= The Tran'lo tribute
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Seth Kenlon
2025-01-23

== Introduction

This is a short wargame adventure set in the Macharian Sector from the **Imperium Maledictum** RPG source book by Cubicle 7.
Although I use the Macharian Sector as the setting, these scenarios are meant for a wargame, not an RPG.

Between each scenario, your army can gather reinforcements and upgrades as defined in the https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/downloads/warhammer-40000[Crusade rules].
There may also be faction-specific boosts available in your army's codex.

Terrain types and enemy factions are flexible.
Adapt everything here for what you and your friends own.
As a way of making each battlefield feel unique, I recommend adding environmental hazards and other surprises.

A Game Master is not necessary, but consider notes to the Game Master in this document when setting up your game.

Designate one army as the Hero Army.
This campaign is the story of the Hero Army, so it's the one army that's constant throughout every scenario.
The opposing army changes based on the scenario.
The Hero Army may not always win, but the campaign does not end until the final scenario.

If you don't own one of the suggested opponent armies, you can always substitute an army you do own.

== Scenario 000

You have arrived on the planet Tran'lo in the Macharian Sector to recover or destroy technology rumoured to be secreted away by the infractionist Vo family.

The planet Tran'lo was originally ruled by House Vo.
When the family was declared Hereticus Absetia, the Adeptus Mechanicum moved in to retrieve archeotech rumoured to be stored on the fallen world.
Whether out of spite or heresy, the Vo Family destroyed most of the archeotech and abandoned the planet.
However, the adepts of Cult Mechanicum are certain that not all archeotech was lost, and so they press on, converting cities into forges in the name of the Omnissiah and siezing whatever archeotech they find.

The Vo Family may be offworld now, but their influence remains strong on Tran'lo, especially in Hive City Alpha.
When your team arrives, they find the streets filled with Traitor Guardsmen, a renegade Armiger Helverin, and several Drones controlled remotely by Vo gunners.

Can you reach the door to the subterranean compound, or are you destined to fall to Vo loyalists?

NOTE: Designate one door on the battlefield as the entryway to the subterranean base. The Hero Army deploys on the opposite end of the battlefield.

* Terrain: City
* Mission: Locate and enter the subterranean base
* Opponent: Traitor guardsmen, Negavolt Cultists, Drones, Armiger Warglaive
* Success: You reach the tunnels
* Failure: Your infantry is captured and imprisoned in the underground family compound

== Scenario 001

Either by force of will or by imprisonment, you have reached the subterranean compound of Hive City One on the planet Tran'lo.

The loyal followers of Vo don't know why you have deployed your troops to their planet. They assume you intend to take over Hive City Alpha. They don't know that your actual goal is to retrieve archeotech from the Vo family vault. However, the loyalists are not themselves aware of the archeotech, and are resisting your army only because, to them, you are an invader.

NOTE: If the Hero Army lost the previous scenario, you can recruit additional units to play in this one. Reinforcements from the Hero Army have infiltrated the compound and have liberated whatever survivors there were from the previous scenario. However, this has triggered an alarm and the opposing army is on high alert.

A small band of your army's infantry must get through the tunnels to the Vo family's fabled hoard of archeotech.

* Terrain: Boarding Actions
* Mission: Locate the entry to the archeotech vault
* Opponent: Adeptus Arbites or Astra Militarum
* Success: Locate the storage facility containing the archeotech
* Failure: Skip Scenario 002 and go directly to Scenario 003

== Scenario 002

You have invaded the storage facility of archeotech.
Collect what you can find, and then get to the exit. 

Having gained access to the archeotech storage facility, the Hero Army has discovered a hatch with access back to the surface.
Through this access port, you can provide reinforcements.

As the Hero Army begins the search for the archeotech they've come to liberate from the Vo family, they realise that somehow they are not alone.
It seems that a branch of the Vo family has remained on Tran'lo, after all.
Deformed and corrupted by xenos genetics, this forgotten conclave of the Vo line refused to leave Tran'lo with the rest of the family.
Instead, they've lived as a Genestealer Cult, dwelling in the storage complex as they await their four-armed saviour.

The Genestealer Cult doesn't know why these intruders have come, but they are determined to protect their hideout.
Can the Hero Army retrieve the hidden archeotech, and make it back across the facility to the escape hatch back up to the surface?

NOTE: Designate a door on the battlefield as the exit. Place archeotech markers around the battlefield. When the Hero Army reaches an archeotech marker, roll 1d6. On a 5 or 6, archeotech is found. The Hero Army unit possessing archeotech must reach the exit to succeed. 

* Terrain: Industrial
* Mission: Collect the archeotech
* Opponent: Genestealer Cult, Rogue Psykers, Patriarch
* Success: Get archeotech and then reach the exit
* Failure: Your army perishes in the vaults! The campaign ends here.

== Scenario 003

Escape the planet!
The Vo family has called out for aid, and a force of great evil has answered.
In response, your own ship has already commenced air strikes.
Get to the extraction point with this world's involuntary tribute of archeotech.

* Terrain: Ruined city
* Mission: Reach the extraction point
* Opponent: Chaos Space Marines or traitor Astra Militarum
* Success: Extraction
* Failure: Death! Your mission ends here.

=== Setup

Place several extraction point marker across the battlefield.
When the Hero Army reaches an extraction point marker, roll 1d6 and then remove the marker.

On a roll of 5 or 6, the extraction point is valid, otherwise the Hero unit suffers 1 Mortal Wound as collateral damage of an air strike.

When a valid extraction point is found, the unit at the marker departs the battlefield, and the nearest enemy unit suffers 3 Mortal Wounds from an air strike.

When only 1 marker remains, it is always a valid marker.

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