766.M37 The Dawn Hammer
Strike Force Ultra Myriadon, led by the Captain of the Imperial Fists 1st Company, destroys the
Ork space hulk of Warboss Sunspitta in the early stages of the Orks’ assault on the Imperial
world of Rylan. The Strike Force Ultra lands on the cratered surface of the hulk and fights its
way into the vessel’s rusted heart before destroying its crackling power core. Captain Myriadon
times the explosion precisely to match Warboss Sunspitta’s descent through the atmosphere of
Rylan. The resulting meteor storm, created by space hulk’s demise, accounts for more than half
of Sunspitta’s army.

477.M39 By the Dying Light
Daemonic servants of Tzeentch create Warp rifts inside each of the twin suns of Haark. Soon,
the leering faces upon the stars drive the entire population of the system insane, but the
Daemons’ incessant bickering triggers a duel-nova event. With the fate of the system now
measured in hours, the Black Consuls Chapter send in Strike Force Ultra Varnor to recover
sacred relics from the time of their founding. Captain Varnor and his brothers brave both
Daemons and madmen in the burning cities of Haark to collect the relics, narrowly escaping
into the void only moments before the stars die spectacularly.

508.M40 The Raiders Raided
After almost a century of hunting down the power base of a band of Eldar pirates, the Raven
Guard locate their quarry deep within the frozen reaches of the Subaron Rift. Mindful that any
hint of attack will cause the raiders to vanish once more into the void, a Strike Force Ultra is
dispatched to eradicate the Eldar with overwhelming force before they have time to flee.
Captain Oradias manages to take the aliens by surprise after making opportunistic use of a
nearby drifting asteroid to carry his force undetected through the Eldar’s defences. When the
Terminators storm their enemy’s base they find the Eldar completely unprepared to face them,
and soon the icy tunnels of the rift run red with xenos blood.

913.M41 The Six Hour War
Captain Severus Agemman demonstrates why he is Captain of the Ultramarines 1st Company
when he leads a Strike Force Ultra in the destruction of a substantial Tau garrison in just six
hours. In a sublime execution of the teachings within the Codex Astartes, Agemman invades
the sun-scorched desert planet of K’ail close to the edge of the Damocles Gulf, where the
disputed territories of the Imperium and Tau Empire collide. Though the garrison is wellequipped
with battlesuit and armour support, Agemman’s twenty veterans perform a
coordinated strike that cripples the Tau’s central defence network. Whilst Stormraven-borne
battle-brothers make a series of diversionary attacks on munitions caches around the garrison’s
perimeter, Agemman personally leads a teleport assault directly on the Tau command node
previously identified by elements of the 10th Company. Thinking they face a much larger force,
the surviving Tau retreat into the void rather than be destroyed.

Hexagrammatic Wards: Silas Alberec and any unit he joins gains the Feel No Pain (5+) special rule against any close combat attacks and Witchfire powers made by models with the Daemon, Psyker, Champion of Chaos, Mark of Khorne, Mark of Nurgle, Mark of Slaanesh, Mark of Tzeentch, Daemon of Nurgle, Daemon of Khorne, Daemon of Slaanesh or Daemon of Tzeentch special rules.
In addition, when an opponent currently fighting a challenge against Silas Alberec successfully activates a Force weapon by spending a Warp Charge, a special Deny the Witch test may be immediately taken. This test succeeds on a 4+ and cancels the effects of the Force special rule.

Soul-seared Champions: Any unit in the same detachment as Silas Alberec with the Chapter Tactics rule may re-roll any failed Deny the Witch tests they are called upon to take.

The space hulk Hell’s Last Duke ploughs into the surface of
Bereguel Tertia, causing an extinction-level event. Many of the
world’s most valuable dignitaries save themselves by taking to
underground bunkers as the conglomerate nightmare of the
space hulk burns through the atmosphere. Though they believe
themselves to have escaped the worst of the disaster, the
dignitaries soon learn otherwise when the renegade Space
Marines of the Purge emerge from the heart of the hulk and
begin to hunt them down. The Space Marines of the Fire
Lords Chapter receive the distress call and divert their crusade
to make planetfall upon Bereguel. Their Siegebreaker Cohorts
bore holes into the rockcrete of the hulk, leading a massed
assault right into the dark chamber that serves as its bridge. A
close-quarters battle breaks out, and though the Fire Lords lose
several of their Centurions in the process, the grisly death of
the Chaos Space Marine Lord Doluthec ensures warband is left
leaderless and eventually defeated.

Big Mek Rokgrabba invades the industrial world of Euthanatos.
His asteroid fortresses disgorge so many Orks that the planet’s
defenders are swiftly overwhelmed. Rokgrabba, something of a
force field ‘ekspert’, reinforces the primary industrial complex of
Thansus with a giant hemispherical energy shield. As the year
winds on and the Imperial Guard counter-attack gathers force,
even the heavy artillery of the Brimlock Dragoons proves
unable to penetrate Rokgrabba’s invention. The situation grows
increasingly desperate as the Big Mek turns Thansus’ assembly
lines to the creation of Killa Kans, Deff Dreads and Stompas.
At their wits’ end, the Dragoons petition for aid from nearby
Medusa. The Iron Hands of Clan Kaargul respond in force.
Their Iron Fathers analyse the vid-feeds of the war thus far,
observing that although artillery fire and even speeding vehicles
are repelled by Rokgrabba’s wall of force, individual warriors
are able to stride through the shield at will. A Siegebreaker
Cohort is deployed, walking under heavy fire through the city’s
outskirts to the heart of the industrial complex. As predicted,
they pass through the hemisphere shield as if it were no more
hindrance than a light breeze – though the field repels objects
with a high kinetic energy, it allows those with a slow,
deliberate pace to pass straight through. The Iron Hands follow
the Siegebreaker Cohort’s lead, walking through the Ork
defences and bringing the greenskins to battle en masse. The
power source of the energy shield is captured and destroyed in
short order, and Euthanatos is reclaimed within the week.

During one of the terrifying events the Dark Eldar call their
Carnivals of Pain, a Coven of Haemonculi unleashes a carefully
coded bio-toxin upon the hive world of Orbulac. The toxin
dissolves human flesh whilst leaving Eldar intact, and the
Haemonculi take to the spires of Hive Primus with
high-powered scrying devices in order to appreciate the
grotesquerie they have brought into being. The Salamanders
hear of the vile fate that has befallen Orbulac and send in a
Strike Cruiser to cut out the cancer that has taken root in the
armoured eyries of the hive. Stormraven Gunships deliver a
Siegebreaker Cohort to the upper levels, each warrior’s
rebreather replaced by internal air sources. One by one, the
warsuited battle-brothers suffer wounds during the resultant
fighting, their power armour split or dissolved by the arcane
weapons of the Haemonculi. As the flesh-eating toxin worms its
way into their flesh, the Salamanders die fighting. Though the
warsuits, and even the power armour inside are empty of
anything but noisome liquids, the angered machine spirits that
lurk in each warsuit fight on. The last two operative warsuits
bore holes into the Haemonculi’s lair and slowly fall dormant,
but not before emptying their ammunition caches and
shredding the macabre scientists in a storm of explosive bolts.

The Ultramarines loose their Siegebreaker Cohort upon the
pirate-infested Space Station Ghould. Determined to keep the
element of surprise, the Centurions boost out from the airlocks
of the Guilliman’s Oath to carve their way through the space
station’s dense plasteel hull. The resultant decompression kills
nine tenths of the pirate base’s inhabitants, and the Centurion
warsuits eradicate the rest with pitiless efficiency.

The underground tunnels of Calth are infested with Tyranid
burrower-organisms after the attack of Hive Fleet Behemoth.
The Ultramarines, fearing that the snake-bodied terrors could
remain a blight for decades to come, mobilise several
Siegebreaker Cohorts and send them to war deep underground.
Using omniscopes to detect the vibrations made by the Tyranid
burrow-beasts, the Centurion Sergeants and their men use siege
drills to carve their way into the Tyranid tunnels just as the
burrowing creatures pass by. A series of ugly and
claustrophobic battles erupt under the planet’s crust, as often
fought in total darkness as in the wan light of the Centurion
Sergeants’ omniscope arrays. Though it takes the best part of
two years before the Centurions are returned to normal service,
the burrower-beasts are believed to be eradicated.