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Corey Konieczka

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Writing and Development

Charles May

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Special Thanks

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A rrivAl And

A ssignment

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B ehind e nemy

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Old Soldiers

“We cannot suffer any more losses, or we will lose this front. This

cannot stand, Colonel Garn. Allow me to take a contingent of our

best men and we will end this threat once and for all.”

to the problems that arise during the course of the mission.

It emphasises independence and tactical acumen when

interacting with the various threats a Guardsman is likely to

come across within the Spinward Front, and may also be used

as the jumping-off point for a larger campaign.

O ld S OldierS is designed with a Squad of newly created

Player Characters in mind. It can be adjusted to account for

more experienced PCs by increasing the numbers and Wound

and Damage totals of the enemies encountered.

–Last Recorded Words of Lieutenant Uron Halle,

37th Maccabian Janissaries

O ld S OldierS is a brief scenario designed to introduce

Adventure BAckGround

The campaign to secure the quasi-feral world of Virbius has

stalled, and the Imperium has been beaten back in numerous

engagements with what should be an inferior force of Severan

Dominate troops. Severan Dominate General Harvax Scarus is

the man thought responsible for a series of brutally effective

lightning attacks on Imperial outposts and supply lines

throughout the front, his forces using unknown weaponry

and leaving no survivors. The Imperium has already sent out

squads to iniltrate enemy lines and eliminate the General, but

so far they have not returned.

The planet of Virbius only recently became a battleground

in the ongoing ight for the Spinward Front, having been cut-

off from the rest of the sub-sector by a vicious Warp storm

that lasted for over four centuries. In that time the native

population has gone tribal, abandoning the hives of Virbius

and slowly turning into clans of combat-bike riding nomads.

new Imperial Guard Squads to the broad range of

enemies and allies available to interact with in the

Spinward Front. The scenario begins as the characters arrive

at the Imperial Guard forward base of operations on the world

of Virbius. From there, the players must manoeuvre far behind

enemy lines to eliminate a particularly renowned Severan

Dominate commander, but in the process they learn far more

than they bargained for about the enemies of the Imperium.

While the characters are dodging enemy patrols and formations

and disrupting supply lines in pursuit of their target, they come

across a far more vicious threat than originally anticipated: a

kabal of Dark Eldar warriors. The characters need to use all

the cunning, ingenuity, and determination they can muster

to return to Imperial lines with their lives, and with vital

information about this menace.

This adventure tests the players’ resource

management and tactical thinking skills, as they

must navigate a fairly broad range of approaches

The Warp storm surrounding Virbius ceased suddenly

about two years ago, and Virbius was re-discovered by the

Imperium and the Severan Dominate almost simultaneously.

The initial skirmishes were light. Imperial command allowed

the Severan Dominate to become entrenched because they

knew they were going to receive reinforcements, and wanted

to wait until they had overwhelming force before they tried

pushing the Severan Dominate armies off planet. When the

Imperial reinforcements arrived, the irst heavy engagements

for Virbius were joined in full.

The initial ighting did not go well for the Imperium. Entire

platoons inexplicably lost contact on their way to the front,

never to be heard from again. Numerous fall-back outposts

and temporary headquarters were eliminated. The Imperium

was not prepared for the Dominate forces to utilize such

effective guerrilla tactics. According to Imperial intelligence,

this was due to the tactical genius of one Dominate oficer,

General Scarus. What was expected to be a resounding

Imperial victory instead quickly turned into a stalemate.

The truth of the matter is that, completely unbeknownst

to the Imperial army, the Severan Dominate is working with

a kabal of Dark Eldar on the planet, and it is this xenos

force that is responsible for the raids that are decimating the

Imperial Guard forces on Virbius. The superior weaponry and

manoeuvrability of the Dark Eldar has made short work of

the relatively spread-out Imperial battle formations.

High command is becoming concerned with the inability

of Virbius command to rectify the situation. Virbius is of

tactical importance to the Imperial war effort in the sub-

sector for a variety of reasons: the Imperium wants to deny

the Severan Dominate the use of Virbius as a foothold, they

want to pacify or convert the current population so that it can

be added to the Imperial tithe, and inally they want to fortify

Virbius as a fall-back position in case any more Imperial-

controlled planets are lost to the rampaging Ork Waaagh! of

Grimtoof Git-Slaver.

the squads that have been sent before them, and they have a

chance to take out some of the enemy forces and gain vital

information about his operations.

The environment that the squad-mates must traverse

is extremely hostile, as they are well behind Severan

Dominate lines. Their enemies know the terrain, and can use

bombardment and receive reinforcements if they are engaged

in open terrain without the element of surprise, while the

players have none of these advantages. Shrewd tactics and

combat awareness are the key to surviving this mission.

The adventure concludes at The Dominate Encampment .

Unbeknownst to the players, the General (and the Severan

Dominate as a whole) has been working with the Children

of Thorns Kabal of the Dark Eldar, and they have been

responsible for the devastation that Imperial intelligence has

attributed to the General. Once they confront the General

at his base of operations, this Dark Eldar force attacks, and

the Squad faces a threat that they are not prepared for. The

PCs need to igure out a way to delay the kabalite forces

long enough to make their escape and take information about

the nature of their foe back to Imperial headquarters so that

Imperial command can factor the presence of the Dark Eldar

into the prosecution of the larger campaign.

While this adventure details one major mission, it can easily

be used to provide the foundation for a full campaign. When

the characters have learned of the Dark Eldar threat, they may

be tasked in rooting it out and discovering the aliens’ dark

purpose on Virbius. If the General lives, he may easily become a

recurring villain, and the Squad now has the stain of their failed

mission upon their reputation (while General Scarus’s death

becomes a matter of regimental honour). Once these threats

have been neutralized or eliminated, the Imperium still has to

defeat the main Severan Dominate forces on the planet. The

resource that Virbius represents to the Imperium needs to be

fully secured and exploited, and there are a variety of missions

that the Imperium must carry out before the native population

can be considered to be fully under Imperial compliance (for

further information, see Future Hooks on page 24).

Adventure summAry

O ld S OldierS is divided into three main parts: Arrival

and Assignment , where the players receive their initial

introduction to the planet Virbius; Behind Enemy Lines ,

where the players track down their target while evading

Dominate patrols; and The Dominate Encampment , during

which the players confront General Scarus and discover the

true threat to the Imperium on Virbius.

In Arrival and Assignment, the Player Characters arrive

on planet and are set up at Forward Outpost Epsilon 12, one

of the Imperium’s forward bases of operation, where they are

equipped and given their mission. Imperial intelligence has

determined the general location of General Scarus. They believe

that he has entrenched himself close to the front lines, and the

Squad’s mission is to track him down and eliminate him.

In Behind Enemy Lines, the PCs travel deep within

the Dominate’s territory hunting for the General, and must

formulate a cunning and tactically sound plan to locate

General Scarus and defeat him on his own ground where he

has the advantage of numbers. Along the way, the Guardsmen

have the opportunity to discover the gruesome fate of one of

virBius GAzetteer

“Ha. You cannot say you know Virbius until you have sped down her

plains with the wind in your beard and a good storm at your back.

Am I right, men?”

–Ferdel, son of Arkashian, High Chieftain

Virbius has been cut-off from the rest of the galaxy for the

last few centuries by a violent Warp storm that made travel

and communication to and from the planet impossible. After

more than four hundred years of isolation, it was only a few

short years ago that the Warp storms inally broke, opening

Virbius up to the rest of the galaxy.

The Warp storm that cut off Virbius came without

warning, and the people of Virbius were hard-pressed to

cope with being shut off from the Imperium as a whole.

The Imperial government of the planet broke down a few

short decades after the Warp storm appeared, and much

of the population succumbed to inighting and mass

starvation soon thereafter. The survivors lost their

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