The cleansing of Port Blackwater

In the name of the God Emperor I write now of the deeds of the Redeemer, lighthouse of purity and scrouge of the deviant and the blasphemous heretic.

He it was who from the Great Ash Road led us, to bring the blessed word of Redemption unto the sinful inhabitants of Blackwater Island

In his divine wisdom blessed Klovis had deemed the corrupt guildsmen in charge of Port Blackwater to be sinners of the first order, and thus overdue for a purging. He unleashed his wrath upon the unbelievers, bringing battle to the escher witches that were guarding the cowardly heretics.

And lo behold! From the heights of the Spire the nobles of house Ko Iron lent their forces, their holy warriors to the struggle, proving once again that the Redemption is the only true way

As the ranks of the faitful stormed forwards some were injuried by those miscreant mercenaries, but faith and fire prevailed, and their bounty hunter was soon scrouged by an exterminator shot

Despite the hail of fire falling all around them the templars of the Blackwater Crusade advanced, undaunted by the certainty of death and confident in the inevitability of the Redeemer's victory!

Shots and gouts of flame spread from our ranks, giving the heretics a measure of punishment for their innumerable sins (wich I shall not mention lest they sully these holy pages)

Then oh mournful moment! The Redeemer was struck by a treacherous shot from the foe. As ever the Emperor was watching upon His favoured paladin and the fire didn't burn him, a holy miracle!

The zealots of Ko Iron also joined the fray, engulfing the decadent vixens in flaming tongues 

Our advance was unstoppable, the Faceless bringing two harridans low with his chainaxe-exterminator

From the safety of a plasma generator the noble lady Illaria shot relentlessly, bringing down foe after foe with accurate shots from her mastercrafted weapon

Unfazed by the attack on his sacred person, the Redeemer stood up and charged the foe, scrouging and purging them with the Sword of Persecution

First an escher and then a repulsive mutant fell by his hand. Truly is he a prangon of crusaders and an examplar to all the faithful!

The slavers from the guild had thrown their lot with the forces of evil, but that didn't save the entitled scum, that were duly cleansed at the point of a flamer

Oh blessed day! Even when slaughtered did our warriors kill the enemy, dragging out the fight long enough to strike the enemy one last time with the fury of the Master of Mankind himself

Brave brother Caspar was wounded in this last moments of battle but in vain, the day had been won by Klovis and we rejoiced as the narcotic vixens slunk back to their infect hideouts

As fire burned down the last of their number our voices rose in joy and praise:

Three glory be's for the Redeemer!

With the Praesidium of Port Blackwater on our hands all the island saw the inevitability of the church's victory, and more warriors joined our ranks together with an ex escher doctor eager for payback and redemption from the sins of her past life.

Necromap

 

Map for our nex necromunda campaign, a desolate island on the middle of the Slag Sea

Lasalle Siege

 First post of the gaming season is a little booklet to play sieges using the Lasalle rulebook

Enjoy!

Lasalle Sieges

Klovis the Redeemer

 

I speak now of my master Klovis, parangon of crusaders, exemplar for the faithful and last hope for these Hives of sin and damnation. He it is who leads us into the dens of inquinity, to cleanse them by faith and fury. His exploits are known all over Necromunda; from the destruction of the ghastly Broodmutha to the purging of the horrid Caller and his ratskin rebellion, he has stood time and time again in the path of oblivion, and countless are the heretics who have perished under his holy wrath.

In battle the Redeemer wields the fearsome Sword of Persecution, a thrice blessed eviscerator against whom have fallen time and time again the champions of evil

As a side weapon he bears an antique plasma pistol, a fitting instrument of the Emperor's fiery wrath, that ensures no one is safe from the just retribution spread out by our glorious Redeemer.

What sight is more magnificent than his Crown of All Cleansing Flame? It has become an icon of faith and Redemption, feared throughout the Underhive and the Ash Wastes for the inevitable punishment that follows it

After a life devoted to the salvation of Mankind truly it can be said of him:

 "Prince, slow to punish quick to reward, he suffers when he is obliged to be hard".

And what of me, deacon Malakev? I've been at my lord's side for several decades now, faithfully penning down his holy deeds so they can enter into the annals of the Redemption for the enlightnement of my bretheren. After the crusade aginst the Caller I was grievoulsy injuried, but Klovis (the most merciful of men) took me uphive and saved my life with the use of extensive bionics.

Since then I've acompanied him in many a purging, bearing upon my back the sacred Liber Excruciatus, a compendium of atonements and aids to redemption such as number 26, wich consists on cutting the nose of the penitent while replacing it with two nostril pipes. Thus he can enjoy the cleansing of pain while avoiding an untimely death (and thus miss another chance at salvation) by infection or disease.

The redemption

 

Blessed be the Emperor, light and guide of all mankind. In His name we, the redemptionists of the burning church bring death and chastisement to the alien and mutant, witch and heretic, all deserving of the sacrament of extermination by sword and holy fire.

It is many years that I've been serving as scribe and, if may be so bold right hand, of my master Klovis and seldom have I seen such boundless faith as that shown by the priest wich calls himself just the Faceless. A most devout warrior and confidant of our glorious Redeemer, he never takes off his mask in the presence of others, no doubt as a sign of penance and devotion and not, as some doubters say, due to being a known outlaw on the run from house Cawdor.

Resolute in battle he wields a flaming chainaxe, a pure tool of punishment with wich to chop, burn and amputate the sinful bodies of the unblessed

Never one to eschew a chance to punish the unbelievers, he also bears a gilded autogun, with wich he has blasted many an heretic into the embrace of oblivion

Despite accompanying the Redeemer in many a purging, it is not I that have followed him the longest, but a veteran of the crusade called Kiodrus in honour of the holy warrior saint of Sabbat. He is truly a living relic of the church, having scrouged heretical filth for longer that anyone remembers. His many years and ironbound zeal are truly a blessing of the Emperor!

Being not as agile as the young novices, he prefers to engage the enemy at range, blowing away the profanitors with an old but tursty shotgun and engulfing them in fiery gouts from his exterminator.

He is also the bearer of one of our most sacred relics, the blessed Chandelier of Temenos, a blazing icon of faith that brings light into the darkness of the corrupted underhive.

One of the most recent additions to the ranks of the faitful is the zealot Sebastian Thor. As his namesake he is unflinching in the face of sin and blasphemy, slicing and burning the mutant scum with a massive eviscerator. His exploits are thus that blessed Klovis bestowed upon him the honour of carring on a reliquary the skull of an escher viperess he killed in epic hand to hand combat.

A resourceful and valiant warrior of our most pious cause, he carries a laspistol and incendiary charges, to use whenever an opportunity arises

The robust Dolan meanwhile is the muscle of the Crusade, bearing on his shoulders not only the weight of an incandescent firepike, but a magnificent crown of fire granted to him by the Redeemer after purging the wondrous sum of 100 heretics.

A devout member of the church, brother Dolan carries the word of the Emperor on him at all times

His fiery wargear is complemented with a crude but effective stub gun, a useful tool for reaching those heretics too cowardly to close within range of his imponent firepike

To finish off this brief description of the closest servants of the Redeemer I'll speak now of brother Macharius. He is a crack shot, deadly with an autogun and also a munificent funder of our crusade. His appearances in the campaigns of cleansing are certainly sporadic, being a truth known by many that he is a rich member of uphive society that seeks absolution for his errant lifestyle by donning the rainments of Redemption, and joining in the battle against the evil that permeates all of Necromunda

As befits such a lofty status his gear is of the best quality, and despite not being as pure as my mentor, he is nonetheless a valued member of our warrior band

Such is his zeal that he often cuts off the heads of the heretics he kills, keeping their flayed skulls as mementoes both of victory and penitence 

Blessed be he who follows the path of Redemption, for not only will he find salvation in the eyes of the Master of Mankind but help bring it to his fellow men through faith and fire!

Siege of Girona

 

The final battle of our peninsular minicampaign. After defeating the spanish defenders at el Bruc, Zaragoza and Roses the imperials attack the city of Girona, a vital crossroads on the way to France. 

Led by Álvarez de Castro the defenders stand ready to protect Inmortal Girona from the antichrist's atheist hordes

On the other side of the plain Saint Cyr and the french survey this last bastion of the spanish patriots

And the siege begins! Under artillery fire the french begin to dig their approaches

The spanish react by opening mines and throwing out the guns

As the trenches inch their way forwards, Saint Cyr sends a division of swiss to brush off the artillery

Having destroyed the guns the swiss begin to dig a mine, but are routed in an underground battle with the spanish miners

Finally, after a month and a half of siege the first breach is opened in the curtain wall

In the next week the heavy guns blow open the gates

And three divisons of imperial troops are unleashed into the breaches

While his men take the walls and rout the defenders, Augereau is killed in the assault

The swiss also wipe out the militia and cross the walls

The fight for the Torre Gironella is way harder, defenders and besiegers exchanging fire while a mine blows open a steep breach in the rampart

A mauled french unit tries their luck once the garrison has been killed, but to no avail

Finally it is a division of converged grenadiers who takes the bastion from the back

Killing de Castro too

This assault puts an end to the battle, as the imperials enter the city in unsurmountable numbers

That's all folks, see you next season after vacations