The Siege of Vraks campaign.

 

"Herein follows an examination of the most lamentable Siege of Vraks, bastion and Armoury World of His Most Divine Emperor, of the plans of those treacherous and heretical rebels that led to its downfall and the glorious sacrifice of the Emperor's Imperial Guard among the grim and hardy regiments of Krieg, and those misguided Mortals who have unwittingly venerated the Powers of Chaos, at a terrible cost in blood, but worst still -- to the eternal damnation of their own souls".

+++Inquisition report on the Siege of Vraks+++

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Welcome to Vraks, a system in the far off Scarus Sector. We are making planet fall on Vraks Prime, armoury world of the Administratum and recently turned renegade by apostate preacher Xaphan.

So I'm a member of the FB group "Vets* of Vraks" and the creator of the group wanted to run a large scale campaign over the year following the course (or our course) of the Siege of Vraks.

Having a Krieg army I signed up, and started to print and paint stuff as fast as I can (not fast enough) in order to take part.

The Siege of Vraks was a series of books by Forge World around 2010-ish and the trilogy covered the war from its humble origins, as most wars generally start out in the 41st millennium, all the way up to the full on Chaos invasion and Daemonic assault of books two and three respectively.

They basically covered everything which Forge World had released for either the Imperium or Chaos at the time, minus a few things like the Elysians which had their book before.

These were also the books where the model range and look of the Death Korps of Krieg were solidified, as beforehand they had simply been an alternate paint scheme for the Armageddon Steel Legion.

So the organiser of the campaign drafted in a fair few of us from the group who wanted to take part and assigned us a place on the campaign map below:

This is the actual map from the books, as the fighting takes place in the trenches over the Van Meersland Wastes.

My assigned area is in the 30th Corps, as the 261st Siege regiment, famous in the books for being the first to force a breach in the first defensive line, we'll have to see if I can live up to that.

We're going to get given a mission each month and have three weeks to play the battle out and report back our results, either victory, minor victory, minor defeat or defeat.

We can use whatever set of rules we want, from the original books all the way up to current 10th edition 40k if we want.

For my part I'm going to stick with my tried and true 5th edition 40k and use the Imperial Guard codex for the Krieg and Renegade Guard lists, and when space marines show, I can use the Marines and Chaos codexes respectively.

I know this seems like a strange choice, but I don't want to dig out everything from storage in the loft to find the older books when I have this set on my bookshelf ready to go.

I'll be posting after action reports on here as the campaign progresses (hopefully).

So back onto painting...

Until next time, have nice day...

*Meaning Veterans not animal doctors!