While the Craftworlders wanted to get the world back as a whole, Ezruin knew that Archon Yraleath was not the sort to stick around for a protracted campaign. The T’au at the actual beachhead should be suitably isolated thanks to this attack–their reserves delayed. Soon enough, T’au blood would quiet them… at least for a stretch. He could feel the dark whispers at the back of his mind, the pull on his soul. Fightercraft battles were fine, but the exhilaration of combat in person is where he would truly find some release. This was all part of the invasion plan, but the good part would be next. Ezruin pulled the Nightwing sharply along a river canyon, low enough that the treeline obscured his progress. Within just minutes the signal was relayed that all targets were hit and confirmed, and that flyers should return to their bays on the waiting Void Stalker starships that had puled back to low orbit after discharging them. Ezruin was impressed, will be more impressed if they could weave the death of their foes equally well. While his Kabal’s red planes flew in straight, swooping arcs, the blue planes of the Craftworld tore into all manner of complicated flight pathing, weaving in and out of each others’ way like some complicated ballet. But they were not dedicated to the craft of flight in the way of their kin, not by a long shot. Ezruin immediately noticed the difference–the Drukhari were all skilled, certainly. A trio of three Phoenix bombers raced ahead followed by a swarming cluster of the Craftworlders. Their instructions were clear: destroy the critical infrastructure, down T’au planes where possible but if the foe hangs at range use defensive maneuvering and elevation changes to keep the defensive force chasing shadows. The Aeldari planes drew together into a wide formation, screaming toward the set of targets on the horizon. Yraleath was no Corsair, but a proper Drukhari Archon, so these connections were unseemly to a Trueborn like Ezruin. Before the spread of the Ynnari into the streets and courts of Commorragh connections to the kin had been infrequent and often violent. Ezruin hadn’t seen any Mandrakes slinking around the ship nor in the court of late, so he wondered if this was more collaboration with their Craftworld kin. Yraleath had some sort of network of scouts that had provided him information on critical targets of T’au logistics in advance. Ride in low over the ground and loose missiles into the varied industrial and command-and-control targets that they had identified. Focus on the mission.Įzruin’s Nightwing had been fitted with underslung missile launchers, and served as a sort of torpedo bomber in design. The distraction of these things would cost him. A chance for Yraleath to berate the lack of skill of a Dracon by speaking well of a kin’s craft that beat them to the punch? Ezruin pulled back on the stick at the near last moment, his plane leveling out and barreling along the smoky ground. But then again, it may be a matter of setting them up in comparison to the well-trained Craftworlders whose blue jets and bombers had joined in the attack. Was this yet another chance to potentially cull the various subordinates within the Kabal? If so, then Yraleath was foolish–as the more skilled would be more likely to survive. But at the same time none of them were expert pilots themselves, and Ezruin noted that the pair of Voidraven Bombers that the Archon used to supplement his raiding parties at times were nowhere to be seen amidst the attack.
Certainly their Craftworld cousins’ technology was excellent, and made for a sleek sky-borne force, and a handsome prize for each of Yraleath’s lieutenants. And like all gifts from the Archon, these were double-bladed. Yraleath had dealt them out to his Dracons and Trueborn as gifts. Archon Yraleath had connections somewhere on the Saim -Hann Craftworld, and had either bought, bartered, or pilfered thirteen Asuryani craft to form his own squadron of attack planes. He wanted to test the craft out a bit more in atmospheric flight, as he was not as familiar with the craft as some others. Enjoy!Įzruin leaned in on the stick of the Nightwing fighter jet as it slipped near straight down to the surface of the planet below.
ELDAR CRAFTWORLD CREATION TABLE PLUS
Plus the rules for running the Aeornautica Imperialis portion of the battles are here. The prior fluff is here: and the recap of the first mission is here.
ELDAR CRAFTWORLD CREATION TABLE SERIES
This is the second game of our “Invasion of Planet No’ohrm Ha’an D” series of battles, the second of the Aeronautica Imperialis missions that we’re doing to set the stage.
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