Rynn's World: A Space Marine Battles Novel (Warhammer 40,000)

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But therein lay a challenge, because Rogue Trader (for those not as aged as some…) was more of a roleplaying experience than the tabletop game we know and love today. It involved a third player taking the part of a games master, controlling the action and revealing the narrative to the other players as the game unfolded. It also used characteristics for models we don’t use any more, such as Cool, Willpower and Intelligence.* One tale of the reclamation of Rynn's World from the Orks of WAAAGH! Snagrod is not so widely told, and known only to the Crimson Fists' Chapter Master Pedro Kantor and his closest battle-brothers. The tale begins a half-year after the completion of the reclamation of Rynn's World from WAAAGH! Snagrod.

A Crimson Fists Astartes seconded to the Deathwatch fighting alongside battle-brothers of his Chapter against the T'au.The world is largely isolated from other human-inhabited planets, but the Crimson Fists' presence has led to the implementation of an extensive planetary defence system.

After all of the Crimson Fists companies had returned, but before the Chapter could plan a counteroffensive, the WAAAGH! Snagrod reached the Rynnstar System. The Chapter responded by enabling their many tiered, tactically capable, and technologically sophisticated network of orbital defensive satellites. The system annihilated the initial waves of Ork Roks, Kroozers, and planetary assault craft. The Crimson Fists never hesitate to demonstrate their devotion to the Imperium and embody it with their battle cry: "There is only the Emperor. He is our shield and our protector!" The errata for the core rules mostly make the writing of the Skies of Fire, Wings of Vengeance and Rynn's World Campaign Book fit the writing of the Taros Air War Campaign Book rules. There is a couple of exploit fixed about stalling and occupied hexes.

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Defiant, courageous and unyielding in the face of impossible odds – these are the Crimson Fists, Dorn's glorious vanguard. Tested in battle like few others, these Space Marines are on the front lines of an endless war against the barbaric orks. When the hordes of the warlord Snagrod come to lay waste to the Crimson Fists' fortress-monastery on Rynn's World, Chapter Master Pedro Kantor must lead the battered survivors in a desperate defence of their home if they are to have any hope of finding triumph in sacrifice. This thrilling omnibus contains two novels, a novella, and four short stories written by Steve Parker and Mike Lee. [1] Contents [1] The Lord Commander of the Imperium, the newly resurrected Primarch Roboute Guilliman, launches his Indomitus Crusade In 989.M41 WAAAGH! Snagrod fell upon Rynn's World, bringing with it a devistation unparalleled by any other Ork invasion since those for the Hive World of Armageddon. While the Imperium's ground forces struggled to defend the planet's cities, the Imperial Navy fought for the skies in an air war that spanned months of bitter conflict and countless warzones. Soon after the birth of the Great Rift, some time early in the 42nd Millennium, Rynn's World was engulfed by daemonic legions spilling forth from the newly formed rift. The daemons were led by the Daemon Prince Rhaxor and the Crimson Fists were forced to battle for their homeworld's survival once more, though they had little chance of success with such depleted ranks.

Given that this is less than a solar decade after the end of the Rynn's World campaign (997.M41), it is unlikely that the Chapter has managed to "graduate" many new battle-brothers from its reduced Scout Marines cadre. While the actual number of Crimson Fists Marines who survived the Rynn's World campaign is unknown, it seems fair to assume that the Chapter was unlikely to field more than 200 Battle-Brothers before the arrival of the Indomitus Crusade's Primaris reinforcements. The Rynn's World Campaign resulted in catastrophic losses for the Crimson Fists, with the Chapter almost completely wiped out. As a result, Kantor's primary focus turned to rebuilding the Chapter. Though famous across the Imperium as Ork fighters, Snagrod's WAAAGH! has induced a deep hatred of Greenskins within the Chapter, and it is said that Crimson Fists Space Marines will go to any lengths to defeat any Ork forces they encounter. As the Crimson Fists' few surviving Techmarines salvaged and repaired what little had survived the WAAAGH!'s assault, Chapter Master Kantor dedicated himself to the cleansing of the Jaden Mountains of the remaining Orks that lurked within their confines. It was a difficult campaign, for the Orks defended every crag and cavern, and Kantor had neither the men nor the equipment he would have wished for such a task.As one would expect of successors to the Imperial Fists, the Crimson Fists are steadfast and stubborn warriors, reluctant to yield so long as victory is possible. Nonetheless, the Chapter's brush with annihilation has tempered this ardour with grim reality. The Crimson Fists are often on the move, no longer having a true home base and reverting to their ancient practice of operating as primarily a fleet-based Chapter. Yet, they often return to Rynn's World to mourn the battle-brothers who died so heroically in its defence. Indeed, some had been held in stasis since the days of the Great Crusade; a few of the Primaris Space Marines could recall having seen Rogal Dorn himself. When these transhuman warriors of the Ultima Founding had been brought before their parent Chapter, it was like a meeting of brothers separated at birth. Arriving at a time of great darkness and upheaval, the Primaris Astartes' strength was welcomed. The Imperial Fists were not the only Sons of Dorn to defend Vigilus against the alien during the War of Beasts. With them came their foremost Successor Chapter, the Crimson Fists, who had lost so much to the Greenskin species on Rynn's World a solar decade before. On Vigilus, that debt would be paid in blood.

They required swift cultural integration to ensure that, like a wounded body fitted with a hurried prosthetic, the Chapter did not reject these newcomers for the strangers they were.The Crimson Fists' future lies with a handful of Space Marines, their lives to be expended for greater rewards than the salving of personal pride. Now the battle-brothers of the Crimson Fists fight for more than the Emperor of Mankind, more than honour and renown. They fight so that their Chapter may survive, and one day regain its former glories. The natives of this world are renowned for their ferocity and courage, but are far from barbarous primitives. They are a noble people, whose lives are a daily struggle against adversity, and it is this stoic nature that makes them such ideal raw material to become Crimson Fists. While Aspirants are sometimes taken from other worlds, this practice has become increasingly uncommon. However, the Crimson Fists have never sought out those who engaged in savagery for its own sake. Rather, they seek the most appropriate candidates who are characterised by a combination of honour, athleticism, and stoicism in the face of overwhelming odds. Returning to the lowlands, Kantor continued the rebuilding of his Chapter, and in time raised the Crimson Fists out of ruin to once more stand alongside the greatest champions of Mankind. But in all the years of triumph that followed, the robed figure's words would dwell heavily on Kantor until, at the last, they met again... Make of this sector a fortress, untouched by alien hand, untainted by the touch of the Ruinous Powers. Create a stronghold of Imperial space that, in direst need, can become the lynchpin of the entire Segmentum. Lay low the works of the tyrant and the despot, Pedro Kantor, and in their place raise fortifications of adamantine and ceramite so that, in our darkest hour, you might do for the Segmentum Tempestus what you have done for your noble Chapter." Yet without the efficiency, conviction and compassion of the Crimson Fists, Dirkden would have fallen long before the culmination of the War of Beasts, and doomed millions more innocent souls.