Hivers?

With the mutants, their bosses, at least one probable Wyrd according to Kale, some really ugly and usettling see-through-dog-monsters and the really big boss in tow we find a good place to set up an ambush. A large, fairly open place. We let them almost across, getting their scout at point blank range. The firefight is straightforward, we have better discipline, skills and weapons and slaughter them fairly easily. Great killcount, and many chaos worshippers sent back to their disgusting gods.

We keep going through the almost empty hive for days. A few nights someone sees ghost. Don't know what that's about, we might have found out if we followed, but we stay with the exfil plan. A few days in we see a band of mutants, a wyrd and a wagon full of explosives. We hide, and let them pass. Halia nails the wagon with a beautifully placed krak, the explosion is visible for miles. The sound was like having your body used as a bass drum by an ogryn, and was probably noticeable from orbit.

We evaced down a defence corridor that led to a tech-priest research lab. Harkness got us in. We dodged some traps, wasted 4 servitors and found a lot of nice gear, a map of the hive and some patterns that seemed very interesting. We spent the night there.

The following days we kept on going towards a gate, and eventually made sense of the map. When we approach the gate we were planning to use, we saw a Chaos Space Marine leading almost 1000 mutants trying to breach the gate with a gigantic drill. On the map we found an alternate exit, and went for that instead.

When we got out, there was a battle going on between us and the Dominate. We spotted an artillery battery and were able to call in an artillery strike to kill it. Then we exfiled.

Colonel Garn is very happy, and sends to orbit to report to Virpius Actual. Lady General Coldsmith is very happy too, and we are granted medals in a very touching ceremony. I hope I can continue to serve the emperor as efficiently and well as this. Certainly my squad deserves this, they have performed exceedingly well.

When we get back to base, 114th has new orders. We are going back into the hive, to nail the Chaos Marine. Nice. It certainly did not feel right to leave him there. If I had thought we had any chance of getting him, we would have tried. Now the God-Emperor has given me the opportunity to try again.

We get ready for the hive. We are going to support the main charge by taking out some secondary objectives and secure the flank. Specifically we are going to start with a cathedral that contains a major warp source. I'll just try not to think too hard about what that might mean, hopefully it can bleed. If we really apply ourselves and the God-Emperor wills it we can certainly bring it down.

We get in position at the cathedral relatively easy, but before we enter the Commisar attached to the company attaches herself to our squad. An honor, but I am not sure to what extent she will be commanded by a sergeant from Cadia.

We enter the cathedral, and are immediately engaged by three Chaos Spawn. They melee, and are incredibly fast. It turns into a major clusterfuck, but eventually we wear them down. I am taken out by an incredibly heavy hit to the chest, and was really surprised when I discovered I was not dead.

We have to find a few minutes to discuss what we can improve, because our standard tactic of trying to get everything to bear as quickly as possible almost got us wiped before achieving our objective.