Durgama Takeover

HAQQISLAM TURN 1

A daylami jumped out of hiding and fired a panzerfaust at the varangian who desperately tried to smoke out his position, catching the rocket off to his side and producing a string of strong galwegian obletives as he was thrown to the ground. In reply a metro blew the poor man to smithereens with her own rocket tube of terrors, the explosions shaking the walls of the hangar. Far down the Warren of tunnels in response to the threat of the antipodes stalking ever closer to their DZ zuleyka revved her engines and the diggers moved up to tangle with the ferocious duo of wolves only for their incredibly agile forms to dodge ever closer... The libertos took it into his own webbed hands to deal with the pair and popped out of hiding to spray buckshot into them taking down the first and swiftly after the second in a hail of shotgun shells. Skittering down the corridor he spotted his next target, the metro keeping watch. This provoked an explosive reply with a panzerfaust and a spray of bullets from the wounded varangian. Fire and fury engulfed the aquatic freedom fighter. Meanwhile a lasiq backed up by the power armoured form of the Asawira, moved up to take a shot at bringing down the bear, only for the beast to throw down smoke and blocking the chance for further engagements. Taking the opportunity to strike, a beast hunter sprang towards the lumbering hulk of the bear only to be beaten down with the massive Hammer in his claws. The bears roar echoing loudly in challenge and fury through the darkness of the hangar. The nahab answered this challenge with a battle cry of his own as he cut loose his parachute with which he dropped from cavernous rafters of the enormous space, blasting his shotgun at the enraged bear. The bear took terrible wounds from the blast but dealt a powerful but glancing blow from his thrown trench Hammer. Doggedly he stood his ground until dieing of his wounds.

ARIADNA TURN 2

Things were heating up fast and momentum was building as the Ariadnans dug their heels in and gritted their teeth against the Haqqislamite onslaught. A chasseur mine layer moved up to deal with zuleyka and the diggers, spewing angry gouts of fire from the flamethrower down the corridor towards them. Zuleyka pulled down on the throttle of her mighty steed and out maneuvered the attack riding into combat with the merovingian. Elsewhere another engine's roar could be heard as the dynamo raced to reinforce the position left by the demised polaris bear. Spotting his chance, he sprayed the nahab with bullets from his spitfire and ending his rampage towards the Ariadna lines. Having spotted the shadowed silhouettes of a hassassin lasiq and the heavy armoured Asawira, he exchanged fire and caught a bullet for his trouble. So he called for fire support. The tank hunters regiment answered the call and bearing the mighty portable autocannon sent forth utter destruction. When the dust had settled, the combined efforts of the dynamo and the tank hunter had left no further signs of life on the right flank of the hangar. Unbeknownst to them the sneaky lasiq had slipped away into the darkness…
The irmandhino was still mischievously zooming up the hangar on her rocket skates, and moved directly towards the enemy area of operations. Taking another D charge from her satchel, she flicked the activation switch and hurtled round the corner where she deftly slapped the charge onto the flank of a support remote as she skated past, the helpless robot erupted into flame. She was on a roll, she could feel it! she tried her luck when the namurr and ghulam came into view to chain rifle the area, hoping for an easy win. But alas the super soldiers of Haqqislam are made of better stuff than that and dodged like a feline out of harms way.

HAQQISLAM TURN 2

The silent lasiq scaled the high walls of the surrounding structure and drew line of sight to the irmandhino who had cornered the namurr and ghulam support staff. Like the silent assassin she was trained to be, the lasiq breathed out steadily and eliminated her target, as the the silhouette of the ariadnan smuggler slid quietly to the floor.
The hand to hand struggle between Zuleyka and the chasseur continued, with Zuleyka swinging wildly at the Ariadna. She managed to critically dodge out of harm's way, narrowly avoiding being struck down. The digger lumbering up from behind the crates fired his chain rifle indiscriminately at her as she tried to escape the struggle and rendered her unconscious.
Sensing that the mission was at stake the namurr moved out to attempt to break out from her besieged position, exchanging fire with the spetsnaz and spitting her hatred at the Ariadna. The veteran soldier did not flinch, having her perfectly within his sights and struck her down with a precision honed from countless campaigns. The ghulam doctor came rushing to the namurr's rescue and gave her life to patch up her fallen comrade, becoming another Mark on the tally of the spetsnaz heavy machine gun.

ARIADNA TURN 3

Sensing an end to the escalation, the SAS operative finally slid from her hiding place, crawling along the top of the high vantage point where she had concealed herself. "my turn for some action" she whispered to the darkness. Finding herself above Zuleyka and the digger she launched her deadly strike. Hip firing her combat shotgun at the figures below, dropping her targets without mercy or remorse. Continuing her advance along her the high walkways, she could just make out the crouched and wounded figure if the namurr in the gloom who reacted faster than the eye would believe. The SAS attack hitting only air, was suddenly blinded painfully by a precise flash pulse and stunned by the surprise intervention by the lasiq and halting her rampage.

THE END OF CONFLICT

It was time thought Al djjabel, cloaked in his impersonation gear. He decided it was time to give up the ghost. The mission was in tatters, the troops in disarray or dead. This had not been according to plan and certainly was not the will of the old man of the mountain. Revealing his identity, he confidently strode from the shadows and called out. "Noble Ariadnans! This ground is ours by rights! You have shown your strength. But now I appeal to your honour!" he shouted. "This operation is not of your concern, we have been sent to retrieve and safeguard something of great value to us and need not be more bloodshed" he walked calmly and steadily toward Lt jovovich hands raised in a show of peace. handing her a slip of sealed parchment. Every Ariadnan gun trained on him as he moved. " I can assure you Lieutenant, if I had wanted you dead… you would be". "Let it be an end to this folly".
Reading the enclosed information silently, Lieutenant jovovich looked up at Al djabel with surprise in her eyes. Without taking her eyes from the man, "everyone stand down and prepare to move out." she barked to the surrounding troops… " he is right, this is not our fight. Our righteous Ariadnan fury is needed elsewhere." turning without another word she strode purposefully off into the vast blackness of the hold towards her command hub.

FINAL WORDS.
This was an incredibly fun but bloody game and very cinematic. Despite Haqqislam struggling to deal with the ariadnans ferocity and having some bad luck with the dice, ultimately they won the day with having completed an extra classified objective and having a stronger congregation of high cost points units in the middle zone (due to some poor positioning by me and getting the bloodlust at the end with SAS. All in all, it was a great game and very memorable.
Thanks for reading!