There's two more battle reports coming up to give the details of the conflicts, but the Graxxis campaign has reached an end through two battles:
The Battle of Founder's Plains
With a string of victories removing the immediate threat posed by xeno forces, Chapter Master Leerca decided to take the oppurtunity to counter-attack. Contacting the Thundering Wolves, Leerca and Bjorn the Fel-Handed laid a plan to crush the orks on Graxxis once and for all.
The orks were already headed towards the planetary capital and a large plain lay on the outskirts of the city. Bjorn and Leerca mustered their troops on the plains outside the city, hoping to lure the orks towards them and away from the city's ill-equipped defenders. At the ready were assault marines, terminators, and drop pods, prepared to deliver a devastating counter-attack.
The Orks, seeing a more powerful foe emerge, ran headlong into the space marine forces, falling straight into the trap, but as the Space Marines began their counter-attack, a new, unexpected threat emerged. Necron forces, drawn to the battlefield by the slaughter taking place, began teleporting or rising up from the ground and attacking the Imperial line. At the head of their assault was a Doomsday monolith, eradicating vehicles and infantry with its overcharged particle whip.
Bjorn himself, leading several of his dreadnought bretheren, assaulted the monolith, ripping into its hull with his claw. With a tremendous groan the monolith tipped forward and smashed to the ground. As it collapsed the air filled with the scream of drop pods and space marine reinforcements began to fall around Necron and Orks alike.
Even the sudden appearance of the Necron could not undo Bjorn and Leerca's plan, and the Ork forces were crushed. Although Warboss Wurrgrod escaped, most of the ork forces were left scattered and leaderless. The Necron ceased to appear on the planet, and disappeared without a trace.
After the battle The Ghost Brigades and Thundering Wolves also left the planet, each force's mission on the planet accomplished.
The Assault on Els Heights
While the titanic battle took place across Founder's Plains, a second battle of equal import was occuring at Els heights. A shadowsword, looted from the planetary armory, led an armored contingent of Chaos space marines towards the main base of operations of the Glacians. With most of the forces infantry deployed elsewhere, it fell upon the tanks of the army to halt their advance.
No less then 4 dozen armored vehicles, accompanied by infantry and walkers, took part in the battle. While the Chaos forces succeeded in breaking through to the Glacian HQ, their own rearguard was destroyed by a contingent of hellhounds and veterans aboard a vendetta, who also destroyed the Shadowsword in a titanic explosion that enveloped the center of the battlefield, eradicating traitor and loyalist alike.
With the Glacian HQ overrun and the chaos forces stretched thin, the major conflicts of the Graxxis campaign came to an end, although there will be many years more of conflict between the chaos and imperial forces on the planet, both sides crippled but not yet defeated.
