Gothic War: Bladen

 

Reports of attacking Chaos fleets flooded in from all across the Gothic Sector as the Warp Storms reached their peak of activity. Much planning must have gone into their all-important first strike, as the Chaos fleets targeted a dozen major Imperial Navy bases in the sector. With no advance warning, the Traitors struck hard and fast, ambushing Imperial warships as they were in orbital dock or at rest at their stations. Caught unaware and already overstretched by the growing unrest in the sector, the Imperial Navy was poorly prepared to respond to this sudden offensive.

The chaos fleet comes out of the warp and attacks the surprised imperials in the Bladen system

The Sebastian Thor is the first to be wounded by a wave of chaos bombers

The imperials are quick to react, but half of their fleet must face the whole heretical onslaught

Captain Haldor orders ramming speed and smashes into the Malevolence, severely wounding her

The Solar Macharius comes to the rescue, launching attack craft and blasting with her batteries

The traitor vessels have cut through the imperial line, moving around Bladen

But all doesn't go the heretic's way, the retribution battleship Radamanthine destroys the Deathclock with  a volley of macro cannon

Outnumbered the imperials keep on attacking the enemy, to little effect

Severelly damaged by attack runs and lance strikes the orbital station braces for impact

The remaining chaos vessels gather around the Malevolent

While the strike cruiser attacks the station on its own

The Sebasthian Thor keeps on shrugging the bombing runs

With one vessel lost and another crippled the chaos ships make all speed for the warp 

 Victory goes straight to the map