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DoW2: Retribution - 1v1 | xHoLyHammerx [vs] VindicareX

3,763 views · Published 30 March 2012 · 19:48 · Indexed 12 November 2026

Channel: Indrid Casts · 2012 · Gaming

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xHoLyHammerx | Chaos Space Marines [Chaos Lord]
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VindicareX | Space Marines [Apothecary]

The Red Day they called it, the day the ships came.  Looming in the sky like giant insects over carrion; the sight of the 1700 Oberon class freight ships hanging in the firmament was one to both behold and dread. The citizens of Gerscha IV were afraid, though they did not know that they were Imperial Navy vessels hijacked and stolen in a spectacular three day raid by a Chaos fleet almost three weeks ago, only to disappear back into the warp with their captors. The ships were held in Imperial space, gearing up for a mammoth supply run to Imperial forward lines on the eastern fringe to aid the war with the Orks.  Not any more, and what had become of the crew and supplies was not known. The world was lost, that's for sure.  There was no way the Imperium would divert resources to tackle a fleet and potential invasion force of this size.  The ships hung in low orbit motionless for days before it began.

Blood.  Trillions of gallons of blood is what the freighters held.  It was released over populated areas in crimson waves of acrid gore, designed to terrify the citizens.  Nothing was left untouched by the red, and as the actual invasion forces followed, the populace fled into the dense jungle that separated the huge cities.  The PDF did their best to get people to safety as fearsome Chaos Space Marines cut them down at will.  Small pockets of resistance is all that was left as they used the cover of the jungle to survive.

The Imperium suddenly became interested in Gerscha IV when it was learnt that a newly retired High Lord General was resident in the capital; it was feared that one of the invasion's goals was to capture him to aid the war in Segmentum Pacificus.  Allowing the old enemy to gain such intel was deemed unacceptable and nothing less than Adeptus Astartes from the Ultramarines chapter were dispatched, with a famed Brother-Captain leading the detachment.  Their mission was to rescue or kill the General before the Chaos forces got to him.

Silence followed, and nothing was ever heard of from the spearhead.  The Imperium would never know of the astounding valor that an Apothecary, some marines and a Dreadnought would show in His name.  With their Captain dead, the Ultramarines fought to the last.  With supplies running thin after months of guerrila warfare there was no hope of survival or rescue, and with the General not found alive or dead, their only chance of glory was to draw out one of the dreaded Chaos Lords for one final battle.  Win or lose, the overwhelming Chaos forces would claim them by nightfall.

In time the planet was engulfed by the warp, and the Imperium never learnt that the General was killed in the first day of conflict, and that the invasion was nothing more than an act to gain favor with Khorne of a large bloodthirsty warband.  The Ultramarines were sent for nothing, and the tale of the Red Day is passed on amongst the surviving human slaves even now.

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