This is a repost of recaps written for an Only War game I'm running on Infrno.net. They start off a bit dry but get a little more detailed as we go.
WARNING: Spoilers for the adventure No Surrender.
1st Aerial Assault Chrysopelea
Regiment Rules:
Characteristic Modifiers: +3 Agility, -3 Fellowship, +3 Willpower and +3 to either Weapon Skill or Ballistics
Starting Aptitudes: Ballistic Skill, Willpower
Starting Skills: Common Lore (Imperial Guard), Common Lore (Imperium), Common Lore (War), Linguistics (High Gothic, Low Gothic), Operate (Aeronautics)
Starting Talents: Air of Authority or Unshakeable Faith, Catfall, Deadeye Shot, Die Hard, Enemy (Scintillan Fusiliers), Hatred (Scintillan Fusiliers)
Pride Over Life: Difficult (-10) Willpower test to refuse formal challenge or ignore a major slight
Well-Provisioned: +10 Logistics for fuel/parts for vehicles
Wounds: Characters from this regiment begin play with +1 starting Wounds.
Standard Regiment Kit: Best quality lascarbine and six charge packs per Player Character (Main Weapon), suit of Good quality Imperial Guard flak armour, jump pack, respirator, grav-chute, three frag grenades, three smoke grenades, uniform, poor weather gear, knife, rucksack or sling bag, basic tool set, mess kit, water canteen, blanket and sleep bag, rechargeable lamp pack, grooming kit, cognomen tags or equivalent ID, Imperial Infantryman's Uplifting Primer, combat sustenance rations four weeks' supply
Favoured Weapons: Heavy flamer, plasma gun
Alpha Squad: Lady Imperatrice Cedercreuz (Commissar), Warrick Sable (Storm Trooper), Father Angelos (Ministorum Priest), Solon (Angelos' Comrade, Never Bathes), Harmon Yorke (Heavy Gunner), Malakai Thai (Yorke's Incompetent Comrade)
The 1st Aerial Assault Chrysopelea Regiment is aboard the Imperial Navy cruiser, the Vox Belli. They and the Vostroyan 1054th Void Shrikes are to assault and retake the massive star fort Lycurgos from Severan Dominate rebels in Warzone Epsilon. Alpha squad is practicing zero-g maneuvers, but they are nearly suffocated after a disastrous performance.
The nearly fatal exercise is interrupted by alarms and officers telling them they are exiting warp and preparing for the assault. The squad attempts to requisition their gear after a briefing, but are forced to scrounge for void suits after some bureaucratic foul-ups. They wait to be launched from some landing craft, but the Vox Belli is badly damaged by the star fort's defenses, which were profoundly underestimated. The landing craft are powered down and the soldiers learn they must exit the dying cruiser via an airlock.
Alpha Squad rushes through the cruiser, though their priest, Father Angelos, is badly wounded during a fall. The drop troops manage to reach the airlock after these and other misfortunes, exiting into one of the docking arms of the star fort. They immediately come under withering fire from the Severan Dominate defenders, who have slaughtered most of the Void Shrikes who assaulted ahead of them.
Alpha Squad's company of their fellow drop troops battle their way past the traitors' defenses, eliminating heavy bolter teams and lines of riflemen behind metal barricades. They also neutralize a Sentinel walker, one of several set up to slow their advance. As they press forward, however, the Vox Belli begins to succumb to the damage it sustained from the star fort's cannons.
The cruiser explodes, rupturing the airlock, disabling power in the section of the landing arm where the squad is fighting. The air is sucked out of the beach head, and the company of drop troops finds itself floating in zero-g mid-assault.
Edited by mathey