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Part 2: Initial Attacks
Turn One: Force Harley, (#5 bike detachment): Sergeant Bost, cranked up the magnification of his glasses to full power and scanned the treeline across the valley. His detachment, consisting of two bike sqds and two land speeders, were acting as a forward screen for the main battle line. Suddenly he detected movement across the valley. With little fanfare terrible creatures began to spill out of the wooded hill and rush across the field. Bost spoke calmly into his commlink, reporting the movement to the TF commander. In mid sentence, a huge shape obscured his view, causing him to jump. He lowered his glasses. Lictors! Somehow they had infiltrated nearly up to their position. The battle commenced.
Force Crassus (#2 Tactical detachment), was posted along the northern flank of the Marine battle line. On the extreme end a squad leader reported movement across the valley , followed by a second report confirming a Tyranid swarm moving towards their flank. Again Lictors appeared nearly atop them, followed by Carnifexs and swarms of other monstrosities. Force Crassus engaged at once.
Turn Two: Force Harley remained on overwatch and directed a hail of fire into the advancing Lictors. They were supported by a whirlwind detachment directly to their rear and Tactical detachment Marius (#3), posted to their north in the center of the Marine battle line. Half the Lictors fell but the rest pressed on. Hundreds of bugs continued to pour out of the woodline across the valley. A Second large force appeared in the center of the valley. This was comprised of a large force of biovores, which rained down deadly spore mines on the Marine battle line.
At the Comm site, Force Graccus (#1), an assault detachment, secured the PZ (which was actually run by the I.G. scout platoon). Evacuation of the civilians went on as planned. Where was that marine air?
Turn Three: The entire southern flank of the Marine battleline was firing in support of Force Harley, which was attempting to disrupt the Tyranid push. Behind the Lictor skirmish line was a swarm of Hormagaunts and Termagants scrambling forward. behind them pouring out of the woods was a second huge swarm. The swarm in the center of the valley, was halted and supporting the attack with ranged fire. All but one Lictor was destroyed, but that one waded into Harley, killing two Marine bikers in a close assault and compelling Harley to pull back. Out of the treeline across the valley emerged a huge Dominatrix!
On the northern flank, the tyranid swarm seemed to hesitate for a moment, choosing to rain fire down upon the marines of Force Crassus. This was a tactic that suited the Marines well, and they exchanged a heavy fire with the tyranids, killing many.
Turn Four: Still no Marine air! The time for Force Harley to leave had come. Still tangled with that lone Lictor, they could not afford to be caught by the wave of rushing Hormagaunts behind it. The problem was that Harley's only escape route meant into would have to travel within spitting distance of the support detachment. Still there was no choice. To remain was certain death. Under cover from a hail of rockets from the Whirlwind detachment and Force Marius. Sgt. Bost led his force out. The narrowly missed the swing of the Lictors claws, but the tyranid support detachment, destroyed Harley's last two remaining Bikes, leaving just the land speeders to make their getaway. Behind them tyranid monsters swarmed over the old positions. Captain Reno ordered Harley up north to support Crassus.
Force Crassus held their position for another turn, hoping that the obstacle of the Hedgerow, combined with their firepower would slow down the Tyranids. The Swarm came on with assault orders. Landraiders, bolters, plasma guns lasguns glowed red hot as the marines tried to fight off their attackers. Many creatures died attempting to climb or cut through the hedgerow. However on the extreme northern flank, enough got through to overwhelm and kill every marine in Sgt. Pizo's squad. Following that assault, Crassus backed off two hundred meters.