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Battle for Haven's Landing

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The planet of Urt is underseige and the Dark Angels face a hard choice. Since the Invasion of the Urt began the Dark Angels have continuously lost ground. The shrine of tybal and Volpot dam were lost to the forces of the eldar ensuring that the Defense lasers of the Balantis could not be adequately powered. The outer sector of Nermuj was then quickly taken. Scouting reports from orbiting servelance craft have reported that the eldar had been sending search parties led by rangers and swooping hawk aspect warriors into the wilderness. whatever they were searching for it appears not to have been fruitful. Xenos landing craft have begun landing their troops in earnest as the main force of the craftworld pushes towards the regional capital of Haven's Landing. Having suffered grevious defeat thus far Company master Indomiel and Ezekiel plan for their defense of the city. Deployment -

Backstory of the Calypsis conflict

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++Redacted++ as recorded by librarian Bellerophon in the archives of the rock++Redacted++ The system of Calypsis lies within the segementum tempestus. It is a productive system that is home to three planets, the hive plaent of Calypsis Prime, Urt a mine and shrine world, and the often overlooked ice world of shadow run. The Calypsis sector was quitely going about the buisness of life in the imperium when an eldar craftworld, identifying itself as the Yula-Lih, hailed the planetary govenor of  Urt demanding that the planet be evacuated in the next 48 hours and ceeded to the eldar craftworld.

Quick and Dirty: Battle of Nermuj

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The Dark angels continue to their struggle on Urt against the craftworld of Yuula-Lith. With the assets of Company master Indomiel and his Dark Angels falling like dominoes a strike has been ordered against the eldar that have been holed up in the Nermuj Valley. Intelligence reports that the the ruined city lies on the path to manufactorum powered by the Volpot hydronics station, and the eldar are using it as a staging area from which to prepare their assault on the regional capital. Indomiel has determined that the city must be retaken. This mission we used a mission from the Dark Angels book but we tried to adapt it to maelstrom scoring. The results were interesting... The eldar set up first but the DA got first turn. The DA had to start everything in reserve, with deathwing and flyers allow on T1, ravenwing T2, and all else on T3. of Course having made my list before this mission was selected i didn't have any deathwing... the mission is normally played as a t5 objective gr...

quick and dirty batrep: vs eldar

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I bring a tale of utmost woe. The outer defense of the shrineworld of Urt, has been brazenly assaulted by the eldar. A craftworld describing themselves as the Yula-lih have sent a brought down a battle company led by Sek-ra a farseer of note. The dark angels were charged with the moving the vital supplies from forward operating base Vengeance, Meanwhile terminator libraian Aggripus would assist the tacticals by employing a suprise deepstrike.