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THE BATTLE FOR

ANTIOC

A narrative campaign in four battles by NATE MONTEZ.

311.M41- THE FALL OF ANTIOC

Located in the Prath Veil sub-sector, Antioc is a

remote Forgeworld on the edge of the Prath Veil

Nebula and a key Adeptus Mechanicus shipyard

for the Elaysion Sector. When contact with it was

lost completely, the highest likelihood was that

the tempests within the Veil were hampering

communications, but a small task force was sent

to investigate in case the foul greenskins had a

hand in their sudden reticence. Leading the

Flotilla Sylvanus in his ﬂagship, the Overlord

battlecruiser Emperor’s Hammer , Flag-Captain

Marietus also commanded the Dauntless

cruisers Agrippa and Macedon as well as two

Firestorms and four Cobras of the 18th escort

squadron Sons of Ogala . Expecting to ﬁnd little

out of the ordinary, he found himself badly

mistaken as they re-entered normal space.

Horribly mistaken…

The reconnaissance force found little out of the

ordinary as they entered in-system until

encountering a small unidentiﬁed escort force

at maximum sensor range moving away at high

speed that refused to answer hails. Assuming

them to be Ork raiders they gave chase but

were barely able to make headway even at

maximum speed. Sure that the raiding force

would spend themselves fruitlessly against the

vast orbital defence network above Antioc.

Disdain turned to concern when repeated

attempts to hail the planetary system command

resulted in only cursory replies stating all was

under control. The embarked chief Astropath

was unable to provide any insight, stating that

his queries remained unanswered, and more

speciﬁcally he couldn’t ‘hear’ anybody at the

station at all. Ordering battle stations, Captain

Marietus feared that the station was under

siege by a sizable Ork force and would need to

be relieved.

Changing course to use the third moon to

approach the planet out of sensor range, the

ﬂotilla approached in-system, running silently

so they could round the moon and take any

orbiting enemy elements by surprise.

Rounding the moon with weapon ports open

and ready to ﬁre, the recon force found itself

stumbling into the midst of a huge Chaos ﬂeet!

Knowing they had been detected and were

hopelessly outnumbered, Captain Marietus

knew their only recourse was to ﬂee. To do so

would mean leaving the system without

knowing the strength and composition of this

invasion force. It was imperative to know how

extensive this incursion was and whether or

not the vital forge world could be saved.

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“All ships, assume a wide formation line-abreast

and commence active scans! Stay the course as

long as your ships can hold, but you are

ordered to disengage and retreat once you

have recorded signiﬁcant contact strengths. We

are not here to stay and ﬁght; if we ascertain

their numbers now, we can return for victory

another day. I repeat, you are ordered to

disengage after completing sensor scans on

enemy contacts.”

Despite orders for the ships to disengage when

scans were complete, Marietus knew full well

that none of his ships would leave their fellow

sailors behind. When the time came the order

would have to be given for all the ships to

disengage or all the priceless data they were

now gathering would be lost pointlessly.

312.M41- GIRDING FOR WAR

Admiral Paris’s Battleﬂeet was ﬁve days out

from the starfort August Presence , heading to

counter increased Ork raiding, when an

astropathic message was relayed to him.

Looking down at the decoded message-slate,

he observed that it was brief, yet it hit him

harder than a ravening Cachalotan triceraptor

tearing for his gut.

Message Preﬁx: N12LA1376//1921312.M41

/DECRYPTION SEQUENCE PROFILE 11C21

//Task force engaged in Antioc system.

Report heavy casualties, force

attempting reconnaissance of system.

Conﬁrm orbital defenses fallen. All

attempts to contact surface facilities

and installations failed. Primary

orbital facility intact but not

responding to hails. More than a score

of capital ships resolved, identities

uncertain. Enemy vessel

characteristics and deployment are

indicative of Chaos incursion. All

Naval vessels are immediately directed

to set Readiness Condition One and

await further orders. Message ends.//

The Admiral sealed the message tablet with the

ring on his right hand and handed it back to his

aide. “Captain, you have the bridge. I will be in

my battle quarters.”

He went into his cabin adjoining the bridge,

staring rigidly out of the expansive viewport at

the two Imperial ships joining his ﬂeet to face

the Ork attacks. Knowing them to be the old

Cardinal heavy cruiser Invictus Astra escorted

by the light cruiser Agamemnon , he hoped this

force would be enough to hold until

reinforcements arrived. As his aide departed

and the door shut behind him, he sank into his

recliner, pondering as he ﬁngered the huge

scar on the right side of his face he’d earned as

a watch ofﬁcer during the Karnak Paciﬁcation.

He offered a prayer for guidance.

“Lord Emperor, how many more lives must be

sacriﬁced to end this scourge? How many more

worlds must crumble to dust before the galaxy

is again cleansed for the children of Humanity?

We go now to face the alien scourge, and the

foul agents of destruction and heresy are

lunging at our backs!”

He sat up, stiffening his resolve. He had faced

down, overcome and survived hopeless odds

before. He and his ﬂeet would do so again.

Paris stood up and straightened out his

uniform. “There will be time enough to rest

when I die,” he mused. “I have a war to prepare

for.”

SPECIAL CHARACTER

ADMIRAL NATANICO PARIS. . . 175 points

A shrewd tactician and highly respected

Imperial ﬂeet commander, Paris is a veteran

of several campaigns over his many decades

of service to the Emperor. He has made a

name for himself as always being in the right

place at the right time.

He is always Ld10, gets two re-rolls and can

command the Imperial ﬂeet for scanrios 2 or

3. He must command the Imperial ﬂeet in

scenario 4.

Admiral Paris is fanatical in his constant

drilling of his ships to keep them in a high

state of readiness. The ship aboard which he

is embarked can make two Crew Skills rolled

randomly at the start of the battle. The ship

keeps these Crew Skills in the campaign, and

the Admiral will remain embarked on the

vessel for the remainder of the campaign

unless it is destroyed.

Admiral Paris commands his vessels

aggressively in combat and expects his

subordinate commanders to do the same.

No ship in his ﬂeet may use his re-rolls for a

failed Brace For Impact test.

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SCENARIO 1 - RECONNAISSANCE RUN

Antioc is a remote forge world on the edge of

the Prath Veil Nebula and a key Adeptus

Mechanicus facility in the Prath Veil sub-sector.

When contact with it was lost completely, the

highest likelihood was that the frequent

tempests within the Veil were hampering

communications, but a small task force was

sent to investigate in case the foul greenskins

had a hand in their sudden silence.

A small task force, codenamed Flotilla Sylvanus

was sent to investigate. Expecting to ﬁnd little

out of the ordinary, the ﬂotilla commander,

Captain Marietus, found himself badly

mistaken as they re-entered normal space

stumbling into the midst of a massive enemy

host.

Note: This scenario ﬂeshes out and playtests an

idea presented for the Space Marines in Warp

Storm (p.51) and can be used by any ﬂeet.

FORCES

Imperial forces are attacking, Chaos defending.

The Imperial ﬂeet represents Flotilla Sylvanus.

It is limited to a force 33% the size of the

defending Chaos ﬂeet and cannot take any

battleships. For example, if defenders are

playing with a 2000 point ﬂeet, the ﬂotilla are

limited to 660 points.

Space Marines or Eldar ﬂeets are limited to 25%

of the enemy points total.

BATTLEZONE

This scenario is set in the Mercurial Zone and

must include at least one planet on the table.

SET-UP

Use Scenario Four: Surprise Attack on page 72

of the rulebook for Set-up.

FIRST TURN

Flotilla Sylvanus takes the ﬁrst turn.

SPECIAL RULES

The same special rules as described for

Surprise Attack are used with the following

modiﬁcations.

Only one additional defending ship or

squadron in orbit may roll against its

leadership to change to Alert Status per

defender’s turn. This is not a Command check,

so if one ship or squadron fails, another may

try until one succeeds. The flotilla are

hopelessly outnumbered and are seeking only

to gather as much information on the massing

ﬂeet’s size and composition before escaping.

Flotilla ships score 25% Victory points for each

defending ship on Alert Status approached

within 45cm for scanning and identiﬁcation, or

within 30cm of ships remaining on Standby

Status or still in orbit of the planet for one full

turn.

Regardless of how the flotilla ships are

organized, they must be within 15cm of each

other to share reconnaissance information via

datalink, for at least one turn.

For example, if the ﬂotilla force is spread out to

gather as much information as possible, the

disengaging ship must have been within 15cm

of each ship after resolving a new contact to

have received the information and have those

Victory points count.

If carriers are used, they may launch ﬁghters on

reconnaissance patrol, but at least one ﬁghter

squadron marker (if several are used together

in a wave) must physically return to the carrier

vessel’s base to successfully relay its data.

Counters removed from play for any reason

before physically returning do not count.

Any ship that successfully scans at least one

enemy vessel suffers a -1 modifier when

attempting to roll dice to disengage, after all

other modiﬁers are taken into account, since

enemy ships will be closely tracking detected

vessels to prevent them from escaping.

Defenders do not gain any Victory points for

reconnaissance ships that disengage, but both

sides gain victory points for crippling or

destroying enemy ships as normal.

GAME LENGTH

The game ends when all flotilla vessels

disengage (by rolling or leaving the table edge)

or are destroyed.

VICTORY CONDITIONS

Victory points can be tallied normally for

crippled and destroyed ships and as described

in the Special Rules to determine the winner in

addition to the following modiﬁers.

Defenders Win (+1 renown)

Reconnaissance force is completely

destroyed with no ships escaping. The

Chaos fleet can continue making war

preparations with their secret safe for

now…

Raiders Win (+2 renown)

Raiders overcome incredible odds despite

being hopelessly outnumbered, to identify

the entire enemy ﬂeet and escape with vital

intelligence with at least one squadron or

capital ship (even if crippled).

Raiders Marginal Win (+1 renown)

Raiders identify entire enemy fleet and

escape with at least one escort, or they

identify at least 50% of the enemy ﬂeet and

escape with at least one squadron or capital

ship (even if crippled).

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DESPERATE SEARCH - SCENARIO 2

The sudden fall of Antioc to the massing Chaos

ﬂeet boded ill to the population of Guidus

Prime, a Hive world of eleven billion people.

The only warp route between Antioc and the

rest of the Prath Veil sub-sector was through

the Guidus star system, and it was widely

believed that the Chaos ﬂeet could easily take

the Guidus star system before an Imperial ﬂeet

could position itself for an effective defence.

The system was written off by Imperial

planners.

The real concern for the Imperial Naval

commander and his Adeptus Mechanicus

advisors was an untested experimental ship

still being developed from a captured Fra’al

battlecruiser that was being hidden in the

extensive and dense asteroid ﬁeld between

Guidus Two and Three. Should the rebels get

their hands on such a weapon system, they

might prove to be unstoppable, and more

systems would have to be written off.

FORCES

This battle scenario will suit two equally sized

forces between 750-2000 points. In addition,

there is an experimental ship that is not

counted in either ﬂeet. It can be a Fra’al

battlecruiser, an Eldar cruiser or something

even more exotic (or mundane, like a

Dauntless or Slaughter cruiser modiﬁed as an

experimental ship). If the ship is something

outside the ordinary, use the Smotherman

calculator in BFG #2 to determine its value.

Any agreed upon special weapons (like the

Fra’al ether cannon in Planet Killer) are each

worth the cost of a Nova cannon.

BATTLEZONE

This scenario is set in the outer reaches, but

any celestial phenomena set on the tabletop

must include an asteroid ﬁeld as described in

the set-up.

SET-UP

Arrange the table so that one entire long edge

of the table extending 1/3 the width of the table

is an asteroid ﬁeld. Each opposing ﬂeet enters

the table from opposing corners of the table,

along the table edge opposite the asteroid ﬁeld

facing the centre. The experimental ship is not

placed on the table at this time.

FIRST TURN

The ﬁrst turn can be decided by dice roll as

normal or by renown in a campaign.

SPECIAL RULES

Besides the obvious objective of slugging it out

with the opponent, the experimental ship must

be located, boarded and escorted off the table.

At the beginning of each player’s turn, each

ship or squadron entering or still within the

asteroid ﬁeld must pass a Leadership test on

2D6 as described on page 44 of the rulebook,

with ships or squadrons that fail taking D6

damage per ship (shields work against hits as

normal, and ships can Brace for Impact).

Escorts can automatically re-roll the test if they

fail it, but the second roll stands.

After rolling for leadership and assessing

damage, a D6 can be rolled for each of their

ships that entered the asteroid ﬁeld during a

previous turn (including each individual ship

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1/3 rd

Board width

Asteroid Field

Force A enters

via this corner

Force B enters

via this corner

in a squadron) that remains within it during

the current turn and is not crippled or

destroyed.

Each player must indicate individually which

ship they are rolling for before each roll. On

the ﬁrst roll of 6, the experimental ship is

discovered by both sides simultaneously and is

to be placed 10cm from the ship that

discovered it, off its side closest to the table

centre. The ﬁrst side that boards the vessel

boards it for free (uncontested) and can begin

navigating it out of the asteroid ﬁeld and

toward the opposite table edge, with a nominal

leadership of 6, at the beginning of the next

turn, and more than one friendly ship can

participate in the boarding action if desired.

The ship or escort squadron involved in

boarding the experimental ship loses one

Leadership point because so many of its crew is

dedicated to the boarding party. The opposing

side can then attempt to take the vessel, at

which time normal boarding rules apply.

Space Marine strike cruisers can board the

vessel with all additional modiﬁers intact, and

if Space Marines board the vessel initially, the

vessel is counted as having a Space Marine

contingent aboard for any further enemy

boarding actions. For teleport actions, the

vessel counts initially as having shields down,

but the ﬁrst boarding crew can raise shields.

Escorts cannot teleport sufﬁcient numbers to

make teleporting effective.

Both sides gain Victory points for crippling or

destroying enemy ships as normal. The

experimental ship cannot disengage using a

dice roll, since every ship on the tabletop

within range will probably have sensors closely

tracking it. It must escape via the table edge

opposite the asteroid field in order to

successfully disengage.

Admiral Paris awaited the arrival of the Adeptus

Mechanicus delegation alone in his ready room, surveying

the charts of the Prath Veil subsector pinned to the

surrounding walls. Beyond the conﬁnes of the room he

could hear the clammer of the ship readying for battle.

Sirens and klaxons blaring, orders barked to passing work

parties, a constant stream of announcements broadcast

over the ship’s tannoy.

The door swung open, and the two armed sentries parted

to allow the Tech - Priest’s entry. Three small robed ﬁgures,

each heavily cowled, swept into the room with the hiss and

whirr of mechanical parts.

“My masters do not believe that the Imperial Navy has

grasped the full seriousness of the situation on Antioc”, the

ﬁrst Priest rasped through a vox-box mounted in place of

his Adam’s apple.

“I can assure your venerable master that I do, and I am

doing everything in my power to contain the incursion.

The ﬂeet is already moving.”

“But there are matters to which even an Admiral of His

Most Holy Emperor’s Navy is not privy”, the second priest

addressed him in an electronically adapted voice through

a hail of static. The third priest clicked and whirred

robotically in some machine code, no doubt recording the

conversation for later transmission. Paris noted that the

two were connected via a bundle of cables.

“Our logis engines predict that the Guidus system cannot

be held, is this correct?”

“I have already taken the decision to withdraw what

forces I can from Guidus Prime. I cannot muster enough

forces to mount a worthwhile defence. Any defence we

could establish in time would be no more than a wasteful

gesture. I’ll conserve my ﬂeet strength until I’m ready to

strike”

“Then you must know that Guidus is the location of a

secret weapons development, a blessing from the Machine

God. An alien vessels is kept in store within the asteroid

ﬁelds of that system. Our predictions calculate that the

enemy already know of its existence and will attempt to

recover it. You must act to recover it ﬁrst … there is

knowledge there that the enemy cannot be allowed to

utilise.”

Paris grimaced at this new development, “Tell me more” …

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