Chaos attacks on Mordecai repulsed

Novogorod Vs Death Guard. Victory to Novgorod, did not lose warlord, did kill warlord t4 concede. Plague marines advanced into the centre in front of a refinery that Novgorod had a built a defensive line around, and evaporated to the gun line T2. Plague burst crawlers survived everything shooting at them and a leviathan was butchering infantry on the left, but Death Guard didn't have enough left to control the battlefield and Novgorod still had infantry tagging the leviathan and bayoneting the characters. Warlord went down to a demolisher though.

On Mordecai the forces of chaos continued to enjoy a superior supply and logistics situation to Kutuzov's armies throughout 06.020M42. However, despite their best efforts they were unable to shift the Imperial armies away from their new defensive lines and penetrate into the heart of imperial territory.

In mid 06.020M42 the Death Guard once again tried to force Kutuzov's flank in the south, attacking from Kuneus towards Fort Vengeance. The Novgorod Guard defending however were well dug in and prepared, so as the Plague Marines advanced towards a refinery complex that represented their first objective, they ran into a solidly held defensive imperial line which annihilated them in short order. The Imperium then launched a counter offensive to deal with the enemy artillery, but the plagueburst crawlers proved difficult to dislodge. The guard lost a great deal of men in this counter attack, as the Death Guard employed a terrifying hellforged leviathan pattern dreadnought. With tank support rolling up behind however, the Novogorod kept on piling in their infantry waves, and the Chaos attack fizzled out before even reaching their first line objectives. Kutuzov's men had once again payed in blood to defend the territory won so dearly by the invasion.

Further north the Emerald Serptent attempted to summon a daemon horde which briefly succeeded in penetrating the imperial lines. However the airborne reserve of Scion forces quickly countered the offensive, wiping out the daemon horde and returning the front lines to their previous positions. The chaos forces kept attacking, but no progress was made.