Game 5: Mechanicus Inquisitor leads Alliance with Scydriel and Jungle King to investigate and secure the origin of the Children of the Jade Serpent's Shadowswords

1500 pts each, 2v2 team, GSC vs Imperium, everyone brings their 4-perk special character or equivalent, plus normal local warlord trait and relic,

Each player starts with 12 CP, like normal for strike missions

GSC gets a wall of 4 big city block pieces {2 tower, 2 bunker) to arrange anyway they like such that the terrain pieces are each at least partially inside their Dawn of War style Deployment Zone.

Imperium players each get one of the "corner" big city terrain pieces to place similarly

Imperium then deploys all, GSC deploy all, and Imperium takes first turn

## Victory

We play a 2v2 team game using the **Overrun Scenario** from *GT 2020 strike scenarios*, which is a standard 9th edition scenario with 6 objective progressive scoring primary, we each get to pick only 1 secondary objective, but we all also are forced to take the scenario's special secondary objective, which scores 2, 3, or 5 VP for controlling 1, 2, or 3 of the objectives in the enemy deployment zone at the end of your command phase every round

Each team plays as a single player in terms of scoring and sharing victory

We'll see what sort of story the models and dice tell, but I wouldn't mind if our faction forces and characters

## **Jungle King Narrative**

The collected souls and warp energy from the deaths of so many gsc, imperium, and common hive city citizens in the Mechanicus levels, flowed together into the wreckage of the three superheavy shadowsword tanks. After the battle, all of the even-minimally psy sensitive imperium and other people, could sense the powers radiating from the wreckiage.

The Callidus Assassin Scydriel, under cover as the Governor's Castellan and Facilitatrix general, knew the importance of the wreckage when she surveyed her victorious battlefield, and decided not to pursue what she now hoped had been the REAL Progenitor, who fled again before her and the Emperor's Wrath that guided and empowered her.

Scydriel immediately called the not-long-ago arrived Ordo Mechanicus Inquisitor Saskia-Ardens, who had joined Scydriel in distinguishing themselves with their heroic victories, to secure and analyze the vast, long, ridged pile of the wrecked Jade Serpent superheavy tank column.

Working with the geniuses of ForgeWorld Caldus, they all worked together to take pieces from all three of the destroyed hulls of the column of shadowsword tanks, and combine the parts that still worked into a single superheavy tank chassis! The ArchMagos and Mechanicus Inquisitor knew that their efforts would need, and be ultimately judged by, the success of the strong Imperium Men who would be piloting and fighting with and within the reformed machine spirits of the destroyed GSC shadowswords.

During the training and tuning phase of the production of the Baneblade from the not-vaporized and less smashed parts of the Shadowswords, they brought the machine spirit from a not-rebuilt tank, that had been smashed on the Jungle Deathworld and gathered for salvage before departure and void transport. The resurrected machine spirit of on e of the Jungle Tank Commander's Leman Russ, fully awake and aware for the first time outside of it's original hull, after they raised it into the reactor core of the tank up to full power, and powering up the lascannons, a portal opened again, tearing reality apart under the impossibly tight tension of stretched Materium, stretched and torn by the excessive flow of Warp Energy attracted by the horrible deaths and vast slaughter of the Revolutionary War of Astheneia

For the first time in the war, Khorne daemons burst out! Drawn and concentrated by the extensive slaughter, and finally manifesting thourgh the wreckage of the smashed and rebuilt tank parts and the combined newly manifesting machine spirit

The machine spirit was trained by the finest and most brilliant Mechanicus minds, including Saskia Ardens, the ArchMagos of ForgeWorld Caldus, and learned to be a fighting spirit alongside, and with it's hands under the personal bodily control of Jungle fighters, who had been selected and promoted from the Kings Own Chimeras Tank Corps, and trained by the Mechanicus to pilot and fight the rebuilt superheavy tank.

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### Scydriel and the Jungle King

The Jungle King has sworn that he will accompany Scydriel into this last climatic battle of the war so far, and will exterminate her enemies and win her hand in unifying political marriage.

They spoke only briefly on the subject of the current corrupt governor, who had seemingly impossibly avoided death after going under the adamantium tracks of the second Jade Serpent Shadowsword, and they agreed that the fool would sacrifice himself gloriously for the Emperor in this battle, leading the charge out from inside the hull of "his" new superheavy Baneblade tank,

which the Jungle King also already thought of as his own, since his men were driving the restored tank, and which Scydriel also imagined as her's, because it was serving under her command, flag, and paint scheme, of the best and nearly last infantry regiment under the "shared" commander of the governor and Scydriel.

Scydriel knew that it would be up to her as usual to slay the worst enemies and characters of the combined genestealer cults, andthat she could trust the Jungle King to lead his men to victory over the fearful rank and file children of the jade serpent and xtrovoid cult. Scydriel was pretty sure that Saskia-Ardens knew she was an undercover Callidus Assassin, but that the Ordo Mechanicus Inquisitor was happy to help preserve her cover identity, and it's value in service to the Emperor, because Scydriel and her Jungle King had been instrumental to the war effort, and seemed to be Favored.