4-Orbital Relay

With Ferotous currently regaining control of his Waaagh!  Komminsar Un'Trogg and Admiral Grabba, the Blood Axe Bosses, were left in charge.

Whilst they were brilliant Tacticians and Loyal, two very un-orky characteristics, they were not equals to Ferotous. Whilst the Ork stronghold and fortifications where being controlled and held, they could not stop a Big Mek gathering a force.

He had started to gather en-mass and were not prepared to wait for instructions by the Warboss. He promised any orks who followed him plenty of looting and fighting.

There was an Orbital Relay, completely filled with tesla coil and other high technology 'gubbins' and 'whatnots' which had the Big Mek obsessed. To this end he decided to lead a highly mechanical force to battle. The Orks gathered a force of high armoured deff dreads and Gun Wagons. 

The Relay had a garrison to defend it. The Ultramarines clearly wanted to hold onto the Relay as whilst it was operational, it allowed the nearby forces to communicate clearly and efficiently. It meant the smaller numbers of Marines, could quickly call reinforcements and use their resources to maximum effect.

The Ork big Meks wanted the relay to build something orky, whilst the Relay was a key defensive tool for the Ultramarines.

The appeal was too much for the orks and the Blood Axe bosses could not restrain the attack.

The Ultramarine scouts observed the force and managed to report this back to the Relay. In turn they managed to get the message to the Ultramarine HQ.

Calgar, who appeared to be everywhere, answered the call for aid personally.

Campaign Overview - Battles 1 -3

After the initial successful planetfall by the Orks, they quickly overran the northern half of the planet. The only resistance left in the 3 planets of the system was due to an heroic effort of Imperial Guard forces lead by the local garrison of Ultramarine 8th reserve Company.

Calgar promptly sent a relief force which he personally lead and brought the entire 4th Company with him. Calgar initially gave command to a respective Librarian.

Calgars initial plans to launch a counter attack utterly failed with the Orks destroying the counter attacking force, forcing the Ultramarines to play by Ferotous cunnin' plan.

Ferotous took the battle to the front lines and whilst he won a tactical victory, he was seriously wounded in a challenge between the two leaders in single combat. Calgar in his attempt to salvage the defenses, left Ferotous, who was rescued by his lucky mascot and banna waver Thesaurus MA.

To prepare for his next encounter with Calgar, Theasaurus has done extensive cyborknetic work on Ferotous. A few centimeters under his skin Ferotous now has enfused with his flesh scrap metal that makes his skin as tough as Mega Armour and had to replace a large chunk of his jaw with a metal one. Ferotous has been made considerably tougher by this surgery.

Calgar then took the battle to Ferotous. Knowing this was a Ork leader he had bested before, he vowed to finish the job and leave the Orks leaderless. He lead a ambush attack on Ferotous who escaped with his life - however the Orks paid a heavy cost in terms of deaths.
The Waaagh! was in trouble. Ferotous had been shown wanting twice at the hands of Calgar, and the other orks had noticed. Ferotous had to leave the front line and restore order in his Waaagh! This meant Ferotous was not able to lead his armies personally and had to allow the attack to be led by Komminzar UnTrogg and Admiral Grabba, Bosses of the Blood Axes.

In terms of the game, the scores are 2-1 to the Orks in overall victories. We both have one campaign card. The Orks get to pick the next mission.

Assassination - Target Bluddietoof

Following the Battle for Hulthinsar, the war was in the favour of the Greenskins. They had convincingly killed the Ultramarines on planetfall and after Ferotous had not been killed at Hulthinsar both battles had been victories for the Horde.

Calgar knew that the Ork Warboss needed to be killed and set upon a mission to kill ‘Doktor’ Ferotous Bluddietoof. Telion had recovered from his wounds and had been assigned by Calgar to report and track Bluddietoof.

Telion reported that the ork warboss was on the move in a highly mobile force. Calgar, with no heavy support, utilised his thunderhawk gunship to deploy an infantry heavy force to seperate Ferotous from his horde and use this opportunity to kill the warboss and cut the heart out of the WAAAGH!

Calgar met up with Telion and waited for Ferotous to appear. The mission was simple – Kill Ferotous Bluddietoof – Once and for all!

Calgar and his Ultramarines lay in wait on the cities edge.

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Ferotous (on the bike at the front) and his Speed Freak's Bike army leaving the Ork base.

The 'Doktor' was on the move again. He was at head of the army with his Bikerz. He was moving from the ork stronghold through a city that was already destroyed. Ferotous was rather tired having had to fight a number of challenges to his leadership following his loss of the challenge with the Ultramarines Boss. Anyone who even mentioned Calgars name was swiftly dealt with via Power Klaw.

With his new Bionic eye, Ferotous could see some of those blue beakies were lying in wait in the city. The Biker army prepared out to battle. As soon as the battle lines were drawn up, Ferotous could see Calgar himself.

For the first time in his entire life Ferotous had a shiver on the back of his neck. Was this fear? He didn't even feel this when he was ready to square up to Ghazghkull back in Auctorian. 

Ferotous had to make sure Calgar did not finish the job... He had to survive this onslaught...

Sabotage - Thesaurus MA saves his master

The camp was amazed and in shock…

Ferotous had never returned before in such a state. Thesaurus knew some of the bigger Nobz must be considering a challenge to Warboss. Thesaurus managed to get Ferotous back to his own Mek shop without a challenge. Dispite limping so heavily, no-one jumped the boss. Such was the fear and awe the other orks had in Ferotous.

Thesaurus had to work fast. His position as sidekick of the warboss was at risk here as well as his Guardians life.

Thesaurus started work which surpassed the highest quality work of the most skilful painboy. Thesaurus measured and cut along the line he had drawn. This was the most technologically advanced surgery in the history of the Greenskin race.  For 3 hours the only noises you could hear from Ferotous workshop were buzzsaw, drill, rivet gun, blowtorch and the occasional hammering noise. Thesaurus worked tirelessly.

After the operation Ferotous woke from his slumber following the surgery. There was an unholy roar:

“CAAAAALLLLGUAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH”

On the surface Ferotous just looked battered and bruised, but just centimetres’ under his skin his body was infused with scrap metal, whatnots and gizmos.  Thesaurus had not only saved his master, but he had amplified his body like never before.  Ferotous was not really in a suitable position to fight still, however he had to gain control of his horde.

He defeated a number of rivals over the next few hours following the surgery. He was impressed by the work Thesaurus had done and felt that was remarkably more durable thanks to the improvements. Within a few days order had largely been resolved.

Ferotous had figured out that he had completed his objective. The Marines were crippled around the town of Hulthunsar. He was not able to capitalise on the advantage as he had to ensure loyalty within the warband.

The Marines had gained the initiative. Whilst waiting to see the Marine next move, Ferotous and Theasaurus started work on the biggest project to date.

Following defeat at Calgars hand, Ferotous and Thesaurus MA start work on their new secret project!

Sabotage - Komminzar Un'Trogg Kunnin' Plan

After stopping the Ultramarines taking a foothold behind the Ork lines on Black Reach, the Ultramarines had to deploy fully in the Imperial held sector of the planet.

This gave Ferotous and his generals time to prepare their next assault.

The township of Hulthunsar was proving to be a thorn in the Ork invasion. This was a heavily defended town. It had a huge logistical importance to the area. A huge imperial shield generator was stuck in-between the no-mans land between the Ork hordes and the kill zone created by the Ultramarine defence. The important part was the power supply for this generator was still held by the Ultramarines - allowing the shield to function.

The Blood axe boss Komminzar Un'Trogg, leader of the Kommando's on Black Reach had a bold plan. It was tactically sound, even the great Calgar could have seen the level of strategy involved.

The plan had 2 parts. Un'Trogg would let a trusted Nob lead a unit of Kommandos, whilst Admiral Grabba (who was in charge of the air forces and stormboyz) would support the unit by using a mobile force of Deffkoptas, planes and stormboyz. Between the Kommandos and the air support they would destroy the Power generator.

Ferotous thought the plan was far too simple. He decided he would use his resources preparing a huge number of Boyz rather than the specialist troops the Blood Axe bosses suggested. He decided to spearhead a Horde of Boyz and Nobs through the killzone and a small number of Deffkoptas and Kommandos to do the sneaky bits. If the Blood Axes failed, he would just use brute force and crush the Blue Beakies with Orky strength!

Whilst Un'Trogg and Grabba protested saying that more Kommandos and air support would be more useful than throwing ork boyz into the meat grinder, Ferotous would not relent. They knew not to press the issue too far. Afterall the Horde of orks boyz coming from the front would prove a useful distraction to allow them to get the job done.

Ferotous and his generals prepared for battle.

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Calgar was irate at the utter failure of the planetfall mission. He decided he needed to ensure that the next major battle and bolstered the defences outside Hulthunsar. Whilst he did not have the numbers to risk advancing to the Shield generator, he order the defences to be strengthened. Even the huge numbers of the ork horde would struggle to get through the gun line.

As long as the shield remained, he could count on its protection it gave the local area against the Orks long range missiles.

Telion informed Calgar that the Orks were near and preparing a huge assault on the position. Calgar prepared his Gauntlets and made way to battle. Apparently the Ork Warlord himself was to lead the battle. He had a personal mission to end the enemy warlord and halt the WAAAGH! in its tracks.

His forces were ready.

WAAAGH! Dok Ferotous

I (Simon Rooke) will be playing the good guys in this campaign and I am once again going over the top with storyline for my self made Warboss, 'Doktor' Ferotous Bluddietoof. I've played 40k about 2 years (ish.) I've regularly been playing Edd Quick for a while now and we decided we should do some form of Ork against Ultramarine campaign and Black Reach was the obvious choice! 

Within the first few months of playing 40k I made a quite decent Biker Boss conversation and in his first game he was obscenely good and was the first warboss I had played with who didn't die in his first battle. That's how my love story with him started. I then created a little bio for him, which then got bigger and bigger as he entered campaigns. its currently running on to 6 pages on word! 

By the end of this campaign hopefully he will be the Warboss who finally killed the big daddy, Calgar - Ideally from within a kit bashed stompa!

Below is my ongoing storyline for my warboss and the background for attack on Black Reach.

DA ANNUALZ OF DA BOSS

– ‘IZ ORKNESS –

‘DOKTOR’ FEROTOUS BLUDDIETOOF

DA WIZEST, DA CYBORKBIKE BOSS, OWNER OF DA RED WORLD,
DA CHAPTA SMASHA ‘N DA GHAZGHKULL HATER

Thesaurus MA and 'Doktor' Ferotous Bluddietoof (on foot)

Doktor Ferotous Bluddietoof

A sane medical practitioner would say that ‘Doktor’ Ferotous Bluddietoof was suffering illusions of grandeur. The ‘Doktor’ claims to be the wisest thing ever. Whilst not having the know how to fix like a proper painboy, Ferotous claims to have studied and obtained a Phd in Theology. This is his reason behind the title ‘Doktor’. He claims that he has bested the emperor himself in tic-tac-toe on 2 separate occasions. Imperial records refute this. Ferotous has a unhealthy hatred of Ghaghkull Thraka and will never ally with Goff Orks as he believes them to be unholy and un orky.

He is followed by his pet grot who is the only intelligent greenskin who even compares to Ferotous’ mighty intellect. The grot is known as Thesaurus MA, who for a grot is quite brave, however it’s quite easy to be brave whilst riding a warbike with a 400 pound Ork Warboss for protection.

Early Life

Ferotous Bluddietoof was a whelp in a kult of speed, he knew how to fix’ up minor things and struggled to keep his mouth quiet. He was one day proclaiming his greatness, and a nob had enough. With any fight in the klan, a great number of orks gathered to watch. It promised to be a short bloody fight. Ferotous started to taunt the Nob, claiming that his slugga was as weak as a grot blasta and that his ‘eavy armour was as weak as an humie flesh. The nob, keen to disprove this, turned his slugga on himself, aiming for his ‘eavy armour to show how tough it was. Unfortunately the slugga shell went straight through wounding the nob. Upon the shell hitting, Ferotous swung his choppa into the skull and won the duel, promoting him into nobility of orks.

Ferotous went on to lead the Nob Bikers and stories of this wise ork quickly span out of control, and Ferotous made larger and dafter claims.  Around this time, an equally bold and cocky grot going by the name Thesaurus claimed he had studied up to master’s level and he was useful with a wrench.

Between the two of them they worked on cyborknetics and bikes and rose through the ranks of the Warband, ultimately becoming warboss thanks to impressive feat of strength, enhanced by their combined mechanical skill of Ferotous and cyborknetics talents of Thesaurus (now with MA added to his name.)

Early Victories

Before Ferotous first major campaign, his kult of speed Waaagh! Had no plan, they simply wondered space until they caused enough mayhem that some force reacted. Ferotous quickly favoured hordes of bikes and red painted vehicles, often with the grots of the WAAAGH! joining in using Grot Tanks and Kans

His kult of speed managed to inflict heavy wounds on a Eldar craftworld planetary force, Ferotous himself managing to defeat a mighty Wraightknight in close combat.  In another engagement, he routed a Blood Angels force and Ferotous and his Nobz managed to best the Sanguinary Guard and the Chapter master of the 4th Blood Angels Chapter in combat. Other feats included being tougher than a Rotten Nurgle Space Marine company.

Auctorian Sector

The Auctorian sector is a planetary system, home to once wealthy and prosperous imperial settlements and forges worlds created during the great imperial crusade. Eons passed and the sector became ripe with corruption and weakened. The agents of Chaos worked to gain control.

The Chaos lord of the Iron Warriors, Nausghtual, worked to gather agents within the Imperium of the Auctorian Sector, a small group of Dark Eldar and the support of two Ork warboss’, Ghazghkull Thrakka, who had recently left the conflict that came to be known as the First war of Armageddon, and a new upstart warboss, ‘Doktor’ Ferotous Bluddietoof, who’s kult of speed WAAAGH! was gathering momentum.

Early Auctorian Sector Victories and destruction of Atlas Victory (“Da Red World”)

The conflict was a marginal success for the forces of Chaos, but it was a total success as far as both warbosses were concerned. Unknown to Ferotous, Ghazghkull was using the whole campaign as a way to prepare for his next war on Armageddon.  His meks had devised a machine called da teleporta.

The two warlords were constantly fightin’ for superiority. Ultimately Ferotous’ Waaagh! Launched wave after wave attacking the densely populated planet, Atlas Victory. Ferotous conquered the imperial planet and ordered every building to be painted red  – to make it stand out against Ghazghkull’s black and white Goffs  colouring. The Doktor then renamed the planet “Da Red World”

Meanwhile Ghazghkull managed to perfect his teleportaz and managed to attack strategically to help assist all the forces of Chaos. When the moment came to attack one of the central planets, the two combined ork WAAAGHS! and The Iron Warrior chaos space marines launched an attack on planet fortress and home world of the Space Marine second founding chapter, The Dawn of Silver. 

The Kunnin’ Betrayal of Ghazghkull

After goading by Ghazghkull’s, Ferotous was tricked into spearheading the attack on the Space marine fortress planet.  Ghazghkull let Ferotous and his boyz make use of his teleportaz to deep strike right into the heart of the city.

Having tested his teleportaz teleporting thousands of Boyz and Vehicles into the heart of a city, without any major mishaps, he concluded that he had enough experience using his teleportaz. Mid-battle, Ghazghkull abandoned Ferotous and the Iron Warriors. Ghazghkull, the kunnin’ git he is, had achieved his aims and wanted a powerful Warboss, Ferotous, to die in the attack.

Ferotous and the Iron Warriors were left currently trapped on the surface, outnumbered, outgunned and betrayed. Ferotous, still to this day holds a grudge against Ghazghkull and challenges his orky-ness as he didn’t want to join in the battle, despite having a Stompa! For this reason Ferotous will not ally with Ghazghkull again and has a righteous hatred of him and the Goff Klan.

The Destruction of The Dawn of Silver

Against the odds, Da Dok’s WAAAGH! was not killed as planned by the defences. Ferotous and his kult of speed penetrated far into the capital city, destroying squadrons of imperial tanks and space marines. The ‘Doktor’ personally commanded a unit of Nobz to destroy the Titan class Baneblade tank with the use of their mighty power klaws.

The fighting focused around the gene seed vault of the Dawn of Silver. After a thunderhawk gunship was gunned down by obliterators, a handful of first company terminators and Chapter Master Omino Calistarius emerged from the wreckage. Ferotous and his Nob bikers charged the first company where ‘Doktor’ Ferotous Bludditoof and Chapter Master, Omino Calistarius, engaged in a challenge. The duel continued for an hour with both combatants not giving an inch. Klaw crashing on Power shield and Power maul unable to damage the Cyborknetics within Ferotous.

For reasons unknown at the time, Omino fled the challenge without cause and ordered a retreat. Ferotous, believing this was his victory, ordered his WAAAGH! to grab as much loot, dakka and scrap and then leave. This was a good scrap and he wanted to come back after the imperials had rebuilt for a second round!

It turned out the reason for the sudden retreat by the Omino and the Dawn of Silver, was that Ferotous had diverted the attention of the imperial defence. This had allowed the Iron Warriors to break through to their primary objective – the gene seed vault. With the gene seed under Chaos control, the Dawn of Silver had no option but to relocate all sources to deal with the traitor marines..

With Ferotous and his WAAAGH! In orbit, the city was suddenly ripped apart by cataclysmic explosions.  The Dawn of Silver detonated the charges within the gene seed vault to ensure they could not be tainted by Chaos. This act ultimately destroyed the future of the chapter but it did take out all remnants of Chaos on the planet.

Ferotous still proclaims that in this campaign was a total victory. The ‘Dok’ had out-orkified Ghazghkull and stomped 2 planets flat.

The Battle for Vordrast
Ferotous, still enraged by Ghazghkull's treachery, wanted to make a name for himself. Ferotous spent a campaign on the planet of Vordrast where he continued to mastery control his speed obsessed army. He knew that Ghazghkull was causing mayhem because he looked to the other klans, namely the Bad Moons for allies to vary his armies tactical options.

Ferotous looked to do the same. He met two native bosses on Vordrast. Admiral Grabba, a skilled stormboy boss who controlled a mighty his jet fleet. There was a Komminzar Un'Trogg, a sneeky Kommando who excelled in ambushing. These Blood Axe Bosses also explained the concept of taktiks to Ferotous.

News of Zanzag's failed WAAAGH! against the Ultramarines had spread. Ferotous had worked out that the Hammer of Dawn was a gene seed offshooted from the Ultramarines. So if the Hammer of Dawn were a good fight, the people they came from would be too. With his newly found allies Ferotous was ready for his next phase of his plan.

Black Reach - Reclaimed
Ferotous set a course to Black Reach, taking many detours to tactically sound planets with useful resources. This ensured the lads were kept entertained and they gathered stockpiles of scrap and ammo. It had been over a hundred years since Black Reach had been tested. Ferotous' plan was simple. He wanted to show that Goff klan wer weedy.

If he could destroy Black Reach and control the asteroid field, he would be able to produce thousands of Roks to launch the next phase of his war and make another red planet, spitting in the face of the Ultramarines.

He would be the single biggest threat to the Space Marines.

The green tide descended on Black Reach...