Battle of Helghast Gate - Paragon Secundus

Points: 2000.

Deployment and Mission: Dawn of War / Swift Action.

Primary Objective: Terraform.

Detachment: Gladius Task Force.

Opponents Detachment: Gladius Task Force

The Battle of Helghast Gate took place during the early days of the war for Helghast Hive, between the Rift Wardens and the Ultramarines.

In the morning, the Ultramarines, led by Calgar and captain Ventris, took the main hive city gate with a surprise attack and pushed the Rift Wardens into the city proper. The Ultramarines attacked with the entire fourth company, two tank detachments and a host of outriders. The Rift Wardens counter-attacked the Ultramarine positions with their tanks but were unable to recapture the gate and sustained heavy losses.

The Battle for Utria's Landing - Pelucidon

Points: 2000.

Deployment and Mission: Hammer and Anvil / Inspired Leadership.

Primary Objective: Burden of Trust.

Detachment: Gladius Task Force.

Opponents Detachment: Stormlance Task Force.

The battle of Utria's Landing took place during the aftermath of the Pelucidon campaign. The Rift Wardens were winning their conflict against brother chapter, the White Scars, and this was an effort to bring the war to a close. The Rift Wardens launched a combined attack with many heavy intercessor squads supported by the majority of the chapter's armoured options.

The Rift Wardens task force was under the command of chief librarian Uther, supported by the chapter's Judiciar. The chapter committed nearly two companies worth of marines to the engagement. Meanwhile, the White Scars defending the landing site consisted of nearly twice as many marines and vehicles. 

The battle was a resounding successful, expanding territory occupied by the Rift Wardens and further driving the White Scars out into the wastelands.

The Hills of Mount Sybo - Vigilus Wastelands

Points: 2000.

Deployment and Mission: Search and Destroy / Prepared Positions.

Primary Objective: Supply Drop.

Detachment: Gladius Task Force.

Opponents Detachment: Hexwarp Thrallband.

The battle for the foothills of Mount Sybo was a military campaign during the war for Vigilus that lasted for nearly sex months, in which the Thousand Sons, under Ahriman, repulsed attacks by the Rift Wardens on the outer mine complexes after heavy fighting.

After several successful engagements where the Rift Wardens managed to seize control over the territory at the base of the volcano, the chapter attacked the central mine workings, which had been abandoned and subsequently occupied by Ahriman and his forces. His aim was control strategically located defence points, in order to keep the Imperial forces away from the legions objectives. After heavy fighting, the Rift Wardens were able to capture key locations in the area.

By the time the campaign ended, the front had encircled the entire the mountain, and Ahriman's forces held the most vital defense points against the space marine forces. Ultimately, the space marines were unable to breach these defense lines and the victory went to the Thousand Sons.

Second Battle of Hesperous Gate - Hesperous Prime

Points: 2000.

Deployment and Mission: Search and Destroy / Inspired Leadership.

Primary Objective: Scorched Earth.

Detachment: Gladius Task Force.

Opponents Detachment: Vanguard Onslaught.

With the war dragging out for weeks, the Lion gave orders for Azrael to launch an attack on the Hesperous Gate, which was being defiantly held by the Rift Wardens chapter, while he led an assault elsewhere to breach the city walls.

Azrael's forces attacked the game two days later but due to expertly designed defence works, the attack failed. Chief Librarian Uther then counter-attacked but was unable to defeat the Dark Angels forces present. The Dark Angels counter-attacked twice, but were unable to breach the gate. Azrael pulled his battle brothers back and dispatched a third of them to assault a second nearby gateway. When the Dark Angels forces withdrew in different directions, Uther was able to transform the initial success of the counter-attack into a general defeat of Azrael and his battle brothers. The disintegration of the Dark Angels lines was remarkably rapid.

Operation Annihilation : Assault on the Stompa Factories - Vigilus Wastelands

Points: 2000.

Deployment and Mission: Tipping Point / Inspired Leadership.

Primary Objective: The Ritual.

Detachment: Gladius Task Force.

Opponents Detachment: Bully Boyz.

This battle was part of the Imperial offensive against the Ork scrap cities and was fought between the Rift Wardens and the Orks occupying their Stompa factories. It was fought while the main Imperial forces fell back to rearm and resupply, and the objective was to hinder the Ork forces during this time. The Rift Wardens attack resulted in the Orks present being cut off from their forces elsewhere in the scrap cities, and allowed the space marines to encircle their prey. The Orks attempted to to use their superior numbers to try and counter-attack but suffered severe losses. Chief Librarian Uther led the attack and under his leadership his brothers planted hundreds of explosives which destroyed the factories in one massive explosion.

The Battle of Hive Apothis - Talos

Points: 2000.

Deployment and Mission: Dawn of War / Adapt or Die.

Primary Objective: Take and Hold.

Detachment: Gladius Task Force.

Opponents Detachment: Invasion Fleet.

The battle of Hive Apothis - the initial struggle for control over the hive city between the Imperial defenders and the massed Tyranid hordes. The battle was brief, only lasting a couple days before the outer districts fell to the invading horrors.

Purge The Alien - Corinthia

Points: 1000.

Deployment and Mission: Search and Destroy / Raise Banners.

Primary Objective: Linchpin.

Detachment: Anvil Siege Force.

Opponents Detachment: Kroot Hunting Pack.

At the front of Operation: Hellstorm, Tau resistance was falling away. Unprecedented numbers of fire warriors and kroot mercenaries were slain during the campaign, and a new attack was swiftly prepared. Captain Gwaine tasked the Rift Wardens under his command to advance from the south along the Ashflow river, towards the position of Kroot forces threatening the Astra Militarum forced at the forefront of the Imperial attack. Together with other space marine chapters, this would, if successful, disrupt the Tau efforts to reform a defensive line. At dawn, the space marines led by the Rift Wardens headed the attack, although the other chapters only provided a handful of companies despite promises of aid.

The first barrier to the attack was the Ashflow river itself and the flooded ground around it. It was there that the Rift Wardens launched the initial attack. The Kroot soon ranged the space marines and the Rift Wardens lost a handful of battle brothers before they laid down heavy fire against the aliens. Even so, the Kroot forces defended in depth the defensive lines and held them securely. Gwaine led the charge across the river and into the enemy lines.

Further north, a force of Rift Wardens attacked the flanks of the Kroot trenchworks. The Kroot defence here was haphazard and the space marines assaulted the lines with no casualties, while the aliens were slaughtered in brutal hand to hand combat. The space marines slaughtered the enemy and their lines now in Imperial hands.

The Defence of Hive Apothis - Talos

Points: 1000.

Mission: Screaming Into The Void.

Detachment: Anvil Siege Force.

Opponents Detachment: Invasion Fleet.

Agendas: Critical Objectives, Drive Them Back and Monstrous Targets.

Opponent's Agendas: Hunt & Slay and Tyrannoform The Prey World.

The Defence of Hive Apothis was fought shortly after the fall of Vardenghast, in the last days of the Talos colony. After the Tyranid's victory over that hive city, the remnants of the Rift Wardens and the Imperial defenders were pursued across the warped countryside. More and more organisms poured into the battle zone after them, hunting down and slaughtering any that failed to escape. A remnant force of Rift Wardens, led by librarian Anwyr, managed to cross hundreds of miles to reach the last remaining bastion of Imperial defiance, Hive Apothis.

The Tyranids followed behind, pursuing along their right flank. Once the space marines reached the hive city, the Tyranids threw themselves against the walls under the cover of nightfall. Some of these bypassed the entrenched defenders and soon the streets were the scene of savage hand to hand fighting, which continued through the night. It was not enough and by morning, the xenos had breached the defences.

Turning Of The Tide - Omegon Theta

Points: 2000.

Deployment and Mission: Dawn of War / Smoke and Mirrors.

Primary Objective: Terraform.

Detachment: Vanguard Spearhead.

Opponents Detachment: Battle Host.

With the war against the Aeldari going badly, chapter master Arthurus is forced to seek aid from their contact in the Inquisition, inquisitor Rosarius. Aid is dispatched and a team of assassins is given over the chapter to utilise against the enemy.

The chapter's retaliatory strike led to an engagement that lasted several days, near the new border of Aeldari controlled territory. With the assassin's assistance, the chapter was able to drive into enemy territory and recapture miles of terrain. They then launched a counter-attack which inflicted a large number of enemy casualties, and despite the deployment of wraith constructs, allowed the Rift Wardens to once more contest the dig site where the craftworld starship was buried,

Wrath of the Aeldari - Omegon Theta

Points: 2000.

Deployment and Mission: Hammer and Anvil / Inspired Leadership.

Primary Objective: Burden of Trust.

Detachment: Vanguard Spearhead.

Opponents Detachment: Battle Host.

The following was an engagement that took place over a month when the Aeldari forces pursued the Rift Wardens as they fell back from the archeotech dig site. The Craftworld allies managed to secure miles of territory from the Imperial forces because of this. They harried the Rift Wardens on the flanks but could not inflict much in the way of casualties among the space marines. The Craftworlders pursuit lead them to the outskirts of the a Mechanicus facility which, after a brief firefight, fell to them. Despite an attempt to hold this site, the space marines once more were forces to fall back.