... the vanguard of both forces meet and clash
2) Mission 2 - some objective mission... The Dark Angels try to retrieve the Fallen before the Night Watch does.
3) Planetstrike Mission - it's cool to think about a last ditch attempt to retrieve the by now well entrenched Angels/Night Watch (depending on who wins) as the Attacker tries one last ditch attempt to retrieve the crux of the war.
Almost exactly what I was thinking! :)
I've been working out the campaign, that's why haven't written it out.
I'll do it in the next post... :)
Ooh... sounds good so far, guys! Looks like loads of fun. Makes me want to build up chaos... but the rats are so cute...
That may yet be possible, my friend. You just need 3 chaos models for this campaign, my friend. Check out the campaign structure when I post it up...
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