“Kopta blades! I hear Kopta blades! Combat deployment immediately. Enemy approaching from the west. I can’t see them, but I can hear them. They’re coming in fast.“—vox broadcast of Patrol Cassius, guarding the flank of the 273rd Cadian Regiment * * * ICONIA (6 457 746.M41)—A rising ork […]
“Why is it a bounty hunter can capture this traitor in two weeks, when our Enforcers have made excuses for two years? Give the man his bounty. Maybe we should consider hiring him to command the Arbites.”—Fabius Nemetorius, Great Elector of Morkai * * * Internal Report Grant […]
“We’s having a good time. We’s shootin’ up humies, flyin’ fast, and we’s lots of red paint. Who’s we gonna fight next?”—Gutkrumpa, warboss of the Speed Freaks mob, Gutkrumpa’s Kill Koptas * * * ICONIA (6 417 746.M41)—A surprise attack by ork “koptas” was repulsed today at a […]
“Do you see them? Do they not make your heart beat faster? Does your pride in humanity swell? Lo, there stand the Imperial Knights in all their heraldry. Their majesty proves the nobility of the Imperium, the glory of our Emperor.” “I will follow them into battle and […]
“Let the power of your Knight flow through your veins. Let the ghosts of your throne whisper wisdom into your mind. Let steel be your sinews and fire be your fists. Become your Knight, as it becomes you, and through symbiosis ascend. So shall you become. So shall […]
“It saddens me to realize that the heroics of the 310th Cadian Regiment—at least its role in the Damocles Gulf Crusade—will never be known. We have too few victories and too many defeats to satisfy what the Imperium wishes history to be.” “So the truth will be rewritten. […]
The common guardsmen doesn’t need to know why a battle is being fought. He needs only know what’s expected of him. He fights. He dies. He is the cannon fodder that ensures the Imperium’s survival.”—Colonel Klaus Vorndrath, 143th Death Korps Regiment, circa 453.M40 * * * Continued from Part […]
“I do not offer hope, comfort, or safety. I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles, and death. Let him who loves his Emperor with his heart, and not merely his lips, follow me.”—General Milus Montague, commander during the War of the Beast, M32. * * * * […]
IMPERIAL VOXCAST—In the face of fierce xeno resistance, ground forces of the Damocles Gulf Crusade report mixed progress in their latest attack on Dal’yth Prime, a strategically important planet in the Tau Empire. New dispatches indicate a major battle is underway for control of a xeno city called […]
“Some say I am ruthless in throwing men into battle. That is true. Some say I throw away men’s lives. That is untrue. A human wave attack has value, but it isn’t entirely mindless. Artillery and air support can be used to assist the attack. Minefields can be […]
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