<strong>Hangar Aboard the Unrelenting Vigilance </strong><br/>Individually the blast from a lasgun, even a hotshot variant, is nowhere near as lethal as many of the galaxy's other weapons. However are rarely, if ever, used individually. As each trooper on the firing line opened fire well over 100 lasgun beams impacted on the charging ork horde. The sheer weight of fire proving more than enough to make up for each individual weapon's weakness. Large numbers of the orks at the forefront of the attack fell over, dead,  dying or otherwise unable to continue forward, only to be trampled by their brethren behind them.<br/><br/>For the shortest of moments the orks' charge was slowed and it seemed as if the Guardsmen's fusillade of lasbeams would prove enough to halt the greenskins. But the xenos were many and even as they were cut down there were evermore to take their place and the sheer momentum of their charge could not be denied. And as the moment passed it became obvious that the orks would in fact be able to close for melee combat with the guardsmen.<br/><br/><hr/><br/>Grimgul was at the front of the charge, leading his boyz the best way he knew how! As he stomped forward he took several lasbeams to his torso, legs, arms, and even his head. But each one seemed to pang off his armor as if it were little more than rain... except for a single beam, more powerful than the others and fired from a sniper's weapon. This lasbeam cut through Grimgul's shoulder plate and burned into his skin creating a small crater and drawing the first bit of his blood that would be spilled today. The shot, while not strong enough to cripple the ork was more than enough to catch his attention. As he charged forwards his head darted in the direction the lasbeam had come from.<br/><br/>He was unable to see just who had shot him but he did see one of the boss humies, the ones who wore the pointy hats and made sure the rest of the humies didn't try to run from a fight. and decided that he would be a good enough target for his first kill.  With a bestial roar he stomped forward and closed the distance with his target, just like each of his boyz were doing all across the battle line.<br/><br/><hr/><br/>Sargent Jenkins saw the ork charge coming. He saw the massive ork, easily head and shoulders above the others, change direction and begin to charge directly towards his squads section of the line, and he also saw it's body guards following it. As he witnessed these things Jenkins realized that for whatever reason The Emperor had decided to choose this portion of the battle line to be a true turning point. If they could stop the lead ork they might be able to slow or even rout the entire attack. Without even looking at his voxman Jenkins shouted "get on the vox and get us some support!"<br/><br/><hr/><br/>It was obvious that the large ork had picked Aldous as it's first target. The creature's weapon barked as it fired an indiscriminate hail of projectiles at the commissar and those around him several of the rounds would have impacted with Alodus had it not been for his refractor field. Sadly the guardsmen directly to Aldous's left and right were without such protection, Comyn taking several rounds in the chest and being literally thrown from his feet while Darien took a shot to the shoulder that severed his arm from the shoulder down. As the wounded guardsman fell to the ground screaming and grasping at his bloodied stump the massive ork was upon Aldous. Sweeping its blade covered right arm in a strike obviously meant to sever the commissar's head from his body.<br/><br/><hr/><br/>The impressive rate of fire of Victor's weapon hadn't gone unnoticed by the orks and as the leader attacked the commissar two of the orks directly behind it lunged at Victor. The first swiping in and upwards diagonal with it's axe and the second driving a massive knife at the stormtrooper's chest.<br/><br/><hr/><br/>Standing directly next to victor on the line Auger was not spared any of the orks' attentions. As one ork charged directly at him from the other side of the barricade another who had already cleared it turned from the hapless guardsman it had just eviscerated and swung its weapon in a top to bottom strike aimed directly for Auger's head<br/><br/><hr/><br/>As the monstrously sized ork attacked the commissar what could only have been it's body guards (http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/mediawiki/images/a/ad/Eavyarmour.jpg) followed it to the section of the line it had attacked and set upon the other humans there. Vixen was still unnoticed by the orks; her camo-cloak proving more than effective enough to fool their dull senses and even duller wits.  Even though this was the case the battle still raged around her, directly in front of where she was kneeling one of the stormtroopers who had taken position by her squad was even now under attack by one of the vile xenos.<br/><br/><br/>