Orks hold Imperial Guard on Hexis

On Hexis, the race was on to find the Nexus Arrangement. By 06.020M42 most races had worked out that the ancient and powerful artefact was not actually on Hexis, but clues to its location were. Scattered across the ruined wasteland lay partial records of the Necron dynasty that had created it. Six partial records had been identified, but no faction had seen all of them. If all the clues could be pieced together, it was hoped the location of the Nexus arrangement could be discovered.

 

The Imperium knew that one part of the partial record lay in Ork held territory, as part of a mural on the wall of one of the ancient tombs. Whether the Orks knew the importance of what they had was unknown and irrelevant. Konev ordered an attack to clear the xenos from the eastern ruins of Menthoteph in order to gain the third part of the puzzle of the Necron Nexus Arrangement.

 

The Novgorod Guard advanced on the Ork forces that massed on the plains infront of the city of Menthoteph. Disciplined lasgun fire made an impact, along with the heavier imperial firepower from mortars, and the orks suffered from a number of failed charges. Not being able to get into the imperial guard lines cost the greenskins, but their numbers where overwhelming. More and more ork boyz turned up supported by clanking greenskin constructs known as Gorkamauts. Despite the imperial armoured support laying waste to great numbers of the orks, the advance was effectively halted. Realising the imperial guard would run out of ammunition before the orks ran out of troops, the assault was called off, and the necron artefact remained in ork hands.