Rescue Mission

Points: 750.

Deployment: Front Line.

Primary Objective: Duel.

The Alien Hive have captured a human officer carrying vital information and are holding are holding him prisoner inside their underground nest. It won't be long until their brain bugs strip his mind of important war plans. The only forces available for the rescue are the Shadow Hunters, still under-powered after their recent battles.

The Prime Brothers slog through the wastes until the reach the giant bole holes tunneled into the bedrock, and descend carefully inside. The Hive reacts to their presence and the tunnels fill with monsterous creatures, slowing the Shadow Hunters advance. The Hive loses many bodies but by the time the Shadow Hunters find the dead body of their target - his brains sucked out - it was too late. The war for Caelix now hung in the balance.

Note: This game was played in March 2023 so I don't remember the score.

Battle for Munitions Factory 2234B

Points: 1000.

Deployment: Front Line.

Primary Objective: Duel.

The war for Caelix was entering it's eleventh year. After the loss of their recent convoy, the Shadow Hunters detachment was given a punishment duty and forced to defend a vital munitions factory complex. The Alien Hives had been watched and launched a night time raid against this strategic location. 

As seems to happen, the Shadow Hunters were taken totally by surprise. The initial wave of skittering horrors overran the outer defences and poured into the factory where the majority of the fighting took place. Bullets and plasma poured into the aliens but it was not enough to handle the horde pouring through the walls. Captain Aurelius almost fell to their claws and had to be pulled back from the fighting. 

After several hours of close quarters fighting, the enemy was repelled but the Shadow Hunters had suffered such significant casualties that their combat effectiveness was now in question.

Note: This game was played in March 2023 so I don't remember the score.

Ambush on Caelix

Points: 1500.

Deployment: Front Line.

Primary Objective: Duel.

The world of Caelix has long been fought over between the Prime and Battle Brothers against a vast Alien Hive. The war has raged for over a decade with neither side able to secure a victory and the planet has suffered accordingly.

The Shadow Hunters had been given the mission of escorting a supply convoy taking munitions and first aid equipment to the front lines. The brothers and defence forces present desperately needed these supplies. The Alien Hive had other plans and laid an ambush along the route the Shadow Hunters were taking.

As the Prime Brothers entered a slim valley, the quickest route to their destination, the Alien Hive launched it's attack. The scuttering horrors surged forth from the shadows and withered vegetation, slamming into the transports and the battle brothers. The ambush was brief and the Shadow Hunters didn't stand a chance. The Alien Hive directed it's creatures to gather up the supplies and hide them in the surrounding wastelands where they would never be recovered.

Note: This game was played in March 2023 so I don't remember the score.

First Battle of Nyx-47

Points: 1500.

Deployment: Front Line.

Primary Objective: Duel.

When a Havoc Brother warband attacked and captured the neutral mining colony of Nyx-47, the colony master managed to escape on an evacuation shuttle. Reluctantly he contacted the Prime Brothers and asked for their assistance. In return for the colony coming under the brothers protectorate, the Shadow Hunters were dispatched to rescue the remaining colonists.

The battle for Nyx-47 was a brief engagement as the Shadow Hunters were mismatched and outnumbered. The two forces fought through the colony and the subterranean mines, but it was not enough. The Havoc Brothers repelled the assault and sent the Prime Brothers fleeing in retreat. 

Captain Aurelius promised the colony master that he would not relent until Nyx-47 was freed. But before then, he would have to call together his whole detachment and return with fury on his lips and fury in his soul.

Note: This game was played in March 2023 so I don't remember the score.

Brother vs Brother

Points: 780.

Deployment: Front Line.

Primary Objective: Duel.

Even among the detachments of the Prime Brothers there are old enmities and rivalries. Mostly these are put aside for the sake of survival but sometimes, these rivalries spill over and combat is the only way to resolve them. 

The Shadow Hunters had stopped off to rearm and resupply on the trade world of Atheros, a world with majestic sky cities and floating star ports. At the point of embarking shuttles with their newly acquired ammunitions, the Prime Brothers came under surprise attack from a long time rival, a fellow Prime Brothers detachment called the Iron Legion. 

The Iron Legion marched forth from among the thousands of containers and cargo haulers, assault rifles and machineguns blazing. As the Shadow Hunters staggered under the assault, the Iron Legion charged forth and slammed into the Shadow Hunters. Many were slammed off the side of the platform by charged power fists, falling to their deaths hundreds of miles below. 

When the last of the Shadow Hunters fell, the Iron Legion brothers seized the ammunitions for themselves and returned to their own starships in victory.

Note: This was played in January 2024, so I don't remember the score.

Bloodbath on Telvaron

 

Points: 3000.

Deployment: Front Line.

Primary Objective: Duel.

The Shadow Hunters patrolling a region on uncontrolled space picked up a brief call for help that was cut short. Tracking the signal back to the moon of Telvaron, the Prime Brothers found an unregistered science outpost from the Tellamon colonies. It turned out that Havoc Brothers of the War God had descended upon the station with murderous intent.

Captain Aurelius deployed his brothers to the surface where they engaged the enemy forces. The Havoc Brothers proved the stronger, slaughtering their way through the Prime Brothers with their blood soaked axes and blades. It was soon determined that none of the station's personnel had survived, so rather than risking further lives of his brothers, Aurelius pulled back and left Telvaron to the enemy.

Note: This was played in August 2024, so I don't remember the score.

Strike on Zaryth Prime

Points: 2000.

Deployment: Front Line.

Primary Objective: Duel.

Score: Prime Brothers 1 - Battle Brothers 2.

After a recent campaign against marauding Orc and Goblin warbands, the Shadow Hunter detachment of Prime Brothers seethed with irritation. Their Battle Brother allies had continually offered the greenskin marauders the opportunity for parlay rather than obliterating them outright. Those offers failed and the enemy destroyed but captain Aurelius felt a sense of betrayal against his so-called allies.

He gathered around him, a small task force of his brothers and followed the Battle Brothers to their fortress on the barren moon of Zaryth Prime. Landing some distance away, his brothers marched through the barren wastes until they reached the outskirts of the enemies fortress. Once in position, Aurelius launched a surprise attack on the Battle Brothers on watch. 

The engagement was brief, and the Watch Brothers suffered casualties in the initial strike but soon they consolidated and turned the tables, dropping several squads of Shadow Hunters and their walker. Aurelius was forced to reluctantly order a retreat and pulled what remained of his forces out of the conflict zone. His honour and ego dented, Aurelius took the survivours and returned to their fleet.