Gothic war in the game and Laura: History of Battlefleet Gothic: Armada
January 15, one day earlier planned, the second beta Battlefleet Gothic: Armada II started. A little more than a week in a week and a full release will take place. The first armada was a pleasant exception to the general flow of strange projects in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, and, hoping, it will again be such in its coming.
But, to judge the quality of the games, the lot of the authors of Stopgame, but I do not belong to them And sorry. In this blog, I propose to consider Armada on the other hand: plot and ENT. Claring not so much depth as the epicity of what is happening, the world of the hammer of the war is an endless war of everyone with everyone, and Battlefleet Gothic: Armada took the role of telling about one of the most remarkable periods of the history of the Universe – the twelfth crusad of Abaddon Raisher. The game received this role rather in the inheritance, for its sources come from the Battlefleet Gothic desktop wargam, in the first edition dedicated to this conflict. Let, if necessary, Armada tried to do the task with dignity, and it is precisely about the comparison of what was written with what was shown and there will be an article.
This blog is a compilation of sources about the Gothic war from the books of Wargam rules, Black Library books and few codes. Everything will not be limited to a simple retelling of the plot, because in the end we have a blog about the game, they did not really? Therefore, here in such spoilers
Well, do not spend the spoiler in vain, though? Let’s briefly tell you about where Battlefleet Gothic came from where.
In 1999, the first edition of the Battlefleet Gothic desktop wargam. For Games Workshop, this was a kind of attempt new mines imagine what space battles would look like in their universe. It turned out quite original: in spirit, it was more like the battles of the sailing fleet of the Napoleonic Wars, and not what could be seen in 90% of the rest of Sifay and was perfectly combined with the total aesthetics of the universe. Aesthetics in general was almost the main reason to be purchased by the miniatures of the space fleet: flying cathedrals as a concept for the spacecraft is dubious, but as a shelf decoration of the shelf, which goes on excellently.
The first edition of the Rules was indeed devoted exclusively by the Gothic war: there was ENT, there were models, and so only Imperium, Chaos, Eldar and Orcs – namely those who fought on this front. In subsequent updates, the assortment of available factions expanded, and all the rest appeared in the hunger.
Now the desktop Battlefleet Gothic, after a pack of “patches” is still playing and has its own audience.
For example, the part of the photo report provided by the Comrade-Nast with one of these games
The events that took place with Admiral Spyre, the main character of Armada, will be hidden, about the same period of time, viewed in Laura.
I want to immediately warn – the author does not even try to explain absolutely every element of the universe of a forty -thousandth. Therefore, if you are completely unfamiliar with this universe, it can be a little hard to read.
Well, I think with entry can be done. All Ahead Full!
Background
For the Universe, where there is a place only for the war, the Gothic sector was a surprisingly boring place. Six dozen inhabited systems, prosperous industry, not the most bustling government in the Imperium, a strong fleet on the guard of the calm of the townsfolk … There were two things that made the sector not by pastoral idyll. The first is the overhanging the community of an eye of horror, from where no, no, and some kind of flotilla of the chaos of chaos broke out. The second – six mysterious space stations called black -stone fortresses.
Who built them? Why are they needed? Why six? Why, after all, it is here? There were no answers. Comparison of the technological potential of the creators of fortresses and imperial technological workers was far from in favor of the latter. People even really could not use the full potential of fortresses. Everything that was enough for was the strength is to turn on the guns, learn to lift, to the doors of the hangars, and to finish the docks in different places.
Of course, this was still non -human technology … But even the most grumbling and conservative technological devices agreed that they were not looking at a heavily label of a freebie in Duza. From the fortresses they made bases for naval ships, and in this mode all six fortresses worked until those events that would later be called the twelfth black crusad.
Enterprise to war
“I see fortresses among the stars, a circle of six. But they sleep and should be awakened. Fly on the storms of chaos, gather around you your rivals. Bring discord and horror to thousands of worlds, Abaddon Raisher, Warrior of Chaos! Find the hand of darkness, take the eye of the night. With them, the fortresses will be your. The choir of millions will scream your name in fear and hatred, and the stars will turn red from blood … If you have enough courage … Warrior ”
Famous Cadian Gate is the only stable way out of the horror of a horror that rages the varnish energies storm. The boundaries of the eye are unstable and complex for navigation. But “complex” does not mean “impassable”. Here and here, in the boundaries of the storm, gaps appeared, and small squaders of the servants of Chaos could use them and break into the real world.
In case of penetration of just such raiders along the entire border of the eye, there are observation stations. There are not many staff on them, because no one expects that they will cope with the attack. Their whole task is to be able to report on the penetration of the other possessions of the emperor.
And it so happened that in 139 of the forty -first millennium, these stations began to fall silent one after another. The death for sentinel is not so rare, but so that in such quantities? Everything became only worse when patrol ships began to disappear along with the stations. Some disappeared forever, and some found lifeless skeletons with a dead crew.
Among many others, the inquisitor Horst began to observe behind this anomaly.
Name: Faedus Falconet Horst
Age: Secretly
Job title: Inquisitor Ordo Malleus, demon hunter by profession and antiquity hunter if necessary.
Hobby: The overthrow of dictatorial governments on their native planet.
The old veteran of the imperial counterintelligence, he was quite insightful and understood that behind these attacks there was someone who really wants to lead through the borders of the eye of great forces. Through all the gaps remaining closed, fleets can easily seep, which will be a large worship of the invasion of the invasion.
But it was a simple attack on the possession of the emperor?
In the same year, the future Admiral Spyr (at that time – the captain of the patrol light cruiser) was among those who investigated the situation with unexpectedly dying stations. On the avant -pust, Alef, he collided with the whole flotilla of chaos, moving deep into the imperium, but was able to escape and convey news about the invasion of the Admiralty and Inquisitor Horst.
Since in the game we are observing all the events of the war on behalf of Spyre, there were many details about the events of 143 and remained unknown to us, which happened was only one case of many. But this is the price of identification of ourselves with the hero: we are a simple soldier, and just physically cannot view the whole picture. Even Horst could not say about the simple captain of one ship?
Not only on the border with the kingdom of chaos was restless. The Gothic’s internal planets of the Gothic sector also occurred: apocalyptic prophecies from all sides, dozens of new radical and not very sects, bleeding eye sockets of statues and other paintings that are clearly not setting up for optimism about the future. An alarming reports went from one planet after another, and Horst immediately went to the sector. Everything said that it was the Gothic sector that would be the goal of the invasion.
The inquisitor was just a little late.
A call came from the planet of the purple for help: the fleet of chaos robbers appeared in orbit and began the siege. The news itself is alarming, but she scared the inquisitor much more. He then knew that the purpler became a repository for one of the artifacts of the same race that created black -stone fortresses. The device, called by the unknown fantasier with the hand of darkness, was true to the traditions of its creators: its purpose and methods of application remained a complete secret. It is not surprising that in the end he was thrown into the repository on an unremarkable planet.
Before the squadron led by Horst managed to arrive at the Purgatory, it was too late. The hand of darkness was captured by heretics and taken away in an unknown direction. But the inquisitor knew that the hand was not the only artifact in the hands of the Imperium. Another relic from the same set, the eye of the night, was on the planet of Ornsworld, the pastoral world of dwarf-ratings.
Suspicions were true. Ornsworld really became the next purpose. And again the imperial fleet did not have time to react quickly enough. The second artifact was in the grip of the forces of Chaos.
All these sad events can easily be changed in Battlefleet Gothic: Armada. For the Admiral Spyra Purgatoria and Ornsworld, who received the increase, they become the first serious operations (and for us, as players – continuing training), and he has every chance to win in battle for at least one, at least another relic.
But this will not lead to any complete change of history, which is wrong from all sides – but more on that later.
Soon the clouds thickened over the Gothic sector not only in a figurative sense. The warp storm, interfering with interstellar navigation surrounded the entire sector stars. And if it was still possible to move inside, then all the connection with the Imperium was practically stopped. Alarming signs, mysterious deaths of patrols, and now the storm arose so successfully. The combat fleet of the sector began to prepare for the dark future.
Two times before the war, the servants of the Golden Throne were late for key events. As you know, this regrettable bowl did not pass them this time: it was too late to prepare, the enemy was already here.
The onset of darkness
“These dark times require decisive actions. If we do not act courageously and with faith in the emperor, we will expire with blood for ten years and the entire sector will fall into the claws of chaos.”
There were enough blindness for several years, and the mighty forces of the Archrage accumulated outside the eye. Smilely, the flights of the raiders together made up the armada, which exceeds the number of the Gothic combat fleet.
In the very first days of the war, it became clear who leads this army. Abaddon Raisher, one of the main leaders of chaos, again went beyond the Oy and prepared to personally head the military campaign.
Name: Ezekil Abaddon, better known as Abaddon Rightsur
Age: Difficult question, but chronologically more than 10,000 years
Job title: The warrior of chaos, the chosen one of the four gods, the permanent leader of the Black Crusades.
Hobby: Alchemy, in particular moonshine.
The warrior of Chaos clearly knew something from the history of the ancient Terra, because in the early days of the war the Imperial Fleet collided with his analogue of the Perl-Harbor catastrophe. The small and inconspicuous squaders of the raiders of Chaos went into the depths of the imperial space and struck the bases of the Gothic military fleet. Dozens of ships burned in the docks without having time to give a single volley, they were even more damaged that they had to repair a couple of years.
Little where it managed to organize at least some resistance.
Port of the MOU, the main base and the headquarters of the fleet, was quite protected from any attacks and withstood the first wave of attack.
In the orbit of Orara, thanks to a happy coincidence, the squadron under the command of Captain Comrade Basta was preparing for departure at the moment when the enemy fell on the planet. Only thanks to this, the Chaosites, waiting for the defenseless targets, were thrown back.
Among the defenders of Orara was Admiral Spyre. His squadron was based on the port of the MOU, but he managed to reach the planet in time and help the besieged. Well or not help. For at that time, Spyra could still contrast Little and Weak Fleet with numerically and qualitatively superior forces of chaos.
It is worth mentioning that Captain Abridal first appeared in the squadron of the planet’s defenders for the first time. This somewhat self -confident captain of the fleet will meet with Spyr several times in the key moments of the history of the Gothic War and play a major role in the denouement of history. But these are still spoilers, so we will leave the topic.
In general, the situation Kriptycasino.co.uk was seams. The first blow was forced by the Lord Admiral von Ravensburg, the commander of the Gothic combat fleet, first of all, to focus on maintaining those few forces that remained. The cost of this was a retreat from many worlds, and their inevitable capture by heretics.
Name: Cornelius von Ravensburg
Age: Several hundred years, thanks to anti -aging procedures.
Job title: The commander of the Gothic’s military fleet and the actual commander in chief of all imperial forces during the Gothic War.
Hobby: Harem of several dozen girls aboard the flagship.
Ironically, but soon the advancing wedges of the Chaosites were faced with what the imperial fleet fought throughout the centuries of its existence – with piracy.
Pirates were not very rare in the Gothic sector, but attracted by the war, they became a real scourge for all sides of the conflict. Green -legged corsars robbed everything that was poorly raised, and all the rest was unscrewed and still robbed. The arrogant witty Eldars on their ghostly ships appeared from nowhere and disappeared into nowhere, often taking with them everything more or less valuable. And even the most ordinary people, who did not join the forces of Chaos, or to the forces of the Imperium, decided that their moment came to cash in due to other people’s suffering.
Due to the regularly falling supply lines, Blitzkriga Abaddon began to slow down until in the end he stopped completely. There was a case when an entire advancing squadron hit the spindle of orc pirates, and climbed almost in full force.
Armada scattered into smaller fleets, and each of them began to rob the fact that he had to. Discipline (and its absence) as always became the main problem of heretics. But the ruin was not worried. He still had cards in his arms, and he continued the party.
Two fortresses
“… And now the beast was released in order to attack the righteous and overthrow their affairs. Although the beast is dressed in the appearance of the human, no flesh will hide the decomposition of his soul, and the unclean inhabitants of the external darkness flow under his banners. The righteous appealed about retaliation, but the beast did not humiliate. The name of the beast became a curse on the lips, and the name was – Abaddon.”
The RBO system was one of the supporting points of the forces faithful to the emperor. All because of the black-stone fortress IV. The ancient guns of the station surpassed everything that was at the disposal of mankind, and even alone the fortress could burn medium -sized fleet.
It is not surprising that the defenders accepted the approach of the warrior fleet with gloomy determination. Yes, the Armada Armada was great, but even at the worst outcome, they would have to wash themselves with blood in the battle for the fortress.
But there was no battle. The station disconnected in a moment of the appearance of the first chaos of chaos in the defeat zone. The guns were silent, the doors of the hangars did not open and did not let out hundreds of fighters and bombers, and even simple hermodruis did not work between the decks. The powerful fortress turned into no more than a crypt for several million imperial soldiers. All they were able to hold out for a long time and report on the mysterious ability of Abaddon to disconnect the black -stone fortresses at a distance.
But Abaddon did not even think to stop brag about his know-how.
Planet Savaven was one of the worlds of the Church of the Church of the Immortal God-Emperor. Fourteen billion of its population prayed for the victory of imperial weapons and otherwise made their undoubtedly important contribution to the victory. On this quiet planet, Abaddon experienced a planetubic, his new flagship. The main caliber of the titanic ship was a battery of heavy lasers, charged with damn evil demons. The firepower of this gun was enough to destroy the whole planet.
This happened. Savaven turned into a cluster of fragments, and the news about this instantly scattered throughout the sector. Panic began. Everyone expected that the creation of the hands of crazy chaos technologists would be in the sky of their planet.
“Hour of execution” by Gordon Renny is a book about the events of the Gothic War, told on behalf of the crew of the star cruiser “Lord Solar Maharius”. In the center of the plot is an attempt by the crew to evacuate one of the worlds on the path of planetubic and obstacles arising against this background. The book, I must say, is very mediocre even against the backdrop of the entire writer on Warhammer 40,000, but one of the few very well shows space battles in this universe.
Against the backdrop of all this darkness and quiet hopelessness, one bright spot appeared. For once, the Imperials managed to detect enemy movements before he struck.
Intelligence of the fleet from the 202nd squadron of commander Valdez accidentally collided with a planetubic and his escort. Having successfully retreated, the commander calculated the enemy’s course and discovered their goal – the Black -Stone Fortress VI.
However, at this moment the flickering good luck again turned the usual side. Despite the warning, it managed to reach the fortress too little, and Abaddon again repeated the focus with its disconnection. Moreover, by this moment he was able to restore the work of the four already captured by him and directed its firepower against the Imperials. After a short battle, the Imperial Fleet was forced to retreat and give another station in the hands of a madman. Vandez, who until the last commanded a desperate defense, in the end gave his life in this battle.
News about the fall of the fortress IV and Savaven find Admiral Spyra already a post-fact, but in the battle for fortress VI he takes an active part. Valdez and his scouts also fight on our side.
Unfortunately, the fate of the compartment and the sixth fortress does not change. Even if we defeat the battle, some time after the departure of the squadron of Spider Abaddon again attacked the fortress, and this time succeeded.
Inquisitor Horst, who finished his investigation at that time, realized what kind of mysterious weapon that turned off the black -stone fortresses at a distance. Undoubtedly these were stolen artifacts, the hand of darkness and the eye of the night. The Inquisitor shared his suspicions with Lord Ravensburg, and soon they began to prepare an action plan.
And now the moment when the game can go very much against Laura. We can prevent the abduction of the eye of the night and the hands of darkness, but this will absolutely not affect the successes of Abaddon – he can still turn off the protection of the fortresses and easily take them. The only effect that we get from artifacts is the slightly smaller scale of the chaos invasion.
Gather for strength
145.M41 – 149.M41
“We fell upon them like a hound in the game. They made an attempt to escape and hide in their holes, but my escort ships were already waiting for bandits. The “Cyprus of Probation” alone recorded fifteen destroyed ships that day, and the total losses of pirates in terms of estimates exceed thirty vessels. Many fled to Barbarus III, hoping that he would be able to hide our guns. How were they mistaken. We released plasma torpedoes modified by Magos Urilum from the adept of mechanicus, along the semi -deserted world, burning the raids. Only three ships left the battle, asking for mercy. Our guns rendered them the mercy of the emperor!”
Admiral Morndark about a successful attack on the Barbarus Costa system
The first stages of the war were successful for the Chaosites as much as possible. But time passed, and it became more and more clearly that the resistance of the Imperium only increases. The ships damaged during raids on the docks were commissioned, and the Lord Admiral Rayvensburg was already beginning to grab the strength to counterattacks.
The last success of Abaddon was the capture of the black -stone fortress I in the Fularis system. In fact, the fact that it was captured turned out a few years later, and at that time it was clear that the defenders of the system suddenly fell silent sharply. Rescuers who arrived at the place discovered the planet Fularis II with a blown atmosphere, fragments of the ships of the garrison and not a single trace of the fortress. Later, thanks to the diary of one of the Imperial officers who died in battle, it was possible to find out that the second planet of the system died from the simultaneous volley of two black -stone fortresses that combined the ray of their main calibers into one. In other times, such tricks would make hearts tremble, but after all that was previously nobody led the ear. Just a new superweapon at the enemy, Eka Nonvidal ..
But Abaddon also came to the end of power. Blitzkrieg took his strength from him, and now even he had to retreat to lick his wounds. For 7 long years, Imperium received a break. So that period of the war began, which can be described in one line: on the Gothic front without changes.
There really comes the moment when Spyra is forced to mainly dangle according to randomly generated non-aggregate operations, but several important events still happen. One of them is the proposal of the Eldar Prince of Corsarers about the world. Eldars themselves realized that the current invasion of chaos was not a joke, and the only not really A chance to win an alliance between xenos and people faithful to the emperor
The choice, as always, falls on the shoulders of Spyra and the player, but from the subsequent events of the Laura it will become clear that most likely the option with the conclusion of the union will be correct.
The systems passed from hand to hand, and from the clashes of the fleets all sides moved to small skirmishes.The Imperials were forced to protect a lot of systems from the “wolf flocks” of Chaos scumbling everywhere, the Chaosites themselves, as always, quarreled and argued for the prey. Somewhere, like in the Liasanda subsectator, almost all systems raised the banner of chaos, and the ships of the archire stood on the very approaches to the port of the MOU. Somewhere, as in the subsector, the Closer Closer, on the contrary, the Imperials coped with the onslaught of traitors and xenos, and conquered worlds for the glory of the emperor.
The Admiralty of the Bill Fleet Gothic understood – it was taken to the highlight. Yes, now the fleet forces are restored, but soon the last reserves will be introduced into battle and only losses will continue. There is no reinforcements due to the ongoing storm, and this is that new forces regularly come to the forces of chaos. Inquisitor Khorst, who became the closest adviser to the commander of the Rivensburg, advocated in every possible way for decisive actions instead of a dull sitting in the siege. But before starting a large -scale counterattack, it was necessary to end minor problems.
The first step on the path of the new war strategy was the defeat of the main pirate base in the Barbarus Costa system. The local confederation of two dozen pirate groups felt like real kings of space. In their opinion, everyone was engaged in war with each other, and an honest hard worker under the banner of a cheerful Roger could create that he would like to. For example, the convoy flies past. Ordinary, unremarkable prey near the free station. Ah yes rob him not to walk?
To their great regret, the convoy turned out to be a trap. Imperial ships standing in an ambush immediately hit the pirate fleet. And then calmly walked in their foot. Organized piracy, like power, ceased to exist, and at least for some moment about the safety of the rear could not be worried.
Admiral Spyir was not a participant in the assault of asylum in Barbarus. However, a similar task fell to his lot. The same subsector, almost the same system, only he had to fight not against people, but against the green -skinned corsers. Such liberties on the part of the developers are clear: it would be very dull to fight against the next people, and here at the same time it was possible to make an interesting fight with the boss. In every sense.
In the same period, another important collision occurs: the battle for the Monte de-Zhil system, where we first meet with a planetubic. In addition, this is almost the first mission of an example from Laura, but why not? Abaddon by that time really somehow strangely disappears from the chronicle of events, and it was only known he continued to periodically burn the planets to create panic in the sector. It is likely that one of them could try to give him a fight.
Having finished with one threat, Roinsburg’s hands were unleashed. It’s time to do a real enemy.
Battle of Gepsimania
“Slava to the emperor, I finally fulfilled my duty.”
– Cornelius von Ravensburg, according to the results of the battle of Gepsimania
The next step of Rivevensburg was the gathering of forces for the general battle. Almost all ships were recalled from defensive lines to create a single fist. The goal was chosen – one of the small fleets of chaos. True, except in comparison with all the forces available to Abaddon, so numerically he was quite equal to the fact that he could put up the Gothic combat fleet.
At first it seemed that the chaosites were frightened. Avoiding the battle, the high -speed ships of Chaos actively maneuvered and evaded any clash. Finally, the fugitives were caught in the hefsiman system.
But it turned out to be a trap. All this time, the Fleet of the heretics went to connect with their neighbors, and now their united forces exceeded the fleet of Ravensburg almost 2 to 1. The vanguard of the Imperials was very beaten, but it was too late to dodge the battle.
The battle of Gepsimania began – the key battle of the whole war, and the largest clash in general in the history of the Gothic war. The seventeen battleships of the Imperium, led by the flagship of the Lord Admiral, opposed almost thirty traitors similar to the tonnage of ships. Lists of the participant trifles and was completely approaching several dozens on both sides.
The fire power was entirely on the side of the apostates, and they perfectly understood it. Having lined up for the attack, the chaos flotilla went to a simple frontal offensive, without cunning maneuvers and surprises. Why try if victory is almost in their pocket?
Fortunately for the defenders of the Gothic sector, Cornelius von Ravensburg received his title not for beautiful eyes and not for the length of service. Having placed his fleet in the orbit of the planet Gepsimania II, he took advantage of the dust clouds located there. Before the ships of the heretics were able to reach the distance of fire, small but maneuverable frigates standing all this time in ambush. An unexpected attack mixed the advancing orders of the fleet, and forced the Chaosites to switch their attention to a new goal. This hitch was enough. Heavy imperial ships, turning on the engines at full power, broke directly into the enemy constructions center. The frigates even almost did not have time to suffer losses, because Eve Online expressed himself in the language of the Navy: “To who the Inter surrendered to hell, when such crap welded to zero?”
Chaos ships are much faster than imperial, and at a long distance their fire power is higher. But the Lord Admiral of the Imperial Fleet imposed his enemies to his enemies at a super-fluid distance, where the weak armor of the traitors could do not contrast the volleys of the heavy ship’s guns of the Empire. The losses went on both sides, but it soon became clear – the battlefield for the righteous.
In a rage, the admiral of the forces of Chaos commanded a retreat. He hoped to bring the head of Rivensburg as a gift to Abaddon, and now he was forced to flee from the battle that had begun so well! Here’s a reason to get angry.
But in an instant, his anger was replaced by panic. From nowhere, right on the waste path, notes of unidentified ships began to arise one after another. The Eldar Fleet, who had hitherto fighting against all, performed on the same side with the Imperials.
The massacre began. The Eldar Fleet Archivar, clamped between the hammer of the Imperium and the anvil, ceased to exist.
The epic battle, where the chances passed from hand to hand several times and on the outcome of which the fate of the whole sector in the game depended … it turned out to be very modest. Unfortunately, restrictions on the game itself, not allowing the player to set too big forces come into business. Even the largest fleet of Spyra would hardly have been a quarter of the forces that Rainvensburg brought according to the lists of ships. And we learned about participating in the battle of Eldar after the battle, in the future of the jungle.
It’s a shame. What could be one of the most striking moments of the whole game was just another ordinary battle, with a slightly large number of enemies on the map.
Battle of Gepsimania became an absolute victory. For the first time in a long time, the people of the Gothic sector felt hope for victory. The massive influx of volunteers in the guard and fleet began. Demoralized chaosites began several more sensitive defeats, and the balance of power to roll towards the loyalists.
And, as if it were not enough, fate played another evil joke with Abaddon. The warp-storm, who had hitherto holding the Gothic sector in isolation, ended. Now at any moment reinforcements from all over the Imperium could arrive here.
Final chords
“By my faith – let the emperor shines to the most distant stars.
In my opinion – the galaxy will belong to the righteous.
According to my acts – the Imperial Fleet will shine in the memory of St. Terra!
For the emperor of mankind and for the Combat Fleet Gothic!”
– The last words of Captain Abrival
The nature of the warp navigation is a constant game of Russian roulette. Ships can arrive late for a couple of hundred years, may arrive before the start of the war, and for a variety to be on time. Stable routes in the variable space of the warp are rarely arise, and they are important as nothing else: only through them can large flotillas calculate to reach the goal in relative integrity and preservation.
One of these routes connected the Gothic sector and the rest of the Imperium in the Tarantis system. It was here that the ruin dealt his next blow.
By this moment, the outcome of the war began to become obvious. Battle of Gepsimania was a success, but arriving imperial troops confidently developed him in the complete defeat of the forces of chaos. The squadrons of neighboring combat fleets and even several orders of the cosmodesant have already entered the battle, and then it would only be more. It remained only to delay the final defeat.
The battle for Tarantis turned out to be short, but fierce. At the decisive moment of the battle, Abaddon showed the light a view of the three activated black -stone fortresses. The relics of the two were enough to burn the planet, the volley at the same time achieved three even more. Under their shelling, the system of the system became unstable. It remained a few days before she became supernova. The fleets of both sides immediately escaped from the doomed system. A month later, the Tarantis system disappeared into the flames of the cataclysm.
Now reinforcements had to make a big hook to get into the sector, and the ruin had the necessary time to apply their attacks. Six months, the chaos fleet played in cat mouse with the united forces of Rayvensburg and Eldar. And again, as it was with the fortress VI, luck smiled at the owners of the field. The Abaddon fleet was discovered on the march to the Schindelheyst system, the whereabouts of the black -stone fortress v.
Three fleets came together in the confrontation. And despite all the resistance, despite all the anger – the forces of chaos lost. Numerical and fire superiorities were not on his side. The last chance to capture at least another fortress was lost.
Of course, Admiral Spyr was among those who fought in the last battle with the ruin. And unlike Gepsimania, the battle of Schindelgeist has become the sip of Epica, which was required by the game on Warhammer 40,000. The battle right in the crown of the star, a huge scale, the clash of almost all the game fractions, with the exception of the orcs who had retired from the confrontation, was swearing by the emperor, it was a worthy finale.
Now it was not about the last robbery, but about at least leave with what is. The warrior ordered his three fortresses to repeat the maneuver with an explosion of a star. The overloaded luminary would make everyone run away immediately, giving the opportunity to leave Chaos to leave with his trophies.
The Fleet of the Imperials and Eldar was connected by battle, and it was too late to react to the unexpected maneuver of fortresses. The only ship that managed to break through to them was the cruiser of the “Flame of purity” of Captain Abridal. Now from this man who survived the adan of the war and survived to almost its end, the fate of the whole battle depended.
The gun volleys could not make anything to the black armor of desecrated stations. Three rays connected into one and hit the star. There were a few minutes before the death of the star.
At that moment, Captain Abridal realized – now it all depends on him. The thought flickered: but the rays need to connect for a salvo. What if you interrupt this connection?
The captain gave his last order. The engines of the ship flashed with bright light, and at all speeds it burst right into the center of raging energies.
Having reached his goal, the “flame of purity”, his crew and Captain Abridal instantly killed. But that brief moment, when the hollow shields of the cruiser disconnected the rays, was enough. The main calibers of ancient stations stopped shooting, and had to spend time reloading time. Namely, Abaddon did not have time.
The fleet of heretics fled. Planetonian with a ruin on board and only two fortresses captured by him were able to leave.
152.M41 – 160.M41
Several large fleets of chaos for several years have robbed the Gothic sector systems, but in the end they were defeated. Officially, the war ended only nine years later, in 160 of the forty -first millennium. But after the flight of Abaddon and the arrival of the main forces of the Imperium, it was no longer a war, but so – stripping.
The twelfth black crusade ended with the next defeat of the war master. Of course, he stated that everything True The goals were achieved, and no one was going to wage war on the complete conquest of the sector. We will leave the veracity of these statements on the remnants of the conscience of the heretic.
Black -stone fortresses died. As soon as one of the desecrated by Abaddon fell back into the hands of the emperor’s servants, an alarm was heard throughout the station. A few minutes later, the relic broke up into millions of wreckage, and with it the remaining four died. It was believed that the same fate could comprehend those who left with the warrior of Chaos, but the future would show that it was a mistake.
The developers added an interesting theory to their plot version: in the final scene of the death of the fortress, you can see the silhouette of a deceiver, one of the Keman. These ancient semi-godless entities once waged a war with the ancients-civilization, among other things that created black-stone fortresses.
There are many questions why the deceiver to destroy the creations of his enemies, but the game does not give answers to this. Maybe in Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 this will change.
Lords Terra, recognizing the merits of the defenders of the Gothic sector, commanded to perpetuate the memory of this war. In the Imperial Palace, in the House of Heroes, huge plates were created. All that was on them was names. The names of everyone who fought in the Gothic war in the name of salvation of his native land, from the Lord Admiral to the very last sailor of the very last cargo ship.
Lord Admiral Cornelius von Ravensburg continued his faithful service to the Imperium. Information about him is lost after the end of the Gothic war, which makes us suggest that his further life was much more calm and ended in peacetime for his native sector. Perhaps for him it would really be a reward.
Inquisitor Horst became as if obsessed with the search for stolen artifacts. The pursuit of the eye of the night and the hand of darkness brought him to the most diverse corners of the Imperium, and he managed to note even in conflicts at the turn of the millennium. But shortly before its end, the old Inquisitor finally disappeared. Officially he is considered missing.
Spyra, increased to Solar Admiral, continued the battle with the forces of Chaos. The aged admiral disappeared somewhere at the end of 200 years. Already in the future, after 800 years, it will become known that his ship disappeared into the wars and freed only in 999.M41, at the time of the triumph of the thirteenth campaign ravarry. Fate again prepared him with a confrontation with the warrior of chaos.