Second War for Armageddon - Climax of the War: Soon, Hades Hive was under siege by the Orks, and the hardest fighting began. Commissar Sebastian Yarrick organised the defence of Hades Hive and he seemed to be everywhere at this time. He helped weld shut the great blast portals of the hive city while at the same time negotiating treaties with the many hive gangs of Hades' Underhive. Amazingly, Yarrick succeeded in putting together a rag-tag army to defend Hive Hades. Thousands of Orks waited for the call to attack while their Gargants pounded the hive city with their biggest guns. The people of Hades survived on rats and roaches and on reduced power. Few in the present speak of this time other than to praise Commissar Yarrick.It was then that Overlord von Strab released his secret battery of ancient virus bombs. His family had had them stocked for a potentially desperate time since the first colonisation of Armageddon long millennia before after the War of the Beast. They were mounted on antiquated missile systems and hastily pressed into service.Unfortunately, many malfunctioned due to their age, as the rockets would not fire, detonators would not arm and the Life-eater virus they contained had decreased in potency over time. The missiles wreaked havoc among the Orks but did not come even close to producing the casualties needed to stop the horde from overrunning the world. Overlord von Strab retired to his richly appointed bunker to sulk.To the west of Armageddon Secundus in the port city of Hive Helsreach, the planet's population put up a fierce defence, inspired by the successful defence of Hive Hades. They were a highly-organised irregular force, with street gangs ambushing the Orks at every corner. Oil super tanks converted to serve as impromptu marine transports were used to evacuate the population to the ships waiting in the hive city's dock, known as Grendel's Lock, from where noncombatants could be taken to safety across the Tempest Ocean.There was not enough room aboard the vessels, so lots were thrown for the places, and those who remained in the city knew they would not survive the next Greenskin attack. Using improvised weapons, Human suicide bombers got as deep into the Ork lines as they could and then detonated the explosives strapped to their chests.The drivers of the great loading cranes at Hive Helsreach who normally moved cargo off and onto the ships that docked at Grendel's Lock welded themselves into their massive cargo shifting cranes and battled with the Gargants. The Human resistance was so stubborn that even the Ork commanders wondered if taking the hive city was worth it. The victory for the Orks finally came in the form of a massive psychic attack by their Weirdboyz, which destroyed the minds of all the Humans left in Hive Helsreach, leaving it open for Ork conquest.Elsewhere, Warlord Ghazghkull himself arrived to coordinate the Orks' next attack on Hive Hades. He tried every strategy he could think of, and finally claimed that he was told what action to take by the whisperings of the Ork deities, Gork and Mork. He tried dropping elite Ork Kommandoz onto the spires of the hive, had great siege weapons built and even retrofitted Gargants with earth-moving devices, all to no avail.For every strategy Ghazghkull tried, Commissar Yarrick found a defence. He had the Hades maintenance crews go into the hive city's ventilation shafts, armed with a bolt pistol and knife, and attack the Ork Kommandoz as they came down. Not one Kommando survived. The hive's transport infrastructure was used to counter feint attacks and Imperial suicide bombers slipped out to successfully destroy the huge Greenskin siege weaponry.